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rovbookshelf

The Rose of Versailles: Oscar Snow Trope 2006

#ah the watakomu bb #the rose of versailles #takarazuka

dossei-dossei

happy poe shonichi!!

#takarazuka #the poe clan #yukigumi

pankendev

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

#let's definitely try

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

jayalaw

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

#let's make things even queerer and more diverse

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

cognitiveinequality

#i would love to be friends with an elephant

argumate

the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is presents a romance-style female-focused fantasy adventure, which is rare for blockbuster movies.

argumate

- you are Keira Knightley, the high-spirited and ever so slightly spoiled child of a doting father who happens to be the governor

- every man in the world is crazy about you, from the dashing naval officer who asks for your hand in marriage to the handsome young blacksmith’s apprentice who you met as a child and feel a strong bond with to the devilish pirate lord who saves your life and flirts with you shamelessly and you make out with him once but it’s for a good cause

- you have two weddings, one where you femme it up and then it turns all emo when it rains on your wedding day and the groom is dragged off in chains by another guy who secretly has the hots for you and then you have a second wedding where you dress as a man because you’re the pirate king now and you exchange custom vows and witty banter during a sword fight with zombies

- you are Keira Knightley

empanadazul

- all three of your potential love interests end up on the same ship at one point they have a lot of tension between them but they don’t fight because you told them not to

- a random pirate you knew for half an hour names you his heir and now you command one of the biggest and most important fleets in the sea

- not only that but you became the Queen of all pirates who now obey you and are at your command. You use your powers to destroy the fleet of the East India Company

- there’s a kraken

kereeachan

I’m sorry, KING of all Pirates, please.

#potc

sconesfortea

RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)

#anthony stewart head

thekimonogallery

Pagoda near the Kiyomizu temple at night. Kyoto, Japan. Photography by heeeeman on DevianArt. (thank you Kumi Ito on Pinterest)

#kyoto #mentally i am there

theunmarkedtombstone

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2011)

#still my favourite version #maan #catherine tate #david tennant

depsidase

#good advice #understand thyself

wetheurban

Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You're allowed to be happy while you're figuring things out.

#good advice

thekimonogallery

This is Kabuki by children. Just for your refences, they are all boys. Due to some rules and traditions, ladies cannot perform Kabuki. Japan. Text and photography by Takero Kawabata on Trekearth.com

#kabuki