another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
ok right links fine
i was probably drunk when i wrote this. best i can remember:
all these whiny bastards complaining about my taste in caps lock. I rewrote it for you:
*Sighs heavily and re-cracks knuckles*
Beer is traditionally a woman’s drink, it is the most female of all of The Drinks. For thousands of years, beer was made at home by women, to be consumed by women and children—it was actually a source of nutrients for many households. Women created the craft of beer, and for most of human history that is who you’d buy it from: many women made additional income by brewing and selling beer from home. It wasn’t until the era of industrialization that beer began to be brewed in factories. And once beer was being brewed on a large scale, it made sense to start marketing it to all the male factory workers who suddenly had extra income. Hence an aggressive marketing campaign to re-brand beer, a drink intrinsically tied with women’s history, as a ‘masculine’ beverage.
final bit:
Even better, female brewters were the original wicked old witch. The tropes we commonly associate with stereotypical witches are actually based on the traditional brewster. Cauldrons & hot steaming potions = beer brewing. The witch’s hat: believe it or not pointy hats were actually worn by brewsters when selling their product at markets: the enormous headgear helped them stand out, and clearly told everyone ‘yo motherfucka get your beer here’.
Cats as familiars: cats were commonly used to prevent rodents from getting into the wheat. Even the broomstick is related to beer: a bundle of twigs resembling a broom was used as advertising for alehouses.
so yeah, beer = witch’s brew. other things to check out:
Fermented low-alcohol beverages being the prime source of safe drinking water, for the whole family, for much of human history.
Beer, women, and the invention of the drinking straw (trivia, the oldest known straw is Sumerian, 5000 years old, made of gold and lapis lazuli. )
Monks horning in on the female-dominated brewing economy, the medieval church persecuting female brewsters
Monks adding hops (and making beer gross) in order to lower their libido (and to avoid the temptation of gay sex)
Dionysus, god of winemaking, and his raving, drunken madwomen followers, the Maenads.
Or any of a long list of goddesses associated w/ beer. Tenenet, the ancient egyptian goddess of childbearing & beer brewing. The earliest beer recipe, found in a 3900 year old poem honoring Ninkasi, patron goddess of brewing
And that’s all for now folks. Happy drinking’
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Do you remember when you were afraid to show Lex your little inventions? That you would hide them from him until they were absolutely perfect? Do you remember what he would do? Yeah. He’d say they were cute and I should make them in pink. This is exactly what he was afraid of. That you would outshine him.
okay okay okay but like, can this please be Lena’s arc for the season?
If S2 was ’Is Lena Luthor evil?’ (no) and S3 was ‘Is Lena Luthor right?’ (yes, but also no?), then I’m really hoping S4 isn’t so much ‘Can we trust Lena Luthor?’ but rather:
Can Lena Luthor trust others, even if she’s not in charge?
Cuz I love her but Lena doesn’t play well with others. She doesn’t ever really pick a side because the only team she’s ever known to be safe is her own.
Throughout the seasons, we have seen Lena’s circle grow beyond her isolation: at first we only saw Kara, then we get an old friend in Sam and Ruby, through which Alex got incorporated into that family as an Auntie for Ruby, and she’s expanded her circle to James. You could even argue she’s taken Eve a little under her wing. And if she counts you as one of Her People, she is Ride Or Die.
But if you’re not? If she questions whether or not you trust her? Especially if you are standing in the way of her solution to the problem to protect Her People? She will cut you out, like she did Supergirl. Her inexperience with friendship means that if you make a mistake that breaks her trust once, she’ll write you off completely. It’s all or nothing with her. Like she got so tunnel visioned about fixing Sam, that she wouldn’t consider that Supergirl had good reason to be upset about her making Kryptonite. Was Lena right last year about needing Kryptonite? Sure. But was it also completely understandable that Kara was upset that Lena was making it without her consent and maybe acted rashly because of that? Also yes, and Lena still has taken a long time to understand that. I’m not completely sure she does grasp why Kara was so afraid, even if she’s inching towards some forgiveness.
And if you look at Lena’s track record- she goes rogue all the time. She didn’t loop in Supergirl in the Diamonds Gala ep, or the Medusa virus. She didn’t listen to Kara and went after Jack by herself. She leveled a gun at Morgan Edge’s head, because she definitely didn’t trust the authorities or even Kara and Sam to prove her innocence. Even the way that she protects Her People (Sam, James, Kara), she’s betting her life, career, and wealth on her ability to find a solution without consulting about anyone else – even the person she’s helping (see: buying Catco).
