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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

Having parents who aren't as bad as they used to be is crazy cause they'll be sitting there doing some normal shit and you're like kubrick staring at them

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stjohnstarling

In a language that contains words like devotion, passion, enthusiasm, love, fascination, obsession, etc., I can’t help but regret this tendency to cram all those meanings into "hyperfixation," a word which manages to pathologize and medicalize the act of having interests.

lesbianbending-moved

seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay

mckitterick

the movie is great, with amazing acting:

and the original graphic novel is phenomenal:

I highly recommend them both

and they’ve never been more relevant

digitaldiscipline

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

lectorel

There’s strong subtext that V is a trans man and A)the lesbian from the diary or B)her wife.

bemusedlybespectacled

frankly I prefer the movie over the comic, for three reasons:

1) lewis prothero as a rush limbaugh/glenn beck/bill o’reilly type is both more applicable and way funnier than a 1940s radio propagandist

2) it has stephen fry as gordon detriech, and makes him explicitly gay and pretending to be attracted to evey as part of being closeted than actually attracted to evey and having sex with her while she hides in his home.

3) the movie came out in 2005; that is, only four years after 9/11, while the Iraq war was still in full swing, and while xenophobia and Islamophobia were not just acceptable, but tacitly encouraged by the administration at the time. which makes the following exchange even more poignant and sweet:

Evey: [seeing a book in a glass display case] What is that? Gordon: It’s a copy of the Qur’an, 14th century. Evey: [shocked] Are you a Muslim? Gordon: No, I’m in television. Evey: But why would you keep it? Gordon: I don’t have to be a Muslim to find the images beautiful or its poetry moving.

just… the easy acceptance of it. the idea that a religion that he doesn’t believe in and that has been explicitly outlawed in-universe is a source of beauty. I’m not Muslim, either, but that particular moment really stuck with me emotionally.

the-ominous-owl

i love this hug so much. they just like, slam into each other. like it’s inevitable. like they can’t help it. and there’s so much relief on ava’s face and you can see how she just breathes out cos bea’s there

postarcadian

we are truly blessed that Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails spent so much of the early 90s making music specifically for kinky goth bisexuals with complicated relationships with organized religion

sklogw

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next person to mention among us on this post gets mauled to death <3

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A M O G U S

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tipsy walk home

takemetoohigh

OTP: Ava's smile + Beatrice

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westenraskiss

Ava started writing, with a pen and paper, again during their time in the alps.

She started small. Her own name. The name of the town they’re in. Their grocery lists. Short notes to let Beatrice know where she went off to.

Ava quickly developed a habit of leaving post-it notes around the apartment, scribbled onto them were her happy thoughts. Saw a dog today. Found a cute cafe. Camila and Mother Supes are both safe.

She never stopped documenting these little things on her brightly colored post-it notes, even after they left the alps.

After Beatrice returned to Jullian’s house post-battle and without Ava by her side, she found them: haphazardly stacked together and hidden in a zip compartment in Ava’s bag.

The first few notes were familiar, from their alps days. Then a couple Beatrice hadn’t seen before. Dick pastries. Prado Museum.

Then, training with Beatrice. She wasn’t sure when this was from. She didn’t care.

Another one, Beatrice’s sunglasses, followed by, Beatrice’s face when she’s trying to focus.

Beatrice went through the rest of the stack. Almost all of the notes were about her. Beatrice letting me call her Bea. Beatrice got darted and couldn’t function. Beatrice’s face when she heard that Camila does TikTok now.

And so this was how the sister warriors found Beatrice, sitting on Ava’s bed, crying over a single, ordinary, pale-yellow post-it note that read: Bea will live.