the activity on @cuckoos

Lately, I’ve been posting less and less. True, I’m trying to get rid of those last final exams that are between me and my degree. True, I’m still suffering from back pain, which prevents me from concentrating. I haven’t been able to sleep very well, I turn and turn in my bed for hours until I manage to fall asleep. I haven’t been able to read any comic or to write anything at all because the pain won’t let me. But, the truth is I don’t have as much energy as before to post and post stuff and at the same time endure silencing comments, passive-agressiveness, racist and other -ist comments and the whole “Tumblr is a popularity contest”. So, I’ll keep posting stuff that makes me happy or that I know might make happy other people I care about in here, but that’s pretty much it. I think I’ll try to make this tumblr my personal place that I can share with some selected people and I’ll definitely dedicate much more time to MLL.

Just letting you know :)

I’m trying to get more into reading fanfics these days. Today I read a very good Kate/Renee one, though short. Late Night Indescretions.

 alliterate replied to your post: I miss @awyeahlife and @iamingrid

I miss them too. :( Also, @immortalweapon, @getlouder, and all of those other awesome people who’ve all but disappeared. Tumblr seems less fun and more exhausting without all of them around.

Those are my exact feelings. And I get so tired when I have to backread, especially since now and then someone will post something extremely infuriating. It feels like I’d rather check the tumblrs I care about than backreading. @wicked-grin is on hiatus too. Seems like you, @comicrelief, @idratherbeloislane, @wundagore and @dcwomenkickingass are the only ones that make me go back to tumblr. /rant

I miss @awyeahlife and @iamingrid

Also, the rest of the people that make tumblr a good place for me have started posting less and less. I may have to stalk them somewhere else (aka livejournal or dreamwidth).

ihatethismess:

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aqrima:

The idea is pretty much everywhere, from the most radical of feminists, to the most superficial ad campaigns put out by companies that also sell skin-bleaching agents in India. “Love Your Body”. It’s about the only thing most feminists, most mainstream people, and the Empowerment Industry seem to find common ground on. And on its face, it’s a pretty good idea. The idea of the body as sinful, dirty, something that must be conquered is pretty fucking old. And it’s not just the mortification of the flesh and the idea that Eve’s taste for fruit salad is why my uterus is currently trying to claw its way out, as we all know. Every time I go to the supermarket or the drugstore, I get treated to an endless barrage of magazines helpfully pointing out what is currently too monstrous about my body for anyone to see. I thus can really get behind the idea of body positivity. I think it’s a great stance to have, and would like to see it more widespread.

But here’s the thing: It’s not something that can be forced on people. You can’t shame someone into thinking they’re a stone-cold fox. Snarking on someone for being self-conscious for whatever reason (hey, it’s not like there might be any cultural conditioning behind it, amirite?), isn’t really going to help.

And the idea itself is really ignoring a lot of privilege issues. It’s pretty ableist to think that someone is a bad feminist if they don’t have a great relationship with their body that say, is in chronic pain. It’s transphobic to insist to someone whose body is causing dysphoria that they’re beautiful just the way they are.

It’s also really kind of fucked up to try and leave a discarding of individual self-loathing as the only activism that gets any airplay against the system that sets up that self-loathing in the first place. People with disabilities, POC, trans people, fat people might love their bodies a bit more often if there was perhaps less oppression against those very bodies. The personal is political, but there really does need to be more than individual efforts.

And there’s still this idea that being beautiful is the most important thing out there. Which is kind of what the idea is based on, and I’m not comfortable with that at all. It is okay to be unattractive. Really. The idea that every woman is beautiful still posits that they’re around to be attractive.

So, what do I think would be a better solution? Getting past the body/mind dichotomy would be a start. Your body, like your mind is a part of you. Don’t think of yourself as better or worse if you love or hate how you look. Recognize that it’s okay to not love your body if it gives you grief, and accept it as simply another facet of yourself.

So this is pretty awesome and also timely because I’m attempting to work on the body/mind dichotomy for spiritual reasons too. 

I never thought of it that way.

Yet my head hasn’t exploded

I don’t know how far this news made it, but in July 14th Argentina’s senate finally voted to legalize same sex marriage. And boy, did we celebrate. After the celebration, we talked about it during dinner with one of my uncles. I don’t watch much tv, so when my dad and my uncle started talking about something a “national celebrity” had said, I had to ask… I had to ask.

Apparently this woman, who hosts a show where some guests and her eat lunch, invited gay celebrities. They discussed the subject and all of a sudden she said: “I’m going to ask you a very… difficult question. Please don’t feel offended.” She said this to a fashion designer. I’m going to paraphrase because the monstrosity of what she said doesn’t allow me to quote. She asked whether he [the designer] was scared about gay couples being able to adopt children… because they could abuse them. HOW COME MY HEAD DIDN’T EXPLODE? I DON’T KNOW. A MIRACLE. Maybe because I’m not surprised about what this woman says anymore after she supported the dictatorship (never mind that her niece is a desaparecida) and after the lengths to which she’s gone to hide that her son was gay.

Despite the monstrosity she dared ask that day, she didn’t apologize immediately. AND the next day she invited more gay celebrities and asked the same question. Only the day after that she finally apologized. And she still runs a tv show. Someone please explain to me why.

Recommend comics fanfiction writers?

Ever since @fuckyeahlongbox started reccing fanfics, I’ve wanted to read more and more. I’ve been some stuff on Archive of Our Own, but I’d also like to friend some people on livejournal and dreamwidth. So far I’ve friended seriousfic, mithen and iambickilometer. But I’m greedy and I want to find more great writers :D Rec me some, please!

(via fyeahanime)

Possibly the most beautiful anime movie I’ve ever seen.

fyeahanimangagirls:

Akari Mizunashi

One of my favorite mangas/animes ever. Everyone should embrace Akari’s outlook on life.

The Feminine Ideal

comicreliefspeaks:

The image above is from the Wizard - How to Draw series. It’s featured in a chapter entitled Sultry Women. This is a series all about notable comic pencillers walking readers through the process of drawing heroes and heroines. And what do we get from them when it comes to female characters? Not how to draw musculature or action or fierce facial expressions. No. How to draw sultry women. Sexy women. Vulnerable women. Gag me with a fucking ink pen. (massive amounts of babble below)

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Reblogging because I agree with everything you said. I also experience Hughes’ and Turner’s drawings from another point of view. I happen to have a somewhat sultry body, but that’s not the only thing I am as a person. There’s a lot more about me, a lot of things that make me whole as a person that I value more than my body. So my problem with their drawings is also the fact that the characters appear to be defined only by their sultry bodies and the desire they arouse in men. It’s as if nobody is interested in how much Diana kicks ass, how intelligent Babs is, how clever Zatanna is or how strong Barda is. All that it matters is that they have a fine pair of boobs. That’s all that defines them in this type of drawings. And that’s incredibly offensive to me.