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I love an Antigone coded character for what I hope would be VERY obvious reasons by now, but I think what drives me truly insane is an Ismene coded character. An Antigone haunts the narrative but an Ismene has to live with it. It is the duty of the antigone to die and it is the duty of the ismene to never be given the luxary. Tim Drake is the robin that can never die because, narratively, he always has to be there to pick up the pieces, and once that's done he must fade into the background once again. Kakashi's childhood is about the neccesity of dying for his duty, and then he is surrounded by shinobi better then him who die for increasingly impressive reasons, and he isn't allowed to do the same. Merlin isn't allowed to die because if he does, all memory of Arthur and Gwen and the knights and even Morgana die with him, so he must simply carry the burden of a beating heart forever. the antigone's story is tragic, yes, but it gives you catharisis. it gives you an expected and justified end. Antigone isn't a ghost that haunts the narrative, because she dies a perfect death. Ismene, the only one left alive, is doomed to haunt it in her sister's place. The cycle stops here. Despite everything including perhaps the Ismene's own efforts, the cycle stops here.

briarlovesclara

"it is already over" • doomed by the narrative

originally collected: july 2024

pc-98s

the bus stop sunk cost fallacy

pc-98s

your scheduled bus did not show up. you’ve already waited 20 minutes. it’s over half a mile to a different line’s bus stop. do you leave, knowing that the bus you’re waiting for might show up as soon as you do? the next scheduled bus is 20 minutes out. it may also not show up. it’s so cold that you long since lost feeling in your extremities. you once again consider the merits of tracking down the president of the transit agency. for a chat. you’ve already waited 20 minutes.

#Please #I just want to go home

quasi-normalcy

We Are the Daughters of the Microbes Who Could Survive in an Oxygen-rich Atmosphere

ursiday

Earth

mornington-the-crescent

June 1st

breelandwalker

Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.

If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.

How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)

Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.

HOWEVER.

The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.

Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.

The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.

You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.

Sincerely, An Elder Queer

swarnpert

they are starving the children of boston right now

mitrevisan

Hmm depression

#batman #art

melobluelights

Reading Troy’s inner monologue in Role Model feels like reading the inner thoughts of a feral cat who is trying to be domesticated. He doesn’t know how to socialize, he has to remind himself not to be an asshole, he prefers to be on his own, and he fucking loves salmon.

#heated rivalry #role model #troy barrett

rainyydoves

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

rainyydoves

why don't you calm down. and look at the little auk.

#animals

omtai

Im sorry I didn’t reply to your message for three weeks. I did not forget about it infact I thought about it regularly every day. It will happen again

vaninnavaninni

Auguste Clésinger, Femme piquée par un serpent, 1847

#art #sculpture

shu-bullshit

"It seemed to Geralt that even the trees bent down to listen to the two of them."

From A Little Sacrifice. I don't need to explain more but... This scene just gives me such a strong feeling of how, sometimes, when you're experiencing a moment, and you already know that you'll look back at it again and again in your memory, in the many years to come. Like a piece of paper wrinkled and soft from all the folding and unfolding.

#art #the witcher