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semi hiatus / revived whenever I have a new obsession lol

[pancakeke]

"cozy game" maybe for YOU. I have spreadsheets

[thedreadvampy]

male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

[atmeal012]

tomei/透明愛好家@tomeinohito くるりくるりと巻いて作る 桃の薔薇のゼリーケーキ。

[blackpyrefly]

[about to domme you] [doesn't know how to degrade people] the small cock store called... they said you can keep this stupid thing and they're voiding your warranty without a refund

[dragon-in-a-fez]

applying for a job and I have. some concerns

[kiriqakure]

niche post with a target audience of one (1). but I believe the thesis song of skip & loafer is 不晚 by hebe tian

[kiriqakure]

reread the zoo outing chapter after rewatching the zoo outing episode to heal myself and I only just noticed shima's been carrying mitsumi's stuff 🥹 her bag when she was carrying a basket of souvenirs and then her bag of souvenirs...

[nomokasu]

"Skip and Loafer" Summer 2023 illustration by Manami Umeshita

[chiisana-lion]

ESPECIALLY love the choice to keep shimas full face from view in this sequence. im sure his impulsive ass could not control his face muscles when he went for it and it drives me even more insane

[shimamitsu]

i think it's interesting how stl explores the desire to be liked/loved through different character's stories and how they all feel very distinctive and special in their own way. shima and the idea that to worthy and liked you need to play a character for other people, yasaka and how she prefers to be loved for the mask she puts on instead of risking to be rejected for who she actually is, and mika and how she tries her best to be liked by changing herself but deep inside she wants to be loved by someone who sees and accepts her "defects"

[shimamitsu]

through these characters i can see in a truly raw way the very human desire to be liked or loved or needed, and how it's never easy, never pretty and it's hard to separate our wants from our fears. i want to be loved but i'm afraid of being disposed of once they don't need me anymore (shima), i want to be loved for who i am but i'm also afraid of people noticing how imperfect i am (mika), i'm afraid of not being loved at all so i'll seek the satisfaction of being loved even if my relationships aren't genuine (yasaka)

[shimamitsu]

repeating myself like a broken record but with every chapter it's becoming more evident how much shima's grown and i get so emotional over the fact that he's acting on his emotions without any kind of second thoughts. him hugging mitsumi is soooo huge like this is the guy who came up with 10 different excuses to gift her just a hand cream and lied to her to give her smth on white day. and those are just little examples. we all know how shima straight up thinks (thought?) he's not worthy of standing next to mitsumi. we've seen him walking on the back while she goes ahead. and this time he's the one closing the distance between them (literally and figuratively lol) and initiating that interaction. it's just. it makes me insane to see shima letting himself want things and reaching for them

[shimamitsu]

it's also nice to think about how mitsumi will know that shima has more to give than she expects him to? like it's silly but the way she's going for a handshake and her getting so surprised about him hugging her is making me so. i'm thinking about chapter 44 mitsumi saying "i wanted to be special", my gal you are special to him!!!!!!!

[ajwalkerartblog]

them!!! they!!!!!

[ouchcactus]

[fishgummy]

ch. 57 // ch. 9 // ch. 72

[mapoeggplant]

new skip to loafer anime visual, with the “rainy season” theme

yuzu and mako always together 🥺✨💛 my hearttttttt (art made by umeshita manami)

[archivitos]

'Skip and Loafer' sketches by Misaki Takamatsu

[meikiran]

mitsumi and her aunt