kath

19 𓏲ּ𝄢 esoteric psychotic and erotic

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✦ Favorite Outfits Meme ✦

Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

[admireforever]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

[heavenlybun]

[ethel-kane1031]

[phantomrose96]

I'm making this post without a true answer, but I feel like there's been some shift--slight but noticeable--in advertising that's pushing things in a "well aren't you just useless 🥰" direction.

Backlash against 2010's hustle culture? Backlash against 2000's "girls can do anything" messaging? I don't know. But why are the AI advertisements all about how you forgot your wife's birthday or your boss's deadline and the AI saves you? Why is the ideal young-20s woman a frail little girl who lives on her boyfriend's income and makes him lattes while she does nothing all day? Even the sports-betting craze feels like it reskinned the "savvy young day-trader who's skilled at reading the market" to "blind and dumb luck might make you a millionaire so you should try."

And it feels like there's something here because like--yeah AI is being advertised as a functionality of convenience, but so have things like food delivery apps. And I swear my best recollection of food delivery app advertisements used to be like, "busy mom comes home from work and finds the kids messed up dinner--oh well, at least there's doordash!" Like the key target is not someone lazy or useless, they're just busy as hell and won't this convenience service we offer help them a bit?

The instagram girlies were running businesses in the 2010's--most of them scammy bullshit I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole--but the aesthetic of being busy, hustling, operating with drive and passion, was in. The men were founding start-up companies and calling themselves entrepreneurs--again, scammy, 10 foot pole, etc. But the aesthetic of doing something and being capable was in vogue.

I don't know. Something is weird. Forget your whole family's birthdays and let the AI email them a card, you idiot. Spend all day nursing your 5-calorie matcha latte and posting your athleisure outfit to instagram, you dumb girl. Make some dumbass bet on the Mets that'll net you $1,000,000 if you win but that won't happen because the odds are 1000:1 against you and this'll drain the last of your savings, you puppet. It's vogue, somehow. It's hot. It's in. Strive for nothing. Fuck you.

[swordofhearts]

flesh and bone

[coldxperience]

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reblogs are appreciated. thank you, Alaska.

[putall]

Exene Cervenka & Lydia Lunch photographed by David Arnoff in 1981, for their collaborative poetry book "Adulters Anonymous".

[ghostpnk]

PUNK ISNT DEAD

[deadmanty]

This goes hard as fuck!!

[bowlinggwithmargo]

this has probably been said before but I keep thinking about how much of the violence in Sharp Objects is predicated on the legacy of slavery. The south as a society was/is founded and defined by intense brutality. It's a society where white women weren't the lowest rung on the oppression totem pole because there was always a class below them to torture...a society made up of white women that, in the decades after the end of slavery, have been forced to externalize this desire to control, manipulate, dominate, and torure slaves onto each other. This legacy of pain had to go somewhere or else the teeth of being seen as less than, or property of, their white male counter parts would be harshly felt. That's why Joya tortures Adora who tortures Marian, Camille, and Amma. Amma goes onto to torture other little girls to reaffirm her self worth but Camille seemingly breaks the cycle by redirecting that pain onto herself. Camille is the liberal of the show for doing so (I don't think it's an accident that the only person who notices her self-harm is the black woman who knew her in high school.) But she is just that, a liberal, who understands this legacy of pain but is dismissive of it (making fun of Calhoun day for one thing) and thus is unable to truly reconcile with it to truly move forward (much like how America refused to deal with/reconcile with slavery and the evils it wrought.) I think that's why Sharp Objects ends the way that it does. Camille writes her little article on the events of the show but, because of this lack of reconciliation, is shocked to see the cycle of violence repeat in Amma and can do nothing to truly end it.

[shame-in-you]

I need this so bad RIGHT NOW

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[stonedeadforever]

By Gerda Wegener, 1925

[so-few-bullets]

i understand it's fandom culture and obvs it's going to tend to not be so serious most of the time, but I'm really saddened by how primal fear was watered down so much to just edward norton hot twink. the movie was terribly watered down too, even if Norton's performance as Aaron Stampler is completely amazing and it's of my favorites.

like i get it, but the first book is such a nuanced and nicely written story on systematic abuse, power, who gets to be acknowledged as a victim, industrialization and the isolation it imposes on rural communities, prejudice, etc. and i guess i was just expecting something very different from the community built around it.

that's one of the reasons why I couldn't continue to write fanfic about most of Norton's characters. idk if its just the autism™ but it didn't feel right.

lmk what you think please

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[lovesickreplica]

ik weve all talked about it before but the Marla erasure is INSANE. every time i see someone downplay her role in the story it actually pisses me off so bad because clearly some of us missed the point

[archivearchangelica]

2003