#they've seen the best

[jakeperalta]

"industry plant" is literally just the new way of saying "this female artist is having a lot of success and I don't like her for it".... like ok well personally I just don't find it that hard to believe that young women can be talented and work hard and achieve things

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

"You said you love me exactly the way I am"

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

i got oil pastels so here's a meal for yall. enjoy

[rhinocio]

[avp23]

AFTG characters as things in LOTR

no-context-spoilers!!!

dear niche audience: welcome.

Neil Josten: this blue steel

Andrew Minyard: hobbit blade!

Nicky Hemmick: "so I think Sam and Frodo should've kissed and my feeling about that is...how do you know they didnt? you know what I mean? it's a long trek to mordor ;D"

Kevin Day: this energy

Aaron Minyard: need I say more?

Renee Walker: eowyn without the pining over men

Matt Boyd: this straightforward attitude

Dan Wilds: arwen's competence

Allison Reynolds: Legolas' braid

Seth Gordon: having sean bean play him

David Wymack:

Betsy Dobson: Shadowfax

Abby Winfield: athelas

heheeeee

[blackpilljesus]

Can we not just stop birthing men like... women have to stop giving life to men.

I'm doing my part ✌️ and I agree but collectively most women wouldn't. I remember when there was discourse over a radfem having & celebrating giving birth to a baby boy. I've seen radfems praise lesbian couples adopting baby boys.

Tbh a lot of women are sellouts, they sellout other women & even betray themselves for love or having a slightly higher social status in society. When forced to cohabit with predators that have more power & essentially want to reproduce a copy of themselves, women giving them that could elevate or secure their status in society - it's an incentive & many would go for it.

Another thing to consider is that many women birth maIes to spare their lives, there's been cases where maIes would kill their partners & daughters for the woman not having a son (even though the sperm determines the sex). Part of me considers maternal instincts of women not being able to kill their maIe offspring bc that's still their child but then I think of post partum psychosis & cultures where daughters are routinely killed when they're born. If these instincts applied to maIe & female children I dont think things would've gotten this bad. Also a lot of women treat their sons much better than their daughters.

In a patriarchial society, birthing sons lets boymoms live out their power fantasies through their sons. They 'borrow' power from their sons or use their sons as a proxy for power. Like toxic mother in-laws treating their daughter in-laws like shit bc it's through the association that this woman is married to their son, women that cover up their sons sex crimes, in some cultures; boymoms look for women who've undergone FGM for their sons.

Bear in mind so many women still have faith in maIes as a collective, they think they'll raise the "good ones". This notion is popular in feminist spaces, women think they'll magically train & raise maIe allies. There's a saying of how several boymoms have emotional incest with their sons, they see there aren't good maIes in society so they want to create their own one(s).

However I think the biggest issue is that women are never going to be sociopathic or apathetic enough to moids. It would take a high level of apathy to abort maIe fetuses & refuse to birth another xy solely on the basis of their sex, to get to this point you'd need to have this feeling towards maIes generally and most women dont have this. MaIe survival is contentigent on female subjugation, women dont need to subjugate maIes to survive, we carry life, we can also provide for ourselves & maIes know it which is why they've set up societies the way they are and they're brutal about it because they and their bloodlines would be dead anyways if they dont have a system forcing women to rely on them to survive. That said; In the end despite everything, many women still want to partner with maIes, many women still love & believe in maIes. Most women wont disassociate with maIes collectively, catherine mckinnon goes into this in her book "the second sex" where she speaks about how women are scattered everywhere & identify with the tribes maIes put them into as opposed to seeing themselves as a sovereign group.

I personally dont think birthing another oppressor is worth it but people are different. Of course this can (& does) backfire against women but by the time the damage is realised it's too late. Ultimately for a shift in gender ratio & for women to refuse to birth maIes at any cost, they need to think bigger than themselves individually. Think of womankind instead of maIe supremacy & its structures but this will never happen & I wont kid myself otherwise.

[bachirasbodyguard]

why are we not talking more about the Blue Lock TV rankings from vol 22 😭😭

[theinfinitedivides]

there is nothing more beautiful than seeing the full montage of Jun Mo going absolutely batsh*t insane crazy unhinged when he steps foot in that hallway and sees what's going on. just completely gloriously feral out of it kill count going up by the dozens bathed in blood like a kind of baptism or wine of pseudo-Eucharist this is My body and My blood eat (drink) this in remembrance of Me etc etc bc as from his own mouth he says that there is someone he needs to protect. forget acting like the rent was due he acted like it was mortgage backdated student loans credit card bill car payments hospital fees alimony child support you name it he had his bank details ready holy f*ck

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

and shout-out to weepe's guards! competent enough to move quicker than kozma's people, strong enough to overpower them despite being outnumbered, and seemingly didn't even blink at not just killing other people but at doing it with horrific weaponized tearror-blood. weepe found these guys in the fucking TRUST?

[lazycranberrydoodles]

the people in the tags understand me. starembers art is super pretty but also weird at times.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

every time i take a peek through the transformers section at target, i miss the transformers animated toyline a little more

[aranarumei]

"you know what i have? i have a 24 year old genius with a smartphone and a problem with authority. you really never stood a chance." - nathan ford to damien moreau, in the san lorenzo job

[binah-beloved]

there are some evenings where both you and Binah wake up due to nightmares, you trying to catch your breath and Binah sitting quietly with a neutral expression, which deepens to a small frown when she sees the state you're in. she'll pull you out of bed and put on a kettle to boil, pouring two cups of tea and sliding one over to you

no words need to be exchanged as you sit together, your head on her shoulder and her hand intertwined with yours, silently sipping tea together. she watches closely when you finally begin to drift off again, making sure you're asleep before allowing herself to fall into slumber as well with a subtle smile

the other librarians who enter in the morning know not to disturb either of you when you're asleep, merely wondering how they could have found the Patron Librarian of Philosophy so intimidating when she looks so peaceful as she embraces you, before returning to their work

[amplexadversary]

I'm screenshotting rather than derailing this post but

I'd like to call it now before I'm accused of this by someone who thinks the thematic foundation of a particular show is the "romance"

just. Based on some *takes* I've seen.

[betty-bourgeoisie]

Stop serving alcoholic in museum cafes or I swear to god I will single handedly restart the temperance movement

[tsuyoiqueen]

hot take: i need spideypool and lokius to go on a double date.