I'm just a bit Johnlocked

Because this ship sails itself.

[rad-roach]

Gen One of My Little Pony was fantastic because it understood little girls enjoyed playing dress-up and braiding hair but would then turn around and use those prettied-up little horsies to play out some of the most vicious high stakes storylines ever conceived. 

[bogleech]

everyone I know raised as a little girl and given only supposedly “girl appropriate” toys acted out the darkest most brutal shit with them, I swear to god, every time I played at girl’s houses when I was a kid they got out their barbies or ponies or polly pockets and weaved a tale that typically had at least two murders, a suicide pact and a satanic ritual.

[beelzebufo]

Wait… so… people raised as boys didn’t roleplay horses enslaving humans/blood sacrifices to the gods/trojan war style epics over lost loves? Weird.

[bogleech]

I love how many comments this exploded with about the grotesque horrific shit kids acted out with their barbie dolls and horsies. But no, the thing is, toys and cartoons “for boys” never focused much on realistic emotional strife, especially not back when I was younger. Heartbreak and betrayal and lost love were all designated “feminine” territory for some reason, so the kids placed in the “boy toy” camp were just focusing on action, action, action with little pepperings of interpersonal drama, like, Lord Skullfucker’s gonna blow up the sun any day now but it turns out he’s Commando Dragonlaser’s long lost brother, so Commando Dragonlaser is only going to tear out Skullfucker’s kidneys with his bare fists after a fleeting, manly moment of regret. Kids shoehorned into the “girl stuff” slot, on the other hand, are just given plastic housewives in plastic mcmansions and little happy kitties to work with, and the expectation from adults is that they’re going to act out sweet, saccharine stories about baking a cake for the boys when they get home from a day at the office. Unfortunately for those adults, all types of children are equally likely to crave stories full of shocking twists and thrilling peril, including death, and all kids have wild-ass imaginations with no filter, so while the story of Lord Skullfucker is “technically” more brutal, on paper, the drama kids come up with when they’ve only got the horsies and barbies to work with are more believable and visceral.

Obviously this is just my personal view from my personal experience as one person who had both girls and boys as childhood friends, but it seems to be backed up by other people’s stories almost every time the subject comes up.

[themintycupcake]

I remember reading a very eloquent post a while ago about how teenage girls will go on to read and write really dark, fucked up fan fiction about their favorite cartoon characters and it was analogized to having a paper shredder in their heads. Everything aimed at girls is saccharine and sweet while women and girls are faced with the reality of misogynistic violence that becomes more and more visible as they grow from children to teens. Play as children and fan fiction as teens and adults gives them the outlet for their thoughts and desires that come out when they’re shoving cartoons through the mental paper shredder.

[lesbvan]

#my job here is done

[mysaintsasinner]

After fighting with my dad for years on the fact that Dean is bi, I finally won the argument by showing him this gifset. He now agrees with me that the showrunners need to actually acknowledge Dean’s bi-ness if nothing else. His exact words were 'Dean, my dude, those aren’t hetero reactions.’

[panpinecone]

bowser reacting to mario’s tux vs bowser reacting to mario’s dress

[coffeedads]

Bowser respects gender non-conforming Mario even if he WASN’T INVITED

[snoopingasusualisee]

[ladybender]

...Would you fuck a clone of yourself?

[themadcapmathematician]

This is the first time ive seen this meme used and it wasnt only in character but also literally sounds like actual dialogue from the series itd paired with

[ithelpstodream]

[naruhoe-deactivated20220131]

when ur obviously both bottoms and have been dithering for the past 14 minutes now about who’s going to have to top and you just can’t take back and forth of competitively rising voice pitch anymore so u just buck up and turn him over, gloves and crop top still on

[taquito]

i gotta stop u right there

[notkatniss]

who asked????????? WHO ASKED FOR THESE?

[jonbutter]

[upthehillart]

s c a r r e d

[warmhappycat]

JKR said that Hagrid still works at Hogwarts in 2017, which means he’s still been alive these past few decades, and I just really hope someone took him to see How to Train Your Dragon.

