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“[The] obsession with the body suggests a connection between horror and pornography, one critics have noted before (Williams 1989b, Clover 1992). The horror film, like pornography, dares not only to violate taboos but to expose the secrets of the flesh, to spill the contents of the body. If pornography is the genre of the wet dream, then horror is the genre of the wet death. They each whet the appetites of their respective and overlapping audiences for more, as video rental receipts and the proliferation of remakes and sequels attest. The link between hard-core pornography and hard-core horror or the gore film is captured in the term “carnography” (Gehr 1990, 58), which uses the carnality of both genres as a bridge.

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These disreputable genres violate taboos by privileging the act of showing the body, by figuring what Clover calls “the ‘opened’ body” (1992, 32). They expose what is normally concealed or encased to reveal the hidden recesses of the body, porn through carnal knowledge and horror through carnage. Porn and horror are obsessed with the transgression of bodily boundaries. Both are concerned with the devouring orifice. But whereas pornography is concerned with the phallic penetration and secretions of sexually coded orifices like the mouth (gaping in ecstasy or pain), vagina, and anus, horror is more concerned with the creation of openings where there were none before.”

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing

not everything has to be productive. you are allowed to be a little silly and goofy. you are allowed to rest. take some time for yourself today. there is so much more to life than work, and you deserve to experience it. feel the sun on your face, stretch your body, call a friend, have a little fun. your work will not suffer for it & will be there when you’ve had some time.

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Things that take time & many tries to get right:

  • learning to be a good friend/partner
  • healing from depression, failures or heartbreak
  • becoming amazing at an art or skill
  • overcoming anxiety, insecurities and low body image
  • overcoming the need to isolate yourself
  • changing self-hating thoughts to kinder ones
  • making a real connection with someone
  • overcoming self-defeating and self-sabotaging thoughts
  • learning how to study effectively
  • finding a sense of stability and calmness at your core
  • quitting habits or addictions
  • leaving people and behaviours that turn you into the worst version of yourself
  • getting used to healthier coping mechanisms & mindsets that feel fake
  • treating yourself like you truly care about yourself
  • becoming the person you always wanted to be

this is a poster i made for my call to action assignment in humanities! it's a bunch of basic and easy stretches for people who sit and work at a desk all day (me)

the idea is that you'd put the poster up above ur desk and do the stretches every 30 minutes or so,, the whole routine won't take more than about 6 minutes to complete and when done regularly it can prevent wrist, shoulder, neck and back pain! :)

all these stretches can be done while sitting (although i HIGHLY recommend you stand up and move around while taking a break from working)

ik this gets said a lot but can you IMAGINE the reaction of people in the west if an african or eastern country had a ceremony like this pledging subjugation to an unelected leader and praying he will live forever while its people are starving and freezing to death in unprecedented numbers......... it's obscene and supremely undemocratic and i can't believe it still happens. we are not a liberated people

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everyone has to stop making posts like "the world's loneliest ant has died in secret" its making me sad

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the worlds happiest ant has found large strawberry crumb