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COYOTE // Molly Mendoza
Sumi ink, gouache, gel pen on 7x10” Arches
For solo show at Nucleus House 1/10/25
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you guys try way too hard to be sex positive why do we have to defend straight men whose lives revolve around porn. y'all talk about it like you're fighting to preserve men's rights to watch porn like as if that's not what most men already do freely at no cost to themselves. the majority opinion says they can see women as purely sex objects all they want that's allowed and expected and opposition to that is not the threat you think it is. why are you acting like you think this is part of some lgbt feminist sex positive rights thing like how ridiculous and embarrassing
#for info this post is about a specific other post that you can find on ops blog just to clarify. now that being said. it also is just true!!#enoughhhh with the blind sexpos takes theres really more nuance to it than that!!!#it hurts many many young girls!! there are other discourses we can have about liberating the body and changing society's view on sexuality!!#contrary to what everyone here seems to think#the options are not portestantism vs sexpositivism. there are many secret third options#protestantism* :|
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Earlier today I made a remark that wasn’t necessary
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People often say LOTR is a story about hope. (I'm reminded of it because someone said it in the notes of my Faramir post.) And that's true, but it's not the whole picture: LOTR is in large part a story about having to go on in the absence of hope.
Frodo has lost hope, as well as the ability to access any positive emotion, by Return. He is already losing it in Towers: he keeps going through duty and determination and of course Sam's constant help.
For most of the story, Sam is fueled by hope, which is why it's such a huge moment when he finally lets go of the hope of surviving and returning home, and focuses on making it to the Mountain. To speed their way and lighten the load, he throws his beloved pots and pans into a pit, accepting that he will never cook, or eat, again.
When Eowyn kills the Witch King, she's beyond hope and seeking for a glorious death in battle. It's possible that in addition to her love and loyalty for Théoden, she's strengthened by her hopelessness, the fear of the Nazgúl cannot touch someone who's already past despair.
Faramir is his father's son, he doesn't have any more hope of Gondor's victory or survival than Denethor does, he says as much to Frodo. What hope have we? It is long since we had any hope. ... We are a failing people, a springless autumn. He knows he's fighting a losing war and it's killing him. When he rejects the ring, he doesn't do it in the hope that his people can survive without it, he has good reason to believe they cannot. He acts correctly in the absence of hope.
Of course LOTR has a (mostly) happy ending, all the unlikely hopes come true, the characters who have lost hope gain what they didn't even hope for, and everyone is rewarded for their bravery and goodness, so on some level the message is that hope was justified. But the book never chastises characters who lost hope, it was completely reasonable of them to do so. Despair pushed Théoden and Denethor into inaction, pushed Saruman into collaboration, but the characters who despaired and held up under the weight of despair are Tolkien's real heroes.
(In an early draft of Return, Frodo and Sam receive honorary titles in Noldorin: Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable, respectively. Then he cut it, probably because it was stating the themes of the entire book way too obviously, because this is what Tolkien cared about, really: enduring beyond hope. Without hope.)
Also, people who know more than me about the concept of estel, feel free to @ me.
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women have male loneliness worse
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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email
a lot of anti ai posts on here are awesome because they have people unwittingly revealing their disgust towards people who struggle with literacy despite the fact they don't need to bring it up at all
genuinely ^ nothing calls for or justifies it. sneering contempt for people who can’t “even” write emails (won’t somebody PLEASE think of the emails) is totally redundant to any principled criticism of AI & bullying people on the basis of literacy is pointlessly cruel
if ur argument is “i think the environmental & labor costs of chatgpt outweigh its uses as an accessibility tool” then make that argument? idk. most tumblr users won’t
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no one should be dating anybody this is too ridiculous. everyone please give up the perfect person for you is NOT out there
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happy international women's day
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Mommy needs to be honest kitten. You're not a kitten, you're a puppy, I know. Actually, that's exactly what I wanted to talk to you about. You've let this whole puppygirl thing completely take over our sex life and to be honest it's not really clear to me that you really enjoy it anymore. You really seem stuck in a short-term hedonic spiral from posting about it on tumblr and getting likes. And I know it's hard to get out of that kind of thing but it's really been getting out of control. You said "we're trying for puppies" to my best friend of 15 years. Seriously? How the fuck am I supposed to live that down? No one was laughing. The room was dead silent and I wanted to sink into the floor. And this was days after I was crying my eyes out over the infertility stuff. So you came across as kind of an asshole on top of it. Yeah, I know you didn't mean it like that but you can only point to "bourgeois morality" so many times before it starts to feel like you're just saying "I'm sorry you got offended" you know? Like every time I try to express that some basic social decorum is necessary to preserve relationships I care about you start misquoting Bakunin. And like look you have a lot of positive qualities but I don't think this is working anymore. We both know it hasn't been good for a long time.
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