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Me for the last 15 years: im a bit burnt out rn but im sure next week will be different

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

thepaintedroom

Józef Mehoffer (Polish, 1869-1946) • Pink Room • 1907-13

#art

robin-teddybear

it's kinda comforting to me when my friends are a little annoying or longwinded or abrasive or tired and inarticulate, or they don't do the exact politest thing in every interaction, and stuff, because I know I'm sometimes annoying, or take up a more than my share of conversational space, or forget to ask them questions, etc etc, and... like, I'm always working to be nice to my friends and to get better and better at friend-ing, but it just makes me feel more human about it :}

anyway I love you friends plz know I'm not counting, in fact I feel great affection toward you even (especially) when conversations go less than Perfectly Ideal

saulwexler

I'm not proud to say it but this line from a 60 year old detective novel made me re-think some things about friendship

nemfrog

The dragon. Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art. 1906.

velvetsart

see and be seen

importantandunavoidable

thinking about her

importantandunavoidable

thinking about her again

laeffy

fleur-aesthetic

instagram | mimosaboston

le-slut-deactivated20250810

JODIE COMER | Empire Magazine (February, 2024)

#jodie comer

purpleartrowboat

i love you thrift stores i love you repairing clothes i love you hand me downs i love you diy-ing i love you sewing

kosmogrl

unquietgravekeeper

Just saw the most chronically online take of the year of someone ranting unironically that you should look up every single artist with a song you enjoy to make sure they are unproblematic. And if you don't do this them you are as bad as the controversy associated with the artist, for being 'willfully ignorant.' They literally talked about how they went through more than a thousand artists they listened to and whittled it down to 200 this way. This is obsessive and they need help

animasphinx

what do you mean this song was written in A Minor? 🤨 cuff em boys

unquietgravekeeper

Best addition to this post really

carrionthird

nothing worse than when the premise of something captivates you but then it sucks ass. bro you put this idea out into the world and you didn’t even do it a shred of justice

twunkish-cleric

Learning languages is SO FUN right up until you need to learn conjugation and then suddenly it turns sour real fucking fast

twunkish-cleric

nakakabaliw

Don't Stop Talking About It. Don't Look Away. They're Still Here. They will be Free.

flor4zul-deactivated20240805

[image description: a digital illustration in mostly dark saturated colors featuring several Palestinians with varying facial features, skin tones and outfits. most of the people are profusely sobbing; notably, in the foreground, a bearded person wearing PRESS equipment and an elder hijabi wearing a green dress and a key pendant. to center of the drawing, the only person not crying, presumably a mother cradling the wrapped-up body of her dead child. she wears a black dress and a keffiyeh for a hijab. she glares directly through the viewer with an exhausted, hollow, almost emotionless expression. the bearded PRESS worker is seen trying to soothe the mother. props include a few branches of olive trees at the top with a smaller one being wielded by a shiny pigeon of piece, debris at the bottom and a bright halo behind the mother's head. end description]