#private schools man

[clothlog]

Only got half way through the article (I felt a little sick) but if anyone wants a brief insight into the affects of class on the British creative industry, this does give one:

[missanthropicprinciple]

Terry-Thomas | selected filmography + PSAs | 1936-1966

Once in a Million 1936

It's Love Again 1936

For Freedom 1940

Under Your Hat 1940

If You Don't Save Paper (PSA) 1948

Copy Book Please (PSA) 1948

A Date with a Dream 1948

The Brass Monkey 1948

Helter Skelter 1949

Melody Club 1949

What's Cooking? (PSA) 1951

Private's Progress 1956

The Green Man 1956

Brothers in Law 1956

Lucky Jim 1957

The Naked Truth 1957

Blue Murder at St Trinian's 1957

Happy Is the Bride 1958

Too Many Crooks 1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959

I'm All Right Jack 1959

School for Scoundrels 1960

Make Mine Mink 1960

A Matter of WHO 1961

Bachelor Flat 1962

Kill or Cure 1962

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963

How to Murder Your Wife 1965

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 1965

La Grande Vadrouille 1966

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

made a dumb meme, please enjoy

[pseudophan]

gonna be so sad when tonight is the first preshow space with good audio and i'm asleep because i have a psych appointment tomorrow

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Cyrano & Roxane making questionable plot-changing decisions For The Lolz (definitely no ulterior motives, no sir) & Christian being stunned by their eyes shining with passion conviction

bonus:

[llycaons]

fanfic authors will put the most monogamous man in fiction into sex clubs to fulfil whatever fantasies they think are hot won't they....

[garvalhaminho]

"[tessa] had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. or that it would taste of holy water. holy water and blood."

i tabbed this passage of clockwork angel when i reread tid since i thought it funny, and it was the one absurd/dramatic quote i could remember, but now i'm thinking of it more and more and it got me wondering.

of course, there's a big dichotomy between holy water and blood. holy water, as the name suggests, being holy, pure, blessed, heavenly almost, and blood meaning some kind of violence has occurred, some kind of sin. and water washes way almost everything, but could the pure wash way the sin, the sin being love? supposedly love is the purest of all. but the sin of loving someone knowing if they reciprocated they would die, the blood would be theirs this time, you would've doomed them and led them to their death. maybe the blood is will's sister, ella, the one he believes he doomed. and the holy water is him attempting to purify himself, to not cause any more harm by avoiding being loved. but there is still sin in not pushing jem away like he should, like a pure sinless heart would.

[jacqcrisis]

(Tw child abuse)

Mom called me to tell me about her 'very trying day' where she and my stepsister had a spat because my stepsister heard in real time how mom treats her adoptive son when he acts out and so stepsister tried to leave upset. Apparently, my mom tried to stop her to justify her actions by painting her and my step-dad as the victims of their meth affected, eight year old adoptive son while trying to justify why they need to scream at and spank him all the goddamn time. My stepsister told her that mom and step-dad aren't allowed to watch her baby anymore and left.

Everything my mom says needs to be taken with a grain of salt because she will embellish and twist the truth to make herself look better, so I'm just uh-huhing and 'that's understandable', wondering at several points if I should just hang up because I don't want to hear about this and I never do. At the end, my mom must've had a moment of clarity and asked me 'do you not like hearing about this?' To which I answered point blank no, I don't. I don't like hearing about children getting spanked (beat) and I don't like hearing about how she handles her issues with this kid. She told me she needed to let me go as she started crying. I said okay, bye.

Fuck off. I don't care your fee fees got hurt because you realized people judge you for how you treat this kid you a) shouldn't have adopted and b) treat terribly behind closed doors. Stop making allusions to suicide over how hard this all is and actually work on yourself.

[californiannostalgia]

the raven cycle series and marauders fics have a weirdly similar throughline

the bad boy falls in love with the traumatized magician

the bespectacled leader has a prophesied doomed romance with a girl who's very aware of the class divide

the fourth guy is barely there until he very much is (or, depending on interpretation, very much isn't)

[lemonsweet]

I know I'm the freak that uses mobile for everything but it rly annoys me when people act uppity about how kids these days don't use desktop bc to be honest computer classes in school suck pretty bad and not everyone was allowed to have their own personal computer they could use at home lol

[milimeters-morales]

but yeah Miles having all the audacity of a 15 year old only child is perfect

[tojisun]

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[celestialdancer]

Every time I talk about Oxford University I feel like I'm going insane.

What do you mean they get a free travel bursary every summer?

What do you mean they do two essays a week?

What do you mean MANDATORY BALLS?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN???

[constantvariations]

What about the crew members?

I cannot get over this line from the black trailer for a few reasons:

1. This is a world where there's fully functional soldier robots and AI. Why is the train manned by people in the first place? Jacques clearly motivated by money, so the less people he has to pay the better

2. We never see these supposed crew members, so there's no chance of having a visceral reaction to either their safety or demise. The only SDC workers we ever see iirc are the ones from the Adam short who smirk after throwing a smoke bomb. If we were meant to sympathize with them, it would've been better to make them shaking and scared because they're maintenance engineers instead of security (because having two types of security is expensive and stupid)

3. The SDC is enslaving and branding people, and everyone not fighting it is complicit. Blake has rescued Faunus from literal cages in SDC factories and has seen Adam's face, so she knows this intimately. Why does she care if a few accessories to slavery get blown up? Does she care more for complacent humans than suffering Faunus?

What about the crew members? Fuck em, that's what

[youredreamingofroo]

my body (slightly allergic to pineapple): hey man, you shouldn't eat that, it'll make your throat swell and your mouth feel weird

me, who just finished an entire can of pineapple in ~2.5 minutes: 🧍‍♂️