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georgieporgearts · 3 days
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I finally watched Lisa Frankenstein and loved it!!!
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lauralot89 · 8 months
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Unapologetic Assholes and the Fans Who Love Them
(It's me, I'm the fans, it's me.)
Every child has a character they want to be when they're growing up. Whether it's because they love the character itself (Han Solo is the greatest) or because they want to be part of the character's world (who doesn't want to be a mermaid?), there's always some fictional person a kid would swap lives with in a heartbeat.
For me as a child, that character was Veruca Salt.
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Now, Veruca Salt is a spoiled brat. She is THE spoiled brat. She has no redeeming qualities and if I ever met her in real life I wouldn't last five minutes without punching her in the teeth.
But I'd have given anything to be her.
Growing up autistic is growing up being wrong. You talk wrong, you laugh wrong, you interact with your peers wrong. You play wrong. Your interests are wrong and so is the way you talk about them. The things that upset you are irrational and insignificant and wrong. The bullying that other kids do to you isn't really bullying, you're just reacting wrong.
Everything about you and how you experience the world is wrong, and you need to get over it.
I couldn't even breathe without an adult jumping down my throat for how I did it, and I was undiagnosed, so I had no idea that there were others like me and I wasn't just some aberrant freak alone in the world.
But then there was Veruca Salt.
Veruca was never wrong. Even when she clearly was. Even when Veruca demanded the impossible, those around her bent over backwards to achieve it and fell over themselves apologizing when they couldn't. Veruca never apologized. Veruca always got what she wanted. She was like a cruel and angry god who only met her fate because she crossed paths with another god who was even more powerful.
And in the Oompa Loompas' song after she fell down the garbage chute, they didn't even blame her for her horrible behavior, by far the worst of any child in the factory. Even when she lost, she won.
I would have given anything to be Veruca, even if only for a day. To express myself without fear and without regard for everyone I was inconveniencing by being abnormal. The rush of that power would have easily carried me for the rest of my life.
And then I grew up, and there was Carla Rutten.
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Carla is not only the greatest character in @itswalky's magnum opus, Dumbing of Age, she is also arguably the greatest character in the history of fiction.
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Carla is a student at Indiana University. She's transgender and asexual, and in the hands of lesser writers this might lead to temptation to portray her as perfectly kind and moral and inoffensive, lest she be viewed as a negative stereotype.
Instead, Carla is loud, demanding, self-obsessed, and perfect in every way.
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Carla refuses to reign herself in, even if it brings further bigotry and anger her way. She won't hold herself to a different standard than any other jackass.
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And in the end, even if you hate her, even if you want her wiped from the face of the earth, that's still acknowledging her. And she's still won.
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As an asexual ginger Hoosier I cannot even begin to express what Carla means to me and how thankful I am for her existence. There aren't words for how great it is that a character like this exists and is just allowed to be. Allowed to be as flawed and rude and funny and spoiled as anybody else.
More ladies need to be unrepentant self-absorbed jerks. It's a beautiful thing.
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fawnduu · 1 year
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Shes just a goofy little guy whos wanted for manslaughter!
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windsweptinred · 2 months
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A while back I did a 'Ten Characters from Ten Fandoms Tag Game'. And focused solely on my favorite male characters. I always wanted to come back and do one for my female favourites... And so I did.
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1. Olenna Tyrell - Game of Thrones (I love SO MANY of the GOTs ladies. But Olenna rules supreme).
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2. Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley) Batman, DC Comics
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3. Sister Carpenter (Mallory Glass) The Silt Verses (art by @navoika)
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4. Susan Sto Helit / Granny Weatherwax - The Discworld, Terry Pratchett (I'm not picking a favourite between these two and you can't make me!)
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5. Eileen the Crow - Bloodborne
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6. Emma Frost - Xmen, Marvel Comics
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7. Kreia - Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic
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8. Integra Hellsing - Hellsing Ultimate
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9. Anathema Device ( Good Omens)
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10. Vanessa Ives - Penny Dreadful
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blackfeatherdragon · 6 days
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Buzzardstar took over the clan by killing the previous leader, Cloverstar, then took a portion of the clan with her to a new camp (read: a garbage dump. She decided that a garbage dump was a good place for a new camp.)
