#like two hard working women

[eggirrum]

Bro I hate when people ship literal eggs flour sugar and milk together,..

Likeee... Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh who made this??? Ppffffffff....... not me guys...! Heh... why would... why would I do that...?????

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #avocado cookie #carrot cookie #look at them #tell me im wrong #i love them #rarepair #imma call this avocarrot ngl chat #avocarrot #avocado cookie x carrot cookie #they work so well together #like two hard working women #that are vegetable based #and their extra outfits give off lesbian #like bro tell me im wrong #you cant #cr kingdom #crk #cr ovenbreak #cookie run ovenbreak

[rideroftheoctocorn]

Maybe this is my “I’m from New York so I didn’t choose to live here I was just already here” kicking in but can we actually learn to respect people’s privacy and acknowledge the fact that not everyone who lives in a major city is doing so because they want to be famous or the main character or an influencer or whatnot. I’m so sick of seeing tiktoks go viral that are just plainly stalking or doxxing random people who didn’t ask for attention or fame and are just living their lives. Especially given how many people in NYC are living with a wide variety of mental states, abilities, divergencies, and diversities treating them as a spectacle for your entertainment is deeply dehumanizing. Particularly in the past few years seeing so many content creators move here and gain their fame here it is becoming increasingly frustrating to feel like just existing in my home is not coherent with the burgeoning voyeurism culture that’s growing online. I, nor anyone who lives in a large city, should have to leave their homes every day worrying about the potential of being recorded and ridiculed online for just being a person.

People should be able to live their lives with the right to privacy. This isn’t to say that certain instances of internet activism shouldn’t have happened; for instance the Central Park bird watching incident (google it if you aren’t familiar but a woman was being racist towards a black man bird watching in central Park and his recording on the incident vindicated him). But instances like those are the exception and not the rule and many cases of publishing interpersonal conflicts/interactions is not from good faith activism or even from an activist point at all. Honestly what sparked this for me was that dumb tiktok that blew up of that girl looking for the person who kept writing “monke” on the whiteboard at her gym and the series of videos she made amassed more than 25 million views as she made a very public game out of trying to find the identity of this person. Some of her tactics included staking out at the gym waiting for this person or even asking the employees at the front desk who the person was. Maybe this person didn’t want to be a viral tiktok sensation and just wanted to write something goofy on the whiteboard at their local gym. Instead, this person has millions of strangers online seeking them out using unethical/invasive methods. All over someone who just wanted to write “monke.” Can we not just be a little silly in public without being at risk of it being the next internet sensation? If you live in a busy metropolitan area is it now your responsibility to make yourself as invisible as you can every time you step outside your front door? I genuinely leave for work each day wondering if I’ve maybe picked the wrong outfit, makeup, or maybe there’s an embarrassing stain or issue with my appearance that someone is going to see, record, and share online. I’ve even now seen TikTok’s of people recording through peoples windows commenting on how they’re living in their private lives now as well (the video in question is of a young woman recording a couple dancing through their apartment window). Even the guy who goes around “turning average people into models” initiates these videos by first taking non-consented photos of strangers on the street. Invasion is not flattery as much as people on the internet might like to think it is.

It is deeply unfair to ask human beings to live their lives in an unending panopticon. We should be able to go outside, make a joke, leave a silly note, have a bad day, an embarrassing moment, an emotional outburst, leave the curtains open with the knowledge that these moments belong to ourselves and are not suddenly (and without our consent) just become something for the masses to consume. Small spats that should remain small spats become global debates, a conventionally attractive or unattractive person becomes the internet’s object of desire or disgust. Let people exist. Let them have their dignity.

#I FUCKING HATE TIKTOK CULTURE #This is also hitting a bit close to home for me but I work at a museum and I constantly dress to hide my identity #because of how many cameras are pointed at me all day everyday #and in the year of two thousand and twenty three it’s pretty hard to be a person #so to ask people to be media ready all the time is just impractical and inhumane #we aren’t all public figures but we are now expected to be ready for that level of attention #even certain internet phenomena that came from a good faith place such as recording Karen’s as a way to combat a certain kind of a racism #was co opted by non black people to publicly shame and embarrass any older white woman they don’t like #now the entire concept of a Karen has lost its original meaning while still existing as an open threat to older women who don’t behave #as expected in public #and yes I have seen white teenage boys yelling at women calling them Karen’s for just asking them to stop being rowdy #which is anecdotal evidence so take with a grain of salt #but I am simply EXHAUSTED #apparently I need to live in the mountains if I want to live in peace #also I wrote this in like a 5 minute rage so feel free to DM me or comment if I got something wrong

[specialmouse]

lgbt people need to stop thinking in terms of black and white and by that i mean stop thinking our oppression as directly analogous to the oppression of black people by white people it's not the same !

