will the curse be reversed if i say it backwards?

ileana | 24 | she/her. @mcfratm is my sports blog :-)

[hauntingyourself]

Our old house had wood paneled walls

[hotvampireadjacent]

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[space-feminist]

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”

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feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought

[random-brushstrokes]

Heinrich Hermanns (German, 1862 - 1942) - Naples. A view across the city towards the harbour and Mount Vesuvius

[vsesvit]

weird woman enjoyers go read the tainted cup by robert jackson bennett NOW 🫵

[naldibutnice]

The Lady and the Ghost by Rose O’Neill, 1902

[hardwrench]

well what if we give mike flanagan a really cloying and touchyfeely property to adapt and he ends up making something that’s just fully shit your pants scary and depraved

[catball]

all my haters become cicaders when i enter the summer of success

[kira-kui-n]

"get him pregnant" well thats not my thing but to each their own

"get her pregnant" *takes up my sword and shield* i wont let you do that to her. ......................

[toiich]

Solitary Figure in a Theater - Edward Hopper, 1903

[nevver]

Grief and Melancholy, Martin Copertari

[vsesvit]

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[sailatina3]

[holespoles]

Haruka Kawakami

かわかみはるか

[phantom-threaded]

Jessica Chastain as Lucille Sharpe Crimson Peak 2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[dykepuffs]

There is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad (clumsy, harmful, regressive) metaphors for real-world events or people, rather than exploring completely speculative ideas. Like:

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

It almost feels like death of the author, like "Death of the most obvious metaphor" - If you couldn't reach for the (tormented) parallel between being an alien species and being stateless, what stories could someone tell? If your changeling-baby was neither disabled nor adopted, what would the story be about? Etc.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: writing, always come back to 'This is a harmful and regressive view of autism!', yeah man it absolutely would be, however it's supposed to be heavy metal poisoning /End ID]

[phoebebyers]