#reclaiming femininity

[fixing-bad-posts]

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literally you can turn femininity into something empowering.

#fixing-bad-posts #fixingbadposts #erasure poetry #feminist art #femininity #feminism #reclaiming femininity #miscellaneous

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Get the book that will set women free

#womanhood #femininity #women's studies #women's health #culture #society #counter culture #tradition #values #faith #family #conservative #conservative women #conservative books #based #based books #reclaiming femininity #jessica marie baumgartner #reading #books #education #history #knowledge #power #wisdom #nurturing #care

[goodmiffy]

“reclaiming femininity” SHUT UP SHUT UP you can’t reclaim something that is expected of you and that you are actively punished for not engaging in shut up shut up shut up pink capitalism has won im going to chew glass a

#first of all femininity and masculinity are not even real #2nd if you are female you are socialised into femininity. you therefore can’t ‘reclaim’ it because you are not oppressed for it #you’re rewarded for it. girls and women are punished for being ‘masculine’ #being ‘mocked’ for being girly is NOT the same as the punishment for non-conformity (being ‘masculine’)

[sidebeeashley]

Josh talks with me and Elizabeth about their experiences of femininity and what is biblical femininity.   

This was a super vulnerable episode for me just cause I don't talk about my relationship to femininity much, but it has been something I have been overly aware of for most of my life

The resources mentioned in this episode include:  Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home by Jonalyn Grace Fincher The Biblical World of Gender: The Daily Lives of Ancient Women and Men Redeeming Sex by Debra Hirsch https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnk-QGNJW...

#lgbtq+ christian #lgbtq+ #life on side b podcast #lifeonsideb #side b #reclaiming femininity #femininity #05x04 #season 5 episode 4 #Youtube

[janmenart]

Several months of inactivity and I come back with THIS

#my little pony #the mane six #rarity #applejack #pinky pie #twilight sparkle #fluttershy #rainbow dash #mlp #mlp fim #friendship is magic #so look. I was a child when this show came out but I was on the internet so I was embarrassed to like the brony show #so I think I’m entitled to enjoy a show that was well animated and well written #reclaiming all the past rejected femininity etc etc etc #doods

[vasito-de-leche]

Arcana is so trans to me but not the mtf trans but like eldritch horror being realized that she likes to be perceived as a mortal woman

nonnie we are holding hands, we share the same vision, the same dream, the same eldritch transgenderism <3

there was a tweet recently (I think it was a tweet?) about a very specific type of character design--non sexualized, nude humanoids presented as otherwordly and entirely alien, off kilter, merging monstruous characteristics and that's exactly what I love and think about when it comes to the thing Arcana summons, the Guiding One's Creation

Arcana is so transgender to me in a very specific way of using the feminine figure as a way of both luring and keeping everyone at bay <33333

#not a prompt #reverse 1999 #something something the use of the feminine figure in religon as both a holy AND unholy thing #the biggest contradiction ever. upholding the female body as a pure virginal and holy temple but also as a sinful cavern of temptation #the feelings of hatred and love. to reject and reclaim womanhood #something abouttttt. how do i put this into words #arcana choosing a female body as a way to represent both of these sides. or to profit from the preconceived notions that come with it #something to be hated something to be celebrated. also found in her identity as an arcanist #(the way she fights for arcanists rights while at the same time fighting any arcanist that doesnt fit her specific ideals) #shes eldritch transgender to me youre so right anon youre so so so right #constantine is playing 9D chess but arcana is playing dwarf fortress and i love thinking about how it permeates into smth like her identity

[arikihalloween]

Wakfu art dump because yes

This post is gonna be super long because I will ramble IN DEPTH today

So huh if you like my rambling or my art just read ig, otherwise scroll away idk what to tell ya

Showing some of my art and ramble because wakfu is part of my current big 3 hyperfixations ( along with WH and Trolls )

So huh enjoy my growing insanity ( I compiled it in one post to not annoy people too much :')

Presenting my oc Sharm !

