The Electric Spirit

Not to get anyone’s hopes up because Prince Freya is definitely heterosexual but:

whenever you’re dealing with a character pretending to be someone of the opposite gender, things can get a little fucky, and Prince Freya did definitely pick the most homoerotic way to deal with it

so like… Julius flirting with Freya who happens to look exactly like the Prince that he devoted his life to and/or was in love with (where is the line between fanatical devotion and love anyway?) is like… He is either flirting with Freya because she looks like the Prince or in spite of the fact that she looks like the Prince, and given the way he acted towards the Prince anyway, neither of those options is super straight

when the soldiers and knights have little oh the Prince~ moments, of course they’re reacting to Freya who is a girl, but they don’t know that

and on the flipside, when female characters do the same thing, they think they’re fawning over the Prince who was a boy but of course it is really Freya who is a girl

and whatever romantic/sexual activity happens between Freya and Julius or Freya and Aleksi, of course they’re both aware that she is a girl but nobody else is so anyone else who sees that is just gonna be like hm. That’s gay

it’s very clearly straight, and it’s going to be straight in the end, it’s just getting there in the gayest way possible and it’s really entertaining

@screamingfromuz Thank you so much, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to write this all up. 💖

I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. It's just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

"Got it, it's [language B's word for thing] variety [language A's word for thing]"

added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for 

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!

It’s called reduplication! Repeating a word to denote the prototypical meaning of the word (or for emphasis!) Examples include:

“Do you want potato salad or salad salad?” (Prototypical)

“I’m sorry, we don’t have almond milk, we only have milk milk.” (Prototypical)

jesus fucking christ

"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid's cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it's cool and i don't think you're committing some moral or intellectual sin--but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they're watching cartoons for children, not in a 'you can't expect children's media to be good' way or even a 'the politics of children's media aren't worth analyzing way' but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations' way. because that's how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not

#children's media often has 'violence is bad' messaging in it that would be obnoxious in media for adults#this is bcos many little kids do need to be told not to bite their siblings (via @penny-anna​)

Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933

You know we don't know the Noir isn't black

It's true that if he was black, he would still use the term "negro" because black ppl themselves preferred that term at the time, but unfortunately-

We do know for a fact that Noir looks like Peter Parker and Peter B. Parker 😔

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

This is just as wild with the context

Some of my favorite moments in the series

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

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*Digs these of the archive for this the last day of pride*

Source details and larger version.

It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.

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The evolution of this building can be seen in it’s masonry

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Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?

Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.

Seriously.

What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.

Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.

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