As Someone With Like Some Form Of Horror-based Gender And Literally A Headmate That's A Shark Thing...

As someone with like some form of horror-based gender and literally a headmate that's a shark thing... Yeah. This seems correct to me lol

Horror is a love story.

Susan Sontag is really interesting. I remember reading their "notes on camp" a couple years back. Recommend reading that one for sure.

“For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to continue wanting to look like girls.”

— Susan Sontag, “The Double Standard of Aging”

Unfathomably based.

cat girl and her mouse bf

Lesbian nun/priest is kinda gender tho ngl :v

the pope’s silence on lesbianism among nuns is deafening

Could be about both. Let the metaphor have tension. It's more beautiful that way~~ 🩷🩵🤍👅

Changing the definition of woman to mean eat another woman is so real

Another demonkin hiding in plain sight in the tradition?? 👀

I feel this so hard. Demon kin here who has lots of complicated and nuanced feelings about religion, and man I feel some really strong feels. I wish I could be a demon and a saint. I think I'm gonna hold being divine and being demonic in dialectic... I think these may both be true. I don't feel like divinekin but like, man being a demon who preaches hope and humanity is kinda my deal soooo yeag

st. catherine of siena drinking from christ's side wound

in a hagiography of st. catherine of siena, alsace, early 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allem. 34, fol. 43v