#100% genuine and meant to be misogynistic

[femcelhood]

NOOOO I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED MY FAVORITE SCREENSHOT

#it was a meme where it was like #WOMEN (GROSS) like to read yaoi where the men are TORTURED AND BRUTALIZED #while MEN like to read HAPPY FLUFFY CUTE WHOLESOME YURI #100% genuine and meant to be misogynistic #but like. so men are boring and the girlies are reading something more interesting #good to know good to know #I want all bitches to suffer

[thefemalejoker42069]

okay this is gonna be a bit of a long rant (with some SA and CSA mentions so pls don’t read if that will be too much for you rn) but I’ve been thinking a lot about the “male loneliness epidemic” lately and I have some Thoughts ™

we live in very isolating, depressing and scary times. we live in a hyper-individualistic capitalist hellscape that seems to punish people who need community support. and I truly believe that we as humans should try to help each other out in the ways that we are able to.

but I lose 100% of my empathy for lonely depressed men when they start using their own personal issues as an excuse to peddle ideologies that advocate for rape, pedophilia, child marriage, sexual slavery, and even murder of women and girls. I don’t fucking care how sad you are, if you advocate for other humans beings to be subjected to the cruelest treatment possible then you either need to get serious help or die (and not take anyone with you when you do).

you do not have a fucking paramount on suffering. you are not the only ones who experience loneliness. I know you think women get to just pick and choose whichever romantic partner/friends we want, but that is false, and also being seen as nothing but a sex object by men is so incredibly isolating too. that’s not real love and connection, that’s only being valued for what we can provide for men. so many people feel so alone and it genuinely is a big problem.

I was raised in an extremely misogynistic cult that preaches that grown men are not responsible for anything they do to little girls bc “they’re wired that way.” I had very bad things happen to me before I was even old enough to realize what it meant. and you know what the excuse always is? “well it happened to him when he was younger too so he can’t help that he does it to you.” I learned very early that male suffering is viewed as more important than the suffering they inflict on innocent people. and despite going through this, despite seeing nearly every woman in my life go through something similar, despite all of this, I still would never ever sympathize with any ideology that preaches rape, slavery, sex trafficking, pedophilia, white supremacy, etc. and that doesn’t make me some super hero, it makes me a mildly normal person.

so no, nobody “pushed” you into your evil ideologies, nobody made you do that. if true suffering at the hands of the opposite sex is really the root cause of inceldom then almost every single woman I know would be the most insane incel you’d ever meet in your entire life. but they’re not, even though many of them are lonely and long for true companionship, none of them feel so angry and entitled to it that they want to murder and rape men or little boys. not a single one. the root cause of inceldom is, and always has been, male entitlement. men who were raised to believe the world and every woman in it exists to serve them in some way, but then grew up and realized that actually nobody is owed sex and you don’t get to force women to marry you and have kids, because we are human beings who deserve to be happy too. and this makes them so mad that they start thinking it’s okay to do whatever they want to whoever they want, because after all, nobody on planet earth could ever suffer as much as incels do when a woman tells them no.

I’m fucking sick of it. stop saying “they pushed me to this” and start taking even an ounce of accountability for your deranged, entitled mindset.

#radblr #radical feminism #radical feminists please touch #radical feminist community #I cooked here tbh #male entitlement #male violence #tw csa mention

[stil-lindigo]

okay so, not entirely sure what the last anon was on about (and it very well could be a troll just trying to bait. they really should have at least brought up what they meant if they wanted to appear in good faith), but it may be in relation to "drink up" and how it attracted terf attention on twitter? (which I know you addressed btw, so I hope this doesn't come across as an attack or anything)

personally, I think the phrase "our only natural predator" might have appealed to terf rhetoric just a little (but that's my opinion - I very well could be 100% wrong). I have my own personal feelings on the use of "natural" in the phrase (men don't naturally prey on women like animal predators do their prey - if anything, it's unnatural, deliberately chosen behavior - and it reminds me of the excuse that "it's just naturally how men are," like "boys will be boys." HOWEVER, I see how that phrasing ties into the "lioness/women turning it around and preying on the predator" theme, so honestly it works well there), but aside from all that, I can also see why it might've attracted terfs: bc they very often view and frame trans women as male predators to cis women. I know that's definitely not how you intended it though!!

and this also isn't meant as a nitpick to your work, so my apologies if that's how it comes across. I really like your art and your writing (and "drink up" has a very cool theme)! it's just that I can see how terfs might've interpreted it a certain way. it's not your fault that they viewed it like that though, and you've made it very clear you're NOT down with trans exclusionary BS. so that's literally the only thing I could see anon complaining about tbh, assuming they're not just being a troll. also I'm sorry for the super long message (I have an issue w/ typing too much smh). I just thought I'd share my thoughts on it in case it's at all helpful, but also this might just be annoying to read instead, so honestly feel free to just discard it if you prefer!

It’s not annoying at all anon, and I appreciate you taking the time to send this in. The comic you’re talking about is one I think back on with a lot of regret. It was made in a furious haze after a big time female streamer revealed that she was being mentally abused for years by her husband, where he would waste her hard earned money, threaten her dogs and her livelihood and overall be a monster to the woman who was their primary breadwinner. The reaction online to this information by her largely male audience was so genuinely vile and violently misogynistic that I made the comic, without thinking broadly about the implications you’ve already pointed out. In reality, the comic was meant to talk about how all women (cis and trans) suffer under the patriarchy and how the label of womanhood can often be an open call for baseless derision, dehumanisation and entitlement at many levels.

TERFS quickly co-opted the comic, and I’ll always regret ever giving them an opportunity to feel empowered and validated by my art, but I’ve learned from the experience overall to do better by my trans siblings. Thank you for engaging in good faith - I hope my behaviour now and in the future can make up for past mis-steps.

