#he loves a good girlboss

[thedawningofthehour]

you named your masters of barbarians after game of thrones dragons didn't u

LOOK IF GEORGE RR MARTIN CAN NAME CHARACTERS IN HIS GRIMDARK MURDERTALE FANTASY BOOK AFTER SESAME STREET CHARACTERS THEN I CAN USE HIS DRAGONS IN MY NINJA TURTLES FANFICTION.

#i thought i was being subtle #i didn't use the names of dany's dragons or the dragons of the conquerors #they're all taken from fire and blood #maybe you'd recognize them if you watched house of the dragon i haven't watched it yet #but see tessa's blue because terrarion the blue queen #COME ON GUYS I'M CLEVER #galois is absolutely going to name a weapon balerion the black dread by the way #or just straight up naming them visenya and daenerys and rhaenyra #he loves a good girlboss #doth asks

[spectral-snippets-and-drabbles]

Not So Smug Now, Are Ya?

If Lois Lane had a Nickel for everytime she outed a superhero working at the Daily Planet, she'd be getting her second nickel.

She had invited one Daniel Nightingale, a junior reporter with serious potential with a serious lack of self preservation to "a smoke break" and was prepared to do exactly what she did with Clark. If her gut was right when it told her Nightingale was a hero too, the mysterious Phantom, he'd save her before she'd jump. If not, then Clark would jump in to grab her if he didn't rise to her bait.

When he finally got up there with her, she sure as hell wasn't expecting him to tell her why he shouldn't smite her soul out of existence there and now. Her blood ran cold when he told her that Clark has been "compromised", a portal opening up with a snap lf his fingers dropping an unconscious mountain of a man facefirst on the ground.

"You were supposed to die that day you jumped off this building, Ms. Lane. Did you know that?" Danny growls as a scythe made of ice, niking her neck as he has an unhinged Cheshire grin on his face "Clark was never supposed to save you that day? So... what are we going to do about this now?"

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #Probably kick her while she's down by telling her that loving Superman before Clark Kent was pathetic #Danny would probably drag her for outing Clark and using his good heart knowing he would save her #Not everyone has the luxury of jumping off a building knowing this won't be their end #Danny will show her the Shades that did the exact same thing as her to get the point across #Clark is not happy but Danny tells him that she can't spit in Death's face and expect to Girlboss her way out it #Danny's lying about Clark not saving her but he needs to set her straight #They found each other in different universes but he won't admit that yet

[aroaceleovaldez]

they girlbossed Sally Jackson

#pjo #pjo tv #riordanverse #sally jackson #this shall be my non-spoiler only review of the show so far #just watched the first two episodes - they were good! #i might make a post about Percy's char so far cause i am very pleasantly surprised so far with the adhd experience vibes #my compliments to the writing team for the good good disabled character rep in this script #very pleased with almost all the characters and plot so far #my only one i'm iffy on is Sally as mentioned ^ they girlbossed her #like. book sally is most defined by her kindness and perseverance. this sally is just kind of. tough. she's tough. girlboss. #which is not necessarily a bad thing? she's still a fine character she's just different #also only semi-spoiler in my review: Chris is there! Love that Chris is there #he's just there! but i am a rogue demigod enjoyer #so his presence alone is appreciated

[bumblingbabooshka]

My name is [BRUTUS] and my name means [HEAVY] so with a [HEAVY] heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy

Something about having absolutely no choice in who you marry. About being literally forced by the law to spill blood - to accept this stranger as your husband over a man you truly care for or accept the fact that the man you love might die because you put him in danger. Something about risking becoming the wife of a man you've never even seen before a few minutes prior because you know anything would be better than putting your beloved in harm's way. Something about the trust inherent in that decision and in the way she speaks of it after. Truthfully, T'Pring doesn't know the captain and she doesn't know Spock. Either one of them could have taken her as their wife but she does know Stonn. She knows that Stonn will remain by her side no matter what. They made a plan together. They have an agreement which T'Pring believes will be upheld even though the plan changed with the arrival of Kirk. Stonn will always be there, always, and Stonn will be hers. Something about the language used around T'Pring: Ownership, subservience, non-personhood. T'Pring is an object that Spock can win. She cannot reject him, she has no say in the matter other than having Stonn 'claim' her instead. Even when Spock leaves after being very clearly rejected by T'Pring he says "Stonn, she is yours." as if despite her clear rejection he still owns her and is must formally 'give' her to Stonn. But the language T'Pring uses around Stonn is a break from that: "There was Stonn who wanted very much to be my consort, and I wanted him." Stonn who wanted very much to be HER consort and she WANTED him. The language here is very particular - It's not, for example: "Stonn wanted me to be his wife" - he is HERS. And she WANTS him. There's a mutual affection there and a strong trust - a trust which seems to be well founded since Stonn (though silent) stands by her side at the end of the episode. <- That might seem small but if Spock would reject her for 'daring to challenge' (again, the language is not 'because I don't want you' but more of an implied disgust at her having the AUDACITY to reject him) then it's not a stretch to assume that it'd be considered an insult in the TOS Vulcan society to NOT choose Stonn as her champion after a prior agreement. Anyway T'Pring was a woman in an impossible situation within a society which saw her as more of an object than a person and she wanted Stonn and Stonn wanted to be hers and she trusted that he would understand if she had to publicly pick someone else to ensure his life would be spared and he did understand.

