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catastrophiccosmic on tiktok // pinterest // in praise of defeat by abdellatif laâbi // pinterest // writing prompts for the broken hearted by eden robinson // fleabag // romeo and juliet by richard brautigan // vincent van gogh

[ID: The “girls when” meme with several stick figures crying, fighting or throwing up and text saying “it’ll pass”. End ID] id from @srdcovka ty !!

in fleabag episode 4 when the bank manager says “i want to take clean cups out of the dishwasher and put them in the cupboard at home, and the next morning, i want to watch my wife drink from them. and i want to make her feel good.” phoebe waller-bridge why would u write that.

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

jily x files au!

I am absolutely frothing at the mouth at how much Rick and Morty is like Richard silken quotes. Somebody sedate me and it better be strong.

Like please

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.” 

THATS RICK FUCK ME OMGOD and

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

BITCH U KNOW THATS RICK AND MORTY (platonically don't be creeps) it's beyond the point of love. It's not whether Rick loves Morty we know he does. BUT HE DOESN'T LOVE HIM IN A WAY HE UNDERSTANDS

It absolutely makes my blood boil when people associate gender with things THEY enjoy doing or a skill that THEY have. Like no, being emotional isn't a 'girl thing' just because you're a girl and emotional, it's a YOU thing. Stop creating dumb ass gender stereotypes that have no evidence other than experience. People need to know the difference between basic personality characteristics and gender.

Literally most of our problems in any type of inequality comes from stereotypes.

Also, since I'm on a feminist rant I'll just complain about some more stuff. Like for example, the whole 'pick me girl' thing. Those girls who use that term not only do they call girls who don't like to wear makeup 'pick me' but they also fully believe that makeup is an essential to being a woman. Like no, woman aren't born with the inner urge to wake up and cover their faces with chemicals, sorry to break it for you.

Also, can we all just admit that makeup is not 'art', it's a way to cover insecurities. Okay yeah i get it, makeup can be fun. But let's be real, girls who do a full face of makeup since they were young are not doing it because they see it as an art, they are insecure and dependent on it to make them feel better about their looks. I don't see what part of contouring your nose to look smaller and spending so much money on the same products rebranded screams 'art'.

I don't think that wearing makeup is necessarily something to get men's attention, but most of the time it's an unconscious desire. We live in a world where everything is about men. Growing up as a girl, you're sort of wired to always value your looks and men's opinions. It's simply the male gaze and ignoring it does no good.

I enjoy wearing makeup every now and then too, but my first instinct when i see a girl saying she doesn't like to wear any isn't to bash her for liking how her natural face looks like.

And if you really think makeup is a good thing for women, I'm afraid you are beyond help.

And don't even get me started on the whole 'girls have mother instinct' bullshit because it makes me want to bash my head against the wall. It's basically a nicer way to say that women are just baby machines. Just because you have the ability to get pregnant doesn't mean that's all you are. Like you are able to open a door but that doesn't mean your whole life purpose and role is to open the god damn doors. Girls don't have mother instincts just because you shove a baby doll into their hands at the age of five.

The Gendered Gaze in the Superhero Genre

Whenever media objectification of women is brought up (eg. “sexualization of female bodies is because our culture is centered around the male gaze”), some people like to counter with “but what about all the male shirtless scenes in Marvel movies?” The point being made is really that women can’t complain about our bodies being sexualized in media because so are men’s! Another argument is “well, women have been sexualized in media for so long, so let’s sexualize the men, too! Equality!” Additionally, many filmmakers/actors/fans like to justify said male shirtless scenes with “Here’s some eye candy for the ladies!”

But here’s the thing. Sexualization of male bodies in film and comics doesn’t actually cater to the female gaze.

Hyper-sexualization of both women and men in comics increased drastically in the late 80s and defined the 90s, especially with the rise of artists like Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld.

