smokyphantom

she/he. 21. 18+. tme. white

[xaoca]

Black Beauty 1877, Natalia Kleszczewska, 2024

[tboy-trash]

we're far too culturally obsessed with men who are mean and rough around the edges but turn out to be big softies underneath it all when, in reality, most men who are like this are simply dicks

[catsofyore]

Cat in the Sun. Ca. 1950. Source.

[swiftthefox]

-Eileen Mayo

[pseudomantis]

When U listen 2 music

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[dsunearthed]

一本桜, 2008

[driflloon]

juliana imai for saad brazil fall/winter 2005

[dozydawn]

[pure]

there’s an uproar over on elon’s site about (mostly white) queers who openly eroticize incest. the kinksters are being called “federal agents” lol. but after consulting the literature about “sexual freedom” in response to feminist activism in the 1930’s, the sexual liberation movement in the 70’s-80’s, early american queer activism, the bdsm movement, the sex wars of the 70’s, radical lesbian feminism, etc. my assessment of queer politics has changed a lot lol.

the queer “community” in the US has a history of defending and eroticizing male violence, heterosexual ideology, violence against women and children, and slavery. it has been an androcentric movement for many decades, maybe since its inception. many early queer theorists and queer “feminists” defended child pornography (yes, real child pornography) with the same libertarian arguments against censorship that are used to defend industrialized rape today, sexual violence against children, and sexual violence as “kink.” and yes, many did say all of this was “queer sexuality” and pretended their male supremacy was a “taboo.” queers came up with BDSM—straight people only came up with the ideology, but queers came up with the practice. NAMBLA was primarily kicked out of queer organizing due to optics, not because there was some kind of widespread opposition to their politics. most of the critique of BDSM, public sex, child abuse and nambla-pandering came from radical lesbians (if you read nambla pamphlets and newsletters they will literally call out radical feminist lesbians specifically and i have posted some of these, lol). there are modern queer theorists who still propagate nambla talking points in defense of “MAPs.” they are not hiding lol.

i think queers of today need to reckon with this history in order to stop being blindsided when it appears. eroticizing sexual violence is in fact apart of queer culture, but many queers, despite their radical posturing, celebrate this fact through the lens of traditionalism instead of changing it. they sound like homo/transphobes who say that gay bashing is just apart of their culture, lol.

a lot of people struggle to grapple with the fact that oppressed people can be and often are horrible people who operate out of self-interest. a lot of queers do not oppose heterosexual ideology. they just oppose their relative lack of power within it. Maybe i should post a reading list lol. the more and more you read about the sexual liberation movement, the more “blackpilled” you get about this topic, lol. if you know your history, none of this is shocking.

[achillesinhighheels]

[gobe]

“Last night I photographed a Barn Owl hovering above prey at a local farm where I have been baiting them for some time, I did attempt this last winter but failed due to the lens misting, still a work in progress” ~ Roy Rimmer

[xanaxfarts]

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty (1970) location: Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah

[xanaxfarts]

Ryota Yuki

[xanaxfarts]

my cary grant rose bloomed today

[dreamyeuphory]

~ At the local market...~

[worldscoolest]

vintage Dolce & Gabbana dress from 2002

[handweavers]

photos i took on pulau langkawi back in 2019, i miss the bright green of everything and the red soil and the blue sky i miss that part of the world intensely