lesbians and bi/pan women are so drawn to the cottagecore/naturecore/grandmacore aesthetic because in a society where women are expected to perform for men constantly and make themselves available to men, the fantasy of living with another woman in a home away from the patriarchal expectations and demands of normal society and a long break from the eyes of men who they’ve felt as slaves to their entire lives. in this essay i will
It’s also a way to take the nurturing we were expected to give to a man, and subvert it. No man will receive my culinary affection, unless I specifically invite him over for a single meal. No man will spend the night in my warm nest. All of the expected performances will be heaped on, instead, a person who is also expected to conform to the same expectations. I take what was supposed to belong to a man, and give it instead to another woman.
the appeal of buzzfeed unsolved is that it’s not just a wacky believer and a strait-laced skeptic bc the skeptic is much weirder as a person than the believer. obviously the classic scully/mulder dynamic is very entertaining but there’s just something about a man who firmly does not believe in ghosts but does believe that it’s ok to eat a pickle floating in a pond “if it’s fresh”
During a couple of test screenings, Chu says one commenter felt the proposal was derivative: “We’ve seen this scene before,” he remembers. Then a group of college-aged Asian-American women responded with, “Fuck you. We have not seen this scene before. This is ours now. We get that moment of the big kiss, and the big proposal. Now I can replace all those images of romantic comedies with our people.” Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. John M. Chu
Tonight I have something to offer that’s not art…it’s a lovely story. The story of the worst thing I have ever taken part in creating.
So!! Back at the beginning of the second semester of AP Calculus we were taking our first quiz on intergrals, and my teacher told us that he wanted to see the big “S” on our quiz or else we wouldn’t get credit.
Now, by big “S” of course he meant the integral symbol, like this:
But the integral symbol is not the first thing my gremlin brain thinks of when I hear “the big S” and then I got a horrible idea, which I then proceeded to draw and show to my Calc teacher…
It has been dubbed the Cursed Integral by my class and my teacher hates it with all of his being
love galore 