Getting Lost

Andie Arthur is the Artistic Director of Lost Girls Theatre, as well as a playwright, feminist, cat lover and geek.

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[lostgirlandie]

My gender expression is an Indigo Girls concert.

[somecutething]

[powerfulwizard]

women talk about how if they aren’t considered attractive, their entire value as a person is taken away, and white men are like oh we experience this too because hot girls with huge tits won’t date me but they don’t fucking realize we aren’t just talking about our dating lives we are talking about our entire value as a person being taken away, not just people not wanting to date us.

[powerfulwizard]

also a lot of white cis men are considered unattractive for their misogyny, bad hygiene, lack of hobbies, complete lack of charisma, lack of any suaveness, and lack of any fashion sense and not like, their brow shape or their jaw or their hips or the size of their chest or their height or how hairy they are or their shoulder width, or the size of their nose, like most of the things that make them unattractive are things that are mostly in their control and not things they are inherently born with

[alias-milamber]

In an attempt to remember the tune to Old Macdonald, I just ended up with this:

Old Macdonald had a farm.

On the feast of Stephen

[duckbunny]

And on that farm he had some ducks

Loudly plotting treason

[almsivi-official-deactivated201]

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

[cheshireelims]

I need this movie in my life now.

[soyouthinkyoucansee]

[essieincinci]

mood: i want to read a story exactly like one of my favorite stories i’ve read a thousand times but not THAT story because i’ve read it a thousand times and i want to read a new one but it should be exactly like this one.

[gael-garcia]

— Emma Thompson in the commentary for Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Keep reading

[acerodons]

Common Cat Breeds

American Shorthair

Siamese

Vampire

Gingerbread Loaf

Literal Cloud

Attempted Murder

Dark Matter

[odinsblog]

Now that’s how you ally. That’s putting it on the line and showing solidarity. That’s how you use your white privilege for good.

”It’s nice to go out and march, we can do that. It’s nice to wear black at the Golden Globes, but what are you doing behind closed doors?” - Jada Pinkett Smith

It’s easily one of the cleanest examples of intersectional feminism I’ve seen in a minute. It’s the polar opposite of white feminism, where white women are concerned primarily with the wellbeing and advancement of other white women. If more white men and women stood up and demanded basic fairness instead of just talking about it—and not just in Hollywood—we might really begin to impact racism and close the pay gap that always gets inflicted upon black people in most careers.

[unpretty]

there’s something really satisfying about the fact that sir arthur conan doyle was the most gullible motherfucker on the planet

[unpretty]

sir arthur conan doyle: here is my oc, he is a super genius who solves all the mysteries using the power of deductive reasoning

also sir arthur conan doyle: i have deduced that these fairies are real as shit

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

Say what you will about the Ewoks but they’re the only people in the galaxy who have handrails on their bridges and stairs.

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

The Empire calls them primitives but the Ewoks have OSHA regulations and the Empire doesn’t so who’s really more primitive here?

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

I finished reading Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing recently, in which she quotes from Ellen Moers’ Literary Women, and it feels delightful to discover so many connections between women writers - Emily Dickinson knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh by heart and named her as a mentor, Helen Hunt Jackson encouraged Dickinson to publish her poetry, Amy Lowell and Adrienne Rich later referred to Dickinson as their foremother, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was friends with Mary Russell Mitford and both admired and visited George Sand, Willa Cather called Sand’s novels masterly, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot were pen pals with Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot wrote to Elizabeth Gaskell to say that ‘Cranford’ was an inspiration to her and she re-read Jane Austen’s novels while writing her own, Austen loved Maria Edgeworth’s novels, Nathalie Sarraute admired Ivy Compton-Burnett as one of England’s greatest novelists, etc. etc.

As Russ points out, when reading literary anthologies put together by men and citing maybe half a dozen lone female writers sprinkled over several centuries amidst a sea of male names, you get the impression that women writers were very isolated figures in their time, that their literary ambition and talent was an anomaly completely unrelated to any appreciation of other women writers and wish to emulate them, and it’s so nice to get a reminder that they actually had female mentors and fangirls and friendships with other women writers and they read and studied and admired one another.

[wine-kitten]

[ray-winters-sings-deactivated20]

*sniffs* it’s a red….California…excellent year…it’s a late harvest…subtle expression of, dare I say…peach? Exquisite aroma.

[jackpowerx]

“Now I shall cleanse my palate by knocking this glass off the table”

[lord-kitschener]

“I know it will pair marvelously with the white carpet”

[fandomsandfangirlsandfeelsohmy]

honestly why does Mr. Darcy, a man from the late 1700s and early 1800s, understand that an independent female is an awesome thing more than people from 2017? also he respects her decision to reject him?

[bethanyactually]

#because he was written by a woman (via @sometimesrosy)

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

this is too real

[melreblog2much]

what if you just didn’t like boy bands tho?? then again I like women and men…

[xain-russell]

Dragon: “HALT TRAVELER! THIS BRIDGE IS UNDER MY CONTROL! PAY THE TOLL OR CROSS THIS RIVER ELSEWHERE!”

Knight: “Nay foul beast! These are the lands of men! I shall pay no such toll, and what’s more I shall slay you rid this land of your tyranny!”

Dragon: “TYRANNY!? FOOLISH MAN! THIS BRIDGE IS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OLD AND IN DIRE NEED OF REPAIRS! THE STONES ARE ERODING AND THERE ARE TERMITES IN THE WOOD!”

Knight: “… what?”

Dragon: “I GIVE THIS BRIDGE ANOTHER FIVE YEARS BEFORE IT COLLAPSES! I’D RATHER AVOID THAT AND PREVENT SOME POOR HUMAN FROM GETTING HURT!

Knight: ”…“

Dragon: “THE TOLL IS TEN GOLD PIECES.”

Knight: “… Okay.”

Dragon: “ALSO, DOWN THE ROAD, A FRIEND OF MINE IS RAISING FUNDS TO FIX A FARMER’S ROOF! IF YOU COULD ASSIST THEM AS WELL WE’D BE VERY GRATEFUL!”

[xain-russell]

THIS FUCKING THING GOT OVER 250 NOTES IN LESS THAN A DAY WHAT THE HELL.