peach pulpeuse

if you raise the price of the effing hot dog i will kill you

[peachpulpeuse]

i have dozens of themed playlists. i have personal essays. i have multiple fandom sideblogs. i have a dreamwidth, a discord, a protonmail, a storygraph, a personal ephemera website, a lesbian digital-repository website, and a newsletter archive about the natural world. i have an ao3 with over 250,000 words of fiction. further information about all these can be obtained by means of the inquirous dm directed to your humble correspondent

[achillesinhighheels]

It’s officially summer

[cydd-charisse]

Franklin Mountains State Park // El Paso, TX // May 2026

[homemeansthehills]

[peachpulpeuse]

the people have spoken. i realize that the downside of this game is that you get offended by any option being the least voted for even though logically one of them has to be by mathematical certainty LMAO

[peachpulpeuse]

i wasn't joking about the subheading on my previously reblogged poll btw wouldn't it be so fun as a lil meme for everyone to make polls of their best traits and let their friends vote on them ^_^ make a poll and i'll vote on it. and cheer for u

[peachpulpeuse]

which am i

a precious angel who deserves 999 kisses

an incisive cultural commentator and literary gadfly

a 10 out of 10 smokeshow

a naturalist of genius

world's best host

the only mother fucker whose opinions i trust

Voting ended onJun 5

i think this would be a fun meme to do btw everyone make a poll with your best traits so your friends can vote on them ^_^

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[peachpulpeuse]

songs on repeat so far in 2026

seal kiss from a rose perennial ofc

raye where is my husband

prince i wanna be your lover

popa chubby sweat

aimee mann it's not

one of these things is NOT like the others lmao

[markadoo]

i did something very exciting and personally meaningful on monday but i dont have any interesting posts about it so you wont find out what it was

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that Xena, for all of its ridiculousness and cheesiness, did a better job of conveying the allure of evil than just about any other series I've ever seen. Like it understands that violence, no matter how justifiably it starts out, is addictive, and that hatred poisons you until you can't feel real joy anymore, and it's strange to me that I've never seen it laid out so simply elsewhere.

[rachandroll]

...so THAT'S what sleeper cell activation feels like. Because yes, YES, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS, because Xena is such an interesting lightning-in-a-bottle-case study! While I would never discount the work done by the writers, Xena as a show is almost perfectly positioned both historically and structurally to consistently explore that theme.

The first puzzle piece is that Xena was a syndicated show at the tail end of syndication's total dominance of a distribution model. For those too young to remember a time when ongoing plots and prestige dramas weren't the norm, syndication is big part of why older television shows almost entirely kept plots contained to one or two episodes rather than having them span seasons. See, when a show is syndicated, it is licensed out to individual television stations/affiliates to be aired as reruns. The individual station chooses when to air them and in what order, and whether to just skip episodes they don't like in favor of the ones most likely to draw eyeballs, etc etc. The more a show is licensed, the more money you make on it, so there is an incentive to make each episode standalone to make them appealing to each station by enabling them to toss on whatever episodes they like without it being a problem for the casual viewer. Also, before streaming, easy access to dvds and episode recording, and the like, a show could not assume that even its fans would have necessarily have seen every episode. "Catching up" was not an easy thing, and reserved for the most dedicated, doing shit like physically mailing bootleg tapes! Therefore, shows needed to have a consistent formula that didn't lock out the person who couldn't watch last week for whatever reason. Characters remained within more of a status quo. Xena is a "monster of the week" style show, like X-Files. I mention X-Files intentionally, because it was one of the first to really break that no-ongoing-plots structure, and that shift affected its contemporaries, like Xena, who also started to follow suit.

That alone doesn't account for Xena being so primed to explore those themes, of course. Even staying within the same fictional universe, Hercules (which Xena is a spin-off of) and Young Hercules don't even come close to Xena's complexity on the subject. But that's because Xena's premise is perfectly positioned to interact with those practical constraints for this outcome in a way those shows aren't. The status quo that syndication demands remain mostly in intact is that 1) Xena was evil and really good at it, 2) she is trying to do good in the world now as penance but can never undo what she has done. Every episode is about Xena trying to save people while dealing with the consequences of her actions as a warlord. The fact that she was evil cannot be changed or diluted nor can the fact that she must continue trying to redeem herself, otherwise the show is over or is unrecognizable to the casual viewer. But this is also an action show, sometimes cartoonishly so, so she must also be fighting consistently! The core spectacle is violence and the core story is why violence is often evil. There is an inherent tension there that the writers either needed to interrogate earnestly or ignore, and they chose the honest, interesting route. They gave Xena a costar who is innocent and principled but loves Xena, and had her always asking why and trying to understand how Xena could be that person, while being put under similar pressures herself. They had Xena continue to use the tools she has, including violence, for good ends, and wrestled with the answers as to why that was ok, why the violence she did then and the violence she did now were different—and sometimes decided they weren't. They showed Xena struggling with falling back into those old habits because they are seductive and easy.

If someone asked "are there so many episodes of Xena where you find out someone tried to get her to change her ways many years ago and failed because that is a really great standalone premise, or because violence as a tool and power and vengeance as motivators are corruptive and hard to stop using once you start," the answer is yes. The show is cyclical because violence is. But also because it is syndicated.

It's fucking rad and interesting.

[peachpulpeuse]

i'll be terribly interested to read a little life in conversation with alexander chee's the queen of the night, which (I loved and) may operate on a similar logic as the former. per garth greenwell's review of all, "To understand the novel’s exaggeration and its intense, claustrophobic focus on its characters’ inner lives requires recognizing how it engages with aesthetic modes long coded as queer: melodrama, sentimental fiction, grand opera [Ed.: and fanfiction!]." chee writes explicitly [in an interview? or maybe even in the foreword or something?] that he wanted to reach for the heightened drama and often cipher-like characters of the opera plot (abandoned orphan, unique talent, dazzling life history, great voyages through gutters and palaces, ingenues and villains, great love affairs, betrayals, long-lost family and sudden teary reunions) to access the same sense of larger-than-life ALIVENESS of the operatic voice itself that my wifey wayne koestenbaum writes about in the queen's throat. so... i'll be interested to read the books..... in conversation

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

do you guys remember in pretty little liars how they all hate jenna and they constantly position jenna as this wellspring of like ontologically evil malice towards them and they're always like "ew there's that blind bitch jenna, who's evil and blind! why does she hate us so much just because we blinded her that one time? must be because she's so evil! and blind!" well that's basically odysseus re: polyphemus

[peachpulpeuse]

When people ask me what I think is the single most important factor in an artist’s sustained productivity, I know I am supposed to say something like “solitude,” or “an independent income,” or “childcare.” All of these things are good and many people have said so, but what I think is better and more important than any of these things is what I call “a believing mirror.” Put simply, a believing mirror is a friend to your creativity—someone who believes in you and your creativity. As artists, we can consciously build what I call creative clusters—a Sacred Circle of believing mirrors to potentiate each other’s growth, to mirror a “yes” to each other’s creativity.

T_T FANDOM AND FANDOM FRIENDSSSSSSSS

[peachpulpeuse]

is jude's name really jude st. francis......... waow

[peachpulpeuse]

prints this and throws it out of a helicopter over downtown. feel free to DM me if you want the actual pdf

soprano range C4-F5

alto range G3-A4