TRIVIAL AUTOMORPHISMS

Trivial automorphisms are terribly uninteresting. So is this blog. Or is it?

[upworthy]

Watch: Bob Ross once painted only in gray for a colorblind fan … and it was incredible.

[cosmicfunnies]

The last but not least of Assorted Planets Month!

And now to cool you all off with some “refreshing” rain!

This week’s entry: Planetary Rain

http://www.zmescience.com/other/science-abc/rain-titan-earth-neptune/

http://io9.com/on-jupiter-you-can-see-neon-rain-1640118403

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“Nice boots, Tinker Bell!”: Steve Rogers as an allegory for the impossibility of performative masculinity.

There’s nothing new about the consideration of male superheroes as icons of masculinity. Superman representing the pinnacle of wholesome, idealised masculine power, or The Hulk as an allegory for the angry, repressed male id. And these types of masculinity are not innate or inevitable. Masculinity, like all gender roles is a socially constructed performance.

But performative masculinity has a tension to it that performative femininity does not, because performing itself is seen as innately unmasculine. You cannot learn to be a real man, you are or you are not. You can’t make one or learn to be one. Because our story about masculinity is that it just is. It is an ur state of being. The most natural way for a human to be.

Steve Rogers came out of a bottle.

And Steve Rogers’s weapon is a shield. Steve does not attack, he defends. Steve Rogers is the only Avenger who does not thrust forward with a phallic weapon. From Loki’s staff to Clint’s arrows, Black Widow (who pairs so well with Steve because she is a phallic woman) has guns, Tony essentially is a giant penis (sorry, friends, that’s all I see), and of course no one would even pretend that Thor’s hammer isn’t Thor’s penis.

But Steve has a shield. And a shield isn’t particularly feminine. It is not a cup or a sheath or a hole. It is just anti-phallic.

And that is Steve. the non-phallic man. Because you can’t make a man in a machine. Only a strange kind of monster.

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[trivialautomorphisms]

This is interesting. I do not know that I agree with everything, but it is interesting. Steve Rogers was always my favorite Avenger. I have more thoughts about this, about the brogrammer culture that I revile and that I feel is represented in Tony Stark, but this comment is getting very long already.

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[keraleda]

“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

Beautifuly written- and drawn.

[hotboyproblems]

“who wants the rest of my food”

[nihilnovisubsole]

when you’re working on a drawing and you’re like all right this looks good

and then you accidentally hide the lineart layer and

JESUS CHRIST

[saeto15]

moisturize her

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[neilcicierega]

[jamdoughnutmagician]

there is not one search term here that isn’t magical

[harryhazardhausen-deactivated20]

i know ive reblogged this before at least twice but i decided to read through the entire thing this time and im in pain from how hard i am laughing please forgive me

[wetheurban]

DESiGN: Hypnotic Kinetic Sculptures by Jennifer Townley

Although powered by simple rotary engines, these kinetic sculptures by Netherlands-based sculptor Jennifer Townley are dizzying in complexity. 

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[fowllanguagecomics]

Boop yourself over to my bonus panel.

[trivialautomorphisms]

Testing.

Testing, testing, 1-2-3-testing.

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bartcop.com

[trivialautomorphisms]

Okay seriously

This wasn't the most easiest thing ever to figure out. Also I think I already may have forgotten my password. Also I keep listening to "Dashboard" by Modest Mouse instead of actually trying to make this work because the word is right there and it reminds me. 

Also pie. 

[paradigms-of-a-time-lord-memory]

We’re coming BACK!

[trivialautomorphisms]

yay I'm reblogging am i doing this right i don't know.