#and think of this brave woman

[amaditalks]

I have found my new quest.

Someone in a Facebook group I’m in posted this picture of a hanukkiah they saw in a thrift shop and did not purchase. Everyone in the group was telling them to go back and get it. They didn’t recognize what they were seeing.

It’s Yehudit brandishing her sword and the head of Holofernes.

She is being anointed with oil to honor her for her triumph.

On a hannukiah.

I need this so badly I can taste it. 

#yehudit #Yehudit slaying holofernes #aka Judith #judith slaying holofernes #Yehudit ​the heroine #eat a cheese latke #and think of this brave woman #hanukkah #hanukkiah #menorah #it’s so beautiful #jewish history #Jewish #jewish holidays #jumblr

[heartofstanding]

I'm so bored of feminist retellings that are, "it's basically the same but now she kicks butt cuz she's a warrior!"

yes, women kicking butt is hot. but also "kicking butt" doesn't actually make a thing feminist.

#good job your feminist retelling could come straight out of the 90s #i always feel terribly alienated by these retelling #also the cliche of kickass woman being an archer #people have theorised it goes back to katniss/hunger games or merida/brave but i blame legolas and the lotr movies #the girls loving legolas phenomenon was massive - i know it was credited with a revival of interest in people learning archery #and i don't doubt it impacted on other media in a similar way - the girlies love leggy so the girlies will love a heroine who uses a bow #and i think it's cool and hot actually! but why is the shorthand for kickass woman always 'and she's the archer!' #or maybe i should blame artemis hmm #text posts #this post brought to you by reading the description of the new feminist retelling of the psyche and eros myth #good job! you've combined the soulless sanitised retelling of greek mythology #with the soulless dated trope of 'womens are only worthwhile as characters if they can kick butt while falling in lurveeeee with a man'

[youngpettyqueen]

the thing about Hawkeye and Margaret is that they’re very protective of each other but it’s in the way where like. for all Hawkeye’s claims of cowardice he would get between someone and Margaret if he felt he had to, and he’d probably be shaking like a leaf the entire time, but he’d do it. and then there’s Margaret who will break a bottle on someone’s head and Hawkeye would have to actively haul her off 

#mash #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #Hawkeye telling Margaret he'd protect her during Bug Out lives in my head rent free #Hawkeye talks a lot about how he's a coward but he isnt!! he's so brave and Margaret brings that out in him a lot #see Bug Out see Comrades in Arms #see CAVE #where he's so scared but he tries to protect her anyways #and then there's Margaret who's like if you hurt my bestie I will hunt you for sport #Margaret when BJ is being meaner than usual: do you want me to kill him #Hawkeye: I dont think you're kidding so im gonna say. no #where's that one Kevin Hart meme of the woman holding him looking mad at someone else #that's Margaret with Hawkeye

[perhaps-mr-collins-has-a-cousin]

Hello praying people, I'm not doing well and would really appreciate your prayers right now <3

#long very boring and unnecessarily detailed tag monologue incoming‚ feel free to skip: #this is going to sound like a silly thing to be hitting rock bottom over #but i’m fairly certain i have a semi-rare skin condition known as sensitive skin syndrome #which is basically where skin gets progressively more sensitive #until it won’t tolerate the topical application of anything at all without getting irritated #usually it happens to people on the skin of their face and i have it there but i also specifically have it on my lips #(which apparently is extremely not normal; i found a dermatologist’s case study from like 2019 of one woman who had it on her lips #and according to this case study there were no other cases of people having it on their lips #in all the dermatological literature he had read) #i can’t follow the protocol which all the journal articles i’ve been able to find say is helpful for the rest of the face which is basicall #leave the area the heck alone for at least a year #because if i don’t apply anything to my lips for more than two or three days they will get so dry they crack and bleed #so it’s looking like one way or another i may be having to deal with dry burning irritated lips for the rest of my life #and i’m not dealing with the thought of that very well #i’ve already suffered so much anguish from extreme sensitivity on the rest of my face #and not being able to take proper care of the skin there #and this is just too much for me #i know God is allowing this for a reason but it’s filling me with so much frustration and panic and despair that i don’t know how to go on #but i must and i will #this isn’t a serious or a life-threatening condition but it’s looking like a pretty hopeless one and it’s hurting me badly #and i would appreciate prayers that it would just be healed or that i would know what to do #i think i will try going to my dermatologist but somehow i doubt she's even heard of sensitive skin syndrome #on a COMPLETELY unrelated note i'm just about to get my period and also for two days i've ''eaten'' nothing but vegetable smoothies #and those in pretty small amounts because they're disgusting #(do a detox my hormonal health doctor said) #(it'll be fun she said) #ok if you read this far you're so brave braver than any u.s. marine etc. #thanks for reading ily <3