Later on, she, with help from her mate Dartknoll, killed a kittypet queen named Bass and took her kits (renamed Brownkit, Hopekit, and Featherkit) as her own, never telling them where they really came from. Brownpaw (who Buzzardstar mentored personally) died in a training accident, but Hopeknoll and Feathermeadow made it to warriors.
Yes, she really did pull a Mistystar and just fell over in the middle of camp. Old age got to her. She went to the Dark Forest after her death.
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hellhoundmaggie · 1 year
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Simpsons Hollow — Tabby's having a tough time
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teadragondreams · 1 year
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doodle-y doo
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disaster-fruit · 1 year
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Feliz dia da mulher 🌹 Leiam a minha fic pra ver a Martina assim:
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sometiktoksarevalid · 10 months
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inkcurlsandknives · 1 month
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Only 5 days left to enter my ARC giveaway for SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW my Filipino Epic Fantasy that's EMPIRE OF SAND X POPPY WAR. Just request Saints at your local library and head to my website to enter the giveaway
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otaku553 · 18 days
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Strawhat women :)
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yellowraincoat · 3 months
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Lisa Frankenstein is a goddamned cultural reset for me specifically. Where are the “god forbid women do anything” girlies bc this one’s for you
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inkskinned · 7 months
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love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.
love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.
love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.
love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.
maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.
recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.
#writeblr#warm up#ps edited so it is more clear where “half” of men is coming from:#15% literally don't even touch water#an ADDITIONAL 35% ''wash'' by just running their hands under water WITHOUT SOAP#15+35 =50%#like that is not washing ur hands. go back and use soap#btw the numbers for women are 4% never washing and 15% ''just water''#which is still gross but like. sooo much better yikes#ps i know we're all gay on this site but watching ppl ''correct'' my math on this has been wild#i have a learning disability im genuinely bad at math so i check EVERY time someone corrects me#but no they're just confidently wrong.....#182 hours is a week babes. 182/24 (number of hours in a day) is ~7.6#that's where i got that number from. also from rent we know there's 168 hours in a week.#ALSO btw if u read this and ur response is ''men are also struggling rn tho'' like babe you missed the point of it tho#this doesn't even make fun of men it's legit just pointing out that bigotry against women isn't founded#in anything men actually CARE about . like they don't actually CARE about ''being clean'' when they make fun of armpit hair#or they would be WASHING THEIR HANDS.#men pretend to be rollin' in cash and Apex Predators and instead they are trained to be lazy and unwilling to act in emergencies#i have never and will never make fun of men for asking for more support on important topics like DV and mental health.#this is so clearly not about men; it's about how common just being plainly misogynistic has become.#like they don't try to hide it anymore.
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jiaoliqiao · 1 month
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"We all have things we must war against. Yet most of us do it with honor." "Forgive me... but most of you are men."
Shōgun (2024) | Episode 6 | Ladies of the Willow World
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see-arcane · 1 year
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The Brides, Carmilla, Penclosa, Olalla are more sexywomen than poor Lucy!
It should be her alter ego Bloofer Lady in the running 🩸
But yeah, I noticed that the Gothlit Sexywoman bracket is pretty heavy on heroines and damsels. We need more lady monsters and bastardly girls in there!
Support women in STEM: Sinister Terrible Evil Machinations
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cowboycannibalism · 2 months
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one of the things that annoys me so bad right now is seeing letterboxd reviews about Lisa Frankenstein being like "she's such a horrible character", "those people didn't deserve to be killed" blah blah blah
SHUT UP
it's a horror romance!! a girl keeps a reanimated dead guy in her closet and falls in love with him! what did you think was going to happen? it's SUPPOSED to be fucked up and weird and that's part of its charm. quit being boring, let female characters (esp in horror) be messy and chaotic and morally gray.
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