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Lydia Pettit (American, 1991) - Presentation (2022)

Prompt: Person A works as a babysitter for hot single gay mom Person B.

got 3.5k words for this (king princess: upper west side inspired) narry au im working on for the girl direction fic fest (featuring trust fund young mom harry and midwestern college student niall)

coming sometime this month xx

thisobscuredesireforbeauty

Michael McCluskey. The Encounter. Source

arterialtrees

From The Phenomenology of Anger by Adrienne Rich

pilmyeol

youdonthavetogotocollege

Sorry if you hear cowboy noises coming from my room I’m practicing being a cowboy

remnantglow

cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like

clubdreamm-deactivated20210114

Sorry I wasn’t paying attention I was pressing on my eyes for a color show extravaganza

pinkislouder

i met a girl on tinder and, purely coincidentally, our grandmas share the same name and our mums share the same birthday. the umbilical chord is attached to the placenta and the arteries and veins make it look like a tree. i think of the quince tree my mum planted after my brother’s birth and the jam she made from it every summer and how we let it melt on buttery toast in the mornings. the other day i stopped for a second because it suddenly smelled like winter outside and i felt comforted by the familiarity. my siblings’ laughs all sound the same. poets and scientists both wonder why and how the world works and in this, they share the same longing for understanding. science is art is science is art. “stay healthy,” i type into my emails, “keep safe” the chancellor of my university tells his staff. “i am so awfully glad to be alone”, my great-aunt wrote in her diary in the 1940s. i read the words in the comfort of my room, content by myself. there are patterns in the universe, and threads that intertwine and that tangle and knot and then smooth out again. i’m glad to be here for it, i think as i stretch out my hands in my childhood room and my fingers bump into old glue-to-the-ceiling stars. so very fucking glad.

thepuppyclub

Rejecting the “I’m not like other girls trope” isn’t the high feminist praxis you think it is.

thepuppyclub

This is directed towards adults who do this and not younger women or girls who are coming to terms with the idea that everyone has an ambivalent relationship with what is expected of the category of sex. What I mean is that there comes a time where some girls may feel different and alienated from the performance of what is acceptable and they may find solace (or meaning?) in this difference that feels fundamental and then is turned into something valuable. I don’t think acting like these girls are fundamental misogynists and anti-girl-power, as opposed to the adults that profit off writing and representing the trope, is the high feminist praxis that pop culture buzzfeed feminists think it is.

medoisa

I have been thinking about this a lot (a LOT) recently, and I’d like to add that many kids who went through a ‘not like other girls’ phase were likely to have been neurodivergent, not straight, or not girls in the end at all. It’s also important to note that malice against ‘other girls’ often stems from the fact that… ‘Other girls’ aren’t always very nice. I was socially excluded, patronised, and sneered at throughout my adolescent years (and starting as early as 8) for having strong interests in (nerdy) things, not dressing ‘girly’ or wearing makeup, and still wanting to play games and be a kid. Of course I thought I was ‘different’! But I didn’t hate these girls and I didn’t think I was better than them - more often than not, I wanted them to like and accept me. I think this experience is far more common than any discussion of this subject will have you think. Widespread ‘rejection’ of this trope smacks of a refusal to critically evaluate how restrictive and oppressive the standards of femininity are and how women are often complicit in ostracising those who do not comply with them. I do think that the way a lot of media presents girls who think they’re ‘different’ is often misogynistic and doesn’t reflect the reality of this phemomenon, but I haven’t fully formulated my thoughts on this.

amarakaran

“[My wife] said, ‘You know, we’ve been together for nine years, and I think we’ll be together for a long time. But you will never know what I really think of you, and I will never know what you really think of me.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it’s kind of beautiful.’”

JOHN MULANEY The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

makomoriz

i know what you think of me, tim kreider

firefly-in-darkness

Bit deep for a Sunday morning but I’m feeling it

angelharrie

harry trying out the gayest looks from every era is most pleasing to me... he said i will serve 70s gay vibes and 90s gay vibes in the same year. what about it.