Confusticated and Bebothered

Hobbit fanatic, currently drowning in a sea of Winter Soldier feels. Smattering of other fandoms and random oddballness.

[salviag]

I don’t want to upset anyone but I just realized Grogu is Gen X

[anarcho-fitposter-deactivated20]

[therealmcu]

[libraryspectre]

Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights

[folklorestv]

#he did what he had to do #legality is not a guide for morality

bonus:

[thewritingrealm]

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

[ezzydean]

# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers

[bitegore]

F u c k

[hilunawrites]

Because of this I stopped procrastinating and got 1000 words out on my WIP!!

[blackqueerblog]

I hope this is everyone else too!

[kaelio]

Someone requested a doodle of “some of the Dominion’s anti-human propaganda” but tbh this is too real outside of star trek. this is probably plastered over the entire Citadel in Mass Effect

[brendanthesalty-deactivated2018]

@gaygarrusvakarian

[hotdogharvester]

I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED

[typhlonectes]

[brietastic]

“Carol falls down all the time, but she always gets back up — we say that about Captain America as well, but Captain America gets back up because it’s the right thing to do. Carol gets back up because ‘Fuck you.’“ - Kelly Sue DeConnick on Carol Danvers (x)

[deadgodjess]

Oh look it’s @thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

Kelly Sue DeConnick coming in fast with bold truths.

[maaarine]

MBTI & Youtubers (x) Simone Giertz: ENTP

“I got interested in building robots, and I wanted to teach myself about hardware.

But building things with hardware, especially if you’re teaching yourself, is something that’s really difficult to do.

It has a high likelihood of failure and moreover, it has a high likelihood of making you feel stupid.

And that was my biggest fear at the time. So I came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100% of the time.

With my setup, it would be nearly impossible to fail. And that was that instead of trying to succeed, I was going to try to build things that would fail.

And even though I didn’t realize it at the time, building stupid things was actually quite smart.

Because as I kept on learning about hardware, for the first time in my life, I did not have to deal with my performance anxiety.

And as soon as I removed all pressure and expectations from myself, that pressure quickly got replaced by enthusiasm, and it allowed me to just play.”

[movietvetc]

Team Cap exuding BDE in Avengers: Infinity War

[salviag]

Did I have to look up BDE?  Yes I did. #oldpeopleproblems

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[notcayleb]

this is a good post.

[maskedriderbiocore]

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

[habibialkaysani]

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

[salviag]

rambling, vaguely coherent #why i didn’t report it

The man who I dated for a short time when I was sixteen and he was seventeen, who held me down so he could undo the strap on my bra when he got frustrated by my repeatedly brushing his arm away when he tried to do so, has been leaving supportive comments for women on fb posts regarding the kavanaugh hearings.  And I want to be pleased about it but I also want to say “you know that’s what you did to me, right, just stepped up a few notches?”  But I don’t want to deal with the fallout of his reaction & those of mutual friends, not just because I expect him to be angry at me (though I expect he might) or because other people might comment negatively about me or it might open me to be a target but also because I don’t want him to feel bad?  Or have other people get mad at him or think badly about him now?

I mean, I should have said something at the time, right, instead of passively accept his desire to touch my body as his right no matter how uncomfortable I was.  Right?  But I didn’t tell him to stop & I’ve never told him how it made me feel & I don’t want to because I don’t want him to feel bad.

tl;dr:  FUCK INTERNALIZED PATRIACHY AND 8Os RAPE CULTURE

[goodbonesassembling]

If you don’t maintance your accessible options (self opening doors, ramps, sloped entrances and curbs, etc) it doesn’t count as accessible. If your store has aisles that are wide enough for chairs but they’re full of shippers or islands or they’re so close to the back wall that a chair can’t turn between them, it doesn’t count as accessible. If your bathroom has an accessible stall but doesn’t have a self-opening door or has a raised plate across the entrance, it doesn’t count as accessible. If your accessibility options come framed under the idea that someone who needs them will be accompanied by an able bodied person It’s. Not. Accessible.

