Imagine this:
Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses it to climb down to freedom.
Just as she’s about to take the poison apple, Snow White sees the familiar wicked glow in the old lady’s eyes, and slashes the evil queen’s throat with a pair of sewing scissors.
Cinderella refuses everything but the glass slippers from her fairy godmother, crushes her stepmother’s windpipe under her heel, and the Prince falls madly in love with the mysterious girl who dons rags and blood-stained slippers.
Imagine this:
Persephone goes adventuring with weapons hidden under her dress.
Persephone climbs into the gaping chasm.
Or, Persephone uses her hands to carve a hole down to hell.
In none of these versions is Persephone’s body violated unless she asks Hades to hold her down with his horse-whips.
Not once does she hold out on eating the pomegranate, instead biting into it eagerly and relishing the juice running down her chin, staining it red.
In some of the stories, Hades never appears and Persephone rules the underworld with a crown of her own making.
In all of them, it is widely known that the name Persephone means Bringer of Destruction.
Imagine this:
Red Riding Hood marches from her grandmother’s house with a bloody wolf pelt.
Medusa rights the wrongs that have been done to her.
Eurydice breaks every muscle in her arms climbing out of the land of the dead.
Imagine this:
Girls are allowed to think dark thoughts, and be dark things.
Imagine this:
Instead of the dragon, it’s the princess with claws and fiery breath
who smashes her way from the confines of her castle
and swallows men whole.
“They are NOT the same person, biogenetics or not. It’s really annoying when in an rp, you refer to Bro as Bro, and their character just keeps calling them Dirk. Really??”
Note: This also applies to Alpha Mom/Rose, Grandpa/Jake, or basically any alternate universe version of anyone. Karkat actually gives an example in canon with the two Jack Noir’s.
“CG: SO LET’S SAY YOU PLAY YOUR BANDICOOT AND I PLAY MY BANDICOOT.
CG: THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME BANDICOOT, SAME APPEARANCE AND DESIGN AND BEHAVIORS. CG: BUT THEY ARE STILL COMPLETELY SEPARATE BANDICOOTS ON SEPARATE SCREENS. CG: SO WE BOTH HAVE OUR OWN ASS BANDICOOTS TO OURSELVES, THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT. CG: OUR JACKS ARE THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT TOO. ”
As such, Bro is not Dirk, Grandpa is not Jake, etc. You wouldn’t call Aranea “Mindfang”. Don’t do it with other characters.
why do teachers think that doodling will distract you do u realize that when i doodle it means im awake and listening and if i keep staring at the powerpoint my mind starts to wander and ill tune out EVERYTHING
Honey Maid’s amazing response to the hate they got for showing gay and mixed-race couples in an ad.
I hadn’t heard about this. Why does this not have a million notes? I will never buy anybody else’s graham crackers ever ever again.
This is not only a brilliant response to the hate mail, but I am grinning so hugely at the fact that there was so much more positive response than negative.
We’re making headway, people. Eventually we’ll all be members of an evolved society of mature adults. Eventually. *chuckle*
can we start a club for teenagers who were constantly complimented on their intelligence when they were younger and are now having trouble coping with the realization that they’re actually of average intellect at best
in elementary school i constantly scored as reading at a college level but then i got to college and suddenly everyone’s reading at college level.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A POST THAT SO ACCURATELY DESCRIBES MY LIFE.
