There’s…so Much To Unpack Here, It’s Atrocious.

Everytime I see something from tiktok, I get hit in the face with the ✨internalized misogyny takes✨ I had at 12.

Ok, real quick, speaking as a librarian, you absolutely cannot despair about the adult literacy crisis and shame adults for reading fiction books you do not personally care for or think are "challenging" at the same time. It doesn't work with kids, and it doesn't work with adults.

Here's how to increase someone's reading level:

1) Let them read whatever they choose without shame or judgment. Maybe get them talking about it using open-ended, non-leading questions to encourage critical thinking and comprehension.

2) Let them get bored after a while and seek out different books.

3) Repeat.

A Wolf Among the Roses

Appreciation for GREEN Fashion in TV & Film: The Ten Commandments (1956) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Showboat (1951) | Sailor Moon (1992) | Artists & Models (1955) | Nope (2022) | Singing in the Rain (1952) | The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) | American Horror Story: Hotel (2015) | Princess of the Nile (1954) | Attack on Titan (2013) | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) | Batman Forever (1995) | The Belle of New York (1952) | Gone with the Wind (1939) | Britney Spears Billboard Awards (2001) | Gossip Girl (2007) | Barbarella (1968) | What a Way to Go (1964) | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) | Devdas (2002) | Down to Earth (1947) | Avatar the Last Airbender (2005) | Hello Frisco, Hello (1943) | Legally Blonde (2001) | Batman & Robin (1997) | The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) | Bring it On (2000) | EMMA. (2020)

Speaking as a USAmerican, I've met these dudebros who gatekeep so hard because they've attached their entire identity to media that they hoped was “niche,” only to then realize that it wasn't, and that people outside of their narrow demographic have liked anime for a hell of a long time.

And in the meantime, they spew complete garbage takes on anime because they regard it less as an art in its own right, and more like an identifier that can set them apart from the mainstream.

It doesn't hurt that they're also bitter as hell that Megan is an unabashed weeb while also being talented as hell.

fake geek girl accusations have always been stupid and misogynistic and racist but the absurdity is really Highlighted when it's megan. megan thee stallion. lying about liking anime for men's approval. to impress whom, jeffrey? tyler, is megan thee stallion so worried about attracting you that she's faking her interests in her own songs? her own chart-topping songs? hunter, are you feeling ok? preston? zachary, do you need a cold wash cloth? how many fingers am i holding up austin

i wish everyone who made kit connor feel he had to come out a very merry FUCK YOU. you forced an eighteen year old into coming out publicly, before he was ready, when he stated many many times he wanted to keep it private. how many more times does this shit have to fucking happen before some of you fucking clock that YOU CANNOT QUEERBAIT IN REAL LIFE. this is the natural end to the discourse of ‘if somebody is in the public eye playing a queer person they owe us their sexuality’, and it’s DEEPLY FUCKED UP, they do NOT owe you an answer, and this mindset JUST FORCED AN EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD TO OUT HIMSELF BEFORE HE WAS READY TO

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil

And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now

AEGON II TARGARYEN + tags

Something something the parallels between Vi being trapped under rubble as Vander dies brutally mutated before her, Ellie being physically restrained as Joel is beaten to death.

The ultimate doomed father-daughter relationships, the mirror images, and grief channeled as rage and physical violence that will be their ultimate undoing.

i did not study for the english test but i reread an amazing 30k fic in english so i think that counts