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i’ve literally only heard four episodes of night vale (i only started a couple weeks ago actually so good timing!) but i’m here for the #cecilsweep i need this fruit to win

don’t wear the colours just ‘cause you think they’re pretty, don’t join the parades just ‘cause you like glitter. those flags hug the shoulders of those kicked out, scattered from homes that seemed wholesome till the illusion was shattered.

have you ever known love to come with conditions? had to google-check which countries your love makes off-limits?

when fragile masks start to shatter these found-groups are the glue. do you know the shuddering courage of spitting out the truth?

somewhere there’s a graveyard for lost childhoods, teenage years full of hollowness and wrongness and desperation to fit in.

there are methods to correct us, stones and therapy and fists, ears turn deaf as we explain we always did and always will exist.

on high streets big brands console us with bright window displays while on bus-tops we get bloody noses for daring to say

we’re not your entertainment, find your porn somewhere else, we’re people - if you’d let us we’d love to quietly be ourselves,

abandon the coming-out cycle, stop all the shouting, so come, by all means, just please don’t come for a party.

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

HERE’S ALL THE PDF VERSIONS I COULD FIND SINCE WE’RE ALL IN QUARANTINE AND WE CAN’T PHYSICALLY GET THE BOOKS WE DON’T HAVE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)

PLEASE read at least some of these once in your life, some of these books will change your entire viewpoint FOR THE BETTER

This is amazing, it belongs on your blog.

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She wanted to play in peace!

is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what

That’s basically a naked woman I’m YELLING

What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?

It’s like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into “sexy” poses. Or how women in comics walk like they’re in high heels even barefoot. 

It’s the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of “women” as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroes’ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for. 

I’m sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?

And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You can’t apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters. 

Come on, let’s not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.

We’re going to have this argument are we? Not to mention you’re deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional characters’ clothing is asinine. 

What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I don’t think you do.

This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how “empowering” and “strong” it actually looks: 

Also: 

He got the painting for fighting against ‘censorship.’ Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They don’t care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.

You can see her butthole for chrissakes

I think the best imagery I’ve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.

Hugh Jackman on a men’s magazine. He’s shirtless and buff and angry. He’s imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, it’s what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.

Hugh Jackman on a women’s magazine.  He looks like a dad. He looks like he’s going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.

Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.

This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.

I’m declaring it now. 2020 is going to be the year where we all unironically, whole-heartedly throw ourselves into our passions.

You like Hazbin Hotel? That’s awesome! Make your Alastor theories and ship every couple under the sun. Make fan art, write fic, speculate for the rest of the season. Don’t let tumblr’s cancel culture make you lose your interest.

You’re still superwholock? That’s banging. So much of us are struggling with disconnecting and distancing ourself from the things we used to love, bc of an unfortunate combination of peer pressure and mental illness. The fact that you’re still creating and consuming content is amazing. Keep at it.

You like “cliche” or “overrated” musicals? Of course you do! Shows like Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Heathers, Be More Chill, Beetlejuice, and Anastasia are popular for a reason, and you clearly understand the craze. In 2020 may you continue to discover new musicals (I recommend Next to Normal and In the Heights, personally) but never lose your love for the musicals that made you love Broadway.

Cringe culture is dead. I’m killing it now. Life is too damn short to be ashamed of the things you like, or to let other people make you feel bad for liking it. The world needs more radiance and positivity.

In 2020, write the fic. Draw the art. Listen to kpop and Taylor Swift and dance around your room. Engage (kindly) with your favorite creators, spread love, and make fandom a fun experience again.

Some fun witchy things to do!!!

Feel free to add more!!

(and tell me if you use any of my ideas!!!)

Why the Sherlock fandom is moving over to Good Omens

All right fellas here's the tea

The BBC Sherlock fandom is moving to Good Omens

Now that doesn't necessarily mean abandoning Sherlock - many fandom members still love the show - but there has been a discernible change in fandom dynamics as of recently

So, why are people moving over?

Good Omens is a show that loves the fandom back.

