#also no worries !!!

[bestboy-huan]

The girlboss-ification of Galadriel bothers me so much. In the books, in Tolkien’s works, Galadriel is a powerful political leader, even by the second age. She is a princess of the Noldor, the daughter of Finarfin. She is proud and respected.

In the Rings of Power, she is nothing more than a bitter commander in Gil-Galad’s army. She can’t even control her own subordinates. (They call her “Commandeer Galadriel” not “Lady Galadriel”!) She is ignored by Gil-Galad and condescended to by Elrond, she is dismissed and rebuked. She has no influence and no status of her own. So far in the show, her motivation is just vengeance and her own trauma, there is no greater consideration of the fate of Middle-Earth, no political aspirations, no nothing. Her identity becomes one of being Finrod’s little sister, not a leader of her own.

In the Unfinished Tales, there are many inconsistencies in Galadriel’s history, but none of them suggest this powerlessness and this humiliation.

I don’t care if they make her out to be a warrior or not, I don’t care if she leads people into battle or not, I do care about her political power.

They say they are centering female characters, which would be great, except they are disempowering her. I would much rather see a woman in a position of influence and respect, than one who is good with a sword. This is Galadriel, who refused Feanor, one of the greatest elves of all time, when he asked for a strand of her hair, and in Rings of Power she becomes a cast-away who is thrown around, ignored, and manhandled by those around her.

I understand the need to have room for character development and growth, but this is not that. It’s such a performative attempt at feminism, she is a classic 2010 female protagonist. One who is good at fighting, who is the underdog, who doesn’t allow herself to be kind or gentle or have emotional vulnerability, because the writers forgot what female empowerment actually looks like. A woman with dignity and political power is so much more important than a woman who can carry a sword.

[yonglixx]

i'm so sad cause i was so close to presale tickets for milan and it slipped away. i still can fight on monday but im so nervous and im crying all day. it would be my first time seeing kids and i really hope i can get them. i feel like shit today :( sorry for venting! <3

aww i’m sorry love :( i hate that you have to fight for your life to get a ticket but i do hope you get them , sending you good vibes ♥️♥️

[dreamingblacktabby]

Ravenpaw and Barley cuddling please! (this is the RavenBarley anon sorry abt how I forgot to mention what I wanted them doing!)

[bobatealie-archived]

hello! how are you? sorry i’m dry fishdnskjdj

HEY AMY !!! im doing well just getting ready to go out in a bit jwksjdkds

[bemamar]

You are right, also lot of people think even the abuser hit your body or face they think the bruises has to be like you got a fight with a gang leader, I do remember being beaten and do remember it hurt a lot but cannot remember if I had bruises or not only remember it had hurt my body a lot which made me question myself when I saw people says about Amber bruises that they are not that bad, so the idea that few bruises means not abuse is bad

And also idea that abuse cannot be emotional abuse is truly bad, I think we need more awareness of type of abuse, I am sure there’s other type of abuse I myself might not be aware of too, maybe these topics need to be teach in schools ?? - sorry for my English - I think emotional abuse sometimes can be little more difficult for victims as well because it’s hard to give someone prove that this person emotionally abused you or something, I am glad tho many people who support Amber shared good awareness about abuse more.

                      First of all, I'm so sorry that happened to you. And yes, absolutely, people treat it almost like a competition really and it's sickening. I've been really trying to draw attention to it, because I feel it's really important that people stop arguing over editing pictures and make up, and realize / are taught that even if he had never hit her, he would had still abused her. I talked aspects of that here, here and here, and even here. The thing is that the point of physical abuse is yes, to hurt the victim physically, but most importantly to terrorize them psychologically and emotionally, because that's how you actually control and keep someone, it's a tool. It's not about the physical pain, it's about the violation, the humiliation, the fear, the feeling of helplessness, the anxiety etc. All of those things that will add to someone doubting themselves and make them even more vulnerable to the emotional/psychological abuse. And you don't even need to actually hit someone to cause those, the simple act of consistently threatening someone can do that (I was very often threatened as a child and even as an adult for ex, and my body had/has the same reactions to it as to violence itself). That is also why abusers who physically abuse also destroy things a lot of the times, emotionally it's the same result for the victim, because the things you treasure become an extension of you.

