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Still the greatest magazine cover of all time. Why are they framed in shadow. Why is the text so stark. Why is this being framed like the poster with the villains on it for a superhero movie. This summer: a new sexual identity emerges. The bisexuals will change the hierarchy of the DC Universe forever
it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
I saw a review of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that said 'I can't believe people think this was a feminist book'.
Like, do you know how swooningly, outrage-causingly shocking it was that the main character slammed her bedroom door in her abusive husband's face? Do you have any idea how unthinkable it was that she denied him access to her space and her person? She was supposed to submissively look away while he turned their son into an alcoholic for his own amusement and seduced innocent young women! It was revolutionary in 1848; when Bronte (Anne) wrote it, she had to do so under a male psuedonym because publishers wouldn't accept works by women unless they were harmless pap, which was all that was thought suitable for women to read lest their mild and gentle minds be corrupted.
The reason these groundbreaking books of history seem to tame and understated now is because they worked. They raised the bar, pushed the agenda forwards, cleared the path for the next writer. They did exactly what they were supposed to. Time is linear. History moves forward. We make progress.
When you are old, if things happen as they ought, a future generation of teenagers will read The Hate U Give and Simon and the Homo Sapiens' Agenda and Speak and think to themselves 'why did anybody ever think this was contraversial? Why did they ban them? These are just things we talk about, these are things we deal with like normal people. What was the past like, and how do we stop from backsliding into a place where these things are considered shocking again?"
I really hope that's how it goes.
The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.
Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.
Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.
Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.
The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.
When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!
It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.
Oh if people need context for live slug reaction this is the original post. I'm not sure why it's blowing up today but it sure is hilarious
Please be coherent about this and recognise that what this headline means is:
Poor and marginalised people are being kicked out of the houses they worked decades to secure, just at the time in their lives when they are the most vulnerable
And the ones kicking them out aren't of a specific age either. Soulless assholes come in every generation, and the ones born with too much money are the worst of the lot. Right now, a guy your age is authorising an eviction against someone the age of your grandma. Pop culture generations cannot explain that.
This.
theresa outfit redesigns
bonus halloween theresa!!
btw i don't dislike her outfits or anything,, i just thought it would be a fun little exercise. never really done redesigns but i kind of like them?? a little bit? idk it was fun anyway 👍👍
An old couple from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.
Internet mobs will be like "why doesnt anyone just ADMIT when theyre WRONG anymore??!!" and then treat someone like they deserve the death penalty because they said something off-colour on twitter when they were 14
No one will admit that they were wrong if you treat being wrong like its an eternal indictment against them with no chance for rehabilitation
these tags, tbh. we fucked up when we allowed "the people you hurt aren't obligated to accept your apology" to shift into "...so you have to shut up and accept whatever abuse is hurled your way no matter what, forever, and if you ever say anything about it, you're deflecting and playing the victim."
all this accomplishes is driving people to double down & refuse to acknowledge any wrongdoing, bc to admit fault would be to accept that you're a Bad Person, which means you deserve whatever you get.
Back to my main blog on tumblr after several years...
...and it's fascinating seeing how this place went from harboring a strong "kill-all-men" attitude to promoting trans positivity (especially towards transwomen).
Not complaining at all, quite the opposite. I just kind of wish I knew what happened, I'm interested to know more about the events transpiring between the warzone that was 2014-2017 tumblr and the forming of the tumblr trans community in the mid-2020s.
Dear 14-year-old me, whenever your father threatens you to send you to a german boarding school to "make you taste true strictness", accept it. Don't be afraid of the supposedly cruel unknown. Don't cave in to his demands. Don't glance at your mother's beginning expression. Go.
Oh, not because you need to be taught a lesson of humility, not because you need to experience how cruel the outside world is compared to your "safe and trustful" family home. But because it will make you realize the domineering home you've been brought to isn't so different from a cold, controlling institution after all. One major difference is that, at age 18, after holding out for 4 years, you'll be truly free. You can leave, learn to become truly independent and face your fears firsthand.
Know this: it's not your fault. It's NEVER your fault. It's not your fault you don't know how to make friends, since they don't have friends either (contrary to what they tell you, customers are not friends: they will realize it too late). You're not a bad daughter, they just consider you one because you're not catering to their expectations hard enough. Don't try to be like them. It's not normal. They're not the "correct type of adults" they claim to be. They're not "how you are supposed to behave in real life". Know this: each one of the 5 employees they will subsequently hire will end up quitting the job and leaving in bad terms. But don't wait enough time to realize the unreliable narrators they are: deep down, you already know that.
