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weirdlookindog · 22 days ago

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Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) - The Repulsive Bed, 1941

“The house has corrupted, and the marriage bed has disintegrated -- turning into a monstrous head of repulsion, whose snout rests on the hip of the nameless figure in black -- thus crystallizing the repugnance of the bed to her” — Clarence John Laughlin

#clarence john laughlin #the repulsive bed #1941 #1940s #southern gothic #gothic #symbolism #dark surrealism #surrealism #art #photography

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shell-th · 2 months ago

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"Referring to his own fraught relationships with women, Laughlin described this ethereal photograph of a woman lounging atop a collapsed, tattered bed in a decaying house as an “Image of those who endure marriage, without love, because of convention. [The] marriage bed becomes repulsive, and part of it turns into a monster head.” The veil across the woman’s face gives her a haunting look, as if she is fading away along with the house around her. The cracks in the wall reinforce the idea of a fractured, failing marriage, while the shadows envelop her in darkness."

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Clarence John Laughlin. The Repulsive Bed. 1941

#art #photography #20th century art #artistic photography #black and white photography #clarence john laughlin #the repulsive bed

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icelogged · 6 months ago

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#evidence of life #:3<3 #໒꒰ྀི⸝⸝/ \⸝꒱ྀིა …nun era over………….hi guys i fell in love yes me i know right yes this oleta : )#probably will [ACTUALLY] be active yk i had to secure the bag and try to make sure the family will love me despite : D #anyways have a good summer yall !#wowwwwwwwww people who have been here since day one know how touch repulsed i was and how i took years to even be okay with kissing irl lol #deadass thought i’d just be kissing girls this summer but right now i’m in bed with a man and our biological son 🐈‍⬛ <3 #life comes at you fast #100 #btw this is my edit like the original didn’t look like this this is the doomer gf version #1k #edit: omggg if you don’t know me the ‘just kissing girls’ might read wrong im just primarily attracted to women and i assumed my big step #into intimacy would be kissing [girls] aka not literally falling in love with some guy who is currently wrapped around me and snoring <33

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unityrain24 · 7 months ago

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hate when people refer to sex as "the bedroom." also hate how "slept/sleeping together" is a way to say "had/having sex together." why do you hate romance. why do you hate platonic. why must everything be about sex. did you really have to use platonic/romantic/nuetral terms and make them about sex. can't you just use sexual terms for sexual things.

#the bedroom is for BED. you can do other things in a bedroom but the main purpose of bedroom is Not Sex!!#i love the bedroom. i want to sleep together. no i am not talking about sex how else am i supposed to word it #you can word sex other ways but you can't word those any more literally #i don't want people to assume sex!!#i want there to be things not implying/all about sex!!!!#unityrain.txt #i'm not even ace (well i guess i'm ace spec. but.) but i think they would enjoy this post #ace #asexual #sex repulsed #romance #platonic

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ogenoger · 5 months ago

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and I'm not happy and I'm not sad

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aroapl · 6 months ago

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Recreated the original friendship/plato favorability flags in full size and high quality, and also made the two that were missing (desired and piqued) to complete the set. This was done for archival purposes for a project I'm working on.

No idea if this has already been done, but if it has I couldn't find them, so here ya go.

The flags from left to right and top to bottom:

Plato Favorable | Plato Indifferent | Plato Averse

Plato Desired | Plato Ambivalent | Plato Repulsed

Plato Piqued | Plato Oscillating | Plato Drained

[Image ID: All the flags have a vertical yellow stripe on the left that takes up a third of the flag. It has a yellow semi-circle coming out of it to the right, and inside of it is a circle that matches the background color and a symbol.

The plato favorable flag has a red background and a white plus sign symbol.

The plato indifferent flag has a light gray background and a black hollow circle symbol.

The plato averse flag has a gray background and a white tilde symbol.

The plato desired flag has a red background and a white check mark symbol.

The plato ambivalent flag has a blue background and a light gray double tilde symbol.

The plato repulsed flag has a gray background and a white minus sign symbol.

The plato piqued flag has a red background and a white up arrow symbol.

The plato oscillating flag has a blue to light blue horizontal gradient background and a white wavy line symbol.

The plato drained flag has a gray background and a white low battery symbol. End ID]

#aplatonic #plato favorable #plato indifferent #plato averse #plato desired #plato ambivalent #plato repulsed #plato piqued #plato oscillating #plato drained #flags #apl #realized after I went to bed that I forgot to do image IDs #that's what I get for doing this at almost 10 pm after working all day #my brain was soup

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duckyfann9871 · 7 months ago

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The asexual x allo dating dynamic is so wack because you guys will have sex like once a month and they’ll be really needy for you but you’re like “?? We literally JUST had sex!” And they’ll be like “no we didn’t, it’s been like 2 weeks” and you have to remember how some people literally do this like every other day HOW

#lol but Fr tho #like my partner will be like pleaseeeee duckyfan let’s make love #and I’m like #but we literally just did that #and they’re like no it’s been three ENTIRE DAYS #and I’m like yes exactly #it’s literally not even been a week #just ace things #like I have to actively remember that some people actually crave this more than once a year unlike me #I wonder how much of this is actually my asexuality and how much of it is the internalized sex repulsion pushed my purity culture #i guess we’ll never know #anyways #Demi #asexual #sex neutral #sex positive #idek #sex neutral asexual #asexual x allo #asexual christian #ik most Christianity is averse to anything queer adjacent #but I’m still a Christian #and I happen to be asexual/ Demi. the terms really resonated with me #you know what I mean #?#anyways gonna go watch ER and go to bed before I meet the Dean tmmrw about my grades :’)#sorry for the novel in the tags #if you made it this far #you deserve a lil treat go get one

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a-blip-of-billdip · 4 months ago

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this isnt what i usually post on this blog but I'm already sick of all the memes and 'jokes'. I am almost certainly leaving the fandom for good now because of the book of bills release and NO it is not because billford's community has an influx of supporters.

