women please take self defence classes and do not listen to men that tell you it’s futile to fight against a man. learning to defend yourself from men is not the same as when men fight each other, you are not trying to beat the shit out of him, you are trying to hurt him just enough so that you can get away. you can learn techniques to prevent a man from grabbing or choking you or how to escape a grip on you. men can knock you out or kill you if they land a proper punch but you can reduce the chances of that happening. even if you’re very small, it really doesn’t hurt to be able to dodge a punch from a man but it’s something you have to practice. it doesn’t matter how strong he is if he misses.

We stan

I love all the possible implications from: “Mama is trans and wasn’t out back then”, “Mama successfully committed feminist voter fraud”, to “Mama just fucking voted and the people running her local ballot box knew what was fucking good for them and stayed out of her way”. 

I miss her :⁠-⁠\

you KNOW she and Peggy Carter fucked nasty

YALL COOKING

im really in a bad place i hope the sun doesnt start setting crazy early at like 4pm. i said i hope the sun doesnt set early at like 4pm that would be bad for me

Happy one year of Barbie you did big things for us Madame President

mourning this version of me. she was so happy and so hopeful

Chappell Roan could beat the shit out of a paparazzi Björk style and I’d still side with her

I could never see a famous woman be mean to a paparazzi and think she’s in the wrong. I was on Chappell’s side even when I thought she yelled at the paparazzi without any reason. People want a pop diva until she acts like a pop diva

People criticize famous women being dicks to paparazzi as if they don’t remember Princess Diana, Britney Spears, or Amy Winehouse. Paparazzi see famous women as objects that they can chew up and spit back out. As far as I’m concerned, Chappell can yell at them all she wants.

Hold on, just adding to the entire “Noto is best Natasha illustrator” thing. 

Compare these covers illustrated by different artists.

to these covers illustrated by Noto

What a difference, am I right? 

YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT WHEN I SAID NOTO DOESN’T SEXUALIZE HER LIKE SHE’S A PIECE OF MEAT OR SMTH, even the panels (i can’t add images bc im on mobile) but Noto doesn’t give Natasha an unrealistically clinched waist or huge breasts the figure he draws on natasha is perfect toned, muscular waist with an adequately proportional bust, also thighs that are not too thin or thick but TONED. That FITS as a body type because she works out and it FITS bc its nor hyper sexualized in any way and for that alone mr. noto has my vote.

you know what I couldn’t stay away i’m adding pics. 

#1: He’s noto’s natasha underwater:

there’s no overdefined bust, her hips, her thighs everything is realistic. he hasn’t added a glaze or smth over her suit to make it look extra-leathery or smth the suit is realistic as are as arms look how toned they are, how strong because she’s muscular and she needs that muscle.

#2: now there’s this whole panel:

look at those realistic action moves, nothing’s over sexualized about the way she falls or how her butt looks or smth. it isn’t overtly SEXU it’s realistic. She falls and scrambles and her chest isn’t popping out of her suit. ALSO I FORGOT TO MENTION BUT NOTICE HOW HER SUIT IS FULLY ZIPPED UP. NOT ENDING AT HER CLEAVAGE BUT UP TO THE FUCKING COLLAR.

#3: also, look at how he draws/colours her backside too:

there’s nothing hypersexualized about her butt. it’s normal. her thighs her legs, everything is in motion, in action and he draws her like she’s a CHARACTER not an object of the male gaze. 

#4: ok here’s more action moves and LOOK:

look at how when she’s jumping, her hands are out to brace herself, how HER HAIR IS TIED BACK IN A PONYTAIL. How she’s kicking and loving and none of it is used to emphasize her butt or smth. its just realistic body movement. Look at the angles, the way she walks. She is on a mission and her face has EXPRESSIONS that show that she’s here ON BUSINESS and not to look pretty like most BW comics do. (refer to #2 for expressive faces as well)

#5: you might say, hey eldritch-beau thats just because he uses the colour black on her like that. to which i raise you: 

he’s just as good at drawing Natasha in white and its the white fucking SUIT fellas, that suit FUCKS and its realistic too and just as GOOD so its not just his style of Natasha’s suit, it’s how he draws HER. He doesn’t draw her to fit the suit, he draws the suit to fit HER.

#6: now look at how he draws her in civilian clothes. I don’t even need to tell you the difference.

see how her clothes are not unnecessarily skin-tight? see how her pants/leggings are in civies are good in the sense that they let her move, breathe and not be restricted to just her being slender and looking sexy. Her coat flaps about, her shirt doesn’t stick to her skin, her pants are loose enough and SHE IS WEARING FLATS. She’s efficient and Noto draws her with that efficiency because she is a PERSON and the drawing is consistent, her figure is consistent and she isn’t very tall but that did not make Noto make her tiny. He made her muscular and you can SEE it in the calves, in how she moves and how she runs. 

#7: here’s a pic of natasha coming home after a long day and you know what?

noto is the only valid make artist allowed to draw women lounging look at how there’s literally nothing sexualized about how she just flops onto the bed, how her waist isn’t five sizes smaller than her chest when she comes into her room. And when she’s just lying down. tired, she’s exhausted and you can see that. and it’s OK. she doesn’t have to fit the male gaze and it’s FINE.

tldr: noto’s art is amazing and besides the fact that I love the way he colours, I also REALLY love the way he draws Natasha and yall need to go read his comic run asap bc its really good and heartfelt and i can’t gush enough about his art and this post will get too long if I pull up every panel so I’ll leave this post here, go check out Natasha’s 2014 run. That was Noto’s and I can assure you, you wont regret it.

no but then there’s this page! This is maybe one of my favorite pages ever. 

She’s washing her face! Getting dressed! Putting on makeup! And it’s just… the most boring, routine thing ever. She piles her hair on top of her head to keep it out of her way.  She awkwardly stuffs her head through the neck of her shirt (you can see her bra, but it’s just a bra! Not even sort of sexualized, and neither are her unbuttoned pants in the preceding panel!) SHE DOES THE DOOFY OPEN-YOUR-MOUTH-OR-ELSE-THE-MASCARA-WON’T-WORK THING! She’s a gorgeous, alluring master assassin, but here she’s just a person getting ready for work (who happens to have a body in the bathtub, iirc…) 

I love Noto’s Nat, and I miss her every day.

This is genuinely one of my favorite posts EVER. It perfectly encompasses why I love Phil Noto as much as I do and mention him EVERY chance I get.

Miller's Girl (2024) dir. Jade Bartlett

MCU Ladies + deadly kisses

you KNOW she and Peggy Carter fucked nasty

chappell on snl i love u

For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

Don't forget to sexualize the grotesque and romanticize the horrific today!