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strongermonster

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

strongermonster

this is what i mean

degenderates

Via @bulbaderp

itistimetodisappear

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

alphacrone

thinking about all the “small” art that’s ever existed. songs that were only ever sung in one village. stories written by children that got lost in the shuffle. personal paintings that didn’t survive the test of time. how they affected the lives of just a few, but still existed, still mattered to someone.

alphacrone

this is not a sad post!!!! this is a celebration!!!!! art is part of the human condition!!!!!!! we were born to create and share!!!!!!!!!!!

wholesomepostarchive

10/9/2023

fresne999

My great grandmother made lace. My grandmother painted. I drew my icon. We are born to create.

itsbansheebitch

(Approx.) 4th Century BCE Good Boys

They're friends.

hallogallo

Smug face of a free man

mintamenapie

Shout out to all your internet friends who are gone.

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I miss you all. I hope life is/was kind to you, and maybe one day, we’ll somehow connect again.

bireaucracy-archived

man the britney spears testimony is chilling. she can't drive, cant choose her therapist or any person around her, is forced to perform and train or she'll be put on meds and restrained at home, cant see her kids or even have a new child, was forced to get an IUD which she can't have taken out, can't even choose her own food and bedtime. it's very much institutionalisation except she still has to perform to make money for her family (the same that claim she shouldn't have autonomy over her own life) and can't even change a single dance move in her choreography. it's just. christ.

bireaucracy-archived

see what i mean by parents feeling ownership over their children. her parents were allowed to suspend her autonomy as an adult too.

bireaucracy-archived

and like. she's a rich cis white woman (though tbh she can barely touch the money she makes for her abusers)! and her disability and status is still enough to completely suspend her autonomy in the most abusive way, to even deny her the ability to have kids or refuse food. this is an absolute nightmare. imagine what it's like for institutionalised working class folks too. poor folk, people of color, trans people who also had their autonomy suspended that way and are institutionalised or under conservationship. im really glad she got this opportunity to speak, no matter how short it was. but christ is it heartbreaking.

doggosource

he’s doing a great job

glumshoe

Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.

glumshoe

Don’t get me wrong—she was strong, and certainly not a waif, but more than almost any other female superhero actress I’ve ever seen, Lucy Lawless exuded physical power and weight that I actually believed (when she wasn’t somersaulting in front of a ridiculous greenscreen).

argumate

that’s a damn good point

ms-demeanor

INTENSE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

COSTUME EMPHASIZING BREADTH OF SHOULDERS

THEM THIGHS

WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS ABOUT HOLY SHIT

JAWLINE

EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT. I DON’T KNOW I’M JUST FEELING EXCEPTIONALLY WARM RIGHT NOW.

I LOVE HER

dee-the-red-witch

This is because the tank is not concerned with muscle or endurance. Tank is purely a matter of 60% attitude, 30% mindset, and 110% fuckaroundandfindout.

nehirose

I've also seen another version of the commentary on this post speculating that she was also SHOT like male action star at the time - which has nothing to do with size, but with posture and staging and yes, attitude. 😊

glumshoe

Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.

glumshoe

When I close my eyes and imagine Xena, I imagine her fucking shredded. Just absolutely ripped. Muscles McGillicutty out here. She could burst through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man and kick my ass.

But then when I actually look at Lucy Lawless out of costume, even when she was playing Xena, she looks... average. A gorgeous woman, absolutely, and rather tall, but not the Amazon she comes across as when she’s inhabiting the role.

