Coagulating into a Body of My Vision and My Desire

Sydney, (She/It), 24 

[a-book-of-creatures]

Cicada sketches by Vincent van Gogh.

Found in Vincent van Gogh, Letters from Provence (French edition).

[yellowmotorola]

Keke Palmer for InStyle US May 2021 Digital Edition

[gondwana]

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[miikrowelle]

Some pokemon bugs I drew lately :1

I think I like Joltik hrmmmmmm

[neoyan]

L'arte della gioia E1

[despazito]

Jesus christ

[syn4k]

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

[syn4k]

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

[sapphireh3arts]

today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the live they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.

[smalllfieldmouse]

i dont care if Monday's lit. Tuesday Wednesday touch my clit. Thursday i don't give a shit. it's Friday I'm in love

[dykeselfcest]

posting this one again bc I need to talk about it. (via paper mag) paul looking like a tom of finland inspired drag king. the homoerotic hypermasculinity turned submissive and worshipful / the french maid fantasy of a woman who's socially inferior but saucy becoming the disinterested dominant.

and then. well. the stylist for this shoot, kat typaldos, posted on her instagram story that this image was inspired by guy bourdin. and ok. the 1977 photo in question:

[velvetcloak]

tnewties

[buckpussy]

polyesterzine

[teethburied]

Opening Night 1977, dir. John Cassavetes

[suicideenbies]

"recovery" is a medical-capitalist mythology about a false return to productivity that never existed for many psychiatrised people.

A return to productivity is not recovery, it's response to the gun pointed at your head

[noneedtofearorhope]

i hate that people saying 'hey i signed up for the fascist death machine and wont be around for a while' gets responses of like 'god speed and good health to you and your brothers in arms' instead of, idk 'kill yourself', 'hope you come back in a bodybag', or any other reasonable response

[2201]

bjork girlfriend era?!?

[2201]

like i wasnt kidding 😭