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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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hey mickey! hey hey hey mickey!

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Martin Krammer.

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In a better world Satoshi Kon would get the level of praise Miyazaki gets but unfortunately Kon's works don't appeal to the "young witch in the alps solving the mystery of her neighbor's missing cat" crowd so we're fucked I guess

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false guanyin

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Beast Tamer Wife AU.

Shen Yuan transmigrates into a wife and starts fighting for Luo Binghe's favor. Not for the sex or the prestige or anything. Those are nice but not as nice as the beasts that Luo Binghe brings back sometimes. He needs those.

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"Being bi means all the attraction you feel is gay" NOT ME. All my attraction is not only hetero, it's hetero in the most off-putting way possible. I like men in the fetishistic yaoi fangirl way and I like women in the creepy mouth-breathing guy in your workplace way

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Nana

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That's dysfunctional!

A WIP I will hopefully finish at some point buuuuuuut,... also:

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Night Pool # 8, 40 x 32 cm, oil on perspex on wood panel, 2024 Alice Brasser

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yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

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People who try to get Cats to make sense are missing the point. All the nitpicking about "oh but what IS a Jellicle cat, the opening number is vauge and confusing--" It's supposed to be! The unspecific and fantastical allusions in the Jellicle Songs prologue create a purposeful air of mysticism around the Jellicles because cats for centuries have been associated with mystery, witchcraft, granduer. The original book of poems was all about imagining what fantastical and creative things outdoor cats were doing when they were out of the house. Even in the house cats do weird inexplicable things we can't understand, and the musical embraces that sense of confusion because it is the perfect breeding ground for fantastical storytelling. Obviously the sensuality of Cats removes some of the inherent childishness of this concept, but the musical still manages to retain that not exactly child-like but proudly primitive sense of wonder that comes with any kind of anthropormorphization.

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Stefan Hirsch; New York, Lower Manhattan; 1921; the Phillips Collection