#damn where are the women

[sergle]

I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question. and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost. Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half." All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon

#there is actually nothing morally wrong with running an account that just reuploads ppl's artwork or their jokes or their cosplays #if you just put a VISIBLE LINK in the description of your post with proper credit then it would be beneficial for everyone #because you can get your little clout or whatever it is you want by putting a bunch of same-category content on a page #but nobody's getting fucked over because if your post blows up then people just get FUNNELED to the source #because it's placed so plainly where everyone can see it #and yeah it's better to retweet or reblog but #on the rare occasion that I see my shit reuploaded on tumblr WHICH IS WEIRD BC I MAKE MY OWN POSTS HERE but anyway #someone making their own post where they upload my stuff. and it's always the floral self portraits so let's say it's a post with all those #if I scroll to the bottom and it says like. Artwork by Serglesinner on Twitter <-- clickable link [Sergle's Prints] <-- clickable link #to my etsy #I'm like oh okay and all the anger leaves my body and I'm like ah I see. and I toss the rock aside #like oh okay so you actually care that a person made these pieces. Instead of posting the caption ''women <3'' or smth #like you've GOTTA die if you do that. but if you just link back #or if you go to the effort of writing like a description with a BLURB? like it's a damn museum. like a light paragraph of info #about what the art is and who made it and their links #I am literally sucking you in a strange and peculiar manner. that is extremely helpful #and maybe other artists don't want this AT ALL and they'd rather people not reupload even if it is credited #but I feeeeeeeeel. like 99% of the time this would solve the issue #reposters could genuinely be helping ppl. sometimes the repost gets more traction than the real thing #as long as it credits the creator then that's an okay thing to happen! #that can land somebody a sale! a commission order! a new fan! A JOB #A JOB!!!!!!!!!! #sergle.txt #I didn't write this eloquently AT ALL what the fuck ever barkbarkbarkbark

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

#look i was a weirdo and loved the letters so much #so much #so fucking damn much #i still to this day mourn that we don't have them #sometimes the editors would publish blatant aggressive criticism and promise to do better on some things #it was rare but it did happen in a handful of things involving stereotypes #also there is queer history in them such as in superboy and the ravers where people wrote in about hero #asking WHY he was not interested in women and this editor had to so professionally explain that he was GAY and where they stood on it #you also got to read queer readers writing in about these queer characters and the JOY in their words is priceless #also sorry but geoff's letters are fun and stupid at the same time and are a huge insight to what his hcs were #he LOVED tiny krypto so much it likely inspired him making dex starr bc he loved the idea of a small overly powered animal #not saying that was the main reason why ofc but it is interesting that he created dex after praising that mean little mutt #i say with the most love #my venting #my rambles

[valkaryah]

GO CON thats MY man thats MY fucking president. put that lil slimeball in his place... who the fuck does he think he is to air quote willa, connors wife and the peoples princess.

#succession #connor roy #conwilla #and when he got up he reminded me of logan because of his size like con actually is a big man especially when he's next to his short #feeble younger brothers. Logan wasnt as tall as Con but he was a bigger man in size and he always occupied every room he LOOMS and #in that moment when Con got up and put his hand on Romans shoulder to put him in his damn place I saw Logan's large presence but calm #and kind like do you see where im getting at?!?!?! anyways fuck yeah Con you're my fucking president and fuck you Roman #you got a little bit of power fucked up with gerri and then decide to treat all women - your brothers wife included - like shit? calm down #this scene made my night! sorry for the rant #valkaryah talks

[fruitsofhell]

After finishing She-Ra 2018 I'm trying to work on my unified theory for why CatDora bothers me as the endgame ship. Cause as CEO of mentally ill cartoon women, there's something about it that feels a disservice to Catra's psychology and trauma. She is genuinely such an interesting character to watch because they so clearly lay out the abusive dynamic that informs her entire character, but by the kiss, I feel like they lost steam with it.

