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I post lightly about being a system so I'm kindof being a hypocrite here but I think every polyfrag system who goes on and on about ohh it's not that bad it isn't scary is being ridiculous. Yes it is this shit is a nightmare, what are you on about why are you lying.

#several times ive looked at people we reportedly adored for years and just felt nothing because we completely reshuffled #and nobody who knows them closely atall is Here any more #glossolalia #said rpf

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on televangelism and art

so first things first

a lot of people have recommended ethel cain to me since i started my horror series. my series focuses on televangelism and charismatic christianity, two things i, like ethel, have grown up with and was surrounded by constantly. we have a lot of things in common (including being from the feral state of florida) and i love that.

ethel's world reminds me of my grandmothers. at least, parts of them. my grandma on my dad's side was catholic, but still had a lot of christian imagery and old 80s/70s fixtures in her house down in south florida. my grandma on my mom's side is an avid lover of jimmy swaggart and rodney brown. ethel cain's work reminds me of both of these worlds combined. instead of 90s reruns of my little pony playing on the tv down in south florida, i see swaggart and copeland.

that's just me crossing my memories the wrong way.

grandma #2 used to be a live-in caretaker. the televangelists went with her. when i visited, they were on a new screen-- a 25 inch flat one, that is. there's an air of comfort, littered with hypocrisy and damnation that follows these men. i think ethel captures that beautifully. it's paternal and oddly nostalgic, and i connect with it.

that's why i find it so intriguing to examine how my artistic expressions of televangelism and charismatic christianity differ from hers.

i like to explore heresy and scandal when it comes to televangelism. there's no denying that there's power behind these men, but they are also terribly cocky. but i am, somewhat helplessly, enamoured by their potent charisma. i grew up in a world that saw more of revival, of yelling, and shouting, and miracles. i grew up on the weird side, with conspiracy theories and tracts chock full of disturbing imagery. that's why i ended up falling in love with analog horror-- because that's what televangelism is to me-- almost liminal, always glamorous, sometimes sinister, and rarely quiet. i don't talk about the quiet ones that much, haha

so yea, i just wanted to share

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