#I love when women are not great and bad

[caeslxys]

here's the thing. laudna would have stopped it. if she knew delilah was about to fracture the gnarlrock. if she could parse her own feelings from hers.

and here's the thing. imogen has been plagued by nightmares for a decade. and this rock is the first bit of solace outside of her trust in laudna that she has ever had.

and laudna was just involved in shattering it. this tiny bit of solace.

and. here's the thing: laudna would've stopped it.

and. here's the thing. imogen would've stopped it. the only reason imogen didn't go is because she was specifically afraid that she would attempt to intervene and ruin their relationship with the volition before it ever began.

and here's the thing. liliana set out 25+ years ago specifically to spare her daughter. and that seemingly has not ever wavered as her core motivation. but people keep being drawn to the moon. kids keep being drawn towards the moon. and liliana is a mother. she was a mother before she ever knew she was an exaltant.

for 25+ years she has worked to "cure" imogen. the only solace she probably ever received was in at least attempting to console the kids who found themselves lured in by her same pull.

liliana begs imogen not say that they may have to kill each other. she breaks at hearing imogen's resolve. but there's kids, imogen. there's kids here. imogen. she can't leave. she's a mom.

and, here's the thing: imogen's her daughter. the daughter liliana left. or tried to leave. the daughter she only had through dreams. and imogen is working with the volition. and imogen has been her sole drive for 25+ years.

and imogen might have just been involved in shattering the little solace she might have ever had.

and, here's the thing: imogen would've stopped them.

#DOES.THIS MAKE SENSE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND. I AM RUNNING ON THREE HOURS OF SLEEP AND AM HALLUCINATING I THINK #imogen temult #Liliana temult #laudna cr #critical role #cr spoilers #'did she know!?' well! yes but no! #god liliana. you awful hypocritical woman. PLEASE let me kiss you on the mouth #I do fear my writing which is meant to be more Perspective Driven will sound defensive rather than deeply interested but. alas #the anger in liliana just threw me back to imogen's post gnarlrock and I was like OHO. OH. INCH RESTING #I love when women are not great and bad #that being said. I do feel some of you are forgetting that liliana didn't like. steal kids from their families lol #she's a sympathetic villain! she's a tragedy! #anyway it is just far more compelling to me that she is lost in the sauce but ultimately we'll intentioned than just like. an idiot. #as some seem to think #ANYWAY. again. I just love women. and liliana is a woman and also a loser. what am I to do

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

[sweetest-honeybee]

Some people do kinda suck but I find a lot of joy in giving people really specifics compliments at my job and it makes their whole day sometimes c: 💛

#I had a very enthusiastic conversation about a lady’s hair and the way it was cut #she cut it herself! #I often like to tell some women that their purse is very nice and they’re usually very proud of their purses I’ve found #I will tell some people sometimes that the color of their shirt is so fitting for their skin tone and was a great choice that day #I expressed once to a customer that I loved the prints of his shirts and he came by one day in this one particular shirt #hoping I’d be there apparently because he wanted me to see the shirt because I love his style! #it’s so nice #I had a lady blushing once from head to toe because I said she looks like the perfect example of a woman #that face every artist draws for that reference #she was so beautiful #haha I like compliments on men’s facial hair too! #they’re proud of their facial hair a lot of the time #even soemthing as simple as they look amazing for their age which I’ve said many many times #like I said some people suck and I have yet to truly meet the bad eggs but man I just really like seeing them light up #when you compliment the littlest things they put hardly any effort into and think maybe nobody will even notice #I like pointing out those things

[catboyfurina]

Idk what precisely to call it since honorifics aren't Pronouns but vertin using she/her while routinely being addressed as Lord, sir, etc is soooooooo 🥰 it's like mixed pronouns but not.

