#IT'S STILL WEIRD

[centeris2]

sometimes I'm minding my own business brushing my teeth and I think about that whole Raptor "name change" thing at the Spring Event and how weird it all was.

Not just from a game standpoint of throwing in a character for a single quest without doing anything other than a cut scene of him walking in and declaring his name is different now, without changing his name above his character model.

I mean the whole meta reason behind it: to apparently make fun of Jojo Siwa?

Like SSE assumed their entire player base was in on this "joke" and followed what one celebrity did, which is bizarre and not a good plan, as there was no in game build up or follow up, so it makes no sense in game.

But also like....? Really? It's like SSE wants to distance themselves and point and laugh about their partnership. But she was a minor, she didn't have a choice, Nickelodeon decided to pair SSE with Jojo instead of their horse show. She's been a child star since she was what, 10? So much of her life has been owned by other people, watched by millions. And now she's old enough to have more control in her choices and defining herself, and a former company she had no choice in partnering with decides to make her into the butt of a joke because of it.

IDK. Didn't really feel like a woman-empowering move. Sure, you may not like someone, but then don't acknowledge them? It would have cost SSE $0 to not make fun of her and never reference her again

[travisdermotts]

if you showed this pictured to 10 year old me I think she would've passed out

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

Another #ThisIsJimin yesterday and that bubblegum art poster for the single almost made me forget where Jimin is. Only to have reality hit me in the face today with those photos of Jimin and Jungkook. I do not want to see, it's surreal 😔

[leslutdepointedulac]

Remember that time Lestat stopped mid conversation to pick up a rat and then started fussing over it's little feet only to realise the two guys he was with were staring at him like wtf so he put the rat down and carried on like nothing happened? Cause I do. I think about it often.

[theokusgallery]

I bet you want to be bitten by nick you kinky bitch/nsrs/nm/j

Alright so I understand this is a joke, you made it very clear that it's a joke, and I know I get very gay on main at times, but please have the decency to... not call a stranger a "kinky bitch". I don't know who you are. You don't know who I am. This makes me very uncomfortable

[sam-oberg]

Traced over some photos of me to practice, coz now that I've realiesd I'm auto I felt I wanna be better drawing myself… it feels cheesy, and still a bit weird, but hey!

[likeafantasy]

[insistonyourcupofstars]

Not gonna lie you mentioning me on that post felt like we're irl friends spelling tea and I LOVE IT. I just wanna hug you so bad 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

Mais, love, we ARE irl friends, lol. Also, I always appreciate hugs 💛

I just saw that post and was like "HOLY SHIT! HOW DID YOU KNOW?" It was scary accurate lol.

[devilisln-moved]

White Nick Fury is so weird.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[vamptastic]

was so thrown off by lily saying my actual name in her voice lines in fnv until i realized the character she mistakes you for is named that 😭

[doggirlhen]

they should make shopping for cables easier i think. there should be a service where you pick the ends, you pick the length of cable, you pick the like. color and texture of the cable (shitty plastic, nicely woven, bare metal, whatever) and then they make it and ship it to you for a reasonable fee

[inkskinned]

the thing about some men is that they want you to remember, at all times, that you are underneath them. that with one word or look or "joke", you will stay beneath them. that even "exceptions" to the rule are not true exceptions - the commonly cited statistic that one in eight men believe they could win against serena williams.

women's gymnastics is often not seen as real gymnastics. whatever the fuck non-euclidian horrors rhythmic gymnasts are capable of, it's often tamped down as being not a sport. some of the most dominant athletes in the world are women. nobody watches women's soccer. despite years of dancing and being built like a fucking brick, men always assume they're faster and stronger than i am. you wouldn't like what happens when they are incorrect. once while drunk at a guy's house i won a held-plank challenge by a solid minute. the party was over after that - he became exceedingly violent.