You look at this and think “Hot women for straight men to look at and hot guys for straight women to look at. Sounds equal.” Except, female comic readership declined significantly in the 90s (mostly because of the increasing female objectification). Comics were being distributed to direct-market shops, which were largely male-dominated spaces. Even characters who were historically feminist and targeted at girls were being drawn by artists (Mike Deodato Jr.) who openly referred to their art as “porn Wonder Woman,” and were now being targeted at straight men. As far as the creators were concerned, their readers were predominantly male. Male comic creators were completely uninterested in catering to women. Their hyper-muscular male characters were targeted at men as power fantasies, and that’s really all there is to it.

These portrayals? Plenty of straight women appreciate it, sure, but this is still the male gaze. Male directors might convince themselves that it’s “a little something for the ladies,” but it’s not. It’s continuing a male-targeted trend of the genre.

I’ve watched the Superman movies (1970s to now) with several female friends, and my overwhelming observation has been that they are far more affected by Christopher Reeve’s sweetness and adorable awkwardness than they are by Henry Cavill’s muscles.

As a longtime member of internet fandom, I’ve also noticed a major trend in fanart drawn by women and queer people that actually minimizes the muscle definition of male superheroes, frequently accentuating their body fat and generally making them look very soft and squishy instead of bulging veins and eight-packs.

When women routinely prefer character depth to physical attractiveness; sweetness to big muscles; fuller bodies to tightly muscled ones; hand touches to shirtless scenes; it becomes clear that the “we’re doing this for the ladies 😉” argument has little ground to stand on. It’s not about equality. It’s not about pleasing women. It’s about male power and toxic masculinity.

So actually no, directors have no excuse for dehydrating Henry Cavill and Chris Hemsworth to the point of hospitalization so they can “look like a superhero” and give the ladies some eye candy.

Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)

“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)

“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)

“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)

“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)

“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)

“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)

“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)

“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)

“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)

“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)

“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)

“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏

—the male gaze

the robber bride by margaret atwood // the virgin suicides (1999) // at test of objectification theory: the effect of the male gaze on appearance concerns in college women by rachel m. calogero // ex machina (2015) // a woman’s beauty by susan sontag // lolita (1997) // shame is an ocean, swim across by mary lambert // fleabag // fleabag: the scriptures by phoebe waller-bridge

PERFORMANCE ART

my writing, bella hadid at coperni ss23

robber bride - margaret atwood, cassie howard - euphoria

women’s greatest performance; the internalized male gaze - amy grantham

gone girl - gillian flynn

i think it’s interesting that a lot of people’s takeaway was that mortys great fears were ricks actions or ricks self destructive tendencies or his selfishness, because i think the hole showed us the exact opposite of that. like, these are all things morty fears, sure. and for good reason! but they’re also all things morty already knows he fears, these are fears he’s already faced, and has already conquered. hes been abandoned by rick, he’s watched rick succumb to his own self destructive tendencies, he’s seen rick reject happiness and he’s been replaced by rick over and over.

morty is afraid of rick’s suicidal tendencies, but he also knows that rick would never sacrifice himself if it meant sacrificing morty too.

while the hole is taking morty through avoiding facing his greatest fear, it’s showing him what he expects to see. which is everything revolving around Rick.

Morty’s greatest fear isn’t that he doesn’t matter, to the universe or to Rick. his biggest, unconquered fear isn’t that Rick will let himself die before accepting happiness, or that rick will let him die, or choose a fantasy over him, or even abandon him.

his final, greatest fear was his own reliance on rick. and he doesn’t conquer it by no longer fearing it. he conquers it by letting that reliance go.

#god this is insane im going insane #foaming at the mouth

maybe we STOP playing house ,, we're not good at it

This line could've been cheesy, and some people said it was, but Ian Cardoni nailed it. He maintained Rick's characteristic bluntness with a hint of sadness and regret at the end. The face Rick makes after saying that also sells it.

#stop hes growing #love love love #rick and morty

Rick in earlier seasons vs Rick in season 7

Rick in season 1:

Rick in season 7:

Rick in season 3:

Rick in season 7:

Rick in season 3:

Rick in season 7:

Rick in season 4:

Rick in season 7:

Rick in season 4:

Rick in season 7:

Rick in season 6:

Rick in season 7:

quick thoughts around a) ways to make cop look different in minor ways n then b) what if mortyless ricks had, ya know,

no blur

the needless layers on those uniforms..........