#beeep #i love reverse 1999 #like shes not a he him lesbian but like yknow !!! #theres not a quick and easy shortcut for it but shes definitely sapphic and im leaning more lesbian hc than bi tbh !!!! #(which btw bi women can also be gnc and use he him in a wlw way) #(i just think vertin lesbian) #(but i KNOW shes sapphic) #AND HOW SHES USUALLY a my lord SPECIFICALLY when addressed by the girl so down bad for her???? gay as fuck #<- this isnt spoilers bc all the women wont her #well okay thats not precisely true. but a great deal of them do #anyway. i just hope that it isnt a translation error bc goes crazy ahhhh #shes a gentleman..... #and also i think vertin needs to meet a guy who isnt evil bc (possibly nb) lesbian and trans guy bestie duo is one of my favorite tropes #but so far she only interacts with evil people and or girls that wont her 😔😔😔 #which is so valid but also 😔😔😔 vertin u need platonic friends too. friends that arent desperately hoping you will push them out of danger #and land on top of them and gaze into their eyes #(or just hoping to make out) #(there are both types of wonts her in this game) #(along with a secret third kind) #anyway #rhvjvdjgdjvbjdbkrbkdjb vertin #i have to. be a person. i have to be a person but instead my brain is just full of WOW GAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #anyway vertin has like. fancy oldtimey gentleman gnc going on #not so gnc by modern standards that it would make Certain People mad but enough that it is making Me very happy #and i just !!!!! cannot get over how genius it is to combine sheher pronouns with traditionally masculine terms of address!!!!!!! #shes so gender. not my gender but she has so much gender #i love vertin and i love regulus and i love druvis and i love the fool and i love tooth fairy who isnt out yet but i saw her in that one vid #eo #i was expecting to play this so casually like stick it on my phone and then i can do it while waiting for class when im there a few minutes #early but i do Not feel casual about this at all!!!!!!!!!!!! <- i think i got hyperfixated lads

[spitblaze]

its one thing for a woman to blow off steam about how shes treated at the hands of the patriarchy, to say ‘god i hate men’ and leave it at that, its quite another to genuinely believe that anything (arbitrarily) associated with men or masculinity is, in and of itself, bad, and anything (arbitrarily) associated with women or femininity is, in and of itself, good. For sure, feel free to engage in positivity around the things that women are so often shamed for, but when you see people saying that stuff is inherently ‘divine’ or that certain body parts are blanket ‘bad’ or ‘evil’...maybe just ask yourself why someone would pass that kind of judgement on a concept or object that has no inherent moral weight.

#spitblaze says things #listen. i grew up with menstrual cramps so fuckin bad i had to leave school early half the time #so for me it was ALWAYS like 'ugh whatever' when i saw Period Positivity shit #like 'its a beautiful reminder of Wombynhood so always celebrate it uwu' #yea okay ill have a great time celebrating it in immense pain asshole #but then i learned about terfs. which i referred to once as 'people who are supremacist about having a vulva' #and one of them just. unironically adopted it as something Cool and Good so. yikes #anyway. nothin wrong with going 'woo yay women' #love a good Woman #but be aware theres weirdos who think the solution to patriarchial issues #is to. uh. just...have a society with no men because nothing can possibly be done??????? #great plan guys #also they get super chummy with all sorts of other chuds surprise surprise #a rad/-fem is just a few conversations with a catholic away from being a trad/-fem at any given time

[bietrofastimoff23]

tbh, it seems to me that people started talking too early about the fact that aegon allegedly does not love his children, when he didn't have a single scene with them. helaena had only one, and even then she just sat next to them, but everyone agrees that she is a good mother.

considering the book canon, aegon from the show reminds me of my dad: a man who never initiates a pastime with me, but whose love I do not doubt (paradoxically? yes. but child-parent relationships can be ambiguous). he shows his love in a different way. this is one of the reasons why I can't be angry at aegon's failure as a parent, apart from the imposed marriage and fatherhood.

#aegon ii targaryen #house of the dragon #my post #[ even now the older generation has the opinion that only women should be engaged in raising children #there is nothing to say about the Middle Ages #Aegon in the show can still be both a disgusting man and a loving father #And when I say “loving” it doesn't mean “great” ] #bad english #[ perhaps he is just as generous cheerful and condescending reminding the father of the weekend lmao ]

[itspileofgoodthings]

do y’all wanna know something funny. when I was in England I accidentally stumbled into finding my sister a boyfriend via @ilovevanillatea and her husband and it is something that has been so funny and good.

