[aleyma]

Fabergé, Chick, 1899-1908 (source).

[scarlettaagni]

[accidental-symmetry]

finally????? it was made over a hundred years ago

[ksd3us]

Kristen Stewart for Rolling Stone

[zoomerkarla]

hannibal season 1 in a nutshell

[femsolid]

I'm gonna use this post to recommend good (in my opinion) video games with female leads and little to no misogyny.

Feel free to add your own prefered games if you want as well.

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1. Hellblade, Senua's Sacrifice

This game is dark, brutal and emotional. It won't be everyone's cup of tea because it is a strange game and sometimes scary. But I absolutely loved it.

Our main character is a warrior on a quest to save her lover's soul. He has died and she believes she can bring him back by confronting the goddess who guards the underworld, Hela (who looks terrific by the way, but I won't spoil it).

To do this she has to fight northern gods and other dark creatures, but mostly her own mental illness and grief.

She suffers from schizophrenia and through her we experience all the symptoms which can be disturbing. Is it mythology or insanity? You're never really sure. She also has to overcome her father's negative influence. But she is determined and nothing can stop her.

The game won 5 BAFTA awards for best acting performance, best audio, most impactful game, best british game and best artistic achievement.

Hellblade 2 is currently being produced.

[femsolid]

2. A Plague Tale: Innocence

The story is set in France, where our main character Amicia is on the run with her little brother, Hugo, whom she barely knows because he was kept isolated by their mother for mysterious reasons.

The two of them are trying to escape the Inquisition while the world is being invaded by a plague of demonic rats. Little by little our heroine learns alchemy, meets new allies and her personality changes as she gets more confident.

The game looks great, with a very unusual storyline and gameplay as well as a very effective OST. Still, it is a story about the Inquisition so expect gloom and doom and blood and gore and creepy church leaders.

This game has won multiple awards as well and A Plague Tale 2: Requiem is coming out very soon.

[femsolid]

Gris

I think Gris might be the most beautiful game I've ever played.

What happened to our character, we do not know. But it changed her into stone, it broke her, and she took refuge in a beautiful fantasy world that you get to explore. Little by little, you bring back the colours into this world, you develop your powers and take back your voice.

Peaceful gameplay and delightful music and sound effects (ASMR worthy, seriously), gorgeous and poetic design, relaxing and thougtful story, I absolutely loved it. Plus I played it when I was feeling really down and it helped me feel better so it'll always be in my heart.

[capybarad]

I LOVED Gris and Plague Tale!

Two of my favourites (both PS4 exclusives):

You don’t need to have played the other Uncharted games to enjoy ULL, imo it’s the best of the series plot-wise, it’s a short game but can be picked up for cheap! Set in India and with two WoC leads, you play as Chloe, who’s on a mission to recover a lost treasure. Really fun gameplay and excellent character writing, and it made gamerbros Big Mad when it first came out, so you KNOW it’s gonna be good.

HZD is a LONG game, but the gameplay is excellent (with difficulty options if you want a challenge/not a harcore gamer), you play as Aloy, a young woman who explores a vast, beautiful prehistoric/post-apocalytpic wasteland. The sequel just came out so this can be grabbed for cheap too!

[radfem-is-rad]

Okay if we’re talking about good games with women leading, Control is my all time fave. It’s a suspense filled game where you play Jessie, a washed up young woman who has been searching for answers to her twin brothers disappearance for years. I don’t want to spoil the game but you become a fucking god! Seriously, I’ve never felt that video game powers genuinely made me feel powerful. The early game mystery and suspense had me flinching here and there at a few jump scares but the game lore and storyline really draws you in.

[goblinous]

Control is so good. The visuals (absolutely stunning and strange and very distinctive), the music (especially the music in one of the hidden rooms), the level design and the way you get to explore more and more as you get more abilities, the documents and perks you get from exploring, the story, the characters, the fast-paced battles.

Also low-key feminist. I don't think the devs actually intended to get across the message that men ruin everything and shouldn't be given too much power, but they kind of did anyway. They almost certainly intended at least some of the feminist undertones of Jessie's story.

Absolutely incredible and immersive and exciting. I'd recommend it to anyone, the difficulty is hard by default, but very adjustable so you don't have to be an expert gamer.

