#and no rape scenes

[bindi-the-skunk]

Sometimes when I’m writing my Fanfics for League of extraordinary gentlemen, I think it’s far too strange and out there to be liked at all…

Then I remember how bugfuck INSANE the comic is and I stop thinking it

If I ever write anything resembling lightning penis just SHOOT ME or strap me to a chair and play the leagues movie on LOOP

#league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg movie has Shane west and jason flemyn and no lightning dick #and no rape scenes #LXG movie is awesome and I will die on that hill #And no Alan Moore pretending to be Quartermain to draw himself screwing Mina

[finelythreadedsky]

rereading emily wilson's rendering of the hanging of the slave women in odyssey 22 and i was really struck by how she consistently calls them "girls," even when the greek explicitly refers to them as γυναῖκες, and i was wondering why she might have made this choice to make them appear younger in english than they do in greek, but i realized that greek doesn't have anything else to call them. there simply isn't a word for a "girl" who isn't a virgin and isn't being talked about as someone's daughter. by virtue of being enslaved and raped, they are referred to as adult women, no matter how young they are.

#i do think she overcorrects a little in her treatment of this scene #(with how she translates eurycleia and then how she maintains in odysseus' dialogue the assertion that it was rape) #but this choice. this is a good translation choice. #(νεᾶνις in homer refers only to hephaestus' golden automata which i would think are what we would call young adults) #mine #odysseyblogging

[opheliasam]

among the grating cesspool that is spn youtube clips comment sections… found some peers.. academics.. people who get it if u will

#“idk why but this scene reads so much like a rape scene to me :/” #that’s bc it is one ! thank u 🙏 sam’s autonomy being violated is not only part of but is a central thematic of the show #starting from the very first season like come on the csa parallels couldn’t be clearer #tw csa #tw rape #tw mentions of sa and rape #the irony that is this episode being called “being free to be you and me" BC GUESS who didn’t really get to exercise their freedom #sam and autonomy and never belonging to himself and constantly trying and trying and trying #genuinely character of all time LBR . #sam winchester #spn #meta? #meta

[brother-emperors]

spartacus and crassus :)

this is actually a rejected panel from a much longer comic I’ve been fucking around with on and off for awhile- I had plans to do a long form spartacus comic for a long time, I just keep missing the last book on my research list in second hand stores 😔 I always have money when the last copy sells out aughhh

anyway! I might call crassus my girl in the group chat, but I’ve actually spent more years wishing that spartacus got to run crassus through on his sword and then read the fate of rome out of his entrails. ALAS. on that note, isn’t it kind of interesting how spartacus’ funeral games for crixus turn roman order upside down and feel like both a foundational sacrifice and a curse? isn’t it kind of fun how crassus will not die in rome, and neither will pompey, who came in like a vulture to take credit for crassus’ work? (it’s VERY fun)

Plutarch, Crassus

#Spartacus and Crassus have a very specific kind of narrative foil dynamic with each other that I find extremely compelling #Team spartacus bc I love to see rome eat itself like the horrible machine of violence that it is #and then cower in the face of what it created #That one doc that dramatized the starting spark was spartacus not being able to turn away from a Roman soldier #raping another gladiator. That’s what it all comes down to. Christ #Team crassus when the cast is just Romans because oh you are weird. Crassus you are so fucking weird. What is happening there. #BLAH anyway. panel rejected bc the scene needed to be bigger. grander. more bodies on the ground #Spartacus still get to call him a dog tho. Tahol Crassus! Tahol!!! #usually I have more to cite. Like. Most of my gladiator stuff is backed up on a flash drive! but guess what is not compatible with #An iPad. My flash drives. Bc I literally only use this for drawing work 🥲 also reading/researching on a screen like this is hell #spartacus #marcus licinius crassus #spartacus tag

[alicentes]

Alicent Hightower 🤝 Sansa Stark

Having their book counterparts agency stripped away from them and unnecessary scenes of SA being written for them instead

#sansa stark #anti hotd #asoiaf #anti game of thrones #alicent hightower #i heard that there was a scene written foe s2 where alicent is raped during blood and cheese and i am LIVID #first you take away her agency then humiliate her w the foot SA scene then want to add in rape as a punishment? fuck you #olivia apparently refused to do it and matt and emma backed her up in a meeting so good for them hopefully this scene is not a thing #also the fact that it was written by a woman and this show is supposed to be more feminist than GOT makes me sick theyre just as bad as d&d #ad for sansa i am referring to the ramsey plot which went on for an entire season with her politically savvy storyline scrapped

[niuniente]

Aaa, I did some digging on how the hell writing is so inconsistent in Buffy. Turns out the creator Whedon was abusive towards pretty much everyone on the set through all the years they were filming Buffy.

He especially hated that Spike's actor made Spike popular and fans wanted more of him. Whedon threatened Spike's actor James: " (He) backed me up against a wall one day and he was just like, ‘I don’t care how popular you are, kid, you’re dead. You hear me? Dead. Dead!'" Apparently, you don't mess with Whedon's own plans (which is weird; he should know that characters do what they want and it should be an honor if a character resonates with the audience, even when it wasn't your plan).

