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sure are a lot of ostensible Very Serious Feminist Critiques to the effect of "misogyny comes from straight women being too slutty"

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genuinely comedic levels of haterism. honestly kind of admirable at a point.

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im thinking about getting everything in my whole life sorted tomorrow maybe

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i could fuck a thunderstorm if i really put my mind to it

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i don't want to say this on storygraph because it feels weird to shit-talk a memoir where the author can see it, but i need to rant somewhere. i just read the worst book EVER. i was promised interesting stuff about memory and narratives but it was just a bunch of memoir-typical purple prose about Grief and Art AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE WORST PART. she still calls her stillborn child from decades ago her "daughter who died" and honestly spends more time talking about that than she does about her actual alive son. she cries about how All Men(evil) abuse power to exploit All Women(divine womb mothers) and then casually mentions that she used to have sex with her students and moves past that like it was nothing. she was using empathy as an excuse to make EVERYBODY else's problems about Her and even her son going to college was also about her somehow, and she handwaved it all away with "it's completely justified to act like this because my Body carries the Memory of death from my Daughter" are you fucking serious. i hate this woman so muchhhh how are you in your 60s with the mindset and outlook of a 14 year old. also she would not stop talking about wombs. i hate this book

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ur a cowboy like me

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going off of my last post, i do actually see why tumblr is the way it is. the predominant ideas are very strict. and they basically say "you are assigned a predetermined economic class, appearance, and mental illnesses at birth. this is immutable and not under your control, to try to change it is foolishness, to accomplish changing it makes you the enemy."

but when you put it in perspective it literally makes sense why people find comfort in it. if everyone around you says your poverty is your fault and it's your individual responsibility to fix it, you will KNOW that's bullshit. and so it will be incredibly helpful to find people who say the extreme opposite, and therefore you're more inclined to believe those people. same with the appearance and mental illness stuff. maybe the way i formatted the rules earlier doesn't sound like that when you first read them. maybe it actually sounds more like "it's okay to struggle under a system that benefits from keeping you poor, the system isn't your fault, the people insulting your appearance are stupid, and don't pay attention to people who tell you to 'just be happy and stop being mentally ill', that's stupid and you're allowed to react badly to a bad environment." and literally all of that is true too

and now that my priorities and wants are changing maybe i Dont need to do another complete 180 degree shift in views. maybe i can acknowledge the nuance and i wont immediately turn into one of those trump supporters as soon as i inspect one(1) belief critically. i am literally still the same person i was which is someone who doesn't believe in judging strangers (unless they're mean,) someone who believes basic necessities should be free no matter what, and someone who wants to be nice to people and doesn't always succeed but tries. and i dont need to worry so much about going down some hatred spiral because im pretty sure i will always stick to those values. and everybody niceys forever

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i feel like the human body is a lot more modifiable and malleable than we realize. and maybe that's because it feels taboo and unsettling to acknowledge. it's also not a coincidence that most of the industries based around this (tattoos, piercings and other mods, plastic surgery, transgender surgeries and hrt) are all so shrouded in mystery and controversy. there's bigotry involved also of course but the unsettling feeling definitely lies behind some of it and interacts with it

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i bring a sort of "buying random things to feel better" to the weekly budget that future me doesn't really like

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i don’t belong in this culture that’s not clever where i can’t confess my truth and my beloved neither do you

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/ Vincent van Gogh, Still Lives of Flowers

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Oh maysilee

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Do you think Wyatt Callow died early protecting Lou Lou so that people back home made no money on his death. He knew his odds, he knew he wasn't supposed to die protecting someone, that he wasn't supposed to die in the bloodbath, and that's why he did it. One last fuck you to the people trying to make money on his death.

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I just know coriolanus was sweating and pissing himself when he saw all of them, the most rebellious and dangerous victors, holding hands and standing in solidarity. He had NO IDEA what he had just done

Sotr made this scene even more meaningful for me 😭 I hope the bastard was scared for his life

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when you cook for everyone and they tell you how much they like the food