And look, there are legit reasons for why she’s like this. There’s her name: growing up, her wealth made it impossible to trust if people just wanted to be friends because of what she could do for them. Even if she was the adopted one (which also set her apart from the other Luthors. Lex was the only one who cared about her). And then Lex went crazy and then it was who wants to be associated with a Luthor? Not many, that’s for damn sure.
But also sometimes it’s because she’s just head and shoulders smarter than everyone else in the room and she’s just operating on a different level than everyone else. Lena’s always been the isolated genius in the room, CEO at a young age, surrounded by mostly white old men. She’s a tinkerer, someone who is constantly trying to find solutions to fix societal problems (world hunger, children’s hospital, making it bearable for aliens to blend). Alien technology? No worries, Lena Luthor can fix that. And 95% of the time, Lena Luthor is right.
But smartest is not always best. You can be 100% right and still completely wrongheaded about it.
And the overarching message of Supergirl is that love binds us all and we are stronger together.
For better of for worse, Lena is hyper-independent, because her life experience of being surrounded by liars and abusers of power has made her suspicious of others’ motives. With all the resources, wealth and smarts to back it up, her self assurance almost borders on arrogance, because she’d rather just work alone than in a group project. She doesn’t trust other people when she’s not in control, and that’s actually a great place for character growth.
What I would like to see for Lena, what I am hoping that bit at the end with her nod to Supergirl meant, is an arc of growth for her to forgive more, to trust more, be less of a wildcard and more a part of the Superfriends. It will force her to be vulnerable (which Katie always does well with), and it introduces a hell lot of conflict into the story when they all inevitably make mistakes, without questioning if she’s good and beating a dead horse.
I wanna see Lena learn how Stronger Together works. Relationships are work because it’s a two way street, but they are worth it in the end. I want that for her. I wanna see her pick a team.
I really want her to be able to open up to the world around her past what she deems necessary
I am really baffled by the people attacking AO3 for hosting stories that involve rape, incest, pedophilia, and other dark things. Have…have they never been to a bookstore or library? People write stories about all manner of dark, horrible things. This is not remotely new. And at least on AO3 and other fandom platforms, the dark things are generally tagged. In bookstores and libraries, not so much.
V.C. Andrews was freaking popular when I was in jr. high and high school. Her books were in the school libraries. They needed to be stamped with trigger warning: EVERYTHING, but mainly things from the fun list of rape, incest, pedophilia, and child abuse. Her books are still sufficiently popular that there are new ones coming out despite the fact that she’s been dead for years!
Her books are in the library I work at. Her books are in most bookstores. Her books are probably still in the libraries of the jr high and high school I went to. Does that mean anywhere that has her books supports rape, incest, pedophilia, and child abuse?
That’s not how it works. Yes, there are occasionally things that a store or library will decide they don’t want to carry, no matter what. The first bookstore I worked at wouldn’t even special order The Turner Diaries. A lot of bookstores won’t even special order The Anarchist Cookbook. I’m sure there are other books out there that people are reluctant to touch, even with a ten foot pole. But, barring those few exceptions, most bookstores and libraries are not in the business of policing the content of the books they deal in.
Not because booksellers and librarians are all monsters who should be reported to the FBI, but because there’s a long history of censorship going very bad places very fast. Also, free speech is considered an American value. Hell, let me just link to the ALA page on censorship.
I don’t pretend to know why stuff like V.C. Andrews’ books, or the fics on AO3 that some people want to report to the FBI, are popular. I don’t get it. It doesn’t appeal to me. Yet I recognize that different dark things are in kinds of fiction that I do like – violence, murder, torture, war, other things that most of us really fervantly hope never to experience in our lives. I don’t know whether fiction is an outlet for whatever darkness lurks in everyone’s hearts, whether it’s a way of dealing with our fear of bad things happening, whether human culture just finds bad things fascinating, or what. Maybe humanity is just super fucked up and Pluto really is a warning buoy telling other civilizations not to go near the planet with the creepy mammal infestation on it.
