#women supporting (fictional) women

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

[wrenswreath]

"b-but she's a bad person!!" doooon't care she's hot

[marzipanandminutiae]

"sad that there are no female characters like Lestat"

"ARE there any female characters like Lestat?"

[15 minutes of runaway thought-trains later]

"Help I Cannot Decide Which of Actual Real Historical Figures Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), Julie D'Aubigny (1673-1707), or Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) Was The Female Lestat"

(they're all missing the critical 50 Divorces From One Specific Partner They Keep Coming Back To, although Cushman came the closest in the latter half of her life. sorry, Emma Stebbins- you're going to get cheated on with an 18-year-old by your fortysomething wife)

[sp00pygal]

On this blog, we love and support Jazz Fenton

She is:

A big sister

A model student

A badass™ (canonically she can use martial arts)

studying to get a degree in psychology from an ivy League school

well adjusted despite a chaotic home life

Empathetic towards everyone

A moral compass In the lives of her family

Supportive of her fellow students (especially her little brother)

Respectful towards teachers

Self conscious about her place in the world

Overbearing

A flawed human being.

All in all, a well rounded character. 10/10. Well designed, well portrayed, well voice acted. Compliments to the chef.

[diamonds-at-y11]

Attractiveness should not be equated with morality. Which is why I actually encourage media to show beautiful fictional women doing horrible horrible things.

[vaguely-concerned]

there are certainly serious things to say and analysis to be made about the tired queen in snow white-ass female fear of aging and losing your beauty as catalysts for evil tropes zara renata is evoking, as well as the treatment of her still-naked body as an object in the post mortem interrogation scene by both the camera and the characters. HOWEVER. personally and with my heart not my brain I forgive it wholeheartedly because there's just something special, something so incredibly fun and campy, both about her horrific literal blood bath and about a character who'll coyly tell you to wait here she'll just slip into something a little more... comfortable😏. and then while keeping hard eye contact with you she slips out of her skin entirely like it's a strapless dress and stands there in her full glistening subcutaneous glory smirking at you. her body isn't a temple it's a slaughterhouse. well. for you. but that's a price she's willing to pay :) ianthe tridentarius behaviour (laudatory)

(to be real for a moment it probably helps a lot that there are plenty of other female villains in the game who aren't presented with a sexual or appearance-focused angle at all. well. not an intentional one at least. ghilan'nain will always do to certain people what she does but that's not the design intention or priority lol. having a zara does not feel as weird when you also have a johanna hezenkoss running around just living her best unlife and doing her thing)

[dykedvonte]

love seeing your takes on mouthwashing and how sane they are. everything's so black or white. I like how you acknowledge curlys abuse under jimmy (which I honestly didn't quite notice when I first watched a playthrough. should rewatch w this in mind) and how that very much doesn't "forgive" his inaction towards Anya and Her abuse under jimmy. I think what happens to him despite all his issues (bc he clearly wasn't OK 😊✌🏼) is very much karmic. I really did hurt huh

I hate the take that what happened to him is karmic as becoming disabled and being tortured is like not in any way an equal consequence for not taking more action against Jimmy. It is a consequence as is the whole game for everyone but it’s one that is very much established as being undeserved and extreme as everyone else’s but Jimmy’s fate.

Thank you for liking my takes but I also try to point out that this exact sort of framing of the events and what happened to Curly is bad especially if you are gonna factor in his own abuse into the equation of his inaction/ineffective acts. It’s like “saying yeah he deserved the abuse he was already going through to escalate because he didn’t do enough” which is like not a message the game tries to deliver at all. It’s like the game shows that abusers escalate

Karma and punishment are not concepts that I think should be directly tied to Curly’s fate especially since during the game and even in discussion he takes on too many consequences of someone else’s actions. Like this framing is the direct thing I describe taking the discussion away from Jimmy, P.E and the factors that created the environment in the first place.

[soup-of-the-daisies]

to ME sirius has never done anything wrong in his life but it’s not in that ‘i ignore his canonical bad decisions’-way it’s in that ‘i don’t care that those decisions are bad’-way. i know he’s made bad decisions. i know he’s a prick. i simply think they’re all charming quirks your honour idk what to tell you.

[vileidol]

they could never make me hate you rohan projecthadea of @nyehilismwriting’s Project Hadea fame

[ophanim-vesper]

Growing up I lived in an all-female household and all of the women in my family were either working or in school. I was so used to just seeing women in my life that I barely registered men as being real. My only exposure to men were my uncles and cousins-- who mostly stayed at home while their wives worked. So growing up I just thought women naturally dominated the world and did everything while men were just there and had no purpose or contribution other than loving women and looking back on this I realized I just grew up in an irl Barbieland

[milkteahoe]

Every time someone on twitter says Sansa and Daenerys should have been besties and the writers ruined everything an angel loses its wings

[theprincessandthepie]

LOOK AT HERRRRRRR <3333333

[mongeese]

loveee when fictional women are bad mothers we need more fictional women who are bad mothers. bad moms who are trying and failing to be good moms, moms who resent their kids, straight up deadbeat moms. they r so delicious i want more

[filmcourage]

Unbelievable Story Behind One Of The Most Popular Screenwriting Books Of All Time - Viki King

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

op has me blocked but it was so funny I had to repost. fic writers said “get his ass.”

[gender-ihardlyknower]

Toxic yaoi this, toxic yuri that

How about your lover sucking the toxins out of your system because you got bit by a snake walking through the woods and also it's 1903, turn of the century, and you're two queers hiding in the wilderness, brought together by Arthur Morgan's death and the death of your husbands years prior, seeking comfort each other's company, conflicted because this is the first friend that you've had in this cruel world, and yet feeling something more beneath the surface, but you can't make a move on it because you're two women and she's a good Christian woman and you're just a ghost, some outlaw roaming the outskirts of society