Needs More Moe

22 (I think?), Ace of Hearts, Professional squirrel watcher

[chestharrington]

PSA: For fan works, reblog and like from OP

Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.

Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.

If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!

I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.

[bwuego]

we r realizing the floor of history bros

[niyarest]

umamusume transgender beam

[niyarest]

she's so awesome

[birdplushie]

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

[magn-animously]

DIG

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

DIG

[niightegoblingtyime]

DIG

[sinnegantheworm]

DIG

[miketalkstrash-deactivated20170]

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

[latinagabi]

Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.

[princessnijireiki]

Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:

chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.

grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet

he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.

even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).

(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)

famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”

for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.

and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

SWAG

[sugaryumyum-deactivated20170907]

I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.

[elodieunderglass]

when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically

daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman 

he invaded egypt

the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”

then napoleon showed up

napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus

the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”

this did not make napoleon happy

in fact it made him jealous

napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud

[liza-not-lisa-deactivated202401]

I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.

[petermorwood]

General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…

…and like this…

…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…

:-D

I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…

…he was also a foodie.

[sicktress]

He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER. 

[biblioaesthetica]

His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:

Project Gutenberg offers 73,007 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

And for those of you who would like to try audio versions, this is what is on LibriVox, the free, volunteer run audiobook version of Project Gutenberg:

LibriVox

[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay but have you seen Devéria’s drawing of Dumas at around 27?

[fettiowi]

heres a tip: if youre extremely autistic about a topic, dont watch a video about it aimed at normies

[sergle]

this is the thing I was talking about where people are playing with their cats the way that cats play with eachother lmao

[drtanner]

HE KILLED HIM

[the-quasar-hero]

YOU🫵🏿! MAKE THAT ANGEL CHARACTER BLACK RIGHT NOW!

[creatingblackcharacters]

WE SAID RIGHT NOW SOLDIER!! 🫵🏾 UP AND AT EM!!

[skolas-a]

Every time some reviewer says Maomao is better than other female anime protags because she's "not like other girls", I shrivel up inside.

Maomao is FOR the other girls!!

She cherishes her female friendships and uses her knowledge to HELP and UPLIFT other women. The narrative doesn't put them down to prop up Maomao either. Instead, the narrative uses her insightful lens to humanise and understand all these different women in their respective positions and why they do the things they do.

[cloverandmint]

Maomao's a good protagonist because her situations allows us, the viewer, to see all the different perspectives and situations of the others characters in the show. She's the perfect window for the viewer to look through, all while staying a consistently well-written character.

That's what makes a good protagonist, amongst other things. What doesn't determine if your female character is a good protagonist is if "she acts like other girls" or not.

Not only Maomao's a girl's girl as people stated, but this whole show is about women. Sure there's like, 3 relevant male characters. Maybe 4. Heck, the central character's are the emperor's concubines and the emperor himself barely ever shows up. You know why ? Because it's not about him. It's about the women and their struggles. About how their value is determined by how desirable they are to men. That or their capacity to give birth, but it only matters if they give birth to a boy.

These women are stuck in an environment that robs them of their own agency. They're pretty things stuck in a cage, and their only way out is either to be bought by a man. If they aren't desirable to men they are seen as failures. They're thrown away once they're "too old" to be desirable/to safely give birth (which means, what, their mid 30s ?)

And yet they thrive. They thrive in that hostile environment, in any way available to them. They'll scheme and use these unfair rules to their own advantage as much they need to. They make their own choices and are ready to do anything to maintain some self-agency. They envy eachother. They support eachother.

The apothecary's diaries supports women's rights. It supports women's wrongs. It supports women being women, beautiful and strong, pushing through daily, constant struggles with as much dignity as they can afford.

And even when they are cruel to eachother, when they lie or persecute to thrive, Maoamo chooses to let it slide. She chooses grace and forgiveness every time she can because at the end of the day, all of these women's lives could be ended by a single misstep. Because their lives are ultimately irrelevant, and they will be disposed of if they get in the way of the higher ups (a man.)

This show constantly calls out misogyny. So please pack your own misogynist bullshit up and go home.

If you're a girl/woman saying this things about Maomao then I'm sorry. I know it's rough out there. I know you've been pushed to believe being 'girly' was a bad thing.

It is not.

It takes a while to deconstruct, but it's not impossible. And learning to respect girly stuff doesn't have to mean applying it to yourself if you don't want to. Just drop these petty judgement based on behaviours, tastes and appearances, thank you.

[autism-fueled-by-faygo]

The best way I can explain gaining E.G.O. in Project Moon for non-PM fans is the Goofy Goober Rock scene at the end of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

This is SpongeBob's E.G.O.; I will not be taking any questions.

[autism-fueled-by-faygo]

Upon further consideration, I have come to the conclusion that Patrick having fishnets during the Goofy Goober Rock sequence is SpongeBob providing power to his allies via his E.G.O

SpongeBob upon his first efflorescence of E.G.O somehow has the power to change the environment multiple times, change his outfits numerous times, summon creatures like YuRia's teddy bears, give his allies extensions of his E.G.O as gear, and even using lasers that only destroyed Plankton's helmets, all while casually doing a musical number. SpongeBob must've rejected Carmen pretty hard, made her boowomp with Hawaiian Cocktail playing in the background.

[file-saver]

sharing seasons & episodes of "kipo and the age of wonderbeasts" for download on google drive since it's being removed from netflix next year, and also so that you don't have to give money to them (which you should stop doing anyway, really): HERE!

as with most pirates, it is asked for your own (and others') benefit that you save this media on a physical device; i.e. hard drives, DVDs, SD cards, etc. this way, it's yours forever and cannot be taken from you by a greedy streaming service.

[moonstonecassie]

Fuck genAI here’s a google drive of TOH with all episodes from all three seasons

[moonstonecassie]

Since Netflix is removing She-Ra in January or something here’s a link to a Google drive with all five seasons <3

[chanchofi]

my lesbian ass appreciates it.

[7crowsinadress]

If you’re a USAmerican and rightfully horrified by what the government is doing right now, I just want to rq share 5calls. They have a really simple tool for finding your reps and contacting them, as well as a variety of scripts for anyone not confident speaking off book. Emails can be filtered out, phone calls, voicemails, and physical letters are much harder to ignore. Calling your reps isn’t the end all be all of anti-war action, but it’s a place to start while you process what the fuck just happened.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

[shadowcreature]

can we STOP pretending facial hair is inherently masc and boobs are inherently femme? this is how the discourse SHOULD be:

beard = levels in wizardry

tits = levels in sorcery

[lokiscauldron]

Gandalf is a sorcerer

[unowers]

happy new year

[voisbian]

what sponge crimes will he commit ?