buryingthebodies:

tf2mayhem:

mewmedic:

Miss Pauling on her way to fuck your shit up.

Just something to consider.

We have nine RED mercs.

It is not exactly stated where they came from, but it’s implied they returned from the BLU base.

Where they stole the int from probably nine BLU mercs.

But they left seven witnesses, so they managed to kill – two.

Who cleans up after them alone – Miss Pauling, a woman. Granted, she probably doesn’t have to battle the seven survivors all on her own, but she does a thorough job without flinching.

The mercs continue to mess things up while she obviously has her eyes on them on her day off. So even on her only free day she’s half at work and is ready to defend the int while the mercs (those who weren’t in the Scout/Pauling-scheme) – goof around despite the alert in their base.

This woman does a more professional job than all of them and the only person she really fears is – another woman. Not walking into the enemy base, not a bread monster, nope, her boss and figure of authority.

Two women rule the roost, they add to the overall humor and they manage to do that fully clothed and without having their boobs jiggling and wiggling all over the place.

Yes, it’s really, really difficult if not impossible to include women in a game’s universe without unnaturally oversexualizing them.

YES YES YES.

This is why I have a beef when people begrudge Expiration Date, saying Miss Pauling was only there as a love interest to Scout. No, so she wasn’t. 

Being a love interest or involved with someone romantically doesn’t make a character less badass or feminist. The comics have a more fleshed out Miss Pauling, sure, but Expiration Date didn’t do a bad job with her, especially when looking beyond too-simple assessments of her purpose to the story.

scribefindegil:

  • Mabel Pines chose love over fear and bet the whole universe on the word of a con man and won.
  • Mabel Pines didn’t get the summer romance she was looking for but in the end she was okay with that because she learned to love herself.
  • Mabel Pines thinks that every woman she meets is beautiful, including herself, and if you don’t understand how radical that is you’ve never been a twelve-year-old-girl.
  • Mabel Pines met a creature she idolized and it told her she wasn’t good enough and she punched it right in its smug stupid face.
  • Mabel Pines was terrified of growing up because of everything she might lose, and the narrative didn’t blame her or break her for feeling that way.
  • Mabel Pines cared more about friends and family than magic and mysteries and not only did the narrative validate that, her scrapbook ended up being the most important object in the show.
  • Mabel Pines is glitter and sweaters and cheesy pop songs and blurry group selfies and the biggest smile in the crowd and she’s also so, so, so much more.

This isn’t a “your fave could never” because those are weird and needlessly combative, but look, I know what kind of narratives girls get. I thought that my fave could never. And then she fucking did.

livingshitpost:

okokok everyone on this blue hellsite always talks abt kim possible n all that shit but does anyone else remember kenny the shark or tutenstein or growin up creepie or like fuckin bindi the jungle girl or that boys vs girls room renovation game show thing bc holy shit discovery kids was my fucking lifeblood before they turned it into the hub or ehatever the fuck

will-swensons-eyebrows:

Why are ppl so bitter abt jean valjean tho like? Specifically his relationship w/cosette. Like i always see ppl talking shit but like this was a guy with nothing? Cosette was all that he had and his greatest motivation and i just dont understand why ppl think his reaction to noticing that she was growing up n shit is creepy? Like let Jean Valjean be he deserves the world.

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