Crows... fuck yeah

Number 1 hooked nose defender

[hard-times-paramore]

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.

[ultfreakme]

Lestat disrespecting pronouns makes complete sense. Lestat is a misogynist and has a lot of layers of unpacked racism. His scope of empathy is confined to his own identity. He will challenge homophobia and any criticisms against his identity and choices but he won't do the same for others.

Like we saw that man dismiss Louis' very valid anger at the white businessmen in Storyville. He didn't lift a finger to actually help in a meaningful way, and when Louis killed Fenwick(?), his reaction wasn't to reflect on why Louis chose him of all people to kill. He thought Louis had gotten around to killing, which is blatantly not the case. Lestat did exactly what he did with Louis; say surface level things and commentary while not behaving any differently. That is literally the root cause for why his relationship with Louis fractured.

He loves Claudia but it's the same with her too, he never saw how her race and her previous experiences as a human impacted her ability to trust and function in the world. I know the whole train interaction is being challenged as a complete lie, but something Lestat did made Claudia feel like he saw her sexual assault as trivial.

Lestat in pop culture is a queer icon, a symbol due to how much he deviated from that time's norms. But in-story he was still rather, I don't wanna say conservative but, more conforming than you'd think.

[dark-eyedcupid]

being misgendered by a man who's wearing a pink satin corset and body glitter # diabolical

[and-fishing-equipment]

i've started reading tvl and no amount of posts telling me there's a "huge tonal shift" could have prepared me for this HUGE TONAL SHIFT this is the funniest fucking thing i've ever read it genuinely goes like:

louis, narrator of iwtv: as i wandered the streets of paris, i wished most of all for death. i had called to god, to satan, anyone, to find meaning in it all. but for an evil creature such as myself there is no place in this world. there can be no love where this evil lies. it was as though a veil separated me from all that could be good and righteous. i did not deserve to love and be loved in return, not by claudia, lestat, armand. to attempt it would be a sisyphean task, a fools tale. and yet...... the need for hole from armand was so great. greater was only the need for........ living human blood.

lestat, narrator of tvl: hey guys, my name is lestat, you may know me because i'm really hot and sexy. english isn't my first language so sorry if i make any mistakes!! okay here's my story: after rotting beneath the earth for decades, my hot and sexy body has finally risen from the ground. i used to be depressed, but now i'm slutting it up again in the 20th century! first thing i did was get some (hot and sexy) new clothes and then wore them while riding my (hot and sexy) motorcycle and listening to bach on my sony walkman. while i was watching this super niche indie film (you've probably not heard of it) "apocalypse now" i realized that i'm so evil that i shouldn't exist. but then i realized what could make me deserve to live on this planet: rock n roll music.

[nat-20s]

I have stated before that I am not a ten/donna romance shipper and I’m sticking with that but I gotta say. Ten harboring a bit of a crush on Donna? Makes season 4 even funnier

[nat-20s]

Donna: all of the good men are on the other bus Ten: or time lords Ten, internally: fuck. shit. gottdamn. she’s gonna KNOW and she’s gonna KICK MY ASS

[nat-20s]

Donna: That’s a date!

Ten:??????!!!!!????????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Donna: well, not a date. Oh, you know what I mean. Oh, get off.

Ten:😔😔😔😔

[casasupernovas]

still testing her.

can she keep up? can she adjust to the situation?

the latter one is the most interesting. is martha just saving face? (yes). the doctor is insisting he meant nothing romantic by his actions at all. so martha says she's actually not interested - she only goes for humans. the doctor scrutinises her a little, assesses her answer and says good.

good that she is declaring she is not attracted to him? that she actually didn't want his actions to imply romantic intent?

good that she says she's not interested because she's actually only teasing? it may have only appeared suggestive but it doesn't matter. for the record, she's not remotely interested.

the doctor was flirting this episode, you can't really deny it, but what we also know for certain is that the doctor seems determined to close his emotions off, especially when it comes to romance.

so. he assesses martha. can she do the same? and look at that, yes she can. and she's quick with it too, sharp.

so he is impressed. good, he says.

can she be like me? can she switch it off? aha, so she can...good.

all of this of course begs the question: if one intereptation of this scene is the doctor approving and applauding her ability to quickly shut down her emotions, what does this say about him?

we know martha is interested. so if the doctor is also shutting it down that implies...well.

because if he's closing off his emotions and encouraging her to do the same...what emotions is he shutting down exactly? perhaps shutting down the undeniable spark the duo had on the moon not to mention outside the tardis, shutting down the idea that they could be good, even great together, the potential, the possibilities no no no there is nothing between us there is nothing nada zip it it meant nothing

[casasupernovas]

something kind of crazy in how the tenth doctor says to martha but more to himself that he swears he wasn't trying to replace rose and would rather be on his own when he literally found someone even more qualified than rose and was so desperate to have her as his new companion that he stalked her to her brother's birthday party and deliberately broke time travelling rules to impress her. be serious.

[turquoisedata]

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

[mayomkun]

I’ve got some Martha & ten! 

[carlandrea]

[shitpostingkats]

I need to talk about Qiao Ling and Lu Guang's friendship it's so important to me okay. First day she knew this guy she decided to share the entirety of her little brother's tragic backstory with him. He texted her a random address and she asked no follow up questions, just showed up there in under five minutes on a potentially stolen bicycle. When asked to come up with a photo of him she immediately got out one she secretly took of him asleep. He started talking about magic and she went along with it not because she thought it was real, but because it was obviously important to him. She's stabbed him. He's tried to rip apart the fabric of space and time for her. They're best fucking friends your honor.