An (very pink) Eliotrope

She's based on my in game character but I kinda gave her lore and a story so

⭐INFODUMP about Wakfu in general ! ⭐

Basic infos for those who don't know anything about Wakfu :

Wakfu is a french animated serie made by the studio Ankama, who also made several mmorpg games ( and way more, like the amount of content and lore is crazy)

Most of the stories will take place on the World of Twelves, populated by 12 main races (with many variation)

And there is a 13th "main race", the Eliatropes, which is the race of the main character of the anime, Yugo

Eliotropes ( with a o instead of a) are a subrace of the Eliatropes ( lore is explained in the serie but I don't wanna spoil, so to boil it down, Eliotropes are unstable pale copies of eliatropes) [ they are playable in the game wakfu]

So, what about Sharm ? Well she was born a pretty regular Eliotrope. She had two "brothers", Chance and Vitali, who unfortunately ended up fading away with time ( mechanically, when an Eliotrope die, his/her essence will go to the nearest Eliotrope to allow them to live longer)

So Sharm was left alone for very long, and stayed in Eliatropes ruins she found. Those were overgrown by stasis ( type of crystals, very bad, generally associated with corruption and destruction)

However, the essence she got from her siblings passing could only last so long

One day, in a desperate attempt to not die, Sharm took stasis and...ate it. Chewed on the mf crystals, and surprisingly, an interesting reaction occured : it stabilised her essence. It also made her basically frozen in development, Sharm cannot grow anymore and her power levels are quite limited in quantity, unless she uses stasis.

So my girl went through the ages, she kept on researching on the remnant of the eliatrope race ( wiped out aside from a few) and became sort of an archeologist

Nowadays, Sharm travels from a country/city to an other, often with mercenaries she hires as bodyguards . The other two ocs in this sketch page are the said mercenaries

And the cat is called Noiraude !

Sharm needs protection because she is stupidly useless in combat

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And also I have fanarts of Nora !

And also, it's time for the gremlin mode

The worst of the ramble

I kinda just need to scream for a moment

Beware, big spoilers for the serie ahead ! Stop now and go watch Wakfu !! It's all on Netflix ( season 1, season 2, then the 3 oav, THEN season 3 and you will be ready for season 4 :D)

So, this character is Nora (second drawing is a headcanon version of her)

Who is Nora ? She is the sixth eliatrope of the Council ( Eliatropes are rules by the six first borns of the race who can reincarnate along with their dragon twin)

Nora appeared for the first time in a flashback the episode "Quilbi" in season 2

In 2011

And back then she was in a flashback, so presumed dead from the war that wiped out the Eliatropes

BUT

Lately, as clips and trailers of season 4 of Wakfu has been released

It's confirmed that Nora is there

She's alive

She's in season 4

*grabs u*

2011

She has been my favorite character of Wakfu since her one and only appearance, alright ?

And now

12-13 years later

She is real

SHE IS REAL AND ALIVE IN THE SERIE

*maniacal laughter*

I will not shut up about it

Prepare for the fanarts

*retreats to the shadows*

#and this was Ariki being crazy about a character that appeared only once in the serie #in my defense i'm not alone #Nora enjoyer rise with me #Nora l'Eliatrope #wakfu #wakfu fanart #wakfu nora #my favorite character in the serie #litterally appeared once #BUT NOW SHE IS REAL #wakfu oc #wakfu eliatrope #wakfu eliotrope #krosmoz #dofus #fanart #yk you can somewhat see a pattern in my favs #bubbly very pink feminine presenting character ? yes please #Nora - Amy Rose - Julie Joyful - Poppy #i am reclaiming the pink of my childhood lmao #i like pink #also if you notice Sharm's design is close to Nora's #that's because Sharm always was a ref to Nora when I play the game #NOBODY EVER NOTICED *cry* #and now in Sharm lore it's also intentional #Sharm purposfully dress and acts like what she knows of Nora from ancient transcripts #an archeologist kinning what she thinks is a demi goddess #well Nora is in fact a demi goddess in term of Wakfu lore lmao #but anyway #Ariki rambling in tags

[eff-plays]

Yes yes women writing Astarion with women isn't inherently homo/bi/panphobic but he's not bottoming enough in your fics and I'm tired of it.

