#NONE OF IT GOOD

[ssaalexblake]

absolutely hate it when something stupid and negative somebody wrote on one of my positive fandom posts gets stuck in my head but like, i truly wish i'd asked the rando person who said they just Couldn't keep watching 13's era because of the constant put downs of men if they'd legitimately gotten her era and moffat era dw confused (which does, quite frankly, have a ~girls rule boys smell~ lean to it uncomfortably often) because that is simply preferable to the alternative that they meant it and genuinely think that men Not being front and centre is an affront to men and that they couldn't deal with it. But I blocked them bc Be Real. But I regret not asking even though I strongly suspect that the answer would have given me a headache.

[jezabelofthenorth]

❝Isabel was highly preoccupied with her daughters’ moral and religious education and, if her library is a guide, they would have spent time studying the lives of saints and other devotional works. The Carro de las donas, by the Franciscan monk Francesc Eiximenis, was one of a number of ‘how to raise your daughters’ manuals that sat on the royal bookshelf. Eiximenis was relatively progressive in that he did not consider women intrinsically – or even in imminent danger of becoming – envious, greedy or gossipy. That did not prevent him from displaying many of the prejudices of the time. He firmly believed, for example, that sparing the rod was spoiling the child. Bad girls should be beaten. ‘Punish them and wound them on the back with some switch rather than on the head,’ he advised, in an attempt to minimise the damage. Girls should carry rosaries and spend a part of each day praying. Contact with boys, Jews or Moors was bad for them, and they must refuse food offered by non-Christians. Girls, the manuals generally agreed, were to be discreet and contained, and exercise self-control. Weaving, sewing and prayer were appropriate pastimes. Their greatest enemy was ‘the madness of love’. Catherine learned little, therefore, about the opposite sex. Her mother was a stickler for decorous behaviour. The queen was determined to protect both her own reputation and that of Catherine, her other daughters and her ladies. Isabel’s former sister-in-law, the scandalous Queen Juana, was held up as the model of all that a woman should not be. Apart from her own marital infidelities, Juana had also been infamous for her bawdy ladies-inwaiting. These carried daggers, displayed deep cleavages and had a tendency to ‘accidentally’ stumble when dismounting their horses, thus exposing large amounts of thigh painted with fashionable white make-up.

Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Giles Tremlett

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[aphroditusiscorroded]

I love the idea that Bill’s manipulation tactics are horribly obvious but Ford is so socially inept that it works on him perfectly

“He was a masterful manipulator.”

No bestie he was just nice to you and you folded like a house of cards

[essektheylyss]

"must a story have conflict?" yes. hope this helps <3

[melancholypolywog]

bill and ford comic! ft. bill being his usual attention seeking self.

[neapenning]

It'd be so embarrassing to join a group after trying to kill their members and losing

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[eldritchdemonfox]

If this post gets 10k notes by March, I will start taking better care of my health (something I have no motivation to do)

[datcravat]

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[senatortedcruz]

Let them speak

the loyal as a dog trope but the person they’re loyal to never wanted a dog

‘i gave you everything’ ‘no one asked you to’

they liked you better when you weren’t their’s to have. they don’t like the person you are around them.

[idliketobeatree]

dead boy detectives + text posts part 1/?

+ bonus

[hell0jon]

“First one to leave has to read the next statement”

It’s been 48 hours

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Mikes and Vanessas talk about money struggles,,

[lilislegacy]

hot take: people on here hold percy to WAY too high of a standard. they either refuse to accept he has a real flaw or they call him a terrible person anytime he’s not the epitome of loveliness

like… he’s an asshole sometimes. why can’t people see that? why can’t people accept that? we don’t have to justify everything he does. has he been an asshole to annabeth? yes. has he been an asshole to nico? yes. was he TRYING to be mean? NO. he was either upset or uninformed or focused on bigger things. does it explain it? yes. does it excuse it? no. but it doesn’t mean he’s a horrible person. he’s just a PERSON.

it’s the same with annabeth. yes she’s prideful and condescending sometimes. okay…? AND?? she’s still a kinder and braver person than most of us will ever be. and same with nico. he is an amazing person but he has also done some things that are absolutely not okay. you know why? because no one is perfect. it’s okay to accept that our favorite characters do bad stuff but are still good people.

THEY ARE 50% HUMAN. WHY CAN’T THEY BE HUMAN?? LET THEM BE HUMAN. ITS OKAY TO NOT BE PERFECT ALL THE TIME 😭😭