Darling, you'll be okay.

I don't really know what it is that I post anymore.

[shouldvesaidno-deactivated20201]

this slope is treacherous

[arianagrandz]

[glitteraestheticist]

Will someone hurry up and hire me so I can afford to buy Reputation cause I keep seeing lyric gif sets and they’re killing me 

[drst]

Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics? 

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you  and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

[darthmelyanna]

Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?

[drst]

^^ I like this idea.

[problematicselfie-deactivated20]

Maybe if high fantasy writers and creators weren’t all fucking hacks who’ve been riding JRRT’s dick for the last fifty years and insist on making every single god damn fantasy world they create a boring retread of Middle Earth based on the same three hundred year span of time in four countries of Western Europe they wouldn’t all have to rely on the same garbage logic to justify their garbage misogyny. 

[animatedamerican]

You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials.  But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.

And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery.  Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits.  And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.

Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.

[jessicalprice]

Not to mention that some of the societies portrayed, or inspiring similar fantasy settings, actually had STRONGER protections against and consequences for rape than the ones we live in today. 

Accounts from Vikings’ contemporaries recount a lot of raiding, but not a single case of rape. Viking law didn’t treat rape as a property crime, and the penalty for it was outlawry, which was essentially a death sentence. Medieval English law prescribed that rapists be castrated and blinded. And the sagas contain vanishingly few references to rape (and violence against women is usually followed with comeuppance–often death–for the perpetrator). 

TL;DR: History wasn’t one giant rape-fest, and in fact, members of the cultures high fantasy is usually based on may have actually been more disapproving of rape than we are today (imagine trying to pass a bill making rape a capital offense today!). 

These writers include rape because they like writing about rape, not because history dictates it. 

[ithinkiamfinallyclean]

“they’re burning all the witches” 

ARTIST CREDIT

[just-shower-thoughts]

It’s almost as if Hugh Hefner was projecting a force-field that protected creepy famous men, and with his death they were suddenly exposed.

[lulusketches]

cozy ☕️

I recorded my drawing process, you can watch it here :)

[moncrieff-deactivated20180121]

if i dedicate my life to aesthetics, academia, and books i’ll be very content

[fabianprewett-archive-deactivat]

i wonder how jk rowling’s battered and abused women’s charities would feel about her next film revolving around an actor who’s a known abuser…

[mymodernmet]

Adorable Highland Cattle Calves Are the World’s Cuddliest Little Cows

[cyberscully]

as a procrastinating overachiever i feel like i don’t necessarily “half-ass” things, it’s more like a “3/4 ass”. like overall did i do pretty well? yeah. did i reach my maximum potential though? i think the fuck Not.

[hutsanddragons]

Wizarding Tattoo Parlors.

I know it has been talked about before but I want to talk about wizarding tattoos and piercing again. Here’s just a couple ideas.

A tongue ring that you wear to ward off minor hexes and jinxes.

A Tattoo of a tree where the leaves change depending on the season.

A pair of matching tattoos of a piece of parchment that can be wrote on to send messages.

You see this dagger I have tattooed on my calf? It comes off into my hand as a real weapon when I’m in danger.

A little dragon that flies around your left forearm. 

A pin-up witch that winks and waves at you. 

A tattoo that starts off as a rune but once you fall asleep and wake up in changes into something that is similar to your patronus, something that symbolizes who you are.

A tattoo on somebodies wrist that warms up and changes color when they need to take their medications.

Ear piercings that translate everything around you into your native language. 

Lip piercing that do the same, except when you speak you speak the language of whoever you’re speaking to.

A small bird tattoo behind your ear that chirps and whistles to you when you’re anxious.

 A tattoo of your child that ages with them.

A tattoo for those that are hard of hearing or deaf and are unable to read lips at that moment that displays the words of the person speaking to them on their hand.

A nose ring that is charmed that long as you are wearing it you will never lose your keys.

A flower scene where some flowers only will bloom at certain times.

little nocturnal animal tattoos like raccoons that only show up on your skin after dark.

a tattoo of digital numbers on your wrist that tell the time.

Magical tattoos and piercings!!!

[thelostknee-deactivated20210422]

This is the best thing.

[mysharona1987]

[derryintheupsidedown]

Sophie Turner talking about adult people waiting for the cast of Stranger Things in order to take their photos to then abuse them when they refuse.

[succubarbie-deactivated20190205]

no offense but money would solve literally every single one of my problems. like all of them. i dont have a single problem that money wouldnt immediately solve

[mohtz]

autumn witches (previously: summer witches)

twitter / ig / prints

[ruinedchildhood]