so hit me - i'm too hard

my ribs are metal cages to guard my heart. musings & fandom blog. runs on a queue.

[booplesnotts-art]

Updated my Marya mini drawings

The old ones looked wonky and it bothered me

[aaronstveit]

Did you think you were god?

ROPE (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[dinindourden]

Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[tiredandoptimistic]

If you think about it, Morgana holding Gwen prisoner in the dark tower is insane for more than just yuri reasons because a large portion of her scheme depended on the idea that Gwen's husband would be the one dying to save her, but it was actually her brother who charged in first. This moment was about Gwen and Elyan, but it can also be about Morgana and Arthur, since it shows very clearly that Morgana simply doesn't recognize the power of a brother's love. To Morgana, Arthur's identity as Uther's son is far more important than his role as her brother. She cannot accept that his affection for her was ever genuine, and yet it's proved time and time again that Arthur wants to be the one catching her when she falls.

Morgana's efforts to destroy him all come down to a fundamental misunderstanding of how he feels about her. In this case, she fails to kill Arthur because she forgets that a brother will be the first to die for his sister. Even though Arthur's love for Morgana was never enough to redeem her, Elyan's love for Gwen was still able to foil her schemes.

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[theconcealedweapon]

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[cosmicretreat]

Nichelle Nichols on the set of Star Trek (1966-1969)

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[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

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[possumtion]

Batfam head turn around

Full image under cut

[akaanmo]

longing

[lazarrusrising]

Dean and Cas do freak4freak shit all the time like Dean feeding Cas water from his own mouth or Cas stripping Dean's clothes off for him after he gets thrown into a lake on a hunt while they have a normal conversation like Cas isn't arranging Dean's body like he owns it, and every time Sam tries to call them out for it, Dean just shrugs and is like "this is just what best friends do, you wouldn't know because you've never had a best friend, it's okay I never had one either until Cas, maybe one day" and Sam is like "that is NOT what best friends do!" But secretly he's like "god, maybe that IS best friends, how would I know, Dean's right, I never had one" and then Dean will stick his hands down Cas's pants because his fingers are cold and Sam will be like "I actually don't fucking want a best friend if that's what's involved"

[uselesstherapy]

Something something poetic caption about freedom not being free and the cost of it

[foggy-afternoon]

nostalgic for the vintage scooby doo vibes

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