@thefebruaryfriday

I don’t know who wrote this or why, but this writing is just *chef’s kiss*

**Editing to add: I now know that this was said by Lindy West in her book The Witches are Coming. Good to know! 

This is gold!!!

“toot the bad cone” will never not be funny to me

‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

The second best thing about erotic art is seeing people reject their initial reaction to it. The comments are full of people saying “oh my first thought was,” and, yeah, your first thought was right. The barbarian youth is sexually dominating the old Roman order. If you actually could get your mind out of the gutter you’d be the first animal to ever do so.

so i asked a friend what was up and she replied with this and i feel like i’m in an episode of the twilight zone

i want u guys to know that the university of sussex is constantly graffiti’d with among us crewmates and that the university keep desperately trying to clean it off but some hero with chalk keeps going back for more. the university sign has a permanent stain on the ‘sus’ of sussex

in case you don’t believe me here is photographic evidence

this is an entirely serious institution

Horrible

Beautiful

big dog owners are like this is my dog Stink he weighs 110 pounds and if you don’t let him sit in your lap he will cry and kill himself forever

google search Beautiful rocks near me

you are like a poet of some sort

Hold on, let me look something up real quick

Yeah this is funny

wikipedia is good

my favorite form of comedy is mixing up the words "ambidextrous", "ambiguous" and "bisexual"

Things that would fix the internet immediately:

literally a replica of a Deus Ex gun and 4 cans of diet coke this man is 13 years old I swear to god you could not pay me to embarrass myself like this

TWEETED AT 4 IN THE AM

I thought comedy and free speech was now legal? Unless it’s a tweet about Elon then I guess jail for 1000 years!!1!!1! >:(

i'm sorry but there's been a hilarious development in this story already because today, the DAY after being able to buy a blue checkmark went live, we get these gems

nat a.k.a. Left At London changed her twitter name to "Elon Musk (PARODY)" and tweeted jokes and was shadowbanned within the hour lmao

he's BIG mad about elon parody accounts and wants to make sure you remember free speech is only for racists and nazis, and if you make fun of him with it it huwts his feewings :(

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.