we can no longer protect you forever

Aga - 31, Polish, warszawski słoik, tęczowa zaraza multifandom mess, addicted to stories angry, messed-up and “unlikable” ladies, femmeslash, chosen families, middle-aged & old queer couples, and well-written horror give me life

[sheisraging]

amazing

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it's plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.

– Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[nigelgraz]

Letters from your younger self

[duckbunny]

media literacy includes understanding why a media product was made, to whom it's being sold, and the assumed preferences of its marketing demographic. narrative is not produced or sold in a vacuum.

[duckbunny]

you might be totally correct that your ship would be narratively satisfying. I don't know, I'm not watching your show. Whether your ship is likely to happen on the show is a whole different question to whether it's satisfying, because the show is being sold to Netflix or Amazon or the BBC, and they are purchasing a show they think they can market to a particular demographic and that demographic isn't you, the nightmarishly online tumblr user. The show is being made for marketability to a constructed average viewer. It is being funded with that audience in mind. This art is being made to commission, and commissioned art is art, but at some point you have to stop expecting the Church to commission a statue of Lucifer fucking St Michael. It might be narratively satisfying, but that's just not what they're paying for.

[kosmogrl]

margaux paul

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[lucy-harker]

HAILEE STEINFELD as MARY SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[blogging4sympothy]

Best movie hands down

[syrenki]

gun to your head what should be emerald fennell's next adaptation

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk

house of leaves by mark z. danielewski

the tempest by william shakespeare (starring austin butler as white caliban)

piranesi by susanna clarke

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

the old testament

seduction of the minotaur by anaïs nin

tristan und isolde by richard wagner

a little life by hanya yanagihara

thus spoke zarathustra by friedrich nietzsche

crush by richard siken, somehow

Voting ended onFeb 28

[tlirsgender]

Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

[tlirsgender]

That's the thing about Doing Really Bad you kinda keep it to yourself. And then you start doing a little better & when you try to tell people this the vibe is like "what do you mean you were living in the sewer this whole time are you good?" while you're standing there like Yeah that's not the important part never mind that. I'm literally out of the sewer

[numberoneleiafan-deactivated202]

We need more middle aged women making out on television.

[my-dailydreams]

[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

[vyva-melinkolya]

Don’t make your younger self into your own dead wife.

[puppeteerparties]

“Hello Mr. and Mrs. Molloy, thank you for coming in, Kate has been doing very well in class, but I will say I am a bit concerned over a drawing-”

[eosphoroz]

We are so back.

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?