#category-classic

[finelythreadedsky]

your tags. yeah. it's not that they are progressive or feminist or even written by women -- but they are doing something with women that is complex and worth paying attention to, and in many cases they are the reason we have a version of a particular woman's story at all

yeah that's one of the marketing conceits of the myth retelling novel industrial complex that bothers me, it's the framing as if no one has ever paid attention to these female characters who are buried unnoticed in the myths when often the most complete or the most authoritative version of the character's story that survives from antiquity is in tragedy, a genre that is notoriously interested in bringing female characters out of the house and putting them on stage in active roles, and in using those female characters to explore issues of gender and the place of women in contemporary society.

like to a certain degree it makes sense for the homeric women who don't appear in (extant) tragedy, like briseis or the hanged women in odyssey 22, but we have stories where clytemnestra and deianira and medea insist on make narrative space for themselves to tell their own stories from their own perspectives, refusing to be silent about the violence their society inflicts upon women and the lasting damage it does. they're called aeschylus' agamemnon and sophocles' trachiniae and euripides' medea. and maybe you want to retell those stories for modern audiences, changing things or emphasizing different aspects of them! and that's great! but framing it as if they've been ignored and their stories are as-yet-untold is just not accurate, and it's a cheap way to paint your work as innovative and subversive.

[linnytheseagull]

Here's how to spot a Mad Scientist:

Is very smart in a specific field

Probably hasn't slept in the past 4 days

Depressed

Slowly decends into madness/spirals/gets obsessed over something to the point where they destroy their lives over it

Here are other minor signs you might want to look out for (doesn't apply to all Mad Scientist):

Very pathetic. A loser, if you will

Is gay

Wears glasses

Has a best friend who is extremely friendly and also a poet

Graying hair despite their relatively youthful appearance

Can be a little bit silly (as a treat)

Note that not all Mad Scientists are actual scientists. The Mad Scientist can be disguised as something else and may try to trick you; do not be fooled. Look for these traits to identify a real wild Mad Scientist.

Now you are ready to go out into the wild and find your very own Mad Scientists to hyperfixate on for the next month! Hope this helped❤️

[gallifreyanhotfive]

[inkedberries]

with regards to clara the changeling, i am running on the idea that greater and powerful beings take on more approachable forms like that of a child's to be less intimidating

[annabelle--cane]

this comment was made in response to a bunch of terf bs and I don't tend to like sharing their stuff directly but I desperately wanted to preserve this line on my blog. sorry for stealing your post ms doubleca5t.

[fictionadventurer]

Potential January Reads

A Brilliant Night of Ice and Stars by Rebecca Connolly

Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp

So Big by Edna Ferber

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Vibrant Paradoxes by Bishop Robert Barron

The Diary of a Country Priest by George Bernanos

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Katherine Wentworth by D.E. Stevenson

[residentrookie]

nine books to read in 2025 📖

ty for the tags @static-radio-ao3 @blackberry-sunset @frank-lilac

tagging @twisted-tales-told @itsjaywalkers @a-fiery-fox @angel-daydreams @wdcmaxy @moongays @emlovessid

[veloursdor]

i’m right and i should say it

[creatrixanimi]

Was Ingo a true tumblr sexyman???? (Poll)

Ok so i have seen many debates over what makes a tumblr sexyman and i want to know what the consensus is on Ingo's sexyman status. Here are some points of discussion to think about:

is he weird-looking enough?

clothing/silhouette

tumblr sexyman vs blorbo vs babygirl culture. which one fits best?

personality. are tumblr sexymen required to be fucked up freaks?

was the fandom insane/horny enough to qualify him as a sexyman? How inexplicable was his fandom popularity/portrayal?

popularity in terms of scope and legacy. And do other sites cultures count? ex. jpn fandom on twit

twink death????

And to anyone who may come across this and don't know anything about Ingo, feel free to vote based on visuals alone lol

[absolutely-normal-about-x]

I do see fan work and stuff off by having the Rms having free will and it sorta rubs me in a weird way. It’s not to say it’s wrong just…it sorta makes X’s existence feel…insignificant. Probably a skill issue at my end probably-

Ngl I do have an interpretation of the Classic series when it comes to the RMs in pretty sure someone has done it before. So basically an idea is that three key traits of what makes a robot master different compared to other typical Robots as I like to call them the 3 traits:

Purpose

Personality

Interpretation

Purpose means that a Robot is built and made with a purpose. They are completely programmed with a purpose in mind and they must follow that purpose whenever they like it or not.

Personally, a Robot has their own individuality (kinda), it’s their likes and dislikes, traits that make them who they are in a sense. Their identity basically

Interpretation, this is the best part. While an RM is built to follow that purpose in mind they can interpret how they approach it. They still follow that purpose regardless of the actions that they take it’s how they do it

Like an example is Rock and Roll, they are both made to help and assist but because of their personality they interpret it differently. For Rock when wily programmed the RMs to be evil, his personality being more in a Righteous side allows him to interpret that in order to assist people he must fight them (and choose to be a hero) to save people. In the definition of his purpose is to *Help* so he’s still following that directive.

