I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.
we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!
compiling my favourite responses
they have 97 mental illnesses and are banned from most places
Ah! Love when my "forthcoming" article comes forth while I'm still finalising edits on the one I'm currently writing, so I can update my bibliography with final page numbers (since I've inevitably ended up self-citing due to lack of other scholarship on this text).
This is my article about Láeg, Fer Diad, and Emer all wanting to be buried in Cú Chulainn's grave, and what that might tell us about how relationships are constructed and conceptualised in these texts, with an aromantic slant to queer readings of the overlap.
We need to look not only at how non-normative and unfamiliar relationships are being constructed within these texts, but also how normative and seemingly familiar ones like marriage are portrayed.
Thank you for this 👆 line in particular. And this 👇 section.
In fact, both sworn brotherhood and marriage can be understood as equally important and socially sanctioned possibilities within a spectrum of bonds of voluntary kinship. These relationships do not exist in a hierarchy of intimacy but are all interrelated, narratively and emotionally significant, and neither dependent on nor incompatible with physical desire.
Important reminders both!
There's no need to force a reading of friendship as being romantic or erotic in order for it to contain queer potential, just as – equally – friendship should not automatically be seen as the platonic answer to romantic love or marriage. George Haggerty made a similar point in his essay Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship. And as Finn says, rejecting (ahistorical) assumptions about how these relationships should work and looking at how they actually did is much more fruitful.
(Pun lightly intended.)
Thank you for reading! It's really important to me that friendship studies is understood not only as compatible with but (with the potential to be) PART of queer history/readings. If we want to dismantle the assumption that a relationship must be structured in a particular way because of the genders of the people involved (and if we want to stop assuming we even know what those are and how they're functioning in context) then that also means reassessing the 'normative' relationships, the marriages, the romances, the 'heterosexual' pairs, to see if they actually work the way we think they do, and what possibilities it might offer if they don't. What is friendship? What does it mean? Who had it and who didn't?
And we also need to be more open to the awareness that people have not always organised their communities and families and societies AND FEELINGS the way we organise them now: other ways of living are possible. And therefore maybe we will not always organise them like this, which is one reason it really matters to consider some of the other ways people have done it. We think we know what friendship is because we still use this word; we think we know what marriage is because we still use this word too. But that's like assuming just because we might translate a word as 'shirt', it must be constructed the same as your average modern buttoned plaid shirt, and for quite a lot of history people have been using words now translated as shirt for things that don't remotely match that description.
"wahh i only like enemies to lovers if it's gay bc i don't want men to be mean to women" what about a woman doing heinous shit to a man and that man (who also sucks) being pathetically psychosexually obsessed with her. you people have no fucking vision. if you were willing to read & write women doing actual wrongs this wouldn't be a problem. let that female character commit atrocities with the sole goal of ruining one guy's life while they have weird sexual tension about it
that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao
The earlier in the year you reblog this the better it gets
i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.
it effects everything.
being trans is easier when youre white.
being gay is easier when youre white.
being disabled is easier when youre white.
being a woman is easier when youre white.
being autistic is easier when youre white.
oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.
you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.
never forget this.
three things:
1. it’s true
2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt
3. the comments to this thread melted my fucking eyeballs seriously why the fuck are y’all like this
white people you don’t need to say you’re white when you reblog this btw. you don’t even need to mention it btw
I hate all you for encouraging me to finish that show you’re all evil (drop good fanfics pls)
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You! Have been visited by the gnome of executive function! Reblog to send them along to make sure they visit the next person in need!
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