manic pixie midwest princess nightmare

mjf apologist | mox fan girl | anxious millennial cowgirl [18+ for cannabis, nudity, and adult themes]

[pizzazium-infinionite]

I feel like Jane Austen's novels are often minimized as "cozy" and "cutesy" when actually they are defining works of English language novels and insightful, often biting social commentary. and Im tired of people reducing her to like a "cozy author" or boiling her books down to a few bland romance tropes. she refined the novel form to an art. she defined genres of literature. she continues to influence creative works all over the world now. and idk im tired it is late and I dont have all the right words for this but it is just so frustrating

[myfashionburden]

heaven gaia spring/summer 2021 couture

[albertnatural]

[t00thpasteface]

nothing online is ever truly deleted. except that one fucking thing you're looking for

[kosmogrl]

I should receive some sort of reward for not killing myself on sundays

[evermore-fashion]

Almée Couture "Blossom Waves" Haute Couture Dress

[spiribia]

the reason so much 'The Wicked books are craaazy and way too weird and bad' is about the puppet sex that's only 8 pages into the first chapter is because you know these readers did not get any further than that. if you were real ones 'The Wicked books are craaazy and way too weird and bad' would be about elphaba killing fiyero's child with an icicle and elphaba caving in the skull of madame morrible's deceased corpse with a blunt object because elphaba had wanted to assassinate her but morrible had already died before she got there, robbing her of the satisfaction. the author said he literally put the 'puppets having goofy sex in a puppet show' early in the book so if you weren't the target audience you'd bounce straight off it. and how was he supposed to foresee the broadway sensation general audiences musical adaptation

[spiribia]

personally because the resting public state of things throughout the books is 'elphaba is for real dead', the books spend a lot, lot less time dropping evidence that elphaba is certainly dead, and more time dropping scraps that leave the door open for her to be alive. all you have to say with death is 'she died' for it to be true; to seed that she could still be alive, five thousand scattered conspiracy-like shards of evidence. even the very first book ends on this: a paragraph of a very sensationalized story-conclusive statement of her death and evil (very reminiscent of No One Mourns the Wicked) - and then after that, the actual final lines of the book, a direct nod to an earlier in-universe fable where the witch is simply sealed away out of sight behind the moon.

(the fable):

after elphaba's death, and before the news even breaks, this is glinda's response to the events, like a sixth sense typical of her when it comes to her friend. note the moon. glinda will go on to feel or at least hope that elphaba is still alive.

even earlier in the book, pg 281, they've started seeding the possibility. about saint aelphaba, elphaba's name origin:

Sarima says this in response:

this is even just the pessimistic first book, before the hype of the musicals could soften the rest of it into an arguably happier ending, but more importantly the post is just way too long. but anyway, maybe because i'm biased to prefer the possibility that elphaba lives somehow myself, i don't stand by the thought that it's just wishful AU thinking, and that believing in her death is always going to be the more logical and rooted approach. it's right there, and this is before nanny starts saying stuff like I saw elphaba on the stairs and rain starts video calling with a cranky green woman. i don't expect the books to ever fully confirm though, and i do like the ambiguity to decide whichever way you'd like. seeing it as her true death also brings something interesting to the narrative table. long as all get-out post

[aconstellationcollective]

dehumanization as horror is great and all but what about humanization as horror. Being forced into a role that was not made for you. Being forced to fulfill expectations that you can never achieve. Being made to exist in a society that so cruelly expects you to act in a way that is against your nature.

[sugaryewscythe]

reblog to make your blog smell like cinnamon and warm brown sugar

[only-cat-memes]

[berrytart]

my god if I make a post about women it should go without saying trans women are included …. If you are a terf who somehow crawled their way into my blog unfollow and block me and also die

[kestrelsandcentipedes]

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

[crypticarchivist]

Socialist in a “won’t let perfect be the enemy of better” way personally.

[purrkittenpurr-deactivated20250]

i open this app way too confidently in public

[icantspellthings]

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

[mjfass]

My mom has been watching AEW for 3 years and still doesn’t know which one is Matt and which one is Nick.

[sailermoon]

be careful with what series you watch/read during emotional points in your life because they will forever contain a ghost of your past self within it now