I was to remain unknown, but not unheard.

Life.

[constant-instigator]

I get why a lot of people hate the whole princess culture aimed at little girls. There’s a hell of a lot of toxic bullshit in there.

But when I was a tiny princess, my dad used to be my royal advisor. He would come to me, and over tea we would discuss the problems of the kingdom. He would tell me that new people wanted to move to the kingdom, and ask me what we should do. Or he would tell me that the teddybears and the dolls were fighting over the enchanted forest, and ask me what to do. Basically, he took the trappings of the princess culture, and used it as a tool to teach me about leadership, civic responsibility, and compassion. 

So if you have a little princess around, consider helping her figure out how to run her kingdom. There’s no sense in telling a kid they can’t be a leader, or that they can’t wear sparkles while they do it. 

[dealanexmachina]

Parenting: You’re doing it right.

[camiluna27]

‘‘it’s not my business unless i believe that it will pose a threat to myself or others–or even yourself, if i may add’‘ ‘‘finally, someone with some common courtesy’‘. commission for @juuls! their Fem!Tony and Peggy Carter from their fanfiction : Hanging from a cross of Iron Thank you so much for commissioning me!  commissions post 

[lostjewishworld]

[imtooticky]

My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.

My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years - thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! - and they slip quietly out of class to pray.

My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”

I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems - schedules its WEEKS - around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.

God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.

[professorsparklepants]

Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.

[weemstar]

DING DING DING

[bellygangstaboo]

Mic drop!

[karadin]

The only good reference to wearing the flag

[veryfunnymemes]

[lupins-archive-deactivated20181]

one of the oldest and arguably the most important museum in Brazil is burning to the ground as we speak. home to the portuguese royal family from 1808 to 1821, the Museu Nacional stored fossils, meteorites, pre-historic human skeletons and a variety of artefacts related to natural history. it holds two centuries of latin & brazilian history and now it’s all gone.

some of the things that are now lost forever: the largest collection of egyptian artefacts in latin america; the skeleton of the largest flying reptile ever found in Brazil; the oldest human fossil ever found in the country, named “Luzia” (over 11.000 y.o) and other 20 million extremely important relics and researches just burned to the ground. never to be seen again.

thanks to our government, of course, who didn’t want to pay the museum the necessary funds to make the essencial maintenances since 2014 (which by the way, costed less than a supreme federal court judge’s sallary: R$520 in a year).

another sad instance where the state’s indifference towards culture and history becomes painfully obvious. this is a massive blow to our cultural legacy.

all that in our independe week. happy independe for us, brazilians, who just lost our history and culture in a fire caused by ignorance and indifference.

[lupins-archive-deactivated20181]

in case you’re wondering, this is what the museum used to look like:

this is what it looks like now:

thousands of years of culture lost. happy independence week.

[wolfsmilk]

“We regularly ask teenage girls to read books in which characters degrade women, expecting them to understand that the book’s other merits outweigh its misogyny. To set such an expectation and not consider its effect on young women is foolish and hypocritical; we rarely expect young men to do the same, and hardy ever expect young white men to read extensively in traditions where their identities aren’t represented or are degraded. We need to reflect on the way the literature we celebrate supports the idea that women who are sexually frustrated create problems for themselves, while men in the same situation create problems for the world. Though the links are subtle, our celebration of a canon of sad white boy literature affects the way we think, and how much tolerance we offer to men like [Alek] Minassian and [Elliot] Rodger.”

— Erin Spampinato, from this article on the correlation between celebrated literary canon and the ‘incel’ culture that has arisen in online spaces (Jun. 2018)

[a7xlizardqueen]

Who the fuck is Sharon Carter?

Okay, I’m not sure if anyone will read this or not, but something has been bothering me ever since I re-watched Captain America: The First Avenger the other day and rekindled my love for Peggy Carter. My question is: Who the fuck is Sharon Carter?

Ever since it was revealed that she was Sharon Carter, the great-niece of Peggy, I’ve never liked her. It just seems icky and weird to me that Steve’s new love interest is the relative of his first love interest. And as far as I’m concerned she doesn’t hold a candle to Peggy.

But when I actually start to think about it, her existence makes absolutely no sense at all. In order for Sharon to be Peggy’s great-niece she would have to be the granddaughter of a sibling of Peggy’s. But Peggy only had the one brother, Michael, who died in World War 2, which was the entire reason for Peggy becoming an agent.

