M.A. Wilder's Blog, page 13

obsessivelygalahad:psilentasincjelli:I fucking love the way...

obsessivelygalahad:

psilentasincjelli:

I fucking love the way this movie portrayed anxiety and anxiety attacks (though not necessarily the way other characters reacted to them ((namely the child)) but that’s another story)

tell me anxiety isn’t a big deal when Tony fucking Stark thought he’d been poisoned the first time he had an attack

I actually loved the other characters’ reactions— PARTICULARLY the kid— because they were so painfully realistic. Tony was treated as fragile, broken, or his panic attacks were seen (in the kid’s case) as AMUSING. Meanwhile, the audience is sitting there wanting to punch every last person who doesn’t GET IT in the face.

Because it’s not just the anxiety itself that’s scary, it’s having people you thought you could trust letting you down.

"On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have..."

“On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have period-related irritability. It doesn’t lower their ability to reason; it lowers their patience and, hence, tolerance for bullshit. If an issue comes up a lot during “that time of the month,” that doesn’t mean she only cares about it once a month; it means she’s bothered by it all the time and lacks the capacity, once a month, to shove it down and bury it beneath six gulps of willful silence.”

- Shakesville: Feminism 101 (via andotherdoublemeanings)

O-M-G …apparently, there’s a character on my little...

O-M-G …apparently, there’s a character on my little pony named “shining armor” and he’s captain of the royal guard

…this was pretty much my reaction when i found out:

BOOKS taste better when they're FREE

BOOKS taste better when they're FREE:

random thought #101

i’ve decided that i want tim gunn to open a church

and service will be held at mood

and the parishioners will sit among the bolts of fabric

and every time tim calls out “make it work,” i will leap up from my pew and shout “hallelujah” whilst fanning myself with a fabric swatch

bought tickets earlier today for the nyc rebel bingo! never...

bought tickets earlier today for the nyc rebel bingo! never been, but i’ve heard it’s so much fun + i’m super excited :) 

finished reading the book thief early this...

finished reading the book thief early this morning, #zombiestatus and now i can’t wait to see the movie :)

aquestionofcharacter:Character Question of the Day: Does your character have any piercings or...

aquestionofcharacter:

Character Question of the Day: Does your character have any piercings or tattoos? Any other kind of body ornamentation? Any cool scars?

yup, the knights in my series have their swords tattooed down their backs :)

sweet dreams

i had a dream last night that i collaborated with stephen king.

then i woke up.

moral of the story: in my dreams and only in my dreams, i’m a writer rock star

beeftony:justplainsomething:adrianestpierre:Gaston really...

beeftony:

justplainsomething:

adrianestpierre:

Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.

Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.

Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.