hello!! i’ve attempted to make pinned posts in the past but now that i have more mutuals i figured it’s finally time for a serious one.
happy pride month!!!!! 🌈˚₊·—̳͟͞͞♡˚ ༘🏳️⚧️ ೀ⋆｡˚
you can call me livie or sel! i’m 21 years old, genderqueer, bisexual, and neurodivergent, and my pronouns are she/he. i run this blog alongside my imaginary friends, and we call ourselves “the lovecats” (named after the song by the cure)! we are not a system, it’s just me and some pals i made up, but i do welcome and support systems!!
i’ve been interested in web graphics for years now and have started posting my own (stamps and buttons mostly) on this blog. you can find all of the graphics i’ve made on the my graphics tag!! we also have a sideblog for our hoard of reblogged graphics not made by me (@luvcatshoard), but any i’ve made myself will be here. I TAKE REQUESTS!!! pls request something lol i love making graphics for people :3 all my graphics are free to use, no credit needed but you’re more than welcome to credit if you want.
a few randoms while i work on requests! i think i have like 4 requests to do still but i prommy i will get them all done 🙏 these are all f2u, no credit needed :3
sorry in advance for the lengthy rant but i just rewatched fight club a few hours ago and really wanted to write about this lol
angel face is the most overlooked fight club character in my opinion. i get this is mostly due to people hating him because hes played by Blonde Jared Leto (which yknow. cant blame you there. absolute freak of a man.) and also because he has like maybe 10 lines in the whole movie and isnt thaaaaat important of a character... but i really love his little role in the story.
hes a younger guy who joins this cult like thing and doesnt leave it because of his admiration for the leader and fight club/project mayhems masculine, carefree, rebellious aesthetic. he looks past the obviously dangerous and destructive tone of what it becomes as the story progresses, instead clouded by a sugar coated fantasy of what he believes fight club is.
angel portrays what its like being impressionable and angry. he projects that anger through the only outlet he has at the moment which is fight club. anger directed at society as a whole. anger he likely wouldnt feel as strongly about (if at all,) if it werent for tyler(/narrator) indoctrinating him into feeling this way via his rants in the club.
hes supposed to be in his late teens to early twenties. he barely knows himself, let alone the world and true flaws of society. so of course if the guy he idolizes says the world sucks, hes gonna think the world sucks without second guessing. hes similar to narrator in a sense, but we know narrator eventually snaps out of tylers ideals.
angel face is also a pretty fucking great parallel to real shit that goes on today like naive young guys falling down the alt right/incel pipeline. they think the leaders of these movements are cool, and if the leaders hate women for example , they blindly think they should hate women too!
with the weirdly large overlap of male fight club fans and incels, this portion of the fandom will watch fight club and think of it just as "woah brad pitt is so cool and masculine here i want to be just like him" instead of thinking critically about his actions and why he obviously shouldnt be idolized. by striving to be like tyler, you will always end up being like angel face.
“There was something awesome about being at a truck stop at like two a.m. putting eyeliner on with big burly truckers everywhere. It was just really dangerous.”
“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)
“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)
“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)
“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)
“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)
“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)
“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)
“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)
We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we
These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been
We can all train ourselves to just use “they” by default and only start using “he” and “she” once we know the gender identity of the person we’re referring to ☺️🌈
