keep em guessing

sabbath/sabby | 25 | fem gayboy (she/her)

[comeslikecaesar]

Cred: Christian/FRANCE on Flickr

[dozydawn]

amy winehouse by court artist priscilla coleman, 2009.

[theblvcksupreme]

Y2K

[mascingtape-deactivated20230626]

[pigeonse]

[anexperimentallife]

[cryptotheism]

It's hard to post intentionally bad writing without commenters proclaiming "oh but I feel bad! I love this!" Perfectly bad art is as rare a feat as perfectly good art. Even the most anonymous mediocrity definitionally will have its fans.

Enjoying bad art is neither virtuous nor unvirtuous because enjoyment is passive. It is barely a choice. I do, however, think that incuriosity is shameful. Taste, as in the ability to understand, diagnose, and articulate, the artistic choices that make up a work, is the vehicle for understanding and producing art. Taste can only be cultivated by reflecting upon a broad field of art, peak to dogshit. Because of this, the cultivation of Taste is one of my favorite parts of being alive.

If you've only ever watched marvel movies, of course they are your favorite movies. Your love of marvel movies means little. However, if you have sampled everything the world of cinema has to offer, have watched every single movie dogshit to peak, and marvel movies are still your favorite, that is meaningful. You probably have some very interesting things to say about movies. Even though I will probably disagree with them.

Enjoy dogshit to your heart's content. But reflect articulate that enjoyment; because this cultivates Taste.

[bbyangelbambi]

[strawberry-crocodile]

when men call a cis woman bro its not because they consider the term gender neutral, its becauze they are telling her that for the moment she is allowed to inhabit the social role of a man- a person who you can talk to and be friends with rather than a sexual object to be pursued.

[my-slideshow-wmv]

[schmata]

[...]

Minnie Bruce Pratt from S/HE, 1995

[text in top image: And, when I stood up to face the public opponents of my liberation as a woman, I got little help from the theories I was reading. When I debated right-wing women in my community in North Carolina, as they lambasted the Equal Rights Amendment, their tactics were based on baiting the women's movement precisely on the issue of elimination of sex and gender differences. They accused: Equal rights means unisex bathrooms. Equal rights means homosexual marriages. They meant: If you challenge gender boundaries, you will make women more vulnerable to abuse by eliminating gender protection. They meant: If you challenge gender boundaries, you will have men and women adopting the behaviour of the opposite sex and getting pleasure from it.]

[text in bottom image: We could have said, in these debates, that the answer to violence against women was not the illusion of protection by limiting women's activity, but a movement in which women learned to fight back, with allies, to protect ourselves, and to move through the whole world safely. We could have answered that the split between man and woman was designed to keep one sex up and one sex down in an economic system where profiteers make money off a war between the sexes. We could have answered that woman was not the opposite of man, and that liberation meant crossing all arbitrary gender boundaries, to place ourselves anywhere we chose on the continuum of maleness and femaleness, in any aspect of our lives.]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Please read up on what terfs actually believe so you're not going around seeing actual terf rhetoric spread around like "wow, what an interesting new take on trans politics!" and then see a trans woman say "we live in a patriarchal society" and go "oh shit, trans woman terfs? 🤯🤯🤯🤯"

[tpwrtrmnky]

"oh but the amab socialisation and the oppression of afab bodies are some interesting new ideas that—" they have been saying this shit since before you were even born and it's not made progressive by saying it with a tumblr accent

[fremdwortlexikon]

Johannes Faber (aus: Fotografie'83)

[time-incantation]

Home decor inspo ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

[ryangoslingofficial-deactivated]

It’s 106 miles to chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, empty can of mr. pibb, half a bag of jack links beef jerky, full carton of fat free milk, 3 bags of goldfish, fifty knives, a red wrench, a gay wrench, one really pissed off scorpion, two swords, 1000 loyal soldiers, 10 ounces of cannabis rutica, gut full of flesh, half a picture of gangsta spongebob, half a 2007 honda accord,  an incredible vr experience, burnt cd of poorly compressed weird al songs, handful of loose peanuts, two tickets to paradise, 20th century howitzer cannon, tiao cruz megahits mixtape, a daft punk yaoi keychain, and a cassette to kd lang’s ingenue

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"DSCF2610 PINK BEDROOM 24" (2004), LAURA DREAMCRONE

[porcelainapparition]

Campbellsburg, Indiana

circa 1900