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angelicguy:

We’re all just fucking beautiful meat-bags made of stardust on a giant rock hurling through space without any- *someone tells me there are no girls in the audience* oh. yo my dick weird

mocknot:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

My current favourite character in Breath of the Wild is Pikango, the incredibly shit artist who turns up around Hyrule to badly paint landscapes and hint me towards my lost memories. If you just talk to him, he seems to be this amazing and talented painter, but like if you look at the canvas

A still shot from the game. Pikango the artist is standing with his easel on display, Link to one side. Pikango is saying "Hmm. The volcano has a completely different face when viewed from this stable."  In the background, the volcano of Death Mountain is visible, distant but majestic. On the easel, Pikango's picture is like a child's painting from a nursery class, complete with an erupting mushroom cloud that is not actually there above the real mountain.ALT

I love him

Turns out someone on Reddit put together all of his paintings and the scenery they are supposed to be and it’s exactly as glorious as I’d hoped, but I just had to screenshot my favourite, which is this horse:

A side by side companion. On the right is a majestic horse, its mane flowing in the breeze. On the left is Pikango's painting, which is a giraffeALT
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I love this horse I recreated it in an actual oil painting. It’s hanging in my kitchen

soracities:

really fun part about reading english poetry is finding words that are meant to rhyme but do not rhyme but actually they do rhyme bc the poet is writing in their accent and not yours. humbling and illuminating.

nsomniacsdream:

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power-chords:

I am a recreational Noticer. I love to Notice Things and Make Connections and Identify Patterns. This is one of my favorite activities and it requires me to behave in compulsively silly ways online.

In real life, this manifests itself by suddenly asking a coworker “so how long has your wife known about your mistress?” Because he stopped bringing in a packed lunch and I saw him scrubbing lipstick off his neck one day when he “went to the bank”

how did that go?

So good

a-dinosaur-a-day:

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miss-beloved:

miss-beloved:

intersex animals r not nonbinary animals they r intersex animals hhow many times do wwe have to do rhis

i dont know how to explain to you that referring to any living creature wwirh mixed sex characteristics as “true nonbinary” is harmful to bboth intersex ppl and nonbinary ppl

people say “gender is a social construct” and then claim intersex animals are obviously nonbinary. you just put “gender is what’s in your pants” in a new font.

actual nonbinary animals would be those that have different, binary-breaking gender roles in their societal structure. Which is is a thing. but that requires acknowledging animals have societies and cultures. which no one wants to do. so yeah. like there are definitely “trans” animals (ones that flip from male to female roles and vice versa) and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were nonbinary esque roles out there. but that’s not the same as a mixture of sexual characteristics. which is just intersex.

source: I am a nonbinary, intersex paleontologist who specializes in animal behavior and ecology. idk how much more I could be an expert in this. it’s possible I guess, but I’m pretty much at the top here.

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you people will just. say anything

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#Tbf tho the bechdel test is pretty shitty #Like dgmw this is a stupid take but it’s a lame test anyway

okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that

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some of you are the dumbest motherfuckers alive

i am going to explain the bechdel test for people such as those in the tags

here is the original comic strip:

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what the bechdel-wallace test is not:

  • an academic analysis of media
  • a bar that determines whether or not a movie is “bad” or “good” (by which i mean if a movie doesn’t pass the bechdel-wallace test that doesn’t make it bad, and if a movie passes the test the movie is not automatically good)
  • supposed to be taken seriously

what the bechdel-wallace test is:

  • a personal litmus test created by a lesbian who was, presumably, frustrated with the fact that women could not exist in the movie without a relationship to a man

it is not a way to “police what women speak about” because it does not apply to real people. it applies to fictional characters. also, the bechdel-wallace test does not stipulate that there can be no conversation about a male love interest. the women just have to talk about something other than a male love interest.

the reason the male love interest stipulation is there is because like… this test was created by a butch lesbian woman to determine whether or not she wanted to watch a movie. removing that part of the test violates the spirit of the test. it’s silly because it’s not supposed to be serious.

tl;dr stop misinterpreting the bechdel-wallace test you losers. op is right. goodbye

As a woman who is not a lesbian, I think the Bechdel-Wallace test is incredibly valuable. But not to judge individual pieces of media on. Because it says nothing about quality of that media, and there’s a lot of other ways that media could be feminist or woman-positive. For example, two female doctors talking about a male patient is still, technically “two women talking together about a man.”

I find the Bechdel-Wallace test important as a way of talking about the state of media. Because any individual work may not pass the Bechdel-Wallace test for a variety of reasons. But when you look at how many works fail it, that tells you something about the representation of women in media. It tells you two things: that there aren’t many female characters, or at least not as many as there are men, and they’re not in leading roles (and thus not getting as many conversations per piece of media), and that when they do talk it tends to be about the men in their lives, whether romantic interest or not. Whether or not any one movie or book or TV show is good or bad is irrelevant. What’s important is the overall pattern.

And talking about the Bechdel-Wallace test gives a good shorthand for starting to talk about the patterns of how women are portrayed in media.