60% tea, 40% nerves

Trying to lower the 40%. Drinking more tea will do that, right? 21, she/her, UK

[lucylehane]

(this scene is why I watch this movie on Valentine's Day every year)

The Birdcage (1996)

[aetherixs]

i have never seen a single 'pirates of the caribbean' film so my friend insisted that i watch the first one with her and i'm obsessed.

the villain’s origin story is that he can’t eat apples anymore. every fight scene plays like a slapstick comedy. two key combat sequences end with our sexy leading men getting boinked on the head. the climax is initiated by one ship firing forks at another ship. everyone is unreasonably hot. plot armor made only of the word “parlay”. the Redcoats are more useless than you could possibly imagine. Elizabeth almost drowns, gets held hostage, and then her entire village is destroyed but the worst part of her day is that a man proposed to her. a crew of skeleton pirates do drag to trojan horse their way into the final battle. truly insane stuff can't wait for more.

[beemovieerotica]

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

[ming85]

Book launch poster for A Power Unbound, book 3 of Freya Marske/@fahye's spectacular The Last Binding trilogy which has completely taken over my brain for the last few years. See the ones I did for book 1 and 2 here (they do look nice all lined up, if I say so myself!)

This book has so much cool action and twists and turns, and one of my favourite romances of all time (it's somehow the softest and the spiciest). Added all the other characters as well because I adore them, the most hyper competent yet chaotic protagonist group ever to run amok in 1909.

my The Last Binding tag, and my art tag

[northernoptimist]

this is BEAUTIFUL!

[mermaidinn]

just thinkin bout him

[dailytswiftsource]

THE FATE OF OPHELIA 2025, dir. Taylor Swift

[percyfraser]

THE FATE OF OPHELIA 2025 — dir. Taylor Swift

[northernoptimist]

when you finish watching a tv show and sit in the silence not knowing what to do like well. my life is unmoored now. no activity seems appealing. nothing will ever satisfy me again like that tv show I think is 'pretty good'

[dailyflicks]

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE 2022, dir. Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

[northernoptimist]

i woke up super excited to write and then spent half the morning dressing my animal crossing avatar as my characters instead

[another-exclus]

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

[lythelia-art-deactivated2021071]

But queer is more inclusive

[a-tired-humanist]

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

[another-exclus]

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

[a-tired-humanist]

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

[jabberwockypie]

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

[levynite]

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

[darthsuki]

[matronofthevoid]

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

[sharpestscalpel]

When people claim that LGBT is more inclusive than queer as terminology, what they explicitly and with malice do is exclude people who identify as queer instead of other terms (like me!), intersex folks, asexual folks and anyone else generally repped by the + at the end of LGBTQIA+. Like, the next step, which I see circulating from time to time, is people claiming it should be “LGB,” thus excluding trans folks as well. And fuck that. We use an umbrella to cover all of us and if you think queer is a slur and that LGBT covers the whole spectrum of queer identity than I’m not actually that bothered if you think queer lit or queer spaces or queer whatever isn’t for you.

[sharpestscalpel]

You know what, I’m reblogging this again and adding to it because that is maybe harsh sounding and I want to clarify.

Because there are folks who don’t identify as queer and that actually is okay - no one has to be okay with a term. But what I’m not sure some well-intentioned folks really are is that queer as an umbrella doesn’t take your words away from you - but when you say queer is a slur and no one should use it, you are taking my words away from me.

Queer spaces have been created explicitly for queer folks - and if you don’t identify as queer then that is okay but you probs aren’t going to be happy in that space. The existence of queer spaces doesn’t negate the existence of lesbian spaces or ace spaces or any other specific spaces - and those are probs the spaces that will feel better to you. That is okay for everyone! What’s not okay is coming into a communal house and trying to remodel to make fewer people welcome. And that’s what it feels like every time I see a post saying no one should use the word queer.

[naamahdarling]

It’s a good fuckin word.

[bootlegfuriosa]

Now wait a minute

[arteregret]

AHHH

[sweetener]

excuse me officer i would like to report a murder

[misskayvee]

[jaeausten]

You have been very brave, Morgana.

[macklesufficient]

i have a bunch of shit to do today and im gonna need a distraction later so rn i’ll say “while many couples in the literary canon had previously demonstrated classic tenderness there is a Modern Tenderness™️ that was 100% invented by beatrice and benedick” and hope somebody asks me to explain

[macklesufficient]

oh, well thank u for asking!!!

ok so y’all know that i am queen of Stop Complaining About Love At First Sight In Shakespeare Plays It Was A Common Plot Device And I’m Sorry But You Really Just Gotta Fuckin Roll With It, Treat It Like Ghosts/Fairies/Witches IE A Fantastical Element That Enables The Plot To Occur but what’s so special about beatrice and benedick is that they’re one of the exceptionally few shakespearean couples (hamlet and ophelia are a notable exception, though they’re at least romantically involved from the jump) who already have a long history with each other when we meet them. and, as we learn later, there is a whole ass background to them that we hear exactly one (1) explicit reference to, beatrice’s quiet admission at the party about her double heart for his single one, false dice, etc. (and plenty of old plays are about gossip, but god does this old play about gossip feel modern in the little slices of ancient history we get, the small-town drama of ill-kept secrets). but with everything that they are to each other and have been, through all the merry wars of wit etc etc, what i love love love about beatrice and benedick is that they’re friends

they’re old friends. they’ve known each other forever (i get frustrated by ppl casting them as twenty-somethings; not only does it textually make more sense for them to be older, but why wouldn’t you take the opportunity for them to have known each other since they were young-n-stupid and now, twenty years later, find themselves in their forties and no less stupid for the effort??). they have inside jokes, for god’s sake. lbr, “you always end with a jade’s trick” is referring to SOMETHING— sexual? embarrassing? both? only beatrice and benedick know

i have such a vivid picture in my mind of exactly how id stage their scene right after the wedding:

time has passed. out in the backyard the wedding decorations have sagged, chairs are kicked over, crepe paper sits in sad little heaps as beatrice sits in a deck chair chain-smoking in her bridesmaid’s dress. she’s in that post-crying phase of “my makeup dried all down my face in weird tragic rivulets and i look absolutely batshit but why bother wiping it off im just gonna start crying again” when benedick shows up, and god how fckin tender is “have you wept all this while?” “ay and i will weep awhile longer” “i will not desire that”. you can just see him standing there on the back porch, all limp and useless because the woman he loves is in pain and he can’t do anything about it. so he plops down next to her and they sit there in sad but companionable silence, a moment of stillness after all the chaos, until finally it settles over him that god who even cares? everything’s fucked and all these secrets are so stupid and they both know it anyway so it’s very casually that he reaches over, swipes her cigarette from her fingers, takes a drag and says “i do love nothing in the world so well as you. is not that strange?”

two old friends side by side during a crisis. twenty years and the timing’s never been right, but it never is, is it? and one friend says to the other “it’s been you the whole time. fuckin wild, huh?”

modern tenderness/mortifying ordeal of being known/self recognition through the other etc

[morphmaker]

The Fab Five travel through time, space, and genre to help Professor Flitwick get his groove back