I love putting lots of pillows on my bed so I can pretend im an 18th century aristocrat collapsing after a night of debauched revels and sinful decadence
*wakes up and turns on my giant complicated yet charming series of rube goldberg machines that make my breakfast but i mess up the combination and get scorching hot eggs tossed in my face*
Hey remember that episode of Spongebob where Sandy sings about being homesick for Texas and Spongebob and Patrick overhear it and are worried that she’s going to leave Bikini Bottom so they have a Texas party at the Krusty Krab with all their friends, recreating things in Sandy’s song but they fuck it up like, pecan pie is just a can of peas shoved in a pie, barbeque is barbed wire in the shape of a Q, and the ten gallon hats are just plastic water jugs on their heads, and like…. Sandy just laughs so hard she breaks into tears, cause she sees what they’re trying to do for her to make her feel at home because they love her and don’t want her to leave…………… yo do you ever think about that goddamn episode
And then she realizes she’s already at home bc she’s with them and they all love her so much? Nickelodeon didn’t have to go that hard but they did gotdamn
[image desc: a digital illustration of rose and kanaya. rose is on the left: she is a short black woman with curly, light purple hair. she’s floating in the air with one hand on kanaya’s wrist and the other on the back of her neck, bringing their faces close together. kanaya is on the right: her skin is white, she has short black hair and horns, and she is standing with her face turned away.]
i’ve been busy so i mashed the first three prompts of @rosemarymonth into one drawing
i dont know when it happened but somewhere along the way “shipping” got a new meaning for younger folk that seems to translate to “i want these people together for real asap”. i think the media had something to do with it. but guys.
guys.
shipping absolutely Does Not mean demanding anything from people/creators. shipping isn’t about expecting and waiting for the day it will certainly happen. it is not a direct translation to Happen Or Die.
shipping means you like the idea of two (or more) people together. you like the concept. you find it fun to imagine the dynamics. you even create fanon content of it (fic, art, edits). it’s all in your head and it’s Fine that way.
is it nice to have a ship become canon? oh my god, yes. but that’s not what shipping is about and yall need to take a step back and breathe because being a jerk to people aint gonna change their mind about ships.
have a good night.
This. When things get to the point where panelists at a convention have security on speed dial because they are literally, literally worried that supporters of one ship will get into fisticuffs with supporters of another…
When people get called racist or homophobic for not supporting a ship or for supporting the wrong ship.
You need to chill. You need to accept not everyone will agree with you. It is not racist not to ship Rey and Finn. It is not homophobic not to ship Finn and Poe. (I actually have been called racist for preferring Finn/Rose. Sigh).
Shipping is a form of analysis and a keystone for transformative works. It is a way to explore romantic (and sometimes platonic, because platonic shipping is absolutely a thing. I platonic-ship Peter Parker and Shuri) relationships.
Is it frustrating when your ship doesn’t become canon? Yes.
Is it frustrating when the canon relationship is something that annoys you to the point where you anti-ship it? Hell, yes.
But the creators are telling their own story, not the story you want to tell yourself. Tell that story. Tell it in whatever means you want - fiction, art, cartooning, or just analysis. It’s your interpretation. Think of it this way - as a way of making a story out of the text that is yours and is beautiful.
And stop attacking creators and fellow fans over ships. Even if you think a ship is “unhealthy” it’s not your problem.
yo whatever happened to gladiators n coliseums n shit? when did we decide that blood sports were bad? im tryna see two men kill each other on pay per view
dont worry im a feminist id pay to see two women kill each other as well
political correctness killed the gladiatorial arena and its disgusting. fucking millennials (400 AD)
gladiators were actually very skilled and expensive to train (not to mention charismatic and popular), so they rarely fought to the death actually; it was more of a… ritualized theatrical combat
the modern equivalent you’re looking for is professional wrestling
Ok but when are professional wrestlers gonna be throwing nets and shit and using swords???
what is a chair if not a modern day sword
what is a table but a domestic net
Also! There were female gladiators. Not that many, but enough that Septimius Severus took the trouble to ban them.
We have artistic references to and eye witness accounts of female gladiators (who were not called “gladiatrix” at the time). Not only that, but at least some of these women were not slaves. Some women actually chose the arena over the limited options available to them elsewhere. This was so much of a problem that in 11 CE the senate forbade freeborn women under 20 from participating, presumably because they had enough teenaged girls running away to the arena. The fact that girls would do this is more evidence that most contests were not to the death. These highly trained fighters would fight until one of them yielded. Although the thumbs down thing did exist, it was rare, because the judge would have to pay the gladiator’s owner compensation. So, I suspect it was reserved for slaves that were becoming, shall we say, a problem.
The confusion comes from the fact that executions took place during the games.
Women did not fight against men in the arena, but only against other women.
But there were definitely women in the arena…and the Severus ban apparently didn’t last very long or may have only applied to high class women.
????? This is the guy in my English class that I only contact when I wasn’t in class. It’s too early for this.
If you’ve had some creep send you something worse than this, please let me know.
So he forgot he requested me on Facebook…I messaged his mother.
You know you fucked up when your mom tells someone to call the police about your ridiculous behavior because she tried but she is DONE, you’re supposed to be a man by now.