He deserves to get dicked down. I have not once seen a fic where he bottoms. Do I have to do everything around here myself 🙄

#however i have seen fic where he remembers how being with men was all traumatic and being with female tav feels pure and good and like #i get what you're trying to say but it does feel a bit loaded doesn't it #bg3 #astarion #there's also a lot of like ... #'topping means he's reclaiming himself! means he's in control!!' #it's a little weird ngl ngl #same with ppl conflating topping with domming like those are different #and being penetrated means he's submitting and/or losing control #and that makes him more feminine somehow?? #idk man even well-meaning astarion stans step into some weird shit every now and then i feel #anyway ... hira's gonna polymorph and lay some mad pipe #it's what he deserves<3

[zerodaryls]

it's so funny (read: sad) that if bigoted fuckheads didn't insist i was a woman simply by virtue of my body at birth, i'd probably be chill with she/her pronouns in addition to he/they. if my mom didn't insist i was her daughter, i'd probably let her call me that, and we could still have a relationship.

i'm nonbinary and 'gendered' words are hypothetically meaningless, but because there are so many people who are more interested in telling me who i am rather than lovingly and curiously letting me express my own sense of self, those words carry trauma.

there's no reason a nonbinary person like myself can't be a son and a child and a daughter. there's no reason a nonbinary person like me can't go by he, they, and she.

'she' is not a slur. 'daughter' is not derogatory. 'beautiful' 'pretty' 'gorgeous' 'feminine' are not insults.

to the contrary, they're parts of language that express certain facets of a multi-faceted human existence, like mine.

and i have this sad, mournful feeling that if it weren't for unloving, condescending people, i'd probably be down to be called any of those things alongside my usual masculine/neutral terminology.

but i'd rather die than let anyone tell me what i have to be called.

#i try to reclaim 'feminine' words for myself in private #calling myself 'babygirl' when i need to chill out. or saying i feel pretty. or going 'she needs help' when i'm struggling lmao. #but there's still so much fucking trauma in those words from the people who've forced them on me #who've snarled in my face that GOD made me ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY and that's a WOMAN (stepdad) #who've guilted me for taking their precious perfect daughter away as if i'm fucking dead (mother) #who've mocked me and everyone like me as if we're not the experts on our own sense of self (general transphobic public) #like. i'm not a fucking man. i'm not a fucking woman. i'm nonbinary. gender is absurdity as a concept. i'm done with it. #but being called a man or a son or a guy or 'he' or WHATEVER in that vein is fine and dandy because i've never had anyone say #'that is all you can EVER be'. or worse: 'that is what GOD made you to be and you have a ROLE to fill' #(christianity pls die approximately yesterday thanku 💖) #so yeah. idk. ranting yet again about Cis Audacity. #the complete lack of empathy. the lack of curiosity even. #the condescending bullshit. the 'i understand you better than you do'. the fucking AUDACITY. #i am the expert on myself. i am the ONLY expert on myself. period. no contest. not a debate. #i understand myself better than anyone else is CAPABLE of understanding me. #i could call myself 'she' and understand that i meant it in a nonbinary way. #in fact i could even see myself letting other trans people call me feminine terms at some point in the future. when i've healed more. #but cis people? probably not. they can call me 'he' or 'they' or they can fuck off & never get to know me because they don't wanna know ME #/end rant #any terfs/bigots that try to touch this post will be swiftly blocked and quite possibly cursed. have the day you deserve <3

[miqiiu]

barbie thoughts

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #thoughts from an afab nonbinary that hated femininity but is reclaiming it etcetc #yeah im restarting my tumblr ://

[353dcys]

obsessed w el being girly and basic. with her boyfriend who sneaks thru her window like they’re in a romcom and listening to madonna while flipping through magazines and having her best friend paint her nails at their sleepover and wearing clothes from the mall or adding her own girly twist on hand me downs. getting to enjoy things every other girl does. being like “everyone else” after not getting to be anyone at all for years. 

#ofc she’ll always be a lil bit of a weirdo #but who in st isn’t? #let her reclaim her femininity!!! #eleven #el hopper #femininity #stranger things #stranger things headcanons #elmax

[bijoumikhawal]

NGL I think if you're writing RGU analysis and you call Utena's gender nonconformity sexist you may not be writing good RGU analysis

#cipher talk #RGU #Girl has long pink hair and wears lipstick and she's too butch for you #The problem in RGU isn't masculinity its patriarchy. The problem with Utena trying to be a prince isn't because she's not acting like a gir #(The show is rather direct in this by having Touga degrade Utena to the point where she dresses 'like a girl' and is obviously depressed #While doing so and once she's reclaimed her self worth by kicking his ass dressing masculinely again #And by having Akio comment on how 'girlish' Utena looks after he rapes her) #Her masculinity does not imply other girls are lesser #The problem is that being a prince REQUIRES you to deny agency to others and requires the creation of a villain and a victim for you to #Perform the act of being a prince. In this case a witch and a princess. This is system is still bad when the genders change but in its form #Is a vehicle of patriarchy #The prince is not masculinity itself. It is toxic masculinity/patriarchal masculinity #How ugly RGU would be if Utena's failure to save both Anthy and herself was because of her masculinity! #And not because when confronted by her rapist she tried to claim the language of abuse and power to distance herself from being a victim! #Subsequently casting the girl she loves- another victim- into an objectified role as a tool for Utena to reclaim a sense of power #In the moment of confrontation with the man who abused them both they both slide into toxic but familiar behaviors #Which have little to do with Utena's masculinity or Anthy's femininity and everything to do with abuse

