#where women create

[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

[sergle]

what I was talking abt earlier. we have fully looped back around and away from feminism, societally, whereas before it was very Feminism 101 to acknowledge that many parts of existing as a woman in a misogynistic society are painful and upsetting. not that being a woman is Inherently Negative in a bubble. but that living on this earth, in the conditions we're living in, is hostile to women. and that gender is a performance. that many of the Staples Of Femininity as accepted by society are things that you have to create and perform and mold artificially and aren't inherent, that COMPLAINING about day to day difficulties of existing as a woman is something that you're allowed to do. acknowledging these basic, again, feminism 101 things, that something tied to womanhood is more time consuming or more expensive or more dangerous Because Of The Problems. does not CREATE the problems. that when women complain about having to perform femininity, they are not, in fact, oppressing themselves. the call does not come from inside the fucking house. saying that you HAVE suffered does not fucking equate that you believe you SHOULD have suffered.

like I could talk about this for hours. how braindead and one-dimensional the Takes are getting. "being a woman is looking in the mirror and going fuck yeah i'm a woman" damn. I guess any negative experiences you have by living in a misogynistic world... are your fault if you are anything but positive? "you don't actually want liberation" we've fully gone back to telling feminists "you WANT to be oppressed" when anything negative about our society is pointed out. it's not real until I say it out loud, I guess, and then I'm actually the one who caused it. if anybody expresses any unhappiness with how they're treated or the status quo or the language and culture surrounding womanhood and femininity. they've created it, right that second. they invented it just now. it wasn't a problem before somebody complained, right? also trans women aren't braindead zombies who just follow the flow of whatever cis women around them say. I am pretty fucking sure they are very much aware of pain, and are MORE than aware of the swirling torrent of misogyny and standards of femininity than anybody else. actually. and I am pretty sure someone complaining on tumblr that being a woman means always putting on a performance is going to make someone change their mind about transitioning. also "performing femininity" as a necessity to being treated well as a woman is not fucking NEWS to your Local Trans Woman. I AM PRETTY SURE SHE GETS THE CONCEPT. using trans women as a scapegoat for this braindead perspective on gender politics is spineless, meritless, and pathetic.

#how I feel about my gender is not the same as how I feel about the living conditions of my gender #when I saw that post I screenshotted here I literally sat w my mouth open for a minute #sent it to my friends and was like am I fucking crazy. is this what we're doing now #Forced Positivity and that there is no war in ba sing se and actually #you're ruining children's lives if you complain about misogyny on twitter #I don't HAVE to tell little girls about the downsides because they are already being mistreated #before they have even heard the word 'misogyny' let alone know what it means #you do not have to be fucking happy all the time about the cards you're dealt. #you don't live in a bubble where it's just you and your mirror and your pretty dress and nothing bad has ever happened to you #unfortunately bitch. we will have negative experiences that are in fact. part of the package of being a woman #and IGNORING them doesn't make them not exist. actually they will continue to remain status quo unless acknowledged #sergle.txt #I see so much rhetoric that is JUST old-fashioned gender ideals being presented with liberal language on tiktok #that is just telling women that womanhood is just being a girllll and loving pretty things and being kind and gentleeeee and nurturing #and not working and just like being wholesome and being happy and being a light in ppl's lives and just LOVING LOVING LOVING being a woman #so if for even one second. you don't love it. you are actually failing at being a woman #if you complain about the standards for shaving or putting on makeup. which used to be Baby's First Feminism online #that's actually just you creating problems. you're not supposed to acknowledge it. you're supposed to shut up and smile into the mirror.

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Green stans logic:

Rhaenyra should be hated for not helping advance women’s positions throughout the Realm (even though it was a hardship to get stability for herself as the first reigning Queen of the Seven Kingdoms).

Meanwhile, Aegon Hightower should be applauded for taking away a woman’s legitimate right to the throne at a time when a couple of women were found in positions of power throughout the Realm (Lady Jeyne Arryn of the Vale being the most notable example).

Seriously…try harder.