[bisexuals-agenda]

that someone’s name is charlie weasley and they both cried 

[persephoneshadow-deactivated202]

PADALECKI “Houses of the Holy” was the first time we ever talked about angels on Supernatural. [Jensen] and I both were like, “Whatever your religious beliefs, whatever ours, we’re not here to proselytize. We’re here to make a serialized television show, but we want it to be universal.” So we actually had a conference call with Eric Kripke, and we were like, “Hey, man, we don’t know how we feel about this.” ACKLES We didn’t want to be a mouthpiece for writers’ religious views, because it wasn’t the show that we had signed up for. Our argument was: “We trust you. You’ve done good by us so far. However, this is our one concern, and we’re just bringing it to the table so that we can discuss it.” PADALECKI And they heard us out, and I think that’s why they waited another year and a half before introducing our second and most famous angel. I think it’s the one time we’ve ever called them together with a complaint. Because I’m not a writer. I don’t want to be a writer. I enjoy my job as an actor. But that was legitimately like, “Listen, if you’re going here about religion, I don’t want to be a part of it.” MISHA COLLINS And now amazingly, 11 years later, so much of the show has been hung on biblical lore and mythology that is actually drawn from the Bible. One interesting thing for us is that we end up talking along the way to priests and pastors and ministers, or even nuns, who love the show. ACKLES [To Collins] You and I went to the Vatican. We went in St. Peter’s Basilica, and there was a priest there from South Carolina. He was a fan of the show, and he did a private mass for us in front of the mural of Michael slaying Lucifer. He goes, “I thought this would be appropriate for you guys.” COLLINS That was pretty magical. ACKLES It was amazing, but my point being that we’re in one of the most religious places on earth, and they’re catering to people from a show that deals with religiously inspired storylines. PADALECKI But not telling the story that the Bible tells. ACKLES That’s the out. That’s where we get a pass is that we’re not trying to tell the story of the Bible. The writers take inspiration from biblical elements and then elaborate on them. So when we got into that original discussion, Eric came back with: “We’re not here to tell the story of Jesus Christ. We’re here to take that element and use it as inspiration for the story.” I think that alleviated any concerns that he and I had. And at the same time we really trusted Eric and still do to this day.

[utterly-johnlocked]

The stars of Supernatural break down the moments that changed the show (via ibelieveinthelittletreetopper)

Regardless of how soon the audience discovers the priest’s guilt, [Kim] Manners says, “Jared and Jensen and I had great concerns over a Catholic priest committing these murders, over it being blasphemous… even though he thought he was doing the right thing. We had quite a lengthy telephone call with Bob [Singer] and Eric [Kripke] about it, who were convinced we could pull this thing off. At the end of it, I said, ‘What this means is we have to make this the best damn show we can and be as sensitive to the material as we can, and really play how wrong this priest was.’ And we pulled it off without ruffling any feathers. I’m sure there’s a priest out there who has done something just as egregious, but to portray it on TV as entertainment is a pretty daunting task. I’m very proud of that episode.”

Source: Knight, N. Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 2. Titan Books, 2008: 77.

(via justanotheridijiton)

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

god is real but you can only see him behind the 7/11 at 3:34 am after you down 6 and a half 5 hour energys

[warmbooze-blog]

this post and “I’m gonna take 1000 benadryl and fuck my shadow self” are really their own unique category of post and it’s my favorite category

[cathedralblood-deactivated20161]

Don’t forget about “self care is drinking two jack in the box coffees at 7 pm and gaining enhanced vision of the shadow people you often see in the corner of your eye”

[mortrouge]

[fanonical]

harry potter, surprising literally everyone, retires from being an auror to make ceramics in a cottage in the hills. “i don’t know,” the boy who lived said in a statement. “becoming a potter just seemed right, you know?”

[risenreading-deactivated2018060]

I’ve been on this site for how long and I am in shock it took this long for a potter joke

[bigmammallama5]

i draw and make pottery but ive never drawn somebody doing pottery so this was fun and i fully support this even if its just a joke lol

[sainamoonshine]

#youre a hazard harry

[mercurialmalcontent]

I’m not even much of a fan of genderbends but goddamn am I even less of a fan of getting ordered around about what I should enjoy and how I should enjoy it and being lectured about how ‘problematic’ it is, when the real problem is that they’ve cast the thing in question in black and white and refuse to admit that there’s anything but their narrow framing.

Changing a character to the ‘opposite’ cis gender is a very different thing than making them trans or nonbinary. Insisting that people only change characters to trans is also really damn invalidating, because it implies that being trans is interchangable with being cis. Whoopsie doodle!

I think the real issue here is that a lot of people want to see more trans headcanons, but for some reason think that using sj words while being bossy and rude is the way to go about it. Dress it up in progressive language all you like; at the end of the day you’re still being bossy and rude to get what you want, regardless of anyone else’s valid feelings.

