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elijah considering the plantation house (where marcel was originally a slave btw) his sanctuary away from the city is like. well yes that tracks

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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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steven universe has this thing going on where textually he was 100% assigned male at birth but is also narratively/allegorically transmasculine. he's mtm transgender, somehow.

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CRIMINAL MINDS 4.04 "Paradise"

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fun fact about wally and kyle is that the former is a star trek fan and the latter is a star wars fan so in my head i just imagine this being yet another point of contention between them that replaces the serious interpersonal ones that they used to have. like wally doesn't really care that much about either series but brings it up every other week because making fun of kyle is like his number one hobby in life and meanwhile kyle is kyle so they literally never stop arguing about which is better and it drives whoever's forced to spend time with them for even a minute insane.

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one thing i do appreciate is how progressively unhinged natsu gets over lucy during the course of the main series. at the beginning natsu's general attitude is, "ah, lucy's fighting someone by herself? well i'm sure she'll be fine but let me send happy just in case." and at the end of the series natsu is literally just like. If A Single Hair On Lucy's Head Is Harmed, I Will Burn Down The Entire World.

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romy fluff

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Julian Dana William McMahon (27 July 1968 – 2 July 2025)

Well, shit.

Taglist: @holyhalliwells, @phoebehalliwell, @dailycharmedgifs, @wearethecharmedones, @charmedxfanforum, @raith-way, @this-is-my-bisexuality, @prudencemelinda7

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i'm actually okay with love interests where one is like. neutral about murder and whatnot and only chooses to object to it because their love interest objects to it. i love sliding scales of morality and morality chain pets. i do

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in my absence away i forgot how many people are NOT multishippers and therefore how many people hate opposing ships and that going through tags would just. give me a bunch of derogatory posts too

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Jott throughout the years by Lucas Werneck

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In The Pines, Alice Notley/X-Men #129/Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami/X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4, Joseph Harris/THE TRAGIC HERO UPON REACHING THE END OF THE SCRIPT REALIZES HE HAS BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME, Joan Tierney/Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #5, Matthew Rosenberg/Poppies In July, Sylvia Plath

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***SPOILERS FOR HELLFIRE VIGIL***

MY BABIES 😭😭😭

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Little Jean and Scott illustration I drew back in summer after finishing the Phoenix Saga, this moment was so beautiful. Obsessed w them

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happy new year

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"X-men is becoming woke!" I'm sorry, have we been seeing the same series?

The main teacher is a disabled man who uses a wheelchair. The team has a powerful African lady who is literally called a god. In some universes, she is in an interracial relationship with Wolverine. The three most powerful members of the team are Jean, Storm, and Rogue, who are ALL women. Bishop is a smart and powerful black man. Forge is Native American and is super smart and builds cool futuristic tech stuff. One of the protagonists is a chinese-american girl whose love interest is a dark-skinned Latino dude. Mystique is literally gender fluid and married to a woman. Mystique also got the woman pregnant by giving herself a penis, which is how Kurt was born. Kitty Pryde is confirmed to be bisexual. Magick is confirmed to be bisexual. Iceman came out as a gay man. Wolverine dated the literal actually HERCULES in one comic. Deadpool has been confirmed by multiple writers (AND THE MOVIE) to be pansexual, and even has a (VIATNAMESE) nonbinary love interest in one comic. The entire series is about minorities living in a society that despises them.

But yeah, sure. Complain about Morph, a SEXLESS SHAPESHIFTER WHO WAS BARELY EVEN IN THE ORIGINAL SHOW, being nonbinary and having a crush on Wolverine.

Xmen has ALWAYS been woke. It's a metaphor for oppression and how anyone who differs from the societal norm is treated terribly. OF COURSE they're going to have queer characters in there 💀