THINGS:

• so i finished one assignment yay me although word gave me some trouble (page numbering urgh??????)
• the other assignment is eh well i talked to my tutor and she helped me a bit so it’s okay i guess URGH MOTIVATION
• i finished rewatching veronica mars. it’s interesting rewatching shows a few years later a) u get to see it with new eyes (not actual new eyes, just metaphorical ones okay i’m not going around stealing peoples’ eyes omg stop talking rachel), and b) u recognise so many people like did u know david giuntoli and nelsan ellis guest starred wow i didn’t
• um
• yes i have been procrastinating :P

meandrous:

(and yet: what if knowledge were delicious?): re: my last reblog, one of the great things about Teen Wolf (and also…

1001-cranes:

re: my last reblog, one of the great things about Teen Wolf (and also The Vampire Diaries - and Scandal, to mix it up with the non-supernatural) is that the amount of stuff happening in ~three episodes on that show would take a whole goddamn season for another show. It’s action packed and it moves fast but because of that most of the traumatic sequelae are brushed off and brushed under the rug unless Jeff Davis decides he wants to make a big deal about it (i.e. Stiles’s closeup with Ms Morrell near the end of S2). I mean, you have someone like S2 Lydia who is having trouble functioning because of what happened in the S1 finale, but godddddd forbid anyone talk about it or even reference it, much less acknowledge that what happened to her was traumatic. And remember when Stiles got the shit beat out of him. And Jackson was dead there for a bit. And Danny was poisoned and paralyzed. And Scott got bit and mindfucked. And Allison’s own dad kidnapped her. Or any of like a billion things that happen on any episode because jesus christ.

like, ngl, but sometimes I feel like the four month break before S3 is mostly so Jeff Davis can be like ‘dealing with… trauma? but I just want to write about my super cool Alpha Pack, man.’ so Lydia will come back fine and over Jackson and Allison will be kind of removed and a little awkward (but let’s get real, she’ll be back in the mix of it soon enough) and Scott and Isaac will be buddying it up and Stiles will be jealous of that and not worrying about any of a million other things and Derek will be manpaining and failwolfing instead of rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere. 

capntrips:

hey, tammers. t-sin. officer slamsin.: targaryenviserys: i really, really dislike the trope in fiction that…

targaryenviserys:

i really, really dislike the trope in fiction that only the assholes, the bullies, and the “villains” can be homophobic.  (this goes for any hateful -ism, really, but given that it was prompted by homophobia i’m going to run with that.)

homophobia would be much easier to dismiss if it only came from the douchebags of the population; if everyone ~good~ looked down on it, defended against it; if the line was clear between good person (accepting) and bad person (hateful).  that’s not to say it wouldn’t still be hurtful, but there would be that support there of it’s only the assholes, it’s only the assholes.

unfortunately, what makes those comments hurt is that they more often come from people you love, people you’re friends with, people whose opinions you generally respect - your mom, your friend, your coworker, your teacher…  hearing a kid in the hallway call someone a dyke might make me flinch, but it was hearing my grandma say it that made me cry. 

it’s that discordance - that people who are otherwise very nice, caring, and intelligent can still have ignorant, hateful opinions - that is lost in a lot of fiction.  it’s lazy writing, and - it feels to me - defensive.  by designating prejudice only to the villains of the piece, the writers both distance themselves (only assholes! not us!) and erase actual experience.  you’re not doing a service to us by creating a world where homophobia is only ever wielded by villains; all you’re doing is reducing an experience you’ve likely never had to flat, simplified flaw.

#yessssssssssssss!! #making oppressive behaviour Evil and Terrible and Bad in fiction doesn’t actually acknowledge how ingrained it is into society #this is why a lot of people are so defensive being called on perpetuating -isms #they know they aren’t Evil and Terrible and Bad #so how can they possibly have done a thing that is? #the fact is you could be sweet and nice and help old ladies cross the street and still have internalised some poisonous shit #being nice doesn’t excuse you from being shitty (via achathriel)

(via achathriel)

achathriel:

byzants:

also it is very weird to me when people use the defence of ‘acts are despicable whether or not they’re committed by female characters’ against others’ enjoyment of ~villainous~ women in fiction. because often those despicable acts are rooted in anger rather than baseless malice and those female characters have survived (and are surviving) through abuse and oppression. of course, it is great to be able to, i guess, rise above your suffering and use your anger as a constructive tool for good rather than letting it manifest in cruelty. but i think suggesting we only celebrate female characters who are capable of that is problematic because it’s not practical. some hurts go too deep to recover from (particularly when you lack an adequate support system, like some of these women we are discussing don’t live in societies where a word like ‘sexism’ even exists, let alone the concept of functioning feminism) and sometimes once you’re hurt, you just keep hurting. you succumb to, rather than defeat, your angry demons and let them warp you into a creature of bitterness and paranoia. obviously, this isn’t the image of women we want to see in our fiction but simply because it holds up a distorted or unattractive reflection of ourselves doesn’t make it invalid. it’s a side of humanity that’s worth acknowledging because it’s grounded in a fundamental truth: that not everyone is going to heal, be able to channel their anger into a productive force - some people are damaged and just go on damaging.

and there are men who fit the trope of succumbing to their demons who aren’t even designated villains! yay for the anti-hero. I really hope I’m wrong but I genuinely cannot think of a female anti-hero right now? possibly bc women have to fit so many more criteria than their male counterparts to be considered a hero in the first place, rather than the hero’s girlfriend or mother or sister or sidekick or something? I’m not even going near the fact that fandom (and canonical narratives!) make male villains who undoubtedly commit despicable acts sympathetic and condemn female villains for daring to be anything other than be sweet and obliging.

(also this was a really good post and I just wanted to add this? my bit’s not as good as the first bit.)