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okay where are the henchwomen
Genuinely with how much we've memed feminine versions of masculine archetypes into existence I should be seeing so many more henchwomen at all times (that aren't goblins or some shit.) Girlbossness is not sufficient. The corporate environment does not provide adequate enrichment for evil women. She needs to kill people, directly, and look silly as hell doing it
You, almost exclusively among the many many many comments on this post suggesting examples of hypercompetent (usually hyperfeminine) girlbosses, see my vision
True equality
*skids in at full speed* So Wrestling!
Meet Marina Shafir buff Judo girlie who is the always ready to hurt people.
She runs with a bunch of guys called the Death Riders and she is often interference muscle (though she is currently being homoerotic with Toni storm).
She's not "one of the guys" but a part of the team and I love it!
Reblogged johannestevans
okay where are the henchwomen
Genuinely with how much we've memed feminine versions of masculine archetypes into existence I should be seeing so many more henchwomen at all times (that aren't goblins or some shit.) Girlbossness is not sufficient. The corporate environment does not provide adequate enrichment for evil women. She needs to kill people, directly, and look silly as hell doing it
You, almost exclusively among the many many many comments on this post suggesting examples of hypercompetent (usually hyperfeminine) girlbosses, see my vision
True equality
*skids in at full speed* So lemme tell you about Wrestling!
Marina Shafir ex. Judo girl who gave up trying to be pretty!
She is the guard dog of the a group of feral men known as the death riders. And not in a "aww she is their sweet mom who babies them. No in the *they hold her back from punching people*
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I love it when tolkien fans are explaining something from the lore and just start from the song of the ainur
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If this post gets 80085 notes I will finally stop boymoding in public
How the fuck did this get 2000 notes while I was sleeping??
IT WAS JUST A STUPID JOKE ABOUT BOOBS
Y'all aren't gonna make it btw
OP, just do it. I promise it's worth it.
Reblog to tell boobs you love them
KEEP GOING
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Queer Disability in Fantasy #1
[ID: A poster. Large white text in the centre reads "Queer Disability In Fantasy". In the upper left corner, smaller black text reads "Disability in Books". The background is a wood grain pattern, with the top and bottom of bordered by a row of book tops. In the upper right corner, the logo for the Disability Book Archive. In the lower left corner, the disability pride flag in the shape of a heart, and the rainbow pride flag, in the shape of smaller heart slightly layered on top. In the lower right corner, a stack of cartoonish books. /end]
[ID: The same poster. The text and stack of books has been removed. The hearts and logo have shrunken in size. There are 7 book covers. From left to right, the covers are: "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon, "A Spindle Splintered" by Alix E. Harrow, "Bound to the Monarchs" by Brooke Winters, "The Bedlam Stacks" by Natasha Pulley, "The Broken Kingdoms" by N. K. Jemisin, and "Brute" by Kim Fielding. /end]
[ID: The same poster. The book covers have been replaced. From left to right, the covers are: "City of Strife", "City of Betrayal" and "City of Deceit", all by Claudie Arseneault, "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardguo, "Deathless Divide" by Justina Ireland, "The Extraordinaries" by T. J. Klune, and "Crooked Kingdom" by Leigh Bardugo. /end]
[ID: The same poster. The book covers have been replaced. From left to right, the covers are: "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark, "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir, "Into the Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant, "Harrow the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir, "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao, "Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites" by Joy Demorra, and "Lakelore" by Anna-Marie McLemore. /end]
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A list of 21 fantasy books featuring queer, disabled, and queer-disabled characters and themes!
I believe that the "fantasy" section is one of the biggest sections on the archive. At some point around adding the 9th book I stopped and asked myself if I should be including urban and historical fantasy in this as well, so I did. There's also more fantasy horror present on here than I thought there was.
Every book on this list features characters who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, are disabled, or both, but both themes, at some point, are present in every book.
The books featured on this list are:
Every book on this list and more can be found on the Disability Book Archive.
Happy Pride Month!
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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Anonymous asked:
Do you have any book recommendations with poly relationships? Preferably fiction. I’ve been avoiding reading romance recently because everything is based on monogamous relationships and it gets tiring after a while.
I recommend checking the notes on this post where someone else asked. There are a lot of things recommended by others that I haven't gotten around to reading. 📖 I totally feel you with the mono romances being a drag sometimes. Its real bad when jealousy is a major point :/
Alright I'm going to add my extremely small list. Okay so that was a lie. 16 is not a small list. Some of these are romance, some of these just have really good polyam representation, and I added a 3rd section of honorable mentions down at the bottom which are books that I think do a really good job at not making monogamous relationships miserable to read. A lot of these are sci-fi or fantasy and I don't know if that is more a "me problem" or plus for sci-fi.
