#noxious post

[probablyfurry]

We need to start using the most bizarre and out of pocket words and phrases we can to describe boring situations.

Something's cool? No. It's "Noxious, bro".

Something's bad? Not anymore. It's "Flatulent".

Or just saying "Streets Ahead" all the time and hope it catches on. That works too.

[cadavercowboy]

Eddie wants to go down on you, but you’re quick to stop him. You haven’t shaved. He stares up at you for a beat, pushes off the bed and crosses the room to flip on his stereo. Guitar riffs blast from the speakers. Eddie screeches the opening line of Welcome To The Jungle so loudly that you can’t even hear Axl Rose’s voice. He belly flops onto the mattress between your legs and gives you the most earth-shattering orgasm you’ve ever had.

[yubnubforhire]

Yeah, I know. I don't think it's a bad thing to have characters as plot devices, that's how shows work. (And also books, and movies, and any other type of story telling media.)

But Tommy I guess seemed like he could be more - or at least we in the fandom thought so, maybe because of Lou's cameos?

Now it's like wow, the bvddies were right, looking back now and just paying attention to the show and not the fanon, it was always so obvious and I feel like such a fool :(

Lou was definitely doing a lot but you’re also not a fool for interpreting the narrative in a certain way or getting invested in a character. Yes he’s a plot device but that didn’t necessarily mean that he was going to be booted so suddenly. Taylor as a plot device lasted way longer and got a ton of screen time. Part of me saying the writing is bad is because the breakup did absolutely come out of left field — literally one episode ago Tommy was being portrayed as a steady presence in Buck’s life, someone who was part of “our people who make life worthwhile.”

This ask does also give me the chance to say the fandom infighting over all this has been fucking ridiculous. Buck coming out and having his first same sex relationship should’ve been a moment of joy but a large contingent of this fandom turned it into a months-long bitch fight over which two men should kiss. Y’all managed to make this about yourselves and ruin a deeply meaningful story arc (someone coming out later in life is rarely seen on tv, especially in a show with such a large mainstream fan base, and ESPECIALLY when it’s presented as a joyous realization with no angst or internalized homophobia to overcome). You can think that buddie makes narrative sense as I do without wishing death on Lou or bt fans, and you can enjoy bucktommy for what it was as I did without gleefully calling buddie fans worthless idiots or going after Ryan. Grow the fuck up.

[cctinsleybaxter]

"cottagecore is annoying because it's all about thin white women who aren't even equipped for farm labor; let's diversify and get some strong fat ladies of color in here!" cottagecore is 'annoying' because it makes women in isolated rural areas within male-dominated nuclear families (often abused and/or abusive) into characters rather than people. rounding out an imagined diversity roster is not a meaningful takedown of a shitty romanticization

[gingermintpepper]

U mention in 1 of ur tags that Poseidon has vitiligo? Could u tell us more about that pls?

Okay so, I saw this ask and went "oh man this is a wonderful opportunity to ramble about some of my design decisions for the Olympians" then I also, simultaneously went "This is also a perfect opportunity to doodle Poseidon" so I spent like, way too much time doing a dinky little doodle to show both what Poseidon's vitiligo looks like + what I generally envision his design to be like when he's on Olympus!

Of course, in true Ginger fashion, it's very messy but I think it gets the point across well enough! The big reason Poseidon has vitiligo (or why I've interpreted his skin as being speckled) is because well, as a horse/hippocampus (which is his actual preferred form) he has a piebald/pinto coat and the only way really to translate that onto a human-presenting form is some form of pigmentation disorder like vitiligo or leukoderma.

Poseidon, like almost every other Olympian (save for Apollo who has the most human-like appearance of them all) has multiple animal/mythical creature elements incorporated into his design/interpretation, many of these I've chosen to allude to what their 'truest' forms are like, for example Zeus' big bull horns because he was born a horned god or Aphrodite's feathered hair and talons because she is directly descended from Ouranos. Because gods are always changing and evolving as the world changes and evolves, these features of theirs can change to better match their current 'truest' self, but most deities, especially the older ones, tend to settle after a period of time and don't experience much drastic change. For my purposes, Poseidon was born with horse like features which he inherited from his mother including his striking piebald coat and his horse's ears, but he later acquired sea serpent traits such as his tail, sharp teeth and water-like hair after acquiring the domain of the Ocean and being forced to adapt very rapidly to his new environment.

Due to geneology and generational inheritance being such a major theme in my work, I chose to let that stand for the descendents of the gods as well! Humans naturally aren't born with coats and such, but many of Poseidon's children do end up having some form of leucism from minor things like Ancaeus' double coloured hair or Bellerophon's 'peeled' hands and feet (they were a lighter colour than the rest of his body) to much more intense expressions of the trait like Theseus' albinism or Triton's very unique speckling. It's rare for his human children to get an extreme expression of this trait due to humans just kind of having less melanin to work with compared to nymphs, spirits or animals, but it does happen from time to time.

[turntechyaoihead]

skibidi iopara

[nico-the-overlord]

I usually don’t really like or am involved in shipping stuff. And ships I do ‘ship’ are already canon.

So tell me what about Mollie and Salem makes me want to ship them so bad I don’t think I’ve ever felt this before-

[shadowtoons]

Nox knows how to do the waltz, so him dancing be something aishehdb

[kyliafanfiction]

I'm genuinely impressed how bad and completely missing the point of... everything that a take can be, on this website.

Just... it was impressive, how far-reaching the complete 'I am showing I understood literally nothing' wrt to the movies.