The biggest thing to me is the simple fact that Adora is basically a trigger for her. Adora's personality as someone who is constantly self-sacrificing and forgiving is something Catra has a deep hatred for because she believes she is worthless and unforgivable, and when people try to help her she feels they're using her to look better while she fails to get better.

The fact that ADORA herself was the one in that original dynamic that traumatized the hell out of her makes me uncomfortable with how Catra eventually just... stops getting set off by things. I just can't imagine how what happened leading up to their kiss would desensitize Catra enough to that trauma response that she'd be in love with her. Like in that same season she was fucking death gripping the table at hearing Adora's name, and in seasons earlier she straight up like dissociated when people brought up her heroics. Not only the unearned healing, but the "I've loved you all along" feels a bit patronizing to her past. That all her emotionality was complicated romantic feelings, and not... having really nasty childhood trauma.

#shut the heck up #she ra #that damn cat #show was good btw #not a masterpiece - it was kinda corny in a bad way sometimes - but was fun #it felt like it wanted to be there and had ideas it was interested in #and i really like catra she is my fave as you can see #mentally ill cartoon women #im actually still getting my little pea brain around it cause her trauma and dynamic with adora is a lot #i like that the show was patient with her i wish it wasnt patient just cause it wanted her to kiss adora #imo she should be with someone else who is willing to stick up for her as adora does but isnt her #isnt the woman who's name and face can send her into self-destructive hysterics #something that is bad and needs ro change but she needs more time for than was given #wheres she-ra future where we recontextualize the casts trauma and show happy endings still need more time? #tag talking #media analysis

[sleepygaymerdisease]

least favorite phenomenon in the world is when a fictional woman doesnt have the most perfect writing in the world and people's response is to completely trash the woman or pretend they dont exist or straight up hand over all the cool bits of their narrative to a male character.......... like erm i love women can we make her cooler or work on fixing her narrative or whatever instead of deleting her suspiciously fast. please.

#this also applies to other minorities esp trans women and women of color but like god damn i just see this happen a lot and its crazyyyy #wheres that meme thats like 'for 1 dollar name a woman' thats how i feel SO OFTEN..... anyway shoutout to women thats my point here i guess #just realized i made this hypothetical woman use she/they pronouns in my post LOL good for them #anis gaymer moments

[contrapposthoe-blog]

this may be controversial but ENOUGH with atemporal settings in theatre especially ancient theatre…get medea in a historically accurate bronze age σκηνή or get OUT. i’m putting lysistrata in woodstock in 1969 and there’s nothing you can do about it. cowards. set antigone in occupied 1940s france! set hecuba in scotland during the jacobite risings! set the bacchae in the hamptons during prohibition! it’s so much more fun to have a TIME and a PLACE to play with if i see another greige set i will lose my mind. this is especially criminal for electra…she can go anywhere…

#i tweeted this but i need it here in long form #i’m right about electra though. consider the possibilities #thatcher-era mining town #imperial austria #modern day san fransico #anyway #put those girls in a setting god damn you #it’s much more fun that way #i did my lysistrata flower power make love not war style #and played cream and rolling stones where the chorus was meant to be #and gave the girls bongs and flares and afghan coats #teehee #lysistrata #antigone #medea #although my medea was. atemporalish. admittedly. #she was in bce corinth to ME. to me. #electra #hecuba #trojan women #euripides #sophocles #classics #translation #ancient theatre #🪞

[akkivee]

on that note lol, the egyptian myth being referenced here is ‘the weighing of the heart’— particularly the version from the papyrus of hunefer— that depicts the god anubis weighing the heart of the deceased against the feather of the goddess of truth, ma’at. if the heart (aka soul) was found heavier than the feather, then the devourer of the dead, ammit, would eat the soul

so in bat’s portrayal, hitoya and kuukou are both anubis, who is known as a guardian of scales and a god of funerary rites. jyushi’s ammit and amanda is the feather

hilariously tho, because amanda was heavier technically belial should have been sent to heaven so they got robbed here lmao

#vee queued to fill the void #hypanispoilers #if you line up the positioning amanda is where the soul is being weighed against the feather #so the other interpretation is that belial was the feather and amanda should have been damned lol #kuukou read belial’s funeral rites in the mv tho lol so it’s definitely just something for fun to drive home the damnation theme lol #robbed either way lmao #the biggest tragedy is that we didn’t see jyushi try to eat belial LOL #fun fact about skin tones on egyptian murals tho lol #to differentiate between women and men egyptians typically coloured the men brown and the women white #so bat are all women here ::::) and that’s very gender of them lol

[deejadabbles]

Okay but you know that one time the 501st boys went to 79s only to find out that its "ladies' night" and Jesse dared Fives to do something crazy to get the attention of the women at the bar. Cue Fives getting up on the table and basically doing a striptease to Kool and the Gang

#It doesn't help when the women start cheering him on and wave credit chips at him #damn now I wanna write a smut fic where fives gives the reader a lap dance #deeja rambles #arc trooper fives #fives x reader #clone x reader

[dollypopup]

I think it's real obvious that if you actually like Colin you don't belong in the Polin fandom. y'all are all so ableist about him and think the absolute worst of him and a huge number of the posts and fics are romanticizing Penelope straight up abusing him

we should make a new tag because this one is NOT it

#polin #bridgerton #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #there's a fun new trend in fics where instead of 'just' emotionally and mentally abusing him Penelope is now hitting him too #and the narrative justifies it and colin thinks it's his fault she hits him and everyone cheers in the comments isn't that great? #oh did i say great? i meant fucking awful #you can tell this fandom is painfully tradwife levels straight because they think women who do this shit is cute or harmless #us queer women who have been abused by other women know damn well fanon penelope is the kind of girl you run away from with a swiftness #but colin's just a big stupid dummy for 1 (one) comment and not assuming her feelings for him so he needs to be slapped around i guess #i hate it here #burn the whole fandom to the ground and start from scratch #and we're SURPRISED there's an anti-polin blog? WE'RE anti-polin ffs #everyone and their mother knows 'Polin' actively hates half their ship #and are incredibly hostile to anyone who doesn't slobber all over penelope's shoes as she mistreats her supposed love interest and friends #and yeah i'm bitter about it #also i'll say it: the way we talk about Luke Newton is fucking unacceptable too #he's a neurodivergent man and some of the shit y'all say is DISGUSTING #this fandom is actively antagonistic to nd peeps

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Idk if I’m crying or if it’s my 10 year old inner child crying but we are weeping in the club tonight!!!

#pwhl #women’s hockey #captain’s log #idk I just got a wave of damn I wish this had been around when I was a kid #I’m so happy little girls are gonna know a world where women’s hockey is accessible to the masses and selling out stadiums n shit #every 4 years I’d get to see my biggest role model in the world play hockey #every 4 years was not enough

[theridgebeyond]

Spoilers for Barbie ahead, I guess. But who in the writer’s room looked at that plot line and thought, “Yes. Feminism.” ??

The citizens of Barbie Land spend the entire movie fighting for privilege, not any sort of freedom (I borrowed that quote from the interview with Alok on the Man Enough Podcast 10/10 recommend). Over half the movie is about how awful it is to be a woman in the real world, and then they literally treat the Kens the way women are treated in the real world. That’s canon. The narrator says it Herself.

We never learn where the Kens live. For all we know, when the precious status quo was restored at the end, they just made half the population of Barbie Land homeless.

Yay, girl power.

