Leggermente a caso

eli, 19, any pronouns, lesbian, italian

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i might make another blog, i follow way too many people here

stay tuned for a new me i guess

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i am deleting this blog tomorrow because I forgot it was still up

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bye everyone!!

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Butch.

"SD Holman self-identifies as “butch,” a label that they and others in their community have reclaimed. Their inspiring story has challenged traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity in surprising ways."

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This is exhausting. There is literally a Japanese butch in this GIFset. Nothing about these GIFs suggests racism or transphobia. SD Holman's work is inclusive of all kinds of butches, including black butches, and bearded butches, and plus-size butches.

SD Holman describes their work as being "not as oppositional to femme and trans identities, but as an inclusive site of resistance to limitations on the way women, gender and sexuality are still defined". Source. The point of Butch: Not Like The Other Girls isn't to attack anyone. It's to celebrate butchness. Trans people aren't being discussed at all.

Kage talks at length about growing up as a gender non-conforming Japanese child, and about the nuances of being raised by parents of different ethnicities.

This is Kage, photographed by Holman.

This is Kage's family.

Here is the original video.

Rather than assuming the worst, just watch it.

Erasing Asian butches, and declaring them "white", is just anti-Asian racism.

[beingjanee]

Favorite kdrama actresses ?

Way too fucking many, anon, but I will try to list a few:

I think Seo Hyun-jin comes to mind first for me, probably because I connected with her as Oh Hae-young in a way I rarely connect with a kdrama character, and I think a large part of it was Seo Hyun-jin's own ability to channel pathos underneath any other emotion required by a scene. Her earlier characters (the Crown Princess in Three Musketeers, Baek Soo-ji in Let's Eat 2, Oh Hae-young in Another Oh Hae-young) were all written as vague underdogs with a boatload of insecurities. But where other actresses might have protected their vanities and either portrayed these women as downright pitiable or feisty non-conformists, Seo Hyun-jin leans into the complex layers of the characters' desire to fit in, to be accepted, to be loved, and the pain and the loss they've experienced because of this desire, but also their refusal to give up on their own joy and their bleeding hearts.

There's a certain shamelessness in her acting (which is part of what makes her such a great comedic actress), such that I rarely feel any emotional reservation; she's not afraid of looking foolish or pathetic or a little bananas. She is so good at shamelessly showing a bleeding heart regardless of the character, and while I can't say she's really tapped into her ability to channel a wide range of characters, she's really, really good at what she already does. ALSO her diction is fucking immaculate, like I cannot emphasize enough how clear all of her dialogue is. It's just a pure gift to be able to accomplish such clean line delivery without relinquishing control of the emotions of each scene.

(Other actresses with great diction: Shin Hye-sun, Kim Ji-won, Park Bo-young, Moon Geun-young, etc.)

Chun Woo-hee is another actress I often wish I saw more. She rose to fame by playing the title character in indie film "Han Gong-ju," which (due to its subject matter) was so incredibly difficult to watch, but Chun Woo-hee's performance was lovely and arresting. Like with Seo Hyun-jin, she's particularly skilled at delivering an undercurrent of pathos in her scenes and for showing a kind of raw vulnerability. I think she's shown more range than most actresses her age, and it's clear she's not afraid of taking on risky and difficult roles or being unlikeable. Even her villainous turns (like her character in "Sunny") tap into a deeper sense of empathy, and she is amazingly successful in translating the background emotions she's developed (which aren't included in the script) into her performances. I sometimes think of who else could have portrayed Lee Ji-ahn in "My Ahjussi" (aka my other favorite character in dramaland), and I think Chun Woo-hee would have given IU a solid run for her money. (Chun Woo-hee also has great diction, just watch the scene from "Be Melodramatic" where she rants about how the world defines men and women)

I also love Kim Sun-young (the actress who plays Sun-woo's mom in Reply 1988) for some of the same reasons as Chun Woo-hee and Seo Hyun-jin, in that her ability to channel raw emotion is unparalleled. She is too often relegated to playing bit parts as the mom or the aunt or the kooky ahjumma in rom-com kdramas, but she so often astonishes me and steals the scene even when she's playing those bit parts. In "Because This is My First Life," there's a scene during the main character's fake wedding where the MC snaps at her mom (played by Kim Sun-young) to mind her own business. The look that Kim Sun-young levels at her daughter in that brief moment — when she tells MC to try having a daughter who is just like her — is so specific in its anger, resignation, and disappointment. You know exactly what she's feeling and what it means within this relationship. That kind of specificity is so extraordinary to find in a character who is often written in as shorthand, and Kim Sun-young finds it in all of her characters, big or small. Her performance in "Romance is a Bonus Book" is another standout, and she was honestly the only reason I kept watching (that scene where she screams at her ex-husband while shopping for shoes? Jesus). But unlike Seo Hyun-jin or even Chun Woo-hee, Kim Sun-young exhibits incredible control over her performance; each bleeding heart is meticulously crafted and intentionally portrayed. There is scarcely a moment onscreen that feels out of Kim Sun-young's control. It's beautiful to see.

