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Give me a heartwarming Christmas movie about Satan traveling around the world every Christmas to deliver presents to all the young kids and kids with learning disorders and disabilities who misspell “Santa” on their Christmas letters every year
And Santa’s all like, “You know, I can handle a few spelling mistakes, I got this,” and Lucifer is like “They’re addressed to me, fuck off, I’m doing it.”
Lucifer being protective of his fanmail is ceaselessly entertaining.
actual Tumblr Social Justice problems:
- antisemitism is often veiled as “combating white supremacy” - lack of focus on mental illnesses besides depression - honest mistakes tend to be poorly dealt with - “callout culture” (people looking for others to mess up, solely in order to defame them) - in-depth education on terms tends to be scarce, leading to people having only a vague understanding of terms, and using them - bigots are able to redefine these (poorly-defined) terms in ways that hurt the oppressed - emotional manipulation / guilt-tripping (“i see my followers ignoring this”; “why is nobody talking about this?”)
re-reblogging cause i thought of things
Excessive and abusive punishment of young teenagers over mistakes made in discourse they don’t completely understand by bloggers much older than they are
US-centrism
Reliance on fear of retribution for spread of information (contributes to rapid spread of misinformation)
Moral absolutism - the line between “perfect innocent angel” and “disgusting shit trash” can be as thin as one mistake
Reliance on followed blogs for education about social issues
Con update 1
My first encounter with a con Batman; I stumbled. He growled at me “careful Selina.”
please tell me you made aout with a batman
So this poacher that killed Cecil the lion’s life is ruined. His Facebook page is gone, yelp is fucked up, and any other website that is used to promote his business is fucked. Safe to say this man’s career is destroyed.
If only white people cared enough about Black folks to ruin cops’ lives after they murder a person of color.
The responses to my commentary on this post about the Greek gods are completely fucking exceptional:
spacetimespecter:
Dionysus is pansexual, actually, and has a very loose grasp on gender. He’s arguably genderfluid and often presents as male, though he was born as a female and is often described as feminine in terms of figure.
I looked this up and there seems to be some debate about it- canonically it seems that Dionysus was disguised as a girl after his (second) birth (from Zeus’ thigh, what) to protect him from jealous victim-of-eternal-domestic-abuse Hera, who is actually very sympathetic when you consider that redirecting her rage and pain towards others is probably really her only outlet. In some accounts, Dionysus has a beard and a “masculine” figure, too (not that that really means anything, re: gender).
But there’s also a lot of commentary on Dionysus’ face and figure being considered “effiminate,” which is really interesting, because dressing as a girl as a child would have literally no effect on his development as an adult, meaning any perceived feminine physiological characteristics are innate. There’s an argument that could be made for Dionysus not only being (probably non-binary) transgender, but potentially even intersex.
heyhosers:
yes and in Euripedes’s Bacchae, the Maenads they go crazy and form a cult and the leading woman’s son is all pissed off bc his mum isn’t at home cooking and being miserable. it’s my fave classical tragedy.
Exquisite.
So in any case, Dionysus is the god of wine, sex, ancient feminism and gender play.
Dionysus is the trans feminist party god.
bitchin-in-blue:
Hell, the general assumption that the gods were either bisexual or pansexual, with those such as Artemis and Athena being exceptions to the rule.Generally, Zeus and his kids/siblings (such as Apollo) boned practically anyone, and often in other forms aside from humanoid ones (Zeus being particularly infamous for his shapeshifting)! Unless it said otherwise, it was safe to assume a god was Bi or Pan.
Not to mention Orpheus got his head torn off by the Maenads after pissing them off, if I remember correctly. Dude didn’t listen to Hades and didn’t believe him when he said “Yo bro, you wanna break the natural order of things, alright, you made Persephone, my boss ass queen of the seasons (love you so much bae), feel really touched because of your music. Just don’t look back till you’re on the surface and your wife’s soul will have followed you.” And what does he do, when the most honorable god of the bunch gives him a favor? Fucking doesn’t listen.
Moral of the story, don’t piss off the Maenids or not listen to Hades. He appreciates good music for his wife though.