As far as we know, Michael did not marry and did not have any children. So Sharon can literally not be related to Peggy. And since her last name is Carter she clearly can’t be Peggy’s great-niece from her husband’s side since that would result in Sharon having a different last name. She didn’t assume the last name of Carter because she hid the fact that she was related to Peggy while she was at S.H.I.E.L.D.

If anyone knows more about Sharon please let me know cause this is honestly hurting my head. I tried to find any information I could about both Peggy and Sharon before writing this and there’s no evidence at all that these two can be related that I can find.

[iwishtoremainanoym]

Hey I just had to jump in here and advise you to take everything the Sharon fans are telling you with a grain of salt. I’m only jumping in at all because their lies about Hayley Atwell have gotten to be a bit too much. They are doing to her what they are accusing her of doing to Emily VanCamp.

Hayley’s not in therapy because of jealousy issues. After playing Peggy, young girls were posting things like “you and Peggy saved my life” in the comments of her social media and the weight of that got to be too much. She had to leave social media for a while because of the pressure of that, and is still learning some balance there. She’s in therapy to take care of herself, which is admirable, not shameful as was implied.

She’s also never said a word against Sharon or Emily Vancamp. She’s spoken very well of them both in fact. (Somewhere out there she and Emily have an adorable dubsmash video together!) She did say that she found the Staron kiss to be gross and disrespectful. I think most audiences and movie reviewers did. Hayley being something of a joker played that opinion for laughs, but never disrespected the character or actress while doing so. She’s also entitled to her opinion for goodness sakes. 

Bottom line is that Hayley’s never done anything wrong, but some Sharon fans try and vilify her as they blame her for Sharon’s unpopularity. Which btw is true of comic Sharon too. A lot of people don’t like her in the trades either. It’s a kindness just to call her polarizing. I won’t say more than this, but I’m a huge comic fan and have always found Sharon to be intolerable long before the MCU came into play.

I’d encourage you to give them a read and form your own opinion though, if you care enough to even bother. Better to make up your own mind, right? I just wanted to jump in a give you a fuller picture of the landscape. Especially because it’s growing increasingly disturbing to see how some fans are trying to tear real person Hayley Atwell down to build fictional Sharon Carter up.

[mnsreetusa]

This post had nothing to do with Atwell as a person, so why did you feel the need to “jump in” and contribute absolutely nothing to to OP’s post?

[a7xlizardqueen]

@iwishtoremainanoym Thanks so much for your input! Ever since I heard about there being a possibility of fandom cat fights going on because of these two characters I’ve been a bit nervous that this post would stew up some more. I enjoy hearing opinions/facts from both sides of the spectrum. As I’ve said before, I don’t have anything against Sharon really, her character just confuses me in terms of the MCU. I have actually been thinking of reading some of the comics I’m just not sure where to start so maybe I would like her as a character if I read the comics.

Any suggestions on comics then would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

[iwishtoremainanoym]

Thank you for being so open-minded and willing to hear both sides. It has been a cat fight, and I’ve recently tried to stay out of it. But the falsehoods being spread about Hayley have sort of prompted me to get back involved. It’s really sad that so much hate is directed at her and so many lies are being spread about her for 1) making Peggy popular and 2) daring to say that she didn’t like a ship that most people also didn’t care for.

If you want her real, undistorted take on things, I’d check out her Philly Wizard World Interview. She gave it right after CW came out and it covers how she likes Sharon, but not Staron. It’s also just a fun watch because she and Dominic Cooper are such good friends. And here and here are some links about what she’s actually said in full about other things, so you can read them without her being misconstrued or misquoted out of spite. 

As to comics, I got rid a lot of old ones that I no longer read or like, so I don’t have issue numbers but I can tell you what storylines turned me off Sharon. Firstly, her origins.

(Tales of Suspense #75-#80 I think) Sharon and Peggy are originally sisters, and it’s made very clear that Steve is only interested in Sharon because she looks like his lost love Peggy. But a version of her that is nearer his age, since Peggy got older while he was in the ice. Peggy, who is very different in the comics, is very fragile because she was mentally abused. She’s still in love with Cap, and Sharon essentially bullies Peggy into accepting her relationship with Cap. It’s by and large what Sharon will always be to me: a woman who chose a man over the wellbeing of her sister.

Then there is Civil War in which Sharon shots Steve. She’s brainwashed at the time yes, but I think you’ll find upon reading that even with that she is still complicit. There’s also her PTSD storyline which is clearly meant to be a redemptive arch for Sharon. The problem is that it’s insulting to assume that giving her such an emotionally devastating disease (I live with a former soldier who has it. I am qualified to speak about it) doesn’t make her more likable simply because she has the illness. It just means she’s a cruel person, who is also mentally unwell. 

