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BABYLON 5 S03E05, “Voices of Authority”

#Babylon 5 #gif tw

berkeleygirl3

#this blog is pro library #booklr

vervaincircle-deactivated202411

the phantom menace by terry brooks / star wars: episode i - the phantom menace (1999) / monarch of naboo / queen’s peril by e.k. johnston

ekjohnston

The way I approached it was to think about how kids will be all "We should definitely feed everyone" and not give one flying fuck about shareholders. Or, like, logistics, which is why they have help, but generally, kids are EXTREMELY goal-oriented in their kindness, and since the follow up is something like "Why don't you give him a house?" it's nice to give them a budget.

#star wars

ellohcee

Smaugust 1 - down a river of starlight

#art #dragons #space

squided

WHEN WILL PEOPLE FUCKING REALIZE THAT

MEN

ALSO

ARE

GIVEN

UNREALISTIC

EXPECTATIONS

DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA

HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS

TO LOOK LIKE THIS???

IT’S 100% FUCKING ILLOGICAL TO EXPECT MEN TO HAVE THIS RIPPED SIX-PACK ABS AND BE SKINNY AND HAVE PERFECT SKIN AND FACIAL COMPLEXION! MEN ALSO EXPERIENCE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR BODIES ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

squided

I’m bringing back the REAL post. For those of you who care enough about how body image issues effect BOTH MEN AND WOMEN and how ignoring men with eating disorders or who have depression or deep insecurities because of their body image is not just ignorant, but it’s horribly insulting. Making fun of this post means you are telling men who feel degraded that they should feel bad about themselves and that they don’t mean anything. For everyone who reblogged the posts that made fun of this original post, shame on you. I’m very disappointed. Please share the original because this is an important issue.

Also raised to my attention is I neglected to add people of color to this post, I am sorry for my negligence so I shall add bonus images here of unrealistic expectations for men of every race, I chose Men’s Health Magazine because it’s extremely popular in telling men how to look:

emile8

No, guys, you don’t understand. I just got so relieved seeing this original post again that I nearly cried.

nicthefanboy

Bless the blog that brought the original back!

safety-officer-barto-deactivate

Here’s the original post without some of you asshats changing the pictures

ladywordfighter

This is actually the VERY FIRST TIME I’ve seen the original post, which goes to show how quickly people turned it into a joke. I confess that I did laugh at some of the absurd replacement images in the other versions, and I feel guilty for that now because I, like many, was missing an extremely important message.

To all of my male followers who struggle with self-esteem: I support you too. Even though I’m really quiet and have a bad habit of going weeks or months without posting, I WILL be there for you if you come to me wanting to talk or just vent. That’s a promise.

xxleondraxx

Another thing to note that in all, ALL, of those pictures the men are actively flexing. And often such defenition for shoots is exaggerated by dehydration, airbrushing and photoshopping. That chiseled look isn’t a look you can acheive at rest without literal implants. Here are 2 examples of flexed vs relaxed:

And you know what? Dollars to doughnuts none of the above muscular looking guys are as strong as these men:

These are strongmen. These are the bodies of men that train for strength, not defenition. These guys can practically lift cars and drag trains.

So men of the world that get depressed about not looking like you just stepped off a magazine cover, relax. You don’t have to look like that. You are handsome, beautiful and fantastic the way you are.

deathapplegirl-deactivated20190

Completely agree.

Don’t expect perfection from anyone, love the person, not their body.

Boys, you’re perfect just the way that you are <3

You all need love.

anotherdayforchaosfay

The movie scenes where the men look ripped? They are on day three of dehydration, aka actively dying, just did a bunch of exercises to increase the definition, are weak as kittens, and likely starving as well. They need an IV of saline solution by the end of day three or they suffer kidney failure and death. All so they can look like that.

It’s not healthy.

Do not aim for those standards. Ever. Do what’s healthy for your body. Not what hollywood or fashion says is best. They care about money, not people.

#psa

ellohcee

Smaugust 1 - down a river of starlight

#art #dragons #space

miraclemaya

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

witchofanguish

*adds a certain je ne sais quoi

miraclemaya

see the problem is that despite around 8 years of french schooling the french language has utterly escaped my brain so even the most obvious set up i had created for myself by accident was missed by me. such is life.

spaghettioverdose-deactivated20

*c'est la vie

miraclemaya

god damn it

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

*sacrebleu

pocket-deer-belly

it's like, definitely still mansplaining if the man is dominating the conversation unintentionally and he would totally stop if you asked him to, actually. like, the term exists to describe a phenomenon that arises from the implicit bias that women are expected to simply be less knowledgeable about things. it doesn't matter if he's doing it on purpose or not. he does it cause he expects women to not know things or to not have any input. maybe don't fucking expect women to stand up for themselves every single time they have to have a conversation with a man because that shit happens like daily for a lot of women

#one of my coworkers talks over me constantly #and it is EXHAUSTING #tech

Eye of the cosmos

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

magicratfingers

lostinhistory

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

#annual reblog

waitafrikk

i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause

lunyselene

terry pratchett is the only person who actually knew how to use a pregnant pause

#gnu terry pratchett #booklr

angualupin

I feel like I need to tell everyone how brilliantly the Globe incorporated a deaf Gildenstern into the 2018 Hamlet and then force all of you to watch it

ok, so Gildenstern is played by a deaf actor, Nadia Nadarajah. he* signs all his lines, and either Rosencratz interprets for him, or the person he’s talking to says something that makes it obvious what he just said, depending. how each character reacts to Gildenstern is completely in-character and often hilarious

Claudius and Gertrude are intensely awkward around Gildenstern. they obviously don’t know BSL so they just gesture emphatically but aimlessly when they talk.

