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Me DJing on the road trip
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Something about this wave of puritanical evangelism in a progressive hat that’s gripping the zeitgeist currently recently caught my attention and I think I’ve figured it out.
I kept seeing advertisements on Instagram about that movie Corsage, about Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The mini-trailer features Vicky Krieps, who plays Elisabeth, being tightly laced into a corset, demanding it be tighter while maids look concerned.
This is par for the course. Empress Elisabeth was famed for her obsession with her looks and her documented fear of fatness that caused both her orthorexia and her chasing an ever-thinner look. I’d be surprised if that wasn’t depicted at all.
And yet there were tons of people in the comments bitching about how the movie was “depicting unsafe corseting practices” and “can’t you people get anything about this stuff right?”
It gave me pause. Maybe not everyone knew about Empress Sisi. So I responded to one commenter, “but it’s truthful. She really did corset like this.”
And the response I got was, “Well, they’re making it look like a good thing! People won’t know!”
And it clicked. It suddenly made absolute sense.
The idea that depiction is equal to endorsement and encouragement is what is currently in the popular belief system.
Empress Elisabeth was well-documented as going through a well-made leather corset every few weeks because she tightlaced so severely. Her thinnest recorded waist size was 16 inches. She frantically kept herself at 110 pounds on a 5'8 frame. She would fast for days and barely ate when she wasn’t fasting. She had herself sewn into her goddamn clothes just to look as thin as possible. You cannot simply overlook this when making historical fiction of her, just like you couldn’t overlook Winston Churchill’s rampant drinking if you wrote things about him. It is intrinsic to her identity and if you remove it you remove something very fundamental.
And because the trailer depicts this facet of her life, everyone decided that the filmmakers were condoning and even encouraging this practice in real life.
Because they cannot conceive of something just existing. Even in fiction, a depiction of something negative must be proof that the creator thinks it’s a good thing. Why else would it be there?
And it was such an enlightening look into how people think. It makes so much more sense.
History, and Sisi’s dangerous tightlacing, be damned.
I do want to point out another thing here that tends to be ignored by antis, which is that how you interpret a text is not universal.
Because the response to “there are upsetting and morally wrong things in life that need to be acknowledged” is always “we’re not saying you can’t EVER bring them up, you just can’t romanticize/condone them! If you show them as good, then people will think they’re good!”
And like, okay. Y'all know the children’s hospital meme, right? The INTENDED meaning by whoever designed it was that it would look like someone dragging a giant red paintbrush around the floor. Fun! And there is obviously at least one person on Tumblr who focused on the theory around the color red and how it’s a positive color (probably not the point of the design, but still taking it in a positive way). And then there were a bunch of people on Tumblr who were like, “Uh, it looks like blood, though?” You’ve got at least three different people who are all looking at the same exact thing and seeing three different meanings.
And that’s just a single fucking color, not even a complex story with a lot of moving parts. I am 100% certain everyone here has at least one story with a moral lesson they interpreted differently than the author intended. (Mine is that episode of Arthur where it’s supposed to be bad that he punched D.W. in the arm for breaking his model plane. BITCH DESERVED IT. PUNCH HER AGAIN.)
It’s not that no story ever romanticizes a bad thing. It’s that regardless of whether someone intends to portray a thing as good or bad, someone else is going to interpret it the exact opposite way. So “it’s okay if you don’t condone it” isn’t useful, because whether the text or author condones a thing is not at all relevant to how some people will interpret the same thing. Like, this is so common WE HAVE A DIFFERENT MEME FOR IT.
ALTBringing it back to Empress Sisi: I am 100% certain that there is at least one person who would see a scene where Sisi is clearly supposed to be neurotic, deeply insecure about her body, and doing things so extreme and unhealthy that the other people around her are clearly judging her for it, and will be like, “Wow!! Corset pretty!!!” Some people are just going to do that.
So, “it’s okay if you don’t condone it” is really “you can’t depict this thing at all because someone might interpret it the wrong way.” Which you will note is NOT allowing people to discuss upsetting things, despite protestations to the contrary.
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reblogging SPECIFICALLY for the End Note which is widely applicable
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I think at this point, my Crow Time comic is a fantasy comic.
It’s the Velveteen Rabbit but stabby.
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Please check out Crow Time on webtoon~
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Crow Time - Statue 2
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Although I am not a necromancer and despise the practice I must admit that this is a most ridiculous statement.
I love this concept. Looking at a necromancies with his undead legions and just going, “what, couldn’t handle living soldiers? supply lines just too complicated for you?” 10/10 response.
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there is no beauty in abuse. don’t let anyone tell you that you are miraculous because you survived. you survived because you had no choice, and there is no poetry to be made from desperation. you are strong because that is who you are. abuse did not make that, you did.
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Posted on June 29, 2023 via idiot with 14,855 notes
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Suit Up! | Iron Man 2
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SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE STAMMERING BLUSHING KISSING WALL SLAMMING GOING TOO FAST— I didn’t catch them all but i am DYING
Reblogging again because I took a screenshot of the side effects…
“Side effects may include: stuttering, stammering, blushing, kissing, hugging, hissing, going too fast, wall slamming, drunken confessions, crying to Hozier, being the little spoon, banter, involuntary snake transformations, and marriage.
Please call your doctor if snake transformation lasts longer than 24 hours
Medication for demonic use only. Use on humans without adequate millennia of preparation may induce seizures, coma, religious conversion, hallucinations, and hiccups”
i am CRINE this is BRILLIANT
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