#why does tv think we want to watch women suffer

[mondieuwordnerd]

I am so exhausted with TV shows that compound women's suffering and misery.

I LOVED the English but I can't help but have a little rant about the trajectory of Emily Blunts character [spoilers, content warning]

When we meet Cornelia she has already been extorted, lost a future with a fiance, and has been assualted.

She has been pregnant, ostracized from her family and society because of the nature of the conception and then she loses her son at 14. She loves that little boy and watches him suffer and die unfairly.

And then she reaches America. She finds herself, faces revenge, shows kindness. She meets Eli - a man who treats her with respect and loves her. "I cherish you"

Then its revealed she's dying from syphilis. In the last scene of the entire show it's revealed she is dying of shame too. She's alone and isolated all over again.

Could the show have just... not done that? I'm not naive, I know a perfect happy ending would of been near impossible with her being an English lady and Eli being a Pawnee man in the 1890s. But could they not have given her some hope? A future, full stop? She'd already endured tragedy, we as an audience didn't need the double down to feel for her character.

#the english #spoilers #emily blunt #cornelia locke #eli whipp #chaske spencer #feminism #fucking exhausting #why does tv think we want to watch women suffer #i loved it #but it broke my heart #tw assualt #cw assualt

[ziracona]

At the very least I'm hoping that more people come to their senses because Bioware is really not worth defending. There's way too many folks on Twitter that still defend them even when they fuck up when I think that as fans we deserve better than scraps and half measures. Granted alot of the Twitter side is home to a lot of faux progressive suckups who worship the ground BW walk on and keep giving them way too many chances.

It’s not just on Twitter, but yeah, mood. Too much of that in almost all areas of pop culture tbh. Human fuckin’ beings. 🙄

#ask #anonymous #I feel you bro #bioware ciritcal #dragon age #idk why people are fucking allergic to criticism like you CAN like a thing and criticize it and if it keeps getting worse & you don’t it’ll #become utterly without value eventually or you’ll lose your own ability to think critically by forcing yourself to defend things you know #are bad until your own abilities are ruined. : / ‘if doesn’t matter’ yes it does??? boycotts are a thing? also like criticism alone works? #UD fandom was obsessed with a not canon queer couple in a game w only gets & the devs in their next big release made a canon queer pair #everyone went @ Watch Dogs for having a white man pain lead and killing off the woc for his story & in their sequel the MC is a black guy #and 3/4 supporting cast are also pov & that was a tripple A title. it /absolutely/ matters. fundamentally even #say what you will about Qunatic Dream every time a game comes out people complain about the race rep and the women and every game they do #more and better race rep and women like are they perfect? no. but compare DBH to Indigo Prophecy and tell me criticism did nothing #like it’s so simple. if you demand they do better if they keep wanting money from you? they will #if you do not? they will keep getting worse bc worse is what /they/ want and are and unless acted upon by an outside force that will not #change. how do you think game studio staff get diverse writing rooms? mostly they don’t pick them out of a personal desire!! it’s when they #get raked over the coals for their failures of being /not/ diverse and are under scrutiny and pressure to do better #this is /literally/ how it works. some of you act like you have no fucking idea how hard the people older than you have faught for what we #have now. do you think queer couples on TV just happened? do you think the poc leads were just studios fucking??? getting nicer? NO. people #faught for this! they suffered and struggled and came out victorious! and if we do not keep pushing? we lose ground. this is not a battle #that is over bitch. an improved situation is not an end to the war. have the people in /power/ improved? no. and that means the only thing #between representation in media and a hellscape is us. is the people. creators. fans. staff. all of us #fighting and keeping the pressure on. demanding action matters. /not/ giving shit media money of views or buzz? matters #people in power care about money and control. hit them where it hurts

[firstkanaphans]

if i have permission to be a bit of a bitch in your inbox (feel free to ignore this if not), the dichotomy people build between bl and queer media is sooooo fascinating. and of course by that i mean it gives me hives. the universalizing of 'real queer experiences' is obnoxious as hell, but how its been applied to ofts has really shown me why i find it so obnoxious. most of the people who hold this dichotomy would never classify a bl that ignores homophobia as 'authentically queer' media. but i definitely saw people who hoped that the 'authentically queer' ofts would exist in a bubble without any slutshaming, or that it would be resolutely shut down in show. but in my aroallo experience? that would be as inauthentic as the no homophobia bubble, so where does that leave us?

also the circular logic in the bl vs queer media arguments is mind numbing. 'bl doesnt cover these types of themes' yeah dude because you forcibly remove everything with those themes from the bl category in your head. 'queer media must acknowledge homophobia' the idea that a story by queer people about queer characters isnt really queer because it chooses to focus on joy or discovery or any other facet of queer existence is so fucking depressing. go hug a queer friend and think about why you feel queerness is defined by suffering before anything else.

Oh, hey, you found my soap box, Anon! Let me just step on up there with you for a minute.

So, first off, let me just say how much I hate the term “authentically” queer. It seems to suggest that in order to be queer, you have to be queer a certain way. As an ultra femme lesbian, the queer community often makes me feel like I’m not queer enough. That I don’t understand the hardships that come with being gay because I am ���straight-passing.” This is the same thing people do to BLs. News flash: if you’re queer, you’re queer. Period. Congratulations, that’s all it takes to be authentic!

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a large percentage of the people I see using this designation are straight women who think that queer suffering is a necessary part of the queer experience, but a lot of “authentically queer” people—me included—don’t want to be reminded of our real-life suffering every time we turn on the TV. Heartstopper is triggering for me. Bad Buddy is not. As a queer woman currently living in Ron DeSantis’s Florida,  I deserve to be able to turn on the TV every once in a while and not be reminded that there are people in the world who want me dead.

I’ve learned that when people describe a BL as “authentically queer,” what they actually mean is “This BL feels more Western”—the racist insinuation there being that Western media is inherently better.

I feel like The Eclipse is a good example of this hypocrisy. No one has ever called The Eclipse “authentically queer” despite the fact that it delivers one of the most nuanced takes on the dangers of systemic homophobia that I have seen anywhere. The writers of both the source material and the script are gay men. The director is queer. That seems to meet all of the qualifications these people set for “authentically queer” and yet no one has ever questioned that The Eclipse is a BL. Why? Because it incorporates traditionally Asian/yaoi humor tropes such as the pratfall and the accidental kiss. 

Are you sensing a pattern? It’s not the queer-ness of a piece of media that determines whether it is seen as “authentic.” It is its “Western-ness.”

Let me be very clear: All BLs are “authentically queer” media because the only requirement needed for a piece of media to be “authentically” queer is for the characters to be queer. And if you don’t like that, then maybe stop watching BLs.

If the people who were producing these shows had a problem with the term, that would be another discussion, but they don’t. P’Jojo has never advertised Only Friends as anything other than a BL. The fandom did that for him. And with all due respect, if the people making the fucking thing are calling it a BL, then it’s a fucking BL.

So, yeah. Not liking BLs doesn’t make you cool. It makes you a bigot. The fact that the term has become so derogatory is rooted in both racism and misogyny because this was originally a genre created by women, for women, and the hobbies of women are so often infantilized.

BLs are queer media. Die mad about it.

#i'm a bit heated this morning guys 😅 #the eclipse #only friends the series #asks #thai bl

[meyhew]

Very typical that you'd block me without saying anything or giving a good argument. But either way, I stand by what I said. Both things can be true that you can support the Palestinians without being antisemitic and support the Jewish/Israeli without being anti Palestine. And that's what the majority of these celebrities that you're so desperately trying to get cancelled are doing. I don't even know why you care so much what celebrities are saying or not saying, because like I said before, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. And the fact that you're okay with an entire race and a specific group suffering just because it's not your people being affected and because of corrupt politics says a lot more about you than it does about the people you're trying to get cancelled. But oh well, that's on you. I'm gonna keep enjoying my favorite celebrities and all the movies and TV shows they're in, because life's just too precious to cancel everyone over every little thing and to pass up watching good content just it features a celebrate that did something I didn't approve of. You're the one in the wrong, not anyone else.

i don’t care about what a celebrity says. it doesn’t change my mind, specifically, about a given situation. but a primary role of the celebrity for decades has been to influence public opinion. why else is israel offering to pay internet celebrities thousands of dollars a post if they say they’re standing with israel? why is israel offering to pay FOLLOWERS of those people if they go on livestreams and flood the comments with israeli flags? why else do businesses in half the US states have a loyalty clause to israel? celebrities are not just making art. regardless of what they say, whether they say anything at all, they are informing public opinion. this is not a new phenomenon and this is not me trying to cancel someone. if genocide is a “little thing” you can overlook because u want to watch a movie then by all means that’s a You problem. if i can withhold my dollar from going to someone who either only publicly supports israel for their own financial gain (which is beyond shameful) or actually genuinely believes israel is fighting the good fight (which is bigoted and also stupid), then i’m going to keep my fucking money. if i can convince even one other person to do the same, then i’m fucking going to do that. 

