between the bars

[writingwithminotaur]

When you daydream about your story and it doesn’t magically write itself onto the page:

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[boymayor]

i got paint on my wall doing this

[pi-la]

[catchymemes]

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

My God they actually look like dogs now

[introvertbard]

Lord, the changes! DO PUGS NEXT!!!

[dusky-phantom]

ACTUALLY! A breeder in Germany started to breed healthier pugs called “retro mops” and currebtly ppl are trying to get AKC and UKC to recongnize them as the new standard.

heres the comparison:

[introvertbard]

Reblogging with updates! Healthy bulldogs AND healthy pugs! ❤️

[rpmaniac]

The absurd breed standards are a recent thing, developed in the past 100-150 years. The healthier breeds are much closer to their 19th century ancestors.

A pair of French bulldogs painted by Carl Reichert (1836-1918)

“Sweet Temptation or Willpower”

Charles Van den Eycken, 1891.

[headspace-hotel]

“Sweet temptation or willpower” I love that painting so much

[back-then]

Reading with dog and deer

1927

[hatake]

me: (has super negative thought)

me: thank you Captain Edge Lord can we please hear from someone else today

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[pitbolshevik]

do they think we're only allowed to eat kraft singles or

[pitbolshevik]

i go to the american grocery store and step into the cheese isle pondering which kraft single i will buy

[jheselbraum]

Everyone wants to act like Americans don’t have cheese but no one wants to talk about the cheese caves, the caves where we put all our cheese because we make too much and our cringe government keeps bailing out our fail dairy farmers to keep the price of milk stable because The Great Depression so now we have so much cheese in this country we could literally stop producing cheese right now and still have enough cheese to give everyone in America a pound of it every day for four years. And I’m not even talking about kraft singles pictured above, I’m talking about an actual not cursed product-- real cheese. Cheddar, brie, gouda, munster, swiss, you name it we have a billion pounds of it, literally. We have so much cheese that we’re literally running out of places to put it and in an effort to get rid of it we reprocess a lot of it into kraft singles (hence it’s a cheese product and not actual cheese-- cheese is but an ingredient in kraft singles, much like how bread is itself an ingredient in German graubrot, although graubrot is a food item that is actually meant to exist on this earth and isn’t the end product a cautionary tale on how not to stabilize a vital industry when your economy is collapsing) and for a very long time we gave it away as part of certain food assistance programs. And that’s not even counting the fancy imported shit from Europe, because yes even though we still have way too much cheese we also still import it from Europe in addition to the too much cheese we already have.

[jheselbraum]

#tell us where the cheese caves are#I want good sharp cheddar#get some Munster and Swiss#get some other cheeses to try why not via @malconvoker

The cheese caves are in Kansas City, Missouri I believe, though I’m not sure how guarded they may or may not be.

[pierroticism]

thought this was something you guys were making up to gaslight the europeans only to find out the massive cheese caves are in fact, real.

what the fuck

[lasrina]

Please explore the complicated American story of Government Cheese.

And if Europeans want to make fun of us, I got two words: Butter Mountain.

[mysharona1987]

Reddit’s nursing forum makes for some pretty grim reading.

[anditslove]

[studentlifeproblems]

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[essenceofrose]

Okay I reblogged and got into the entrepreneurship program I wanted. This WORKS

[magicalmerry]

Reblogging for some added help for the coming months

[bundibird]

This article was posted on the 10th August 2021.

Heres a link to the crowd funding page for Rukhsana Media.

[quotemadness]

“It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”

— Wallace Stegner

[cerullos]

ever think about how beauty and the beast was one big very intentional metaphor for gayness

[dollargenesis]

christine what

[cerullos]

howard ashman was a gay man and he was the composer & lyricist for batb. he finished it right before he died of AIDS, and it was dedicated to him. & alan menken who worked with him on the score said that the film was heavily influenced by his experiences/perspectives. he was already sick when he started work on it (which is why he had to be accommodated in that respect and write in new york, because he couldn’t be moved) and he knew he was going to die and that it would be his last work. honestly! there’s so much self-identification in it, biographers in a lot of the articles i’ve read (this one is good) talk a lot about how he had to conceal his gayness to pursue his career successfully. the entire movie is about like…people who are ostracized and isolated, and it’s all about belle showing the beast that he has humanity and he has worth and he’s not the image the townspeople project onto him. and his lyrics in almost every song! like: “it’s a pity and a sin, she doesn’t quite fit in” / “say a prayer, then we’re there at the drawbridge of a castle and there’s something truly terrible inside” / “grab your sword! grab your bow! praise the lord and here we go! we don’t like what we don’t understand. in fact it scares us” and for context this is all on the tail-end of the AIDS crisis when gay men everywhere are dying because nationally their health isn’t considered a priority, and ashman is about to be one of them…it’s so personal, there’s no way it isn’t imo! 

