#tastemaking

[boag]

I love azealia banks . They could never make me hate her like ohhhh beautiful intelligent silly talented woman who makes me giggle let’s hate on her

#her drama is none of my business . except for when it’s funny and when I need to defend her from vibeless haters #people always talk about following her for the drama but my favorite thing abt seeing her on my feed #is her MIND like she is such a tastemaker and her music takes are always immaculate and I always love to hear her lil two cents on stuff #just an unfathomably iconic person

[lambergeier]

i open twitter for a spot of lurking. i am instantly clubbed over the head by this take

no screenshots included and reblogs are off because i do not invite that kind of vibe into my house so like, i'll give everyone a minute to go read the linked thread. that done: lmaoooooooooo this is girl dinner levels of fandom discourse regression. this is we are not making it out of here alive shit. the subjects of our fantasies are not real so.....the incredibly sexist distribution of our fantasies doesn't have meaning? that must be discarded as a deeply telling data point because......it must be?? really unclear on that one

just like. many queer woman interpret their experiences through the lens of male characters so it's silly to discuss why society provides us so many more male characters ripe for the lensing OR why individual queer woman writers make the choice over and over again to focus their fantasies through men even in canons where women are available like: cool got it okay. you can see so transparently where this discourse came from (ao3 stats likely going around again, people get defensive) but to crawl SO far up the ass of self-righteousness as to imply that questioning fandom misogyny is to stifle queer female voices: truly how little the turns have tabled. fandom misogyny is a loop and we are velodrome-dessa.mp3'ing that shit. i feel stupid even typing this up

just take the L, comrades. i haven't written femslash that wasn't genderswapped mslash in literally 10 years. i see some damning trend lines from the latest ao3 numbers post and i take the L. don't want to take the L? great news you literally just have to spend some dedicated time thinking about dykes. It's That Easy

#'but my thinking time just naturally gravitates to male characters more than female characters' absolutely not #hattersarts made one nye resolution like ten years ago to consciously prioritize female characters over male characters in her creative wor #and she is now one of the most preeminent lesbian fanart scholars of our time. she became the tastemaker #we need none of us go that far. but we are all capable of it. you can simply choose to think about women more

[marzipanandminutiae]

god I’m putting “X Historical Thing was intended to show off people’s wealth” and putting it on a high shelf with “gaslight” and “toxic” until people learn what it does and doesn’t mean

wrong: this idea that most people sat down and consciously thought “hm! what will make me look rich? I will do that, very logically and methodically!”

right: the idea that style trends, and ideas about what constitutes Sophistication, Taste, and Elegance, are usually set by the upper class, and other people often try to copy them because they think those things are Sophisticated, Tasteful, and Elegant, NOT because they “make you look rich.” BUT they often end up representing conspicuous consumption without conscious intent because they’re trends set by people who can afford The Best (and therefore most expensive) of everything, in large quantities

people have always had personal aesthetic taste, and the drive to surround themselves with beauty. where it became a Display of Wealth was not usually in a coldly calculated decision to show off, but in the fact that fashion was driven by the wealthy

#history #some people really do talk like nobody had personal taste or aesthetic sensibilities before 1950 #and it was all just about Making People Think You Were Rich as a choice that drove every single aesthetic move one made #rather than 'you want the thing that looks cool and the tastemakers are royals or whatever so that thing happens to be rare/expensive'

[gregoryeddiesgoldchain]

now everyone say “you were right and we should have listened to you way earlier” to @murcielagatito cause YEA

#cause period #captain of the Ava is queer team if we are being honest #as you should #it’s hard being a tastemaker ahead of ur time #abbott elementary spoilers #abbott elementary #ava coleman #bi ava

[fallenlondonnpcfight]

Increases Scandal build-up

What plastic passions are enflamed behind closed doors? And what human consort could share your particular arts?

——

The blazing star at the forefront of the avant-garde. The Neath is her sculpture, and together you hammer it into shape.

