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shark vs the universe

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we're not kids anymore.
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elias bouchard lines that personally scratch something in my brain, mostly by how theyre said:
"good lord dont be so DRAMATIC, jon" (you know how hard it would be to replace you!)
"[PLEASURED EXHALATION]... thats... thats quite nice, actually."
"(fake voice for blackmailing) b-but perhaps i was wrong when i called them🥺 maybe it was a false alarm 🥺"
daisy: what do you WANT elias: (immediate change of tone) "collateral. :)"
(is punched) "ah, i see"
(audibly with the worst arrogant smug grin ever) "you've LOST, peter :)). admit it. he played you like a... like a cheap. whistle. :)"
count dracula? uhhh ok. one
WRONG! searching "dracula" on letterboxd alone gives almost 600 results! and that's just movies! thousands of draculas are upon us
cmon they just started… give it some time
thank you.
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thinking about that scene in s5 when Jonathan Sims yells “don’t touch me,” and pushes a woman away when she’s grabbing onto him begging for help. Hellen uses it as a way to make a dig at his fading humanity, but I actually feel like it was an incredibly human reaction.
He is covered in scars, marked by all the fears, is his body even recognizable to him anymore? Does he look in the mirror and find a stranger looking back? Or is it just a visual reminder of all the ways he was manipulated? All that pain, he’s come to expect it. Of course he doesn’t want to be touched without his consent. Of course it gives him a visceral reaction that has him recoiling, lashing out, because if it isn’t Martin, it probably comes with pain. He’s lost so much agency, had every part of himself manipulated and used against him, of course he wants to reclaim what little he still can.
you don't like sparkling water? "mineralwasser" just means sparkling water like soda stream, not the gross medicinal stuff with sulfur and iron and stuff
I don't like any water with bubbles in it. There's no scenario in this world where I ever use the phrase 'ich möchte Mineralwasser' except in a German practice lesson lol
I am the quiet you've been longing for
You can top without a cock! You can sub without being penetrated! You can have sex without touching each other's genitals! You can give pleasure without oral sex! You can be kinky without expensive gear! You can be penetrated without a pussy or without doing anal! You can roleplay without taking it seriously! You can do whatever you want forever!!!
Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees
Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen
If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.
This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.
Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.
Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.
hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.
For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.
If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - speculative fiction
Marguerite Abouet - graphic novels
Elizabeth Acevedo - fiction, poetry
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - fiction
Tomi Adeyemi - young adult fantasy
K Ancrum - speculative contemporary young adult
Lily Anderson - fiction
Ashley Antoinette - fiction
Ama Ata Aidoo - poetry, fiction, plays
Kemi Ashing Giwa - speculative fiction
Kalynn Bayron - young adult, fantasy
Malorie Blackman - childrens' books, young adult
Natasha Bowen - fantasy
Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry
Natasha Brown - fiction
NoViolet Bulawayo - fiction
Constance Burris - speculative fiction
CL Clark - fantasy, speculative fiction
Wahida Clark - urban fiction
Lucille Clifton - poetry, fiction
Alyssa Cole - romance, thrillers, graphic novels
Kamilah Cole - fiction
Claire Coleman - fiction, essays, poetry
Maryse Condé - fiction, non-fiction, plays
Emma Dabiri - non-fiction
Edwidge Danticat - fiction
Angela Davis - philosophy
Carolina Maria De Jesus - memoir
Hayley Dennings - fiction
Tracy Deonn - fiction
Nicky Drayden - speculative fiction
Tananarive Due - horror, comics
Camille Dungy - memoir, poetry
Esi Edugyan - fiction
Zetta Elliot - childrens' books, teen fiction, adult fiction
Bernardine Evaristo - fiction
