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things that comfort me <3

wil yeung man's cooking channel

maangchi's cooking channel

tom odell's music, especially the piano tapes

frank watkinson's singing

otis gray's night-time stories sleeping podcast

the yuri on ice anime

grent perez' "sing you to sleep" series

ondo온도's chill vlogs

valerie lin's video essays and painting vlogs

zaypixel's minecraft building tutorials

benjiplant's youtube videos!!

carys rachel's simple vlogs and chats

pato's book/movie/music themed videos

(updated on 21/11/23 <3)

#comfort things #comfort #tom odell #yuzuru hanyu #sleeping podcast #yuri!!! on ice #yoi #yuri on ice #dakota warren #grent perez #ondo #valerie lin #youtubers #zaypixel #mine

vintage-norway

Vintage photos from Norway 1900-1940s

Photos by: Anders Beer Wilse

Wilse was a pretty active photographer who documented the life in the country and in the cities!

thother

“heat stroke” by wintam for gq china june 2024

isabelopaque

"have you learned how to drive yet" i have the spirit of friendship in my heart. the joy of lifes little things in my soul. the whimsy of magic. the beautiful enjoyment of nature. the answer is no though

elixir

Moonrise Phyllis Shafer — 2015 oil on canvas

allthingseurope

Barcelona Cathedral Courtyard (by R Boed)

certainwoman

La Chimera (2024), dir. Alice Rohrwacher

ashstfu

gripping my thighs with my nails about this written by @ryebreadgf

#oh my

soracities

Anti intellectualism is at a high these days tbh. People's attention span has also turned to shit--and i say this as someone with adhd, Its not solely the mental illnesses people have its the over consumption of short form (and frankly inane) media that has ruined people's ability to sit and listen to anything that takes more than 30 seconds to say.

And also people dont seem to want to think critically anymore. No one wants to read, no one wants to learn, no one wants to understand or listen, no one wants to be challenged or feel unpleasant and uncomfortable, a lot dont even want to teach the kids anymore. If it doesn't immediately affect them and if it doesn't spark pleasure then it's brushed off and ignored.

This is one reason why lots of us hate booktok for example; its not that reading mediocre works for pleasure is bad (i mean i know i get my fix of silly unchallenging fiction when i need it) its that you refuse to read anything else. Idc if you read fairy elf porn or whatever it is thats circling around there these days, but you have got to do something constructive and hard sometimes lol

tbf i also blame our dystopian, collapsing society for this outcome. When you're overworked, sick and everyone around you is suffering and dying, you cant afford food or to pay your bills and you still have to work a soul crushing job for 40+ hours a week the only thing you would want to do is turn your brain off and rot

anon, you have encapsulated each and every one of my feelings & thoughts on this so precisely like from the dystopian existence to the social media hellscape of defanging ur attention to sell it back to you in 90s video clips like this is It !

stuckinapril

I would immediately be suspicious of any argument that leans heavily on dehumanizing the Middle East. A big reason why the world has let Palestinian genocide go on for this long is because to them Arabs are misogynistic homophobic violent backwards terrorists, so many people have grown comfortable to the idea that war is inherent to Arab countries—because they literally see Arabs as subhuman. This has been their strategy for years and years and years. It’s literally the same cycle over and over again.

ksheaven

“Untitled” (Key West), Félix González-Torres, 1992

isleofapplepies

One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

mentethemage-deactivated2018122

huh.. never thought of it like that

marchysmusings-deactivated20211

But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this

fandomsandfeminism

Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.

It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”

f1rstperson

I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.

It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”