#flawless female

[beautiescutieshotties2]

Alice Delish IG alice_delish

[blkkizzat]

Y'all please look at my glorious commission by @schleepy-bunny!!

It's me bimbo!reader x ghostface!choso from my ghostface!choso fic!! i got the stairway scene drawn from pt 2 fjhdsfkjhsdkjshd

IM GEEEKED AHHHHH!!!! ITS GLORIOUS!!!

[jacarandaaaas]

It actually needs to be studied how the encanto fandom took one tiny verse from a song and misconstrued pepas entire character. Where did this narrative that she’s bitter and mean even come from??? how did y’all manage to successfully convince people that was true!? people think pepa is SO hung up about thr wedding but mirabel literally asked her a question??? was she meant to just say nothing????? god forbid a woman wants to tell a fun story😭 these lyrics aren’t even mean either it’s literally just what happened “it was my wedding day we were getting ready and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky” “Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin” “Bruno said it looked like rain” “in doing so he floods my brain” where is the “mean” in this? where is the bitter?? mind you this is the one and ONLY time she brings up the wedding and it’s because mirabel wanted to know. like even if pepa was bitter she has every right to be! you would think growing up with a sister who you KNOW has weather depending on her mood and the anxiety that comes with it, would be enough of a reason to not make a bad taste joke! It was her WEDDING DAY!!!

Any other instance I see people stating pepa was “mean” is literally just she looked at mirabel funny. Im sorry if you had your seat taken at the table you would look at her funny too! it’s a look that lasts less than 3 seconds and mirabel is not bothered at all in fact she looks guilty! People say oh but the proposal but the woman was panicking! she got told like everyone else this was all happening because of mirabel! Pepa is passionate she can be sassy and she’s fiercely loving but she is not a mean bitter person and never was!!

[blackashbluephoenix]

I'm working on my season 5a/6 Marvey AU today and it took me an embarassing amount of time to realize that Rachel called her Dad first when Mike was arrested (before even telling Harvey) because her first impulse was to find a way to force Mike to turn on Harvey. The worst night of his life and she sics her angry father (who will now hate Mike forever) on him to manipulate him into betraying the one person he might love more than her.

She didn't just think about it for a second like she admits to Mike when they fight, it was her main goal from minute one. She only backs off when Mike freaks out when she vocalizes it. It's like she only realizes in that moment that he may actually leave her if she tries to push the issue.

I get that she resents how close Mike and Harvey are and she feels like Harvey put Mike in this position. But Mike's just as guilty as Harvey is, and she wouldn't have given Mike the time of day if Harvey hadn't brought him in. He's the only reason she has Mike at all, and her first impulse is to throw him under the bus regardless of what Mike wants.

It just makes Rachel's entire character feel icky. Like I know Gibbs tries to get her to make a deal to go against Harvey later in the season but the fact that it's literally her first impulse without Gibbs even making the offer is just... ick.

[sad-scarred-sassy]

Elriels covering as “pro Elain” want to push the narrative that Elain is not coddled or babied in the Night Court and its just ???

Yes her sisters were also helped, were also cared for… Thats not what being coddled or babied is referring to here. Elain is always undermined and thought of as incapable of doing anything on her own, thats where the coddling comes from them.

Coddling =/= getting help

Even Rhys and Feyre have a conversation about this in a bonus chapter and you mean to say I’m reading her character wrong?

Also, just read in the same sneaky post that accepting the bond with Lucien is the “safest” option for her? It is literally the most world shattering decision she could make. Its the most permanent, the most radical, the most vulnerable road. After having lost so much, losing her own fiance, her father, her whole life, you mean to say that Elain simply accepting the bond or getting to know Lucien is not the MOST pressuring road she could take? It would literally only have two outcomes: either she isn’t compatible with him or he is her one true soulmate and she will be with him forever. This after all that she has been through is not the riskiest most permanent path she could take???

Kissing Azriel without rejecting her bond first is what’s easy. As that person said, Elain is intelligent and observant, she probably knew Azriel was once (probably still is) in love with Mor. He never hid that from people around him and she was around them enough times to tell. How would the kiss with Azriel be the “tough” decision, the thing that changes her life and love and future? She knew what she was doing here and she obviously risked a lot by almost kissing him but it screams to me how she was in need to get a grasp on her own life again, on her own decisions. I respect that, but there were no actual stakes in kissing him, not the way there would if she wanted to try and kiss Lucien.