[enjoyslurm]

the major cons to transitioning now is 1) i live in a less progressive state and my ideal transition will never be conventional, 2) i fear the voice changes and hair loss, and while some parts of transition are reversible and mendable, voice change is not.

#hair loss i can combat with some level of confidence but voice changed are guaranteed #buti think constantly about the time im losing not living as my true self #concealing my gender and living as a ''cis'' ''woman'' has had some serious repercussions for my self image also #i dont reccomend detransitioning. be brave and be true to yourself always. #living in fear and shadows will make you a shell of yourself

[olszewskisworld]

Letting the day end…..

I caught myself overthinking more and more often. These times we are a changin Friends become strangers and strangers become friends. Scary scenarios everywhere. I have never seen so much evil in the world at once since I was born. Is it because I’m so old? 👩 mich I used to not care? 🤷‍♀️ or is it because now I want to protect so much I love? 💝

#going grey #mommyandme #my life #mature mom #my love #ontario #mature woman #think positive #friends #let’s be friends #regina #beautiful #mommy k!nk #be brave #law of attraction #mature beauty

[lil-tumbles]

Thinking again about how much "gayer/homoerotic", how much more impact, those longing glances from the 80s have compared to actual gay couples on screen. Like, when you watch shows from decades ago, how much more powerful it feels to see two men (usually, although I can also think of an example or two of two women) loving one another. The forehead press. The touching of a hand to the small of the other's back. The "he's my... Friend". The long stares into each other's eyes, followed by a change of mind, or a certainty in what they're doing.

The power a stare can have. And how those feel so much more powerful precisely because they're transgressive, they're intentional if you know where to look, or if you're even looking. They are raw, powerful, and somehow feel *more* than progress. More than casual displays of gay intimacies, than gay people calling one another "husband" after 2014/15. That is progress, but the stuff of the past? That is something else entirely.

These quiet acts of defiance feel bigger than your corporate sponsored kisses.

#lgbtq #queer stuff #queer shows #doctor who and star trek are specifically what I'm thinking of rn #threegado and even tensimm are so much bigger somehow than twissy (genderfuck though that is) or thasmin #ace and the cat woman feels so much more powerful to me than thasmin simply because it is a story of love that is not allowed #but happens anyway #it is brave in a way we may no longer have to be #it is raw and powerful and heartbreaking #do you get me? #progress is one thing. but forbidden homoeroticism is another #lila speaks #lil tumbles

[jackklinemybeloved]

I need to be fucking careful watching neverafter because the combination of fairy tale setting and brennan creating lovable NPCs might have me shipping a horse with a mule by the time this show ends

#I like Clara a lot ok she’s a strong independent horse woman #and alphonse can be her cringe fail husband #dimension 20 #I guess she is t fully anthropomorphic like alphonse so it would be weird but #she’s very smart and brave I think that makes up for it #neverafter #there was so much other shit that happened this episode but holy shit I can not articulate any of THOSE thoughts #whenever I think I know what’s happening brennan does the fucking ‘reality shatters’ move #neverafter spoilers #alphonse the mule

[esleep]

tumblr users don't be insufferable in mr. j's replies challenge (impossible)

#i want to point and laugh at every person in those replies talking to landlady like she's a toddler and not a grown ass woman #also do you really think that a random lady messing around with ai to make pics of her cat is the problem here? #is that the fight you're gonna fight? really? #you're suuuuuch a big brave anti-ai soldier fighting for artists rights by scolding a random woman online. #like wowwww i can't believe you destroyed every image-generating ai tool on the market & held them all accountable for ip theft just by #being patronizing and rude to a random person online! you're such a hero and a martyr 🥺

[nikomedes]

the problem with me dying/reloading so much in my evil tactician run is that the loading screens give me too much time to think about reversed drow gender roles and assumptions about topping with a strap and my oathbreaker paladin getting her shit utterly rocked when she puts the harness on and minthara

and m

and she

post cancelled i can feel an aneurysm coming on

#im just saying we think we’ve seen minthara top but not yet. not at full power. not with this degree of edging #one brave woman is getting her pelvis ground into dust for all of us. paladin af putting the service in service— well. switch #this one goes out to the white haired elf hornyposting gang its late and i will regret this #niko plays bg3 #NOW IF ONLY I COULD GET THE ACT 3 MINTHARA ROMANCE SCENE TO PROC UNFORTUNATELY EVENTS CONTINUE TO TRANSPIRE #I THINK I MAY LITERALLY HAVE TO KILL A VAMPIRE BEFORE FELICITY CAN GET LAID AGAIN

[pepprs]

my mom isn’t letting my dad go back to his office bc him being out of the house stresses her out and makes her have a flare up and it’s like kind of insane. like i understand why the idea of him doing that would make her panicky and angry as someone who also struggles w separation anxiety and abandonment shit / has physical symptoms from that kind of stress (though not to the same degree ofc) but also he is a grown man. he should be allowed to go to his office and not have to shape his entire life around her needs. and she keeps guilt tripping him out of it and it’s impacting his quality of life a lot and the whole thing is kind of… hm

#purrs #delete later #also she’s guilt tripping me into coming to the stupid fucking potluck on sunday bc she needs the extra help and it’s like… what are you #gonna do when i move out. like i am a grown woman and i should be able to choose how i spend my two precious weekend days. and my dad is a #grown man and he should be able to choose where he works. like is that not a little bit insane. i get it but also….. i do think it s kind of #fucked ip that it’s her way or the highway and her needs take priority over all of ours and she’s asking us to bend to what she wants when #she wants it. like i get it bc she’s sick but it’s not fair for her to expect that from my dad especially. particularly when me and my #brother are back at work / school in more high risk environments than my dad who would be in a private office alll day. and the thing is no #one is brave enough to all her on it bc if we did it would be the END of the world. she even threw a fit on my dads bday and complained bc #the things he wanted to do were things she didn’t want to do like all the man wanted to do was go mini golfing and when that wasn’t good #enough he just wanted to go on a walk and my mom complained the whole time and also scoffed the movie he wanted to watch and said it was #boring and it’s like… wtf it’s HIS birthday??? but what do you expect from the woman who (and in fairness her friends got her these as gifts #but still) has TWO kitchen items that say some variation of ‘a marriage is when one is always right and the other is always the husband’ 💀 #i look at that little plaque every night bc it’s in front of the sink when im doing dishes and it makes me so fucking angry. like my dad is #a whole fucking person and he can be right too and he deserves to make choices and be happy and not have his wife put him down all the time. #idk. and she puts down his family all the time too and complains when he wants to do the most reasonable things for his own enjoyment that #don’t align with hers and criticizes his interests all the time and it just sucks to see. he never shows hurt or anything so idk how he #feels about it but it makes me so angry and sad and when i tell her to stop she just lashes out at me so. 🤪. like how do we get her to stop #making her needs more important than everyone else’s bc… she may be our mom / his wife / whateger but that doesn’t make her queen. no one is #(andalso this has only gotten worse bc of covid / her being sick. like this has been a lifelong thing it’s just it’s a lot worse now bc the #circumstances gave her room / forced her to have to take up more space. and it’s just so frustrating. i get it. but none of us are pawns or #dolls or subordinates or anything. there’s 5 adults here and we should all be able to make choices and not be guilt tripped by her. lol #)

[usagimen]

     I need to discuss this later on since blowing up the kitchen with a duck inspired it. Though Sayuri was raised by her Auntie Hatsuko; it was not an environment that she could have thrived in. The controversy surrounding the current Matriarch to the Kobayashi Clan is warranted, Hatsuko is selfish, vain, and arrogant. While she fiercely provides for her family, she is no position to protect them, hence there is hushed chatter on how they are currently vulnerable to political sabotage. Since she is a Tayu, her individualism stands out in their world that adheres strictly to conform, even Sayuri has vocalized; she does not think of the repercussions only acts. Hatsuko was not able to foster a sense of stability for Sayuri who is someone that needs to feel safe. Though she sought to free her from constraints by gifting the young girl Tsukuyomi's mirror, she did curse her, while her intentions were noble they were still cruel as she pushed her onto a path of hardship. This is also why Sayuri is one of very few Kobayashi women to be considered a wayward daughter, she is a stray which is unheard of, even a wildcard which places the blame on Hatsuko. They both love one another like mother && daughter, but, there is a varying degree of hurt that stems from culture && tradition. 

        In one ending for Sayuri's story; she does become the head of the Kobayashi Clan, leading them into an age underneath the wisdom of the moon, she is regaled with high honor for her unity && binding aspect. Then, one can even attest both women act out in their own grief as one lost the person she loved deeply while the other was forbidden from owning her heart. While Hatsuko is viewed negatively within Kyoto, her redeeming aspect is that she truly loves Sayuri, thus her nickname 'usagi' for how small the girl was. She expects no one, not even her daughter to understand her, in her heart she believed that granting access to Tsukuyomi was the only way to stop an endless cycle of suffering.

#––– ❛ headcanons 【 shoganai 】 #// she's all hellfire and fury where sayuri is a ghost haunting the halls #// I think a lot about momo vocalizing during the goodwill event no one understands the suffering of a female sorcerer #// then it manifests a lot in the kobayashi women who sacrifice to protect their loved ones #// for hatsuko it was the knowledge she'd be revered as a vile woman #// as she is brave enough to enact cruelty to assure their safety #// though she is not strong enough to combat everything alone #// wake up everyone new clan kobayashi lore

[iheartbookbran]

It’s the hypocrisy for me because if people are gonna complain about the show whitewashing Rhaenyra and Daemon (tbh I wouldn’t be so sure about Daemon since the show had him kill his first wife which may not have happened in the book and erased some of his more redeeming qualities like his relationship with Laena but w/e) then maybe they shouldn’t have been showering so much praise at the writers for doing the absolute mother of all character rehabilitations on Alicent instead keeping her as a one-dimensional evil stepmother who makes snide remarks about her teen stepdaughter possibly being groomed. Because that characterization for Alicent would’ve been far more ~accurate~ to the source material but I don’t believe that’s actually what y’all care about.

Then there’s all the call outs about the show’s handling of the Velaryons as black and how insensible it has come off as, which don’t get me wrong, is completely true but I didn’t see y’all concerned when the show took the canonical close relationship with romantic undertones that Laena (now played by a black woman) had with Rhaenyra and gave it instead to Alicent. On the contrary y’all were praising the show to the moon and back and gushing about the “lesbian divorce drama” so again, not so concerned about the source material or black characters being mistreated and sidelined, are we?

And just to be clear, the show could have turned Daemon and Rhaenyra into mustache-twirling villains with no redeeming or sympathetic qualities whatsoever and Alicent and Aegon could be innocent angels who have never done anything wrong in their lives and guess what? The throne would still be Rhaenyra’s by rights. Yes, the Dance of the Dragons is a horrible conflict caused by a bunch of morally reprehensible nobles veering for power and willing to do despicable things in order to achieve it, and yet at the heart of the matter remains the fact that society is sexist and simply Won’t Let A Woman Rule. Rhaenyra was the heir and was usurped by Aegon because of misogyny, everything that happened afterwards doesn’t negate that simple truth.

