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palaceoffunk:
So, I was thinking about BBC Sherlock fandom’s hate-on for Sally Donovan, and just earlier today I was talking with Maria about Tara Thorton’s shitty treatment in True Blood.
And then I made myself a list.
You’re not fooling anyone, fandom. I know what’s up.
They want these women to be invisible and get upset when they’re not. Then they’re bitches, sexless (i.e. no chemistry with ANYONE), or sluts. And it’s not like the show writers don’t have the same problem, those tropes are a consistent fallback when it comes to any major characterization of black female characters. But when they step out of those tropes (Bonnie becoming more assertive, not just a support system for the white female lead; Martha wanting the Doctor to see her in a romantic way, not just as a support system for the white lead; Gwen being the LOVE object of several male characters, not just a support system for the white lead) fandom goes apeshit cause their worldview is being messed with. These women are not supposed to be important, loved, complicated in their minds, just easily forgotten once the episode is over.
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(Source: p1kachu, via sikozu)
The lady training me was not at work today for an extended party weekend (this is the kind of office we have) and I still don’t know how to do everything. So rather than fuck up the monthly cash movement reports I just left them to Monday. So I better make sure I come in early on Monday to get them sorted out with her.
Ssssh, this is the sort of stuff that makes me shake from anxiety.
![“But then Michelle [Dockery, Brown Findlay’s co-star in Downton Abbey] just knew, in that very big sister way, that I had my eye on the other dress and just told the stylist that ‘Actually I think Jess really loves that one’. She knew I’d never say anything…”
“I hang out with Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown-Findlay [who play her younger sisters] watching Mad Men on our laptops.”
“‘We all come from families of just girls, so there was that instant connection,’ she says. ‘We’re all obsessed with Beyonce, so to pass the time we break out into song, and did the Single Ladies dance in costume once. We’re working on the Run The World routine now.’”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyg243pAtY1qax6s3o1_500.png)
“But then Michelle [Dockery, Brown Findlay’s co-star in Downton Abbey] just knew, in that very big sister way, that I had my eye on the other dress and just told the stylist that ‘Actually I think Jess really loves that one’. She knew I’d never say anything…”
“I hang out with Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown-Findlay [who play her younger sisters] watching Mad Men on our laptops.”
“‘We all come from families of just girls, so there was that instant connection,’ she says. ‘We’re all obsessed with Beyonce, so to pass the time we break out into song, and did the Single Ladies dance in costume once. We’re working on the Run The World routine now.’”
(Source: chasethememories, via alittlelight-)
You don’t just protect me. We protect each other.
(Source: indigoisbetter)
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