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#atla #avatar the last airbender #cabbage merchant #cabbage man #drag king

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When I was a very tiny child my mom was in a local production of The Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, a play where Arthur Conan Doyle is hired to investigate a murder at a haunted house with Sherlock Holmes, a figment of Doyle’s imagination that only he can see and hear. Doyle very sincerely believes that the house is haunted, and Holmes thinks that Doyle is a moron

I was too young to appreciate this concept when I was a child, now that I’m older it’s the best concept for a play I’ve ever heard in my life.

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No Evil

#the terror amc #the terror

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Edgar Allan Bro

#artwork #art #raven #Edgar allan poe #black and white #inkpen #drawing #black and white drawing #god i haven't posted in ages

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Name for a non-binary drag performer: Little Mx

#drag #drag names #drag performer #non-binary #i have no brain but i must type

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Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn't be a """gender critical""" activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive

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Christmas is half a year away but a gentle reminder re your film choices

#the thing #christmas #christmas film

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So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

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U want sum Fitz?

#the terror amc #fanart #reblog

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It's definitely my dodgy phone but there are certain vibez when photographing under low light conditions...

A Fargo-inspired poster for The Terror

#the terror #the terror amc #art #fanart #poster

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A Fargo-inspired poster for The Terror

#the terror #the terror amc #art #fanart #poster

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hi! sorry to bother, but i'm kinda new to the fandom, and i was wondering if you've ever made or know if there is a post about resources after finishing the terror? i know the book it's based on is shitty lol, i was thinking more like nonfiction books, biographies, or even links to historical documents etc... i want to both know more and also try my hand at researching for fanfic :D

HI!!!! i do have a post like that RIGHT HERE with a few book recommendations :D (the tl;dr is palin's Erebus and battersby's JFJ bio are great places to start)

i also run a huge honking database of resources HERE which is not ranked by any means but includes links to access journal articles, documents, books, and primary sources related to the terror and writing terror fic.

and if you want any recs on specific topics, just let me know!!!!! i have read.... a lot...... lmao

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@so-i-did-this-thing Historical/Series Crozier commission, lines, coloured version, and gold frame diptych addition. 

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Text from blood.uk flashes up with "we urgently need to collect more blood this summer" like hold your horses vampire girl

#blood donation #random #why

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Carnivale ft. The Dress

#the terror #the terror amc #art #fanart #james fitzjames #painting

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“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

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Every story about 19th century men on boats is gay. Hornblower? Gay. The Terror? Also Gay. The Aubreyad/Master and Commander? Gay gay gay. Moby Dick? I’ve never read it but apparently it’s super fucking gay.