#amok time #T'Pring i s....T'Pring she....-puts my head through a wall- #PLEASE read under the cut for my rambling about T'Pring in amok time pleasepleaseplease #tired of 'T'Pring is evil/a bitch' and VERY uninterested in 'T'Pring is a girlboss' #T'Pring is a person in a society which doesn't think she has the right to make her own choices who's in [love] with a man who [loves] her #back in what I'd like to think is implied to be a slightly subversive way in its mutual and fervent nature (whether the writers thought #this was a good or bad thing - who knows. We know better RIGHT??) #and yes I will stylize T'Pring's hair differently every single time I draw it HEHEHE #star trek tos #Spock #T'Pring #also of COURSE something something spock/kirk & stonn/t'pring parallels: To keep your beloved safe you have to force someone else to kill #theirs - not BC you hate him (you don't) but you don't love him either and why does HE get to have you even if you don't want him?? Why doe #he get to 'give' you to the person YOU chose?? It's not a hatred on a person level (which I wanted to portray with the 'brothers') portion #but a sort of societal embodying. #I will think about T'Pring not wanting to be 'the consort of a legend' every damn day !!! #They really could have laid it on thick in making her evil guys...T'Pau even makes a comment about Spock's 'vulcan blood is thin' #but all T'Pring says is that Spock is a legend and she doesn't want that for her life. She wants Stonn. #And you're gonna sit there and you're gonna tell her that she's wrong!??? Spock doesn't even want to be with her!! Why is she so hated!? #CAN WE FREE MY GIRL??? She did all that but it's being read in the worst faith possible!! #comix #bea art tag #star trek art #She literally says the word 'FREE'...she's TRAPPED!!!

[joejoeba]

He/him lesbian Josuke who has curves like a supermodel but only wears leather jackets and gets weak in the knees if someone calls him Sir

#Don't mind me I'm tapping into a part of my psyche that has never been rustled before #Never been into gender swap but my neurons... #Joejoeba not art #Koichi is a tiny girl with way too much wallop. Yukako just wants a good girlboss. Okuyasu is struggling like always #Femme Josuke in her suede shoes and leather jackets and leather pants... She loves her femininity along with her masculinity #Same dude saved her that's all the same #Admittedly I dont have experience with gender fucky pronouns. I'd do whatever a pretty girl told me obvi #He/him women is something I would linguistically have a hard time remembering but trust my my heart is in there

[catalvarezs]

love that rachel zegler is shitting on the original snow white movie as if it isn't the highest grossing animated film, ever. as if walt disney didn't use his own fucking house as collateral to finance it. as if a feature length colour animation wasn't revolutionary at the time and people didn't work overtime, invented animating mechanisms for the movie. as if it didn't win walt an oscar and make disney what it is today. as if snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937) wasn't a cultural milestone in hollywood history. as if snow white isn't worth anything today because she isn't Girlboss™. as if once upon a time, mirror mirror and red shoes didn't already make snow white an independent leader or whatever. as if it isn't the reason she's currently employed —

#so fucking done with her attitude #snow white doesn't need to be a girlboss slay queen #women don't have to be everything everywhere to be worth something #it's alright to choose love over your career it's alright to want a “prince charming” it's alright to be saved #the blatant disrespect to walt's legacy #he gave his ALL to make that movie and this twenty something thinks it wasn't good enough for 2023 #she's entitled to her opinion and she can act it however but show some fuvking respect #it's giving “I'm not like other girls ” #which is sad cuz i did enjoy rachel as maria and was looking forward to her in SW but uhh not anymore #snow white #snow white and the seven dwarfs #snow white 2024 #rachel zegler #disney

