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Technique: paletteknife on canvas

Woah never thought of it this way🤡

At first Ratajkowski stuck by her argument, telling journalists that “female sexuality and sexiness, no matter how conditioned it may be by a patriarchal ideal, can be incredibly empowering for a woman”. But as the years went by her opinions around that video, and her empowerment, changed. “In my early twenties it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control,” she writes. “Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was.”

Emily Ratajkowski: ‘I had succeeded by commodifying my body. So why was I so unhappy?’ The Sunday Times

Been thinking about this since forever!!

things i do not understand about fics involving or by allosexual/alloromantic people (an incomplete list by an aroace looking for validation):

sexual attraction, obviously. like I know logically that it's a thing but I'm still half-convinced it's made up. I get aesthetic attraction, I can think of people as beautiful, but the urge to have sex is — obviously — not there.

specifically, attraction to sweat? like characters in fics will get sweaty and then people find that attractive? how??? I can logic out wanting to have sex in most cases, but this one makes no sense to me

hating someone & being attracted to them at the same time. It's why I don't like a lot of enemies-to-lovers — if you hate each other, what is the appeal of sex???

reader x character fics. I'm fine reading about romance happening to other people, but why would you want to read about romance happening to YOURSELF? isn't it weird? or is that just the aromanticism in me—

in some contexts I can conceptually understand wanting to have sex, in other ones I can't. Like... sometimes it just seems more realistic to cuddle?

finding anger attractive... ig this is related to the enemies-to-lovers stuff, but even in fics that AREN'T enemies to lovers, arguments turn into sex. why? what is appealing about being angry?

possibly tbc if I encouter anything more, feel free to add on

brought a poem to the gun fight

tfota posts by me

This is in no way a complete list (nor it can be, coz I post a lot about them XD) but I will keep adding to this list in time. I'm kind of just putting together some things I love <3

Jude and Cardan thinking about each other so much that they even dream about one another

Why Madoc didn't allow Jude to declare herself ready for knighthood in the tournament?

“And is it?” “Out of your system?”

Cardan's fear for Jude while she's held prisoner in the Undersea

Karma in tfota

Like father like daughters

Cardan "I am no murderer" ready to kill for Jude

Jude misunderstanding the signs Cardan gave

Madoc respects Jude as a Queen

Jude's uncomfortable love for Madoc

“It meant nothing, and he should forget it.”

“I see a new monarch coming” aka. Cardan's queen aka. Jude

Soft Jurdan

Caring Cardan Supremacy

QoN underrated scene

some small/deep parallels in tfota

Jude and Cardan: heart-less

When Jude's taken a prisoner by the Undersea

How Jude feels in the mortal world and how Cardan sees her in Faerie

What Kaye thought she saw in Cardan's eyes for Jude vs. what he really saw.

tfota parallels with Simon Snow trilogy

Cardan and Baz: I didn't know what I wanted

When they don't think what/who could hurt them

How Cardan and Snow make Jude and Baz laugh

Jude and Baz: maybe I should kill him

the energy between jurdan and snowbaz

Snow and Cardan simply giving heart attacks

tfota parallels with tsc

Jude and Julian: acting behind the scenes

Cardan and Julian making decisions based on ...

Jude and Kit being like: enough is enough, I need to show them.

Cardan Greenbriar and Kieran Kingson

Cardan Greenbriar and Ash Morgenstern

tfota and other small parallels I've squealed over

Jude and Annabeth fooling people with their smiles

Cardan Greenbriar and Oliver Marks

Patroclus, Cardan and Emma, in the dark

Jude Duarte and Delilah Bard, same energy?

they feel like the only real/solid thing in the world

A little of my treasure for you 💗

Süleymân I and Hurrem Haseki-Sultân’s wedding:

The controversial union had to be announced at some point, and the run-up to the Iran campaign in spring 1534, when the contract of marriage was sealed, was an inappropriate time for festivities, especially given the mourning for Suleyman’s mother Hafsa. Now [January 1536] that Suleyman was safely home, Roxelana may have pressed to have her stature as his legal wife made public. […] The royal wedding apparently caught some in the foreign community by surprise. “This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sultans,” remarked the Istanbul representative of the Genoese Bank of Saint George. “The Grand Signior Suleiman has taken to himself as his Empress a slave woman from Russia.… There is great talk about the marriage and none can say what it means.” […] “At night the principal streets are gaily illuminated, and there is much music and feasting,” […] “The houses are festooned with garlands and there are everywhere swings in which people swing by the hour with great enjoyment.” […] “In the old Hippodrome a great tribune is set up, the place reserved for the Empress and her ladies screened with a gilt lattice,” wrote the Genoese banker. “Here Roxelana and the Court attended a great tournament in which both Christian and Muslim Knights were engaged, and tumblers and jugglers and a procession of wild beasts.” The giraffes had necks so long that to the unaccustomed spectator they appeared to “touch the sky.”

– Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire 

hot dog, this article from Vox is like the first thing I've read that actually takes a rational, critical look at the whole Luigi thing. No pearl clutching or gaslighting, good stuff! I clipped it all because its members only (l have an extension that lets me turn javascript on and off with a click so i can read anythang i want)

this is the first thing i've read that was written by someone who "gets it" and isn't afraid to say it

Definitely 💯

“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the Earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always.”

— Truman Capote, Letter to Harper’s Bazaar Editor Mary Louise

Theories and Analysis Masterlist

A probably incomplete list of mostly TFOTA meta from my mind to your unfortunate dashboards. Buckle up, Folks. I’m monologuing.

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