On Crutches

Antisemites and amputee festishers gey kocken offin yom.

[palominojacoby]

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[weepingwidar]

Gérard Dubois (French, 1968) - Moby Dick (2023)

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver tree, Chimu culture, Peru, 1100-1470

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

[en-theos]

I'm putting off an odyssey reread because I don't want an epic burnout (pun intended) but I really want to reexamine the symbolic meaning of circe turning the crew into pigs of all animals because I don't think it has the pure 1:1 gluttony or 'sexist pig' meaning that modern readers instantly read into it. afaik the DOG was much more a symbol of gluttony because they received scraps of human food at the table but also roamed the streets for trash (devoured the waste remains of sacrifices) and ate corpses, even attacked their own masters because they couldn't control their animal impulses (this is why women were considered doglike in greek epic; they can control neither their gluttony, greed, or lust). getting turned into pigs is not about the threat they pose to circe or their entitlement, it's about her (liminal) divinity. she's asserting HER superiority. humans are like animals to her. they are livestock, and powerless against her lures and might.

but pigs were sacrificial animals, demeter's animals, symbols of (agricultural?) fertility and had SEXUAL connotations. what if the crew was turned into what circe, an immortal and powerful goddess, sees them as: slabs of meat, a tasty morsel, something meant for consumption? the spectre of cannibalism looms large over the entire odyssey, but in the circe episode power and sex interact very closely once odyssey overpowers her. her initial overpowering of the crew is imo an eroticised charged act, but is the choice of pigs (rather than pigs and cows, as in the other episodes) part of that gendered and erotic theme?

[theantiquariansarchive]

a bone figure of a standing woman, with lapis lazuli inlays in her eyes.

originating in egypt, from the Amratian culture, in the Naqada I period - roughly between 3,900 and 3,700.

The figure is currently on display at the British Museum.

[modelsof-color]

Peng Chang & America Gonzalez by Daisy Walker for Vogue UK May 2026

[portalibis]

Isis & Serapis (relief), 1st cent BC to 1st cent AD

[modelsof-color]

Elena Hu by Daniel Amaze for Número Netherlands Magazine April 2026

[thunderstruck9]

Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian, 1989), Tribal Marks no. 1, 2013. Charcoal and graphite, 49.5 x 64.5 cm

[wulfhalls]

Anya Taylor-Joy for L’OFFICIEL Magazine

[fuzzbby]

Pan Ran.

[pwlanier]

ALVAR JANSSON. 1922-1990

"Väntrum", oil on canvas, monogram signed.

Stockholm Auctionworks

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[weepingwidar]

Opal Mae Ong (American, 1994) - To Sun's Blade (2024)

[depsidase]

[emmaxrosa]

EMMA D’ARCY photographed by Pip for Issue 204, the Beautiful Game, Flaunt Magazine (2026)

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happy Mother’s Day to these two queens

[ranchbeetle-termalbum]

I had never heard of this experiment until this post, so for people like me who don't know what the fuck this is, here you go (link)

In short: Cloth Mother and Wire Mother was a *highly* unethical experiment that led to incredibly important discoveries on the nature of childhood development. It proved infants require tactile comfort, more so than food. Leading to changes in how parents were advised to care for children, no longer being told that comforting crying babies would "spoil them". So despite the ethical concerns (some of these monkeys literally could not socially recover and caused, unsurprisingly, significant harm. Both physically and psychologically) the impact of this experiment prevented future childhood neglect and psychological abuse. This experiment also is what led to regulations around experiments involving animals. Also the experiment was used to study social isolation and how infants react to physical abuse from a caregiver. Which I'm not getting into because I'm really stretching the meaning of "In short" here.

It does make me wonder if the tactile comfort was actually what the infant was seeking or if it was the fact the Cloth Mother *looked* more monkey-like? I'd also be interested if it was specifically the fur texture or if other textures would have the same effects? Did the monkeys only like the fur texture because it reminded them of other monkeys? What would be the differences between them and humans? Like, would a human infant be more likely to cling to a furry mother or something more similar to human skin?

Love Wire Mother's "face" btw