"fuck you," he said to the planet below

hey guys !!

so i’m currently looking for some co-admins to help me run an upcoming marauders au roleplay. specifically i need someone to help me out with the graphics because my own abilities only go so far. you would have almost complete creative reign to do what you want with them. other than that, i would like a general admin to help out with the running around the place. of course, if you want to do both, that would be awesome as well.

you would get your pick of the open characters and to help me do some world building on what i hope will be a long lasting, successful roleplay in which we build friendship as well as plots.

there’s a short application just to cover the basics but it’s nothing to stress about, and i am here to talk to at any point!

       - Sophie

hey guys !!

so i’m currently looking for some co-admins to help me run an upcoming marauders au roleplay. specifically i need someone to help me out with the graphics because my own abilities only go so far. you would have almost complete creative reign to do what you want with them. other than that, i would like a general admin to help out with the running around the place. of course, if you want to do both, that would be awesome as well.

you would get your pick of the open characters and to help me do some world building on what i hope will be a long lasting, successful roleplay in which we build friendship as well as plots.

there’s a short application just to cover the basics but it’s nothing to stress about, and i am here to talk to at any point!

       - Sophie

By Anna Borges

When you’re accidentally cute #selfie #cute #girl (at The Student Housing Company Edinburgh)

It’s disheartening to log into my Skype account, or into this Tumblr account, and to see the, once again, widespread accounts of toxicity which are now seeming to run rampant in the role-playing community. Wait - this isn’t a community. This has turned into a bog, a place where the people involved feel trapped and feel unsafe. Do you not think that the real world, with all of its politics and unsafe spots in cities, with all of its rising threats against men and women, is unsafe enough? Why must this toxicity, this concept of online bullying, shunning, of people turning on one another immaturely or otherwise, bleed into a place that had been, for the longest time, for three years for me, touted so deftly as a safe place? 

As you can see, my URL has been changed. This isn’t because I simply didn’t like my old one. If you go to my old one, you’ll see a ‘hiatus’ type page has been set up. 

I’ll repeat what it says here. I’m renouncing the role-play community.

This might seem stupid to you, or it might seem like it won’t do any good. But I’m tired. I’m tired of logging in and seeing people feeling unsafe. I’m tired of seeing posts where people are being assholes. Yes, assholes. I’m tired of it all. One of my best friends of three years got slammed with immaturity, with pointless and obviously uncalled for questions, when she did little more than took the place of someone who had stepped down. It made her CRY. Because people all of a sudden weren’t going to be receiving what they felt entitled to, she had to deal with the back lash of it. 

She isn’t the only one. Another one of my friends has dealt with a senseless amount of plagiarism - all from the same person. Another has dealt with hatred due to being not what the rpc touts as the perfect writer. One of my best friends has wanted to open a group for the longest time - but due to the demise of the community and the POOR RECEPTION that things get, whether it’s from potential applications, jealous assholes, or the COMPETITION that having a role-play group has turned into ( seriously, people, it’s fucking online games, not a cinematic masterpiece ) – she is discouraged and feels like she shouldn’t even try.

So yeah. I’m tired. I’m tired of seeing my friends hurt by the opinions of those who don’t know how to do anything except be malicious. To log in, to see that someone else has been hurt, to see that something else has been turned toxic - you know what? It makes me ashamed to be a part of this community. That we have to make fucking public service announcements about how not to bully, how to respond to anon hate, how to make sure you stay above the line of everyone’s senseless, continuous and rising needs. It makes me ashamed that so many friends and my followers / people I follow feel like they can’t even log on safely sometimes.

So here’s what I’m doing. ( Yes, it might be stupid to you, but as you can see, I don’t really care.) Consider this announcement my renunciation of the role-playing community. I’m done. I have changed my URL, I will be overhauling my theme once again, and my other one is being permanently laid to rest. I will be joining no more groups. I am no longer open to 1x1′s unless we are already writing partners because frankly, it looks like a lot of people aren’t reliable and will backstab you, whether you’ve known them for six months or six weeks or six years. I no longer consider myself to be a part of the rpc. This is the only way I can think of to stand against what I have seen this place become, which is a cesspool of hate, of whining, of toxicity, of competition and misplaced, mal-intentioned concerns disguised as fake congratulations - and I’m finished. 

My content won’t change. This isn’t exactly a graceful exit from the rpc, but this is an exit. And hopefully, people will maybe start to think before they speak - or before they bully. Before they add to the toxic environment, the racism, the hatred. If you want to unfollow me, by all means, go right ahead. The one thing I give no fucks about is my follower count.

Hey I’m all for getting hype as hell over lady Ghostbusters but let’s remember to be critical of the fact that the three white women are on the team for their intellects and professional skills while the sole black woman is the funky urban one on the team for her street smarts

No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.

Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.

Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item. 

People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”: 

The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.

Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.

This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.

Let’s examine a traditionally male-dominated role that is very well-respected, and well-paid, in many parts of the world — that of a doctor. In the UK, it is listed as one of the top ten lucrative careers, and the average annual income of a family doctor in the US is well into six figures. It also confers on you significant social status, and a common stereotype in Asian communities is of parents encouraging their children to become doctors.

One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?

The answer is crushingly, breathtakingly simple. In Russia, the majority of doctors are women. Here’s a quote from Carol Schmidt, a geriatric nurse practitioner who toured medical facilities in Moscow: “Their status and pay are more like our blue-collar workers, even though they require about the same amount of training as the American doctor… medical practice is stereotyped as a caring vocation ‘naturally suited‘ to women, [which puts it at] a second-class level in the Soviet psyche.”

What this illustrates perfectly is this — women are not devalued in the job market because women’s work is seen to have little value. It is the other way round. Women’s work is devalued in the job market because women are seen to have little value. This means that anything a woman does, be it childcare, teaching, or doctoring, or rocket science, will be seen to be of less value simply because it is done mainly by women. It isn’t that women choose jobs that are in lower-paid industries, it is that any industry that women dominate automatically becomes less respected and less well-paid.

http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/12/13/patriarchys-magic-trick-how-anything-perceived-as-womens-work-immediately-sheds-its-value/

Jackie and Hyde not ending up together on That ‘70s Show is one of the greatest TV injustices of our time

Adele publicly supports Kesha in her acceptance speech for winning The Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist.

Deadpool is not straight

Deadpool is not gay

Deadpool is not bi

Deadpool is Pansexual, remember it.

Or he is all of the above

Hes canon Pan. Its been stated that comic deadpool is canon pan and so is he in the movie

Get off my post lmfao

“or he’s all of the above” 

Don’t pan cover all the bases???

Deadpools sexuality goes beyond that though… Pan isnt the right word. Hell fuck anything. He hooks up with aliens and no humanoids and everything in between. He’s married to a shape shifting demon queen who doesn’t have a defined form.

Deadpools sexuality isn’t exactly defineable.

HES FUCKING PAN. THE CREATORS SAID HES PAN. WHY IS EVERYONE IN DENIAL ABOUT THIS. RICK SANCHEZ IS PAN TOO AND HE FUCKS PLENTY OF ALIENS. JESUS CHRIST ON TOAST GUYS

People denying pansexuality like “I don’t think he’s pan, I just think he can be attracted to anyone regardless of gender identity, gender expression, and genitals!”