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[priwens-deactivated20220207]

[ithappensoffstage]

Let’s go home. I am home.

[danismm]

“Cashmere Bouquet”, hand lotion. 1953

[lifeinpoetry]

Un-whole isn’t the same as un-holy, / isn’t the same as dead.

Sholeh Wolpé, from “Illusion,“ Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths (via lifeinpoetry)

[kdramafeed]

[winchestress]

[daphnemoon]

[grandrieux]

Theorem (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)

[grandrieux]

À travers la forêt (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, 2005)

[daggertongue]

(xx)

[jakeledgers]

#funniest improvised line ever

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

[starlessplanetoid]

A Young Ekon

[lousolversons]

[the-book-diaries]

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[robertseanleonard]

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

straight men trying to make Serious war dramas and accidentally making incredibly tender homoerotic cinema is the funniest thing

[beachdeath]

In his essay, “Masculinity as Spectacle,” Steve Neale seeks to extend Laura Mulvey’s work on the male gaze and to challenge her assertion that the male or male-identified spectator can never look upon the male body as an erotic object. To challenge Mulvey’s assertion, Neale identifies the mechanisms mainstream Hollywood cinema uses to represent the male body as erotic. One way of doing this, Neale argues, is by making the male body the target of violence. In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy – as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh – as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege – as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover – as long as he is riddled with bullets. Violence makes the homoeroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.

-Kent Brintnall

[alittlelife]

Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) 1981 Barbara Kruger (American, born in 1945)

[theweirdwideweb]