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if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

✦we need space✧

THIS FALL:

TECHDOG 1-4

(art by @twistcmyk)

it's exactly what it looks like

Basically, releasing Visiting Narcissa was a bit of a breakthrough. I made that album in one big marathon, just starting each track where the last one left off until there was an album. I wanted to do that again, and see how far I could go. I was going one track per day for a while but it evolved into something else, I leveled up a couple times over the course of this project and I'm really excited to share it.

starry night ✨

inprnt ~ ko-fi ~ twitch

there's something underneath here...

Friends in Distant Places, chalk pastel on paper

2023

why am i only ever feeling some semblance of Peace when i sit there with Just my headphones on no music no asmr just headphones on my noggin plugged into my puter and my shitty little playlists arent even playing

may i share with you the best video on the internet

Hardware store saturday

✦ Day 'n' Nite ✧

celestial atlases at the NYPL xx

male gaze is not ‘when person look sexy’ or ‘when misogynist make film’

death of the author is not ‘miku wrote this’

I don’t think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what’s in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it’s utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn’t mean ‘i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot’ - it may in fact often mean ‘this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn’t intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it’s worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it’s there.’ it’s important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it’s important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn’t mean ‘finding a lady sexy’ or ‘looking with a sexual lens’, it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it’s important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can’t get a grip on male gaze beyond ‘sexual imagery’, you’re really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

#also like. male gaze isnt just about individual films. its about Trends that are common and happen across All of cinema#pointing to specific movies is about using them as an example to illustrate a point#the point of the concept isnt to be a gotcha at specific movies its about pointing out trends and the limited worldview and scope#of hollywood filmmaking and especially from that specific era#its about how filmmaking reflects a very specific worldview of a very specific dominant group#and it gets a LOT more complicated if you apply it to cinema that isnt western that has its own history#and especially when you bring in the intersections of race class queerness and other identities#that have their own context and their own history and nuances to how they relate to this concept…#you dont just slap it on any random movie you dont like to make it look bad.

Squidward only ever makes artwork based off his visage, it's all very surface level and lacks any emotional depth

Squidward should start making artwork based on how Squidward feels and not how Squidward looks yknow? I feel like he's experimented plenty with self portraits, but none of them really say much about Squidward as a person yknow

got drunk last night and got really emotional over Squidward's potential and how much he holds himself back

RHYTHM HELL is now PLAYABLE!

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