Enter The Lesbians

A shameful multifandom alt blog

[hagiomoto]

OCism is also killing good writings. Because writers are creating characters first before having themes and goals. That's why your story sucked.

You have a character sheet and all sorts of details but you can't write a plot to save your life. Your pacing is dogshit.

[hagiomoto]

This is one of the mildest opinions I have about writing. You people are absolutely not ready for my truly scathing takes. Stay strong.

[sticksandsharks]

Family of Cyprinidae, Water-Type native to Kanto.

[swanqueen-morrilla]

[visenyaism]

this is gonna get me put on a list somewhere but if Rhaenyra and Daenerys could have met they would not end that interaction as friends Rhaenyra would be putting Daenerys in the SJW cringe compilation

[visenyaism]

this is such a good way of putting it she has no family and everything she knows about their legacy was from viserys who was romanticizing everything to cope and NOT a reliable source so dany is running around saying things like i must be like my ancestors and end slavery. because she just does not know

[visenyaism]

These are all so good

[scintillyyy]

honestly whenever fridging wank goes around the thing that i'm always thinking about is that like. i think that since fridging as a term/concept has colloquially come to mean "any specific individual circumstance in which a bad thing in a narrative happens to a woman character in service of a male character's story that's fundamentally about him and not her" (which, not hating, because that's usually how i use it too), it's also how over time the term fridging has been able to be softened and warped into "any individual bad thing that happens to any character in service to another character's narrative rather than their own/that's not about them" as the focus has become played on individual circumstance of a bad thing happening, rather than the initial focus which is "frequency in which bad things happen to women vs men in fiction"

because fridging was never meant to be about individual stories--in fact, it says it on the front page of her website: "An important point: This isn't about assessing blame about an individual story or the treatment of an individual character and it's certainly not about personal attacks on the creators who kindly shared their thoughts on this phenomenon. It's about the trend, its meaning and relevance, if any. Plus, it's just fun to talk about refrigerators with dead people in them. I don't know why."

the point of fridging is to ask if there's a trend of putting woman characters in the wood chipper more frequently, or worse, compared to their male counterparts. and if there is (there is) then why (because they're women).

gail simone also wasn't necessarily trying to say that women should never be sacrificed for the narrative, or used as a narrative tool for a male character, either. she's a comic writer. she's in the bad things happen to people genre. she's well aware of genre coventions and on her site you can tell she's well aware that sometimes, for the story, women are sacrified and she doesn't seem to particularly mind so long as it's done thoughtfully. she was definitely annoyed by it, as evidenced by her response to a letter in the "emails as of 5/26/99" section in the responses portion of the WIR website:

"GS: Wow, Donna. Quite a letter. Okay, here's my chance to say something I've been meaning to for a while. These are adventure/action stories we're talking about. If women are in these stories as major players, then the typical fates suffered by male characters (being beat up or shot at) SHOULD happen to females as well. No one at the WiR site has any problem with women characters suffering the standard elements of drama.

My problem arises when:

a) The female characters are shown ONLY as victims or hostages,

b) Female characters with long histories are casually tossed aside while male characters of equal stature don't seem to be at a similar rate,

c) A beloved female character is killed/depowered/tortured/whatever purely for shock value, for the effect it produces on a male character. This is a pretty tiresome ploy no matter what gender the victim is, but I think most will agree it happens to women more than men.

There are a few other annoying plot contrivances that seem to be directed more at women, but those are my personal pet peeves. Supergirl getting beat up in a fight doesn't bother me."

which, i agree with her there. those things reek of bad writing--but she's also, again, more focused on the frequency aspect of women compared to men being affected by that kind of bad writing rather than tying fridging as a concept specifically to individual circumstances where that bad writing happens. because what fridging is really concerned with is--is there a frequency, specifically happening to women, there, and should we do something about it (we should).

anyways i just kind of see how it gets devolved over time when the focus is "this bad thing happened to a woman in service of a man" because that slippery slope slides into "this bad thing happened to a character only to serve another character's purpose" given the thought it's the lack of agency or serving another character's narrative that's the main problem (when the truth is that while that's definitely part of the problem, it's not actually the main focus of the concept) rather than on "is there a frequency problem of bad things happening to women in media" (the original question).

[artgalore]

o captain my captain!

