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i listened to 60k minutes of music this year, and one of my friends texted me like “omg you literally spent 42 whole days listening to music you’re perfect” while another friend texted me with “are you okay. i listened to 11k and thought that was a lot. there’s not even time in the world for 60k” so split crowd on this one

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That’d actually be my kind of party though

i need to be at a party and spend two hrs alone on the patio thinking

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SAY THAT LOUDER!

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Oye oye, Gens de Tumblr !

Si vous êtes-là en tant que RPG-addict, vous allez être ravis. Et si vous êtes-là pour regarder... on va dire pareil. Une amie a ouvert un forum de ressources d’avatars. Que ce soit du réel ou de l’illustré, de n’importe quel type et n’importe quel style, vous y trouverez certainement votre bonheur ! Vous pouvez vous y inscrire et participer à son développement, ou simplement vous servir si vous trouvez quelque chose qui vous plait. C’est là pour ça, après tout. Et sinon, n’hésitez pas à y passer commande !

La Vitrine, qu’il s’appelle. Alors, qui veut se refaire une beauté?

https://la-vitrine.forumactif.com

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“Nice boots, Tinker Bell!”: Steve Rogers as an allegory for the impossibility of performative masculinity.

There’s nothing new about the consideration of male superheroes as icons of masculinity. Superman representing the pinnacle of wholesome, idealised masculine power, or The Hulk as an allegory for the angry, repressed male id. And these types of masculinity are not innate or inevitable. Masculinity, like all gender roles is a socially constructed performance.

But performative masculinity has a tension to it that performative femininity does not, because performing itself is seen as innately unmasculine. You cannot learn to be a real man, you are or you are not. You can’t make one or learn to be one. Because our story about masculinity is that it just is. It is an ur state of being. The most natural way for a human to be.

Steve Rogers came out of a bottle.

And Steve Rogers’s weapon is a shield. Steve does not attack, he defends. Steve Rogers is the only Avenger who does not thrust forward with a phallic weapon. From Loki’s staff to Clint’s arrows, Black Widow (who pairs so well with Steve because she is a phallic woman) has guns, Tony essentially is a giant penis (sorry, friends, that’s all I see), and of course no one would even pretend that Thor’s hammer isn’t Thor’s penis.

But Steve has a shield. And a shield isn’t particularly feminine. It is not a cup or a sheath or a hole. It is just anti-phallic.

And that is Steve. the non-phallic man. Because you can’t make a man in a machine. Only a strange kind of monster.

Afficher davantage

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