#I see both sides

[my-gods-i-read-too-many-books]

I need to know where the fandom stands

[randomfoggytiger]

TRADWIVES: Ahistoric LARPing

Found some cool clips that debunk the current "tradwife" grift circulating the internet.

Clip 1: Traditional wives were not weak-willed lilies that pined away dutifully, grossly stupid and financially dependent on their husbands... working women, anyway. (Full video here-- though it mainly debunks the "godfather" of the Red Pill more broadly than his misunderstanding of the traditional family.)

Clip 2: The tradwife and Red Pill movement don't understand the 1950s. Married women chose to remain in the work force post WWII, which locked the younger women out of jobs. The younger generations then married and had kids early because the economy was good and there was nothing else to do. (Full video here. I highly recommend it in conjunction with her video carefully deconstructing the "men need sex [at the expense of women]" narrative, found here.)

Clip 3: Lastly, "modern women" who've chosen to become SAHM and SAHW have successfully done so without sacrificing their financial independence or losing their personal dignity or identity. (Full video here, which breaks down popular TikTok tradwife content.)

Obviously, no relationship is perfect; and more obviously, it's a great risk to throwaway the potential of financial freedom and independence on the false dream the trad movement is selling. Not only are they self-employed women masquerading as traditional, but most (not all) are also making a mockery of the hardworking women who juggle their lives, kids, and finances to make a SAHM role work.

At the end of the day, we can only make the best choices for ourselves-- in any area of our lives-- if we're truthfully informed.

Thanks for reading (and watching)~

Enjoy!

[piperslovebot]

Jay: Hey. Sorry I wasn't here to help you out.

Nate: That's okay. Nikki wasn't either. I think she was pretty annoyed. But you know who did help me out? Leia. You lucked out, man. She's pretty great.

-Last scene of Dirty Double Booker (T9S 1x09)

[ponds-of-ink]

@ponds-of-ink . Benedetto gives the mother of all burns to his adoptive father Bertuccio (the Italian butler guy) at one point. He's like Sir please tell me about my father. And the other dude is like what do you mean by that child, I thought I was your father? And the little shit goes all "you are not my father , you are my adoptive father , I was asking you about my real one not some foster parent like you ".

Burn! Poor signor Giovanni Bertuccio .

Do you need some aloe Vera for that burn ?.

I'm like dude Bertuccio raised you since infancy and treated you like his own kid and you don't consider that parenting? I mean he calls him , Sir, Mr Bertuccio, Signor, Monsieur, foster father and uncle but never papa, daddy or father. It's like the boy doesn't want to see the one person who has taken care of him , provided him with education (reading , writing and math among other things) , feed him and put a roof over his head as family for some reason? What is it with young people in both fiction and sometimes real life saying you are not my parents to father figures or mentores?

Huh. This is the one part I must’ve missed. He actually said that to him, huh? Ouch. Looks like he might need more than Aloe Vera.

To answer your question at the end, maybe the better way to phrase the claim is “you’re not my birth parents”. Yes, Bertuccio raised him but [spoilers] conceived him. Bert’s wife and Bert didn’t bring him into the world after nine (?) months. That’s my “best” explanation for such a tricky subject. Still doesn’t excuse the rudeness of the statement, though, since Bert actually cared for Ben here.

...I hope any of that makes sense.

[ququoquaw]

i am a forever fence sitter

[allylikethecat]

Not sure if this counts as Talk Shop Tuesday but:

Have you seen The Idea of You? What is your opinion on rpf!fanfic being published and subsequently turned into movies?

If you want it to be a Talk Shop Tuesday it counts as a Talk Shop Tuesday!

I have seen The Idea of You and I have also read the book. (I'm very happy they changed the ending in the movie lol) I enjoyed both the book and the movie, BUT as someone who reads, writes, and enjoys fanfiction it makes sense that I liked the book / movie because it was fanfiction at one point.

I think that RPF fic being traditionally published and then turned into movies is an interesting debate. On one hand it's a little odd to me, especially when it is so mind blowingly obvious like in the book they didn't even change Liam's name. But at the same time if someone came to me and was like "Ally we love All the King's Horses you should change it up a little bit to make it more original, and then we're going to publish it, and turn it into a movie" I would be like sounds amazing where do I sign?

BUT in terms of just like a fun romcom? I really enjoyed the movie. I'm also a big fan of Nicholas Galitzine and the scene with the chicken tenders? That's the dream right there I love tendies lol

Thank you so much for indulging me in a talk shop Tuesday and sending this ask my way! I hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday and that you have a fantastic week!

❤️Ally

[egophiliac]

everyone out of the way, this is the only thing I'm going to be thinking about from now on.

(okay, there is one more thing)

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

[keferon]

I. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I’m okay I’m fine I’m okay I’m fine I’m oka

The fic I'm illustrating and losing my mind about 👉 Mistakes on mistakes until

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

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[amystarrstuff]

so, this is something i've noticed in fandom spaces and want to see how people ~generally~ feel regarding genderbends & genderswaps, especially if they are transgender themselves!

if there's a reason for why you like/dislike genderbends please share in the tags, this is something that genuinely interests me

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[late-tothe-party-07]

Thoughts on tma 65

So what exactly is Elias' ability??? (Keep in mind all I know is things I got from out of context spoilers)

Cause so far all I know he has is evil motives and the ability to know things, along with anything that can help him with that and even then I dont know much. Just that he can read minds (?), see what would hurt the most to hear and has a limit when it comes to watching others and/or other things.

It might not even be Elias' fault that Tim cant physically quit his job. I wonder if Jon has tried quitting or tried firing someone before via an email or smth, and it didnt work so he tried pushing them to quit instead.

The fact Tim doesnt even know why he cant just say "I quit." reminds me of the Recluse episode, and how the victim didnt know why he was going back to the halfway house. He just...had to. This is slightly supported by a comment I'd seen back in episode 37 when someone laughed at the irony of Martin's spiderweb metaphor.

So Martin cant leave, and neither can Tim. Who else will fall victim to this? What if they just decided not to go to work or would they eventually be forced back like the guy in Recluse? If its the same spider people and Jon slapped Tim could he finally quit? Or maybe the spider people have gotten better at how they did things since that incident and it wouldn't have worked? Is Elias a super spider person or smth?

*flips table * I NEED FRIGGEN ANSWERS JON!

[tenowls]

teacher getou au...... wauh

[autumn-may]

terrisas really funny ithink