[the-disenchanted]

Mars –from The Art of the Mass Effect Universe

Click HERE for more parts of the artbook which includes concept art of other characters and places in the mass effect universe.

[sansa-stark-is-me]

(died on the same night as Lord Westerling, after confessing her sins to her septa.)

Im very curious about your thoughts as to what alicent's last confessions might have involved. even if it's just headcanons (which i guess any answer would be, since ofc f&b doesn't go into detail as to what she said to the septa)

also i think alicent being so vulnerable with the septa is a good indication that she was good to her in those final days & showed her sympathy/kindness but that's just my interpretation.

This is one of those F&B details that is incredibly small but weirdly haunting.

Personally, I don’t think Alicent’s final confession would be single “I repent for X” moment. If anything, it would probably be painfully tangled, because Alicent herself is a character built out of duty and maternal fear.

And importantly confession in a Asoiaf religious world is not just “tell us the plot crimes.” It is about sin as she understands it. So what might she confess? Perhaps guilt over the war itself not necessarily in the sense of “I alone caused everything” but the unbearable awareness that her children, grandchildren, and kin are dead or destroyed through a conflict the men helped.

(Alicent didn't cause/start the war It was complicated before that, Jaehaerys' mess up at the Great Council, Viserys' securing Rhaenyra's claim across the realm and fixing nothing between the greens and blacks, and Aemond killed Lucerys which is what started the war, not Alicent.)

Perhaps resentment. Anger at Viserys for leaving behind an unstable succession and forcing everyone to live inside his unresolved choices. Anger at Otto for shaping her into a political cage. Perhaps motherhood. That one interests me the most, honestly. Not because she did not love her children quite the opposite but because loving them so fiercely may itself be what would torment her conscience. Did she protect them enough? Did she fail them? Did ambition and fear consume them? Did she encourage them toward survival or toward ruin? A mother in confession is not necessarily confessing lack of love sometimes she is confessing the consequences of love in inside a violent system created by the men.

And then there is the religious dimension. Alicent is maybe the only pious woman during the Dance. Thus I could imagine confession involving not only political acts but thoughts pride, bitterness, envy, hatred, despair, perhaps even failures of forgiveness.

Ironically, I could also imagine her confessing things the fandom would not expect at all. Not “I wanted power” in a simplistic villain sense, but exhaustion. Doubt. The possibility that she no longer fully knows whether she defended righteousness, family survival, personal grievance, or impossible mixture of all four. Which, to me, feels very Alicent a woman dying not with clean narrative clarity but with a conscience crowded by contradictions.

I could absolutely imagine Alicent speaking about her childhood in confession, and I think that would fit her character deeply. And Alicent’s childhood matters a lot to understanding her. Not “my father ruined me” (he did) Just a woman tracing the long line between girlhood and horror and trying, at the very end, to understand how she got there.

And honestly, this is part of what makes Alicent feel a grey character to me. Plenty of ASOIAF characters commit violence or pursue power without feeling guilty. And Alicent’s final confession is interesting precisely because it suggests interiority beyond simple righteousness or simple villainy. A woman feeling guilty & confessing her sins at the end of her life implies, at minimum, some reckoning with her own actions or griefs as she understands them.

[alicenthightowerdaily]

Alicent & baby Aegon

[poketcg-art]

Bulbasaur -- Julie Hang

[avadebscomedykid]

NOBODY TALK TO ME PLEASE I NEED A MINUTE

[mafuyuh]

little guys in ghibli movies

[reticent-vampire]

[sakurabraches]

it's really hilarious that liir has some throwaway line about elphaba mostly mentioning glinda with disapproval when she came up. and this makes sense after their colwen grounds reunion cuz glinda was genuinely annoying there and elphie's mad about the shoes. but all we know that she knew about glinda after abandoning her in the emerald city is that glinda had married a baronet and there's rumors she had an affair with fiyero (we ofc know those rumors are untrue). so elphaba genuinely spent like 15 years of her life being furious at glinda because she presumably had sex with people who weren't elphaba. despite being the one that abandoned glinda in the first place. reddit atheist of all time i'm obsessed with whatever's wrong with her

[emziess]

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY dir. Gareth Edwards (2016)

[goldcrescent]

Fam-ily the-ra-py! [bangs on the window]

[castielsblues]

Swan Queen looks 2/?