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Brandon | he/she | Trying to rediscover my love of reading | Current reads: The Cat I Never Named and Love from A to Z

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gonna reblog this every 4th of July to piss off conservatives ❤️

[funnypeopletwitter]

Kevin is such a good boy

[afeelgoodblog]

Otterly Wholesome!

[glowtinggg]

[everythingfox]

Khajiit has wares If you have coin

[caitsbooks]

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[spikedru]

trick or treat

[happyheidi]

[ancientsstudies]

I'd like to have more attention.

[yehudigorl]

since halloween’s right around the corner here’s a reminder from your local Jewish Person to not dress up in antisemitic caricatures ie as a stereotypical jew (big nose, yalmulke, payot, dark curly hair, etc), it’s not funny and it’s incredibly offensive. my people are not costumes and neither is our culture.

[yehudigorl]

hi hello it’s your Local Jew again with another reminder to reblog this everyday until halloween and after it bc i see a lot of you ignoring this like you do the other times when jews try and reach out to you so please keep giving this attention and educating yourselves pls and ty

[mylittlecornerofpeace]

[bumblebeerror]

My very unpopular opinion apparently:

Straight cis perisex able-bodied neurotypical people using aids designed for disabled people (I.e weighted blankets, grabby claw, sock holder, etc), going to therapists occasionally to keep up their mental health, using fidget toys, choosing to call their bf/gf their partner, using pronouns besides the ones associated with their gender just because they like it, and doing a million other small things that make us fitting in and being accepted a little bit easier is in fact exactly the type of support these communities need, and will ultimately help us so much more than gatekeeping ever fuckin will

[books-coffee-art1]

Reading is better with company 🧡🐱

[permaspooky]

Orange & Black 🧡🖤

[nudityandnerdery]

[analog-machine]

And he’s upset why?

[clueingforbeggs]

This is a behind the scenes from a TV show. He’s the guy who plays the character whose gravestone it is. He’s mad that people are memeing a behind the scenes photo of a fictional character’s death because he happens to play that character.

[analog-machine]

I’m not sure if I should laugh or hit my head on the desk over this one.

[a-little-bit-scary]

The face I just made 🙄

[peregrinsonofpaladin]

My favourite part that this is leaving out is that by the end he and the rest of the cast weren’t getting along and they did a full on photoshoot in front of his grave.

[starcunning]

if he doesn’t want us to use THAT photo, it seems like we’ve got three malicious-compliance-ready replacements right here

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

It’s INSANE to me how controversial romance novels are. Romance novels. Like, being openly a fan of them immediately opens you up to people constantly coming at you like “but don’t you think it’s ~limiting- and ~juvenile~ to have a genre of books with happy endings for women?”

Like.

No?

Why is it such a big deal to want to read stories where women have sex and then don’t die at the end? Jesus Christ.

Why is the concept of female characters being happy seen as less creative than female characters suffering? (Trust me, creating a world where women win in the end takes a lot more creativity and artistic vision lmfao)

Anyway, literary bros will pry my romance novels with their happy endings from my cold dead fingers.

[jennyredford]

Or die in the very beginning of the book. But no one calls out James Patterson for writing another formulaic thriller in which a woman is horrifically killed after getting laid and then some man solves her murder. Every. Damn. Time.

But hey, those romance novels where women get happy endings are so limiting, eh?

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

Real talk: realizing how common it is for female characters to be punished for on-the-page sex with death was a big part of my embracing the romance genre. Once I noticed it I couldn’t unnotice it. It’s everywhere. A woman having sex in literature or non-romance genre fiction is the literary equivalent of a red shirt on Star Trek.

[roo-bastmoon]

It’s not just the sex thing, though that’s a key element. It’s that, in romance novels, the heroine gets to be cared for the way she normally would care for everyone else. It’s wish fulfillment in that her romantic partner will do emotional labor, spend a great deal of time thinking about her, or sacrifice his desires or fortune or reputation to be with her, or spend days nursing her back to health, or risking his life to save hers. In romance novels, you’ll find men taking care of children, talking about their feelings, putting effort into their appearance—even if they are adorably bad at it. Watch how many romance novel protagonists fall in love with a man who happens to be rich or handsome, but she didn’t give in until his behavior changed and he starts mentoring her, or providing for her, or being gentle toward her, nourishing her, listening to her, appreciating her… I suspect romance novels are looked down upon not for being juvenile formulaic “beach reads” but because they paint a fantasy world that leaves men feeling uncomfortable or even emasculated. But whether you’re a Midwest housewife or a big city CEO, women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty. Great sex they don’t have to die for is also a huge bonus, but the *romance* part of the novel is genuinely more about the woman being appreciated (for her beauty or spunk or intelligence at first, and then for all of her by the end).

[codenamecesare]

“women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected to love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty.”

[obsessionisaperfume]

THANK YOU.

[lyricwritesprose]

According to the website smartbitchestrashybooks, which analyzes romance novels to a great degree, one common element of the average romance novel is what they call the grovel.  That is, there’s a turning point near the climax of the book where the leading man says, in effect, “I hurt you.  I had my reasons, but they don’t make it right.  I am devastated that I hurt you, and I will do whatever it takes to make it okay again.  Leaving you is completely on the table even though I find the prospect horrific.”

And that’s a very important fantasy.  To have your feelings, your pain, be made so absolutely central to the narrative, to someone else’s world.  You could call it a power fantasy, but I don’t think that’s exactly right.  It’s a significance fantasy.  A romance story is a story in which the woman is the most significant damn thing in the book.

And when you think of it like that, you realize why some people are really, really threatened by it.

[anthonycrowleymoved]

me, your friendly neighborhood villain apologist: zuko was never evil he was just 16

like yeah i know he gets a bonkers good redemption arc but like. he didn’t actually need one because if you give a teenage boy a ship and tell the people on it to listen to him the least you can expect is some attempted murder. that’s not on him at that point

[the-turtleduck-pond]

I’m honestly dumbstruck because I can tell you at 16 if you gave me a ship, a crew, a wise old man, and a mission to kidnap someone I gotta tell you.

I’d be down for it. I’d probably have gone further.

[the-turtleduck-pond]

Wait, this originally happened when he was 13 and I’ll tell you that 13 year old me would have committed atrocities.

[sapphicq]

13yo me would’ve taken the free boat and straight up become a pirate and the fact that Zuko didn’t is really the biggest plot twist in avatar

[the-turtleduck-pond]

AU where Zuko just becomes a pirate.

[sapphicq]

He still sees the light blast and goes to the South Pole but instead of trying to capture aang he rolls up in his free boat like ‘get in losers we’re going to kill my dad’

[the-turtleduck-pond]

Yes, this. I like this.

[roseverdict]

aang: who??? are you???

zuko: exiled son of the fire lord. did these two get you up to speed?

sokka: wait you’re WHAT-?!

katara: what do you mean, YOU’RE THE EXILED SON OF THE-?!

aang: i mean, mostly???

zuko: excellent. i reiterate, get in losers we’re going to kill my dad

[the-cheesemonger13]

aang: i’m personally not up for murder

katara: I AM! your dad is the reason my mom is dead

zuko: i like the enthusiasm. avatar, you can be moral support

sokka: i’d like to hit the loserlord at least one (1) time with my boomerang if possible

zuko: i’ll allow it on the condition that you hit my sister as well

sokka: deal

[salamencerobot]

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