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[celestialironyme]

Tris Merigold is grown up Hermione Granger

[lovedroughts]

the shade is THICK

[shensis]

let’s abolish all clocks, the concept of time itself. live by sunlight. primal instincts and internal clocks ONLY

[steveandbucky]

when is the next bus getting here? its a surprise :)

[grouchythefish]

That’s no different from how buses already operate (:

[juneelite]

Why y’all let me learn this 😂😂

[immortalcheesewedge]

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY TURN THE AUDIO ON

[canadiangold]

best thing i learned today: “The Loud American” role in Japanese businesses

[canadiangold]

nobody asked but imma explain anyway

no idea how it came up, but my programming prof was talking about his friend who works for Nintendo Japan who’s secondary role is The Loud American, and my prof explained what that was and how it came about

see, in Japan you do not talk back to your boss. you just don’t, even if they have stupid ideas and want the company to act on them. Like Nissan did sometime back. But since the other employees couldn’t do anything about this terrible idea that would ruin the company, they called in an American who had no reservations about telling the boss that their stupid idea was a stupid idea

and that’s just become a role in Japanese businesses, where they keep an American on staff who plays up the American stereotype and tells the boss what the Japanese employees can’t or won’t out of societal norms

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

dream job.

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

How much do they pay per hour for me to sit around and every so often storm into the bosses office and call his ideas stupid as fuck?

[aviculor]

modern day court jester

[humansoflatecapitalism]

[narutheaux]

This is what you crackheads sound like talking to each other on this site

[slumberinggirl-deactivated20210]

Oh no

[friendlyalien]

I got into the middle and my head hurts already

[justsomeantifas]

straight people: we should really congratulate all the folks involved in the stonewall riots

me: sure yeah.

straight people:

me: i don’t know what i was expecting.

[ashlynnbun]

[catchymemes]

[lovedripdrop]

Wild

[fueledbysatan-deactivated201904]

i wanted this to never end

[bijameswilson]

Gentleman Jack Moodboard: Anne Lister

However, if it were a criminal offense, if it were to become one, well, then I would have to put my neck in the noose. Because I love and only love the fairer sex. My heart revolts from any other love than theirs. These feelings haven’t wavered or deviated since childhood. I was born like this. And I act as my God-given nature dictates. If I was to lie with a man, surely that would be unnatural. Surely that would be against God, who made us, every one of us, in all of our richness and variety.

[halifax-jack]

Gentleman Jack A rough guide to episode 2

[iredreamer]

Im not the person who asked before about ann walker but i very much enjoyed reading your answers. This may sound like a completely dumb question but like, how were there so many wlw in halifax? And did anne ever write about how she detected(idk lol?) who might be gay coz surely misinterpreted signs could end very badly? Or did she just not care coz all the wlw came to her (tbf who could blame them lol)

hey :) okay, so, I’m gonna answer as best as I can but to understand why and how Anne Lister managed to get all those girls and get away with it I’ll have to touch on some subjects that are not directly about her, and are more about the time period and the society of that time.

This documentary Revealing Anne Lister (shout out to the anon who suggested it to me) does a really good job of explaining how girls and women acted towards each other in the 19th century. Anne went to an all girls boarding school and, as they say in the documentary, it wasn’t unusual for girls to act in a sort of “romantic” way towards each other, they were expected to “experiment”. These “romantic friendships” were socially acceptable, and even considered necessary to prepare them for marriage. Most girls eventually grew out of it, but not Anne Lister. She had her first experience during this time. She shared a room with a girl called Eliza Raine, they soon started a (serious and sexual) relationship, calling each other husband and wife. Anne Lister strongly believed that her attraction and love for girls wasn’t just a phase.

She usually courted women like a man of that time would. She took on that role in the courtship and in the relationship as well, we could say that she did act like a “gentleman” with every woman. Besides, she was really clever and charming and this had quite an effect on women (even married ones). She was really discrete in public but she did take risks in private. She physically stood out, she walked like a man, dressed in all black and talked with a deep voice. It’s safe to say that her gender and her sexuality were matter of speculation amongst people who knew her (this means that, probably, some women she got close with had heard rumors about her at some point, they were not as naive as we’re used to believe). The fact that sexual attraction between two women wasn’t even considered possible worked in her advantage (female homosexuality? what? is that a thing? lol), and let’s not forget that she was privileged: “Anne Lister’s identity was defined in the eyes of others by class, land-ownership, dynasty and education, not by a sexuality (whose name) had not yet been invented’”. All these elements helped her live the life she wanted.

She flirted a lot, and flirting would include: talking about traveling, books or telling curious anecdotes. One of the ways to try and make her intentions clear with women was to state that she “shall never marry” (”I had said I was at no time likely to marry – how far she understood me I could not quite make out”), she also wrote a lot about how women didn’t fully understand what was happening to them when they were starting to fall in love with her (”she already likes me, perhaps she scarce knows how [much]” - “I think she already likes me even more than she herself is aware.” - “She already feels towards me she scarce knows what, & is surely in the high-road to being in love. Yes, I think she will take me. I see I must be uncommonly & fastidiously delicate”). Besides, she didn’t do all the courting let’s be real, we only have her perspective but clearly all the women she had didn’t just passively fall at her feet (for example: Ann Walker used to buy books Anne Lister was interested in reading, and then lend them to her, that was a way to show interest).

