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alexis | 26 | she/her
my doll blog is dollofheart

You ever get a craving for a certain art medium and have to scramble for something to do with it? Yeah same. ANYWAY this took a week and it kicked my ass and when my dad walked in he said “Is that perspective collage? Do you hate yourself???” And tbh yeah I was a little insane for that but it was funnnnn and I think I nailed the vibe I was going for!

(Also I spent so long picking out the products on the shelves and I put a lot of thought into it yet you can’t see 80% of them but at least I know)

hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.

it’s s an old song.

it’s an old tale of way back when.

it’s a sad song.

but we’re gonna sing it again.

“girl dinner” “girl math” “i’m just a girl” okay but I am an adult I am six feet tall I am loud as fuck I take up space I am smart and capable. So are you. Why would we want to laugh at jokes where the punchline is that women aren’t? Why would we want to make jokes about being small and childish and incapable? Who do you think laughs at those jokes the loudest?

imo it’s not that deep, or it wasn’t that deep when these jokes were only between women, particularly friends. if i go to goodwill and spend $50 and say “haha girl math!” to my friend who also spent too much money at goodwill, it’s because i’m filled with the joy of acquired trinkets & excited to take them home with me. it doesn’t mean i don’t understand the value of $50, it doesn’t mean i didn’t have $50 to spend. it has nothing to do with girls = dumb because girls already know they’re not dumb. then men got ahold of it and now i can’t say “haha girl dinner” on a pic of diet coke and weed without some idiot accusing me of bimbofying drug addiction or whatever the fuck because they saw a meme post, assuming i have diet coke and weed for dinner every day, but have no idea i actually had a popeye’s 3-piece w/mac & cheese. and a diet coke.

If you spend too much money shopping and decide to blame that on you being a girl as an adult, own it. That’s what you’re doing. You are the one putting that idea out into the world and normalizing it in your social circle. You know you’re not dumb, but “‘girl math’ is when you spend too much money shopping” is not a statement that anyone can make without misogynistic social consequences. If you wanna die on this hill for your right to make sexist jokes go for it, but you are responsible for those consequences as much as anyone else.

It IS that deep, and you know it’s that deep because when you hear men make those jokes you get the appropriate level of angry. Why do YOU want to make jokes where the punchline is that the only math women can do is be bad at budgeting? What do you get out of that?

"i can't benefit from oppressive power structures, i'm literally nice :)" is a disturbingly common sentiment on here and if u express it then i can never trust u again

AND THEY ARENT EVEN NICE!!!

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