Author: kirkwallhellmouth

finkspiration:

reservoircat:

captainscullyful:

characterflaws:

misslunasapphire:

gerutha:

phoenixaskani:

If this woman was alive today, she’d have my vote. Shit.

#she put frederick douglass on her ballot as v.p. too #unfortunately he didn’t know about it at the time #he read about it in the papers and was like ‘is this chick serious’

Victoria Woodhull 2016

This fails to mention that she was the first woman to run for US president, as well as being the first woman stockbroker on Wall Street alongside her sister Tennie Claflin, and their newspaper published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto known to date

@reservoircat HEY LOOK WHAT JUST POPPED UP ON MY DASH

YES, I HAVE *OPINIONS* ABOUT THIS POST.

Okay, for starters, Victoria wasn’t a sex worker. She wasn’t necessarily anti-sex worker in the manner of the time–she viewed it as a societal ill that occurred because of the inequality of women and the power structure which allowed and abused such sex work. But she very much wanted to destroy the structures that forced many women into sex work and sex trafficking.

The claims that Victoria herself was a sex worker come from two things: her supportive stance on ‘free love’, i.e. the allowance for men and women to chose their own consensual sex partners outside of marriage, and her rise to power as a millionaire New York stock broker and newspaper owner. See, men of the time refused to believe that Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee Claflin could truly be such shrewd, ambitious and forward thinking businesswomen all on their own. So they spread the rumor that the sisters got their positions and fortunes from being sugar babies basically.

She was also virulently anti-trafficking after her younger sister and business partner Tennie Claflin was kidnapped and sold into brothels by one of their business rivals. When this happened, Victoria and her husband Colonel James Blood tracked the traffickers down and retrieved Tennie at gunpoint from her captors. 

Victoria was not well liked by her fellow suffragists either because she was an ardent supporter of Black suffrage and total equality of all races. She regularly told Stanton and Anthony to go fuck themselves.

It was awesome. She was awesome.

I just love Victoria Woodhull so much ;-;

Victoria Woodhull was sick as hell, GET TO KNOW HER

Oh. What fun. The time has come again for me to get what is basically a very thorough checklist signed by my doctor to send to the driver’s license division of the state law enforcement department to say that yes, I am safe to be driving.

Like, I get why they do it. But it still feels shitty that they go “Here, get this filled out and back to us in a month or we take away your license” every few years.

Luckily I see my endo Monday, or I’d be scrambling.

rhiannon42:

jessicapava:

I let out a very soft gasp

#‘its experiences’ did you mean:#poe dameron awake at 4AM singing BB-8 songs he makes up as he goes#poe dameron running back into a firefight to save a disabled BB-8 from certain destruction (sustaining a shoulder wound)#poe dameron speaking in binary even though BB-8 tells him he sounds absurdly stupid#poe dameron sewing a little hole into all his tents so that BB-8 can charge next to him while he sleeps even when they’re on recon missions#poe dameron referring to BB-8 as ‘my friend’ and making sure his programming equips him to fully understand what that means#poe dameron always asking BB-8 to do what he needs instead of ordering it#poe dameron rewriting the astromech default programming that would force BB-8 to call him master#poe dameron rebuilding BB-8 by hand himself whenever BB-8 gets damaged#and keeping his hard drive and his audio sensors live so he can reassure BB-8 as he goes that it’s all going fine#IS THAT WHAT YOU MEANT BY ‘EXPERIENCES’#DID YOU MEAN ‘POE DAMERON’#because that’s what BB-8 would mean#’strong loyalty subprogram’ is one way to put it#’loves poe dameron right back’ is another (via gyzym)

jedipilotstorm:

notabuddhist:

surroundedbywolves:

She’s much more hopeful than I am, and much braver than I am. For a woman who had been alone for such a long time to be so open to what’s going on, and letting journeys happen, and letting relationships happen, I think is really incredible.


Daisy Ridley.

#this might be my favourite sequence in the whole film #we have just witnessed this incredibly driven #focused and competent #young woman #work all day in the blistering heat #just to be able to afford one simple meal #she accepts the unfairness at the exchange depot with a hardened stare and a set jaw #and she does it all on her own #but THEN #then she comes home #and we see in a series of simple heartbreaking images that #not only is she alone here too and has been for some time #(the marks on the wall) #but she is still in many ways a child #the handmade doll #the helmet #she puts on that helmet and looks up at the sky and suddenly she’s six years old and you can see that in some ways #despite her hard exterior and her very adult resourcefulness #she is still that six year old child #despite the daily struggle of her existence she still hopes and plays and imagines #she’s not just capable she is STRONG #she doesn’t just survive #she lives #she collects flowers in a desert #and keeps them in a vase #i love her so much #i love this writing so much #this sequence might be my favourite bit of screenwriting of 2015 #star wars #the force awakens

OH MY GOD DOLLY NOBODY ASKED TO CRY RIGHT NOW

“puts it on, just ‘cause”

I need help from the Star Wars fandom!

sniperct:

itsnotjessica:

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS?*

When the whole “Rey being a Mary Sue” thing came up, I agreed because coming out of the theater after seeing the movie, I thought exactly that before knowing what the term meant. I did think she learned the force too fast and I didn’t have a lot of stuff explained to me about her character’s skills and what not. It didn’t affect how much I loved her and how important she is in the grand scheme of things, but I thought it was a flaw nonetheless. However, after seeing a few conversations online about how that privilege has been given to a lot of male characters, my opinion changed. Someone had also pointed out that even Anakin had this privilege.

I was just having a conversation about it with my brother. He really likes Rey, but still believes she is a Mary Sue. I brought up the point I had seen about how other characters had been Mary Sues, and no one batted an eye. I brought up Anakin. When he said “Name one character who people like,” I was at a loss, so I dropped it for the time being.

However, I want to learn more now. I’d like all the help I can get. I’d appreciate if anyone and everyone could reblog this and add as many male characters (since Mary Sues are traditionally female) that fall under this category. I’d like to be more active in this conversation. Thanks in advance!

Han Solo
Luke Skywalker
Starkiller (from the force unleashed games)
Steve Rogers
Tony Stark
Indiana Jones
James Bond
Bruce Wayne
Superman
Aragorn (in fact literally everyone in the Lord of the Rings. Everyone)
Harry Potter
90% of all anime men

Any of my followers want to add to the list?

Bats and Supes are two big ones, yeah.

Basically, take any given male character, then think how people would react if a female character did those same things that he does. If the answers is “they would call her a Sue” or “they would complain that she was unrealistic,” then congratulations (sarcasm) you might as well have found a Marty Stu/Gary Stu.

sniperct:

starwarsrockstars:

st0rmpil0t:

kylobentrash:

from what we’ve seen of Rey, she hardly whines at all. There is no way in hell she could be related to a Skywalker.

KENOBI IT IS

This is the most convincing argument I’ve seen yet

Except Leia is a skywalker and she doesn’t whine all that much. Shmi too. And if you wanted to count Padme…

Basically the skywalker men are crybabies and the women aren’t.

Argument debunked.