#ISOLATED YOUTH

[polarblazma]

ISOLATED YOUTH 

FEKETE ZAJ 2022

#ISOLATED YOUTH #POST PUNK #LIVE #CONCERT #CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY #MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY #FEKETE ZAJ #FESTIVAL #FESZTIVÁL

[chaiaurchaandni]

Alessandra Sanguinetti, "Portrait of Modern Palestinian Childhood," 2004.

#thinking ab ahed tamimi in the vid where she says the occupation steals our childhood from us #ahed tamimi has been kidnapped from her home by israeli forces under false allegations (as always) #shes just one of many palestinian youths and teens and kids who spend their time in and out of occupation jails #they never get to be regular kids #free palestine #palestine #gaza #glory to the martyrs #long live palestine #death to israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #photography #this is a perfect depiction of life under occupation #bleak bland and isolated

[wanderingmindthoughts]

I think we have an issue about how we characterise young teenage girls as "sexualising themselves" because they start wearing makeup, adult dresses, short skirts and red lipstick.

I mean, when we see a 14-years-old boy wearing a suit and a tie, we don't think he's sexualising himself. we just think "oh look, a teenager that's exploring his autonomy and adulthood by distancing himself a little from children, something which is pretty normal at his age". and you can't tell me that it's because suits aren't sexy, because many people think suits are sexy and it's in fact a common fetish.

but whenever a teen girl tries to dabble with a more adult and "mature" presentation, we think of sex. we think she's sexualising herself. I think the root of this issue is that we have thought-patterns based on a fundamental idea inherited from patriarchy that's rarely verbalised explicitly, but that we believe anyway. this unspoken assumption is that the only difference between a girl and a woman is that you can fuck the woman legally. and when that's only difference between a kid and an adult, we can't help but see every sign of teenage normal growth (social, physical and even mental) through the lense of sex. this puts an unfair pressure on girls because we force them to self-police and second-guess every one of their thoughts because *we* (the adults) cannot help but see normal teenage exploration of adult apparel as sexual -but only when it's a girl teen and female adult apparel.

therefore, a girl tries to visually send a message that she's not a little kid anymore, that's she's growing up and maturing, and rather than acknowledging her development and need for autonomy (like we do with boys), we think of sex. and how could we think otherwise? we sexulise adult women as a reflex, everything from their clothes to their bodies. boys can wear a suit; do girls have any equivalent to that? any form of visual self-expression that signals adulthood that is *not* sexualized?

we deny girls the possibility of a nuanced teenagehood, because we (the adults) cannot see a girl separating herself from childhood without somehow thinking about sex. that's disgusting.

#youth liberation #feminism #isolated thoughts

[whetstonefires]

jiang cheng is a funny character because i fully support either liking him or not liking him, but i see so many takes (especially when he shows up in a supporting role in fic) that seem completely unhinged until i pin down which of what i consider the fundamental facts of his character are just not being applied at all.

it’s like:

1) this is not a mentally well guy, especially after Plot starts happening, and he spends the entire story getting less okay. the only time we ever see any improvement happen in jiang cheng is when wei wuxian piths himself getting the guy out of his suicidal phase, causing many more problems going forward but fixing that one. jiang cheng is not okay and it’s all downhill.

2) he cares so fucking much. like you can write a jiang cheng who is a deeply selfish bastard and you have an excellent textual basis, but it's not because he doesn't care about other people, at least the ones that are his; that's a different kind of problem than the one he has.

he would in fact be less of a problem a lot of the time if he cared less, because he does not have the emotional management tools to be useful about it. also the narrative is conspiring against him but like.

(there are a lot of ways to be selfish and jiang cheng and lan wangji are actually remarkably similar in the basic type of selfish impulses they have. they just have very different childhoods and values shaping how they act about it. and then lan wangji manages to become a mostly functional adult, while jiang cheng is generously an electrified pile of bad coping mechanisms. he's functioning! but like. at what cost.)

3) jiang cheng is dutiful. even the most selfish jiang cheng is someone who perceives and values himself in terms of his function and obligation; he and wei wuxian have different personalities and worldviews, and for that matter expectations placed on them, but they both learned that lesson, presumably together.

4) sort of an extension of 1 and to a lesser extent 2, Jiang Cheng is emotionally insecure as a base state. his parents made some major errors, at least half of which should have been avoidable except they would have had to deal with their own shit first.

it's not out of the question, in a different lifetime where he didn't get several years of compounded irresolvable traumas as his coming-of-age present and then left alone to stew in pain and denial for over a decade, for him to have learned to handle it better and even mostly get over it! that could have happened! it just didn't.

to an extent he's insecure about different things as a grown man than he was as a boy, life experience makes a difference. he's built confidence about some things and become absolutely shattered about others. but he's a person who is easy to wound, in all kinds of complicated identity-related ways, especially by Wei Wuxian specifically, and his kneejerk response to that is to lash out in reply, whether the wounding was intentional or not.

the fact that Wei Wuxian spent most of their lives giving every evidence of being completely immune to being harmed by this reaction masked its toxicity until things got real ugly real fast.

jiang cheng absolutely has the capacity to not do this! it's a deeply rooted bad habit, not actually a fundamental of his character. but it requires self-awareness, will, and (if he's going to keep it up) a lot of practice. it's not the kind of thing that just goes away on its own, even with a bunch of alterations in context.

i don’t have like a closing argument here i just keep finding that takes on jiang cheng that don’t work for me, whether generous or condemnatory, always seem to disagree with me on one of these main points.

