this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it
and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?
anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode
two hours later edit: you're allowed to reblog this! sorry about the confusion
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm me likey le canadia ^_^
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I have a head cannon that Eddie and robin have The most unpredictable relationship. One second they act like boyfriends in law, then they act like mortal enemies, 5 seconds later they’re crying together about robins most recent sad fun fact about animals. Steve can never keep up with where they’re at but I’d glad that his favorite people are so close. (Also when people ask them how they met Eddie will go on and on about how brave Robin is and she just says “we found him in a dumpster”)
Publishing this out into the st universe for everyone to be as delighted by it as I was/am
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Is The Prophecies Begin truly better writing than some of the later series or am I just tempered by nostalgia? Looking back, they FEEL more enjoyable, but I'm not especially well versed on what would make them actually better than the later series.
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i could not contain the silliness
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the numbers I see thrown around on this website for when afab children in particular supposedly "start puberty" are, I think, significantly and negatively feeding into the nascent purity culture. the current average age of first menstrual period in the USA is 12 years old. not when you start puberty--it takes several years for the human body to develop from prepubertal to the point where it actually menstruates--that happens around age 8 or 9 but it isn't particularly noticeable, and comes on gradually. the age when most afab people reach close to their adult height is the same age as first menstrual period. I was 5'5" already in middle school, and this isn't unusual at all. remember how the girls were all twice as big as the boys for like two years? that's what was going on. the fact that girls usually are too embarrassed to discuss their periods until high school has given the false impression to a lot of people I think that it's normal to get your period way later. it's not! by the time you're 15 or 16, afab, and not menstruating yet, your pediatrician would probably be wondering if they should check your hormone levels in case there was something going on. it's also normal for athletes to start later due to lower body fat.
but yes in general I need Tumblr to learn and internalize that afab puberty starts in elementary school and that this is completely healthy and normal. it has nothing to do with emotional or cultural concerns about human sexuality, it does not mean a 12 year old understands sex or sexuality. all it means is your body is going through one part of the very very long process of physical maturity.
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i still can't really have a conversation in french but i can read the french dictionary and i can translate 18th-century treatises on mollusks from french. that should count for something.
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looks like hosegate is trending
it is possibly the one of the most solid visual evidences we have of mike and will's reciprocal attraction. will is the one looking back and pining over mike, yes much like during their shared look in the desert—but will is also the one turning on the hose.
they are both very aware of the effect the other has on them. they're just not aware (or at least confident, one could argue, prior to the disaster that's about to happen in that room) that the effect is mutual
it shows the strength of will's feelings, and can also indicate the growth in mike, regarding his acceptance or at least conscious acknowledgement of his own.
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been on a bollywood binge the past few weeks, some old and new.
films i’ve watched: jawan, pathaan, salaar, animal (phew what was that), radhe shyam, jaane tu ya jaane na, kuch kuch hota hai (rewatch), kal ho naa ho (tear my heart why don’t you), dilwale, om shanti om (masterpiece), dil to pagal hai, mujhse dosti karoge, rocky aur rani kii prem kahaani (alia bhatt yesss), and many more i can’t think of the name right now.
not to be dramatic but i think shah rukh khan invented romance. how does he do that with his eyes?? i watched kabhi khushi kabhie gham and i was not expecting to cry my eyes out. there should’ve been a warning at the beginning to have a box of tissues ready.
continuing my srk marathon with dilwale dulhania le jayenge
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even Atlas has only two hands
vent art
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Mav is gone. I have a thousand things I want to say but I don't have the bandwidth to write a proper post right now.
Send me asks so I can tell Mav's stories. I want to talk about him and remember all the funny and good stuff.
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Saint Germain, shocked: You have a fake ID? With a fake name and everything?
Isaac: I don't have to explain myself-
Leonardo, sitting against a bookshelf on the floor: He used it to get a second library card so he can take out twice as many books at once.
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