Eddie, posting on Tiktok: You know, I’m not the most attractive guy. I know that. But you know who is?
Eddie: My husband.
Eddie: And I’ve always thought, well. If he’s attracted to me than I must be alright, right?
Eddie: And then he’ll put on Star Trek and I’m reminded that not only does he have bad taste but he is so fucking horny for Patrick Stewart.
Eddie: Don’t get me wrong. Patrick Stewart is a fine looking man but *gestures to all of him but mainly his hair* what does that mean for me?
Eddie, nudging Steve: Babe, would I be hot if I have pointy ears and a fucked up haircut?
Steve, not looking away from the tv: You already have those things.
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Very frankly speaking, I think the rise in transradical feminism on this website is extremely predictable and is something I'm unfortunately really not surprised by at all.
We are in the midst of a particularly difficult time to be a trans woman on this website. Lots of people are feeling the need to validate themselves as much as humanly possible in response to real and targeted transphobic/transmisogynistic attacks. The response to it is snowballing into something socially + politically radical in the exact way I would expect a bunch of relatively insular, very online, Tumblr users would do though.
Because you know what? History repeats itself.
In my opinion this is all mirroring the way that transmedicalism rose in popularity in trans masculine spaces in the mid-2010's after 4chan raids came down particularly hard on "trenders"/"theyfabs" - who were all predominantly trans masculine and/or feminine afab nonbinary folks (who are once again the primary targets of this lateral aggression).
It was an extremely difficult time to be a trans masc, especially a trans mlm or feminine afab trans person, on Tumblr and in response people got really radical, lashed out at other trans people to validate themselves, and ran themselves into the ground doing it.
And it's happening again now in trans fem spaces after another round of extreme transphobia. It's deeply predictable.
(And to no one's surprise it's also predominantly White trans people who haven't unpacked their own privileges, again. Just like it was a decade ago. I know. I was there. It was White. I still have eyes. It's White again.)
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thinking more about John and.... at the end of HtN when he was interogating Wake, she wanted him to say her name. "i'll be dammed if i pass up the chance to hear you speak the words" and "they're dead words, a human chain reaching back ten thousand years": Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity.
and then she asks him "how did they make you feel?" and of course, John deflects.
but that's Aotearoa's national anthem in te reo Māori. and as we learn in NtN, John is Maori. that's his anthem. how must have that felt, to John? to hear his own anthem claimed by someone descended from the people who left his earth to die?
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achilles and patroclus; he is half of my soul as the poets say.
[original text in post: When you took Patroclus from Achilles— is this what he felt? When he saw him lifeless and pale and unmoving in another soldier's arms as they delivered the very reason he was here on earth—did he feel the ground move from under him? Did he feel time cease? Did he feel the way I do now? Out of breath, out of life, out of time, out of love. When you took his person, did he also want to dig a hell of his own?]
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