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every once in a while im really like how are we living in a culture where young women are having the hygiene olympics on social media and deciding it’s ‘unhygienic’ to not have a 42 step skincare and makeup routine at the same exact time that 99% of able-bodied people insist that there is nothing unhygenic or rude about not wearing a mask in public during a pandemic.. like what
ALTthis is literally it.. the entire concept of hygiene has been divorced from the concept of preventing the spread of illness and now in some ways almost exclusively refers to this very specific consumerist gendered performance of activities intended to make someone appear more "attractive".
it's similar to how instead of things like pleasurable movement and nutritious food being recognized as human needs being denied to populations systemically through capitalist labor structures and food deserts, it's seen as something well-off people do (rather than access) to "be attractive"
(in which "attractive" is usually shorthand for an unspoken but recognized eugenic ideal. the implication is that the ability to engage in pleasurable non-damaging movement and to get enough nutritious calories to not suffer debilitating deficiencies is a "choice" that will "reshape" people into the eugenic ideal, to obscure that in reality people who are already closer to the eugenic ideal are the people who are given access to these resources that literally all humans need, and then further rewarded for having access to them. & this is almost always connected to systems of anti-fatness & ableism in which fat and disabled people are seen as "choosing" to be "unhealthy" and therefore literally systemically denied proper healthcare. and then they're blamed for any health complications that result from that continuous neglect, forever in a catch-22 of organized abandonment and social resentment).
there's just such a complete distortion of the concept of health. it's completely divorced from literal human rights & collective health & disability justice. it feels like being gaslit seeing self-proclaimed "healthy"/"hygienic" people who are so completely unconcerned with actual issues of human health and safety, constantly doing things that actively endanger the health of other people. it's so backwards.
#is this not how the scene went?
My dashboard be like "this is Eddie and his boyfriend Steve, and this is Steve and his boyfriend Bucky, and this is Buck and his boyfriend Eddie, and this is Ed and his boyfriend Stede"
Gerard Way […] was born three years after [Phantom of the Paradise]’s release but has seen it, by his estimation, 30 times. “When I was doing ‘The Black Parade,’ ” Mr. Way said of the band’s hit 2006 concept album, “I thought about the film all the time, about its message of sacrificing integrity in order to reach more people.”
yo what are you always so stressed about?
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I will never not reblog this
Your pupils contract in response to visible light, but not all of the sun’s light is visible. During an eclipse, your pupils widen because it’s dark, but there’s an outer layer around the sun that mostly only puts out light that’s not visible to us, but that can still damage your retinas. Thus, looking at an eclipse makes your pupils open up like it’s dark, which lets more of the invisible damage beams in.
The sun doesn’t get a critical multiplier on its damage when HP is low. Equipping the moon gives the sun a bonus to backstab.
While all of Europe is responsible, I think it’s also important for people from the UK to acknowledge the particular and direct culpability of our government in what has happened in Israel and Palestine - mostly because it never is. Politicians don’t mention it, the media never mentions it, they tell you nothing about it in school, no one talks about it. I was just saying exactly the same thing about India, but if you ask an average British person if they think their country did a good job of ruling Palestine you’ll get a blank stare, maybe they’ll pull a massively uninformed opinion out of their arse, I doubt many could tell you exactly when it was. But the fact is that when Britain assumed control of the Holy land in 1918 both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism were relatively minor concerns, and when we left in 1948 there was a civil war raging between those two sides. All of the important seeds of the conflict were sown and took root while Britain was in charge. The first major Palestinian uprising of 1936-39 was an anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire.
But today, watching the news, British people are like ‘wow guess we’ll never understand why Jews and Arabs just naturally hate each other’… just like those Hindus and Muslims in India and Pakistan, and those Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland’….. and all of those other places on earth where the legacy of British occupation and partition is division, violence and misery. The Empire is not a distant memory we can feel vaguely proud and nostalgic about (as most British people apparently do) it was a global crime of almost unimaginable proportions and it’s still (in some cases quite literally) blowing up in our faces.
Printing this and hanging it up in the laundry room ☺
tumblr has taught me more about real life than real life ever has
did i just learn a second language
I’ve been waiting for this for ages.
unsafe sigil created.
Guillermo del Toro was like "I hate it when the happy ending is the monster turning human" and by God he's right (he also hates fascism.)
Unpopular theatre opinion: intermissions are bad and I wish we could just have a 2.5 hour performance uninterrupted, like people manage perfectly well at movie theaters. It always just kills my emotional immersion. Set changes and costume changes valid, but the art form could adapt in other ways. Or making the intermission experience somehow also part of the performance? Just something more interesting and intentional than dumping people out into the lobby to buy m&ms.
I do like intermissions myself, with all the getting to chat with my companions about the show and releasing excitement and leg stretching and restroom breaks and all of that, but there are probably a fair number of musicals that don't need to conform to the 2 act + intermission format and might be better off without it.
I can't imagine Les Mis or Wicked without one (although Les Mis is abnormally long anyhow) given the sheer power and finality of Defying Gravity and One Day More, but I think many shows with subtler Act I finales could be done continuously without anyone batting an eye.
I also do think intermissions can be quite helpful in emphasizing time skips between the two acts, but shows without a time skip between the two acts could work well continuously.
And for what it's worth I have seen a handful of people argue that movies (at least the long ones) should have intermissions, but that is a whole other discussion.
the ACTORS need the break 😭😭 movies don't have intermissions because they aren't being performed live. theater is highly physical and even if it isn't like a high energy show they're still under blinding lights for hours and sweating to death. they need a break to breathe lmao
Also I would like more movie intermissions. Christopher Nolan owes us a goddamn pee break.
