Anita Ekberg in Hollywood or Bust (1956) dir. Frank Tashlin
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I'm 26. I live in Delaware. I have two cats. My marvel shit is under TheWinterboobear
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Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
tales from the polygon offices
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elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
buzzfeed is on its second week of massive layoffs, including the lovely person who ran the BuzzFeed Tumblrs like BF Unsolved and weirdbuzzfeed, and who did the Dress, and a lot of their UK teams and their national news and investigative reporting on the BuzzFeed News side.
by the way, the current and now former buzzfeed employees just signed a petition asking BF to pay out their paid time off since reporters rarely take it because they’re worked to the bone, and all of them were laid off after having worked there for years.
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yeah, yeah, i know, academia is an evil bourgeois lair of useless elitist white cishet men writing self-congratulatory articles about nothing and groping their brilliant female students’ arses and so on and so forth, but occasionally, it is prudent to let some of those useless academics - plenty of whom are women and/or poc and/or lgbt nowadays, how shocking, and who’ve spent their lives learning EVERYTHING about a certain subject - explain a text or a concept to you, so that you don’t run around after with a wildly inaccurate understanding of smth like what ‘social construct’ means, or what Nietzsche was all about, or what Freud actually wrote or did or said, or inventing already invented strains of feminism, etc etc etc
oh, and while i’m at it - this whole “academia is useless” is a belief that the far-right ideology has been extremely fond of all throughout the last century or so. just saying.
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One of the most interesting things about the Hunger Games books is that despite Panem society being oppressive in literally any other regard, gender doesn’t really seem to… exist, per se.
Katniss spends the majority of the book engaging in male-coded activities, and she doesn’t really care much about her appearance, but this isn’t attributed to her being a “tomboy”. It’s a matter of social upbringing and personal preference.
On the other hand, Peeta spends the bulk of the trilogy engaging in female-coded activities such as baking, using disguises, emotionally manipulating the Capitol people, etc. Like Katniss’ case, this isn’t treated as an unusual thing. The gendered aspect of these activities is never brought up.
Even the love triangle wasn’t really about “tough guy Gale vs sensitive Peeta”. It was about Katniss choosing between the option that ties her to her old pre-Games life, and the option that drives her further into the Capitol’s games.
Same applies to Cinna. He’s a fashion designer but the gendered aspects of the profession are never brought up once in the series. Finnick, too, has shades of subversion of gender. Same goes for Johanna.
Capitol society in particular seems to not really gender-code their clothes much, aside from the basic “dresses are generally for girls”. Males and females dress in similarly extravagant clothing sharing the same color schemes.
Yet it’s all done so subtly that the reader barely notices the subversion of gender, precisely because it’s not brought up.
Either this says something about Collins specifically trying to write a book where gender didn’t factor as much in the story, or it’s a statement about Capitol society being more complex than it seems at first analysis.
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museum gift shop: its that vase you saw
me:
museum gift shop: but really small
me: holy shit
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im hosting a party to find out who sent me anon hate. i bought a polygraph test on amazon for $99. after it is done we will celebrate with drinks and appetizers!