I remember posting somewhere once in a thread about why girls aren’t exploited in animation anymore where some guy said, “all the disney girls are drawn to be generally attractive, but I don’t think there are any eye-candy men… or are there? Are there any Disney men that lots of girls like?” and I mentioned Roger. Tons of girls replied agreeing with me and the original guy was like “wait, Roger? from 101 Dalmatians? What’s attractive about him, he’s tall and lanky and has a big nose, he isn’t muscley at all! Wouldn’t you all prefer Gaston or something? Or do you girls think his big nose is indicative of something else?” and I was like “no, you idiot, he’s a silly, goofy guy who likes animals and can play a bunch of instruments, that’s why he’s attractive. What’s the matter with you? Gaston, seriously?”
This is why we need more girls in animation. And more guys like Roger apparently.
This is why I laugh my ass of whenever dudes talk about how men are “objectified” by the media too. Because 9 times out of 10, what men think is “women objectifying men” are characters like Gaston.
And Gaston is NOT a woman-driven fantasy. Gaston is a male wish fulfillment fantasy. Gaston is not what women want, he is what men want to be. He is hyper-masculinity to an extreme degree, dripping with sexism and testosterone. The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men.
While I don’t want to generalize, female fans tend to prefer a very different kind of male hero. We like the Rogers, the Milos, the Hercules. Genuinely kind, often awkward men who are sometimes vulnerable and respectful to women.
Yes, this is a generalization. I own up to that. But I think it’s important to remember that there is often VERY big difference between what MEN want to be and what women WANT in our media.
Reblogging this again because fucking this. And hell, even the muscley dudes (see: Khal Drogo, Hercules, Thor, Captain America) are loved, not because they are muscley, but because they are sweet and loving and adorable. We love Thor because his mispronounces “Hubble” as “Hooble,” not because of what he can do with a hammer.
Reblogging for the awesome comments.
I’m just here to say I love the animation of Roger so fucking much. look how fucking smooth and graceful and agile he is. 2d animation is amazing and i just want to hug it
All of this.
Okay, listen, to return briefly to the idea of Gaston: Beauty and the Beast is actually the first animated Disney screen play written by a woman. Linda Woolverton, the screenwriter, got a lot of attention for creating a self-proclaimed feminist heroine in 1991, but she also had a *lot* to say about Gaston. She didn’t stumble into that villain by mistake. She crafted him based on her own experiences with men and even her ex-boyfriends, and said: “To Gaston, Belle wasn’t a person; she was a possession. And I think it’s great for little boys to see that Beauty doesn’t choose him. Not only can they look at Gaston as an example of how not to treat women, but they can hopefully be taught by the Beast, a macho guy who is comfortable with his feelings and gentleness. He could teach a lot of men, in fact, about sensitivity.“
Not only is Gaston not a woman’s fantasy, he’s literally a woman’s horror story.
Reblogging for:
“The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men.”
“Not only is Gaston not a woman’s fantasy, he’s literally a woman’s horror story.”
The second most irritating thing a person can say in regards to Loki is that that he faked his sacrifice in TDW. Bonus points if they’re a fan of Ragnarok, which goes out of its way to point out how Loki’s illusions are not solid. THEY ARE NOT SOLID. They become distorted when touched. So how the fuck did Loki fake being stabbed? And when he nearly got sucked into a black hole grenade saving Jane, was that part of his master plan to take the throne of Asgard, too? What about offering said throne to Thor? Ugh!
The most irritating thing a person can say in regards to Loki is that he faked his death/suicide in Thor. I have no words for these people. They render me speechless.
Honorable mention goes to people who call Loki fascist in Avengers. I assume because they can’t understand subtext. Bonus points if they were around before Ragnarok and thought Loki was a great, sympathetic villain, and have only now started talking trash about his characterization pre-Ragnarok because it’s in to hate on the previous iterations, especially those written by Whedon.
The first words Thor speaks to him are “Where is the Tesseract?”
A growled demand. The brash, entitled tone Thor took when addressing Laufey on Jotunheim.
Loki bristles and gathers his own words to go to war.
He huffs out an dismissive laugh. “Oh, I missed you, too.”
“Do I look to be in a gaming mood?” Thor’s eyes are a storm and his hammer is raised in a fist that looks like it wants to punch.
How can Thor would even think to say ‘game’? Fury licks up through Loki like an igniting flame and he is punching. Before his mind even reacts his fist cracks against Thor’s jaw and the shockwave travels back down his arm.
He curses himself for reacting before he can craft a strategy.
Thor grabs him by the neck in a choking grip.
“Where is the Tesseract, Loki? What have you done?” He shouts in Loki’s face, so close his breath is tangible in hot gusts.
