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towhee — she/her — elder millennial — Suzerain, Discworld, and old TV shows. some politics. also birds. AO3: california_towhee (Mostly Lucian-centric Suzerain fic and some MASH stories) Please don't follow if under 18.

[the--starverse-deactivated20260]

New experiment!

Reblog if you platonically say I love you to ur friends, comment or like if you think that's weird!

[girlballs]

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

[thirddoctor]

fandoms are still so transparently male-centric. I'm tired of hearing about people's """babygirls""" and the pathetic wet little guys they're obsessed with. have you ever spent a single second thinking about a female character's interiority

[thirddoctor]

you see so many posts like this, and there's nothing wrong with any of them individually, but this is part of what I meant in my tags about the automatic assumption in fandoms that the characters you obsess over, the ones that are most interesting and worth psychoanalysing, are always male. maybe HER guilt complex and crying fits compel me. maybe I want to get overly attached to an amoral and pathetically sad fictional WOMAN

[teh-nos]

#there's no longer quite so much vitriol in fandoms towards female characters#but instead they're viewed as the cool competent smart emotionally mature ones. the braincell havers and mom friends (tags from @thirddoctor)

She (whoever she is and whatever she's actually like) is reinvented as this very sensible, mature, reasonable character who OF COURSE we all respect and admire and etc etc blah... but as fandom keeps pointing out (see above) those are not the type of character fans generally go for, we prefer the broken hot messes (even if they, too, aren't actually like that orginally). Fandom has at last found a neat way to sidestep any accusations of not liking the women (because OBVIOUSLY we love her! she has the brain cell!) while also making sure they are collectively seen as the character type that - purely coincidentally - don't tend to get all that much fannish attention.

[nightingalesighs]

“Even if they, too, aren’t actually like that originally.”

This aspect is just…insult to injury. PLEASE SHOW ME THE MALE CHARACTERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY LIKE THIS AND NOT A FAN-MADE MAKEOVER. (Also hilarious how these will be the same people that go “men aren’t allowed to show emotion!!!1!!1!”)

Meanwhile, if they aren’t girlbossed into oblivion, any female character that’s anything less than acceptable in terms of how she behaves or expresses her emotions, is absolutely abhorred. (Most prolific example I can think of is Cersei Lannister but she’s hardly the only one)

And god fucking forbid she isn’t white.

[leviathan-supersystem]

my overall opinion of the whole "i became a white nationalist because people called me racist for no reason" talking point is that while I do think spurious accusations of bigotry are a problem, if your immediate reaction to being called racist is to become an actual white nationalist then it sounds like they were right about you being racist. like I don't think that accusation was spurious.

[wineauntgenna]

[zainabelhaj]

favourite City Watch quotes

[folkloregirlfriend]

one time i tagged a post with #perv instead of #prev by mistake and the op of that post blocked me

[latedawnsandearlysunsets]

three of them

[olmec-colossal-head]

Courage, Anxiety, and Despair Watching the Battle by James Sant (ca. 1850) anyone?

[charlesoberonn]

Worldbuilder: I can't use this town name again, it'd be confusing for the reader.

Real life people: This is a great spot for another Springfield.

[poetikat]

[jammernews]

Trump Wants Black People Barred From Med School - The American Prospect

By targeting medical schools for prioritizing diversity, the Trump administration insists on a century-old belief that Black people are uneq

Modern medicine advanced through the exploitation of Black people, but the breakthroughs in effective care do not necessarily reach Black patients.

[spinus-pinus]

Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus

4/5/2024 Patagonia, Arizona

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[creativepromptsforwriting]

To all the writers who haven't written in a while. May the right words come to you and may they actually get written down.

[enteetea]

Name a better feeling than getting the first comment on a fic you were uncertain about and knowing that at least one person liked the tiny piece of your brain that you put on the internet

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2026 - Week 32 - Banjo

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

The hedgehog can never be buggered at all, indeed!

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