#the laugh of medusa

[wutheringmights]

it's midnight. time to post the helene cixous quote:

“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly." Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time.”      ― Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

#i found this on my drive and i was like ....oh #me rambling #writeblr #creative writing #writing #helene cixous #the laugh of medusa #quotes

[julictcapulet]

To write. An act which will not only "realize" the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept under seal; it will tear her away from the superegoized structure in which she has always occupied the place reserved for the guilty (guilty of everything, guilty at every turn: for having desires, for not having any; for being frigid, for being "too hot"; for not being both at once; for being too motherly and not enough; for having children and for not having any; for nursing and for not nursing ... )-tear her away by means of this research, this job of analysis and illumination, this emancipation of the marvelous text of her self that she must urgently learn to speak. A woman without a body, dumb, blind, can't possibly be a good fighter. She is reduced to being the servant of the militant male, his shadow. We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing. Inscribe the breath of the whole woman.

Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of Medusa (tr. Keith Cohen, Paula Cohen), 1975

#helene cixous #hélène cixous #literature #dark academia #the laugh of medusa #quotes #no i don't think you understand i love her #belle going unhinged #concept: women are born dead

[dearsolipsist]

Men say that there are two unrepresentable things: death and the feminine sex. That's because they need femininity to be associated with death; it's the jitters that gives them a hard-on! for themselves! They need to be afraid of us. Look at the trembling Perseuses moving backward toward us, clad in apotropes. What lovely backs! Not another minute to lose. Let's get out of here.

- The Laugh of Medusa, Helene Cixous

#the laugh of medusa #helene cixous

[savleye]

If Percy Jackson took place in 2022 this would be Aunty Em's

#i saw this driving from vegas to phoenix at midnight and i had to stop myself from laughing hysterically #pjo #percy jackson #medusa #savleye

[diana-andraste]

Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible.

―Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

Read Jean-Martin Charcot and the pathologization of ecstasy

#photography #women #black and white #hysteria #jean-martin charcot #ecstasy #1800s #augustine #sexuality #hypnosis #mental health #vintage #photomontage #quotes #hélène cixous #the laugh of the medusa #psychology #the body

[bloomingonionbitch]

"The Laugh of the Medusa" (1976), Hélène Cixous

#i haven't read this since my junior year of college #hélène cixous #the laugh of the medusa #the last few lines of the essay always stick with me - i'll post a PDF if i remember #how are y'all formatting and posting these excerpts like ✨️ ??? #i was pinching and rotating like i was playing gd Fruit Ninja #i love you pdf girlies #you're the backbone of the internet

[fortunatefires]

Can you imagine Annabeth telling Magnus her life story over falafel? Just sitting there like “Yeah then when I was twelve we went to the underworld and Luke, ya know, the dude I ran away with when I was seven. He cursed some shoes and Grover was nearly dragged into tartarus. That place fuckin sucks. I went there last year and trust me it’s not somewhere you want to visit.”

#just thinking about that conversation makes me laugh #percy jackson #pjo #riordanverse #annabeth chase #magnus chase #greek mythology #percy jackson and the olympians #mythology #medusa #bookblr

[thirdity]

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"

#self #body #writing #language #freedom #liberty #quotes #Cixous #Hélène Cixous #The Laugh of the Medusa

[butmakeitgayblog]

Sex scene for which au babe?

Medusa au 😘

Babygirl gets her first orgasm in ages and it's with this mess of an obnoxious courageous and incredibly impressive women she's been crazy about for weeks now and has only recently let herself begin to express it. Just the joy of it. Being happy again and allowing herself to be silly and affectionate and feeling cared for for the first time in forever 🥹

In other words, Clarke fucks Lexa so good the poor girl has an epiphany about life 🥴

#anon #medusa au #they've been through Some Hurdles™ to get here ok let the girl have one little emotional revelation after finally getting to come ✊😔 #it was the little half moan half laugh at the end 👀 #that was all I needed and the rest of the scene wrote itself

[psalmsofpsychosis]

after my ✨️third✨️ attempt in the past 4 days to expose myself to standup comedy and build my lukewarm-jokes survival muscles i'll hereby conclude that jesus christ i'd rather fucking die

