DEAR READER
No title available
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Discoholic 🪩
🪼
NASA
Sade Olutola
Misplaced Lens Cap
Stranger Things
Three Goblin Art
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Product Placement
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
YOU ARE THE REASON
No title available
Claire Keane
occasionally subtle
h
Janaina Medeiros
we're not kids anymore.
seen from Philippines
seen from Belarus
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Singapore
seen from Canada
seen from New Zealand
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from Netherlands
seen from Malaysia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Brazil
seen from Singapore
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Belarus
seen from Lithuania
seen from Germany
@dark-saron
“The police don’t target black people,” says the white person.
“LGBTQ+ people have plenty of protection,” says the straight, cisgender person.
“Women don’t feel harassed at work,” says the man.
“Poor people don’t need more government help,” says the rich person.
“Immigrants feel welcome here,” says the natural-born citizen.
Please stop invalidating the concerns of people who have problems that you’re not experiencing. Instead, listen to them, and learn what you can do to help.
I get the joke, and it’s pretty good, but the historian in me can’t take Marie Antoinette slander.
She was only 14 when she became queen. 14. She was widely hated because she, being a child, couldn’t immediately start birthing out heirs to the throne.
This festered into resentment from the noble class, who infamously framed her not only for massive spending of taxes on frivolous things like diamond necklaces (the most famous instance), but also of just general fraud to the country (she was a foreigner and they treated her like one). Like, don’t get me wrong, she definitely spent money. But it’s far less than the public made it out to be, and far less than even her fellow nobles.
On the off-chance she got to hire her own staff, she would hire somebody who was friendly to her (since literally everybody else hated her since day 1). But oh man that just whipped up the nobility even more, with cries of favoritism (as if their entire life wasn’t just that…)
Further, the bankruptcy of France can be far more attributed to her father-in-law, Louis XV. He obliterated France’s economy trying to wage a war with all of Europe. But, women usually get far more blame when things go wrong than men. Women do be spending money, am I right fellas. Hillary’s e-mails.
She was young, female, and a foreigner – who the other nobility hated, and so they largely blamed all of their country’s grievances on her (moreso than even her husband, who was actually in charge of all that stuff). I mean, they killed him, too, but the woman is the one who gets blamed.
Anyway, she watched 2 of her children die (from illness, not from the guillotine, at least), before she got the guillotine a year later.
She accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot, and her last words were, “I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t do it on purpose.”
And all of that is no better summarized by the fact that this meme is a play on “Let them eat cake,” which she never said. That too, was wrongly attributed to her. When he wrote that, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was writing about the person who actually bankrupted France, her predecessor.
Here’s a really great biography of her.
tl;dr
Marie Antoinette was a foreign teenager who got caught in a deadlier version of “Why are millennials killing the napkin industry? It’s probably because of all the avocado toast.”
THANK GOD someone out here knows actual history. i’m so sick of people shitting on her! she never even said the line, it was completely made up propaganda!
The millennial thing plus the obsession with how much AOC’s shirts cost
Reblogging this because I had no idea.
is this better?
The historian in me loves this blessed post. And for who would be bored to read history books, read the classic manga Versailles no Bara, a very good adaptation of her life
POV you have a little demon that prevents you from concentrating
Ohoho now let's get into this shit, shall we? Time for some numbers!
Estimates actually put the death toll between 30 to 60 percent of the European population, there were so many dead and so much variation from area to area you can't accurately estimate how many it really was
People who got infected by the "Black Death" were to 80% dead within 3 to 5 days, the population was reduced so dramatically that it took between 80 to 150 years to regrow to where it was before, varying from location to location
Some places were almost entirely depopulated. Over 60% of Norway died within two years, China's population was reduced from around 125 million to 65 million in the late 14th century, at its peak Damascus reported around 1000 dead every day, between 75 and 200 million people died overall in a time where the world population didn't even reach 500 million.
