last stand and the iron sky.
Watched all of Legend of Korra last week, Lin is easily my favourite character.
Amie Zhao is easily one of my favorite artists, so I am incredibly honored… Wow. This is beautiful, of course. A wonderful surprise ending to the day.
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“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more.”
(Source: elijahwood, via divathranduil)
do you guys remember that one post about how men feel entitled to take up so much space and women have to deal with a lot less?
This is actually a documented thing. You always see men on the subway or tube or whatever using both armrests while women sit with their arms hunched together into their laps. That’s why I always make a point to take up at least one if not both armrests of the tube so men can be uncomfortable for once.
^ again, for all the people telling me posting this picture is complaining too much.
In my college classes (and high school too) guys were always stretching, sticking fists and elbows in my face, leaning their heads back over my desk, over my work, spreading their legs out, kicking my bag with their dirty shoes. And let’s not pretend they were in other guys’ space as much as they were in women’s.
It’s so true, this happens to me every day on the train. Same with the walking thing, women will weave out of the way whereas men just walk straight and plow down anything in their path. I always end up playing chicken with men on the sidewalk now, because I refuse to move out of their way.
I love playing chicken with dudes who hog the sidewalk. BODY CHECK! Fucking assholes.
“NOT ALL MEN ARE LIKE THIS!” FUCK OFF.
“AS A MAN, I THINK THAT…” FUCK OFF.
Men always have the same defensive bullshit to spout every time they get called out on their shit. AND IT IS BORING. They remind me of those toys where you pull a string an they have like 5 phrases they can say. Over and over and over.
same here with playing chicken, its hilarious sometimes because they get this flash of realization in their eyes that says ‘holy shit, she’s NOT going to move/??? what do????’ because THEY ARE SO USED TO EVERYONE MOVING FOR THEM
when i was younger my grandpa drew this on a piece of paper,
and he asked me how i, as the red circle, would get around the two people (black circles) if i was walking down the street.
so of course i came back with
moving out of the way for them as i walked.
he asked me if i thought men would do the same and, at the time, i did because i thought it was just common courtesy. but he told me that men would barrel straight through without giving a shit and that i should do the exact same. because i was the one walking and they were the ones in the way. so that’s exactly what i do.
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hermione granger the smartest witch of her age
hermione granger who in book two figured out that the thing turning kids into stone and killing other kids off was a giant fucking snake living in the secret fucking basement AND NO ONE HAD DISCOVERED IT IN A THOUSAND YEARS
hermione granger who was so smart and so studious that she traveled back and forth in time to learn everything she could about a world she’d never known about, and itself was torn apart over whether to treat her as one of their own or as scum
hermione granger who at fourteen discovered and trapped an illegal adult shapeshifter with considerable media sway and blackmailed her remorselessly
hermione granger who at fifteen decided to forge her own brand of justice with cool-headed cunning and subtle leadership “here’s what we have to do to protect ourselves,” she murmurs, drafting plans and strategies, when the law is useless you write your own, as harry takes the lead
hermione granger who was thrown into a world where people like her were reviled and persecuted at the tender age of eleven but learned all its tricks and whims, its secrets and deepest thoughts, who cut it open with the keen knife of intelligence and discipline and learned how to pluck each nerve and make it sing for her
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ HERMIONE *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ GRANGER *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
it was my mom’s headcanon that she should become minister of magic
because how fuckin’ awesome would that be
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Guys, hey, guys. Do you remember that time that Coulson called Natasha and she ended up forming the Avengers? Remember how she did that by digging up Bruce Banner and introducing Steve to him then was the voice of reason when Tony and Steve were bickering and then how she brought Clint back from being mind controlled so that they can be a team? Remember that? Remember how the Black Widow out smarted a god? Remember that time she kept her shit together when the Hulk attacked her, even though she was really scared? Remember when she knocked an alien off his flying scooter and figured out how to drive it despite it being extrateresstrial tech, then got her ass up to the top of Stark Tower, found Loki’s staff and saved the world from being invaded by turning off the machine?
Remember how she was the central character of the whole freaking movie?
Anyone else remember that? I sure do.
