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can't wait for new fans to read the rwrb book and discover that BookNora is a feral queer data-analyzing math genius who is constantly joke flirting with both Alex and his sister and who stays awake for two full days on a cocktail of redbull and weed gummies in a state that somehow combines Hammy the squirrel from Over The Hedge with that meme of the dad from Coraline in order to chase down a digital paper trail and expose a literal conspiracy
sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down
like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander
at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues
And. I. Am. So. Angry.
Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”
He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind
he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was
I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system
You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry
hey op if you’re looking for a kinder movie about alan turing, you should check out breaking the code (1996). breaking the code was originally a stage play, and this is a filmed adaptation. it’s more faithful to his personality, stars derek jacobi (who was also a gay man and plays the part with so much sympathy), and it doesn’t bungle historical details for the sake of adding more drama. here’s a link to a youtube playlist where you can watch it in full
He felt bad for the children who were stuck at bletchley park without their toys so he used spare paper from his office to make them a monopoly board by hand
He was also reported as having a goofy sense of humor where he used to make a show of saying goodbye to everyone at the party and then walk into the closet instead of out the front door
Plus, he was quoted as saying quips like “Beyond the way they speak, there is only one (no two!) features of American life which I find really tiresome. The impossibility of getting a bath in the ordinary sense and their ideas on room temperature.” — Alan Turing (1936)
He was a huge athlete and biked everywhere and sometimes ran the five miles to work every morning, and did things like calculate when his bike chain would break so he could keep riding the thing despite it being ancient
He was still “odd” according to his coworkers as he sometimes wore a gasmask to work to avoid spring allergies and used to chain his coffee mug up to avoid theft at the office, but the same colleagues described him as very friendly, open, and thoughtful as well if not shy.
and finally, of course, there was Porgy
He used to practice his Cambridge lectures in front of this stuffed bear he got in college named Porgy and was delighted when his mom sewed it a little outfit. He kept the bear with him throughout life.
i keep seeing this version without any mention of turing being autistic, and how this portrayal of him as a cold cruel genius is a classic autiphobic trope we’re subjected to constantly.
he was kind, he was gay, he was brilliant, he was autistic.
u know when u scroll past a post because it’s talking about a serious topic? for example a national crisis in a different country or a donations post detailing abuse or just something triggering to you, because you don’t have the emotional capacity to deal with it at that exact moment? that’s okay. you don’t have to feel like a bad person just because a tumblr user said “don’t scroll!!!” you can scroll. if you know something will be triggering, you should never feel bad for skipping it.
Valid post op!!
It doesn’t even have to be triggering. You’re not required to reblog stuff. No matter what some random tumblr user says. Not reblogging, no matter your reason does not make you a bad person
not to be like,,,, gay and depressed but my mental stability really does revolve around whatever comment my english professor leaves on my latest assignment….
Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literature’s long-term survival
please elaborate
Sure. Imagine that you need to make a book, and this book needs to be successful. This book needs to be the perfect Marketable YA Dystopian.
So you build your protagonist. She has no personality traits beyond being decently strong-willed, so that her quirks and interesting traits absolutely can’t get in the way of the audience’s projection onto her. She is dainty, birdlike, beautiful despite her protestations that she is ugly–yet she can still hold her own against significantly taller and stronger combatants. She is the perfect mask for the bashful, insecure tweens you are marketing to to wear while they read.
You think, as you draft your novel, that you need to add something that appeals to the basest nature of teenagers, something this government does that will be perversely appealing to them. The Hunger Games’ titular games were the main draw of the books, despite the hatred its characters hold for the event. So the government forces everyone into Harry Potter houses.
So the government makes everyone choose their faction, their single personality trait. Teenagers and tweens are basic–they likely identify by one distinct personality trait or career aspiration, and they’ll thus be enchanted by this system. For years, Tumblr and Twitter bios will include Erudite or Dauntless alongside Aquarius and Ravenclaw and INTJ. Congratulations, you just made having more than one personality trait anathema to your worldbuilding.
Your readers and thus your protagonist are naturally drawn to the faction that you have made RIDICULOUSLY cooler and better than the others: Dauntless. The faction where they play dangerous games of Capture the Flag and don’t work and act remarkably like teenagers with a budget. You add an attractive, tall man to help and hinder the protagonist. He is brooding and handsome; he doesn’t need to be anything else.
