FANCY

Alicia

[sundaynightfilms]

Cinema Paradiso, 1988

[lovefrenchisbetter]

[babyanimalgifs]

Derpy little guy 

(via)

[neenadoughbreva]

Most Satisfying - The Handmaid’s Tale - Smart Power

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[lakevida]

morally grey/evil scientist characters are always like biochemical engineers or nuclear physicists or whatever but the people want VARIETY give me a story about a fucked up geologist for once

[snowgray]

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[dramatizaciones]

Flamenco Dancers Who ‘Move Between Genders’: Manuel Liñán and his company, in Jerez, Spain.

[hayaosmiyazaki]

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON (2017)

History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities. — Marsha P. Johnson

Queens started being filed out and being put into police cars, and guns had been drawn. Molotov cocktails were flying. And I’m like, “Oh my God, the revolution is here. Thank God. You’ve been treating us like shit all these years? Uh uh. Now it’s our turn.” — Sylvia Rivera

THE FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT HAPPY PRIDE | BLACK LIVES MATTER

[anxietyproblem]

[c-n-s]

nature i saw in ghibli movies, acrylic on canvas 15x15cm || 2014

[vanish]

[keybladesoras]

There. He’s done it again. Dropped a bomb that wipes out the efforts of every tribute who came before him. Well, maybe not. Maybe this year he has only lit the fuse on a bomb that the victors themselves have been the building. Hoping someone would be able to detonate it. Perhaps thinking it would be me in my bridal gown. Not knowing how much I rely on Cinna’s talents, whereas Peeta needs nothing more than his wits.

[fuckyeahlogical]

An abbreviated guide to the study of continental philosophy

Continental philosophy can be unfriendly to the newcomer. Before reading something it’s hard to have an idea of what you need to know beforehand and to what extent. Well, not anymore. I have single handedly cracked continental philosophy so you don’t have to waste your time.

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Key

(F): Familiarity, a couple of surveys or monographies are enough.

(G): Good understanding, more specialized secondary sources plus some important selections of the primary sources are needed. 

(E): Excellent understanding, a great deal of primary sources with the aid of studies and commentaries are needed.

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Classical Phenomenology 

Previous requirements: History of modern philosophy (F), British empiricism (G), Kant (G), Aristotelian logic (F). 

Focus: Husserl

Also: Scheler. 

Late phenomenology

Previous requirements: classical phenomenology (E),  ancient philosophy (F), christian theology (F).

Focus: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty.

Also:  Stein, Levinas, Simondon, Sartre (early), Stiegler, Zubiri.

Kyoto School 

Previous requirements: Kant (G), Hegel (G), late phenomenology (G), zen buddhist philosophy (E). 

Focus: Nishida

Also: Nishitani, Tanabe. 

Existentialism 

Previous requirements: late phenomenology (F), Kierkegaard (F).

Focus: Sartre

Also: Camus, Marcel, Beauvoir, Unamuno. 

Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Previous requirements: late phenomenology (G), ancient philosophy (G)

Focus: Gadamer, Ricoeur.

Also: Grondin, Vattimo, Beuchot.

Western marxism/ Frankfurt School

Previous requirements: classical sociology (F), psychoanalysis (F), Kant (G), Hegel (G), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (E), Marx’s economic thought (F).

Focus:, Lukács, Benjamin, Adorno.

Also: Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, Honneth, Davis, Echeverría. 

Post-structuralism 

Previous requirements:  late modern philosophy (G), structuralism (F), late phenomenology (G), psychoanalysis (G), Western marxism (F).

Focus:  Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. 

Also: Barthes, Lacan, Althusser, Butler, Nancy.

French feminism

Previous requirements: western marxism (F), post-structuralism (G), Lacan (F).

Focus: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray

Contemporary Post-marxism

Previous requirements: western marxism (F), post-structuralism (F), late phenomenology (F), Hegel (G), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (G), Lacan (G). 

Focus: Badiou*, Zizek**, Agamben, Ranciere.

Also: Mouffe, Laclau, Dussel.

* Requires to know set theory.

** Requires to watch every Hollywood film ever made. 

New / Speculative  realism [pending]

[kevinskeller]

[ober-affen-geil]

I’m gonna go off on this scene for a hot second, because this doesn’t get nearly as much attention as the talk with his mom and honestly this one hit me harder. So I’m gonna talk about why this scene is so fucking important to me.

The first line. Right out of the gate. “How long have you known?” Not, “how long have you been…you know…”, “how long have you known.” This is coming from a character we have seen (unintentionally, but still) commit homophobic microaggressions on screen at least twice now with many more implied, that difference is important.

Then when Simon answers, his response emphasizes the time they spent together when he didn’t know (Four years eating dinner together). I was sure, I was so sure his next line was going to be “why didn’t you tell me”. Because that’s how it goes right? The onus is always on the queer person, it’s always down to us. But that’s not what he says. He says “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have missed it.”

I don’t think I can put into words what hearing an apology in that moment did to me. I really can’t, I’m pretty sure I stopped breathing for a second. And then he says “All those stupid jokes…”

He is taking responsibility for his actions. He is acknowledging that he was wrong and he is apologizing for the hurt he, however unknowingly, caused his son. This is so rare. Because the key here is, not only is this a father-son relationship, which is always more difficult because men in our society have been conditioned to never be “touchy-feely”, it’s also a parent-child relationship. 

Simon is still a teenager. His father has spent 17 years being the one responsible for Simon’s care; at this point the parent is the one in the equation where the majority of power still sits. For a parent to acknowledge to a child who is still not fully an adult that they were wrong, especially when it’s a father when men are conditioned to never give ground or “show weakness” over things like this, just. It doesn’t happen.

And even when Simon gives him an out he refuses to take it. Then he makes sure Simon knows that he is loved unconditionally, and reinforces it with physical affection. And it’s not a Manly Shoulder Pat either, this is a proper full-body hug followed by a kiss on the cheek.

And after a moment of awkwardness, he actively reaches out and shows interest in engaging in the queer aspect of Simon’s life by offering to sign up to Grindr together. He’s gotten it wrong (in the most adorably dad way possible), but the point is he made the effort. He didn’t just leave it at letting Simon know he loves him, he recognized that this is an on-going presence in his child’s life and he commits to continuously being involved with and acknowledging this aspect of his son.

I am someone who has Simon’s life. I am from an upper-middle class white family with two liberal straight parents who were high school sweethearts, and I have one younger sibling. My first car was even a used Subaru station wagon, I could not make this up. This is the moment I wish I could have with my parents. 

They knew/suspected I was queer for years before I finally came out to them, but they didn’t know what to do with asexuality. They were fully prepared for me to be a lesbian and I still managed to blindside them. It was completely unexpected and they hadn’t heard of it so they didn’t know what to do about it. And we are the pinnacle of a WASP stereotype, so all of us suck at talking about our feelings. So while my parents never rejected me, they never tried to “fix” me, and they don’t really drop hints about me “settling down one day”, they also never talk about it with me. I assume because they don’t know how to and they don’t want to misstep.

We will have entire conversations about queer issues with no acknowledgement whatsoever that I am part of the group that issue pertains to. They have never tried to talk to me about what asexuality is, asked me to explain it, or asked about how to be involved in that aspect of my life. Which is unusual for them, both have always taken an active interest in both of their children’s activities. And there’s only so many times I can be the one to talk about the elephant in the room because it’s fucking exhausting. 

So yeah. This scene, this moment, hit me like a semi truck. Because god do I want that in my life.

[thegreenpea]

I’m crying

[feminismandmedia]

I really loved this scene because it wasn’t his dad saying “how long have you been lying to me” but instead “how long have I been hurting you.”

Too often queer people are treated as if we lied or tricked people while we were in the closet, so this scene meant so much to me.

[ryebreadgf]

[kingofeternalfreedom]

interviewer: ppl claim you’re immortal

Keanu:

[feminismisahatemovement]

[northern-storms-deactivated2022]

He'a growing his beard back to start the cycle all over again.

[timmisny]

he absolutely could be charlemagne and paul mounet

[words-i-thought-id-never-speak]

That’s all the confirmation we need

[pussysista-deactivated20170521]

Date: You wanna go for a walk?

Me: Sure