[gaykingslayer]

~Blake looks bewildered. Then some pain creeps into his eyes, some awful knowledge.~

death replied: “I choose him.” So he went,

And there was silence in the summer night;

Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep.

Then, far away, the thudding of the guns.

The Death Bed by Siegfried Sassoon

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

“The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman’s consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite.”

— Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.”

[theaisyapping]

"But when he closed his eyes, it was Aerys Targaryen he saw, pacing alone in his throne room, picking at his scabbed and bleeding hands. The fool was always cutting himself on the blades and barbs of the Iron Throne. Jaime had slipped in through the king's door, clad in his golden armor, sword in hand. The golden armor, not the white, but no one ever remembers that. Would that I had taken off that damned cloak as well."

[nthegg]

lionheart

[jroahn]

I wanted to practice drawing something a bit more complicated than what I usually do

[polari]

if i see one more concubine bring her straight eunuch to pride

[visenyaism]

The whole “of COURSE HBO will pit Rhaenys and Visenya against each other which would be misogynistic and bad to do” school of thought is sooooo mystifying to me. stories need conflict or else it’s just two hours of height moments aura and kneeling

[visenyaism]

they are literal sister-wives in an incestuous polygamist feudal dynasty marriage in which despite being capable of conquering and ruling in their own right their brother-husband controls most of what they do and their relationship with him kind of entirely dictates their personal and political futures. Even though they have to put up an entirely united front at court. No conflict there though #girlboss

[visenyaism]

wouldn’t it be more misogynistic to tell a story in which they were entirely cool with it the whole time and loved the insane patriarchal structure of their personal lives sooooo much you don’t get it

[bevsi]

this is the core of why some women defend beauty standards - if they’re deconstructed even a little they have to face how much money/time they’ve sunk into them. it also exposes how untrue “i did it for myself” really is - if that was true, you wouldn’t be upset that other bodies are being uplifted

[souryam]

it goes well with your eyes

[mechanical-empress]

in the pale moonlight I stand lone and bloodied. I look sick as fuck and you wish you were me

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i literally thought me & this guy were on the same side until the last sentences i was nodding along fondly 😭

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[defiantdeer]

might start throwing some of our durge art on this webbed site

[chickren]

the whole brienne deserves better than jaime thing is hilarious in a canon context, especially when people frame it as if it's a result of a self-esteem problem or deliberately choosing unattainable men or whatever. because she canonically rejects two suitors who actively want to marry her, beating one to a pulp and threatening to geld the other. she's like i want the hottest man in a hundred mile radius or i'll die alone actually

[maiamars]

Jaime wore the white cloak of the Kingsguard over his golden armor. I can see him still. Even his sword was gilded. He was seated on the Iron Throne, high above his knights, wearing a helm fashioned in the shape of a lion's head. How he glittered!

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[thepuppyclub]

how insidious to make young girls buy hundreds of dollars worth of makeup, to force them to read up on its theory, to make them practice it for hours in order to escape mockery, to make them feel safe only when performing this hyper femininity, and then to even have the audacity to package it in feminist language so that they firmly believe it sets them free.

[thisusedtoberum-deactivated2017]

who called you out on your sloppy wings

[thepuppyclub]

I know you probably think you’re really witty, but I just want you to know that you, and all the other people who made that joke, prove my point exactly.