and tell me how. How can you be in support of palestine without opposing israel. israel≠jewish as many people have explained many times so i’m not getting into that bullshit with you. my hatred for israel has nothing to do with my feelings for jewish people as a whole, thousands of whom have flooded the streets to fight for palestinians. hundreds of whom stormed the US congress to fight for palestinians. if you want to think israel=judaism that’s again a You problem, i’m not falling for that. palestinians themselves are semites so we will not be going over an antisemitism lesson again. 

but tell me HOW you propose to give palestinians their dignity and their freedom without dismantling the israeli apartheid. you cannot complacently be in the middle of this when one side is carrying out actual genocide and the other side is asking to be allowed to live in their own fucking homes. israel is bombing mosques and churches and hospitals, where it knows thousands are sheltering and which is criminal to do even if there are no civilians inside, and you want to support israel equally? fuck you. withholding food and water and electricity and medical supplies, so that literal fucking children are being operated on in the dark without anesthesia and thousands are developing sepsis because they cannot be treated properly and women are taking pills to stop their periods because they have no access to menstrual products or clean water, which will inevitably lead to fertility problems (if they even survive that long), and 50,000 pregnant women are due to give birth very soon but have no means to do so safely and i could keep going because the horrors are endless. so how the fuck do you expect me to sympathize with the other side when it refuses to accept the hostages it claims to be committing all these atrocities for and when those same hostages debunk everything israeli media and western media (they're one and the same) have been trying to get people to believe and when it kills its own people as collateral damage because the intent is to annihilate palestinians at all cost. tell me. how do reconcile all of this in your shriveled heart and be on both sides of the issue. you cannot support both sides equally.

"You're the one in the wrong, not anyone else." say that individually to the 300,000 people in london and the 15,000 in sydney and 30,000 in chicago and 10,000 in brooklyn and 25,000 in los angeles and 7,000 in düsseldorf and 15,000 in paris and thousands upon thousands in other cities all across the globe who came out to stand with palestinians. tell every single one of us that we are wrong and you, a faceless motherfucker on tumblr dot com with an empty blog, are right. bitch.

#palestine #gaza #israel #tagging that wacko only bc tumblr is suppressing the palestine tag. as predicted #anonymous #answered

[girl4music]

Captain Marvel is terrible. Wonder Woman is terrible. She-Hulk is terrible. Black Cat is terrible.

Any Marvel/DC superheroine female character is terrible. These characters do not have development. They’re all flash and no soul. They have no personality. I may as well be watching cardboard cut outs for all the dimension these “strong women” have to them.

They’re given superheroine abilities out of nowhere and basically believe if they don’t use them all the time - they’re weak-willed. They’re not “strong enough”. It’s completely the wrong way to do this. It’s toxic and dogmatic and can be very dangerous to naive and impressionable eyes and ears - to the young. To whom this superhero media is targeted.

Their true strength is when their superheroism is taken away and they’re able to survive regardless.

Like the fucking rest of us. Then they’re just like us.

This is why I don’t watch superheroine TV shows or movies. I can’t stand how they characterize gender. It’s not just female characters where they do this. The male characters suffer as well from the poor writing. Everything has to be specific and “by-the-book”. Some random book of rules and laws no one’s seen on how to write “strong” or “heroic” characters. And it’s just not it. That’s not what I pay attention to or spend my energy on. I know what a truly strong character is.

I’ve watched and engaged with truly strong characters all my life. Male and female. And it was never like the load of shite we get now in superhero-focused media.

I’m calling out this garbage writing once and for all.

You want a truly strong female heroine character?

She has bouts in her arc where she thinks she has to disregard love to remain powerful. Where if she gives up for even one second - she’s already lost the battle.

But she overcomes these bouts. She realizes they’re not what make her “strong” or “powerful” at all.

She even believes that she should go at it alone because she deserves to be alone. Guess what? The narrative doesn’t let her because that’s not what makes her strong or heroic or powerful or capable.

The writing is always “you need help and it’s okay”. That’s not to say that she doesn’t and can’t do things on her own. She does and she can. But it’s not the point. The point is that she allows herself the help.

And in allowing it - that’s what makes her STRONG. Opening her heart is what makes her worthy of love. Whether it be love from a romantic partner, her family or even the audience that watch and engage with her.

They see her and they see that’s what strength truly is.

It’s not because she wields a sword. It’s not because she can do insane kicks and acrobatics. It’s not because she is physically strong what makes her that.

It’s because she allows herself to be vulnerable when she otherwise believes she can’t and shouldn’t be.

A running gag is that she has “the strength of ten men” and yet she doesn’t look like a man. She possesses the traits and skills of a man, yes, but she’s not characterized as “male” for it because she has masculine energy. It’s because SHE IS a woman. The God of War himself acknowledges this about her. Even says “sometimes the only man for the job is a woman.”

Now they’re not saying this to throw men under the bus. They’re saying that “this too is completely fine.” It’s completely fine for a woman to lead an army of men. To wage war, to be a commander in the battle.

And all the while - this character expresses femininity. She doesn’t have to express masculinity to do any of this - to do it well - because a woman is just as valid.

There are times when the most powerful thing you see on the screen is Xena using her feminine wiles on men. And it’s powerful because they don’t ever shame her. They might say it’s wrong for her to do this but it’s not because it’s sexual or hedonistic or anything like that.

But because she’s using it as a manipulation tactic. The only reason why it’s wrong is because it’s literally not right to do it to someone. That’s it. Nothing about her being a woman doing it. She’s not a “slut” for it etc… in fact… they’re very heavily pro sex-worker in this show. There’s another character played by Lucy Lawless that is a sex-worker and even though she feels ashamed for it at times - the narrative does not let her. It’s constantly in her favour - in her corner. This is just a recurring character. Not even a main one. Still - the writing is always showing what true strength is.

And it’s never that Xena is a warrior.

It’s that’s she’s a woman AND a warrior.

There’s so many different ways to characterize this. The only wrong way is to not give a shit in trying to and instead just slap male characteristics on them until all people ever think “true strength” is is male.

And don’t get me wrong. It’s not that males or men aren’t truly strong. They are. But it’s not a requirement of being entirely physically powerful and brute force. This is what ruins a man. What makes them feel bad.

You make true strength all and only about physical power and force and you make a monster. Not a man.

So as I said. It’s not just with female characters where the writing in superhero TV shows and movies is fucked up beyond all recognition. It’s every gender. True strength is something made out to be enforced and not already what lies within. It’s FUCKED UP!

I’ll rant about this forever if I have to because I know better. I’ve learned better. And I’ve been given better.

My inspiration all my life has been Xena. It’s never been just the portrayal of the character that’s the reason why she means so much to me. It’s the writing as well. It’s the way they didn’t just write the character but the entire Universe in which the character lived in. The environment was realistic in that it was hard and brutal and predominantly harsh. But the writing was always saying “This isn’t what makes it truly strong. This is actually what makes it weak and fragile.” You have battle-hardened male warriors in this show come out of the war a shell of the man - character - they used to be. Including WAR himself. It’s powerful emotionally. It hits the heart. A palpable impact. The way these people - characters - lose themselves in the violence. In what’s often regarded as what “physical strength” is. But in this show it tears them down. Breaks them apart. They’re weaker because of it. Both male and female characters suffer this destruction. Have to grapple with the serious implications of it. What it makes of them to put power and force first. Or to make violence the only thing that matters at all.

It’s the way it’s written. It’s always the way it is written.

If you write a warrior as nothing but a warrior - you’re not depicting “true strength”. You’re destroying them. But I suppose it doesn’t matter because they’re not human in superhero media right? They might be humanoid in appearance but they’re supernatural so it shouldn’t make a difference, right? Well, it does.

It just fucking does. Because true strength isn’t about being “strong”. It’s about being weak but enduring anyway because life goes on regardless.

You can still show this with superhero characters. Have them still keep all of their superhero abilities.

You just have to care to write them the right way.

Rant over.

#strong characters #superhero #no #that’s not it #strong female characters have took a real dive since the age of xena and buffy #i’m not putting up with it #xena warrior princess #xena #lucy lawless #gabrielle #renee o’connor #true strength

[doctorofmagic]

TW: racism, antiziganism, whitewashing, uses of g slur, fatphobia, misgendering, ageism, toxic fandom, long post.

