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isbergillustration

Keepers of the Gate

#visuals

feral-ballad

Hanif Abdurraqib, from A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems; “Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland”

#hanif abdurraqib #he continues to write beautiful and devastating poetry #thank god #words #love. a violence

chamiryokuroi

MEXICO WIN!!! FUCK AI!!!

read this post as I was chugging ice coffee at a timmy's and was trying to figure out why I got emotional

it's a good post go check it out!

obviously this is a different reading of hid-and-seek but it inspired me to think about the game again haha

grubarchived

Last summer, in the front yard: "I'd feel a lot better if I weren't so fat," I said, slapping my big thighs where they flattened out against the warm concrete step. His back was to me; he was planting something. "Yeah...maybe if you got more exercise," he said. "And we should really be eating more fruits and vegetables." When he turned around to get another bulb out of the bag, I had my head in my hands and the sniffles were audible. "Oh, honey," he said, and sat down beside me on the step and put his arm around me. "What's wrong?" "You weren't supposed to agree with me." My voice quivered. "Ohhhhh..." he said, pondering. We sat together in the sun while I tried to get myself under control. He hugged me. "I'm so sorry, honey," he said, sincerely. "I keep thinking of you as a big dyke, and to a big dyke that wouldn't matter. But I forgot: you're a big fag, and of course it matters." How could I not love a man like that?

from the old folks at home, by joan hardy, for gender outlaws: the next generation, edited by s bear bergman & kate bornstein

#tbr

fassina

Genuinely impossible to choose one astute observation from Heather Parry’s excellent dissection of Wuthering Heights as a contemporary gothic writer from Yorkshire, so I’d suggest reading the whole thing here.

majestictortoise

"We demand to know whether a novel sits in one category or another because we no longer know how to understand books without being given a framework of tropes or being blankly told what they’re about in advance—even when the books in question are generally considered foundational texts of a specific genre—so we engage in pointless debate about whether or not they are definitely supposed to mean one thing or another, whether they fit neatly into one classification. Intentional literary ambiguity, rather than being seen as something that is deployed by authors so that the reader may have to ask themselves questions, or to make space for a multiplicity of meanings to be taken from the text, are seen as a failure to provide the clarity we now demand. How can I position myself in relation to this book if the book won’t tell me what it is?"

The whole essay is very, very good.

#wuthering heights #literary criticism #writing

trans-girl-nausicaa

list of (HIGHLY ETHICAL) USA military jobs where you don’t have to kill anyone:

Public Affairs. Have you ever wanted to make literal government propaganda? Well now you get to.

Emotional Support Animal Handler. The emotional support animal in question is a mutt that one of your Battle Buddies “rescued” from Afghanistan. He named the dog “Kunduz Hospital Airstrike”

Depleted Uranium Munitions Handler

Recruiter Who Specifically Targets Teenagers

Priest Who Tries To Convince Murderers That They Aren’t Going To Hell

Guy who brings Hot Pockets™ to drone operators and fruitlessly discourages them from using the term “Bug Splat”

Guy who keeps the buildings full of munitions from catching on fire. (It’s really really important that those munitions dont explode until they impact an apartment block in the global south)

Guy who stands on the deck of Coast Guard vessels and hollers threats at migrants in the worst Spanish you’ve ever heard

Guy who maintains and repairs multimillion dollar murder machines

Guy Who Trains Guys To Kill Without Hesitation or Remorse

Sex Trafficker (Army)

Sex Trafficker (Navy)

Sex Trafficker (Marines)

prettycottonmouthlamia

Daily reminder no one is remotely justified in joining the US military and you should remind your poor soldier friends that they're child killers today!

taimatsu910761

#ohmyGOD i want this so FUCKen bad #visuals

genderkoolaid

whenever someone tries to make you feel bad about being fat, acting like being fat is some unnatural modern corruption of our Naturally Thin Ideal Human State, just remember your neolithic ancestor çatalhöyük skeleton 2058, a possibly disabled "obese" woman who carried heavy loads and stayed active till she died OVER FIFTY!!!! which was a good long life for the time!

would skeleton 2058 want you to waste your life and ruin your health chasing thinness??? NO!!!!!!!!!! she wants you vaccinated and active and eating a glorious amount of delicious food in your home with your loved ones. and also collecting auroch skulls

json-derulo

Source! good for her omg

bstrdr

[ID: text: "In conclusion, 2058 was a woman over fifty, obese, who had been in the habit of carrying heavy loads slung over her shoulder. She had sustained an injury to her right foot at some time and possibly limped slightly. This disuse may have brought on the osteoporosis of the calcaneus. The degenerative changes in the neck vertebrae may be the result of neck strain during carrying; otherwise there are virtually no degenerative changes to any of the joints and she remained mobile to the end of her days." /end ID]

queeranarchism

A thing I find extra exciting about this is that çatalhöyük also shattered the assumption that the abundant figurines of fat women in ancient archeological sites all show pregnant women and were items meant to worship or stimulate fertility. (it was never a very credible assumption, but very persistent). An item recovered at çatalhöyük looks like this:

That's not what pregnancy looks like. That is what being fat looks like. That is a lovingly crafted, accurate depiction of the way gravity pulls on the fat body, which would be hard to make without seeing a fat person. Screw 'mother goddess figurines', that is just a fat person.

Which calls into question the assumption made about other 'mother goddess' statues. Are they depictions of pregnancy? or did archeologists just assume that pregnancy would be what people valued enough to depict? People were always fat. Ancient people valued their fat friends and/or themselves enough to depict fat people. Move over fatphobic 'this statue must be pregnant' assumptions.

queeranarchism

#being big/fat is like. a cornerstone of beauty across time and space#fat paleolithic statues. samurai with thick waists and large bellies. Rubens “Venus with a Mirror.”ect ect

YES. Why are we looking for symbolism like 'fertility' or 'abundance'? Why do we need any reason for lovingly crafted sculptures of fat people? Appreciating fat people is the default human condition. Not considering fat people worthy of depiction is the cultural outlier.

thoradvice

i cannot emphasise enough how much you need to create something. anything. it doesn't matter if you suck. you don't need to monetise it, or make it your career. you can restart an old hobby; you can start from scratch. it doesn't matter. you just need to hold something and be able to say "i did that". baking, drawing, painting, writing, coding, crafts, whatever. make something ! you cannot have all your hobbies be a form of consumption. it's fun, it's great in its own right. but the single best action to make yourself feel better, to calm your mind, to gain self esteem, is to Create

aropride

the “new normal” couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people………

biracy

Every attempt to like, "explain tradwives" or whatever (or basically "explain" the presence of conservative, far-right, alt-right, and otherwise reactionary women) always seems so focused on finding one single thing to blame it on ("they're disillusioned with girlboss feminism having gone too far" and "actually they just wanna do bdsm" being the two worst ones imo) and yet no one seems to have come to the conclusion that women are fully autonomous individual people equally capable of being religious fundamentalists, White supremacists, nationalists of all kinds, and, yes, misogynists for mostly the exact same reasons men are

grison-in-space

I think it's always worth remembering that women often use the currents of misogyny to shore up their personal power at the expense of other marginalized women. This isn't specific to women: you see it in all kinds of marginalized groups, some people always care more about personal status than solidarity in any group. But it's incredibly evident when you take the time to look at enforcers of misogynistic ideas, because you will always find plenty of women in their ranks.