“When I started working in theatre in England, I would meet people, and they would say ‘Oh, I voted for Margaret Thatcher.’ The first time I heard someone saying that, I honestly thought they were joking. I’d be thinking, I have never met anyone from your world. What’s it like? Do you roast children over open fires?”
— David Tennant (via tennantsabout )
David Tennant is valid af
I am so ready for hearing an arena of people aggressively screaming CHA CHA CHA in Liverpool in May
Newly minted high school teacher Lily Cross is young, bubbly, and can’t wait to put her fresh ideas into practice in the classroom. Her excitement is derailed after a disastrous run-in with a colleague. Lily didn’t realize she’d have to win over her fellow teachers as well as her students, but that’s okay. Lily’s up to the challenge.
Disillusioned Eva Thomas never imagined she’d wind up as a teacher in her hometown, or worse, suffer the boundless, puppy dog enthusiasm of a new colleague. Eva has no interest in making friends—or making nice. She just wants to survive her day and be left alone. That’s easier said than done when Lily Cross has you in her sights.
Their clashing arguments lead to sparks and then the impossible…attraction. But how can two such different people ever work?
Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.
Don’t get me wrong—she was strong, and certainly not a waif, but more than almost any other female superhero actress I’ve ever seen, Lucy Lawless exuded physical power and weight that I actually believed (when she wasn’t somersaulting in front of a ridiculous greenscreen).
that’s a damn good point
INTENSE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
COSTUME EMPHASIZING BREADTH OF SHOULDERS
THEM THIGHS
WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS ABOUT HOLY SHIT
JAWLINE
EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT. I DON’T KNOW I’M JUST FEELING EXCEPTIONALLY WARM RIGHT NOW.
I LOVE HER
This is because the tank is not concerned with muscle or endurance. Tank is purely a matter of 60% attitude, 30% mindset, and 110% fuckaroundandfindout.
I’ve also seen another version of the commentary on this post speculating that she was also SHOT like male action star at the time - which has nothing to do with size, but with posture and staging and yes, attitude. 😊
Just to say, don’t minimize the Lucy Lawless of it all. She’s properly amazing.
Lucy and I met on a five minute bus ride in San Diego in 2017. She had no idea who I was, but we liked each other, and I met and liked her husband Rob. Lucy and I started following each other on Twitter. In March 2020 when my family got caught in New Zealand lockdown in NZ she reached out and offered us a place to live if we needed one. We didn’t, but when Amanda would go to Auckland to record, she would stay with Lucy and her husband Rob.
When I came out of quarantine after returning to New Zealand in January 2021, Lucy picked me up, took me back to their place and she and Rob put me up for 24 hours while I adjusted to being around actual human talking people for the first time since April 2020 . The next morning she got me to the ferry, and sent me off to see my wife and son for the first time in 9 months.
She and Rob have become actual friends, and every time I meet them I enjoy who Lucy is – funny, sensible, grounded – and how she makes the people around her feel. She has presence, and enormous kindness, and you don’t mess with her. She’s one of the stars – the people you are glad exist because they make the world better, not the silly Hollywood kind.
📸 grantfraserking on Instagram
"butch is hypermasculine"
"butch is athleticism"
"butch is being handy"
"butch is aggressive"
ACTUALLY BUTCH IS LOVING YOUR PARTNER REAL BIG AND GIVING GREAT HUGS
congrats on being my hero
I don't "struggle with same-sex attraction" I'm actually very good at it
EMMA THOMPSON for The New York Times photographed by Charlotte Hadden (2022)
This is a great response and I am going to use it!
"how's that not overstepping?" works too 🙌🏾
hierarchy of disability mobility aids
[Video ID: A video of tiktok user ‘josephakibler’. There are yellow captions that pop up across the middle of the screen. They begin the video in a wheelchair and switch to other mobility aids throughout.
Transcript:
(Speaker is facing a door at the back of the room. They turn around to face the camera in a wheelchair. Speaking begins)
Speaker: “So my neighbour saw me in my wheelchair for the first time today and asked what was wrong and if I was okay so welcome to my new segment-”
(Speaker slowly stands up out of wheelchair)
(A very quick transition and a black cane appears in their right hand. The wheelchair is no longer on screen)
(The title ‘Cane and Ableism’ flashes up on screen in bigger yellow font)
Speaker: “So shocking bit of info up top, I’m disabled. But whether I’m using this”
(Speaker gestures to cane. There’s a very quick transition where the cane disappears and is replaced by two red forearm crutches)
Speaker: “Or this. Or wheelchair.”
(Another transition. The forearm crutches disappear. The wheelchair is back on screen and the speaker slowly sits back down)
Speaker: “It shouldn’t be treated any differently. However whether it is consciously or subconsciously, society has created a hierarchy, a evolutionary chart of disability mobility aids, where wheelchairs, power chairs are at the bottom.”
(A short pause. Speaker stands up. Wheelchair disappears after a transition and the red forearm crutches return)
Speaker: “Crutches, walkers etc. In the middle”
(Right forearm crutch is held up higher and then another transition. The Crutches are replaced again with the black cane in the right hand)
Speaker: “The cane is just above that, and, of course, the alpha….”
(cane disappears, there are no mobility aids in shot)
Speaker: “To nothing at all. Now this is where it can get tricky, and this line of thinking can lead to ableism and internalised ableism, because the people who need mobility aids are doing everything they can to fight against it so they can stay right here.”
(speaker gestures to self, standing without the aid of a mobility aid)
Speaker: “So is here better? Well for me personally, here’s where I have the most pain. Now if I were to go to this”
(Quick transition. Cane pops back into frame in speaker’s right hand)
Speaker: “This (the cane) has less pain.”
(Transition between cane and red forearm crutches. The cane is gone. The crutches are on either arm.)
Speaker: “This (the forearm crutches) is less pain”
(Transition. Forearm crutches have disappeared. The wheelchair is back on screen. The speaker lowers themself to sit in it.)
Speaker: “And this (the wheelchair) barely any pain at all. So when we say what’s better, what we’re really saying is what’s better for society, when we should be saying what’s better for you.”
(Speaker points quickly to the camera)
Speaker: “And you’re the one that matters the most.”
(Speaker turns back around in wheelchair to face a door at the back of the room) /end ID]
less “if you see a man and woman together at pride be nice! they could be bi/pan/trans/ace/aro” and more “stop gendering strangers to harass them anywhere, but especially at pride holy shit”
you know what? i want this to reach the people who do this– especially the ones claiming to support trans folk (usually in really hollow ways lol i’m not bitter). keep reblogging– i want this sentiment to be widespread and for people to stop gendering strangers! especially in explicitly LGBTQ+ spaces!
“No cops at Pride” includes you, you gatekeeping little demons. You aren’t there to police who “looks right” or who seems like they’re “allowed to be there”. Just don’t fucking harass strangers, it’s not that hard.