#COOL DIANE IM FOAMING AT THE MOUTH #gimme a little emo romance I beg

uhhhm spitballing rickdiane first meeting. what if we were bratty kicked out teens and we happened to buy tickets at the same bus station to go be cooler ppl in a better place? and we were both trans?

( waves hand i also think diane was more abrasive than she's usually portrayed, rick tends to like less squeaky people, "summer reminds me of you", many such things. )

what homemade hormones in ur basement does to a couple

#gorgeous #rick and morty #ahhhhhhh

before tomorrow slaughters us, let me dream

edit: i cant believe i have to say this but no rickmorty interaction please

rams my head through a cement wall.

accompanying mix // flats under cut // if any c137c3st or freak shippers touch this ill be in your walls immediately

“Good luck finding someone who can be told eighty thousand times how replaceable they are.”

Some angst for you 😔🤲 GIF nuked the quality so the clear images are below <3

(proship dni ‼️)

#rick and morty #gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

Cutting his hair means letting her go.

doodle page 2. frankie + diane frankensteinn . morticians and their crazy scientists i stg……….

#Evil Morty

EVERYONE LOOK! the character who was failed by the system and mistreated by those meant to protect them has begun conflating violence with power and aloneness with peace! he will know freedom but he will never know companionship...

#its about breaking from trauma cycles goddamn I love Evil Morty

Evil Morty just being a normal Morty who finally snapped is SO much more gripping to me rather than "Oh yeah, uh he was just evil from the start whatever." No he was one Morty who snapped. Who had enough. Literally any Morty could become Evil Morty at any time when they finally had enough

#hes joining the war on autism on the side of autism

how to end an argument

#bad girl Diane x nerd rick #I will die on this hill #reverse the stereotypessss

RICK AND MORTY S7 EP 10 SPOILERS

THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD! My favorite part is that we get more of a look into who Dianne was as a person.

I always thought that she was smart or was at least a lover of science like Rick was, considering I don’t think it’s likely Rick would have married someone who didn’t share his love of science.

We’ve been able to get hints before of what her personality might have been like through Ricks Garage:

and Ricks Car:

Both have been modeled after Diane and use her voice and both of which have always been sassy or sarcastic towards him.

We also know that Summer reminds Rick of Diane as he’s said twice before in S6 Ep1 and S7 Ep 7 and we all know what Summers personality is like lol

We’ve now gotten the best glimpse at what Diane was like and a hint of what Ricks job was before he invented portal travel:

It’s seems he might have met Diane

1) while he had been working for the government and she may have also been a scientist employed by them

Or 2) she had been arrested by the robot that Rick had built while working for the feds.

(Either way both options are funny)

We see that Diane went to university and received a masters degree and probably loved science like Rick did

We see how her personality is similar to his when they join a drinking contest together, but also how Diane might have been more of a “party person” than Rick was when they were in college.

(I mean this episode suggested she was arrested by a law enforcement drone Rick built)

Considering how she comments on how he used to be a “lightweight” and later on tells him that “her dying made him cooler” (suggesting he didn’t used to be the drunk unhinged man that we’ve become so accustomed to seeing him as) we can assume that she was probably the unhinged one

IN CONCLUSION DIANE IS A SMART AWESOME BADASS WOMAN THAT NERDY YOUNG RICK FELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE WAS COOL IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-

rick and morty 100̶ years! rick and morty forever 100̶ times! over and over! www dot rickandmortyadventures dot com! all 100̶ years! every minute! rickandmorty dot com! the outside world is our enemy! we're the only friends we got!

individual panels

#Perhaps we are always hurtling our body towards

the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love

from the speeding passage of time, and so maybe,

like the dog obedient at my heels, we can walk together

peacefully, at least until the next truck comes.

the thing i think a lot of people don’t realize about rick and morty is that the question isn’t “does rick care about morty?” - it’s very obvious he does - it’s “does rick care enough about morty to change?”