be gentle with yourself

GIFTOBER 2023 • day 21: spring/autumn

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

@meanderingmedievalist i believe you were saying something like this recently

a wikipedia poem on software entropy

johnny english really destroyed all movie logic

the funniest part is that he’s not even running

Mr Bean as a Persistence Predator

Psych – 7.04: No Country For Two Old Men

And they both lived happily ever after. DOCTOR WHO — The Husbands of River Song (2015 Christmas Special) directed by Douglas Mackinnon | written by Steven Moffat ››› Alex Kingston as River Song ››› Peter Capaldi as The Doctor

We’re going to hell. Or wherever it is people go when they die, if there is anywhere. Wherever it is, we’re going to go there and we’re going to find Danny. And if it is in any way possible… We’re going to bring him home. DOCTOR WHO — Dark Water (S08E11) directed by Rachel Talalay | written by Steven Moffat ››› Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald ››› Peter Capaldi as The Doctor

Doctor Who | 9.12 - "Hell Bent"

Doctor Who | 10.12 - "The Doctor Falls"

Transcript: It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographic “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “Black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc… id. the Black and [Latine] and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” - I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on. So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards… it’s just being poor- but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.“ -comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food and Privilege: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class) (via meggannn). END TS

the same thing when you look at the ~tiny house movement~ versus, say, people living in trailers, or even just renting in apartments or sublet housing

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I saw that comment when it was first posted and I will never forget it and think about it all the time when I see bike-forward initiatives under discussion.

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If YOU go places on an E-Bike instead of a gas scooter it’s Eco!

if I go out in my wheelchair I get pitying looks.

“It’s Not Eco-Friendly If The Undesirables are Doing It” is a thing to watch out for.

literally just saw a tiktok ft some young white person sitting, looking smugly around a train cabin with the text “pov you’re taking public transportation but in the eco friendly liberation way not the broke ass bitch way”

i wanted it to be a joke. i looked at the descrip, the bio, the other acct videos. it was not a joke

Endless Bells Hells

GAME CHANGER 6.05 Bingo

truly no greater description of this show for me than this

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

ideal woman to me and i am not kidding

SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB

I don’t think the club could handle her