Current obsessions:
Parks and Rec, Doctor Who, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Avengers and Mark Gatiss. I will post about anything, really. I liveblog a lot, reply to my friends on tumblr, have fun with nonnys and I make a lot of text posts about snippets of my life.
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Favourite Feminist Moments in Doctor Who - #5 Bones of the Hand
Submitted by Sarah531
Martha Jones suffered appallingly during her time in the TARDIS. Amongst other things, she has to spend a significant amount of time in a world that openly despised and dismissed her on the basis of her gender and skin colour. During this time her best friend in the world, The Doctor, treats her, at best, like an obnoxious child.
The frustration and anger Martha felt during those months must have been bloody unbearable. But she is Martha, and she is wonderful, and she refuses to let the situation beat her down, even when almost everyone around her tells her to be quiet, she is defiant. She still speaks.
This is best illustrated when Joan, like everyone else around her, dismisses Martha’s achievements.
Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a skivvy and hardly one of your colour.
You can see in Martha’s eyes the anger and frustration which have been bubbling away for months, boil over. She promptly turns the tables on Joan, demonstrating her knowledge (which almost certainly exceeds Joan’s own) by naming all the bones of the hand.
Women of colour have very different experiences of oppression than that of their more privileged counterparts and, I like to think, this scene demonstrates that well. The experiences of women of colour should not be ignored or glossed over, as they all too often are in mainstream feminism. This scene reminds us feminists who have privilege to never write off the experiences of those who are oppressed in ways we are not. As well as showing Martha in full on BAMF mode.
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but here’s the thing, look at Tyrion’s face, he quirks a smile,because he’s not hurt that she said she prayed for him as she does for the king, yeah it seems like a slam, but he gets it, he gets Sansa,and her situation, the skill she wields with her words, he understands her courtesy is her armor, he understands her secrecy, after all, he’s worn a mask long enough himself, so no,he’s not hurt, he’s a little proud, in awe, of Lady Stark,
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Request: This scene with the book dialogue
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent… but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts… wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?
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Can someone please write a fic where Leslie runs into her former campaign managers and then they kiss or something.
In light of certain things, I feel like I need to post about this. This is going to be the last time I bring up this particular situation and let me make this clear that I am not putting a specific person on blast because I am not like that.
Just because you are on the internet does not mean you don’t have to control what you say.
I am a real person. So are you. Things we type on the internet can and will effect us just as much, if not more (because of the finality of it being written and the number of people that will see it), than if someone said it “IRL.” This is my “real life.” I don’t stop living, breathing, thinking just because I’m on the internet and I definitely don’t stop feeling.
This can be a good thing in that I call people I meet online my friends, not “online friends,” and that I call my friends who live close by me my friends and not “irl friends.” I genuinely care about and love the people who I can only communicate with through the internet and no amount of distance can change that. Some of my best friends are thousands of miles away and that’s OK because the internet brings us together!!
This can be a bad thing in that I see things that upset me on here, people say things that upset me… There’s a lot of bad mojo going on in general on the internet and I know that, trust me. But that doesn’t mean that saying certain things is OK. Just because I can’t punch you in the face for being a jerk doesn’t mean I’m not seething about it. Just because you can’t see how much you’ve upset me doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
Just… remember that “it’s just the internet lol” is a piss poor excuse because I will honestly love you no matter how far away you are from me or I will be hurt by words I read.
Thank you, the end, Torye Cool
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Who the #*&% are the Young Avengers?
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omfg I volunteer at the juvie on Fridays and when I announced we would be reading The Iron Man this girl suddenly awoke from her semi-comatose state and went “HEY THAT’S LIKE TONY STARK’S STORY!” and this other girl scoffed and said “Tony Stark? God, he’s such a loser” and the first girl literally
whirled
her chair in the air
and threw it
at the second one
and all the while I was there thinking “dear god is this what tumblr would be like if we weren’t sitting behind a computer?”
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