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This is my personal blog, so there's no accounting for what you'll get here. I'll blog a lot of something one month and be on something totally different the next.

I also rant and argue a lot.

Stuff I usually blog:
→ politics (American and international)
→ international relations
→ fandom
→ social justice (feminism especially)
→ language & linguistics
→ personal stuff
→ Alison Krauss

This blog doubles as an Alison Krauss' boobs appreciation blog because for some reason, when you do a Google search for Alison's boobs, my blog is generally the first relevant result. I don't know how this happened, but I will accept it, because if people are gonna be googling her boobs, better they find the blog of a heterosexual fangirl than that of some skeezy old man. (For the record, I also co-moderate Fuck Yeah Alison Krauss.)

If I ever disappear or get hacked, find me at iellaantilles.tumblr.com.

And if you speak Czech, talk to me 'cause I need to practice that language more!
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USING ARCHETYPES IN YOUR STORIES


Writing Better Romantic Relationships

This series looks at the Anima/Animus archetype, which is most often seen in romantic relationships, and how to use it to create more compelling romantic relationships, regardless of genre. Looks at what the anima and animus are, how they’re formed, and why fiction writers need to understand them. There’s also some and what makes love grow - and how happily ever afters really work.


Creating Better Antagonists


FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY


archetypewriting.com

LET’S ALL READ THESE AND WRITE INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF HIGH-QUALITY FIC IN A BURST OF SUDDEN INSPIRATION!

THOUGH, IGNORE THE STUFF ABOUT BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN AND HOW THEY EVOLVED IN THE THREE INFLUENCES PIECE, BECAUSE I CAN PROMISE YOU IT’S BULLSHIT.

THE REST IS GOOD, THOUGH.

EW YES

IGNORE THAT PART

IGNORE ALL EVO PSYCH TBH

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“Dr. Pepper 10, it’s not for women.”

octobones:

I know I have a vagina, but I’m going to need you to suck my dick. 

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Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.

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And when a girl turns down a Nice Guy and sleeps with a Bad Boy instead, she’s both at the same time!

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thecryforjustice: stfu9gag: Can’t imagine why you’re single. You seem like such a nice guy! wow. how does this guy have ANY friends let alone any female friends?  “I’m not saying she has to date me. I’m just saying she’s a terrorist if she dates anybody other than me.”

thecryforjustice:

stfu9gag:

Can’t imagine why you’re single. You seem like such a nice guy!

wow. how does this guy have ANY friends let alone any female friends? 

“I’m not saying she has to date me. I’m just saying she’s a terrorist if she dates anybody other than me.”

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Hey everybody slut shaming is cool.

Hey everybody slut shaming is cool.

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Followup to that last post:

TW for rape culture

Don’t tell your girl friends, “Well you knew he was interested in you and you still talked to him anyway, so you should have known that he was gonna try to be sexual toward you.” Just don’t.

It doesn’t make you sound worldly and ~versed in the ways of men~ like you think it does.

You’re trying to force your friend to feel responsible for sexual advances that she did not want, and you’re justifying the guy’s behavior.

That’s how rapes happen. That’s how rape victims start to feel guilty for what happened to them and thus don’t report the crime. 

And far from making you seem knowledgeable and mature, in fact, it shows how little you know about how healthy relationships function.

You’re not some oracle of advice for your less-experienced female friends just because you’ve had sex and you read Cosmo. Not if the only advice you can give is based on sexual stereotypes, instead of on how to have meaningful, equal partnerships with men.

I don’t want my friends getting their ideas about sex from you. 

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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?

Sandi Toksvig (via palahniukandchocolate) (via beahbeah, learninglog) (via princesscheesecake) (via knightoftaurus)

for more greatness like this, read J.M. Gero and Margaret Conkey’s Engendering Archaeology

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One of my favorite quotes of all time.

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sharquaouia:

@PrinceofRazors juxtaposes the latest Newsweek and Foreign Policy covers.

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USING

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YOUR

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POINT

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

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mehreenkasana:

ofmonsoonandmangoes replied to your post: Now this question may (or may not ) offend you. But i guess only a woman can tell for sure. Do women have sexual urges and desires as much as men have? or not?

lol women do but the urges are definitely NOT as strong or frequent as that of men. that’s basic hormonology :p

I’m definitely sure my sexual urges are lot stronger and more frequent than a man’s (that’s saying a lot but hyperbole is fun). I’ll basically engage in challenges with my husband to make sure my claim stands. Monday: Do The Other And See Who Faints First Day. Tuesday: Phenomenal Oral Sex Day 1. Wednesday: Phenomenal Oral Sex Day 2. Thursday: Test Your Orgasm Day. Friday: Strip Tease and Misbehave and See Who Pounces First Day. Saturday: Are You Tired Because I’m Not Day. Sunday: Take a Break If You Want But I’m Riding You In a Few Minutes Day.