#askbox

[damianbugs]

would love to see u talk about the parallels in bruce’s dynamic with steph versus any of the other kids like emotionally and all that <3

i think the best way to start this is to highlight that stephanie and bruce's dynamic is quite literally "never meet your heroes" —

— and that bruce had the opportunity to truly take her under his wing and help her sharpen her skills while also teaching her why being a hero can be important to her personally without trying to be her father (which is the biggest difference between her and any of his other children).

it is also important to note that bruce did none of these things the way he should've.

in a meta reading, it was 100% misogynistic writing, ESPECIALLY her robin run. bruce, as the only grown up man in her life now that her father couldn't be used, was the person who was then used to bring her down at every possible chance. but in a storytelling perspective, i think bruce and stephanie's dynamic has many layers and is absolutely fascinating and incredibly tragic.

Batman: One Bad Day — Two Face

young stephanie watching batman fight her father, cluemaster.

batman meant something far more personal to stephanie than it did to anyone else. although characters like tim and damian had predispositions of what batman meant to people, or characters like jason and duke grew up with the idea of batman being normal in the places they grew up — to stephanie batman was genuinely just a hero.

another thing that really separates stephanie from bruce's other kids is that she is not his kid. bruce was never in a position to try and be her father, and that is not something she was actively seeking out either. to her, batman was always a hero who was kept at arms length. when they did form a more emotional relationship, it was still never familial in the same way the other kids eventually became to bruce.

this is not to say stephanie didn't become immensely important to bruce, but it was always different with her. this is why bruce could share things with stephanie in a way he couldn't with the others.

Robin #92

after a night of training/patrolling together, bruce and stephanie have a heart to heart conversation about the future of batman.

i know a very popular idea is that stephanie reminds bruce of jason, and that is why he was so hard on her, and while there is some truth in that i think there are a lot of moments that can give an entirely different impression;

and that is stephanie reminding bruce of himself.

there is no one who hates batman more than batman himself, as he is his biggest critic. bruce is startlingly self aware of his flaws and mistakes, but has accepted that he can't change them because it would mean putting gotham as risk.

Detective Comics 796

after a brief argument in which bruce heavily criticises stephanie, she asks if bruce is firing her. he responds "No, I'm teaching you."

it makes sense, in a terrible way, that bruce's own stubborn and headstrong desire to wear the cape to save people, to make sure their families don't end up like his did, is reflected in stephanie. this 'tough love' attitude which is more tough than love is nothing but bruce projecting his own desire to 'fix' his faults by doubling down on stephanie, in hope that maybe she'll turn out better than him.

whether or not stephanie is actually like bruce is an entirely separate conversation, but it doesn't change the fact that bruce ruined every opportunity to train stephanie in a way that didn't hurt her self esteem or confidence in being a hero.

but stephanie is one of the most emotionally strong characters. the inevitable tragedy and cruel ending to bruce and stephanie's mentor-student dynamic wasn't completely a loss, because she bounced back twice as skilled.

(and maybe that's just another thing bruce expected from her. to roll with the punches and keep standing back up.)

obviously there is a lot i haven't mentioned about their dynamic and how she was treated in general, and that's just glossing over the shitshow that was war games and her three month run as robin. but this is already way too long and i am not even on topic anymore.

tldr; stephanie and bruce truly were a wasted opportunity to showcase a deep and emotional bond as teacher and student, helping her find her role as a hero and bruce's chance as a mentor. despite it all, they care deeply about each other and stephanie deserved a better version of bruce.

i love them a lot. i wish dc would see the potential and treat them both with the respect they deserve and give their duo another chance. i think they can both teach each other very important lessons.

#bruce wayne #stephanie brown #my favourite duo ever they r so complicated and terrible for my mental health #also i dont think i actually answered ur ask my apologies friend #FUCK U BATMAN #okay sorry. the real enemy is (male) dc writers #dc meta #character study #saki asks

[evansbby]

*Cough cough*

A fic of senetor steve being and absolute SIMP for his wife after a whole Macho! Call me Mister Macho! I'm the whiskey makers best friend BITCHES! i'm the man, vote for me u assholes. lemme alpha up all in the bitch! Speech :3 Then entering the door and just all coo-y and ice cream puddly, and is dying inside coz he SOOO badly wants his shy omega wife to run her hands through his hair but she so fucking she and he knows he could ask her to but he doesnt WANT to ask her to. And the only way she'll do it is he makes her cry during sex. so he's all fidgetty during dinner. coz he really just wants her to scratch his head. And she's like, he's being so weird :( does he not like dinner? Why does he keep tilting his head at me when we were at the couch? He keeps ruffling his hair and if he does it one more time in gonna jump him- but i wont. Coz that wud make him mad :(

then hes like kay fuck it LETS FUCK (which is not loss to him at all really. and omega like oop ok no he's definitely ok and happy) and then during sex, she finnaly scratches his hair and he BUSTS. He just breaks and hes like FUUCKKKk OMEGA KEEP GOING! like A GOOD OMEGA LOVES ON THEIR ALPHAS LIKE THIS WHEN HE GETS HOME OMEGA. GOTTA DO THIS SHIT EVERYDAY U FEEL ME, GYAL?

and shes like o k...

and he spends a solid hour after comign home, with his head in her lap and scratching his head. The recorder is playing some old jazzy blues, their 100 kids are doing their hw on the coffee table infront of them, and damn if he doesnt feel absolute elated that he can feel their newest pup kick at his head from inside her belly.

He's just like "go at it bubs. i couldn't be happier."

then the interviewer asks him what he does to destress and he's goes dead silent. then just says some macho shit like "Golfing." and runs off.

everyone speculates that he really meant fucking coz his omega has a pregnancy announcement every other week but he knows. he knows his leg practically kicks when his omega is scratching his head 🤣

-🐝🖖

Bestie you’re genuinely SO funny like this made me laugh about ten times as I read it 😂😂 BUT it was also so hot 🫣🥵🥵

poyt!Steve totally WOULD give some macho misogynistic speech when he becomes senator. But really, he’s just so sweet for his baby omega wife, like SO soft for her! The moment he gets home, he’s literally all heart eyes. And HE LOVES when she scratches his head but ofc, he’ll never admit that!!! Ughh, I love how you wrote this… just Steve being so content with life and Stomega being domestic and in love and omega being all shy and just ahhhhh I LOVE THEM 🫣😍

#not their 100 babies 😭😭😭😭 #and omega having a pregnancy announcement every week isnsjsjsjaj #NOT STEVE SAYING GOLF AND RUNNING OFF #BESTIE U ARE SO FUNNY SJDNSKSKAKA #anon #🐝🖖 anon #pokemon #poyt drabble