what i mean is that you can be perfect, and they still think you're ... lacking, somehow. i hope you understand i'm trying to express a neutral statement when i say: taylor swift was the possibly the most patriarchy-palatable, straight-down-the-line woman we could churn out. she is white, conventionally attractive, usually pretty mild in personality. say what you will about her (and you should, she's a billionaire, she can handle it), but a few things seem to be true about her: 1. she can write a damn catchy song, and 2. the eras tour truly was a massive commercial success and was also genuinely an impressive feat of human athleticism and performance.

i don't know if she deserves the title of "woman of the year," i'm not debating that in this post. what i am saying is that she was named Woman of The Year, and then an untalented man got onstage at the golden globes and made fun of her for attending her boyfriend's football games. what i am saying is that this woman altered local economies - and her dating life is still being made into a "harmless" punchline. the camera panned, greedy, over to her downing a full glass of champagne. congratulations taylor! you are woman of the year! but you are a woman. even her.

fuck, man. write better material.

a guy gets onstage at a college graduation and despite the fact like half the crowd is made up of women, he spends a significant proportion of it warning these people - who spent possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education - that they were lied to. that the "real" meaning of femininity is motherhood. that they shouldn't rest on the laurels of that education-they-paid-for but instead throw it away to kneel at a man's heel. imagine that. sweating in your godawful polyester gown (that you also had to pay for!), fresh out of 4 years of pushing yourself ever-harder: and some guy you've never met - who knows nothing about you - he reminds you this "win" is a pyrrhic one at best. you really shouldn't consider yourself that extraordinary. you're still a woman, even after years of study.

god forbid you are not a pretty woman, but if you are pretty, you must be dumb. god forbid you are not ablebodied or white or cis or straight or good at swallowing. you must be beneath a man, or else they are not a man. the equation for masculinity seems to just be: that which is not a woman or womanly (god forbid). anything "feminine" is thereby anathema. to engage in "feminine" things such as therapy, getting a hug from a friend, or crying - it is giving up ones manhood. therefore women need to be put in their place to ensure that masculinity is protected.

this is something i have struggled to explain to terfs - they are not doing the work of feminism, but rather the patriarchy. by asserting that women and men must be (on some secret level) oppositional and in conflict, they also assume that being a woman is akin to being another species. but bigotry does not stem from observational truths or clarity - that is what makes it bigotry. there was nothing in my childhood that made me fundamentally different from my brother. we are treated differently nonetheless. to assert there is some biological drive that enforces my gender role is to assert that women have a gendered role. men do not see women as equal to them not because of biological reality - but instead because the core tenant of the patriarchy is that women aren't full, realized people.

we are told from a very young age to excuse misbehavior as a single man's choice - not all men. it is not all men, just that one guy. all women are gold-digging bitches who belong in the kitchen - but if a man is mean, bigoted, or violent to you, it's just that particular guy, and that means nothing about men-as-a-whole. it is only one guy who got mad when you gently rejected him. it is only one guy who warns her this trophy is heavy, are you sure you can hold it? it is only one guy who smashes her face into the cake. it is only one guy talking into a mic about hating our bodily autonomy.

i have just found that they often wait until the moment we actually seem to be upstaging them. you sit in a meeting where you're presenting your own findings and he says get me a coffee? or you run to the end of the marathon and are about to finish first and he pushes your kids out in front of you. you win the chess game and they make some comment akin to well, you're ugly away. we can be the billionaire and get the dream life and finally fucking do it and yet! still! they have this strange, visceral urge to say well actually, if you think you're so great -

it's not one just one guy. it's one in eight.

[thirdtimed]

beautiful grianful world.. links to all the artists' profiles under the cut :D

linktoo-doodles

jellitchi

avo0930

alienssstufff

cherrifire

grianhate

luniise

tibbycaps

skimmeh

pippeinnit

i linked everyones tumblrs if they had one, otherwise it leads to twitter!

[boigrlking]

Every day I sit in my cubicle and listen to young women in the office come flirt with the guy who sits behind me.