#The usurper is the one who viewed himself as the exception #And people kind of missed the point where Rhaenyra being Queen creates a precedent for more women in positions of power in the future #She doesn’t have to do anything. She just has to take the throne that belongs to her and rule. #team black #rhaenyra targaryen #pro team black #anti team green #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti team green stans #anti green stans #queen rhaenyra #asoiaf #anti greens #hotd #fire and blood #aegon the usurper #the blacks #house of the dragon #pro rhaenyra #asoiaf meta #canon asoiaf #jeyne arryn

[averlym]

fairest of the fair

#hi! im alive and back and etc. #six the musical #six the musical fanart #katherine howard #thinking of that post going 'i think eventually you become the person you needed most' and like maybe that's the thing with my art #this started out as a redraw and <improvement meme> i think i've finally reached the stage where i'm making the things that my younger self #aspired to create. like i can do this now! i've reached That level of technical skill! tiny me would be so proud. it's very gratifying #redraw from august this year actually. i've made a surprising amount of improvement HAHA maybe it was the adamandi stuff getting me #back into digital rendering. i think that obsession has quietly slipped away but yknow. one never truly leaves a fandom. just less intensit #also speaking of old fandoms! we're back with the six stuff haha. as of writing i'm in the midst of blog revamp- figuring out how to chill #multifandom status doesn't mean ditch all the old stuff ! but i do feel much freer and less stressed. i think hiatus has been good for me #notes on this piece particularly: redraw about cutting hair and thinking of the lyric above. also lowkey &j ref + pinterest poem excerpts #of female suffering. and maybe a dash of amanda heng let's walk inspo. this work is really just full of contradictions.. #1. the mirror and cutting hair as an act of self liberation 2. the & is part of the lyric but also a nod to &j (in another iteration it was #pink but the white looked better) and like. &j is really all !!! girl power!!! etc. and i was like hmmmm. also matching pink shiny aes #3. the frame as a cage; the mirror as a self reflection idea (ie. saville's propped insp) but also as a sign of vanity. 4. sparkly costume #and pretty pose- read one too many poems about women feeling like they have to be pretty even in their suffering. something i wanted to #explore. and also in 5. the show itself... all you wanna do is. despite all the dancing and pink and sparkly the content of the song is #darker. and even though it's a story of her suffering it's still presented as a shiny fun pop song and ajshdhfhfh ok... 6. the lyrics fall #outside the frame. sort of a caught inbetween. sort of a trapped in the narrative and yet #within the frame it's all. vaguely handwavy breaking free vibes. like i said contradictions? #7. cutting off the long ponytail vs the pull my hair lyric at the end. yeah #8. the blocked off & looks a bit like scissors. positioned to cut right at the neck #anyways yeah irl remains hectic! but if i get around to more doodles they'll appear here :)

[2dieavirgin]

chameron would've worked if Cameron realized she's a lesbian and Chase realized he's a woman

#she would've forgiven him #because she creates all these little men bubbles in her head where she has to like men and she has to fix men but she likes women sooo bad #lesbian sex coukd fix her <- said about both cameron AND chase #house md

[transvarmint]

Being a woman does not make you immune to being misogynistic, nor does it make you any less prone to being misogynistic.

You are not less misogynistic by virtue of being a woman. You are not any less capable of perpetrating it.

To believe that being a woman in and of itself makes you less likely to be misogynistic is just essentialism. It implies that other genders are more misogynistic solely only the basis of their gender, rather than being misogynistic based on the choices they actively make.

To not be misogynistic, you must actively choose to fight against it, everyday. You must actively make choices that challenges systemic and social misogyny. You must question your own biases and how they influence your behavior.

You cannot be passively anti-misogyny. Your gender does not give you a free pass.

And importantly, women can absolutely perpetuate misogyny against other women, AND people who are not women. So you must be checking yourself for misogynistic bias in ALL interactions.

*** Before anyone comes at me, YES this applies to men and all genders as well. No, I'm not blaming women for systemic misogyny. I'm simply pointing out that everyone plays a role in it. Women are capable of perpetuating bigotry, especially if there are other intersections at play. Women are not perfect victims, they are human beings who have autonomy, and that autonomy includes the capability to uphold harmful institutions. ***

*** Also yes, experiencing misogyny on a daily basis will cause you to have a different relationship to it. Some folks respond to that by fighting against misogyny, but others respond to that trauma by continuing the cycle of abuse. This is just a fact. ***

#transandrophobia #won't be remotely surprised if we get harassment and death threats over this one #but we're gonna try to stick to our guns here #because it needs to be fucking said #trans women deserve to speak about the way cis women enact [trans]misogynystic violence on them #and transmascs deserve to speak about the way cis women enact transphobic + misogynystic (transandrophobic) violence on us #sorry not sorry! #this is why I don't think women only or 'no men' spaces are inherently safer for women #in fact it often just creates an environment where more marginalized women are targeted under the guise of creating a 'safe space' #not to mention fucking over anyone who has a complicated gender or doesn't pass or is closeted etc #like this is the entire conceit of rad/fem shit #the idea that women are inherently safer or inherently less capable of perpetuating harm #on the basis of their victimhood under the patriarchy