#when I heard people complaining about how this movie was anti-man I snatched my ticket and said yeah I sure hope it does like everyone else #but I did not feel empowered in the slightest by that movie #where was supportive stay at home dad vibe Ryan Gosling Ken?? #I was fully convinced by the trailers and the hype #like #I was fully convinced he was going to have Barbie’s back 110% and let her live her dreams while knowing that he was enough as he was #but I didn’t taste a drop of respect women juice #not at the beginning and not at the end #and they kept. bringing. up. how. Barbie. doesn’t. return. Ken’s. feelings. #I’m aro - I’ve been in that situation - I appreciate media normalizing how men aren’t entitled to women’s affection #but if you really wanted to make some kind of statement #just let them communicate resolve and move on #that’s it #the cellulite bit was my first indicator that maybe it was a good thing I didn’t spend $40+ on a bright pink outfit #let 👏 barbie 👏 have 👏 cellulite 👏 and 👏 be 👏 okay 👏 with 👏 it #like cellulite is damn cute I don’t make the rules #I could say more but I’m feeling mid as it is already #gonna watch Barbie Princess & the Pauper for some real gender class commentary #barbie movie #barbie #thoughts

[moeblob]

Man. May I just say. I love how in this game it’s like “you have four suitors and three of them are the most repulsive men on the planet then you have this really energetic guy who wants you to step on him if he does anything bad BUT he’s trying his best”.

#variable barricade #nayuta yagami #i love this boy so much but oh my god he has so many issues he needs to work on #like thats literally every suitor but they are so slimy and then you get NAYUTA THE PUPPY #hi its not my fault the suitors have a rose color and i happen to fall for the guy with the orange rose its really not #honestly this game has such great designs hhhhhhhhhhhhhh #the art is so good for it i love how everyone looks #i havent touched this game in a while but i was thinking about it the other day like dang kinda wanna go back and try more #bc i have never played another otome where the protag is like damn talking to this guy makes me wanna vomit #she has so far stood her ground well against the repulsive suitors imo but again i am not far #please game dont make her cave too soon do not let her swoon too fast im begging you #also her female bff is a delight and i love her a lot #otome that put women side characters in it that are likeable are so amazing thank you for this gift variable barricade #also this is in fact a line of dialogue from the game and im like son what is wrong with you i love you so much #the heroine is thankfully just as put off with it

[bidokja]

as a fellow orv fan i think you have good taste. what is this damn reincarnation you speak of............

damn reincarnation—officially titled "my blasted reincarnated life" but who the fuck is gonna take that seriously. not me!—is a manhwa about hamel, one of the heroes who saved the world from the demon kings, but who tragically died just before the party could kill all of them. in hamel's final moments, vermouth—the strongest of the heroes—promises to kill the rest of the demon kings no matter what. hamel then reincarnates as the descendant of vermouth to find the world at peace as they'd all hoped...except the final few demon kings are still around. despite their promise, vermouth struck a deal with them instead of finishing them off.

just why did this happen? did vermouth betray him, or were there other reasons? are the demon kings really to be trusted? why did he reincarnate as vermouth's descendant? what happened to his former companions? what did they have to say about all this? are any of them still alive? who can he trust? just what is he meant to do?

this is what damn reincarnation is about. basically, i like it because of two reasons. one, the writing is well done. it's paced well, with plenty of room for characters to grow, for events to be set up and revealed, etc. low low bar but it solidly clears it which is more than i can say for plent of other similar series. and two...oh my god fucking finally a reincarnation series where the reincarnation bit is vitally relevant for the entire rest of the plot, not just a Get Strong Quick scheme that's never actually plot relevant aside from maybe an identity crisis angst chapter. like. it is a Get Strong Quick scheme too dgmw, I'm not saying damn reincarnation is a masterpiece or reinventing the wheel or anything, but it's just really engaging and fun to read.

#another series where the reincarnation is actually relevant is Duke Pendragon #though its more a Mix of regression and reincarnation #plot is good in that one #but the women arent just passively Meh theyre just Badly Written #which is a shame since their base personalities are varied and show potential #but they're like...never actually important and always end up relegated to 'mc fangirl' roles #it sucks lmao #but yknow. typical shitty misogynist action manhwa writing ykno #at least in damn reincarnation the girls/women are like. interesting and have their own stuff going on that Doesnt involve the mc #like. they do also revolve aeound the mc but its as much as any other character since hes like. The MC ykno dhskd #....ANYWAYS read damn reincarnation its Fun #ask #damn reincarnation

[sexynetra]