When you consider that it’s repeatedly established in mythological canon that Hades is a huge stickler for the rules, this really drives home how much he loves Persephone- he let this guy go against the natural order because his music made her happy.
Also, Dionysus is, according to a lot of accounts, one of the only people to successfully retrieve at least one soul from Hades. (One was his mortal mother, Semele, and he possibly also retrieved the soul of his deceased wife, Ariadne. There are inconsistencies.)
As so:
Dionysus, son of Zeus and a mortal Theban princess, is the only god whose parents were not both divine. Zeus was madly in love with a mortal, Semele, and he promised her that he would do anything for her. She asked to see him in all his glory as the King of Heaven, and although Zeus knew that it would kill her to see him this way, he held to his word. As Semele died, Zeus took her almost-born child and brought him to be raised by nymphs in a particularly lush, verdant land. Dionysus, the wine-god, thus grows up among rain and foliage, and by the time he is an adult he has rescued his mother from the Underworld and brought her to Olympus, where she has been allowed to reside because she gave birth to a god.
Also:
Dionysus, meanwhile, builds a following of mortals known for wearing ivy leaves, running through the forest, and drinking wine. These followers, mostly women, travel with Dionysus to Thebes, the city where Semele lived when she was alive. Penthus, who rules Thebes, becomes quite disturbed by the loud, wine-drinking women and by Dionysus himself. He insults Dionysus, jails him, and refuses to believe that he is dealing with a deity. Dionysus responds by sending Penthus to the hills to meet his clan of female followers. Then, Dionysus shows his cruel power: he makes his followers mad. All the women mistake Penthus for a mountain beast and rush to destroy him. They tear him apart, limb by limb, and Penthus finally understands that he has insulted a god and must pay for that mistake with his life. Once Penthus has been sufficiently torn apart, Dionysus returns his followers to their senses.
“[Penthus] becomes quite disturbed by the loud, wine-drinking women and by Dionysus himself.”
tl;dr version:
Penthus: HOW DARE THESE WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF SLIGHTLY LESS CLEAR GENDER PARTY AND HAVE FUN?? ENJOYMENT IS FOR MEN ONLY!! TEN THOUSAND YEARS DUNGEON FOR YOU, BEAUTIFUL PERSON WHO PROBABLY MAKES ME QUESTION MY SEXUALITY IN A WAY I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH
Dionysus: haha WOW go fuck yourself
A lot of Dionysus’ attitude towards the Maenads also seems to boil down to:
Maenads: [fucking some guy up]
Some Guy: [getting fucked up] OH GOD PLEASE STOP THEM
Dionysus: nah man I don’t tell them what to do
Dionysus: this is the church of doing whatever the fuck you like
Dionysus: this wouldn’t even be happening to you if you didn’t feel entitled to control women who just want to have a good time
Dionysus: cultivate some fucking chill if you survive
Also, Dionysus is responsible for the golden hand of King Midas, which essentially went like:
Dionysus: thanks for doing me a solid, what can I do for you (down w/ favours btw)
Midas: GIVE ME A HAND THAT TURNS EVERYTHING I TOUCH TO GOLD
Dionysus: uhhh are you sure
[THE NEXT DAY]
Midas: OH GOD THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA PLEASE HELP ME DIONYSUS
Dionysus: haha oh shit
Dionysus: no worries bro just wash your hands in the river Pactolus
Dionysus: BAM golden river and no golden hand #aesthetic
Dionysus: oh and sorry about your daughter I guess
Basically, Dionysus is officially my favourite Greek god.
He can essentially be interpreted as the god of treating yourself, not particularly giving a fuck about gender, and incorruptable feminist spaces.
