#ugliness

[lucidloving]

Janet Fitch, White Oleander // Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye // Gail Carson Levine, "Fairest" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Pig" // Valentina-Remenar on DeviantArt // Ashe Vernon, Not A Girl

#theme: ugliness #theme: beauty #theme: shame #web weaving #webs #aesthetic #art #poetry #prose #prose poetry #song lyrics #collage #literature #novels #novel quotes #book quotes #beauty #ugliness #aestheticism #shame

[blackswaneuroparedux]

La laideur est supérieure à la beauté en ce sens qu’elle dure.

- Serg Gainsbourg

#gainsbourg #serg gainsbourg #quote #birki #jane birkin #beauty #ugly #ugliness #durability #wit #french #singer #comopser #culture #french culture

[betweenthetimeandsound]

--prompt from @nosebleedclub "glam" (13 April)

Spit from the mouth, phlegm falling from the teeth. Biting for flesh, trying to get a bone. I don't relish beauty despite the petit fours on the table; I want to snatch them from summer roses, and turn them into honey.

You indulge in glamour as if it were an ambrosia-- your last chance of eternity, as all the gold has melted and the diamonds burnt up into smoke. Glam is not a necessity, but a mask-- knowing the faults of the flesh will only take out the sincerity and replace it with rot. --Elda Mengisto

#poetry #my poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #glam #ugliness #poeticstories #twcpoetry

[riverthaw22]

#aesthetic #body #ugly #ugliness #quotes #body image

[crucifiedlovers]

Today, not only the beautiful but also the ugly becomes smooth. The ugly also loses the negativity of the diabolical, of the uncanny and terrifying, and is smoothened out, a formula for consumption and enjoyment. It lacks entirely the fear-and-terror inducing gaze of the Medusa which petrifies everything. The ugly that was used by the artists of the fin de siècle possessed something abysmal and demonic. The surrealist politics of the ugly served the purpose of provocation and emancipation; it marked a radical break from inherited patterns of perception.

Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty (trans. Daniel Steuer)

#byung-chul han #saving beauty #beauty #ugliness #quote #philosophy #words

[bitchy-bi-trash]

I feel so ugly, so repulsive that when I let someone even touch me, i feel disgusted for them, it's like I made them commit a sin.

#self depricating #self hate #tw self hate #being ugly #i'm ugly #ugly ugly ugly #ugliness

[vintagenews]

Source and details.

#vintage headline #ugliness #headline

[doshmanziari]

Ugliness Writ Large: Beyond Boston City Hall

Hello, everyone.

I have a new essay available on Substack, entitled "Ugliness Writ Large: Beyond Boston City Hall."

Here, I use the Boston City Hall building, completed in 1968, and the fairly stable discourse which has surrounded it, to explore several matters of aesthetics, including the perception of ugliness.

A lot has been written on City Hall during its fifty-five years, and, if I may say so, I think this is one of the better essays devoted to it from the past decade, and one of my better pieces on art and architecture.

Bye!

#brutalism #brutalist #modern architecture #boston #ugliness #aesthetics

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Genderugly Pride Flag

Uglygender or genderugly: an aesthetigender where one's gender is anything that fits one's definition of "ugly"; a xenogender or gender metaphor tied to ugliness. This could mean that one's gender feels like something ugly, or one's gender is ugly to them.

#cacogender #kakogender #unatractigender #unattractigender #genderugly #gender ugly #aesthetigender #xenogender #pride flag #mod ap #mogai #uglygender #feogender #genderugliness #ugliness

[a-la-sante-du-progres]

The thing with R's design is that he's very canonically ugly, but I can't see "ugly".¹ I just never feel repulsion when looking at human traits. It's not a political stance but an instinctual lack of reaction. Lacking a internal compass telling me who is ugly, I can just use conventional ugly traits but those imho are associated with poverty, illness, violation of gender roles, violation of North European traditional aesthetics, old age². So even if I give R random conventionally ugly traits, I still won't think of him as ugly but as something else. It's a fruitless effort. So I gave up on picturing him as ugly and physically repulsive to me.

So my R design is:

-something makes him repulsive, but it's nothing people can explain rationally. No ugly trait in particular. After all, he's described as "impossibly" ugly. What if it's impossibly ugly because people can't say why he's looks ugly to them? Because it's a sensation that defies logic? My realistic headcanon is that people can sense his all-encompassing dread and lack of any positive belief, and they fear it and from fear it comes the irrational repulsion, also I'm sure that his behaviour toward women has a big impact on his perceived ugliness. It would be right in Hugo's alley anyway, Hugo uses ugliness as a visual metaphor for psychological and social issues.

(In a fantasy!AU I like to headcanon his perceived impossible ugliness as people unconsciously feeling that he's not human. The same is valid for Enjolras, but with his angelic and statuesque beauty.)

-I adopted as headcanon what it can be deduced from the brick. He's 26-29 years old, so quite young, he's fit and strong because of the multiple sports he does, he's short because he's impressed at Enjolras's height, he must have good hair because he appears to be proud of his hair and glad of not going bald like Bossuet. He's supposed to be the apparent opposite of Enjolras, so my headcanons are dark hair, small forehead, bad teeth, strong manly features. His hair may have been ginger too because Hugo had a bit of anti ginger bigotry and he stupidly thought ginger hair were ugly so he may have thought of R as red haired when he wrote he was ugly. Ginger!R is a fascinating idea to me, 99% of the times I see him as black haired, but I think ginger hair is a likely feature for brick!R (and also hot NGL).

