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axolotlclown · 2 months
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Listening to women right now is very important. We are witnessing other women step forward and speak about their experiences with Wilbur. As men, we need to be listening, because it's never just one woman.
However, we also must not forget the value of our voices. We as men need to step up and say that this behavior is unacceptable. We need to talk about it. We need to call out our friends and our brothers for this behavior.
Men that hurt women will not listen to women, but they will listen to men. If we truly want to support women right now, we need to be vocal about our support. We need to show up and acknowledge the reality—Shubble is not the only woman that has experienced this kind of abuse.
There are many women in our personal lives that experience this abuse. Abusers could be our closest friends, family, mentors, and leaders. We cannot let our guard down. We cannot sacrifice our morals to keep the peace. We must remain vocal. This behavior cannot be socially acceptable.
We say that we support women. We say that we will support domestic violence survivors. But when the abuse is staring you in the eyes, we remain complacent. This is not acceptable.
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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drbtinglecannon · 5 days
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Anyway this panel alone made me decide Shuro is actually really funny
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Practically everyone in this panel is ready to square up, including +200yo Grandpa Tansu, meanwhile Shuro is standing in the back dramatically holding himself while clearly wishing he was off this godforsaken hell island
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Atreus when he sneaks into Asgard and is immediately bullied by Grown Adult Heimdall
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cemeterything · 9 months
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A teacher threw a book at you??? Justified in throwing it back - I would have aimed for the head
the thing about me is that i do not think twice when provoked. i just go into a fugue state of shock and bite back.
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wyvernne · 10 days
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i keep thinking about how much blame i see being put on diluc about attacking kaeya and it drives me absolutely nuts that he’s painted unequivocally as the bad guy. i absolutely don’t think that is the purpose of that story at all. it’s about two kids, agonized by guilt and grief and horribly misplacing those emotions. kaeya went to diluc knowing it wouldn’t end well. diluc had just killed his own father. i feel like it’s wild to expect any sort of normal reaction beyond blinding anger. the point is, this is not meant to be a “who is in the wrong” backstory. it’s about two young men who, faced with a series of terrible circumstances, lost their last remaining familial connection. and in the current story, we’re seeing the clumsy, stilted journey the two make towards reconciliation.
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bumblingbabooshka · 1 month
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Tuvok Sparring + Younger Tuvok [Patreon | Ko-fi]
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emichevy · 8 months
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Whew sorry for dyin, school been up my ass and rowing practice/races.
Have a doodle of my babies while I work on something bigger :3 I’m almost on my fall break I’ll get some shit pumped out then too.
Tala got a bit beat up in a fight so papa gonna take care of her. She also gonna meet Peni soon, I gotta draw them together 🦅
They have taken over my brain.
I cant believe how much I’ve improved in drawing Noir since my first drawing of him omfg-
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ardentpoop · 26 days
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:)
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degloved · 5 months
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you can pry post-canon 'shitty motels and a life on the road until they settle down in some fuckass bumfuck nowhere little town' hoffstrahm out of my cold dead hands !! post-canon 'jagged edges turned smooth while Learning How To Love In A Way That Works For Them' hoffstrahm you will always be famous to me
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nellasbookplanet · 7 months
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I haven’t watched the latest episode yet but this clip really has my head spinning because this!! This is the type of conflict I've been hoping for between Imogen and Laudna! I'm not the only one to talk about how their dynamic largely is an unchallenging one that relies on affirmations over conflict (because they’re both outsiders who have never had true support before so it ended up being the foundation of their entire relationship), but this shakes things up!
Usually when broaching darker topics with Imogen, it tends to boil down to 'I feel like a horrible person :(' and 'you’re not! you're so cool and powerful!' but here Imogen actually pushes. You can see how Laudna doesn’t really want to talk about it, that she tries to joke it away, and how her facade falls as she finally gives in and admits to the risk of Delilah taking over if she doesn’t do something, and how she still isn’t actually set on doing so because they need the power. And instead of the earlier response along the lines of 'if we go dark we do so together' Imogen continues to push.
Because here’s the thing about Laudna: she isn’t very active in her choices. As far as we know she's never tried to get rid of Delilah, or find out more about either her warlock or sorcerer abilities, and she compartmentalizes her feelings of trauma rather than seriously talk about them. She is a character who’s had little control of her life and she’s dealt with that by just sort of accepting it, going along without much active agency. She needs to be pushed to really engage with any of it, and without that challenge, that conflict, she likely never will.
And this is what confuses me so when people respond negatively to hopes for conflict in the imodna dynamic. Conflict isn't just screaming fights or physical altercations, and a relationship that relies entirely on support and avoiding conflict is in fact not a healthy one. You need challenge to grow as a person. We see that so very clearly with Laudna, who has puttered about as an undead for three decades of arrested development. Now, with loved ones pushing her to actually look at those ugly feelings and promising to be there for her if/when she chooses to face them, maybe she’ll finally be ready to actually make that choice.
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endlessnightarts · 2 years
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Man I haven't even checked the tag yet but I'm just gonna leave this one here for the people that are dead set on the idea that Lestat would never physically hurt Louis. First book, not even a hundred pages in, they fight like they want to kill each other.
And for vampires, who are supernaturally strong and can heal from most things? Yeah, that's fucking brutal played on screen rather than a few lines of text.
Lestat seems a lot nastier in the show at this point because we're all kind of remembering it through like 14 books of author woobification but honestly I would believe book 1 Lestat was that cruel, and even if he wasn't they've already made huge changes to Louis and Claudia so sure let's see where it goes.
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mitskijamie · 7 months
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I hated the scene where he slapped the food out of his hand, only to admonish him to clean it up as if he himself wasn't responsible for the mess in the first place. Same with Roy throwing the bike at him in amsterdam, it was meant to be funny, but Roy just comes across as a huge asshole to me in those scenes. I inevitably had to think of his dad throwing the shoes at Jamie while watching that, even though it isn't the same (but similar enough for me)
See personally I didn't have an issue with the bike thing, because it was part of a physical comedy bit, so Roy's physical reactivity being played for a joke didn't feel out of place to me. It fit the tone of the scene imo. I think part of what made the hand slapping a little jarring was that it came out of nowhere after Roy and Jamie had a fairly genuine conversation
But I think the main reason that scene stood out to me as different than the usual Royjamie tussle was the way Phil played Jamie's reaction. Usually when Roy lunges at Jamie, Jamie just seems irritated or angry, and seeing him cover/hug himself and duck away was kind of startling
In s1e3, Roy shoves Jamie on the pitch, and he hardly reacts at all (doesn't hit back, but doesn't flinch or anything)
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In s1e4, Roy gets in his face in the locker room, and he thinks it's funny and goads him into a fight
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s2e6, Roy shoves him again, and he immediately gets mad and starts yelling/coming back at him (Ted has to step in to keep them from fighting)
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When Roy throws the bike at him in s3e6, he just gets annoyed
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But in the scene at Ola's he doesn't yell or hit back or even say anything, he just covers his body and makes himself small, and even holds the defensive posture for a minute after the fact
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When I say that I don't think Jamie is generally scared of Roy but is occasionally triggered by his behavior this scene is what I have in mind. Definitely a different reaction
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blaiddraws · 2 years
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Does train noodle Ingo get bigger to protect Emmet and scare off violent passengers?
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if there's one advantage to having a perpetually stern face, it could very well be the intimidation factor
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ok so. gwen DEFINITELY went to a private school. but i also feel like lena went to a public school. and that almost summarizes the core difference between them
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noirtek · 1 month
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peter strahm and clarice starling in the ring. who would win
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