Idyll

intersectional feminist. fan. bisexual. cis female. | My AO3 Page |

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[mysharona1987]

[thepaisleyelf]

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

[thepaisleyelf]

The update everyone has been waiting for….

[virtualgirladvance]

everytime i see this it makes me want to buy from them exclusively

[idyllspace]

for those who don't know...pittsburgh has some of the best indian food in the world

[lakeofsilverpike]

One challenge of representing minorities on screen has been the idea that if a character is flawed that will be taken as representative of that minority group because this is the only person in the group on screen. And for a long time, this contributed to complex interesting white characters and boring minority side characters.

The Pitt doesn't do this. Its core characters are almost all deeply fucked up. But it is diverse enough to not have each of those characters be the only person of their particular group represented on screen.

For example, Samira has some major flaws as a doctor - caring but very slow, orders too many tests, can't take feedback, isn't a team player. But that's clearly not because she's an Indian woman. Have you seen Shamsi? She's efficient, bad ass, a little mean. Have you seen Victoria? She's young and smart and figuring shit out. They have flaws but their flaws are different. This helps show they aren't meant to be flaws of a group but flaws of a specific character. Samira's flaws are because she's a complex character. They aren't because the show is pushing a narrative that Indian women make bad doctors.

Did Baran continue to work an entire shift while having seizures then almost start driving? Yes. But are we meant to look at that and say people with disabilities have bad judgment and can't be trusted. No. So clearly not. We see Caleb, Mel, Becca, multiple characters with disabilities on screen. And we understand Baran to be a capable and compassionate doctor, the show goes out of its way to show us that. But it also shows her coping with shame about her disability and how that's complicated by the ways she has to navigate the workplace as a woman and as an ethnic minority. She's meant to be a complex character. We're not supposed to look at her and say people with disabilities, women, or people from the SWANA region are incompetent. If someone thinks that's the right reading here then it's time to go back to go back to elementary school literature class.

Likewise, Robby, a Jewish man with severe mental health conditions, should be allowed to be a complex character. Does he sometimes do things that are sexist? Yes. Is he falling apart and lashing out? Yes. And I think people have grasped that this isn't a statement abou5 how people with depression or PTSD are bad. There are other characters with PTSD, Abbot most notably, who handles his PTSD very differently. So we can see Robby's struggle as his own, as a complex character. But when it comes to the fact that he's Jewish, even though there are multiple other Jewish characters on screen, including Lena who is a caring death doula and nurse, and multiple Jewish patients from different racial and class backgrounds, somehow Robby becomes a justification for a whole load of antisemitic tropes to be dragged into the conversation.

I hate that the Pitt fandom sometimes makes me wish the show didn't make Robby Jewish. I want to be able to watch a show where a character is Jewish but isn't a paragon of virtue. I want to not have fans bringing antisemitic tropes to every conversation of this character or the actor who plays him.

I want to be able to see complex female characters and complex character from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and characters with disabilities represented on screen and be able to see them fuck up and be deeply flawed and struggle just like we've seen messy fucked up white characters on screen for so long.

This fandom needs to stop asking for every woman of color to be a paragon of virtue on screen. And it needs to stop rhetorically tying every flaw of a Jewish character to millennia old blood libels. Please. Otherwise, all that happens is we are stuck with complex, flawed, messy white characters and the most boring minority characters because everyone is too afraid to put a messy character into the world who might be seen as a bad representation for their group.

[rowyndodendron]

THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT!!!!

Also we (fandom/audiences/anyone who's discussed the importance of representation and diversity in media over the years) LITERALLY fought and pushed for this kind of culture/show - this was the GOAL!!! (and my god did it feel impossible at times).

But THIS is what was pushed for: a show that doesn't tokenise its minority characters, so they don't have to Be their representation and nothing else, so they can NOT have their stories and arcs revolving around/constantly circling back to them as the queer character or the disabled character or the Jewish character - they can just be characters/people with flaws and interactions and arcs that are not all about one element of them, and so they don't have to represent an entire community on their own, they can just be individuals.

