#AND I MEANT WHAT I SAID

[mymailody]

everyone tries to pull a zuko out of their villains without understanding that a zuko type of antagonist only works if you have an aang type of protagonist

[s-extap3]

i’m too hot to be ignored

[gotham-citys-third-finest]

Jason Todd and The Female Gaze: A Mini-Essay

I feel like DC still doesn't quite understand Jason Todd's appeal within the fandom. I know on some level they think it's because he's the DC version of the Punisher, and our mouths froth for revenge and guns in a world where the title character famously doesn't kill and detests them.

This post really opened my eyes to something I never considered in why I like Jason until I was on TV Tropes and saw that they described him as impulsive. It rubbed me the wrong way, like petting a cat backwards. Impulsive. He never felt impulsive to me and, in most iterations of his character, he is able to lie in wait for years before striking. But then it struck me that if he were a female character, he'd be called overly emotional instead of impulsive. Too sensitive, too feely to make rational decisions. On one hand, what the fuck is gender anyway? But on my hand, as an autistic woman who was taught to make myself more palatable (pretty) before making people uncomfortable, Jason is a familiar fantasy.

He feels the depths of wrath and envy, is forced to grin and bare the weight of every cardinal sin for some transgression he's made (being poor, being empathetic, being righteous). But he doesn't smile or carry them idly. He wields them.

There's a John Berger quote in Ways of Seeing about the hypocrisy of the male gaze:

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.

DC puts a gun in Jason's hand and makes him a moral parallel to Batman, an alternative. But when it comes time to actually do what Batman can't (refuses to) do and free Gotham from the tyranny of a domestic terrorist, he's now corrupt and can only prove his goodness by following the path of the man who's mislead him in every life he's lived. He is a survivor who has bloomed beyond the confines of Batman's shadow. He is a victim incapable of reason when in his murderer's presence. He is a prisoner of the panels DC boxes him into.

But Jason (to me, to us) is his own Pygmalion and he is an unapologetic master of his own image. And we yearn for his liberation.

[leclerccch16]

Before I sleep I’m going to have a little rant

I LOVE Carlos. I do. But come on everyone on twitter is saying he deserved p2 and not Charles. Let’s analyze. Over the season Charles has had a plethora of shitty races with strategy, incidents, overall pace of the car and even being held up in saudi by a confident Carlos who swore he could catch Lewis. And even with all of that he is still the only non-redbull driver to get pole position and the only ferrari driver to be on the podium. Charles has been driving the pants off of this tractor yesterday’s sprint aside. With the right car Charles would be unstoppable 🤷🏽‍♀️

[iamnotanearthlingmotherfucker]

Gift Wapping 🎁💦

[bleach-your-panties]

IT'S MEGUMI'S FAULT FOR BEING WEAK

IT'S GOJO'S FAULT FOR GETTING CAPTURED

IT'S GETO'S FAULT FOR BEING RACIST

IT'S TOJI'S FAULT FOR TRAUMATIZING GETO

IT'S THE ZENINS' FAULT FOR DISOWNING TOJI, MAKI, AND MAI

IT'S CHOSO'S FAULT FOR INJURING YUUJI

IT'S SUKUNA'S FAULT FOR TRAUMATIZING YUUJI

IT'S INUMAKI'S FAULT FOR NOT USING HIS CURSED SPEECH

IT'S YUUJI'S GRANDPA'S FAULT FOR TELLING YUUJI TO HELP OTHERS

IT'S THE PRINCIPAL'S FAULT FOR LETTING YUUJI IN THE SCHOOL

IT'S GOJO'S FAULT AGAIN JUST BECAUSE

IT'S MAHITO'S FAULT FOR BEING A B℅76¢®!!!

I BLAME EVERYBODY EXCEPT FOR YUUJI!!!

[sunbloomdew]

do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely

like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day

[vraska-theunseen]

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

[nat-20s]

Biggest hindrance of Doctor Who being a family show is that it ends up preventing authenticity. By which I specifically mean there's no damn way that Donna's response to some of the things The Doctor says wouldn't have been "Fuck off."

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[macksartblock]

idk why i did this instead of sleeping last night but ayo s3 pcs

[goldensunset]

when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as ‘spinoffs’ it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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[sporesgalaxy]

The Great Gatsby liveblog chapter 2 I guess: I was stupid as shit in high school. My God. Nick Carroway absolutely fucked that photographer.

[razzygoat]

Yeah, man, those are decidedly not the same thing at all actually

[starry-bi-sky]

Broke: danny runs away from bruce wayne because he reminds him of Vlad (bad, overused, fundamentally misunderstands Bruce’s character as a whole for a shit joke)

Woke: bruce wayne doesnt remind danny of vlad masters, but of his best friend sam manson

black hair? check ✅

jewish? check ✅

richer than god? check ✅

gothic? well, mister wayne isnt himself but he lives in the most gothic city on earth so quasi-check ✅

loudly and proudly an activist for various rights including environmental and womens' rights? check ✅

im tired of the "oh danny runs away from bruce because he's rich and reminds him of vlad" give me a danny who actually likes bruce because he reminds him of his awesome kickass best friend who is also stupidly rich

like i’ve been told about the whole “oh fruit loop joke” before and i still think its a cheap, shallow joke if i’ve ever heard one that flanderizes Bruce’s character to an impressive degree. Vlad and Bruce are only comparable in the same sense that they’re both rich and Bruce adopts kids — but he isn’t doing it because of the “adoption addiction” joke, he’s doing it because he sees himself in the kids he adopts and he wants to give them better than he did. Vlad wants Danny as his son to spite Jack, they are not remotely comparable beyond that.

Like, beyond that too i highly doubt vlad masters gives his employees benefits like bruce wayne does. who canonically hires reformed villains and has various branches of medical, industrial, technology, etc in his company in order to help the people of gotham. does Vlad Masters run charities, soup kitchens, etc?? is Vlad contributing to the community? No, no he isnt.