#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]

[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

[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.

[saturnisms]

assad zaman pls accept my friend request on spotify

[see-arcane]

Orlok and Gorcha at the toxic masculinity off who wins?

Gorcha has the excuse of being fucked up on Vourdalak vampirism which clearly soured his personality enough to make him demand his once-favorite dog be killed for barking. And then he had his enemies severed head nailed up outside as a trophy, which shocks his family. Dude is all hopped up on undeath weirdness, so we can't say that's entirely on him

Orlok 2024 went out of his way to Nosferatu and Scholomance his own ass into that condition and has been chilling this way for centuries when we meet him. He is how he is and that is Supremely Aggro Ye Olde Macho Rat Bastard Man.

Though I will speak up for classic 1922 Orlok who is not an aggro manly man's man. Not sure what he is other than a supremely awkward stick bug who does not know how flirting works beyond going 👁️👁️until his crush lets him suck their thumb and/or tiddy

[skitskatdacat63]

Guys what do you think he's listening to?

[spaceagesparkledust]

Thinking about Doctor Who and the whole concept of the Doctor being “just some guy” vs. “world’s specialist princess/guy” (always the universe’s least favorite though) 

And how a lot of the classic doctors are like the Doctor is literally just some guy. Like sure he’s mysterious and we have no idea who this man is but he’s literally just some guy in a box doing wacky things with people and trying to do good. And I think this varies from Doctor to Doctor/the impact they leave on the companions/modern day legacy, 

Versus some modern story arcs where the Doctor ascends to sort of center of the universe/literal godhood and how 13’s like “the universe is swirling around me” (I just finished Fugitive of the Judoon)

So I decided to break it down:

Just some guy: most of the classic docs, 9, 12 (okay so 12 is interesting because 12 is a least favorite princess desperately trying to be just some guy. He just wants to be some guy trying to do good and he actively fights the narrative that he’s anything different) 

Universe’s specialist guy/least favorite princess: 10 (but in the fact that when 10 gets out of his just some guy box the universe shuts him down so fast. The universe hates 10.), 11, 13(13 straddles just some guy and least favorite princess and as of mid season 12 leaning into the latter), 14 (Donna Noble and bigeneration force him into “just some guy” which is generally good for everyone's well-being.) 15 is a least favorite princess/ world's specialist guy who believes/ puts on the persona that he’s truly just some guy until he’s shoved out of his box. 

8: i haven't consumed any 8 media but from what I've heard he's the universe's least favorite princess in terms of angst levels

7: universe's specialist princess happens to be just some guy (may change the more i watch 7)

[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

[queeringclassiclit]

Eugénie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly

from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

My parents are dealing with Hurricane Helene and my mom’s peak priority is getting coffee with no power

Like mom, every other house has a tree ontop of it, you have other issues!

My mom: yes, very true, but also I’m busy making coffee on our camp stove. Trees second, coffee first