SheCalledItSavagery

Poetic rants, ranting poetry. Elizabeth War: Traveler. Teacher. Feminist.

[qadmonster]

“sponge mother”

[arr-jim-lad]

i keep seeing that post about how frustrating the buff guy -> petite girl type genderbending is, and i wanted to add my two cents regarding the addition of ‘just swap pronouns and don’t change the design’ approach because i think these are two sides of the same coin, as they both fail to really delve into what i think is the most interesting aspect of this design exercise.

the reason i find genderbending to be such a fun and interesting challenge is because, if you actually want to be good at it and put thought into it, you have to really consider the character’s canon gender expression and think about what it means to them and how it reflects in their outward appearance and presentation.

is this male character buff because he likes to work out / be strong, or does he aspire to achieve conventional heteronormative male beauty?

is this female character a tomboy because she likes to express herself in a more masculine way, or is she doing it to fight gender norms?

the answers to those questions should produce very different designs!

this website loves to say that gender is a spectrum, but sometimes i genuinely wonder if people actually understand what that means. 

gender expression, much like gender, is also a spectrum, which is why keeping the character exactly the same won’t always work, in the same way that just making the character conventionally attractive won’t always work. but sometimes, a buff dude would actually just be a hot girl. lady bane, however, would 100% look exactly the same.

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[jinxfmrl]

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

[republicansareahategroup]

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

[deadredactedwalking-deactivated]

300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript

[sky-squido]

Transcript: (sorry for the language!)

Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”

Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”

Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“

Speaker: “What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]

Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“

Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“

Speaker: “And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our own until it’s a country without… without what?“

Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“

Speaker: “Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding, following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know these…“

Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“

Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“

Speaker: “These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and destroy them before they destroy us!”

Speaker: “Thank you.“

One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“

Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*

Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”

Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*

Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“

Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“

Hungarian man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”

Young man: “What were you doing there?“

Hungarian man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.”

[ladythatsmyskull]

A film created for folks in case Martin Niemöller was too subtle.

[idhren]

“They used prejudice as a practical weapon to split the people.”

[jessicalprice]

In this country, we have no ‘other people’.

90% of Denmark’s Jews survived the Holocaust, because starting at the top, Denmark’s government and prominent citizens and all the way down emphasized this.

And all this was openly supported by King Christian. He did not, contrary to popular myth, ride his horse through Copenhagen wearing the Star of David, but he did make it clear, as he wrote in his diary, that he considered “our own Jews to be Danish citizens, and the Germans could not touch them”.

Denmark had, in essence, inoculated itself against Nazi propaganda because its citizens believed that Jews were not “other people.” As Bo Lidegard writes in Countrymen:

The Danish exception shows that the mobilisation of civil society’s humanism and protective engagement is not only a theoretical possibility: It can be done. We know because it happened.

Being a Jewish Dane or a Danish Jew might have made you a little different, but it didn’t make you other people.

Unlike Niemoller, they didn’t have to see atrocities visited on a series of Other People and only start caring when it happened to themselves. They understood it as happening to themselves from the start. Because their Jewish neighbors weren’t Other People.

As Denmark’s Jewish population sprang into panicked action, so did its Gentiles. Hundreds of people spontaneously began to tell Jews about the upcoming action and help them go into hiding. It was, in the words of historian Leni Yahil, “a living wall raised by the Danish people in the course of one night.”

Many of them didn’t even see it as “resistance work” on behalf of the Jews because it was simply fighting back against an attack on their own community.

Though there was anti-Semitism in Denmark before and after the Holocaust, the Nazis’ war on Jews was largely viewed as a war against Denmark itself. After the war, most Danes refused to take credit for their resistance work, which many had conducted under false names. Ordinary people who never considered themselves part of the Danish Resistance passed along messages, gathered food, gave hiding places or guarded the possessions of those who left until they returned home from the war.

Communities in which there are no Other People save lives.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[nkjemisin]

[joshsundquist]

a clip from my new comedy special (x)

[plentyoffandoms-deactivated2024]

Jack Black did more of Hit Me Baby One More Time, and I am living for this.

What an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4

[coffee-in-that-nebula]

BABYYYYYY I DIDNT KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO FALL IN LOVE TODAY

[daltongraham]

What do the kids say now, this "goes hard"? Is that out of date? It slays? OK I'll be my age and say this fucking rules

[mememediocritymaven]

A cock saver

[cricketcat9]

Hoomans: stoopid

[hotvintagepoll]

Who is the hottest old movie woman? (round 3)

Keiko Awaji

Barbra Streisand

Voting ended onApr 13, 2024

Propaganda

Keiko Awaji (Stray Dog, A Japanese Tragedy, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs)— Her role as Harumi— a dancer who lives with her mom and will go to incredible lengths for one nice dress— is so fucking killer. she more than holds her own against Toshiro Mifune, the incredible sense of dread and foreboding in their scenes has really stuck with me

Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, Hello Dolly)—I love her smile!! I love her nose!! I love her Brooklyn accent!! She's hilarious and gorgeous and real!!! I love her sense of humor! I love her voice!

