musingsofatiredmind:

wedgemccloud:

biggestniq:

pulpmother:

pulpmother:

Abusive men pave the way for lazy men to get wives and girlfirends.

Lemme clarify, how many times have you heard your overworked female friends and relatives say “Yeah, Jerry drinks beer every evening after work while I cook dinner and clean up after everyone and does the bare minimum to help me raise the kids but he’s such a nice guy. He’s never beat me in my life. I couldn’t ask for a better guy in my life.”

Like no, Sally, your husband is a common stone among turds and you know it.

I try to explain this conceptually to people as a thing that happens not saying that this is good but it’s a thing that happens.

This is what male privilege is and how all men benefit from it.

This is why you are not exempt from statements about “all men” even if you are overall good.

You benefit from the bar constantly being lowered by systemic issues within the gender.

The expectations on you are always lower than they should because “at least you’re not X”.

That…is the best response I’ve seen to the “not all men” thing. Thank you.

feynites:

I have no idea why Loki and Gamora, who actually know Thanos, both seem to think stabbing him would be a viable approach to assassinating him. I mean we see him beat Hulk in a fist fight, and weapons tend to break on Hulk, so. Seems logical to assume that the same is true of Thanos.

But let’s assume that Loki and Gamora also know something we don’t. Which is fair, if anyone would, it’d be Gamora especially. Thor’s axe is a magic, special weapon, but it does also slice into Thanos pretty damn good. So let’s say that Thanos is very resilient to blunt weapon attacks but actually has very low defense against slashing. That would also explain why he tends to wear armour a lot.

You could cut his head off. Split his skull. He mentions this to Thor.

But you could also cut his arm off.

The gauntlet doesn’t go all the way up. And honestly that just seems like a really obvious thing to attempt? I mean even if I didn’t know anything else about him apart from him having a scary-powerful magic glove, my first thought would be to cut off his arm.

And I find it difficult to believe that Thor, even in the midst of wanting to draw out Thanos’ death for revenge, wouldn’t have the same damn idea. We have seen Thor work to separate godly-powerful enemies from their weapons before. If he’s in a sadistic mood, do you know where I expect that axe to land?

Right on Thanos’ shoulder.

Can’t snap if you don’t have your arm anymore, motherfucker.

nuka-rockit:

someone: ugh i hate that the romance with the LI of my choice ends in a fade to black

me, having violent flashbacks to Dragon Age: Origins’ awkward campfire fucking: you know actually i dont mind that

codenamecesare:

I saw some #discourse go by about how adults shouldn’t be in fandom writing about younger characters because it’s uncomfortable and gross to younger people to have adults ‘thinking about them’ in romantic/sexual terms.

1, This is not a restriction that any writers in any other venue have to deal with, wtf, or the entire YA genre would be banished; 2, Excuse you, children of Tumblr, no one is thinking about you.

If other people in fandom are older than you, by definition, they have been your age. When fans write about younger characters, we’re not peering through a keyhole at young people now and creeping on them.

We are drawing on our own experiences, thoughts, feelings and memories of what it was like when we were that age.

No one has the right to ask older writers to cut themselves off from their own past just because young’uns don’t want to acknowledge that people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, all of them, were also young once. I’m 41, but I remember vividly what it was like to be 14. If I write a high school AU, it’s about my high school experience, even if I were to set it in the present day and decorate it with some (probably comically out of touch) Stuff The Kids Are Into Now. If I write a high school AU with sex, it’s because I remember that too! I’m not thinking about kids today, why would I– I have my own experiences to draw on. And honestly, sometimes there are things about being young that you don’t really understand until you’re much older and have some perspective– and that’s worth writing about.

If someone is genuinely a creeper, you’ll know, because they’ll ask you questions about you. But people who aren’t even directly interacting with you, who are just expressing themselves in fiction, are not a threat to you, and it’s not creepy for them to draw on their own experiences and their own past to write about younger characters.

risingemini:

Aries: Half sunshine, half hurricane

Taurus: Half gold, half roses

Gemini: Half midnight, half caffeine 

Cancer: Half compromise, half resilience 

Leo: Half laughter, half fire

Virgo: Half wisdom, half innocence 

Libra: Half love, selfishness 

Scorpio: Half fear, half dominance 

Sagittarius: Half ignorance, half determination 

Capricorn: Half isolation, half independence 

Aquarius: Half mystery, half liberty 

Pisces: Half memory, half future 

tredlocity:

Someone: A movie can’t be wholesome and dark at the same time. Those qualities are mutually exclusive.

Me: