i worship high praises

she/her * my longing drives me crazy for you

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[v4mpgrrl-archived]

ID: It’s astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body — the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.

[lea-ts-deactivated20211009]

there’s this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to “consume” art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren’t perfect representatives of the social movement that’s being projected onto them, they don’t know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

Most targets of “cancel culture” are women and people of color for this reason.

[courtesyname]

There’s also something very paternalistic about judging art from anyone who isn’t a white man by how flawless and “non-problematic” the representation is in their art while we judge (mostly white, mostly western) men by the metric of good prose, good characterisation, themes and narrative for example, when it comes to books. It feels as if the “universal” work is reserved for them, while everyone else gets to sit at the kids table and get an award for stuff like “book with most likeable bisexual character”.

[vigilante-apologist]

Main character trios are meant to end up as a polycule and you can’t change my mind

[warmsol]

august please be good to all the friends in my phone. thank you

[skopostheorie]

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

[skopostheorie]

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

[skopostheorie]

[skopostheorie]

[aptronyms]

every fictional character is bisexual unless they aren’t bisexual. this is what I believe in

[crazy-brazilian]

[feminist-pussycat]

this is a more succinct political commentary than most of the cartoons today

[daddyxanax574]

Are you implyin to me that a shramp managed to frah this rice? It's preposterous! But it intrigues meh so.

[sproutlett]

i’m realizing that i have so much time. i have time to grow my hair long. i have time to cut it all off and then to grow it back again. i have time to discover new hobbies and give up on things that no longer serve me. i have time to grow and change and travel and change my opinions and live differently than how i am now. i have so much time. take a deep breath and slow down

[oedipiphany]

Tips on how to curate a good fandom experience?

get some gross sicko pals to be a gross sicko with. having at least one or two who you can be a hater with too is a must. helps you save face from airing your grieviances in public. and honestly nothing more satisfying that sending some stupid shit into the group chat being like “lmao u seeing this???”.

stay away from anybody who acts like fandom is serious business/activism

never feel like you need to justify your likes/dislikes to some dumb cunt on the internet

something making you uncomfortable isn’t the end of the world & often it’s actually quite good to examine your own discomfort/disgust and what it stems from. builds character.

block/mute/unfollow at the drop of a hat

make sure to cultivate your interests outside of fandom and read things other than fic, this one, i’d say, is ESSENTIAL

[underwelmed]

[dingdongyouarewrong]

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. fanfiction is not an inherently subversive practice that is going to elevate art and save it. fanfiction is also not the scourge of all literature that is going to destroy art and debase it. fanfiction is literally just another lightly popular medium of writing and is capable of being good or bad. it’s not inherently uniquely good and it’s not inherently uniquely bad, it’s just a way you can write a story

[raccoonboywrites]

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

[coffincoitus]

this notion that if you're an adult still on tumblr it's bc something is wrong doesn't sit right with me... unfortunately I can't refute it bc there is something wrong with me

[lumpsbumpsandwhumps]

I made this callout meme for me and me specifically

[theemotionmachine]

[cyberbullyinc]

[aletheyass]

people who were saying that notre dame should've burned down bc it's only a building and people who are saying the van gogh should've been destroyed in the protest bc art is for rich people think they are soooooo radical and smart and left wing when they're literally among the stupidest minds of this generation and also unknowingly fascist