I’d also take a look at the new Ironman comics. From her position of white privilege and power she accused a young black girl of being a “big hydra fan” and “declaring herself queen of Lateria.”

If you pick up any of these, I think you’ll see why Sharon is a character that is widely disliked and why it also goes above and beyond her time in the MCU.

If you are looking for some female characters worth loving, may I recommend Shutter, any Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka, and Promethea (Alan Moore gets preachy about magic in it, but she’s such a cool character and it’s such an interesting story, it’s easy to get passed.)

Thank you again for your sincere openness. Best of luck to you and if you do have time to read any of the above, please drop me a line and let me know what you thought!

[a7xlizardqueen]

Who the fuck is Sharon Carter?

Okay, I’m not sure if anyone will read this or not, but something has been bothering me ever since I re-watched Captain America: The First Avenger the other day and rekindled my love for Peggy Carter. My question is: Who the fuck is Sharon Carter?

Ever since it was revealed that she was Sharon Carter, the great-niece of Peggy, I’ve never liked her. It just seems icky and weird to me that Steve’s new love interest is the relative of his first love interest. And as far as I’m concerned she doesn’t hold a candle to Peggy.

But when I actually start to think about it, her existence makes absolutely no sense at all. In order for Sharon to be Peggy’s great-niece she would have to be the granddaughter of a sibling of Peggy’s. But Peggy only had the one brother, Michael, who died in World War 2, which was the entire reason for Peggy becoming an agent.

As far as we know, Michael did not marry and did not have any children. So Sharon can literally not be related to Peggy. And since her last name is Carter she clearly can’t be Peggy’s great-niece from her husband’s side since that would result in Sharon having a different last name. She didn’t assume the last name of Carter because she hid the fact that she was related to Peggy while she was at S.H.I.E.L.D.

If anyone knows more about Sharon please let me know cause this is honestly hurting my head. I tried to find any information I could about both Peggy and Sharon before writing this and there’s no evidence at all that these two can be related that I can find.

[iwishtoremainanoym]

Hey I just had to jump in here and advise you to take everything the Sharon fans are telling you with a grain of salt. I’m only jumping in at all because their lies about Hayley Atwell have gotten to be a bit too much. They are doing to her what they are accusing her of doing to Emily VanCamp.

Hayley’s not in therapy because of jealousy issues. After playing Peggy, young girls were posting things like “you and Peggy saved my life” in the comments of her social media and the weight of that got to be too much. She had to leave social media for a while because of the pressure of that, and is still learning some balance there. She’s in therapy to take care of herself, which is admirable, not shameful as was implied.

She’s also never said a word against Sharon or Emily Vancamp. She’s spoken very well of them both in fact. (Somewhere out there she and Emily have an adorable dubsmash video together!) She did say that she found the Staron kiss to be gross and disrespectful. I think most audiences and movie reviewers did. Hayley being something of a joker played that opinion for laughs, but never disrespected the character or actress while doing so. She’s also entitled to her opinion for goodness sakes. 

Bottom line is that Hayley’s never done anything wrong, but some Sharon fans try and vilify her as they blame her for Sharon’s unpopularity. Which btw is true of comic Sharon too. A lot of people don’t like her in the trades either. It’s a kindness just to call her polarizing. I won’t say more than this, but I’m a huge comic fan and have always found Sharon to be intolerable long before the MCU came into play.

I’d encourage you to give them a read and form your own opinion though, if you care enough to even bother. Better to make up your own mind, right? I just wanted to jump in a give you a fuller picture of the landscape. Especially because it’s growing increasingly disturbing to see how some fans are trying to tear real person Hayley Atwell down to build fictional Sharon Carter up.

[seriesedition]

credit to @flopzwanted and like if u use/save.

[connerys]

films watched in 2018: captain america: the first avenger (2011) dir. joe johnston

This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows… compassion.

[feministism]

[stylestream]

Hayley Atwell in a Mary Katrantzou Fall 2018 dress, Alexandre Birman sandals and an Edie Parker clutch at the ‘Christopher Robin’ London premiere on August 5, 2018.

[awkwardspiderman]

A cute Carter for @doublethetrashdoublethefun !!

[brooklycons]

[30-minute-memes]

ye

[nessa007]

The fact that Andre Braugher has still not won an Emmy and hasn’t even been nominated in recent years for his portrayal of Captain Raymond Holt is an absolute travesty.