#they are the most women i've ever seen

[robertacolndrez]

Blue Jean, 2022 — dir. Georgia Oakley

[helena-thessaloniki]

Can't stop thinking about Night Country. That feminine rage is cold and hard; old, older than everything else, and buried deep. That a woman alone is a dead woman; a woman alone is the most dangerous thing. That a man's ego is more important than a woman's life. That a woman who speaks up isn't silenced, she's destroyed. That women are strongest when they're together, when they speak, when they sing. When they're seen.

That what men want for themselves is reason enough to lay waste to everything else. That when it's weighed on the scales, their chance to live a little longer is worth more than a baby's first breath. That they'll do whatever it takes, even when it poisons all of our water.

How a mother dies and her daughter dies too, but a son can't live until he's killed his own father. How women only have power when they lie, assume the role of men, align themselves to men, or die.

And when they will no longer clean up after them.

When they honor who came before, paint the protest on their face, and learn their real name. When they emerge from the ice, leave the night behind and walk toward the sun instead of into the sea. When they shape their own stories. When their tongue is returned to them.

What a fucking masterpiece.

I guess she wanted to take them. I guess she ate their fuckin' dreams from the inside out and spit their frozen bones.

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think Slay the Princess is so popular partially because the *gets stabbed* "I'm in love" reaction is both intentional on the part of the developers and then they completely follow through on it.

[mashmouths]

so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

[sallysbutter]

lestat literally birthed vampire claudia that is why he can be seen as a mother figure end of convo

[godsworstson]

knoxville + drea de matteo

[sciderman]

Sometimes i remember a comics moment i randomly came across somewhere, where Sam Wilson mentiones a musical and Steve Rodgers says he doesn't like musicals, to whitch Sam goes "Guess that means you really are straight" and even tho i don't care about Cap America or the Avengers, the moment stuck in me for that quote by Sam. And like....Sci, any ideas if straight men actually don't like musicals or is that bullshit?

actually i think i know more gay men who hate musicals than i know straight men who hate musicals. i've had a drag queen stop me point blank when i was about to sing a barbra streisand song, and i know so many gays who pointedly hate abba. so based on my experience i think the inverse is true. most of the straight men i know are kind of impartial about musicals, but gay men? hate.

my theory is that a lot of gay men don't want to fall into stereotypes, maybe. but thaaaaat's just a theory! a gay theory.

[agentark]

yeah emily in paris is cringy but sylvie grateau serves so insanely hard it cancels all the bad out

[aeolianblues]

was kinda thinking about this when I saw Renee Rapp live recently-- I didn't know her visual vibe, I'd heard a few songs here and there but I hadn't really *seen* her, and her attire at Osheaga was really casual, a jersey (baseball/basketball?) and slacks. And that was so amazing! I couldn't help thinking, the work Billie Eilish has done for how women in pop music are allowed to dress is incredible. Seeing her up there all comfortable you just know that Billie walked in her oversized tops so that Renee in her slacks could run; Billie walked through all the critcisms about how she dressed slobbily and having to assert that she didn't owe anyone a display of skin, so that Renee could be comfortable and unquestioned running up and down the catwalk in front of 10,000 people. How iconic.

And I don't think we even realised at the time how much something as simple as letting Billie dress the way she as a (then-) 17-year-old teenager dressed, could end up meaning for a future generation of women in music.

Obviously there is still way to go, there were weirdos complaining about how 'plain' Dua Lipa's Glastonbury outfit was this year (in 2024!!), l have to ask, are you at Paris Fashion Week?? She is the musical HEADLINER of an entire day of music at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, and you can't grant her the space to exist as an artist, you have to moan about her dress not being excitingly revealing enough. There's work to do, it's still dismal out there. But the space Billie Eilish has created for a most ordinarily-dressed woman popstar is still heartening.

[electromains]

I simply think that white straight male incels shouldn't be playing genshin/hsr anymore and should just die afterwards

[spyskater]

Boorman had the right idea, because if I saw Scorpia’s foine self dancing by herself like that? I, too, am walking over to dance with her. 

[born-to-lose]

Why the uglier the boyfriends the bigger the ego of the girlfriends like honey I would not be proud of having pulled That 💀

[jovial-gender-jester]

does anyone know about media with lesbian divorce. idc how bad it is, i just need to know it exists so i can anaylze it

[aro-who-reads]

Aro book review: So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow

This a retelling of Little Women, and is about a Black family living in a colony for the recently emancipated during the American Civil War. It follows the four sisters and their mother.

The book does a really good job of adapting the setting and teaching some history I was unaware of. I did struggle a little with the writing style at first - it's a bit tell, not show and seems to only briefly go over what's happening at times. It is on the shorter side and I wonder if it would have benefited from being a bit longer to flesh parts of it out better.

It seems pretty clear that this version of Jo is aroace in some way - all versions of Jo I've seen have had strong aroace vibes but often this is neglected at the end when she gets married - but here she gets to stay in that aroace space.

[dancingdorito]

genuinely think I am going to leave the bridgerton fandom for good. I don't like anyone here except for the fan artists and my mutuals. everyone else seems to be self important middle age cishet women who have nothing better to do than complain and be horny on main.

as a queer fan, i don't feel safe in this fandom, and as someone with common sense and a life, i don't feel like my existence is welcome anymore, nor do i have the energy nor time to exist in this environment.

i might still post about it but i probably won't tag. it was fun while it lasted y'all, stay well.

[linabirb]

saw way too many straight couples kissing today. guys it's literally june 1st