@providenceluvr
I think this is actually a huge part of (certain kinds) of suicidal fantasies. "I cannot live this life. I must die. [So I can live another.]"
I know this is old and very famous but I just discovered this Margiela dress and I'm obsessed...Huge tank top, crumpled and squeezed under a fitted mesh shirt, freezes the fabric's deep folds and sensuous drape, in dramatic style of classical sculpture...obsessed
@ciscoforshort
@waywardnegro
ya it was just so obvious lol. why are yall trying to critique someone for how they hypothetically cd have addressed an actual light skin black person...jessica wasnt that...and it was obvious...thus the confrontation. no need to pussyfoot in calling out frauds!
@Patrick_R_Weir
@kycarrerolopez
Ppl are always so credulous when it comes to artists talking abt their own work. But are artists are known for making shit up!
Ashbery never said any such thing. Here is a recording of him going line-by-line explaining the meaning of 'These Lacustrine Cities': Be dullards incapable of abstraction, fine, I don't really care to defend what I love anymore, but pls do not just LIE
@BurlHorniachek
Would you agree with Mary Karr, who spoke of "John Ashbery and the poetics of coy adorableness" and described him as "A brilliant, modest guy, immensely charming, but the most celebrated unclothed emperor in U.S. letters today—an invention of academic critics."
@Ann81121478
@tyshhawn
you shouldnt date black men 'for the culture' either lmao what does that mean. like are you dating dudes to learn how to cook cornbread in a skillet?? what do you mean
Talented Mr. Ripley is about how class mobility is a shell game, no amount of work or education can ever get you what ‘they’ were born into. Even when it seems Tom’s made it and is safe, he has to kill again—this time his own lover! Also about how great wide-legged pants are
Watched The Talented Mr. Ripley, a movie about how easy it is to fool people who like jazz. (Also a radical manifesto about how, within a corrupt, capitalist hellscape of toxic misogyny and elitism, the only possible healthy relationship is between two openly gay men)
For whatever reason Ive seen a lot of Jameson ribbing (not rlly hate lol) over the past month but GOD Marxism and Form is amazing and literally changed my life
@jaboukie
my bf has a youngish family friend (Italian) who literally pretends to be puerto rican...and when he met me he thought I was pr too (I'm not) and kept being like, "that's how us puerto ricans do it right??" abt like, the fact that I don't like pulp in my OJ lmaooo
@querelleofbros
also a lot of them are just men being somewhat clumsy/physically vulnerable/belying their total masculine facility (some girl said her ick was seeing her bf knocked over by waves in the ocean??) and i genuinely think those kinds of moments endear to me someone lol
@LegoRacers2
@postcyborg
Ya but like why not New York? Surely german community bigger there + already doing correspondence for ny paper? Texas seems so random!
It's weird that Freud just threw a literal carpet over a couch, right? Seems idiosyncratically stylish... And all those clashing patterns....he was sorta like a fin-de-siecle SJP
@dickophrenic
Omg I helped a man who claimed to be part of the black panthers party do some formatting while he was working on ‘party documents’ at the library...then he lamented not becoming a police helicopter pilot??
If you don’t understand what Paul Simon meant when he said “don’t wanna end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard,” your ass is getting buried in the looney tunes plot!
people liking same sex (gay) , weather change , men in their 30s seriously discussing a charli xcx album ,mother against daughter, father against son ,
@anguishreid
I love this story bc in the end everyone got what they wanted. The white masochist got humiliated by a black lady. The black prof now practices "equine somatic therapy." happy endings for all <3
this sorta discounts my favorite psychoanalytic insight, which is that we're ALL thrown into an adult world of messages that necessarily remain enigmatic to us until much later. this premature induction (and its attendant effects--viz., the unconscious) is universal!
The fact that he's right. Like Auden was on speed in the 50s, every writer was back then. But I bet he couldn't handle the cracked out loud they're pushing today....
I never had that phase as a kid where I hated being proximate to babies or being called a baby. Babies had nothing but my respect. You could tell things were really hard for them, but they were making a go of it.
the letter Marx wrote to his dad about abandoning poetry was not as interesting a read as I'd hoped, but here's a great line: "The whole extent of a longing that sees no limit finds expression in many forms and makes 'poetic composition' into mere 'diffusion.'"
*When I see “top” behavior/“bottom” behavior memes that are nearly indistinguishable from cheap war of the Sexes humor*
“I prescribe thirty pages of Hocquenghem for a mind still stalked by the phantom of heterosexuality ☺️“
@MASONLOVEMICRO
@amtrakslut
Pasture raised means hens get at least 108 sq feet, free range/cage-free just ‘some space,’ which cd be three sq ft or worse. I’ll concede it’s an open question how well pasture raised standards are regulated/checked. But w other two options feels like straight chicanery
@postcyborg
He literally has one on 'ghosting' (hates telegrams and the expectation they deserve immediate response bc this pressure inhibits the 'filigree' of one's interiority developing in solitude)
@barnor_hesse
They are shirking their responsibility. Not just academic but historic responsibility. Too easy to say “I won’t comment, I can’t know.” It’s your duty to come to know since everything you are and have is so tangled up in it! And then you can comment
Forego another insipid biopic that ignores Marilyn Monroe’s political commitments, sparkling wit and sensitive awareness (and deployment) of her own iconicity and read this fabulous Jacqueline Rose essay instead
how could an American fix his mouth to talk abt how other ppl eat. you are going to die of colorectal cancer by the age of 35 due to the carcinogens in your Corn Syrup Maple Ham and 500 lb hormone infused chicken. slurp the candy cereal and shut up!
why does literary criticism have to make arguments. why cant you just be like 'did you notice this? wasnt that part beautiful? and then this was cool...'
Ashbery biography was equal parts inspiring and dispiriting. Reassuring to see someone else with a good start flail and flounder until their 30s. The difference is that that guy also wrote “The Painter” at 22.