#mdzs #cql #jiang cheng #hoc est meum #meta #honestly i'm unable to interpret wangxian entirely in isolation from #the way parts of wwx's character were formed by codependency with jc in their youth #so i keep coming back to jiang cheng even when i don't intend to #i wasn't going to post this lol #but then my browser crashed #and i pieced it back together using textarea cache plugin #and now i don't want to waste the effort #i earnestly believe that jiang cheng is the deuteragonist of the tragedy #that gets superceded by the gay romcom where lwj is deuteragonist #which i think is the funniest use of genre meta as character subtext i have ever seen

[moonshadow-thoughts]

One thing about me is, that I wasted my entire youth by only being able to sit isolated in my room.

#ah yes fun times #thoughts #my thoughts #introvert #introverted #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #textpost #writing #lgbtq #wlw #alone #isolated #socially isolated #social isolation #wasted youth

[exvangelical]

while everyone has the right to raise their child with the ethics they so desire, i do think it’s hilarious when xtians INSIST they aren’t indoctrinating or brainwashing their kids but also refuse to put them in public school (or even private xtian school), only socialize them within xtian circles like youth group or their church’s homeschool co-op, and rigorously vet any secular media so their kids doesn’t “reject the faith.” like uh. if your faith is so weak you have to hide your kids away from anybody on the outside so they never even think to question it…….. it doesn’t exactly sound legit

#text #like god forbid i ever have kids but if i did and they wanted to go to church i’d probably let them #if for no other reason just to show them how boring it is 9/10 lol #like if their friend invited them to youth group i’d be like ‘listen dude if you want to go you can #but it’s mostly just gonna be some out of touch conservative trying to guilt you for being a human being’ #‘like you might get to play a game or have snacks. maybe. depending in how cool the youth pastor is.’ #and if they did go we’d just have a conversation later about what they learned and we could discuss it critically #i would never intentionally isolate my child (especially older kids and teenagers) from opposing viewpoints #i would just hope i taught them enough critical thinking to not fall for emotional manipulation #ex christian #religious trauma

[beetlevsboy]

I want to preface this post by saying that I love the cat king as a character, especially one that has such a major impact on Edwin and his relationship with his queerness and learning to be okay with it; HOWEVER, I also believe that everyone that genuinely believes he should be a love interest for Edwin should read this. (Also if you just like the cat king as a character and want to understand his character better and why his and Edwin’s relationship is not something that would be healthy or “real” for either)

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #the cat king #i do not ship them but I don’t want to hate on those who do (mostly) I just want to kind of inform people of the creators meaning for their #Relationship because I keep seeing people saying they hope they get together in s2 and it’s really confusing to me #Their relationship stems from the cat kings own narcissism and predatory behavior and Edwin’s need for someone to push him into under #Standing that his queerness doesn’t have to be torture and can be something giddy #even if he doesn’t return those feelings #The cat king does like Edwin but he doesn’t know anything about him. He likes the game and then he likes the kindness he’s shown despite #Knowing the cruelty he’s presented to Edwin #Queerness and preformance always go hand in hand #He’s a older secretly insecure character #Edwin is the younger #genuinely kind character that shows him that projecting his hurt will never get him what he wants #It’s about the isolation of queerness and the walls put up and the coping mechanism used to protect yourself even at the risk of hurting #Those just like you. That kiss from edwin was to say “I’m sorry your loneliness had caused you to be cruel. It’s the easiest way to feel. #And while I cannot and will not give you what you want or need #you deserve to feel happy and not like you have to gain the attention of uninterested people #I can’t even explain all my thoughts about their dynamic it’s just so much it’s just about the predadation from older queers because of #The trauma they’ve endured and the cycle of hurt and the way we can break the cycle with kindness while also protecting our youths by #Healing those traumas #Something the cat king learns and accepts #Off topic but I don’t like people defending their age gap because #Yes; Edwin is 86 #but he died with a teenage boy brain and then spent 70 of those years in hell where he certainly was not getting his brain developed while #The cat king has possibly hundreds of years of sentience and experience. The power imbalance is not if y’all. And that part of their dynami #Is actually very clear I think but some people didn’t catch it?? Or didn’t care??? Idk man