[Editor’s Note: The author of this piece is a former Marvel employee and wishes to remain anonymous.] Disney does not care about Marvel’s female market, which makes us virtually invisible. I could probably populate Pluto with the amount of Princess items Disney makes. But where are Gamora and Black Widow? This exclusion of women from Marvel movie merchandise is completely purposeful. I know; I was there. While working at Marvel post-acquisition, I saw a deck circulated by Disney’s Brand Marketing team. I’m prohibited from sharing the slides, but the takeaway is that, unlike the actual demos, the desired demographics had no females in it whatsoever. I asked my supervisor why that was. Ever the pragmatist, he said, “That’s not why Disney bought us. They already have the girls’ market on lockdown.” I’d entered the comics industry because I was a comics fan. It hurt to see so plainly that to Disney, people like me didn’t matter. My demographic was already giving them money anyway, with Disney Princess purchases. Even now, there’s no incentive to make more Marvel merch for women, because we already buy Brave and Frozen products. This does not come as a surprise, really. Anyone who knows about branding and marketing can tell you how most gender-skewed business models work (and most businesses are gender-skewed). It starts when we’re babies. Blue for boys, pink for girls. Separate, but equal. Sound familiar? Disney bought Marvel and Lucasfilm because they wanted to access the male market. To achieve this goal, they allocate less to Marvel’s female demo, and even less to a unisex one. They won’t be interested in changing how they work until consumers understand what’s going on. So let’s delve deeper into how licensing works. To obtain a Marvel license, you typically have to be a successful company with access to big distribution channels, like Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Target, Tesco, etc. Marvel sometimes licenses to smaller companies, but the contracts work the same. There’s a minimum guarantee, royalty rates, and a payment schedule. Most contracts never fall below $100K for a minimum guarantee, and large companies like Hasbro will pay millions over the course of a few years. Royalty rates vary by style guide and distribution channel. Movie style guides tend to have a higher rate due to actor likeness fees, and the standard royalty rate is about 12%. To pay Marvel $25K, a licensee has to make over $208K. Moreover, they need to pay their employees and manufacturers and make a profit. For Marvel movie properties, licensees need to make as much money as possible in a short amount of time. Movie characters are hot only for a few months, so both Disney and the licensees will resort to what they know best: the “separate, but equal” strategy. Now that my short intro into licensing is over, how do we change things? When complaining about the lack of Black Widow, don’t just tweet at Marvel and Disney. Contact the licensees. They need to know there is a high demand. They need those numbers. Look into companies like Mad Engine, Hasbro, Jay Franco, etc. Look at the tags and find those companies. Demanding Frozen products for boys would be a balanced, conjunctive step. Another route is to create your own company and get a licensing contract. 3D printers for clothing will soon be available. Save enough capital to buy one and you could flood the market with apparel that feature the Avengers, Justice League, and Guardians of the Galaxy as they were meant to be: co-ed teams. Personally, I don’t think we need Marvel, DC, or Lucasfilm to pave the way for us. Giants will only move when there are other giants around. For example, when an indie film becomes successful it makes waves and influences the rest of Hollywood. HerUniverse and WeLoveFine are already successfully paving the way for women’s licensed clothing lines. We need more independent content that spotlights women heroes, super or otherwise. Hellboy, Wanted, and The Green Hornet didn’t break into the billions, but they are good examples of putting another horse in the race. Content is queen. The most lasting way to change what’s around you is to create something new. So, comics creators —especially women—more spectacular women superheroes who headline their own books from Image, Dark Horse, Oni, Top Cow, you name it, would also be incredibly helpful. And indie pubs, make those comics and pitch them to Focus Features, Lionsgate, New Line and so on. It’s time to start getting creative about our strategy. Let’s all brainstorm and share tactics. In the immortal words of Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” It’s time to make our own tools.
Invisible Women: Why Marvel’s Gamora & Black Widow Were Missing From Merchandise, And What We Can Do About It
(via fyeahmcublackwidow)
“”””Personally, I don’t think we need Marvel, DC, or Lucasfilm to pave the way for us. Giants will only move when there are other giants around. For example, when an indie film becomes successful it makes waves and influences the rest of Hollywood. HerUniverse and WeLoveFine are already successfully paving the way for women’s licensed clothing lines. We need more independent content that spotlights women heroes, super or otherwise. Hellboy, Wanted, and The Green Hornet didn’t break into the billions, but they are good examples of putting another horse in the race. “”””
THISSSSSS.. to change things we need to support the independent artists that are trying to chanmge things, not supporting the giants and asking them to change. the giants will step on us. They’re not our friends..
