What is this BEAST on my floor

Used to be @Cavewomania. 18+. See @vlad-swagmius and @tylejandro for more funny business

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[rylandsgrace]

Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

[enjamin-the-benitor]

shout out lina lamont

[rottendecomp]

Horrible Shitpost Wall p1 - Credit not Required (Credit ROTTENDECOMP and/or this link if you do credit)

[zegalba]

Yuzu Kato: Borrowing from the Tiger's Majesty (2022)

[gabowook]

Late night conversations for the sleepless

[escuerzoresucitado]

[stayinchildishness]

I want a cigarette case so i can put candy cigarettes in it

[suppermariobroth]

Top: Super Mario 64 is the first game that lists Princess Peach's name as "Peach Toadstool", being known almost exclusively as "Princess Toadstool" in Western material and "Princess Peach" in Japanese material prior to this. (She was referred to as "Princess Peach" in Yoshi's Safari in 1993 in English once before.)

Bottom: in a 2025 interview with Time Extension, Leslie Swan, localization manager on various Nintendo games and voice of Peach in Super Mario 64, revealed that she was the one who suggested this compromise of using both names to Miyamoto herself.

As such, very fittingly, the person who is heard saying "Princess Toadstool, Peach" at the beginning of Super Mario 64 for the first time also happens to be the person who invented the name in the first place.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Time Extension

[trashpandaartblog]

You'll have a sandwich

By Rémich

[myfavoritedemons]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GO LOOK AT MORE OF THE ARTIST'S WORK ON HER INSTAGRAM, IT'S AMAZING

[drst]

Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics? 

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you  and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

[darthmelyanna]

Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?

[drst]

^^ I like this idea.

[animatedamerican]

You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials.  But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.

And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery.  Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits.  And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.

Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.

[jessicalprice]

Not to mention that some of the societies portrayed, or inspiring similar fantasy settings, actually had STRONGER protections against and consequences for rape than the ones we live in today. 

Accounts from Vikings’ contemporaries recount a lot of raiding, but not a single case of rape. Viking law didn’t treat rape as a property crime, and the penalty for it was outlawry, which was essentially a death sentence. Medieval English law prescribed that rapists be castrated and blinded. And the sagas contain vanishingly few references to rape (and violence against women is usually followed with comeuppance–often death–for the perpetrator). 

TL;DR: History wasn’t one giant rape-fest, and in fact, members of the cultures high fantasy is usually based on may have actually been more disapproving of rape than we are today (imagine trying to pass a bill making rape a capital offense today!). 

These writers include rape because they like writing about rape, not because history dictates it. 

[sarahconnorjr]

[cloverhighfive]

[scarf-it-box]

In case you’re uninitiated:

These are the current female volleyball uniforms

The Norwegian team on the left got fined a ridiculous amount of money for wearing shorts to the games

When you compare the men and women, it becomes very clear how sexist the uniforms are.

[ssjdebusk]

“Sexism is dead women are so annoying to keep talking about it”

*professional athletes get fined for wearing shorts*

[deaddruid]

never let men talk about how men tend to work more dangerous jobs without reminding them that 1) just living with a man is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do and 2) women make up the vast majority of prostituted people, and that up to 90% of prostituted women will experience physical violence/threats/stalking and up to three quarters will be raped while "on the job". at least men working with dangerous chemicals and machinery are compensated appropriately instead of being homeless, traumatized, often controlled by a pimp, and using drugs to cope

[deaddruid]

@radgirl-spray genuinely this is such high praise

[nansheonearth]

As someone who's worked 'dangerous' jobs with men, the danger is increased because of men's actions. They regularly ignore or avoid safety protocols. They don't want to do things correctly if it will take too long. They won't wear protective gear because they're too macho. I've seen young people's lives cut short and serious life altering injuries because of men's laziness. Replace men with women in these 'dangerous' jobs and watch the workplace fatality/injuries drop.

[dhakcjshkvjbd]

Thank you! We really need to start pointing this out. The fact that male-dominated jobs tend to have higher rates of accidents is not a testament to men’s superiority.

If men took up knitting en masse, knitting would become one of the most dangerous jobs because they’d find ways to stab themselves and others with sewing needles. Men don’t injure themselves and their coworkers because they’re heroically doing risky but necessary jobs, they do it because they’re trying to have fun, cut corners, and be macho

[unichrome]

A mining corporation I briefly visited explained how men were simply worse at the job than women, not only safety-wise but also for the tools and equipment. Men kept destroying and wearing out expensive equipment such as the ore truck wheels (one single wheel costs around 30k euro) at a much higher rate. The pattern was so clear that the company hopes to hire more women than men.

[inkskinned]

what is with men being mad any time a woman raises her voice where did that even come from. someone posted a video of a small electrical explosion, and the top comment was of course the woman screams. the second comment is women try not to scream challenge, level impossible. i had to go back and watch the video again. there is, somewhat fainty, a little gasp emitted off-camera, more of a yelp than a scream. it is mostly lost in the crack of the explosion. afterwards, you hear her voice, shaken, say, are you okay?

i am helping one of my friends train her voice pitch lower, because she wants to be taken seriously at work. she and i do each other's nails and talk about gender roles; and how - due to our appearance - neither of us have ever been able to be "hysterical" in public. we both appear young and sweet and feminine. she is cisgender, and cannot use her natural voice in her profession because people keep saying she appears to be "vapid". we both try to figure out if our purposeful voice lowering is technically sexist. is it promoting something when you are a victim to it?

a storm almost sends a pole through a car window. in the dashcam, you can hear the woman passenger say her partner's name twice, crying out in alarm. she sounds terrified. in the comments, she is lambasted for her lack of calm. how is that even fucking helping?

