sprouting suns and ageless daughters

sideblog, follows from @horreurscopes

[jessaerys]

alex they/them 1994 professional silly rabbit. i post about every trigger on earth

[jessaerys]

i want to write some real ass posts about it and gif it to infinity but for now: the single season of apple tv's the changeling with lakeith stanfield, clark backo & adina porter is probably what completes my favorite-shows-of-all-time trifecta alongside black sails and atlanta fx. this is just my taste and what speaks to me in the language of the hyper-stylistic so it might not be for everyone but to me it's the most gorgeous and deeply layered fairytale ever put to film and i'm not exaggerating. i love when a tv show looks and sounds like a play and yet it could never have been anything other than film. episode 7 in particular is perhaps my favorite episode of television of all time. the show starts slow, builds up to an explosion, and rewards multiple viewings. however i worry some people who don't like theatre would find it weird or corny or heavy-handed, but whatever, it's a fairytale it has Lessons. it's the sort of heart-wrenchingly earnest that makes me bawl like a baby, kind of like how people talk about the lord of the rings making them feel and the only reason why it's not as popular as, like, severance, is because it's about black peopleeeeee it's racism it's literally just racism it's maddening but it's the same story with atlanta fx. the changeling is a more whimsical, more textual version of the sort of surrealism the later seasons of atlanta fx had going on, kind of. it's not a fairytale horror genre blend but a piece of art that recovers and restores both the wonder and the absolute horror of the fairytale, the fable, the oral history, the leyend, the mystical, the mythical, the american myth, the global south, the Big City, the first generation immigrant and their bootstraps; the horror of class and poverty and the wonder of community, of the woman and more specifically the black woman; the passing down of knowledge from parent to child and from woman to daughter; from your future self to your past self, from the spirits to the mortals; of motherhood, of fatherhood, of childhood, of the son, of the daughter, of the sister, of the lover.

[jessaerys]

aside from the fact that all tv critics are hacks who give opinions based on one quick watch while theys scroll an article on the atlantic on their phone about how modern technology is dopaminemaxxing their ai slop fried brains, one just simply has to wonder why the changeling got mediocre reviews. one just simply has

[jessaerys]

i want to write some real ass posts about it and gif it to infinity but for now: the single season of apple tv's the changeling with lakeith stanfield, clark backo & adina porter is probably what completes my favorite-shows-of-all-time trifecta alongside black sails and atlanta fx. this is just my taste and what speaks to me in the language of the hyper-stylistic so it might not be for everyone but to me it's the most gorgeous and deeply layered fairytale ever put to film and i'm not exaggerating. i love when a tv show looks and sounds like a play and yet it could never have been anything other than film. episode 7 in particular is perhaps my favorite episode of television of all time. the show starts slow, builds up to an explosion, and rewards multiple viewings. however i worry some people who don't like theatre would find it weird or corny or heavy-handed, but whatever, it's a fairytale it has Lessons. it's the sort of heart-wrenchingly earnest that makes me bawl like a baby, kind of like how people talk about the lord of the rings making them feel and the only reason why it's not as popular as, like, severance, is because it's about black peopleeeeee it's racism it's literally just racism it's maddening but it's the same story with atlanta fx. the changeling is a more whimsical, more textual version of the sort of surrealism the later seasons of atlanta fx had going on, kind of. it's not a fairytale horror genre blend but a piece of art that recovers and restores both the wonder and the absolute horror of the fairytale, the fable, the oral history, the leyend, the mystical, the mythical, the american myth, the global south, the Big City, the first generation immigrant and their bootstraps; the horror of class and poverty and the wonder of community, of the woman and more specifically the black woman; the passing down of knowledge from parent to child and from woman to daughter; from your future self to your past self, from the spirits to the mortals; of motherhood, of fatherhood, of childhood, of the son, of the daughter, of the sister, of the lover.

[jessaerys]

the art of finding the perfectly above average but not too good film to watch while stoned + drawing

[andhumanslovedstories]

A patient, explaining what their relationship is to their new visitor who was headed up to see them, said, “he’s my guardian,” and I said “oh I didn’t you had a legal guardian,” and the patient said, “he’s not my legal guardian, he’s my spiritual and physical guardian. He is also my brother. Well, I say he’s my brother. He’s like a brother. He’s my husband.” And I say this with genuinely no judgment, just pure curiosity, what

[jessaerys]

writing near is like well i have to say more than "lol" just know that in all ways except narratively he is thinking: lol

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[jessaerys]

when i was a tween i learned that stephanie meyer loved muse (the alt/prog rock band) so i listened to their first four albums on repeat because it made me feel cool despite being kind of unpleasant noise at first and it taught me that you can brute force any music taste if you listen to something until you Get It. which is a great skill to have artwise and tastewise. i think that's the most long-lasting effect twilight had had on me so thanks joseph smith i guess

[jessaerys]

i literally love jade i saw her in concert and it was life changing

SHE'S SO GOOD i was never into lil mix so i found her organically lol but both showbiz albums have be in a chokehold

[jessaerys]

fair that i try fair that i grind fair that i buy you SUSHI got you a car got you a house got you a suit it's GUCCI if i don't win i'm in the bin you say you never knew ME. but when i pop off you SUE me. so SUE ME. but it feels nayayayayicceee (it feels NICE) in the spotlayayayayayight (in the spotliGHT) when the camera flashy :-) i act so happy :-) I'm In Heaven When You're Lookin At ME. AngelOfMyDreams i will always LOVEyouandHATEyou it's not faaiir. it's so bitterSWEET i will always WANTyouandNEEDyou you don't careeee. love when you call me a STAR you let me down in the DARK wantyouandneedyou, you don't care. IT'S NOT FAIR! IT'S NOT FAIR. IT'S NOT FAIRRRR

[guiltfactory]

everything is a reference when you're crazy

[jessaerys]

i'm gonna be real chat i have been quiet about it but sasunaru is lowkey reshaping my neural networks. fortunately i'm sure all the fics that need to be written have been written so i just get to bask in it

[prokopetz]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

[rubenniall]

no nuance

fincher

nolan

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

[jessaerys]

lowkey what if go to school to become a whale biologist

[jessaerys]

cannot stop thinking about this video. it should have like 5 million views. the indigenous australian yuin mob had spiritual and political relationships with another freaking species of non-human people for TEN THOUSAND YEARS before violent white settlers came over and destroyed that interspecies symbiotic partnership on top of (or as part of) all of the human horrors of imperialism. can you imagine the kind of mutually beneficial, multi-species stewarding of earth we could have were it not for the many settler-colonial projects all over the globe! it's mindblowingly devastating! but also there are other cultures of earthlings out there that we could be allowed to participate in if we can turn this fucking ship around. this planet is so awe-inspiring and striking and fragile. orcas are so fucking cool. there's a whole other multicultural world of people under the sea we are barely beginning to gain awareness of. it's fucking bonkers.

[jessaerys]

please do u have photos of a disassembled TV to share with us🥺

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