things that scare me

Diana from Portugal. LJ dinossaur, had many past fandoms. Went back to lurking in recent years. Very likely to be older than you.

[anaidrabbit]

Things That Scare Me, a playlist by Diana Coelho on Spotify

A playlist featuring Grimes, Vandaveer, Scissor Sisters, and others

[drogonqueen-archive]

i find it incredibly interesting (read: predictable) that when i read negative reviews about sharp objects that it’s either too slow, or the ending felt cheap, i see that they’re written by men. in turn, every positive article i’ve seen has been written by a woman — and those reviews take it a step beyond positive, calling the finale “the best hour of television” or praising the show as a masterpiece. and i think there’s something so fascinating about how a show about women’s pain and trauma and the violence they commit against themselves and each other is so easily dismissed by men. we are always invited to stand in a male character’s shoes, to slip into his skin and understand why he rages or kills or cries. but with women, and especially the women of sharp objects, there seems to be no desire to do so. there’s criticism of camille’s journalistic integrity, of how she responds to a lifetime of abuse, of every choice she makes. in a strange way, the reaction to the show has held up a mirror to the work itself: the idea of a violent woman is easily dismissed and written off; she is an anomaly, and one not worth empathizing with. in a world full of television and movie violence, men seem to only care about violence committed against women, not violence women inflict themselves.

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“Go ahead, Camille. Prove you’re not dead.”

[margotsrobbie-deactivated202402]

My demons are not remotely tackled, they’re just mildly concussed. – Amy Adams as Camille Preaker in Sharp Objects (2018)

[ratfuck]

fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach

[ratfuck]

direct action

[welcometoyouredoom]

[notagingeryet]

[yipseekayaymotherfailure-deacti]

History is women following behind. With a bucket.

[sneez]

(margaret voice) henry PLEASE

[pickleston]

Reblog if you are The Queen of the Harpies

[simpscreens]

[xynette]

[nicollekidman]

natalie portman radiates such a terrifying energy i can’t describe it….. it’s not exactly evil but it’s not warm either…. i feel like she could unhinge her jaw and drag me into the ocean like a kraken but she wouldn’t bc it’s undignified 

[dancinginthesetrees]

Wanna know why?

“Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman told the crowd at Saturday’s Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles that she experienced what she calls “sexual terrorism” as a 13-year-old after the release of the film The Professional.

Portman described her pride and excitement in releasing the film, only to encounter sexually explicit messages both directed toward her and made about her.

”I excitedly opened my first fan mail to read a rape fantasy that a man had written me,” she recalled. “A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday, euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with. Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews.”

The experience, she said, changed the way she expressed herself publicly, in order to limit the ways she could be objectified by others.

”I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe,” she said. “And that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort. So I quickly adjusted my behavior. I rejected any role that even had a kissing scene and talked about that choice deliberately in interviews. I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was. And I cultivated an elegant way of dressing. I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to.”

Video of the speech here: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/21/16917130/natalie-portman-womens-march

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RELATABLE.

[leroichevalier]

→ I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil! I have seen horror! I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul! I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen… *you*! 

[thedogist]

Zeffirelli, Golden Retriever (1 y/o), Prince & Lafayette St., New York, NY • “He likes to walk himself.”

[monicas]

[starkdusts]

me when someone tells me shit like “you know all these meds are actually worse for you they turn you into a zombie ://”, “you should try yoga”, “why dont you exercise more”:

[quotemadness]

“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh