Love, Hate, and Indifference.

23. Bisexual. Radfem. Bipolar. PTSD. Opera. Cats. Love. Poetry. This is my personal and political blog.

[druidviolence-deactivated201810]

[ytube2mp3-deactivated20190921]

exfoliated 2 hard and scrubbed my face entirely off and am currently looking forward to experiencing the world without the weight of being perceived. i will miss lipgloss tho

[savemefromfallingdownfarther]

People are like ancient galaxies. We see them only as they were, days, months, years ago, Not as the person they are. The only difference is that with the galaxies, we have no choice. With people, we cling to past perceptions, as if to a life preserver in freezing waters, that will kill us before we get the chance to realize: There’s no point saving the dead.

[sqweegee]

Despite all the bad things CGI has done for us this year, (Lion King, Sonic, Cats) we must remember the good

[pollyjean]

before you write: THINK!

is it Tender?

is it Homoerotic?

is it Implicitly homosexual?

is it Noticeably repressed?

is it Kind of gay?

[gluten-free-pussy]

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh...hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????

[animution11]

[artoounit]

a WOMAN

[femcassidy]

i think what’s wrong with me is that i don’t live secluded in a hut in the woods. i don’t bang enough rocks against enough things. i just haven’t forged any swords

[illbebackladies-deactivated2020]

TERFS came into my home, cut ALL my peaches in half to look like PUSSIES, and then SPIT on my GENDER identity while calling me a LOSER.

[beastlyhagtits]

unpopular opinion: safe spaces have to exclude some people to be safe spaces because otherwise those the people in that space need to hide from can literally just enter at any time. An all inclusive liberal “safe space” isn’t safe at all

[lesbiansinthegarden]

Liberals understand this concept perfectly, they just don’t think females are actually oppressed by males - we aren’t victimy enough to deserve our own spaces and platforms in their eyes.

[reactionpicarchive]

🙈👀 what if we kissed 😘 in a long-term loving relationship 😳😏

[sexedplus]

This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.

[unclefather]

someones mom: make yourself at home, would you like something to drink?

me: *very dry mouth like spongebob in sandy’s tree dome*

me: no thank you

[novitiate2017-deactivated202002]

you are literally not a better more moral person for pretending you never get angry and you never get mean

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[kitchenalia]

reblog if you think that a woman’s place is in an isolated cottage, doing nothing but growing vegetables and having massive amounts of lesbian sex