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ds9 meets text posts pt 5 of ????

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awuawuauwuaw do you think he buys them coffee?

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can't resist this Superbat

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it is so important that you are a little bit ugly. please get comfortable with having unplucked eyebrows and nonexistent jawlines and wrinkles. let your blue hair grow out into an uneven pale green and your clothes be old and mend them and modify them until they’re unique to you. wear lipstick which doesnt compliment your skintone and mismatched outfits which went out of fashion 5 years ago. be a little bit too loud and a little bit too passionate and as weird as you can be because oh my god there is nothing more disturbing to me than perfection. beauty is manufactured and sold to us and you need to realise that you are a fucking animal to live a joyful life I am so serious. you cant obsess over aesthetics forever please just live messily and make your body your home however you please.

if you dont do it for you, do it for all the teenagers who will see u in the street and know that they are not obligated to be attractive

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best r/shittyfoodporn post ever. this thing is like a son to me

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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.

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"It's a dog!"

"Yeah, he's not even a very good one. But he's out there alone, and probably scared."

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J.K. Rowling is also a woman, I’m not trying to be that guy but I’m just saying you shouldn’t imply that you love every women.

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they are best friends

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Still don't know which part of my blog makes my ace following so likely :(

Love goes out to everyone explaining either how to write a thesis or how academic research works to me under that poll, to be expected from the piss on the poor website but still baffling

Everyone who's been so open with info and statements, thank you, it's honestly immensely helpful for what I'm doing! I'll try to get back to as many as possible!

your smut ace poll is gonna be so biased bc youre way more likely to have a larger ace following bc of your blog

Yeah I know, I want ace input on this, so I came to the ace fandom website

Thank you for your concern (?) tho

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your smut ace poll is gonna be so biased bc youre way more likely to have a larger ace following bc of your blog

Yeah I know, I want ace input on this, so I came to the ace fandom website

Thank you for your concern (?) tho

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“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

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I can't stop thinking about this scene

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I'm in Star Trek TNG hell!!! (This is Patreon's July postcard if you're interested!)

(parody of the Go For It, Nakamura! manga cover)

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This is for my Master's Thesis on Star Trek fanfiction, I'm trying to see if my hypothesis that the smut aspect of many fanfictions is yes for horny reasons but that other factors are also at play. That had me wondering why I know so many ace people who write absolutely incredible smut, so I'm trying to quantify a few things in some way here. I'm aware this isn't the most academic way to get that data ever, I just need it as anecdotal evidence for my conclusion and set up a dissertation that I can do real research for 🥰

If you'd like to share where the appeal is for you personally, please do 💖

Reblogs also appreciated!

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Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying