Blessed With All The Thunder In The World

Ken • 24 • Newcastle, UK Introvert, Tolkien, Comics, TAZ Visual journal whiz, History grad.

[geekverse08]

Robert Pattinson photographed by Jack Bridgland for GQ Magazine (2022) 📸🦇

[batfamonline]

[nctdream]

countdown to haechan’s birthday: (d-day) #HAPPYHAECHANDAY!

hearts and hugs for hyuck 💝

[fyhyunah]

#CeCi behind 📷 #트리플_H #Triple_H cube_triple_h / 180708

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200521 mapsworld_seoul instagram update with WayV (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

[itsmemateinnit]

Whitechapel + text posts

[yourghostcat]

wake up darling feel it and touch me and tell me about it put your phone down my darling triple h - retro future

[hyosjong]

REtro Futurism

[jungsungchans]

↳ lucas for elle korea. 🌾

[sunmiyah]

Hyuna- Triple H Jacket Shooting

[kaheis-archive]

i don’t think there’s a video out there that has aged better than e’dawn saying he’s a virgin and has never dated anyone a whole year and a half after him and hyuna started secretly dating

[lulerains-deactivated20201030]

hyuna during retro future stages

[star-anise]

When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

#it’s so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they don’t have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I don’t personally relate to? [X]

[charlottemadison42]

Tropes don’t have fixed meanings. A trope you’ve always thought of as oppressive could be empowering for someone, somewhere, if written through the lens of inclusion, love, and liberation.

[princepondincherry]

I’m left wondering about the obvious follow-up to this: are there fantasy stories about disabled princesses who can’t leave the tower because they just can’t move very well? Who still get to be important in the story?

[star-anise]

I don’t know many. When I was a little kid I read The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock, an 1875 children’s book about a prince with paralyzed legs who is banished to a lonely tower in the desert by his uncle. His fairy godmother gives him a magic flying cloak he can sit on, which allows him to travel around his kingdom and observe the lives of his people. He grows into a wise and compassionate young man, and when the people rise up in revolt against his uncle’s misrule, he becomes their enlightened and beloved monarch.

I feel like that book planted a seed in me that didn’t really sprout until I became a disabled adult. I wonder what it’ll turn into.

[shineemoon]

[200228 SuperM LIVE in London] Taemin 💞 Lucas/Taeyong/Ten

[shineemoon]

200510 ‘Truth Or Dare’ with SuperM 🤘 [Do 1 iconic dance step/choreo of the person next to you] Dare: Taeyong’s dance in ‘No Manners‘ (TAEMIN ver.)

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[lulerains-deactivated20201030]

Throwback ♡ 150621 Inkigayo ∴ SHINee - Odd Eye