This post is a bit off topic but, as someone who has been following Marvel’s comic book industry for almost ten years now, I feel like it’s my duty to use my voice and not be quiet about the blatant shit show that is happening to a character that is also a member of the magic community and has been suffering a lot lately in the hands of people who have little to no regard towards her heritage.

It was just a rumor back then (and Donny Cates even denied it in the past) but it does seem that Feige is using the MCU to influence comic books in most recent runs, ESPECIALLY regarding certain characters.

Now, let’s be honest. This is not new. We all remember when the cast of the Fantastic Four reboot died in a explosion in the pages of Punisher #12, eight years ago. A clear retaliation at the movie and FOX’s terrible decisions. We all know that this is probably the reason why the first family book was cancelled as well. The group remained in the shadows and only Reed had a decent spotlight thanks to New Avengers v3 and Secret Wars, disappearing next along with Sue, the kids and the Future Foundation. They only returned fully with a new volume in 2018, and most fans’ dreams and hopes slowly died out with Dan Slott’s bad takes and writing (erasing Franklin’s X gene, putting three women to fight over a man, reversing Infamous Doom to his villain self and throwing away his character development just because he wanted Victor as a villain etc etc etc).

Very well. Still, the FF survived. No one reversed Galactus into a cosmic cloud. No one turned Victor into a metallic guy with electric powers who wanted to marry Sue (thank the Vishanti). And whatever happened in the reboot (which I didn’t watch) certainly wasn’t adapted into comics.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not here to gatekeep comic books. In fact, I’ve been committed to introducing them to my followers since day 1 on this hellsite. Unlike many fans, I didn’t grow up with them. Movies had a huge influence on me and I had a long journey. Movies and animated TV shows are part of the reason I dove into this universe, in the first place. Which is fine. I can take a bad adaption and move on.

What I can’t take is what they’re trying to do with Wanda, because it reeks of racism.

The whole point of this new Wanda volume is to give her the proper representation and atone for the years of colorism, a systematic problem that keeps happening in the industry. Just because she was portrayed as white in the past, it doesn’t mean she’s not a woc, especially when it’s said in canon that she has dark skin. There are plenty of roma people talking on this matter and how it’s meaningful to acknowledge that Wanda is brown, even when white roma people exist (1, 2, 3, 4).

The crew is in fact very committed to it, as stated by Steve Orlando here:

Now, what is happening to the new Scarlet Witch volume? Two things. The blatant whitewashing in variant covers and their need to push the MCU into 616!Wanda, first by introducing Darcy and now deaging Agatha.

Let’s be clear. There was a MASSIVE effort from the team to portray Wanda's heritage, which has been constantly dismissed by the lack of effort from the artists.

Here’s one example, from Jeehyung Lee, tracing what I think is a k-pop singer (but I don't really remember her name so correct me if I’m wrong). In any case, she was traced over a korean woman. This is not the first problem with this artist since he also made the same with Storm’s model in MFF by tracing Charlize Theron over Ororo.

In addition to anti-blackness, this is also an issue of interchangeable ethnicity, the same that happened to America Chavez, when she’s established as Puerto Rican, not Mexican, as the pin on her jacket suggests (and yes, her cast is also filled with anti-blackness. Nothing against Xochitl, but I touched this matter before when I wrote about DSIMOM. And yes, TAO’s MCU is also bad, very bad, very very very bad).

I just keep seeing this over and over again. You shouldn't be defending her whiteness. You *SHOULDN'T*. Unless you have a problem that Wanda is a brown romani woman. It’s imperative that people understand that representation matters and poc have been time and time whitewashed in this very same industry (Sunspot/Roberto da Costa is just one example and was also whitewashed in that terrible New Mutants adaptation).

The issue here is to push a problematic and harmful portrayal of Wanda on her comic book version. And it’s only happening to her due to the popularity of said character and artist.

More thant that, her stans ARE using Olsen’s Wanda to shield racism. Some of you are actually not even hiding it. The following is a list of racist comments and accounts. I’ll leave them under the cut in case people don’t want to see it.

Regarding the WV variant cover for Wanda #3 by David Nakamura:

And plain racism overall:

On a side note...

Just today I was harassed by this troll here. And no, I’m not hiding your @ because you went to MY post and felt compelled to misgender me, be fatphobic and also god knows why felt entitled to call Wanda ableist (????)

As I said, I didn’t grow up with comics. When I first met Wanda, I didn’t know she was neither Roma, Jewish or brown. And this itself is a problem because it should be clear, it should have been portrayed in the comics, it should have been common knowledge. All it takes is just to listen to people and understand the systematic racism and whitewashing in the comic book and cinema industries.

They ALWAYS double down on Wanda’s whiteness. No, darling, it’s not okay to stan two versions of the same character when time and time the marginalized one is a target of racism. When they weaponize every single attempt at calling out the harm that MCU has caused on her character to the point of even using reverse racism, ableism and many other blatant lies to slander 616!Wanda, when her MCU can do pretty much whatever she wishes because she’s white so that’s okay. And don’t even dare bring feminism here because you don’t care about woc. You only care about white women.

In any case, I just want to shed light on this matter because this effort of pushing MCU into comics isn’t happening to any other Marvel character, ESPECIALLY when the change is for the better. Wong is powerful, body-positive and having more than one-dimensional relationship in the MCU. Where’s the effort to do that in comics? Layla is literally the best part of Moon Knight. Where is she?

Why they want so bad to push a white woman on a book that is supposed to praise Wanda’s romani heritage? It’s obvious that they want to sell and some execs are siding with the portion of this toxic and racist fandom.

Comics are not perfect, we know that. But there has been a huge effort to support the marginalized voices in this industry. Marvel’s Voices, pride and heritage are all examples. Besides, they’ve always been political. Always.

What they’re doing to Wanda is evil and lazy. As an artist and colorist, it’s YOUR DUTY to search and at least be aware of what characters you’re trying to conceive. There’s no way variant artists didn’t see the main cover for issue #1 by Dauterman.

This is not just ignorance. It’s a statement. A statement that it’s okay to ignore a marginalized group and its attempt to give visibility to said group. And Orlando knew that when he said he didn’t have control over the rest of the creative team.

It’s fine if the MCU wants to push some elements like they did in the past. But this is not just any element. It’s harmful and I’ll not be quiet about it. 616!Wanda is getting more and more marginalized, whereas her whitewashed version is praised and loved. And now there’s an attempt at reconciling both as if it was okay. It’s not. MCU!Wanda doesn’t know racism. MCU!Wanda joined Hydra. MCU!Wanda has the privilege 616!Wanda could never afford for being a brown roma woman. And now the racist fandom wants to claim both in order to erase 616!Wanda’s heritage and history of fighting racism.

All I can ask is, if you’re buying this comic book, DO NOT SUPPORT the variant covers. Let them rot. We know the racists are not supporting the book anyways. They’ll just buy the variant cover and that’s it.

PS: I’m not Roma so feel free to correct me in any aspect. Just using my voice to boost awareness.

PS²: Olsen stans DNI or else will be blocked at sight. I’m done with every single of you.

#not tagging #read the tws tho

[olderthannetfic]

Adding to the “why kink” convo:

I have a CNC/rape kink IRL, and also go fucking feral for anything where a man gets sexually tortured and mentally tormented to the point where they can no longer function as people (in fiction only).

I think the CNC/rape definitely just… happened. Like, I was 6 and I would already find myself intrigued by power dynamics and abuse in cartoons or other media I was exposed to. I remember my fave character in any show would be the hottest one that also was powerful and cruel, bonus points if they regularly got other characters bleeding, crying or traumatised.

Also the interest in really extreme stuff. I remember being 6 or 7 and looking up on Google things like bestiality (I did not have the term at the time, just used more clumsy words to find it) and being unable to comprehend why there were no results — obviously it’s illegal, but I was so fucking young that I didn’t even understand what it was really or what my curiosity implied. What I did know is that I was drawn to something painful and forbidden and dirty and extreme. I was reading rapefic from the age of 12. Before that, I was already reading explicit fic from age 10, and I would actively look for rough sex or no-prep anal. I was watching DP and big things shoved into small places from around that time too! I was on pornhub searching for stuff like gangbang, cream pie, rape(which had no results and frustrated me terribly because I still didn’t understand the implications or legalities of what attracted me so much) . And when I finally (finally!) discovered BDSM and got reading up on sadomasochism it’s like a whole world blossomed in front of my eyes. It was amazing and validating and inspiring. And I’m sure if someone were to look into my brain or something maybe they’d find a reason here and there as to why maybe I’m into it, but I still think it just happened. I was born with it and that’s it.

