Theresa, 25 and animation student. Detectives, art, bees, and pretty TV. I draw and write and blog and write code, in no particular order. Currently in college graduation semi hiatus
Theresa, 25 and animation student. Detectives, art, bees, and pretty TV. I draw and write and blog and write code, in no particular order. Currently in college graduation semi hiatus
the most optimistic letter that any human has ever written
Gwendoline Christie as King Arthur
For I, being simple, thought to work His will,
And have but stricken with the sword in vain;
And all whereon I lean’d in wife and friend
Is traitor to my peace, and all my realm
Reels back into the beast, and is no more.[tennyson, idylls of the king]
I want an inverse spy flick. The spy is a woman. Her whole team is made up of diverse women. All the villains are women. There is only one man in the entire movie and he is a Strong Male Character who is like 25 and decently ripped and has a scene where he slowly steps out of a pool wearing speedos because he is Confident and In Control of His Sexuality. We see his ass when he has to tug down his pants to get at the knife strapped to his thigh. His nipples are always erect for no fucking reason.
They are undercover in a nightclub. In order to keep their cover from being blown, he has to kiss another man.
He knits to relieve stress and to keep his mind sharp. It is never discussed by any of the characters.
Someone asks him how he knows how to do Traditionally Feminine Thing. “I have four sisters,” he answers.
This is also how he knows how to fight while armed with nothing but a purse, a high heel shoe, and a can of hair spray. During this fight, he is, for no apparent reason, shirtless.
The lead spy is Helen Mirren. She nails the Action Boy in the shower. There’s a lot of lingering closeups on the way the shower spray runs across his breathlessly ecstatic face. We also hear every breathless whimper of his climax, while out in the hallway Lucy Liu is smoking impatiently, a duffel bag full of rocket launchers slung over her shoulder. The President isn’t going to kidnap herself, here, christ.
Action Boy emerges in a small towel, sheepish yet radiant. Helen Mirren emerges in a tuxedo, also smoking, also with a duffel bag of rocket launchers.
Action Boy gets to have a single fight scene with the one Token Male Villain - it’s not an a-list villain, more of a high level henchmen, and in the process they both end up losing their shirts and having their pants rip. Their fighting styles lead to a lot of submission holds.
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Haters always hated.
Anyone who writes about feminism online knows there can be a nasty response, and the suffragettes received hate mail too. But it wasn’t just hate mail they had to contend with. Rats would be let loose into suffrage meetings, while rotten eggs and fish were pelted at the women. Nevinson once wrote that they kept their eyesight largely as a result of the huge hats that were then fashionable, the wide brims saving them “from hard missiles and the cayenne pepper blown at us from bellows”.
The current deputy editor of the New Statesman, Helen Lewis, has famously said that today “the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism”. This mirrors suffragette Rebecca West’s reflections on events of a century ago. She said: “The real force that made the suffrage movement was the quality of the opposition,” wrote West. “Women, listening to anti-suffrage speeches, for the first time knew what many men really thought of them.”
The women often faced serious violence. On 18 November 1910, for instance, a date which became known as Black Friday, Emmeline Pankhurst led 300 women to the House of Commons in a peaceful protest. There, they were met by police, and reported being beaten and sexually assaulted. One woman said: “Constables and plain-clothes men who were in the crowd passed their arms round me from the back and clutched hold of my breasts in as public a manner as possible, and men in the crowd followed their example … My skirt was lifted up as high as possible, and the constable attempted to lift me off the ground by raising his knee. This he could not do, so he threw me into the crowd and incited the men to treat me as he wished.”
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence said she had “never met anyone so fearless as were these young girls. I never saw a suffragette, under menace of violence, otherwise than cool and collected.”
- Kira Cochrane, Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today, The Guardian
A golden thread connects us all.♀
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada Television show -
born 3. November -
Wherever you are, Happy Birthday
concept: me, 10 years from now, living in a pretty house with my love, sipping a hot cappuccino on a rainy autumn afternoon. our dog curls up next to me in the window bench while our cat snoozes on the bed. i’m financially stable and i’m never tired anymore. the bees are safe.
I’m… not going to give up. I can’t give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker.
Blade Runner (1982)
*favourite person to talk to goes to bed*
brain: haha fucker its me and you now