Conceição Evaristo - fiction, non-fiction
Eve Ewing - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics
Radna Fabias - poetry
Namina Forna - young adult fantasy
Latoya Ruby Frazier - non-fiction
Stella Gaitano - fiction
Camryn Garrett - fiction, middle grade
Roxane Gay - fiction, non-fiction, comics
Nicole Glover - fantasy, speculative fiction
Nikki Giovanni - poetry, essays
Jewelle Gomez - fiction, plays
Annette Gordon-Reed - non-fiction (history)
Pumla Dineo Gqola - non-fiction
Deanna Grey - romance
Yaa Gyasi - fiction
Andrea Hairston - fiction
Lorraine Hansberry - plays
Saidiya Hartman - non-fiction, theory
Alexis Henderson - dark speculative fiction
Adriana Herrera - romance
Talia Hibbert - romance
bell hooks - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Pauline Hopkins - fiction, non-fiction, plays
Nalo Hopkinson - speculative fiction
Jordan Ifueko - comics, fantasy, young adult
Samantha Irby - non-fiction
Justina Ireland - science fiction, fantasy, comics
Meka James - contemporary and erotic romance
Tiffany D Jackson - young adult
Beverly Jenkins - romance
Alaya Dawn Johnson - speculative fiction
Micaiah Johnson - science fiction
Mariame Kaba - non-fiction
Petals Kalulé - fiction, poetry [Petals is noted as using she/they, I'm not 100% sure of their gender identity and past a certain point it feels weird to investigate too much]
Mikki Kendall - fiction, non-fiction
Jamaica Kincaid - fiction, non-fiction
Zaire Krieger - poetry
Nella Larsen - fiction
Karmen Lee - romance
Kirsten R. Lee - young adult
Margot Lee Shetterly - non-fiction
Audre Lourde - poetry, non-fiction
And here's part two:
Terry Macmillen - fiction
Robin Maynard - non-fiction
Amber Mcbride - poetry, young adult
Janet Mock - non-fiction, screenwriting
Brittney Moris - comics, young adult, fantasy
Bethany C Morrow - fiction, science fiction, young adult
Leila Mottley - fiction, poetry
Beatriz Nascimento - non-fiction
Leticia Nascimento - I think non-fiction primarily
Gloria Naylor - fiction
Zora Neale Hurston - fiction, non-fiction
Grace Nichols - poetry
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - fiction
Trifonia Melibea Obono - fiction
Shirlene Obuobi - comics, fiction
Nnendi Okorafor - science fiction
Melatu Uche Okorie - fiction
Chinelo Okparanta - fiction
Helen Oyeyemi - fiction
Nell Painter - non-fiction
Morgan Parker - poetry, non-fiction
Nikki Payne - romance
Koleka Putuma - plays, poetry
Claudia Rankine - poetry, plays, non-fiction
Sarah Raughley - young adult
Dia Reeves - fantasy, horror, science fiction
Kiley Reid - fiction
Stacy Reid - romance
Djamila Ribero - philosophy
Legacy Russell - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Layla F. Saad - non-fiction
Sofia Samatar - fiction, non-fiction
Liselle Sambury - fantasy
Analeigh Sbrana - romance, fantasy
Namwali Serpell - fiction
Ntozake Shange - plays, poetry
Christina Sharpe - non-fiction
Nisi Shawl - fiction, alternate history
Jamison Shea - dark fantasy/horror
Patricia Smith - poet
Tracy K Smith - poet
Zadie Smith - fiction
Sister Souljah - fiction
Kiki Swinson - fiction
Mildred D Taylor - young adult/children's lit
Katerina Teaiwa - non-fiction
Teresia Teaiwa - poetry
Angie Thomas - young adult, middle grade
Leah Thomas - non-fiction
Spike Trotman - comics
Tloto Tsamaase - science fiction
Nikki Turner - urban fiction
Maxine Tynes - poetry
Ngozi Ukazu - comics
Shola von Reinhold - fiction
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ - fiction
Jasmine Walls - graphic novels
Alice Walker - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Jesmyn Ward - fiction
Monica West - fiction
Phyllis Wheatley-Peters - poetry
Rita Williams-Garcia - young adult, middle grade
Stephanie Williams - comics, non-fiction
Tia Williams - fiction, romance
Raquel Willis - non-fiction
Jamila Woods - poetry
Jacqueline Woodson - childrens' books, young adult, fiction, poetry
Alexis Wright - fiction, non-fiction
Zane - erotic fiction
Fiona Zedde - fiction
Attica Locke - Mystery/Thriller Fiction
Oyinkan Braithwaite - Fiction
Isabel Wilkerson - Non-fiction
Hell yeah!!!
they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen
the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line
people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow
everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.
there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day