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Women are born women, but we need to get back in touch with our femininity to lead healthy balanced lives.

#womanhood #women #femininity #reclaiming femininity #books and reading #books worth reading #books to read #reading #nonfiction #based books #based #conservative books #conservative #tradition #trad life #family #life #balance #health #wellness

[pissmoon]

'U just need to discover ur feminity! If u dont get acrylic nails brows and lashes done every month and dont do 1 hour contouring routine everyday ur a poor self hating soul who wasnt shown proper feminity!!' is personally funny to me bc I had this 'wannabe makeup artist' phase like 4 years ago but got bored of it bc shits too money/time/energy consuming to be worth it? No thanks id rather smoke a blunt and go for a walk on my day off you know. Binge buying at sephora? Id rather spend it on cds or books or random flea market shit 🥰

#this 'reclaiming bimbo' shit became so lame and embarassing past 2019 #2000s bimbos like lindsay lohan n paris hilton werent writing essays on divine feminity they were too busy doing coke n partying lmao #i love how they assume its some default setting in women to be 'feminine' n if u dont like it u just need to 'discover' it #its so classist too? like the products u need to achieve all that crap with arent cheap at all? #and i do think i am a 'feminine' woman but they still think ur not Feminine Enough to be a Real Woman if u dont have ur nails done 24/7

[tiredyke]

i mean on the one hand i don’t really care if a woman wants to explain concepts in her own vernacular and make it pink and sparkly or w/e, and im not going to play respectability politics or say that women leaning into stereotypically feminine things is bad for feminism, but im also not going to argue that it doesn’t feel infantilizing and tone-deaf to explain a movie “for the girls [who are] ~too pretty~ to sit in a movie theatre” and compare war crimes to makeup and shopping. it feels very much “boy movie vs girl movie”. + no one is out here dumbing things down “for the guys” and comparing bombings to working out or something

#which i think we would all agree is a distasteful thing to do #like idk aren’t you guys tired of being talked to this way #im all for reclaiming femininity and stereotypes but calling women too conceited to watch a boys movie even as satire just isn’t cool #and im not saying she’s responsible for men treating us and perceiving us the way they do. i get that men see us as shallow and stupid #regardless of what we say or do #but to repeat it unironically is just tasteless #on purpose or not she’s just parroting what men have been saying about us for years #and playing into stereotypes that all women know how to do is shop and look pretty and wear pink #doesn’t feel very hashtag girlboss to me #neon talks #misogyny

[zhalar]

people really look at stede and think he would get better mentally and be more compelling as a character/human being within universe if he was More Masculine are you Insane ?

#(LIGHTHEARTED) #that man liked to pick FLOWERS and was RIDICULED FOR THIS #I JUST THINK HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RECLAIM THOSE INTERESTS AND THIS DEPTH OF HIMSELF & BE CELEBRATED FOR EM ! ! #like. idk. sorry this is a vague catty post outta nowhere i justtt I DONT KNOWWWW i like it when hes frilly and foppy and feminine. awwgh. #what the hellll. what kinda fucked up mr. bonnet senior shit was that 'i hope he becomes like a REAL manly man' sentiment b4 s2 started :-/ #särmäs sermons #stede cant be anything but himself and the himself that he is is the type of captain who has a mum-vibe to him and likes fancy fabrics #there's more someone wiser than me could say abt this matter but im not going to bother trying to #i'll enjoy fanworks of all sortsa spectrums in regards to his character dont get me wrong but ive just like. noticed. how much i prefer #him as a more feminine kind of guy. SHRUGS. is this me poking at a hornets nest lol i hope not #also. cuz anxiety eats my brain. i love you masculinity i love you queer masculinity i love you men. this isnt a favoritism issue for me #im just thinkin my thots <3 #ofmd