#fuck dave chapelle hope he dies broke and alone . that being said. i think this line of thinking is the reason why black and other nonwhite #people associate transness specifically with whiteness #part of the reason why anyway. because when we're trying to make direct parallels between something that is not institutional and something #that has been for hundreds of years and is ingrained into basically every facet of culture (transphobia vs antiblackness tbc) #then youre going to have cis(het) black and nonwhite people be like oh these people have no idea what theyre talking about #it's real oppression but talk about it on its own terms... #this isn't to say the two can't intersect OFC THEY DO they do very hard and very violently #i think that we pull from black liberation politics and language in the west particularly in the usa because when we say civil rights that' #the struggle we think of . The Struggle. so we try to pull from that history and current battle. and while parallels absolutely can be #formed esp because so much of lgbt history and liberation in the west is propelled by the work of black and brown trans women.. #as white lgbts we need to be able to talk about our struggle in context with that without pulling unnecessary and unapplicable takeaways #from a distinct intersectional struggle that we don't face. does that make sense. #to be clear again the reason dave chapelle thinks transness is a white construct also has to do with just plain ole transmisogyny. i'm not #placing the blame entirely or even mostly on us here that would be ridiculous

[silenthillbunni]

📓🕯️🐇🖤pt.2

#only 30 tags lol i ran out... so furthermore #we only get one life. im gonna try as much as i can to enjoy the little moments. nd to not give up on myself nd my life #i will die one day anyway. why rush it. i'll enjoy as many books and as many walks and songs and tv shows as possible #if i get a loan nd have more money i wanna bleach my hair nd dye my hair green #and later this year i think i might change my name #it was the name i wanted to change to from the beginning. but i was in such a bad headspace i just picked eden at random #i do kinda like it now nd im attached to it but i more feel like this other name actually is me. my birth name nd my current name dont feel #really right. so maybe. i havent decided yet. like i rlly dont know. im also attached to this name for some other reason. like it's who i am #to a person i rlly like and if i change... will i be anything to them? i cant put it into words but that makes me hesitate #but it's unhealthy to stay attached to someone i cant truly have even if i want to. so i mean. idk im just weird abt it #but i do kinda wanna change my name (to embla. my mom wanted to give me that name but my dad was like nooo >.<) i am not 100% sure tho so #when i've been getting used to going to school nd working out at the gym. nd after my surgery nd i have more energy #i will try to face my avpd and try apps for making friends. there r two apps where u can find new girl friends!! maybe i can try that #also like i've never tried apps but i think maaaaaybe i can use bumble to try to find friends and women to date. potentially. idk..... #rn it's hard for me to think in those terms bc. i mean i am hung up on someone!!!! i cant evwn imagine dating or being intimate w anyone els #sometimes i feel like.. they're the only person i've ever felt like it'd even be possible. who i'd event want to do that w #not only physically but emotionally. so ig it's even harder to let go bc im so scared i will never feel like that w anyone else #but i rlly need to try to make the most of whatever life i have. the world will collapse soon anyway #that makes me even more sad that i cant be w who i wanna be w nd do what i wanna do but #all pain will all be completely descimated eventually. it's not forever bc life isnt forever #i've just never felt this before. like i want smth to be real so bad but if it happened once surely it can happen again? right? #i wont spend my life alone without intimacy and love and comfort nd support nd understanding right???? :o hope not #im still so sad nd exhausted rn. nothing in my life is working nd theres no repreive nd no help #it gets sooo hard to endure everything sometimes when everything just keeps piling up and gets so heavy it feels like im drowning #nd atm i dont feel like i have any anchor. nothing that keeps me grounded nd im just floating away nd im constantly being overwhelmed by my #feelings nd emotions. im like a stupid little kid who dont understand how to handle what im feeling. or make rational decisions #i feel so ... stupid and useless. i dont know what im doing. i have no idea. i have no compass. its so scary

[elisedonut]

AAAAAAAA I need a Forbidden Love pairing for mtf!Percy specifically

i have a lot for Cis!Percy because it's honestly one of my favorite tropes but i haven't really thought much for Mtf!Percy ships other then like Penny, Marcus and Oliver.

