a voiceless mass of ultimate moral victims

Dont be very woried about me since i deserve all of this

Shannon died for your right to parity

all my alters become walters when i pitch the baseball of success

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

happy first day of pride everyone

in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you

i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian

you know back then they didn’t use to romanticize the past

concept: clothing brand which advertises on its price tags both the retail price of the item and the amount paid to the person who sewed it

concept: labeling requirement

ive said it before and i’ll say it again not enough historical romance focuses on technicalities

really for this kind of thing it’s no use going to published trad romance and i should know that. the really good shit is 400k on fanfiction dot net for a heterosexual pairing you’ve never considered from a piece of media you havent thought about in years written by a bored doctoral candidate who’s read a lot of primary sources from the long 18th century

recently rediscovered my absolute favorite entry in the genre: customs and duties by tortoiseshells, which is an insane technicalityromance set in 1738 boston, ft the stuffy british navy guy from pirates of the caribbean/ofc, smuggling, puritanism in the john calvin sense, the legal realities of widowhood, several real historical governors of massachusetts, debts, accounts, and of course customs regulations

I would also like to nominate and psyche's lamp shall darkling be, a story based on the 2025 Frankenstein movie that gets into the intricacies of 1850s convent school life, the process of Catholic ecclesiastical courts verifying miracles, multiple points of mid 19th century marriage and inheritance laws pertaining to property, and also spells the word connection with an X so you know the author has been in the 19th century literature trenches 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I’ll never miss a chance to rec Town and Country by @charminglygrouped! Pride and Prejudice is already set historically but T&C engages with some of the contemporary issues the source material doesn’t touch by exploring what might change if, say, the Bennet family were South Asian. The intersection of class and racial privileges, alienation from parents’ cultures, how racism and orientalism mirrored each other in the fashions of the day (and how that is present in p&p’s use of plain vs opulent attire to signal virtue), with relevant boilerplates on every chapter, fantastic dialogue, citations to make your head spin, and a genuinely compelling relationship at the heart of it.

speaking from a place of privilege (good url)

i think whether 'men' can be lesbians is rather irrelevant—the problem being posed by trans women asking this question is one of trans men gaining access to spaces from which trannies are excluded, but pretending this is a war we can win by coalescing around a more specific definition is absurdly naive and just like, not reflected in reality, we know people already treat being afab as more important than persistent identification with womanhood in many well estabilished lesbian spaces—by the same token, "can men be lesbians" is regularly used against us. i don't think we need to emphasize that the tranny camp has more "legitimacy" on this matter bc if anything being awful to trannies has a much better preserved historical record than including them, i think we need to recognize the game is rigged and lesbianism is a fundamentally kinda silly thing to be precious about