#It’s almost been two months so I can talk about it a bit more lightly #it’s had its ups and downs as far as it concerns me. because it’s another big change and one that sometimes feels so full of shadowy fear #and sometimes I have been [ shrieks in strangled anguish ] about it but also and at the same time. it’s been funny #and good. And I am delighted. #My wording is deceptive here —it was really Emma’s husband and Emma who led the charge here #because I showed up at their house and Jonny (Emma’s husband) was like : ‘do you want to date my friend [x]’ #which was so funny. But over the course of the week we (and me for personal reasons) all sort of collectively shifted it over to Nina #and things have been going so great #and it has been probably the funniest and occasionally the most maddening outcome of my trip #(It is good. It’s just also complicated. as everything is!! I’m slowly learning how to deal when the women I love find men in their lives) #(I am very bad at it but I am invested in getting better and in learning how to be a true support) #ANYWAY. Of course I wanted to make a million text posts about this simply from a storytelling perspective #but have had to restrain myself #because you know it’s real life and it’s delicate etc. #but now feels like a safe enough time #anyway the sheer ROMCOM OF IT ALL

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

also fun fact. you can effectively punch holes in plastic glow in the dark stars using a push pin and a rock and just pressing it really hard into your carpet or something so it doesn’t damage anything once it penetrates the plastic. in case you ever needed to know that

#i hope all my actors come to the premiere because i do not think i will be finishing this shit by sunday when we stop filming #going to need to tell them i have surprise presents for them all and use that to make them come see my mid short film #i have to stop putting down my own film. it’s not going to be mid. it’s going to be good. perhaps not as good as some others in the class #but it will not be as bad as the annoying ‘men’s mental health story’ bs one group is doing #frankly i don’t give a shit about men’s mental health but whatever #actually it might not be bad as a film idk their skill levels. but i won’t care about it due to there being no women in there #actually another group is making a film with no women (except the firdged mom) but i think theirs will be good #they have a cast of two people it’s not insane that there’s no women so i’ll allow it #and also of course that guys script was very good and he was actually my first choice when we voted on who’s scripts to make #no i was not my first choice…. i was trying to be humble…. #also i wouldn’t have had to be director on his film. i could have been the bitchy production manager….. #i also would have had to go on multiple hikes due to the locations they needed. so perhaps it’s a good thing my script got voted in too #and i know i complain but i do actually like my group they’re great people to work with #even if the Annoying one and i clash sometimes. i like to think of our dynamic as Divorced Coparents #which sounds more sexy than it is. it’s not sexy at all. there’s no sex going on metaphorical or otherwise #i just mean. we clash sometimes but we also have good rapport. it’s like a tense middle school friendship #and the other guy. he’s great. cringe at times but we love him #i wish i’d known him before this semester so we could have had more time to become friends this timing kinda sucks #anyway. i don’t remember how this post started. #ok bye

[hauntjester]

havin a mythic quest one. once again sitcom ruins my life by making me feel emotions

#my art #art #mythic quest #traditional art #sketchbook #mythic quest fanart #ian mythic quest #poppy mythic quest #idk how popular mq is im jst a game dev with game dev friends #mq #ian mq #poppy mq #ive watched a whole season tonight im gonna finish s3 i think #its a great show if u love women who are the worst #my favorite girl failures #especially poppy god she sucks so bad i love her #this moment also. when ur a little boy and a scared little girl and u don't realize you mean everything to each other ugh #i crode

[lavenderjewels]

brings me joy to see fanart of hana. she is funny!!

#I’ll always be her defender #writing wise it’s a disappointing and bad choice for gege to write hana and by extension angel out #when there’s SO much there that was skimmed over the second they failed to kill sukuna #and for what? because Hana’s missing an arm?? even then there could be more dialogue between characters or angel flashbacks #but that aside fans also say the worst shit #that typical thing where a teenage girl is kinda cringey and silly. then suddenly there’s people ripping her apart for being annoying/whiny #same w the fan polls where i saw comments saying maki and nobara being low is bc jjk is bad with women #and yes it absolutely is bad in that department. but that is Not why inumaki or naoya place so high above 😭 #I’m glad there’s more love for Mai too. she falls into a similar place as hana where she doesn’t have a huge role #and there were missed writing opportunities (although I think Mai’s presence is pretty great tbh) #but fans overlook everything (and esp. their relationships and trauma) and just call her names #that’s enough of my monthly rant where i want to vent a little about characters deserving more from fans and the creator #look all I’m saying is if inumaki can have such a huge fan base just bc people like his design #then why not hana!! she has an interesting backstory - is funny - AND has amazing fashion

