Hands up if large groups of aggressively loud white boys in your vicinity freak you out
One of the things that bonds women, POC, and LGBTQA+ together: The fear of white men in numbers.
Where is the lie.
(Source: misandryad, via thepainofthesass)
Anonymous asked: 95-97?
Wheeeee, these are fun, I’m so easily amused. This thing again.
95. Last movie you watched?
STAR TREK BEYOND, and darling, it was a glorious experience.
96. Favourite actress?
I…um. Dunno. I’m watching Veronica Mars right now so my first impulse is Kristen Bell. Daisy Ridley is a good contender. Gina Torres. Lucy Lawless. Rinko Kikuchi. Charlize Theron and all the other women in Fury Road. The entire female cast of Star Trek. I don’t know, other people. It’s a long list.
97. Favourite actor?
…John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, the entire male cast of Star Trek. Tom Hardy. That’s…I’m not good at the favorite actor/actress questions, I hope this has been appropriately vague. I mostly based my answers on the roles that came up as favorites, I know basically jack about these people except that Daisy Ridley could deadlift me and has an open invitation to do so any day.
Anonymous asked: What's wrong with Gandhi?
Where do I begin?
- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.
- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.
- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.
- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.
- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.
- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.
- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.
- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.
- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.
- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.
Sources:
Websites: Women Suffer From Gandhi’s Legacy, People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick Chiles
Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was a piece of shit and I hate when people site him as this peaceful angelic type of dude..
#TEAMFUCKGANDHI
Anonymous asked: 87-91
Yay, more of these! I hope you’re all aware that I’m ruthlessly procrastinating, yes?
87. First person you talked to today?
Depending on whether Skype chat counts: either my mother (Skype) or my summer roommate (in person).
88. Last person you talked to today?
I am literally talking to Adler right now on chat, if that counts. Barring that, my summer roommate was the last human being I exchanged speech with.
89. Name a person you hate?
Ohhhh, well, the easy go-to is this dude named Sawyer, but I have worse grudges. Some of my cousins, maybe. My physics teacher from last semester, my health teacher from high school. A lot of teachers, actually, I have a bad track record with teachers.
90. Name a person you love?
My mom, my dad, Adler.
91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now?
Right this second? Low-key want to punch my orgo teacher for talking me into doing this internship that’s driving me insane. High-key want to punch Donald Trump, but c’est la vie, c’est la fucking vie. And I perpetually want to punch about forty people I knew in high school, my cousins, and all three of my grandparents. I think it would be cheaper and quicker than therapy. I also really want to punch the dude who called me baby on the street, I don’t like being catcalled. …I am a violent soul, okay.
Anonymous asked: 35-38
*bounces excitedly* I love when people do ask memes! Yay! From this thing!
35. Would you rather live without TV or music?
Um…is ‘neither’ an option? But seriously I’d probably say TV, on the stipulation that I could keep books, music, movies, and all other not-made-for-TV media. My ADHD ass needs distractions, I would maybe go clinically insane stuck in my own brain without lots of audiovisual input.
36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?
Honey, look, it you hand me someone grandstanding about how gay people are going to hell, or someone getting into a girl’s space without permission, or someone messing with someone based on their religion, and I am the ballsiest person this side of the Prime Meridian. That being said, I don’t tell people when I have crushes on them. This is helped by the fact that I’m a professional at emotional control and therefore generally don’t notice a crush as anything other than above-average levels of rambling until something drastic happens.
37. What do you say during awkward silences?
Depends. If I know the person well, I’ll come up with something truly bizarre like “Did you know that John Quincy Adams kept a pet alligator in his house during his presidency” or “Some people have a third set of false ribs in addition to the two that are standard issue” or “You are 50% genetically identical to a banana.” If it’s someone I don’t know or don’t trust not to mock me for being weird, I try to acquire some inner Zen and keep my mouth shut.
38. Describe your dream girl/guy?
Well, I’m flexible on the gender thing, but honestly? Someone who’s a bit of an asshole. Not someone mean or whatever, someone who’s enough of a dick to think that, for example, my jokes are funny, not just bitter. Someone with enough of a backbone to bicker with me, because it freaks me out when people are 100% acquiescent all the time. Someone with a good sense of humor and a nice laugh and appreciation for black humor, because I’m a cynic. Someone who understands that it’s not personal if I need a few hours to myself, who won’t fucking flip out on me if I say “this is a medical emergency and you are not bleeding out so frankly you’re not my priority right now.” Someone who’s willing to listen to me make commentary on my favorite movies, and willing to put up with my periodic episodes of sensory overload or food issues. Someone who shows actual interest in me physically and mentally but is still willing to stop if I seem uncomfortable, which I guess…is a pretty low bar, on further reflection. Oh well.
