Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

blackpaint20: Wolfgang Burgmer

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:30 -0400

blackpaint20:

Wolfgang Burgmer

sirkowski: o_O

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:25:23 -0400

sirkowski:

o_O

sirkowski: BITCH, HOW AM I GONNA WATCH PORN?!?

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:29 -0400

sirkowski:

BITCH, HOW AM I GONNA WATCH PORN?!?

whedoniteforever: scootaloo-pootaloo: scottishtempertantrum: h...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:15 -0400

whedoniteforever:

scootaloo-pootaloo:

scottishtempertantrum:

her little face jkhgkfyfh j

One good thing about this movie: he could have said “no, shooting arrows is not for little girls” but instead he said “no, shooting with that big bow is not for little girls. use this small one.” i think that’s fantastic.

I don’t even like this movie but the badass messages in it make me very happy.

sirkowski: majestical-beast: sueting: electroego: and they...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:43 -0400

sirkowski:

majestical-beast:

sueting:

electroego:

and they say gay marriage is unnatural

i’m screaming so hard right now ^

…what…?

I’m convinced now that most Christians have never even read a bible…

Seriously, she just doesn’t want to fuck him and found a “good” bullshit excuse. And he’s probably gay.

Why aren't more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:42:59 -0400

lesbo-deluxe:

monetizeyourcat:

dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

holy shit!

that’s fucking awesome

sbeskimo: this frightens me so much

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:40:15 -0400

sbeskimo:

this frightens me so much

passerkirbius: I heartily endorse this comic. (via Maximumble -...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:38:54 -0400

passerkirbius:

I heartily endorse this comic.

(via Maximumble - #480 – Dolled)

psychoticpingouins: 48 years ago a girl said “oh fuck me” to her best friend while walking in the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:19 -0400

psychoticpingouins:

48 years ago a girl said “oh fuck me” to her best friend while walking in the street, a guy who randomly passed by answered by “let me at least buy you dinner first”. I present to you my grandparents, in love since then and celebrating their 47 years of marriage today.

ami-angelwings: I think people should have to get psychiatric, medical and government permission to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:52 -0400

ami-angelwings:

I think people should have to get psychiatric, medical and government permission to be transphobic. Also, make sure your spouse, family and friends approve too. We wouldn’t to upset their lives by your selfish and rash decision to be transphobic would we?

And before you get a diagnosis of transphobia, you need to go through the real life test where you have to live a year with everybody knowing you’re a transphobe but you’re not allowed to do or say transphobic things.

And your therapist will have to make sure you really want to be a transphobe too. And ask you if maybe you’d be okay with just being a homophobe. Also, how long have you had these feelings of transphobia? Did you have them as a child? Did you wear transphobic slogans on your clothes as a child?

And if you want to go all the way with your transphobia, you’re going to need 2 doctor’s notes and about $20,000.

rampagey: professorkink: Cosplaying without me, YBG? Quality...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:28:05 -0400

rampagey:

professorkink:

Cosplaying without me, YBG?

Quality cosplay.

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:18:46 -0400

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink:

eschergirls:

I often tell people that I’m the biggest self-aware misogynist I know.

I was writing a scene last night between a woman general and the man she helped put on the throne. I started writing in some romantic tension, and realized how lazy that was. There are other kinds of tension.

I made a passing reference to sexual slavery, which I had to cut. I nearly had him use a gendered slur against her. I growled at the screen. He wanted to help save her child… no. Her brother? Ok. She was going to betray him. OK. He had some wives who died… ug. No. Close advisors? Friends? Maybe somebody just… left him?

Even writing about societies where there is very little sexual violence, or no sexual violence against women, I find myself writing in the same tired tropes and motivations. “Well, this is a bad guy, and I need something traumatic to happen to this heroine, so I’ll have him rape her.” That was an actual thing I did in the first draft of my first book, which features a violent society where women outnumber men 25-1. Because, of course, it’s What You Do.