“What have I done! And there you are, Thor!” Loki hisses. “There is the truth of you. Not, ‘Where were you, Brother? How did you survive?’ but ‘What have you done?’ I am only ever of use to the court of Asgard when I serve your purpose. Well I have found new purpose, Odin’s son.”
Thor looks chastened, eyes wet.
“I thought you dead.” Thor’s grasp on his neck gentles, old gesture Loki knows like his own reflection. He pushes the affection away.
“You thought,” Loki echoes, flatly. He turns head away, the hand on his neck burning him with its mockery of concern.
“Loki, what has happened to you? Where have you been?” He drops Mjolnir, and the short musical hum grates Loki’s ears.
“It matters not. I have been given purpose. I have seen true power, and I—”
“Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?” Thor grabs him by the shoulders now.
“Controls? No one c-controls me,” Loki says, and twists out of Thor’s grip. He’s starting to shake, so he stalks the craggy ground in a circle. “I was and should be king!”
“Not here, Loki. Not like this.” Thor’s voice is soft, conciliatory.
Loki can’t stand it, this gentleness. He’s coming apart. Flashes of the empty rock world come to him. Thin dusty air never refreshing his lungs, sunlight never brightening his eyes, his stomach a churning hollow. Poison his only water and razor whips lashing his back.
He doesn’t realize he’s weeping until the tears grow cooler than his skin.
“Loki, tell me what happened,” Thor pleads from far away.
“No!” Loki says. He turns on the spot and isn’t even seeing Thor as he seeks out the seam in his armor and sinks the knife in.
Thor grunts heavily but doesn’t counter attack. He presses a hand against the wound and reaches out for Loki again. “Brother, please, tell me.”
“Now?” Loki sobs, inching away. “Now you offer solace? In the midst of battle? Where were you then Thor?”
He screams, his hands twisted into claws. “Where were you then!”
Thor catches up to him, and pulls Loki against him, and the fight falls out of him. He slumps against his brother, crying in gulping, heavy sobs. “I needed you. I needed you Thor, and you weren’t there.”
Their shared tears rock them together and eventually they sink to the rocky ground, bloodied hands grasping each other’s necks.
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Yes, this is the correct size ratio of Loki to everyone else.
OK real talk can anyone tell me if the 1st deadpool movie is watchable because I’m dying for these gifs I’m seeing of literally everyone other than deadpool like I’m sure he’s fine as a character but you know how IRL when you find out someone’s a deadpool fan and then they’re also like a fucken men’s rights activist or some shit
I just… want to watch her movie, who is she, I love her, will she marry me
yes it is, very watchable.
Every “men’s rights” who stan Deadpool are simply displaying their usual level of intelligence and insight. Deadpool (and Ryan Reynolds) are everything they are not and shit and piss in a kinky way on everything these assholes stand for. They simply don’t get it.
Deadpool 1 is good, Deadpool 2 is fucking great.
This is so weird my real life friend and my internet friend are talking to each other about Deadpool.
But yes, @iscariotsss , I second this opinion. Deadpool is full of unabashed gay innuendo. The second one has a canonical lesbian couple. The side characters kind of are the best part, but I don’t think that’s a problem.
i feel like part of the weirdness with gender on this site is that like…. cis is a useful term and social locator and i want to be clear i’m not denying that but cis women do not relate to gender the way cis men do and people on here kind of know that but also don’t really talk about it which muddies the ideas of both what it means to be cis and what it means to be a woman
a couple people asked for elaboration so this is very cursory, but
womanhood is inherently unpleasant. it’s a social location relative to patriarchy that is constraining and harmful, and while of course there are a multitude of individual experiences that fall under womanhood, i think it’s safe to say that most women, cis or trans, are conscious of some degree of discomfort with it. this runs the gamut from comparatively “minor” things like chafing under compulsory femininity to more overtly harmful things like fearing and/or surviving rape, abuse, intimate partner violence, and so on. women of color specifically are often coercively masculinized and denied their womanhood because much of “femininity” is constructed around whiteness.
and yet there’s often an idea on this site (i almost always see it perpetrated by well-meaning cis people) that all trans people must be miserable in their experience of gender and all cis people must be at worst indifferent to it and at best delighted about it. that’s really just a completely misleading and oversimplified dichotomy, and one of the ways in which it breaks down is that cis women overall are just way more likely than cis men to be unhappy in our experience of gender and alienated from it to some extent, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still in the social position of being cis. (i don’t have time to unpack this as it relates to nb transmisogyny-exempt women.)
this is obviously also harmful to trans people, who then become viewed only in terms of pain and suffering, and are frequently expected to demonstrate how miserable they are in order to access things like medical/legal transition or basic compassion.
again, this is really bare-bones and it’s not the only way in which the suffering/not suffering dichotomy fails us. for instance, men of color, particularly black men, don’t get afforded “easy” cis manhood or masculinity the way white men do; even cis manhood is not as simple or unified as some people on here think. if cis just meant “completely loves their assigned gender and is never unhappy about it, excluded from it, or forced into it” there would be far fewer cis people. basically, these terms are useful because they convey information about a person’s relation to certain power structures, but sometimes people try to turn them into intrusive psychological evaluations and it’s not effective.
