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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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OP hand-drew hundreds of small cards (cr 小狐哥)
so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.
This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.
And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.
Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.
Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.
Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.
My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.
In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.
And they flinch every time.
Here have a newspaper comic from 1993
Also sometimes the purpose of a sex scene is to be titillating and that's, like, fine. You wouldn't go out there and argue that movies shouldn't have jokes unless they "serve a narrative purpose" because you understand that generally the purpose of a joke is to make the audience laugh and perhaps release some tension. Being horny is a normal human emotion like being amused or being scared and sometimes media is trying to evoke that particular emotion; the artist doesn't owe you a 30-page double-spaced justification for trying to make you feel something through their art. Your separation of horniness and sex from other emotions and experiences is sex negative and deeply ingrained in cultural conservatism.
and i had to wonder.......was it even possible for fictional characters to be friends and coworkers with each other? or could we only exist in a world where all dynamics are processed through the lens of the nuclear family?
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Hi, OP, hope you don't mind my rambling texts to my husband about this art because I've been having feelings about it since yesterday and I've been talking about it since yesterday.
this is literally so flattering thank you😭🙏 i love when people notice the little details i put into my art and id almost forgotten about this piece, it’s been so long
creation//ruination (spell referenced from chromatic_flare on x)
3rd person is the most common perspective style…
I want to trap the can't-read-3rd-person poster in the same room as one of those people who hates 1st person so much they want to wipe it from the universe (usually through not being widely read and only encountering 1st person ever in a particularly annoying type of YA fiction). then we'd see who wins, and if they manage to overcome their differences and fall in love. i think i could make a whole anime out of that
The encounter between them should be narrated in second-person. To annoy both of them.
You think that’s a wonderful idea.
Yeah okay, I'll reblog that!
you mean yeah okay you'll reblog that
jumpscare!!!!
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Multi billion dollar corporations: We make crap AI ads because we rather hang ourselves than pay an extra cent for a quality work.
Midsize art supply manufacturer: We commissioned a watercolor artist to make an illustration for every color of our watercolor palette and make it into an art book with swatches.
(Ekaterina Goland for "Old master" watercolors by Gamma)
tomodachi life coming through with the representation 👏🏾👏🏾
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minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)
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How the hell is this series so perfect? Like, we have our main friend group but they also each have their own friend groups that don't always overlap - like real teenagers. And the four mains are messy, they've got baggage and things they overthink or take "too seriously" - I say in quotes because as an adult that still can remember what I was like as a teenager, I can confidently say yeah, that's how it felt.
Each of these kids has been hurt and responded in different but understandable ways. Koyuki had to bear the brunt of her classmates' expectations on top of dealing with her parents' divorce and must've hit a breaking point somewhere where she just kinda noped the fuck out. Miki wanted to distance herself from her middle school reputation and wore a false mask in front of everyone but her close friends, which just stressed herself out even harder. Yota felt displaced in his own home after his dad remarried and basically went full disassociation mode with no one to confide in before Koyuki. And Minato...I won't get into things I wish I hadn't been spoiled on but there's a reason he treats everyone like either a puzzle or a minefield. Definitely waiting for him to get better on that tho.
This whole series just feels extremely real, more than I can say of most shoujo I've ever consumed, idk how Agasawa-sensei does it.
Seeing Koyuki eating lunch with Tsukiko because Tsukiko isn’t vibing with her friends rn is actually so cool because Koyuki has become that emotional support pillar to others that Miki once was for her. Shows how far she’s come.
At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...
This is incredible.