Roll on the other is still assistance but she takes a more of a supporting role. Helping dr. light, doing domestic work and keeping everyone safe and happy. Because her personality is softer (she also shares that same sense of justice like her brother but lacks the drive, however she can still wreck ya with the broom).

Blues is sorta interesting while in this case you could say that he lacks purpose and only has personality and interpretation. But fundamentally speaking he has all three

Since blues is a “Prototype”, my idea that perhaps he made his own purpose in the form of by being an *Example* for other robots in his own way. We can sorta see that of how he “Mentors” Rock in a sense. He has a more loose interpretation but his personality dominates even more. Having more “Free will” but still holding in the 3 main laws of robotics.

It also connects the idea that maybe Rock's attempted attack on Wily was not him breaking the laws per se but rather attempting to find a loophole in his programming. As an attempt to solve the problem in his own way, Wily has been actively harming people, endangering them. Being extremely frustrated that Wily doesn’t stop endangering his family and innocents. So in his programming came to the conclusion that in order to help and protect innocents is by destroying him. So this results in his programming clashing with the 3 laws of robotics.

This also can apply to all the Other RM and Bass himself.

But at the end of the day they are robots who just happen to emote and have their own personality but still bound by their programming. Just smart toasters who are trying their bests-

[cristalconnors]

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Shortlisted: Felicity Jones, The Brutalist / Laurie Babin, Red Rooms / Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson / Sophie Okonedo, Janet Planet / Michelle Buteau, Babes / Mahsa Rostami, The Seed of the Sacred Fig / Divya Prabha, All We Imagine as Light / Isabella Rossellini, La Chimera / Anna Baryshnikov, Love Lies Bleeding

THE NOMINEES ARE:

CAROL DUARTE, LA CHIMERA

as "Italia"

JULIA FAURE, COMA

as "Patricia Coma"

JACK HAVEN, I SAW THE TV GLOW

as "Maddy"

TILDA SWINTON, PROBLEMISTA

as "Elizabeth"

AND THE CRISTAL GOES TO...

MICHELE AUSTIN, HARD TRUTHS

as "Chantelle"

[timetravellingkitty]

I could elaborate on said negative feelings but that would require not having a runny nose

[13eyond13]

why does l apologize so much during the foot drying scene? seems ooc

Hmmm, I agree wichu, I feel it's a bit out of character for the original manga!L to do something like that. In some ways the anime versions of the characters are a bit different than the manga ones, and the manga ones are the ones I'm usually thinking about when I'm thinking about characterization 'n' such.

My best guess about it is that anime!L is going through something like the first hints of character development at this point? It's definitely an emotional change to how he's been acting and interacting with Light up until this scene (which is kinda a little bit of a gripe I have with episode 25... I certainly don't hate it, and I'm very fond of the rain scene and think it's iconic and interesting in its own way. I just think that they didn't build up to it super well in the previous episodes, and that it therefore feels a bit out of nowhere and emotionally out of sync with how they've been setting everything up between L and Light until this point).

Anyway, I think L is feeling sad and worried about how things are going to go from here on out (as Light has regained his memories and suddenly been acting very ominously like Kira again, and from what I remember I think L pretty much knows that after they do this next test on the notebook one or the other of them are probably going to actually die/lose?) And based on some of the stuff he says I think he is realizing that he doesn't actually have any close relationships or people he can truly trust and open up to in his life, which seems to be a bit of a regret of his now. I think he obviously felt some sort of a kinship with Light that he'd genuinely never felt before as well (as imo the "first ever friend" scene is both sarcastic/ironic and sincere at the same time, if that makes sense). And I think even though he is dropping the mind games for a moment and trying to have an actual heart-to-heart with Light that Light can't actually reciprocate it due to the circumstances, which maybe just reaffirms to L how alone he really is (that even the one person he actually felt something like a friendship with still can't be trusted or be somebody he can have an honest conversation with). I feel like L sort of just moves things to some sort of symbolic physical way of connecting with Light instead (which seems to be a biblical reference to Jesus washing Judas' and the other disciples' feet, like saying "I know you're going to betray me / but I forgive you anyway" or some such thing?) And maybe the apology is just because he's genuinely feeling a bit awkward and unsure of himself and humbled and like he's actually going to lose to Light soon, but idk.

Even if it's not REALLY something I can picture manga!L doing, and even though I genuinely prefer manga!L's characterization in most ways, I also think it was interesting of the anime to put a moment in where one of them tries to temporarily drop the games for a little bit, and where they both seem to be genuinely feeling a bit soft with each other and regretful that they hadn't met another way.

[devilsskettle]

idk if this is even really a bad thing in fan spaces but i think that a lot of people are just not very genre savvy when it comes to engaging with the media that they enjoy

[fictionadventurer]

Potential December Reads

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Volume 8 by Beth Brower

Prudence and the Romantic Poet by Nina Clare

A Christmas-related book

The Cricket on the Hearth and/or The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens

The Christmas Blossoms by Priscilla Smith McCaffrey

One of the American Girl books

A religious book

Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine by Pope Benedict XVI

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton

Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers Even I Can Pray by Leah Libresco

A middle-grade book

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Mandy by Julie Andrews

[saturnisms]

assad zaman pls accept my friend request on spotify