[girleboy]

booktok rant no. 36828382

i'm a third through powerless by lauren roberts which is the latest viral booktok darling and it's just so like, appallingly bad. it's every YA dystopia/fantasy trope condensed into one really badly written novel. we have a beautiful silver-haired protagonist called PAEDYN who's edgy as hell and never gets pulled up for threatening to slit princes' throats. the two princes are half-brothers who greatly enjoy saying 'well – he's just my half-brother, of course', and another character completely insanely refers to one of them as her half-cousin, which no one caught in editing. am i stupid? can you have a half-cousin? there's a character who's a total copy of celeste from the selection like she's just the misogynist punching bag. she is introduced as 'bitchy blair' because she fauns over the princes – this is only okay when the protagonist does it, and she proceeds to call her a bitch at a fancy dinner for no fuckin reason. i'm just rambling there's nothing to glean from this if you've got this far just scroll. the protag and her prince love interest meet when she robs him on the street; she bumps into him and sleight-of-hands some coins which is whatever but she. manages to get her hand into a 'secret inside pocket' and steal whatever's there..... then he gets robbed again by people who get violent about it and she feels bad and saves his life?? ummm & he's a 'morally grey' love interest who's meant to be wiping out the 'ordinary' people without special powers of some sort and we go on a mission with him to kill some wee girl and he's like 'i don't kill children' and secretly packs her off to the desert. i'd genuinely like him more if he'd just killed her. do your job. there is this completely ridiculous scene where he and the protag are just standing in the hallway and she puts his own knife to his throat and he puts hers to hers and they just stand like that exchanging banter and it's like the third conversation they've ever had. someone's currently blowing up the ballroom and it's so directly ripped from the selection that i'll be stunned if bitchy blair doesn't get a redemption and die. if you're going to plagiarise i don't know why you'd plagiarise from the fuckin selection by kiera cass. there was an interview scene that was just the hunger games as well. the protag has this best friend who's described 100 times as squeaking or squealing and we're told regularly how much they care about each other but never shown it because she's busy squeaking, i guess. she's definitely going to die. idk man this is 250 pages in. not only is this book published but it's a legit bestseller. i never thought i'd say that more people should have read the selection or red queen or the hunger games as teenagers but maybe if they had they wouldn't be falling over themselves for this shit. like it's just so bad it's not even fun

#i can't get over her being called paedyn it's past parody

[iamashippinggod]

... Okay, so no one is going to say it... So I guess I'll be that bitch-

For those of you who are claiming to despise the the live action adaptation of ATLA, allow me to say this; adaptations are never meant to be 100% accurate. If you wanted 100% accuracy, then what's the point in remaking it for the live action version when you could just go back and watch the OG?

I genuinely like how they adapted it, it still keeps things family friendly. Sure, they took some stuff away like Sokka being misogynistic until he meets the Kyoshi Warriors, or Pakku being the one who made Sokka and Katara's mother's betrothal necklace. But in the grand scheme of things, those things don't make the entire plot.

Are there some things I wish they kept in? Yes. Am I disappointed that they didn't? No. The acting (in my opinion) wasn't nearly as bad as other shows/adaptation that have been brought out before. And compared to the movie that shall not be named, this was a much more faithful adaptation that makes me want to watch another season. Like, if it wasn't for the fact that I've already rewatched the OG so many times before the LA came out, I would have still loved the LA just as much.

Plus, we're only seeing the first season so far. If it gets renewed for a season two, the next season could be much better. So that being said. If the whole argument is that the adaptation wasn't 100% faithful, or that the acting was crap (which it wasn't, the actors did a wonderful job), then just go back to the OG instead of crapping all over the LA.

#natla #netflix avatar #avatar the last airbender

[zorosroronoas]

been thinking about sanji & my complicated feelings about him & like, as a disclaimer i know this is 100% on oda & the way he treats women in general, but sanji is such a frustrating character for me, bc i could love him if it wasn't for his, well, everything.

i've been specifically thinking about the queer & transfem sanji headcanons i've come across when navigating the tags & how i just can't get behind them. mind you this is not a criticism of those headcanons. i think the beauty of fandom is that it allows you to take canon & transform it until your heart's content. (tho it also begs the question of how much can you change a character until you're no longer in love with their canon self, but with little more than an oc).

i've been wondering why, even tho i generally love all queer headcanons for characters & relationships, queer sanji does absolutely nothing for me, & it's honestly bc my impression of his canon self is so strong. i can't get over the fact that canonically, sanji is a creepy misogynist obsessed with women, who also treats any woman that is not young & pretty with disgust, & that has also shown disgust & disdain at canonical gender non conforming characters.

i also feel that he canonically gets worse with time, instead of the opposite, tho maybe i'm misremembering.

idqk how to finalize this stream of thoughts, i just kind of needed to air out my grievances so to speak, but the thing that really grinds my gears is the fact that i don't even really hate him. as i mentioned before, he could genuinely have been one of my fave characters, which is why he is so upsetting for me, bc for every moment that i find myself liking him, there's a couple in which i frankly want to punch him in the face.

i guess if anything, i'm looking forward to live action sanji a lot, since they've already toned down quite a lot of the worse side of his personality, so i'll hopefully finally be able to enjoy his character fully.

anyways, long story short, i love one piece, but it most definitely has a misogyny problem & i want to fight oda about it. sanji is only the most obvious example of it, which is only exacerbated by the fact that he's meant to come across as charming & gentlemanly, which is frankly bs.

