Death Of The Author.

"Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile... We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author." - Roland Barthes. hit tracker

[deathoftheauthor]

Working on a tattoo design for @ivoryaxe 🌴🌺 #watercolour #latenightartsession #tattoodesign #flamingo

[deathoftheauthor]

[deathoftheauthor]

Still struggling with the feels 😔 @stellamccartney

[just-shower-thoughts]

I want to be rich enough to realise money can’t buy me happiness.

[astrolocherry]

Pluto

“Instead, feel your suffering, rest with it, embrace it, make love with it. Feel your suffering so deeply and thoroughly that you penetrate it, and realize its fearful foundation. Almost everything you do, you do because you are afraid to die. And yet dying is exactly what you are doing, from the moment you are born. 

You were born as a sacrifice. And you can either participate in the sacrifice, dissolving in the giving of your gift, or you can resist it, which is your suffering. By eliminating the safety net of comforts in your life, you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openness which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.”    ―    David Deida The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

[rotfem]

I hate the word “bitch”. It IS a misogynistic slur and I want boys especially to keep that word out of their mouths. My step dad yelled it at my mother while she was crying when I was 9 before he tore the curtains down and I still remember what it sounded like. Don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s a harmless word and that it’s OK to use just because you also use it when referring to guys. Guys often say things like “he’s a little bitch” - the word is clearly not at all removed from its misogynistic meaning.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

“who’s the bitch?” meaning “who is the weaker inferior party? aka who’s the woman?”

“you’re my little bitch” meaning “you are subservient to me–like a woman.”

“I made you my bitch.” meaning “I own you, you are inferior to me–like a woman.”

“uppity bitch.” meaning “you are behaving in a manner that doesn’t befit your low station, stop acting like you are important or matter–women are supposed to shut up and take it.”

“cried like a bitch.” meaning “crying like a weak, mentally inferior person (a woman).”

“take it like a bitch” meaning “women are supposed to shut up and take it, like the weak inferior people they are.”

This is what we mean when we say the word “bitch” designates women as an innately inferior class of human beings.

[1-62-cm]

[deathoftheauthor]

My friends(don't have tumblr): have u seen this meme lol, it was on the 'best of tumblr' facebook page, tumblr is so funny

Me, a tumblr gremlin: haha yeah lol, think i've seen that one before lol

Me (what I really mean): you fools. I am plugged into the mainframe, wired to the primary source. Of course have seen that meme, and all 5000 of it's variants, 3 and a half months ago. I have seen the rise and fall of that meme, the boom and bust, the drama, the pain, the shitposting, oh god, the shitposting. I have seen this meme in it's rawest, freshest, unpasturised, most primal state. Do not insult me with these rank, stale puddles, that sit at the very base of the meme trickle down economy.

[classydude]

[mothermoonbear-deactivated20141]

You know why women often say “nothing’s wrong” when something is definitely bothering them

It’s because men have been belittling, minimizing and mocking our emotions forever

And we are socialized to be as passive and undemanding and selfless as possible, and not to run any risk of bothering or angering a man lest he abandon or hurt us It’s not passive aggression, it is fear

[misandry-mermaid]

oh my god

[jodiefoster]

a concept: i’m in a warm bed with lots of blankets and i have no obligations to be anywhere. i’m calm and safe and happy and you are here with me

[anotherstorymustbegin-deactivat]

For people with social anxiety, EVERY message they send feels like a “risky message,” not just the ones with heavy emotional content. Every conversation feels like a chance to say something wrong and destroy a perfectly lovely friendship. Silence, while avoiding that problem, is also perilous because waiting too long before breaking the silence, increases the chance that the silence will be taken as a rejection. 

SOCIAL ANXIETY FUCKING SUCKS AND EVERYTHING IS MENACING TO ME.

[deathoftheauthor]

Wow, I didn't realise this is what to call that feeling.

[cattycafe-deactivated20211202]

i just got asked out to dinner over deviantart after being told my art’s luckluster because tity not bi g enough

[officialscud]

he sounds like hes a fuckign alien from another planet trying to figure out human courting customs

[mayahan]

Writer Chaz Hutton’s Brutally Honest Illustrations Perfectly Sum Up Adulthood

[mazzystardust]

ph. Karen Robinson

[ruinedchildhood]

[rad-feminism]

The trope of the “crazy” girlfriend is so prevalent and joked about now that girls getting into relationships are so worried about seeming imposing that they do not speak out about things that make them uncomfortable and are forced to let their boyfriends emotionally manipulate them into normalizing otherwise inappropriate behavior. They do not speak up and then are faced with dealing with an uncomfortable situation for so long, which can really affect their self esteem and emotional health. “Jokes” aren’t always jokes, especially at the expense of women. They are usually integrated into people’s thinking to the extent that they truly affect people’s opinions of women and the way they see them.

[feminist-hufflepuff]

I think this is related to how many young women are afraid to speak up about things that upset them lest they be labeled a ‘nag’ for having her partner ‘whipped’. Even if she’s speaking up about a legitimate issue that genuinely upsets her, women are so often painted as being dramatic over nothing that it causes us to keep everything shoved down until it explodes, simply because we aren’t allowed to say “This bothers me.” without a negative response.