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François Martin-Kavel, Jeune Femme En Deshabille (Detail), 19th Century
video essay round up!
- The Visual Effects Crisis - conscise breakdown of the history behind the current VFX labour crisis in Hollywood
- Medical Assistance in Dy!ng & the Art of Death - tw for discussion of death, suicide and terminal illness.
- Did Content Kill Culture? - how an oversaturation of streaming services is killing culture in favour of endless content.
- Act Black, Be White: The Secret to Tik Tok Fame - a case study on how white tiktok fame is built on the stolen work of Black creators.
- what makes gen z humor so interesting? - the relationship between so-called gen z humour and “meta-irony”
- The Psychology of the Religious Right - tw for discussions of racism, white supremacy, etc.
- How Spotify Manufactures Gay Culture - fascinating essay on how algorithms are creating an artifical “gay culture”
- WTF is Barbiecore? | Revival of the White Woman Ideal - breaking down the revival of barbiecore/bimbo-core and it’s links to anti-blackness
- “Breeding Kinks” and the fake apocalypse at its core - ever wondered why so many rich men are obsessed with having babies?
- The Holocaust is Not a Metaphor: The Grey Zone (2001) - one of the best video essays on a single film i’ve ever seen. tw for discussion of antisemitism and the holocaust obviously
what are your twenties if not an endless string of the ghosts of who you thought you would become
pathetic wet men collection (3/?)
“you’re so chill” thanks i’m avoiding reality with everything that i have
Lucy Lawless as Xena, 1995.
sleeping when it’s cold: deepest peace imaginable, opportunity to bury yourself in blankets and indulge in the ancient mammalian instinct to curl up and sleep somewhere warm and dark and enclosed, instant and dreamless rest
sleeping when it’s even slightly warm: torturous, only options are kicking off blankets and feeling horribly exposed or laying in your own sweat, impossible to get comfortable, exhausting and demoralizing sisyphean task
livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like…
What humans see:
What Vulcans see:
i love how this implies that gritty is how vulcans see jim
