The Random Things which I think about

23. She/Her. Mostly posting book and comic stuff, but also whatever is on my mind ao3 linked here

[blackgirlnerds]

Black Comic Alliance Announces Stage 2: DCBlackout, Escalating Calls for Structural Change at DC Comics

The Black Comic Alliance, the collective of content creators behind the viral #DCSoWhite campaign, has officially announced Stage 2 of its advocacy movement: DCBlackout, a coordinated protest calling on readers, supporters, and content creators to withhold financial support and pause content creation tied to DC Comics publishing initiatives until meaningful structural changes are made around…

Black Comic Alliance Announces Stage 2: DCBlackout, Escalating Calls for Structural Change at DC Comics

[boywonderturnedhunkwonder]

TEN in FIFTY years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mysteriousbeetle]

[ID: Text that reads: "In almost 50 years, DC has only had 10 Black ongoing series in its mainline continuity, with only 1 surpassing 50 issues, and not a single [title led by a] Black woman. They constantly blame sales, but they're playing a game with the deck stacked against us. This needs to stop," said James Portis III, also known as JPenumbra. /End ID.]

[weepingmusicmilkshake]

Sneak 100

[redstonedust]

learning languages is fun because in some areas youll be like "oh wow theres one word for this thing thats covered by 20 different words in english? thats so easy and convinient!" and then in other areas you'll be like "what the fuck do you mean you use different numbers depending on what kind of object youre counting. im going to kill myself."

[opalthequeen]

some fun facts about Gaelic:

there is no word for yes or no! You just repeat the verb as either positive or negative (so I guess, really, there are as many words for y/n as there are verbs)

green and blue are the same word!

and is the vein of different numbers, you use different numbers to count people:0

[opalthequeen]

neil josten WOULD speak french in the most fuck-ass heavy quebecois accent specifically to piss off Jean (and kevin, who for sure has strong and wrong accent opinions)

[opalthequeen]

you that sound clip " if i betray you, i betray myself. if i betray him, i betray my country. my country is very dear to me.

dearer than i?

no, not dearer than you."

total vibe of laurence and temeraire end of book 4, and lowkey most of the series

[ennarchy]

[imsorrybruce]

Me going to defend Bruce against haters

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[opalthequeen]

and honestly, this sort of includes the whole “we could tell” when effeminate boys grow up and come out. It paints gay man into a corner at the same time while ALSO saying that straight men can only be macho and masculine. If you say ‘this is standard boy behaviour’ you’re also kinda saying that there is standard boy behaviour (unless you question it further) which does break down into bioessentialism.

and then when you have effeminate trans men, people can’t seem to compute because men aren’t meant to be like that

[opalthequeen]

dudes we all know that the stratt and grace 'they aren't romantic or platonic, but some secret third option' dynamic only exists from ryland's pov, right? Because Eva knows that the secret third thing is the unspoken "I genuinely like you but I have you seriously as my backup for the suicide mission and I know this isn't what you want but if it happens I'll do and I know but you don't and I can't tell you and this all makes me sad"

we are that emotionally/media literate?

[opalthequeen]

I think a lot of art and media analysis would go over better if people new what normative meant

[opalthequeen]

i think the world would have been a better place if the US had kept the idea of a Tory in their political language

[sycamorality]

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this

[opalthequeen]

i would love if the internet did not take my interest in the 1990s smash hit ER (the show I'm currently watching) as a desire to see the pitt content. I legit do not care that buddy is in two med dramas

[opalthequeen]

why do older people never have fleecy blankets???They bring me such joys but never appear in their houses

[opalthequeen]

so glad i'm not a terf. I think otherwise I would have a much less nuanced opinions on tragic(?) male characters. And also it seems that they don't embrace the vibrancy and variance of the female experience so all women characters would be made less interesting to engage with

[opalthequeen]

people who move to new provinces or internationally (for whatever reason) might actually be god's strongest soldiers , especially if they did it before the digital age.

I'm about to move three hours away (which since I went to university in my hometown-moving to town from the county-and then worked where I could stay with my grandparents and was a fine distance to come home on weekends means I'll be the farthest from home I've ever been) for a new job and the smallest things have been setting me to tears these last few days. I really don't know how people do it