we run on caffeine and starlight

A fannish sideblog of @artandthemaiden, Kat, they/them, draws longingly

[fortooate]

you cannot gender me in a way that matters

[tallwife]

I wish anxiety wasn’t called anxiety because it makes it sound like I’m just mildly concerned and worried about things

[tallwife]

Anxiety should be called Overwhelming Dread Stomach Problems Death Obsession Syndrome

[tallwife]

Can’t we go back to being misogynists and calling it hysteria, it actually sounds urgent and i don’t like people thinking I’m shy + that I identify with a hogwarts house

[remnantglow]

cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like

[remnantglow]

and THEN she’s like, a novel is also a carrier bag. there’s the Hero’s story, sure, but there’s room enough in fiction for every experience, for every little thing, and it’s that other story, the life story, that she seeks……. o|-<

[remnantglow]

turns out the entire essay is online (thanks, Anarchist Library) and i really can’t recommend it enough

[rem-ir]

[guerrillatech]

[quoms]

the basic emotional condition of capitalism is anxiety, fueled by insecurity. one of the most common, yet most effective, rhetorical moves used by the apologists of capital is to present this motive force as aspiration, rather than terror - that is, to disingenuously figure the motion of the system as a running-to, instead of a running-from. it is like if the camera were only ever positioned behind indiana jones, following him as he “aspires” to reach the exit of the cave, not once turning around to reveal the colossal stone sphere just inches from crushing him

[webofstarwars]

[lizawithazed]

god bless mark hamil

[prokopetz]

Facts:

Every generation has been into surrealist humour.  

Every generation thinks every other generation’s surrealist humour is meaningless cringey bullshit, unlike their own surrealist humour, which is a stark reflection of the horrors of contemporary life.

[redali17]

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

— James Baldwin

[norcula-deactivated20240810]

Baldwin just….knows my soul

[the-necessary-unnecessary]

DESERT HEARTS (1985) || Top 10 Quotes

[somnolentsuggestions]

being individuals together is so intimate. let’s read different books but curled up next to each other, let’s visit a coffee shop so you can study & i can write, let’s just be near each other

[buttpoems]

[thegoldustrush-deactivated20231]

punk girls photographed by shirley baker, 1983.

[devildaisies]

i love the term gender envy. i wanna unlock the other seven deadly gender sins. show me gender greed. im like a gender dragon

[btvs]

winona ryder gender envy moodboard

[bloomingtrans]

“my child is fine” your child is listening to the mountain goats

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Interactive :: House Saints by Hala Alyan