#women's wrongs

[expectopatronum18]

I'll never understand why Lily is always just portrayed as a perfect social justice warrior who's some golden standard for the boys to try and reach up to and who's right all the time instead of an actual, flawed person. We hardly have anything about her in canon, so why do ppl insist on sticking to the same trope? I have often seen lily being portrayed as rather complex, in the sense of examining how the society impacts her, but not in the sense of being her being flawed or not immediately (or ever) right about/ good at everything

Prejudice is ingrained in the wizarding world, those fuckers like to hate on literally everyone, so there's a huge chance that their literature is going to be biased as well. Give me a lily who's trying to understand and navigate this completely new world with mythical creatures from scratch and who believes what the society tells her about them (even decent wizards like the Weasleys had certain prejudices, like against werewolves,half giants, and house elves,it's not just the Slytherins and DEs, so how can she tell what's right or wrong immediately?), and who takes a while to understand that it's the same sort of prejudice she's facing (much like ppl in the real world). Give me a lily who doesn't immediately, or ever, completely understand the complications of politics and the upcoming war as well as, say, characters like Sirius because, well, she's still a child who's new to all of this, and it's not the sort of thing she's ever had to concern herself with (unlike Sirius who grew up in a family that placed heavy influence on social standing). Give me a lily who's ready to make excuses for Snape not out of any reason that would make her look sympathetic, but simply because it wasn't affecting her personally until now (before anyone tries to point to that incident of her calling Snape out on his friends hexing Mary McDonald, she only raised concerns about Snape's company coz they performed dark magic, not because of their racist beliefs).

Or if that's too much to handle, we could at least stick to the few flawed things she does in canon. Like when she doesn't care to listen to Snape's version of the werewolf incident and relies on rumours instead, or when she almost smiles when Snape's pants are being exposed in front of a jeering crowd. People try to spin that around too to make Lily's perspective understandable and sympathetic, and sure, everyone has their own takes, but idk, there seems to be this great necessity to make it such that she's not viewed in a negative light for anything

Hot take, but ppl like to go on abt how women in fiction or in the fandom are critiqued too much, how people can't handle complex female characters, and how much they support women's wrongs, but they always end up confining female characters to being Good and Right all the time and characterize any constructive criticism/negative portrayal of the character as being wrong or mysoginistic.

[cyber-husky]

yeah ik its been a fucken age since i was last on here but i recently got to see the stex revival thanks to a friend, and it was her birthday yesterday so i thought. perfect excuse to draw a train

[miss-macaroni-vii]

It's all "I love mean women!" "I want a women to insult me and then step on me!" until she looks like a taller hotter gremlin and then suddenly you all have problems with Lae'zel

I have no such weakness

[fluctuating-fanby]

The Faceless Old Woman and The Woman from Italy are besties in canon and a power couple in my heart ^_^

(They're listening to the oh-so-romantic sound of screaming, despair, existensial dread, and car alarms.)

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Radio Scientology art is by @bulkhummus and the FOW art is from one of the script books, by Jessica Hayworth

[zillanovikov]

post the first sentence you write in your wip today (and every day)

Besides the cup was a ceramic milk jug and sugar bowl in matching colours, an untarnished silver teaspoon, and two unappetising-looking grey biscuits.

[werevamping]

Emma Flyte (Slow Horses) - Nasty Dog (Sir Mix-a-Lot)

The Head Dog!

Idea By: @legargoyle

[riza-hawks-eye]

It's Pride Month, so Olivier Mira Armstrong should be allowed to commit even more war crimes and bully even more teenagers for developing ptsd.

It's called supporting Lesbian wrongs.

[azurevoltage]

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Cluster B culture is I support womans wrongs unless she's commiting crimes or saying offensive things leave her alone and let her vent and do her random free performances online

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[monsterblogging]

Most powerful affirmation is "I believe in women's wrongs." Try it. Your life will get so much better.

[slurping-up-grass]

Women

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Look at my book baby!

Got my editor's copies of my book today! Aren't they gorgeous? (Ignore the "not for sale" line through the cover- that goes away during publication- and the shitty quality of my camera!) I'm going through the book to make final edits- it really is looking like this book about a sapphic ex-Chosen One (gotta love an unlikable lady protag) falling for her rival is going to be able to go up for y'all by the end of March.

(Also face reveal? I guess? None of y'all care about that, but I will be one of those annoying parents who poses with my kids, aka my characters.)

Which means there's only one real question: do y'all want me to post the playlists for the characters/ships here as a lead-up to the book coming out?

To everyone who has liked my posts about the book so far or liked my last book: @henrythepug @mywily @artemisiaarm @lilyoflolana @randomhobbitgoblin @khruschevshoe @thanatosdetesreves @kayechanted @neshatriumphs @evelynhug0 @sillylittlecheeto @harrietmjones @jaceum @jacksope-lives @marchionessdebrannas @screechingdonutengineer @beeesworld @meet-me-behindthemall12 @neutral-wizard @elposting @little-bloodied-angel @thearcaneuniversity @artemisbones @mikereads @augment-techs @snazzy-hats-and-adhd @safesoundxswift @sapphicsigh @anaddictiontofanfiction @aboutblankpages-blog-blog @weedpoop @aboutblankpages-blog-blog @danieldeluca01 @suz-blog @morganmara @shehungthemoon @man-me--a-sand @geekerne @madhare0512

[eddathegreat]

My problematic ship is Shaw/Root. Terrible representation for lesbians, but on the other hand they had a fucking vibe and they fought a government conspiracy together.

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

It's Time

Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Long live yuri

Nilanjanet art is by @bulkhummus and the Faceless Old Woman art is from the script books by Jessica Hayworth.