"I Think I'm Splitting In Two Like A Jolly Amoeba"

They/Them, She/Her | Under 25 |Tormented Queer I mostly post about gothic lit, horror, classics, politics and funny stuff | I have another blog called magiesartdump where I reblog cool art | profile pic is a model from the Hunterian Museum used as a guide while doing plastic surgery on WW1 soldiers :)

[assaultmystic-archive]

the self is a guy you made up to get mad at

[badger-angel]

always interesting whenever people start talking about polyamory as particularly unstable or prone to jealousy bc it begs the question of if they’ve ever seen or heard of monogamous couples

[badger-angel]

are you aware that those people are having sincere earnest discussions on whether following someone on social media counts as cheating

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not feeling very hundred emoji flame emoji today

[palmer]

well I am so 💯🔥💯🔥

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🧯💨

[palmer]

0️⃣🌫0️⃣🌫

[anarchistmemedistro]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[sd-d0-l1y]

The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm reminded of that one part in Frederick Douglass's autobiography where he gets to the north for the first time and assumed, since they didn't have slaves, that everyone was about as poor as non-slaveowning white southerners. And they weren't! There were poor people, sure, but there were lots of people living very comfortably or in luxury.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

[mangedog]

First image description (edited from alt text):

screenshot of a tweet by @pot8um: “Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism...”

reply by @jasonhickel: “Yes: sciencedirect.com/... [a url that is cut off in the screenshot]” and an attached image of text:

“With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large creases in total global throughput and output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to” [text is cut off here].

Second image transcription:

Poverty is not an intractable problem that requires complex solutions, long timeframes and large increases in production and throughput that conflict with ecological objectives. The solution is straightforward. We need to actively plan to shift productive capacities away from capital accumulation and elite consumption in order to focus instead on the goods and services that are necessary to meet human needs and enable decent living for all, while ensuring universal access through public provisioning systems. We have framed this work around the concept of human needs, following the recent literature. However it is important to underscore that this approach is ultimately about far more than just satisfying material requirements for human well-being. Achieving decent-living for all is critical to enabling broader human capabilities, individual and collective self-realisation, full participation in society and politics and, ultimately, freedom.

[fatfangs]

the way im incapable of having a conversation about weight with normal people. those conversations feel like a mine field because there are no right answers. im not gonna feel sorry for you that you gained weight and i dont have any dieting tips and your self depreciating weight jokes arent funny and i dont feel like congratulating you on your weight loss with how mean to your past self you are being and it doesnt feel good that you think that me wanting to gain weight is weird or stupid. sorry

[heldthesun]

[entryn17]

drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[endcrys-art]

This pride month I need every aromantic to get more annoying about being aromantic

[edettethegreat]

I believe Michael Distortion was overridden for the same reason Peter Lukas died; giving a statement went against the essence of his being. And not only did he give a statement, but he outright asked Jon to take one from him.

The Distortion should be more opposed to giving a statement than an avatar of the Lonely, and yet whatever piece of Michael was still left in there was able to reach out for some form of honest human connection one last time. and that's what killed him.

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s fascinating hearing how other people think. My dad says he has to think of a full sentence word for word before he says it whereas I don’t know what I’m gonna say until I’ve already said it.

[vislortherizzler]

[willowandlily]

@magiefish

[magiefish]

Did you really have to do me like this

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[strangestcase]

Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier has one of the best approaches to the stock sex worker character that Hyde likes to abuse and torment- she’s still present to showcase Hyde’s cruelty and hatred of women, sure, but her torture isn’t portrayed onscreen: we never see it. What we see is one of her housemates, overjoyed that Hyde is wanted for murder, bravely saying “she will never say it, so battered she is, but I will: that man is a demon” and “thank goodness, he’s gone, he won’t hurt you anymore”. And that’s true! We never see those women again, they’re not relevant to the plot, they’re not the focus of the story, and thank god for that. Hyde leaves their life for good and that’s their happy ending.

[strangestcase]

Don’t get me wrong- I like how this type of plot can be used to make a point about misogyny and Jekyll-as-Hyde as a metaphor for the cycle of abuse is pretty interesting. But I think it has greatly overstayed its welcome, particularly in a media ecosystem where impoverished women, and sex workers in particular, are portrayed as tragic, disposable angst dispensers. The 1931 movie and its 1941 remake did it well and even then I have my issues with the way Ivy’s abuse is portrayed— so realistic it’s graphic, voyeuristic, a grotesque spectacle of abuse that mostly exists to say “isn’t this evil and fucked up???” with little regard for HER development as a character. We don’t need to do it again, and if we have to, I’d prefer if it was like in Le Testament: unconcerned with disturbing the audience with her pain, instead focused on delivering the message that Hyde is, at his core, a bully that stomps on those weaker than him, sometimes literally. And, of course, instead of her character arc (if she even has one) ending with her onscreen murder, it ends with her simply blending into the background once more; if you’re going to have a woman be defined by her relationship to Hyde shouldn’t she at least get to get away from him and have a good-enough rest of her life? I’m just saying there are better ways to showcase Hyde’s cruelty that don’t hinge on creating female characters designed to suffer and die.