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[okaydays22]

[youareinlove]

i saw the casting announcement for wuthering heights (2026) before reading the book, and assumed that heathcliff's miscasting was because the character was subtly not white, or it was mentioned here and there without much relevance to the plot beyond subtext, etc. (which still wouldn't have made it ok btw). but now i'm reading it and every single scene with him in it reads like:

'then appeared heathcliff, who was not white. he not-white-ly entered the room, where everyone else was white, unlike him. "aah! a not white!" they all shouted. he cried. "i wish i were white," he said. "don't worry, maybe your non-white parents were rich in non-white countries," said nelly. he was then called ten slurs, because he was not white, and left.'

like emily bronte literally beats us over the head with it every five seconds. what do you MEAN they cast jacob fucking elordi

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

wuthering heights (1847) - emily brontë

"she catherine on my heathcliff"

[inheroes--wetrust]

the most unintentionally hilarious bit of wuthering heights is when edgar linton is dying and with zero trace of sarcasm he's like "don't worry i'm off to be reunited with my loving wife catherine in heaven". what level of delusion has this man been living in for the last seventeen years. what drugs is he on in his last hours that he thinks a) catherine earnshaw somehow ended up in heaven and b) she is waiting for HIM. meanwhile cathy is hanging outside heathcliff's window (she's so cold let her in) in all her ghostly finery, tapping on her watch waiting for him to get on with the world's most anticipated suicide, and hasn't thought of edgar linton once since the day she died. god give me the confidence of a mediocre white man who despite every piece of evidence to the contrary still thinks that he's the main character of this love story.

[ocean-motioned]

having now read wuthering heights myself i dipped my toes into discourse surrounding this year's movie (only a tiny bit. I'm not. that invested) and from what I've heard about it it honestly seems like a fanfiction, at least in spirit, because it was seemingly made with the sole purpose of taking two characters from canon that do not fuck and making them fuck

[ocean-motioned]

they weren't lying cardio is really the vegetables of workouts

[todayintokyo]

Tiger by 十筆斎

[ocean-motioned]

>opens messaging app in the morning

>new update w/ a bunch of unnecessary ai features

>opens news

>google is turning their search into agentic conversational whatever

>opens music

>nonsensical ai summary of a song I'm listening to (literally who tf needs this. wtf. like.)

>comes to work

>ai usage mandate

excuse me for a second

[goldcrescent]

Iron Islander voice: Theon you [19 syllable dolphin noise slur] I see you came back WOKE and GAY and a WOMAN from us leaving you as a child prisoner to the guy with an 8 foot sword that makes you drag it around to executions in front of his screaming faced tree gods as a daily reminder that he can and will kill you (a child) just like he killed the rest of your family (some of which were also children). Did you have fun polishing his sword? I’ll bet. Did you write this letter yourself? Knowing there’s a one person literacy limit? Should we call you Theon the Reader, you reading fuck? And standing here in a jean jacket you bought yourself, may as well be sucking dick at old navy. You know who’s NOT woke or gay or a woman? Your sister Asha. Why can’t you be less gay and woke and a woman, like Asha? I bet she could run a democratic election because you know what isn’t gay Theon? Democracy

[bewbin]

queen mogging my opponent

[halosnothere]

well that can't be good

[zxidold]

I genuinely think Mouthwashing fandom is a good example on how real life misogyny is very wired on people brains and influenced how they engage with fictional misogyny.

You have a story about a woman being assaulted and telling a man she trusted but being dismissed because he is friends with the attacker, and people fixate on shipping her with either of those men.

You have a story about how men that downplay their male friends violence, assume neutrality is the safer option, unintentionally help create an environment that's unsafe to vulnerable people, at a risk becoming a victim themselves. And people make it about toxic yaoi.

You have a character kill herself because she didn't want birth the child of her abuser. And people make AUs where she happily keep the baby.

Misogyny isn't just "I hate women", it's also downplaying their trauma, defending those who caused it, and reducing them to mothers or wives against their wishes under this idea of what womanhood is about.

I don't think we can separate fandom misogyny from it's real world influence, not yet.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877

[mourningfictionalcharacters]

”potentially mature content” what the hell, sure

[taurzza]

[lleyksie]

shapely tigers 🍊

[ocean-motioned]

in retrospect I think it's safe to say mcu iron man popularizing the billionaire genuis mythos have had disastrous consequences for everyone everywhere

[ocean-motioned]

I love saying things and never elaborating on them but my point here is I'm pretty sure mcu becoming a worldwide phenomenon is like 50% responsible for the likes of jobs, musks and zuckerbergs being seen as visionary geniuses that will lead us into the age of technological prosperity instead of capitalists and businessmen they are

[ocean-motioned]

are those. are those abs. or am I just seeing things.