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#s:bodies #s:writing #t:article/essay | If your character has a physical form, then the matrix of the story must act upon it just as the body must act upon the story. If a character breaks a leg at the start of a story. It is not enough for them to limp occasionally. The pain becomes part of the filter of the story. It becomes not just fact to document here or there. There will be blood. Pain that is sharp, pain that is deep, throbbing, ever running like a river. They will make a familiar move because they cannot help it and find themselves brought up to the sheer cliff face of pain. They will slowly, perhaps, have to remap and reinscribe the dimensions of their circumstance and their world.

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#s:bodies #s:disability #t:article/essay | In 2012, an MRI scan revealed a cerebellar lesion on Katie Lew’s brain; reflecting on the aftermath of the doctors’ diagnoses, she challenges the traditional narrative of recovery from disability

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the post about militarism and untouchable bodies in the mcu

#s:bodies #s:film #t:article/essay | + alfred molina's fat tits "it's Nea's appreciation for Molina's physicality, specifically the fond attention drawn to his visible paunch, that made me think of R.S. Benedict's essay "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny." it's a good read but also a long one, so I'll summarize: Benedict posits that current standards of American attractiveness stem from post-9/11 anxiety - "When a nation feels threatened, it gets swole," she writes - and has created a national mentality of bodies as commodities to be honed to perfection without indulging in any of the pleasure a body can bring, a vessel disjointed from any sense of self and meant only to be looked at with awe."

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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny

#s:bodies #s:fat #t:article/essay | A room full of beautiful, bare bodies, and everyone is only horny for war.

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