my art is my revenge

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[bikerjongho]

[sandersstudies]

Found my husband’s baby book. OBSESSED with an image of him, newborn baby, on what looks like a large white comforter, alone, with the caption New Guy In Town. Obsessed I tell you.

[sandersstudies]

[sandersstudies]

The true 90s baby aesthetic as computers in the home were normalized

[babybelminis]

why is it giving this

[saturnmortis]

[warcrimesimulator]

[spacerockband]

it feels more personal than blaming traffic... im sorry girl

[boycritter]

one must imagine sisyphus livin la vida loca

[kyatra]

i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2

[aveonaida]

*kazoo plays your idol badly*

i can't believe it's already been basically a year since this movie was released .. anywho cross stitch of the saja boys logo! 14 count black aida with dmc b5200 and 600; i also did the huntrix logo but i don't have a good picture of that at the moment ..

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The concept that married people live longer is interesting. I'm sure there is some merit to the idea that if you're married there is someone there to nag you about going to the doctor, but I think much larger factors are having the finances of dual incomes and access to an immediate support person.

Surgeries require having a designated person to look after you. Many injuries require driving to somewhere like an emergency room which can be hard to do if you are the one injured. If you're home with the flu, it's hard to tell when it's bad enough to go to the hospital without another person checking on you. And if you pass out it requires another person to find you like that to get medical aid.

You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

thinking about this further, people often cite this as a sort of See It's Better To Be Married and mostly accept it as a fact that being married is better for you overall and proceed to breakdown why marriage leads to longer lives. Instead I think we need to be looking at why the system is failing single people and what we could do to close that gap. What structural societal changes can we make to help single people rather than treat it as a Well Obviously foregone conclusion that everyone will eventually pair up.

It's not Why Are Married People Healthier? It's Why Aren't Single People as Healthy? And then actually examine the causes rather than hand waving it away with whichever stereotype of being single or half remembered memory of the last time you were single in your early 20s.

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]

[kojotei]

(D20: Neverafter)

[system-of-7]

@kojotei hellooooooo this is lovely and stuck in my brain

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[empire-of-light]

PROJECT HAIL MARY + the petrova line

[opera-ghost]

this fanfic shit is easy

[1000-life-hacks]

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.

[elf-trash]

i agree with this sentiment however i don't think dismissing these things as "slop made for mass consumption" is the solution either. women, like everyone else, are capable of making shitty, surface level art that contains unexamined biases, even if it was intended as an earnest form of self-expression. men have been doing that literally forever. obviously we can and should criticize it because no media should be above critique regardless of who made it but there is a very real vein of misogyny in a lot of the criticism of popular media made by women that men simply get to sidestep and pretending that's not a real thing is disingenuous.

[queerstudiesnatural]

i'm going to be generous and say you missed the point of my post, which may be my fault, i won't claim to be good enough with words to make everyone immediately understand what i'm trying to say.

the point is that white women have been weaponising misogyny to exempt themselves and their faves from criticism.

the point is also that self proclaimed artists like the ones mentioned above have been leaning heavily into capitalist demands of mass production and mass consumption, making superficial "art" that doesn't engage with any meaningful topic except for (and i am fully prepared to believe it is accidental and only due to a thoughtless acclimation to current political waves) the superiority and purity of white womanhood.

romantasy as a genre isn't bad. it's the refusal to engage with feedback in the name of girly fun that's the issue. i personally love pop culture and girly things, and things can be fun without being particularly deep. but when they become offensive with impunity? or when they are produced in such quantities and with such rapidity that they oversaturate the media plane, making sure that this type of superficial "white women are inherently good and only care about love and taking care of their ruffian burly white men" story is all we ever see, then we have a problem.

yes, men are also guilty of producing subtly or unsubtly racist pro-imperialist traditionally gendered content. that's not the topic of this discussion. the topic of this discussion is women disguising the same shit as feminist because a woman made it.

the point is that under fascism we all have a duty to pay particular attention to what we produce and what we consume, lest we fall pray to propaganda. and listening to life of a showgirl or watching "wuthering heights" earnestly and uncritically might not be the move. it's all giving "my jeans are blue". women aren't exempt from having to think about things or from being called out when they decide to contribute to the capitalist fascism soup.

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[maryoliveoil]

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Breasts AND thighs? Oh my...