Overdressed & Underappreciated

lesbeet:

you can try to defend the beauty industry all you want but aside from that video of the girl chemically burning the shit out of her face on purpose to make a “permanent contour” i also know women in my life who have gotten their eyebrows and their eyeliner tattooed on (respectively) simply because they thought it was a better alternative than applying them onto their faces every single day for the rest of their lives or risk being judged/ridiculed/punished by society

like think of how delicate the skin of the eye is where your eyeliner goes. imagine getting a fucking tattoo there. imagine thinking that pain is worth it because you feel so doomed to wearing makeup and yet so exhausted by the sheer idea of putting it on every day for the rest of your life

one of these women is my grandmother and the other is my aunt’s grandmother, and both of them have explicitly told me that they regret getting these tattoos, and neither of them got them redone when they eventually faded, years and years later. this isn’t a matter of “they love makeup and it helps them express themselves so let them do what they want!” it’s a matter of desperation, of resignation to the constraints and expectations of a society that wants women to look fuckable at literally all costs, even if it means undergoing significant, and even permanent, physical harm.

“beauty is pain” is just another (condescending) way of saying “your priority should be your looks, not your personal well-being” and no amount of loving makeup as a hobby and form of self-expression is going to make that stop being true

bastardash:

earendil-was-a-mariner:

What would Aragorn have done if that one dark seat at the back of the Prancing Pony was already taken? 

If you think Aragorn wasn’t sitting there for hours hogging that table just to make an entrance, I don’t know what to tell you. 

mmedemerteuil:

lightwolf:

lightwolf:

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

• Protagonist now has more complex motivations.
• Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.
• Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.
• Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.
• The horse now has a name.
• Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

• Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.
• Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.
• Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.
• Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.
• All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.
• Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

tygermama:

See now I need a fic of Steve Rogers learning about history and finding out how history has treated the USO girls

how they were a footnote

how they’re discounted as unimportant

how the memoirs they wrote about their experiences, the whole two of them who got published, are looked down upon

and he gets so pissed

especially after the few of them who are still alive make contact, maybe they come to see him, maybe he goes to visit

and one night he’s seething about it, some documentary on tv getting it wrong again

and Tony makes a crack, poking to see what’ll happen (he writes it down somewhere therefor it’s science)

and Steve starts ranting about how these women were his friends, they worked hard, they got treated like crap, like eyecandy, they were getting shot at just like everyone else but no one would let them shoot back, how sexist historians got everything wrong and their stories were worth telling and respecting

it’s the most passion Tony’s ever seen from Steve and it’s because people are slandering his friends, most long dead

and the next thing you know, the Maria Stark Foundation and HBO are announcing their next big mini-series

Star Spangled Girls

executive producer and head consultant, Steven G Rogers