#respect white men

[dykepaldi]

last name doctors: hartnell, troughton, pertwee, davison, mcgann, eccleston, tennant, capaldi

first name doctors: colin, jodie, ncuti

full name doctors: tom baker, sylvester mccoy, john hurt, matt smith, jo martin

[qqueenofhades]

[qoldenskies]

are dms allowed instead of asks to talk to you (just chat)? or is that just mutuals /genq

its only open for mutuals for now! just out of worry of getting anything rude (i have already gotten a few aggressive asks before lmao) + im very easily overwhelmed and would rather stick to a small pool of people at the moment

[chadillacboseman]

I just saw a picture of Timothee Ch*lamet and genuinely found him attractive for about 4 seconds before the horror of that realization set in. This is how I know I'm on the brink of losing my marbles.

[girl4music]

Tapert would have sat in a room with Whedon and Moffat and would have contested every single word that came out of their mouths if he had half the chance.

He is the true feminist icon male showrunner.

The one that should have all the praise for it.

[foursaints]

Do you have any book recommendations? 🎤

this is super informed by my own taste & i tried to exclude anything hyper-canonical (like anna karenina or ulysses or w/e) but this is my personal list of prose writing i believe everyone should read once. if they have a chance 

the baron in the trees by italo calvino

love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez

gravity & grace by simone weil

the confessions of st. augustine

the husband stitch by carmen maria machado

lavinia by ursula le guin

babette's feast by isak dinesen

dubliners by joyce & pale fire by nabokov

lighthousekeeping by jeanette winterson

the collected works of anton chekhov. all of them sorry

the captain’s daughter by alexander pushkin 

deerskin by robin mckinley

the bloody chamber by angela carter

villette by charlotte brontë

the fairytales of hermann hesse

honestly looking at it. that's my personal canon i think

[pearwaldorf]

Hozier explaining the connection between the Choctaw and Ireland, and help the Choctaw provided during the famine, despite it only being a decade after the Trail of Tears. Both Ireland and the Choctaw nation lost about half their population during these genocides.

[vadergf]

Seeing two reels back to back. One of an Indian woman with some white guy and the comments are filled with Indian men making fun of her looks and saying "bro married his 4th @" or some garbage like that and then the next reel is some brown guy complained about how indian women end up with white men LIKE BITCHHHH YOU ARE THE PROBLEM !!!!!

[a-roguish-gambit]

Do have any headcannons about rosemary being in the turn of the century au?

I do!

So these will just be for early life stuff.

Rosemary would be a Greatest generation kid, born early 1920s.

I would not be surprised if she was a result of a last call drinking binge between Gambit and rogue (rogue has gotten control of her powers at this point) before prohibition went into effect. Either that or a result of them taste testing some strong yet safe still whiskey.

Gambit fell back into his their ways and got into bootlegging a little bit, but stops when he finds out rogue is pregnant. Spite, money, and alcohol isn't worth potentially putting another stain on his future child’s life.

Rogue is excited to be pregnant but is ducking suffering. She cannot stand how pregnant people are treated at this time. If another man makes a comment about her being visibly pregnant without her husband around she will be breaking noses. And she does.

With greater control of her powers she's gone full flapper. Very vamp aethstetic. She will make custom fitting dresses if she has to so she can keep up her aesthetic. The loose short dresses are just very freeing.

She's enjoying the dance crazes of the time and so the other x men are having to give her a gentle Inthervention that fast dancing probably isn't the best to do later on in the pregnancy. This only goes so well but after a talk from Gambit she caves.

Magneto has caused mutants to be outed to the world at this time some time around 1917. Trask debuted his metal man powered sentinels in New York built from Great war scrap he imported from all sides and they were caught on film fighting it The world is not super accepting. Logan managed to pull some strings and got an endorsement of the x men and mutants from former president Teddy Roosevelt (they had been friends via a few hunting trips. Probably one of the few men who could keep up with Logan) so thankfully mutants are not public enemy number one, but the discrimination is there and not great. So Gambit and rogue are worried about how their kid will be treated.

They consider homeschooling her but she really really wants to be in public school with other kids. Gambit and rogue are not about to challenge her moxie.

