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chalk studies for the attendants in dante’s dream by dante gabriel rossetti, 1870

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i feel like a big reason why such large swathes of this website think misandry is oppression worth talking about is due to the fact that so many of them just like. straight up do not interact with or talk to straight people. and don’t get me wrong i’m jealous! but the fact of the matter is that, if you hear “men” and immediately think of your GBT or disabled male friend, you are operating within a worldview that by and large does not factor in the most vastly common kind of man. i have many friends who are straight women and bisexual women who mainly date men, of the cishet variety. the way these women and girls are treated by the men they date is disgusting and so deeply disrespectful that it breaks my heart how nonchalant they are about it!! women are used to this treatment and come to expect it from men and i find that awful!! at best they get treated like pets and at worst they’re broken down and degraded until their life revolves around him. i think a lot of the issue with how people talk about “misandry” and “manhating” is that they don’t have any idea where these sentiments come from and what experiences lead to someone coming to that conclusion. they file it away as a form of bigotry rather than a verdict drawn from years of mistreatment and pent up frustration at how the women around you are treated by men specifically. acting like it’s completely unnuanced is ignorant but that’s also the tumblr special so i’m never surprised, just frustrated that it comes down to a fundamental difference in worldview and experience

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Breezeh aka Briscoe Park (American, b. Cary, NC, USA) - Untitled, 2020, Photography

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telling my deepest darkest secrets to 10k followers on here still feels like no one is listening to you. few can say this about any other social site

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1989 Beatrix Potter rabbit night light

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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) dir. Freddie Francis

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sorry i’m flexing but i’ve never felt the need or desire to be wanted romantically and thank the fucking lord for that. with my delicate fraught mental state and eagerness to please others, i’d have shattered a thousand times relentlessly like a car without brakes forever accelerating down the monstrous road of romantic love and there’s a cliff waiting for me to fly over so i’d crash and burn. how do u all live with it how does it not terrify you and destroy you perhaps it does and the innate human nature for self annihilation has never been stronger

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hate solas or not romance him or not whatever like. i dont understand how he doesnt drive everyone CRAZY as a character.

like. have you ever just sat and thought about. what it must be like. the trauma. the shakespearean sadness of being the only person that remembers DEATH not being a thing.

and you feel so insane because youre going around telling people “no you dont understand the world as it exists now is fucking horrible people used to not DIE.” and theyre like “its fine as it is just let it be and let us live and die as we are”, desperate for you to acknowledge their personhood. Meanwhile your entire race is the victim of genocide and slavery and cultural erasure, what little magic remains in the world is shunned and mages are systematically imprisoned for being fucking born and people die of old age and its because of you. and now its your cross to bear to atone for ALL of that and justify to people that the world could be better but no one else knows anything different so they dont get it and just know they dont want to die.

And so the only way you can cope with the trauma of that is by treating the world and everyone in it like it’s a bad dream.

Its just so existential. It’s like what if you could talk to God and ask him why he made the world but he was just some vaguely pathetic dude and his answer was “it was a mistake and i regret it every day”.

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I couldn't separate them..

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1st ed. vc andrews covers by milton charles & gillian hills

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my mom and i did nothing but watch black butler all day. heaven on earth. true decadence. limitless indulgence.

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i have learned something truly beautiful today

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Elderflower tea and orange blossom honey 🍯 🌼

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Santa Ceia: A Reprodução das Flores, 1990 Nelson Leirner

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James Wright

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realized last night that my workplace will always view me as an expendable resource to be taken advantage of whenever possible and not as a human being. disappointed but not surprised. i will not give them any more of my time that they do not pay me for from here on out.

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Patricia Smith, from Teahouse of the Almighty; “Boy dies, girlfriend gets his heart”