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

I feel like even in trans positive spaces trans men are seen as less authentic than trans women, because we supposedly have something to gain by transitioning or wanting to be men. (social power.) It's reflective of how we look at historical people that by today's standards we would see as trans men (Joan of Arc) or fictional characters that live as men while secretly being women. (Naoto from Persona, Sheik from Zelda.) And this is going to be an uphill battle until we get rid of gender essentialism in our spaces completely.

#transandrophobia #thinking of a post that was talking about how all fictional femboys in anime are actually trans women and if you dont acknowledge that #then youre a transmisogynist and or chaser #but if the same was said about tomboys and masc crossdressers then there would be so much whinging about representation for women #and something something delusional cringe headcanons #if i say sheik is trans thats my headcanon #but if i don't see pre-strive bridget as intended to be trans then im a transmisogynist #bridget tbh is a bizarre case #because pre-strive their experiences (being forced to live female when they saw themselves as a man) #was more akin to a transgender man #theres an elden ring character with a similar backstory #where he was forced to present as female because the cult he was apart of and raised in was female only #because the people who create these characters are cis they dont really understand what makes a person transgender #so you get weird shit like this that doesnt make any sense #er not elden ring but its one of those games

[chaotic-history]

@earlgrey24 you've inspired me

Hi my name is Chevalier François-Marie Arouet de Volatire Gentilhomme de Chambre du Roi. I like writing satire (that's why I got put in the Bastille) and I have a long grey wig à la Duc de Nevers and sparkly dark eyes that everyone talks about. A lot of people tell me my style looks like Louis 14 (AN: if u don't know that is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Duc de Richelieu but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I live in Prussia but I'm French. I have pale white skin. I'm also a poet, and I write for the Comédie-Française which should really be called the Theâtre-Française where my plays are the most famous (I wrote my first one when I was nineteen). I'm basically nobility (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear a lot of lace and wig powder. All of my clothes are retro because it's cooler. For example today I was wearing a long pink and gold waistcoat, grey stockings, a blue silk coat with matching trousers and long lace cuffs reaching to my fingertips, a powdered wig, and my red Louis 14 shoes. I was walking outside Sanssouci. It was cloudy and I was freezing. Maupertuis stared at me and I put my middle finger up at him.

#of- #- the three wearers only the last now persists. #voltaire #notes: yes V did include chevalier in his titles on Mlle Corneille's wedding documents. why? i don't know #à la duc de nevers comes from Grimm's correspondance where he said Nevers had created a style of wig imitated only by Bachaumont and V #V said the comédie-française should be renamed the théâtre-française since most of the plays put on weren't comedies #émilie said he wore too much lace and used too much wig powder #he did wear clothes that were more late 17thC; mostly the wig style and longer waistcoats and cuffs #and you can see the louis xiv shoes (with the red heels) in huber's painting Voltaire's Morning #i'm disappointed i couldn't think of a good lead in to “(that's how i got my name)” #cause there's so many possibilities lol #oh and the eyes that everyone talks about is cause Pearson's “everyone mentioned them; men as well as women” (not incorrect)

[lovrbooy]

i feel like i have very unpopular opinions on dennis within this fandom. i am scared of fandom spaces so. to the tags i go

#i fear that some of you see dennis reynolds in a fanon way that you have accepted as canon ... #he is not . GOOD! guys. i say this as someone who deeply relates to him #he is canonically unmedicated for bpd and i Am medicated so i feel extremely attached to the mindset he has that used to be my LIFE! #i dont believe dennis would ever willingly put himself in any sort of situation where he isnt in control or powerful. its why he creates #entire identities just to have power over women for a few weeks. he doesnt date because at some point they become powerful and he losespowe #i am certain that there are parts of his psyche that love his friends and family bc he DOES have feelings ! but i also believe its hard for #him to accept that or even think about it if he wanted to because he is so obsessed with his delusions of grandeur #i dont think love is ever something he could give to someone easily and if he did it would be a painful toxic wound #we already know this. he loves dee and they are horrible for each other. and hes worse for her whether some ppl want 2 admit it or not #dennis is my favorite character on this show and i wanna reiterate that because im scared ppl will be annoying I Dont Share my Opinions #about Media a lot even though i think Tons of them #iasip #dennis reynolds