[fraseris]

there are a million video essays about the real meaning of fight club but frankly i feel like i get it. i watched it and read the book and i just get it now. sorry guys but i just get it

#text #i am posting #materialism & masculinity & isolation & modern youth culture vs older generations' youth culture #easy movie. honestly #not to say it isnt intricate and purposeful or anything

[elminsters]

i wish i was 20 again :(

#i hate hate hate the way being so isolated during covid fucked me up i would give anything to just redo my whole 20s #i feel like i'm mourning my youth before it's even over and idk what to do or how to make it stop #thinking about my birthday next month is making me physically ill i just want my time back #i still have years left of my 20s but i feel like i'm running out of time idk i'm just scared

[leodanbrock]

Lust For Youth photo by David Cortes

#lust for youth #posh isolation #malthe fischer #hannes norrvide #loke rahbek #wow this is so old yet they look the same! #though loke's demeanour is so different to how it was here..he looks happier these days and i'm glad

[polarblazma]

ISOLATED YOUTH

FEKETE ZAJ 2022

#ISOLATED YOUTH #POST PUNK #LIVE #MUSIC #CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY #FESTIVAL REPORT #FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY #FEKETE ZAJ #POLARBLAZMA

[iamlisteningto]

Croatian Amor & Lust For Youth’s Pomegranate

#croatian amor #lust for youth #pomegranate #posh isolation #music #electronic #ambient #drone #progressive electronic #minimal techno #synth #lofi #experimental #bandcamp

[wanderingmindthoughts]

I come from a family of teachers, so I have been (and still am) in contact with many different kinds of teachers. a frustration that I often hear is that sometimes they will be explaining something about their subject that is legitimately interesting and someone will raise their hand and ask "okay but, will this be in the exam?". it frustrates them because it signals to the teacher that the student isn't really invested in the subject, and is merely focused on passing as fast as possible.

that is a correct assessment, however teachers need to stop complaining about it and start to reflect on how it was the mandatory school system (and by extension, the teachers themselves) who has taught the students that they must be focused on getting at least a passing grade. being actually, personally invested in the subject is optional and often discouraged. yes, it is very good that you enjoy biology so much, but right now you're failing maths, so could you please stop reading about oxygen exchange and do thirty integrals instead?

one of the most important values that mandatory schooling drills into students is that knowledge doesn't actually matter. it doesn't matter if it useful or interesting, and it matters even less if you like it; it doesn't even matter if you will use this knowledge in the far future. in fact, if you can only learn things that are either directly useful to you or that you personally enjoy, you're a bad student. in other words, the content of the course shouldn't matter at all for the student. the only thing that should matter to them is, will this get me a passing grade?

as they spend more and more years in the educative system, students internalise this message and as a result, they often become apathetic about the content they're being presented with. if personal motivation is not important, why bother finding it? a student that only cares about what will be in the exam is acting rationally in the environment they've been forced into.

if, as a teacher, you find this behaviour frustrating or worrying, you should start questioning why you're working in the environment that demands it.

#youth liberation #anti school #isolated thoughts

[izabellwit]

been thinking on this and like. mercy being the fatal flaw in dark road instead of saving anyone... Vidar’s kindness in sparing baldr, in keeping the truth from the underclassmen... odin locking baldr away instead of acting on his own words... even xehanort and eraqus, in their own way, seeing killing baldr as a “mercy”..... god.

#fucks them all up SO bad #khdr #khdr spoilers #kingdom hearts #dark road spoilers #the fact both of them become people who are willing to do 'whatever it takes' to either maintain order or fulfill their goals #because the tragedy of their youth was due in part to another's mercy gone horribly wrong #the fact their view of baldr's death is that its a mercy.... that he couldn't have been saved... #and how this ties into the ways they view darkness... #can't stop thinking about Vidar's line. 'go peacefully. may your heart be your guiding key' #no idea if this thought makes sense I've just spinning this around in my head for like 24 hours #so often I see tragedies being framed as a cause from LACK of mercy or kindness #in this case... there was mercy. there was kindness. they TRIED #and all it did was make things worse #all that said tho don't think im for odin locking baldr away lol that absolutely backfired on all them #isolation is not the answer!! holy shit!!!

[seanmorroww]

Lust for Youth - "Blue Suzuki"

I Am Here Now, When Will You Be Here Again? [Posh Isolation, 2023]

#Lust for Youth #I Am Here Now When Will You Be Here Again? #Posh Isolation #dream pop

[saisons-en-enfer]

And while I know that, these dreams that we carry home Might not come true... What else would we turn to?

#greatest songs of all time #favourite songs #the infinite longing #god i love the comfort and the sorrow of this song #its like the sunshine after the rain its just soothing yet melancholic #hannes norrvide #lust for youth #compassion #loke rahbek #posh isolation #sacred bones #Malthe Fischer #Bandcamp