The villains appear soon afterward. They are your tried and true dystopian government: polished, sleek, intelligent, headed by a woman for some reason. They fight the protagonists, they carry out their evil, Machiavellian, stupid plan. You finish the novel with duct tape and fanservice, action sequences and skin and just enough glue and spit to seal the terrible, hollow world you have made shut just long enough to put it on the shelf.
And you have just destroyed YA dystopian literature. Because you have boiled it down to its bare essentials. A sleek, futuristic government borrowing its aesthetic from modern minimalism and wealth forces the population to participate in a perversely cool-to-read-about system like the Hunger Games or the factions, and one brave, slender, pretty, hollow main character is the only one brave–no, special enough to stand against it.
And by making this bare-bones world, crafted for maximum marketability, you expose yourself and every other YA dystopian writer as a lazy worldbuilder driven too far by the “rule of cool” and the formulas of other, better dystopian books before yours. In the following five years, you watch in real time as the dystopian genre crumbles under your feet, as the movies made based on your successful (but later widely-panned and mocked) books slowly regress to video-only releases, as fewer and fewer releases try to do what you did. And maybe you realize what you’ve done.
one quibble: hunger games was intense and sincere and the writer had worked for tv and knew exactly what she was talking about when she wrote how media machines create golden idols out of abused kids and then leave the actual people inside their glamorous shells to rot. hunger games had a genuine core of righteous anger that resonated with a lot of people. the hunger games was genuinely angry about shit that is genuinely wrong.
but divergent was clumsy make-believe the whole way through. it aped the forms and functions of dystopian lit but the writer didn’t actually have any real, passionate, sincere anger to put on the page. she didn’t know what it was talking about, so she didn’t have anything worth listening to.
there’s a difference between anti-authoritarianism as a disaffected, cynical pose and anti-authoritarianism as a rallying cry by people who believe in a bitter world. and the former is something corporations and industries and publishing houses are so much more comfortable with. so divergent and the flood of books published and marketed alongide and after it showed how the dystopian genre was no longer truly revolutionary, no longer a sincere condemnation of corporate oligarchies. the mass-market dystopian genre was now nothing more than an insincere playspace for people who were writing dystopia as a safely distant, abstract make-believe stage for their pretty girl heroes, rather than a direct allegory for everything that needs to be torn down in this world today.
This is the second branch of this post I’ve reblogged and like the fourth I’ve seen and I’m just thinking about how the Uglies series, a pre-Hunger Games forerunner of the YA Dystopia boom, had significantly less staying power than it could have specifically because…with the toxic beauty standards forced on teenagers being a Big Theme, studios couldn’t figure out how to make a profitable movie out of it. The book got optioned multiple times, but a film version made in Hollywood was destined to fall apart at casting & makeup - their marketing methods relied on exactly what the series was criticizing, which is…part of what made it so popular with teenage girls to begin with.
You contrast that with how the marketing for the Hunger Games films directly contradicts the messaging of the text, and how Divergent seems ready-made for the big screen, and it becomes really apparent why the genre folded in on itself. Capitalism tried to recuperate dystopian fiction criticizing capitalism, and in doing so, butchered the genre.
There’s also something rattling around my brain about a correlation between how made-for-screen a dystopian book is and how much it Doesn’t Understand Dystopia, with the culmination being Ready Player One, a piece set in a dystopia that somehow still actively glorifies capitalism & that was literally optioned for film before the book was published, but I don’t…know how to expand on that point.
Here's a love poem I put together using only lines from gay books because they are THAT lyrical
In order of appearance:
●Sappho (the title)
●The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
●Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
●Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
●Tin Man by Sarah Winman
●Ash by Malinda Lo
●Prince's Gambit by C. S. Pacat
●A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab
●The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
●Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
●The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
●This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
●Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
●The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
●The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
●Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by B. A. Sáenz
●The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
“Achilles Doubts his Choice"
AKA my attempt at historically accurate Patrochilles!
I know a lot of people tend to grip to the Illiad mentioning Achilles’ “Golden” hair, and it leads to him being…very much looking like a Norse European instead of a, as described and depicted in Ancient Art, brown skinned one. Additionally, the Greeks used color in different ways than we do now, that apparently speaking in similes about the radiance of colors more than a direct connotation (Madeline Miller shared a great article about it on her twitter and about race in Ancient Greece) - which is why different translations vary Achilles’ hair from blonde to red-they’re talking about the luminance of his hair being a demigod, as opposed to being directly blonde. Hence why I choose to give him light brown hair that was very reflective and luminescent.