It kind of scares me to think of schools trying to educate kids, not because I think they shouldn't, I really really really think people should actually learn about it, and yes even from an early age, but it just scares me to think of it getting even more twisted somehow. I don't know what the answer is here. I just know that watching how little people actually know or care about abuse in real time has been extremely hurtful for me (and I imagine to all survivors). There's just, so much to say about this that I couldn't cover it all, really, nor do I pretend to be able to. One of the hardest parts is that there are also professionals out there like the woman who "diagnosed" Amber who also make this all even more difficult and muddy. I can't simply say go ask a professional how it works, because it needs to be someone who, again, actually knows what they're talking about, someone who specializes on the field, someone who has credentials, someone trustworthy. It's all a mess and, meanwhile, people distill it down to "if there weren't bruises, or if the bruises were fake, then she wasn't abused." That is why this will remain the most horrific and damaging part of all of this to me.

[chase-prairie]

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

[viilpstick]

ignore why you were unfollowed by me I have no clue what that was BUT BARDS SWEETIE I SAW THAT VILS CARD AND I RUSHED TO SEE IF U KNOW LIKE ONG OMG

share Ur man pls pls I beg

i bite, no/j

IKNOW RIGHT

HE IS

AIOJXOI3EJKJKA3O,3O,49X WORDS

WORDS THAT I DON'T HAVE

CAN'T USE

BUT OH THE THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WAS ALONE IN A ROOM WITH THIS MAN

OMFG.....

[princeperiwinkle]

realizing a month before our wedding that i am probably gonna have a panic attack at our wedding.

[chloesimaginationthings]

William Afton into the FNAF-verse

[langernameohnebedeutung]

If tumblr dies we should all regroup on vivino the wine-rating app. Can follow, can like, can post pictures, can post text. Just mention a Pinot and Chianti for the first few months until we outnumber the genuine wine people

[antimony-ore]

Sorry for my intense reaction too, here’s a cat on a local supermarket as something to cheer you up

I hope this cat can feel the love I radiate for it

[yonglixx]

here they all are! hyung line, maknae line, and all together! i got lix back from my mom for this haha

also ignore the papers on my desk and the shitty lighting my only lamp in my room is on the other side and im relying on my window but its raining out 😔

ohhhhh these are so nice i actually am waiting for some of mine to arrive i believe i have this bluelix too hehe also proud of you for reclaiming lix 😂😂

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[ikiprian]

Mr. Fenton is a competent teacher. Almost too competent.

If Mr. Daniel Fenton had any more than a BS (with a minor in education), Tim would’ve flagged his profile as a potential Rogue. That’s the way of most charismatic academics, at least in Gotham. (Got a PhD? Instant watchlist.) Instead, he’s Gotham Academy’s newest celebrity, as a young, passionate, out-of-towner substitute while the chemistry teacher’s on maternity leave.

Tim gets the hype. Fenton seems to genuinely love teaching, and is invested in the welfare of the student body. He hands out bananas during exam week, hosts a “study habits seminar” each month to coach effective learning strategies, and the third time Tim falls asleep in his class, he even pulls Tim aside to ask if he’s doing okay. With all the late work he accepts and the protein bars he sneaks Tim, he’s every teen vigilante’s dream teacher. He could’ve been Tim’s favorite.

In fact, Mr. Fenton was Tim’s favorite. Up until Tim walks into Mr. Fenton’s chemistry classroom for a forgotten textbook, an hour after the final bell.

On the board where tallied scores for today’s review game had been kept, “THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DR. CRANE’S FEAR GAS: ANXIOGENICS, NERI’S, & YOU,” is now scrawled. A detailed diagram of the human endocrine system projects in front of a small crowd of adoring and attentive students.

Fenton is wrist-deep in the skull cavity of an anatomical model. A short tug, and out pops the brain.

It’s plastic. It’s fake.

Tim identifies the nearest emergency exit.

Fenton turns to the door, and in the dark classroom with the projector illuminating half his face, his eyes almost seem to flash red. “What’s up, Tim?” he asks. His friendly grin is too big for his face. “I didn’t know you wanted to join the Just Science League!”

[OR: Danny’s a science teacher at Tim’s school. Gotham’s a pretty wild place, even for someone who grew up a superhero in a ghost-infested town, so he takes it upon himself to start a club teaching kids how to manage themselves in the event of a crisis. These Gothamites are pretty hardy, but a little extra training never hurt anybody! And he suspects one of his students might be a teen vigilante, like he’d been, back in the day. As a senior super, it's Danny’s duty look out for him! Surely, this is the subtlest and most appropriate way to give the kid pointers.]

[Tim immediately assumes supervillain.]

[cor-lapis]

Genuinely how did he go to jail for water crimes in the WRONG COUNTRY