Antigone

1) Taylor and Kendrick are friends

2) Taylor's lyricism and entendre when clapping back at snipes taken at her are on par with Kendrick

2. the idea of taylor swift's lyricism being "on par" with kendrick lamar (???)

✨ 𝓔𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓘𝓵𝓵𝔂𝓻𝓲𝓪 ✨

First of all, Elain had no right to just show up in the HoW without Nesta's consent.

Then she started off their conversation with, "Are you enjoying your time up here?" Nesta's not on a vacation, Elain. She's locked up in a cage. Elain is so dense. Could you imagine if someone had asked Feyre if she enjoyed her time in the Spring Court manor after she had been locked up? Feyre probably would have punched said person in their face.

Nesta, justifiably, responds with, "I don't have any choice but to be here, so I don't see how I could be enjoying myself." Nesta calmly expressed to Elain how she was feeling about receiving the Tamlin Treatment.

Elain continued to rage-bait Nesta with, "I know the circumstances for your coming here were awful, Nesta, but it doesn't mean you need to be so miserable about it." Nesta wasn't being miserable. She simply stated her feelings, and Elain decided to make it all about her. If anything, Elain was being the miserable and insufferable one.

Elain then proceeded to act like she's better than Nesta because she handled her trauma differently.

Nesta, once again, opened up about how Elain, Feyre, and Rhys had hurt her feelings. "For packing my things while Rhysand and Feyre told me I'm a worthless pile of shit? Yes."

Then Elain, once again, makes Nesta's feelings and Nesta's imprisonment all about her: "Feyre warned me this might happen." Yet another rage-baiting line on Elain's part. This should have been Elain's opportunity to tell Nesta that they loved her and were trying to help her, but no, she made Nesta's feelings all about her rather than re-affirming to Nesta that they love her. If the takeaway message from an intervention is that the person feels ganged up on and feels like everyone thinks they're a worthless pile of shit, then the intervention was a complete failure. Elain doesn't even apologize or own up to it and instead places the blame on Nesta.

And then Elain's parting rage-bait: "Cassian said he thought the training was helping." It's been two weeks. Nesta's rage isn't just going to go away overnight. She's not going to heal from twenty-five years of trauma in two weeks. Especially not when her cruel and manipulative little sister comes over for the sole purpose of baiting Nesta into a rage.

The Atheist Man: its seriously incredibly beautiful that women are biologically inferior like. we got this social structure from the monkeys. woww.

it is evident that the general tumblr populous has written off most historically black art forms near entirely. this applies to music, film, art history, etc. rather, the art engaged with and popularized in tumblr spheres is that of "good representation" which usually takes the form of idk, a black side character on your tv show whose personality is a huge nothingburger, but is appealing because they are not "problematic."

i think alot of this comes down to people's inability to make judgement calls for themself about what is ethical and what is right. this can be seen in conversations about kink when people say "anything as long as it's legal," sorry but, that is an incredibly bad faith and spineless read. the law should not decide your morals, you should, because anything can be criminalized, and your distinction of a perverse harmful action versus an acceptable one hinges upon your ability to make a decision about what you think is right.

when white allegedly woke users don't engage with black art, what i see is this: a person who does not know how to engage with art in a critical way that is decided by what they think–because this art causes them to confront what they think. often, when white and engaging with black art, you will be confronted by your own racist presumptions, your own back-of-mind urges, and that is the most important part. everyone is racist, because we undeniably live under white supremacy and are thus subject to racist propaganda near constantly (insert sydney sweeney jeans ad).

Doing for self >