No Fear

hannah | she/her history phd & semi-relevant hot takes

[trangoldin]

[gentleman-detective]

unfortunately if Arthur Conan Doyle was alive today he would spread misinformation in a weekly podcast

[aaronstveit]

the only documented case of anyone ever ACTUALLY having a gay agenda was george blagden on the set of les mis 2012

[valtsv]

sorry for romanticizing the mundane but the fact that laughter is infectious is so incredible to me. like yeah it's just a reaction to stimuli but the way it feels to hear someone laugh and feel yourself compelled to share that joy is really something. and it's so simple and requires no skill but it's so special and important to me.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[insomniac-arrest]

People have overused Catholic Guilt to the point they cannot recognize the clear and haunting Protestant Shame in front of their eyes. that character Knows they could have worked harder

[mythalism]

also cant stop thinking about how extremely devout man of the faith as in the institution of faith of the seven ormund hightower telling daeron that his targaryen blood is a corruption and his dragons is an ungodly abomination is nearly 1:1 the conversation the high septon has with rhaenyra when he refuses to anoint her last episode. and then if that wasnt already enough daeron being forced to execute a prisoner to prove himself worthy of being king in front of a consequential audience is deadass 1:1 of rhaenyra executing otto. you send your youngest son away to make him a hightower and he becomes ginger rhaenyra targaryen instead

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.05 // 3.04

[visenyaism]

because Ormund Hightower getting in his teenage nephew’s face and coke ranting about the glory of the Hightower Reconquista that he has made up in his head that they are divinely ordained to accomplish to because of their special blood and no one understands but them IS exactly how Daemon was moving with fifteen year-old Rhaenyra in the first season of this show. kind of insane

[spinchingout]

brennan kinda nailed the whole “i care so much as long as it’s exactly my way and everyone agrees with me and if not then i won’t try” type of leftism. i wanted to like maya soooo bad but being 100% ready and willing to sever ties with purpees best shot at resurgence without a second thought bc of things she mostly made up about them in her head if they did not succeed in “proving” themselves to her as if her approval is the goal and not, u know, fixing what needs fixing………some of us need to be taking notes and REALLY internalizing them

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Can’t reblog the post going round containing these two screenshots:

So I’ll put my addition here:

This also applies to women who complain about feminism requiring them to work, rather than being ‘ladies of leisure’. Women equivalent to them in the past always worked - who do they think were the maids, housekeepers, cooks, nannies, wet nurses, governesses, washerwomen, spinners, weavers, seamstresses, nurses, midwives, etc - and today’s equivalent of the past’s ladies of leisure can afford to be ladies of leisure now. Feminism fought for women’s work to be acknowledged, valued, and fairly paid, and that fight is still ongoing.

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

You were not an aristocrat or royalty 'in a past life' - you were a peasant.

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[tyriongirl]

Lady Stoneheart to Brienne during Jaime's trial

[rogueorbit]

obsessed with what’s gotta be the weakest prisoner/hostage situation i’ve ever seen in my entire life. alicent not allowed to leave but can wander to rhaenyra’s quarters whenever she pleases. one flash of a tender moment and rhaenyra is asking for her advice. rhaenyra “can’t be seen favouring hightowers” but shows up at her door, tail between her legs, spilling the beans that she kidnapped her son. alicent, staunch truth teller to her detriment, doesn’t even try to pretend it’s actually daeron. alicent asking the real questions like “am i supposed to thank you?” and “so i’m supposed to hope for the death of my son?” bc yeah rhaenyra has lost the plot (affectionate)

[morganaspendragonss]

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

[rubynye]

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

[romeinexile]

screaming, crying, throwing up. the babygirl mama's boy to tragic death pipeline is too strong

[crayonbug]

guys we have GOT to start listening to our moms

[notkatniss]

#needthat