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@tehduchess

where I go to fangirl uncontrollably. about me jenny (codename duchess) infp | hufflepuff | gamer | writer | dancer | shipper i'm a tv person current favorites: arrow, orphan black, the 100, agents of s.h.i.e.l.d., outlander | all-time favorites: buffy, veronica mars, battlestar galactica, firefly, x-files other things i like star wars (original trilogy), wonder woman, marvel cinematic universe, mass effect, skyrim, dragon age, harry potter, classic movies, the avett bros, orcas, elephants

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Ok I did the thing. #threefictionalcharacters #aboutme #beautyandthebeast #southpark #pennydreadful

#aboutme #threefictionalcharacters #beautyandthebeast #pennydreadful #southpark

mistressfishie

agentverbivore

not what they were expecting (3x17 vs 3x21)

#best ship

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loquaciousliterature

Hard to argue with that logic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Thank you to the MANY lovely people that recommended this scene from Deathly Hallows!)

hellotailor

The feminist critique is in the air now. If my rendition of Black Panther wasn’t created by that critique, it breathed the same air. I can’t really kill off or depower women characters without grappling with Gail Simone. I can’t really think about how women characters are drawn anymore without thinking about the women in Bitch Planet, and how they seem drawn beyond the male gaze. This is why criticism is important. The job of criticism isn’t to interrupt or encourage commercial prospects. (“Batman vs Superman smashes Box Office, despite critic complaints!”) Criticism should push our imagination and help us understand what is actually possible in art and, I’d argue, even what is moral. Through much of my time collecting comic books I never took much issue with how women were drawn. I had a vague sense that there was something about, say, the reworking of Psylocke that bugged me. But I simply didn’t give it much thought. It never occurred to me, for instance, to ask whether a superheroes pose was anatomically possible. It never occurred to me to ask why a super-hero would have DD cup-size. Was that for her benefit, or for mine? I never asked. The feminist critique of comics has made “not asking” a lot harder. That, in itself, is a victory. The point is not to change the thinking of the active sexist. (Highly unlikely.) The point is to force the passive sexist to take responsibility for his own thoughts.

The Feminists of Wakanda, Ta-Nehisi Coats (via hellotailor)