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James | 26 | he/him | I love cdramas, rpgs cowboys & most importantly: elves my lovely icon is by: @colinarcartperson

[ratcity]

We need to be going door to door telling men about bisexuality. We need to start standing outside grocery stores

[sobcat]

tomorrow I'll do the possible

[transgenderization]

i love this gif im posting it everywhere today

[cracklet]

Punching Him Thursday

[segamascott]

[shigeoreum]

i hope i make you laugh forever! (forgot tumblr existed again womp womp)

[seraphimsundowning]

fuck ass dude from the other night at work. obsessed with him.

[vieneinpace]

1950s Removable Flower Petal Ashtrays

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[galindatopland]

i think the main reason i now consider mike flanagan my parasocial enemy is all the butchered thohh quotes in his "adaptation". like is turning two women who have a romantic sort of relationship into sisters enough to hate him? yes. the fact that hugh crain in the book is a character who is implied to be abusive (potentially sexually as well) towards his children but in the show is not only a loving father but also Falsely Accused Of Abuse is also bad enough to warrant hate

as is the fact that shirley jackson's actual writing is quoted in the show as the writing of a self-insert man. even when you don't take into account how her namesake on the show is a mother and a housewife (something that people used to dismiss her) and she's Not the writer in the family

turning a tale about the alienation from nuclear family and profound loneliness in a patriarchal society into one about familial love triumphing over the external forces and traumas is enough to hate it in my opinion

however

i could very easily ignore all of this if the direct lines from the novel were not baked into the show. if they were not torn from the very pages and then mutilated into the exact opposite of what they were. i will never get to experience that story the way it was meant to be experienced because the quotes are permanently distorted in my mind. the incredible writing that made an impression on me was very clearly just badly stitched onto the fabric of the show but it was where i first felt the impact of the words. even removed from the story and context they had a quality hard to look away from. but now in the actual novel they seem almost out of place despite actually resonating with the themes in a way they did not in the show

and for that mike flanagan deserves to be locked up in hill house for the rest of eternity or at the very least not allowed to adapt anything else ever again

[sashayed]

in general i think the book and the movie or tv adaptation of the book are two different things and i try not to judge the one on the merits of the other. but on the other hand i also think that mike flanagan should get locked in a little room for one hour every day for the rest of his life and during that hour he has to meditate on his choice to conceive and film the line "and whatever walked there...walked together" and if his thoughts wander he gets shocked with a little Device of some kind

[gaysaulgoodman]

[hoerrrru]

Sketchs for my new linocut

[smileyobrien]

Hmmmmm (me, thinking)

[christianstepmoms]

I'm sorry for how I've been acting today I drank two bisexual monsters and I became a third

[rolodextra]

i like this post so much i printed it out and put it on my fridge

[christianstepmoms]

Dog I'm on somebody's fridge and they don't even follow me.

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[apoemaday]

We Should Be Well Prepared

by Mary Oliver

The way the plovers cry goodbye. The way the dead fox keeps on looking down the hill with open eye. The way the leaves fall, and then there’s the long wait. The way someone says we must never meet again. The way mold spots the cake, The way sourness overtakes the cream. The way the river water rushes by, never to return. The way the days go by, never to return. The way somebody comes back, but only in a dream.

[feeblepeon]

Bro let me get a hit of that dandelion