[mswyrr]

lucy gray baird's philosophy

I want to "yes, and" this great meta post by @burst-of-iridescent​. Specifically this part:

by the end of the book, coriolanus gives in fully to dr gaul’s way of thinking simply because it excuses him from accepting blame for his actions. if he killed sejanus, it’s because he had no choice. if he betrayed lucy gray, it’s because she would’ve betrayed him first. coriolanus refuses to believe in the goodness of humanity because that would have meant accepting the goodness that existed within him, and with that came the potential for making a different, better choice - potential that he knew, deep down, he had wasted. attributing his crimes to an innate evil that no one can overcome means that he can’t be held accountable, because it’s out of his control.

This got me thinking about how much Lucy Gray's worldview rejects of this way of thinking (and of a Calvinist*/ableist "some people are just born evil" pov people try to impose on the text, which people think is condemning him but actually... accidentally agrees with him that he was born evil and therefore can't help it??????). The book begins with several quotes chosen by the author, but I believe the one that represents Lucy Gray's worldview is Rousseau, who believed people were born with fundamental goodness.

Here's a source on him:

(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

And here's the quote Collins opens with:

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

That's Lucy Gray's pov she's come to through living and reflecting as an artist; someone can disagree with it (of course, all of these questions are open for endless debate; they have been debated endlessly!) however, it's important to respect that is where she's coming from, not being foolish or naive. It is a worthy pov that should be respected, even if you disagree. And that she came to this pov through a hard life and from much thinking and she expresses it beautifully in her art.

Here's the key exchange from the book, after Coriolanus has taken on the idea that people are just awful and her articulating her philosophy in response:

(Ballad, 495)

She's not naive. She recognizes the nuance that Rousseau does, that society shapes us. And Panem is pretty clearly a society led by people applying all the pressures they can think of on people toward evil. (And, after his heel turn, Coriolanus' is going to innovate some new pressures...) Clearly there are situations and circumstances that form us before we have much say in it, but that's not the same as being born evil.

The difference between inherent goodness and a corrupt society is, for Lucy Gray, a lot of hard work. It's a struggle. This repudiates both the version of "born evil" Coriolanus himself takes on, which relieves him of responsibility, and the self-righteous, Calvinist and/or ableist pov people keep arguing for, which makes "normal" people feel like they can be sure they're good (and ignore how we are all complicit in evil to some degree or another) because they have a "good" normal brain or they were just born so pure as a soul predestined for heaven. No, for her, everyone has to do the work. To her it's everyone's "life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line."

Even more pointedly, the love song she wrote him before his betrayal, "Pure as the Driven Snow," articulates her philosophy in the opening lines:

(Ballad, 481)

Again, we have her personal focus on the work of "staying on the right side" of good and evil after being born good into evil circumstances. She knows it hurts; she's led a hard life herself. "It's rough as a bair" to do that work, it's "like walkin' through fire." But it is doable.

Lucy Gray meant it as a love song but IMO "Pure as the Driven Snow" ends up a lament for the boy Coriolanus was and her love that he betrayed when he betrayed himself. And it is a direct rejection of his excuses, it is inadvertently reading him for filth for the lies he tells himself that all the world is the Games arena, all people are selfish and bad, and he isn't to blame for what he's done because he just wants to come out on top/be the victor of this "natural" "war of all against all" that is Gaul's philosophy (related to the Hobbes quote Collins begins with; I wrote a meta on that here) that he adopts.

I see her demeaned as a foolish girl who just "like bad boys" and I get so frustrated. I also get frustrated by the view that she must not have ever been sincere in loving or trusting him because IF SHE WAS then she would be a fool and his betrayal would somehow be her fault. And she'd reject the idea that she's "good" just because she's so pure or that anyone can claim we're good without doing a lot of hard work.

(Ballad, 482)

She is so thoughtful and interesting as a character. And she didn't just "like bad boys" - Coriolanus showed only his good side to her until the very end, once he'd decided to kill that part of himself. She had no way of knowing. Sometimes you trust someone and they betray you, it doesn't make you wrong, the shame is all theirs.

*Strict Calvinist predestination is some people are just predetermined to be bound for heaven and some for hell, some people are just born good and others are born bad. A lot of people in fandom seem to love Calvinism idk why. The ableism bit of this should be self-evident: there is no such thing as a "bad" brain type completely incapable of morality or a "good" brain and neurodivergence is not the source of all evil!

