ugh
saw a post with a quote that basically tidily summed up the rebuttal i'd half-started drafting to someone's post about how homosociality in tolkien ~queers amatonormativity~ [spoiler: on the contrary, male homosociality has been engaged in a three-way handshake with both misogynist heterosexuality and amatonormativity for literal millennia, and far from undermining them, more typically serves as essential reinforcement], so i was like, great, now i don't have to actually write that essay, i can just reblog this instead and tag it #tolkien! :)
but then, like a conscientious idiot, i went and dutifully looked up the book it was from, because i think it's irresponsible to cite excerpts whose context you aren't familiar with; and very predictably it turned out to be by a r*dfem and to make all sorts of claims abt so-called 'phallocratic culture' that i dislike, both as a trans person and ally myself and also as a logical thinker who can tell perfectly well from, you know, lived experience of our society that having a penis doesn't in fact confer ready social acceptance, never mind dominance, on people who don't otherwise look or act the part of a Proper Man, because ultimately what we reflexively defer to is a particular vibe, produced by a combination of physique and affect and other things besides, which may imply the presence of a penis but neither actually reveals nor necessitates one…
so like. ugh. probably i'm gonna have to write my own essay after all. :/
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have only watched 5 epis of HotD so i can’t really comment but it’s funny that one day i see a post of someone complaining that, apparently, some fans are loudly annoyed at Alicent being made more palatable and well intentioned instead of a Cersei 2.0 like that’s an unreasonable expectation to have, aaaaaand then the next day i see a gifset of Alicent asking someone to blind one of her rival’s sons, bc one of her sons was blinded, too 😂
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Henry was not acting from simple altruism or familial duty: with one daughter in the cradle and the other in disgrace, a marriageable Tudor teenager was decidely welcome. Shortly after Margaret [Douglas'] reappearance at court, Henry spoke with the French ambassador and told him he no longer wanted to wed his daughter Mary to Alessandro de Medici, the newly created Duke of Florence. She was still refusing to acknowledge his second wife and second daughter and Henry wanted to punish her. He might have added, although he did not, that he was reluctant to match Mary with a foreigner who might someday stage an invasion of England to claim the throne on her behalf.
But, he pointed out, he did have a niece, 'whom he keeps with the Queen his wife, and treats like a queen's daughter, and if any proposition were made for her, he would make her marriage worth as much as his daughter Mary's'.'
Ring, Morgan. 2017. So High a Blood : The Story of Margaret Douglas.
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im all negative bc i never do anything fun, I don't have any friends, and it seems like everyone always has something negative to say about me all the time (at work the patients and my one boss 🙄). it's hard to be positive when everything just feels so draining and nobody appreciates you. even my one preceptor was being a bitch to me the other day (WeLl I dOnT seE iT WrItTen AnYwHeRe). i dont get how people just feel so comfortable being rude to people like why is it so normalized i can't think of a single person i was mean to recently like wtf. and the one guy i was talking to on bumble hasnt responded to me today and i actually liked it and it was making me have hope for humanity. he's probably just busy but i hope he doesn't ghost me it would be nice to have a little fling or something to have fun. endure and survive i guess 🫡
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