„Gott Hat Ihn Gestraft Und Hat Ihn In Eines Weibes Hände Gegeben“, Wiederholte Ich Für Mich. Nun,

I´m forcing everyone to rewatch/watch this monologue. You have to. I´m sorry, it´s not optional.

Trying to enjoy the last hour and a half of Zuzana Čaputová being my president and trying not to cry

“But that wasn’t really speech, that was an eloquent moaning, a weeping of a sick mortally sick soul.”

— Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 1870

I am whatever gender has the shortest line at the bathroom

Nothing on this world has done greater damage to me than hope.

i legit love linguini from ratatouille so much. his life is such a mess that he just lets a rat take over with no questions asked

every time I read Venus in Furs again and I come to the part where they arrive in Florence I take it so personally. Leopold what do you mean "Suddenly the door is pulled open and the waiter with a theatrical Italian gesture calls [...]"???? Brother he's opening a door. Also "The people are less serious than we; perhaps, they think less, but they all look as though they were happy." please stop Leopold please I am begging you.

long ahh tangent under the cut

and then we could talk here for hours about how Sacher-Masoch fetishezes (pun intended) different cultures and people. He has done it in these examples with Italy but he does something comparable to it in many of his works about Jewish people. Yes, still he was an advocate against antisemism and we should not take that away from him but we need to address how his works do have some pretty blatant antisemitic tropes, here is a good essay about it (academia.edu link and JSTOR link idk which one you prefer). And then obviously the racism in "Venus in Furs" of having black enslaved women as almost "accessories" to the fantasy and the remarks that are written about them which mix racism and misogyny.

sorry rant over y'all can go on with your lives

Venus in furs where everything is the same but there are fleas in Wanda's furs and she catches them so she's constantly itching her scalp

"i respect trans people" do you?

do you respect trans people who look like their agab, whether they want to or not?

do you respect transfems with body/facial hair? transfems who don't wear makeup or dresses or skirts? transfems with low voices? transfems with short hair?

and do you respect transmascs who don't bind? transmascs who wear makeup or dresses or skirts? transmascs with high voices? transmascs with long hair?

do you respect trans people who don't "pass"?