Reactionary Heterophobes United

Sapphic trans woman. Ngāti Pākehā. Geek. Human. My pronouns are she/her/hers/herself. TERFs, SWERFs, and ace-exclusionists can fuck right off. Ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake, ake, ake!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

never liked Katara and Aang ending up together because even as a youth I always felt like women who spend their entire lives in a relationships with men they met as teens are like low-key in hostage situations. like even if he's nice I want to rescue her.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there was this couple in my high school. she was a horse girl and he was a wrestler. they'd been a couple since they were in like sixth grade and I was so worried about her.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

plus he's 12 :(

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

obviously this take is highly shaped by the fact that when the series ended I was 12 and I couldn't think of anything worse than kissing a 12 year old boy. so I super couldn't understand why the coolest and most beautiful 14 year old girl in the world would want to do that.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

at the end of the day there are so many cool and great things about the show and also things that age poorly, one if which is that this is a show made by two dudes in the early 2000s so of coooourse the main boy gets to kiss the girl at the end. he's wanted to kiss her for so long and he saved the world he deserved to kiss her now.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

everyone shut up about Zuko this isn't about him

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

[sceptixfakemon]

What's your favorite absurd piece of armor? Can be real or fiction, ornamental/ceremonial or functional, any time period at all. Something you look at and think "nothing about this is a good idea, and yet... it compels me".

it's gotta be maille brayettes

do i have to say anything

[dericbindel]

oh these are INCREDIBLE! Is the uh, cup(?) held up by any internal structure beyond the maille?

What sort of context would they have been worn in? In melees, tournent stuff, or something else (like when you want to be revealing but protect your groin)?

[sceptixfakemon]

afaik, it's just maille over joined woollen hose :] these would be used regularly in late 15th to 16th century germanic areas and the flanders (modern day northern belgium) in particular, foot soldiers and heavy infantry alike were equipped with them, oftentimes replacing the wearing of a maille skirt, like this:

[wittyusernameonline-deactivated]

[nyancrimew]

wow my tweet on my dash

[justsomeectoplasm]

The context:

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[kaijuno]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the other day a friend of a friend referred to "busting out of your abdomen like the alien from the Predator films" and I was completely caught off guard. like I guess that's - that's not wrong. the alien was. okay she was in the Predator films. well some of them. but like. she had her own. she's the alien from the Alien films. like. they have her name on them. he's not "King Kong from the Godzilla films"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

there's also a reason it's not called an "abdomenburster" but one issue at a time

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's like when headlines refer to a famous woman via her husband. that's not "Predator's wife" she's got her own franchise!!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

tags from the crew of the Nostromo

[secretlyanicegirl]

Dracula: Evil laughing as he forces Jonathan to write letters

Mina two seconds after receiving the letter: ... He would not say that

[romans-art]

couldn’t not draw this

[mr-walkingrainbow]

Commen misconcaption. Aphrodite and Ares are not siblings. Did y’all mean Athena? Athena and Ares are not only siblings, but extremely competitive. The trojan war was literally a war between Athena and Ares.

also. Aphrodite and Ares were lovers? Don’t know where this sibling thing came from. Aphrodite is the daughter of Kronos. Arès is son of Zeus.

sorry fir the mini rant

[romans-art]

idk what to tell u. They’re siblings. Xena said so. Sorry that Greek mythology is wrong 😔

[fandomsandfeminism]

It depends on which source you look at. Hesoid names her as the daughter of Uranus, rising from the sea foam. (This is the version most popular with later artists.) Homer, the Homeric Hymns (author unknown), and Euripedes name her as a daughter of Zeus and Dione, however. Including in the Iliad.

🤷‍♀️ That’s kind of the thing with Greek myth- it’s not a cohesive Canon. Different writers at different time periods in different parts of Greece recorded different oral traditions.

And yes, they were also lovers. *gestures to Zues and Hera.*

[romans-art]

greek myth isn’t a cohesive canon but xena warrior princess is which means that ares and aphrodite are siblings because greek myth is wrong sorry you had to find out this way

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[thebibliosphere]

The kid next door (talking toddler age) is playing outside and just wiped out in his Fisher Price car, and I just heard the babysitter say, “oh no, your insurance premium is definitely going to go up!” And the kid who had only been mildly sniffling before made the most confused, but startled sound you’ve ever heard.

Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”

He straight up forgot about his scraped knee and is now worried about whatever the fuck an insurance premium is.

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

[byjove]

There was a trend in the 40s and 50s (not sure if it predates that or if there are places that still do it) where you could get your child’s baby shoes cast in bronze or dipped in bronze and use them as keepsakes or have them mounted as bookends. Better than the resin slop of the modern day in my opinion. My great grandma had my grandpa’s baby shoes made into bookends ends because she loved him very much and he was her only child and it is honestly really cute. My mom got her dad’s baby shoe bookends when she moved out and they were in my living room my entire childhood, she had explained how they were grandpa’s shoes covered in bronze and I thought that was cool.

Then I went to an art museum and saw bronze busts of people and my tiny child brain thought the person’s dismembered head and shoulders were in there…

[2colde]

how it genuinely feels

[t4timekeeper]

ACCIDENTALLY LEFT MY MACERATED APPLE SYRUP ON THE STOVE AND IT CARAMELIZED I GUESS?

[t4timekeeper]

it was super thick and dark and golden and bubbly so i took it off the heat. happy accident.

[t4timekeeper]

tastes delicious so good. idk what to do with it though

[t4timekeeper]

thank you for your recommendation! with brief consideration, it has been disregarded.

[t4timekeeper]

ACCIDENTALLY LEFT MY MACERATED APPLE SYRUP ON THE STOVE AND IT CARAMELIZED I GUESS?

[t4timekeeper]

it was super thick and dark and golden and bubbly so i took it off the heat. happy accident.

[t4timekeeper]

tastes delicious so good. idk what to do with it though

[t4timekeeper]

thank you for your recommendation! with brief consideration, it has been disregarded.

[realfootage]

[theelderscrotess]

[ambergrief]

me when i log onto www.youtube.con

[greatlordfluffernutter]

Me when i find out who killed the radio star

[wildandmoody]

I hate the like, modern tiktokification of CAPTIONS. Flashing one word at a time super quickly, usually with some annoying bouncy effect on each word. Put the entire goddamn sentence (or appropriate chunk of the sentence) on the screen and let me read.