I ship strong women

ANYways yeah zie was my mutual and like, reblogged a lot my smaller posts. (that isn't to discredit what my mutual pompeyspuppygirl is saying about zie clout chasing ofc). AND idk zie was always reblogging art from new and undiscovered artists and reblogging donation posts (which if you don't know is really bad if you're trying to clout chase...) (again, though, ppg is my mutual i believe her.) and like, remember on valentines day i tried to blaze zir posts and zie told me to stop because zie didn't want the posts to go viral? (but again ppg is my mutual and has a lot of proof in the Google doc I'm not trying to disprove that I'm just saying what else I know)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

- people giving their life story to explain why they have a special secret valid trauma reason to be a reactionary tar pit

- white true crime women assuming I don’t know what it’s like to fear rape

- fascists calling me a euroslave

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

This book is about how during several past disasters, people came together to help one another, and it was the elites who panicked and assumed that people were going to riot and loot.

hello i'm back to hold you at gun point and tell you to read ovenglovee's work.

she's among my favourite authors in any fandom for a reason, and that's because her writing and character analysis is absolutely breathtaking. she weaves metaphors into the narrative perfectly (more on that later) and gives them room to stretch out and get comfortable in a way that i aspire to achieve. an absolute master at her craft, and a genuine delight, even when her fics make me cry so hard i get headaches sometimes.

bloodhound [E] [Rumira] [Ongoing]

Mira and Rumi are pretty torn up after the Idol Awards. They have sex about it. It’s about as messy as you'd imagine.

i'm actually unwell about this fic. it's an incredible character study on Mira and her animal need to be useful. i've never seen this backstory for her before but it makes perfect sense, and it's so cleverly linked to how she behaves around Rumi.

their relationship is extremely messy and complicated but it's perfectly characterised and i'm so sympathetic to both of them. they're both so hurt and unfamiliar with being loved

this may, at its core, be about Mira, but Rumi is incredible in this fic too. she's that perfect mix of very confident and just a little bit pathetic.

so many lines from this one are looping in my head constantly.

after the tone [T] [Rumira] [Complete]

You have 64 voicemails from: Mira. Press 1 to play.

god i can barely speak on this one. it's main character death, and it is devastating, so be warned.

it's told in the form of voicemails left by Mira before and after Rumi died and there's so much emotion and information across in just dialogue and descriptions of sounds.

it took me ages to read this because i knew MCD written by ovenglovee would take me out with it and i wasn't wrong at all but if you have the stomach for it, bring some tissues.

faultlines [T] [Polytrix] [Complete]

faultline (noun) a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault. an area of a system that seems weak and likely to cause problems or failure. a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.

hoooooly shit, faultlines. this one also made me sob so be warned again.

did you watch the movie and think the fact that all those people on the train dying wasn't addressed sufficiently? look no further. this is the fic for looking into the impact of that on Rumi in particular.

when i think about ovenglovee's mastery over extended metaphors, this is the fic i think of. the concept of one small thing causing absolute devastation is woven tightly into the story throughout and it's perfect. i'm still stunned by how incredible it is.

if found, please return to [M] [Polytrix] [Complete]

A soft Rumi character study featuring cows, colours and collars.

this and its E-rated sequel, damaged goods, handle with care, is probably the fic you recognise the author for, and it's an incredible character study on Rumi and her need for rules, punishment, and praise.

despite the rating this isn't actually a very smutty fic. there's a lot of focus on non-sexual kink, and it's the first time i've seen that explored in a fic. it rearranged my brain chemistry on how kink can be used as a character study and i've never been the same since.

also, she loves cows. this isn't related to the kink she just thinks they're neat. moomi is real.

on every shore, in every life [T] [Rumira] [Complete]

Mira, Rumi and the ocean over the years.

another excellent character study of both Mira and Rumi. i'm trying not to repeat myself too much but once again, perfect metaphors. this feels like it's as much a love letter to the ocean as it is to Rumira and I mean that in the best way possible.

its sequel, sea glass, is also incredible. i love it when people give Mira a weird relationship with her brother and this is exactly that, plus a delve into Mira and Celine's relationship and their similarities.

extremely soft and sweet, even with a difficult subject matter. i don't know how ovenglovee does it.

frostbitten [T] [Polytrix] [Complete]

In which Rumi learns to love and be loved.

this and its sequel sunkissed are another set of absolutely incredible Rumi character studies done through extended metaphors and beautiful prose. the imagery of rot and how Rumi feels it applies to her is, once again, masterful and devastating.

and, of course, all that hurt is met with equally soft comfort. Mira and Zoey love Rumi so much and it's so clear in this fic.

Like I try to be nice about this but I have seen SO many fucking people being like "lol yeah ace/aro discourse was one thing" and that is deliberate erasure of real and important queer history in service of dodging blame on the parties that did this who, for the most part, never fucking apologized or owned up to it, or, in the case of a few blogs I still see going around, clearly still stand by all of it and just hope you don't point that out, and ofc, no one ever fucking does.

I can't offer forgiveness or absolution to everyone, but you don't need me to forgive you to forgive yourself and move on, and I do think most of the people who got caught up in it have more than earned moving on.

However, what I want is for everyone to stop downplaying it. Don't call it stupid infighting, don't go "ace stuff was one thing but this with trans men is too far" don't claim it didn't leave tumblr or the internet, own how bad it was. If you were there you know, and your history is valuable, so even when it sucks please be honest about what happened. This part of queer history should not be forgotten, and especially not for the people who never really changed and have an interest in making sure everyone thinks this was just some silly infighting.

That's what I ask, do right by us, don't let us be erased again.

Especially because when you forget, when you downplay it, you downplay what's happened with truscum shit, with biphobia, and now with trans masc exclusion. You downplay it and you disguise that it's the same people saying the same things about a new group. I found out about the rise in trans man/masc exclusion because I saw someone saying that trans men are collateral damage secondary to the real targets of transphobia, trans women, and I immediately knew the person saying it was a shithead I should NEVER trust because that is exactly what they said about bi and ace and aro people. Word for word.

You do those who were hurt a disservice when you downplay what happened, but you also make our spaces less safe because if we pretend what happened didn't we can't stop it when it starts again.

sad middle age woman... save me..

sad middle age woman

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