But I don’t think going after fic platforms because some of the fic hosted there is disturbing is a solution to anything. (And if the people doing so are not also on an equivalent campaign against bookstores and libraries, I suspect that what’s going on is not what they claim is going on.)
they do work differently but i mean kara does have the senses and the intellect to move fast enough but the thing is a) she’s super strong and invulnerable so along with moving that fast she’s also hitting that fast (whereas with barry like. we saw in season 1 he had to be so careful not to destroy himself in the process) and you know what she’s also hitting? the floor with her foot. Think about how you run–kara has to keep her feet as light as possible on the floor so she doesnt create craters
also, kara has to then concentrate on that, along with not accidentally getting distracted by anything her senses may tell her–she kept those glasses for 10 years not as a disguise but as a tool–they were to keep her vision in check so that she doesn’t worry about losing control and having to focus on that every single second
also bold of you to assume that Kara “youngest person entered into the science guild and I helped my father with his work and was doing Calculus in pre-school” Zor-El doesn’t do physics and a whole bunch of math such as but not limited to (some of these aren’t explicitly said but others actually are in the Supergirl tv show comics)
a)how fast she can go without cracking concrete
b)how much force she can exert upon a moving car without completely smashing it
c) how to weld a building that was crumbling so that it would be structurally sound after she was done with it
d) how much heat she can correctly put into coffee so it doesn’t boil over like that one time
e)how hard she can step without breaking the ground
f)how fast she can fly without breaking the sound barrier
g)all the shit she needs to do to make sure civilians aren’t hurt during fights; also includes the correct way to catch people SO THEY DO NOT GET WHIPLASH. VERY IMPORTANT. PEOPLE CAN DIE KAREN.
h)all the math she needs to do to figure out distance ie how fast she needs to go to get from one point to the other/fastest route (think how airplanes go but without the worry of running into another airplane)/ HOW FAST SHE CAN GO IN NATIONAL CITY WITHOUT HURTING PEOPLE BECAUSE GUESS WHAT EVER HEARD ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GET NEAR AN AIRPLANE ENGINE IT’LL SUCK YOU IN NOW IMAGINE THAT BUT WORSE WITH KARA’S FLYING AND SENDING EVERYTHING SCATTERING EVERYWHERE
i and most importantly)how much pressure she can give for ultimate hug
ALL OF THIS HAPPENS WITH ONLY SECONDS TO CALCULATE WHILE ALSO DOING CONVERSIONS SINCE THIS ISN’T HOW SHE LEARNED MATH SO SHE HAS TO CONVERT EVERYTHING INTO EARTH TERMS
you hear a tapping at your window at night, you’re terrified but you go and look out. a feeling of relief washes over you as you realize its just your local cryptid asking for your wifi password, they want to message their friend, but most cell companies don’t sell data plans to nonhuman beings, so they just wanna use ur wifi for a sec
After about the 10th cryptid asks, you decide to put that spare room to use. You open up an internet cafe for cryptids only. As thanks, you are protected from abductions, sacrifices, and animal mutilations. Word gets around to their friends, and now legends from all over the state are coming just to seek asylum and relax for a bit from being hunted. Because your Cryptid Cafe is on your own property, any hunters can be charged for trespassing. More and more show up, and are now taking up the house. They’re nice and respectful to you, so you’re okay with this.
When witch!Lucy has her own place, this is what happens. Then her girlfriends want to get a place together. Lucy can’t just abandon the cryptids, but they can’t follow her either. She decided to suck it up and continue to pay rent on the place because one day, she’s gonna need their help with trouble magnets like—-
Oh. Ooohhh.
2×19. Before the trio are a strong trio. Before there’s talk about living in the same space. Alex goes missing. Alex can’t be found. Alex may just lose her life this time.
Lucy calls her house. She asks if any of the cryptids are willing to do her this favor. She will give them her soul in exchange if that’s what it takes. They say they’ll help her. And they do.
Alex is too busy trying to stay afloat. She too busy trying to keep the panic down. She too busy ignoring the cold seeping into her limbs. She doesn’t see the shadows move, there are no lights beyond her tank. She doesn’t see the claws and paws and too many fingered hands pressing against the walls.
The glass shatters. The water rushes out. Something foul fills her nose and she can’t handle the stench of rotting corpse on top of everything else.
Supergirl, doing another flight around the city, hears something call her name. It sends a shiver down her spine, the way it echoes in her ears, between buildings, and settles low in her heart. She follows the haunted call after checking in with the DEO.
Alex wakes up in the medbay of the DEO.
Lucy upgrades her internet to the best National City has to offer. She also does her best to keep every flavor of Mountain Dew, Oreo, and Kit Kat available. Kara doesn’t mind the trips to Japan, but she’s learned Lucy will never tell her where all those Kit Kats go.
Question of Smoke 