in high school, i taught myself to have a lower voice. i had been recorded when i was genuinely (and righteously) upset; and i hated how my voice sounded on the phone speakers when it was played back. i was defending my mom, and my voice cracked with emotion. it meant i was no longer winning the argument: i was just shrieking about it.

girls meet each other after a long summer and let out a little joyful scream. this usually stops around 12-14, because people will not tolerate this display of affection (as it has the effect of being passingly annoying). something about the fact that little girls can't ever even be annoying. we are trained to examine each part of our lives (even joy) for anything that could make us upsetting and disgusting. they act like teenage girls are breaking into houses and shrieking you awake at 3 in the morning. speaking as a public school educator: trust me, it's not that bad, you can just roll your eyes and move on. it does not compare to the ways boys end up being annoying: slurs in graffiti, purposefully mocking your body, following you after you said no. you know, just boy things.

there's another video of a man who is not allowed to yell in the house, so he snaps his fingers when he's excited about soccer. the comments are full of angry men, talking about how their brother is unfairly caged. let him express himself and this is terrible to do to someone. eventually the couple has to address it in a second video: they are married with a newborn baby. he was trying not to wake the infant up. there is no comment on the fact women are not allowed to yell indoors. or the fact that it could have been really alarming or triggering for his wife. sometimes i wonder if straight men even like women, if they even enjoy being in relationships with them.

for the longest time, i hated roller coasters because it always felt inappropriate and uncomfortable for me to scream. one of my friends called me on it, said it was unusual i'm so unwilling. i had to go to my therapist about it. i don't like to scream because i was not raised in a safe situation, and raising my voice would have brought unsafe attention towards me. even when i am supposed to scream, it feels shameful, guilty. i was not treated kindly, so i lack a basic form of self-protection. this is not a natural response. it is not good that in a situation of high adrenaline - i shut up about it.

something very bad is happening, i think. in between all the beauty standards and the stuff i've already discussed - this one feels new and cruel in a way i can't quite express. yes, it's scary and silencing. but there's something about how direct it is - that so many men agree with the sentiment that women should never yell, even in an emergency - it feels different.

is the word shriek gendered automatically? how about shrill or screech? in self defense class, one of the first things they tell you is to yell, as loud and as shrilly as you can. they say it will feel rude. most women will not do this. you need to practice overcoming the social pressure and just scream.

most women do not cry out, even when it's bad. we do not report it. we walk faster. we do not make a scene. what would be the point of doing anything else? no matter what we do, we don't get taken seriously. it is a joke to them. an instagram caption punchline. we have to present ourselves as silent, beautiful, captivating - "valuable."

a woman is outside watching her kids when someone throws a firecracker at them. she screams and runs towards her children. in the comments, grown men flock together in the thousands: god. women are so annoying.

[ballsandsocioeconomics]

A woman's first blood doesn't come from between her legs but from biting her tongue.

— Meggie C. Royer, The No You Never Listened To

[ms-hells-bells]

"woman screaming" is considered to be one of the "most annoying sounds" as per large scale surveys. Men claim it's the pitch and tone, but women have many different pitches and tones. It's just misogyny.

[greenwire]

It's not just "woman screaming" it's women crying (now with more politics, it's problematic now because women crying are "weaponizing their tears"), and even just women talking. About 10 years ago the phrase "vocal fry" entered the lexicon and everyone pounced on it as a reason to hate on women's voices even more. (Ira Glass, host of This American Life, speaks with a prominent vocal fry, as do many men in broadcasting. But vocal fry has become synonymous with a woman speaking in a lower register.)

The problem really isn't "woman screaming" or "woman crying" or "woman talking." The problem is that women exist and have the temerity to do it where you notice us. Most people who complain about women's voices will deny that they are being sexist at all. But everyone just so happens to have the exact same double standards for women's and men's voices. By coincidence, of course.

Why Do These Women's Voices Bother You So Much?

Why do we complain so much about female voices?

‘Unbearable’ and ‘excruciating’: Women podcasters face discrimination for their opinions and their voices

Voices that deviate from the norm are often condemned as not authoritative or comforting, says a professor and feminist podcast host.

What we talk about when talk about women's voices

If a woman is talking, she must be doing something wrong.

[j4v4r10]

I had forgotten about it until now, but this just reminded me that growing up, my brother used to complain so often when I vocalized during a yawn, that I completely quit doing it :(

I just tried it again, intentionally for the first time in years. It wasn’t even that loud, it wasn’t even that high-pitched, just a melodic little descending “ahhh” and it felt very cathartic :)

[razerbackbitch]

what my dream will be tonight

[demo]

Passing through Times Square by Mareen Fischinger

[officeshelpdesk]

Complete Guido collapse. Century of dominance over the New York metro area to collapse to an Indian guy and a boring Democrat woman. Italian American century of humiliation began when Giuliani betrayed his people and gave the mob to the feds. Thousands of guys named Tony jumping off of roofs and sliding five blocks away because they're covered in hair gel. Meatball sub no longer allowed to be sold because of woke. Your Nona is in heaven crying. Never forget what they took from you

[officeshelpdesk]

The year is 2045. Gabagool is referred to in the same way we refer to Greek fire. Cornicellos banned from public life. All the delis are polish or Hispanic.

A man in a crowd makes the mistake of reacting with "OHHHHH!" to his paisan's vaguely homosexual comment. A black van pulls up and takes him to a reeducation camp.

No guinea tees allowed, everyone has to wear sleeves. The government removes your pinky if you wear a ring on it.

THIS IS YOUR FUTURE! THIS IS WHAT'S COMING! WHERE IS YOUR RAGE VINNY!? WHERE IS YOUR ANGER FRANK!? THEY'RE NOT GONNA LET YOUR MOTHER MAKE HER GRAVY!