10 things I really appreciate about the depiction of women in Black Sails:

1) At any given point on the show 3/4 of the female leads are canonically wlw

2) Women are actually shown having pubic hair unlike most tv shows and especially period dramas (even when it’s usually totally historically inaccurate!!!)

3) Anne has visible scarring, which they don’t try to downplay or hide at all

4) That scene in season three where Eleanor is giving herself a sponge bath, but instead of it being sensual and sexualizing and obviously male gazey (for reference, see the similar scene with Inara in Firefly), she is actually scrubbing and her arms are jiggling and she just seems like a normal human being trying to get clean while on a big boat with no bathtubs

5) The only two instances of sexual assault happen early in the respective character arcs (in Anne’s case before the show even starts), meaning the story follows the recovery and healing and growth of these survivors, instead of sensationalizing the assault or portraying them as helpless victims

6) The sex workers are also portrayed as actual human beings with lives and motivations and important roles in the plot, and not just placed in the background of scenes as Sexy Window Dressing (highkey @G*me of Thr*nes)

7) Women are in charge of running the majority of business in Nassau throughout the four seasons

8) The most powerful and successful women on the show are women of color

9) Anne and Madi both get to wear pants, because why the hell would they be wearing skirts when they knew they’d be fighting??? Why do period dramas like to pretend women never wore pants???? I don’t understand???

10) They are all Super Smart and Badass, and I am just very gay and I love them

Why One Detail of Disney’s Robin Hood Bothers Me And Always Will

Hi, welcome to my Ted Talk, today we will be dealing with something that has bothered me about Disney’s Robin Hood since I was a kid and I still cannot get over to this very day.

And it all stems from THESE THREE PEOPLE:

Maid Marian, Prince John, and King Richard

I’m going to preface this entire thing by saying THIS version of Robin Hood is very very VERY different than the source material, much like all Disney animated films, but it wasn’t really DISNEY who did the big changes… those just came over time with making things more… I’m just going to say “normal for society”, which is ultra double lame.

BUT that’s not the point, because that stuff happens everywhere and with everything, and if I started to complain about THAT we’d be here all day, and I’m already going to take more of your time than needed to complain about something SUPER unimportant from a children’s animated movie made in 1973.

ANYWAY!

So, in the movie the titular character, Robin Hood, is a fox.  Makes total sense, foxes are crafty, hard to catch, cunning, and known for getting into and out of situations that other animals would have difficulty with.  Take that and turn it into an anthropomorphic character and you’d get someone who would easily be against the normal laws, not BAD, but would do BAD to do GOOD. Robin is a show off when he wants to be, and quiet when he has to be.

He’s a pretty perfect Robin Hood, especially in the case of animated kids movies, his characteristics just work SO WELL with his personification as a fox. GOOD STUFF, if I do say so myself!

Little John, meanwhile, is a bear. Not just any bear, but a big ol’ lovable brown bear. This plays on the idea of Little John being a cheeky nickname because Little John is a big, strong, and above all the calm, cool, and rationally smart one of the two. Robin may be clever, but John is the big picture guy. Pun intended.

These two designs and animal choices work SO well with each other, and it’s because these two are so different yet they get along and honestly NEED one another that makes the differences so perfect.

ALAN-A-DALE IS A ROOSTER. BRILLIANT. I don’t even have to go into this, do I? What a GREAT call by making Alan-A-Dale a rooster.  Though, I feel a bit of his characteristics were also borrowed from Will Scarlet for the Disney version, but even that still fits everything. And, honestly, I don’t mind the blending of Alan and Will, it kinda works? Especially with the movie being as short as it is.

ROOSTER BARD. ROOSTER. BARD. So good, I mean c’mon. It’s perfection.

The Sheriff of Nottingham being a wolf is… okay. It’s okay. I get it though, having the wolf hunt the fox. Haha. Cheeky. Cliche, but cheeky.

I really have nothing to say about him, he’s just…okay. Dude’s a cop, so whatever. Not a fan of bootlickers, and the fact that they’re dragging wolves in the mud by making a wolf into a cop is… whatever. /He’s A Wolf Cop/

Personally, I don’t like Friar Tuck as a badger. It really doesn’t make sense to me, and I lowkey hate it that they totally missed so many opportunities. DOVE OF PEACE? LAMB OF GOD? Like FOR REAL, you coulda done something super cute like that, but NOoOoOoOoOoO… he’s a badger. And they kinda pick on him for half the movie, for no reason, and I don’t like that.

Still, Friar Tuck is cute, and a really fun character and they do some clever animation stuff with his “badger”-ness. Still a bit of a missed opportunity.

OKAY NOW THAT WE’VE GOT THESE OTHER BIG ONES OUT OF THE WAY, IT’S TIME FOR MY ACTUAL PROBLEM!

MAID FRICKIN MARIAN IS A FOX.

WHAT THE FRICKEN FRICKITY FRACK?!

ABSOLUTELY NOT! Disney did this JUST because they wanted Maid Marian and Robin Hood to be THE SAME ANIMAL, and that’s ABSOLUTE BUNK!

WHY? Well there’s two BIG reasons that is irks me!

First, the idea that they HAD to be together because they were the same animal or they were made to be the same animal so it wouldn’t be “weird” that they were together.

LAME! UNINSPIRED! BULLSHI-

*ehem* Nonsense. Nonsense.

And it’s even MORE nonsense because of this little fact…

PRINCE JOHN AND KING RICHARD ARE HER RELATIVES!

MAID MARIAN THE NIECE OF PRINCE JOHN AND KING RICHARD!

Okay, you could argue that Maid Marian was adopted, or that King Richard married a lovely fox woman and the fox woman’s relative had a daughter and THAT was Maid Marian. And YES, that would make the situation plausible…

EXCEPT!

This is MEDIEVAL ENGLAND and they are ROYALTY and that kinda stuff wouldn’t fly even IF King Richard is the King.

WHAT I’M SAYING IS…

DISNEY ARE COWARDS FOR NOT HAVING A BIG LIONESS LADY DATE A TINY FOX MAN AND WE WERE ROBBED!

#I cannot focus enough to read all of this but that last part is a GREAT POINT

I really recommend reading the rest, it’s gold

Also this post is a goddamn mood

I couldn’t rest until I brought this lioness to life. I hope my humble Maid Marian does your imagination justice! @kdinjenzen​

Redrew some scenes from the movie with Lioness Maid Marian ((Adgbbfg I tried to draw in the style of the movie, I’m sorry if it looks a bit weird QwQ))

TAKE MY MONEY I NEED THIS VERSION OF THE MOVIE NOW

okay i’ll bite. chomp even. kill perhaps. maybe even maim

I love Anton Chekhov

Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.

“Please, I want to die among the stars” is such a pretty quote and you’ll think it’s from a memorable, pretty, moment but no it’s from the cast joking about a feral god weasel that’s unable to die

the thing about fleabag is that it has the audacity to remind us that sometimes love is not enough. and that coming up against that reality is devastating in a way that goes beyond words

and that despite all that, you love anyway

[text ID: Gold foil has tricked many people. Think: religious paintings. Often, people with halos get listened to. /end ID]

Microdosing on fandoms by only learning about the media through posts on tumblr dot com instead of actually consuming the source media