stanning is not letting a character get away with anything they way. stanning a character is being fixated on what they do and, perhaps most importantly, why they do it. stanning a character means when they do horrible shit you do not excuse it. you understand it. stanning a character means picking apart their foundations and their arcs and figuring out how and why they get from point a to point z. stanning a character means not shying away from the things that you wish you didn’t see. these characters are supposed to be human: they fuck up, they fall, the stab people in the back, they feel too much or too little and it makes them make all the wrong moves, they make excuses for their behavior, they are weak and they are strong. this is fiction; this is how it works. if our characters were perfect then they wouldn’t be interesting. the primary thing i have learned this year, which has been a stanning year if there ever was one, is that i am absolutely obsessed with narrative arcs about people who try to be better than they are. fandom, apparently, doesn’t like those people, because those people fuck up a lot, and they tend to be the heroes (no one likes the heroes; some shit about being whiny or whatever anyone who calls lee adama whiny needs to come talk to me) and fandom, from what i can gather anyway, doesn’t know what to do with heroes, because heroes, well-constructed anyway, fuck up a lot, feel too much when they’re expected to feel little, have this mission they don’t necessarily know how to balance on but feel compelled to balance on because of something that’s just inside them. i love those kinds of people. they are my favorite people.
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Alycia hated Teen Wolf but promised she’d marathon the season 1 DVDs with me if I made a stupid video. This is that video.
p.s. post-marathon, she is converted
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![I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you’re not a dessert person — that’s just weird and it freaks me out. And I’m sorry I don’t talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pant-suit: I wish it had ribbons on it or something to make it just slightly cuter. And that doesn’t mean I’m not smart and tough and strong. […] I’m about to go and pay this $800 fine and my cheques have baby farm animals on them, bitch.
#um this show is fine and so is jess but this scene is AWFUL #structuring the ep so that this speech comes right after she wastes julia’s time by pleading guilty right away? #after julia helps her out for free even though they’re not friends? #and we’ll see later on that julia’s work time is really hectic already? #like really show? you want me to feel triumphant for jess here? #also the VERY NEXT EPISODE was about nick ragging on jess for her sunshiney positivity and um i didn’t see that whole episode descend int… #…into a half hour examination of how deficient he is at making ~female friendships #and how he just needs a crochet session with the girls to get over his internalised misogyny whut?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqoq56vBJ1r30u2jo1_500.gif)
I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you’re not a dessert person — that’s just weird and it freaks me out. And I’m sorry I don’t talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pant-suit: I wish it had ribbons on it or something to make it just slightly cuter. And that doesn’t mean I’m not smart and tough and strong. […] I’m about to go and pay this $800 fine and my cheques have baby farm animals on them, bitch.
#um this show is fine and so is jess but this scene is AWFUL #structuring the ep so that this speech comes right after she wastes julia’s time by pleading guilty right away? #after julia helps her out for free even though they’re not friends? #and we’ll see later on that julia’s work time is really hectic already? #like really show? you want me to feel triumphant for jess here? #also the VERY NEXT EPISODE was about nick ragging on jess for her sunshiney positivity and um i didn’t see that whole episode descend int… #…into a half hour examination of how deficient he is at making ~female friendships #and how he just needs a crochet session with the girls to get over his internalised misogyny whut?
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diff-er-ent date ev-er-y night
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BBC Irene Adler ›
trying to write a response to a post about BBC Irene Adler and how I will cut anyone who says that being a dominatrix somehow diminishes her character, and I just
FEELINGS
because this isn’t Victorian England anymore; the public debate isn’t about how intelligent women are, or whether women should be allowed the vote, or etc.
nowadays more openly and explicitly than ever, feminism vs. misogyny is a fight in which women’s literal, actual bodies are the battleground
it’s about the right to choose, and contraception, and sex, and body policing and gender policing and slut-shaming and how to even exist as real, full human beings and not objects when everything from the male-gaze saturated media to legislative fuckery says: we own you, we assert ownership over your body
when the ugly, repulsive, retrograde question that is still being asked in all seriousness is: what are women FOR?
and Irene Adler steps up with her riding crop and her wardrobe full of battle regalia and says: my body is mine, my sexuality is mine, my gender performativity is mine, FUCK YOU I DO WHAT I WANT
because her narrative is explicitly about power and control and performativity
because she owns everything about herself, because from her website photos to her costuming (or lack thereof) to her measurements to her ridiculous moaning text alerts, you never see anything except what she wants you to see
what she controls
you cannot own her body by looking at it, you cannot own her body simply by slotting it into your assumptions about the world, you cannot even own her body by paying her, because when you engage Irene Adler to dominate you not only are you literally submitting to her but you are surrendering up a part of yourself, a part of your sexuality, maybe a part that’s been a secret from everyone else; you are making yourself vulnerable
and of course there is the negotiated aspect of BDSM, the explicit consent, the fact that nobody gets to come along and impose their expectations on Irene Adler, that your assumptions about sexual roles and scripts and what women ought to do or be in sexual situations are invalid, because with Irene Adler, you negotiate that script together beforehand
her body is hers and nobody else’s; her body is her weapon, and if her ownership of it and control of it and her power over what others would impose on her - their gaze, their assumptions, their arrogance and reductiveness, their stupid notions of who and what she is and that she can be owned and controlled -
if that isn’t an appropriate update to the character of Irene Adler qua a big old FUCK YOU to contemporary misogynist thinking, then I don’t know what is
except then of course it all goes to shit in the last ten or so minutes of the episode
NO
why wOULD YOU
WHY
I HATE YOU STEVEN MOFFAT
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hedislimanefortarget:everyonesyawning:
All that pent up tension — how do you let off steam?
Louis: Harry likes to pull his trousers down.
Harry: Louis!
Louis: Yeah, you do Harry. You’re always getting your butt out!
Niall: Yeah, this lot think it’s funny to come into my room and spray me in the face with a fire extinguisher.
Louis: I’ve been asleep before and Harry has hit me round the head with his penis. It actually wrapped around my whole face — who wouldn’t be envious of that?Hey, remember this? Just gonna bring it right back.
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Artist: one direction
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Chrissie asked Niall to read an entry from her childhood diary… ‘Chrissie’s First Bra’
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