#mad meg

[fallbabylon]

Mad Meg “Dull Gret” by  Pieter Bruegel the Elder on display at  Mayer van den Bergh Museum- Antwerp, Belgium 

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Dulle Griet, Mad Meg (1563, oil on panel) | Pieter Bruegel the Elder

[rosesandmoonstones]

Is Prince Harry Miserable? How Meghan Markle's Megxit Plan Has Left Harr...

Excellent assessment

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Known as 'Mad Meg', she believed female ignorance came from lack of experience:

We are kept like birds in our houses not suffered to fly abroad to see the several changes of Fortune and the various humours ordained and created by nature, and wanting the experience of nature, we must needs want the understanding and knowledge, and so consequently prudence and invention of men.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[m00nbuggies]

meg mccaffrey is the best pjoverse character fight with the wall

[jensen-frackles]

why is herbert so close to dan while they're reanimating his cat like bro is ALL up on him

[nomiyakazehaya]

super late night doodle, shoulder started protesting so this is as far as i'll go for now 😩

good night

[avocado62524]

[de0xidearts]

feminine rage

[rosesandmoonstones]

It's because she is an empty vessel. She copies fashion but she has no innate style, no charisma, no inner spark and no taste. She has no aesthetic instinct and no understanding of colour, of shape or of texture. She is unable to create her own style, and she most certainly possesses zero je ne sais quoit.

And she has the unbelievable lack of intelligence to pit herself against Catherine, Princess of Wales, who is practically perfect in every way.

I have a serious question.

How can a woman with so much money (allegedly) get it so wrong with her fashion? Not a single look was flattering. Not a single look was memorable. Not a single look was inspiring. There are a thousand IG accounts out there who curate these types of cookie cutter looks, but better.

Neutrals can be exciting when styled the right way, but she makes the most expensive shit look like it came from Goodwill.

[varilien]

three of them :)

drawing with pen being easy and fun was unfortunately shortlived so i guess i gotta do something else now dhfgjkd

[brw]

Asking for a Re-Animator re-make without the misogyny is like. a little ridiculous to be frank. The misogyny is the point. Herbert and Dan's relationship is the way it is because they are both very misogynistic people (albeit in very different ways). Because they are, objectively speaking, two white men in the 80s in a slasher(adjacent) horror film. Of course they're misogynists.

The whole narrative surrounding Meg, the grander reason why she dies, is due to misogyny. Not a single man in that film sees Meg as a whole person. Not a single man cares truly about her, her thoughts and her feelings and her decisions. She is dismissed by Dan, she is dismissed by her father, and obviously Herbert and Hill couldn't give a fuck what she thinks or feels. She dies because never once was she anything other than an object to the men around her, never once was she afforded agency and that isn't a mistake, that is a narrative theme in the movie. She is objectified time and time again. There is more than one scene where she tells Dan no, that she doesn't like something, and he continues it anyway. When she rejects his attempts at sexual intimacy, his response is to act annoyed, or huffy. And you can say these scenes are meant to be playful... but when she is raped later on, the seeds of this idea that her consent does not matter to the men around her, regardless of her relationship with them is sown. She never asked for anything that happens to her in the film, but because what she wants isn't held in high regard by any of the men around her, it happens anyway, and that's the tragedy of Meg's character.

I'm not gonna sit here and say that the gratuitous shots of her being sexually assaulted are good, or necessary... but Re-Animator is a mid-80s gory horror flick. Part of why Re-Animator has endured so much as a film is because of its presence as a cult classic in horror comedy. And misogyny was part and parcel of that era and of those movies. I know Tumblr has latched onto Re-Animator because of the queerness of the two main leads and the strength of it's styling and cinematic sense, but to remove the misogyny from Re-Animator is to deny what Re-Animator captured, and to deny why the narrative goes the way it goes, and frankly to deny it's queerness. You can't separate Re-Animator's queerness from its misogyny. Herbert West comes across as gay because his contempt towards Meg is that extreme. Dan comes across as infatuated with Herbert because he repeatedly chooses Herbert's experiments over her. And ultimately I think it is far more useful to try and have meaningful discussions about the period-typical misogyny in the film, rather than hope for a version that has all those nasty bits removed.

[baelonthebrave]

when zagreus has said or done something to piss off thanatos and meg at exactly the same time… bi as in bitchless

[n8tesoup]

coughs

[cock-guillotine]

joe 'quiting smoking' actually results in a drastic increase in his daily nicotine intake. multiple patches, chewing nicotine gum, vaping constantly. as well as also still smoking occasionally when he decides that situationally it 'doesn't count'

[drrav3nb]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME: favourite lost/lesser known ships [3/10] - Jonas & Suyin (The Meg)

It's not just about the ones you lose, it's also about the ones you save. I'm glad you're here.