I Mean, I Get It That Some Of His Stuff Is Problematic, But In Which Of These Characters Exactly Do You

I mean, I get it that some of his stuff is problematic, but in which of these characters exactly do you recognize Buffy?

Women: “Hey, can we hire fewer blatant misogynists to direct and create media? We’d support that.”

Nerdy Male Director: “Well-spoken. Have you considered hiring me, a man who is afraid of women?”

Also very Beauty and the Beast. (So far as I know, no one has ever painted the Beast as a snake. But they should.)

Aziraphale der Bücherwurm

This is one of my favorite Paintings called Der Bücherwurm by Carl Spitzweg and I couldn’t stop thinking how beautifully Aziraphale Crowley would fit into that scene

notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

“Killed 99 bears”

a fact that if actually accomplished, should be put on a tombstone.

The NYC AIDS Memorial website says that by the end of 2000, 448,060 people had died in the US of AIDS. Not in New York City. Not only gay men. Not during the 1980s. More context on the original post here.

I get the sentiment. It’s important to remember those who died due to national inaction. But comparing numbers of deaths in tragedies isn’t the only way to show respect for the dead or outrage for their mistreatment, and we can still be careful to share true things in service of justice goals.

Getting this right matters because the gay men and other people who died of AIDS matter, and their deaths deserve to be contextualized correctly as we remember the atrocious tragedy of the AIDS crisis. It matters because I’m seeing people reblog these numbers as a way of shutting out trans and bi people from the LGBTQIA community, as if those people did not also die of AIDS. It matters because opponents of gay rights can jump on things like this to undermine the entire argument. It matters because truth matters--more than winning a point.

During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam. You need to know that.

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