req'd by @freyasfolly

man i really need a masterpost with all the reaction image cards huh

text: Hmm! Cursed!

Carrie (1976)

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

Sketchbook doodles. 2023. Mixed Media. Logs and dead tree studies.

Thanks @greenmountainwitch for letting me doodle one of your beautiful photos.

Justin de Villeneuve - Twiggy (Vogue Italia 1969)

Alois Kalvoda (1875-1934, Czech) ~ A Rose Garden, n/d

[Source: artvee.com]

Stella Lunardy

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.

:whispers: also Death of the Author means you have to exercise self-criticism and recognise the bias YOU as the audience bring to interpreting a piece of work. Yes, your reading is valid. But to what extent are you extrapolating from your own experiences, privileges & lacks of privilege, past traumas, etc.? How might this affect your interpretation of the text?

More people need to understand that part, too.

Chazlyn.yvonne

30 DAYS TO STRANGER THINGS 4: DAY THREE

#I really liked the fact that part of the issues between Steve and Nancy is that they both processed the grief and trauma of what happened in s1 in completely opposite ways and couldn’t really understand each#other’s response to it#Nancy’s response to her grief is to be angry that Barb’s death was pushed under the rug and want desperately for it to be acknowledged and#for the people responsible to be held accountable. and she has a hard time going back into normal teenage high schooler life#because she can’t stand that things would just go back to normal after Barb died#but Steve’s response to the trauma of what they went through is to ignore it and pretned like it never happened and everything’s okay#[because] it’s implied that they were all threatened by the govt to keep quiet and Steve is legitimately scared to bring it up#so Nancy looks at him and thinks he’s being callous and uncaring about Barb’s death when it feels like Steve is clinging to#hey let’s be normal teenagers and not talk about it and not get in trouble with the super scary govt who created a monster and threatened us#all at age 17#and like both have legitimate reasons for reacting that way (via bombshellsandbluebells)

Architectural Digest, 1987

Selections from the book, ‘The Best of Neon’ by Vilma Barr (1992)

1 & 3. Designtex Showroom, Houston - by Charles Morris Mount

2. Designtex Showroom, Washington D.C. - by Charles Morris Mount

4 & 5. Sports Connection Spectrum - by Genesis Associates

6. Foodworks, Haywood Mall - by Tvsdesign

7. Fantasy cruise ship - by Joe Farcus

8. Kennedy Center, Union City, NJ - by Planned Expansion Group 

9. Club Zanzibar, Newark, NJ - by Kruger Associates 

10. Pachinko parlor, Tokyo - designer not listed

Caitlin McCormack - Crocheted Skeletal Remains

Ren Faires are for making silly things of no real historical basis and I always have a fun time. Everything except the shirt made by me (yes even the boots) and you can see some WIP here

lonely

Commission for @bnacole.writes on insta

Gunne Sax, Seventeen magazine, April 1983.

Skia - Elsa Tierney