And let's not even get into the persecution the Jewish had to face. No wait, let's do that actually. "The Jews are poisoning our wells" was something people liked to say because they couldn't think of anything else and hey, why not blame the Jewish? The Jewish communities in Mainz and Cologne were completely annihilated (not a lot of character development happening in Germany, hmm) and about 2000 more people were killed in the Strasbourg massacre. Simply because they couldn't figure out where the disease came from and hated the Jewish enough to blame them without evidence
Fun fact, the word quarantine originated in the time of the first global outbreak. It comes from the Italian word for 40, which was the period of time people were isolated if they came from infected areas.
The world didn't survive the Black Death, too many people died for the disease to spread effectively
And then it came back several more times, including two more major pandemics and many more outbreaks. The most deadly one in modern times was, buckle up, 2017 in Madagascar where it killed 170 people and thousands more were infected.
Now, before someone starts worrying, here's the good news: thanks to modern medicine the fatality rate was pushed down to around 10%. I think we can all agree significantly better than before.
So next time someone says "the plague went away without vaccines", now you have numbers. Have fun.
Demisexual “So you mean a normal person?” Don’t hate on things you don’t understand.
Person: What’s demisexuality?
Demisexual: It means you don’t get attracted to people unless there’s an emotional bond.
Person: Oh, so like, a normal person?
Demisexual: Actually, no, although I can see how you’d think that. Most people don’t have sex with people unless they have an emotional bond with them but that’s not really to do with sexuality, that’s just staying safe and having common sense.
’Normal’ people, although not intending to sleep with someone right away, still know, usually, whether they would be interested in doing that within a short amount of time, sometimes immediately. People come up to me and say “You’re attractive, can I have your number?” after just seeing me from across a bar. They’ve never spoken to me, don’t know who I am but still found me attractive and are thus interested in getting to know me more to see if they’d like to start a relationship.
Demisexuals don’t experience that. We don’t see underwear adverts and find the actors desirable. We don’t look at someone from across a room and think “they’re hot, I wonder if they’re single”. ‘Sex sells’ goes over our heads. Dating apps where you swipe pictures across the screen are useless. We literally don’t get attracted to people that quickly.
Person: Oh, I see. So it’s not just being picky or abstaining from sex, it’s literal lack of attraction?
Demisexual: Yes, you’ve got it.
Person: That must make dating difficult.
Demisexual: It does. Many of us are interested in dating but are limited to people we know emotionally. If someone asks for my number I then have to say to them ‘can we be friends for roughly two to three years, by then I should know whether I find you physically attractive and if I do we can start dating’. It’s sad because I don’t want to get people’s hopes up or seem like I’m leading them on. But I literally do have to know them for a while before I can get attracted to them if I do at all. It also meant growing up was a strange experience because everyone would be pointing out attractive people on TV, in magazines and when walking down the street and I just didn’t understand.
Person: Well thank you for taking the time to explain that to me. I understand now that there is a difference between abstaining from sex and actually lacking attraction.
Demisexual: No problem. It’s nice to be accepted and understood.
Demisexuals, you are real and valid. Just because people don’t understand what you go through that doesn’t mean what you go through is fake. Pride is about respecting and celebrating all sexualities and their nuances.
You should also note that demisexuality is common among those on the autism spectrum. To deny demisexuality is not only illogical but it’s also ableism. You’re erasing people’s symptoms because its convenient for you and because you don’t understand them.
Demisexuals just want to chill and exist. They don’t want fame and to be mollycoddled. They just want awareness and acceptance.
Let’s not hate on people just because we don’t understand.
Not demisexual, but I see these same issues in people’s understanding of asexuality. Demi folks, I feel your frustration!
GOOD post OP. I’ve been wondering “is this me” for some time and you’ve hit several nails on the head, from the confusion/vague distress at being hit on by apparently-sincere complete strangers to the way people become attractive over months and years once you get to know them.
This is heart wrenching.
Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) has been suffering from Dementia for years. She’s lots most of her money, the home she loved and there is a fight for her conservatorship
Her sister has set up a GoFundMe site for her. The link is at the very bottom of this post. Please share this information.
