Loving The Current Generation Of Spam Account Names

🌵 Curtis’s botanical magazine. London ; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.].

Hi there, My leather and my Tank crew commander leather helm, (From: Bobbasset.com) perfect, I love it!

i hate that “cosmetic surgery isn’t self-care it’s the result of an advertising campaign to sell you on surgical misogyny.” because yes, it’s factually correct, but it also doesn’t interrogate the entire conceit of ‘self-care.’ the wellness industry disproportionately targets women (men are obviously affected too, but i do not remember tiktok having a ‘clean boy aesthetic’ that involved all the thirst trap guys going out and getting identical athleisure sets). ‘real’ self-care, if such a thing even exists, is mostly about executive function and not product. being your own tradwife. taking a bath, making a tasty dinner, meditating, medicating, exercising. and even then, it’s done in the service of the grind. take a bath so you don’t feel as stressed about work, so you can go to work tomorrow without mailing pipe bombs to the ceo. get enough sleep, so you don’t have a meltdown during your lunch break. get some salad in you so you don’t develop a nutrient deficiency and go to the hospital and stop working. or, if you do your work from home and it’s unpaid domestic labor: eat greens so your husband doesn’t leave you because he’s found another younger, hotter wife. lose weight so you can safely birth more kids. the ritualistic elements also are placebos– if you do it you must be doing it for a reason and it must be working.

all of self-care as we know it is in the service of capitalism. even the things that DO work (eating healthy foods, exercising, sleeping enough) to improve mental/physical health and aren’t on their surface things you buy end up serving the patriarchy. you get rewarded for being the ideal capitalist subject. especially if you’re a woman.

so i’m going to be a bit satan-like and argue that yes, plastic surgery IS self-care. but self-care is NOT empowering. nothing we do as individuals is. for women, it’s business expenses all the way down. as i’ve said before, it’s not the ‘choice feminism’ of the libs and it’s not the ‘radical feminism’ of radfems. it’s something both more nihilistic and more coherent than either.

Alexander McQueen ‘The Overlook’ fall 1999

My hot take is that I feel like “ghibli films are pro Japanese imperialism” is a lazy jab that grabs at a few soft spots in the oeuvre to make the cheapest most rhetorically damaging shot it can, and that an honest analysis would generally struggle to say even the most problematic of the movies like The Wind Rises come out of the wash with a positive opinion of imperial Japan. My hotter take is that if you rigorously pull at the threads where the nominally anti-war films thematically collapse, you’ll find the issue isn’t a support of Japanese Imperialism but a lack of a rigorous critique of industrial civilization.

kyla mccallum

average Cis Gamer Bro (top 1% poster on r/darksouls): "sure dark souls 1 had a lot of ambiguity surrounding Gwyndolin's gender, and 'guy raised as a girl' is the stereotypical backstory for Totally Not A Trans Woman Haha Seriously You Guyssss video game characters like Bridget, but dark souls 3 doubles down on masculine pronouns and even has Yorshka referring to Gwyndolin as a 'brother'. maybe there really was just some weird feminine-coded stuff going on with moon magic and Gwyndolin literally is a detransitioned cis man as the canon text suggests."

barista who knew about Bloodborne Kart back before it became a meme (criticizes Vaati for "oversimplifying" his lore videos): "okay so Miyazaki is a cis man who accidentally wrote a trans woman and is too stupid to realize it and tried backtracking later, many such cases. Yorshka is a terf and her 'brother' has C cups in a corset. furthermore,"

"fandom blogger" with commissioned art of their OC as a profile picture (can and will explain Homestuck lore at the drop of a hat): "ummmm i think you're BOTH reaching here, obviously the 'guy raised as a girl' backstory was true but in the Woke way and he's a trans man"

cis gamer bro:

barista:

Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition, (1824–25)

Yohji Yamamoto

Autumn/Winter 2006