#fallen london #polls #round one #a tournament of roses #companion in amber #incendiary tastemaker

[greenerteacups]

this is very important are you a chasing cars person or the man who can't be moved person. (in other words i absolutely adore your character playlists and your narcissa black one has me frothing at the mouth)

Jesus Christ. This is like the Mortal Kombat of Irish sadrock. Okay.

When you put Gary Lightbody in a contest against someone who's not Gary Lightbody (co-author of "The Last Time" ft. Taylor Swift a.k.a. Movement 1 of the "let's ruin GT's fucking evening" Swift quartet) then there's only so many things I can say. I like the Script. But who's their Gary Lightbody? Gary fucking Lightbody? A songwriter inspired by the poetry of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney? A professional musician who said THIS about his technical abilities?

TLDR: "Chasing Cars" made me cry when I was a teenager and watching shitty fanvids in bed. And it still hits.

#R.I.P. to Mark Sheehan though the script were a pivotal tastemaking band for me #“for the first time” also made me cry but there weren't as many fanvids for it as chasing cars. tough beat #also sorry returning to gary lightbody. i read that paragraph and laughed so hard i fucking cried #what do you MEAN you're a professional musician who can't read music #like I wouldn't shit on some local garage band or indie singer/songwriter for being self-taught that's normal #but YOU HEAD ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THE WORLD SIR #this was acceptable at the start of your career - WHY HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED #to which his answer would probably be 'i've made it this far haven't i?' and like. #well fuck. fair enough. #EDIT: thank you very much for the compliment!! I love my narcissa playlist I'm listening to it now.

[slaygentford]

asmr matthew mcConaughey how to lose a guy in 10 days whispering to you with increasing frustration during a movie theater date

#I miss the 00s romcoms what happened to us (cultural tastemakers)

[hecatine-writer]

Genuinely exhausting people are crying over "Oscar Snubs" as an exercise in "feminism" while actresses lost their jobs for saying that genocide is bad.

#not if related #Oscars #awards are dumb #sure like things it's okay #you don't need justification for liking things #also that weird sense of indignation people get when their favourite thing gets snubbed is generally annoying #award shows are not representative of anything beyond popularity and what the tastemakers think #they are useless and should be rendered irrelevant

[ciceroballtorture]

its really something to see the influence ur mutuals have on entirely unconnected circles. its like witnessing in real time somebody buy the only painting van gogh ever sold

#.text #yeah brother my friends are tastemakers but their influence will be felt only in the distant future

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

People who show you new music are important.

#music #newmusic #recommendations #tastemakers #sharingiscaring #bonding #connection #friends #guide #openmind #expandhorizons #appreciation #gratitude #happy #goodvibes #positivity #unity #community

[antimony-medusa]

I think we should all start writing fic rec posts again. I think it would be fun.

#A) fun #b) get to talk about fics #C) as the fandom contracts it's gonna get really demoralizing for people to see the drop in hits/comments/kudos #so talking about what you like is a really vital method in the care and keeping of your favourite author #also #d) get to talk about fics #e) be a tastemaker come on

[geraldofallon]

Romance in the Neath: Incendiary Tastemaker

The blazing star at the forefront of the avant-garde.

The Neath is her sculpture, and together you hammer it into shape.

Any gathering graced by her presence becomes the talk of the town.

#fallen london #incendiary tastemaker #romance in the neath #my post #yes i know she’s basically just another version of the artist’s model #artist’s model

[daneelsolivaw]

well before the tiktok girlies were making every aesthetic “ -core” the asimov fandom made pastel palewave android core. discuss.

#daneel olivaw #known tastemaker #trendy #asimov

[tbonechessor]

Wort

WORT WORT WORT

#ah a fellow tastemaker

[boringcapital]

Instagram

#rolls royce #cars #supercars #luxury cars #luxury #wealth #culture #tastemaker #streetculture #aestethic #photography

[eppysboys]

eltonjohn: Congratulations to my dear friend, Tony King, on the release of his book, ‘The Tastemaker’. Tony is one of the creative magicians of my generation. A man with perfect taste and now a brilliant book to tell everyone about it! Please go out and buy it.

#Lovely photo! #Elton John #Tony King #The Tastemaker #they're so handsome!!