slimothy

28 - liberation - (21+) - OF: @veelarose

[veelarose]

** FW98 COLLECTION **

[gothhabiba]

god forbid Black women have fun

[gothhabiba]

Black woman invents or popularises a phrase -> it enters the vernacular and circulates widely amongst Black and nonblack people -> people removed from the phrase's initial context read it too literally, do not interpret it with sensitivity, assume that the ideas expressed when people use it are shallow / "over"-sexualised / problematic in some way or another that mirrors their feelings about Black people as a whole -> there is a backlash where a supposedly more 'thoughtful,' 'subversive,' etc. alternative to the initial phrase is offered, implying that the initial phrase contained none of that complexity within it to begin with -> rinse & repeat

[thememedaddy]

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Good morning ☀️ 

[achillesinhighheels]

Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott & Jay-Z

- Is That Your Chick (The Lost Verses)

[steelnail]

[angell-of-filth]

via

[pup-purgatory]

via

[veelarose]

idk if it’s love or rage or excitement or tenderness

but I can feel it in my gut and my throat

and it’s strangling me

[pup-purgatory]

[thememedaddy]

[gothredy]

[cryptotheism]

It's hard to post intentionally bad writing without commenters proclaiming "oh but I feel bad! I love this!" Perfectly bad art is as rare a feat as perfectly good art. Even the most anonymous mediocrity definitionally will have its fans.

Enjoying bad art is neither virtuous nor unvirtuous because enjoyment is passive. It is barely a choice. I do, however, think that incuriosity is shameful. Taste, as in the ability to understand, diagnose, and articulate, the artistic choices that make up a work, is the vehicle for understanding and producing art. Taste can only be cultivated by reflecting upon a broad field of art, peak to dogshit. Because of this, the cultivation of Taste is one of my favorite parts of being alive.

If you've only ever watched marvel movies, of course they are your favorite movies. Your love of marvel movies means little. However, if you have sampled everything the world of cinema has to offer, have watched every single movie dogshit to peak, and marvel movies are still your favorite, that is meaningful. You probably have some very interesting things to say about movies. Even though I will probably disagree with them.

Enjoy dogshit to your heart's content. But reflect articulate that enjoyment; because this cultivates Taste.

[universalstudent]

RENACIMIENTO 2026

[capacity2]

It’s like every man in America is big and bisexual these days have yall noticed that

[headspace-hotel]

My opinion on virtually all internet discourse is that social media is catastrophically bad for having conversations about anything that matters.

People speak of online "spaces" but online does not have physical space in it and that is the problem.

It's like if all the conversations people ever had in public had to take place in a huge warehouse-sized room where everyone could hear and see everyone else at the exact same volume and with the exact same clarity no matter where they were standing.

Some people are seriously discussing political action. Some people are goofing off. Someone is panhandling, someone is venting to their friends about something awful that happened to them, someone is giving a speech about a topic that interests them, someone is crying about the pain in their life, someone is just thinking out loud to themselves, a bunch of people just want to watch movies or hang out with their friends. Someone is trying to sell some junk. A bunch of people are passing around newspapers.

And all of these people can hear and see each other perfectly so that they don't even know if they themselves or anyone else is in an intimate conversation with people who sympathize, if they're having a town hall meeting, if they're attending a lecture, if they are behind the podium giving a lecture, if they're hanging out at the bar with friends, if they're in their friend's car, or if they're just in a public park watching the clouds.

If someone who thinks they're in the movie group makes a comment about the movie, the people who think they're in the audience at the lecture hall will think the movie watcher is the lecturer behind the podium. So, they will turn to their friends and say "wow, get a load of that guy, they just said..." but the people who think they are at a town hall meeting will think "wow, this is clearly an important concern," but the person who thinks they are crying to their friends is like "Seriously? We're talking about a MOVIE when my life is falling apart?"

The truth is we are not at the bar or in a lecture hall or in a public park or in a town hall meeting. We are in the Warehouse Where Everyone Can See And Hear Everyone Else. And that's why everyone is so stressed out and pissed off all the time.

[postnuclearophelia]

they want us to all hate each other and everyone falls for it every time