Now, in regards to my whump kink (which is very much focused on men) I do have to agree with that other anon in regards to that sex = violence mentality. As I entered the world of sex, specifically with men (I’m a woman), I was forced to learn this the hard way. Sex is violence, often. And not the fun kind that I wanted to explore, but rather the terrible kind that makes you hate yourself on a visceral level. And I think I developed this men-only-whump kink because, yes, I have a pre-existing interest in sadomasochism, but also because it’s a way to gain control, I guess? And because when the one suffering is a man I am more able to separate myself from that reality — I’m not forced to have flashbacks to when I was sexually assaulted or made to feel unsafe, used, or hollow. I can just enjoy my kink from a distance. Also there’s definitely something that feels very “wrong” in hurting a man in all the ways that women are often hurt, and that feeling excites me as much as it revindicates me.

I also want to note that I would be profoundly distressed by seeing/doing anything remotely violent/non consensual to anybody ever in my RL. Kink can and often does exist within its own parameters, eg. on tv where we know everything’s fake. Or in bed with someone we trust and have explored the scene in detail beforehand. Kink is not (or it shouldn’t be) ever at the expense of other non-consenting human beings.

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[just-here-for-iolaus]

Hercules and the Amazon Women

Okay, now that I own all of HTLJ, XWP and YH (including the movies) I decided it's time to watch everything.

I watched "Hercules and the Amazon Women" for the first time ever earlier this week and it was just... wild.

I don't know what I expected, really, but since I'm most familiar with Young Hercules, and a little bit of Xena, there was a lot that surprised me. (I will also say, I was afraid of Kevin Sorbo as a kid so I didn't really watch HTLJ much when it was on TV, and I have forgotten most of what I did watch. What I know about the show is... Hercules and Iolaus are buddies who travel around and things happen? And afaik they are single with random flings with women.)

I have so many thoughts.

First of all: We see Zeus??

He's just straight up a character in the movie, with lines, and telling Hercules he's his favourite son, and definitely wanting to bang Alcmene.

To say this left me in shock is an understatement. Don't get me wrong, his character was actually a delight (even when he was being a piece of shit) but like, coming from having watched a portion of Young Hercules, where Zeus is notably absent, it's a bit of a shock to the system to have him just fucking around and casually telling Hercules how much he likes him, etc. (Because on YH, Hercules is trying desperately to win his father's approval.)

(But also Zeus wtf tell your wife to stop trying to kill your kid?)

Also: Iolaus is getting married?

Okay, so, again, I don't know much about the plot of HTLJ but I do know that Iolaus goes around with Hercules and I'm like 99% sure that he has some romantic interests?

But anyway they're super cute together and in love ♥♥♥

So, my first thought was "well, they sure are foreshadowing that Iolaus might die going on this trip, but since I know he's in the TV show, it must be his wife that dies, and that's why he's single in the show".

Which brings me to: IOLAUS FUCKING DIES??

He just straight up dies. Like a third of the way into the movie. And is not part of the plot after that. He just is dead. I kept waiting for them to like, cut back to him having actually survived and healing up someplace, and coming to help Herc at a crucial moment. But alas.

Hercules turns into a baby at one point in the movie.

I just thought that part was weird. Even if the candle shows someone their past, idk why it would change their body at the same time.

Also... what was the point of this???

She is trying to show him how he is a dick, but if she doesn't think he can change, and she plans to kill him anyway.... what was the point of trying to show him the error of his ways? It's a waste of her time.

"What if I tried to change?" "You can't change. You're a man."

This was poorly thought out. Especially since she says "It's not my intention that you should suffer needlessly. It's not a female trait." Like, okay, sure. What the fuck are you doing then? I don't get her motivation for doing all of this.

Hercules refuses to carry a weapon.

This surprised me because I guess I just forgot about this, or maybe it's only a thing in HTLJ and not YH? I swear Hercules sometimes carries weapons in YH?

IDK I was just shocked by it. I'm curious to see if this remains consistent. He kind of mocks Iolaus for having a weapon, but like, Iolaus would have died (earlier) without his sword to cut the rope off his neck, just saying. And Hercules doesn't refuse to use weapons. He's happy to take weapons off people and use them, he just refuses to carry weapons, which... he's got demigod super strength. If anything it would tire him less than it does Iolaus. I don't get the logic behind it tbh.

While we're on the topic of weird Hercules philosophy:

Hercules thinks nobody should worship the gods.

I get where he's coming from, since he's a demigod and he's met the gods and they're dicks and all... Though, this being the first movie, the audience wouldn't know that, so I guess I'm giving him a lot of benefit of the doubt here. But, the issue I have with this isn't so much that he doesn't have respect for the gods, but that he tells other people not to.

This is just privilege, my guy. It's easy enough for him to shrug off the gods, but the people whose shrine he's destroying aren't demigods, and when they piss off the gods, there are dire consquences (as we see when multiple people die in this movie because Hera's pissed). It's so irresponsible for him to advocate that people anger the gods when they have no recourse if the gods attack them.

(Ironically, this is something they kinda explore in YH, but that whole show is retcon so I'll give them a pass on that.)

I guess Hercules thinks people are better off dead than worshipping gods, idk.

Hercules thinks men should be hard and unchanging like stone.

We see him being taught this by some fighting teacher of his as a kid. I want to say this is one of the beliefs that changes in him during the movie, but since I've now seen the second movie and he tells this same shit to some people in that movie, I'm inclined to think he still believes it by the end of this movie and it's antithetical to the theme of this movie so it just feels weird.

Hercules is an open misogynist.

I... This was the theme of the movie. It was a cringey, heavy-handed story about how everyone is wrong when they're sexist, and this movie is like the first Hercules media, so they wouldn't have the YH plot stuff to draw from, but it feels really weird having seen a bunch of YH stuff where he meets Amazon women and respects women (Kora, Lilith, etc.) in his daily life and considers them trusted friends... and then see him be so openly hostile toward women and disparage them as needing to be protected because they're weak, and telling Iolaus to get out of the kitchen because only women belong there... It was rough.

He learns better by the end of the movie, I guess.

Is Hercules Ace/Aro/Gay?

This is sort of a weird tangent, because I feel like Young Hercules (at least in the tv show) is shown to be interested in women. But I didn't really buy Kevin Sorbo's acting when he "falls" for the Amazon queen. I didn't feel like they had any chemistry, whereas I totally bought the friendship between him and Iolaus.

Herc talks with Iolaus about him getting married and basically doesn't seem to understand why Iolaus would want to marry a wife who can't cook well, tend his clothes, or tend the animals well. When Iolaus says she's beautiful, Herc is basically like "what does that matter", and then Iolaus says he's in love and he doesn't expect Herc to get it, and Hercules is kinda like "well I sure don't get why my friend wants this, but I guess it's his life".

Iolaus suggests that Herc will find a woman one day and understand and Herc says "Me? Never."

Also Hippolyta asks him about loving Iolaus: "Could you love a woman as you loved Iolaus?" "It's different with women."

This might just be to make the whole "Hercules doesn't respect women" point, but it's an interesting series of events/statements.

Lucy Lawless is in this movie!

Not as Xena, although she looks kinda like Xena, so when she showed up I mistakenly thought we might get a Xena origin story or something. I was mildly disappointed. (But look, so pretty!)

I got really upset when they killed Pithus, and it felt really unneeded and underplayed. It was around this point that I was starting to think maybe there would be some Zeus intervention to bring people back to life.

Before I move on to that, though, can I just say: The scene where Hercules carries Hippolyta's corpse into town... wouldn't everyone assume he killed her?

Last they knew she ran off to try to kill him, and when he comes back he doesn't explain anything right away. I guess they were all just okay with that since they wanted to all live peacefully in town together? IDK. It feels like the Amazon women were very easily swayed into living with the men again and just stopped caring about Hippolyta too quickly. (Not that I wanted them to be mad at Hercules, but... it just felt not very believable for people living in essentially cult conditions.)

Zeus did something!

I really liked that Hercules gave Zeus shit at the end, and talked him into reversing time for him. It's not how I thought they were gonna revive Iolaus, but it's good enough.

(I am told they planned to keep Iolaus dead but they liked Michael Hurst so much that they decided to revive him just in case. What an excellent call. ♥)

Okay, Hercules was actually likeable at the very very end of the movie. His enthusiasm to eat Ania's stew was actually cute.

I still don't really know how I feel about Kevin Sorbo Hercules yet.

Final thoughts:

I was surprised how much I liked both Zeus and Alcmene.

I was not surprised how much I loved Iolaus, and I look forward to more of him.

Also Ania is so cute, I'm scared about what happens.

The sexism theme was not handled that well/subtly but maybe for the time it wasn't that bad?