[roachpatrol]

i get really irritated at kids who scream that genderbends are transphobic because they’re completely missing the context and history. they have no idea. it’s like to them, Cis People made up genderbends specifically to thumb their noses at trans people.  

rule 63 was originally a guy thing, sexual objectification thing. it states ‘for every male character, there’s a female version of that character’, and not because the dudes who were into it cared about having more realistically rendered female heroes in their media. it was made popular on 4chan and porn boards and comics+gaming forums because you could reduce a manly male character into a sexy tits-and-ass pinup. there were related kinks of sissification, but mostly it was about getting to jerk it to a sexy female version of a previously unappealing, macho male character. 

then women got hold of the rule and started going, okay. let’s look at the female version of this male character. let’s talk about being a woman in a man’s world. let’s talk about rorschach’s misogyny, tony stark’s womanizing, batman’s grimness, the fact there’s one girl ninja to every four or five guy ninjas, let’s talk about that in the hypothetical context of these male heroes being women instead. if there’s a girl version for every male character, what does that mean? what’s her story? 

and it became this really amazing lens for female fans to interrogate stories through, to examine the effects of sexism and misogyny and masculinity, to introduce another woman into a story with very few, to identify with fully-rendered heroes of the fan’s own gender. and to interrogate the very nature of gender, which led into the development of genderbends where the character’s gender identity didn’t necessarily match their assigned sex, and from there an increasing interest in, and familiarity with, trans characters, trans people, and trans issues. 

so like. people now reducing the issue to ‘cis people are gross and hate trans people’ is pretty ridiculous. it ignores basically twenty years of women questioning, confronting and then dismantling the de-facto heteronormative, exploitative male gaze in order to create the radically progressive fandom atmosphere as we know it today on tumblr. 

[damnfool-of-a-took]

I’d been trying to put into words my issue with the idea that genderbent versions of characters are somehow automatically, innately transphobic, and I think you pretty well nailed it.

[skull-bearer]

Originally, it was called ‘genderswap’ or ‘genderswitch’, which was rightfully criticized for reinforcing a binary view of gender. Hence why it is now ‘genderbend‘. Things can bend in many directions.

[guinevak]

Yeah basically.

Rule 63s can be transphobic and gender essentialist, no question, just as m/m slash can be misogynistic, but it’s not inherent to the genre.

The way I see it, rule 63 and trans/nb headcanons are two subsets of what I call “gender AUs”, and they’re not mutually exclusive.  Girl!Sherlock Holmes is an example of one, trans!Holmes is the other, and trans woman Holmes is both.  All those would be worthwhile explorations.

[actuallyclintbarton]

Yes! And all sorts have their place because all of them are exploring the experience of an under-represented group (or two) in a different way.

[davidtennantcom]

NEW PHOTOS: Another Era Of Crowley & Aziraphale As Good Omens Continues Filming In London 

The Good Omens shoot went time travelling today as the action took a step back to the 19th Century. The demon and angel duo of Crowley and Aziraphale, played by David Tennant and Michael Sheen, were strikingly different in appearance as the production moved into its second day of principal photography. Gone were Crowley’s skinny jeans and flowing red hair; instead the characters appeared in Victorian garb, with long coats and tall top hats, and were surrounded by a host of period-clad extras and horsedrawn carriages.

See more here

[darkmoron]

Hey guys how about we don’t play along with this nonsense 

[bemusedlybespectacled]

PLEASE tell us how vegetables are a social construct

so a long time ago humans were trying to figure out edible plant matter, right

and because they didn’t have fucking microscopes or anything they were like “okay we have to divide them in some way that is easy for us to figure out”

so they COULD have divided them up by like, color or some shit

like all the red things are called noogles and all the orange ones are called fuckips and all the yellow ones are called snarglebutts or whatever

but they didn’t

they divided them by taste, which makes sense if you’re trying to sort edible plant matter, the whole point is eating them so why not sort them by the most likely reason you need to know the difference between them

so all the sweet tasting things are called fruits and all the not sweet tasting things are called vegetables

except like other than that there’s no rhyme or reason to it at all??

like potatoes are roots and broccoli is a flower and pumpkins are fruits and celery are stocks

but we’re putting them together because they don’t taste sweet

and lemons are juicy and wet but not sweet but they’re fruit for some reason but tomatoes aren’t even though they’re also juicy but not sweet and carrots aren’t even though carrots can be sweet

meanwhile apples are genetically more closely related to fucking roses than they are to shit like blueberries but because they both taste good in pie we put apples and blueberries in the same group and roses are a different thing 

like, there’s a good reason why we sort plants this way, and that reason is “it’s easier to make food if you know vaguely what it tastes like beforehand,” and sorting plants by genetic family also makes sense if your reasoning is “i want to know what plants are related,” but they’re both sorting groups that humans made up and we could just as easily sort by color or shape if we decided that was an important thing we needed to know and that’s why it’s a social construct

[cats-and-consent]

The fact that the seatbelt alarm turns off after a certain amount of time is so fucking symbolic.