OpossumBlake

He/Him They/Them

[kathrynalexao3]

I may have gone on a HWFWM meme binge. Feel free to save & use these at will.

[madpandakira]

Rufus Remore in gold eyeliner, I wish I could remember who said he'd play with make-up if they had it in Pallimustus, so I could credit you for my brain rot😭 so if you're out there let me know!

I thought I remembered it saying he wore silk robes at some point, so I gave him one of those ridiculously fancy dressing gown style ones, like he's getting ready in the morning lol

[depsidase]

[saipng]

don’t you just hate it when 🚙

um. sorry wait a minute [grabs mic]

can the owner of the blue honda civic move their car please. it’s blocking my post.

[yuumei-art]

I am neck (haha) deep into this manga/anime. Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) is such a poignant exploration of what makes humanity lovely and terrible by juxtaposing an actual eldritch horror next to the everyday horrors of human hate.

Please check it out! I haven't loved a story this much in a long time <3

[important-animal-images]

[apwthimen-o]

Theyre on a date

[star-anise]

Feminist fantasy is funny sometimes in how much it wants to shit on femininity for no goddamned reason. Like the whole “skirts are tools of the patriarchy made to cripple women into immobility, breeches are much better” thing.

(Let’s get it straight: Most societies over history have defaulted to skirts for everyone because you don’t have to take anything off to relieve yourself, you just have to squat down or lift your skirts and go. The main advantage of bifurcated garments is they make it easier to ride horses. But Western men wear pants so women wearing pants has become ~the universal symbol of gender equality~)

The book I’m reading literally just had its medievalesque heroine declare that peasant women wear breeches to work in the field because “You can’t swing a scythe in a skirt!”

Hm yes story checks out

peasant women definitely never did farm labour in skirts

skirts definitely mean you’re weak and fragile and can’t accomplish anything

skirts are definitely bad and will keep you from truly living life

no skirts for anyone, that’s definitely the moral of the story here

[beatrice-otter]

Now, a skirt that’s too long will be harder to work in–skirts brushing the floor may look elegant, but is also a tripping hazard–but that is not a problem with skirts in general, it’s a problem with that particular skirt not being suited to being worked in. Skirts are very practical. You can hike them up if you’re hot or need more freedom to maneuver (this is called “girding your loins”). If you need to carry something, you can lift up your hem and make a pouch just like the person in yellow in the bottom picture above. If you need to handle something hot, a skirt generally has enough material you can hold it out from your body to use as a hot pad. (Tight skirts were only used by people who didn’t need to work/move until the invention of elastic fabric.)

[star-anise]

Long skirts were markers of class almost as much as gender. Both men and women in the European middle ages wore extravagantly long garments to indicate both “I’m so rich I can afford THIS MUCH fabric” and “I don’t walk in the mud, I pay servants to do that for me.”

Skirt hiking: Definitely a Thing. (Janet’s tied her kirtle green/above the knee and not below…)

Love this post, and want to add: another example of the “empowerment means shitting on feminity” is the bizarro way that this genre attacks basic survival skills like cooking and sewing as pointless, inferior or mutually exclusive with masculine pursuits (like your lady knight should probably know how to cook for herself and sew her own wounds and patch her clothes while she’s on her quest through the North to rescue her boyfriend, or this happy couple is in for a world of hurt!)

Or to quote one of my all favorite posts, “fuck women’s contribution to our survival.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Historically, skirts have been the garment of choice for almost every culture, gender and class. Breeches, or pants, were created specifically for riding horses.

[eric-coldfire]

Meanwhile, men wearing skirts.

[star-anise]

*bangs gavel* NEEDS MOAR SKIRT

(Seriously, the notes on this post are a goldmine for people mentioning their cultures where men wear skirts. I couldn’t fit them all in. This is missing toooons of cultures from every part of the globe, especially Asia, Africa, and the Americas.)

