When I talk about something bad I've experienced, Baked In to my experience as A Woman, I am not "making my little cousins feel like shit for being women", because I am talking in a space with, allegedly, adults. I am not bringing my problems to children in the first place.
That said, I don't HAVE to make my baby cousin feel bad, because she's already experienced sexual harassment in her life, and she's only 8, and doesn't even understand what any of it means yet.
And everyone in her family can try to instill confidence in her, and never talk about our bodies in a negative way. But she can still feel like she's too chubby, because she still goes to school, and talks to other kids and their parents, and still sees ads, and still watches tv. We can be positive, but we can't fix the root of the problem.
And I don't HAVE to tell trans women that "pain is a rite of passage", because that's not a Rule being enforced (by me), because I've already sat and listened to my friend complain about constantly shaving as a Baseline necessity and how it hurts her skin and she has to put makeup onto fresh cuts on her face because going out without a full face of properly feminine makeup would make her life worse, and being anything less than thin and lithe makes her "less feminine", and ALL the things that can make her "more feminine" are behind a paywall. And I can try to make her feel better, and I can hear her experiencing the tenfold version of problems I relate to, but I can't fix the root cause of her problems by just telling her not to complain.
Forcing happiness as a core personality trait for women is not the Girlboss Feminist move that you think it is, and no amount of gender euphoria in the world will make you immune to systemic oppression.
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Okay but the camper in the wheelchair either has a super tricked out celestial-bronze plated magical flying wheelchair with wings gifted by Hermes himself, or Chiron just gave zero shits about how inaccessible the outside world is because there is no way she’d survive a cross-country road trip while being chased by monsters in a normal wheelchair. If they offered me up for a quest like that, I would have wheelied my ass tf out of there. She chose a long-range weapon for a REASON
If the wheelchair IS tricked out, however, then I require a scene where her magical chariot-wheelchair hybrid flies her up above the big battle as she takes out monsters with flaming arrows, or the show is ableist. I don’t make the rules—
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i love you animatronics i love you fake tree forests i love you puppets i love you miniature film sets i love you low budget creative direction that tells stories better than exploitative green screen cgi ever could
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I was rewatching The Stone Forest and I really like to think that Hilda had to pass by the Bell Keeper’s outpost on her way out of the city limits. I like to think that idiot looked at what was happening, shrugged, and said ‘eh, she’s the scariest thing out there’
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I'm dealing with some serious family issues over here so I missed the social media updates yesterday. But there were still new webcomics for everyone!
At A Girl and Her Fed, the wild naked man gets the boot.
At Side Quested, Charlie scarpers.
And it's Giving Tuesday, which is "a global movement that reimagines a world built upon shared humanity and radical generosity." If you're sharing today, please consider joining the Patreons of @alepresser and myself.
KBSpangler's Patreon
AlePresser's Patreon
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"...Doing? What are...You doing?
Can I. Join?"
Keira used to be a briliant redstone engineer. She remembers nothing else now, but her enjoyment for the craft still stands. Somehow.
She loves to learn.
(FRANNY the villager on the right belongs to @sm-baby! Anyway Im serious this this time BACK TO KEYS MUPPET POSTING-)
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Sceo Weenkend Day #3: @sceosource
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
// 03x09 The Girl Who Knew Too Much //05x10 Status Asthmaticus // 05x08 Ouroboros //
This post has a very special dedication to my personal Sceo Master @spikeface one of the most talented people in this fandom and my main inspiration to participate in this event 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
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Have you ever done a werewolf AU?
Nope. I sort of came close when I was like "huh, in a monster au, I'd be caught between Hunter being a Creation (like Frankenstein's monster) and a werewolf" and then exploring the idea of Hunter as a werewolf a little bit, but I've never done a whole werewolf AU
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need benedict to serve this energy when he finds out about the snake who ruined eloise and lives trashing his family that only ever treated her with kindness
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all the other girlies are like "i would have been a priestess in my time diving visions and being loved upon but I have to send emails" but i've always been a canine therian, so for me it's more like, "right now i would have been a successful predator with my pack chewing on fresh meat instead of eating Special K"
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I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about how openly affectionate lydia was in the movie and how much GROWTH there is for that. How she's not an overly affectionate person and she RAN into malias arms. How she carried Jackson & ran into Allison's. How she reached out to Scott multiple times in the beginning. (In my head she also hugged mason <3). The way lydia has grown into someone who doesn't just reach out to comfort but for her own desire in a very real way just because she misses you and loves you. It's!!!! So much!!!!
It's even more important to me because I think all the time about Lydia's powers and how it DOES make getting close to people hard!! How she knows she can feel and see the people she loves die and what that means. It's all very real to her and could make it (and to some extent DOES make it) very hard to develop close, intimate bonds.
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I agree with most critics of Ms. Swift re: private jet, why feel bad for rich person, etc.
BUT ALSO.
Something something the egos of dudes, and how she AND Bey can't be their full mass-appeal, strong hot selves w/o hurting a man in their life's ego, just. THAT'S FUCKING GROSS?!
(flashback to being buds with a guy who LAUGHED and said oh man, imagine being Jay-Z? Saying "I have Beyonce but THAT'S NOT ENOUGH? So cool" why. was I friends with him.)
like YEAH GET THAT golden retriever football boy, Taylor, he is literally the most famous of sportsball people right now, in a career completely outside yours so it's no skin off his nose if you're the biggest pop star in the world?
I think I understand people who care about the royal family now, oh no.
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Does anyone ever get aggressive hyperfixations like when you start talking about a certain topic you kinda gotta hold yourself in other wise you might go feral and jump up and down from walls.
One of these aggressive hyperfixations of mine is Ares; god of war ( or people which is beautifully depicted in @kochei0 ‘s art work)
But I can’t take all this Ares slander. I never read percy jackson so I don’t know about that depiction but in Epic the Musical from clips we’ve seen I’m assuming Ares is just gonna be depicted as Aphrodites lover and I’m really sad about. :(
And another thing the depictions of the greek gods of war from the greeks are a bit funny and ironic to me. Cuz Athena( a woman) is depicted as the calm, intelligent and wise one of the two BUT Ares the guy is depicted as being prone to emotional outburts( sure he’s aggressive but bever mind that). Generally woman are stereotypically prone to emotional outbursts in tough situations I guess. In modern times and through history. So this characterisation is kinda funny to me
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