#mimirants

[papenathys]

sometimes the oversimplified queer readings of classic texts by gen Z gays frustrate me so much because you know they are not actually looking to make meaningful literary discourse at all. some of the essays and meta I read by students and lit enthusiasts here are really good, but most of them are just like "haha ophelia is hamlet's beard and getting cuckolded 🤪🤪🤪" or "omg this female character is a LESBIAN because she shows dissatisfaction with the oppressive Victorian institution of marriage!!" the worst of this has happened to Greek classic texts and Greek mythology/history in general, esp The Iliad: aka The Madeline Miller syndrome of thinking you're revolutionizing literature by saying "achilles was kind of a bisexual icon!" without reflecting AT ALL on Homeric misogyny and how it affected the portrayal of his female characters, including Helen, Briseis and- yes. yes! - the goddess Hera. Everything needs to be made Gay™ not in a way of queer art or nuanced discussions of gender and sexuality, not in the way, say, Carmen Maria Machado reads Carmilla or Kalynn Bayron reads Jekyll and Hyde, but in a uwu quirky-banter-found-family nauseatingly YA manner.

[lunaathorne]

browsing through one last stop edits and am ever so certain that some of you simply choose to refuse to acknowledge the fact that jane is a chinese butch lesbian and not a skinny pale femme with a shaggy wolfcut........ please try harder to source better pictures of butch lesbians, it's so tiring to see this erasure. jane does NOT look like this!

Like???? this is not jane lmaoooo. she is a queer punk leather dyke!!! not an ulzzang korean girl!!!some of you cannot imagine butch lesbians as "aesthetic" and it fucking shows.

THIS IS HOW JANE LOOKS BTW

STOP ERASING BUTCH BODIES FOR AESTHETICS. BUTCH = BEAUTIFUL.

[karvviie]

falin’s brood patch… the warmest and comfiest place in the world

[shockpinkrosary]

Yearly tradition, terrible reminder

[papenathys]

Probably an old post, OP but I quite disliked her role and the overall portrayal of women in He Who Drowned the World. It is something very subjective for me, full disclosure, but there was a plot twist that i found gruesome regarding Ma:

The fact that she supposedly willingly agrees to be a concubine for Baoxiang, and bears his child to help Zhu with her plans. The fact that her nurturing femininity, womanhood and even the consequent pregnancy "humanises" Baoxiang. The fact that Ma as an epitome of fertile, feminine compassion and pure beauty is constantly drawing a harsh narrative contrast to Madam Zhang's coldness, ambition and hunger for power, all of this leading to the older woman crying and losing dignity before Baoxiang because she gets displaced as his primary mistress: in what is probably the cruellest final moments for a main character in this duology, save Ouyang.

Worse, the fact that Zhu has the gall to gently chide Madam Zhang in her final moments for relying on men instead of claiming her own destiny–this idea that women working within their limited resources of femininity (a woman like Madam Zhang too, a woman born a courtesan, limited to her means within the palace, and frequently a victim of on-page assault) are wilfully being servile, while a person born a girl who rejects femininity (Zhu herself) but still commits atrocities to claim masculinity has a greater right to power..... I don't know, a lot of it left an ugly taste in my mouth. I mean, didn't Zhu weaponize femininity and sexuality too in her encounter with Fang? It felt so narratively hypocritical and biased.

Opinions on Ma Xiuying in "He who drowned the world"? Because I didn't like at all how Shelley wasted her potential :-/

[jakkenpoy]

[cocassedoodles]

I had fun on doing this tonight

[ficklejarr]

// honkai star rail 1.2

"reunited" pt. 1

astral fam reunited with dan heng but make it a teensy bit dramatic 😋

(had fun doing this liddol comic i was so excited to post it here 🥹)

link for bonus part:

[driedscones]

Sleeping YooHanKim 😴🌙✨

[sailermoon]

[mindiemakes]

TFW you’re a stress crier so you need hugs from your blorbo

[emmbrr]

my agent wanted to see the bed frame a little thinner so here it is 💤 four mimirs

[beaudesoleil]

bawling my eyes out

[undeadmagick]

shoutout to all the deities i want to include in my practice but cant because life is busy

[minart-was-taken]

Mimir has been going through it, man.

[spudcat]

nobody else in the world deserves to be lovingly tucked into bed with a bedtime story and a kiss more than it does