Attendees of a far-left event on the subject of “Corbyn, antisemitism and justice for Palestine” were filmed making comments such as “the Jewish people do not exist”, and “if you walk around expecting to be treated like Jewish ‘scum’, that’s what’s going to happen to you.”
The event, which was held on Tuesday night at London’s Conway Hall, featured speakers such as Tariq Ali, Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and Richard Kuper of Jewish Voice for Labour.
The event’s description on social media claimed that “Criticism of Israel is being conflated with antisemitism in ways that threaten free speech and the right to protest while silencing Palestinian voices. We must vigorously oppose all forms of antisemitism, but we can’t let smears be used to silence criticism of the Israeli state.
“This meeting will discuss the importance of challenging any attempt at a witch hunt, strengthening the struggle for Palestinian freedom while maintaining zero tolerance for antisemitism and all forms of racism.”
Joseph Cohen of the Israel Advocacy Movement and a number of other pro-Israel activists were refused admission to the event.
However, footage filmed by Mr Cohen showed a number of people queueing to attend making antisemitic comments.
“Think of the Dollar – that’s all you care about,” one woman told a Jewish protestor.
“You like silver, you like gold, that’s all you care about.”
One person handing out a newsletter on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who claimed to be Jewish, was also selling books showing a swastika melded together with a Star of David, with the title “Zionism – a racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism.”
He went on to say that “the Jewish people do not exist”, before attempting to put a pro-Israel campaigner in a headlock.
A smiling teenager informed Mr Cohen that he supported “I support Hamas. I support Nasrallah, I support Hezbollah.”
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are genocidal antisemitic terror groups, with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, having said “"If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.“
Another man claimed that “every oppressive regime, the Zionists have been linked to,” while another called Mr Cohen, who is visibly Jewish, “a lecherous, satanic piece of s***…”
After the event, one attendee told Mr Cohen and others that “if you walk around expecting to be treated like Jewish ‘scum’, that’s what’s going to happen to you.”
She went on to accuse them of being part of the “Zionist lobby”.
“What makes me part of the Zionist lobby?” Mr Cohen asked.
“Because you think that there’s antisemitism in the Labour party,” she responded.
loki showing thor his jotun form in order to prove to thor that he’s a “monster” or some other dumb shit and thor instead telling loki how beautiful he is and how much he loves him no matter what form he takes
thor being an extremely enthusiastic bottom
thor being a doting service top
calling each other “brother” in bed and getting off even harder for it
secret kisses and rendezvous in corridors even though it’s risky because they just can’t help themselves
“give us a kiss”
thor losing control of his powers during sex, summoning a storm and/or literally going full on thunder-god and shooting lightening from his fingertips (much to loki’s pleasure)
the neck grab™
fond exhasperation when the other acts like a complete dumbass
brotherly bickering on the constant
soft, gentle kisses full of tenderness and adoration
loki being a bossy bitch when bottoming
thor having a praise kink
“i mourned you”
literally ANY mention of thor being a fertility god
S P A R R I N G
thor being so insanely charming without even realizing it
human!au where they’re still brothers (even better, biological brothers)
loki using seidr in some inane way (like summoning a fire in the hearth or whatever) and thor being awestruck even though he’s seen the extent of what loki can do, he’s just never not thrilled by his brother’s powers
jotun!thorki and anything to do with it
any time “golden” is used as a descriptor for thor
mutual pining to the extreme
publicly flirting with others, causing uncontrollable fits of jealousy and possessiveness
thor appointing loki as his advisor
“my king”
loki fucking thor for the first time since before the events of thor 1 and being so overcome with emotion because yes, finally, he’s back where he belongs
No lie, I do appreciate how Tan and Karamo speak out on this to the others, and the others LET THEM, and give them the floor when they’re talking about how being brown/black and being gay intersect. Similarly to the way they give Jonathan the floor when he’s talking about the difference in presentation being being, for example, someone like Antoni and Bobby who straight people generally don’t find threatening, and being someone like Jonathan who, in his own words, never had a CHOICE about being in the closet because “Sky is blue, water is wet, Jonathan is flamingly homosexual”. There are different experiences here, but Queer Eye actually gives them air time to talk about intersections of prejudice??? and that’s… so weirdly cool????
Loki is the Philosopher King 