Ancient Rome

Modern Morocco

Medieval Europe

Traditional Saudi Arabia

16th century Russia

Traditional Papua New Guinea

16th century Turkey

Modern India

[wowsyri]

i deliver propane.  this means driving a large truck, then dragging a heavy hose up to one hundred and fifty feet through people’s yards, usually in deep snow and severe cold.  i was the first woman my company ever hired.

and when i showed up for work in a skirt, all the men went BALLISTIC.  they told me i’d trip, i’d get stuck, i’d freeze, i’d quit within the month when i found that i had underestimated how hard the work was.  i asked what they thought women wore to work outside before the mid twentieth century, and they told me “women didn’t work outside then.  they stayed in the house all the time.”  and that’s when i learned that hatred of the skirt is another way of erasing women’s history–if you can pretend that all women were too hobbled by their clothes to even function, you can pretend that they never contributed jack shit to society.

anyway i’ve been doing this job in a skirt for three years now, and all the men should be jealous of my complete range of movement and infinite layering potential.

[thevampiremarie]

Before the Spanish showed up and WRECKED OUR SHIT, precolonial Filipinos all wore skirts, dresses, and/or loincloths. It is much easier to weave a single piece of fabric, or a single tube of fabric, than it is to weave the fabric, pattern the fabric, cut the fabric, and sew the fabric into breeches. Why would you do that unless you had a practical reason to?

There were occasional examples of what looks like breeches in the Boxer Codex, a late 16th century Spanish manuscript that contains illustrated examples of the attire of the various ethnic groups in and around the Philippines, (along with ethnic groups from other Asian countries), but irl most likely those were just malong/patadyong (a garment that is a tube of fabric) tucked and tied to create breeches.

Please enjoy the below illustrations.

(There is a critical lack of mention of hanfu, yukata, or hanbok on this post. I only have the expertise to cover hanfu, but I don’t have the strength, spoons, or enough expertise to feel comfortable handling that so I’m hoping a hanfu expert can weigh in!)

[jaubaius]

Changeover🔊

[alexaloraetheris]

First, you think the bird is a fool.

They you realize the bird is smarter than you and actually checked first.

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

Source: Mehdi Alibeygi

[rumze]

@todaysbird

[alexseanchai]

huh, the full video is almost two minutes long, and what got cut was entirely title and credits:

[atepa09]

Reblog for the full length one… because you know heaven forbid people credit artists for their hard work that made us laugh or smile.

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

Ya'll be like "Shang was having a bi freak out, realizing he was into Ping". NO HE WASN'T. He already knew he was into men. His bisexual freak out was when he realized Ping was Mulan and hey maybe he's into girls too whatdoya know?

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

Legit you think a bi man who has always been in such a male-dominated space like the army hadn't already figured out that he liked men? Come oooonnnn... It's women he has rarely had contact with and has no idea how to talk to or flirt with (you fight good) I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

In "A Girl Worth Fighting For" Shang has zero lines I REST MY FUCKING CASE.

[gottalovecatss]

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

[socialjusticeace]

I am Looking at these tags my guy

[ID: Screenshot of tags that read:

ppl don’t like to imagine bi ppl coming to terms with being bi after identifying as gay bc they think that’s a downgrade lol. That’s why there’s like 100000 stories about cishets realizing they were bi and like 2 of gay ppl realizing they were bi.

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[catasters]

[mostlycatsmostly]

They’re doing their best with half a brain cell.

[charlesoberonn]

The gray kitten isn't dumb. They're learning. They made a mistake and stopped.

The orange kitten tho... they are not beating the stereotype.

[catgirl-bartender]

smokey Jone: whoopsiesies! steppted my lil paw inna the foude. dis noan goode, bettor whipes it off ovar hier.

Vermillion Carmichael: gotta eat this fucking metal

[depsidase]

[db-1986]

Why don't people get excited when we say we are trying for a baby?

[pittermogged]

morning at the oak-garcia household

[secretlykogane]

“i asked chatgpt” well i asked the voidfish and they said ^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Sign the Petition

Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult

[atlas-spade]

Just in case any of my moots/followers are Canadian

[depsidase]

[igotstuckinthevoidhelp]