But anyways, none of that matters because f&b is an unreliable source and we can’t trust anything it says ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so yes Rhaenyra is in every single way better than her younger half-brother, who’s a pathetic little wet-rag r*pist, and the green fraction is gonna support that pathetic little wet-rag r*pist because they hate women and children born outside the sanctity of marriage that much. Galaxy brain level take on the writers’ part. Truly immaculate lmfao.

#tbh this is so frustrating for me bc it isn’t as if i hate the greens or anything like that #i’m really enjoying alicent’s character and probably will enjoy aemond #and hell even aegon too if not as a person then simply because i really like the actor who’s playing him and think he’s genuinely talented #so i’m looking forward to seeing him ✨act✨ #but again the hypocrisy is what truly frustrates me #the day i don’t defend a targ woman from being unfairly treated by the asoiaf fandom (degrodatory) pls assume i’m dead #yes rhaenyra is the heir and she is in the right. cope #again like alicent all you want i sure do too #but acting as if what she’s doing is some kind of brave resistance against targaryen ~imperialist~ rule and she deserves a cookie for it #and rhaenyra is a meanie for not seeing things her way #as if 1) it wasn’t her father who sold her off to a targaryen king in the first place #and 2) she isn’t aiming to place her dirtbag targ son on the throne #her dirtbag son who rides a dragon and is married to his dragonrider sister and is by all accounts… a targaryen #like. pls stop being stupid and embarrassing #news flash the blacks have been the protagonist and the greens the antagonist the entire goddamn time #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #team black #house targaryen #hotd #fire and blood #f&b book spoilers #house of the dragon #fandumb

[ooklet]

the only downside to replaying bioshock 2 for the thousandth time is being reminded that bioshock infinite exists.

#i never want to see another thinkpiece from a white person about how brave it was for bioshock infinite to ''tackle racism'' #like did we play the same game #the one where the pov character was a participant in the wounded knee massacre #but it's okay cuz he feels bad about it! #but then still goes on to become a cartoonishly evil racist villain #and also the poc/working class rebellion lead by a black woman is supposed to be Just As Bad as the racists cuz they rebelled violently #THAT GAME??? #THAT'S THE GAME??? #THE ONE YOU THINK DID RACISM RIGHT???? #god fuck off #anyway try to be shocked that it was written by one white guy #the same white guy who wrote the first bioshock which explains why that one sucks too YES I SAID IT

[im-smart-i-swear]

How about Eenek's family for blorbo meme? If it is ok

hiii of course its ok!! had a lot of fun making these<3

thanks for the ask bestie<33

#ask #my funky guys #this family has. so so many problems #eeneks parents propably met during military service and both miracoulisly survived being cannon fodder #theyve been through hell together and bc of that became very close (and pretty unhealthily codependent) #and what else were they supposed to do rather than stay together forever??and have children??? thats the only logical conlusion here ofc #she is. a very interesting character i think. i havent really thought about her much yet but GOD there was so much Wrong with this woman #she is a prime example of what the empire did to people and how it manipulated them into thinking theyre superior than everyone else #she killed innocent people and she didnt care. she followed her orders mindlessly. but every horrible thing she did- she did out of her own #free will. yes this is how she was raised and forced to be but that doesnt change the fact she DID those things. #before she died she managed to instill a lot of that in zora too #wnich at first glance seems weird bc she is a member of the blades of maromra!! shes one of the Good Guys!!! #but the way she views herself and what she does are still very reminiscent of her mother in a way. she sacraficed everything for #the marmoras and doesnt feel guilty for leaving her family bc that was The Right Thing To Do #and thus there are no negative consequences to her actions!! she had to leave them to become the perfect solider and hero- #ready to sacrafice everything for the cause #so noble #so brave #so young and naiive. #suffering means youre doing it right. suffering means your sacrafice meant something and that you will be rewarded. #after all #every hero has to suffer. #i think zora thinks eenek is so immature. they cling to their childhood and want everything to be simple! thats so childish and stupid! #she is not like them. she knows how hard life is. she suffered more than them. more than her father. they wouldnt understand her. #she can do this all by herself.