#WOMEN DO NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT

[booksandmore]

every time i hear someone say camilla was the only charter they liked i lose my mind BECAUSE THATS NOT CAMILLA THAT WHO RICHARD WISHED SHE WAS WE NEVER!! KNEW!! CAMILLA!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The peach tree beams so red, How brilliant are its flowers!

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[strryhaze]

persuasion, jane austen / simone de beauvoir / dirge without music, edna st. vincent millay .

[exaltior-a]

idk how exactly to word this exactly but in the same vein that homestuck fans demonize jane they put roxy on this pedestal of being the perfect angel. except roxy is.. just as much of an asshole as the rest of the alpha kids? obviously her alcoholism effects her in her earlier depictions but like. she still pushes her friends boundaries. she sents that virus to jane that blows up her computer. she constantly hits on dirk despite acknowledging his sexuality and his lack of interest, telling janes secrets to jake with minimal pushing. i love roxy, dont get me wrong, but ignoring her flaws and acting like shes incapable of acting selfish, mean or hurting her friends (JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE ALPHAS DO) is stupid. you dont like roxy if you only like the idea of her as a flawless person.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

the phenomenon of taking guy characters and turning them into women in mcyt and mcyt-adjacent fandoms due to a shortage/lack of well-written and engaging female characters needs to be studied i think. this isnt a gripe with transfem hcs i love transfem hcs but im just wondering. why go out of ur way to take a male character and slap she/her pronouns on him when you could instead read or watch something with good prevalent female characters that are very well written already? like. there's a fucking Pattern with the characters ppl hc as transfem. its always the kind and loving level-headed voices of reason that get the transfem beam. why do you think the soft and kind male character who's meek and mild and folds easily under pressure is the one who's a woman. why is that. huh. why. answer quick.

[taradactyls]

"Willoughby could not hear of her marriage without a pang; ... For Marianne, however, in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss, he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon."

I'm normally too focused on 'well, well, if it isn't the consequences of your own actions' to really think about how this sort of thing would affect Marianne, but I mean, it's quite creepy, right??

Imagine you're living your life, happy with your husband, healed and flourishing, and every now and then you find out your HORRID ex is insulting other young women (and they must be young, if they're a 'rising beauty') by invoking your name. Like leave her alone, Willoughby!! You hurt her enough. She was 17 (to your 25) when she was in love with you, she's grown up, seen you for who you really are, and moved on. There's something incredibly selfish about even after treating Marianne so horribly, he refuses to stop associating her name with his own. I wonder how many people would know of Marianne PURELY because Willoughby casually mentions (many times) a young lady has no resemblance to her.

No one wants their worst ex to keep haunting the edges of their life.

[runawaymun]

Can you do gender fluid bi flags thranduil?

Here he is!!! Back on my indigenous Sindar agenda hehe :D Thank you SO much for this request, I always love drawing him especially for Pride because I get to design the most fabulous outfits. I used the bi flag colors mostly in the crown, and the genderfluid flag colors in his outfit.

I finished this one on stream so if you'd like to watch me color and render it, here it is.

Pride Request Guidelines

[meirimerens]

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

[onesnoopyaday]

Snoopy #35

5/11/2024

[cogentranting]

The Hunger Games succeeds (and more so achieves sort of mythic effect) because it approaches dystopia through the timeless-- it (and Ballad) brings these universal ideas to a very personal lens and asks questions like "how do we begin to excuse evil in our lives" or "how do you hold on to goodness in the midst of oppression". And because it is so invested in the transcendent it lends itself to very powerful symbols, which give it that mythic feel.

Orwell's books (Animal Farm and 1984) both succeed through a very different approach to dystopia (Animal Farm isn't really a dystopia in the traditional sense but it has a lot of the elements). Orwell succeeds through real perceptive insight into the inner mechanisms of the subjects of his critiques. Orwell has vision that can cut deep into the way that things like propaganda or 'controlling the narrative' work and then, having dissected them, hold those tactics up for all to see.

And I think a lot of dystopias fall short because they get tangled up in the Idea of their story. The "what if" they've created. Either focused too much on the Issue-- too narrowly to be universal, too broadly to be revealing-- or too disconnected from anything genuine. And because they get stuck at that particular point they don't have much more to offer than "wouldn't this be bad?" And if you get a pretty good writer they can make that feel insightful but really it doesn't have much more to offer than whatever absurd YA book comes to mind first when you hear "bad dystopian novel".

[bardan-jusik]

by the way female characters with no military training or experience actively assuming vital support roles while the experienced and trained soldiers who happen to be male because most of the soldier characters were cloned from a dude isn't misogynistic

i dont understand what the hell people want. did they want besany (who accepted a blaster and used it to start a siege in a hospital room to save fi's life) to go along on the mission to recover dar and niner from coruscant? for Diversity?? do they want her to magically gain combat skills instead of using her existing management abilities to take charge of what amounts to a small army when things go to shit and the typical leading figures are down for the count??

do they want laseema to take up marksmanship and provide covering fire?? was getting good with knives and gaining self confidence and a support network that allowed her to threaten a man who tried to hit on her not good enough? is her skill at being able to manage a kitchen and feed several dozen people multiple times a day, a skill highly valued by other characters, worthless to these people

do people want ny, an old woman, who is voluntarily assuming a LOT of risk to help both jedi and clones who are being harmed by this war, to like... kill somebody?? to not bake cookies as an act of love because that... idk somehow undermines everything else about her???

is it that rav and parja, the two female characters who grew up mandalorian, also aren't actively participating in shooting people??? why would it be misogynistic for them to be the ones who are building the safe haven to be used as an escape network for slave soldiers.

did they want etain to do MORE fighting than she already does?? like her entire character and arc is a complete landmine but you do have a woman involved in the military if that's the only benchmark for 'is it sexist' you've got

like why do people want the female characters to go help shoot people so bad. why is most of them finding a useful support role less valuable to people than the guys who go do the shooting. did you miss that a huge point of repcomm is that the war is like. Bad. and most of the characters would rather not be participating but have no choice. and it's having terrible effects on the people on the front lines. why do you want civilian women to get themselves voluntarily involved in that

[skittlespizza]

"We need more evil women" yall couldnt even handle anna angel

[bayetea]

one of several moments in the series where percy is like "she would have been pretty but--" lol. sorry but who asked bro

[wellijustfinnihedoneofthebooks]

Everyday i wake up and think abouthow sad i am that lestat the musical is objectively a horrible musical because i really do think interview with the vampire would probably make the best musical ever

[bonefall]

clear sky’s fridged women polycule when

This man's victims need more than a polycule, they need a domestic abuse shelter

[bookshelf-in-progress]

I've had an odd nostalgia for the Once Upon a Time series of mediocre short-novel-length fairy tale retellings. I've been wanting to read the retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" from that line.

The trouble is that there is no such book.

Which makes me want to write it.

Unfortunately, the only straightforward traditional retelling of that fairy tale I want to write doesn't fit with that style.

But thinking about it got me excited about that old idea all over again.