That’s right. Good luck to me.

Are You Tired Because I’m Not Day

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thebergeronprocess: newsweek: Here’s this week’s cover, on newsstands and the iPad tomorrow morning. And the summary of the corresponding story:  In an age where women are dominating - in the workplace, at school, at home - why are they seeking to be dominated in their love lives? Recent media portrayals have shown that a rising number of modern women fantasize about being overpowered, while studies are turning out statistics that bewilder feminists. New shows like HBO’s Girls and books like Fifty Shades of Grey are showcasing the often hidden desire for powerlessness. But why? Katie Roiphe examines the submissive yet empowered female in Newsweek. “It is perhaps inconvenient for feminism that the erotic imagination does not submit to politics, or even changing demographics,” she writes. We haven’t seen the cover story yet, but color us intrigued! Let’s hear your pre-thoughts, tumblr. Pre-thoughts: Just stop giving this crappy Twilight fanfiction with find-replace mode activated so much attention! It is not indicative of what every woman wants—and contains some really messed-up abusive elements (the male character tells the female character WHAT SHE CAN EAT and disapproves of her hanging with male friends?!)—so stop trying to act like that kind of relationship is what every woman wants. I’m a strong-willed sex-positive feminist and if someone wishes to consensually engage in BDSM activities, that’s fine! But abusive things like that…those don’t sound like loving, consensual things with the aim of producing pleasure and happiness to me. Portraying them as such…that’s missing the point. But whatever, we’re Time subscribers. PEACE OUT. NEWSFLASH: FEMINISM DOES NOT MEAN EVERY WOMAN HAS TO BE DOMINANT OR INDEPENDENT OR PROFESSIONAL. IT JUST MEANS THAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE THE FUCKING RIGHT AND THE FUCKING MEANS TO BE HOWEVER THE FUCK SHE WANTS TO BE, AND THAT SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE SUBJECTED TO BULLSHIT “ANALYSIS” OF HOW SHE CAN POSSIBLY BE A COMPLEX HUMAN BEING WITH CONFLICTING DESIRES AND AN INTRICATE IDENTITY. FUCK THIS SHIT.

thebergeronprocess:

newsweek:

Here’s this week’s cover, on newsstands and the iPad tomorrow morning. And the summary of the corresponding story: 

In an age where women are dominating - in the workplace, at school, at home - why are they seeking to be dominated in their love lives? Recent media portrayals have shown that a rising number of modern women fantasize about being overpowered, while studies are turning out statistics that bewilder feminists. New shows like HBO’s Girls and books like Fifty Shades of Grey are showcasing the often hidden desire for powerlessness. But why? Katie Roiphe examines the submissive yet empowered female in Newsweek. “It is perhaps inconvenient for feminism that the erotic imagination does not submit to politics, or even changing demographics,” she writes.

We haven’t seen the cover story yet, but color us intrigued! Let’s hear your pre-thoughts, tumblr.

Pre-thoughts:

Just stop giving this crappy Twilight fanfiction with find-replace mode activated so much attention! It is not indicative of what every woman wants—and contains some really messed-up abusive elements (the male character tells the female character WHAT SHE CAN EAT and disapproves of her hanging with male friends?!)—so stop trying to act like that kind of relationship is what every woman wants. I’m a strong-willed sex-positive feminist and if someone wishes to consensually engage in BDSM activities, that’s fine! But abusive things like that…those don’t sound like loving, consensual things with the aim of producing pleasure and happiness to me. Portraying them as such…that’s missing the point.

But whatever, we’re Time subscribers. PEACE OUT.

NEWSFLASH: FEMINISM DOES NOT MEAN EVERY WOMAN HAS TO BE DOMINANT OR INDEPENDENT OR PROFESSIONAL. IT JUST MEANS THAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE THE FUCKING RIGHT AND THE FUCKING MEANS TO BE HOWEVER THE FUCK SHE WANTS TO BE, AND THAT SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE SUBJECTED TO BULLSHIT “ANALYSIS” OF HOW SHE CAN POSSIBLY BE A COMPLEX HUMAN BEING WITH CONFLICTING DESIRES AND AN INTRICATE IDENTITY.

FUCK THIS SHIT.

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