Queerness, Feminism & Music with Rocks in it

Get in line, thou big slut Italian, in my 20s

[roughentumble]

[tiptapismellbullcrap]

As a disabled person, Baran is a character that is hard for me to think about for too long. My disabilities have gotten more limiting as the years have gone by, and I’ve had to confront the possibility of not being able to work in certain careers, not being able to do sports I want to do, missing out on trips and holidays or any days out with family bc i physically can’t, fuck, Ive been told multiple times to drop out of uni bc they don’t think i can handle it - they say come back when i have a better handle on my conditions/when they get more manageable when i know that is unlikely to ever happen and they’re more likely to worsen.

Seeing Baran, a character who is talented and capable, someone so kind and lovely, have to confront the limits her disability puts on her and the worsening of it in the same day fucking wrecks me. She’s probably done this thousands of times throughout her life. Higher education is a nightmare to navigate disabled in the 2020s, i cant imagine what it would have been like for her in the 2010s, having to fight the system so often just to do what she wants, what she loves.

When she said she’s spent her whole career trying to improve the system, trying to fight for everyone, i truly believe that her disability is core to this. When you are disabled, especially a disabled woman of colour like Baran is, you have to fight so hard just to get the bare minimum of healthcare you deserve. You are dismissed so often and every time it is soul crushing. And she has done it, she pushed through, she got a handle on her seizures, she’s an amazing doctor, and she is fighting to provide better healthcare for everyone.

And just the fear of that slipping through her fingers when her seizures start again, the fear of another fight, the fear of losing everything she’s worked so hard for, including control of herself. Its just so fucking devastating it’s genuinely painful to watch.

[arretoskore]

[arretoskore]

Zerocalcare

[sabriel-writes]

Obv Three hasn't gone thru all of its character development yet, but the current fandom take on it is that Three is a sociable softie who loves nature and learning.

Which is very adorable, and as textually supported as anything can be. But I propose:

--Three canonically tries to get SecUnit to wear its armor by pointing at it for two minutes without saying a word

--SecUnit canonically pulls a lot of things it says directly from Sanctuary Moon, which it has watched thousands of hours of, and Three hasn't

--Three is into documentaries and nonfiction

--Three is used to working with other SecUnits

Thus,

Three rarely speaks, but when it does, it's basically *David Attenborough voice*. When Three and SecUnit are working together and SecUnit forgets to tell the humans what it's doing, Three (who hasn't said a word in the past six hours) suddenly says, "Your SecUnit is currently attempting a hack on nearby drones. This has a high probability of success, but there is always the chance that these drones have had their security features altered. ...and there, these drones are now under our control. Our path forward is clear, but we will continue to use caution," like it's narrating Blue Planet

[sabriel-writes]

tags from @arbitrarycategories :

#obsessed with this take not only bc I can see it happening but also because murderbot would HATE being narrated#every time Three does this Murderbot sends it a message it the feed that just says ‘knock that shit off’ and Three ignores it and they#do this every time forever. like a weird friendship ritual.#the murderbot diaries#tmbd

murderbot: SHUT THE FUCK UP WE ARE ON A MISSION

three: the humans need to know :) :)

ART, shoving a fully edited documentary with beautifully generated graphics behind its back: yeah, SecUnit, the humans need to know what's going on. It's of critical mission importance.

three, very quietly to the shared feed: Although it may seem stressed, a SecUnit having spare attention with which to swear at other SecUnits is actually an indicator of healthy processor usage---

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[tiktoksformyfriends]

[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

[bitemeilovewaffles]

"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

vibes tbh

[holymolyyikes]

books should have a bloopers section with all the most memorable typos

[myxhul]

Achilles and his mama

[roobydoos]

IKEA comic inspired by tags by @imclimbingupthewalls

There’s a coloured version too that I might post later woohoo:)

[cannibal-rainbow]

Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.

[cannibal-rainbow]

reblog this version because transmisogynists don’t know how to fuck off.

[shubbabang]

its not funny but i do think about it a lot

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:

But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was:

[charminglyantiquated]

Sea Fever! My favorite poem in the world, especially as the season ends each year and I get nostalgic. I hope I’ve done it justice. _ other comics /art /ko-fi /patreon

[dogpuppy]

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[anxiousleftist]

How it feels to be queer & disabled:

[anxiousleftist]

Happy anniversary to this post 💕🌈♿️

[katakaluptastrophy]

Modern AU Abigail Pent who is everyone's favourite cookie-baking teacher/librarian/foster mom/therapist or whatnot is a little perplexing to me.

No, that woman is using her generational wealth to fund an academic career where she writes dense tomes on late antique heresies. She and Magnus are only validly married in the eyes of the church because they have a very, very good canon lawyer. They acquired the teens through a dubious international adoption and have maybe not kept them quite as in touch with their culture as they ought. Is she just really into her field of research, or is she dabbling in the occult in a way that requires knowledge of at least two dead languages and at least one archaeological artefact of questionable provenance?

Still a fantastic parental figure to the rest of the cast, willing to go to bat for them in slightly terrifying ways, etc etc but I'm begging you to let her be the "unwholesome" (ch 35) and "problematic" (CIF) person she is in the text.