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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Revelations (3.07)

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buffy summers was sixteen and she died and saved the world. then she slept with her boyfriend and he turned evil and threatened and tortured and murdered all the people she cared about. then he turned good again and she had to kill him. she had to watch him as he closed his eyes because he trusted her and she had to stab him through the heart and send him to hell. and every single person she loved was mad at her about it.

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Just thought to myself "can't women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved" which really shows you how much you're in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan

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Georgianna Robertson @ Jean Paul Gaultier Fall/Winter, 1997 Ready-to-Wear

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.02 | "Real Me"

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less "can you handle a mean female character" or more "can you handle a female character that has unpalatable traits to you personally but would shrug off if a male character had them"

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Coño don limpio

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I just think bare minimum nobody should have enough money to be able to do the shit that mr beast gets up to

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Clementine Keith-Roach for Casa Vogue 2010 Shot by Tim Walker

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something i've been mulling over is the idea of the disabled that exists within the imagination of our cultural consciousness. i automatically wrote "disabled person" before i changed it. because the whole thing is that "the disabled" has been stripped of their personhood and dehumanised. i'm using polite language here but tbh the words for us that exist in people's minds are much less polite.

it seems to me like this. the disabled person exists as a disability first and foremost, and a person last, if at all. much how people conceptualise "the criminal" to strip basic rights away from any human given that designation, the disabled person isn't a person. they're "a cripple" or another slur. and within the social imagination, that class of person exists outside of regular society. like an underclass, they're deliberately excluded by physical and social means.

which comes to a very common thing that happens when you're disabled. because a "disabled" person has crossed some threshold in the minds of ableds that write them off as a lost cause, people end up downplaying someone's disability because they have some human aspect that warrants personhood (in the mind of the abled). this is how you get parents refusing to acknowledge the disability of their children, even if that disability is quite severe, because that child has always been a person first to them. it's why people respond to disability with things they think only persons (i.e. the non disabled individual) can manage to do. such as complete schooling, or talk really well, or hold down a job, being "smart" or even being nice. the concept of the disabled has been dehumanised to the point that subconsciously people are taking any acknowledgement of disability as a form of degradation. the same way fatphobic people will respond like you have insulted yourself for saying "i'm fat" (regardless of how factually true this might be), saying "i'm disabled" is seen like putting yourself down. even significant and severe disabilities or visibly signs of disability can get this treatment, where people are profoundly uncomfortable with acknowledging it in any meaningful way. a lot of disabled people misinterpret this behaviour to mean that qualifying as a "real" or "proper" disabled person within the mind of an abled will grant them some social capital, compassion, or help. when in fact the opposite happens: when you've passed the event horizon of disability and truly become "the cripple" in people's minds (or that other word i'm not saying) then you are facing a constant battle to be seen as a person, as human, as complex as anyone else with a rich inner world and meaning to their life.

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The Changing of the Seasons By Saint Hildegard

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i do actually kind of hate you if you talk about laura palmer in the she's just a girl, lana del rey lyric, coquette, girl rage, etc kind of way. and i know hate is a strong word but it is the correct one

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Black Sails • XXXIV "Before this war began, before everyone's roles changed, your father mistrusted Flint as much as anyone in Nassau did. I assume you were in some contact with him all that time. I'm surprised that his feelings didn't influence you."

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love that black sails was ahead of its time in its queer storytelling, characters, and relationships, and also at the height of the classic toxic homoerotic subtext. a girl who can do both. you can't get wins like that anymore

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Seppo Similä (Finnish, 1938) - Kuokkamies (Hoe-man) (n.d.)

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did you know that you can just not say something if you're white. you can just not talk. its okay. you dont have to write a paragraph worth of tags justifying why the reason you don't like rap 'isn't racist'. you dont have to apologize for being white. you can just not say anything and save yourself the humiliation. its alright. please take your hands off the keyboard