elune's problem child

Melody. Pansexual. Cisgender Woman. She/Her. Intersectional Feminist. Somewhere between monagamous and polyamorous. Witch. Elf. Cancer. My heart lies within fantasy, fashion, animals, nature, kindness, and a reverence of the Moon.

[clothsofgoldd]

[michaelburnnham]

I call this “tiktoks that would have been vines”

[furbawl]

[raging-rad-feminist-deactivated]

The pill has been around for 60 years and they’re only just realising this shit? They’re only just looking into why we take these pills this way and not continuously?

Some religious dude decided that women needed to bleed once a month, that we needed to use the pill like this for religious reasons/to replicate our natural cycle, that the pill itself should be accepted by the Pope and everyone goes along with it for 60 fucking years? It even states in the article that using it like this (3 weeks on, one off) is LESS effective that using it continuously. But that dude didn’t care about the women; only about it replicating natural cycles and being Pope approved.

It just goes to show that women’s health, reproductive control, and safety, is less important that a man deciding that it needs to be Christian-approved. And even when it wasn’t and he removed himself from the religion, he made no attempt to change the status-quo, deciding himself that this was the way that pills needed to be used, not the way that was better at protecting women from unwanted pregnancies.

Article from the Independent

[ms-hells-bells]

i was told this by my doctor when i first went on them, but unfortunately i have to take the week break when i’m on them otherwise i get random spotting and more cramping. i hope this helps lots of other women though!

[lelaid]

[murieltrash]

[stardust-while-high]

[dorksworn]

@vaelrin

[tkkatherineblog]

Villa et Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild  Inst @itsmainy /  @ines_gilioli 

[alrightevans]

what we do in the shadows is the only modern day vampire fiction that is 100% realistic and believable even if only for the scene where Nick yells ‘TWILIGHT’ and Deacon is like ‘shut UP nick you’re not Twilight’ 

[alixanasworld]

[sunthang]

paradise

[shroomfucker]

Ah, to be a sleepy prison guard on the way to a chair by the cell of an adventurer… Maybe I will wear my oversize ring of keys extra loose tonight.. who knows what could happen if I were to uh… doze off.. ;)

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

daphne said fuck blue lives

[patronsaintofmonsters]

“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is, essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden. Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most. Which explains why the culture keeps telling this story.”

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Rookie, The Season of the Witch

For readings on the correlation in horror between puberty and the monstrous, see:

Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”)

Aviva Briefel’s “Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film”

“‘The Hair That Wasn’t There Before’: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed”

Bianca Nielson’s “Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps”

Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s “Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”

I will add Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws here, although she’s concerned more with identification, monstrous-feminine as men’s horror, and the maternal aspects of possession tales (including a section on possession as oral penetration). Although both Creed and Clover are important feminist horror theorists who work in Psychoanalytical lenses, Barbara Creed talks more about transformation than Carol Clover does. And transformation is key to horror movies about how women are terrifying.

For variations on a theme, watch Ginger Snaps, Carrie, and Teeth together.

(Bonus: here is Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection for free online)

[partydrugs]

Aleah Michele

[theconcealedweapon]

Police officers claim that there’s a war against them.

They’re always saying that they have a tough and dangerous job. They’re always saying that society is full of people who are out to get them. They’re always saying that a police officer’s life can be ruined by a false accusation of brutality.

But if that were true, they’d be begging to be filmed. If the police were always filmed, people would see how dangerous it is to be a police officer. Police officers would be able to defend themselves against thugs who try to kill them, because the video would prove that it’s self defense and not police brutality. Anytime a police officer is wrongly accused of brutality, they’d be able to immediately disprove the accusation.

But that’s not what happens. Police officers protest against being required to wear cameras. Police officers threaten people who film them. 

Clearly, there’s no war against police officers. Police officers want people to not know what actually happens. Police officers know that in the absence of video evidence, a police officer’s word will be taken as fact. They’re just afraid of being held accountable for once.

[smarter-than-the-republicans]

Scalding

[trans-road-warrior]

[matchagirl]

https://instagram.com/p/Bj7thSBHWxB/

[kalichnikov]

“Terf is a slur used to silence us” dang bitch I wish it worked shut the fuck up

[humansofnewyork]

“We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year.  We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at.  But we became best friends, and the next year decided to get a house together.  That’s when things started to get tense.  We began sitting closer together.  We were touching more.  We’d play with each other’s hands.  Never holding hands, but playing with hands.  And we’d even fall asleep in the same bed together.  There was a time that she told me goodnight, and I swear I felt her brush my lips, but by the time I opened my eyes she was out of the room.  Neither of us had ever dated a woman.  And I was terrified to try anything.  We were such good friends.  There was always this fear that if I voiced the desire, it would ruin our friendship.  But one night we were out for drinks at a hotel where Al Capone used to stay.  I was feeling pretty drunk, so I leaned over and said: ‘Sometimes I feel like I want to kiss you.’  And she replied: ‘Sometimes I do too.’  I didn’t say a thing.  I wasn’t even sure that I’d heard her correctly.  I just kept thinking: ‘Oh my God, it’s happening.  It’s happening.’  Then once we finished our drinks, and started walking home, I stopped her in front of a bridge.  I said: ‘Shall we do it here?’  It was December 12th, 2002.  And even though we got married five years ago, that’s the day we celebrate as our anniversary.”

[firesuns-archive]

[gunggaygirl]