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Big Men / Tiny Men ?
No bitches
you’re twelve years old and you break your father’s hand when he hi-fives you. the first thing you learn is that the smallest slip up can hurt the people you love. your (foster) father smiles and says it’s okay (it’s not).
your parents are not your parents. the idyllic farming community that raised you is not your home. you’re a You-Don’t-Know-What from You-Don’t-Know-Where. all you know for sure is that you’re not human.
so you can fly. so you can run fast. so you can lift cars. so what? why do you even have this power? what should you even do with it?
your father said do what’s right, so that’s what you do.
you stop a robbery. the man’s knife shatters against your skin and you see the same fear in his eyes that you saw in your father’s when you were twelve. you catch a falling child before it can hit the water. his mother looks at you like you’re a god.
they love you, even though they don’t know you. the most powerful man in the world hates you because they love you.
you wanted to write when you were younger. you wanted to tell stories that needed to be told. you never wanted to star in them. you never wanted super-geniuses and demi-goddesses looking to you for advice; like you have any idea how to handle threats to reality itself. you’re just a kid from smallville who’s trying to do the best he can with what he’s given.
you try and get back to the farm as much as you can. it feels normal being back among the open wheat; where everyone smiles because you’re that nice Kent boy.
when you were younger, you pretended to fly, hands out to your sides and running through the tall grass by the river. it doesn’t look as beautiful from on high; the details get lost and the colors of your hometown blur together from a mile above ground.
the problem with flying is that it puts you so far above people you care about
“oh but Superman is such a boring c-“ shut up shut up shut up forever.
One of the keys to Bruce and Clark’s friendship is Bruce going ‘powers shmowers you think your godlike strength makes you infallible and above people? You’re just some dude in a cape. Who’s an idiot.’
Clark: Oh thank God. This guy gets it.
Bruce *expecting arrogance*: wait what
Clark: yesterday I accidentally locked myself out of my apartment in my underwear trying to get the mail and I forgot I could just break the door open. I stood there for an hour waiting for the locksmith to open before I remembered.
Bruce:….
Clark: I’M AN IDIOT OK, I’m just a guy, I have no idea what I’m doing
Bruce: I hate how endearing this is. Stop making me like you
Clark: if I get my mom to make you lemon squares will you teach me how to pick a lock
Bruce: I SAID STOP
lesbian sex that looks like a big cartoon ball of dust with the occasional leg sticking out and i crawl out of it covered in lipstick kisses and get swiftly dragged back in
Anonymous asked:
hi caden i’m curious what you think of “porn addiction”, especially as it pertains to cis men. i see people talking about it all the time online
it's a reactionary framework, recent research suggests that people's distress about their porn habits might be better explained by moral incongruence between their beliefs about sexuality / pornography and their behaviours / desires, and it's a good case study in how reactionary, religious, and moralising claims about variously stigmatised behaviours can masquerade as 'scientific' through the discourse of (the disease model of) addiction. taken to its logical conclusion this understanding of human behaviour, desire, and pleasure simply becomes nonsensical: one wonders how one is supposed to avoid all possible releases of pleasure-mediating neurotransmitters which might influence one to choose certain activities or experiences. of course, the actual claim made by proponents of 'behavioural addictions' like 'porn addiction' is never actually internally consistent in this way; pleasure is instead designated 'good' or at least 'acceptable' if it is accompanying an activity that the speaker considers prima facie enlightening or self-improving: consider the difference in these people's minds between a person who, say, derives enjoyment from reading tolstoy or working a 'fulfilling' job, versus one who derives enjoyment from watching 'real housewives' or jacking off. the aversion here is not actually to all pleasure (which would be an absurd but potentially internally consistent position) but to specific behaviours and activities, with the scientised discourse of 'pleasure' and neurochemicals invoked as a post hoc justification of which specific activities fall into which category. in the case of 'porn addiction' this also all comes with a heavy dollop of bio-essentialism because, as you point out, this is often seen as an 'affliction' of cis men & a violent & self-harming tendency of 'male sexuality' that harms cis women (construed here as innocent, passive, victimised, & almost always white & wealthy).
