#guys. gnawing the bars of my enclosure

[anemonet]

has anyone here concidered listening to whisper by jack staubers micropop on loop

[clementine221b]

forearms forearms forearms forearms forearms forearms

[scp-4999]

Handing Annabeth the sword and immediately pulling a switcharoo to save her and grover is the most Percy Jackson™️ moment I've ever seen

[emichevy]

Oh to be loved the way Kurt loves women

Yeah this is my Kurt/Storm shipper side showing through HAHA

[openta]

me when I haven't been active on this blog in 3 years but these silly dead boys possess me to create an even sillier comic... anyways hope you enjoy :)

timelapse here ⬇️

[tthesongofachilless]

LANDO NORRIS.

[ruidiancoffee]

am I consuming this show or is this show consuming me

[guacanator]

HEAVY TF2 TUMMY !! !! !!

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND

also heavy needs more love he’s extremely unappreciated just by himself in this damn fandom 🗣️🗣️

[kelin-is-writing]

I might look calm, but my mind is STILL HERE!

[formulawolff]

📸 - toto wolff for mercedes amg petronas

[smoshpostiing]

um. just going feral.

[darkphantommagazine]

I need someone to write a fic about David and Angel’s wedding night. The Patreon audio was not enough. 😔

[wazzappp]

Hnggfhgnvnghh lots of drawing.

Ok so this conversation takes place while they’re on their way to Moreau's bossfight. It has been a LONG time since Lisa has been able to talk to someone else so it kinda just spills out and she’s gotta hit em with the ‘Ah shit I overshared time to clam up so I seem cool and mysterious’ and part of how she does that is by ✨showing off✨.

Robbie is shit at taking hints but he can recognize ‘I’m done talking about this’ because he does it too. At least he gets to learn a little about himself (maybe some stuff he would rather not know. Like how willing he is to kill for his new friend :)

[tickalish]

god the ler mood is back in full swing baby!!! I need to get my hands on someone right now!!!

[overleftdown]

saltburn and consent; an investigative tangent

felix, venetia, and farleigh all consider sex to be transaction rather than emotional. you can see this in the casual way felix approaches sexual intimacy. you can see this in the way farleigh is described to use sex as a tool. you can see this in the way venetia uses sex to fulfill her need for validation. i'd like to explore how this sort of... complicates consent, within these on-screen dynamics.

i'm going to start this off with venetia. in venetia and oliver's first one-on-one interaction, you can see that oliver doesn't yet understand what to do with venetia. he plays his normal, unimposing, nervous, slightly awkward but well-intentioned character. venetia is the one to lean forward, pushing and testing oliver's boundaries. you can infer from later scenes that venetia enjoys testing the boys felix brings back to saltburn. part of this is venetia's own neglectful upbringing; she's starved of attention and therefore validation. she needs to be appealing, and she needs people to want her. this dynamic tangibly twists once oliver has been handed venetia's vulnerability by elspeth.

what is important to understand about this film is that sex is more so about emotion than physicality. this is portrayed in the way that emerald fennell avoids any nudity or exposure in her sex scenes. this is portrayed in the way that oliver exhibits no real confidence until he knows where others are vulnerable. he's unable to exude any strictly sexual dominance; he can only step into his dominance when he knows why these people hate themselves. so, when oliver is given insight into venetia's psyche, he is being given her vulnerability. to me, the sex was merely oliver's way of stripping a wire raw so that a current could effectively travel, so to speak. this is where consent gets tricky. oliver was non-consensually given any real power he had over venetia prior to the actual sex. if oliver had simply slept with venetia without knowing her insecurities or mentioning them, he wouldn't have had any power of her.

