Paperback Writer

23. Originally from SoCal but currently living in TX. A nerdy, emotional bitch who takes pride in her wit.

[goodreadss]

Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom, Vincent van Gogh

[softlyher]

crazy to me that a decent chunk of people hated the finale because it just makes so much sense to me dramaturgically. like especially the later half. kendall inflicting pain and comfort to roman at the same time, pressing romans fresh wound into him as he hugs him. roman falling into place because thats the only form of comfort he can stomach. shiv seeing, once again, roman fold under the command of violent older family member, seeing kendall say "thats fucking right" after roman votes against the gojo deal in the same way logan would when roman complied to his demands. shiv being confronted with seeing her older brother turn into her father, and reconsidering everything. and kendall only digs his hole deeper, turning vile and mean. when you grow up with a mean man in your house there's always one there even if hes gone. shiv confronting kendall about the waiter and he denies it even happened. says it wasnt real. no real person involved. kendall again using violence towarda roman as a motivator but this time its different and he fights back because nothing fucking matters. shiv votes for the deal and kendall is once again too late to do anything. its already been done. tom sucking the biggest dick in every room.

[eastgaysian]

the idea that rose died because logan was sick and he couldn't stop it from spreading. And then he grew up and gave all his kids his sickness that he couldn't stop from spreading. Lol

[eastgaysian]

did the kids even know is the thing. did they know about the boat. did they know it was polio that killed rose or did they just know not to talk about her. logan let them believe he couldn't swim so he wouldn't have to reveal the scars on his back. how could he stomach telling his children that his baby sister died because he was too weak. the fact it was polio which can have long-term complications and impacts on your health decades later. imagine not only living with physical reminders of your abuse but the residual effects of the disease that killed your sister. imagine learning about this after your dad dies because when he was alive you couldn't talk about it

[museumofdesire]

CHRIS PINE for Esquire, March 2023

[amateur]

[im-so-3008]

The shirt is available HERE!!!

[chewbacca]

NORMAL PEOPLE (2020) Episode #1.5

[rodrickheffeley]

his legal name being 'and ken' is so genius he's literally just barbie's accessory this movie is for real men

[ruinedchildhood]

[royrockstone]

i think theres like. a million reasons why ewans speech undid roman so badly. at least from an Acting Choice perspective. 

[royrockstone]

ok ive got thoughts. first of all, kculk already started broadcasting distress as soon as they start walking up the aisle with the casket. i think, ewan speech or no, he would have fallen apart because being the Loudly Talking Business Man who reminds everyone of logan and ignores his messy gooey feelings was never a possibility for roman. 

there’s the fact that the kids didn’t know these stories about logan, and being faced with all that he never told them and now never will. AND, in those stories, logan is a vulnerable child and not a towering superhuman. roman hadn’t planned on acknowledging that part of his father, in the speech or maybe ever, because seeing him as superhuman has fueled romans denial about his death. AND he learns logan was sent away! he was sent away like roman was, and ofc the only time roman realizes his actual, human father might have anything in common with him is after he’s dead. and logan came back sick and he carried guilt for the rest of his life that the sickness spread and that he killed someone he loved. there is sickness in the family and maybe logan is the cause but also maybe logan never intended to be a killer. 

then the hard pivot into an explicit recognition of logans cruelty, another thing roman has been in complete denial about (beyond the complimentary and vague “he was a tough bastard he was a human saudi arabia he always won”) and maybe, dimly, he’s putting together that all the cruelty was related to the getting sent away and the guilt and the being a child adrift in a boat, a connection he for sure hasn’t allowed himself to see. 

not only is he having seven simultaneous emotional revelations that he has to get busy repressing, he now has to Win At Eulogies. before, his task was just to look plausible standing up there and say pretty words, but now he has to present an alternate, more compelling vision of his father to rescue the funeral– a thing he cannot do because he didn’t know logan as well as ewan, and because the cruelty (not to mention the like. impact on the world) is real and true and who knows that cruelty better than his kids?

so kendall has to take over because roman is weak, roman cries and can’t control himself, roman was never capable of convincing people he had logan’s vitality and force. it was never going to happen 

[realfits]

Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

h/t twitter.com/womensart1

[blatantescapism]

Chilkat weaving is the absolute pinnacle of fiber art, and Anna Brown Ehlers is *the* master weaver.

Japan has a system where skilled traditional craftspeople and performers are recognized as “Living National Treasures”. These are people who have mastered their art and ensure that traditional techniques are kept alive and passed on. The tangible objects they create are masterpieces of great value, but their intangible skills and knowledge are priceless. It is a great honor to be a Living National Treasure, and the Japanese government has a specific grant to subsidize these artists so that they can continue to create and enrich the culture of Japan.

Indigenous artists deserve this level of recognition and support. Anna Brown Ehlers and Jennie Thlunaut were both awarded heritage fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, but that is really insufficient recognition for the work they’ve done to preserve and revive and teach the art of Chilkat weaving. Not only the weaving technique, but also the art of formline design itself.

I have very strong emotions on this topic.

[cinematicnomad]

SUCCESSION ▸ 4.03 connor’s wedding || 4.08 america decides

[doux-amer]

#the way neither of them can trust the other to say something they want to hear#shiv assumes tom is lying to protect her and tom assumes shiv is lying to hurt him#but they have to ask just to be sure bc they want the answer to be no so badly#(and the answer IS no but it doesn’t matter bc their trust is so fundamentally broken that they can’t believe each other) (via @cinematicnomad)

[sapphic-girls]

The Matrix (1999) ▣ / Barbie (2023) ♡ parallels

[calvinandhobbes]

“i’m the eldest boy” kendall feverishly asserting a claim that isn’t even true…. to hold on to a title that was promised to him when he was in the 2nd grade. he’s still a child trying to lord over his little sister, wrestling his brother to the ground. kendalllll kendall kendall it was never you

[catchymemes]

[sportsbianism-deactivated202306]

the thing about the garden of eden is that while eve was partially deceived into eating the fruit of knowledge, she primarily did it of her own volition because she wanted to know. whereas adam only ate it to be with eve. she's everything he's just ken

[sportsbianism-deactivated202306]

yep

[finnicksannie]

Oh there is something so deeply and horrendously ironic about the fact that Shiv couldn’t be CEO. She couldn’t inherit her father’s kingdom. Her husband had to. The only way she can have it is by being a wife and a mother. Because that’s the only way a woman can have any power in the world her father created.

[zegalba]

Paul Nicklen for National Geographic arial photographs of the Colorado River, "Delta" as it flows into Baja, Mexico. Appearing like water colors, the work demonstrates the desperate remains of the Colorado River, ravaged by drought.