nightingale

Fire eater, star gazer

[despazito]

[despazito]

Awesome

[kmbw]

He used to be a patriarch and now women point and laugh at him. 😔

Source: This Soviet World (1936) by Anna Louise Strong

[theroyalgardens]

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent, England

[victusinveritas]

This is a real picture taken by photographer Keinichi Ohno. It's a single photo of a bird standing at the edge of some water with a wall and its reflection creating a fascinating optical illusion.

[wokestonecraft]

Just watched obsession, and I would personally not have sex with someone clearly in the middle of a mental breakdown. Putting aside the whole “is magic real?” Question. Dude. What the fuck.

[bonfires-n-hares]

jane carkill Welcome June 🌸🍎

[femalegothic]

have they tried not being ugly?

[mini-wrants]

I don’t know what to say. Everyone woman I know has flirted with an eating disorder at least once in her life and wears makeup on dates to cover up their “imperfections.”

Have men considered dieting? Or accutane? Or not being republicans? Maybe some covergirl?

[dhaaruni]

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

performance enhancing drugs for muscle mass are now the most injected recreational drug in the developed world, eating disorders among men are on a sharp rise and the anxiety around hairlines has propped up a whole new industry of snake oil. just because you can't see the pressure or it doesn't apply to you doesn't mean it isn't there.

[canadasilverdragon-deactivated2]

I accidentally reblogged this without adding my own opinion which is that, while men do have our own struggles with appearance and whatnot, 90% of young men don’t understand women in the slightest and think having big muscles will make up for being ugly, poorly dressed, ungroomed, unfunny, hyper conservative, and generally unlikable. This is a very fixable issue that is only still happening because too many men can’t be bothered to figure out what women actually want even though it’s pretty easy to find out.

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

and there it is

this post isn't about any real issues surrounding the dynamics of young men, its just vast generalisations of boys are icky

[mini-wrants]

I agree that men have real issues. But men tend to not listen to women about how to solve those issues, and frankly, it’s not women’s job to fix men’s problems.

Boys and men are having issues dating, and then turning around and making AI porn of their female classmates and strangling their potential girlfriends during their first makeout. They refuse to date liberal women or change their own political viewpoints and then can’t figure out why they can’t get laid in a post-Roe society.

Boys and men are having body image issues because of advertisements and movies directed by men and male podcasters jumping on the “all fitness all the time” bandwagon, and they’re turning around and photoshopping women into personal porn or spreading images of women getting gangbanged on twitter. Over 95% of all AI created images are porn of women. Oh and they’re also catcalling and sexually harassing their female teachers in a wave that spans multiple countries.

Boys and men are struggling to learn what it means to be a father and full time worker at the same time, something mothers have been struggling with for decades, but instead of listening to their wives’ please for help, they’re calling them nagging bitches and retreating into their video games and nights with the boys.

Boys and men have proven time and time again that they don’t want to hear from women, they don’t want advice from women, then don’t want to learn from women. Women are dealing with an international feminist backlash as it is. We have our own problems to fix, and men certainly ain’t gonna fix it for us .

So why should I care that men can’t find a date. If I gave men advice on how to find a date they wouldn’t listen to me anyway.

Because I’m just a woman.

[flowerlygirls]

all of this 100% but most importantly imo: while its true that the rates at which men experience these insecurities are rising, theyre still lower than the rates at which women are experiencing this. the amount of males dying or near didabled due to eating disorders still isnt even close to the amouny of women who suffer this fate.

its just nobody gives a crap about women or ever has outside femi ist circles, and as soon as men BEGIN experiencing one fifth of the struggles women continue to experience its treated as a huge wake up moment and national emergency. just like the "male loneliness epidemic". just like how suddenly its an issue that more men than women are now actively desiring marriage, when before it was never seen as an issue that more women than men are interested in marrying.

its only ever an issue when it starts affecting men because women arent real people so why should their experiences be important

[mooseyondaloosey]

Also going way back I think it’s notable that the survey said “unattractive” not “ugly” or something. Attraction includes a person’s character, values, personality. These men are warping themselves into hyper-entitlement because they don’t care about what women want or to make themselves attractive to women in order to attract a mate, for lack of a better term. For women the spell is finally breaking and lots of them are saying you know what enough, I deserve a man I think is a good catch. I deserve the one who I think is handsome yes but is also hardworking and considerate and polite and thoughtful and kind and wants the same things out of life as me. And men are like waaaaah the system is broken because women have their own values and things they want that allow them to reject me, where’s the wife I was promised by male/societal conditioning/propaganda? And among even the ones who have tried to make themselves attractive to women you tell them sometimes that’s life and you don’t get a partner, they say “oh i get it. Men are icky.” No. Men are just people and women are entitled to reject them. Unbelievable.

