hearing (well.. reading. but it's too real not to hear yk?) percy and annabeth say i love you to each other is ... wow. immediately boarded onto a direct flight to a higher plane of existence fr

Was anyone going to tell me that Little Richard was probably trans, or was I just supposed to read that for myself?

From The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock ‘n’ Roll

If this version of the counter scene had been in the show, I probably would have combust 😳🫣🥵 and oh look, they’re not even filming but they’re still spooning. Just ForceBook things~

Only Friends Behind the Scenes EP 1

nikolai’s first chapter is weird on paper but hoLY SHIT the audiobook is fucking wild lmfao

Has anyone discussed the weird orientalism in the way the Middle Kingdom owls are portrayed

Athena is fearful that Darrow would trust Diomedes and Volga with the future - with them as leaders of their respective people. It's funny because she ain't that much of a shit as a leader herself, but she doesn't see that, because she is not herself scary like them.

The truth is all of the involved leaders at the end of Light Bringer (not Darrow obvs.) suck the big one in some way or the other, but neither of them sees just how. They are all concerned with the other's: terrorism - DOA, barbarism - Obsidians, slavery - the Rim. Which is understandable and fair even, but it's never with their own leadership, which kinda sucks. Even worse, Athena won't even be at war in person and Sevro can only do so much, as he is not exactly the leader of the Daughters of Ares.

I cannot help but miss Alexandar. Somehow, I imagine things would have been a million times easier to navigate with him there. He would have been a tremendous leader - by far way better than any of these three stupid children - and would have help solve lots of issues with the Rim Lords too. He wouldn't lead a faction per se, but surely having someone who understands what a casus belli is, when faced with it, would have helped Darrow a lot. Instead, all I get is pain and disappointment all around.

girl I saw your profile picture and just had to make sure you're brazilian, I'd know that cover pic anywhere

I am!!!! I'm from Salvador. I honestly didn't know what to pick for a profile picture at first but then I remembered I love the BR covers and that was that.

Im horrible at describing things however

your voice sparks a lotta joy

bc u sound like. cute. fun. your voice is FUN!!! also yeah you either sound veri tired or ready to party and i love that for u but also i tuck you in.

i love ur voice man. best catboy voice. party boy. tired boy. best boy!!!

AAAAA!!!!!!! my HEART!!!!!

So Peter Pan went from endearing, to super racist, back to endearing, and now we're at whatever the fuck this is 😭😂😭

trying to listen to mitski when u haven’t had the time to sit down and listen to her new album is like dodging bullets in real time

People defending the practice of slavery by the Aiel on Twitter...

An interesting hill to die on in the land of the really hot tanned but still white fantasy Scottish desert warrior people.

A Grad Student’s Notes on The Well of Loneliness (1 of ?)

I started (technically re-reading) Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, the banned British Lesbian classic from 1928. I read this book once ten years ago but man, I must have been sleeping or something then because wow this slaps very hard (and I’m not even on page 50 yet). 

So far, Hall writes more like a Victorian writer than someone like Woolf or Joyce who both more closely embody modernism (the three were contemporaries which is why I compare them). 

Her heroine Stephen Gordon is said to be very close to Hall herself. She was also a rich couple’s only child and was attracted to women. The historic term which she used to describe herself was “invert” which was based on German sexology in the late 1800s and early 1900s; male inverts were thought to have female souls and female inverts were thought to have male souls. Hall’s novel featured a main character who was a female invert, like she herself was. Likely Hall would either be a butch lesbian or trans today (we can’t say which because she lived before there was a clear delineation between those two identities; the two communities have been extremely close historically). 

Stephen’s relationships to her parents and her first crush on one of the young maids is detailed in this section of the book. She’s closer to her father than her mother. She idolizes both her parents who don’t really seem to know what to do with her. She’s protective of her hyperfeminine mother and tries to copy her father and the stable master whom she comes to trust as a good friend. 

Her father is also shown secretly studying a German theory of sexology book late at night (Ulrichs) because he thinks his daughter is an invert. Hall did eventually go study in Germany as a young woman so that’s probably where she learned about these theories herself. Weimar Germany had surprisingly progressive attitudes towards LGBT people and had one of the biggest gay and trans communities in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s. Hall went there in the early 1910s before WWI and that’s where she met one of the major loves of her life, the singer, Mable Batten. 

Hall’s faith (she was a Catholic) informs this novel much more than I had expected. Young Stephen becomes obsessed with trying to cure the Maid Collin’s injured knee by praying to Jesus to take the pain instead. She also directly says she’s fine with taking punishment if she’s caught thinking about Collins when she’s supposed to be doing her school work. Hall doesn’t shy away from the intensity of Stephen’s feelings; the rawness of her characters’ emotion reminds me of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (an instant favorite for me). If you’re going to love you may as well love with a reckless abandon that borders on madness or religious devotion (take your pick). Both Hall and E. Bronte would agree on this point. 

Collins is dismissed for an affair with the footman, who is also sacked. Stephen’s next obsession is her horse that her father buys her for her birthday who- I really wish I was kidding-she also names Collins. There was known coding between women and horses in Victorian pornography so much of her audience would know what she’s doing here but even without that connection; Hall’s basically winking at us here because she made it so obvious that we know the insinuation. 

Not even fifty pages into the book and I can already see why 1920′s England lost it’s mind over this. I am a 21st century American Lesbian myself and some of my reactions at different points were also- “Did she really just say that? Oh, girl...” And yes, she did. Hall wrote extremely clearly so it’s impossible to mistake or misinterpret her message as anything else. 

This is the story of a masculine little girl who grows up to realize that she absolutely adores women (to the point of her own self-destruction, at times, which is a whole ‘nother level of ouch to read especially if you’re WLW yourself).

Hall did not shy way or back down when challenged in court over the matter at her censorship trial. Say what you want about the girls and horses, but hats off to Hall for making a valiant attempt to defend gay rights and gay love through penning this novel.

OK so I know I said I was whipped by Lancelot... But Arthur tho... 👀

i missed my Dostoevsky.....