So the worship and romanticization of asylums and other abusive practices for mental health have been steadily gaining traction in recent years, especially with the rise of tiktok's toxicity.

SO many people, especially younger people, regularly talk about how they want lobotomies or how women they don't like should be lobotomized. They get tattoos of lobotomy like it's some quirky fun thing and not one of the most horrific tortures someone can endure.

These same people, ESPECIALLY leftists, will look at anyone they disagree with or don't like and say "get institutionalized, loser" or "et therapy" and it's always in a mocking way. it's always in a policing way.

because these people know that mental wards strip everyone of their freedom and their bodily autonomy. they know these places arent for healing--theyre for silencing.

So the amount of people i see treating bill being institutionalized like a good thing---even the writers and alex himself?

Yeah. Im out ✌🏼

#you people try to act quirky and say you like weird stuff and you like crazy people and hate normies #but then when someone isnt a normie and actually does want to change things in radical ways you want to put them in an asylum #i do not want to interact with any of you people!#i still love gravity falls (obviously) but im just... so over the fandom at this point.#even people who LIKE bill are trying to act like this is all a good thing #guess what asylums dont help :) they almost always make things worse!#so in reality if bill ever got out he would just be 100x worse and more vengeful than before! congrats.#Play stupid games get stupid prizes!#gravity falls #antipsych #i seriously dont understand why anyone things mental wards are in any way different than how they used to be a hundred yeears ago.#because they arent. at all. like literally at all.#they forcefully medicate you with pills that you dont need and that actively harm you bc random ass nurses diagnose you with #someething different every other day and ust give you a new pill for every diagnosis #i know someone who was put on antipsychs when not only do they not have a psych disorder but they had a heart condition and #nearly died bc of it. I myself was put on three different pills the very night i went in. they never #even hesitated to wait and see if i would have a bad reaection or if i reeally needed it.#bc why would they when heavily meedicating you makes you unable to think or reaelize what theyre doing is extremely unethical?#i saw multiple people held down and strapped to their beds and given sedatives for doing nothing at all. For simply asking questions.#I saw staff harass and mock and disrespect very speciifc kids (specifically the poc kids.)#I saw staff lie and try to incite fear in other kids and myself.#one of them told me the night before i was cleared for release tat if i said 'im fine' at any point they would keep me for another month.#and that if i didnt continue to take the meds (ssris) that i was overdosing on that they would come grab me in a van and bring me back #against my will.#Keep in mind i was here based off of lies. There was no real reason for me to be in that asylum.#So yeah. literally dont come on this post trying to defend asylums bc i PROMISE you i have more experience in the reality than you #ever could.#Theyre horrible and romanticising it even against a fictional villain is repulsive behavior.

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hostradio · 4 months ago

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sunday headcanon but it's literally me just declaring alarie is 100% unfuckable.

#𝟎𝟎𝟏 : 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥. ◟ ooc .◝#tbd .#( IT'S A SHITPOST BUT IT'S ALSO NOT )#( he's 100% sex repulsed ace to the very core. never done anything no desire to try thank you but no thank you he is uninterested. )#( you do you if that's your thing but it's not his )#( his preferred form of intimacy is unraveling your insides like an unboxing video. )#( he still doesn't know he's aroace he's just '':) !! no.'' he actually thinks he's straight. he is most definitely not. )#( sure you are. let's get you to bed grandpa )

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heytheredeann · 10 months ago

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#prev I see your aro Napoleon#consider: Napoleon rating Gabllya’s kissing based on a review scale only he knows#bonus points for judgemental side eyes

@yallwildinrn posting this here to avoid derailing the post too much, but YES YES YES

He carries around cards with numbers and cards with + and - signs to deliver his judgement. He ALWAYS fucking has them, because he doesn't understand romance so he is never 100% sure that ANY situation is going to be kiss-free

At first Illya and Gaby figure that he's rating their kisses based on sexyness, which like would track when it comes to Napoleon's alloaro ass, right? Except one time he rates the most unsexy, sticky, quick peck on the lips with a 9 and they are extremely confused

He rates a full-blown make-out session a 3 one time and a 7 another time (in their defense, He Was Not Supposed To Be There), and they don't understand what the difference was

Plus, sometimes he rates the kiss high but still gives them the WORST side-eye, they have no idea what is going on in his head but they are so happy to have him there regardless

#napoleon solo #aro napoleon #gallya #tmfu #the man from uncle #not spn #ely has shit to say #bonus points if the rating system is just based on napoleon's fluctuating romance repulsion #he can't control it and he has no idea what its doing half the time so even HE doesn't really know what the patterns are #that or it's something like 'rating based on how perfect the angle their bodies were forming is'#extra bonus points if he joins them in bed sometimes and STILL keeps fucking rating the kisses. where did the cards even come from.#now illya is laughing too hard and they won't be getting anything done #ANYWAY thank you so much for these tags i need more aspec headcanons in my life looool

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sunriseovergotham · 1 year ago

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me: man i really wish i had a romantic partner :((

how i look after imagining being in a romantic relationship: