Does anyone else have that OTP where person A can be shipped with literally anyone and you’d enjoy it but the second you see person B with anyone else you cringe?
One thing that stood out to me in Force Awakens is the fact that Rey is not mocked for being a girl, even by the villains.
Usually any time you have a female protagonist there is inevitably a moment when someone (usually the villain, sometimes an ally) remarks how astonishing it is that the protagonist could do the things she does despite the fact that she’s a girl.
But TFA doesn’t do that. When Kylo Ren finally meets Rey on Takodana, he says, “So you’re the girl I’ve heard so much about.” He doesn’t say, “how could a mere girl have caused so much trouble,” or “imagine my surprise when they said a girl had the droid,” or anything else to express surprise at someone of her gender ending up in her position. It’s just “so you’re her.”
Likewise, when Kylo runs to Snoke to report how Rey turned the tables on his interrogation, Snoke’s outburst is at the fact that a mere scavenger resisted Kylo, not that a girl did.
Obviously I’m not pointing this out in defense of Kylo and Snoke, but as kudos to the writers for not going the lazy route and resorting to the kind of gender-based insults we’re far too used to hearing in scenes like those. It’s so profoundly refreshing.
I’m doing a social experiment called ‘agreeing with boys when they compliment you’.
the results:
perf example of how uncomfortable boys are with women owning their own awesomeness. for many men, beauty, coolness, desirability are gifts they alone can bestow upon women. they get baffled, even aggressive when you show you’ve known you possess those things all along.
i love this experiment!
I reblog stuff like this every time I see it, because I figure women who follow me need the reminder, and men who follow me also need the reminder.
If you pay someone a compliment and they accept it and that makes you angry? You weren’t really interested in paying them a compliment.
i drew this little friend and i dont know what he is but i love him
Don’t worry, friends. Little guy is ok.
he doesnt have arms to drink that tea that is a threat in disguise
goodbye small fucker
LEAVE HIM ALONE
I’m going to help train our friend, I won’t stand to see him take this abuse any longer
We’re taking it a bit slow because he’s still recovering, but his training is coming along nicely! You can do it, little guy!
looks like all that training is starting to pay off
I will resurrect many time with more strangth.
Revenge is sweet.
goodbye small fucker
I always love these because you get to see so many different art styles but holy fuck guys someone needs to get him a spikey hat or knights armour covered in razor blades
I love how every time I see this there’s a new addition
i think the best practical joke any video game pulled was Skyrim opening their game making you think the rebellion was this amazing noble cause against an oppressive government (as most fantasy universes frame it), but then you pretty much immediately find out that the stormcloaks are just racists with swords and the empire isn’t really all that terrible save your standard government problems.
yall are gonna have to stop sending me messages about how im an imperial government of tamriel apologist
the greybeards aren’t any help either. or the blades. Skyrim is just a bunch of rednecks who hate each other.