[ayaycheff]

Sayonara Wild Hearts

A rhythm/quasi-bullet hell game about a young woman with a broken heart who becomes a champion for the tarot-themed deities that watch over the universe.

All female cast (plus narrated by Queen Latifah), non-sexualized designs as seen above, and a killer soundtrack that might make you cry if you've had your own heart broken recently.

It's on the shorter side and can be finished within a night, so would definitely recommend checking it out.

[femsolid]

@ayaycheff hey I just want to thank you for recommending Sayonara Wild Hearts I played it last night and it was fantastic.

Loved the visuals, the music, the animation, the retro vibe and how everything is synchronised with the music.

I also think the enemies are her former girlfriends, with the broken heart theme and the butch styling.

But I think the last one she kisses is supposed to be herself? Like maybe she learned to love herself?

Well anyway, it's been a while since I had so much fun playing a game so thanks :)

[shamelesslyunladylike]

Let me add Returnal to this list.

Returnal is a brutally punishing bullet hell roguelite third person shooter available on PC and PS5. You play as Selene Vassos, a lone astronaut crashed on an alien planet while investigating a mysterious signal. On that planet, there is no death. Every time she gets crushed to a paste by an alien tentacle gorilla or falls of a cliff, she wakes up gasping at the crash site to try to find a way out once more, the planet now littered with corpses from her previous attempts.

The game has a sci-fi horror mood and visual language that has the DNA of the Alien series, and has themes of motherhood, grief and guilt, written in a non-linear style where you piece together the story through investigating objects and logs.

The gameplay is very smooth and the gunplay is satisfiying. Selene feels quick and agile and responsive jumping and dashing through the environment. The voice actress also does a great job portraying the character. Definitely recommended for people who like roguelikes and/or shooters.

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[bogleech]

Apparently neopets not only managed to ditch the NFT bros, but with the closure of the Jumpstart brand weeks ago, neopets is now completely independent for the first time since the early 2000′s, got millions in a new investment deal and are currently installing a flash simulator so that all their games and animations work again.

[accidental-symmetry]

it launches tomorrow apparently 🥺

[myrosecolouredgirl]

ok but when you hear the phrase "the song from twilight" what song comes to mind

"decode" by paramore

"supermassive black hole" by muse

"a thousand years" by christina perri

"full moon" by the black ghosts

Voting ended onJul 5, 2023

[gnostick-deactivated20210607]

[accidental-symmetry]

This is from a doctor who episode about a monster who feeds on peoples fears and makes them worship the thing they fear, y’all, not some religious poetry

[phoenix-reburned]

wanna know how the rest of the world is with this

I was homeschooled/knew homeschoolers personally

I didn't know homeschoolers personally but I know it happens in my country/state

I've rarely, if ever, heard of homeschooling happening in my country/state

what even is homeschooling?

homeschooling is outlawed/banned/heavily restricted in my country/state

results!

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

If you could answer this, put your country/state in the tags, and share this it would be appreciated! I'm an ex-homeschooler from Texas and I'm genuinely curious on what people from outside of America think about homeschooling or if it's even a thing elsewhere

[accidental-symmetry]

I HAVE A WIFE

[andhumanslovedstories]

Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

[andhumanslovedstories]

Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list

[andhumanslovedstories]

Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS

actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.

[zingring]

Good luck, kiddo

[sasquatch-spotted]

Are you satisfied, op? When will it be enough?

[andhumanslovedstories]

I feel I couldn’t have been clearer about the number at which this will be enough

[pixelartpeach]

If you fall for a social media prank, do you reblog/pass it on to your followers?

[paxamericana]

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

[cryptid-sighting]

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

[hound-slut]

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

[accidental-symmetry]

And eventually, as a rational person who’s seen too much shit not to, she does start believing in the alien/human conspiracy to invade and enslave the earth. Just in time for a completely new mytharc to appear that she completely disbelieves all over again

[accidental-symmetry]

Wedding ready

[finalwomanarchive]

another question that gets me is… would u be friends with your parents if they were your not your parents/ were the age you are now?? hard to tell bc who knows what they were really like at 20 something but….. we wonder. and we wonder and wonder. 

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

[autumnhobbit]

[the-lost-alchemist]