You're safe here because this is where they want you. @monologuerhead - Tumblr Blog

i really hate the way the "boobs vs butt" thing got broken down into this implicit idea that butt is the nobler stance. it's really stupid. personally im a woman guy. [realizes how that sounds] [purses my lips in thought] [nods confidently] im a woman guy

soundcarvings

How do you learn to stand up for yourself and advocate for yourself?

I think self advocacy (with respect and tact) just comes with age. If i respect the person across from me, and simultaneously myself, then i have to assume in good faith that they can handle my truth. And that I can handle my truth, as well as the possibility of it being taken the wrong way. I don’t give anyone the power to destabilize my life. I have autonomy over my self expression, and I operate from a place of assuming other people do too. Even if they don’t, my ability to operate from this foundation gives them permission to do so too. My top values are integrity and sincerity. This builds trust with people.

exhaled-spirals

« In all imaginative writing sympathy for the subject is necessary not because it is the politically correct or morally decent posture to adopt but because an absence of sympathy shuts down the mind: engagement fails, the flow of association dries up, and the work narrows. What I mean by sympathy is simply that level of empathic understanding that endows the subject with dimension. The empathy that allows us, the readers, to see the "other" as the other might see him or herself is the empathy that provides movement in the writing.

When someone writes a Mommie Dearest memoir - where the narrator is presented as an innocent and the subject as a monster - the work fails because the situation remains static. For the drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent. Above all, it is the narrator who must complicate in order that the subject be given life. »

― Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

weepingwidar

Louis Fratino (US-American, 1993) - Laughing Gull (2021)

ilovedthestars

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

395nm

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。

physicallyimprobable

Probably not the most accurate translation, but yeah, that's the sentiment.

nobrashfestivity

Jōichi Hoshi, The Milky Way Rhapsody, 1970

your-worst-boy

Praying Mantis costume by Imile Wepener

achillesinhighheels

The Grotto of the Nymphs, from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926).

catilinas

Some remains found in Diamantina fracture zone date back more than 5m years and reveal species and ecosystems unknown to science

“Finding a ‘whale necropolis’ where there are nearly 800 skeletons per square kilometre is a surprise, and the mix of whale types is a puzzle,” Copley said, noting that it included some shallow-diving filter-feeding species such as Minke whales as well as many bones and fossils of beaked whales, which are very deep-diving hunters.

pierppasolini

Querelle (1982) // dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

altcomics

lionofchaeronea

"The Fifth Knot" (interlaced roundel with seven six-pointed stars), from the print series Six Knots by Albrecht Dürer, after Leonardo da Vinci. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.