I actually watched a TV show recently that was supposedly about this traumatic experience a young girl went through, but was, in fact, simply tossed in so that the two male characters in the show could fight over it, and argue about which of them was at fault because of what happened to her. It was the most flagrant erasure of a female character and her experiences that I’d seen in some time. She’s literally in the room with them while they fight about it, revealing all these character things about them while she sort of fades into the background.

We forget what the story’s about. We erase women in our stories who, in our own lives, are powerful, forthright, intelligent, terrifying people. Women stab and maim and kill and lead and manage and own and run. We know that. We experience it every day. We see it.

But this is our narrative: two men fighting loudly in a room, and a woman snuffling in a corner.

This is a really interesting article about the way media, fiction and narratives repeated in society shape the way we see and assume reality to be, specifically (in this case) about how narratives about women being victims, or supporting men, but not being fighters or soldiers create the idea that women never did that, and it’s only a modern new thing that we think they could, when in fact that’s not true at all.

Also, specifically relevant to this blog are the parts about how that affects us when we create stories ourselves, and can end up adding to this narrative consciously and subconsciously. It’s the same with how women are depicted in illustrated fiction. I honestly don’t think a lot of the boobs and butt poses, or women in bikini armor, are drawn by people consciously thinking sexist thoughts, I think they’re just doing What You Do. This is a female character, this is just the pose we’re used to seeing women in. We don’t think twice about drawing her like that, because it’s just how we’ve become conditioned to seeing women pose in the medium. Same with stuff like this. It’s how we’re used to seeing female armor, and when we think “female warrior”, our imagination just instinctively runs in the direction of what we’re used to seeing. It’s just What You Do with female armor, and female characters, and female poses.

Since starting Escher Girls, I’ve gotten quite a lot of mail from people telling me that they never realized just how often they put their female characters in boobs and butt poses, or gave them bikini armor, just because that’s how they saw women drawn in video games and comics and never thought twice about it. It’s just what seemed “right” to them, and that they’re now a lot more conscious of it and try to have more variety in the way they depict women, and often in ways that make more sense to the story. :)

I think it’s just important to catch ourselves sometimes and think are we creating something because this fits what we’re doing, and this makes sense, or are we just doing What You Do? (This applies to all sorts of tropes and stereotypes too.)

rampagey: necrophilofthefuture: this-is-not-jewish: thearcanet...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:06:18 -0400

rampagey:

necrophilofthefuture:

this-is-not-jewish:

thearcanetheory:

mildrose:

simpliss:

i-said-adventure:

as-adorable-derps-do:

j-wolf-harding:

demons:

The immediate reaction of German POWs upon watching uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps.

People often forget that most of the German troops had no idea about what was going on, they weren’t all fanatic Nazis bent on genocide, they were just regular soldiers who answered the call when their country went to war.

^ This

THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG

wow

im speechless

NO NO NO NO

FUCK THIS SHIT

THE GERMAN CITIZENS KNEW

THEY KNEW

The ghettos happened in cities, the apartheid laws happened under their noses, Jews were rounded up under their noses THEY FUCKING KNEW

Death camps and concentration camps were built WITHIN CITY LIMITS. Auschwitz, for example, is well within the city, and people take fucking strolls under its walls. I was fucking THERE, don’t even. The Polish knew, the Germans knew, it was LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE not to know. It’s even in the historical record, it’s even in fucking civilian diaries, THEY KNEW.

I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS REVISIONIST BULLSHIT.

^This.

Sorry not sorry, German apologists, but what you’re seeing in this photo isn’t shock, it’s guilt. Richly deserved, completely merited GUILT. So take your, “Aw, those innocent little German soldiers, poor babies,” revisionist shit and shove it back up your collective ass.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard

THANK YOU.

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:37 -0400

mrfatcakes: baconmane: worldofstuckcraft: theinterwebsseries: ...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:46:59 -0400

mrfatcakes:

baconmane:

worldofstuckcraft:

theinterwebsseries:

Tumblr freaked out at first but then she realized it’s really not that bad.