#percy weasley #brainstorming for my second roll the dice fest entry #because apparently i vibe really well with the way its set up #though i have gotten lucky with my first two having the color section also being an item which it seems in both cases I will cling onto #even if my writing is still well uh well #you know i try #i try very hard #“this is me trying” right i still got to figure that out too dkfj #but songs are apparently alot more difficult to write for #my two like go to forbidden love ships for Percy (Remus and Draco) just don't work with a fem!Percy to me #because i just can't see either of them liking women like at all #“what if you just use a character other then Percy?” no :c #oh no i fell into the trap of putting most of my thoughts in the tags instead of the main post again

[comraderoscoes]

i will never understand why those pitstop podcast guys became so big so fast lmao (other than being mediocre white guys)

#like they're not even particularly funny or charismatic? which since they don't know the sport for shit is really all they have lmao #like ideally it would be fine because they seem mostly harmless #but it must be a kick in the teeth to everyone who puts in genuine time and effort to understand this sport and communicate about it in an #effective way so they can educate fans and have genuine discussions about it #esp for women and poc in the industry #two see these two bumbling idiots land such big guests and get paddock passes like they're sweeties #and maybe this is because im a lewis fan and he's constantly being misrepresented and having people negate his talent and hard work etc #but i donut like people with no understanding of the sport having platforms this big lmaoooooooo. like im wary of them #lydia.post

[virtualxchaos]

Got bored and decided to draw some Weskennedy :P

#might color it later idk #i actually drew leons legs all the way down to his feet #but my brain stopped working when i got to weskers legs lol #im starting to sense a trend with these two #Leon S Kennedy #Albert Wesker #Weskennedy #Leon x Wesker #Resident Evil #fanart #resident evil fanart #flirting #90% of the drawings in my life have been of women #trying to draw men with that kind of track record is hard #and i know my style is still more anime-ish than i would like ugh #mine

[bakingmoomins]

ive been fuming all morning at the concept of girl math

#as A Woman In Mathematics it feels so sososo frustrating bc that's literally what 90% of men in math think of us #like unironically you have to work 1000000x as hard as everyone in the room to be taken seriously #especially since there's at most two women per class #🐌 #(if u don't know what im talking abt i just reblogged a post about it)

[mrfoox]

I'd love to date an woman, unfortunately they are too pretty for me or wouldn't match at all personality wise with me 😔

#miranda talking shit #I guess I'm using the wrong app for it but mein gott #I've come across two amazing dykes and both lived so far away like.... I'd love for them to sweep me off my feet #But I got no drivers license so I would be the worst inconvenience on them :/ #Other ladies who have similar interests and vibes seem to be faaaar between or have like multiple partners #I think I would be willing to try an poly relationship if we were three but all I've seen are like “I have many partners” feels like a big #Leap to attempt for me since I have no experience. Anyway uuh.... Women.... Amazing and I have not enough to offer ever :c #Being an ugly loser is hard work mein gott #Let me cry for a moment I'll be over it eventuellt but today is one of those days man #Maybe I find it easier to see men bc I feel I'm never enough for women out there #Like girl you could have anyone.... Little old me only got my undying love and devotion and two cats to offer

[paging-possum]

Who up listening to good luck babe by chappell roan and having it resonate not in the way intended but resonating nonetheless. About to go ham in the tags about the overlap of being a lesbian and being aromantic...if u even care....

