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The thing I found most interesting was the origin of the name:
“The Ladder’s mailing list was an attempt to formalise the whisper network. Over sixteen years, the Ladder’s editors and contributors grappled with the tensions between the demands of privacy and security, and the desire to build a national lesbian literary community.” (x)
“The magazine was “a means of expressing and sharing otherwise private thoughts and feelings, of connecting across miles and disparate daily lives, of breaking through isolation and fear.” (x)
The magazine was written 1950s through 1972 and the writing very much reflects that. Most of the issues are the sharing of thoughts on social issues, interests, literature and poems.
Link to the internet archive for The Ladder magazine 👇
Scroll to the bottom of this link for a video featuring members of the Daughters of Bilitis
it does really frustrate me that the climate of One Specific Fandom got me so concerned about catching flak for being into dark themes and fic dealing with them—when those themes are VERY MUCH present in the source media—that i don't feel secure leaving anon on, even though it's such a big element of feeling like i'm part of a community on here
●First of all im pretty sure most people know that it is supposed to be like Dante's inferno
Wirt (and Greg) are Dante
Sara is Beatrice
Ironically Beatrice is closest to virgil.
● I at least like to believe that the unknown is real and I have a couple of actual reasons why aside from just wanting it to be real
One we see what happened to the characters from the unknown Beatrice, the woodsman, auntie whispers,ect
Two Jason funderburker glows because of the bell
Three we see endicott's grave (which I will bring up again later).
● the unknown is either purgatory or hell maybe a little bit of both.
● this is less of a theory and more of an au that I thought of that I haven't seen anyone else talk about or think of
Beatrice's family and the corduroy family are related. That's it that's the whole idea.
● I like the theory of everyone in the unknown being dead
Like I said we see endicott's grave in episode 9 (which also makes that whole "so you're not a ghost" thing wrong at least a little)
Also like I said the unknown is either purgatory or hell probably a combination of the two so it would make sense for everyone to be dead
And we literally see living skeletons so yeah
●someone pointed out that in Dante's inferno they say that suicides take form of trees and...
Yeeaahh...
FUCK
●this is not necessarily just about over the garden wall but
PRIME'D CATRA SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN BAD END FRIENDS
●I hate the idea of wirt being related to the pines family because I ship pinescone
Also at most there's a three year age gap between dipper and wirt and I think it's less
●"I don't really like labels i-i'm kind of just me" QUEER WIRT
●I love and hate the idea that Greg has been to the unknown before because as much it would make sense that would mean that either Greg has died before or had a near death experience before
●less of a theory more of a fact but the fight is over is about drowning
●I don't like the theory of Greg being Greg universe.
One Greg never mentions having a brother
Two Greg is a much happier kid than Greg was, like Greg talked about how not super happy his childhood was
●wirt's costume is very similar to the Dante's costume in Dante's inferno
● MAN I LOVE DEPRESSED/SEWERSLIDEAL TEENS
●i love Greg
And I feel bad for the woodsman
I love Jason funderburker (frog)
I love Lorna and auntie whispers
I love Beatrice
I love wirt
●Bad end friends reminds me of nicktoons unite
●"I was never any good to him alive either" I SWEAR WIRT WAS AT LEAST I LITTLE SEWERSLIDEAL
what's absolutely driving me insane rn is that my clients at work are telling me i am killing it and very impressive people are talking about my work and my writing IN ROOMS I AM NOT IN bc i am still so ill i can't fcking be there!!!! i should be there. they should be telling the client "wow this is so great" while i'm standing right there so the client can introduce me and say "actually here's who made that thing you love so much..." and people should be remembering MY name and face for those things!!!! like i'm fine working behind the scenes but nobody fcking knows who's even back here!!! i'm trying to make a goddamn career for myself and i can't do that when i can't connect my work to who i am irl. like if i cannot be there when people praise my work, no one is going to credit me for it. the only way they'll know my name is if i tell it to them myself. and I CANT FCKING DO THAT WITHOUT BEING IN THE ROOM!!! FUCK!
While the Somerton stuff is bringing attention to questioning leftist youtubers, some people have come out about sexual abuse allegations against certain leftubers and a few of their friends enabling them. The ones I've seen mentioned are Sophie From Mars, We're In Hell, Chill Goblin, and HeyIt'sVadim. If anyone else has been accused or defending them, I haven't seen it as of combing through twitter just now.