yvonne

burrowed in duvets and candlelight

[stqrrdvst]

what's the point of all this music— ❛ SIGNED,

s✶her. ／ 6teen. ／ i yap a lot in my tags. ╰╴ avid fic reader & laufey enthusiast !

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YVONNE. ❜ —if i'm not here to dance with you?

[stqrrdvst]

so many loki fics to catch up on and NOT ENOUGH TIMEEE

[space-aronaut]

Wow it’s almost like the oversexualisation of queerness is one of the reasons why asexuals, non-binary folks and aromantics are not seen as queer enough to be part of the community

[quousque]

OH

[loontattoo]

being vulnerable and admitting I don't understand a reference

[aidashakur]

there's not a single casual bone in my body. everything means something to me

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[the-sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

happy Mother’s Day to this hard working mother

[m1dnightdancer]

"are you man enough" but its just todd anderson existing

[stqrrdvst]

the vibe i bring to the function and it's literally just bbc mycroft

[thetheaterkidwriter]

This game is frying me

Like we know Charlie… we know you’re a homosexual boy kisser… everyone knows it

[frankencain]

mabel, episode 23: bull in the maze

[deadlyr0s3]

i love when ppl message me again if our convo kinda ends. like yes, please keep it going. you could never annoy me but sometimes i forget and don't know what to say or i was busy

[duhitsa-lamp-meeks]

Todd Anderson I know what you are…

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

[linmeiwei]

It also almost always comes down to poor research.

Rather than research the ways subversive women really acted, what they really said, what they actually cared about, the very specific ways in which women used to be treated, dismissed, infantilised etc, we get books and TV shows in which modern words, modern concerns and modern ways of being “a strong woman” are awkwardly squeezed into eras in which they make no sense.

It’s a disservice to the real feminists of that time, to the real women who lived and survived in a system of continuous misogynistic oppression, and the real journey we have travelled to get to where we are, and the long long way we still have to go. Worse, it feeds into the ignorance that breeds that complacency which then leads to a lot of the gains we have made being taken away from us.

[tuulikki]

“Historical women were told they don’t matter!” says the author, doing no research because they’ve decided historical women don’t matter.

[maxxie-or-smth]

i would like to hold hands with someone which i think makes me a depraved disgusting pervert

[anexperimentallife]

[loveridden1999]