lyinginbedmon:

Being real for a moment, I really need to find some way to make more money. But everything I’ve ever attempted to that end has largely foundered, absolutely no-one has ever even considered hiring me, and this year so far is looking to be especially rough economically. There’s just nothing I can do.

No job offers or listings, no jobs I could even reasonably do with everything I deal with on a daily basis, and I’ve never had a single idea that made what anyone would optimistically describe as “real money”. The last few months it feels like I can’t even get funds together for medication, let alone cover all my bills. Maybe it was over-optimistic to launch the bucket list campaign, but I really felt like I was going to need something to feel positive about this year and boy a month & a half in is really proving me right.

I get that basically everyone is in that boat right now but this has been the situation for me for basically a decade. I did okay for a bit but then economic aid got harshly curtailed and I’ve never gotten anything to work to cover the difference. The occasional commission piece just isn’t enough.

Iunno, I’m just staring at accounts perpetually in the red costing me even more money in overdraft fees (because heck the poor apparently) and seeing two weeks to a benefit payment to a paycheque to a benefit payment and it just never seems to be enough no matter what I cut back on or reorganise. It’s never been great but it feels like this year in particular is gunning to total me outright.

Here’s my KoFi. I’m going to bed before I get more doom-spiral-y.

pancakespace:

starspilli:

robin & batgirl <3

viridianchronicle:

answeringmysister:

deathsmallcaps:

ospreyonthemoon:

skipppppy:

contact-guy:

sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you’ve figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like “ah…had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?” and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis

Hercule Poirot deduces you are trans by accident because he suspected you of murder and broke into your house and searched your stuff then puts 2 and 2 together when Hastings makes an innocuous observation about your fashion sense or something and he jumps up and cries “mon dieu!!!” before striding over to you kissing you on both cheeks and saying “ah, cher ami, you must live as you choose!” and then running off to confront the real culprit while you stand there in befuddlement

Columbo deduces you’re trans from context clues while he’s talking to you about the area, immediately uses your preferred pronouns and starts telling you about his cousin, who’s also transgender, and how they got this job doing security, and how they told him that a security guard always locks up, and asks you if the guard locked up last night, and isn’t it weird the place was open? And you’re like, well, someone else must have opened it up. Maybe the guy in charge? He has a spare key. And then he nods and goes “the guy in charge has a spare key… well, how about that?” And then he offers you a cigar and wanders off, and a day later your boss gets arrested for murder.

Fanon Batman deduces you are trans and suddenly a free hormone clinic opens up by your home a couple months later

Miss Fisher learns youre trans and simply gives you hormones, and a little cocaine as a treat. she also invites you out to a club to meet like minded individuals. at the club you watch as she seduces the bartender and then the next day the bartender is arrested for the murder.

frontmansdefender:

If this is how I die then so be it

freewillandphysics:

deyasworld:

trainsinanime:

wcwit:

steveyockey:

steveyockey:

steveyockey:

you people will just. say anything

#Tbf tho the bechdel test is pretty shitty #Like dgmw this is a stupid take but it’s a lame test anyway

okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that

some of you are the dumbest motherfuckers alive

“What if the conditions for passing were the opposite?” is… not a counterargument…

Too many people don’t understand that this test is a joke, and I mean that literally. It was published in a comic strip, with a very clear joke structure. There is a setup: The simplest, most basic, most entry-level test for whether women are treated like normal people in a movie imaginable. And there is a punchline: The world is so sexist that the vast majority of movies fail even at this super-easy test. It’s the kind of joke you laugh at because the world is shitty.

(And the few movies that do pass the test often do so by accident. The original comic strip had the punchline that Alien or Aliens passed because Ripley talked with the alien queen.)

People keep treating it like it’s this huge feminist thing that’s super important to judge whether a movie is good or not. And then other people keep pointing out that it doesn’t actually work for that. They’re right. But that’s because it was never meant to.

This test is the most simple, most meaningless hurdle for depiction of women in media to clear. The absolute bare minimum. That’s because it originally was the setup for a joke. Today, it is only useful if it is the start for a discussion of women in media; not the end of it. And I think it’s still very useful for that.

A good point to help visualise this is the inverse test: How many movies have two men, who have names, and talk to each other, about something other than a woman? Well, all of them, give or take a few. That imbalance is really the issue here.

It doesn’t really matter that much whether any given movie passes or not. What really matters is that not passing this is, still, the normal default case.

The comic in question:

Allison Bechdell is an openly Lesbian comic artist that likes to make comics about her experiences as a Butch Lesbian. The Bechdel-Wallace Test was an inside joke between her and her friend, Liz Wallace.

She wasn’t expecting it to become a cultural phenomenon. I’d like to believe that if it caught up, it was because everyone that understood the joke, also realized how many movies failed to pass it, as simple and dumb as the requirements are.

As the commenter above shows, this Bechdel Test is about women as large but the context is how lesbians experience media and the world at large.

If the only the women get to talk about in most forms of media is their male romantic love interests, then lesbians are excluded from media by its very nature.

It is about being alienated from the only way women often get to see themselves represented and perceived in culture and society.

lyinginbedmon:

It’s that time again where I need to restock the medication that the NHS won’t give me unless I stay on a waiting list indefinitely to ultimately be asked about my masturbation habits and then, a year plus later, maybe be given the same meds for free.

I have been on that waiting list since before the pandemic, for frame of reference. Legally, I can’t be made to wait more than 18 weeks. Instead I’ve waited 280 weeks.

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bakwaaas:

I’m deficient in vitamins they haven’t even discovered yet