Hamlet, who of course is friends with R&G, *does* know BSL. he starts off by signing fluently whenever he’s talking to them but, as his distrust of them grows, he signs less and less until he’s only signing the equivalent of “fuck off” whenever he talks

Polonius just shouts really loud whenever he tries to talk to Gildenstern

it’s all brilliant and adds another layer of humor and pathos and you should all watch it

*casting at the Globe right now is gender neutral so I’m just going to use the character’s pronouns

angualupin

guys I know I’m wittering on about this but the thing I want to emphasize is that there is no tokenism here. they didn’t just shove a deaf actor into a speaking role so they could pat themselves on the back about how progressive they are. they went to the effort of fully integrating Nadarajah’s deafness into the story so that it not only fit organically within the narrative but actually enhanced it. watching Hamlet’s signing disintegrate as his trust in R&G disintegrates adds a depth to that storyline I’ve never seen before. Claudius has exactly the awkwardness of someone who thinks of himself as a good person and therefore thinks he’s being kind and generous with his accommodations for disability, but has never even once actually asked a disabled person what they need, which is so on-point for his character it hurts.

I know Michelle Terry gets a lot of hate mail for her policy of race-, gender-, and disability-blind casting, but fuck all those people. long may that policy continue.

lostsometime

the glenda jackson production of king lear on broadway did something similar with the Duke of Cornwall, and it was actually the best part of the play, imo. because when Cornwall was speaking to Lear or to the Court, he had a sign language interpreter to speak the actual literal words aloud, but when he was talking to and conspiring with Regan, his wife, they were just signing back and forth with no translation for the audience, and it emphasized the intimacy between the two even as they turn against literally everyone else in the play, which was fantastic.

and the best part of it was, by the second half of the play, you were so used to it, that you didn’t even blink anymore when watching him and listening to the spoken words come from the interpreter - you just watched the actor playing Cornwall and let the words come from the other guy, but the guy kind of fades into the background. it didn’t hurt that the actor for Cornwall was one of the tallest on stage, and had bright red hair - it was easy to watch him, instead of his interpreter.

which is why it was so shocking and so perfect when the interpreter is the one who kills him.

See, they folded the character of the servant who kills Cornwall into the person of this character who had been such a non-entity that you almost forgot he was on stage - until you realize, no, this is another person, and he’s been here, watching all this the whole time, and he finally gets to the breaking point where he can’t stand by and translate anymore, he has to do something to stop the cruelty he’s seeing, and it’s not just a random guy who comes in for the scene and sees them blinding Gloucester, it’s the man whose been by his side for the entire play, the man who was his voice who finally has a line of his own. who finally speaks on his own behalf to say “no.”

and then, of course, he gets killed, but Cornwall dies in the same scene so it’s not like they need to get a new translator or anything. but it was the most fucking brilliant choice i’ve ever seen re: casting in a Shakespearean production, and the rest of the play pales in my memory in comparison.

saxifraga-x-urbium

that last one kind of reminds me of the (possible urban legend) about the use of kuruko as assassins in some kabuki plays which eventually led to the romanticization of the image of the black clad ninja. the idea being that the kuruko were mentally designated invisible because you saw them holding up scenery or acting the parts of puppeteers

necrodivergent

I believe that one’s real. Fictional ninja clothing is way too visible for actual stealth, but does closely resemble the full-body black clothing used by stagehands in kabuki. The effect is incredible when done right, because the stagehands are on stage pretty much all of the time, and the actors (and the audience) completely ignore their presence. They are treated as literally invisible, so suddenly having one jump out and murder a character is a great surprise, especially if done late enough into the performance that the audience has subconsciously edited them out of the action as just another bit of scenery.

#billy shakes

the-knights-who-say-book

SGKSGKSGK MA’AM

coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230

1) This is hilarious

2) Her work is all really awesome! And she’s got a ton of short stories available for free online. Some of my favorites:

“Bluebeard’s Wife” -- what would happen if a woman Bluebeard married just didn’t look in the room?

“The Dryad’s Shoe” -- an aroace Cinderella who has zero interest in the ball or the prince but does love gardening

“Jackalope Wives” -- takes the skinshifting conceit of selkies and applies it to jackalopes (folkloric horned rabbits) in the American Southwest. Also stars the absolutely iconic Grandma Harken, whose left to clean up the mess when her grandson tries to catch himself a jackalope wife. This one won a bunch of awards and there’s an audio version read by LeVar Burton.

“Sun Moon Dust” -- a young farmer inherits a sword bound to the souls of three warriors, all ready to teach him to be a hero... but he has no desire to be anything but a farmer. A very sweet M/M story!

The rest of her free fiction is linked to on her site. She’s also got some great novellas and novels, including a f/f “Snow Queen” retelling!