Hercules is characterized very differently than he is in YH. (And that's fine, I'm not holding it against this series, I understand why that would happen and I can separate the two.)

I don't think this movie will be one I watch over and over.

I'm really looking forward to watching more HTLJ and I'm honestly surprised how much I enjoyed this despite my complaints! ♥

#htlj spoilers #htlj #htlj movies #hercules and the amazon women #the great (re)watch

[footnotesandendings]

meme

Tagged by @heffer-wen, I think this is a "getting to know people better" meme? Not tagging but feel free if you want! Includes WIP snippets at the end.

last song: hmmm not a fun answer but I have a friend visiting and we were driving around earlier with So Much (for) Stardust playing in the car. I don’t remember what was playing when we parked, though, so let’s just go with the title song.

currently reading: <em>To Name the Bigger Lie</em> by Sarah Viren, which is subtitled “A Memoir In Two Stories.” The first thread is about a teacher she had in high school who was supposed to be teaching philosophy and instead took the idea of “what is truth?” and taught conspiracy theories (including Holocaust denial!!!). The second thread is about her wife (a university professor) being accused of sexual harassment. I’m only about halfway through so I don’t know how they tie together (besides the idea of “what is truth and how is it manufactured”) or how it ends.

Also friend and I have gone to several bookstores and my TBR pile is back up to 40, so. That.

currently watching: I wish I still had the ability to watch TV! When will my sports come back! (like next week, since I’m going to watch the women’s World Cup.) I do need to regain the ability to watch fictional TV other than Ted Lasso, since that’s over. I’m not open for recs at the moment but possibly soon.

latest obsession: I don’t have one right now and it makes life boring. I guess the thing I think about most while staring off into space is still Jordan/Virgil.

tall or short?: Short-ish. A little under average.

student or worker?: Worker, but with what the internet loves to call a “stupid little emails job” so do what you want with that.

colour: Blue.

flower: Ooh that’s a good question. Hmm. I planted coneflowers earlier this year and half of them died but the half that made it are just starting to bloom and I’m so proud of them, so I guess them right now.

food: Bread. Give me your carbs if you don’t want them.

WIP: A few things lurching toward being done.

1. The big Jamie hurt/comfort fic that is also ot3 and is going to be 50k by the time I add the last few scenes why does the universe make me suffer. Snip:

Then they have film review, which is boring, and he puts his jacket across his lap so he can text Keeley underneath it. She’s free after training and she’ll take him to a shop to look at planners and notebooks and then show him how to do something called bullet journaling, which sounds absolutely mad and confusing but he’ll give it a try if it makes her happy.

Roy comes over and leans down next to him just after they’ve finalized their plans. “You are either texting or having a wank under that jacket,” he says quietly, “and I don’t want to know which but either way you need to stop and pay attention.”

“I wouldn’t wank in front of all the lads,” Jamie whispers back. “That’s harassment. We watched a film about it.”

2. The one where Virgil is Virgil but Jordan went into ballet instead of football.

He was just out the doors and into the corridor when a voice came from behind him. “Excuse me.”

Virgil braced himself a little—being recognized in public was part of the job, but he was tired and his foot ached and it was a fucking medical office, for god’s sake—but stopped and looked back. “Yes?”

It was the blue-eyed man, holding out Virgil’s AirPods case. “This fell out of your pocket.”

“Oh.” Virgil went back and accepted it, noting in a distant part of his mind that the logo on the man’s jacket was a simple text one spelling out NORTHERN BALLET. “Thank you.”

The man tucked his hands in his jacket pockets. “Awful to lose those.”

“It is. But easy to do.”

That got him a faint smile, just a twist of the lips. Thin, pink lips, settled in a neatly trimmed beard. Everything about the man was meticulous, his hair gelled mercilessly into place, his fingernails short and spotless when Virgil had taken the case from him. “I’ve had to switch to buying the cheapest brand. That way I’m not out a few hundred quid every time I lose them or run them through the wash.”

“Don’t remind me.” Virgil tucked the case in his pocket and offered his hand. “I’m Virgil, by the way.”

That gets another smile, wider. “Did I play it cool enough that you didn’t know I recognized you?”

3. The one where they’re both at Liverpool but Jordan is a woman.

Virgil knows that watching a woman for half an hour without talking to her is creepy. In his defence, she's out in the middle of the training pitch, which is sort of the center of attention for anyone going in or out of the indoor facility. He had been on the way to his car with Milner and Robertson and stopped at the sound of a ball clanging off the crossbar.

"Who's that?" he'd asked, though her LFC women's team training kit narrowed it down a bit. He'd only been in Liverpool for a few weeks, though, he didn't know the women's side yet.

Robbo squinted across the pitch. "Oh. That's the women's captain. Horseface."

Milner slapped the back of Robbo's head. "Try again."

"Henderson, ow, Jordan Henderson. You don't have to hit me, the girls call her that too."

[georjeez]

tumblrina All In thoughts/review/whatever

honestly wasn't expecting mjf/cole vs aussie open first. was pretty good

my brother wanted big show to kill jeff jarret (his theme song is still stuck in my head ffs)

hook vs jungle boy pretty good

my brother got mad at me cus I simulatenously chanted for joe and punk. I just think both wrestlers should have fun♥️ (I was in hysterics lord help me why does that man suffer so good-)

six man tag was great but I needed to piss so badly that I had to go then (sorry). tried to start a golden lovers chant but no one joined in 💔

FTR >>>>>>>>

stadium stampede was good but imma have to rewatch cus I could hardly see shit lmao. loved the part with the skewers and with sue

I can hardly remember the women's match icl but I was screaming and hollering when saraya won. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

love sting and his stupid joker thing

was chanting like a madman for ospreay despite the fact idgaf about him or that match. I just wanted him to merk jericho lol

by the time the trios matched happened I lost focus cus I made a friend (that had the same name as me) and we kept calling billy gunn/the acclaimed "girly pop"

was honestly devastated when the mjf/cole match started cus it seemed so early. me and my newfound bestie kept saying NOO THEYRE BESTIES THEY CAN'T DO THIS 💔💔

anyway I had an amazing time but I'll definitely watch🏴‍☠️ the PPV to see it differently / with the commentary. also apparently it's gonna be shown on british TV for free next week which is cool (but I feel sorry for those here that paid for the PPV lol)

#no one cares for my wrestling opinions cus I never post them but I'm drunk and super excited still ♥️ #me.txt #aew #all in

[skaterfairy02]

An Ode to Yargı: Part 1

Yargı has been a life-changing show to watch. I haven't felt this way about a tv show - in any language - in a long time (or ever? if i think about it).

TV shows are unique in that they are vulnerable to being driven by ratings. Depending on the country, TV shows are either renewed season by season based on ratings and revenues and may only have 1 season of 16-17 episodes (most K Dramas), or in the case of Turkish dizis (like Yargı), driven by the ratings of each episode. Let me stop here and provide a disclaimer: I am not Turkish, I haven't been watching Turkish dizis for very long, and I probably don't understand the intricacies and complexities of how the Turkish dizi industry works. I only started watching dizis after stumbling upon a youtube fan edit for Nazli & Ferit from Dolunay during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020. The rest is history. However, it's not hard to see that because dizis mostly depend on the ratings of each episode, the story which the writers set out to tell can suffer as a result. This is not to say that dizis are the only tv shows to fall victim to this pattern. Even with season-by-season renewal, American shows suffer from this phenomenon as well. The first couple seasons of a show might be amazing with very crisp writing, but then the show steadily declines in the later seasons, show-runners change, cast members leave, and you really question why you're still watching the show. Since diving into dizis and learning the bare minimum about Turkish ratings, it seems this phenomenon is just more underscored.

But Yargı has been a game-changer. It's been absolutely beautiful to watch the writer's story play out so far, with so much attention given to all the details, and the actors have truly done an amazing job bringing it to life. At 17 episodes (over 34 hours!), I am still just as excited for the next episodes as I was when I watched the first couple of episodes. It's been extremely comforting to hear the writer (Sema Ergenekon, who is amazingly talented and a genius honestly) openly say that she has the story and the rest of the episodes mapped out, indicating a strategic plan with a definite endpoint. I don't think I could handle a situation where the show was extended for no reason and the plot stretches and suffers as a result. Yargı has truly earned its viewers' trust.

However, beyond the trust that Yargı has earned from me, the show and its fans are also teaching me a lot and subtly causing me to examine my own internalized ideologies, in a way that I can easily say few shows in the world have done for me.