Whedon also told to Buffy's stunt actress and the stunt coordinator, who met in the series and started dating, that if they don't break up, he's going to destroy both of their careers.

Cordelia's actress got pregnant during Angel filming and Whedon kept insisting that she should abort the baby (because his artistic visions are now ruined).

Even his wife said he's an asshole!

Well. Suddenly it makes perfect sense why - especially Spike - is written so inconsistently. The creator hated the character and its actor. No wonder Spike has been written to do horrible things - yes, I read about Spike's rape attempt towards Buffy, sometime at the end of S6. I'm not that far yet but I suspect it has been written something like "Don't you dare to leave me, bitch!". Lots of attempts to make fans hate Spike from the S5 onward...

I'm always underlining that creations don't really speak about their creators but also, whatever we create, we leave our fingerprints on them.

And Buffy is full of shitty, shitty fingerprints of its creator....

#what a piece of shit... #niu watches buffy #idk if I even want to watch this anymore because of all of above #maybe I watch some good parts and leave the rest #not a fan of rape scenes personally either.... #whether attempted or clearly implied right after the act #I can write about the stuff for my own comics but....

[yasmeensh]

I finished reading 4 books from Earth's Children series. The last three were really hard to read. After finishing Plains of Passage, I have come to really appreciate Clan of the Cave Bear as a standalone. I miss all the Neanderthals and Ayla's character arc. Gotta do some fanart!

PS. I MISS IZA! Best character in the series.

#clan of the cave bear #earth's children #after the first book it just goes downhill #REALLY DOWNHILL #Ayla becomes the biggest mary sue EVER #in the first book it was believable because it's established in the story the Neanderthals have different skills that Ayla must adapt to #and she wasn't doing anything over the top #She was just adapting #but later she starts doing insane things #like wtf?? NO human ever figured out they could strike iron pyrite to get sparks? #NO ONE ever figured out they could make a needle? #She invented the arrow too (or whatever that thin short spear things they did? not the spear thrower #I will not be surprised if she ends up inventing the wheel in the next two books #also domesticating animals #also there were so many traumatizing scenes #three different rape scenes in book 4 !!??? #I was going to throw up #It just.. got very uncomfortable to read #it changed me #so I now I'm thinking about the first book #yes it has all these same elements from the later books but they were sparse and were actually part of the plot #part of the character development. in other books they were just things that happened. Like. the characters are not impacted by it at all. #you could read the end of the book and nothing about the characters change after witnessing these traumatic experiences #they are the same from beginning to end #uh um sorry for the rant O_O #anyways I miss izaaaa #bye

[carrymelikeimcute]

I feel like if Izzy had made Stede stab him for his own (sexual?) gratification, at gunpoint, we'd be seeing posts calling him a rapist, is all I'm saying.

Because literally everything he does, short of breathing, gets spun in the worst possible way until you'd not even sure you're watching the same show.

#I don't think that scene is abusive #because it's clearly not intended to be in context #what I'm saying is that izzy seems to get assigned the worst possible motives #in every scenario #by certain corners of the fandom #while ed gets everything he does handwaved away as being not his fault or not bad to begin with #even when they do very similar things or even participate in the same action i.e. marooning the crew #edward teach critical #tw rape #izzy hands #izzy hands apologist

[alaynestone]

3.15 TIME IS ON MY SIDE 5.01 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

#spnedit #deanedit #samedit #megedit #in the first one sam sends the demon to hell (where we know the hurting can and does continue) in the second he has let them all out #and in both scenes dean is threatened with gang rape #like do you ever wanna lie down when you think about how he first couldn't stop dean from going to hell #and then the unintended consequences of his actions brought hell back to dean again #also the way he waits for dean's permission always gets me too. I'M SO SAD #supernatural #house afraid to be alone #whatever this is #the best torturers never get their hands dirty #you left part of yourself back in the pit #s3 #time is on my side #s5 #sympathy for the devil #samdeanedit #*

[goosewizard]

thinking about best girl in the world nanami kiryuu and the horror of adoring an older male figure in your life and then coming of age and finding out they expected something from you. thinking about her looking back and wondering if it was all in preparation. if any of it was real. thinking about how empty the love she surrounds herself with is. how she adores and adores and expects to be adored in return but it’s all empty. none of it is love. thinking about how she realizes that this is it, this is all that’s for her at ohtori academy. that she’s supposed to be docile and accepting and a pretty face to swoon over and be used by the men (even her brother). thinking about how she sees anthy and akio and she’s so scared. she’s pissed and tired and so terrified. because that could’ve been her. thinking about how she’s never been afforded real comfort, so all she can do is put up walls and live in an empty fortress. thinking about how she’s been raised as a calf to slaughter. thinking about her.