Read the article below and please donate if you can. Even a couple dollars will help.
https://www.al.com/life/2021/08/nichelle-nichols-star-treks-lt-uhura-faces-heartbreaking-conservatorship-fight.html
Help Legendary Nichelle Nichols Recover from Tragic Elder Abuse Perpetrated by … Marian Nichols Smothers needs your support for Nichelle Ni
https://gofund.me/376980a8
Y’all went hard for Free Brittany over conservatorship now do the same for Nichelle
chakshep for @ mx_jinn on twitter <3
Guess who got into the SwanQueen fandom??
the references!
yes I made another one but hey! it's SwanQueen version!
I'm just feeding the fandoms /j
Let’s hear it for Captain Carter!
Yes I re-read my own fics because I wrote them for ME
Wish that bitch would update though.
PEGGY CARTER AS CAPTAIN CARTER What if… Captain Carter were the First Avenger?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
hello, my loves! guess what? 😏 chapter 12 of do you see me? (please tell me you do) has been posted for a few hours now. i thought i had posted the update on here only to find out it had not gone through… am really upset but still happy enough to say that (despite being biased) you are the best readers an author could ask for. thank you <3<3<3
word count: 17.7k words
chapter summary: love. love and loss. do they truly, always go hand in hand? or was that simply what you had to deal with, in this life?
how does one leave this world, peacefully, knowing they will abandon what they care for most? and how does one deal with being the one who gets to remain?
general summary: you, a Countess, and lady dimitrescu, also a Countess, seem to be mortal enemies and have hated each other for years - the only thing uniting you is your hatred for your husbands. your relationship simply does not seem to get better, yet things take a dramatic turn once you reveal something extremely personal to the other woman.
your relationship blooms after the fact, something you are both unprepared for.
IT’S FINALLY DONE!
In this latest installment of the Elastigale AU, we finally catch up to the events of “Incredibles 2″ in this Evelyn-centric zine! We get to see a bit of Evelyn’s side of things, and even get a little peek at some less savory parts of Elastigirl’s own history…
Check out “Redemption” on my Gumroad! 💕
Thanks so much for supporting me and making these zines possible! 😍
Benezia and Aethyta (and bby!Liara) casuals and work for fashion week
We should talk about f/f
So, the fact that f/f shipping is so much less popular than basically any other type of shipping probably isn’t coming as news to anyone, but the AO3 ship stats for 2021 just came out and I went into an autistic whirlwind plugging them into spreadsheets and making graphs, so I thought I’d share what I found.
Like I said, you all probably know that f/f shipping is way less popular than m/m and m/f shipping, but you might have assumed that it’s share of fandom is growing slowly or is at least stagnant. The fact is that it’s declining. And it has been for several years now.
Here’s what the Top 100 ships of 2016 looked like. This isn’t an overall number, it’s just fics that were posted in 2016. 62% of fics were M/M, 19% were M/F, and 7% were F/F.
Here’s the same chart for 2021. 61% were M/M, 12% were M/F, and 3% were F/F. The 2021 Top 100 list has fewer than half the number of F/F ships the 2016 list had. Although Gen is up to 22% from 5% in 2016, so I guess that’s good news if you like Gen.
The total number of fics written for the F/F ships in the year’s Top 100 in 2021 is less than it was in 2016 and 2017, and is generally on the decline. Out of M/M, M/F, and F/F, F/F is the only category that’s been trending downward, albeit slowly.
To be clear, the number of M/F ships represented in the year’s Top 100 has declined but the number of fics has not. What this means is that the M/F ships that are on the list are highly ranked.