So here we are in the first week of July, and we are now on the second month of the DC You initiative. Is it a success? Have I found myself feeling excited for DC’s ‘new universe’ post-Convergence? Am I buying and reading any of the newer titles DC is publishing now that DC has decided to diversify their line and creators? I’ve actually sat down and thought about this for a whole month, and truthfully? I don’t feel as though anything has truly changed. Sure, DC dropped ‘The New 52’ branding, but did they actually get rid of the problems that alienated their older fans in the first place? Did they win back their older fans for good after Convergence concluded in May? Did they actually learn any lessons from the failure of The New 52 initiative, and if so, how come we’re still not seeing any changes where they really count?
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Stonewall, an upcoming movie on the Stonewall Riots in New York, doesn’t have a single PoC as the lead.
I repeat… Stonewall, an upcoming movie on the Stonewall Riots in New York- a stance against police brutality, WHICH WAS LEAD BY TRANS WOMEN OF COLOUR- doesn’t have a single PoC as the lead.
Not to mention that Marsha P Johnson, THE trans woman who started it all, is a minor character who is being played by a cis man.
First the depoliticization of Pride, then the erasure of trans people, and now the white washing of queer history…amazing.
The Burning Times were not just a couple hundred witches burned by puritans in Salem.
Sorry, no. The witch hunts were a holocaust of women; a political move by the church, during the rise of Christianity and the fall of Rome, to discredit female healers and midwives who, up until then, had been respected, equal, and admired members of their community. Also, to change female sexuality from something that was celebrated amongst the old religions into a shameful sin and something that stands as an obstacle between men and holiness.
The next time someone tells you that gender roles and gendered value are ‘just how it is,’ remind them that the Catholic Church murdered nine million women across Europe and the states just because they were scared of women being respected.
it really does become apparent how american-centric the internet is when the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the us is treated as some kind of global event while battles won for the lbgt+ communities in other countries can go by often completely unacknowledged (or at least acknowledged to a much lesser degree)
for example, as of today it is no longer illegal to be gay in Mozambique. and i’d say that that’s something
This is Very, Very Sad Day for Batman and Catwoman
***This contains spoilers for Batman: Endgame and Divergence.***
This week marked the 75th anniversary of Selina Kyle’s debut in Batman #1 (1940). There was no mega issue to celebrate like last year when Batman commemorated his 75th, and as far as we can tell there will be no hardcover anthology collecting Catwoman’s greatest stories, like when Lois Lane turned 75. There will be no variant covers like for the Flash and the Joker. But hey at least Catwoman got a tweet.
Catwoman has now appeared in all forms of media, has had four solo series in twenty years, and like any strong woman on DC Comic’s docket she has had her fair shares of ups and downs. The 75th anniversary of Catwoman also marks 75 years of Batman and Catwoman, one of DC’s oldest and most enduring and beloved couples. Batman and Catwoman have shared and intense mutual attraction since day one, and for 75 years Catwoman has accomplished the goal of her creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger to be “friendly foe who committed crimes but was also a romantic interest in Batman’s rather sterile life.” Catwoman was created also to appeal to female readers and be a love interest to Batman. She was intended to differentiate herself from other Batman villains, as she was never evil or a killer and hence one of the world’s greatest fictional anti-heroines was born. The Catwoman of today is a far cry from the s noir-style femme fatale that she was in her debut, the sassy and fun purple clad Catwoman of the nineties, and the smart hardcore Catwoman of just last decade. The fan response to DC Comic’s 2011 reboot can be mildly described as lukewarm, and that’s being pretty generous. One of the biggest problems in the reboot is Catwoman’s characterization, which has been described as boring at best and idiotic at worst. But, that’s not what I’m here to discuss today since that has already been conversed in length. This is about the fans, specifically the Batman and Catwoman fans. The bat/cat shippers. I must really give it to us bat/cat fans, because in order to ship this couple you have to really believe in them. You must ship them with every fiber of your being while the writers tease and tantalize at every given opportunity. You must believe in them without having any expectations that they might actually end up in a real relationship. You stand by them without having one era of solace where you can find them together. Not one. Len Wein was first writer to really develop the relationship between from Batman and Catwoman from infatuation and flirtation into a real romantic relationship way back in the early 80s. They rest, as they say, is history. Batman and Catwoman fans have really been through