I like this. Confused Ms. Yahoo..

bahahahaha i ship it

WHY HASN’T ANYONE MADE SHIPPING ART OUT OF THIS YET

Reblog if you love to write.

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:59:44 -0400

Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.

siggymcpissyface:

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:59:48 -0400

siggymcpissyface:

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:39:36 -0400

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store:

neil-gaiman:

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

It’s my SF short story (currently being adapted into a film by Hedwig’s own John Cameron Mitchell) it’s free, and comes along with an OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE preview — you can read the first 3 chapters, a month before publication. It’s up on Amazon now and you can download it to your Kindle or, if you do not have a Kindle, to Kindle software on your computer, phone, tablet etc.

Feel very free to spread this one around.

In the UK, that’s http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/B00C2UUJX4?tag=adapas-21 instead, or at Google Play for Books at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=SP1Mzpj9F1IC

honeyfarms: by maru

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:25:02 -0400

honeyfarms:

by maru

hamburglarorgasms: captain-smack-pigeon replied to your post: Tumblr or joined yahoo and they think...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:16 -0400

hamburglarorgasms:

captain-smack-pigeon replied to your post: Tumblr or joined yahoo and they think they are going to delete nsfw stuff! Spread the word!

It’s because of this thing that Yahoo has where apparently you can’t post any NSFW content on any part of the site or it’s affiliates. By proxy, that means tumblr can’t have NSFW content either. How true this is can only be determined later.

That’s not quite accurate. Yahoo’s TOS states that it is not responsible for any content that a user using the Yahoo Services encounters. And here is the list of contents Yahoo’s TOS actually forbids:

a. upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;

…as well as harmful to minors, infringing on copyright laws, etc.

now, porn could be classified as obscene, I suppose. But the fact is that Yahoo’s Terms of Service are talking about the Yahoo Services. While bought by Yahoo, Tumblr is technically not part of these services. It is exempt from this.

Now, is there still a problem? Could Yahoo attempt to scrub porn from Tumblr?

Sure they could - not from a TOS standpoint but from a profitability standpoint. They are trying to monetize Tumblr, after all. But there are ways they could do this without having to touch the porn. Users decide what blogs they decide to follow, and the content they see all appears on one place - the Dashboard. Advertising on the Dashboard is a totally neutral zone, theoretically. Generally you have to seek out the porn to find it if you don’t follow NSFW blogs. And the people who do obviously don’t care about seeing smut! Here’s an article that kinda discusses that.

Now I could be totally wrong about this myself but whatever. I’m a little guarded but overall not too worried about it. If the situation develops and things take a turn for the worse then we’ll deal with that as it comes.

Personally I’m more worried about Tumblr going the way of Geocities; that Yahoo handles it poorly and starts to have massive losses and shuts Tumblr down because of it. Not because of the content on Tumblr itself.

But I’m an idiot so don’t listen to me.

Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

blackpaint20: Wolfgang Burgmer

sirkowski: o_O

sirkowski: BITCH, HOW AM I GONNA WATCH PORN?!?

whedoniteforever: scootaloo-pootaloo: scottishtempertantrum: h...

sirkowski: majestical-beast: sueting: electroego: and they...

Why aren't more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

sbeskimo: this frightens me so much

passerkirbius: I heartily endorse this comic. (via Maximumble -...

psychoticpingouins: 48 years ago a girl said “oh fuck me” to her best friend while walking in the...

ami-angelwings: I think people should have to get psychiatric, medical and government permission to...

rampagey: professorkink: Cosplaying without me, YBG? Quality...

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

rampagey: necrophilofthefuture: this-is-not-jewish: thearcanet...

Photo

mrfatcakes: baconmane: worldofstuckcraft: theinterwebsseries: ...

Reblog if you love to write.

siggymcpissyface:

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

honeyfarms: by maru

hamburglarorgasms: captain-smack-pigeon replied to your post: Tumblr or joined yahoo and they think...

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink