anarya-c:

Do you have plans for the summer?

*sisfist*

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ghostsontv:

I don’t like things “ironically”.

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roxanneritchi:

AND ANOTHER THING THAT BUGS ME: When people claim that mental illnesses are a “modern” problem, as if mental illness did not exist before the 1900s or, if they did, that they weren’t so widespread as they are now with the implication therein that people with mental illnesses are “making it up” or that people with mental illnesses prior to the ~modern~ age were made of sterner stuff than we of today.

Mental illness is not a new thing! It was not invented in the Roaring Twenties! Mental illness has plagued us for thousands upon thousands of years! And people ~back then~ weren’t made of sterner stuff; they coped in what few ways were available to them or, because there were so few means of coping available and even fewer of those means effective, they died whether at their own hand or someone else’s. Mental illness is more widely diagnosed now because we have a greater knowledge and understanding of the symptoms of mental illness, and we can recognize these symptoms as symptoms of mental illness as opposed to, idk, a curse or a demon or a moral deficiency or whatever the fuck. Medicine is prescribed more frequently nowadays for mental illness than before because we have medicines that can be utilized to control mental illness now. Yes, it’s a crutch, as all coping mechanisms for mental illnesses are crutches, but when your leg is busted, you use a crutch.

Mental illness isn’t a modern invention. It’s something we’ve carried all these centuries, all these millenia, and have only recently in the reckoning of our presence on this Earth held up to the light and said, This exists; this is here; what can be done now to stop it from hurting us?

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squintyoureyes:

sherlocked replied to your photo

I like Lucy Liu, and I’m pleased they’re casting a WOC as Watson because TV NEVER does that, but I’m worried they’re just doing this so they can slap them together while avoiding homoeroticism or, heaven forbid, gay people.

welllllllll

in my experience network television rarely ever shies away from homoerotic subtext between two white male leads. what they do tend to avoid is TEXTUALLY portraying two male (or female) characters in a same-sex romance, or even bother to put queer characters in the background. so what you end up with is a lot of closeness between two guys (bcs women rarely get to be co-leads lbr) that isn’t ever allowed to be more than that, instead it’s just teased at. a lot. because the networks know we’ll eat it up. so you get a lot of coded ‘no-homo’ jokes that reinforce how it’s never going to happen, and in fact that the idea of it is laughable, and show creators chuckling nervously about how they’re flattered but the close partnership between the two dudes they wrote was soooo not intended to be read as romantic i mean ew right

which happens on show after show after show 

and as I see it that is WAY more of a blatant rejection of homosexuality than genderflipping a traditionally male character. which is all that has happened here. the way i see it there’s a few leaps being made that make me unable to follow most of the concern trolling on my dash:

- that casting a woman is ‘hetting’ up ACD’s Holmes (when neither the original text nor ANY adaptation i can name were ever textually queer to begin with, as awesome as that would’ve been. i’m tired of subtext, when will we finally get some text?)

- that Joan and Sherlock are OBVIOUSLY going to hook up (which isn’t quite so obvious when the Joan is a woman of color, it’s just not) (but also the assumption that a woman would NATURALLY only be brought in so that a romance could happen is faulty because it stems from fandom’s tendency to conflate women with icky girly romance and other things that have no place in their traditionally male-centric canons).

- that Lucy Liu’s casting is the problem and not Jonny Lee Miller’s (when the only problem I can see is that Sherlock wasn’t also genderflipped).

Fandom’s rage over all this is very typical and it’s an extension of the boys’-club mentality that forms around canons that hyperfocus on white straight male homosocial relationships, and that tend to marginalize anyone who isn’t that. The shows (and there are a lot of them) do it, and then the fans follow suit. There’s a lot of valid reasons to not be on board with another Holmes adaptation, but I don’t think this is one of them because I’ve seen it too many times before.

amazonziti:

Okay I need to reblog this again because tonight I was talking about Glee with the (nominally) least loathsome of my roommates and I mentioned how happy the Sam/Mercedes storyline makes me and she made a cute little scrunchy-face and said, “Naaaah. I just… don’t think they look like they’d go together.” And then she said, “Because Sam is so gorgeous and Mercedes is, well…”

And here is the thing, I knew exactly what she was going to say before she said it, and I know why she said it too, which is that Sam is a tall blonde white jock with rippling abs, and Mercedes is a short fat dark-skinned black girl with a weave. So regardless of the fact that Mercedes has just as much in common with Sam as any other girl in the glee club, not to mention a beautiful face and a sexy body and a voice that makes Darren Criss cry and impeccable fashion sense and pretty decent morals and Sam thinks she is the best thing since sliced bread, she is “Well…”. 

So I just wanted to say a heartfelt FUCK YOU to anybody who thinks Sam — sweet, nerdy, cute, utterly-interchangeable-with-a-zillion-other-white-boys-on-TV Sam — is out of Mercedes’ league. I wanted to tell you that there is nothing you have to say that I have not heard before, or that I have not assumed has been said behind my back about me because I am a not-skinny black girl with the temerity to crush on conventionally pretty white boys and girls. Your arguments aren’t new, and your point of view isn’t interesting, and also you suck.

Look at these gifs of this sweet boy who loves a sweet girl so much he puts her name in lights and sings her favorite song. Listen to this song (and listen to Mercedes singing circles around Sam) and look at them smiling at each other and think about them crying when they can’t have each other. Tell me why Mercedes shouldn’t get to have that, and why she shouldn’t get to have it with Sam, and then fall into a ditch. SERIOUSLY.