dollheart

natasha, brazil. what else should i be? all apologies

[thesituation]

i have another bomb to throw, girls who hated pink and femininity in childhood were not experiencing internalized misogyny; it was a rejection of the conditioning pushed on us from birth which we never felt passion for and grew resentful towards because of adults’ insistence on us following the rules of being a girl. when you hit middle-high school and get more say in how you look it feels fucking incredible to reject and be openly hostile to the things you were forced to embrace your whole life. you people just don’t know what internalized misogyny is and tumblr choice feminism lied to you

[tatzelwurming]

i need to drink black coffee ina brutalist research building

[rustchild]

i cannot for the life of me find that essay about how sterilized, approachable, “nice” literature was used in victorian england to create a cultural imaginary that wholeheartedly ignored the atrocities being committed by the state, but every time i see someone sincerely make the argument that escapist stories are the only moral form of storytelling it rings in my head like a bell. it haunts me. some of y’all actually think that wide-scale erasure is better that attempting to grapple with messy reality in fiction and it’s honestly so exhausting

[rustchild]

ALSO can we stop evaluating stories solely based on their utility? Please? there is more to a narrative than whether it’s “harmful” or not, and it’ll be way better in the long run to be able to understand what the ideas being communicated are and how they’re communicated than sticking to just whether or not they’re objectively and universally Good. 

[titleleaf]

I’m sure people have already linked you this, but is it Gary Brecher’s “Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence”? 

The real problem, the kind of thing that would make De Niro in Casino groan, “Amateur night!”, starts when people imagine that they can stop immoral behavior by policing immoral characters, phrases, or scenes in literature.

They’re looking for the wrong thing. They’re sniffing for depictions of immorality, when they should be scanning the silences, the evasions.

There’s a very naïve theory of language at work here, roughly: “if people speak nicely, they’ll act nicely” — with the fatuous corollary, “If people mention bad things, they must like bad things.”

The simplest refutation of that is two words: Victorian Britain.

Victorian Britain carried out several of the biggest genocides in human history. It was also a high point of virtuous literature. […]

[roach-works]

i really think that you should judge a people not by what they talk about, but what they won’t talk about. it wasn’t very long ago that america’s virtuous literature refused to even acknowledge the existence of us queers, and we died by the thousands. the solution was to do away with censorship and to drag unspoken taboos out into the light for public discussion, not to slightly expand the edges of what was acceptable to say.

[marinebluekaze]

I love you ocean i love you waves i love you sea breeze i love you fishes i love you boats i love you sky as reflected by the sea i love you endless empty horizon

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 1. Too tired. END ID]

[ciphertology]

dni if you have no whimsy and no joy for the miracles found within the mundane

[mvxxi]

[witchinghour]

Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

[heavenhillgirl]

The brown bunny (2003), Vincent Gallo

[metamorphesque]

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”

— Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[neckkiss]

The Jacket (2005)

[wontyoucomeandsaveme]

Alice In Chains

[dionysian-mystery]

[lostbutlost]

I know I’m a hard person I do. I’m sensitive, I’m moody, I have bad anger, and I need constant reassurance. I’m fearful of to many things and I tend to overthink. But please don’t think that that’s all I am. I can be nice, I can be strong, I can be calm. I can also be brave and I can also control my thoughts. If you catch me on a day where I’m being hard, don’t think that’s all I am.

[thepowerofgrunge]

Black Flag interview, 1984.

[thepowerofgrunge]

[nicholaschmidt]