not an intellectual, two times university dropout

there's nothing here anymore for you

[cyphersvoid]

if your abortion rights, pro choice, bodily autonomy activism begins and ends with cis women, your activism is based on ignorance. you can't advocate for something and then ignore a chunk of the people affected. because you may say "if men could get pregnant we wouldn't have this problem" but the thing is, men can.

transmasculine people, afab nonbinary people and intersex people have been continously pushed out of the conversations around pregnancy healthcare and abortion, and when we speak up about it we get told off about it or we're basically forced to misgender ourselves to be heard even a little (not to mention that when cis women talk about this type of transphobia they're put on a pedestal for it. don't get me wrong, i'm glad they're talking about it, but it's interesting how people would rather listen to cis women regarding trans bodies, than to the trans people in question).

it's the same thing as queer activism, but the only people talking and listened to are cis gay men, and it's the same as feminism, but the only people talking and listened to are white cis women. it's the exclusion of an affected group of people, because some activists pick out the most palatable members possible for a movement, and then everyone else is left behind to fight alone with almost no support.

(especially because terfs are going to use cis women's, rightful, anger to drag them into their terf bubble, but a lot of you are not ready for that conversation yet. trans people need to be included.)

[happilyangrypoet]

the song Sun by Loveless is literally the perfect anderperry song and i will not take criticism for that, it literally fits so well (also this band is fucking amazing and i am obsessed with their music)

like... the chorus alone????

I still remember everything you like

Following your footsteps in my mind

Tearing up the pages that I write

Cause every line I read is through your eyes

don't tell me this isn't todd after neil's death

[greenishness]

i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved

[funnytwittertweets]

[tenorgender]

LOVE love love that hamlet canonically writes awful poetry. he's just like me for real

[puppymoxley]

when richard siken said “the enormity of my desire disgusts me.” and when angela of foligno said “i could not imagine a death vile enough to match my desire.” and when yves olade said “my rot is as hungry as me” and when cj miller said “there is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires.” and when benjamin alire sàenz said “what is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?” and when richard siken said “desire, like a monster, crawls up out of the lake.”

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[meduseld]

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[dean-winchesters-clit]

This is true no matter the version you’re reading.

1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.

2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he’s been tricked, turns to make sure she’s there.

3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.

No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.

[wildefluorescent]

Orpheus, I can forgive you, then, There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back

The Descent, by Tyler King

[princesssarisa]

Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.

In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.

[billions-of-excited-atoms]

I’d be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found I’d be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around And I’d be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice

 - Talk - Hozier

[palesunrise]

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix for Interview Magazine, 1991 // Keanu Reeves for Studio Magazine, 1993

[lifetimeinafist]

It’s so wild to me that folks focus so hard on the “madness” in Hamlet when it’s so clearly a play about grief. The loss of a parent is shattering and the fallout from that monumental heartbreak plays out in 3 very different ways through Laertes, Hamlet, and Ophelia. Laertes leaps immediately towards rage, Ophelia to profound sadness, and Hamlet sinks into paralysis. And that’s why the play is so stinking hard to stage. If the main character exists in a state of emotional and intellectual paralysis, how do you move the play forward? What is its rhythm? It’s so unlike Shakespeare’s other tragedies or any of his other plays. He must have been an absolute mess when he wrote it, my gd.

[flexibilitas-cerea]

International book covers of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

[latinadarkacademiawannabe]

you want me to make friends in college? the thing that killed bunny corcoran?

[xshayarsha]

gustave moreau’s pietà // keanu reeves and river phoenix photographed by bruce weber // jean broc’s the death of hyacinthos.

[deadithurts]

andrew garfield saying, “i hope this grief stays with me because it’s all the unexpressed love that i didn’t get to tell her” about his mothers passing is so gut wrenchingly beautiful because we rarely talk about the love we want to express but can’t, not because you’re not brave enough to say it out loud but because they’re not here to listen to it anymore. calling grief the love you never had the chance to share makes it less of a burden and more of something you want to keep and not something terrible you want to move on from. i love love how everything about grief always comes down to “what is grief if not love persevering?”

[headspace-hotel]

"But NORMAL People's Bodies Didn't Look Like That!" ...right?

Some of you may have seen my post about Baroque artists and their realistic depictions of human bodies as having skin and fat.

I've had a lot of negative and frankly fatphobic comments on that post, calling the people in the paintings "fat" and "obese," mostly along the lines of this:

"It's because the artists are depicting rich people, who were fat and lazy. Normal people didn't look like that!"

The idea, of course, is that these artists wouldn't have ever drawn bodies that looked like those in the Baroque paintings, if they weren't painting super-rich people that stuffed themselves with food all day.

Supposedly. We'll see how well that holds up.

Today I was in the library looking at a collection of drawings by Albrecht Dürer, and learned that in the early 1500's, Dürer tried to put together essentially a "how-to-draw" book, showing how to draw people. His work was controversial, because of his technique of "constructing" figures using rules about proportions. (A quick and easy method of inventing realistically proportioned bodies out of thin air? Cheating!!)

However, in his "constructed" drawings, Dürer had to figure out how to handle the range of variety in bodies, and ended up breaking down how to create a variety of body types in correct proportions.

I'm showing the women, to contrast with the post on Baroque paintings. Here are some of his drawings that I thought y'all should take a look at.

These are a couple of his more "average" women—the one on the left is from his drawing book, and the one on the right is one of his drawings.

Here's a "strong woman" and "A very strong, stout woman"

This is what he refers to as a "stout woman."

Here's where it gets interesting: this is what Albrecht Dürer refers to as a "peasant-type" woman

^That. That's what a "peasant" body type looks like.

He labeled this one "A peasant woman of 7 head lengths"

in case you missed it: this figure drawing by a guy in the 1500's is literally labeled as being of a peasant woman! this is what a "peasant woman" body type looks like!

He did draw similar amounts of thinner figures, but they're not particularly emphasized over the "Strong" and "Stout" figures. Nor is there exactly a "default" figure. He's just...going over the range of variations that there are?

Here's another "stout woman," covered in notes on how to draw the proportions:

now that's too technical for me to make any sense of but

this was in the 16th century!! This body type was apparently not incredibly rare in the 16th century. This body type was important enough for you to be able to draw, as an artist, in the 16th century to be handled in detail in a 16th century artist's drawing advice

In conclusion: yes this is just what people look like, yes it's important to know how to draw fat bodies, even this dude from the early 1500's is telling you so, Die Mad About It

all of this is from "The complete drawings of Albrecht Dürer" by Walter L. Strauss

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

the idea that you have to coordinate your interests your style your hobbies just to fit one specific "aesthetic" is so boring like try new things listen to all kinds of music dress up in all different kinds of clothes just let yourself enjoy stuff nothing ever has to be forever

[bartok-the-magnificent]

A question for Theatre kids:

Do any of you get super annoyed when people call a musical a play or a play a musical? It just gets on my nerves sometimes.

Here’s the difference for people who may not know:

A play is a show that is completely spoken through with dialogue that has no parts interrupted by song.

A musical invoves a story told through music and dance, either completely sung through or has bits of dialogue in between each song.

If unsure of what to call it just say a show.