the unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy or whatever

♫ ♬ ♪ She/Her. Adult. Call me Soro (from my url) or Jaiden (personal alias) about me my ao3 || my art || my posts ♪ ♬ ♫ "The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy." is a quote from chapter six of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, a book I read once and decently enjoyed but am incapable of explaining. Ask me about The Great Gatsby instead.

[czesca]

btw, without lesbians the world would be in flames. so remember that

[mangonetics]

Yo, heads up on the elizabeth holms post from 2014. Came out years ago that she was actually running a huge scam with the blood thing and is perhaps not so girlboss

You are an enemy to women

[worldmovingslow]

husband: I'm so glad we finally have our own place! You did such a great job decorating it, honey

fujo wife: Really? You don't think it's kind of...chintzy?

[lazylittledragon]

dead girl in the pool

[vintagewildlife]

Hen brooding kittens By: Keystone From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

[mercvre-deactivated20170218]

[cherryfleischer-deactivated2026]

sexyback is a good song but the idea of justin timberlake being sexual disgusts me I don't even register him as a human being let alone a person or a man he's more akin to an old blind dog who pisses everywhere

[pngtopia]

[isorottatime]

watching horrible histories with google scholar open to fact-check the rat

[isorottatime]

the rat lacks nuance

[isorottatime]

concept

[isorottatime]

watching horrible histories with google scholar open to fact-check the rat

[isorottatime]

the rat lacks nuance

[isorottatime]

watching horrible histories with google scholar open to fact-check the rat

[creatingblackcharacters]

Mildly kicking the hornet's nest here, but I do find it inchresting how ALL of IWTV, all you ever heard was how Louis was such a liar about everything he ever said. No amount of the writing showing that while yes, he absolutely has a history of not telling the truth to protect himself, there were other people (mainly Claudia's own diaries) that attested to Lestat being not shit towards the family; that there was still an undercurrent of truth to how race played a pivotal role in Lestat's control of the relationship; none of this ever seemed to land with these viewers.

It was "unreliable narrator" this, "emotional terrorist" that (yes, that is a real thing that went around). The idea that a Black man could not be a perfect victim (nor person) and still be a victim was just, NOT a thing, ever. So much for lovers of "morally grey". There was not a singular ounce of grace, particularly from white female viewers. I was serious when I said they reminded me of the Mistress from 12 Years a Slave 😭

And yet you're telling me that people just bought what Lestat was talking about this season, hook, line, and sinker? There was just this assumption of truth, of innocence, of "well SEE he's just suffering and that made him do bad things!" As if everyone in the story wasn't suffering in some capacity? As if everyone didn't have something to stand guilty for in this show, yet did not have their sins excused?

I mean I didn't see one singular "emotional terrorist" accusation. I didn't see one "well he's unreliable and self piteous so this probably didn't happen!" The way they said about Louis getting violently beat and dropped from the sky by this man. Instead we got Louis' two siblings, who canonically stated their disdain for this man, saying how much they like Lestat. Crazy work. Major of example of writers not disregarding their Black fans, but actively disrespecting them 😭

[creatingblackcharacters]

@armanddelesbian your tags are spot on!! I said that back when the first season dropped, that if this show was gonna make me watch a Black man and woman get demeaned and abused, be proven "liars" against a white man in 2022 like we don't already deal with being not believed or valued when we experience racist violence, that I would feel extremely disrespected and they shoulda left them white.

And then they proceeded to write a trial where the characters do JUST THAT- utilize racist DARVO tactics IN UNIVERSE, in a way that shows at least a surface level understanding of how this sort of violence is wielded against us, it was so good- just for the writing to turn tail at the last minute and say "jk, yeah actually Lestat is uwu and really you should be worried about the Evil Brown Muslim for the next season!"

Like if y'all were gonna do the Black and Brown characters like that, if y'all were gonna amplify their bad for the sake of Lestat's "nuance", y'all really shoulda kept all these people white and never changed the story at all. They truly wasted a potential opportunity for a thoughtful, intentional spin, just to satisfy a lazy white audience's desire for blood and funsies. I don't think I'll ever forgive em fr.

[thecryptkeeper]

the substance sisters

[janasojka]

Blue night, winter.

[bifauxnenarmand]

why did they give louis and claudia sa traumas so they can relate it to lestat when armand was right there (not to mention how louis’ was a one off line and immediately brushed off). why did they make incestual/parental abuse a huge theme in the same season marius gets introduced and not expand upon that with marius and armand to show another interesting parallel between lestat and armand. why was armand not in the round table of characters who had significant relationships with lestat. why did they have lestat mock armand being a child sex slave in a concert and armand post revenge porn of lestat and his mother only to never expand upon the repercussions or the characters’ feelings about it except for lestat having a panic attack and getting consoled by louis. why did the one time someone acknowledge armand’s csa and slavery without making a quip about it have to be the result of armand brutally torturing someone he’s abused and being used as a mouthpiece for the writers’ antiblackness and victim-blaming rhetoric while the character who made a humiliating spectacle out of his being a child sex slave in a concert gets not even a confrontation about it. why do they not gaf about lesmand and armand for that matter so much that they badly fumbled what could’ve been the narrative foils of all time and clarity on why lestat and armand feel the way they do about it each other

[systlin]

"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"

Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'

This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'

Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.

Anyway how are all of you doing.

[systlin]

I FAILED YOU ALL here is the site. You can also buy flax fiber from them. The PROPER shit, not the hot garbage ass tow fiber sold as flax top for handspinners.

[tris-morreu]

"the imaginary or hypothetical harm that we believe a black person to be capable of enacting will always be less socially acceptable than the harm we know for a fact white people materially cause" the movie.