Anonymous asked: I wanna know more about the Hero and the Crown! i picked up McKinley's the blue sword one day but got distracted and for one reason or another never finished and now i'm trying to track her stuff down again
Oh, BABE, I’m actually jealous, I totally want to read Hero and the Crown again for the first time. Buckle up, this is going to be quite a book rec.
Okay, so so so so SO, first things first, I don’t blame you for getting distracted during The Blue Sword, it’s a little more political machinations and army tactics and training than Hero and the Crown. They take place in the same country, Damar, and they’re a set, but Blue Sword takes place hundreds of years later–to put it in perspective, Hero and the Crown happens in a time that’s still horses and knights and swordplay, whereas Blue Sword is a colonization, guns n’ steel, not quite up to telephones era. Aerin, the main character from Hero and the Crown, is a legend and revered folk hero to the Damarians of Blue Sword, because Aerin is AMAZING.
All right, so, Hero and the Crown is the story of Aerin Dragon-killer, first sol of Damar (first sol being the highest female rank except for being actually married to the king). Aerin is daughter of King Arlbeth and his witch-woman wife, who was the object of much suspicion from the country before her death, and even more suspicion afterward. So that suspicion all spills over onto Aerin, who is tall and gawky and not good at being a first sol–in fact, she’s so spectacularly bad at being a first sol that some of her cousins are fairly convinced she’s illegitimate. She breaks dishes just by being in the same room, she perpetually brings her sword (which she’s not supposed to have) and her saddle (which is for a warhorse rather than a lady’s pony) back to her chambers, she prefers to punch someone in the face rather than scheme, and, just to boot, she exhibits absolutely none of the royal line’s hereditary magic. Basically, Aerin sucks at being a first sol, which would be fine with her if everyone didn’t expect her to be a first sol all the time.
And then one day Aerin takes her sword and her second-hand warhorse and something called kenet that makes you fireproof and goes to kill a dragon, and she finds out that, while she sucks at being a first sol, she does NOT suck at dragon slaying. Events unfold from there. Aerin is stubborn and hot-tempered and snarky and willful, she is everything I ever wanted to be as a kid. Her perspective on life of “well THAT happened” is an absolute delight to read, and the world of Damar is glorious.
Other things I can guarantee you within the book include:
Other important characters include:
Basically: Hero and the Crown is amazing, buy it on Amazon here, and I love Robin McKinley like I love lungs, I don’t always think of it because it’s just there, and if you’re in the mood for any other vehemently delighted recs for McKinley’s books, I got you, hit me up.
Anonymous asked: 10-14
Heeeey, people are doing the thing, that’s so gratifying!
10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?
It was @twistedangelsays. It’s always her, unless it’s my mom.
11. What does the most recent text that you sent say?
“Also: literally what would they even do to him. He predates the CONCEPT of laws, let alone specific ones.” I’m not telling you what that’s about, I feel like leaving it at that will be funnier.
12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?
Roadside by Rise Against, Young Gods by Halsey, Delilah by Florence + the Machine, From Eden by Hozier, and Welcome to the Family by Avenged Sevenfold. Oh, and Hum Hallelujah by Fall Out Boy, which is ALWAYS one of my favorite songs.
13. Do you like it when people play with your hair?
YES. I mean, as long as it’s someone I know and trust. I am a pettable creature.
14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?
Luck, yes, especially in the capacity of “mine usually turns sour.” Miracles, also yes, because otherwise I would be really, really dead about four times over. Which I realize is kind of contradictory to the bad luck thing, but trust me here.
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sroloc--elbisivni asked: *whispers* your original fic slays me it is lovely and gorgeous and the characters are so alive and vivid and downright delightful would it be presumptuous to ask for some of your favorite headcanons re: Polaris characters?
H O N E Y, I love you so much right now, fucking YES you can ask me about my original writing. Original writing is everything to me, and my ridiculous gay revolutionaries are just…I love them a lot. Also the best part is that I’m the author, fuck the man, my headcanons are fucking CANON. OKAY. This got HELLA LONG, I’m so sorry, I ramble about this shit. Let this be a lesson about asking writers about their original characters: it leads to LENGTHY responses.