Artsy Artichoke

Home of the 'Living the Bi Life' comics (plus my other art).

[misandriste]

WHY WOMEN KILL costume appreciation 1x02 ⪼ I’d Like to Kill Ya, But I Just Washed My Hair

[oak23]

I hope im not just a blog you follow but also the only person with 100% correct opinions about the little mermaid

[balljointsandlace]

Dish those opinions, let's hear it

[oak23]

My biggest issue is the absolute ice cold take of "Ariel gave up her life/voice for a boy" when the film repeatedly shows Ariel was preyed upon by Ursula. She was exploited and stalked by the literal antagonist of the film into making a really bad decision, especially when Ursula knew Ariel was at her most emotional and the least unable to reach out to her support network.

And the deal Ariel made was meant to be an impossible task that she was tricked into taking AND STILL Ariel was smart enough to almost achieve it if Ursula wasn't playing dirty and directly interfering in with it all.

Ariel was absolutely a victim of manipulation and circumstance, and people who use this as an irredeemable flaw in her character act like they got big brain energy when their brains are smooth as fuck.

[dollsahoy]

(not to mention she was 16)

[prismatic-bell]

Also?

URSULA is the one who says Ariel’s doing it all for the guy.

According to Ariel herself, what she wants is:

—to be where the people are

—to see dancing and walking

—to ask her questions about the human world and get answers

—to not live in the ocean

—to be part of the human world

—to explore the human world

WHERE DOES ERIC COME INTO ANY OF THIS?!

She wants to see a world she isn’t able to see! She wants to have adventures, not a boyfriend! What the hell!

[aqueerkettleofish]

I would argue that she was totally fine with the boyfriend, but Ursula was the one who forced it to be a priority.

AND ANOTHER THING

Her first impression of him is a dude who is both attractive, capable, and willing to jump back on to a burning ship to save his dog.

Later, dude climbs aboard a SHIPWRECK that's caught in a WHIRLPOOL so that he can RAM IT into a 150-foot-tall MAGIC SEA MONSTER in order to save her.

It's not like girl was settling.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Capitalism going great

[dcgif-blog]

Queen Hippolyta | Harley Quinn 2.09 “Bachelorette”

[mysharona1987]

[politicalsci]

[puttingherinhistory]

the amount of women who have told me that they love masks because they can go out without makeup on… hell world. the women who say “makeup is art! women only wear it for ourselves and to express ourselves!” need to understand that there is a large majority of women who clearly feel pressure and feel bad about themselves if they don’t wear it

[marisatomay]

before the twitter brain worms reach this site i’m just going to nip the conspiracy theory that trump doesn’t actually have covid and is lying to get a sympathy vote in the bud. he has it. we know he has it because they did not offer up hope hicks’ diagnosis willingly. a reporter scooped it. they were not going to tell us. they got caught. and now we all know. this isn’t a conspiracy. they’re just a dangerous mixture of incompetent and malevolent. he has it.

[marisatomay]

the stock market has tanked (his biggest reason for constantly downplaying the pandemic from the start) and he’s actually cancelling rallies. nothing on earth could stop him from holding super-spreader events for his cult unless he was literally bedridden from the deadly virus that he has allowed to ravage this country. he has it. he has it and he will not receive my sympathies.

[la-laborista-republiko]

In the American political system, whether or not I'm a human being gets decided by an unelected Council of Wizards. Most people think that there's nothing wrong with this.

[la-laborista-republiko]

"How should we interpret [law]?"

"We shall ask the Council of Elders. They will consult the auguries."

[la-laborista-republiko]

“Magister Arcanum Pontifex Maximus John Roberts has consulted THE ORB, and the Council of Wizards has decreed that Natalie can have little a civil rights for at least a couple of months.  We have spoken.”

this is a good and functional way to run a legislative system

[la-laborista-republiko]

Ope, looks like a member of the 05 Council forgot to fortify and died and now we gotta see who the Administrator is gonna promote to Level 5 next.

It’s good that our country works like this.

[politicalsci]

[inkskinned]

rich people really be like “oooooohhh so u want enough money to pay rent? well i saw that on march 23, 2015, you purchased a band-aid at a cvs (NOT a dollar store) for a cut that u could have EASILY covered with a little bit of tissue. don’t just wish for it………… work for it……”

[thinfatfit]

Lmao literally 1000% accurate

[paxamericana]

damn, inanimate objects are doing lots of shit these days

[kingjinxii]

me: (makes another impulse purchase)

my bank account:

[memecucker]

Saw people saying that in a crisis people prefer the familiar and this was intended to be a pro Biden sentiment and truth of that assertion aside people really forget Trump is running for re-election

[secretly-of-course]

Full offense but all these colleges and universities sending kids home should refund their housing and meal plans for those weeks.

[adaswordlace]

https://twitter.com/CriminelleLaw/status/1037511306906099712

Reminds me of my mom getting remarried several years ago, for about a weekend - dude waited until after the wedding to tell her he expected her at waiting at home with dinner waiting when he finished work.

I dunno, like I get that this version of manhood is “normal” but goddamn is it the most brittle, contemptable fuckin thing

[unified-multiversal-theory]

This is NOT these women’s fault in any way - these men hide their misogyny until they think you’re hooked. They know what they are doing.

[kittiesatemypronouns]

These women are wise and brave. I admire them so much!

[geekandmisandry]

Not even touching the fact that he thinks teachers and nurses are lesser…he wants her to be less so that he can be more.

[imnottechsupport]

Am i the only one that thinks they could have come back from this? Like please tell me this was just the straw that broke the camels back and not a one off event. He must be an at least somewhat respectable person if she managed to stay with him up til that point. Him feeling lesser is a taught facet of his life pushed upon him by the patriarchy. It obviously damaged the way he viewed his gf, and his relationship, but that doesnt mean it cant be untaught. And of course its not this womans responsibility to be his teacher, but i hope she at least made him aware that this is what happened and why she left…

[geekandmisandry]

Literally how can you come back from someone wanting to have more power over you?

He’s not a little kid, he’s a grown ass man and if he hasn’t learned that 1. Teachers and nurses are smart as fuck and 2. That women aren’t and shouldn’t be lesser to him then when the hell is he going to learn from that?

Why does it need to be a final straw? Signs that someone is this fucked up are logs, not straws. And being a “respectable” person is easy when you’re lying about who you are and what you think.

[dragonsrequiem]

These guys waited until they thought their women couldn’t possibly exist without them and then tried to shut down the things that made them special. Being nurses. Public defenders. Teachers.

These men pointed out what they were so proud of… how hard they worked… and tried suggesting that they stop. Tried making them feel bad about it. This is a common pathway into emotional and psychological abuse.

It was designed to make them feel bad and give it up. The next step would have been “what else can I take away”. Those situations where the woman’s confidence is shattered and it takes her years to get free of the asshole… 9/10 started with comments like this.

Please understand that this wasn’t an off the cuff thing. This was something he’s been thinking for a while, but waited to say til he thought he could make her change to suit him.

[crossbowsandunicorns]

This is so important. These are not normal or innocuous comments these are red flags and classic behavior of abusers. People like this are insanely manipulative. They hook you in and pick you apart piece by piece. It starts with this, moves on to isolating you from your support system, and then flashforward a few years and you’re convinced that you’ll never be good enough and you need them to survive. You end up broken and completely subservient. These women did the right thing and are brave for speaking. Abusers aren’t usually the neighbors you hear screaming and shattering dishes like you see in the movies. They’re your “friendly next door neighbors” and they keep quiet. People are too scared to talk. Again, why her speaking up is so important.

[porcupine-girl]

THIS STUFF ALL OF THIS.

People wonder how anyone stays with an abuser - this is how. Because manipulative people don’t hit you or insult you on the first date. They wait until you’re invested in them and the relationship, and then they start small, with comments like this.

And they rely on the fact that so many people’s reaction will be “okay, that sucked, but we can come back from this.” They bank on their victim thinking that way. They might even apologize and claim they won’t do it again. But they always do, and they escalate slowly, so you’re a frog in a pot of hot water.

Don’t wait for the tenth red flag, because by then you’ll be starting to think that hey, that’s actually kind of a nice shade of red, so maybe it’s not so bad to have all these red flags around, maybe if I just decorated with them they’d be okay.

[foxy-voxy]

Also, women are not rehabilitation centers for poorly behaved men.

[lesbx]

cat when I’m snuggling him: I’ve never met you in my life. you bastard. you fiend. stop this at once

cat when I’m busy doing something and can’t pet him right that second: Where Is My Kisses From Mommy??? Where Is My Snuggles And Cuddles That I Crave So Dearly. You Are A Cruel And Unjust Mother And I Am Going To Scream