the housman cycle

[jacquesdemys]

Waiting for Guffman (1996, Christopher Guest)

[nevver]

The fear of being found, William Christenberry

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

[kyloren]

austen adaptations parallels: interior shots of Mr Darcy’s Pemberley in Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright | Mr Knightley’s Donwell Abbey in Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde → WILTON HOUSE

[artist-sargent]

H.R.H. the Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn (Princess Louisa Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia), John Singer Sargent

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/h-r-h-the-duchess-of-connaught-and-strathearn-princess-louisa-margaret-alexandra-victoria-agnes-1908

[algernonmoncrieff]

i think about this a lot why do you think she was so sad

[hildeeveraert]

Sitting & Reading in a Wheelbarrow - Unknown Ph

[algernonmoncrieff]

there are plenty of people who probably would have identified as butch lesbians in the 80s or 90s but identify as trans men today, just like there are plenty of people who would have identified as straight women in the 80s or 90s but identify as bi women today. as society changes the way we think about these identities, more people will gravitate toward them. i feel like this makes sense and is fine

[godlessondheimite]

Unpopular opinion but Sweeney Todd is not sufficiently punished by the narrative. He is the title character (protagonist) which means we are supposed to emulate him. He dies before he can explicitly state “Revenge is bad and don’t kill innocent people.” Then the finale says “To seek revenge may lead to hell but everyone does it, though seldom as well as Sweeney Todd” which normalizes murder and revenge. Also even in the finale Mrs Lovett does not get mentioned for her part in the work (anti feminist) but that’s a different post.

[drlangdons]

BABY SITTERS CLUB ♡ Kristy’s Great Idea (1.01)

[algernonmoncrieff]

i am here to say the new baby-sitters club is super cute and the social justice stuff is not dumb at all like i kind of thought it might be. one of the girls leads a very legit protest over income inequality in one of the episodes, it rules and i hope tons of kids watch it!! also i think there are very good odds they do a coming out story in a later season where kristy realizes she is gay

[the-dorkside]

[algernonmoncrieff]

what’s scarier than it fandom twitter

[algernonmoncrieff]

going through one of my rare and short-lived “books phases” where i read books. these things are good!

[algernonmoncrieff]

4 the people who asked, the books

-in the dream house by carmen maria machado. this is the best book i have read in forever

-her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

-between the world and me by ta-nehisi coates

-autobiography of red by anne carson

-glass irony and god by anne carson

-confessions of the fox by jordy rosenberg. every transmasc i know recommended this to me and it is very good although there is arguably too much piss kink 

right now i am reading what doesn’t kill you makes you blacker by damon young. epic pittsburgh book

i almost did italics on the titles but i thought that would be insufferable, anyway these are the books they are all really good

[algernonmoncrieff]

going through one of my rare and short-lived “books phases” where i read books. these things are good!

[algernonmoncrieff]

Wait how do they use goodreads?

oh just that ratings and reviews on goodreads are actually a factor (idk how big) in how successful a book is, which might be obvious but i never thought about it much until i started following publishing people on twitter. this is the post i scrolled by that made me think about it

[algernonmoncrieff]

ever since i learned about how published authors actually use goodreads i feel guilty leaving anything but a 5 star rating :(

[bpdvanillaice]

I am reminded of a film about a young man who comes upon a rat in the streets of Paris. This rat is special; he has been gifted with a talent for the culinary arts. He transcends his station as vermin. Yet he is cursed to live a half life, his greatest talent confined to the kitchen in which he will never be welcome. Yet he strives to live; he conducts himself through the young man, concealed within the chef’s toque. The man becomes marionette to the rat - yet the rat himself is puppet to the whims of his own ability, unable to find significance in the simplicity of his species’ station. In the end, it is only the food which escapes the cruel influence of obligation. It is constituted not by what it must do, but only by what it has always been. Tell me, Will, are you the rat? The young man, controlled? Or are you, perhaps… the food?