We (as fandom/audience) HAVE to let this happen! We HAVE to stop analysing things with the same perspective and language and attitude that we did in the 2010s because: things are actually finally changing and improving and going where we want and we have to go with them!!! We asked things to change: they changed! Now we have to change with them.

We asked for a show/time where every character could be analysed essentially the same way you would a cishet white guy (which is to say as what was considered the 'default' neutral base that was only influenced by backstory and current story bc he didn't have to be the weight-bearing pillar of an entire community desperate for representation)- and I am about to start begging y'all to imagine/do this unironically, because we are in serious danger as a fandom of undoing what's been done and actually projecting old biases that are trying to evolve and change back onto the things we watch.

What do I mean by this? Okay, solid example: I saw a LOT of fans arguing/complaining that the scene with Baran at the end of season 2 where she breaks down in her car after her shift and realises that she's not safe to drive due to her worsening disability was: all about Robby/that 'Robby made her cry'/that this was her realising that 'Robby was right' and it was 'vindication for Robby'. That right there? That is NOT something the show did. That is something the FANDOM did. That is misogyny perpetuated by the fandom.

The show: had a deliberate gap of multiple scenes/time to distance from Baran and Robby's conversation. The show also very deliberately took her/showed her: OUT of the Pitt/the ED/Robby's in-show domain/place where he still was (which it very very rarely does - this was an exception and a very deliberate and important one) so that she would be in a 'neutral' space/in her OWN space (her car) and in privacy/by herself so this was not being done by or for anyone else, or even so anyone else could witness it - this was a private moment purely for and about her and her coming to terms with her disability and the realities of her situation. It could not have been written/filmed/set-up to be more purely about Baran, and yet...

The FANDOM: made it about Robby. The fandom made a woman's scene and a woman's disability and a woman's story arc about a man. Because fandom is trying so hard to find instances of misogyny and bias (especially from Robby and/or Noah Wyle) that they are creating them where they do not exist/where the show has gone out of its way to avoid forging that connection/where that connection: does not exist. But y'all made it exist anyway. Because it's more important to some of you to have things to get mad at than it is to see and respond to what is actually there. So you see what you expect to see. You see what you WANT to see. And tragically what you want to see is the same thing we've been begging to get the fuck off our screens for YEARS now.

Check yourselves. Do not get sucked in to blindly assuming everything is an act of misogyny or racism or inherent bias. Yes these things still exist, yes we need to be conscious and aware of them and call them out and shut them down: WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY HAPPENING. We do NOT need to create bonus instances to get mad at/prove how on the ball and ready to spot Badness we are. Sometimes: a male character and a female character can have a disagreement on screen and it does not necessarily need to contain giant vats of misogyny. Sometimes it's just: two characters have a disagreement on screen and it can be analysed with just that in mind (which is what we GODDAMN WANT!!!!!).

Apply some goddamn critical thinking please. And that means apply it to: the things you are watching, and the things that people are saying about what you are watching. Go back and rewatch the scenes in question. Fact check. Actually start with the most basic 'what is it I am actually watching on-screen now and what is it telling me'. Not 'what do I expect to see/what do I think is going to happen/what do I vaguely remember based on what people have said' what ACTUALLY functionally happens on-screen?

TL;DR: shows are attempting to exist in 2026 meanwhile fandom is stuck in the early 2010s or before and my god it shows and it ain't a good look for y'all.

[lesbianshepard]

waaaay back when I was a cashier in retail we would talk about dumb shit while unloading the truck, and we got to the "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse" me and another worker were like yeah we would just die. End it all, we can't fight or run or shit. I refuse to put that much effort into survival.

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Anyway, random shout out to that guy. You were too kind for retail management, Devin.

[lesbianshepard]

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

[peachfromcmbyn]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Bugs Bunny beats Thanos by setting up an airport and making him take off the Infinity Gauntlet to go through the metal detector.

Miss Piggy beats Thanos by karate chopping him in the face and sending him flying.

[serregon]

I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who aren’t perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries aren’t childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.

