super funny bc the fandom was so worried sharon carter would just be a love interest and now she’s a super villain in charge of an international crime ring
idk call me radical or crazy or whatever but people shouldn’t need a reason to care about human lives
all these posts like “if you listen to kpop / if you like anime / if you watch cdramas you should care about what’s happening right now” are SO tone deaf and weird. people, especially elders, are being attacked and murdered because of their race. that is why you should care. because human lives are being taken and it is wrong. an entire continent and its people should not be reduced to the commodities and entertainment they give to you for you to care about our lives. you should care about us because we’re human beings
ON TOP OF THAT that rhetoric is turning everyone’s attention to only east asians. yes, east asians are facing increased hatecrimes and racism. but so are south asians. so are north asians. so are west asians. so are pacific islanders. it’s so weird to focus your “activism” on the one group that you deem entertaining or whatever
a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:
- pretending to gag at asian food
- pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures
- excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)
- not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"
- adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~
- using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women
- ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians
- making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)
- treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community
- co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history
This tiktoker shared some simple ASL for people to know to help deaf/hoh people communicate their needs while everyone is wearing masks !
Boost boost boost
BLACKPINK | ’Kill This Love’ M/V MAKING FILM | Lalisa
We’ll be back, Goatman. After all, this is our bridge now.
Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s
And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights
Thank God someone paved the way for them…
if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.
Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect
Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.
Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.
🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶
This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?
Casual reminder that
- a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna
- the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu
- the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish
- horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley
- a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair
- the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy
- And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton
And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?
Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million
This is so funny hahahah
i created a graphic based on an epiphany i had during a conversation with @kindaunsolved
so true king❤️
i don’t know what we did to deserve Diana in this suit
Just an amazing Wonder Woman cosplay by @deepica
ASHLEY GRAHAM BY LACHLAN BAILEY VOGUE PARIS NOVEMBER 2018
every time one of you gay people reblog this i have to think about it for the next two weeks