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #nanami kiryuu #nanami rgu #slight rape mention #cowbell #haha guys what if that cow scene wasn’t just a funny bit haha #haha what if that was just crazy foreshadowing haha #and also the plight of being a teenage girl who desperately craves love #anyway I think about nanami anthy parallels all the time #damn we’re all in our own birdcage huh

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

#anti got #anti d&d #anti show sansa #anti sansa stans #like literally one of the worst written characters on that show because they tried so hard to make her the most important #while being entirely incompetent and their only method of doing so was to steal from other characters which ruined the plot #the only arguable achievement was defeating LF but even then it's written in the script that she had to go to Bran to explain things #/she rallied the Vale army!/ no she didn't 😭 she wrote a letter to LF and he did everything. instead of showing her arc in the Vale and #her learning about politics to rally them herself they took the quickest route to give her a /badass/ savior scene #which only ended up making her look selfish + power-hungry for putting her brothers' lives at risk for not telling anybody about said lette #and idiotic in the aftermath after relying once again on LF even though he was very obviously manipulating her #/pawn to player/ sounds catchy on paper but without seeing that growth/development it doesn't work #Arya was terribly written but at least we /saw/ her training in a way we never did with Sansa #and people try to apply this same logic to the books and think she's gonna suddenly spring forth as a political mastermind #when that's not how George writes...we see characters develop and make mistakes on page and get actual earned growth #feminism isn't defending the writing of two men who gave her a rape plot not in the books because they thought it was /interesting/ #when the only aspect of that plot they adapted was a woman suffering abuse :/ #and as per usual with stansas their only /evidence/ of her being well-written is accusing you of being misogynistic if you don't like her

[laesas]

I don't know how much more explicit the message of "THIS IS GROOMING" could have been without Be On Cloud superimposing it in all-caps text over every one of Non and his teacher's scenes. People interpreting that as "cheating" are cracked in the fucking head.

#dead friend forever #dff the series #barcode fucking killed those scenes!!! the desperation and discomfort and resignation!?!! #the fact that Non was textually terrified of dying at the hands of Tee's uncles gang unless he found that money #and once he accepted it and Keng held that power over him did he lean in to kiss him. #theres a reason that even universoty professors are fired for having relationships with their ADULT students. #because holding a position of institutional power over someone like that in a relationship is deeply deeply disfunctional and bad #do you think that if you were a child that felt they had literally nowhere else to turn. not to parents. or friends. or partner. #and a teacher said they would fix all your problems in a room with a closed door and kissed you. #you wouldnt feel obligated to kiss back and offer yourself up in exchange??? #because what?? you're too moral??? you'd rather die??? #THIS IS HOW GROOMING HAPPENS. ITS ADULTS SEEKING OUT THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN THEIR CLASSES AND HOLDING SOMETHING OVER THEM. #IF I SEE ANYONE CALLING NON A CHEATER AGAIN I AM GOING TO KILL. #ITS STATUTORY RAPE. YOU THICK FUCKS. #KENG MADE HIM KEEP HIS SCHOOL UNIFORM ON. HE'S A FUCKING PEDOPHILE. #IM GOING TO KILL. #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOME OF YALL ARE THE STUPIDEST MOTHERFUCKERS AROUND. YOURE STUPID. YOURE SO FUCKING DUMB. GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

[baeddel-txt]

It’s all “support sex-repulsed asexuals” until we actually express anything about our sex repulsion then suddenly we’re a bunch of “stuck-up prudes” who need to get laid (be correctively raped) until we’re “normal”.

#quit equating not enjoying sex scenes in movies with being an anti-sex swerf #personally not wanting to engage in that stuff does not mean you think it shouldn’t exist at all #goddamn!!!!!!!! #asexual #asexuality #apothisexual #sex repulsed #sex repulsion #sex averse #rape mention

[loving-n0t-heyting]

“Representation” discourse about “marginalisation” is like if the standard feminist line about graphic verisimilitudinous rape scenes were that they were an empowering tool for victims (actually probably the most empowering and important tool, even more than checking/treatment for STDs) to see themselves and should be festooned everywhere with no escape ever and if you object to this as a rape victim it’s bc you need to work past yr internalised victim blaming and self loathing

#except that rape scenes can be kinda hot

[barbara-gordons-glasses]

As much as I love invincible the fandom is disgusting and its treatment of innocent women never ceases to amaze me. SPOILERSSSSS

What do you mean mark is “lucky” that he got sexually assaulted by anissa?? What do you mean you would take his place if he didn’t want it? Male rape already isn’t taken seriously because they’re expected to like and want it, but to go on TIKTOK of all places and claim that mark being raped is something he should’ve enjoyed and wanted is horrific.

And these people, the ones making fun of the sexual assault, are the same ones hating Amber for no reason. You all are disgusting and I hope you grow the fuck up soon.

#mark grayson #invincible #Anissa is fucking disgusting #you can’t redeem a rapist #amber bennett #the people saying they’re ‘excited’ for the rape scene need serious fucking help

[ivyithink]

birth of a vampire

#my art #my doodles #interview with the vampire #iwtv #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #interview with the vampire 2022 #iwtv 2022 #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv magnus #loustat #louis x lestat #also just in case #tw: rape #cw: rape #it’s not technically but i’m still tagging it #cause that scene with lestat and magnus is hella unpleasant in the book but when drawn #it’s somehow almost worse #so yeah #better safe than sorry