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hajnarus

Internal screaming, in other words: how Jotaro kept his mental stability

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professorsparklepants

Tolkien and Lewis are both products of their times & their sexism exerts itself in different ways but my favorite is how every individual Narnia book has the same number of named female characters as the entire LOTR series combined. It’s so fucking funny.

professorsparklepants

Second place goes to Lewis being deathly allergic to the concept of girls touching a sword and Tolkien just handing one to Éowyn and telling her to go fuck up the witch king

july-19th-club

Tolkien had less girls overall but they were uniformly more liberated bc they were all based on his wife and he drank loving-my-wife juice daily meanwhile Lewis was born again so he was only allowed to legally respect a very specific type of woman

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@elodieunderglass

elodieunderglass

With apologies for the poor image quality and accessibility , here is an extract from a publication called “Books, Theology and Hens: the Correspondence and Friendship between Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis”. (It’s available by direct download only so you’ll have to Google the title and download the pdf if you want to read it.)

A PERSON WITH HIS LIMITATIONS

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Transcript:

First quote:

This last disagreement highlights a fact that to this point we’ve ignored: that Lewis was a man and Sayers was a woman, yet they became friends. This reality seems important to address for two reasons: (1) Lewis brings up the difficulties of male-female friendships in his own writing, and (2) much discussion has occurred in recent Lewis scholarship around his attitudes toward and relationships with women. In The Four Loves, Lewis notes that because friendships arise among companions, in “most societies at most periods Friendship will be between men and men or between women and women” (72); however, he goes on to say that “where men and women work side by side, or in the mission field, or among authors and artists, such Friendship is common” (72). Thus, Lewis would have viewed his friendship with Sayers (along with his friendships with other women like Ruth Pitter and Sister Penelope) as entirely natural. As Alan Jacobs notes, “the tone he uses with female writers such as Dorothy Sayers and female scholars such as Helen Gardner and Joan Bennett is fully as respectful and serious as the tone he uses with their male counterparts, though it is sometimes a bit more courtly” (255). In spite of this, though Sayers maintained friendships with several of the Inklings, she would not have been welcomed in their weekly meetings at the pub or in Lewis’s rooms due to basic social proprieties of the day.

Second quote:

To the second point, Lewis’s attitude toward women, Sayers’s letters shed interesting light on that topic. As we noted earlier, she often recommends Lewis’s books to her friends, but these recommendations come with qualifications. Writing too Mrs. Robert Darby, for example, she states, “I do admit that he is apt to write shocking nonsense about women and marriage. (That, however, is not because he is a bad theologian but because he is a rather frightened bachelor.)” (Letter, May 31, 1948). Similarly, she writes to Barbara Reynolds about Lewis: “One just has to accept the fact that there is a complete blank in his mind where women are concerned. Charles Williams and his other married friends used to sit round him at Oxford and tell him so, but there really isn’t anything to be done about it. He is not hostile, and he does his best, and actually, for a person with his limitations I think he didn’t do too badly with the Lady in Perelandra” (December 21, 1955). Finally, we note that the author of a recent study on Lewis and gender argues that Lewis’s views on gender slowly changed over time and that the change “owed much to the intellectual and Christian ties he forged with Dorothy L. Sayers, a woman of his own class and educational background” (Van Leeuwen, 12).

elodieunderglass

Oh well done! I will reblog this accessible version.

readingwritingraptures

I have loved Dorothy Sayers for a long time, but the “I do admit that he is apt to write shocking nonsense about women and marriage. (That, however, is not because he is a bad theologian but because he is a rather frightened bachelor.)” is a new delight.

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oekaki-chan

Family.

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rasstegai

when life is kicking ur ass but u tryin to stay positive

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d4imeiwaku

if mp100 was shoujo manga

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cat-peach

Just let him die lol

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xyuwa

Every time I hear Eruri is called “old gay couple”, I can’t help but think about Vicious AU, where Levi and Ervin have lived together like forever (they are not as old as main characters in series though) and their young neighbour is Eren and their best female friend is Hanji. I’m pretty sure these roles feet Eruri perfectly, because of fancy clothes, attitude and shit.

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februeruri

my contribution to Vow. hope everyone who wanted it managed to get a copy <3

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nanakorobiyaokii

SNK #39 :“Pain”

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huchidori

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theflyingslob

So I saw this post and thought of shitposting an AoT version myself…

Don’t question my sanity

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februeruri

wow, the best birthday ever

also, s/o to the answer that made me decide to close replies:

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susiephone

“I’d love to stop watching TV, but you cancelled school!”

aka, YouTube series to binge when you’re stuck indoors and you’d like to learn a little something.

ART!

Lindsay Ellis’ entire YouTube channel. It’s like film school for people who can’t afford film school.
Here she is teaching you about film theory… via the Transformers movies.
Here she is talking about the ways the potrayals of various characters have changed and developed over the years.
It’s Lit! A series hosted by Lindsay Ellis in collaboration with PBS, about reading, writing, and the publishing industry.
Brows Held High. Half comedy reviews, half artistic and political analysis of “highbrow” films – often both at once.
Also he has talked about Shakespeare a LOT. Like, so much, you guys.
ThugNotes. Advertised as “classic literature, original gangster.” Sparky Sweets, PhD, summarizes and analyzes some books you may have heard of.
Terrible Writing Advice. Teaching you how to write by telling you how not to write.
Maven of the Eventide. A very nerdy goth lady reviews vampire-focused content, and has thus talked quite a lot about the history of the vampire genre and how it’s developed over the centuries. It’s so awesome. She also has really cute kids who show up sometimes!

SCIENCE!

Sexplanations. One very smart lady answers all your sex ed questions. Yes, even that one.
Tibees. A PhD student explains physics and math… in the style of Bob Ross, baking videos, and shitposts.
Cool Worlds. Videos about astronomy and space and other planets, for when you want to think about how small you are.
Minute Physics. Complicated scientific ideas, in short, easy to digest videos.
SciShow: Hank Green and friends tackle serious scientific queries, like, “Why don’t we just throw trash into volcanoes?”

HISTORY!

Ruining History. Shane Madej infodumps about salacious periods in history that were left out of the books. People have always been weird, y’all.
On that note: Puppet History! It’s a new one, but it’s a lot like Ruining History, but with puppets and songs, too.
BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime. If I get mysteriously murdered with no leads, Ryan and Shane are the only people allowed to talk about it.
Also Supernatural often has some interesting historical tidbits.

MISCELLANEOUS CRAP!

Adam Ruins Everything. One very earnest, very nerdy man annoys his friends and family by debunking common misconceptions about everything from chemistry to the TSA to the funeral industry.
Last Week Tonight. Comedy news program hosted by a sad British man in America. Depending on the episode, you might see him get in a jockstrap-related feud with Russel Crowe, troll the FCC with robocalls, or interview Edward Snowden. Constantly wastes HBO’s money on stupid shit. Always funny, always informative, and he hates Trump SO. GODDAMN. MUCH.
Defunctland. Our host Kevin gives us the rundown on theme park attractions, and sometimes whole parks, that don’t exist anymore – how they were developed, and why they ultimately shut down.
He also has a side-series about kids’ TV shows that don’t exist anymore.
And a miniseries about the works of Jim Henson.
Daily Moth. American news given in ASL, with full English transcripts.
Ali Abdaal. A Cambridge grad talks about life has a junior doctor, and how to study and work more effectively.

Feel free to add!

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quality-on-a-patch-of-awesome

This fanfic I’m never going to write is really damn good.

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theradioghost

wastrelwoods asked:

PLEASE VIMES HEADCANONS PLEASE

theradioghost answered:

cheery accidentally called him ‘dad’ once and he replied without thinking about it and then both of them silently came to the understanding that this incident would never be mentioned again
he has at least one stupid tattoo he got as a stupid teenager. you know that one bit in Thud! about his hatred of Clues where he gives the example of a drunk 17-year-old getting a tattoo that makes people think he’s a sailor even though he can get seasick on pavement? there’s nothing hypothetical about that example
sergeant colon is the only member of the watch who knows about it because the guy practically raised him starting in his late teens
sybil thinks it’s cute
he is short. childhood malnutrition will do that to a guy. but like, REALLY short.
omnian vimes
this isn’t even a headcanon but my favorite canon detail about him is that he lines his razor up with the Hub because he believes in folk superstition that doing that keeps it sharp? I love that so much. I love him so much
he’s one of those people who pretty much never knows what the date is so he’s garbage at holidays and anniversaries. Sybil had to ask Sgt. Colon when his birthday was.
total tangent but do you ever just wonder how the FUCK Nobby ended up as the quartermaster for the army of Pseudopolis????? I can’t stop thinking about this
sometimes he goes to parties with Sybil and she manages to coax him out of whatever shadow he’s found to lurk in and dance with her. they’re both terrible at it and they have a great time, especially when people give them rude looks.
he takes advantage of the ability to see/Know Things in the dark to creep up on people and deliver one-liners at them. what’s the point of being a boogeyman to half the world if you don’t get to be Dramatique about it
also to sneak downstairs at night without a light and make himself the kind of sandwich that Sybil disapproves of
but also, Young Sam is NEVER going to be able to get away with sneaking around at night? or actually anything? can you imagine having an incredibly suspicious dad who can literally always know what you’ve done in a dark room
theres a 100% chance that Sam Vimes Arresting Anything is a meme on the Disc
so is his list of titles

theradioghost

This post is a year old but it’s going around again, so I clarify: I mean ethnically Omnian, as in from Omnia, not Omnian as in a follower of the god Om. “Suffer-Not-Injustice” is the same joke about Puritan names as the Omnians’ names are, so it seems entirely plausible to me.

Also, yes, the “clues” bit was from Feet of Clay.

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babtest

so. they made a new german discowrld essentials edition, with a new covers (which is good because the old ones are real bad)

and they are these manga-like ‘build a picture’ style, which i like

but. oh my god. look at that vimes

this isn’t samuel ‘worked the night-shift for 30 years, runs on coffee and spit, has probably not slept more than 3hours any given day’ vimes

this is the guy who played vimes in murder-mystery play, ‘inspired by real events’. hammy acting, horrible script, ‘Clues’ everywhere, heroic fightscenes, big speaches. Vimes threadened to shut the whole thing down for slander. Sybil probably got an autograph

out-there-on-the-maroon

I’ve been staring at this post for 15 minutes and I can’t stop laughing omg omg I’m seeing stars oh no.

Sybil invited the damn company to the house for their afterparty and you know it.

roachpatrol

the actor earnestly explains at one point the fitness routine he undertook to ‘get in character’ for the part of the ‘heroic commander’ while pointing at various melon-sized muscle groups. vimes himself is sitting there shoveling something that’s 98% grease by volume into his face and also staring balefully. he’s never done a pushup in his life. he wouldn’t know a fucking pushup if it spat on him in the street. sybil is doing her absolute best not to laugh and her best is nowhere good enough. the actor, encouraged by the (presumably) admiring male stares and flirtatious female giggles, goes on to describe his hair-care regimen.