[xwilltruman]

“i’m not the one who spends his free time getting shot at” — “i wasn’t the one talking to cartoon animals in peds” OKAY

[bodiesdecaying]

misato katsuragi is not just "that pedophile character."

yes, she grooms shinji. yes, it's messed up. eva wants you to feel disturbed by that. but flattening her entire character into "pedophile" misses what's actually going on with her writing.

misato is written as hypersexual, but not in a way that's empowering. it's survival. it's her crutch. she uses sex and flirtation as coping mechanisms, the only way she knows how to build intimacy after a life defined by abandonment, second impact trauma, and the death of her father. her relationships (with kaji, with shinji, even her casual joking) show how she's stuck in this loop where she equates intimacy with sex, because genuine vulnerability feels impossible.

her "hypersexuality" isn't meant to be titillating, it's meant to be tragic. it's messy, it's inappropriate, it's self-destructive. eva keeps showing us how she drinks too much, pushes boundaries too far, hides behind seduction instead of honesty. and when she offers herself to shinji, it's not some secret truth of "oh she’s a pedophile," it's a breakdown of everything she's been holding in. her fear of dying, her terror of being alone, her inability to connect in any way that isn't sexual.

that's why her character is important. she embodies adulthood in eva's world. not wise or put-together, but broken people dragging their baggage into every relationship. misato hurts shinji, but not because she's only predatory, it's because she's caught in the same cycles of trauma he is.

so yeah, call her out for her behavior, but don't erase the bigger picture. misato isn't "bad representation." she's realistic representation of how trauma, hypersexuality, and desperation can warp someone's entire way of existing.

[enjolbear]

Speaking of pitt misogyny, I was surprised to see not one, not two, but three dynamics where a patient flirted with a female healthcare worker played off. First Mel, who gets obliviously flirted with by her patient who then got arrested, but then she says it was nice to get treated like that. Then Cassie, who ends up offering to meet a man that she’s treating later because “she needs to get laid”. And finally and most creepily for me, Duke and Nurse Vivi. (Enough said with that one)

Sexual assault and sexual harassment of healthcare workers is a serious issue. The show dynamics in which it’s treated as either a joke or a compliment just gives me the ick

[fun-cool-epic-evil-myc]

robby is like peak performative male, if you think about it.

when robby apologizes to javadi about her tiktoks, he does so with complete humility. he considers all of javadi’s arguments, realizes he was wrong, puts his ego aside, and admits to it with grace. it’s really satisfying to watch because it’s just so rare that people in positions of power are willing to admit they are wrong to their inferiors.

however, his apology to mohan is a completely different story. honestly, i would barely call it an apology. he says the words “i’m sorry,” and then immediately follows it with the advice to stop feeling sorry yourself and focus on the patients which is just kind of doubling down on his message from before.

something extra interesting is that during the start of both apologies, javadi and mohan interrupt robby and anticipate what he’s going to say. javadi starts rambling about how she knows she’s wrong, and mohan calls robby a dick.

javadi has obviously had experiences with role models that make her doubt herself, and robby finds comfort in that, i think. by apologizing to her, he knows that he’s proving some image javadi has of him wrong. ‘i’m not like other attendings, i’m super emotionally intelligent and i have no ego because i’m a good doctor’ type of stuff, and this interaction is still giving him an ego boost just from a different place than you’d expect. with mohan, if he admits he’s wrong it isn’t really going to matter because mohan doesn’t really look up to robby like javadi. he has absolutely nothing to gain from the interaction, and this is kind where the true robby lies.

i love the pitt so much because these characters are just so damn realistic. you’re going to encounter a lot of very obviously performative misogynistic men, but, much more often, you’re going to encounter men like robby. men who subconsciously favor women who look up to them. men who only interact meaningfully when it makes them look good. but these are the same men that’ll humiliate the fuck out of those paramedics for placing the leads wrong, y’know? when it comes to his patients, robby is sure as hell going to pull through and be woke as fuck. he just really falls through in his social/professional interactions. i freaking love nuance so much, bro.

[silima]

being meguca is suffering

[hello-mystery]

As hard as it’s been this season to watch Mel go through such a bad day, I appreciate that we’re seeing the more realistic side of how hard/lonely it is to be autistic in the workplace.

In season one we see Mel with her tank full - she’s high energy, positive, at her best. She’s quick to adapt, confident in her practice, and attuned to the people around her. The Pitt is largely welcoming, and there’s only a handful of times anyone gives her a funny look or shuts down her enthusiasm.

In season two, Mel spends the majority of the shift fixated on her deposition. She’s spacey, she’s tired, she’s short-tempered and closed off. There’s a distance between her and her coworkers - she gets some sympathy and advice early in the day around her deposition but you see a lot of the other residents (minus Langdon, obviously) giving her funny looks, making snide comments, and rolling their eyes when she tries to open up. In tonight’s ep, even McKay makes a face after throwing her a bone over her interest in the reenactment guys.

I love how season one showed how valuable and at-home autistic people can be when put in the right workspace. I love even more that season two shows the harsh reality of how autistic people are more typically treated.