[hecksupremechips]

Pose is an amazing show with a lot to criticize but honestly the sheer lack of transbians in the show just starts becoming hilarious at a certain point

#the klock keeps ticking #pose fx #pose #i mean im not the first to say anything but still worth mentioning how weird it is that lesbians in general and trans men are just like #not represented? #theres judy the lesbian nurse #and one episode where a trans guy and candy were hitting on each other in a 10 second scene #throw in some background dykes thats about it #but damn like every trans woman is straight and at first its like yeah cool sure transhet women rule i love seeing them! #but like. EVERY trans woman is straight and it becomes so ridiculously obvious the avoidance of lesbians in the 3rd season #when they have the bachelorette party where theres like 50 tgirls there and they bring out male strippers for all of them #youre telling me that not ONE of these women is gay? really??? #the show has plenty of great representation and im not gonna act like this show Is Bad cuz they didnt represent everyone who fucking exists #but its still kinda silly how they cant even like. at the very least include this massive important chunk of the community in the background #while focusing mainly on gay men and trans women #like damn at least have a butch join the evangelistas or something

[vonlipvig]

i may not know what i'm doing leading this country, but i love my wife very very much and that's the most important thing of all ♡

#they let me wipe away her tears OUGH I LOVE THEM I LOVE HER SO MUCH #game LET ME KISS HER LET ME KISS MY WIFE!!!!!!!!! #god when i do an evil bastard run it's literally gonna destroy me i can't be mean to her :( #especially since she wants to fight for women's rights like SO IM A BAD HUSBAND AND IM SEXIST. GREAT. #but for now.....happy family :) happy me :) #jules plays suzerain

[save-the-villainous-cat]

Alright everyone STOP sending prompts so that she can work through the ones she has already 🙄

(this is a joke)

#no writing #I have dropped into a deep depression. very serious stuff. watching the first got seasons make me sad. this tv show couldve been the best. #it couldve changed the world and in certain aspects it did #but no. d&d wanted to work on their star wars show or whatever and the long fucking night was reduced to one episode #i watch people talk about the long night in s1 and then I think oh yeah this plot actually had value. the characters were actually scared #and then i watch dany being assulted and i think how she was betrayed by her lover in a moment of intimacy and i am like #oh yeah thats what a great comment a vicitm of abuse dies because she trusts the man she loves #also her transformation into super hitler is ridiculous. tHe BeLls made her mad? what the actual fuck? the bells? seriously? #so targaryans are seriously just a flip of a coin huh? I am the dumb one huh??? thats what youre showing me. you point at the screen and say #HA Cat youre a fool! you rooted for her! you thought she was good! #you thought plot lines and character development actually means something? HA how foolish Cat how dumb you are! #Jamie Lannister? learning about how to care for others? WRONG back to cercei!!! #you think tyrion is smart? WRONG lets put the kids and women in the crypts full of dead people when the bad guy creates zombies #you think dany is actually going to stick to the values shes gotten through her character arc? CAT DONT YOU GET IT? YOURE DUMB YOURE STUPID #JONS HERITAGE DOESNT MATTER #DONT YOU GET IT CAT? EDDARD STARK DIED FOR NOTHING! #ISNT THAT WHAT YOU WANTED? ISNT THAT CINEMA? THE LONG NIGHT? HM? BATTLE OF WINTERFELL? HM? ISNT THAT WHAT YOU WANTED? #no. d&d. this is not what i wanted. in fact. i hate you for ruining a clever show. perhaps the cleverest show on this planet. #i love house of the dragon. but its simply not the same. #this makes me want to quit consuming media #and then i watch chernobyl and i am like. hm. maybe there is hope for cinema and tv #just maybe there is hope for writing. maybe quality is more important than quantity

[running-in-the-dark]

