reasons to hate the chairman: F.I.L.I.S.S sounding so tired and sad instead of her usual chipper self
tell them the soda in the shoe story!!!!
slouchingtowardsbedlam-deactiva:
when i was in 9th grade i was constantly picking fights with boys on the school bus because they’d say really disgusting sexual things to and grope me and other girls so one day i got on the bus and i had a bottle of soda and i this boy wouldn’t leave me alone so i grabbed my bottle and lunged towards the iPhone in his hand like i was going to pour soda on it which really pissed him off (even though the cap was on) so afterwards i put on my headphones but eventually this boy and all his friends started throwing food at me which i guess in their eyes was my retribution for daring to even consider damaging his iPhone anyway i ignored it until one threw his shoe at my head
this shoe is the ultimate rich white boy shoe, a $30000000 dollar nike designer whatever even though he’s never played basketball a day in his life, so instead of hurling it back i do the diplomatic thing and keep it in my backpack, which really proved to be a problem as the bus started to near the stop i was getting off at and the boy started seeing in his future a very real possibility of not getting his sneaker back so eventually he had to do his one-shoe-one-sock limp of shame over to my seat and looked at me and asked for his shoe back so i took it out of my backpack and made full eye contact with him as i poured all my soda out of the bottle into the shoe and then handed it back to him and said “here ya go”
I just don’t understand where this concept of ‘fake geek girls’ came from. Like, AT ALL.
Cus when I look for fandom related stuff like 90% of the fan art and the fanfiction and the meta, zines, comics, etc. Like90% of the shit that I’ve seen is created by women & girls.
And all that stuff take’s a lot of work and research and critical analysis and staring at reference photos for hours.
We are literally the most well versed and invested group in the fandom. So, like, What the fuck boys? You mad you can’t keep up?
I saw an argument, and I can’t find it now, but it totally made sense, that there’s a gender split in fandom. Male fandom tends to be a curator fandom; male fandom collects, organizes, and memorizes facts and figures. Male fandom tends to be KEEPERS of the canon; the fandom places great weight on those who have the biggest collection, the deepest knowledge of obscure subjects, the first appearances, creators, character interactions.
Female fandom is creative. Females create fanart, cosplay, fanwritings. Female fandom ALTERS canon, for the simple reason that canon does not serve female fandom. In order for it to fit the ‘outsider’ (female, queer, POC), the canon must be attacked and rebuilt, and that takes creation.
“Male” fandom devalues this contribution to fandom, because it is not the ‘right’ kind of fandom. “Girls only cosplay for attention, they’re not REAL fans!” “Fanfiction is full of stupid Mary Sues, girls only do it so they can make out with the main character!” “I, a male artist, have done this pin-up work and can put it in my portfolio! You, a female artist, have drawn stupid fanart, and it’s not appropriate to use as a professional reference!”
In the mind of people who decry the ‘fake geek girl,’ this fandom is not as worthy. It damages, or in their mind, destroys the canon. What is the point of memorizing every possible romantic entanglement of heterosexual white Danny Rand if someone turns around and creates a fanwork depicting him as a bisexual female of Asian descent (thus subverting Rand’s creepy ‘white savior’ origins)? When Danny Rand becomes Dani Rand, their power is lessened. What is important to them ceases to be the focus of the discussion. Creation and curatorship can work in tandom, but typically, in fandom, they are on opposite poles.
This is not to say that there aren’t brilliant male cosplayers or smashing female trivia experts, this is to say that the need of the individual fan is met with opposing concepts: In order for me to find myself in comics, I need to make that space for myself, and that is a creative force. Het white cis males are more likely to do anything possible to defend and preserve the canon because the canon is built to cater to them.
So we got new Latin books today and my teacher immediately told us to turn to page 81.
This is the original picture:
A picture of a statue of Poseidon.
But look at some of the treasures we found:
Rockstar dominatrix Poseidon.
Old woman Poseidon.
BUT THIS IS WHERE WE LOST IT…
X-MEN CYCLOPES POSEIDON
AND MASTER CHIEF POSEIDON
Colonel Sarge for President
Hey! So, Coming Out Day is coming up soon (Oct. 11) and I just want to post a very stern reminder to NOT out anyone without their explicit permission.
Do NOT out anyone.
Got it?
Okay.