[vampirezigzagoon]

An academic by the name of Sean Griffin talks about this in his book on Disney and queer theory, Tinkerbelles and Evil Queens. You’ve mentioned most of it here, but Griffin comments on something else worthy of note: the symbolism of the rose, which parallels impending death and oblivion. Wilting day by day, petal by petal, it mirrors the immune systems of those suffering from AIDS during the 1980s/early 90s. The Beast has a limited amount of time to find love and happiness or he will forever be entombed by his condition. Although he is revived by some magical force, he closes his eyes in death right as the last petal falls. 

Griffin mentions the state of the castle’s west wing in conjunction with health decline. The painting of his former self is damaged by his own anger, embarrassment, shame, and loneliness. 

Griffin quotes the academic Cynthia Erb, “The visual contrast made between the deteriorated form of the Beast and the painting of him as a beautiful young man possibly sets up a stereotypical opposition between ugliness and beauty … but in this context the ugliness/beauty dyad also supports a tension, crucial to the film’s AIDS allegory, between the issue of having health or not having it" (Erb qtd. in Griffin 134).

Griffin also mentions how “The Mob Song” serves as “a parallel to AIDS panic that many individuals, as well as religious and political groups, expressed during this press of the disease.”

Source: Tinkerbelles and Evil Queens, Sean Griffin.

If The Little Mermaid echoes the coming out process, familial discord, and first romantic pursuits of the gay man, Beauty and the Beast corresponds to his possible subsequent experiences. During the AIDS crisis, this concerned the fear of sickness and/or impending death.

[reasonandempathy]

Y’all are fucking idiots if you think a thousand year old fairy tale is a pro-gay message.

[noelleian-deactivated20190923]

It’s not a thousand years old. It started with Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1695-1755) though it has some parallels with The Brothers Grimm The Singing Springing Lark. 

Still, obviously it far predates the birth of the gay rights movement and the AIDS epidemic. Y’all reaching like whoa lol.

[cerullos]

im not talking about the original story i’m talking about disney’s adaptation and lyrics and narrative choices that are specific to it. y’all know that but you just had to come on my post and bore us all anyway. 

ur right tho, historically speaking gays weren’t Out There in the big wide world in the 18th century…we actually all came into being simultaneously when ellen aired in 1994, before then we didn’t exist! good catch

[simonalkenmayer]

I hate to tel you this but most fairy tales are absolutely about the issues of the day, and those issues have to do with bigotry of all kinds. So yes, the monster in the forest? Almost always a metaphor for the outsider. That witch in the woods? Almost always humans trying to distance themselves from caring for the elderly or women in general.

[breelandwalker]

Fairy tales and folklore aren’t pro-queer, my ASS.

There is LITERALLY a Romanian fairy tale about a princess who spends an entire quest in disguise as a man called Fet-Fruners and then is turned into a man thanks to a hermit’s spell. The hermit intended it as a curse, but the newly-minted man rejoices, since he now feels he is as he was always meant to be. And I quote:

The hermit followed at their heels, but seeing it was impossible to overtake the thief, he fell on his knees and called his most deadly curse down on her head, praying that if the thief was a man, he might become a woman; and if she was a woman, that she might become a man. In either case he thought that the punishment would be severe.

But punishments are things about which people do not always agree, and when the princess suddenly felt she was really the man she had pretended to be, she was delighted, and if the hermit had only been within reach she would have thanked him from her heart.

Fet-Fruners ends up marrying the emperor’s daughter and by all accounts, they live happily ever after. It’s called The Girl Who Pretended To Be A Boy, originally published in Sept Contes Roumains and later collected by Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book.

“The Little Mermaid” is literally about Hans Christian Anderson pining for a male friend who he was in love with who ended up marrying a woman.

And don’t even get me started on Greek mythology.

Queer people, trans people, and gender non-conforming people have always existed, and folklore clearly reflects that. If the modern queer community is finding themes in these stories they can identify with, it’s hardly a reach.