With few exceptions (like Linda Hamilton), I don’t get that from other actresses portraying physically strong characters. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman costume has a very similar design, but I never believed in the physicality of her character even when the CGI physics are more realistic.

yellowleather

Steven L. Sears at The USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Oct 25, 2006

On how he approaches female characters

”The interesting question about writing the female character...the female character was an object, it was a plot twist, it was something to motivate the male to do something heroic. It was never accepted as a character. To me that was the biggest difference, first. Secondly, was the portrayal, and I mean the physical actress portrayal...When we hired Lucy Lawless, what really impressed me was her physicalization. She did not apologize through her body. And that had been the biggest critique about women characters. Even wonder woman. They apologize through their body. ‘I’ve got to be masculine, but I’m gonna off-set it by doing it in a feminine way’. Whereas Lucy was like ‘Okay, I’m gonna do it.’ And she did it. And I remember sitting there, watching that with the original supervising producer and saying ‘That is sexy.’ Because there’s no apologies. That’s a real character. And that is attractive to me and I’ll bet it’s gonna be attractive to other people.”

glumshoe

God!!! If only this were normalized for female characters. The Terminator franchise does a pretty good job at having physical women; Dark Fate also had Grace move like a real person inhabiting space.

glumshoe

Grace has short hair. She looks like a typical athletic butch woman:

Being butch is not offensive. Portraying tough butch women in action movies is not some regressive anti-feminist act. I can and I will compare Grace to Xena because she is a female character portrayed as strong and tough in a very natural and unapologetic way—there are no concessions to preserving an elegant or dainty aesthetic when she fights.

Women come in all shapes and sizes. If you reject the importance or value of women’s strength because they have “””male features””” and you think that’s regressive or not good representation you can eat my entire ass, and also Xena’s.

tchaikovskaya

the argument is often made that school uniforms are more conducive to a learning environment where wealth/class does not have a significant role in social dynamics among students and i just gotta say that is a garbage take lol. like some of you dont have any regular interaction with tween girls and it shows!

tchaikovskaya

i grew up in a predominantly affluent suburban area and our public school system’s uniforms were basically just a solid color polo shirt (color depends on what school you attend) and khakis. something no kid would choose to wear if they were given the choice lol but whatever, it could have been worse. everyone wearing essentially the same outfit didnt make the relationship between fashion and wealth any weaker, though. why? well because certain brands of solid polo shirts are more expensive and better than others. certain styles and shades of khaki bottoms are more on-trend and more expensive than others. tiny embroidered logos become status symbols. kids wear some variation of the same frumpy outfit but they wear expensive shoes and buy expensive backpacks and wear whatever useless trendy accessories they can waste their parents’ money on.

even in schools with much stricter dress codes that require students to wear a specific shirt and a specific pair of pants and a specific pair of shoes, its the same story. the faded fabric from the hundreds of times your hand-me-down uniforms were washed and dried when your older siblings wore them years before you is a dead give-away. showing up to the first day of class with shoes that are clearly well broken-in is a dead give-away. you can tell at a glance who has money and who doesn’t!

stop forcing these kids’ parents to purchase several articles of clothing they otherwise would not spend their money on because their kids will never wear them anywhere but school! let kids go to school in their own damn clothes (so long as they’re appropriate)! and more importantly quit subliminally teaching kids that wealth is a virtue!

birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv

In my high school the full cost of all the uniform pieces was over a hundred pounds (and that’s 20 years of inflation ago) and kids who wore the wrong uniform got put in the isolation room. I don’t know if the teachers realized that they were punishing kids for not having rich parents.

alarajrogers

Preach it. I’ve been arguing this for years.

findingfeather

Also like, it fails to actually identify what the fucking dynamics are that make wealth/social class/bullying in general an issue in learning spaces. Pro tip: it’s not about the fucking clothes.

It’s about whether or not that school creates an environment where bullying/treating people badly based on perceived social standing, economic standing and social conformity is permitted/endorsed. When that school has an environment (which includes the attitudes of parents and the community in general), kids will find some way to bully and harass and otherwise be “distracted by the dynamics” of social standing, economic standing and social conformity even if the school literally hands them out exactly the same outfit of the same age and wear at the beginning of each day.

If the school creates an environment where that is not acceptable, it won’t matter what anyone is wearing.

Because the problem is “these kids think it’s okay to treat other people badly based on where they perceive their social/economic/conforming-to-norms falls on their subconscious internal chart”. Based on that they will find something. Without that, they won’t.

fernsandsunflowers

If I was Elizabeth Bennet my entire family abandoning me at the dinner table when Mr. Collins requested a private audience would have been my villain origin story.