#*liveblogging

[welkingunther]

Credit: X

[spockasmr]

wait shawn actually calls gus babygirl. you guys were serious?

[synesindri]

one of my favorite things about adam as i write him is that he’s one of the few povs i use where the narration will cover the full range of sex-related words from actually sexy to kind of funny to clinical — partly because adam is maybe not perfect at identifying the full atmospheric connotations of each, but also a lot because adam couldn’t care less about fucking up the tone of a situation if he’s not feeling it

[fordeadleaves]

tbh it feels less like etho’s an absent father & more like cleo took the kids in the divorce

[jelliesupremacy]

If I've had a dollar everytime Tommy had to drink invis potion while his brother figure tries to hide him from a green man, I would have two dollars. It isn't much, but it's weird that this has happened twice.

[mjvnivsbrvtvs]

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Liveblogging “American Dirt” Because My Roommate Has Work in the Morning and I Refuse to Be Alone…

Hijo de la chingada. Actually, that’s not fair to la chingada.

One of her top three griefs in life is learning she couldn’t have kids anymore. She adores a piece of jewelry that commemorates the birth of her first child. She experiences a negative emotion towards her dead husband and describes it as “disloyal.” None of this is bad, per se; women like this exist. But when you add all of it together, to the exclusion of any other character traits, the character becomes an ambulatory pile of feminine virtues.

In romances, a female character like this can be more or less fine. Her story is about love, so if she’s hyperfocused on one relationship, at least that serves the story. In horror, these female characters might wind up as final girls, or pure victims whose violations horrify the audience. In this narrative, Lydia is the personification of respectability politics, crafted to be as inoffensive to America’s liberalish book club audiences as possible.