And finally, Kim Hye-ja is a veteran great but also one of the most fascinating (and underappreciated) performers working in the K-entertainment industry. I think the transition of her performances from earlier in her career (which cemented and resulted from her "perfect" mother image) to what she's known for currently, establishes such an interesting arc of exploring what this "mother" character is in Korean media and how deeply layered it is underneath the easy shorthand performances. Obviously, Kim Hye-ja has worked with some gifted writers and directors who fleshed out her characters, but she is also unafraid to facilitate between the acceptable and transgressive. Her work in Bong Joon-ho's "Mother" is probably my favorite performance of ALL time and the shock and fear that the film inspires is a tribute to Kim Hye-ja's legacy as a thespian.

Honorable Mentions: Bae Doona, Jeon Hye-jin, Jung Yumi, Kim Tae-ri, Esom, Jeon Yeo-bin, Kim Go-eun, Kim Seul-gi, Lee Bong-ryun, Park Gyu-young, Baek Ji-won, Youn Yeo-jung

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it really isn’t fair to blame just robert jordan for wheel of time because everything I’ve read about his wife slash editor harriet mcdougal suggests she’s just as much a gender nightmare person as him. 

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Pride Month - LGBTQ+ History: Italy

Aldo Mieli (1879-1950) was an Italian historian of science and LGBT activist. Born into a wealthy family of jewish origins in Livorno (Tuscany), he studied mathematical sciences and chemistry in Pisa, Leipzig and later Rome, where he became a researcher and professor, putting particular focus on the relevance of the Islamic world in the history of science. He was involved with the PSI (Italian Socialist Party) during his twenties, but left politics altogether after the Great War.  In 1916 he published Il libro dell’amore (’The Book of Love’), animated by a drive to scientifically understand human sexuality, but also to eradicate discrimination against homosexuals – in fact, while most scientists of the time still referred to homosexuality as ‘deviance’ or ‘mental illness’, he simply described it as ‘homosexual love’ (notably in L’amore omosessuale, ‘Homosexual Love’, 1926).  In 1921 he founded the Rassegna di studi sessuali (’Review of Sexuality Studies’), a publication which helped spread the word of many LGBT activists of the time (e.g. Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of WHK, i.e. Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee - ‘Scientific-Humanitarian Committee’ -, the first LGBT rights organization in history) and also often dealt with many critical topics such as divorce, abortion rights, the need for sexual education and the shutting of ‘case chiuse’ or ‘case di tolleranza’ (’closed houses’/’houses of tolerance’, i.e. licensed brothels). Although Mieli did agree with Hirschfeld on many a point (notably the acknowledgement of bisexuality), he disagreed with the German physician on his belief that homosexuality depended on the presence of anomalous sexual characteristics (e.g. in the testicles or in the ova): Mieli always refused to refer to homosexuality as ‘something caused by anomaly’, an ‘illness’ or a ‘pathology’. His ideas, his homosexuality and his jewish origins surely made him an outcast and a possible target of violence in 1920s Italy. Soon after Mussolini and his fascist party seized power with the Marcia su Roma (’March on Rome’, October 1922), Mieli was classified as a ‘pericoloso socialista e pederasta passivo’ (’dangerous socialist and passive pederast’) and was forced to flee to France in 1928 where he kept working on and publishing his other magazine, Archeion, Archivio di storia della scienza (’Archeion, History of Science Archive’). With the nazi invasion of France becoming more and more impending in 1939, he was forced to move again, this time to Argentina, where he worked with Desiderius Papp and José Babini on the twelve volumes of Panorama general de historia de la ciencia (’Overall Picture of History of Science’) and where he died in 1950. A lot of his works were published posthumously and were only recently acknowledged as pioneering.

Today he is generally considered the very first Italian LGBT activist.

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almost time

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(Rimandare fino all'ultimo secondo il mermay: fatto ✔)

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A young, talented scientist named Yzma (played by Ariana Grande) stumbles onto a plot orchestrated by a corrupt empire. She vows to stop them but in the process, her entire family is crushed by a stampede of llamas. In her despair, she gets her potions mixed up and accidentally drinks from a vial that ages her 80 years and renders her scary beyond all reason. Yzma swears revenge on the newly born emperor, Kuzco. Kronk is her love interest and played by one of the hot guys from Riverdale.

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Havin’ a day, going through the old stuff for a presentation for work, going “wow I sure made these, huh” 

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amo troppo le vecchie edizioni dei classici russi einaudi per cui hanno tradotto il russo ma per il francese ti dicono semplicemente "arrangiati ❤"

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remembering Ianthe covers her skeleton hand in fat whenever she holds her rapier

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[image description: a digital illustration of ianthe holding up her rapier in her bone hand, which is covered in a glove made of yellow fat. she’s smiling and thinking, “so glad that harrow gave me this arm. i’m so sexy and cool now.”]

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it's so funny because my mom was the first in her family to go to high school and my grandparents thought it was basically as much education as she would need, so they put her to work as an accountant in granddad's electrician business without any training except being in high school for a couple of years

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even the thought that some people's grandparents went to university is SO FOREIGN to me like what do you mean your grandads and grandmas weren't all tailors or farmers or bus drivers

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they still haven't thrown away the expired (a month ago) ice cream 😬