Hirsu

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[thehumantrampoline]

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

[thehumantrampoline]

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

[thehumantrampoline]

@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!

If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.

[tzikeh]

She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.

Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.

[the-bedheaded-league]

Irene Adler in the actual books: a successful opera singer who once dated a king, and kept a photo of them together and his love letters so that if he ever tried to ruin her life in the future she could have some security against him, literally commits no crimes at all and in fact is a victim of a crime (Holmes literally breaks into her house with the intent to steal from her), never uses her blackmail material because all she wants is to marry her new (much nicer) boyfriend and go off and sing in the opera and live her fabulous life with her loving husband

Every male writer adapting Sherlock Holmes for all of eternity: WHORE??? SLUT???? SHAMELESS SEDUCTRESS??? FEMME FATALE?????? CAREER CRIMINAL!!!!! BLACKMAILER!!!!!!! DOMINATRIX SEXY MOMMY DOM LOVE INTEREST?????? NAKED WOMAN???????????? IN LOVE WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES????????????????? DANGEROUS SEXY WOMAN MANIPULATIVE SEDUCTRESS CRIMINAL LIAR DISTRACTS GENIUS DETECTIVE WITH HER GORGEOUS TITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[not-victor-ann]

Bedheaded League, are you perhaps mad about Irene Adler?

[the-bedheaded-league]

WHATEVER GAVE YOU THAT THOUGHT?????

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[fidelcostco]

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

[mushroom-soup-is-my-religion]

[deathberi]

[jellyribbons]

Wedding night

[nailoarien]

Base color done. Long haired Ichigo is top tier, the fact that it didn't get that much screentime is just sad.

[hashtagartistlife]

ichiruki + uryuu antics

[themermaidstorytelling]

The queen's knight

Ichiruki week Day 4: Avalon´s shore

[jellyribbons]

summer heat

[afropiscesism]

i really really hate seeing black men as portrayed juxtapositions to innocence and kindness in memes, internet jokes and the like. and seeing them proclaimed as “wholesome,” when they are just like. Being “human” people that aren’t being masculine in the way they are thought to be being exceptional and surprising ! it snitches on you! every time!

you gotta ask yourself, why does this idea of opposition effect you? why does a black man handling a kitten illicit that response from you? why does a meme talking about kindness and love with black men in the bg holding up gang signs feel the way it feels? what are these jokes saying about your humor? humor is a tool to interact with larger society, it’s a tool you gotta make sure isn’t being sharpened as a weapon in your hand

[afropiscesism]

@closet-keys thank you so much for reminding me of my favorite videos on this topic. good context that is mentioned in this clip is also that demi is a short man (5’4”-5”), dark skinned and has locs so i bet he gets this A LOT.

i especially appreciate his insight on how it makes him feels desexualizing and like a fucking puppy because two things are happening here.

the desexualization speaks to the default image of black men in the social consciousness. they are “bucks,” “studs,”‘mandigos,” and so on and so forth. the juxtaposition confirms the expectation of what a black man is and isn’t. black men are Meant to be sexual objects defined by aggression and desire so it’s surprising when they aren’t !

the feeling of a puppy, personally makes me think of the inverse of it being a dog or a cur. there is ownership here, there is an expectation of wildness and dehumanization. god it even has infantilization! it’s got it all. a dog is only good when it can be controlled, unthreatening, and malleable to training. that is how white women Especially see black men. and im going to also say that white queers, yall do this SO FUCKING MUCH, to black men it’s disgusting. whether it’s in fandom or in the news, it’s omnipresent and disgusting

[contemptible-scoundrel]

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

[wildghostcowboy]

Miles Morales illustration

[pulsingvoid]

oh to have been a fly on the wall during the "ayesha's girlfriend (spitting image of keira knightley in bend it like beckham)" auditions

[august89]

I get angry everytime i remember they aren't a couple

[cinemasports]

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002) dir. Gurinder Chadha

[hayaomiyazaki]

If she's more interested in playing football right now than chasing boys, well, quite frankly, I'm over the moon about that.

@pscentral event 28: throwback Bend It Like Beckham — 2002 dir. Gurinder Chadha

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

queer-coded