i don’t ever look at the “for you” feed here, but i was curious, so i peeked in there just now. i think it’s definitely a lot more pleasant and tolerable than twitter on home (which i vehemently refuse to use ever) but there’s that same sense of “if this is your main way of experiencing tumblr, your impression of what the community is like is going to be really different than if you only used the following feed.” the disparity is smaller, but it still felt stark to me
also i kept getting inundated by posts about liking horrible fucked up fictional men. and i’m like i’m not actually a huge enthusiast of them really so the algorithm’s impression of me is totally wrong. i suspect it’s because i posted about p*or l*ttle m*ow m*ows and then immediately posted about shirou ogami’s penis. i need to go like some communist furry art and see where that gets me
i don’t ever look at the “for you” feed here, but i was curious, so i peeked in there just now. i think it’s definitely a lot more pleasant and tolerable than twitter on home (which i vehemently refuse to use ever) but there’s that same sense of “if this is your main way of experiencing tumblr, your impression of what the community is like is going to be really different than if you only used the following feed.” the disparity is smaller, but it still felt stark to me
male gaze is not ‘when person look sexy’ or 'when misogynist make film’
death of the author is not 'miku wrote this’
I don’t think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts
death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what’s in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it’s utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn’t mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot’ - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn’t intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it’s worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it’s there.’ it’s important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it’s important to be able to tell the difference.
male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn’t mean 'finding a lady sexy’ or 'looking with a sexual lens’, it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it’s important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can’t get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery’, you’re really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.
poor little meow meow qualities are kinda like moe for fans of adult men
evil plan to get people to look at my ocs by tagging them as fire emblem thereby gaslighting them into thinking they’re actually fire emblem characters
i finally quit FEH last month when i started OCtober because i realized i’d rather spend a free hour before bed drawing my guys than do gacha chores so they basically occupy the same place as at least one fire emblem in my brain, personally,
evil plan to get people to look at my ocs by tagging them as fire emblem thereby gaslighting them into thinking they’re actually fire emblem characters
ok tumblr let’s use those ToS changes
btw! i made a cohost a while ago that i’m putting some stuff on right now, and i really want that site to get some traction, so here is my page. i’m not sure if i have anything to post on it that i’m not posting on tumblr or twitter already, but i like the idea of it being a more conversational space (tumblr is already pretty conversational for me though)
