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leolaroot:

in tumblr culture the “unemployed” were reveared as a sort of poet/warrior class.

radley-writes:

thedreadvampy:

male gaze is not ‘when person look sexy’ or 'when misogynist make film’

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this’

I don’t think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what’s in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it’s utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn’t mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot’ - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn’t intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it’s worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it’s there.’ it’s important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it’s important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn’t mean 'finding a lady sexy’ or 'looking with a sexual lens’, it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it’s important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can’t get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery’, you’re really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

:whispers: also Death of the Author means you have to exercise self-criticism and recognise the bias YOU as the audience bring to interpreting a piece of work. Yes, your reading is valid. But to what extent are you extrapolating from your own experiences, privileges & lacks of privilege, past traumas, etc.? How might this affect your interpretation of the text?

More people need to understand that part, too.

beguines:

Leila Chatti, “Postcard from Gone”

transastronautistic:

soloveitchik:

ID: screenshot of a tiktok by kelsey! in which a person with light skin and short purple/pink hair looks sheepishly into the camera. The person is wearing a light blue dress with large white collar, and text over them reads “just went out wearing my 1920s clothing and heard a girl ask her mom if i was a ghost to which her mom replied ‘no, i think that’s just a lesbian’”

logophile-teen:

I’m basically just a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind who has high standards.

teathattast:

teathattast:

teathattast:

💯🙏💛🟨👍

Worst part about this is I’ve only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn’t who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is

Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis

cavehags:

miracle workers 3x10, “the end of the trail”

bonus

cerayanay:

cerayanay:

cerayanay:

rapidashmascot:

“I’m like, ‘Okay, she’s a doll. She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire?’ No, I don’t think she could,” Robbie said. “She is sexualized. But she should never be sexy. People can project sex onto her. Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wanted you to see her butt.”

Margot Robbie said Ace Barbie Rights with her whole chest.

Every time I read an interview from someone who worked on this movie it sounds like they went through some sort of spiritual enlightenment

I have more

something2believe:

if there’s anything tumblr has taught me it’s that this guy named franz kafka was in agony 365 days a year

happyheidi:

my sole remaining aspiration is to find a food that tastes as good as Ghibli food looks

(via)

knifefightscene:

I have no class solidarity with white ppl. With that being said rich asians can choke and die in a pool of their own blood lol

derangedrhythms:

She is Scorpio Oct 27th, moon in Libra, last degrees of Aries rising and has her Mars smack on my sun, which is all very appropriate.

Ted Hughes, from ‘Letters of Ted Hughes’ ⁠— Olwyn Hughes, 22nd May 1956

abalisk:

abalisk:

Wild question my friend just asked me but now I must inflict it upon you all. When you were exposed to vampire media as a kid did you

Think they only punctured the skin with their teeth

Or think they sucked blood right through their teeth like fucked up fun straws

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@thebibliosphere seems like this would be in your wheelhouse

both?

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

powerburial: