let's get lost

the girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at a party.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed at her apartment by Philippe Halsman, 1952.

[weltenwellen]

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

[johnanderton]

COLLATERAL (2004) dir. Michael Mann

[possession]

MIA WASIKOWSKA as INDIA STOKER STOKER (2023) dir. Park Chan-wook

[metamorphesque]

Slowly I Married Her, Leonard Cohen

[ziyuanyuan1113]

Rhaenyra and Alicent through the years

[grendelsmilf]

not ppl agreeing with the Think of all the Djuna Barneses we could have had if not for slash fic tweet……

[grendelsmilf]

everyone saying “she’s got a point” is similarly participating in a sort of undeserved literary snobbery that belies any actual understanding of the function and popular reception of the novel as a form since its inception.

I am saying this as someone who has never once picked up a “popular on booktok” canva art romance novel, and rarely reads any 21st century literature at all—who finds a lot of contemporary anglophone lit to be banal, obnoxious, and utterly tedious. I couldn’t care less about the artistic merits of fanfiction as “legitimate literature” either way, and I find the “character-first” approach to storytelling most people in fandom circles employ to be reductive and a bit exhausting…

if you seriously think that the kinds of people writing gay fanfiction on ao3 about the main characters from a mainstream hollywood production are the same kinds of people who would otherwise be experimenting with the form of the novel in artistically groundbreaking ways, then I really don’t know what to tell you. and if you think the phenomenon of novels being written for the emotional (and sexual) gratification of women being derided as a perversion of an otherwise elite artform is a new phenomenon that sprung up within the past decade, then you obviously don’t know enough about the history of literature to be making these kinds of claims with such dismissive arrogance.

the form of the novel, especially novels by women, especially novels by women for women involving romance, have long been trivialized in the popular consciousness for lacking the kind of artistic merit that disqualifies it from being considered “real literature.” whether such novels are artistically lacking or not is entirely subjective and beside the point. claiming that popular entertainment primarily produced and enjoyed by women and girls has rotted their brains and debased their potential intellectual engagement with “higher” artforms is a notion repeated by every generation, and it’s equally ridiculous every time! least of all because there are still plenty of women in the world who care about the craft of literature and artistic experimentation within the form of the novel. and some of them even like fanfiction, also.

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"

[emmaxrosa]

RHAENYRA, DAEMON & ALICENT on Viserys House of the Dragon | 3.03 ‘Rhaenyra Triumphant’

[dailywomen]

WINONA RYDER photographed by Aidan Cullen for Interview Magazine (November 2025)

[sobadbad]

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO [2011]

[queensinchains]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.03 | Rhaenyra Triumphant

[weil-weil-lautre]

there is still a wider chasm between us now, the chasm of Sorrow: but to Humility there is nothing that is impossible, and to Love all things are easy.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

[emmaziadarcy]

[alicenthightowerdaily]

Otto and Alicent Hightower HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - )

[emmaziadarcy]

Who else dares rise against us in our house?

RHAENYRA and DAEMON TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.02 | Queen's Landing

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the idea that a sex scene in fiction is fundamentally useless/simply for audience titillation UNLESS they’re fucking infodumping exposition while they bone or something is so funny and myopic to me. like, you really genuinely believe for real that there is NOTHING to be gained about your understanding of a story or characters simply from how they approach and engage in sex? really for real?