isis

half empty, half full cup runneth over

[deadreamersociety]

just an human taking things one day at a time 🪵

a 21 year old lover of life, humans, animals, mother earth, freedom, marxism, music, intricate connections, love, magick, pretty colours, art, education, culture, books, poetry, the profound, the mundane, everything in between

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Hi! I’m Isis, a 21 year old English woman. I’m currently in my final year of my undergraduate Sociology degree, writing a dissertation on identifying postfeminism and interpreting it from a Marxist perspective.

I’ve had this blog for a while and it’s gone through many makeovers and iterations, but I plan to use it mainly to explore my witchcraft practice and find a community on here, and books too as reading is a hobby of mine I try to invest a lot of time into! I may also talk about politics; as a Marxist this is something I follow closely and am very interested in.

Please don’t hesitate to message me or send asks! I’m always up for making friends and getting to know people. I only ask that if you are under 18 please don’t message me.

[deadreamersociety]

Babe wake up, October 2025 just dropped 🎃🍂

[velvet4510]

Just watched Atonement for the first time. [SPOILERS BELOW]

We can all agree that ending scene was totally real, right? He recovered from his illness but came so close to death that he’d already been pronounced dead. Then when he came back, she ensured her name was included among the victims of the flood so that her family wouldn’t come looking for her. So they faked their deaths to avoid her family and prevent him from returning to jail, and then went to their seaside home and lived happily ever after under assumed names. And her sister never found out they survived, a discovery she never deserved to make.

Yep. That’s what the last scene meant.

They’re FINE.

Period.

(Y’all, I swear, you’d better share a link to every single fix-it fic for this film that you know of. I need them like I need air to breathe.)

[number-onekidqueen]

It’s quite common knowledge, yeah, of course!!

[deadreamersociety]

this is just true guys??

[starlingslawyer]

still thinking about atonement and the significance of Cecilia cutting her entire family off. As far as we know Cecilia never responded to Briony’s letters and never intended to so it can be inferred Cecilia was as adamant about cutting off Briony as the rest of the family but the fact Leon went to far as to track her down and wait outside her hospital and Cecilia wouldn’t so much as have a conversation with him 3 years later implies to me that it wasn’t entirely a secret that Marshall was actually the one who assaulted Lola. Even as an old woman Briony seems to believe that she alone was responsible for what happened to Robbie and in her fictionalized confrontation with Robbie tells him and Cecilia it was actually Marshall and they seem surprised. I think Cecilia’s adamancy in cutting off her entire family is at least a little indicative that at some point it became obvious to the adults that Marshall was in fact the assailant. Robbie was a convenient scapegoat and Briony’s testimony was the nail in his coffin but what dug his grave was the fact he was low class and could be thrown in jail without a major scandal. Someone high class and wealthy as Marshall being arrested for a crime as heinous as raping a child who was under the protection of the Tallis family would’ve been a massive scandal the family wanted to avoid at all costs

[nasty-bog-boy]

critques of antonement that begin and end with briony are so annoying to me because they are so narrow ! the villain isnt a child but society ! robbie never stood a chance because of his working class position ! cecilia would never have persuaded anyone because she is a young woman ! paul marshall is a wealthy man he was always going to win ! the only chance for robbie and cecilia to be together depended on the massive social upheavel of WW2 and them becoming independeant adult ! but WW2 killed them ! briony may have made a life alterting judgment as a child based on her limited knowledge but things quickly spiraled beyond the world of a little girl into edwardian englands morals and values !!!!!

[by-nina]

so, I'm still not over the fact that Robbie, a soldier, died from septicaemia and Cecilia, a nurse, died in a bombing.

he was killed by an infection. she was killed by a direct act of war.

if she had been around to treat him, he might have survived. if he had fought in victorious battles, she might have survived.

[yourstupidface]

the crows are so young. they're so young. they make fun of wylan for playing the flute and being a bad criminal. they love waffles. they mock kaz's bad haircut. matthias mentally addresses kaz only with insults for nearly the whole two books. they have all been jealous of each other showing other people attention at some point -- jesper is jealous of anyone kaz gives attention to. matthias is jealous of anyone nina gives attention to. kaz is jealous of how comfortable the others are with each other. wylan is jealous of kuwei flirting with jesper -- they're all insecure at some point. nina gets mad at them for eating her cookies. they're all horny and fantasize about their crushes while actively running for their lives. they all want to kill the woman they kidnapped because she's whiny. they tease inej for sounding philosophical. they have secret hand signals. jesper and nina make sex jokes all the time and love to make others blush. they spite each other. they threatened to tattletale on each other to each other. they compete over who has the biggest bounty on his head. inej uses "being a matthias" as an insult. kaz and jesper have a physical scrap and have to be pulled apart by an Adult. i adore them so much

[anxeious]

[fl0rescer8]

[hellframe]

The Secret History & Greek letter Ψ

I’m sure, many readers noticed that Julian, despite his outspoken prejudice against psychology, described the seduction of Dionysiac ritual in terms of psychoanalysis, like this:

Even more funny is that Julian’s method of teaching is probably based on psychological theory from the late 60s. I mean, the Pygmalion effect.