✨✨First up Monogamy is Dumb ✨✨
1)Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Classic story of boy loves girl, girl loves different boy, first boy goes 👀. (Triangles are the strongest shape). Oh and don't forget the heavy sci-fi and giant Mecha. YA novel with enough intrigue for everyone. Rep: Disability
2) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison. Not a romance novel but. It's big on digging into queerness and identity including a polyam relationship. Heavy fantasy and apocalypse vibes with an older MC. Rep: Disability, Trans
3) Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Wayfarer Series) by Becky Chambers. Also not a romance but it has a main sapphic romance and the alien partner is from a species that is exclusively polyam. It is all about the value of friendships and is quiet literally about how the real treasure is the friends we made along the way. Rep: Autism
3) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. (Suggested by the Fiancee). "He is Poly and gay*. You find it everywhere in his books if you know where to look." *Sorry he's not technically gay because according to him that would mean straight people would have to exist.
4) Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra. Good ol' classic vampire falls in love with a werewolf and they can't help but fall for a mysterious woman. This gets to sit here because it has a non spicy version but... If you want the spice it comes with all the fun of Vampires and BDSM. Rep: Disability, BDSM
🔥🔥🔥 Now for the polyamorous spice. 🔥🔥🔥
6) Sex Wizards Series by Alethea Faust. WHAT. I felt like i should start with the heavy BDSM sex magic book if I'm talking spice. No but seriously some of the best representation of BDSM and healthy polyam in many different ways. And plot somehow. Rep: Non-Binary, Asexual, Disability, Heavy BDSM
7) Rescued my Married Monster Hunters by Ennis Rook Bashe. What if you are a poor monster trying to be human and a sweet couple can't stop doting on you. No one would blame a lil monster for falling for that. Rep: Trans, Disability
8) Pack Saint Clair Series by Thora Woods. Reverse Harem gets much more interesting when the people the MC is getting involved with are an established Polyam Pack (ABO style). Sometimes falling in love with one person means you end up falling for 4. Rep: Mild BDSM, Trauma Recovery
9) Drag Me Up by R.M. Virtues. What if Hades/Persephone was healthy and T4T. Super sweet and spicy romance about defying expectations. Rep: Trans, Mild BDSM
10) In the Court of the Nameless Queen by Natalie Ironsides. A bunch of short stories around a Giant Spider queen and the many people who love her. Literally this is a bunch of sapphic porn about a clan of warrior women. It slaps Rep: Trans, Heavy Kink and BDSM
11) The Strongest Shape by Tessa Cardenas. This is in my liked books. And i distinctly remember loving the way it dealt with a new person entering a more established pair. I can not remember anything else besides it was spicy and gay.
Honorable Mentions
These books explore relationships in super queer and non-traditional ways. But might not be considered "polyamory"
12) Psalm for the Wild Built (and the Monk and Robot series) by Becky Chambers. Toe to Tip that's a QPR. It's just a really wholesome book about a robot and a human meeting. Lots of passive polyamory here too (expecially in the second book). To say the least Becky Chambers is great. Rep: Non-Binary, Robots (it/its), Anxiety
13) The City we Became by N.K. Jemison While I am expounding great authors I have to include Jemison's other book which is really all about queer friendship and the importance of have friends. On the backdrop of people becoming the city and fighting Eldritch Monsters Rep: Trans, Asexual Characters
14) The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Super casual background polyamory by murderbot's humans but it's not into any of that stuff. It is here to cause problems and make friends though. Rep: Robot (it/its), Trauma Recovery, Asexual, Autism
15) The Tarot Sequence by K.D. Edwards. I'm putting this here because it's currently just MLM but there are these big hints being dropped for a Triad. Lots of fun around being shoved into a position of power before you are ready and only having your friends at your back. Rep: Disability, Trauma Recovery
16) Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James. This book is literally indescribable but it tackles gender, relationships and African History in such a nice package I can't help but add it. Rep: Genderqueer/Non-Binary
17) Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly. No technical polyamory but it does such a beautiful job mixing the complex nature of being in love with the literal collapse of free government. It also has older MCs and a whole ton of Drama.
#iron widow#The Broken Earth#the fifth season#the long way to a small angry planet#the wayfarer#rendezvous with rama#hunger pangs#Sex Wizards#Pack Saint Clair#Rescued by Married Monster Hunters#drag me up#in the Court of the Nameless Queen#The Strongest Shape#the city we became#the great cities#murderbot diaries#the tarot sequence#black leopard red wolf#amberlough#Amberlough dossier#xiran jay zhao#n.k. jemisin#becky chambers#arthur c. clarke#joy demorra#Alethea Faust#Ennis Rook Bashe#Thora Woods#R.M Virtues#Psalm for the Wild Built
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We know there's a lot of weird spots that the strawhats have traveled through and I was thinking about what things would be super creepy out on the open water.
And I thought the sea is always moving, right? There's almost always going to be the sound of waves and water, even if it's quiet. There's almost always going to be the sway that comes from being at sea, the smell of salt, the harsh line of the horizon, etc.
But what if there wasn't? What if the water goes silent and the ship goes still? What if the horizon disappears in a night that's too dark to be normal and the moon is the only light but it sits in the sky more like a gaping hole than the usual nighttime companion?
Dark
Quiet
Still
Something where Luffy and Zoro are out on the ship in the middle of the night, the moon too high and too bright but everything much darker than it should be. The water and sky around them is all a wrong sort of black.
Luffy sits ridged on the figurehead and the frown is clear from the lines of his body even though he's facing forward. Zoro standing on the deck right behind him, the muscles of his back drawn tight and he has his hands on his swords. They're both almost swallowed by the dark.
The moonlight cuts across the deck in a harsh, sterile light.
Sanji leans against the mast towards the back, the very edge of his shoes teasing the cut of the moonlight. The red glow of his cigarette lights up his face just enough to see the harsh slant of his brow and the tightness of his jaw. The smoke is white as it leaves him and then gets swallowed by the dark.
Robin off to the side, arms crossed and hip resting against the side of the deck. She looks like stone in the low light, shoulders back and a blank look on her face.
All of them hyper focused on where the horizon should be, but is instead it's just endless, wrong dark.
Everything still and silent. The water doesn't move and there's no breeze.
The world is holding it's breath.
Quiet.
The only sound is their heartbeat in their ears and shallow breathing that's almost soundless. Chopper clings tight to Nami who's pressed side to side with Usopp. Franky and Brook are both on the other side of the room, keeping watch and braving the edges of moonlight that come through the little window. They're motionless, Brook blends into the shadows and leaves only the occasional white bone for the moon to catch. Franky is especially menacing and huge in the near nonexistent light.
They don't go out, terrified of making a noise that would break whatever silence is currently blanketed over them, terrifed that they'd make Luffy and the others lose focus and take their eyes off whatever they're watching or waiting for.
They stay curled up and silent against the wall that separates them from the moon and the night. It's dark inside the cabin but it's softer than whatever is outside. It's almost comforting, like children hoping a blanket keeps away the monsters.
They stay like that all night. When the first splashes of color spill across the hoizon it seems like a blanket has been ripped off. Suddenly air comes easier into their lungs and their muscles relax enough to flex fingers that had been clenched for hours and roll shoulders that had gone tight.
Zoro is back to his normal napping spot of deck, chin already dropping down to his chest and swords laid across his lap.
Luffy is still on the figurehead but he looks like he's humming to himself and looking towards the horizon with ease.
Robin is sitting down on the stairs, tired but relaxed as she leans into the morning breeze.
Sanji is already making his way towards the kitchen with a lazy stroll, the smell of his cigarettes lingers over the ship.
They don't ask.
Chopper scampers over to Zoro and carefully nudges the swords aside enough that he can climb onto his lap. He finally relaxes as Zoro wraps an arm around him, he's in one of the safest places on the ship.
Nami lets Sanji flutter around her longer than normal, sitting beside Robin who also seems content to indulge their cook a little extra today.
Usopp tails Franky, being careful on where he looks even though he knows there's no risk of him seeing anything terrible anymore. Franky asks something and Usopp launches into a story, eyes brightening up and a smile back on his face.
Brook goes to sit near Luffy and starts to play something warm and welcoming to greet the day.
It never happens again, at least not like it had that night.
Sometimes Luffy or Zoro seem to stare off at the horizon with a sharp intensity, but it breaks quickly.
Sometimes Sanji stands on the deck and smokes until there's a pile of ash at his feet, brow furrowed as he looks out over the water until he seems to blink and break himself out of it.
Sometimes Robin sits on the deck and wears the face she make when she's working on a puzzle, going though everything she knows and trying to make everything fit together.
That endless dark and haunting moon never reappear though. The dark only brings stars and the moon glows like a warm candle.
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[VD: A clip of an interview between Motaz Azaiza and an Al Jazeera news anchor. The caption above it reads, "In less than 24 hours of evacuating, Motaz has already given his first interview to amplify the Palestinian voice and talk about what he experienced and lost in Gaza." English interview transcript below.
Interviewer: "You personally have an experience, like all Palestinians in [the] Gaza Strip, you have a number of relatives and friends who were killed. Tell us about it."
Motaz: "In the previous bombardments, I lost loved ones. But after the war in 2014. In 2014, I lost one friend. He was my classmate. I didn't lose… I mean, the bombardments were for a shorter amount of time. There was no brutality in targeting journalists like this time. But I was surprised on the 8th day, after the internet cut out, [to learn] that my family was hit by an airstrike in my area. I didn't believe the news. I went there even though… even with the risk—"
Interviewer: "What area was it?"
Motaz: "Al-Dar Al Balah. I was surprised to find that there were 18 people—"
Interviewer: "From the Azaiza family?"
Motaz: "Yes. Gone. And more actually; there was other houses, 7 were killed. My friends, who every five days one would be killed. In large numbers, my friends the twins, I mean the friends, different ones, and the acquaintances and the people who are in Gaza every day; you start your day, you see them, you greet them, the neighbors, the friends. Neighbors killed, friends killed, acquaintances killed. I lost people I see everyday. I lost everything that was beautiful in Gaza."
End ID.]
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one piece saved my life man