Latest Posts by lrs35 - Page 7
“I was talking with the guys in the band yesterday, and I asked, them, ‘Do you ever look around and see other people doing things like getting their dinner and think, ”She’s normal; he’s normal; he’s normal; she’s normal…they're…all…so…well…adjusted"?’ Which I know isn’t true; I know that everybody’s fucked-up in their own way, but that’s just the way my mind works. I’m always looking at other people, thinking, ‘They don’t do the weird shit I do; it must be so cool to live like that.’“ ~ Fiona Apple, Interview Alternative Press - Oct 1997
“how could you have forgotten that” i forget Everything. unless i remember
Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.
hiii rae!!! so i wanted to ask you this since it sound like ur well versed on this topic and you seem really smart and all, but do u have any recs on what to read for topics like transmisogyny or bioessentialism? i’ve been meaning to read more abt it but I have no idea where to begin
hi!! i am definitely always learning more myself but i would be happy 2 share some recs!!
starting off with bioessentialism:
performative acts and gender constitution, by judith butler, is like. one of the most foundational texts re: gender as a social construct. it can be a bit dense to tackle if you're just diving into this stuff so i recommend taking it slow and really trying to parse through what they're saying--a lot of people sort of skim through this and just take away "gender is a performance!" which at best is a pretty broad simplification and at worst ends up being like a direct contradiction to what butler is saying lol
the logic of gender is another article that is, again, very dense but a very in-depth historical materialist analysis specifically looking at the development of gender as a social construct tied to capitalist economic structures
trans liberation: beyond pink or blue by leslie feinberg is definitely an easier read and another good place to start if you're looking for a text that challenges sex + gender categories
regarding transmisogyny more specifically:
whose feminism is it anyway? by emi koyama is an essay breaking down the logical incoherency of trans exclusionary feminism
fighting fascism in feminism by chanelle gallant is another, more recent article also discussing how trans exclusion is antithetical to feminism
whipping girl by julia serano is where the term "transmisogyny" was first coined
on liking women by andrea long chu is an essay that i personally love bc of the way it shifted my own thinking regarding sex, gender, and desire. chu's writing tends to ruffle feathers but i really like it; i'd also recommend her book females if u dig on liking women
+ if anyone has any recs they wanna add please do!!
I heard so many people talk about romanticizing your life and at first it was annoying but then I was eating an apple and it was red and sweet and I was making an effort to conciously and slowly enjoy my apple because that's what my therapist told me to try to be more in the moment and it was the best apple I ever ate. I ate it slow and really payed attention to the sweetness and the sourness and I was sitting outside under some trees and there was a breeze and I thought: This is a perfect moment, and one day I will wish I had the opportunity to sit here and conciously eat this apple and be happy. Anyways. Try making a big deal out of small things.
going on the internet to stare at things. going to a antique mall to stare at things. going to the aquarium to stare at things. going to an art gallery to stare at things. picking up a book to stare at things. going to the cinema to stare at things. &other such cases
friendship can be so fleeting no wonder humans are so scared to be vulnerable . what do you mean we put our hearts and souls into people only for something as simple as time to rob our bonds … what do you mean some friendships just aren't meant to last forever?? that sometimes we outgrow people we once knew better than the lines on our palms?? when the version of them we have in our heads becomes outdated, when it means nothing that we know exactly how they take their coffee and why they don't talk about their brother. that today I mean the world to somebody who might only think of me on my birthday in a years time. what an open fucking wound.
“available with premium subscription” “will be removed on the 31st” “available free with ads” “rent 4.99 buy 20.00″ “not available in your country” “not available on this device” what if every streaming service fucking killed itself and films ran around their fields free and organic in their natural state
another important thing to remember is 1) u can pick up any hobby at any point in ur life and get outstandingly good at it & 2) the project u've been working on & aren't pleased w the current outcome so far will not be your last. u will draw/crochet/paint/sculpt/write another piece, and another, and you will have many chances to be fully content w your craft. so you should cherish the joy of making art instead of worrying ab the results & think ab how lovely it is that we're all vessels for artistry and we can share the divine act of creation!!!!!
book covers for horror books are so boring nowadays. they need to go back to being gothic as fuck
Girls will say "I just need to lie down for a little while" and then sink into a muddy river and get all their hard.tissues replaced with mineral deposits
snoopy food
pls drink a lot of wine and be extraordinarily well read and buy too much perfume and write a few too many love letters and spread affection and poetry wherever you go
*creepy angelic hymns eminate*
there's something about the fact that Sirius thinks Remus is the spy but he still doesn't leave him. doesn't lock him up. doesn't hand him over to Dumbledore. that i feel like we don't talk about enough. like everyone gets so caught up in the "how could he even think that" that we overlook the "he thinks Remus is betraying them all and he still doesn't walk away." like okay babe, i see the knife. i'm not gonna move. go ahead. drive it in. where am I gonna go? where am I gonna go without you?
babygirl i have pdfs that even i don't know about
me and the bitch i pulled by being in the same google doc at 2am
https://twitter.com/faeslily
*tries to fix sleeping schedule* *makes it worse*
the crushing guilt of being unproductive vs the exhaustion of being burned out. fight.
different viewpoints
was at the minster + saw a class of school children laying on the floor looking at all the architecture 💌
alley cat gives unsolicited advice
poems about the moon 🌒
Worm Moon by Mary Oliver
Moon Song by Roy Ivan Johnson
To Catch the Moon by Chong Bum Kim
Morning Song by Sara Teasdale
Not The Moon by Margaret Atwood
Everyone Is Asleep by Enomoto Seifu-jo
The Sweetness of Dogs by Mary Oliver
The Moon Looked Into My Window by E. E. Cummings
Dear Moon by Warsan Shire
The Poet Of Ignorance by Anne Sexton
Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later by Margaret Atwood
Will You Come? by Edward Thomas
If My Hands Could Peel by Federico García Lorca
Days Of Kindness by Leonard Cohen
The Moonlight by Noah Buchholz
The Moon was But a Chin of Gold by Emily Dickinson
What We Have by Warsan Shire
buy me a coffee
Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences
small joys
sitting in the sun
reading a book so good you can’t put it down
warm blankets
drinking hot chocolate on cold stormy day
lying in bed while it rains outside
starting a new journal
ice cream
going on long walks while you listen to music
scented candles
long car drives
sitting on the beach, watching the ocean
eat your young (2023) - andrew hozier byrne
clytemnestra (1817) - pierre-narcisse guérin
massacre of the innocents (1824) - léon cogniet
sacrifice of isaac (1603) - caravaggio