rslashrats:

connection

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demoralizedreprobate:

flamingo walked so hbk could run is all i’m saying.

gifs from 1992 wcw wrestlewar

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This joke came to me in a fit of laughter (ALT description provided :3!)

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itscolossal:

Mystery Abounds in Lee Madgwick’s Uncanny Paintings of Derelict Buildings

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thornshadowwolf:

In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more “wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the ‘download now’ overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately).” This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my “reasonable request” I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

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soggy-wet-catgirl:

He’s so fucking stupid <3

Sound on I beg you

Audio: A cartoonish “bonk” as the cat hits the tank followed by a person’s muffled laughter

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depsidase:

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rthko:

I recently saw a post with Fran Lebowitz saying, “a book isn’t supposed to be a mirror; it’s supposed to be a door,” and it made me think about the state of “representation” discourse online. I thought back to an anon I once received from someone who claims to get “secondhand embarrassment” from “drag queens, leather daddies, and kinksters with pup hoods acting like they represent all gays.” Many thought my response was too harsh, that I ought to show more sympathy to people who do not “relate” to nor feel “represented” by these modes of queer being. Blame it on online fandom, blame it on heteronormativity, but we are too concerned with “relatability.” It is the sort of “relatability” advertising executives concern themselves with, or “relatability” of people who treat their online presence as a “brand.” It is a notion I find alien to queer art and culture.

I have never done drag, nor do I consider myself a part of the leather community beyond befriending others who do and owning some gear. I do not “relate” to these expressions in any vulgar, literal sense, but they are still deeply resonant. And how many of these individuals truly “relate” to the images they peform? Drag artists and leatherfolk are purveyors of fantasy. In their daily lives, they might not be bikers, rockstars, pop divas, or mythical beasts, but they reinvent themselves through metaphors and performances. These theatrical performances are no more absurd than the quotidian performances expected by cis straight society. Larry Mitchell writes, “The faggots act out their fantasies without believing them to be real. The men act out their fantasies always proclaiming that they are real.“

This could explain why literal attempts at relatability are often less resonant than campy extravogant fantasies. I once wrote a rant about how Taylor Swift is not a gay icon, and an anon smugly told me, "Taylor makes music for everyone and not just gays.” Yes, I suppose she does make music for “everyone,” in the same way that the Midwestern weather reporter voice is the universal accent of the English speaking world. But diva worship was never about “relating;” rather, it’s about survival through the evocation of patron saints of strength and glamor. Most celebrity or mass media attempts at “relatability” are at best clueless or at worst insulting. I would much rather participate in a campy fantasy, which is in its own right more “real.” Susan Sontag describes camp as the “farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.”

I am not telling anyone to stop pushing for the recognition of diverse stories. This is crucial! But the recognition of queer stories should also come with an understanding of queer modes of resonance. When has John Waters ever produced something "relatable?” Who cares? His work resonates, in fact, more than a lot of “safe” gay media that should be all accounts be more “relatable.” The “average” listener would not necessarily relate to SOPHIE. They may find her work otherwordly or downright unsettling. But she did not produce music for the “average” listener, at least not before the rest of the musical landscape dragged to catch up with her. Adam Zmith writes: “Inside SOPHIE’s words, performances and final act is the queer utopia of always grasping, always dreaming of a freer life.” We are living the wildest dreams of our former, closeted selves, but we are still always grasping, never quite satiated. Queer art is not just autobiographical but aspirational. Let art be a door.

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dad-rock-davos:

the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

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its-gita-time:

its-gita-time:

Saw a cool poster on a walk recently

Reblogging this just to say: I do not have the answers to any of your questions about this poster. I was just on a walk. Thank you.

fairycosmos:

never beating the only capable of doing one task a day allegations

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