now, farleigh. what's interesting is how this dynamic of power, vulnerability, and sex shifts even more with "quickstart." farleigh didn't want oliver's pity, or sympathy. in fact, he recognized that this vulnerability was taken from him by oliver. he might've thought that felix confided in oliver about farleigh's troubles, or maybe he knew that oliver had eavesdropped. either way, oliver entered that conversation believing that farleigh would be just as insecure and starved for validation as venetia (i'm sure farleigh is, but we all react to our misfortune differently). i think the difference between farleigh and venetia in this area is quite interesting. both of them use sex as a way of gaining something. venetia is using sex to fulfill her need for validation, while she grows more and more bored by the material world. she's not afraid of losing anything, she desperately needs to gain something. farleigh does everything to maintain what is tangible, accessible, and real. he sees the material world as an extension of his security, using it as both insurance and escapism. farleigh is constantly terrified, constantly weighing the positives and negatives of his actions.

so, here is oliver, who has yanked the sheet off of farleigh. this is the exposure. instead of biting oliver's proverbial carrot, farleigh does the same to oliver, and in front of everyone. farleigh, just like oliver, understands the power of vulnerability. this is the sort of nightmare where you're suddenly butt naked in front of the whole school. later that night, oliver wills up the confidence to attempt to dominate farleigh, to tame him. again, this isn't just sexual domination. this is "if there's anything i can say to them... if i can help in any way, just ask." this is "we both know i could ruin everything you've worked so hard for. we both know i can help or hurt you." or, at least, that's how farleigh understood it. oliver was planning to ruin farleigh's life no matter what farleigh agreed to. "are you going to behave?" was never just a kinky line to throw around, it's meant to be a threat. what's funny is that oliver already planned to follow through, regardless of whether farleigh decided to "behave." coercive, and painfully hopeless for farleigh.

of course, that isn't to say farleigh wasn't aroused by whatever power play oliver was leaning into. the same goes for venetia. i'm mostly explaining why it's not healthy, or safe, or sane, or consensual. is that not the point of the movie? to question what we find attractive? to stare it in the face and talk about it?

moving on to felix. i'm not really sure where to go with this. i talked about saltburn and its depiction of privilege on an earlier post. to sum it up, farleigh and venetia both have some privilege over oliver, while oliver has some privilege over both farleigh and venetia. oliver has absolutely nothing over felix. both of them are white, both of them are men, and felix happens to be richer than oliver. this is why oliver is... so pathetically desperate for felix. he's obsessed with what he cannot have, control, or dominate. oliver is the vulnerable one, oliver is the one that is eventually laid bare in front of felix. a liar, a manipulator, and pathetically desperate for felix's love. so desperate for someone so powerful to love someone like him.

and, once felix knows this, oliver kills him for it. he fucks the dirt felix is buried under, just to feel like he's taking something after felix took his secrets. oliver understands the power of vulnerability. oliver understands that sex is easy once you've already stolen what really matters from someone. oliver saw the connectivity of human nature and used it, twisted it, just to pull himself closer to felix. oliver's northern star, who he never truly got to have.

[crystallizsch]

Good morning hAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW JAMIL GROOVY OH MY GOSH??? EXPLODES

MAH HI HELLLOO HELPPP PPCKXKZJAK ???? NOO I JUST WOKE UP

IN THE MDIDLE OF THE NIGHTTHFH????

I CANT BELIEVE THIS IM GONNA CATAPULT MYSELF INTO THE OCENA

I AM SCREAMING CRYING BANGING MY FIST ON THE WALL

YES GOOD MORNING INDEED

WALK THAT WALK WITH THAT SNATCHED WAIST JAMIL YES KING

HE IS JUST

JAMIL IS JUST

IM GONNA

LIKE

AAAGGDJDJDLSKNXKDKDJHCBXJEBDBSKLSNDNXDKKSNXD

PLS THIS IS GONNA BE ON MY MIND FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE

HIS EYES??? HIS HAIR ??? HIS LIPS?????

THE WAY HE’S LOOKING BACK?????

SIR

YES I’M ONLY LOOKING ATCHU

VIL SCHOENHEIT WHO????

SIR THIS RUNWAY IS FOR YOU 🫵

THERE IS NO ELSE 📸 📸 📸 📸 📸

I cannot i am simply LOSING MY MIND

I AM SOBBING ROLLING ON THE FLOOR

I CAN NO LONGER BE SAVED

I’M ON MY KNEES

THIS IS MY BREAKFAST

AND I AM EATING WELL