[mysterieuxclairdelune]

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

[valtsv]

do you celebrate valentines day?

[spelldealer]

me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

[coralinejones]

if a wealthy lord and his lady offered me to join their relationship, live with them in their big castle, let the lord hunt food for me and the lady gift me books and paint portraits of me and also let the both of them caress my face tenderly and kiss me softly –– i’d say yes immediately. rip to sir gawain but i’m different (not stupid)

[lovestory]

Halsey’s Discography 2015-2021

[weaver-z]

I'm going to say it. The (word in parentheses) meme is way better for tone indication than tone indicators

[weaver-z]

[deviika]

Alain de Botton // Jon Kabat-Zinn // unknown

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

the canterbury tales (c. 1400) - geoffrey chaucer

“hot wench summer”

[funnytwittertweets]

[hedaslayer]

“Bravo la pédophilie.” - Adèle Haenel

[swarthysinner]

for context this is adele haenel star of “Portrait of a Woman on Fire” as she walked out of Césars after Roman Polanski (shitty child rapist) won best director

[my-mind-is-a-weapon]

She walks like she is about to head to fucking war

[fractureddreams-deactivated2022]

Adèle Haenel and all the other actresses who walked out protesting against Roman Polanski and being people who actually are standing up against him is something I needed

[pagantc-deactivated20200717]

People have had decades to walk out on awards and events where Roman Polanski was in attendance. Not only did they not walk out many of them sang the praises of this fucker. It’s only when it became fashionable to walk out that it occurred to them to do so. So spare me the cries of “stunning and brave” because it’s very easy to be brave when you risk absolutely nothing.

[hedaslayer]

I can’t believe that in 2020 there are people who still think that it is ‘fashionable’ to stand up to abuse or that there is something to gain from it but here we are, as if the world wasn’t rotten enough already.

That said. You talk about having nothing to risk without knowing the facts because Adèle had everything to risk and indeed, there were consequences for what she did. The Césars are one of them. Adèle spoke out against Polanski and his defenders back in November, in a much more direct and unforgiving manner than 99% of the Hollywood stars that are championed as fighters for justice because they wear black or write a cool tweet.

She did this and she was punished for it. In France, the MeToo movement wasn’t met with support, especially in the cinema world, it pretty much passed by unnoticed. Adèle is the first public figure in France who spoke out and exposed the system of silence in place to support that abuse, and since she didn’t just share her story but she questioned the whole system and its enablers she became a target. Sure, empty words of praise were spoken about her in terms of her having shared her experience, but when it came to practical action, the support went all to Polanski and the César awards were literally set up by the media as a match between him and her, purposefully making him look like the delicate victim and Adèle the angry feminist lesbian

Want to talk about practical backlash? Portrait of a Lady on Fire lost every award except Cinematography, including Screenplay, Directing, and Best Actress, even though it literally won Best Screenplay at Cannes and Céline Sciamma and Adèle and Noémie had been considered the favorites for those awards. They didn’t award best original screenplay to a film which won best screenplay at arguably the biggest cinema festival in the world and gave instead best adapted screenplay and directing to Polanski, for a movie that’s supposed to evoke his ‘victimization’ by society and media. Adèle was threatened with a dead career for walking out. It wasn’t ‘fashionable’ for her to walk out because France is not like America and most of the support in the media/celebrity world went to Polanski, not her. There were people yelling “Bravo Roman!” in the room, in the row right behind her, which is what made her leave. She went to the awards to support the movie she made and the ideals that movie shares, consent and equality and collaboration, and found herself in a situation where with every award given to Polanski, with every joke about him, the camera cut back to her, just waiting for her reaction. Until she couldn’t take it anymore.

Why couldn’t she take it anymore apart from having basic morals and integrity? Adèle is a survivor of child sexual abuse. She was harassed and molested by the director of her first film from when she was 12 till she was 15 years old, it left her traumatized, suicidal and made her cut off all contacts with the cinema world even though it was something she loved. She spoke out about her abuse because she found out that same director would work with teenagers again for a new movie and she couldn’t let it happen. Her own father didn’t want her to speak out because he thought she was doing it for attention. She didn’t walk out of the Cesars because it was easy or convenient or whatever. She did because she’s a victim of pedophilia and she was asked to celebrate and applaud the triumph of a serial child rapist. It has nothing to do with it being ‘fashionable’. 

But if you look at that video and heard the anger in her voice and still think she did this as a media stunt I really don’t know what to tell you other than you can keep your very skewed, horrible opinions off this post.

[randomizeyourmind-blog]

Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”

Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.

Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.

When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.” 

- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof

[kokilax]

REBLOGGING THIS. x1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

[turningtricksbdwozhere-deactiva]

A medieval device for a medieval deed - yes.

[yfghkjilotu-deactivated20160606]

This is perfect

[shadowstep-of-bast]

BLESS THIS PERSON

[allthingshyper]

I BOW TO THIS INTENTION

[nosuchthingasfiction-blog]

Can we talk about how beautifully this turns rape culture on its head? Instead of “If they weren’t dressed like that they wouldn’t have been raped” THIS IS LITERALLY “IF THEY HADN’T TRIED TO RAPE SOMEONE THEY  WOULDN’T HAVE SPIKES IN THEIR DICK”*

[sassy-gay-justice]

That bold bit~

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

your ship may be problematic but is it blocking the suez canal

[steveholtiscool]

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula

[sailormilk-blog]

LAIKA !

[beetlejuicesgf]

Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying

[onwardsmynoblesteve]

I feel the 16ft tall skeleton from Kubo certainly deserves a mention

[ruffboi-mags]

Laika are goddamn ARTISTS and MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT. Look at the animation on Kubo and tell me it doesn’t feel more like CGI than stop motion sometimes because it’s so smooth.

I love them so much.

[burlbread]

IT WAS REALLY THAT BIG

[fiddlymoon]

It really was that big!! I went to a Laika exhibit in 2018 and this took up almost an entire room alone!

Another room was mostly dedicated to the Coraline garden, for reference, the pumpkin eyeballs were about the size of a basketball each

There was so much crazy detail it was mind blowing!

God I wish I took more pictures and had a better camera back then cause it was the COOLEST EXHIBIT EVER!

I mean, who doesn’t love a wall full of faces??

[james-silvercat]

I am utterly in favour of walls covered in faces

[geminiwave]

More cat tarot by popular request

[catchymemes]

[oddpoke]

My old friend, my companion, and my brother in arms

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

We also grew up with both cassette tapes and CDs which are the musical equivalent…

[spacemancharisma]

alright kids let’s break this down one last fuckin time (and this is a breakdown of just aesthetics)-

goth: all black, often very elaborate, gothically inspired (obviously), not branded

emo: still lots of black but much more casual, skinny jeans, certain brand shirts (usually music-themed), converse/vans, jewelry, specific hairstyles, think 2000’s hot topic kids

punk: lots of black again, very elaborate but in a completely different way, studs, chains, patches, piercings, leather, another set of specific hairstyles and bright hair colors, really rooted in anarchical themes

grunge: old clothes, flannels, oversized, layers, ripped jeans, distressed **if you’re buying “grunge” clothes new, you’re a fucking sham, the entire grunge aesthetic arose from garage bands too poor to afford clothes that weren’t thrifted, poorly sized, and already worn out**

additionally, all of these include elements of gender non-conformity and prioritize self-expression as well as identification as belonging to a group

and remember!!! all of these are actual subcultures, not just aesthetics, so when you say you’re “being goth/etc” remember to specify that you mean aesthetically, because its not fair to boil an entire subgroup of people down to just their aesthetic trends

[satans-butthole-is-hot-deactiva]

amen to this shit

[romaisamaria]