#standard of beauty

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[scramratz]

My hottest take (and I genuinely do believe this) is that most trans women pass perfectly well. They just don't pass as supermodels. Every "nonpassing" trans woman I've ever met looks like your average midwestern cis woman.

[sukinapan]

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - About Beauty

[casotamasagka-blog]

The Evolution of Beauty Standards

Throughout history, beauty standards have evolved in various cultures and societies. What is considered beautiful in one era may not be the same in another. From ancient times to modern society, beauty standards have been influenced by various factors, including religion, politics, media, and social norms. In this article, we will explore the evolution of beauty standards and how they have been…

[afterthelambs]

This trio is aggressively y2k. Good thing they all died within the decade because I cant imagine them past the 2000s, they all have nokia fliphone face

[donttellmeyourewoke]

SHE HAS THAT MUCH SOUGHT-AFTER MIDDLE EASTER LOOK, WHICH IS KIND OF A UNIVERSAL CONTEMPORARY STANDARD OF BEAUTY...

[virtualtear00]

Thinking about Chinese covers of the Cosmere books

Artist is Jian Guo

[i-looove-dillydallying]

Yeah yeah it’s cool that men are allowed to wear make-up now, but can we finally allow women to stop wearing make-up? Or is that side of the coin not profitable enough

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Marcille hates all of Laios' freak traits but loves them in Falin" is honestly a really good joke but... you guys do know it's a joke right?

It's such a funny one I honestly find it impossible to get mad at even when people mistake it for an actual truth about the characters but JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR

THIS is how marcille reacts when Falin is predictably just as enthusiastic about eating monsters as her brother was.

That is not the face of a woman who thinks this trait is lovely and endearing as long as it's exhibited by the girl she loves. That is the face of a woman who is taking 7d8 psychic damage and yet knows deep in her heart she won't like Falin any less for it.

The way young Marcille reacts to Falin eating berries Marcille can't recognize but Falin knows are safe is pretty similar to how she reacts to eating monsters years later, albeit with more fear than disgust. The difference in her relationships with Laios and Falin isn't just that she's attracted to Falin, it's because the Touden siblings, while similar, are in fact different people. Not just genderswaps of each other.

Also, I think you all already know this, but just to say it: she doesn't actually hate Laios for any of his freak tendencies either. He's one of her best friends. She's just a lot quicker to be outwardly exasperated with him while she's quieter about it with Falin.

[valtsv]

i think it's really really Really funny when there's a human x nonhuman/species difference couple and the majority of other humans are accepting and maybe even envious about it but the nonhuman side are the disapproving ones who are like you could have settled down with a nice normal partner from your own species but nooooooo you just HAD to indulge your stupid little fetish 🙄

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[femconstellation]

Men HATE when I tell them pubic and armpit hair still serve a purpose and body hair isn’t ‘unnecessary evolution-wise anymore’. Because they’ll be covered head-to-toe in thick hair and still say that women shouldn’t have armpit or pubic or leg hair because it serves no purpose and is unhygienic.

And you ask them for a source to their logic that isn’t a shaving company or a company that is funded by the beauty industry and its silence. But I can provide sources for my point lol

[being-kindrad]

Andrea Dworkin's classic Beauty Hurts diagram from Woman Hating (1974), updated for modern procedures, fifty years later.

A first step in the process of liberation (women from their oppression, men from the unfreedom of their fetishism) is the radical redefining of the relationship between women and their bodies. The body must be freed, liberated, quite literally: from paint and girdles and all varieties of crap. Women must stop mutilating their bodies and start living in them. Perhaps the notion of beauty which will then organically emerge will be truly democratic and demonstrate a respect for human life in its infinite, and most honorable, variety. —Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (1974)

[k-wame]

lol his mind is so filthy😍 Interview | Actor CALLUM TURNER 🎥 Evening Standard Magazine · 13.11.2019