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Avid reader, cdrama and film enthusiast, dark academia. I write meta for my favourite shows. Blank blogs and porn blogs will be blocked.

[moltensoultraveler]

after watching Zhen Huan, Ruyi and Yanxi I get Ruyi's exhaustion on such a fundamental level because what the fuck is the point of protecting yourself from schemers and accusers? As soon as one of them loses influence/dies another crops up again. The emperor is guilt tripped into having basic trust in you for a blissful 1 month before he's back to his usual bullshit. Rinse and repeat until the dude kicks the bucket or get killed by one of you. You desperately wrangle you or your ally's kid onto the throne to make sure the new emperor isn't someone out to make your life hell as a result of generational grudges. You then watch the new emperor become a piece of shit reminiscent of your toxic husband as every human weakness gets exacerbated into a moral failing by his environment. You spend the rest of your days trapped in the forbidden city surveying the dozens of new gen harem women with a watchful eye while your relationship with your children potentially falls apart around you. you die of old age in a harem that's by this time became a train wreck, half a dozen grandkids prematurely in the grave, man on the throne completely unrecognisable to you

[shadowlordookami99]

Ning Li as Song Chen | Ripe Town 繁城之下 (2023)

─ The First Tooth Fairy of Du County

[magnificentempress]

Friendly reminder that all women know what men are.

Old conservative ladies know that men are violent rapists, so they promote finding The Good One and being an obedient wife so you don't trigger a violent outburst and stay protected from other violent men.

Libfems know that and they propagate legal prostitution so that men rape only one cast of women, and not all women. Besides, if you just say yes to all sex, you are unrapeable amirite.

Trans "men" know that and they choose to pretend to be men and blend in so that they are not targets of their violence.

Mothers know that and they dont let their teenage daughters go to shady parties. Fathers know that and they teach their teenage daughters that boys only want one thing.

Pickmes know it and they hope that they can doormat their way into men's loyalty and draw their attention to le ugly feminists instead.

Normie het women know it and they message the guy's license plate to their friend chat and invent elaborate ways to signal SOS when they go out on a date.

Boymoms know it as they are often the ones to cover their sons' horrifying crimes, obviously.

Every single group of women knows it. They just cope with it differently. Stop this bs with socialization because somehow, throughout the varieties of cultures and times, men end up just the same.

[whimsifae]

the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating

[miss-nerd-alert]

[lenalenouilleisblogging]

I will never ever take criticism of humanitarian workers/NGOs spreading their own values seriously when it comes from a man. Especially a heterosexual man. "But who are you to tell them how to live their life" A fucking woman. I don't need to believe that my country is the most advanced form of civilization (and believe me, I don't) to strive for better for women everywhere. You will never know what it's like to be part of the female half of the population. To have the dehumanisation and mistreatment of people like you be treated like a normal cultural difference like clothing or food. Something that you need to tolerate or even celebrate.

Everywhere you look, on every continent, in every era, women and girls are treated like sub-human trash. But you shouldn't be too vocal about it, because it's insensitive. Oh it's cultural, oh it's tradition, oh it's a different way to look at things.

Yes women on this island are not allowed to fish for themselves because they would taint the food. Yes 10 year old girls in that region have to hide everything but their face and will be married in 2 years. Yes in that country teaching is the only profession women are allowed to work in. Yes in that culture women aren't allowed in religious buildings because they are considered impure. But it's fine. It's the culture they live in, they don't have a problem with it. Everyone but you is happy, stop being such a privileged classist racist atheist snowflake. It's just the way the world is.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

“I see men from this culture as human and women from this culture as objects, because I see myself as human and you as an object.”

[virginymphomaniac]

Their God is male

Their phrophets are male

Their apostles are male

Their books tell periods are dirty

Their thinkers are misogynistic

Their saints would call you a whore

Don't defend your oppression

[justalurkr]

Xitter ate the tweet this is from, but Tim Bender posted it

On what the male loneliness epidemic is really about. Given actual alternatives, women are opting tf OUT of "traditional roles".

Edited to add found the tweet

[femcassidy]

here’s my #problematic opinion of the day but men talking about how much they’d like to commit violence against women they disagree with is always a sign these men are not committed to politics and instead would like a “moral” justification to abuse women lol

[femcassidy]

and when i phrase it like this, i feel it’s an easy sentiment to agree with. the thing is: this applies to all men and all women. i am not comfortable with leftist men talking at length how they would like to beat radfems. i am not comfortable with leftist men making sexually aggressive jokes about megyn kelly. i am not comfortable with any man making these comments for any broad range of moral justifications & i hate that we’re all willing to give these idiots passes to enact violence because it’s targeted against the proper ideology. it’s not about the ideology! these men just want to scare & harm women!

[sossegato]

[parthenogenon]

"If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts."

Warm/cool, comfy, well-built and well-structured, aesthetic grass huts, but yes, grass huts. Simple fundamentals and strong foundations, elaborated on over time, with attention and care, experiment and play. But yes. Grass. Hut. The horror.

We would have clean water, healthy food, many libraries, beautiful places to read them in, fast transport to and from, safety to enjoy it all in. We would have places to learn to do and maintain all of that in, and how to continue to improve them. But yes, if it fit the location, the huts would be grass.

They'd be large enough to house the community and what the community needed, and also what the community wanted, and who knows what else, and then more space because really who knows what else, but yes, the grass would be huts. And the grass huts that would not work best as grass, would not be grass. And the grass huts that would not work best as hus, would not be huts. The grass huts would be grass huts, yes.

Even without men around to fuck shit up, and take up time, the grass huts would be grass huts. Disgusting. Earthen. Dirt-y. Boring. Renewable. Common. Vulgar. Living. Dull. Fitting. Appropriate. Something almost anyone could do. Easy. Slutty. Pathetic. Truly womanish.

But thankfully, men are around to "drive society". We have 100-storey tall empty crumbling useless multi-building apartment complexes for busywork projects, literal dick-twiddling, but at least they're not grass huts. No bush. We have the tallest building in the world! (We didn't always have that. Don't tell anyone I told you. The shame. The shame.) Thank god we have those -- the tallest buildings -- imagine if your dick stopped getting bigger? (Imagine if you didn't have a -) You'd basically have to kill yourself. I personally couldn't step off the ledge until I opened up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings on my phone and sorted the table by year. 2026. 351 meters. That's 1,153 feet. We've still got it. We're good. We can still get it up. We're okay. We're okay.

[borgqueens]

And also without men in charge we wouldn't be, you know, constantly raiding and destroying and burning down each other's grass huts and causing trauma for each generation to pass down to the next.

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[kuttithevangu]

The thing I dislike about alt histories where real life monarchs have been made both gay and unproblematic is that it seems to imply that gay monarchs have not existed in history but if they did they would be cool. Which isn’t true. They have existed and they were just as bad as straight people. And I think it is disrespectful to real queer history to pretend that queer people have never been absolute bastards

[furiousradfem]

female experiences:

being told it’s normal if your clothes hurts you and you have to endure it

being told it’s normal if sex hurts you and you have to endure it

not finding basic information about your biology and sexual organs through most of your life

being told that pain is a normal part of your life

being told that if you are a “good girl” you’ll endure it without complaint

being told you should be grateful for the rights you have and finding out in the past you wouldn’t even have these rights

getting brutally shut down if you try to stand up for yourself

getting forced into a role of serving men because “it’s woman’s job”

having your labor dismissed as worthless and stupid 

but you have to keep doing it anyway or you’ll get punished

anything you do is considered worth less and generally dismissed

realizing men’s work is praised and glorified even when they do harmful and environmentally destructive work for selfish purposes

realizing you can’t do anything about it and feeling less worthy even when you do more work and more necessary and useful work

having your compassion used against you

having your energy and emotional labor used by men who demand you to listen to them and comfort them and stroke their ego

being laughed at and invalidated and called slurs and insults when you try to talk about your own problems

being called selfish, dramatic, crazy, delusional and damaged when you expect basic decency and compassion

being treated like you’re insane and hysteric if you display any kind of anger at how badly you’re being treated

feeling infuriated at double standards and for how harshly you’re judged and punished while men can get away with anything

doubting your own senses and considering if you really are crazy

being ignored as a human being, your intelligence dismissed, only thing that seems to have any worth is your body but you get shamed, objectified, sexualized, used, violated, predated on and hurt 

hating your body and wishing it was a different body, one that nobody would hurt and violate

feeling completely helpless and alone

[iron-sunrise]

I am FILLED with hate for these mfers.

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[herbaklava]

[thesweetscentofbooks]

why must you call me out like this

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

[lostsometime]

Also the new linguistic quirk of just saying “it was 2020” as like. The full end of a story. You say “it was 2020” and everyone knows what you mean.

“I was going to get my masters degree but then it was 2020, so yeah”

“I was cast in a play and then it was 2020”

“my boyfriend proposed but then it was 2020”

[home-and-having-tea]

Sure fossils are found on their own, but fossilized bones had family, friends; they felt love, happiness, heartbreak, and loneliness. These fossils had a favorite food and loved the smell of rain and collected pretty yellow flowers. These fossils smiled at sunrises and waved at little lizards sunning on trees. These fossils had kids who giggled and skipped at the beach, who toothily grinned and held up swirly shells. These fossils cried at losses and felt the fear of death. These fossils held hands and laughed through bad times and stared at the stars in curiosity.

Every bone was once a person, just as human as us.