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rianphin

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berkeleygirl3

genderfluid-druid

[ID: Photo of the stacks of a library overlaid with text: This is the only data center I want funded. End ID]

semiretiredcinephile

putting the word "glamorization" on a high shelf

semiretiredcinephile

was the narrative told by one flawed characters perspective glamorizing something when they explained why they were allured or interested in it. is it glamorization to show something outside of akerman or dunham remove, obsessed with the banality of the subject exclusively. is it glamorization to have emotional storytelling.

#im going to kill someone #j chatting

putting the word "glamorization" on a high shelf

#posts inspired by hearing someones opinions on hustlers #hustlers 2019 #j chatting

boringkate

But if it was a GIRL hanging out the passenger side of her best friend's ride trying to holla at me then I might feel differently...

decompose1

does anyone remember that "androphobia" is a real word that means being genuinely Afraid of men. and it's mostly used to describe women who are intensely scared of men following abuse/assault. and this is a whole thing where you can have a service dog that keeps men away. because i remember that, having known several women both cis and trans who were like this, and it really is odd to see the term misused as another word for misandry lol that is not what it means

jessaerys

i. riverdale s5e1, climax. ii. interview for av club with director robert mitchell. iii. it follows (2019) dir. robert mitchell. iv. here’s why you missed the scariest part of ‘it follows’, by mj pack.

#riverdale

cjsnaake

I fuck with this

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

Via Jurunense

so many issues with stranger things writing wise but the one that always gets me is the lack of follow through / awareness of the demagorgens (or vecna or upside w/e) as metaphor for csa. its really all right there in s1

#stranger things #j chatting

stufflikethathere

pspsappho

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

uhhhhmanda

The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.