#vinsmoke sanji #one piece #anti sanji #??? i guess? to be safe #i also can't explain to you how frustrating it is as a zoro stan to try to navigate his tag & be bombarded with zosan :// #zoro deserves better full offense #personal

[coffincoitus]

ik you said you don’t want to entertain much discussion about the ethel cain post so please just delete/ignore this if you really don’t want to engage! i’m sure it could be upsetting.

but i’d like to share my pov irt her calling female genitalia gross; the post was obviously harshly worded but i personally really doubt a trans woman would genuinely find female genitalia gross for its body hair and straight up express that. she says “you have body hair on your genitalia, you are gross TOO” and the fact that she specifically says “too” means that if this was meant to be taken 100% seriously as a belief of hers, she would also be calling her own body/genitalia gross which would be strange. i think the thesis of the post is “if i’m not meeting your standards for a woman with my gross hairy ‘masculine’ body/genitalia, then y’all are ‘gross’ TOO according to these impossible standards.” while this is a perfectly sound message the delivery was riddled with misogynistic language imo, and i have a similar pov as you in that while i think it was not a perfect thing to say we certainly shouldn’t like ‘cancel’ her for something she said in response to violent transphobia… that’s just my interpretation though, maybe i’m wrong. but the fact that she says “too” is mostly what makes me more certain.

yeah like, obviously she was reacting to remarks about her own body and that's why it was harshly worded etc... and it still was a ridiculous thing to say. "he's not going to fuck you" "pussy is gross too" are ridiculous and misogynistic statements. like, they just are. we don't suddenly live in an alternate reality where pussy hair and asshole hair on women are praised as clean and dandy. we can have empathy for ec's struggle and still say that. and then move on with our lives. I never said we should harass or denounce her. I just said the words were misogynistic and stupid. like she's a 20 something musician with a tumblr fanbase, she's not a trained speaker or a philosopher. she's bound to say dumb things. it's possible to recognize that without harassing her

#answered #it's like when ldr said “where is feminism for women like me” #and you couldnt say anything about it in either direction without starting the great feminism war #ppl transform human beings into political tokens too easily

[fagmegumi]

u not a lesbian tho ur bisexual

Okay so let me clear this up not even for the benefit of anon but for my mutuals who don’t know me irl and may get the wrong impression from it.

what i meant to say in those tags is that the reason i still feel comfortable going to women’s places in my current state of existence is that 1) lesbianism AND womanhood both come in many diverse flavors of gender experiences so to speak 2) ERGO even lesbians who are straight up cis women can and will be attracted to people with various kinds of gender experiences, both “internally” so to speak (‘identity’) and “externally” (various configurations of genitals, breasts or lack thereof, body hair, presentation, etcetc.) this isn’t the case for ALL obviously but its certainly the case for some. Like I personally know lesbians who know about my gender situation and would still fuck me lol im not even being prescriptive rn as you point out i am NOT a lesbian and its not up to me to say what they should or shouldnt do. Im literally describing reality. 3) as i exist right now, i am a person with breasts, a pussy, and a relatively feminine face (though invisalign is doing wonders on my jawline, werk!). To say that no lesbian who sees me in a bar dancing could possibly be attracted to the person they see is genuinely so far out of the bounds of reality it boggles the mind. Also this is neither here nor there but i don’t exactly consider myself a “man”, like I would never want to fill the social role of ‘man’ the way a cis man does. That’s why i call myself transmasc but not a trans man. If id been born with a penis and assigned male at birth and raised a boy etcetc, i would STILL want to socially and/or medically transition bc I simply dont see myself as a genuine 100% man the way i dont see myself as a woman.

If i ever do manage to get hrt and I acquire more masculine characteristics etc the situation will be different, like I wouldnt feel as comfortable going to spaces for women. Also I should specify that the bar i went to today does not call itself a “lesbian bar”, it is a bar for queer women of any sexuality (and their friends and allies of other genders). Not every single person in there was a woman, and not every single woman was a lesbian. Statistically in fact many of them were probably bisexual, and honestly assuming otherwise is lowkey pretty biphobic lol

lastly, i also want to specify that, even if im pre-transition and i look for all intents and purposes like a cis woman (something that makes my life hell in many generic lgbt places, where the general misogynistic and boys-club vibe makes it so gay dudes will tolerate me at best and assume im a ‘fag hag’) i still would never have sex with a lesbian without clarifying my gender situation to them first. I simply would not feel comfortable with that in fact the thought makes me pretty nauseous. But at the same time 1) i know (again, for a fact) there are plenty of people who use the label of lesbian who WOULD fuck me even after knowing and 2) i dont think grinding a little on a stranger in a bar you saw from a cross the room and found really hot, or even having a short dancefloor makeout with them, is anywhere on the same level.

#whatever im tired now. too many words #some of yall need to step back from the 21st cent social media fueled id politics and like engage with the actual lived texture of queer #experiences irl. do some queer phenomenology even. #merleau ponty voice the fabric of the world… #asks #anon

[spaghettificationandpretzels]

The Flat Tire Part 7

I think there will be one or two parts after this including the epilogue, however, I am planning to do little one shots every now and then. I never expected this series to get so long or to be so well-liked, I'm very grateful for all my readers and engagement.

Part 6

Warning: Angst, Clay is a misogynistic dick, Juice is a sweet puppy and must be protected at all costs, hurt/comfort, Chibs is an idiot and can't express his feelings, love confessions. SMUT, MINORS FUCK OFF, it still makes me feel a little silly to write smut so I would love feedback.

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Despite the crazy night, Chibs couldn't find it in himself to fall asleep. You had started the night (more like early morning) laying on opposite sides of the bed, only just touching, but as time went you and you slept deeper, you moved closer to him.

He couldn't pinpoint why, maybe it was worry, perhaps it was the fear that you would leave the moment he was asleep, but more and more, it was becoming about making sure his lower half didn't make things inappropriate. The last thing he wanted to do was take advantage of the fact that you were scared and felt safe with him, he wanted your affection to be genuine.

Sometime just before the Sun rose, you had rolled into his arms, he could smell your conditioner and feel your breath rise and fall against him. Despite the niggling of need, he felt peaceful, and he was dreading having to get up.

Regardless it was still pretty early and he hoped he would have a few more hours with you before he had to face the day. He never thought he would find someone after Fiona, especially not someone he would consider a future with.

He had known you for just under a month and he could picture his life with you, a nice house, a few kids, and of course, a dog or two. It frightened him, before you, he was content to go from woman to woman without so much as a thought.

None of that mattered now, he wasn't going to pull you into his life without telling you the truth first, the whole truth.

You woke with a start, this was not your bed, nor your home. The anxiety passed fast, Chibs was holding you and running his hands over your back.

"Morning Lass" his voice was harsh with the lack of sleep.