I've seen my share of bad prequels takes but MY GOD that one takes every cake. Absolute worst, and the Prequels hatedom has some truly abysmal takes.

[mothbug]

my friend james did something really evil for my birthday and i need everyone to see

[murderballadeer]

me when i'm a well adjusted adult who respects other human beings

[calmlythrilling]

Something intimate about seeing the inside of somebody. Seeing their blood, their flesh, and either it was your hand that caused the injury and they're trusting you to take them apart, or them allowing you to see the injury and trusting you to treat it properly, whether it means admiration or patching it up.

[isdalinarhot]

Sorry for all the Dalinar Big Naturals es. He’s important ok????????⁇ ok

[thewingedwolf]

listening to a podcast about thomas jefferson. i knew sally hemings was 13-16 when he started raping her. i knew she was martha’s half sister. i knew he was old when he started sleeping with her. i did NOT know he started sleeping with her AFTER martha died? so he started sleeping with his dead wife’s child sister after burning all his dead wife’s letters to him, and then got his kids by martha to lie and say sally’s kids weren’t his for years even tho they looked just like him. just a level of evil i’m having trouble wrapping my mind around rn.

[dadrielle]

I saved my rant about how people are still making the most buckwild, uncanonical, badfaith takes about Imogen's powers in drafts instead of posting it, character growth :)

[jayciethings]

A Review of Barbie ... sorta

Once upon a time there was a little girl who really liked pink.

She wasn't obsessed with pink. It wasn't the only colour she loved. But she did really like it, and wore several pink things.

She also had a Barbie doll. And it was enough of a favourite that it came on a family walk in the woods with her (and had its hand torn off on said walk by a bored sister, but that is another story). She also loved several supposed "boys toys" too, like construction toys and a Fisher Price trainset she still maintains as an adult is totally awesome. But she did love that Barbie.

That little girl grew up and went to uni and learned all about gender and culture and how arbitrary and nonsensical so much of it is. Learned that 300 years ago noblewomen weren't allowed to wear pink because it was too "masculine" a colour. Learned to spot the male gaze in every movie (which is a deliberately imposed filming construct not an indictment of an entire gender). Learned to be hugely wary any time someone trotted out lines like "it's just nature" or "that's just the way it is".

She also experienced subtle and not-so-subtle misogyny. Met guys who were nice and mostly kind but also subtly scathing towards feminine things and female people. ("Four girls? Your poor dad." "Do you think he ever wished he'd had a boy?" "There's *no way* your dad isn't disappointed to only have had girls.") Met people who would consciously or unconsciously disregard the opinions of women they saw as overtly feminine. She called the guys out on the overt and not-so-overt sexism (and earned the euphemism of "strong" as a result, where "strong" really meant "a bit difficult"). And somewhere in that mélange of hating being stereotyped (if you liked one feminine thing bang! that's it. You're a girl and that's not a compliment) and not wanting to be thought difficult, she didn't always take a stand when she should. And she started to resist the pink. To dislike the dolls. To dislike the narrowing of individualism and possibility that came with them. To dislike how boys who wanted to play with them were gently or ungently told no because they're "only for girls", and to dislike the underlying message of this - that to be like a girl was A Very Bad Thing. To dislike the ads that were geared towards girls, to dislike the unconscious constant culture that pushes boys towards toys that encourage STEM skills and girls towards dolls that encourage traditional female pursuits. And to dislike how boys weren't allowed to wear pink. Weren't allowed to cry. To really dislike how the patriarchy hurt and trapped and damaged them too.

To this day she hates those ads. Hates that unconscious stereotyping. Maintains that it's harmful and limits little girls. Points to the suicide rate amongst young men and wants to despair.

And the funny thing about dolls, about Barbie dolls, is that Barbie became the flagship of bimbos. The embodiment of impossible body standards and of ditsy blondes who only care about pleasing men and looking pretty. A betrayer of her sex. The enemy of feminism. Even though Barbie was a doctor, a business woman, a marine biologist, a lawyer. Even though she took many shapes and later (finally) many colours. She became a symbol of female oppression. So, down with Barbie! She is the symbol of capitalist patriarchy. Resist the pink. Bury Barbie and by doing this, magically we have cured internalised and externally imposed misogyny. Whilst all the while those impossible beauty standards and stereotyping and limitations are still imposed on little girls and women on every front. And it wasn't even okay to vocalise that any more in some circles. Cos haven't we won? Aren't western women fully liberated and empowered now?

The truth is so much messier than that. Often so much more painful than that.

And Barbie the movie captures that messiness perfectly.

In the first few minutes when I saw an element of my childhood I had resisted being openly shown on-screen, being celebrated, I was reminded of how I'd once really liked pink. I was reminded of that little girl and I wanted to cry. Then minutes later I saw the stereotyping and it got shoved down again in the annoyance.

But I don't think there are many lines in movies that have resonated with me more than, "I’m expressing [my emotions] and I have no difficulty holding both logic and feeling at the same time and it does not diminish my powers and expands them.” Even while knowing that has not been my experience. Has not been how I have been perceived.

I could say so much more, but I've already said so much, and don't want to go into spoilers.

This movie healed and hurt my heart, probably in equal measure.

Barbie is not a perfect movie, neither technically nor thematically. And like all of us, it's not totally outside of its cultural moment. (Why does a film about Barbie spend so much screentime on Ken?). It's not a perfect movie by any means, but it is an important one.

Maybe one day I'll put on pink and not worry just a little about it.