Not so random thoughts

Free Palestine

[satanfemme]

[annoying online discourse about art simulator]

"hi I'm Joe Normalson and I just heard about a New Horror Movie with violence against women in it. I haven't seen the movie myself because I'm too scared, but I've decided it's probably degenerate art and just proves that the horror genre as a whole is made by a bunch of serial killers and anyone who likes horror could only possibly enjoy it because they're also a serial killer who's going to hurt my property women. we need to kill anyone who admits to liking any horror movie, but only specifically the marginalized people who like them, for some reason. coincidence I'm sure."

"hi I'm Jack Freakson and actually you're wrong, horror movies never ever arise from a context of real life violence. they come tabula rasa from the ether, are completely politically neutral, and say nothing at all. if you think a horror movie has ever been misogynistic you're probably part of whichever marginalized demographic lets me call you stupid and uneducated without backlash."

systemic bigotry: *left unchallenged*

the actual context and themes of New Horror Movie: *left unexamined*

"hi my name is Tumblr Anon do you wholeheartedly agree with Joe Normalson or Jack Freakson? btw these are the only two options. art either has the right to exist unexamined, or all artists need to be killed while their work is left unexamined. do you want entertainment or do you want death? entertainment or death? entertainment or death?"

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[animperfectangelsblog]

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[bvckbiter]

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

[lamine-19]

The kindest thing that literature does is remind you that your little peculiar feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, felt equally bewildered by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

[memeuplift]

[subsequentibis]

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

[novarion]

Just another card in the greater game.

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[painedpanels]

"He's had worse."

Black Widow (2014) #6

[firewalkwithmedvd]

Was trying to make a joke about TV writing to my friend the other day and had to pause and go "...does the phrase 'surf dracula' mean anything to you?"

[firewalkwithmedvd]

One of the most important critical texts of this century imo

[hypokeimena]

image description: tweet by @/topherflorence, reading: back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale /end description

[important-animal-images]

[burninblood]

Bucky, Nat, Liho and Alpine in Marvel Meow Infinity Comics #38

[novarion]

🕷️

[marz-genesis]

horizon

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.