dark and dreadful things

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things. thirtysomething old

[anddreadful]

the girls that get it get it

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in other acting news I booked my next show after a) getting called back for a side character b) the callback going super well but not getting the role c) the director calling me a week after I got the rejection email bc their first choice for the lead backed out and they really liked me so would I maybe want to play the lead instead? (yes)

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unfortunately as an old-school hater ass bitch of an actor i am deriving joy from annoying the intimacy coordinator who introduced herself with her zodiac signs. no actually i WOULD prefer to just learn the blocking and not do a "body awareness check in" thank you. no i do not need a guided breathing exercise. i am a professional

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having a spectacular late 20s glow up feels like a goddess or fae suddenly blessed me with beauty in the fairy tale magical boon sense. great but disorienting. hard to talk about because understandably nobody wants to hear me muse about my bone structure like i'm on an incel forum. also i do think about 40% of it is "light behind my eyes"/ confidence/ energy related and not physical but again, hard to talk about; i think my loved ones will throttle me if i tell them another story about my charisma winning the day and I don't blame them

[b0nkcreat]

my phone isn’t charging even though i plugged her innnnn dramatic ass bitch. YOUR PUSSY IS FILLED! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT

[b0nkcreat]

Can you stop bouncing and moaning on it 😐 please for the love of god

[b0nkcreat]

i see now that i shouldn’t have made this post on tumblr. specifically.

[cytherean-sunset]

[lurkiestvoid]

[willcraftapple11]

[frasohei]

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brain on fire with the concept of breach’s big move on aradia being to straightforwardly confess his feelings and bale’s big move on aradia being to attempt to seduce her. when you would assume the exact opposite bc breach is the slut who flirts with her and bale is the earnest principled one. you love to see a man panic and pull out a different playbook

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

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bale has spent weeks courting aradia, opening up to her, comforting her, spending hours and hours researching how to help her (with a problem that’s technically breach’s responsibility), being SO tactful and not talking shit on breach at all to her, and now one week after aradia agreed to be his girlfriend he’s gonna lose her to breach because breach finally thought about it for thirty seconds and told aradia he likes her. unfortunately bale is pretty justified in becoming the joker over this so we’ll see how he takes it

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he took it pretty well! all things considered! at least to aradia’s face!

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it’s not that breach and adestina have no chemistry, they could for sure have a thing were aradia not in the picture, it’s just that the the thing in question is, spiritually not literally, divorce. breach and adestina are so alike in their edgy, self-centered angst and so benignly unpleasant-yet-fond with each other that they’d skip the ‘passionate romance’ thing and go straight for “couple that broke up ages ago but won’t file the paperwork because at least it’s convenient to still have sex with each other”

[narutwitter]

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

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local theater doing a new, original dracula play that’s “loyal to the book” this fall ooooooohhhhhh I BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS

[fourraccoonsinacoat]

*Me sitting down to write smut.*

But first! We must thoroughly understand this man's fractured and devastated sense of self. Only then can we truly appreciate how connected he feels to her while finger-banging the soul from her body.

[kelogsloops]

the night & the moon #brbchasingdreams

🎵 C4C x kokoro - cherie

[thoughtportal]

[gatheringbones]

[“Immersion in other people’s stories cultivates empathy. When we are reading or listening to stories being told, provided there is enough tension in the narrative, our brains release cortisol into our blood to help us focus and concentrate, and also oxytocin, the chemical related to care and empathy.

Theatre and music have long been arenas in which we examine our moralities and consider our shortcomings, as well as celebrate our virtues. Think of the tragic plays of ancient times. We watch the hero in denial of their weakness eventually fall because of their self-blindness. Think of the old folk songs, sagas of betrayal, pride, murder. Juicy morality tales, not unlike present-day TV dramas. All with lessons to teach about how best to approach the problem of living a life, that encourage us to greater compassion for those whose struggles we recognise.

Stories and songs bring us into contact with our best and worst natures, they enable us to locate ourselves in other people’s experience and they increase our compassion. But these things in a vacuum are useless. A story doesn’t cultivate empathy just by virtue of its having been thought up; it must be engaged with to become powerful; the story must be read, the song must be listened to, in order to acquire its full charge.”]

Kae Tempest, On Connection