No I don’t think Elain is infantile. No I don’t believe she’s not capable of doing her own thing. No I don’t believe she can’t make decisions for herself because YES she is canonically the one sister that had the opportunity to pick and choose what her life was supposed to be like until being made fae and now having a mate, but nonetheless is still having all choices laid out for her to take.

Yes I see the way she is treated in the NC, as nothing more than a nice company to Feyre, as someone too pure to be stained by darkness, as someone who is trying to fit into the court but is forcing it, as a lap dog, as someone who cannot be exposed to things she WANTS to do for the sake of protection.

Sounds a lot like the way Feyre was coddled in the Spring Court, albeit in a less abusive and dramatic way.

Stop trying to gaslight people into thinking she is completely fine where she is and how she is treated. Like SJM did not put THAT much effort into telling Elain’s story and settling down her arc and her weaknesses and the people who are wrong about her and the one who is right for her because its so obvious it hurts😭 Like be for real, I get offended by the sheer disrespect of my intelligence

[wrongcarwhy]

"If I really was kind, I wouldn't be here. In my head, I'm saying, 'You shouldn't be here. Go home.' When you went out to get the beer, I was like, 'Now is your chance, go home.' But it's all just in my head. My body won't move. I like being with you too much. I really like you a lot, Mr. Han. To the point where I wish everyone else in the world would just disappear and only the two of us would be left."

Call It Love (2023) Directed by Lee Kwang Young Screenplay by Kim Ga Eun

[marty--party]

actually the best kind of character design is when a character has traditionally masculine traits (body hair, square face, big muscles etc) or is otherwise androgynous/nonhuman but is a girl and uses she/her pronouns

[positivelybeastly]

Gonna be playing some Baldur's Gate 3 for a bit, then probably come back for knocking out some more replies.

Focusing on the ones that immediately strike me with a reply first, then the oldest ones, just so people are getting posts - apologies to those who've already waited a while, I have not forgotten you.

Also, I found this little scene with Hank and I must share.

[dinsbeskar]

I fucking hate that they gave us another female character in Earien, yet she fucking sucks!!! The worst!!!!! Hope sauron fucks you up too!!!

[bybdolan]

sorrrryyy more game of thrones posting but one thing that has been on my mind quite a bit while thinking about the show is the question "how much of its misogynistic reputation actually is the fanbase's fault?" and I am not arguing game of thrones is some piece of flawless feminist media, god forbid, but I was genuinely surprised by the sheer amount of well written female characters and how well a lot of them actually hold up, because people in my corner of the internet have treated it like this ugly beacon of modern misogyny. (Looking back this is deeeply ironic when considering what shows a lot of the tumblr userbase was watching at the time.) However. then I watch any video related to the show and go into the comment section and am HIT with a wave of nasty evil disgusting sexism usually only found in AITA reddit comment sections. and then i get it.

[clcland]

[muirmarie]

thinking about Them (ellie sattler, gwen demarco, jo ann harding, rhonda lebeck, evelyn o'connell, annie porter, leeloo, sarah connor, etc) yet again

truly no one did it (flawed messy strong amazing ladies) like they did it (the 90s)

[obsienceee]

[ashitakaxsan]

Beatrice Priestley:)

[wolfes]

more unmotherly ruthless pragmatic arrogant egotistical female characters... who are the protagonist and not the mean girl archetype

[libraryofbaxobab]

September 21, 2024:

Oop, it's been awhile! I should have written this review weeks ago.

This book is as shiny as its cover; in fact it's downright ostentatious. I'd love to see a movie adaptation just to actually behold all the glitter. And of course the pretty girls.

Like a lot of this author's work, there's the glimmer of several fairytales woven together into something entirely different, and my favorite part is how semi-obscure they are. In this one, we're talking the C-List celebrities like The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and probably more I don't immediately recognize.

And I learned a Weird Cow Fact! Read this book to learn more about the Weird Cow Fact.

7.75/10 #WhatsKenyaReading