#how it feels to be female right now

[uwudonoodle]

[shrinkthisviolet]

Helena kissing and sleeping with Innie!Mark in 2x04 is in fact sexual assault and not sweet or romantic or whatever, by the way. Yes, Innie!Mark is in love with Helly, and I do ship them! But that is not Helly, that is Helena. She is sleeping with Innie!Mark under false pretenses. That's literally the definition of rape by deception (“the perpetrator deceives the victim into participating in a sexual act to which they would otherwise not have consented, had they not been deceived.” Mark would not have slept with Helena if he knew who she was).

Even if Mark does catch feelings for Helena later in s2, he did not feel that way about her in 2x04—he felt that way about Helly, and Helena knew that and took advantage of it.

And sure, yes, to a degree, Helly and Helena are the same person. But like...they're also not. They are, and they are not—that is the point the show repeatedly makes. Ex: Helly's rebellious nature is an inversion of Helena's entitlement, and a stronger manifestation of Helena's own rebellious nature (unconfirmed that she has one, but likely). But also, Helena lives for Lumon, while Helly wants to burn it to the ground. The same, but different. The same person, but also not. There is a reason reintegration is such a painful process mentally.

Different enough, certainly, that Innie!Mark sleeping with one is not the same as him sleeping with the other...especially when he doesn't even know that this is Helena and not Helly. If Mark decides that it is the same to him, then fine, but he hasn’t decided that. As things stand, he slept with Helena believing she was Helly, and that is not romantic.

[wa3jetisbestpony]

revstar fans we need to put on the best talent show this towns ever seen and save ReLive!!

[sukibenders]

A female artist/celebrity: Hey, while I'm really happy for all the support you guys as my fans have shown me, can we please establish some boundaries? Some things are starting to make me uncomfortable. Again, I'm grateful but--

Said people the response was aimed towards: Oh so now she thinks she's too good for us? She's so ungrateful, letting all the fame get to her head. Doesn't she know that without us, she wouldn't be as famous? She should just suck it up!

[henrysglock]

how I look at Kate and the Duffers after they legit had Brenner on Broadway do things that are ripped straight out of my most controversial Brenner fic—which was posted way before Broadway ticket presale was even announced—and then they also fixed many of the plot holes/made a lot of subtext into text that I mentioned in the massive, controversial TFS analysis that I posted on my ao3 the same day Broadway tickets went on presale, and then they ALSO added specific details from the most recent (posted back in December) chapter of my less-controversial Henry fix-it fic that already had a spooky amount of similarities to the West End show when it debuted:

[marginal-notes]

Okay, so. No one needs to hear me out on this. I’m just saying. One day I’m going to crack and heave out all my biting commentary about Naruto gender and clan and lineage politics through the lens of an always-a-different-sex Kakashi fic or outline, and it’s just going to… exist… out there.

No one else gets changed, it’s just Kakashi, and it’s going to be a nightmare from start to finish that’s definitely also heavily tinged by my personal perspective on being agender aro ace.

[jathun]

ngl I have such a love/hate relationship with the fate franchise

[kazooie]

Can't sleep so I'm gonna eat half a cake then feel bad about myself but not bad enough that I won't do it again

[gothteddiesdotcom]

I think that part of what like. kills me about the whole media literacy and critical thinking aspect of enjoying media these days is that people refuse to like. contextualize that

A. Bad media can still hold significant meaning to people

B. Media made for a demographic you aren’t apart of is not inherently bad media

C. Media made for and consumed by the opposite demographic is not inherently shallow or flawed nor is it above criticism for its media tropes either.

[sheliesshattered]

miiiiight have spent my entire weekend watching Skeleton Crew for the first time and Andor for the third time, and eating homemade ronto wraps and way too much ice cream

[biracy]

Okayyy sorry I know this has probably been talked to death but I'm still going for it. Very very sick of how often transphobia/transphobic tropes are utilized for the sake of "relatable bisexual le memes" or w/e. There still exists to many people the idea of trans people as "the best of both worlds", a kind of fetishized "half man, half woman", presented often as some kind of Ideal Bisexual Fantasy. Bisexual people aren't the only people who do it, obviously, many straight men's fixation on "femboys" or "traps", feminine-presenting people with quote unquote "male" genitals, is an obvious example, but to some degree so is the perception of trans men as Just Really Butch Women, masculine-presenting people with quote unquote "female" genitals, among some lesbians and even straight men. However, there is something Really notable about how often "trans people are Like The Best Of Both Worlds" is presented as trans-positive, #relatable bisexual content. And I know that people do this In Real Life all the time but in the context of what I'm talking about it's fiction! It's memes! You can just Choose not to present the insinuation that a person who "looks like a girl" but "is actually a boy" (read: has what cis society positions as "male genitals") is like The Bisexual Dream #relatable. Idk this is a messy post but u get the idea I think

[epicdogymoment]

gender and sexuality labels are so fucking hard how am i supposed to know how what i experience (already hard to pin down) compares to what "normal people" experience (completely unknown to me)

[purgaytorysupremacy]

i'm applying for a fellowship that required my faculty supervisor to write me a letter of support and yesterday he very shyly emailed to say he was nearly done but wanted to confirm my pronouns. i'm a cis woman who is just very very tall (before you ask: 6'2") and uses a nickname bc my given name is too Dutch for most folks (apparently) but i have just discovered that for the last two-ish months i've been in the program, everyone has been dancing around my pronouns and substituting my name more than is normal bc no one wanted to misgender me and were apparently just waiting for someone to either use pronouns in front of me or for me to use them myself and i think i have truly reached my final queer form

[rxttenfish]

downside to centaur clan structure: much harder to come up with lesbian situationships

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

no mothposting tonight, my stomach decided that today was the day i should die :(

[actual-corpse]

Okay... So I am Genderqueer.

Sometimes, I am female

Oftentimes, I'm male

Most times, I'm N/A

Occasionally, I'm both or all of the above

I was feeling kinda female today right?

Well, when I'm female, I usually feel disgusting, and it's songs like this one that really hammer it home. I'm not comfortable being female because I always feel pressured to perform a certain way. I always feel ogled, and it just makes me feel gross, and I hate it.

There's a post I saw about menstruation and the stains and stigma that come along with it.

I love dresses and skirts and the color pink, but I don't feel girl enough or pretty enough or skinny enough to perform as Girl... I don't like being so far removed from my AGAB, I don't hate being female.

I hate how it feels to be female.