#my art #gore #organs #its 2am so not a lot of this is going to be very coherent but this song makes me feel a lot of things about it all #like. its the Expectations #the expectation that im going to date men and the expectation that im going to date at all have always felt equally stifling #theres that feeling of not trying hard enough or not realizing it at first or trying to lean into what you're told you should feel #and having it not pay off time and time again and wishing you could just make it work #because everyone else around you has it just fine and you dont get why you're struggling with it so much #THERE ARE MORE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TWO IS WHAT IM SAYING #like obviously figuring out aromanticism is especially weird because its a lack of something BUT THEYRE PRETTY SIMILAR #realizing I dont want to date anyone mirrors realizing I didn't like boys but like. idk man its worse sometimes? #I wouldn't trade it for the world it means a lot to me but its almost like people go out of their way not to understand it sometimes #at the end of the day I am the you in that song #it was a very very long road to being okay with never falling in love because that was something I wanted for a very very long time #at the end of the day I will never have to be someones wife and I think its better that way #but its also hard not to get jealous sometimes #like I know its irrational I know I get physically ill at just the thought of being asked out but like #sometimes ill see my friends with their girlfriends and ill feel like clawing my own chest out with want #but also if anyone asks me out I will have to dig myself into a pit and never come out. I think. #I want to be with women but I dont want to Be With Women if that makes sense #its another layer of difficulty that I dont think I'll ever be able to get past #I feel like at this point I should just be trying to conditioning myself out of any form of desire because its just not an option for me #which definitely isn't true and like chappell roan says. you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. #but its also so tiring to have to sit here with the feeling and feel bad for having the feeling. #I dont know #I think if I felt a little more or a little less I’d be fine but I’m stuck in the middle #it feels very weird talking about this openly but also its very difficult to talk about with friends because most of them dont get it #anyways something something Josies monologue from bottoms #im going to bed

[gergthecat]

:0

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[whysamwhy123]

Props to Skye and Velvet for wrestling such a good match that it made the dead crowd wake up and chant This is Awesome.

#aew lb #The booking may suck but I'll never not give respect to the female talent for working their asses off and doing great work #That match was damn good - those two were like ''Random match with no real build and an obvious winner? Whatever we're going hard'' #Sure would be nice if both women's matches at the PPV could get more than ten minutes #But I ain't holding my breath

[snekdood]

saw a post yesterday that was like "if you dont have trans women as friends u gotta think about why that is" and i really had to restrain myself from saying "it goes both ways my friend!". if you dont have any trans men as friends, ya gotta think about why that is also!

#personally? i dont choose my friends based on which minority category they belong to. #also im not out here going to 'trans group meetings' or whatever tf either. whoevers my friend is ppl who actually come into my life #who i actually get the chance to see and meet. consider: i havent actually met that many trans women irl at all. #i havent even met that many trans ppl irl at all in general- most of the trans ppl i DO happen across are NB #and i dont like making close friends online esp tumblr bc i dont trust none a yall #there are like two trans women i know that i met through someone else and 1 of them i literally just met and the other.......... based on #my interactions with her- i dont think we'd make great close friends. #acquaintances? sure. im mean thats kinda unavoidable at this point anyways. #the biggest issue is i havent met any trans women i think i'd actually click with- but thats a little unfair bc its hard to find friends #to begin with anyways let alone a trans woman specifically- if you think i gotta be out here hunting for trans women to be friends with to #fulfill your woke quota you got a weird fuckin world view on how friendships and the world in general works. #i dont make friends based on their transness or whatever tf thats fuckin weird. #theres a lot of trans women i follow online that i think i'd make great friends with- but the fact there aren't that many trans women #in general and the only ones i think i'd actually click with are ppl ill likely never meet irl? yeah i dont rly think its my #fault bud its kinda just the circumstance of life in general- there's just not a lot of trans people out there. #and no im not going to trans meetings bc that shit is usually toxic as hell anyways bye #new dating type of app but for looking for trans friends to make tumblr user buttfaceass happy about my choices #maybe if i lived in cali w my gay uncle i'd meet more but alas i live in missoura' and i dont blame trans women for wanting to hide #more here. shit i mean i do. #in total? irl? ive only met like 4 trans women. one of which im p sure is actually transfem and doesnt even live in my state #she and another one were part of a toxic abusive ass friend group and i really dont think im missing out on much. #so yeah what- you want me to try to befriend them again? bc im p sure my abuser filled their brains w bullshit about me so. #kinda not waiting on them to come around ever. #like im not exactly sure what that post wants me to do besides idk. act like the op of it? #go to toxic ass irl trans group meetings and befriend random ppl online who have no concept of friendship loyalty? yeah ill pass bud #actually actuall wait scratch that- i did know another trans woman--- she mightve been transfem too- but we met on discord #and primarily interacted there bc it was like a friendgroup discord and i think we were good enough friends we just never got super close #mostly bc im weary of queer friend groups that are predominately white and also i felt like that friendgroup only kept me around #to make fun of me. i dont think she was like that but.... the other ppl in it...... yeaaahhh... #so naturally we kinda stopped talking all together when i left the discord and stopped interacting w that friend group