#lucy gray baird #thg meta #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #disagree with her if you want - but respect that her pov is philosophically sound and insightful #and i prefer the reading of the text where she's right and gaul and post heel turn coriolanus are wrong... #he could have kept trying to be good and loving for that girl #people dismissing her or being like 'she was constantly lying like a GIRLBOSS' is just so annoying - she's great as herself thank you #reject the idea that women are to blame for bad things people do #reject the idea that women are to blame for loving #that it must have been her fault somehow

[lollytea]

The Blight family are so interesting IN THEORY. In execution they are....😬

#i dont mean that like. theyre flawed characters #i LOVE flawed characters. nothing i love more than seeing some messy toxic bitches do messy toxic bitch things #i love the exploration of unhealthy family dynamics #i love the trope of a rich shiny perfect family who are secretly fucked up and miserable #i love the kind of characters that environment creates #whether it be gaslighting gatekeeping girlbossing assholes #or people who are desperately trying to be good. or to break away from the role theyve been forced into #or people who are in a little more of a grey area. people who have a good side and a shitty side #its all fun and interesting #the problem with the blights is their characterization is just so....clunky. sloppy. not very good #alador amity and the twins all suffer from inconsistent writing #alador is a complex case to delve into. and you dont wanna listen to me dissecting him #so ill just say that he could have been handled better #ironically Odalia is the most consistently written character of them all #shes very surface level evil. shes not very interesting #I enjoy Odalia. I think she's funny in just how unapologetically shitty she is #and her VA gives such an entertaining performance #but she is like. Hollow. There is nothing going on with her other than abusive mom and capitalist #but by god at least she knows what shes about

[flamingfalcon3]

Nina: “Would you still love me if I was a worm?”

Fabian, with zero hesitation: “Of course! I would build you a little home in a jar. With a little house. And I would talk to you everyday :)”

#house of anubis #fabina #nina x fabian #nina martin #fabian rutter #I will make posts about the rest of the sibuna swuad eventually cuz I love them all but these two own my heart #I love a good girlboss/malewife ship what can I say #also this is very much related to my au where Nina is transformed into a falcon and Fabian makes the sibuna squad build perches everywhere #like he builds a perch at her spot at the dinner table and everything #my obsession with birds started from animorphs so that’s why I’m like this btw #I just finally found a show where transforming someone into a bird makes sense in the plot

[goldens0422]

you know what would have been funny? i was busy thinking of some Imperial! Anidala AUs and there's one which just crossed my mind.

Imagine Padmé joins Vader on Mustafar, Vader beats Obi, and kills Sidious to take over. Vader tries to deepen his connection to the Dark Side as he and Padmé rule over the galaxy. Vader tries to portray himself as this evil, fearsome autocrat but is way too popular: he doesn't create the Death Star because neither he nor Padmé likes it, he abolishes slavery because duh, literally all of the clones (they don't get replaced) love him, he's still seen as the war hero, he's very handsome, and Padmé's presence + coregency mellows him out a lot. Padmé and his children are also there, and his love for them is wayyyyyy too much that he isn't nearly as evil and dark as he should be

Eventually, Vader comes to Padmé crying about how his connection to the Dark Side is weakening because of how much he loves her and the children and how he can't fuel his inner darkness anymore. He isn't really a Sith anymore and eventually Padmé convinces him to just let it go, renounce his darkness, and let the love flow through him so now he's just emperor anakin, former jedi and failed sith

emperor vader: suffering from success

#anidala #alternate universe #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #headcanon #imperial anidala #goofiest path to redemption ngl #hey at least he's still ruling the galaxy with his wife #if vader is portraying himself as the evil autocrat then padme's probably portraying herself as the empress girlboss xd #empress padmé: good good let the love flow through you #emperor anakin #emperor darth vader

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

hey asmi, what animal do you think Aziraphale is? i’ve already decided that Crowley is a cat—a tabby, to be specific— but i can’t figure out what animal Zira would be? help???

I THINK AZI WOULD BE A HARE, HONESTLY. YOU COULD MISTAKE THEM FOR CUTE FLUFFY BUNNIES AND THEN BOOM YOU REALISE THEY'RE ACTUALLY SOLITARY ANIMALS THAT ARE POWERFUL, CAN FLEE QUICKLY AND CAN ALSO RAKE YOUR FUCKING EYES OUT. SOUNDS LIKE A CERTAIN IRRITABLE BUT ADORABLE BOOKSELLER WHO DOESN'T WANT CUSTOMERS, CONDONES CASUAL GUILLOTINING IN THE NAME OF CREPES, IS FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF THOSE HE LOVES AND EXTREMELY POWERFUL EVEN IF HE DOESN'T LOOK IT? MMMHM.

