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Henry Pauw van Wieldrecht - Gezicht op landhuis De Wildbaan, Driebergen, met sneeuw, 1903-1907

the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it

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this is why college, modern, bakery, flower shop, fantasy, post apoc, etc etc AU is either boring af to me or one of the best stories in a fandom. the thing that makes or breaks the story is whether or not the setting change is treated with the weight of a Character-- how does it impact characters and still keep them recognizable? it's like you've given everyone a new bestie or enemy and they all have to live with it. how does it shape them and change them? what parts survive? what parts of them impact the setting?

#true #i love aus because of the good ones !#this is also how i feel about Boston Movies TM

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Endia Beal.

#photography

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Tom Chambers, Once Bitten, Twice Shy

#photography

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Jane Marple and Metamorphose

#fashion #metamorphose temps de fille

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#wow

3000s

brunette with orange hair

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well there's not one

#grotesque and despotic

books read this May <3

Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn- have you ever considered the concept of a modernized Sweeney Todd about an actress whose revenge comes in the form of a "comeback" to Hollywood, starting a skincare brand that may or may not be fueled by murder? Well now you have. You have to at least respect the idea. Very fun read.

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin - ok there is a maga influencer by the same name who is also a young blonde white woman so I got kind of confused and thought there was a grift situation going on when I looked the author up lol. I liked the idea of this book a lot (two estranged sisters reconnect after one of them s attempts and ends up in the hospital) but it wasn't really my thing. I liked the writing style though.

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James - one of the best books I've read in a long time. Genuinely incredible writing and story that will stay with me, lines and scenes that will haunt me. It's one of those modern classics I've been meaning to read for years. The story of Lilith, a girl born into slavery in 1700s Jamaica, and how she becomes involved in a rebellion, is unforgettable. I don't want to describe the book any further because I don't think trying to describe it would do it justice, it's something you have to experience.

Molka by Monika Kim- this horror/thriller about the epidemic of illegal hidden spycams in Korean society is a deeply disturbing and unsettling short book that does a lot in a little time. I want to read the author's other book now. I didn't expect this one to go in a supernatural direction but I liked it.

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy - everyone was so mad about this that even if I wasn't interested in it before I was going to check it out, out of contrarianism lol. Definitely not for everyone even if you liked I'm Glad My Mom Died. But it was #forme. I found it to be a really beautiful character study of a young working class girl. You can tell Jennette was inspired by her life - there are moments when I see details that are similar to things in IGMMD - but it's fiction and she's good at fiction and I want to read whatever she publishes.

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker- I LOVED Bat Eater so I knew I was going to like this one. This is very different, though. It's the story of two people- an American college student from the present day and a Japanese girl from the 19th century whose father is one of the last samurai - and how they inhabit the same house, and time and space bends for them to meet as ghosts. Ultimately a very beautiful story. It's best to not know too much going on.

#i say things

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魔女の宅急便 / Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

#kiki's delivery service

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“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

#help #medieval history

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La Tour de glace (2025) Lucile Hadžihalilović

#the ice tower #this movie was fucking crazy.

watched the Backrooms, spoilers under cut

-I really liked the movie. I did think some of it could have been more fleshed out in certain parts (ie showing more development of Clark embracing life in the backrooms) but I thought it was pulled off really well. the opening sequence had me and the whole theater by the throat this one lady literally screamed.

-the backrooms as a meme/popular internet story, in the form we know it as, has always felt very much like a product of the early covid era even if it was first made beforehand. Its popularity in the early 2020s definitely is significant in that it is horror about being trapped inside indefinitely in a familiar but unsettling place where an incomprehensible death in one way or the other is guaranteed. People forget how covid wasn't something you could just get a vaccine for, the "lockdown era trauma" people talk about wasn't the lockdown in and of itself but the uncertainty when/if anything would ever get better and the possibility of getting this horrible disease and DYING even if you "did everything right" and watching the death toll get higher and higher every day on the news and knowing people who died. the trend of "liminal spaces" seems linked to this in that people were spending all their time in their family homes rediscovering childhood memories, being nostalgic, while also living with this horrible pandemic that recontextualized the childhood nostalgia they were living among. The setting of the Backrooms in 1990 I think enhanced the movie by leaving this comparison there but not making it a literal metaphor, and instead making it a broader commentary on the timelessness of nostalgia (a loop, as Mary would say) and the link between nostalgia and death, with "liminal spaces" being a sort of metaphorical tomb or grave. (see: the overlap between liminal spaces art and "traumacore" art). This is really done well with the narrative parallel of the Backrooms with Mary's childhood home, a hoarder house she was trapped in by her deeply unwell mother. These seemingly comforting images of a childhood home (the concrete handprints) are in fact horrible memories that only look "nice." Compare that to the Christmas tree in the rooms. A Christmas tree is such a timeless symbol of a happy memory. But in the backrooms it is a horror because maybe it wasn't actually associated with a "happy" memory at all - the woman monster who screamed and ran appeared in that room after all. I also saw the similarities between the first room having a pile of furniture (a symbol of the stagnancy and disappointment of Clark's life) looking like the furniture in Mary's house barricading the door shut (the lock on her childhood prison).

-On the subject of the woman monster I don't think she was literally supposed to be a copy of Clark's wife but the resemblance especially the red hair was certainly intentional. Seeing people's theories about what her presence (and Clark's behavior around her) symbolizes is ... really depressing in part because Chiwetel Ejiofor played Clark sympathetically enough that even in his worst moments it's hard to see him too harshly. I think his character was very interesting and I knew the movie was going in an interesting direction when Clark actively went to explore deeper into the rooms.

-Thoughts on the symbolism of the Captain Clark monster being much bigger than the other humanoid monsters? Thoughts on the birds?

-ALSO when Kat was calling out to Clarke did you think that was really her voice? I'm not sure if I thought it was really her or something mimicking her?

#backrooms spoilers #i say things