-Bladgen!R has imprinted on me, so I borrow some of his features, but he looks too delicate to be R, so I usually roughen up his face a bit when I think about him as Grantaire. He's also too beautiful (I can tell when someone is beautiful to me), but when I try to think of traits to assign to R to turn him ugly, my mind goes blank. Without the obligation to make him ugly, I manage to picture him with different features, but I can't give up on his curly hair in the 2012 movie. Grantaire with curly hair is fixed in my imagination as if it was canon. Bbc!R is sometimes R in my mind, but I don't think he's ugly either (on the contrary, I find him beautiful as well), he just gave a great R impression thanks to his interpretation. No musical actor left something into my headcanons, it's regrettable because I usually enjoy a lot musical!Grantaires.

-Canon R is white imho, he talk about other ethnicities as "other". I'm not sure because he may identify with the dominang group despite not being part of it, but it's a likely guess. He also said he would rather be born a Turk/Arab, he's was joking/trolling, but I take it as inspiration for modern and reincarnation AUs. Obviously, it's unrelated with his perceived ugliness, and to avoid involuntary correlation and involuntary endorsement to white supremacist propaganda, I would explore his ugliness and being Arabic in different fanworks.

-Green eyes just because he's associated with green by the musical.

-Damages from his addictions. So corrupted teeth from smoking and alcohol, flawed skin from smoking, sleepy/tired eyes. Those could work as conventionally ugly traits, but I still think of them as neutral, bad just because they're symptoms of bad habits, not necessarily bad to look at.

¹I'm not trying to be holier than thou, I acknowledge ugliness is real and can be defined by what triggers repulsion at the sight. I can feel this repulsion when I look at very ugly architecture, for example, but I simply don't feel it when I look at people. If I'm repulsed at someone, it's just because I already hate them because of their behaviour. I don't know if it's related, but I don't feel repulsion at anything from the human body either. I've spent some nights in the hospital with surgery patients, and nothing repulsed me, no fluid or matter I saw. It's not high morals, it's high scientific interest, and the human body is too interesting to me to feel other than utter fascination. Like there is one thing I find ugly, and there are bushy eyebrows. idk why, that's it. As I said, lacking an internal compass that tells me what's ugly to me, when I try to picture ugly, I resort to conventions. ²But "ugly" traits are always ugly for ulterior motives, they're ugly because they're associated or they have been associated in the past with the poors (es badly groomed hair, inelegance, bad teeth), they're associated with a lack of health and physical strength (fat bodies, very skinny bodies, asymmetry, paleness, eyebags etc), they defy gender roles (moustaches/beard/big bodies for women, small stature/small hands/small D for men), they're typical of old age or they're anything else than north-European (big noses, bushy eyebrows too probably). I don't blame who find those traits ugly, we can't choose what is repulsive to us, we can only treat everyone decently (unless they're being harmful). But while I recognise ugliness is legit, I see every ugly trait as being something else, the trait of a poor/sick/old/androgynous/poc person so I'm unable to think of someone who is just objectively ugly. Instead I can well see beauty, I'm charmed by people with some colour and proportions as if they were work of art, also I see beauty in all the people I care about because looking at them is pleasurable to me. The opposite of beautiful is just "normal" to me, when I don't feel anything when I look at someone, likely with random strangers.

#brick!grantaire #les miserables #enjolras #aesthetic #ugliness #grantaire design #grantaire headcanons #ugly grantaire vs twink Grantaire discourse

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

#goodnight out there #goodnight out there whatever you are #goodnight #weird #the weird #black and white #horror #film #movie #monster #Phantom of the Opera #silent film #silent movie #feast your eyes #glut your soul #ugliness

[beljar]

I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.

Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

#franz kafka #ugliness #kafka diaries #german literature #czech #literary text #world literature #books and libraries #quotes #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic literature #mirrors #alienation #kafkaesk

[theoddsideofme]

#ugly #heavy duty #ugliness

[babytoothbrain]

Wondering How Ugly a Person I Could Get

"Shiv" by Rachel McKibbens// The Broken Mirror by Jean-Baptiste Greuze// ''The Song" by Czeslaw Milosz

#rachel mckibbens #jean-baptiste greuze #czeslaw milosz #web weaving #words #prose #poetry #painting #spilled ink #spilled words #ugliness #dont tell my friends

[m-anarrr]

I looked at my reflection, and there's a knot started to form in my throat because I'm not okay with this, and i dunni how to be okay with this ... how to make peace with my own self

#personal #thoughts #ugliness #sadness #weird feelings

[crucifiedlovers]

"Bataille saw in the ugly possibilities for overcoming boundaries and for liberation. For him, it offers access to transcendence:

No one doubts the ugliness of the sexual act. Just as death does in sacrifice, the ugliness of the sexual union makes for anguish. But the greater the anguish... the stronger realisation of exceeding the bounds and the greater accompanying rush of joy.

The essence of sexuality, according to this, is excess and transgression. It delimits consciousness. This is what constitutes its negativity."

Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty (trans. Daniel Steuer)

#byung-chul han #georges bataille #ugliness #sexuality #quote #philosophy #words