what a square.

xxohmycaptainxx: ihaveanarmy-wehaveatimelord: catchmythoughtsmi...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:27:15 -0700

ihaveanarmy-wehaveatimelord:

catchmythoughtsmidair:

tardiscookies:

jamminyamin:

Ballerinas are the most underrated athletes.

GUYS SHE IS SPINNING ON HER TOE.

ALL HER WEIGHT ON HER TOE.

HER TOE.

TOE.

Thank you someone for finally acknowledging this.

People always make ballet seem like such a wimpy, easy sport.

While we are dancing, we have to:

turn out our feet

hyper extended our knees

tuck our buts under

flatten our stomach

close your ribcage (to the point where you cant breathe)

shoulders are down and back

elbows are lifted

hands and fingers are soft

neck is long

use proper head movements

ALL THIS WHILE STILL IN OUR STARTING POSITIONS NOW DO ALL THAT WHILE MOVING AND LOOKING GORGEOUS. AND EFFORTLESS

You try holding your leg by your head without touching it and turning on the tips of your toes and wooden shoes and tell me ballet isn’t hard.

People always say “don’t be a ballerina” and “don’t be such a pussy”

when really ballerinas and vagina’s are probably the most hardcore things

AND BALLERINAS WITH VAGINA’S ARE JUST STRAIGHT UP METAL

SO DO NOT TELL ME BALLET IS FUCKING EASY AND NOT A REAL SPORT

Most ballerina’s are also known for dancing until their feet bleed, bandaging them up and getting back on with the show.

ballerinas are fucking hardcore ok

^^Reasons why male ballerinas are amazing and hot as fuck.

Im so fucking mesmerized/fascinated by the lives of ballerinas. Like nothing can hold my attention like ballet can. it fucking kills me.

gingerhaze: feminspire: alyssakorea: Tumbling over the past...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:01:10 -0700

gingerhaze:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.

I’ve thought about this a lot and I think the answer is MORE, and MORE DIVERSE female characters.

We’re used to having one or two female characters in a cast of mostly men, and hold them to a higher standard because of that. So all of feminism is resting on the shoulders of one female character - and that DOESN’T WORK. Because there isn’t one right way to be a woman.

If casts had more diversity of gender, we could have warrior women and non-warrior women, sexual women and non-sexual women, feminine and non-feminine, and mixtures of all of the above…all are completely legitimate ways to be a woman.

We’re used to seeing a lot of hypersexualized, scantily clad, one-dimensional stereotypes of women without stories or motives of their own. We respond by asking for characters that AREN’T THAT, but we may end up pushing too far in the opposite direction, and demonize traits like sexuality, conventional attractiveness, and traditional femininity as “sexist.” That’s why the most popular female characters are the ones that are most similar to male heroes - the Arya Starks - emotionally distant, unattached, solve their problems with violence, not remotely sexual. That’s fine too of course. I love Arya. It’s just not…the only way to be.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:01:25 -0700

violentqueers: Never.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:50 -0700

violentqueers:

Never.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:01:08 -0700

barba-negrx: my life.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:01:48 -0700

barba-negrx:

my life.

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:00:50 -0700

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700

lauracallaghanillustration: ‘I tried it once. It wasn’t for me’...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:01:01 -0700

lauracallaghanillustration:

‘I tried it once. It wasn’t for me’ – a new character study that gave me a headache.

Lion and maned wolf skeletons – Grant Museum by UCL News

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700

Lion and maned wolf skeletons – Grant Museum by UCL News

i dont think i can do this anymore

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:11:33 -0700

i dont think i can do this anymore

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:00:51 -0700

girlsgetbusyzine: gayblowjob: “This is really NORMAL. Except...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700

girlsgetbusyzine:

gayblowjob:

“This is really NORMAL.
Except we never see it-so it is terrifying and uncomfortable when it happens.
(Mostly because people would laugh or be unkind)

I own a sex shop. Once a woman bled on our chair during an interview. She was horrified and felt ashamed because it was in some way unprofessional. We weren’t bothered. We said ‘what better place to work on being ok with your body than at a feminist sex shop?’
Bleeding is normal and dealing with it is one of the most pervasive ways women are complicit in their silence.

Some men bleed too. How would you react to that? For many men who are Trans the act of bleeding is a security threat.

Fuck off with your lolz.”

Photos by Arvida Bystrom

How can someone as completely fucking cool as me, be so lonely. Where the fuck is everybody? oh...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:09:36 -0700

How can someone as completely fucking cool as me, be so lonely. Where the fuck is everybody? oh yeah, hours away in various directions.

diyorgasms666: marry me

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:00:52 -0700

diyorgasms666:

marry me

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:46 -0700

angstravaganza: boyqueen: molly-ren: boyqueen: deviantfemme: ...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700

angstravaganza:

boyqueen:

molly-ren:

boyqueen:

deviantfemme:

I’ll just be here, reblogging this over and over, during pride season.

And also liberation does not = glitter

I honestly can’t figure out if glitter is what you’re supposed to use to assimilate or resist it

the world may never know!!!

i wrote a critique of glitter politics a couple of years ago and it’s now lost to the ether, but i think i’m ready to give it another go anyway. so like my issue with glitter is basically grounded in an issue with anything that reduces queerness to a homogeneous aesthetic. a few weeks ago (in a different context) i said this, which i think mostly covers it:

howeverrrrrr, the other side to this is that, i mean, i’m a queer artist. if i didn’t think that queer aesthetics are possible/have a role to play, i wouldn’t do a lot of what i do. and i sometimes use materials like glitter, foil curtains, tinsel, etc that i know are going to be read as queer and that i use partly to tie myself into some kind of lineage (because none of us are as atemporal as we like to think). and i’ve liked it when i’ve been in a gallery and seen queer art that uses these markers (i’m thinking specifically of toxic by pauline boudry/renate lorenz if anyone’s curious). it’s the same feeling that i get when i exchange a nod of acknowledgement with a 50 year old butch on the street. a non-physical hug of mutual recognition. i think there’s power in that, i think we need that power, i think visual signifiers can help facilitate that.

also a lot of our signifiers are denigrated for their femininity/frivolity/’tackiness’, and the boring misogynistic ideology behind that is something that queer (as a project) should be destroying. so using these really visceral, ideologically and historically loaded materials (like glitter) makes sense.

i guess what i’m saying is that we need a constantly expanding palette of queer aesthetic tools and the more various and messy and contradictory and confusing they are (like us), the better.

I wish we could meet up and go to the chill spot like the good ol' days. i'm going fucking nuts right now

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:22:57 -0700

I would fucking kill anyone to meet up with ya’ll at the chill spot or anywhere actually. I miss you guys so bad.