[pepprs]

beaver gnawing on wood noises

#purrs #delete later #this is gonna be a bad / hard post and i’ll have to delete it. like it feels like in making it im invoking cosmic forces to show me karma or #idk like being an ingrate or whatever. but sometimes i find myself on social media rabbitholes looking at instagram pages of.. women who #like really genuinely appear to be good moms to their kids. and love them for who they are and don’t try to make them anything different. #and who celebrate their quirks and stuff. and even share interests with them at the bare minimum. and it just makes me want to sob. like the #knot in my throat. i shouldn’t do it bc i just hurt myself but it’s like. im so lucky i have a mom and that she provides for me. and i know #there are valid reasons for that being all she can do. but also why can’t she… idk.why can’t she ummm love me. or celebrate me. or find #magic in me. or at the very least accept my humanness and be open to me like giving her feedback on stuff. even tonight at this panel this o #one woman was like yeah my two daughters call me on stuff and im like you’re right. if i called my mom on stuff (and i do) she would give me #the silent treatment (and she has) or eviscerate me (and she has). and people in my work life and on here call me endearing and say all #these things. but it’s like none of it can fill up the absolute aching pulsing void that is… my mom. my mom!!!!! is just a person i live #with anr resent most of the time. who has hurt me so badly. and i could have had a mom who like. let me sing and didn’t mock me for it. #and who came in and said goodnight to me and my sister instead of leaving us to o ur own devices because we’re twins and we had each other. #and 14 years ago today was the day that fully cemented in that she could not be that kind of mom and would never be. and i know she tried so #hard and i know she has been hurt and is still hurting. but i just want to scream. like everyone deserves a mom who loves them for who they #are and shit. and how fucking unfair is it that.. like it sounds so selfish and entitled. b it how fucking unfair is it that i got a mom who #im afraid of and then there are people like fucking… m*lissa err*co and sh*ron wh*atley (those are just the famous ones) who by all #appearances seem to be like.. not only loving but open. seeing their children as human and magic all at once. instead of a war prize and a #symbol of their own hardships or whatever. like it’s just so fucking unfair. i hate that this is the way things are for me and that it will #never change and that if it ever does i have to be the one to change it or i have to heal from it and let go of it. like FUCK that! i want #love from my mom! FUCK the fact that she can’t give it to me!!! she has to!!!!!! but she won’t. idk. delete post <3 #like so genuinely i should not be even typing these words bc god is gonna smite me now lol. but my heart is howling #and the shitty thing is i don’t think i’ll be able to be that kind of mom if i ever become one bc of how badly all of this has hurt me. and #bc of all that i don’t even think i want to become a mom anymore bc i don’t want to be the reason a child feels this way or grows up to.

[seaoreos]

the funniest thing about being bi and having a self-shipper partner + qpp who are both mainly/exclusively attracted to men is that when they see a neat woman they immediately look at me and go ‘bee you should selfship with her’ I love it

#sea thoughts #I’m some form of Demiro I think so crushes are hard to come by and especially ones that stick #so it makes me kinda sad in a way bc I wanna have fun and kiss fictional guys too! #I mean I already kind of do. Moxxi Borderlands is… c.cool #and also Holly and Butler :o) it’s polyamory btw. So cool #also I kind of wanna make an oc to kiss Mama amnesty?? That would be fun. I like her #why do I have like. A specific thing for women with thick southern accents who have butch swag. #I could also kiss Aubrey n Hollis too methinks. #also weirdly enough I have the instinct to ship my adventure time oc Princess wizard with raggedy princes?? #she deserves someone who will listen to her poetry #I think it’s pretty neat :o) #also the Mad Moxxi kissing would be ESPECIALLY FUNNY considering my boys selfship with HANDSOME JACK LMAO #The image of two couples walking side by side and the one person from each looks over at each other in absolute disgust with the #bisexual flag overlayed on top of them and an arrow pointing to them that reads ‘exes’. It’s that #the oc concept I have is a . I don’t remember the name for mushroom specific biologist rn but they’re that #That almost fucking died and fused with a sentient mushroom colony. Normal Pandora moment #they met Moxxi (before almost dying) because they went to her bar for (and guess what) #A PLACE TO WORK WHERE THEY WOULDNT BE BOTHERED LMAO #THEY JUST LIKED THE BG NOISE AND WERE LIKE “ok well I mean. It’s moxxi’s. People are here for… reasons. If I just sit all the way in the #back here where it’s dim people will leave me alone.” #And I think they end up staying til closing and moxxi almost misses the fact they’re there before she’s like “???who tf is this lanky littl #nerd doing WORK back here?? AT MAD ME’S?? HELLO?” #ohbmu god they’re rhack but yuri and less toxic. That was on accident. Oh my god #anyways something something a line from a fic I read once #”the only people allowed in the back room at Moxxi’s were either very generous donators or people who were as cute as a button” #Um. Yea #If you know what fic it is don’t look at me #I’m 18 now I do what I want. Bitch #Anywaysss back 2 work