Frankly speaking, I believe he will never actually send you there since he craves control on me and mother. He can't stand not knowing what we do whenever he's not looking. So, MISBEHAVE. Be trangressive. Run away. Make him put in a position to send you away. You just need to jump on a tiny ray of light to escape immediately, otherwise he will psychologically break you so badly, you will refuse to take any spiral of hope appearing in front you. Your father will stay a narcissistic control freak even after he'll be diagnosed with leukemia.
Follow your dream major and obtain your dream job. You will avoid being friendless and stuck in a little, bigot, aging rural town located in an isolated region known to be the laughing stock of Italy. You will avoid being sucked into familiar relations held together by emotional gaslighting and untreated generational traumas. You will avoid being chained to an unfeeling family business aimed to satisfy everybody's needs but your own.
You will suffer, but that suffering will be your own.
Leave and don't ever look back.
it’s inevitable that I’m gonna doodle these losers every once in a while
Why the fuck did march take 6 months to pass but April took 1 week
Italian trains are so paradoxical that my train was late but I got to university earlier
Trenitalia aesthetic:
- they announce a delay but then the train arrives exactly at the same hour as usual
- they do not announce a delay but the train arrives ten minutes later than usual
- Ticket inspectors who exist only for the first two days of the month and then magically disappear
- the announcer’s voice that becomes shrill by saying that one random word of the phrase, terrifying you, and than returns normal
-friendships born due to the disperation / anger at the announcement of the (umpteenth) delay
- the Angry Nostalgic Old Man ™ that “wHE the DuCE waS hEre The TRains Were PunctUAL”
- but the rest of the station is super calm bc they are blatantly used to delays
-first and second class interchangeable
- “how this window is supposed to work”
- the announcer that “the train will arrive with 30 minutes of delay” and then “no wait 25″ “40″ “15″ “100″ “60″ “120″ “the train is cancelleD”
- “we are sorry for the inconvenience”
Also: has anyone heard the new English translation “the train has reached X, final destination of this journey”?
- knowing by heart what the announcer is going to say and repeating it every day with a hollow voice and even more hollow eyes
- finding mysterious objects on the seats and wondering how they got there. once i found a celery. what the fuck.
- regarding with disgust the foreigners who use the train bathroom. do u want to die?
- hearing strange creepy noises and not even questioning it. as an italian i feel like i was destined to die on a Treno Regionale. I simply accept it.
-when you take the train at peak times with all the commuters and you are standing in that space near the doors and you don’t know when your body ends and your neighbour’s begins, and your will to live has just taken a trip to honolulu. the whole train is becoming a new ecosystem, you’re pretty sure mold has started to form on your bag and the whole cycle of water is happening just thanks to your sweat. you don’t know if you’ll ever be home and you can’t imagine a future anymore. bonus if this happens in the summer and you have tourists taking half of the train with the huge bags they brought to the sea
-on this note, Trenitalia rules state that if someone feels sick on the train the conducter has to be informed and the train must be stopped. Cue commuters literally waking up from comas to go and stop the poor old lady who is going to talk to the conductor because stopping the train would just fuck up everyone else and that’s not happening on your watch
-the ticket inspectors who just groan when young people don’t have their tickets and don’t even fine you anymore. they just hate their life someone set them free.
-also why they fuck did they remove kilometric tickets and why do the new ones look like receipts
-oh obviously the ticket machines don’t work but luckily there is a strategically placed Baretto equipped with old men playing briscola while smoking and giving you That Dirty Look™
-someone has mentioned this but I feel like we need an actual quotation: é vietato attraversare i binari. servirsi del sottopassaggio.
-also we forgot to mention that literally all trains are insanely full of graffiti like how does that even happen. how on earth do you get that many.
-that one seat that is full of holes and you just know something terrible has happened there and you don’t even care anymore
-the tiny bins under the windows are always full, or really stinky, or both.
Off to see Doctor Strange.
Uni and DA: Inqusition is eating all my time.
I’m currently watching South Park with the Castilian Spanish dub, specifically “Tweek x Craig”, and I realized Wendy shares the same VA with Lisa Simpson.
So, I can’t help but imagening know-it-all Lisa giving a conference about Yaoi when Wendy talks about it XD
(Plus, Kyle’s VA also voices Bart Simpson!)
In the end, the choice is always between a giant douche and a turd sandwich
