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killing things together is a bonding exercise actually don't worry about it
the hanged he/they...
WOKE major arcana:
the hanged HE/THEY
the LEGALISED high priestess
the GAY lovers
the SHE/HERMIT
the BIEROPHANT
UNALIVE
the fool
what if i want my life to be a long conversation with you. what then
Nolan is decidedly an artist who has an appreciation for and respect for cinema and the craft of film making, and he has a love for making films that are supposed to be strange, dreamlike, even nonlinear. which is hindered by the fact that he, strangely, seems completely uncreative and artistically bland.
wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck
If not him, would have been the next man. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.02
this is what is happening between us when i like your vent post
Shocking development: in a language and culture where most given names are considered masculine or feminine, some genderqueer and nonbinary people choose given names that seem unusual!
the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good
like the problem with the mm hockey romance genre (and this one isn’t on reid or tierney this is the problem as a whole) is that it takes the bad apples approach to all of it because obviously things like racism and homophobia are problems but to admit they are deep-rooted systemic problems instead of individual makes it kind of impossible to resolve. so it’s easy to write about there being a couple of guys who suck. but when you have to deal with the fact that this is what men’s sports are like, yes ALL of them, yes ALL the men involved to some level, because this is what western notions of masculinity are based in, it makes it not a romantic fantasy but instead some sort of medium dot com thinkpiece. ultimately the issue to me is that sports romance novels are written for an audience that likes sports, which then precludes any real criticism of sports. and as i have said before the ideal mm sports romance novel is written by someone who hates men’s professional sports and not in a “flawed institution but noble intentions” kind of way.
my personal take on this is that it's not even about the sports of it all, it's kind of baked in to romance as a whole. romance as a genre is really interested in recuperating institutions. specifically marriage! Romance Novels, as a genre, are about the fantasy of marriage as being able to meet women's sexual, emotional, and material needs. instead of, you know, being historically kind of a miserable saw trap where women have to trade their bodily autonomy and emotional lives for material wellbeing. and you can take this all the way back to Austen, but I'd argue that this is still pretty foundational to the modern romance genre. this is why billionaire is so popular, what if you had access to unlimited wealth AND incredible dick AND the guy was nice to you. the dream.
obviously we now live in an age where women don't have to be married to a man to have access to money, but the HEA expectation of romance novels is very much formed by this tie between romantic partnership and material wellbeing. no one ends a romance novel homeless, you know? the fantasy is that this institution can work. don't worry about patriarchy as a set of material and psychic conditions. this marriage is good and good marriage is possible.
so sports, in sports romance, are just another institution to recuperate. the structures are fine, don't worry about the structures! romance novels are, i think, fundamentally about a fantasy of navigating difficult social conditions in a personally satisfying way. and so that shows up in whatever the setting is, but I think it's a fundamental characteristic of the genre.
whatsy is extremely and wholly correct. i'm gonna add another thing to the pile, which is that repetition is necessary for recuperation. in order to convert the constitutive harm of structures/institutions into social narratives that can obscure their own second-order effects, you need to tell the story over and over again. sports is violence as entertainment; romance is marriage as entertainment. much of their overlapping* utility is that they are easy to consume, comfortingly predictable, and infinitely available. one romance novel can't flip marriage from the aforementioned patriarchal saw trap into the key to individual freedom *and* safety *and* happiness. a couple hundred thousand released into the cultural id...
with this repetition, the narrative fantasy (like gender, like genre) becomes a stable place you visit: sports is somewhere you can go where merit wins; romance is somewhere you can go where love saves somebody. what's striking about the rise of m/m sports romance in particular is that it raises the stakes of that fantasy even further--there is now somewhere you can go where THREE saw traps (marriage, violence, homophobia) become the conditions of happiness. i don't think it's a coincidence that as material conditions worsen, the escape fantasy becomes...more and more fantastic.
one more thing--much of sports romance's fantasy occurs via a specific elision of racism, particularly antiblackness. (sports in general do this much more transparently!) not a coincidence that hockey's the overwhelmingly white big 4 sport and also the locus of western** sports romance, particularly m/m sports romance. not a coincidence that the gays became repeatably consumable as desiring, deserving romantic subjects within the romance genre writ large before black people have. look at these goodreads shelf counts, and keep in mind that college-educated black women read more than everybody else, demographically:
romance as a genre is run by white women. consciously or not, the marriage fantasy these white women write over and over again protects whiteness more than it protects straightness. along this axis, the fantasy actually functions identically to the institution instead of transforming it. as the repetition of stories shows us, there's a hierarchy--social conditions that are onscreen, navigable such that 'marriage is good and a good marriage is possible', and social conditions that don't serve most creators' stakes in the marriage fantasy at all.
*for doing-my-real-job-today purposes i'm skipping some other very relevant overlaps between sports & romance--libidinal imaginaries, economies of ability and desirability, the temporal bound of a championship or a wedding, etc--but somebody else run w the ball pls
**i would really like to read some comparative scholarship on race overall in western romance and BL, if anybody has recs.
I truly don't think there's anything worse than an artsy theatre kid band trying to do a dark edgy song about domming someone. like it's giving dr horrible. I don't believe you.
it's the same problem every booktok dark romance D/s fantasy has, which is that it's written by a sub projecting what they think they want that guy to sound like. there's nothing sexy about someone sweatily pointing out to you how dommed you are right now for fear that you weren't aware you're totally subjugated and definitely 100% under their control. also they're feeling very possessive btw. are you listening. though actually now that I'm typing it, this is also the problem with 90% of cishet maledoms irl so maybe they're cooking. post cancelled.
hey so you'll never guess what prompted this post
get secondhand embarrassment with me
GOD I cannot stand this ‘you. come. now.’ whipping the bugs off the bed with the Target™️ belt dressed like a waiter at Olive Garden type shit 😭 painful in a bad way ironically. But ppl in the rbs and comments asking what a ‘good dom song even sounds like’….. hold on. Did we collectively forget about 80s/90s era industrial/goth music?
Specifically like: “Closer”, “Reptile”, “Head Like a Hole” by NIN? “Melt” by Siouxsie and the Banshees? “Discipline” by Throbbing Gristle? “Cattle Grind” by Revolting Cocks? “Vow”, “A Stroke of Luck”, “Supervixen”, “Dog New Tricks” by Garbage? “Smothered Hope”, “The Choke” by Skinny Puppy? Like… so many songs by Depeche Mode?? “Mr. Alphabet Says” by The Glove
Or even just outside those genres — “I Wanna Be Your Dog” by The Stooges and “Venus in Furs” by Velvet Underground are classic ones. “Anger Management” by Lovage ft. Mike Patton is one of my faves. And I know Queens of the Stone Age overall has a genuinely ‘dommy’ very slutty sound even if the lyrics aren’t necessarily about it (I’m thinking “How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat)”. I’d throw them on too!!
It’s funny cus many of these artists I’ve listed are arguably ‘theatrical’ too but somehow they know how to be sexy sexyyyyyy
nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic
“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭
this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐
fun upcycle/repair from today
do i want to come to "the circus"? (apprehensive) describe it with two adjectives first
its really seeming like the average tumblr user does not understand what an adjective is
