#alison or something?

[justthewayitbe]

I'm sorry why did the cute little nerd and the goth chick not end up together at the end of Breakfast Club?! Like sure the jerk and the princess make sense like they really dug into each other the whole movie and came out better knowing each other. The jock is very obviously gay coded! But like the nerd deserves to be with someone and he's the person that seemed to relate to the goth girl the most. Idk, I feel like the goth girl and the jock together makes absolutely no sense. They have no mutual interests or respect for each other.

[aroaceleovaldez]

rip Kelli you would have loved Hot To Go

[systemrestart]

From Alison Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For". Strip name "Au Courant", from 1994

I'd never seen this strip get posted, so I want others to see it. Mo, the character expressing 'concern' over the inclusion of trans women (as well as bisexuals) in lesbian culture, is often portrayed as being overly self-righteous, jumping to conclusions about others, and not critically examining her own biases and worldview. She was also the character in the comic commissioned for Transgender Warriors, where she learns she was wrong for being anxious about sharing a bathroom with a trans woman.

Mo is often either the butt of the joke, or receives a stark lesson in these interactions (whether by confrontation or just becoming socially isolated, because she's difficult to be around). And I found this framing important, especially as I've heard discussion of TERFs trying to claim Bechdel as one of them.

This comic was not made to validate Mo's opinions or feelings. The characters in Bechdel's comics are often messy, short-sighted, even bigoted. They're human. This comic does not valorize or 'condone' these flaws, merely shows them for what they are, as well as the consequences that come with them, and the effects they can have on your communities.

[Update Note: Recently learned some new things about Bechdel's feelings/choices regarding trans issues (particularly transmisogyny), link here if you're interested in reading. It seems that beyond DTWOF, Bechdel 'supports' trans people in an esoteric sort of way, but is seemingly unwilling to unpack deeper transphobic feelings/views, or her ties with TERF-aligned people. Deeply disappointing.

I don't think that impacts DTWOF itself much (except the framing of the character Janis, may make a post about that someday), as again all of the characters in DTWOF have wildly varying views, and that's The Point, but, it's something I think people ought to know if we're going to have a discussion about Bechdel in connection to TERFs and transmisogyny]

Transcript of the comic below the cut:

[ID: A "Dykes to Watch Out For" comic strip by Alison Bechdel, featuring the characters Mo and Lois. The conversation is as follows:

MO: Oh, jeez. Here's a submission for "Madwimmin Read" from someone named Jillian who identifies as a transsexual lesbian.

LOIS: Cool.

MO: The cover letter says, "I hope you'll consider changing the name of your reading series for local lesbian writers to be inclusive of transgender and bisexual women writers too." Oh, man!

LOIS: Guess it's time to get with the program, huh?

MO: What am I supposed to do? Have bi women and drag queens come in here and read about schtupping their boyfriends?

LOIS: Why not? I'm sure they'd have a unique perspective on the topic.

MO: Lois, I'm still trying to adjust to lesbians using dildos! What am I supposed to make of a man who became a woman who's attracted to women?!

LOIS: Love is a many gendered thing, pal. Get used to it.

MO: Well fine. Let people do what they want. But I'm not gonna add this unwieldy "bisexual and transgender" business to the name of my reading series. I don't even know what transgender means!

LOIS: It's sort of an evolving concept. I mean, we haven't had any language for people you can't neatly peg as either boy or girl.

LOIS: Like cross-dressers, transsexuals, people who live as the opposite sex but don't have surgery, drag queens and kings, and all kinds of other transgressive folks. "Transgender" is a way to unite everyone into a group, even though all these people might not self-identify as transgender.

LOIS: In fact, the point is that we're all just ourselves, and not categories. Instead of two rigid genders, there's an infinite sexual continuum! Cool, huh?

MO: How do you know all this stuff?