#and remember how they didn’t sexualize her #remember how she was independent and didn’t need a male crutch #remember how when loki implied that she needed a man she completely tore him down #remember how natasha romanov doesn’t take shit from nobody #especially not a man
(Source: iamnevertheone, via insanenerdgirl)
I think this is a really good point, and it’s one I gave a lot of thought to after getting your ask. I think I would definitely agree that this is a problem if the men in Tolkien’s stories didn’t suffer fates just as painful and tragic. To show my reasoning, I’m going to go down the list of women I mentioned in my previous post (found here.)
- Eowyn: Proved she was powerful by fighting in the Battle of the Pelennor and killing the Witch King. Her punishment is a near-fatal injury. This is basically exactly what happens to Faramir and Merry, though.
- Arwen: Is powerful in that she chose mortality and love over immortality in Valinor, and became Queen of Gondor. Her punishment is death, I guess. However, Arwen is not the only elf to make that decision. Most famously, Elros (Elrond’s twin brother) also chose mortality, and ended up becoming King of Numenor.
- Luthien: Showed her power through various acts of awesomeness. Her punishment was death (twice). Others die after (or during) acts of valour, though, and are again sent back, such as Glorfindel and Gandalf. Also, since Luthien chose mortality (like Arwen), I’m not sure if it really counts as a punishment…
- Haleth: Lead her people through years of warfare, and died childless at the ripe old age of 79. If the dying childless bit is a punishment, she wasn’t alone. Finrod also died childless, since the woman he loved refused to leave Valinor, and Finrod would marry no other in Middle Earth.
- Melian: Used her powers to create a forcefield around Doriath. When her husband, Thingol dies, Melian leaves Middle Earth and returns to Valinor. Melian’s fate is closest to Elrond. When his wife, Celebrian, is attacked, she leaves for Valinor in order to heal. Elrond, because of his duty to the people of Middle Earth, does not go with her, and must be separated for thousands of years.
- Tar-Miriel: She fought for her rightful place on the throne of Numenor. She lost, however, and was forced to marry Ar-Pharazon, and eventually died when Numenor sank. Tar-Miriel’s fate is very sad, but she’s hardly the only ruler (recognized or otherwise) to die during the fall of her country. Most tragic is Celebrimbor, who was basically ruling Eregion when Sauron attacked it. After torturing Celebrimbor for information, Sauron killed him and hung his body on a pole to be used as a banner during battle.
- Idril: She planned a secret escape route from Gondolin which saved herself, her family, and some of her people from Morgoth’s attack. She eventually sailed to Valinor with Tuor. I can’t think of how that would be sad, except that her son, Earendil, stayed in Middle Earth. But then again, Tuor had to face that separation as well.
- Andreth: Maintains her status as a wise woman of her people by debating philosophy with Finrod. She was tragically in love with Aegnor, an elvish prince, who died before she did. Of course, the obvious counter-argument for Andreth is Aegnor himself, who tragically fell in love with a mortal woman, and then died.
- Galadriel: Galadriel basically radiated power. But she was exiled from her home for a long time, and had to watch her people’s influence in Middle Earth fade over thousands of years. However, Feanor was also incredibly powerful, and he died. What’s more, he’s still “exiled” in a sense, as his spirit will remain in the Halls of Mandos until the Dagor Dagorath, and cannot be reembodied.
I just used these women as examples because I’d mentioned them in the other post. There are, of course, other women with tragic endings in Tolkien’s writing, just as there are other men with tragic endings. The point I’m trying to make, is that in my own opinion, the women do not systematically face worse ends than the men. So, for me, I don’t see any sort of punishment for being powerful. But that’s just me.
“While the question of consent is important in “legalese”, please let’s not talk about it. Let’s talk about the culture of manhood in this country, and why a culture of rape is still so prevalent today.
Let’s talk about why calling a boy a “girl” is most likely an insult, and calling a girl a boy is most likely a compliment.
Let’s talk about why the first thing the victim felt was embarrassment, not rage of having been betrayed.”
Boom. Nothing more to be said.
(Source: The New York Times)
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Character + Textures: Toph Beifong
will never not reblog this baddest of asses
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