One of the major problems with Sherlock was that, despite the show being incredible, there was a lot of tension between the creators and the fans. Gatiss and Moffat scoffed at fan theories, dismissed ships, and just kind of demeaned the whole fanbase. Now that's excusable with a good show for a while, but by the end, people were getting tired of being constantly patronized for loving a show. That's a reason why the last season wasn't well received; it was very self-indulgent for the writers and actors. The show didn't feel like it was bring made to be watched by an actual audience.

Neil Gaiman and the cast of Good Omens, however, recognize the importance that fandom has in the success of the show. Gaiman has said how much he loves fan theories and ideas, even if they don't match his own. ("And I love it whenever people come up to me with spinoff ideas, 'Can we do a Chattering Nuns TV series? Everyone loves the nuns!' And it's like, yes! All of these things are wonderful ideas, I really wanna write a novel now.") Michael Sheen and David Tennant are known for their hints at Ineffable Husbands being canon, and the fandom at large is very welcoming.

Look. Good Omens and Sherlock are both fantastic shows. But it gets tiring to be put down all the time by the creators of Sherlock. The Sherlock fandom sees Good Omens as a clever, funny, well-written series with a perfect ship and genuinely kind, respectful writers and actors, something that we aren't really used to.

And that's the tea

If you are pining, or if you can feel the crushing ache of pining beginning to tinge the edges of your once-pleasant crush; if you’ve lost friends, or if you’re wondering if you’ll ever find true friendship; simply, if you’re feeling Lonely...

Watch Good Omens.

Seriously.

It’s so rich with love in a way that can’t help feeling relatable. No matter your relationship status, there’s something for everyone: The Them, Anathema and Newt, Shadwell and Tracy, Aziraphale and Crowley. And the small, humble setting really puts the weight of love it contains into perspective. Everyone loves so heavily and deeply in such different ways, it’s impossible to miss.

The apocalypse was essentially averted by an oddball group who intended nothing more than to go on loving each other as fumblingly as possible. It’s bad enough thinking up things for Wensley, Brian and Pepper to do all the time. They say two can live as cheaply as one. Do you want to be a descendant your whole life? We’re on our own side now. No matter how quietly it emerges — and sometimes, it’s so quiet you can barely even see it — love exposes itself in every corner, every crack. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look exactly how you’d imagined it. Perhaps it never will. But that’s okay. There’s plenty to go around, always.

You, the queen of a fairy tale kingdom, got cursed to give birth to a princess who’s going to live her life isolated in a tower the first 20 years of her life. Narrate how you avoid your daughter’s fate.

She laughed, when she placed the curse on me. Laughed and laughed. She called me a fool for coming to her, for wanting children who would sap my strength and steal my power. 

One child to take my kingdom, she promised me. Well, I’d wanted an heir. It didn’t have to be a curse. 

One child the sea would steal. There was room in that. They didn’t have to die, only to love the sea. I would buy the finest ships. 

And the third would suffer my grandmother’s fate. 

The tower. 

Grandmother told me stories about that tower, shuddering. About the isolation almost driving her mad. About the desperate longing for escape. I know what that escape cost her, and my grandfather as well, with his scarred face and limping gait. 

That was going to be difficult. 

The sorceress’s curse worked. Within the year, I held my first babe in my arms, a sturdy boy who kicked and cried and cuddled against his mother as if he hadn’t been made only to bring me grief. Well, all mothers grieve. 

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But imagine Loki trying to take over GenZ

Loki: You misgardians are all beneath me. You are all worthless creatures.

Us: Well, ya ain’t wrong.

Loki: Yes- wait what. *eyes tearing up* I’m- I’m sorry, I did not mean that.

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Loki: I am Loki, prince of Asgard and-

Us: Well, with an ass like that, I can see why you’re the prince of Assgard

Loki: what I- no! I am your ruler! You will kneel before me!

Us: Well, usually I do that after the first date, but if you insist-

Loki *blushing*: wh-what?? No? Th-that is not what I meant- THOR, WHY HAVE THESE CREATURES BECOME OVERLY HORMONAL!

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Loki: I will rule your stupid realm! I will annihilate all of you mewling quims!

Us: lol pls kill me xx

Loki: I will kil- wait what?? No, I-I did not mean it like that- you’re life is valuable and worth fighting for- THOR WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE CREATURES!!!!!!!