"Morning Philip, did you get any sleep?" you were too tired to consider the implications of waking up in his arms, you were content to spend the next few moments in peaceful bliss before you had to get up and deal with everything that happened last night.

Chibs was torn between lying to prevent you from worrying and telling you the truth because he knew it was wrong to lie to you.

"A little, it's kind of hard to fall asleep when I'm worried about Clay busting in to send me somewhere." You could tell he wasn't being 100% truthful but there's was no point going over it now.

"Thank you for watching over me, you didn't need to do that." You didn't want to call him out for putting you before sleep but you wanted to be appreciative as well.

"I should go into work today, missing one day could mean thousands down the toilet." A very unimpressed look crosses Chibs' face, but only for a fraction of a second.

Chibs didn't want to control you or make it seem like he was telling you what to do, but he also didn't want you to leave the compound. He had to come up with a solution fast or he was going to have to demand that Clay let him go with you everywhere.

"Why don't you go into the store with Juice and Jess, Juice and keep you both safe and I'm sure Jess will be able to do something for her kids while she's there."

You liked that idea, over the last few weeks you had grown very close to both of them and it would be nice to have some company.

"Sure, I think that would be nice. As long as Juice doesn't eat all the food."

Chibs gave you a hearty chuckle at that, it drifted off into a genuine smile and when his eyes meant yours they were filled with a soft joy.

Then there was a silence, you could see him looking from your lips to your eyes and back again. Against your better judgement, you leaned in and closed the distance.

It felt different than the first time, there was far more to it, it was almost as if he was trying to tell you something.

You didn't know how long it took but Chibs was rolling on top of you and you were reaching down to grab the hem of his shirt.

The things left unsaid were filling a distance you didn't know was there, everything suddenly felt alien.

"Stop please" your tone was desperate and unsure.

Chibs stopped immediately and moved his hand from your ass to your ribs.

"What's wrong love?" He sounded so concerned, it was clear that sex was now the last thing on his mind.

"We really need to talk about what's going on. I mean, we've gone from barely knowing each other to my life being at risk to us getting ready to fuck. I just don't know where we stand."

Chibs had about a million different emotions cross his face all at once.

Before he could respond, you spoke again.

"I know about the Irish and the guns. Two AFT agents came into the bakery one day and I overheard everything. I don't care, you're not hurting anyone, at least directly."

You took a deep breath.

"I'm all in, I'm here Chibs and I'm not going anywhere."

Chibs was lost for words, you weren't even his old lady yet and you have willingly accepted his lifestyle without thought, he didn't know whether to be grateful or worry that you were unstable.

"Lass.. I"

"I'm not done Philip." you sounded more sure of yourself now.

"I know we haven't known each other long so this is going to seem crazy but I love you Philip, I love you."

He looked shocked and then overjoyed.

"Oh, Lass. I love you too." the smile on your face was totally involuntary, and his face reflected yours.

He leaned in to kiss you again but this time it was chaste and gentle, any distance was gone and all that existed in the world were you and him.

You pulled away from each other, it could have been seconds later, it could have been hours.

"We need to get this mess sorted before we keep going, I want our future to have a good start." Chibs looked a little sad but he didn't protest.

Knock knock

"Chibs, we've got to go, they found the guys." You had never disliked Jax so much than in that moment.

Chibs looked at the door then back at you. He lifted his hand up and ran his fingers over your cheek.

"Duty calls y/n. I'll be back soon then we can talk about this."

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It was the Aryans, they were angry that Darby was had been pushed out of Charming again so they decided to cause problems for the club. Despite the rest of the club wanting to end this once and for all, Clay felt that Darby still had his use. So Clay let him and his cronies live, and told them that from now on, Darby would be his inside man from dealing with the Neo-Nazis.

This was fast becoming a turning point for the guys, coming after their women was unacceptable and Clay didn't seem to care.

Jax was the first to speak up.

"We can't let this slide Clay, what if it was Mum?" Clay gave Jax a look that could freeze hell.

"But it wasn't Gemma. Those two aren't even old ladies, we don't own them anything and certainly not that red headed slut" Thank God Juice was with you and Jess and not here with Clay.

"This is insane, we have to do something or the next time might be worse" Tig's response was a surprise, he had always been up Clay's ass.

"THAT'S IT, IT'S DONE. WE'RE DONE HERE, NOW GO HOME AND BE WITH YOUR WOMEN" Clay left no room for argument, it was final.

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The trip back to the Clubhouse was short and filled with tension, and everyone felt that this wasn't the end of the conversation despite Clay's outburst.

Chibs didn't stay long, he wanted nothing more than to be with you at the bakery, so that's where he went.

When he arrived, he could see Juice sitting at a table near the door, looking vigilant. He couldn't see you or Jessica so he assumed you were both in the back.

Walking in was like taking a breath for the first time in hours, he could smell browning sugar and vanilla and there was French-style Jazz playing softly.

You and Jess came out to greet him, covered in flour and food dye.

"We made crazy cupcakes for Jess' students" your tone was so happy, it reminded him of a little kid who just found a cool rock.

Chibs was unsure of how to respond, he had never seen you so bouncy.

"What are crazy cupckes?" he had an idea but he wanted to hear your voice in that tone again.

"They're cupcakes with lots of colours and decorations, Jess is going to use them to teach the kids about mixing colours." It was just now that he was seeing the bright green icing on Juices' chin.

"Did you sneak one Juicy boy?"

Juice huffed out a laugh. "Just one, and some cookies."

Chibs tried to look indignant.

"Where's mine?"

"I don't work for free, if you want something you'll have to help us clean up" you didn't say it with any force.

Chibs walked to the kitchen with a skip in his step.

"Well then, I'm yours for the afternoon", he finished with a wink and a charming smile.

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Chibs took you home at around 7pm, with the danger gone, there was no need for you to stay at the Clubhouse. He helped you clean up the mess as best he could, you were lucky that Gemma did some when she collected your clothes.

"Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" that was a loaded question.

"If that's what you want." your tone indicated that you were picking up on Chibs' other inference.

"Alright then, Do you have a guest room or am I on the couch?" How noble.

"You can stay in my room with me if you want?" You got a different kind of smile at that.