[variousqueerthings]

the thing about Margaret, is that she was an interesting character from season 1. I know she may not necessarily have been intended to be that, and probably not at all in her previous iterations in film and book, but here, from the very beginning, there was a something (and I say that as someone who started learning more about her future journey around... s3... vaguely, so I genuinely didn’t know she’d be getting these kinds of stories and narrative Weight. I know at this point that she’ll continue to grow until the end, but that’s about it)

and for whatever reason -- because the show was being created with a lot of mutual respect between the people on it (for the most part), because loretta swit was just that compelling, because because -- that potential was picked up on

she grows and gets her point of view and emotions explored, and crucially has the underlying ideas behind her actions all the way back in s1 -- when she wasn’t so fleshed out yet -- respected in hindsight

and it’s still so rare to see that! especially in female characters of course, it’s like there’s a mental block against seeing their potential. there’s absolutely a version -- a far far lesser version -- where Margaret could have been eternally trapped, beating against the narrow walls of her narrative and societal confines, while the narrative occasionally touched on something just interesting enough that you could taste her motivations and complex feelings (you know, maybe that is the book and/or movie version of her, I don’t know I haven’t engaged with either), but we get to see the one where she takes a sledge-hammer to the expectations that were placed upon her by said narrative and society in which that narrative takes place

a narrative that responds to when she’s internally fighting something, to her contradictions, that lets her yell and scream and punch (literally!) and be incredibly messy and so so fun to watch. I don’t know if it seems obvious in hindsight, but I keep thinking of how many lost opportunities there have been over the years, but this one time it’s an amazing experience

#margaret houlihan #MASH #im watching MASH #im almost halfway through s6 now #i feel like a large part of it is alan alda #and generally the environment on-set #of course you want your good friend loretta swit who's a fantastic actress to have some great material to work with! #and because you're not a fucking moron and you know women have internal lives it makes sense that margaret would too! #and while you're at it -- it must be hard to be a woman in her position in the military so that's an obvious place to start the exploration! #and why WOULD a woman like her -- sharp as a tack and strong (willed and physically) and beautiful -- be with someone like frank? #well maybe those two questions have the same answer! aha! writing is happening #(me recreating the writing and creative rooms in 1972-onwards) #also look: I'm personally not a fan of *hot lips* and a lot of the *jokes* directed her way in s1+2 especially #were misogynistic on the part of the other characters -- and at that point there wasn't necessarily much thought to it #(as in the thinking was probably *it's just jokes*) #but it DOES make for very good character analysis -- margaret's of course #but also hawkeye -- considering they're slowly becoming friends (very very good friends) #why would she want to be friends with the men who objectify women left right and centre and diminish her hard work in favour of her body? #two men who have no respect for the institutions that she's worked five times as hard to succeed in? #in favour of frank burns who alright if she's thinking about it (she tries not to) is kind of an ass and a bit TOO gung-ho in the wrong way #and possibly a coward actually (and when she looks back used the hierarchies that she needed to survive as a way to bully others) #but he was THERE -- and if she didn't think too hard he was good to her and gave her validation that she couldn't get literally anywhere #and ESPECIALLY not from hawkeye and trapper (or henry who was also a womaniser and an insult to military hierarchy) #(again -- the hierarchy that she based her whole worth and self on) #I just -- margaret makes so much SENSE! #and there's a version of her that would always just be the female frank who could have been more #but she IS more!!!! #*cries in loving margaret*