It's Only a Form of Insect Collecting

names are fake but you may call me Ro • my pronouns are in the eye of the beholder • over 18 • this is an aesthetic blog but only from 12 to 4 on mondays during the full moon • i do my best with trigger tagging but if you need something tagged then feel free to ask • header image by @chum-rum (used with permission)

[captain-price-returns]

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. It’s perfect.

[sisterreisaid]

[poesizing]

intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

[lakevida]

being asked to leave a physical real life area and calling it a soft ban is pretty good

[play-now-my-lord]

going on HRT is a serious decision you should make with the utmost gravity. people might think you're cool, badass even. You might find yourself happy with your life, approaching the world with newfound wisdom one way or another. It might be what you want. It might get you off. It might just be a cool story to tell people. I, myself, found the initial experience was like I had sleepwalked through a nightmare for a quarter century - and for the first time, not just the first time I could remember but actually the first time, I was awake, and the sun was shining, and the world was beautiful. So obviously all of those are risks

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[programaticallydelicious]

This is a neutral post

Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.

[spadedfox-deactivated20230116]

spreading these occasionally would be nice…

[justawriterinprogress-deactivat]

As someone with major anxiety who can’t fucking stop themself from scrolling, i appreciate posts like this

[nextlevelsmp3]

[springbreak1984]

[389]

[tomorrowillbeyou]

cds 💿 are so cool its literally a cirlcle 🔵 that has music 🎶 in its heart......

[betchi]

well okay i don't know who needs to hear this today but i keep seeing it far too much. you have to stop putting all of your personal information on your carrd or your about page or whatever you use. yeah it's a good idea to have one and share basic stuff about yourself and your interests, but putting a comprehensive list of your entire medical history and pairing it with everything that triggers you and how you can be triggered by those things is just blatantly unsafe. really young people keep doing this too, like i see 14, 15, 16 year olds with entire pages just listening all the issues they have. with all the kindness i can put behind this, stop doing that. no one needs to know this much about you except people you have complete trust in. while it is up to you to decide who those people are, it definitely isn't the entire internet

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[dykecinema]

which one is better (no nuance)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

[thirdchildart]

Have you heard the word?

WHAT’s the word?

He’s a comin’

WHO’s a comin’?

Paul’s a comin’!

PAUL’s a comin’?! 

The STAR of the SHOW!

[thirdchildart]

PRO SHOT OUT TOMORROW!!! loved working backstage on the reprise–soon as I’m not buried under Tomb Quest props, I’ll do a watch through/trivia share on twitch with my assistant props designer, Mari!

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

[holoprisms]

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

[freebagels]

[organicmatter]

i fucking love when halloween music is just surf rock with a ghoul laughing in the background