"Ok Lass."

**************

It was getting late, the stars were out in force and the traffic was barely there.

You and Chibs had talked more over dinner, it soon became apparent that there's was nothing to worry over. You both knew what you wanted, each other.

You were getting ready for bed. Chibs having already showered was waiting for you in bed. Your blood was flowing faster than normal, you realised that tonight would probably end in you two fucking, you just didn't know what that meant in regards to your standing with the club, Clay especially.

You walked out of the bathroom in an oversized cake T-shirt, and Chibs let out a low whistle.

"Shit y/n, you look pretty in everything." Pretty, what a gentleman.

He was sitting up in bed, shirtless with the covers slung over his hips.

Fuck it.

You were climbing on top of him before your brain told you to, he was so warm and you could feel his muscles adjusting to your weight. His face changed, he was looking you up and down like you were a dear and he was a hungry lion.

"What do you think your doing?" You did your best to give him a sexy smile.

"What I've wanted to do since we met."

You kissed his face, not quite his lips but not his cheek, and then you were moving down his body.

His skin was firm under your lips, you could feel him jump just a fraction each time you touched another part of him.

You reached his boxes and he took a deep breath, as you pulled them down his dick hit his stomach.

Oh God

"Can I keep going?" He looked at you like you had four heads.

"If I ever say no to that shot me."

You threw out one short laugh before descending on him. He tasted clean, his skin was smooth and soft. After a while, he started making these noises and you couldn't decide whether you wanted to go harder so he'd be louder or pull back and antagonise him into going further.

You decided on the latter.

"What!?" he tried to sound upset but it didn't really work, he was too busy trying to bring the blood back to his brain.

"I want more Philip" he was sitting up again and reaching out to you.

"I can do that."

He touched you with such reverence, like you would crumble under his fingers if he was too rough.

Your breath was caught in your throat as his fingers differed under the elastic of your underpants, you could feel the callouses on them as he ran them over your slit.

"You're so wet y/n, is that all for me?"

You wanted to respond with sarcasm but you didn't have the brainpower.

"Yes." it came out more breathless than you intended and he gave you a knowing smile.

"Good, you're mine now and I'll kill anyone that tries to touch what's mine." Had this been in the daylight, you would have had to pull him up on that, but you couldn't find it in yourself to care.

His fingers kept up their campaign until you felt your core tighten.

Oh God he was good at this.

"More please" he looked over your face for any sign of fear or uncertainty, when he found none, he was pulling his fingers out of you and pulling you on top of him.

"I love you y/n." he helped you slide onto him and help you there for a breath.

"I love you too Philip."

He started rocking his hips while moving yours up and down, you were under no illusion of who was in charge.

Slow at first, then faster and faster until everything was a blur and all you could see was Chibs.

You leaned down to kiss him, and he sat up and moved his hand to grab your hair.

"God you're the amazing thing I've even seen."

"I doubt that handsome" a different expression came over his face, your bait was working.

He was flipping you under him with such speed.

"I'm going to make you regret that."

************

You had lost count of the passing hours, and when it was all said and done, Chibs cleaned you up with a damp cloth then carried you to the bathroom to finish cleaning up.

The sheets had been changed when you came out and Chibs was waiting with open arms.

"Shall we call it a day my love?"

"Oh please" you didn't realise how tried you sounded.

You climbed into bed a laid your heart on his chest, you could feel the thump thump of his heart.

"I love you y/n, with all my heart."

"And I you Philip."

Epilogue

We're done, there will be an epilogue released in the next few days, I hope everyone had fun and found the ending (so far) satisfying. The epilogue will be a look into their future, all happy I promise.

#Chibs x reader #sons of anarchy #fluff #chibs telford #sons of anarchy fluff #sons of anarchy imagine #smut #chibs imagine #chibs smut

[kidcataldo]

Okay, look

I know she’s evil, I know she’s terrible and an abuser with no redemption arc, and we’re always meant to hate her…

but does anyone else wish [REDACTED] developed Umbridge a little more? Made her a little more human?

Think, for a moment, of this character from the mindset of being a woman in a misogynistic environment, where “successful” women have to “be tough” in order to get anything accomplished

When you “act” like a woman in a male dominated space: you’re talked over, you’re ideas are ignored, you’re not taken as seriously

When you’re a woman acting like a “man”: you’re the abrasive bitch in the workplace

So hear me out: wouldn’t she be so much more interesting if her character started out with good intentions, her kindness was genuine, but people kept stepping on her and abusing her kindness. To a point where she just snaps

and the Umbridge we all know and despise today is born, because she learned the hard way that kindness gets you no where in the ministry. She wasn’t born “evil,” society 100% made her that way.

Anyone else want that Umbridge? No, just me? Okay.

#dolores umbridge #harry potter #the ministry of magic #hp #umbridge

[alrightsnaps]

I think I have used the term girlboss before to describe Kates characterisation but now I really regret it. The word which once had an actual meaning to it has been twisted throughout the internet and is now just used to describe any woman who doesn’t want to be treated like a doormat. While the writing in the Tudum clip is anachronistic… this is Bridgerton so no one is watching for historical accuracy.

The show clearly implies anthony just said some pretty sexist things, has shown him treat woman like commodities (Siena + books) and behave in a sexist manner (but let’s make sure Kate doesn’t come off as a man hater for pointing that out). For some reason having Kate call him out in a fairly tame manner ruins her character 😐. While their is genuine critique to be made that writers often write female characters to fit a certain box, I am tired of any female character who speaks up for herself being a girlboss or *gasps* unfeminine.

Riiiight, I remember reading some criticism about Kate's lines in the tudum clip.

I'm gonna be honest: I'm 100% for anachronisms and historical inaccuracies in romance. One of my favourite regency romance writers is Tessa Dare because of how absurdist her stories can be given their historical context lol. There are projects you watch for their historical accuracy and attention to detail but as you said, Bridgerton is not one of those shows and that's what made it so popular. I loved the Billie Eilish string quartets, I loved the historically inaccurate hairstyles (#LetWomenHaveTheirHairDown 😛) and I loved Daphne confronting her mother about not giving her a proper sex talk (when in real life it was very much the norm for mothers to give even worse sex talks not just in the 19th century but well into the 20th– precisely because women were treated as commodities and kept in the dark about their own reproductive health). So, predictably, I loved Kate's reaction to Anthony, anachronistic as it is, and I hope they keep it up.