This is so fucking cute I could cry

#also she looks SO good in that 2022 photo it’s like unreal #the power of makeup like damn that is two different women mama #and I love both of them dearly #but that 2022 version….. whew the things that woman could do to me #also??? kinda love that wig where has she been hiding #that grey streak is cute #also! the fucking prom photo pose this is just so fucking cute all around ugh it’s killing me #drag race #rpdr 15 #drag race 15 #rpdr #anetra #rupauls drag race #rupauls drag race 15

[bohemian-nights]

We’ve got Cregan casting, we’ve seen them pulling out the works for Addam claiming Seasmoke(and he's got dark hair too which while that’s okay he shouldn’t be replacing anyone), Hugh Hammer potentially gets a plot before the seeding, and we have the real Ulf White casting, but still no Nettles🫠 We haven’t heard anything official about the only female dragonseed, the girl who tames a wild dragon with nothing but her own smarts, and the only presumably non-Valyrian dragonrider🙃 We have nothing on her? Really HBO? Really 🙃

#this is clown sh*t #for real this is literal clown sh*t #where is nettles #hotd #house of the dragon #nettles #hotd spoilers #I will not rest until they announce who she is #hbo bring her in #netty #if they cut her I swear I'm quitting #this show has a serious problem with black women #release her god damn it #nettles asoiaf #nettles f&b

[ssreeder]

“He didn't want to think about the ramifications of the Fire Nation successfully flying one of those war-balloons over the Lower Ring… The only protection available for those poor people would fall squarely on the shoulders of those new recruits, and they would have to be ready to carry that responsibility. This situation was already a mess and they were still in the planning stages.”

Can’t believe I ignored this last chapter. Good thing Zuko isn’t in one of these meetings or there’d be a fight. Interested to see if this is a redemption for Iroh though to think of the little people or if everyone is just completely fine with the lower ring being burnt to a crisp. Bato clearly has his mind on other things so someone else needs to step up. Jeez

Bato isn’t the only one concerned about this, Suki is also pretty fired up about it in the next chapter… the tension of the upcoming battle gets heavier as we go along.

Unfortunately, there really isn’t much they CAN do to keep the Lower Ring from experiencing casualties…. but how many citizens survive & how bad the destruction is will depend on how many resources they send down there and what their plan of action will be to save lives. (If they even care about saving those lives… many of them being refugees and ‘lower class citizens’)

I am also curious to see if Iroh shows any interest in trying to help the citizens in Lower Ring or if he keeps his focus strictly on keeping the forces from reaching the Upper Ring (where his precious Zuko is)… chaos in the Lower Ring can keep troops from advancing, and there is limited space to flee depending on how Azula advances upon the city… idk. I can’t see it going well, and even Iroh, as powerful as he is doesn’t hold much authority over what the generals do with BSS… He is a tentatively welcomed guest after all. Haha.

we’ll see I guess!! Haha thanks for the ask!!

#Stick a bunch of middle aged military men in the room and see if they give a fuck about the women and children in lower ring #I’m not saying their all like that but I would think the focus would be on destroying the FN before they can advance further into the city #To where the ‘worthy citizens live’ #Where the architecture they give a damn about protecting is #Hakoda and bato are the ones thinking of those women and children #Because they know what it’s like to have their women and children killed #& they know what FN soldiers are capable of I mean fuck they stole their water benders and locked them in metal prisons #Hardcore… so yeah I do think iroh is a good guy #But I don’t know if his mind thinks of the little guy… not when he was raised to believe the little guys were only there to for kindling #Idk maybe I don’t give iroh enough credit or I give him too much credit and know just because he loves zuko and wants to be the happy goofy #Fun uncle he needs & not still the dragon of the west who chuckled when he talked about burning BSS to the ground #WE WILL SEE I GUESS haha #We are getting clossseeeerrrrr haha #& we get some iroh time next chapter which is super fun #For everyone but zuko haha #Thanks for the ask anon #Liab #ITF #leaving it all behind #ask