Additionally as a historian I feel the obligation to keep reminding people Ancient Greece was full of darker skinned, curly haired, people. We have the literal frescos (Shown above) to prove it. I think a lot of times for artists their bias of “beauty” also come into play when depicting Patroclus and Achilles. I don’t blame them completely because like I said above, the idea of “blonde” Achilles in the Illiad is how he’s come to been popularized. However I do tend to find it unfortunate this tends to lead to a lot of artwork where Achilles, the demigod ethereally beautiful one, is depicted as “White and Blonde”, and Patroclus who by default would be more average is given darker skin. Not a great connotation, even if it is subconscious or in all good faith following what the text seems to imply. I appreciate in “The Song of Achilles” Miller describes both of them as brown skinned multiple times-so it does get perplexing when people are doing *specifically* TSOA fanart, Achilles still gets bleached.
Can go into detail about other historical details if asked!
Alternative beardless Achilles (and uncensored version) on my twitter. Beard variation bc it’s true Achilles is beardless in a lot of pottery-BUT this didn’t start until the 300BCEs, when Greek standards of queer relationships shifted. Before he had a beard in most art. Also Greeks were nude a lot so clothed/nude version.
The fact that when Athena transformed Odysseus to look all hot and stuff she made his hair looks like one of these bad boys:
Leads me to believe that the ancient Greeks would’ve considered this:
The ultimate Beauty standard
A comic about controlling your symptoms and trying to get other people to understand why it’s so hard to do so, in goo form
Dear non-ADHDers:
We have ADHD. Sometimes we’ll get it on you. We don’t do it on purpose, it’s just not something we can control all that easily.
I recommend you find ways to enjoy the goo with us. It’ll make everything far more pleasant.
-J
I love this, it’s so cute and yet so real.
Also, “I’m a goo monster. I drip goo sometimes” is the weirdest line I have ever related to in my life, and yet it’s perfect
This is a perfect representation of the neurodivergent community
I never had a well worded explanation that didn’t sound like an excuse t h a N K S
I find it mildly concerning that the only thing that brings me joy in my life anymore is rereading RW&RB
we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we?
LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!
oh you sweet summer child
I actually made this a button last convention
Gaud I remember when it was lemons, I feel old now
explain pls
What are lemons??
I don’t own the copyright to this, others own the show. All I have is this saaaad little computer and a sketch pad. ^-^ Please don’t sue! I don’t need anymore stress!
Please R&R!!!!!!!
No flames. >///<
lol this story contains slash! Don’t like don’t read. Rated M. AragornxLegolas. lemon. Lololol ^-^ NO FLAMES OR I WILL KILL YOU WITH MY STABBITY SPORK OF Death! -__-
#this post made me age ten thousand years.
A/N: Things are probably going to be very OOC but who cares, It’s my fic, I do what I want! MUAHAHAHA!
Things story is lime but it might get a little lemony in later chapters ^.^ R&R no flaming!!! I don’t own the characters
The ghost of citrus past…🤣
WAIT PEOPLE DONT CALL THEM LEMONS ANYMORE??
did you think AO3 was the first of its kind
my children, there was another before it, older and untagged
I remember the old ways.
Old enough to remember lemons/lines, young enough that I should absolutely have not know what they were at the age I discovered them
I hate that im doing this, because I know I shouldn’t be because who the fuck really cares.
But ive been in a really really bad place and honestly I just dont wanna be here anymore
so here is my 1 reblog one day alive thing
Im sorry
@thehugwizard boost!!
BOOST!!!!!!!
How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer
Reblog to literally save a life
whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”
The most unrealistic part of Harry Potter was that they managed to pack all of their belongings into one single trunk
reblog to save a liFE
Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.
Never again.
Funny how that happens
stop whitewashing riko moriyama 🥰🥰🥰🥰 he is japanese 🥰🥰🥰🥰 just because he’s an antagonist and is terrible does not mean he deserves to be drawn as a white man 🥰🥰🥰🥰 so stop it 🥰🥰🥰🥰
