Fantasy's First Openly Queer Hero Gets TV Adaptation
I've been waiting all my life for an adaptation of author Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar fantasy novels. Now we may be getting Vanyel and 'The L
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Fantasy's First Openly Queer Hero Gets TV Adaptation
I've been waiting all my life for an adaptation of author Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar fantasy novels. Now we may be getting Vanyel and 'The L
How Science Fiction's Ensemble Stories Humanize Space - Den of Geek
A close-knit crew of wildly different people ride around on a spaceship having adventures. If you’re a sci-fi fan, there are very good odds
Before Stonewall… | The Nib
It was an important turning point, but by no means were the riots the first act of Queer resistance.
Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable.
Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there.
Because it reminds us not to fucking go there.
Antis who get upset about villains having relatable qualities (often couched as being “romanticized” or “woobified”) are people who cannot bear to ever think of themselves as having the capability of being wrong.
Every human alive is capable of being a horrible person. Relatable villains remind us to keep an eye on that shit.
The most frightening thing about monsters is that we are all entirely capable of becoming one.
I tried to say this once but someone called me a Hitler apologist.
Antis wanna believe that bad people aren’t actually people anymore. That’s dangerous and naive. Relating to a villain means looking at the light and the dark. This is also true for heroes.
The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks
Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages
Oh, my hand
The parchment is very hairy
Thank God it will soon be dark
St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
Oh d fuckin abbot
Massive hangover
Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen
what does oh d fuckin abbot even MEAN
an abbot is the head of a monastery so it just means “fuck my boss” basically, an abbreviation of “O damned fuckin Abbot”. this is what it looks like:
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How FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Villainizes Trauma
The Falcon an the Winter Soldier turns Bucky from a victim into a villain, and in doing so gives us a very ill-conceived depiction of trauma
The Falcon an the Winter Soldier turns Bucky from a victim into a villain, and in doing so gives us a very ill-conceived depiction of trauma. The post How FALC...
Normalise liking poetry because you like the way it sounds and art because you think its beautiful. You don’t have to understand the deeper meaning of something to appreciate it - poetry is bloody difficult to analyse and art requires an extensive knowledge of movements and artists to properly get - so please just wonder around art galleries and decide which pieces you’d buy if you could, and read out lines of poetry simply because they have a nice ring to them.
#art is meant to be felt
“There are no trigger warnings in real life”
“The real world is cruel, get over it.”
My boyfriend is triggered by Christmas and Christmas music. We were in a restaurant, and Christmas music was playing, and he started panicking so he went outside for a cigarette. The manager of the restaurant overheard him saying he had to get out, and changed the music over for the rest of the time we were there. There are safe spaces in the real world. People are nicer than you think. And bullshit people who try to tell you to get over your triggers, ain’t shit.
Aziraphale, having just listened to a song which is 87% made of the word bicycle: Oh look. No gears. Just a perfectly normal velocipede.
Crowley, at the very end of his tether: Bicycle. Can we get on???
NOT ONLY that but also literally minutes earlier Crowley said “oh lord heal this bike” and Anathema said “my bike didn’t have gears”. and both of these were directed at Aziraphale.
AKAKSKDJDNJDD HE LITERALLY SAID “EXCEPT FOR THE BIKE RACK”
Aziraphale is a rule follower at his core. Which means when he wants to rebel, or be petty or mean or disobedient, he has to be creative .
There’s no RULE that says you can’t give your flaming sword to humans. There’s no RULE that says angels can’t enjoy food. The vehicle COULD be called a velocipede, if you were mad at your boyfriend and trying to rile him up by being posh.
Crowley fell because he asked questions. Aziraphale stayed because he just did anything that hadn’t been explicitly banned, and dared Heaven to prove he’d done it wrong.