I'm just sitting here mentally telling myself 'I don't have to like him just because I find him attractive, I don't have to like him just because he's hot, I don't have to like him just because I like the character' over and over until I start to believe it

#every single time I love a character I also start to love the actor. sometimes that sucks. I don't want to. I want to pretend he doesn't #exist #but he's got the same face and the same body and the same voice and I just. how do I not do this. #I don't like him. I don't want to like him. he's at the very least kinda gross about women. which I'm not okay with. so. just. ugggh #it's just that I look at him and my mind shuts off and it's like 😍🥰😍 #rationally I know that's also fine. I'm allowed to like people who aren't perfect (and no one is perfect anyway) #buuut. it makes me feel disgusting. #idk. I guess I just. i dealt with this for so long when I was younger because like. most of the men I thought were hot were also #misogynistic. because the culture at the time was so much worse. and it was just accepted. #and I fucking hated it and I don't want to deal with that anymore #it's just. idk. it feels gross and bad and I don't like it #but. I do find him extremely attractive and I want him so so bad and I don't know what to do with that #ugh I need to just. not be attracted to people. it happens so rarely but when it does it only causes trouble. #or maybe I need to get over these weird morality standards that I have but I don't think that's possible? like how would that work? I don't #get it. #anyway. yes this is about Eliot/CK no I won't elaborate on that and also I hope he's actually a great guy and everything I've seen #that made me think otherwise is just wrong #I will still stare at his face and think about him and listen to his stupid gross music all day. and I will enjoy it. but I will also #feel conflicted about it 😔 #(but damn it he is hot and his arms are big and I am just a human being and I am very very weak 😫 big arms make me fucking stupid)

[filibusterphil]

Had not heard of the Imperfects before today but randomly decided to watch it. Binged the entire season today. Abbi Singh is my best friend and I love her and exactly the kind of queer representation we need more of. The show isn’t perfect and there’s things I wish they’d done differently but the whole show is worth it for giving us her. I hope people watch this show but fuck these days I don’t believe that Netflix will renew anything that’s got queer POC leads. Not even having a huge number of people watch a program and talk about it online and push for it is enough (yeah I’m talking about First Kill), they just decide whether or not a show gets another season based on bullshit. I hope it gets renewed my heart cannot take every good new show getting cancelled and there were some great plot hooks for the next season.

#the imperfects #abbi singh #I love her so much #we finally got to see an ace succubus which is such a perfect character trope #and her romantic interest includes women #she is perfect and can do no wrong even when the writers make her do bad things #I love her and Hannah #frankly a smidge homophobic how many times they kill Hannah but whatever #I really enjoyed this show #mostly because of Abbi #I did not like the way they treated the Banshicabra relationship #if you have a significant other and you are in a monogamous relationship and you get feelings for someone else #either break up with your significant other have a conversation with them about the situation and make a decision together #or end those feelings before you hurt everyone involved #ethical nonmanogamy is great but when the significant other is monogamous I don’t like seeing characters joyfully flirting and crushing #bit of an off topic rant in the tags #this post also kind of went off the rails it was mostly supposed to be about how much I love Abbi #our lovely ace scientist succubus with a girlfriend

[brokenyouth]

after having experienced the highs and lows of a wlw situationship i felt like the opposite of the straight girls that say they'd have it way easier if they were into women instead

#don't get me wrong at the end of the day i don't trust anyone and men are worse and scarier to me but damn #when you find out you're into women they sell you the fantasy that women could never make you suffer or that #since it's a gay relationship it could never get as bad as straight relationships #like sure there are differences but #at the end of the day all relationships have the potential of being either great or awful #that was not the first time i suffered from being in love with a woman but #i had only experienced unrequited love before that so it hit me like a truck #the realization that someone could be into me and yet still not want the same things i wanted or love me in the way i wanted to be loved #txt #personal #btw the post is a joke obvi idt I'd have it easier with men i think anyone from any gender has the potential to break my heart lol #i guess after everything i was like what the hell i might as well like a man next since I'm suffering like this #but I wasn't expecting for my ex crush to show up and even less so for my feelings for him to return #so inconvenient for him to show up the day i swore off love #ok sorry I'm done fr now