#it’s like erasing history

[earthly-ali3n]

i know we all say it as a joke (kind of) but i recently washed my water bottle for the first time since [loud train rushes by] [cars honking] [loud crashing and scraping of metal] [cat screeching] and it really did lose its flavour :(

[accioepiphany]

The bear trying to gaslight me into believing Claire and Carmy’s relationship was all sunshine by putting some never seen before flashbacks where he is suddenly smiling all the time… when the only thing we see season 2 is him miserable and worried and bathed in blue light everytime he is with or thinks about Claire, to the point he even had a panic attack about it????

[deimosatellite]

like idk it just seems actually nefarious to take one of the very few widely known instances of queerness in older history being a symbol to show queer people that we've always existed and aren't alone for CENTURIES and taking away the queerness from it. like. i know some people say that ''the queerness isnt important in the book" which i mean in my opinion i could go off for 10k words in an essay as to how basil's love for dorian is integral to the story BUT EVEN APART from that its really just. having a real explicitly queer character in such an old and widely regarded classic novel is HUGE for queer history and this is just. literally like. its 2024. why are you doing queer erasure to DORIAN GRAY

[armandposting]

I can't think about armand's age/gender dysphoria without wanting to scream for a thousand years. how he's constantly seen as a young boy because he was turned at 17 but by that point even before he's lived a minute as a vampire he already hasn't felt like a boy for years. and all the men who see him this way want to use him like a man without treating him as one. he's constantly saying to their faces that he is a man with wants and desires and feelings and they're like hmm that's nice. not to me though. but not in a way that protects any of the child in him. they're not like, you're a boy and that means you should be kept safe. they're like, you're a boy and that means whatever I do to you is not real. because you're not real and now you're so frozen that no matter what you do you never will be. literally no wonder he has every problem.

[starbiology]

The Kingdom of Altador? The Queen has never heard of such a place 😗

[avvidstarion]

The characters in veilguard make Such a big deal out of Thee Elven Gods being real and evil when like. Idk I always got the vibe that the average human wouldn’t be able to name any of the elven gods except for maybe Mythal. The city elves don’t even know much about the Dalish and that’s like. By human design. The Dalish are a persecuted and oppressed religions minority and I feel like this is just another way the game glosses over “political lore”. The average reaction to the news wouldn’t be deep existential dread it would be “wtf is a ghilan’nain?”

[pan-catra]

anyone calling Catra and Adora sisters is actively engaging in lesbophobic rhetoric btw. i can’t believe i have to tell this to my fellow non-hets but maybe don’t reiterate age old anti-lesbian talking points just because you hate a ship.

[singlecrow]

If your response to "Harry Potter is the creation of a violent transphobe" is "well actually I never liked it anyway" your concern is with your moral defensibility rather than its transphobia

[autismmydearwatson]

It's actually so funny that in Rebels season 3 Ezra goes to so much trouble making sure Thrawn, the guy who is famous for using art for military advantage, doesn't find Atollon by erasing it from the Empires maps, only for Thrawn to find it anyway by studying fucking folk art

[clottedscream]

the discord cooked up a real world setting au so i made some semi-realistic-but-not-really portraits of the museum trio to go with it

[raylangivins]

I like that the better than revenge lyrics are immature and unfeminist. I like that they were written by a teenager and sound like they were written by a teenager. It’s part of the charm!!! It adds such a fun dynamic to listen to them as an adult now because I was once a petty teenage girl too and petty teenage girls should get to express themselves messily and imperfectly and I’m so fond of my stupid younger self, like…that’s my little friend!!! Reject shame, Taylor!!! Let your foolish teenage self speak with her words!!!!

[factsilike]

One of the things I very much hate about modern AUs in MDZS is how the fic writers Americanise everything about the characters until the only thing Asian about them is their name.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

One small pet peeve of mine, but I see it popping up often, is the notion that the gerudos are a patriarchy because once in a blue moon a boy is born and is crowned king about it (at least in OoT lore). And that's... not how structural gendered power works, at least as far as I understand it? Otherwise countries all over the world would magically turn into a matriarchy if they elected a woman/the second they would crown a queen; and every little children would suddenly be taught completely different stories about their social roles and their bodies, and all religions would suddenly shift a little in the core tenents of their philosophies, and infrastructure and laws would magically be reshuffled, and, and... and it simply doesn't happen.

So yeah, Ganondorf grew up as king because the idea of kinghood was thought out, upheld and passed down by women, and specifically by his mothers. Ultimately, any real power rests in the cultural consciousness of a majority of women, which shapes all of them, including him. If they had culturally decided their only boy's fate was to be shunned, or a living coat hanger, and Ganondorf was raised on these ideas instead... I mean, he could have revolted, and he probably would have, but he would have still been a subject to a matriarchal ideology. Just because said matriarchal ideology works to his advantage doesn't mean he has control over it.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted additional governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters. [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

— J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses

[theboytatu]

the anon who said exist is not deserving of a 10/10....each and every track on that album served a purpose...add on to that the fact that if it was any other band, they would have finished the album with another day....but not exo (please insert the duck smoking a cigarette gif here) let me in was a whole breakfast lunch dinner...

literallyyyy omfg like no let's get into it literally!!! let's just stop for a second. realize that exo have been around for over a decade, in the brink of disbandment for half of that, beating flop allegations left and right, holding on to the one group sm wants to wipe from the face of their existence, nobody in south korea wants them together anymore, kpop stopped caring about vocalists who can sing..... and then they came out with this showstopping ballad knowing they had one chance, channeling boyz ii men type of runs that no one else could do... and they killed that shit in one take. live performance mind you.

[forbidden-interlude]

This Beyoncé bowl performance has a lot of ppl up in arms about Beyoncé’s use of Americana imagery, especially waving the flag. It made me realize that ppl don’t think for two seconds. How can you interpret that as anything but reclamation? How do you not see it as veneration for what black people have contributed to America.