Source of image: steemit.com

According to Richard, Julian:

Meanwhile, Julian’s students represent the psychic structure of personality:

Henry is the Superego, the all-controlling perfectionistic intellect;

Bunny is the Id, the suppressed unconscious;

Francis is Libido, the sexual energy;

the twins are Anima and Animus, the masculine and feminine sides of human Self.

Richard must be the Ego, a poor neutral, influenced by everyone else.

Julian Morrow in this scheme plays the role of religious thinking in the human mind (the idea of god). In the novel it comes how it was interpreted by Søren Kierkegaard: religion serves as a mediator in Self’s relation to the Other. But also, the god here is an idea of absolute Other, which helps to shape human identity as opposed to something that is not human at all — consider how Henry identified Julian as a deity.

So, Julian and his students together construct an integral psychological model of personality. A personality in crisis, as one could assume.

[Psychology is relevant, because we have a foreshadowing for it: during the year Richard was working part-time for professor of psychology Dr Roland, assisting in his 'vague research'. And there was a dialogue with Richard (chpt. 1), when Julian said that ‘psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.’ He also told Richard that he always knew what his students were going to do, like an omniscient god.]

[heterodickpaper]

I would love to hear your opinion (regarding tsh) on Henry and Richard's interaction in the garden towards the end!

The one where Henry admits to not feeling a great deal of empathy and accuses Richard of being of a similar nature. I am a bit ambivalent on it as Richard seems to have a hints of concern for others here and there but also (in my opinion) ignores many chances to actively help people.

henry romanticizes himself--he sees himself as wiser than everyone else (wiser than he really is, as we see when charles unveils how close they were to being found out). he's very arrogant. richard on the other hand romanticizes others. i think that richard isn't quite at henry's level but he's a very self-centered person and he often ignores the fact that the gang are real people with real emotions in favor of continuing to view them in his romanticized way; he likes having them as a way of cultivating his aesthetic/persona but he doesn't want to go any deeper. back to richard though--i think he's a pretty shallow person despite all his deep writings...i would actually argue that his 'tortured soul' thing is just another way of realizing his dark academia fantasies and manifesting himself as the kind of person he admires from far away. bc honestly a big reason that the rest of the greek gang are so mysterious to richard is that he doesn't try to get to know them; really, he doesn't <i>want</i> to know them, because then his illusions of them will be shattered. he only barely manages to hang on to his idealization of them because he's separated from them and is able to pick and choose from the past. i think that his morbid longing for the picturesque not only encourages but necessitates his removal of himself from others' emotions--he wants, at all costs, for things to be the way they appear on the surface, and the only way for that to be true is if he never looks underneath.

this is kind of a non-sequitur but i do think it's fascinating how donna tartt represented modern aesthetic culture so well through richard 30 years before it was a thing!! he would definitely buy into the whole 'turning the self into a bunch of consumable objects' thing...he'd call himself a kafka cigarettes brideshead revisited eyebags guy or something, for sure.

tl;dr henry romanticizes himself, richard romanticizes others and it's impossible for him to romanticize them if he sees them as living breathing people with problems and human emotions.

i think i went in a different direction than what you probably meant but i hope it still made for an interesting read and if you have any more specific questions please ask i'd love to talk more abt this!

[mvlewife]

imo the best thing about Henry as a character is how the way he's written makes you the part of the group; he makes you listen, he makes you Richard, he makes you blindly admire him and not everyone snaps out of it do we. you WILL ignore him being much much worse than bunny because he can speak fluently in greek and writes his diary in latin, you will idolize him for being a genius while completely forgetting how he actually doesn't care about that brain of his, he would absolutely give it up for the sake of the obsessive idea of living without thinking. you won't even think about him making his friends follow him in such thing as Bacchanal which included drugs and all sorts of crazy things. you won't think about it because you will be as obsessed with Henry as Richard and as Henry is with some ideas that do not even make sense for a modern person. but you will believe him. you will follow him. you will listen to him. you will be in that damn greek class.

[noah-wyles]

trans women, i love you.

you were a woman yesterday. you're a woman today. you're a woman tomorrow. you're a woman forever.

trans women have existed long before those stuffy bigots sitting in a court room have. trans women will continue to exist long after they're dead and rotting in the earth.

[cptapathy]

UK supreme court has ruled in law that trans women are not to be considered women

"The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate." - Jess O'Thompson

Trans women are no longer protected under sex based protections against discrimination

GRCs are now functionally harmful

A post op trans woman with a GRC is now banned from "women only spaces" like a women's toilet.

I'm gonna build a bomb

[abernafhy]

found tsh roleplayers on twitter from 2014 on a random night. i felt like discovering a treasure chest...

this is my favorite one so far. i still think about this tweet every day.

[heylsgowt]

[fracturedporcelaindoll]

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[skogs-hytte]

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