#he also uses the exact same bitch troll trick on Gabriel at the end with great plan / ineffable plan#and i assume crowley caught on immediately bc hes been suffering aziraphale’s weaponized pedantry for millennia
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Imagine being Crowley, though, and suddenly realizing that the logic-chopping that you have been dealing with since at least King Arthur’s time is about to get aimed at (a) your boss, and (b) that bitch Gabriel, and neither of them have any idea what’s about to hit them.
exactly lmaoooo
“Aziraphale’s weaponised pedantry” is a genius phrase and you can’t change my mind
it's been discussed i think that crowley catching glimpses of aziraphale with his bowtie undone or his sleeves rolled up or, somebody help him, sock garters would really just lay crowley flat out however may i offer
aziraphale catching sight of crowley in braces
it shouldn't be unexpected. it's the 1830s, or the early 1860s, before the fight, or maybe even as late as the 1920s. aziraphale himself wears braces, for pity's sake. but there crowley is, pickled with good scotch and good humour, saying, you don't mind, do you? as he sloughs off first his jacket, and then, as the evening progresses and it becomes clear that he'll be spending the night sleeping off the drink on aziraphale's sofa in the backroom, his waistcoat.
and there they are. braces.
black silk against his dove-grey shirt, stitched with red thread. it seems impossible that aziraphale is seeing them--seeing the way they frame crowley's narrow chest, seeing the way they pull across his shoulders, the way they lead his eyes down to crowley's hips.
his breath catches in his throat. he's staring, knows he's staring, can't stop.
what would happen, aziraphale wonders, if he reached out for those braces? would crowley lean in to let his fingers sweep along the silk, or else pull away? would he let aziraphale trace the line of him all the way down to his hips, feeling the heat of his body beneath them? all the way down to where they attach at the small of crowley's back? would aziraphale be able to hear him breathing, quick and quiet in his ear?
if aziraphale thumbed free the buttons, would crowley let him slip the braces away?
he would. aziraphale knows he would. he can feel it in the way crowley looks at him sometimes when he thinks aziraphale can't see. in the way crowley lingers too long as his elbows sometimes; in the way he steps and circles behind, not just watching, not just orbiting, but protecting. shielding.
aziraphale knows a thing or two about protection. that's why even though he knows crowley would let him--would let him reach out and pull in, to slip those braces off like ribbons on a present and explore the heat and skin beneath, to taste the scotch on his lips and the moan on his tongue--aziraphale won't.
crowley's love is so eager to protect aziraphale, but it won't protect himself. aziraphale's love must do it for him.
it is a strange, uncomfortable thing, to love in safeguards, to confess with defenses and shields.
but as crowley sits back in aziraphale's sofa, grinning lazily, heart as exposed as the strings that hold him together, aziraphale doesn't mind.
and when, after the world doesn't end and life keeps on living and an angel and a demon find themselves on their own side--two hands held behind the same shield, instead of behind opposite ones--crowley will find aziraphale one morning, bright in the sunlight, and grin that i'm tempting you grin.
and he'll be wearing braces.
This was my Pandemic Project.
@forineffablereasons's Good Omens Cross Stitch Pattern. Done on 14 ct aida, so the whole thing measures approximately 21 x 31 inches. I prefer using three strands to the usual two, because I like the texture, so heaven only knows how many skeins I used on this, because I lost count along the way.
(I replaced all the metallic threads with their regular cotton counterparts as per my crack dealer craft store lady's advice; DMC Light Effects was driving me insane.)
I'd originally wanted to start this as a summer vacation project for June 2020, when I didn't have any classes to prep for or papers to grade, when I could travel down to my mom's home province and help her putter about in her garden.
However, I had a weird feeling that something big was going down, and I pulled out my supplies box on March 13, 2020 and went for it...
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No really...give me an innocuous sentence. I’ll show you.
“The mask goes over your mouth AND nose”
No portent, augary, nor prognostication can protect one so well as common sense. If thou wilt not cover thy nose and mouth, may the devil do it for thee.
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• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
• Black Panther is about colonization. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
• Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
• The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel Alliance is anti-fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
• Doctor Who was about an alien fighting for all of humanity in spite of totalitarian regimes. If you don't get that, you don't get Doctor Who.
• The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
• Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual, in fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
• Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan).
If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
• Superman and Wonder Woman (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Wonder Woman.
• Stan Lee said, “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
• The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
• If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms. Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism or any of the other things right-wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or you have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or you want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left-wing... It always was left-wing. You just grew up to be intolerant.
You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
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• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
• Black Panther is about colonization. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
• Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
• The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel Alliance is anti-fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
• Doctor Who was about an alien fighting for all of humanity in spite of totalitarian regimes. If you don't get that, you don't get Doctor Who.
• The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
• Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual, in fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
• Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan).
If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
• Superman and Wonder Woman (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Wonder Woman.
• Stan Lee said, “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
• The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
• If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms. Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism or any of the other things right-wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or you have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or you want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left-wing... It always was left-wing. You just grew up to be intolerant.
You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
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