#good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #maggots #good omens #good omens fandom #crowley #aziraphale #bamf aziraphale #mmhm our favourite bitchy lil angel #i love him sm he's such a lil shit #gaslight gatekeep girlboss

[sunnysideaeggs]

We spent 8 seasons watching how everybody south and north of the wall scorned Jon for being a bastard and how even the doubt of the future king being illegitimate (while having the very plausible excuse of looking like his mother) burst a giant war where almost everybody dies and now we are supposed to believe Rhaenyra putting bastards (that don’t even look like her) on the throne has no political repercussions whatsoever?

#oh how we’ve changed #i think the change from the main audience of got and hotd have made an awful difference of how they portray the characters #for example in got we had littlefinger and cersei #and they were awful but people loved them bc they were smart and knew how to play the game #and characters like ned #people love him but they know he made stupid choices that killed him #and the main audience of got was older millennials and gen x or baby boomers #but in hotd most audience is younger millennials and older gen z #and it shows #so much faux feminism and fear of making a character unlikable if they aren’t perfect #they wanna make Rhaenyra a girlboss that never does wrong but she makes dumb choices too #and the narrative doesn’t acknowledge that #why is everything a misunderstanding or a mistake #let them be evil #even daemon got watered down #we have no conflict this is a hero vs villain story done wrong #good girlboss rhaenyra vs evil r*pist aegon #anti rhaenyra targaryen #Rhaenyra Targaryen critical #hotd #anti hotd

[distortedclouds]

Annie, when the ambassador job is too stressful: fuck this job *goes to work anyways*

Armin, when the ambassador job is too stressful:

#aruani #listen #listen to me #Armin was meant to be a househusband with a big messy garage to tinker in! #he looks good in a suit but he doesn't belong in one! #(bring him overalls to catch the grease stains!) #(Annie is a girlboss feminist until she suffers from burnout and goes on a live laugh love trip)

[gay-arsonists-lullaby]

"I've killed mediocre men. I've killed exceptional men. But you're the worst kind: a mediocre man who thinks he's exceptional."

Can we all just agree that if no-nose Ricky wouldn´t have committed a string of violations of the Geneva convention while Zheng and Stede were having this fight, she would have absolutely beat him to death with that plank, or at least to the very brink of it?

#but like i´m sorry all i could think during the scene was 'good for you girl show him who´s boss!´ #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #zheng yi sao #beating the shit out of people? #just girlboss things #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #and also? mediocre? he definitely needed to hear that after this episode #like stede dude we love you but can you stop? #even izzy was like ´oh bonnet no´ cause HE KNEW #stede bonnet #but also like #top 10 things you should not do: accept gifts from someone known for wanting to END ALL OF PIRACY when YOU YOUSELF ARE IN FACT A PIRATE

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Live Action Last Airbender really said in order to get rid of the sexism, some other sexism had to take its place but unlike Sokka learning sexism was bad, the new sexism is never addressed and treated like its okay.

#rip suki girl just became a prop in live action to sokka's writing that episode #to the point she actually lets him win a fight against her just cause awww poor little baby got his manhood hurt by suki easily beating him #earlier on in the episode that was already suki trying to help cause again his manhood feels hurt #because...yes its a girls job apparently to help a man when he feels emasculated #like god remember how in animated suki wins easily against sokka in training cause hes being cocky and thinks girls cant fight still #to the point when she beats him you can just hear 'FLAWLESS VICTORY' as she waves her fan in her face #and when he does beat her its because he trained with her and therefore knows how to win #and we see actual character with suki when like sokka she also doesnt like her pride being hurt #and also she checks him out shirtless because yeah....they also reduce her to a love interest i hate it here #june flirts with iroh for some reason....instead of just removing it if they didnt want iroh to flirt with her #because i guess a girl doing the fliriting with the not interested man is a good swap??? #and dont get me started on katara they mascared her in live action #shes just bland now in live action because femainity bad according to netflix #and also doesnt even get told she can study with aang and co no she just becomes an instant master after beating pakku #because....girlboss #well i say study with aang and co but he dont even learn waterbending here lmao