#its always like this. esp with women

[daisy-mooon]

"I want Annabeth to be blonde :(" then pick up a PJO book and read it you dumb fuck

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

[themyscirah]

diana and cheetah for the ship ask game?

Maybe someday I will end up joining the wondercheetah fans but as it stands every cheetah appearance I've read she has just been like The Worst. And not even a fun worst like I hate her guts SO much. To break it down

Pérez Cheetah:

Rich British lady who made her fortune stealing artifacts from other (often indigenous) cultures

Tries to trick Diana by lying that she found an important lost Themysciran artifact (mean)

Didn't say it explicitly outright but I just KNOW she was a huge fan of British colonialism this is undeniable to me

Conclusion: Cheetah is awful and quite literally only alive bc Diana is a good enough person to save her from execution

Rucka Cheetah (original flavor, c. 2005ish)

This bitch is fucking crazy

Sleeping with Professor Zoom

Has superspeed now????

Is trying to flirt with and assault Wally West (Flash crossover)

Conclusion: Barbara id say get help but honestly idt any therapist out there could handle you

So like wondercheetah shippers I see you and I feel you and I think it's v possible we'll vibe when I get to like Rebirth WW and the new version of Cheetah but I'm going through preboot comics right now and she just sucks so bad for me. Could never even entertain the thought of them even liking the other as a human for an instant in a world with the original (Barbara Minerva vers) Cheetah and their history--which is where my mind is at right now in terms of WW comics.

Not saying wondercheetah shippers aren't right though like they literally are. Diana and New Cheetah 100% have some kind of thing this is undeniable. I just haven't read it yet and so I think of Old Cheetah first and shes awful.

[blee-bleep]

so like i binged-read 55 chapters of vinland saga and

holy shit, i was put off with how incredibly sexist it was, but the story was a little TOO GOOD to be dropped. and i only stopped because my retinas could only take so much.

Askeladd, you dropped this my king 👑

[purpldawne]

actually wait that poll unlocked a fuckin memory and i feel like talking about it so‼️

( not tmi or anything but in case this gets long or you don't wanna read it im putting a page break here LMAO )

ok so on my 18th birthday, my grandparents REALLY wanted to go to dinner to celebrate. i didnt really wanna, but i got to dress up so i said fuck it. this was around when debates over trans women in sports were first brought to the mainstream ( as far i know ) right. so we're sitting there in the restaurant, im eating my cake, and my grandfather starts going off about how they're letting men compete against women and how unfair it is and shit. WHILE WE'RE CELEBRATING MY BIRTHDAY. IN FRONT OF ME. THEIR GNC GRANDCHILD. WHO REFERS TO HIMSELF WITH MASCULINE TERMS EVERY TIME YOU SEE HIM. LOUDLY. it's been two years and i STILL can't believe the audacity. like YOU invited ME out to dinner and start talking that shit?? if they weren't family and we weren't in public i would have told em to shut the fuck up

[krogans-give-the-best-cuddles]

Reading Asunder and I think I hate this more than the first two. The first two were often poorly done in a technical sense, and often had a lot of sexism. But Asunder is the "video game developers idea of gray morality" problem fucking distilled. The sexism is still here, and most of the technical issues are fixed (though certainly not fucking all) but like

Every two damn minutes it's: the noble and pure and pretty Evangeline (ignore the fact that like a kid starved to death under her charge and she is actually a threat and jailer to everyone around her just bc they were born different) who is so noble bc she.... believes the beliefs of the organization doing all the bad stuff. But she believes it really genuinely, that she's helping, even when working w the bad organization. And she's pretty, we'll mention that again.

Versus Adrian who's described as pretty never and often described as mousy and irritating. And she wants all the mages to be free but she's like soooo angry and loud and mean. Did you hear how she's too angry? She's soooooo angry, the redheaded fire Mage. So angry. And she's super judgemental. No one's as judgemental as her, even Wynne (a character who's greatest and most consistent flaw is being judgemental) will call her out as being too judgemental. And of course like, maybe she has some points about Mage freedom if she just wasn't so angry about it and obsessed with it. And she's not pretty.

And of course. Both. Are in a love triangle with our main male POV character. In fact he at one point dated Adrian, although it's impossible to tell why, bc he only ever thinks of her in the worst ways possible, so like. What did he like about her? What does he even like about Evangeline other than that he thinks she's hot? No one knows.

Something about it being written slightly more competently makes me like it even less

[gaskarth]

getting they/them'd at build-a-bear yesterday was so funny i keep thinking about it

[not-so-superheroine]

deseret book is more persistent than duolingo.

i ordered 2 books for a church research project on Black saints in the early Church and also in the Reorganization, on which the one book had a small section us and all had info from the our shared early church history, and it was an ebook too!

and i get physical mail from them once a month. i have no idea how to cancel.

herald house, the community of christ publishing house, contacts me much less, and i buy books from them all the time.

and oh their church book app reminds me to read my scriptures and the words of their prophets regularly if it's not in sleep mode.

i have to admire the effort behind it, ngl.

[llycaons]

this is going to sound so condescending and I don't know if there's a way around it but if you want adult characters you may have to branch out into media that's for adults and I know it can be difficult to get out of your comfort zone and not denying there's still an age bias especially for women but it's really worth it if you're looking for older characters and (presumably) more mature narratives to seek out media that's not designed to be best digested by 13-15 year olds because it's probably going to mostly involve 13-15 yr olds

[kakusboyfriend]

"eugh this character is a pervert who cheats and goes out with a lot of women at once, how could you like him?" First off I'm his boyfriend/whatever not his owner.

Second off if my poly ass was writing the source material I would not change that about him, just have those girls know his stance in the matter. Simple as that.

[boogieboba]

I’m so terrified that they’re gonna absolutely murder bo-katan’s character in favor of her being a one dimensional bad guy who’s being Mean to din and Deserves To Have Power because it is what she was Born To Do (which even directly goes against mandalorian culture anyways - blood doesn’t matter to those guys. family does. and those are two very different things to a culture founded on adoption). Like, yeah, she’s set up to be an antagonist but there’s so many cool ways they could spin that. I hope they chose a good direction for her character but I honestly expect to be disappointed

[cozybearz]

i hate clothes shopping bc im rlly picky for a lot of reasons (mostly sensory stuff, ethical concerns, price, and personal taste which all collaborates to make picking stuff rlly hard dhdhd) and its generally stressful, and i have a habit of thrifting stuff thats too big for me bc its often all i can find in styles i like, but right now im actually rlly glad i got some too-big for me pants in the past couple years bc now a lot of them fit just right so i dont have like, an imminent pants buying emergency

[applescabs]

the t4t girlies btw. if you even care.

[not-heavenly]

just realized the reason it seemed more fun as a kid when men taught was because they didn’t have the primary voice and so it didnt seem like they were talking down to us

[zhuhongs]

i need more dramas abt lesbians just living life and having normal jobs....

[lesbicastagna]

being a lesbian is truly the most alienating experience i know i say this all the time but everytime im just as shocked by how true it is. how my simple existence, let alone my desires and my deepest feelings, are simply incomprehensible to cishets. it's not that they hate me its more than that: i don't exist.