[maruti-bitamin]

Mushrooms 

[weirdlandtv]

Chinese animated feature, HAVOC IN HEAVEN (1965) (sometimes referred to as UPROAR IN HEAVEN).

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[letsgostealaleverageblog]

“The assumption is that most of them have Thief 101 skills. However, they all have their strengths, and you won’t see a ton of crossover. Sophie and Parker do the lifts and pickpocketing; Eliot never touches computers except when it’s a plot point that he has to; Hardison is the only hacker and never does sleight-of-hand, etc. and can’t pick a lock. We wound up giving Eliot and Hardison more con stuff because, well, Kane and Aldis are just really frikkin’ funny. You will note that Eliot is almost never part of a long con – short scenes only. There is a definite arc to Parker’s ability to roleplay throughout the season, and Sophie’s tutelage is one of the little relationship runners. It pays off in a big way in an upcoming episode. You’ll note that usually, even when she’s good, she’s very close to blowing it at all times. Same thing with Eliot and Hardison cross-pollinating skills as their relationship – I wouldn’t call it a friendship – evolves over the course of the season.”

— John Rogers, on the characters’ specific set of skills.

[nevcolleil]

‘I wouldn’t call it a friendship’

[cosed]

we joke and jest and jab about eldest vs youngest vs middle siblings but i really do think its time we unite against only children

[cremsie]

Loyalty that surpasses the stars. I have a lot of feelings about space and Laika  Patreon

[outofcontextbrutalmoose]

[bladefoxfairy]

 Okay, before I get into Aiden’s overall backstory and design. Let’s introduce everyone to his adoptive mother Kyliea rina.


Kyliea’s basic backstory is that she used to be a ballerina doll that was later made into a nutcracker do to the doll kingdom losing more and more soldiers do to the war.


I will say one thing though… She didn’t wish to become a toy soldier or a nutcracker.

[jjelliacee]

Chava and Ahmad | The Golem and The Jinni

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

landscape with fruit rot and millipede, richard siken

[aikaterynne]

A dream, a longing from another past.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

criticizing things isn’t ‘cringe culture’, but also cringe culture isn’t ‘criticizing things’ 

as in, saying a show or game or movie is bad isn’t ‘cringe culture’ and It’s Ok To Not Like Things And It Is In Fact Important To Criticize Stuff. using phrases like ‘let people enjoy things’ in response to someone pointing out the racism or homophobia or bad writing in popular media is a bad response. 

and also, engaging in run of the mill cringe culture and just saying stuff like ‘[thing] fans are so embarrassing lmao’ or making fun of someone for doing a silly cosplay still isn’t actual criticism and doesn’t shield you from being told you’re being an asshole just because you’ve called it ‘being critical of media’ 

[noovamulticolors]

Have some angst And also Pirlipat

[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: Link’s androgyny isn’t just an artefact of the Zelda franchise’s art direction - and neither is it particularly unusual. Sexual dimorphism among Hylians is legitimately much lower than among real-world humans; if Link and Zelda swapped clothes, you’d never be able to tell who was the girl and who was the boy.

Consequently, Hylian society depends heavily on clothing to establish gender roles, to the extent that it’s a severe faux pas to question someone’s gender presentation. If they’re dressed like a girl, then they’re a girl - even if they were dressed like a boy yesterday. That’s why nobody ever remarks upon the fact that Zelda and her heroic alter-ego Sheik are different genders; it’d be gauche at best to bring it up.

[stellarsylph]

Good post op

[parpatarts]

explains why i can be banned from gerudo town, change clothes in front of the guards, and then be welcomed with open arms

[quantumghosts]

shit, this absolutely provides an explanation for it that isn’t just “lazy game mechanism” and is honestly such a solid demonstration of how people should approach genderfluidity. 

doesn’t matter if the first time you met the person they presented as male, if they present as female now that means they’re a woman and they’re welcome into gerudo town no questions asked

[wombatking]

Also, Link and Zelda 100% do swap places often and you can’t tell me otherwise.

[gayrika]

“Princess Zelda, Ganon has made his way into the kingdom! What should we do?!”

“HYAH”

[faranae-moved]

Holy shit this is a good fucking post and additions thank you OP and company

[oumazoo]

me: [remembers some Really Cool People follow me] shit.. i’m acting like a Fool… [continues to act like a fool.]

[falseknees]

ARTISTRY UNLOCKED

[somecallmegin]

Good job leading that ship onto the rocks, high-five! 

That’s was a fun project I got myself into on a self-dare. The title comes from that tiny tiny figure on the lighthouse getting a high-five from the Chtulhu-like creature. Sadly this picture was a victim of the 2017 computer crash that caused the loss of several of my original HD files, so the zoom-ins (old WIP screenshots I had made and posted on instagram) are the last proof of this even being the case.