Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler
When a villain is completely justified
Part of why I love Black Panther so much is that the villain isn’t a cartoonish “bwa ha ha I shall destroy the planet!” character. He has a thought process you can follow and understand. He’s human.
If I was a man, then I’d be the man.
“If you are not attracted to an individual, because the individual has a trait, that’s okay”
1) This is a very good twitter thread.
2) the notes are full of terfs (in part bc OP put it on terf tags intentionally) and it’s gross af but it makes a damn good blocklist
Reblogging the good stuff from Laura Kate Dale, the gay autistic transwoman gamer we deserve.
“The captain of a controversial ship that saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea has refused to accept a medal for her work.
Pia Klemp, who is German, gained attention for rescuing thousands of stranded migrants with her crew as part of the nongovernmental organization Sea Watch International. For her efforts, she reportedly faces up to 20 years in prison in Italy, where the hard-line anti-immigrant government accused her of assisting illegal immigration.
In a Facebook message published Tuesday night, Klemp announced that she was rejecting the Grand Vermeil Medal, which the city of Paris awards for bravery. She told Mayor Anne Hidalgo that the city was brimming with hypocrisy.
“Your police [steal] blankets from people that you force to live on the streets, while you raid protests and criminalize people that are standing up for rights of migrants and asylum seekers. … You want to give me a medal for actions that you fight in your own ramparts,” Klemp wrote in the scathing post.
“It is time we call out hypocrite honorings and fill the void with social justice,” she said.
She went on to say that people don’t need medals. “We do not need authorities deciding about who is a ‘hero’ and who is ‘illegal,’ ” she said. “In fact they are in no position to make this call, because we are all equal.”
I don’t think there’s an applause gif big enough to properly convey my reaction to this. Also, I love that if anyone tries to say that you’re just “another hack fic writer with no ideas of her own who is jealous of the “real” writers out there”, they could quite literally be crushed under your catalog of award-winning original writing as a response. They can’t dismiss your stance on this topic the way they do to so many unpublished / fanfic writers because you’ve already met all of the standards that they insist someone has before they’ll accept their opinion as worth listening to.
Right?
“Well, fanfic authors never win awards, so–” “WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD MY HUGO.” “That’s basically, it’s, you know, the People’s Choice, so–” “LOOK AT MY NEBULA.” “That’s a science fiction award, it doesn’t really–” “LOOK I’VE WON THE ALEX.” “…” “IT’S GIVEN BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO GIVE THE NEWBURY.” “…” “I’M THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN IT TWICE IN A ROW.” “…well you wrote porn.” “GOSH I SURE DID.”
More attention to this, please. :) From yet another of the I Wrote Fanfic First And I Decline To Feel Shame About It brigade.
(And I also wrote for My Little Pony, which means I may have inadvertently contributed something to Seanan’s state of being. [Which I will file under the “Quiet Unholy Glee” heading.])
:)))
Damn I love the internet.
Fanfic is the Folk Process of the Literary world, and we who create it are the travelling bards taking our own spin from place to place so that the stories, survive, albeit in many forms, for millennia. Fanfic is the inevitable, guerrilla reaction of storytellers when Story is throttled by Profit and Propriety. Fanfic will NEVER DIE!!!
As a folk musician and morris dancer, HOLY FUCK IT IS. Fanfic is absolutely folk culture.
THIS
I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS
I wrote self insert LotR fanfic in like, 6th grade once and I didn’t get I trouble for the fanfic but, because 6th grade moth was petty and turned the girl bullying me into the villain by changing the vowels in her name from “a” to “I” So it was pretty obvious who she was.
But anyway: fanfic is amazing and a great coping skill and everyone can pry it from my grubby untalented ha da
Positive affirmation of fanfic writing from my favorite author?? What a day 😍
Like???? Blind people won't care about art lol. Describe a color? They won't know what that shit means. Some things are just inherently inaccessible and you have to deal with that
this just proves you know nothing about blind people, anon. you clearly exist in a world of such privilege, you’ve never had to consider folks with different accessibility needs–or possibly even lived experiences in general–to your own. and that’s something i hope you’ll address, for your own sake.
see, disability is as fluid an identity as any other. literally every single person will experience periods of disability in their life, some permanent, some temporary. and when you experience it, i hope that you’re met with more understanding and accommodation than you’re willing to extend to others.
you don’t know any blind people. perhaps you don’t know any disabled people at all. take that ignorance as an opportunity to learn from those who have something to teach. it’ll do you good! but i’m not gonna waste my time trying to educate YOU personally, because you’ve probably closed yourself off from that kind of thing.
to anyone else reading this, though:
IN THIS HOUSE WE LIFT UP AND SUPPORT TRANS INDIVIDUALS
in this house we lift up and support lesbians!!
People blocking my path bc they are slow-moving, e.g. elderly people and others with mobility issues: Take your time, no problem, please do not apologize, I am in no rush 👍🏻❤️
People blocking my path because they are not paying one bit of attention: I feel murder in my heart. I feel seething, bone-crushing rage. You had to stand and stop in a fucking doorway? What are you doing on your phone? Are you tapping your last will and te
I’m a huge sucker for characters that chose to be heroic. Like, no big profecy, no great chosen one moment, just someone who consciously decided to do the right thing because someone fucking had to.
I feel like I haven't been on here in so long. What did I miss?
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LGBTQIA+ identities are not inherently indecent or inappropriate.
My mum just laid on my bed and my *ahem* toy was under a pillow right next to her..
I had the most awkward moment of trying to move it without drawing attention to what I was doing
Please satan never put me in this situation again
Would anyone believe this exact thing happened again, except this time she asked me what it was
So thankfully I learnt my lesson and started putting my toy away instead of just under my pillow, because out of the blue my mum decided to wash all my bedding when I was out
We stan an Queen.
Just casually going to reblog this from myself, because it’s about fucking time everyone accepted that “trans” is not an insult.
Thank god i have tumblr, at least i can talk to myself.
No
My mum just laid on my bed and my *ahem* toy was under a pillow right next to her..
I had the most awkward moment of trying to move it without drawing attention to what I was doing
Please satan never put me in this situation again
Would anyone believe this exact thing happened again, except this time she asked me what it was