On the surface, I find myself relating to Ilgaz and Ceylin and their struggles in ways that are more obvious. Ilgaz is the oldest and nothing but perfection has been expected of him. When he tells his father Metin (I lovingly refer to him as Metinhoe/Metintrash) that he had to grow up so quickly and was never allowed any mistakes, it really resonated for me. Ceylin, on the other hand, has been trying her best to sustain her family despite their trials and tribulations, and her strongest familial bond is with her younger sister, again reflecting certain aspects of my own life.

However, the beauty of Yargı is that the characters are much deeper than what we are initially exposed to, and more human than what most shows allow of their characters. The best example of this is Ceylin. Ceylin is a flawed character. She is scrappy and resilient, as life has forced her to be, and goes after what she needs, though not always in the most acceptable way. But she knows who she is and does not pretend to be anything else. I am actually so in awe of this characteristic of hers. She is also loving, supportive, compassionate, empathetic, merciful, and forgiving, but is convinced (thanks in large part to her family) that she isn't deserving of fulfilling and loving relationships, so she runs away from things. When women talk about wanting to see flawed female characters, THIS is what we mean. Ceylin's flaws are authentic, born out of her life experiences, and while inconvenient at times, they are highly relatable and honestly endearing because of that. She is NOT flawed for the purpose of being endearing to the male gaze (NOT a manic pixie dream girl or any of her variants). I love Ceylin and who she is because she inspires me to be strong, even when mistakes are made and life is going off the rails. Ceylin is beautiful because of who she is, not in spite of it, and it took seeing this character for me to realize how true that is for us as individuals - that our flaws don't necessary diminish us or make us less worthy of love.

Ilgaz is also a beautiful character, but one I have more questions about and am still understanding. I think this is because I have so deeply internalized the way male characters are generally portrayed that whenever Ilgaz does something outside that structure, I have to grapple with it and it takes me time to understand it. Ilgaz has been living a life in golden chains, but chains nonetheless. His parents worked hard to help set him up for a respected career as a prosecutor and as we learn more about Ilgaz, it's obvious that just because he is a very respected prosecutor -- and he is morally upright, dedicated to doing his job well -- his family (see: Metinhoe/Metintrash) expects his personal life to be equally black and white and by the book. However, when his life intersects with Ceylin's, we start to learn what Ilgaz himself values. Yes, he values integrity, honesty, and hard work, especially with regards to his job and the law, but he is also very loving and supportive. Unlike his father, he does not believe that integrity, honesty, and hard work are mutually exclusive with expressing compassion and understanding, especially when life gets hard. Like Ceylin, he seeks to understand his loved ones and does whatever is in his power to help them. He is the exact opposite of a toxic man.

Edit: Yargı is now on episode 51. Since then, a lot more thoughts have been thunk, so I will write a part 2. However, the overall message is still the same, watch Yargı for clear skin.

#yargı #yargi #ceylin x ilgaz #ceylin kaya #ceylin erguvan #ilgaz kaya #turkish dizis #ilcey #thoughts #quality show writing #flawed female characters #an ode

[waitmyturtles]

(Wiling away time in nail-biting anticipation for the penultimate episode of Extraordinary Attorney Woo....)

So, like a good South Asian-American, I did absolutely binge Indian Matchmaking, knowing full well all of the problematic crap behind it and in front of it. Huge, HUGE biased caveat right now before this review: for me, writing about South Asian culture will often have me feeling that familiarity breeds contempt. I feel like my biases will seep through my pores when I think about these issues, but alas, at least I know I’m feeling these feelings. 

I honestly do not watch very much reality TV -- as this blog indicates, I mostly watch East and Southeast Asian shows. (If you’ve ever watched the daily dramas on Zee TV, you might understand why.) I also don’t watch very many Bollywood films. And finally -- I grew up in a Western religious background, so many of the customs around “Indian” relationships that are directly tied to Hinduism/Islam/Sikhism/Jain practices aren’t necessarily ones that I grew up with.

However. There are many cultural practices, sometimes loosely associated with the religious practices previously mentioned, that I AM familiar with and was expected to follow from my childhood into adulthood. 

Putting that all together, I could relate somewhat to what was happening on Indian Matchmaking. (Important caveat, though: my particular cohort of friends who are South Asian, including myself, have largely partnered with people of different races.) 

What I can’t stand about lazy show reviews is that oftentimes, viewers ask the show to do things that the show is not intended to do. I can’t ask Indian Matchmaking to, say, address intergenerational trauma of arranged marriages, especially those that absolutely don’t work out. I can’t ask Indian Matchmaking to address misogyny in the expectations that women -- very often, professionally educated and trained women -- are expected to give up their jobs to live at home, often with their in-laws, and produce and raise children. I can’t ask Indian Matchmaking to address to the parents of adult children that the purpose of marriage is NOT the actual wedding and party itself, but the lifelong commitment to a partner to create a family. 

And.... yet. Of course, I want this show to address all of this, because all of these expectations, including the expectation that I would give up a professional career, were placed on me by my own parents. Thus, did I get any joy out of watching this show?

Somewhat. I was actually fascinated by watching the continued journey of Aparna from Season 1, who very clearly does not want to do the work of dating. And you know what -- if she would just admit that, I would seriously respect her more. Dating is hard! Finding a partner is hard! She’s deeply committed to her career. How could a show about the antiquated notions of Indian relationships and marriage possibly push her to think any differently? She was just so not into dating, and I had to give her respect for kind of recognizing that. 

I ultimately think the portrayal of Sima Taparia as a kind of relationship guru is painfully detrimental, and unfortunately accurate, to my Indian culture. She states that marriages are “between two families.” For those of us who are a part of the Indian immigrant diaspora, that kind of “arrangement,” even with partners of different races, is, I think, deeply flawed. It doesn’t take into account, in multiracial relationships, how other cultures may view marriage themselves. And that notion places Indian cultural mores as dominant in the fashioning of a relationship and a marriage.

My partner and I fought against a lot of these practices when we were getting together, and frankly, even after years and years, I still suffer the effects of the stress of getting through those demands to get to a point where we could marry. Indian Matchmaking reinforces notions that a marriage is a surface agreement -- not a deep, lifelong commitment to creating a family between two people, and acknowledging the incredible emotional compromises that come with that pairing.

#indian matchmaking #sima taparia #indian culture #indian marriages #netflix

[averyroundpumpkin]

Mafia! Ruffnut and Tuffnut headcanons

Warnings: Mention of torture and arson

Tuffnut

Stoner

Smokes week everyday

Got high on crack once

Tbh....make that 4 times

The gang wonders how he's still alive

He and Ruff are in charge of drug dealing

Hiccup tries to find someone new to do the dealing because they mostly end up consuming some of the drugs

Always unsuccessful

He's basically immune to hangovers at this point because of how much alcohol he drinks

Him and Snot are drinking buddies

Still has their stuffed yak . They keep it in the middle of the living room

It terrifies clients and business partners

He finds their suffering amusing

He still has chicken

Barf and Belch have tried to eat her multiple times

Acts dumb but is actually smart as hell

Walks around in just his undies when he's at his mansion

Ring the doorbell first a beg

Speaks to Snotlout's victims while Snotlout tortures them

Snot finds it distracting, but when we slips up it hurts them more so he tolerates it

Forgets to wash his clothes

Breaks into Snotlout's house just to steal his suits

It's happened so much times that Snotlout is unfazed by Tuffnut's antics

Tuffnut also breaks into Snotlout's house just to watch TV....also in his undies

He and Ruffnut always break theirs and can't be bothered to buy a new one

All their maids are terrified of them

His suits that he actually owns are always torn up

Has a memorial for Macey

Gets emotional everytime he sees it

Ruffnut

Ruffnut is a hot mess

Doesn't think about the consequences of things when she does them. She does does them just to do them

Arsonist

Loves it when Hiccup send her out on missions because it means she gets to blow up places

Thats one of the reasons she carried a couple grenades in her purse

Yes ,she carries a purse

Its full if spikes and has yak fur on it . But she loves it

Gets flirted with a lot

And she's confused because she's the embodiment of repulsive and there are literally more women out there

I mean, she wrestles bears and boars for sport for pete sake , why won't they leave her alone

She's more annoyed that the man that she actually wants to get in bed with doesn't seem to notice her

Eret cough eret cough cough

Send him erotic pictures

Gets blocked

Creates new accounts

And thats bad cuz...he's literally the enemy

"Cmoooooonnn mann , its just a quick f*ck. They won't notice."