[thedouble]

“Freedom always has a price.”

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

[boudicasdaughter]

rest in power, marjane satrapi. 1969-2026.

[pmamtraveller]

Head of Medusa by Davide Calandra and Edoardo Rubino (c. 1926)

[pmamtraveller]

The Mermaid Fountain in Urayasu, Japan

[kiefbowl]

I know it's cringe as an american to play devil's advocate for other american's behaviors abroad, but I was reading this reddit thread about annoying american abroad habits, and most were fair, like yeah we dumb & rude I get ittttt blah blah blah. but then there were people complaining that american's will answer "where are you from?" with their town & state and the prevailing attitude was like "isn't that just like an american to think we know all their one horse towns" and idk I think we're just friendly lmao. like I would also take that question as a conversation starter. if I met an austrailian and asked where they were from and they said "australia" i'd be like no shit sherlock lol. I don't know beepboopville queensland, but I can't ask about it if you don't tell me. as if any of us yanks know the majority of the municipalities in the united states. if someone told me they were from googoogaga iowa I'd be like wow, never heard of it. tell me more. so that's the one thing I think ppl are misjudging americans on.

[divorcedwife]

oh i just saw the news… marjane satrapi died :(

[divorcedwife]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died, her family said  Thursday. S

[mariacallous]

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of graphic novel 'Persepolis', dies aged 56 - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/marjane-satrapi-iranian-french-author-graphic-novel-persepolis-dies-aged-56-2026-06-04/

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/marjane-satrapi-iranian-french-author-graphic-novel-persepolis-dies-aged-56-2026-06-04/

[acefuruya]

the longer I sit with obsession the more empathy I start to feel for entity!nikki. this creature that was created solely to love one person with this all-encompassing intensity that needed to be stronger than anything anyone felt in the entire world. entity!nikki whose entire world was just one single focal point; she'd do anything for bear to love her. she didn't know anything when she came into existence, but she was willing to do anything to get this man to fall for her.

it must have been equally terrifying for her as it was for the real nikki to have someone else fight for control over what she perceived as her body. the scene where she's sobbing in the corner, terrified of her dreams is now more sad than terrifying to me. real nikki, who has just been raped by her once best friend hurting so badly that it seeps into entity!nikki's nightmares. entity!nikki who doesn't understand why the thing she wanted so badly is causing her so much pain. why she can't bring herself to lie in bed next to the man who is the center of her world.

and the worst part is bear doesn't even seem to like her. she's trying so so hard; she made a lovely memorial for his dead cat, she waited for him to come home all day without moving an inch, she made sure to be the most doting girlfriend at the party, and he's not pleased by any of it. he seems disturbed and angry and scared and she has no idea what to do to make it better. to make it worse, he keeps asking her to behave like the original nikki but he was the one who wished for her!! she can't be like nikki because nikki was simply not capable of loving bear even a fraction of how much she does!

she can't seem to reconcile it; he wanted her so badly he conjured her into reality and now he doesn't want her anymore. she doesn't know what to do. she tries everything. she obsesses over him, she threatens to hurt herself, she gets rid of that bitch sarah who keeps distracting him and trying to steal him away, and then dresses in her clothes for good measure and he still doesn't want her.

and then finally in a fit of desperation, she makes the wish and for one beautiful moment its all perfect. he's finally looking at her the way she looks at him. and then he's dead and she's lost everything.

her entire existence, from the moment of her conception to her death was painful, and confusing, and so very sad.

[selfvirtue]

i've been trying to understand why the director said that nikki wasn't possessed but your explanation of an entity being created, which is very different than demonic possession, makes complete sense. a life created solely to fufill bears wish, fighting for control over a body she shares with the real nikki. literally learning as she goes and the center of her life constantly meets her with discomfort or anger. reminds me a lot of frankenstein and the creature.

[furiosa-femininst]

[nessa007]

so i just saw obsession