[sabotage-on-mercury]

Ilya wants to do one of these "celebraties I don't think my husband can name" videos where he shows different singers to Shane because he thinks it's just too adorable how Shane has no clue about the music industry at all, only for the video to go like this:

- Oh that's Gaga. You know Lady Gaga? Of course, Ilya! She was in A star is born. Really good actress. She is more of a singer actually... Oh yeah that makes sense, I guess. You guess?! Please tell me you know Poker Face, lyubimyy. I know for a fact you have been to a club, you must have heard Poker Face before. I don't know, maybe. [Ilya starts singing Poker Face]. You're lucky you play better hockey than you sing, baby. Oi!!

- Oh I know how him! That's Armando! That's Pitbull. I'm pretty sure that's a human? Are you fucking with me Shanya. Of course baby. I know that he is a rapper but it feels so weird to call him Pitbull, when we met in Miami he said he was Armando. You met in Miami?? Yeah well, was a few years ago, he invited our team to this house- Pitbull invited the Montreal boring fucking Metros to his fucking house???

- Kesha! Do you know her songs? Absolutely none, no. How the fuck- Why am I even suprised you know her too. Oh we met at Roses birthday party in LA. She is so funny, I think you would like her! Maybe I should introduce you. What the fuck- You know what, I call her. Shane!

- Oh that's Kayleigh right? Kayleigh. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's her. That's Chappell Roan. Dykstra is playing her non-stop in the lockerroom. Oh, really? Pink Pony Club? Good Luck, Babe? Casual? Sounds familiar yes. [Ilya starts singing Casual] [Shane blushes] I think... I think I remember now yeah. Didn't know that was Kayleigh. How do you know all these people but have no clue what they do? Oh funny story, she is a good friend of Rose actually-

- Oh, that's Sam! Sam Smith. I've been to a concert. Met backstage. Really cool person. Shanya, you're surprising me? You go to concerts? Well uhm. When... when I was with Rose she got us tickets and - Yeah okey.

- Montero! Or Lil Nas X. Shall I guess: Another friend of Rose? Maybe, I should ask her. Actually we did this campaign together and- I hate you.

- Oh thats the actress from the movie. The movie with all the actresses. Oceans Eight. That's Rihanna. Yeah! Rihanna. I really liked her there, she should do more movies. Shane, she is actually a singer. Oh, that's cool. You're killing me. What? Should I know her? Shane. Lyubimyy. We literally had our first dance to her song.

- That's Benito! Nice guy. You know Bad Bunny? Who is a bad bunny? That is Bad Bunny. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. Okay yeah? He is literally the biggest singer in the world. Is he now? Yes! Oh, wow he didn't mention. Wait, you met Bad Bunny? Yeah, well we were at some galas together, but to be fair he said- Galas? Like how many? Dunno, like four, five times and- Ilya is your nose bleeding?

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[angel-derangement]

“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?

[angel-derangement]

please hurry up in reblogging this I wanna jorts it before someone puts it in one of those heartwarming tiktok slideshows

[ablubluh]

i was like 'what could jorts it possibly mean' but as with many things clicking the original post immediately clarified the situation

[frodo-in-a-fez]

truly nobody is doing it like donna noble. she tracked down the doctor herself so she could travel with him and proceeded to get in a massive fight with him that fundamentally changed both their worldviews on their first time time-travelling together. she’s the fastest typer in chiswick. she kept the doctor so in line that within like two episodes of her being gone he decided he was god-king of the universe. she kissed him and absolutely hated it. she’s unemployed. she demanded a salute and she got one and she DESERVED IT. she has her gay best friend from like twenty years ago living in a shed in her backyard and her husband is cool with this. i love her so so so much

[furryprovocateur]

they should allow you to report posts for being gauche or passé

[girlswater]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

[teaboot]

"Oh yeah, we have an outdoor Corgi, he just gets so bored cooped up inside all day. He knows to stay off the road. Don't worry, he's way too smart for coyotes and the neighbor's know to look out when they drive past."

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we

It's 2026, "keep your damn pet in a house or in your view" should not be controversial

[angel-stars]

I had to go on a hunt for this but it was worth it. 100% agree

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.