I’m sick of seeing these half-assed, lazy attempts at accessibility.

[lord-kitschener]

I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

[ziegfeldghirl]

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

[durnesque-esque]

My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)

[libraford]

I had to look at this like FIVE TIMES to register all the layers of symbolism going into the piece by Patterson. 

The hoodie as a veil. 

Weisman cigarettes

Each of them is haloed by an advertisement sticker. 

No Vacancy sign on the motel. 

Dove sticker over Maria’s head. 

Neon sign with a star symbol also over Maria’s head. 

The crown over the ‘Dave’s City Motel’ sign. “New Manger.”

The sign behind Jose’s elbow likely says ‘Herod.’

The wee little plant growing through the cracks at their feet. 

It’s like a New Testament ‘I Spy.’ I love it!

Ugh.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity. 

[theprinceofprinces-deactivated2]

The paper at José’s feet has an advert for Shepard Watches Maria’s hoodie says Nazareth High School The sign above José’s head proclaims ‘Good News!’

[naamahdarling]

This is incredible and lovely.

[portraitoftheoddity]

clint, loki, road trips are the worst

Instead of being choked out by Thanos, Loki is caught up in the bifrost beam Heimdall summons and is thrown to Earth. Hulk is blindly flailing though, and inadventantly punches him out of the beam, so unlike Bruce, Loki doesn’t land in New York.

He lands outside a small rural farm.

Hard. 

And when Clint Barton goes outside to check out the meteor that landed in his field, he gets a hell of a nasty shock. He grabs a shovel, wishing he had his bow, ready to fight Loki to the death to give Laura and the kids a chance to escape. 

Only– Loki doesn’t attack.

Loki looks like shit. 

And more than that, he looks scared. 

Clint doesn’t want to listen to a thing the guy says, but as Loki pleads with him from where he’s lying, battered and broken in a crater made by the impact of his own body, Clint can’t help hearing him; Loki tells him Asgard is fallen and Thor is in danger. Thor might be dead. And the guy who sent Loki to invade in the first place – and Clint remembers Loki had a boss he was scared of – is coming, and he’s going to wipe out half of all life in the universe if they don’t stop him.

Clint swallows and points out there’s fuck all he can do about it – he’s under house arrest. Loki came to screw with the wrong person if this is one of his tricks. But Loki insists it isn’t – he didn’t mean to fall here. But if he’s on Midgard, Heimdall must have sent him here for a reason, and since Earth’s Mightiest Heroes definitely won’t rally around him, it must be for something else. 

There is a sword, he says: Lævateinn, lost to Midgard in the last great Aesir-Jotun war. It was forged by elves and imbued with power by the Norns, with a blade made of seidhr – it might be weapon enough to kill Thanos, if Loki can find it. 

But he’ll need help to do that.

Someone with… heart.

Clint lifts the shovel and he’s ready to kill Loki on the spot for that, but Loki doesn’t move. He’s unarmed, and Clint’s mind remains his own. 

Thanos, Loki tells him softly, has killed his people. And he has likely killed Loki’s brother by now too. If Clint will help Loki get his vengeance, then Loki will, when this is all over, submit to Clint’s.

Clint.. considers it. Seriously considers it. But he’s still under house arrest, and if he leaves the property, the government might never let him see his family again.

Loki shrugs, slowly getting up. If Thanos wipes out half of all life with a snap of his fingers, he asks, which of Clint’s children is he willing to see die?

…

Ten minutes later, Loki has a black eye, and Clint goes and gets the keys to the truck, grabbing his go-bag that he never unpacked, and giving his wife a kiss goodbye.

He’s got a sword to help an asshole god find. 

Before it’s all too late.

-

[Loki & Clint cross-continental roadtrip shenanigans ensue, culminating in them getting to Wakanda in a beat-up old Jeep with several Russian mobsters inexplicably along for the ride, just in time for the final battle. Clint may or may not have a magic mistletoe arrow.]