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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[soup-mother]

Queer people do not need to get into norse gods, queer people need dialectical materialism.

[gazeldhazel]

(spent too long on Tumblr voice) actually the status quo is okay! It's okay to be the status quo! you don't have to be anything besides the status quo! #statusquoaffirmation #statusquosafe

[proxima-bee]

art museum websites when the artist was a communist: ...he continued to paint, despite the fact that every time someone in Soviet Russia made abstract art Joe Stalin would personally storm into their studio and start tearing apart the canvas with his teeth

art museum websites when the artist was a nazi: ...his work flourished from 1937–1945, a time where nothing particularly notable happened, and then he emigrated to the united states where he designed buildings for private universities

[junkyarded]

so many people post like they are from the dimension of No Misogyny because the misogyny all around them just registers to them as fine and normal

[junkyarded]

we are all posting from the dimension of No Misandry because we live on the planet earth

[snequanimity]

one thing im noticing in the pushback against criticism of tvl is the real contempt ppl seem to have for anyone who actively wants any gay romance elements. which i think is shitty personally since it is an important aspect of the books AND is something we dont get that much of on tv. heated rivalry blew up bc ppl are absolutely starved of gay romance adaptations, whatever you think of that specific show. the chance to have gay romance storylines - even grimy gory gothic ones - in a show with good production values and an amazing cast was extremely welcome to me and if youre shitting on that i take a pretty dim view tbh. and yes the romantic entanglements are important to the story and the characterisation and also theyre fun, imo

[harbingerofsoup]

nothing is beyond criticism even a series i love so im just going to come out and say it because i don’t think anyone else has. im noticing that all expressions of women’s and sapphic sexuality in the vampire lestat have been for the voyeuristic pleasure of male characters and quite frankly it’s weird af especially because this is an adaptation of a book that was actually seriously interested in exploring the constraints of womanhood and resulting expressions of desire

in other words

(edit: before anyone comes for me, louis may not have liked it but it was explicitly for his benefit. and even then i do think it’s the only example that’s interesting and has substance but unfortunately it exists within this greater context)

[glitteringpoet1685]

It honestly feels like the problem this season with Armand specifically is that they've shown their entire hand too quickly. They treat him like the antagonist he was in the first 2 books while also revealing his own perspective on his backstory and involvement with the trial in s2. But they've also made him way more openly powerful but somehow less scary than he was in the iwtv book. So you've got like half the audience almost completely sympathetic to Armand bc of information that wasn't revealed until later books, while you've got another half of the audience who is convinced that Armand is some grand puppet master (and I can't even fault people for believing that because he's a character with extreme memory altering powers in a season where you've made the entire narrative unreliable by default). And then you've got the meta stuff about Armand which almost seems resentful to the fact that people like him, when it's their fault, you made him likable and sympathetic before he ever was in the books and now you're mad about it?

[our-lady-of-haymakers]

It's really awesome how a vast majority of self-identified liberals conceive of liberalism as this smol bean birthday boy ideology of Let's All Get Along Together and frame it as this brave and kind yet tragically neglected voice of empathy and reason rather than, y'know, the dominant ideology of the capitalist world system that has caused countless wars, overseen colonialism and settler colonialism and neocolonialism, eviscerated state systems to create free market carnage, toppled countless popular governments through interventions on trumped-up charges of illegitimacy, and produced a climate catastrophe of near-apocalyptic proportions by putting its hands up while corporations torch the world.

And in the face of all this, and the inevitable rise of fascism from the material conditions created by the liberal world order, the liberal can say with complete earnestness that what we Really Need is a return to the good old days of liberalism where everyone was niceys and the slaughter and cruelty and meanness was confined to the global periphery and the slums and the villages rather than interfering with our sacred rituals of treat consumption.

[lestatbf]

if ur satirization is indistinguishable from the original object then u must return to the beautiful and true

[deadbeatmaker]

Armand season 2 vs season 3

[snequanimity]

i understand the rationale behind telling us we need to rewatch s3 to understand whats going on but theyve made a lot of it excruciating to watch even once. i keep telling myself ill start from the beginning again and then remember how much of it i disliked and didnt enjoy watching at all and i cant force myself to

i have watched each ep twice but its a struggle to convince myself tbh

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[betty-fran]

if you think about it, the devil's minion as a phenomenon is an absolutely insane thing - it's just one chapter in a 13-book series which in itself is a book within a book and its events would be enough for a separate series and which the author generally never mentions again from the word at all and it's also the most romantic shit that has EVER been written

[noxxtale]

I can swear on everyone's soul that Rolin didn't read a single book and fired the only writer on set who did. The reason the tvl book he was carrying was in such bad condition was because he used it as toilet paper.

[soup-mother]

[segamascott]

taylor swift invited a guy who owns and operates an ice detention center to her wedding swifties can pack it up forever now your bitch is awful

[originalitysquared]

Wild how no one made announcements like this about P.Diddy when his trial was happening.

Wild how abusive artists like Micheal Jackson can have biography movies made and not a single mention of accused abuses or the subsequent trials will be mentioned.

Hmmmm I wonder why people feel the need to explicitly condemn women and any action they may have possibly been a part of (like inviting a shitty guy to your wedding) yet do not extend this same behavior to men in the same industry who commit abuse and atrocities on a much larger scale 🤔?

[segamascott]

yeah i hate concentration camps because i hate women you caught me

[stellanix]

it's that time again