Stalks him on all socials

He always tells its her because her usernames are horrifying

The only reason Tuffnut is still alive

Saves his sorry butt almost every mission

Gets into brawls a LOT

Especially if they're out with Snotlout

Always rolls her shirts up to her belly button

Rolls her sleeves up to her shoulders

Has semi hairy legs

Barely washes her hair

Swears like a sailor

Had a one night stand with Throk once

Drops by the docks to feed Scauldy sometimes

Sits with her legs open

Extremely rough skin

Hates big messes

Unless she made them

Excellent shopper

Can sniff out fake designer brands

#httyd rtte #httyd fandom #httyd au #mafia au #tuffnut #ruffnut #tuffnut thorston #ruffnut thorston #headcanon

[calypsoff3]

Nineteen. Part 3

My smile grew watching Robyn, she gets so annoyed so quickly, she is not happy with the girls, so I need to make sure she won’t go crazy on them once we leave. They are brave for doing this, I didn’t think they would be happy with me, and I totally get why they would be mad with me because I fucked up. Robyn seems stuck and I get why she feels it, I publicly did this and now she is having to suffer the consequences I did and I’m so sorry for that. I have missed her a lot, I could just watch her while she daydreams off, while she giggles at Napoleon Dynamite for the little things he says, it’s cute she can watch it and still find it so hilarious. Robyn did that deep auntie laugh looking away from the TV and then caught me staring, I quickly looked away but it’s too late “am I the TV?” Looking back over at her smiling “I guess so” I shrugged “I was just thinking” I mumbled “about?” Biting on my top lip, I feel so emotional “erm, just you know. Like, I say these things like I can’t be without you and that I want to grow old with you, I can’t see myself without you but yet I do these things. With other women, but something in me acts a total dick and I’m sorry. Like I get it’s hard for you because I put you in this situation and people say things to you, I get why you are conflicted in what you want to do but I am getting help and no matter what I can’t leave you alone and I think my therapist said that and he said we will work on it” I laughed “but I have to be accepting of you maybe just not wanting me but I can’t and he said this is going to put a halt on my progress but so be it, I literally adore you Robyn and you know me and how I am. You know what I am like, and you know how impulsive I am. I just know that I can’t physically let you go. I love you but erm yeah, my triggers is my dad” I laughed “really?” She said, nodding my head “he erm, yeah he is a trigger to me, and I told Big D to keep him away and he did” Robyn looked at me in sadness, she knows that he is in this family, and he didn’t need to do that. He does it to make my life shit, clearly “your dad has been getting at me to leave you” shaking my head “it’s crazy for me because I am so crazy for you Chris, I actually love you like crazy, and I find it so hard” putting my head down.

“I lost my best friend, the guy I complain too. You came back a different man and I knew it, and then when Rylee cried to me, and she said that you was laughing at my weight and then teasing me about complaining about it. That hurt me because you’re so supposed to be my husband, my friend. And it hurt me, it did” I didn’t want her to cry but she is “I wasn’t looking to cry but your actions made me suffer, nobody thinks how I feel about things. Nobody makes it easier for me, you did what what you did but they penalise me, they push me in the direction they want. They want you gone, they don’t want you here with me” she sobbed out “it’s hard Chris because I love you so much” wiping my tears that fell “I just want to hide, but I couldn’t so I went gym. I feel better about me, but I am at night alone, without you. Without my person, and nobody will ever understand why I go back to you, and you literally made me feel like you took it for granted but whatever you’re going through, least I can say you haven’t fell out of love with me” looking at her “I’ve never fell out of love with you, I never did. I really never and never will fall out of love with you, don’t say that please” I sighed out “I hate that I made you feel like that, your weight generally wasn’t an issue. I was ranting to Herb because that’s just me saying it, but he laughed at that moment, I remember and he said about Mel being fat, we laughed. But Robyn you look amazing no matter the weight, you know this. Ok I get it I shouldn’t have said anything, that’s my bad, I’m sorry about that. I did change on you, because I know I fucked up, I know I messed up, so I just continued my behaviour. I’m so impulsive Robyn it’s actually crazy to think, but I’m working on it. But my therapist said my relationships don’t last and it’s overwhelming that I have” Robyn frowned “that’s because you love me and support me and I fucked it up, but I love you, I do. I ain’t going to ever feel that, a lover and best friend and I’m sorry” Robyn nodded her head “I pray you get better for yourself, and then the kids” staring into her eyes “and you” I added, she looked away from me. I understand why she is hurting; I did cause it “you want to play pool?” Robyn shrugged “I can’t play when I’m crying” I laughed “no you’re right, we can sit in silence” I offered her the silence she needs, I love her so much.

Looking over at Robyn giggling to herself at Napoleon Dynamite at his pick up line with Deb “Are you drinking almond milk because you think you're fat? Because you could drink soy milk if you really wanted too” she repeated “oh that line always gets me, I don’t know why” she is goofy “you have watched this so many times and you always laugh at the same line, cute” she waved me off “let’s play pool then” she got up, taking in a deep breath “don’t want you judging me while I watch my favourite movie” I wasn’t even judging “I was watching you giggle, it was cute twin” walking behind her, she looked up at me “mhmm” look at her not liking me calling her twin “have you improved on this?” I doubt she has “erm, possibly. Probably not but I can use the stick to beat you with” I chuckled “you mean cue?” grabbing one for her “whatever that is” she snatched it from me “it’s a stick with a tip” I laughed grabbing a cue for myself “I want some of that blue stuff, makes me look professional” grabbing the chalk “calm down now” I laughed, she is going to try and be professional, I know this woman. She is useless at this “what does it do?” taking the chalk from her “it makes the tip pretty” trying not to laugh “it sure does” she walked off “aren’t you going to put the balls together” she is already trying to play “no I am trying” watching Robyn lean over the table, she is funny “woah!” I said, the ball flicked off the table “woah, woah! Relax” is she crazy “it slipped” my eyes widened “it slipped” I repeated.

Robyn is terrible, I can’t stress this enough “are you needing help?” I asked “help?” nodding my head “I can help you, well teach you” she shrugged “you helped me last time and it ended in sex” I chuckled “up to you?” I said “show me then” clearing my throat, placing my cue down and made my way over to her “so” kicking her legs open a little more and then pressing myself a little closer to her, I can feel her butt just against me. My arms around her “lean forward, you being dense” I laughed, navigating her hand flat on the table, placing my other hand over hers that is on the cue “let’s bring the cue up, lift your thumb up just a little now” I can’t help it but I got to lean more into her, I inhaled deeply and she smells so good “smelling me” she said “I suppose, and then just like that” hitting the ball before moving back “you actually can play, thanks to me” she turned around “mhmmm” pulling my top down, Robyn and I just stared at each other. Her eyes travelled down to my lips, and she took in a sharp breath before she looked away “you want to finish off” I said, that was a little awkward. That was a lot, the feeling is still there for us, and I feel it a lot.

Looking at the time “damn, you want to sleep?” I asked, “it’s late “you have a blanket here?” I shook my head “but you can have this” taking my hoodie off “aww really?” she said, nodding my head “of course” throwing it her, it hit her face “you’re so annoying” she laughed, as long as she is warm “so you like it in Jamaica, how you haven’t seen Captain?” I shrugged “I need to think of me, not speaking on some future, you know” Robyn looks so happy about wearing my hoodie “aht, aht. I saw that, you smalt my hoodie” she giggled “you smell somewhat nice, that is all” she sighed out “the kids need you home though, like we all miss you here” she said we “I am not ready for public, I said it to Jeff. Everything is just too much; I just need to heal myself first and then I will be able to handle it. Like I said Robyn, if I can’t say it a loud then I am not healed. Maxwell said I am very hard-headed, and that it will take time. I just don’t want to be in this country, maybe move to Canada. Or if I move” Robyn shook her head “we are settled here Chris, you can do it. I know you can, for something you want” she has a point “it’s late though, go to sleep” clearing my throat and turning the volume down on the TV, she must be tired. I did a doubletake at Robyn, she is just looking all sad “you can lay on me? We can sit in the corner” I offered “can I?” she smiled “yeah sure, I mean we are friends still and also I know you like being close” I got up with the controller to play my game and I moved along to the corner of the couch, she got up from the couch “what about you? Are you sleeping?” shaking my head “I am going to play some game online, been a while” she sat down and rested her head on my shoulder, I knew she wanted to do this “lift your head up” I said, lifting my arm up and she rested on my chest facing away from me. Wrapping my arm around her lightly and held my controller to play my game.