#like yes i'm sure there are actual funny standup comedians out there but #you people laugh at this shit?????? #98.99% of standup comedy culture is quite frankly incomprehensible to me i've never not-laughed at something this hard #i love george carlin but then again i watch him for sociopolitical commentary not for laughing #a lot of standup comedians are really just. extremely angry and frustrated borderline hateful people #or people with 45 accumulated years of severe depression which i mean. is absolutely fine to me #like the way i want to sit the lot of these people down and go ''talk to me. You're alright; you dont need the subpar 3.5/10 #socially acceptable veneer of jokes you can afford to have 2.5 seconds of sincere unscripted rage. maybe even cry a little. #you can do this i believe in you; cmon lets go'' #like these people are.... insanely unfunny. as a funny clown with funny shoes i find stand up comedy abhorrent honestly. #no offence whatsoever to people who like it; i know 'funny' is very a very subjective experience #i just think that the funniest people alive are often people who dont directly aim for being funny; it's got a medusa curse #the moment you look at funny directly you become the unfunniest person on the planet #(i adore hannah gadsby too but again. watching for sociopolitical commentary not for fun) #oh and i've been thinking about Joker's business of being ''funny'' too; pretty damn sure my experience of mainstream ''funny'' #is gonna play into that. oof

[dearsolipsist]

Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth. - The Laugh of Medusa, Helene Cixous

#the laugh of medusa #helene cixous

[kingmaximusboltagon]

enough with the black bolt struggling to not speak due to anger more black bolt struggling not to laugh because something batshit just happened in front of him

#wheres the maximus falling face first during a dramatic speech and bb has to straight up Leave #wheres the baby ahura or luna saying or doing dumb little kid things and medusa has to be like 'hey. cool it. cool it!!' #wheres the vine moments that he must surely deal with where he has to hide his smiles #wheres the medusa starts laughing and hes so happy and in love he has to bite his tounge to not join her #i love that one off comic where he laughs at some puns. i want him to be happy and laugh more often!!!!!!!! #blackagar boltagon

[atenderofsycamoretrees]

Edeline Lee Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear

Photos by Brian Rankin / Courtesy of Edeline Lee

#fashion #edeline lee #spring 2023 #ready-to-wear #scopophobia #this collection was inspired by the writing of #hélène cixous #specifically an essay called 'The Laugh of the Medusa' #i wonder if that's why there are those sort of snaky strings

[megatraven]

alex and mc really broke out of olympus together and went on the run and managed to cobble together a plan that allowed them to completely take over the agency KNOWING the gods wouldnt come down from on high blindly to stop them and risk another death

and then they had office sex to top it all off

good for them

#lovestruck voltage #lovestruck #astoria: fate's kiss #alex cyprin #alex x mc #alex #afk mc #astoria #ITS JUST. SO GOOD BUT ALSO SO FUNNY #also forever thinking about cerb's corporate takeover joke that medusa laughs at #but anyways. the office sex. that's like. Wow. #they really both took the only opportunity they would ever had to do it in the office and DID IT #iconic.... i lvoe them so much #WAIT #oh my god #one sec new post

[oveliagirlhaditright]

One thing I don't like about the PJO adaptation (don't kill me) is how in this version, the kids are, like, knowing right away that a lot of things are a trap, that they most definitely did not in the source material.

I agree with Dominic Noble: that it feels like a second playthrough of a video game, where you already know all the twists.

And I liked them falling into the traps, because it fit with them being twelve-year-old children.

And as Dominic Noble also said, yes them continuing to fall into traps can feel a bit random... But that actually falls into lie with the ancient Greek and Roman myths, like the Odyssey, where that always happened to the heroes. It felt like the original story was trying to reference that and do a modern take on it. So having plot reasons for the trio to do certain things, like going to the Lotus Hotel to meet Hermes instead of just randomly ending up there, sort of hurts that feeling.

But this is just a minor complaint.

#but they were supposed to fall into medusa's trap and the lotus hotel one and the one with the beds without knowing #they were traps. or who was behind them #and the show kind of laughs at those ideas #this is another minor thing but i DO prefer them going to the gateway arch in the book just because annabeth wanted to go there. as she #loved architecture. and no other reason (and they just happened to get attacked while they were there) #that the three had started to bond and were willing to possibly delay the quest just to do something nice for annabeth like that #part of me feels like the changes are because rick realizes adults are watching and if the kids kept falling into traps they wouldn't want #to anymore because they'd view them as Too Dumb to Live. never mind the fact they're kids. or it's just because rick is revising his work #through this show. but it sure is interesting #*that some adults. new to the series. are watching i mean #but of course multiple age groups are watching this #i say this with episode 7 being my favorite of the series. i think. as i eagerly wait for the finale #this is just something that's slightly bothered me