The concept of “romantic friendship” was a real thing back then, two respectable, wealthy, unmarried women, who lived together as companions was not weird at all (I think they were all lesbians tbh and I do think that in those cases the relationship was not just platonic but also sexual). Things didn’t go so smoothly in Anne Lister’s case when she did the same thing with Ann Walker because she [Lister] didn’t look conventionally feminine and so people talked and speculated (and also, Ann Walker’s family wanted to have control over her money and with her moving to Shibden they couldn’t, so they acted like shit, they used to call unannounced at Shibden to see Ann, even refusing to shake hands with Anne Lister).

So, basically, the answer to how she managed to get all the girls and live freely can be found not only in how she navigated life, unashamedly and fiercely, sustained by her “uncompromising rejection of heterosexual marriage”, but also in a society and in a time in which words to label what she was and what she was doing didn’t exist, people couldn’t attack her, and of course her social status and her name made her respectable. When in Gentleman Jack they make her say “We are friends. We are respectable women who are friends, and that is the beginning and the end. And if we continue to present ourself unashamedly in that manner, then the whole thing finally will reflect badly only on Mrs Priestley.” that’s true, that’s how things were back then.

I think this quote from Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister really summarizes everything and says it all: “Anne had eleven woman-to-woman sexual relationships in her lifetime (…) Anne’s social circle consisted of a diverse group of women. All of her friends were well bred, educated and, in the main financially privileged. They paid visits to each other, often staying with each other for weeks at a time. They would talk, gossip, socialise, ruminate, argue, fall out, make up, progress and grow their relationships, be it platonic or sexual. Within this group, a healthy and fluid attitude towards sexuality allowed Anne’s sexual relationships to flourish”.

Well, don’t know if I answered you but I hope you found this interesting :)

[agustinavids]

this spot these difference games are getting harder and harder

[watchyourshadowfade]

Lesbian film and TV show recommendations

Lesbian films:

-          Imagine Me & You (2005, British)

-          Loving Annabelle (2006, American)

-          My Summer of Love (2004, British)

-          Black Swan (2010, American)

-          The Kids Are All Right (2010, American)

-          I Can’t Think Straight (2008, British)

-          Jenny’s Wedding (2015, American)

-          Lost And Delirious (2001, American)

-          Blue Is The Warmest Colour (2013, French)

-          The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010, British)

-          Carol (2015, American)

-          The Night Watch (2011, British)

-          Fingersmith (2005, British)

-          But I’m A Cheerleader (1999, American)

-          Tipping the Velvet (2002, British)

-          Gia (1998, American)

-          Below Her Mouth (2016, Canadian)

-          Tell It To the Bees (2018, British)

-          Colette (2018, British)

-          Disobedience (2017, British)

Lesbian tv-shows:

-          The Fosters (2013-present, American)

-          Orphan Black (2013-2017, Canadian)

-          Orange Is The New Black (2013-present, American)

-          The 100 (2014-present, American) (season 2 onwards)

-          Sugar Rush (2005-2006, British)

-          Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present, American) (season 5 onwards)

-          Glee (2009-2015, American) (season 3 onwards)

-          The L Word (2004-2009, American) 

-          Lip Service (2010-2012, British)

-          Skins (2007-2013, British) (seasons 3 & 4)

-          South of Nowhere (2005-2008, American) 

-          Sense8 (2015-present, American) 

-          Wynonna Earp (2016-present, American/Canadian)

-          Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017, American) 

-          Last Tango In Halifax (2012-present, British)

-          Banana (2015, British)

-          Bomb Girls (2012-2013, Canadian)

-          Black Mirror (2014-present, British, S3E4, San Junipero)

-          The Bold Type (2017-present, American)

-          Anne+ (2018, Dutch) (Link to first episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHlnyudric) 

-          Atypical (2017-present, American) (season 2)

-          You Me Her (2016-present, American/Canadian)

-          Ackley Bridge (2017-present, British)

-          Gentleman Jack (2019, British/American)

[celestialironyme]

Imagine me and you destroyed me. I thought rom coms were so borrrrrring and then...

Lena Heady

[acebender]

some fool: but Anne Lister is manipulative and only wants Ann’s money :/

Anne Lister:

[scullyisthenewclone]

i want a time machine so i can go back in time and have anne lister rail me 

[chasespero]

Gentleman Jack fandom is growing!

Reblog this if you’re in the fandom, let’s all add and support one another and get this fandom growing :D

[catchymemes]

[excellentbitch]

isn’t that the neck tattoo guy

[excellentbitch]

[caribetidalwave-deactivated2019]

This guy needs to slow down 😂😂😂

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

THAT’S WHERE I RECOGNIZED HIM FROM

[silverstrike]

But how could you leave out this masterpiece???

[cryol]

I love him

[paper-mario-wiki]

[zombiebrainsoup]