Stretching my body out, I only woke up because I felt Robyn move away from me. I fell asleep midgame because clearly my game is still on the screen “they haven’t opened the door?” I asked, getting off of the couch “no, not yet” she isn’t giving my hoodie back clearly, she seems comfortable in it “so are you going now or just waiting some time?” she asked, I did a little stretch again Robyn eyed my crotch area, and I laughed out “come on, I mean you know what my bulge looks like now, I just need to pee” she is childish “oh so it wasn’t me then?” I shrugged “maybe, maybe not but I am going to leave after a few days, I don’t really want to be seen around here in Cali” I feel uncomfortable now because Robyn is doing nothing but stare “you are literally a feign” I pointed laughing “them toys not working” walking towards the bathroom “you’re so jealous of my toys, always mentioning them” let me just pee “maybe, maybe not” Robyn scoffed, I keep saying this now “by the way, don’t be angry at the kids, they didn’t mean any harm by it. I get what they wanted from it” lifting the toilet seat up and pulling my pants down “like they don’t need you to be angry with them, I just want you to be ok with them” I don’t want her shouting at them “I won’t” I jumped at Robyn’ voice just behind me “what the hell” I said with my eyes bulging out, she is right behind me “this is rude” what is she like “I couldn’t hear what you was saying” what a liar “so you thought you would come here and hear the sound of me peeing, it’s a little rude” trying to look behind me, but she didn’t say anything but proceed to go to the sink and open the taps washing her hands “you’re literally watching me pee” she is so rude “don’t flatter yourself, I’ve seen it all” I cannot believe this woman.

The kids are outside the door creating demands “so just to clarify you’re not, specifically mom?” Rylee said “no” I said “I mean mom!” Looking at Robyn “I’m not mad just open the door, your dad needs to go” Robyn is getting a little annoyed “I’m going to punish them” she said in a whisper “be nice” I said back; the door unlocked and I opened the door so quickly, I wasn’t going to allow them to mess with that. Yanking it open and I just ran at Rylee, she was quick to run but I grabbed her and picked her up, Rylee yelped out “the pool you go” I said “dad please, no. Please, don’t do that. I helped you both! Please I promise you I did it to help you and mom I care” she is pleading with me “yeah, yeah” putting her down “phew; thank you but how was it?” She asked “did it work?” Ti added, looking at Robyn in my hoodie “erm, we are both cordial, we spoke on things. But that’s it, I need my phone” I said to Rylee “oh yeah let me get that” Rylee ran off to go upstairs “punch! Punch! Punch!” Junior said as he started to punch my thigh “what the hell! Hey! No” I said to him “I’m fighting dad” shaking my head “no, you don’t fight and you don’t punch!” I pointed “not even Raihan?” He asked “not even Raihan, hey” grabbing his face “I’m talking to you, what did I say?” I said to him “no hitting” nodding my head, I grabbed his arm before he ran off “I go away” he yanked at his arm to get away from me “you and I will fall out, you won’t like it when I get mad” Robyn made her way over to us “I’ll give you my number, if you need it” I said to her “I was going to ask you that actually” I smiled “thinking the same thing” is that why she was walking over to me, we think alike.

#Chrianna #Chrianna FF #Fanfic #Fanfiction #Chrianna Fanfic #Chrianna Fanfiction

[macaroni-rascal]

Oh I am watching everything and taking names. Nobody is safe from my fashion takes this weekend, I don't have to work until Tuesday. I could go back and cover whatever I missed if you guys want, was it only the pairs SP?

The women's event was such a struggle in the outfit department. Before I say anything, I'd just like to emphasize that I'm not dragging the girls themselves, most of them are teenagers and we all know what they go through in this fucking sport. No, who I have beef with is the grossly overpaid adults in their lives who are advising them or even outright controlling what they do and wear. I might have to do this in 2 parts, we'll see.

Seoyeong Wi, sigh. There's a reason no one has managed to make a truly successful P&P 2005 program when even Marina tried - the soundtrack is too short and too specific to the scenes (as any good soundtrack should be). They just played a light and bright piece before a tense and very much period-sounding one and called it a day, no transition, no nothing. A composer would have to sit down, deconstruct and have an orchestra re-record a bespoke P&P program for it to work. The dress, while okay, had nothing to do with the theme, and muted neutrals just don't look great against the cool white of the ice and the harsh TV lighting.

Nini, my long-suffering child. Her mom better pray our paths never cross. Wildly inappropriate music choice and opening pose for a 16yo. The outfit I can only describe as goth Coachella. Great body alignment and mechanics into the elements but knowing the expense at which it came kinda ruins it for me. I hope she can be free and fly away one day soon.

Clare - yet another Tammy victim. Why is the V in the front of the dress so sharp and deep when the one on the back is much softer and rounder? What are those bedazzled flowers at the hip and why do they exist? Why the second strap across the hips? The dress is a strawberry macaroon, it does anything but elongate her lines, and the music is equally saccharine. They should've kept her in junior.

I'm so proud of Mana's dress for surviving that tiger attack to be here. No, but seriously, who did this? The color isn't the worst but paired with the black edges and the not-quite-matching mesh, it's a hard miss. Don't even get me started on the music - she was skating through it, not to it, and disappointingly, this wasn't the only case of electronic music that would be playing at a daytime DJ gig in a riverside cafe in any major city in the world rn. It only made sense after I saw her coach wearing a crocheted blanket over a checkered tablecloth.

Hana - god help me. I actually thought the cut was great, it really flattered her figure, but why that color, why that pattern, and most importantly, why the randomly placed black straps? Ka2sh straight to jail for the music choice too, did she even listen to the lyrics? Bury this song next to Big Spender, if you ask me. We've seen so many programs trying to replicate the success of Wakaba's Energia and just falling flat, just give up already, none of you are Shae-lynn or Wakababy.

It's awful that I knew Mone was skating to Dark Eyes as soon as I saw her in the warmup. The top of the dress is at war with the bottom, the sleeve length is truly random, and why are we doing a Russian song this particular season? The top is overbeaded like last year and I was worried it would rip under the arms every time she lifted them. I like the shape, movement and length of the skirt but it's all just sooo outdated, I'm literally begging these coaches to not underserve these talented girls like this.

I'll be back with Part 2 after I put myself through the men's event.

Fasionista nonny!

Agreed on you caveat, I have gotten lots of weird/angry messages from people when I criticize anything about young women's skaters under the guise of 'they are just kids' as if I am attacking them personally just because I think their jump technique is bad.

I think one day a 2005 Pride and Prejudice program will be possible, the music cut just has to be right, as you said. Clare 100% should still be juniors, she wasn't ready for this. I did not understand the Mana dress or music choice, she is not performing to it, the movements don't match the music, there was a weird dissonance on the ice the entire program, she just had a bland smile on her face the whole time. I actually liked Mana's dress, I just wish there was no blue on the bottom, that was weird, should have just made it simple black.

#konner talks skating #fashionista nonny

[slithyt0ves]

i just watched Con Air for the first time and basically live texted my reactions to my husband so here are some highlights from that

John Cusack is a mess in this movie

no really why is he like a soggy kitten

Colm Meany's accent really came on strong in the first scene he's in and then pretty much disappeared entirely which tbh im thankful for

Nick Cage's has been a nightmare all the way through

BUT HERE'S MY BABY STEVE BUSCEMI TO SAVE THE WHOLE FILM!!!!

like why the fuck is John Cusack wearing socks and fucking sandals and a nice linen suit

John Malkovich is great though as usual

Was not expecting Dave Chappelle, but then was not surprised when he was playing a crack head

96% of the things coming out of Cage's mouth are pure memes(tm)

also apparently im watching the edited for tv version which is making it even funnier

literally every person in this movie is in a billion other things

its like a smorgasboard of awesome b-list actors and i am feasting happily

"i SAID put the bunny back in the box!"

"Now you're talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to fuck off? Ending up in some retirement village, hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet in time?"

now they're in an airplane graveyard

literally why are some of these old planes that have clearly been sitting here dead for years smoking?

here we have a fight sequence between John Cusack and a plane

"Of course we're having trouble finding him! He's off saving the rainforest, or recycling his sandals or some shit!"

thank you for that Chief O'Brien

recycling his sandals

that's the worst insult he can come up with for a guy who he hates simply because he dares to think that prisoners are human beings and its valuable to try to understand them psychologically

lord they found the ugliest little girl that was currently living in 1997 to play the girl that Steve is gonna try to eat or whatever

(my husband replied 'he's not gonna eat her, they're friends" XD)

"Whaddaya think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna save the friggin day."

the little girl looks like handsome squidward

Guy to Cyrus: "Please, Cy--" Cyrus: "Anora." **tosses cigarette*

I AM FUCKING CACKLING

god damn John Cusack in his sandals and fine linen suit hotwiring a truck

dont-SLAM-treat-SLAM-women-SLAM-like that-SLAM!

omgomgomgomg the whole last like, twenty minutes of the movie i was going "is it bad that i kind of want Steve to escape" and then he DOES

just livin his best serial killer life in vegas, as he should

that was a fuckin ROMP

#con air #nicholas cage #cant believe it took me 34 years to watch this movie #well actually no i was 9 when it came out so 25 years #still