CURRENTLY INTO: SPIDERMAN (HARDCORE SPECIAL INTEREST), DOCTOR WHO, TORCHWOOD, XMEN, DEADPOOL, VARIOUS MARVEL, HOUSE MD, POKEMON, CABARET (MUSICAL), THE HUNGER GAMES, MCYT (OCCASIONALLY)
MUTUALS SHOULD ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO TAG ME IN ANYTHING
insomniac spiderman so good cause it has one william obscure references that are targeted at me specifically. im doing the screwball qr code mission and one of her chatters is called fancdan. i love fancy dan
Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back.
The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act.
For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body.
The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser.
Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology.
Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.
i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness
huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom
if you're the tumblr user on the train with me right now talking about saltburn, Marvel, and project hail mary. and wuthering heights. please get out at the next stop your opinions are dogballs
i've died on smaller hills, so i can't judge. but i do think it's funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan's absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs
i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.
pros of new spiderman movie: YAYAYAYAYYYY SPIDERMAN YAYYYY WOWWWW I LOVE THIS GUY!!!! I LOVE MOVIES AND I LOVE SPIDERMAN!!!!! I CANT WAIT TO WATCH ANOTHER SPIDERMAN MOVIE !!!!!
cons of a new spiderman movie: i have to listen to stupid dumbass people and their opinions about spiderman
another con is that i almost exclusively wear spiderman graphic tees (half joking. i have so many tho) and now when i go to the store looking for spiderman graphic tees they are ransacked. yuore all frauds..
