The Harbour

Seeing as I am not all that creative this blog is mostly full of fandoms that I have reblogged. I may eventually decide to put some writing up here if I can be bothered. There will also be a lot of shipping pictures from various fandoms.

[tachyonfield]

Juvenile crested pigeons in my mum’s yard

They’re just so shapes

[tachyonfield]

[wizardgender]

wizords

[squeaksharbour]

What the fuck is this new mobile layout?

[funnytwittertweets]

[guerrillatech]

[lobothebuilder]

Top tier take

[acewatney]

[catchymemes]

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

[robotsandfrippary]

that guy’s shocked face looks like oscar the grouch. 

[wickedwonderlandd]

Pop off sis👏

[space-owl]

Just for you who dont speak german; in the end she asks “did I do good?” and its SENDING ME!

[iraprince]

discovering absolutely shocking things about one of our new kittens

[iraprince]

hey do u guys wanna see my cat

[iraprince]

okay so update: his sister chispa too

[jaeger-bombastard]

Really important that I posted this of Julian

[freyjapup-blog]

Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

[mediumsizetex]

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

[taxfrauddotcom]

It gets worse.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Source: http://www.themarysue.com/warner-bros-animation-girl-market/

[misspetsyourcats]

“shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning”

[official-mugi]

And then these same corporations will try to play the “boys gatekeep girls out of hobbies but not us please give us your female money”

[xiranjayzhao]

An explanation for why I’m auctioning off a copy of my book that I sat on

The cursed auction

[xiranjayzhao]

UPDATE:

It ended up selling……for $3850……

(also I didn’t want the winner to deal with eBay’s atrocious international taxes so I just had them donate the amount to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition and screenshot me the receipt while I send the book to them directly LOL)

[hustlerose]

i hate how every pre covid piece of media that depicts a plague or a pandemic is now just completely unreadable. youll be sitting there the whole time like. no thats not how it is. thats unrealistic. thats stupid. it wouldnt be like that. thats wrong.

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

meanwhile watching zombie movies turned from “oh please, humanity isn´t THAT stupid“ to “oh wow, it´s like last Tuesday, but with zombies“

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[runby2]

Just testing out some sounds

[sword-and-nightingale]

Oh! He’s feeling B O N K Y today

[short-wooloo]

Head empty, only bonky

[roughentumble]

ok hanging out on reddit is actually a great idea. someone said they didnt like henry cavill as geralt because witchers move "10x faster than a human", but cavill only moves at human speeds, and someone replied they were "fascinated by what actor they would suggest instead" given the limitation that all actors are human.

[roughentumble]

"maybe OP knows the secret to making witchers in real life but no one's listening" bro 😭

[anyawen]

The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …

[thesaltofcarthage]

the Bard will never die.

and this comic is fucking genius.

[45percenterthen]

nothing makes me cry like the embankment tube station voiceover story !!! nothing !!!!!!!

[45percenterthen]

embankment tube station voiceover story ❤️

[marbleguard]

a little-known birth control method is tracking down and starting a fight with that twitter user who casts the “may your womb be barren” spells on everyone she dislikes

[marbleguard]

[a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e]

OKAY I'M SORRY SHE GOES BY YARROW NOW

[marbleguard]

[a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e]

Should I get into the Ghost Harem™️ or is it too much

[marbleguard]

you can’t just mention a ghost harem and NOT elaborate!!!

[a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e]

Okay, so the short version is she thinks she communes with the deceased and demons and stuff because she’s a super-cool satanist pagan witch with a catgirl succubus persona named Chordeva in the astral realm or something, and so she has four boyfriends who are dead including Heath Ledger, Richard “Nightstalker” Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Michael Jackson. 

She also used to “speak” for them online by channeling them through her body so they’d use her to type (and she did this for Satan too and it was as cringe as you’d expect) and basically Michael Jackson is genderqueer and fucking Richard Ramirez from beyond the grave and they’re all fucking Stephanie too, and at one point Stephanie split up with Michael when he wanted to save his deceased father from Hell and he got the astral child in the ghost divorce, but that’s fine because she thinks she can get AIDS from having sex with ghosts so at least Michael isn’t getting AIDS while he’s dead. 

And there was the time she used Richard’s name to send (google translated) Spanish death threats to people, and used Michael’s name to say the N-word because she thought it made the act more convincing. She groomed a group of minors on DeviantArt (me included) and had people calling her “daddy,” and that only stopped because she got in a fight with one of the kids who happened to have a heart condition and had to go to the hospital because of the stress, and then Stephanie took credit for sending Michael’s spirit to pull the girl’s soul out of the afterlife, and when you lowkey kill a disabled teenager from another country and take credit for saving their life other people start to notice and so she got doxxed and now her parents (who she still lives with in her 30s) won’t let her use DeviantArt ever again.

That was longer than I intended but there’s just...so much...

[marbleguard]

[rslashrats]

/pos is the funniest tone indicator because no matter what my brain will always read it as piece of shit

[hyrude]

a perfect stuffed animal should be proportioned such that the hands can easily and naturally rest on the feet while seated

^the michelangelo’s david of toys