I agree that writers can write characters to fit a certain box which can be very frustrating if they're not careful because they make them seem a bit one dimensional (I feel they kinda did that with Eloise as the Token Feminist Character? I don't know if it's because I know her ending but it could get kinda cringe at times. Which is a pity because there were other scenes–her talks with Benedict or her deeper moments with Daphne off the top of my head–that felt completely natural and heartfelt. I hope they lean more into the latter in s02) but that's not the impression I was given with Kate in the sneak peek. It felt very much in character for her to call Anthony out for being a misogynistic ass and I hope they keep it going throughout the season. This is the same woman who rightfully told him that he'd never marry Edwina after he got a first-hand account of the kind of marriage he intended to have (one where he would keep a mistress and do whatever he wanted while his wife gave birth to his heirs) and wouldn't give her approval until Anthony actually showed her a different (and decent) side of himself. Are we really supposed to believe this Kate would listen to Anthony exhibit the same behaviour we saw from him in season 1 and demurely keep sipping her lemonade?!

Female characters will get criticised whatever they do, especially for speaking up, because women are criticised no matter what they do and called man-haters for so much as daring to contradict men. So who gives a fuck? (Don't get me started on female characters being deemed ~unfeminine~. Every behaviour under the sun besides docile submissiveness is unfeminine lmao Maybe if people realised femininity has always been meant to restrict women's lives and options it wouldn't be such a dreadful concept for women to be unfeminine but hey. That wouldn't be convenient for men or capitalism)

If someone sees a character as complex and beautiful as Kate and view her as a girlboss or a man-hater for being a normal human being with opinions and no patience for men's bullshit it just goes to show how sexist they are. I'll definitely love her character even more if they have her address Anthony's sexism– it would be a disservice to her if they didn't!

#asks #anon #bridgerton #why do all of my asks develop into feminist rants 😭😭😭 #kate sharma #anthony bridgerton

[bthump]

Heyyy, do You think it was justified the way casca was going to commit suicide, or it was something that Miura did just so that guts could save her and have sex with her? Does it make sense yo You?

I started out answering this with an "absolutely not well justified" response, but yk what, that's not entirely true.

imo it's bad writing if we're meant to see Guts and Casca's relationship as genuinely romantic, healthy, and positive. I'll say that straight up. If we're meant to see Casca falling for Guts as a step in the right direction for her, then that is just bad fuckin writing all around, and the suicide attempt specifically makes it even worse.

Casca gets a monologue in which she tells Guts that she was lying to him and herself when she said she wanted to be Griffith's sword, because what she really wants is to fuck him, and now he's probably dead and she's apparently not actually all that personally invested in his dream of a utopian kingdom, so her life feels worthless now, plus the last year has been hell, so see ya. Then Guts saves her and they start fucking and she's like, well what the hell I'm also in love with Guts, which is something that's been causing me existential angst this last year as well, guess I can give this a shot. Presto, mental health crisis solved, Casca no longer depressed now that she got laid.

So that sucks.

Buuuuut on the other hand I think you can make a pretty solid case that fucking Guts is not actually a step in the right direction for Casca, but rather, the continuation of a negative cycle.

Casca's own justification for killing herself there honestly could work in theory. Like yes I will always be disappointed personally by any narrative in which a female character is presented as someone with ideals and goals and personal desires but oops that was actually a bait and switch because those were all lies she told herself to stay in denial about being in love with a dude and having no sense of self outside of him. That inherently pisses me off no matter what else happens with her narrative, even if it's 100% purposeful for the sake of exploring that as a flaw. A woman being romantically obsessed with a dude is not a flaw I would choose to read about if I had a choice.

Like okay, I've ranted about how misogynist the writing is here before, and I do stand by that. I just re-read and nodded along to my own post there. BUT it like, it arguably serves the story, honestly, lol. Everyone's lying to themselves about being in love with someone throughout the Golden Age, from Casca to Judeau to the King and Queen. It's a motif, and one that fits the griffguts subtext like a glove, so while I hate it in Casca's case, I can live with it because it fits the Golden Age theme of repression.

And like I said there is a strong case to be made that Casca isn't overcoming that flaw by falling for Guts, she's just repeating it.

It sucks that the only GA female main character's narrative is all about falling in obsessive love with dudes who save her and dedicating her life to them, but the silver lining is that it really does read like a pointedly negative thing to me.

And if that's the case, then gtsca hooking up after the suicide attempt is a bandaid solution that doesn't solve Casca's actual problems rather than an actual solution to the factors that drove her to suicide, which is a little better than healing sex lol, and pretty strongly implied with Guts’ “Don’t think about those things. All you need is to feel alive” prelude statement.

(Plus just look at Casca all eager about Guts taking her with him when he leaves again vs how she responds when she watches him fight the kinds of strong enemies his dream entails fighting, ie by crying, wishing he would just run away, and telling him to die by himself while bandaging him up afterwards. Pretty strong hint that leaving with Guts wasn't actually going to be a great time for her.)

It also means her reason for killing herself, ie being in love with Griffith who is gone now, isn't about being in love with the wrong dude but rather about having no self esteem outside of the hope of reciprocated romantic feelings, epecially as a result of formative traumatic childhood experiences like the rest of our main characters, which is at least a better character note than driven to suicide bc the dude she likes doesn't like her back, and saved from that despair when this other dude she likes does like her back this time.

Though that said, it's a bit of a stretch for me to believe all that is the authorially intended reading of Casca's character because, I mean, look at the rest of the women in Berserk. When every other woman in the story is also obsessed with a dude it gets harder to believe that he put that much thoughtfulness into Casca’s version lol. But either way, it still makes sense to me and fits the story. And tbh I do still believe that Miura intended for Casca to have a pattern of falling for saviours, even if it’s one he repeats with a bunch of other women too, and I do think it was intended to have negative repercussions. Like I doubt the takeaway was meant to be that Casca needs to work on her self-esteem outside her relationships with men lol, but yk, some of it is probably intended.