the ringer ever since, especially in the last fifteen years. The writers don’t mind teasing the pair wherever convenient to capitalize off of the fandom, but have made it very clear that they have no intentions of giving the fans what they want and have been asking for, for the last thirty years, which is a substantial relationship. Examples that come to mind Batman: The Widening Gyre and “Gothtopia”. I’m not even a believer in conspiracy theories and even I believe that the writers intentionally create barriers between Batman and Catwoman just to spite the fans, and now this phenomenon seems to have spread to Superman and Lois Lane fans as well. Remember when during Catwoman’s third series a writer by the name of Will Pfiefer thought it would be a super good idea for Catwoman to have a baby with some Z list-nobody character, just to give her up for adoption in less than twenty issues? Most recently the current Catwoman writer, Genevieve Valentine, teased about the pair in interviews and the artist released provocative images of the them just to jump out with “Surprise she’s going to have a relationship with this random woman that she barely knows and we’re going to focus on this relationship instead of the one everyone’s been waiting for, for three decades now.” My optimism that the New 52 would eventually improve was very briefly restored recently with the announcement that the post- Convergence plans involve allowing writers to draw and from any era and the promise of less rigidity of continuity meant the possibility of a return of Pre-Flashpoint Catwoman, which may be the only thing that can save the title from dangerously low sales, at this point. However this spark of hope was quickly extinguished by the recent events of “Batman: Endgame”.
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The problem is that Writers in Dc have No Idea how to write “romantic” relationships outside of the “romance” tropes.
That’s it. Romantic relationships are written as something that is suppossed to be fulfilled, a goal to be reached “someday”, a source of tension that can’t be resolved. They can’t simply write couples like they write friends, simply exploring interesting relationship dynamics, because they think once the “tension” is resolved it becomes “boring” and you know how western storytelling is all about “conflict” and resolution only comes in the end.
So they can’t figure out a way to write a hero that has a partner and they kick ass togheter sometimes, share their burdens, do stuff, have funny moments, have dramas, have sex, then kick ass again separately or togheter. Wich, minus (sometimes ;) ) the sex part , would be exactly what you have when you write friendships, and any other relationship. Two people with a relationship experiencing whatever it is they’re experiencing.
This is the idea of romance as the end of storytelling and it’s a real issue and I think it ties to social issues like patriarchal notions and whatnot...
Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.
The Winter of the Air (via 1995june)
sweet summer child
2015: Man-on-man marriage 2017: Man-on-child marriage 2019: Man-on-dog marriage 2021: Man-on-car marriage 2023: Hopefully the world ends by then tbh
Two consenting adults, be they man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, or any other combination not specified by the above, are now granted the right (as they always should have had) to enter a legally binding contract and obtain all its attached benefits.
Children cannot give consent. Children cannot legally sign contracts. Children cannot get married.
Animals cannot give consent. Animals cannot legally sign contracts. Animals cannot get married.
Optimus Prime is a sentient being and leader of the entire Autobot race and I don’t think you have any place telling him who his people can and cannot marry. If he is okay with Rewind and Chromedome or Astoria and Powerglide then you need to step off.
WELL SAID
Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they are ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and sometimes children…it’s possible to transcend the limits of your skin in a friendship…This kind of friendship is not a frivolous connection, a supplementary relationship to the ones we’re taught and told are primary – spouses, children, parents. It is love…Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another when they are true friends, soul friends
Emily Rapp (via samcentric)
Writing a historical novel means knowing how far they can travel on a horse, This is good info right here.
(via Pinterest)
How the hell do you travel by pigeon
In case no one’s ever answered: MESSAGES travel by pigeon, and homing pigeon was at one time more or less the fastest way to get messages from one place to another.
Though people gotta remember that pigeons are dumb, so it’s not like they took out a pigeon and went, “Okay Eddie, now you’ve got to go to Ipswich.” Homing pigeons have to be raised in a specific place, then transported to where you want to send the message from and released. Then they just go home to where they were raised.
Veganism is cool but there’s a sense of ableism, classism, and racism that kinda comes off of some vegans and it’s gross.
One of you wanted me to elaborate on this and I’m gonna try and be quick and concise.
Some people physically cannot survive off of a plant-based diet....
