can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept

Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”

John Mulaney being one of the funniest standup comics of all time is so wild to me because everything about him screams “closeted gay accountant” and then he gets up on stage and talks about how he murdered Princess Diana and the mental whiplash you receive kills you on the spot

why do people think that planned parenthood is this dimly lit back alley clinic where witches live and they love to just hand out free abortions like…. it’s a regular doctors office. You can get condoms there. I’ve never even seen a witch there

with your support we can ensure every planned parenthood has a certified witch on staff

To be clear:

The two queens of the story both being insane in sexism. Dany losing her mind because she’s experienced loss is sexism. Dany needing a man to “control” her is sexism. Dany being the victim of domestic violence and us being told to feel bad for Jon is sexism. The double standards that Sansa and Dany face is sexism. 

This is true no matter if GRRM writes it better or if D&D came up with it out of the blue whilst drunk at 3am.

Dany going mad in the span of three episodes is bad writing. Jaime leaving Brienne because is character arc is a circle is bad writing. Cersei and Jaime being crushed by rocks is bad writing. Tyrion being the good guy who just loves his sister is bad writing. A king being good because he doesn’t want to be king is bad writing. Bran becoming a robot is bad writing.

We don’t excuse sexism because the writing is good.

Being too incompetent to tell when you’re promoting sexism via bad writing isn’t an excuse.

Another season added to the mix, so we weren’t supposed to root for Dany in one episode and hate her in the next would have improved the writing of the show.

It would not have improved the sexism.

I mean it wholeheartedly when I say lizzo is my religion……………she just gets it, every bit of it, and I cannot express how grateful I am that she shares some of her wisdom w us

So, Boris Johnson wrote an essay in which he talked about the Sistine Chapel and then said : “There is nothing like it in Muslim art of that or any age, not just because it is beyond the technical accomplishment of Islamic art, but because it is so theologically offensive to Islam.”

BITCH

NOT TO MENTION the fact that the prohibition against direct images in Islam was actually the reason for the development of the incredible advances in higher mathematics of the Islamic Golden Age because they were required to create these structures. The Islamic World basically took the ban on images as a “hold my beer” thing and created an entire artistic culture based on mathematics and architecture where art and science fed into and glorified each other, 700 years before the Italian Renaissance.

In conclusion

Listen, I know the show is probably never going to have Arya acknowledge that she was cup bearer to Tywin Lannister for a chunk of time, but I desperately want her to drop it casually into her first conversation with Jaime.

Arya, sitting down next to Jaime: I hear you had trouble reading when you were a kid?

Jaime: Where did you hear that?

Arya: Your father.

Jaime:

Arya: I was his cupbearer

Jaime:

Arya: I saw him smile once.

Jaime, whispers: What the fuck.

Arya, shrugging: he also said I was smart. whatever.

Jaime, who has never heard one word of validation from Tywin all his life, struggling to hold back tears: oh ok its ok im ok

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I see stuff like this every once in a while and it reminds me the kids are still alright

in those heavy days in june when love became an act of defiance

happy pride, y’all

just in case yall forgot steve rogers has canonically referred to peggy carter as the love of his life 😌

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

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