micah

[soundandsignified]

Nuit #1 dir. Anne Émond

[soundandsignified]

‘it’s gonna take a bit of work, now that you’re here’

[mashatupitsyn]

“Every time it rains, You’re here in my head Like the sun coming out Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen I don’t know when But just saying it could even make it happen.” -Kate Bush, Cloudbusting

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

At its most basic level, all of this emotional labour is saying to another human being “you matter. I will take my time to show you that you matter.” And maintaining that glue is something that devolves mainly onto women, 24 hours a day. It feels like most men are taught (ex- or implicitly) to do emotional work only when it gets them something they want now, whereas most women are taught to do emotional work as part of an ongoing exchange that benefits everyone.

Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed  (via 2cc48a)

[agameofme]

So how is she?

How is she? She’s, uhh…she’s a mermaid. I don’t understand. All my life I’ve been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she’s…she’s a fish.

Nobody said love’s perfect!

Ohh, Freddie! I don’t expect it to be perfect, but for god’s sake, it’s usually human!

Every day, people meet and they fall in love. Every day! And look what I got.

Look what you got.

Yeah, let’s look at what you got. 

Let’s take a good look at what you got. 

People fall in love every day, huh? Is that what you said?

Yeah.

Yeah?! Well that’s a crock. It doesn’t work that way. Look, do you realize how happy you were with her? That is, of course, when you weren’t driving yourself crazy. 

Every day! Come on.

Some people will never be that happy. I’ll never be that happy!

Splash, 1984

[mashatupitsyn]

One of the most important thinkers on love and important to me for a very long time. If you can’t love, if you don’t choose love, if you don’t return to love, if you are afraid of love, you are dangerous. “Love is where you find it.”

[soundandsignified]

Sometimes I feel like I’m still that age

[soundandsignified]

if Gertrude Stein was my age: "adulting is a dull thing"

[soundandsignified]

[bookowlnews]

Lacan strips bare masculinity for the cultural construction it is.. ..[Masculinity] can only exist narcissistically in relation to femininity.

Sarah Gamble (via alterities)

[mashatupitsyn]

The part in Frances where Frances says, “I look at these people and I wonder if anybody really loves anybody?”

I wonder the same. Maybe I’m better off.

[soundandsignified]

By creating the imaginary element that is "sex," the deployment of sexuality established one of its most essential principles: the desire for sex- the desire to have it, to have access to it, to discover it, to liberate it, to articulate it in discourse, to formulate it in truth. It constituted "sex" itself as something desirable. And it is this desirability of sex that attaches each one of us to the injunction to know it, to reveal its law and power; it is this desirability that makes us think we are affirming the rights of our sex against all power, when in fact we are fastened to the deployment of sexuality that has lifted up from deep within us a sort of mirage in which we think we see ourselves reflected- the dark shimmer of sex.

the history of sexuality vol i

michel foucault

[kafkaesque-world]

[soundandsignified]

shld i get a tattoo of this?

[womanhouse]

Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema BY WERNER HERZOG

Lessons of Darkness

1) By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

2) One well-known representative of Cinema Verité...

[mashatupitsyn]

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

[soundandsignified]

valentine's day present from my true love

[mashatupitsyn]

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it… . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” -Erica Jong