END ID]

[nortism]

as a fandom we are always talking about the character development of the ghosts but let’s talk about how much mike and alison have grown. they’re proper adults now, they have a baby and they’ve managed to turn button house into a home. like if they’d had this baby in season 1, it would have been dead by now but look at themmm, they’re such a good parents oml. i’m just so emotional about them you guys 😭😭😭

[timelesslords]

“Was Daedalus really stricken with grief…? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”

Fun Home, Allison Bechdel // House of the Dragon, HBO // Abraham’s Daughter, Arcade Fire // The Avengers’ Calendar, scifigrl47 // Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, Sean Stewart // Funny Story, Emily Henry // Sun Bleached Flies, Ethel Cain

[nocakesformissedith]

Sponison you will never be topped

[zer0point5ive]

lawrence is just. such a lawrence to me like larry is a completely different person. lawrence is the gay repressed doctorguy and larry is .. not him. he’s a larry to alison but he’s also lot of things to alison that aren’t true hmm. something about adam calling him lawrence .. how ‘your wife was right larry’ ‘face it larry we’re both bullshitters’ changes to ‘lawrence get up i need you’ ‘lawrence calm down’. lawrence this lawrence that. hmm

[purrtyhatemachine]

?????????

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier and Alison King as Liam Connor & Carla Connor

CORONATION STREET

[spittyfishy]

A bunch of different slice-of-life-ish drawings I’ve done with my super hero characters! I thought doing more domestic scenes would be a good way to better flesh out the world and characters in my head lol

[smallenoughtopurr]

I know when it comes to male shipping treating female characters who "get in the way" like shit is nothing new but when it comes to Chainshipping it makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

Like why do we need to demonize Alison Gordon? She did nothing wrong.

Because she "gets in the way" of Adam and Lawrence? Well first of all that's a shitty reason to villainize her, and second of all, Lawrence literally did not appreciate her as much as he should have. He visited another woman behind her back and their marriage was already crumbling before the bathroom trap.

Or is it because she argued with Lawrence? Uh, couples do that. And what she said wasn't even particularly mean or wrong. She just said that Lawrence was lying to himself and pretending he was happy (which he absolutely was) and she was also upset that he was distant towards her and Diana.

(Like, I love Lawrence but HE was the bad guy in that relationship.)

Also, Adam would not openly hate her or act shitty towards her for any reason. Some of you guys claim to love Adam but don't seem to understand how kind and empathetic he really is. Adam was incredibly sweet about Lawrence's family. He wanted to see those pictures when Lawrence started talking about them, and he called Alison a "lucky lady". God he was even angry on their behalf when Lawrence was acting disturbingly calm after knowing they were being held hostage, and he seemed at least a little disgusted at Lawrence's cheating. Even after Alison said "Don't believe Adam's lies" Adam didn't say anything nasty towards her in retaliation. He just acted guilty at his own actions. I imagine he'd act the same in other situations if chainshipping were to happen. This man was an only child who wanted siblings and feeds stray cats and complimented Amanda's hairstyle, you think he's gonna act petty to a woman who has been through so much shit she never deserved?

Yes, I could definitely see Alison not feel Diana is safe with Lawrence anymore. I could see her feeling bitter that Lawrence would leave her for yet another person in their 20s. I could see her not trusting or even liking Adam. But like, so would literally anyone else in her situation! None of that makes her a bitch, it makes her a normal fucking person having a normal human reaction.

[yameoto]

i asked if she had a hard day😭😭 alison miller u horny girl (not that i'm complaining)

ohhh ali miller wrapping her arms around her wife from behind and grinding the leaky hardon shes had all day against your tight little ass. grinning against your ear as you drip a puddle down your leg that pools in the cracks of the kitchen tiles. hand snaking downwards to give your ass a cursory squeeze before she's tugging your panties plunging her aching dick inside, underneath your pretty frilly apron.

[shebeafancyflapjack]

Sorry not sorry, I know I complain a lot about how criminally underused Charlotte was in the finale, but I have to gush over this reaction when she thinks the ghosts are gone, she just sells the sinking devastation so well! I've never wanted to reach through the screen and hug a character more.

Also I headcanon that, once the shock had passed and if the ghosts hadn't reappeared, the anger would have set in and she would have been absolutely furious at Betty, like "you exorcised the wrong demon from this house, lady, I'm the one you need to be afraid of!"

[moxtoons]

BATIM commission for my work friend!

It's been so long since I've drawn anything Bendy-related, it was nice to stretch those muscles again 💛

[howicked]

You often mention your sister. Yes, we were very close. She was terribly pretty and terribly nice. A bit like you, actually.

Lolly Adefope & Charlotte Ritchie as Kitty & her sister in BBC GHOSTS (2019-) | 3.05 (Something to Share?)

+ kitty with the better sister

[dykespence]

Alison king never been serious a day in her life