#being a women is terrifying

[the-chelseahotel]

Don’t wear both your earphones when you go out on a walk/run, don’t go out when it’s dark but if you do stick to main roads don’t use alleyways, lock your car as soon as you get in it, if anything is on the windshield don’t pull it off drive away and sort it out later, if you feel like someone’s following you pretend you’re on your phone or find a women around and go up to them, have you keys ready to unlock your front door and lock it straight behind you, if you go clubbing stay with your friends, don’t ever leave your drink unattended and don’t accept a drink from anyone unless it comes straight from the bartender, don’t get a taxi by yourself, if you go on a first date with a stranger go somewhere public and make sure you share your location with your friends these are genuine thing I have been told by my parents we have had these conversations and I have had these warnings numerous times but if you went and asked either of my brothers if they’d been told the same thing they’d say no

[xbuster]

He never learned about gay people 😭

[crumbledmountains]

MY arcane alternate universe where silco teams up with everyone’s other favorite eloquent sharp-dressed morally grey deeply emotional yet projects coldness villain with offputting eyes—grand admiral thrawn, of course—and they win zaun’s independence and then save the chiss ascendancy from the grysks. hire me fortiche!!!

[moeblob]

10/10 is Lon'qu Day so here we go, a 10 out of 10 family.

[demigodofhoolemere]

I’ve been seeing this float around on Facebook lately and it’s bugging the crud out of me:

What is with everyone’s obsession with insisting it’s bad to need to be rescued? For as long as the human race has been on the planet, people have had problems that they needed other people’s help to resolve. Needing help is not a failing nor should it be the takeaway from these princesses’ stories as if it’s a bad thing that makes them weak. Yes, they do need help. Your point?

Snow White and Aurora were both under a curse that rendered each of them effectively dead. Were they supposed to magically wake themselves up? I’d want to be rescued if I were them. Plus, breaking it down to “she needed a prince” belittles the efforts of the Seven Dwarfs and the Three Good Fairies, who did most of the legwork in the resolution of their respective movie plots out of deep platonic love for the girls under their care. Then there’s Cinderella, who lived in an abusive household. It’s not a weakness that she wasn’t able to get out of that situation on her own, and once again, giving all the credit to the prince (and credit where credit is due, he did search far and wide for her and was able to take her away from that life in the end) detracts from the aid provided by the Fairy Godmother who enabled her to get out in the first place. All of these ladies had more helpers than just their princes, and it is because of the combined love and efforts of all of these people that our heroines were able to have their happy endings. There are plenty of great stories where the heroine is able to fight for herself, but these particular stories aren’t about that because these ladies are each in terrible circumstances where they simply don’t have the ability to do so. They do what they can, but in the end they can’t save themselves alone and there’s nothing wrong with that. These are beautiful stories about having people in your life that value you enough to fight for you when you can’t fight for yourself. Wouldn’t we all want someone to come to our rescue when there’s nothing we can do about our situation? Is it not a good and comforting moral to show that there are people in your corner who will show up for you no matter what the circumstances?

The other thing that’s bugging me about this:

Leia has to be rescued. By a man, and at that, one who could technically be seen as a prince. No one bats an eye at this, because it’s understood that she’s being held prisoner on the Death Star and couldn’t possibly be expected to get out of that on her own. It’s not seen as a weakness that someone had to come for her and take her away from there. Leia is awesome and is rightfully acknowledged as a great heroine, but she also needs help sometimes, because everybody does.

So WHY do people get so hung up on these princesses who also shouldn’t be expected to get out of their own prison cells of eternal sleep or abusive family by themselves? Why the strong negative reaction to girls needing outside help in such serious scenarios? For all that people say these stories teach girls to sit and wait for a man to save them, the stories themselves absolutely never try to say that, and frankly, with the opposite trend in recent years of fictional women who have to do everything on their own and can’t be shown to need help because they have to be the Strong Female Character, I’d be far more concerned about the impact that would have on girls. Far better to say you might need help at some point in your life than to instill the idea that you’re not a strong girl or not good enough if you can’t do everything by yourself.

Anyway. Justice for the classic Disney princesses.

[smile-files]

HELP???

[thepromisedbride]

i don’t talk about bridgerton on here but just to clarify. i will not be having ANY eloise hate on this account. i will bite.

[cowboyhatesithere]

never thought I’d be in a position of relating to former Drake or Kanye fans, but I do want to now take the time to clarify that Neil Gaiman being one of my most read authors for the last two years came from reading his work only prior to the news coming out about him now 🥴

[immortalarizona]

for pride month I am haviiiiing. an itty bitty gender crisis

[anonymous-dentist]

Breaking Dawn Character Fun Fact #11:

Spreen hasn’t really talked with Roier since the. Incident. And he’s really bummed about that because Roier’s literally his best friend. Like, what?? Roier come on, be reasonable

But Spreen has talked with Melissa. And she terrifies him. There’s something in her eyes, man…

[captainbfresh]

Seen a lot of spec about Madney second child and Chimney wanting one while Maddies doesnt/is worried about ppd if they do.

But Where's the spec for the flip side where its Maddie who's thinking about a second child and Chimney who's hesitant.

Or Maddie who wants it but doesn't want to tell Chimney she'd be up for it because she doesn't want to pressure him/him to have to think about the 'what if'

Or Maddie breaching the conversation fully thinking of adoption but Chimney misunderstood and is worried about her PPD

[arthurandmerlin]

Eddie: So, my Tía’s set me up on a date and I really don’t want to go

Buck, immediately: Ghost her

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

i do NOT trust men who genuinely enjoy the terrifier franchise

[voulezloux]

x

[mswyrr]

This sapphic "Romantasy" (Fantasy with a focus on a main Romance) series by Hiyodori is hitting so well for me. After finally watching Amazon's Wheel of Time, I wanted more 30+ wlw couples, mages and magic, id-tastic psychic bonds, and politics, and the first book gave me that. Plus, some delicous "lovers to enemies to lovers" dynamics. And then the prequel! The prequel is even better in terms of writing and just grabbing me by the guts.