#it’s unavoidable

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

I have become aware that 2024 is going by at a speed that I am not comfortable with... What do you think though?

As we get older the years seem faster, probably cuz we’ve lived through more of them

I guess I stopped focusing on the passage of time at some point? I’m a very “in the moment” kinda person I suppose

[applebees4prez]

dan and phil have me babygirlifying real adult men who i have never met in my life and that is the danger of them

[zahri-melitor]

I’m having a lot of thoughts about Messner-Loebs’ Wonder Woman run, and trying to quantify them in a coherent manner.

Part of the problem is setting out clearly in my head what’s dated, what’s offensive, what’s Loebs trying his best (and failing), what is partly a complete lack of language to explain what he’s describing, what’s giving me 1970s political feminism vibes, and so on.

Mostly what I want to do is provide multiple lectures on intersectional feminist theory from the future, because the most frustrating part of reading this is I can see where Messner-Loebs is trying. Frequently failing, but despite a large amount of misogyny, he pretty obviously was thinking about writing women.

First point, and the one that’s going to be a sticking one for a lot of people: you are not going to enjoy these stories at all unless you can think of them as historical period pieces. The way Messner-Loebs thinks and writes about the concept of gender and of women is going to catch you off guard, if you try to come into this expecting to see anything even remotely current reflected. He’s actually lucky in that due to being sensible enough to avoid a lot of feminist and gender terminology and instead simply portray concepts, he’s managed to sidestep getting frozen in amber using language that would get him cancelled today.

That said, Messner-Loebs clearly sees misogyny as a challenge that women and the Amazons as a race have to face head on. So there’s a lot of depiction of it, both deliberately and in passing. The fact that his opening storyline on the series was heavily based in the sexual violence implicit and explicit in becoming the host for a female demon ‘wife’, followed up by a space adventure revolving around a gender-divided species who hate and enslave women…it’s not subtle, and it’s a slog to get through.

Messner-Loebs can’t decide if he wants to write “Diana: she’s just like you, with the same problems YOU have” or as an Amazonian Warrior. So he sort of vacillates between the two in the most awkward manner (back to back ‘space pirate queen’ and ‘working in fast food as she needs money’ is pretty eye-rollworthy, as is ‘assassins but we’re discussing Etta getting anorexia for her wedding dress’).

I think it’s interesting and infuriating in equal parts and has me stopping to work out my feelings frequently.

[da3drat]

In the dark recesses of my mind there is a meralexia time loop au that starts when they first meet and loops over and over until Meri realizes she can’t save Almalexia from herself.

[lonelypep]

i have the opening for revolutionary girl utena on my playlist and every single time it comes on i have the uncontrollable urge to stand up and perform the great gay mating dance

[altschmerzes]

tonight im working on the aro buck fic and true north. speaking t into existence.

[purrfectlycontent]

dazai would wear these

[vampean]

i don’t think i will ever stop blaming myself for how my moms life turned out

[changguscomet]

I’ve been told that there’s a one direction > kpop > f1 pipeline and between that and dating a car boy I think it’s time for me to accept my fate 🧍‍♀️

[ezratheunready]

Seeing my partner this weekend for the first time since I moved back to Wisconsin and his little Illinois ass is not prepared for the artisanal cheese and curds I’m bringing down for him.

I am a stereotype but who cares about that shit when garlic rosemary cheese curds exist

[aela-writes]

starting a new wip and making it back on an fbi watchlist with my google searches

[roarshackle]

He's so fun to draw cause u can just make him look like a menace with ur pets

[suddenly-frankenstein]

uhmhmhmmm just occasional thoughts about Daniel's interaction with Marius

[casreturns]

what’s it like being a boy?

[kinz2007]

Them: simplify packing for the trip by only taking things that are necessary

Me: say no more

[1-ufo]

If there is one thing that I’ve learned about life in my almost 38 years it is that there is no light without darkness. There is no happiness without sadness. There is no healing from trauma without rage. You must feel it. You must go /through it/ to get out the other side. There is no short cut. There’s no way around. There is no not feeling the sadness or the rage. You might think you’re fine but you’re not. It will catch up to you. Trauma always does. It will find its way if not now then later. You can’t rush it. It doesn’t work like that. It’s just like grief because trauma in some part /is/ grief. Let yourself feel the feelings. It is the ONLY way through.

You’re better off accepting this all sooner rather than later I promise.