So like, tl;dr I think the reasoning Casca gives on page for her suicide attempt sucks but it sucks less if you see her relationship with Guts as an unfortunate result of the character flaws that drove her to that point in the first place rather than the solution to her problems.

Thanks for the ask, hope that made sense to you as an answer!

#also like the rest of gtsca the one thing it adds to the story is griffguts subtext #in that if as is stated in the text she's killing herself because she's in love with griffith and he's out of the picture then well #it makes a neat parallel to griffith's suicide attempt when he thinks guts is leaving again #though ofc griffith's is much better written by virtue of having a shitload of characterization outside his romantic feelings #as well as those romantic feelings being much better written by themselves #a #ask #Anonymous #character: casca #ship: gtsca #theme: repression #theme: trauma #theme: critique #theme: misogyny

[schraubd]

But What Is "Judeo-Christian"?

A fun story involving one my favorite students. As background, this student is (a) a somewhat recent immigrant to the United States and (b) Muslim.

Anyway, after class one day this student wanted to ask my opinion about some conservative radio shock jock he had read an article about. The radio guy had been defending some regressive gender ideologies on the grounds that they were mandated by his "Judeo-Christian" beliefs. My student asked me "what's 'Judeo-Christian'?"

At first I thought he was being arch, so I played along -- "LOL, I know right? What is 'Judeo-Christian'? I'm pretty sure it just means 'Christian'!"

But after a few moments, it became clear the question was meant in earnest. He thought "Judeo-Christian" must be a particular sect of Christianity -- like "Orthodox Christian" or "Lutheran Christian" -- and wanted to know more about it, because he hadn't really heard of it before except in contexts like "right-wing shock jocks justifying being misogynist" (in his home country, which was predominantly Muslim and had virtually no Jews, the term was not I imagine in regular circulation). What was this branch of Christianity that was always being deployed by right-wing reactionary public figures?

So I told him that the "Judeo-" was meant to refer to "Judaism", and the term was meant to connote a shared tradition supposedly common to Jews and Christians alike -- though, I hastened to odd, 99% of the time it's really just "Christian". The shock jock in question, unsurprisingly, was Christian and not Jewish, and was just adding "Judeo-" to rope us into his own, 100% Christian, gender ideology.

My student was abashed that he hadn't put the obvious two-and-two together. To be clear, it wasn't that he had thought "Jewish" was a subsect of Christianity -- he knew Judaism was its own religion -- it just genuinely never occurred to him to link "Judeo-" and "Jewish" (it seems obvious, I know, but I can absolutely imagine it being one of those things you just never put together until it's stated and then it slaps you in the face). There were, he had thought, Jews and Christians, and then among Christians there were Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christian and Assyrian Christians and Judeo Christians.

But, in his defense, he found the "real" explanation -- that it was a sort of merging of "Jewish" and "Christian" together, by people who inevitably identified with one religion or the other, but not both -- even odder than his initial misapprehension.

"But those are two separate religions!"

"Yes."

"It'd be like me saying 'Islamo-Christian'!"

"Yes!"

"That's stupid! I'd be really annoyed if someone of another religion tried to rope in my religion to justify his misogynistic beliefs."

"Yes!" 

Anyway, mystery solved, we had a good laugh about the uselessness of the term "Judeo-Christian" and how terrible the shock jock was. The end.

via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/2QGh7vg

#Jews #Judeo-Christian

[clitsuckerer]

i’m going to say this as nicely as possible.

your fic (however you intended it to come across) just gives off icky vibes.

the way the reader is depicted (you mention school many times though she still lives with her parents which a majority of college students don’t do) and also over-dramatically infantilized her, you didn’t have to mention things like the stuffed animals because it really pulls the reader out of the scene and into gray territory, any mention of children was unnecessary, the entire ending pov with his wife came across as misogynistic and also just unnerving, and overall just makes dream come across really sleazy and creepy.

and also in your justification for posting the fic, you explain how readers insert themselves into fics so you try to leave it open? that’s an indirect invitation to minors which is not okay.

i know you’re probably thinking this is hateful, but i’m genuinely trying to help you out. you’re also a really good writer, the content just isn’t okay in mine (and others’) opinions.

idk what else to say at this point, that fic was meant to come across as sleazy and weird, as you will find with most of my writings i will post in the future that are in the yandereish category. i stated that that was my intentions not only in my answer before to you but also in the warnings of the fic.

i want to talk about some stuff you said here.

first of all, i said that for part two the reader would be starting college, meaning she's not in college yet but is of age to be. i'm pretty sure you can go to college at any age over 18 and also live at home which was a very weird argument to make, you said so yourself- a majority, meaning not all.

second of all, the stuffed animals. i literally just put my own stuffed walrus that i own, shoutout to mr.toppy, in this fic because why tf not he deserves some clout. as far as i'm aware you can own a stuffed animal at any age and if you consider that weird than that's a scuffed way of thinking of things. if the mention of a stuffed animal put you off a fic ok-

third. mention of kids. all i need to say is that it's a dilf fic and i hardly even mentioned them in it because i don't really vibe with kids, nuff said.

fourth. once again, dream is supposed to be an asshole pervy weird man in this fic, which in no way resembles him btw. the wife's pov and the last ending sentences were written to hit hard ig, because in my opinion that's kinda how cheating is irl, it's sleazy and sad but alot of the time the partners stay with the cheating spouse and i wanted to put that in this fic, how cheating would feel to the person being cheated on. that part was supposed to make you upset and angry and uncomfortable because that's how i tried write the wife's part.

fifth, i don't think i have any control over anyone's thinking and either way i wrote this as reader is 18+, which when i said that i leave the readers age open, i mean i leave it open for anyone to think of reader as 18+ which i thought you would understand after my multiple times of saying reader was written as 18+. idk what you want me to say i really don't, i've said multiple times here and in the fic warnings that reader is 18+. if you want to ignore that and instead choose to nitpick about the words i used to describe the reader and other stuff than there is nothing i can do to change that. i'm happy with the fic personally and i 100 percent respect and appreciate your opinion and i really will try to take some of that into consideration for future fics but again, all my fics are written with an 18+ reader only.

#bobs's anons <3