By contrast, both the number of M/M ships and the number of M/M fics is trending upward while both the number of F/F ships and the number of F/F fics are trending downward. In 2016, M/M fics made up 75% of the Top 100 list while F/F ships made up 7%. In 2021, M/M ships made up 83% of the Top 100 while F/F ships made up 3%
So when we look at new fics coming onto the website, M/M is easily the most popular, followed this year by Gen. That’s quite the spike, and a quick look at the data tells me it’s attributable to video blogging RPF. We’ll see if that holds next year. Then is M/F, and then F/F just barely edging out Other by one pairing. Other is a catch-all category for OT3s, reader fics, and ships involving a character with a customizable gender (i.e. video game PCs).
Finally, to even things out a little bit since the Top 100 of the year list includes so many more M/M pairings than F/F pairings, let’s look at the number of fics represented by the top 50 ships in each category.
As you’d expect, both are increasing because new fics are being uploaded every day. But you can see the rate at which the number of M/M fics is increasing far exceeds the rate at which the number of F/F fics is increasing. More than 165,000 fics were written for M/M ships in the top 50 this year compared to 30,500 for F/F ships in the top 50. I didn’t include M/F fics here because a list of the top 50 M/F fics on AO3 isn’t available.
You can also see here that the number of fics written for the top 50 F/F pairings still hasn’t reached the number of fics that had been written for the top 50 M/M pairings in 2013.
Since the Top 100 of the Year lists began in 2016, a total of 15 F/F ships have been featured, peaking at 8 at once in 2017 and steadily declining to 3 by 2021. A total of 7 have broken the top 50, peaking at 4 at once in 2017. The highest ranked F/F ship on a yearly list was Clexa, which peaked at #6 in 2016, followed by SuperCorp, which peaked at #13 in 2017.
Here is a chart that I think puts into pretty sharp relief how sparse the F/F presence on the yearly list has gotten. Some of these are a real throwback to what was trendy at the time.
To date, at total of 8 F/F ships have graced AO3′s Top 100 ships of all time list, never more than 4 at once. Swan Queen was the first F/F ship to break the top 50 in 2015, peaked at #27 in 2016 and 2017, and is probably enjoying its last year in the top 50 in 2021. It is the only F/F ship to have been in the Top 100 list every year since 2013. Only 3 F/F ships have ever managed to crack the top 50, and no F/F ship has ever made it higher than #27. In 2021, Catradora became the first new F/F ship to reach the Top 100 since 2017.
The 8 F/F ships that have featured in the Top 100 are:
Quinn Fabray/Rachel Berry (Glee) - 2013
Brittany Pierce/Santana Lopez (Glee) - 2013-2015
Rose Lalonde/Kanaya Maryam (Homestuck) - 2013-2016
Emma Swan/Regina Mills (OUAT) - 2013-2021
Laura Hollis/Carmilla Karnstein (Carmilla) - 2015-2017
Clark Griffin/Lexa (The 100) - 2016-2021
Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor (Supergirl) - 2017-2021
Adora/Catra (SPOP) - 2021
@splinter-cat Yeah, as a designation on AO3 it can mean that, but these categories aren’t totally conguous with the AO3 designations (there’s no Multi, for example). I believe the user who puts this together uses it to mean “characters of indeterminate gender.” There’s never been a ship with a nonbinary character on any of the top 100 lists (not surprising given the lake of nb characters in general, but important to note nonetheless), so it’s hard to say if those would be lumped in with Other or put in their own category.
Another thing about this is that F/F ships are almost always secondary pairings to a M/M or M/F ship. Like, even fics that do include F/F couples tend to be focusing on a couple that involves a man.
This is another great point! It’s probably not what’s going on with Swan Queen or SuperCorp, but it probably is why some of these (Sanvers, Brittana) look as prominent as they do. I’ve had the experience of having to wade through hundreds of Klaine fics to find a Brittana fic when I was in the Brittana tag. And the same is true of Stucky and Clint/Coulson in the Blackhill tag.
Anyway, don’t put your background ships in the ship tag.
This is a really great analysis which really gets at the heart of why I collect this data!
Alright so someone told me not to draw Miranda with Alcina, so guess what's coming next ? 😌
Gonna say this here too, feel free to unfollow if you don't want to see that
I guess this is a thing now..
