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real down to mars girl🖤💥

[roseillest]

the bridge (2026)

[slut4margiela]

[guhlut-in]

[xekstrin]

Something to keep in mind…. building muscle is so hard people compete to see who can do it best. If you’re a woman worried about “getting bulky”, i promise you that you cannot achieve that physique by accident. Now go lift weights to increase your bone density & protect yourself from osteoporosis and improve your insulin resistence and eat a fiber + protein dense meal with some carbs to refuel and fat for satiety + energy 🫵

[goresevraq]

there is something perfectly intentional in the way flike managan does his adaptations. it's not like he's careless or stupid or just wants to cash in on name brand recognition. shirley jackson does not have name brand recognition, at least not among his target demographic. he's genuinely in conversation with the texts he adapts, and is making very specific choices, except these choices all live in service of redeeming the name of the nuclear biological family and making sad little tut tut noises at the big mean bigots.

sometimes if you're lucky he'll chuckle and say well yes my dear old mother is a bit racist. but really she's a loving wife so why does it matter. also people of colour are never depicted in his #1 artistic priority (loving marriages with children) but whoops don't look to closely into that!! isn't rahul kohli a smokeshow?

[goresevraq]

anyway this is why it pisses me off when people say "it's good if you watch his shows divorced from the original book!" because. well because they're still soppy, spineless, and only good for the vfx artists to flex their skills. but also it's not just an unrelated story. his adaptation work is bad because he specifically set out to remedy the paranoia of the source material with the power of church weddings and group therapy.

he has not sanded the edges off just for marketability's sake! i really believe that he has a keen and sincere artistic vision which is repelled by the disgusting shit that made henry james and shirley jackson's work so good. his work does not agree that there is violence in a caretaker's total authority. it does not tolerate ambiguity. it is obsessed with innocence and righteous suffering. incidentally, this taming of the screw makes his junk more marketable. but that's just a side effect! he is just a symptom! maybe i hate the environment that let him be successful and not the man himself! and also the monologues fucking suck.

[goresevraq]

despite my flapathy i am forced to acknowledge his new ventures once a year whenever this post picks up a modest few notes. anyway this year i'd like to recommend 'Turning the Screw of Interpretation' by Shoshana Felman, an incredible essay about the relevance of psychoanalysis to literary criticism. I recall the show making allusions to ideas touched on in this essay, but don't ask me where or how. I've since deleted all memory of his work.

but in light of the new adaptation (my condolences.) here's a section about ambiguity in Henry James's work:

[achillesinhighheels]

[audhdgoku]

Being Nefarious With Mama

[achillesinhighheels]

kylie minogue in amsterdam gay pride, 2000

[achillesinhighheels]

[jumbobraids]

Another lovely song

[jumbobraids]

The talent the sensuality the romance of it all

[virginsuicideblonde]

[postcard-from-the-past]

View of Sanaa, Yemen

Yemeni vintage postcard

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[julytrees]

Tina Turner captured by Peter Lindbergh in Deauville, France, 1989.

[achillesinhighheels]

yasmin warsame for vogue germany 2003 by ruven afanador

[jumbobraids]

I love Congolese people