[akkivee]

read a post that classified?? explained??? the various ways kuukou’s been written across hipumai’s media and it made laugh lol so it went

stage:

DEMON

anime

functions on actual common sense

actually uses fundamental buddhist monk arguments

his father will tell him to do something and he will actually do it diligently

the kuukou with the least corrupt personality

arb

a completely pure individual. purity at its finest

he’s living his best life out here, the kinda guy that excitedly runs to his dad to show off his decorations, and had a blast celebrating halloween, christmas, hinamatsuri etc

adults tend to treat him to food

will also throw away the mattress his teammate sleeps on

the kuukou with the most corrupt personality

drama tracks/manga:

a healthy 19 year old that may have experience with women

the kinda guy who will sing a song like get busy and can also make a lady ghost experience nirvana

because of an intense and overwhelming love for his family, he will occasionally adopt a buddha-like tone of voice

he has a corrupt personality

#this is vee speaking #*nods* i see i see so that’s why i enjoy kuukou so much in arb #his duality is cranked 🆙 and he has the most fun with it LOL #the anime creating the most reasonable kuukou is hilarious to me lol #he’s a very comforting kuukou like he’s still a little strange but by nature i think of an ensemble anime #moments where he might make a left field decision aren’t really a thing #but on the flip side of that he’s having to be the human part of his personality lmao #so you get stuff like him sensing akira and satoru aren’t themselves we actually got to see kuukou interacting with temple patrons etc #it’s fun anime kuukou is tame fun lmao #the op coming to the conclusion that kuukou has experience with women is LOL but i mean listen!!!!!!!! #kuukou breaks the fourth wall he is connected to all universes he’s in so if he has a yume thru omnipresence he— #this isn’t the first time i’ve seen a kuukou stan equate stage kuukou to evil entities and it likely won’t be the last lmao #but it’s still ridiculously funny lmao #BUT LOOK AT MANS RANGE WHOS DOING CHAOTICALLY FUN LIKE HIM LOL

[sapphicsparkles]

where in the actual fuck did this claim that Satine is a colonizer come from holy shit y'all must know absolutely zero about Satine Kryze, even worse if you think Death Watch were the good guys

#satine was NOT perfect and did perpetrate harm in banishing the traditionalists and her inability to compromise #and her extremity of hating violence so much it gave her tunnel vision #but she was at her core a MANDALORIAN #she's the duchess of Kalevala but Kalevala is in the Mandaloriain system???? #and she was part of house and clan Kryze which was a Mandalorian house??? #they participated in the CIVIL WAR?? IT WAS A CIVIL WAR #WHERE ARE Y'ALL GETTING THIS SHIT #DO YOU BELIEVE THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION THAT USURPED HER PEACEFUL GOVERNMENT #THAT SHE STROVE TO CREATE UNDER A LONG HISTORY OF MARTIAL RULE AND WAR THAT DESTROYED THIER PLANET #WAS FUCKING CORRECT????? #it's like the people that say the COTW were a cult and that the Armorer is evil #no they're not a cult nobody was manipulated into their beliefs it's all about choice #y'all just hate women #satine kryze

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think it's time to take a page from the james flint gay agenda manifesto; stop trying to convince people that the queers are not a danger to society, and become a menace to civilisation instead. the real queer agenda should be to overthrow any and all social systems. work in tandem with other marginalised groups and set heteropatriarchy on fire. become ungovernable, ignore social norms, uplift new voices. assimilation should not have ever been the goal. queer people are different. difference is good. the real enemy is conformity. conformity is responsible for every man made horror in history. war, poverty, hate crimes, slavery, genocide, they are all made possible by the existence and desirability of a status quo. remove the desirability of normalcy and you remove the foundation for all systems of suffering. systems work because a majority of people have decided it was in their best interest to uphold them. but is it really? remove the desirability of normalcy and you have no grounds for competition. keep quiet out of fear that the system will decide you are abnormal next, and you are making sure it will. fuck civilisation, fuck normalcy, fuck the status quo.

#rain posts #sorry watching black sails has enraged me #seeing gay people and women become outwardly transphobic #because they've convinced themselves that trans people are the problem #because they're so scared of society turning on them/relieved that the heat is off them for once #that they'll do anything to keep their spot on the normal people hall of fame #is so fucking heartbreaking #you fucking idiots are only succeeding in making sure that people remain categorised #that a hierarchy perseveres between normal and abnormal people #that inequality remains the foundation for civilisation #if you are anything other than a cis gendered heterosexual wealthy abled white western man #then society is not and will never be your friend #it's so fucking baffling that such a small group of people has managed to create an atmosphere of fear worldwide #where instead of saying fuck that we've all decided that we needed to find any resemblance we have to that tiny group of people #(being white or cis or male or straight etc) #and beg to be included based on that one similarity #i'm so fucking tired of normalcy i'm so fucking tired of quiet acceptance #be fucking weird. be appreciative of other people's weirdness. refuse to put anyone into categories #categories lead to classification and hierarchy #the most powerful weapon we have is non conformity #we all possess it. so fucking use it. #and at the very least (if you're scared for yourself) make sure other people's right to non conformity is protected and uplifted

[post-futurism]

It is very disappointing to be connected to Australians on this website only to quickly discover they are terfs.

#terfs are so close to discovering that abolishing the gender binary is actually a good thing #this one i just blocked came up with the idea that in a future where there was no gender there would only be sex #and went on to 'support' their argument by saying there would be no pronouns only people with penis or vagina #like how do they not understand those are still pronouns lmao #terfs are so caught up with hating trans women and despairing over trans men that they have forgotten what a pronoun actually is #like this person didn't realise they were creating a binary again based on this fictional idea that there are only ppl with penis or vagina #that there is no inbetween or ability to change whether naturally or socially #and it's so funny because they'll think the binary sex is normalised by nature when it's not!!!! #God #insert that meme where it's a guy on a fashion show criticising someone calling s colour a fancy name #'in a world post gender there wd be no need for nb or trans p bc it wouldn't make sense there would only be two sexes' #shut up. you mean you want to trade one binary for another #you want to revert back to when we didn't fully understand the expansive breadth of being #and pretend that there are no intersex people or even a social contract #terfs are so blind imagine living in a world so restrictive #like abolishing any social binary in a way that recognises multitudes of being is the outcome that will benefit society #not abolishing the gender binary only to fall back on the sex binary #it's the same thing!!! it's the same thing!!!

[nyxi-pixie]

i think its kinda funny that the most people will talk abt women in fandom is to criticise people not talking about women enough. like. do you not see. the irony in that.

#or any post thats just like. art of women or whatever just says #drawing them bc no one else does! #like maybe just draw them bc u like them?? #analyse them bc theyre interesting?? #rb shit abt them bc u like it and not bc fandom has become some weird space where you r morally obligated to talk abt women #no matter how much or little depth they have purely bc theyre a woman? #idk bruh when im talking abt my bsd girlies its because i am enamoured with them and their characters make me wanna eat rocks #it seems yall only talk abt them to check a box #like ✅talked about a female character today! im not going to fail fandom! #wahhh #bsd #on that note i shld empty my drafts of my misery induced teruko posting #'people dont create content of female characters' thats cos yall dont fkn like it😭😭😭

[catgirltoes]

Gotta be honest the constant objectification of women's bodies is a bit tiring sometimes.

#catgirltxt #'naked female torso (conventionally attractive)' is a common decoration for some reason #shittons of songs that treat sex with women as purely status building for men #i think the worst part is that as a woman you're expected to buy into it too #and not just buy into it but participate in it #to be chill or whatever you have to create a gap between you and other women #you have to instead align yourself with men and abandon any female solidarity #don't get me wrong i'm a tranny i know full well that female solidarity is a sick joke #but like goddamn i don't want to live in a world where a prime way of gaining respect from men is to engage in this shit #if you object to it all you're treated like you're an overreactive hysterical idiot #and if you just don't participate you're treated as boring #this type of shit is especially prevalent in male dominated areas but it exists just about everywhere #almost the only places it doesn't is spaces that just don't discuss sex at all and those spaces for the most part suck #just about the only people i've seen even mention this on tumblr dot hell are radfems! hardly anyone else! #we need a feminist movement again so bad

[jam-n-jay]

If a girl without a dick is like an angel without wings then a girl that gets bottom surgery is like an angel that relinquishes her divinity to live amongst us mortals

#btw this post was inspired by some great art created by @tanookitalez that hasnt been posted to tumblr yet lol #they have an account here but i saw the image im talking about on their twitter lol #trans women #trans #transfems #transfem #trans girl #trans girls #trans lesbian #trans lesbians #;) i know the target audience of this post #its the lesbians lol #on twitter thered be a larger chaser audience but here? the lesbians are where its at obviously