Sorry I applied a modern lens of analysis to your boyfriend. Yeah I've completely stripped him of historical and semantic context so that I could fit his story and tropes into my own moralistic view of the world. Yeah he's practically flavourless now. In fact this was the original boyfriend and you're a problematic historian for thinking otherwise.
Genius tags from @romanceyourdemons
In order to have good politics, I think you should want to be an anarchist. Like, yeah, we probably need a state, or something functionally much like a state, to make sure antibiotics get manufactured and the roads get paved and people have enough to eat. But you should be in perpetual unease over that fact. When institutions of power begin to overstep their bounds, you should not hesitate to make it their problem. You have to think the Man is fucking bullshit, man.
Like, I think power will probably always exist. If it isn't explicit it'll be implicit. But that doesn't mean you have to accept it, endorse it, support it. You should be putting systems of power through the wringer at every turn. Because power will be better behaved in a society where everyone is a bit of an anarchist on the inside, where we know it's all fucking bullshit.
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boys are often saying this
the fucked up thing is how "Creep" by Radiohead will really get your ass if you hear it at the wrong time. that shit can be stupid and overdramatic or it can have the weight of an atomic bomb dropped on your heart it just depends
It's actually a song about self loathing and grief over perceiving oneself as undeserving of the love they desire. While this has much in common with the core of incel ideology, the key component it that incels blame this perceived inadequacy and poor self esteem on the women they feel entitled to, whereas Thom Yorke in "Creep" is saying "I hate myself for not being deserving of your love." Hope this helps.
Group of friends who are close because they all have the same superpower except no they don't.
As in, they all think the other ones have the same superpower as them, but, in fact, they do not.
For example:
Time traveler who always is running into these other people who seem to know what's going on or what will happen and is so happy he can finally share his travel stories.
Precognitive who is relieved he isn't the only one with the gift and who is glad to get help averting future disasters.
Mind reader with a horrible memory who tries to stay on top of things by skimming surface thoughts. You want to talk about next week's election results and how they changed the next decade? She's with you.
Totally normal guy who thinks the others have the absolute best bit ever and loves playing along.
They save the world at least twice without a single clue shared between the four of them.
I'm going to watch the Barbie movie while being Cognizant of its function as a spectacle of a commodity and enjoy the aesthetic but think the dialogue could use a little more polish from the writers and then I'm going to go home and make sweet tender love with Karl Marx who will have been sleeping in my bathtub all day. And afterwards he will kiss me so tenderly and say "I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. The masses deserve to have as much joy and art in whatever they can access in their every day. It is not through media or representation that we will find liberation but the self activity of the working class in the smashing if the capitalist state. Anyway can you review this fanfiction I wrote of Engels getting down silly style for me before I send it to him?"
very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.
which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason
anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones
Even saying ”I’m so sorry, I completely forgot” sounds marginally better than ” I’m so sorry, I didn’t completely forget, I actually completely remembered. I thought about it the whole time and it stressed me out so much my brain built an insurmountable wall around it.”
apparently the goons over on twitter are now doing "antidepressants turn your kids ace" which sounds a little too much like "vaccines cause autism" and "puberty blockers are permanent" for my liking
actually when you put all of this together it's basically just
a) people hating their kids
b) the same old wacko conspiracy shit about how some external influence must have made those kids Like That but with some kind of two for one 'it's the queers AND the scientists' deal
Maybe stop dating in general if you feel the need to break things your partners enjoy
THIS!!!!!
Finding out that Jim Henson approached Stephen Sondheim to make a partially-puppet movie of Into the Woods and that a table read included Cher as the witch, Robin Williams and Goldie Hawn as the Baker and his Wife, Kyle MacLachlan as Cinderella’s Prince and Steve Martin as the Wolf has sent me into mourning for this timeline.
For those wondering if this is true, Sondheim himself discusses this in his book Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011).
He even wrote two songs for the film: a re-write of the Prologue and a duet for the Baker and his Wife called “Rainbows.”
I am in so much pain now that I know this could have existed. KYLE MCLACHLAN SINGING AGONY??????
Can you IMAGINE??
Danny Devito in his 4'10” glory playing the Giant is a stroke of genius that i mourn never getting to see on screen tbh