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What’s the reason you don’t like 50 shades?

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natnovna:

horrible aggressive misogyny and the romanticization of domestic violence and sexual torture aren’t some of my favorite things and young girls picking up that book or watching that movie being left wondering if that’s what relationships are supposed to be REALLY makes me angry. 

this man takes a young woman who is less powerful, less experienced and not entirely confident about the area of life he’s leading her into and then starts doing horrible sexual things to her, he removes her boundaries and normalizes the violence against her

50 shades of grey reinforces and perpetuates the disgusting lie that women LIKE and WANT to be hurt and that you can heal a broken man if you just love him enough and do all the things he wants you to do bc eventually he won’t want to hurt you anymore 

he goes from a sexually violent predator to prince charming and it’s gross and offensive and nobody should support it no matter how cute the guy playing him is. 

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In any interpretation of the Milverton narrative, Milverton has to die. As a ruthless blackmailer, he has too much influence over the rich and powerful to stay in jail for long. In Sherlock, Magnussen’s death becomes even more inevitable once we find out that he memorized all of his blackmail information. Basically, death is the only way to “delete” those files, so in the absence of the woman who killed Milverton in the original story, it does make sense for Sherlock to shoot him. The problem is, there’s another character who would have been far better qualified to shoot Magnussen, and guess what? She’s a woman as well.

In “His Last Vow” we learn that John’s wife Mary is a trained assassin, a fact we discover when she literally has a gun held to Magnussen’s head. But instead of shooting Magnussen and solving everyone’s problems, she decides to shoot Sherlock instead, in the hopes that this will (somehow) help her keep the truth about her past a secret from John. In the end, Sherlock has to do the deed.

This means that Mary, much like Gatiss and Moffat’s interpretation of the lady from “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Magnussen,” has effectively been written out of her own story. Supposedly a deadly assassin, she doesn’t get to confront her blackmailer, and instead is drugged by Sherlock so he and John can have a proper showdown with Magnussen. A dramatic scene that allows Sherlock to seem more badass and morally ambiguous than before, while a heavily pregnant Mary gets to wake up from her drug-induced slumber to discover that she’s now free to go back to being Mrs. Watson once again.

How Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss erased the most important female character in “His Last Vow.”

(via dailydot)

PSA.

v-p-potts:

theultimatearcher:

litttlemockingbird:

  • Not all OC’s are Mary Sue’s/Gary Stu’s.
  • Just because you had a bad experience with an OC does not mean all OC’s are going to be the same.
  • Just because it’s an OC does not mean they’re a Mary Sue/Gary Stu
  • Just because an OC has common traits does not mean they’re a Mary Sue/Gary Stu
  • Just because an OC has uncommon traits does not mean they’re a Mary Sue/Gary Stu
  • I feel like the terms are being thrown around with people really thinking over what a Mary Sue/Gary Stu really is.
  • Do you know how fucking rude it is and hurtful to call someone’s character that??
  • All characters are original characters. FUCKING MAGIC, RIGHT?
  • I’ve seen a lot more OC females being called out on this and honestly that is some of the biggest bullshit fuckery I have ever seen.

People who play canon characters don’t really have the right to judge OC’s considering there are plenty who manipulate a character into ways they want them to be. Playing a canon character doesn’t at all make you a better role player. It just makes you a dick if you think you’re better. Like wow, you chose to play a canon character good for you. Just let people have fun. Or go away.

Adding to add: Mary Sues are awesome.  We all know that girls are told constantly to take up less space, be less intrusive, not speak up.  If young writers want to create a woman character who is powerful and amazing and unique and flawless, I will stand up and applaud them every time.  As the writer grows, they may learn how interesting it is to write an ordinary, flawed character, but until then, you go right ahead and write that woman who is so powerful that she could be a breaker of worlds, like Galactus or Superman or something.

The next time someone calls your OC a Mary Sue, the correct response is “Thank you.  I think she’s incredible, too!”

katherineofvalois:

Look, whoever is sending that anon to Hal-mun, please please stop, or get off anon and please talk to her. I know I shouldn’t be intervening or anything, but then she is my rp partner and to others as well. If you’re unhappy, please talk to her.

Please understand that she has a life outside of rp, and that sometimes she doesn’t get to all replies, even mine, and I completely understand. Other times she just doesn’t feel like getting to replies, and it’s completely understandable.

No one is perfect, mister or miss whoever you are, so I cannot stress this enough, if you are unhappy, just message her off anon, and I’m sure you guys can work things out.

I’m just pretty disappointed in you that you had to hide behind a grey face to voice out your concerns in a not so polite way. It was cowardly of you to do so.

That’s all I have to say now. I wish to say no more because this might get too long.