Despite a lot of hardships at first, she manages to put down bullies and make friends. It's not perfect but she's carving out her own niche in her own way. Her parents couldn't be prouder of her.

She does also have a support network through the x men too which helps A LOT. And despite being not the best moms, Irene and mystique are more than happy to help keep their grandaughter safe.

[ren-the3rd]

maybe i’m on the wrong side of f1 social medias but i feel like we moved on a bit too quickly from what lando said about trump

[coolinternetmen]

[boycritter]

hate feeling like no one will take me seriously in academia !!! hate feeling like i will never ever fit in !!!!!

[starryeyed-seer]

Enoch's crush has finally noticed him back 😍

[hahaifolded]

Damn, I wasn't on tumblr most of yesterday and I missed out on a civil war... over white men

[girl4music]

“Like so many of the stories that we’ve done, many many different elements came together to create a script. Mehndi was one of them and it’s something that I was a little aware of. I’ve done a little bit of reading on it. Not a lot. I believe Rob was the one who came to me, however, and said ‘Wow, this is fascinating’, ‘this is, you know, really great, what can you do with this?’

I had already wanted to grab a hold of the reincarnation idea and there are a few elements that fuelled this. One I’m going to have to reference is a song by Paul Williams, which was in The Muppet Movie. And there was a line in this one song that I felt, and I’d always felt this way, described the two characters perfectly. The line was ‘there’s not a word yet for old friends who have just met’. And I thought you know something? They are old friends. They just met. But they’re old friends. So in my mind throughout history and throughout destiny, these two characters’ souls have existed and have met, parted ways, met, intertwined, parted ways. And that fit in perfectly with the reincarnation theory but what was important for these two characters is that those two souls have throughout history intertwined, they’ve come together, they’ve parted ways, they’ve come together again, they’ve intertwined, they’ve parted ways. This has happened continuously and every time it happens in their lifetimes, they recognize each other. Not like ‘oh, you’re Xena, oh, I’m Gabrielle’. No no, they say ‘I know you. I know you and I have to be with you. I don’t know why but I do’.

Now bringing the Mehndi into it. Mehndi was perfect symbolism to this because when you think about it, Mehndi, um, if you’ve done it and if you’ve read up on what Mehndi means, it’s not just drawing. Mehndi has an entire meaning behind it. There’s a whole philosophy and spirituality based on Mehndi. The simplest part of it was the fact that Mehndi has a lot of lines that run parallel to each other and they will intersect, they will form beautiful designs, then they will part again and run parallel. Well, that’s lives. Xena and Gabrielle - those are the lives. Those are the threads of their lives. They run parallel to each other, they intersect, form beautiful designs. Then they might part but they still run parallel to each other. And what really counts is what’s between those lines. There’s the title; ‘Between The Lines’.”

Half the reason why they ended up taking the soulmates motif so seriously and literally was due to Steven L. Sears and his reincarnation idea and understanding of Xena and Gabrielle’s soulmate connection. So, in my view, half the reason why the love story is so damn profound is because of him.

Now he would be the first to scoff at that and say that I’m giving him far too much credit. But that is exactly why he is amazing and deserves that much credit.

‘Between The Lines’ took the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle to a whole other level because we do learn that they actually are true to life soulmates and all of what that informed and involved for them as individual characters as well as together as a couple. And so everything leading up to this episode now felt so much more intense and deep and poignant.

Substantial. And I wouldn’t have been able to write my character study thesis without it. Even though I don’t directly mention it - it’s sort of just embedded within the insightful interpretation that I’ve made about it because this episode doesn’t just tell a one-time storyline about the characters. It essentially informs EVERYTHING about them. Who they are and why - and especially how they are such a great team that navigate their soulmate connection to be just that.

It’s like these two people who seemed to be total strangers until this episode was seen were actually destined to meet and travel together and fall in love because their very soul that they shared fated it so.

And by the gods - I have yet to see or know a relationship that is that damn EPIC on-screen.

Xena and Gabrielle are the WLW representation you expect to be provided - considered canon or not - because this level of storytelling between female characters that can be interpreted as romantic just doesn’t happen anymore. There’s no time or room for it to in the TV art/entertainment industry apparently.