Steve Rogers got a shield and used it as a ranged weapon instead of a barrier. Peggy Carter got a shield and used it as a blunt force weapon instead of a barrier. What I’m saying is they’re both batshit crazy and those reckless freaks deserve each other
friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You’re correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.
tumblr tuesday: something something something, we win.
Everyone’s being entirely normal about one scrunkly meow meow dad and his very gender sidekick 🤘
We’ve tried to be as spoiler-free as possible here, but if you haven’t seen Nimona, go watch it and then come back for the pretty art, we promise you will have no regrets.
not to be problematic but i literally do not give a shit about age gaps when dating vampires. they thirst for your blood. “but it’s predatory!!!!” yeah. it is. “they’re preying on you!!!” they’re vampires. they do that. “it’s a power imbalance!!!!!!” what part of vampires are you not getting
they eat people and can turn into bats and crawl around on walls, lizard fashion, and can hypnotize you with your eyes. a) the age gap is not the creepy part and b) the creep factor is kinda the appeal
they don’t age. that’s part of the horror of it actually. would you accept eternal life, if you can never progress? can never grow or change? you’ll live forever, eternal youth, but frozen exactly as you are now. you will never become the person you’re meant to be. you are trapped in the mind of a 17-year-old forever. also ‘theoretically old if you disregard the fact that he’s a vampire’ doesn’t even make the top 20 worst things about edward cullen list. girl he’s mormon. prioritize
I was nodding along with this the whole time until that last sentence, which hit me like a folding chair
my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion
It’s so funny getting into heated discussions about reading preference styles with some people. I’m in a Discord group chat, and the topic of different POVs in fiction came up, and it was apparently a popular opinion in the group that multiple POVs in a book is “garbage” and “hot trash.”
I kind of laughed it off as a funny quirk, then mentioned I couldn’t relate because I find singular POVs to be extremely dull and a major turn-off when it comes to reading. But y'know, to each their own. Brains like what they like.
The temperature of the group chat got noticeably chillier, and I was informed curtly that several people in the group write singular POVs and I should think before I speak.
I said I know, just like they know I write multiple POVs, but they felt fine trashing that.
“Well, that’s different.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re a fluke. No one likes reading multiple POVs.”
Oh-kay. Again, I didn’t want to get heated over it and again reiterated that not everyone’s writing style will vibe for everyone. I then helpfully added, “It’s like, y'know. I don’t particularly enjoy first-person narratives, either. They feel juvenile to me, probably because they’re predominant in a lot of YA lit, and it’s jarring to read in adult fic. Doesn’t mean it’s bad; it just means I don’t like it.”
Anyway. I’ll let you know when they’re done burning me at the stake.
I arrive at the Group Chat Multiple POVs in the book. Narrative third personed. Tits out. I am forcibly removed from the Chat.
It’s been a scant few hours, and I’ve been sitting back from the comfort of another group chat (immediately got added into another one, lmao), watching the original group chat burn via relayed messages, but you’ll be amused to know that as soon as I was booted they @’d ‘everyone’ to let them know I’d been booted for being “disrespectful to the group” (lol) and that the group was a “safe space.”
Which others immediately pointed out was false because while the original instigators were being outright mean about styles of writing, I’d been polite and very gently tried to steer them away from shitting on the writing style of other people within the group.
My gentle nudge was viewed with hostility and treated like an attack because, apparently, it’s only a safe space provided you agree with them.
It’s also since been brought to my attention that their initial mean-girl act might actually have been staged to try and make another author feel bad because she’d just found an agent and was really excited about her book being optioned.
Basically, it was sour grapes.
They were trying to make it feel like less of an achievement by saying her style of writing (multiple POV with limited 3rd person narrative) wasn’t good, and no one would like it. “It’s common and trashy,” etc etc. That kind of thing.
What they did not bank on was me speaking up and pointing out that their opinion was not a fact and that just because we don’t like something doesn’t make it bad. I basically ruined their attempt at bullying this other woman, and they didn’t like that.
If this kind of behavior is making you think they’re all young, barely out of their teens, you’d be forgiven, but alas, many of them are my age and older with kids.
Some people just never grow out of peaking as the high school bully, it seems.
Anyway, new group formed.
Different types of writing styles respected and uplifted.
I have been slowly reading your Gwen & Priest Miguel fanfiction. It's a really brilliant work. Where did the idea come from in the first place? Additionally I would like to ask if you have any music playlist you listened to while writing?
omg thank you so much! so idk where the idea came from. i think i was watching fleabag for the first time and that confessional booth scene did something god awful to my synapses and here we are lmao. ive also always loved the intersection of science and god as a theme and this gave me a chance to kind of put miguel in this box where he’s this brilliant scientist using his very real faith as a coping mechanism or a shield for his grief and his guilt. he’s irish and mexican so it’s like, double catholic powers activate, boom.
and i wanted to do something a bit different from most of the other fandom content ive seen regarding him??? idk how to say it without like, coming off like im being a dick, but there’s a lot of like “spanish speaking papi” stuff and man, i just…. yeah uh
i also just really like the idea of gwen as this take no shit, scrappy little abandonment issues twenty something who will fight you for a corn chip and secretly yearns to be loved and accepted.
music playlist: i have an instrumental writing playlist on spotify i really like, but usually i just listen to the same artists over and over– lately its been noah kahan, sleeping at last, the indigo girls, marcus mumford, and max richter
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW
op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light
Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:
Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.
Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.
It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.
Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.
So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.
Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman
I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and
It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen
It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage
It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own
Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”
I’m having some emotions about it!
“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”
Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!
We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!
God I’m not okay about it
Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.
I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3
Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:
I mean, will you LOOK at this:
This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:
There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.
OTW elections are coming up and if you’ve donated $10 in the last year, you’ll be receiving a ballot in August. Audrey Richards is a GOP candidate who’s been involved in efforts to “save children” from queer media, so for the love of all that’s holy DO NOT VOTE FOR HER.
Inspired by Shuri’s Djalia Arc in the comics, where she transcended to the Wakandan Plane of Memory after sacrificing herself and entering a death-like coma.
A small what if Shuri does go through that and Namor brings her back with the help of Manifold (Eden Fesi).
Leading to them finally reuniting after a period of time not knowing whether or not they will see each other again.
