i just kind of hate how every time someone is writing a female character, there is far more scrutiny on whether she is “good” representation. like no one ever writes a male character and is like “hmm… is this good representation for men?” because they’re ALLOWED to be written as smart or stupid, or serious or funny, or sensitive or mean, or loud or quiet, or competent or irrational, or jovial or angry, or wise or inexperienced, or pathetic or badass, or good or evil, or complex or one-dimensional. and they will ALWAYS be loved in some shape or form.

but the MOMENT a woman is any one of those things (even tho women irl can ALL have these traits), there are video essays and entire blogs and articles dedicated to Why That’s Not A Good Woman. and like YES, good female representation is important. i acknowledge and agree with that to hell and back. but god damn let these writers breathe. no one is ever going to want to write women again if we shove these impossible standards down their throats.

YEA.

proud to announce that i will be releasing my first self published novella, you're not crucial. it's been a long and hard journey but it is finally here and ready to be shared with the world. i will give more details when the release date comes closer. thank you guys so much for your support!

update! so i ended up changing the front cover slightly, but the book is in fact called “you’re not crucial”  the cover is not a typo! it's supposed to say "hot" instead of "not". the cover says not because it's symbolism for how the job as an extra sells you an idea that this will be your big break, but when you get to set you realize it's anything but.

i will give more updates as the days pass! thank you so much!

hi everyone, the book is now available for purchase!!!! both digital and physical copies!

Toni Braxton as Belle

Brandy as Cinderella

Precious Adams as Aurora

Angel Coulby as Guenivere

Lashana Lynch as Rosaline Capulet

Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte

Sophie Okonedo as Margaret of Anjou

Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn

Alexandra Metz as Rapunzel

Ciara Renee as Elsa

Aisha Jackson as Anna

Brittney Johnson as Glinda

Denée Benton as Cinderella

Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy

Danielle Brooks as Beatrice

Misty Copeland as Odette

Stephanie Mills as Dorothy

Ashanti as Dorothy

Shanice Williams as Little Red Riding Hood

Keke Palmer as Cinderella

Jade Jones as Belle

This is the first time EVER that more than one woman was nominated for Best Director in the same year. Four nominations for Chloé Zhao and three nominations for Emerald Fennell this morning. I wish Regina King were in there too tho.

Women shouldn’t be valued because we are strong, or kick-ass, but because we are people. So don’t focus on writing characters who are strong. Write characters who are people. - @madlori​

Still love this quote but when I searched for any example characters there was a stricking lack of women of colour, lgbtq+ women, and women of different ages. I thought a quote about so many different types of women should actually show… different types of women lmao. Also shout out to Korra for actually being able to fit all of these. 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION ★ Day 1: Favorite Celebrity ↳ Janelle Monáe

Got bad news for them about the ages of who is writing the books and scripts and filming the movies and tv shows they like … 

Got real bad news for them about the age of the people who run AO3.  

Got further bad news about the age of many of the popular writers in most fandoms.

Someone’s gonna be horrified we hen they find out how old the actors playing their faves are…

So this post circled back around and I wanna clarify my snarky comment at the start. I was purposefully pointing at the creators of tv shows and movies and books, not fans in fandom, for a reason. Most of those influential figures are white men in their 40s, 50s, 60s, even 70s. For long established book series, i.e. Tolkien or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, they’re long dead. 

It really troubles me that there’s this rise in teens targeting older fans (hell most aren’t even old, I would not call someone in their 30s old) while blissfully consuming media created by men twice the age of those fans they’re saying should go do their taxes or take care of babies or whatever. 

Why are older men allowed to create, shape franchises, set ongoing stories for decades … and older women (let’s be real this stuff is almost always lobbed at an older woman for daring to have a hobby and friends) are expected to fade into the background and never speak up about their interests, or indeed have interests, ever again?

What is happening to these kids? I see teenage girls insisting that any woman over 30 is a hag, a creep, pathetic, and should no longer speak to friends online or go to conventions or enjoy stories or create crafts or write for fun. That’s what they think of their futures? That past a certain age they aren’t allowed to have friends, hobbies, interests, spend money on things for their own enjoyment, do things for fun rather than profit? 

That’s bleak as hell. 

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.

Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect

Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.

Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.

🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶

This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?

Casual reminder that

And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?

Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million 

This is Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Terry McMillian, Octavia Butler Audre Lorde and MAYA ANGELOU erasure! 🗣🗣🗣

^^^^

Whoever wrote that must be on crack

Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, becoming world famous despite that being the ONLY book she ever wrote/published up until Go Set A Watchman in 2015?

S. E. Hinton (despite turning out to be a huge homophobe) who wrote The Outsiders at age 16, which brought to many people’s attention the issues of povery and gang violence?

when a woman designs an outfit for women VS when men are allowed to do it

Stop letting men do things 2k18

Never not reblogging

Best post ever

Seriously though!!  It’s ridiculous!

Also:

women-designed outfits are not only 1000% more practical, but also highly detailed and meant to elevate the woman wearing it, whereas male designers are happy to slap on a plain piece of fabric and let the woman’s body elevate their poor design.

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.

A woman in a suit is my kryptonite

Who’s your favorite? Please feel free to add to this post!

I love this addition! 😍

Here it is……. the post that made me realize how much I love girls 😍

BASK IN THE PERFECTION

Lest we forget

< CLUTCHES CHEST <3

Things that remind me of more reasons to be thankful for being hella gay

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN SUITS <3

words Cannot Express how much I stan jameela jamil

if you didn’t know, she’s an actress, mostly known for playing Tahani in The Good Place

reasons to stan her:

tl;dr: jameela jamil is a fucking gift to humanity, she’s funny and woke, and tries her best to protect her fans, which is all I want from any celebrity.

do you ever watch something and think “this was written by a man”

i was up late night watching an episode of criminal minds fairly recently, for lack of a better thing to do. in the opening scene there are these two girls getting into their car in like a supermarket parking lot, not very well lit, in the middle of the night. another car drives up right behind theirs and won’t move out of the way so this one girl is like “im gonna go see what this guy’s problem is” and gets out of the car, in a poorly lit parking lot, to confront a man who was behaving aggressively to them.

so that was the precise moment i realised that episode was written by a man.

I was watching an episode of CSI where the entire reason they were going forward with the case was that ‘no woman would wear a bra this expensive without also wearing the matching panties’.  What porn logic is this?  I was, at that moment, wearing the exact bra the Jane Doe was wearing and fuck no I didn’t spring for the matching panties.  Even if I did, I wouldn’t wear them as often as a bra.  Panties I wash daily.  Bras? Not so much.

But in CSI World, police resources were being mobilized on how irregular it would be for a woman to wear a $36 bra, but not caring about how she would look in just underthings.

Never mind not matching, but that they think $36 is expensive for a bra is probably the number one sign it was written by a man.

In Star Wars Padmé goes for Anakin while Ewan McGregor is around