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Keiko Awaji:

Barbra Streisand:

"If you want to know why I’m submitting her, you’ll just have to read her 900 page memoir My Name is Barbra. It’ll explain everything!"

Lovely, smart, funny and a GORGEOUS VOICE

have you seen her? she could sing and dance and i love her so much in funny girl

Her most famous movie line is telling herself “Hello Gorgeous,” what else can I say lol. One of the most famous Hollywood divas of our time, who’s still alive and going strong. All of her outfits in Funny Girl are also soooo pretty. Plus she got to act alongside Omar Sharif, who was in the Vintage Men Poll.

She IS the greatest star! Her voice! Her eyes! She has one of the most stunning profiles I've ever seen. Talent in SPADES! (And honestly, as a wlw it's disingenuous to ignore it - a truly beautiful cleavage)

[cryptotheism]

Worldbuilding is meaningless without interesting characters

[appraisedtiktoks]

[dajo42]

[headspace-hotel]

That giggle is making my heart melt like a popsicle in the summertime

[spock-fucks]

goes hard

[triviallytrue]

Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca

In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think

this is so funny

"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"

"fuck you. ultradense housing that bypasses your stupid zoning rules"

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

she got those Tom Lehrer vibes

[accessible-tumbling]

[Video Description: extended tiktok/video by fettuccinefettuqueen. Multiple camera views and qualities are shown. Gabbi Bolt, a feminine musical comedian wearing a bright floral shirt, earrings, and bandana, plays a keyboard and sings under pink and blue lights on a small stage. She sings and plays a song (lyrics below). It begins slowly. Every time the Aus police are mentioned, the song gets faster and goes up a key. By the end, she is singing and playing very quickly. It ends with a flourish and applause.

Lyrics: A kindergarten teacher would only have up to F. When they looked at their curriculum to teach the alphabet. A surgeon would not yet have even touch a surgery. But 6 months, Yep, that's all it takes to join the Aus police. A lawyer would be juggling 4 subjects on their feet, when on average there are 38 - right? - subjects to complete. They cannot yet defend, object or bargain for a plea, but meanwhile you can make arrests when you're the Aus police. Seem fair! A first time mum is still too busy cooking up a kid. A first time architect is still drawing up a blueprint. A first time taxidermist is still fucking creepy so is the fact that in 6 months you can join the Aus police. A retail worker would still have a skerrick of their soul. The West Coast Eagles still would not have scored a single goal. Michelle has not been introduced as Child of Destiny but you can lock up kids when you work for Aus Police. The age of criminal responsibility in this country is 10. When I was 10, I couldn't even spell criminal. A politician would've only fucked up 40 times and for every fuck up made, they would have told bout 40 lies. A Telstra support worker still has not got back to me but I would not have this problem if I worked for Aus police. Hands up Tesltra! It's a raid! Fa La La La La La La La La La Firearms Mililililili Military Complex Li li li li li li li li little tiny boots! Haha! ay ay ay ay ay. All the people I know that went into this career were annoying at best ... and horrifying at worst. A learner driver would still be making their mum go *pffftt*. An office worker still has not worked up two weeks in lieu. A musical comedian just has this melody. But 6 months, Yep, that's all it takes to own a gun and make arrests and join the Aus police.

End Description.]

[source]

[nitramaraho]

I shared this with everyone I knew on tiktok when I first saw it, this is phenomenal and my favorite

[setzeri]

There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.

[projectsurreal]

1. Power move. 

2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels? 

[secondlina]

I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.

[netherworldpost]

I keep referencing this comic to my mythology clients in the back office and it is directly leading to multiple projects.

This comic is amazing.

[spicy-apple-pie]

Does this have a point? Yes. I wanted to see more soft dad Bruce and more of early Damian forced into accepting affection because he's sick.

Commission Info / Kofi

[prokopetz]

You're an amnesiac girl-in-a-box with a terrible hidden power even you don't understand. Where did they find you?

Floating naked in a tube of luminescent goo in a subterranean research facility

At the centre of a massive crater in what appears to be a small spacecraft

Neatly packed in a standard shipping crate in several ready-to-assemble pieces

Sealed in a sarcophagus in the ruins of a colossal pre-human structure

Growing like fruit in a fleshy pod produced by some invasive organic mass

Hooked via wires and tubes to a broken machine whose purpose you can't explain

Filthy and malnourished in a locked basement room, with no sign of any caretaker

Trapped in non-physical form within a sinister puzzle box or forbidden book

Frozen inside a giant block of ice in some remote and inhospitable clime

Recovered from the remains of a giant robot or monster, presumably its pilot

Stuffed in a closet next to the vacuum cleaner, apparently asleep

Other (specify)

Voting ended onApr 2, 2024

[prokopetz]

(For those unfamiliar with the trope, "girl in a box" is a conspicuously recurring motif in contemporary fantasy and sci-fi media whereby a mysterious character – typically young, typically female – is found in, and subsequently released from, a container of some kind by a third party; discovering who this character is and why she was in the box then forms the impetus of the plot. That this character has amnesia and possesses a terrible hidden power are customary but not obligatory.)