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[ghibli]

what is this forbidden fruit omg....

hi hi hi Forbidden Fruits was made for you tbh! anyway here is a summary:

- based on an off-broadway play critiquing the commodification of sexism under the guise of girl power. it and the film are basically that ursula k le guin quote about "making a cult of women's knowledge".

- basic plot is: in a mall in texas, three shop assistants at boutique chain "Free Eden" called Apple, Cherry and Fig, meet Pumpkin, a fourth girl who completes their "fashion seasons" and invite her to apply for a job. Pumpkin has alterior motives for wanting to join them as she begins to uncover their witchy after hours cult that does blood hexes and prays to Marilyn Munroe and forbids all contact with men except through emoji. she starts to call out their toxic femininity.

- Lily Reinhardt is Apple, the leader and girlboss. she's a vicious, bitchy ice queen who throws hot coffee in the laps of truckers masturbating at her and schedules her friends lives, ruling the store. two short nails. lots of dark secrets. kinda cycle of abuse vibes.

- film is high camp, fashionable, silly, angry, feminine, witchy, biblical, but also violently, almost ridiculously gory in places. over the top, Final Destination style deaths. (a cat is also threatened with harm but survives the film just fine.)

- its biggest love letter is to The Craft and Mean Girls. it also namedrops Psycho and I think there's a strong comparative reading. other vibes are: Jennifer's Body, Yellowjackets, Snotgirl, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Ladyworld (i know this is an obscure pull but it's the "lord if the flies if they were teen girls" film). tonally has a little in common with the wackier episodes of Glee, minus the music and men.

- it fully goes there over and over and over again. critiqued for not being lesbian enough but Apple is a canonical girl kisser and is so touchy-feely with all the other girls that it's begging to be a Yuletide fandom full of fucked up pussy eating. dream with me!!

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

sorry for everyone who followed me expecting normal biology content. yeah sometimes there will be funny plant meme. sometimes there may also be posts about how gender can be modelled as a quantum state on the bloch sphere. sometimes there may even be photoshops of the pride and prejudice characters on the 2fast2furious bluray box art. this blog is a lawless land no niche nerdpost is safe from my funny digital artist photoshop skills and my dual wielded science degrees i should not have been trusted with

[77of76-moved]

Hi prox

GAY dog

[eyestrainz-remade]

gay person with mental illness call that a fruit bat

[ghibli]

OK we saw at the end of s2 that Louis and Daniel were long distance chatting like besties while Daniel was on his book tour. Louis knew!! he had published - radio vampire worldwide was in his ear, we get the whole Come At Me scene right alongside his friendly catch-up with Daniel.

Lestat openly says, I wasn't at the conversation where Daniel brought the Talamasca to the table with Louis but I'm going to fill it in for you, Listener of The Failures, and we'll set it in this fancy restaurant, two people talking past each other.

Jacob Anderson talks about how this season he enjoyed playing Louis as petty with the understanding that it's Lestat's idea of Louis now, rather than the true character, and there is so much petty in his "No. Sounds weird." when Daniel tries to talk to him about Armand.

Daniel and Louis flirt at the concert - Daniel's face as he talks about letting Louis go at him in the alleyway is a direct throwback to taking off his shirt in the Divisadero apartment when he was 21. Daniel has relapsed, using Dee to do coke; he's also hiding his drinking of Dee from Lestat - they clearly have a standing "meet up while Lestat is on stage" arrangement and are caught out when he interrupts them with Baby Jenks' body, though Lestat doesn't actually seem to care.

But we know Lestat is still jealous over Louis, from the scenes with his lawyer/lover - the tension point of their relationship all the way back to their agreement that they can see other people and Louis' low libido depression decade has always been around jealousy and Lestat hating being ignored. (meeting Gabi going a long way to explaining that core wound.)

I think Lestat has edited the DanLou dynamic to preserve his ego. I don't even dislike the scene as it exists, I just think it's clearly flagged as unreliable narration. The men in that scene did not put their bare feet in the rocks to unpack their fifty year old trauma together because Lestat does not understand Louis and Daniel's friendship. Way more likely to me that they sucked each other off in the alleyway while he was still in the middle of his encore and he's mad about it.

[ghibli]

i was so funny for this actually

[ghibli]

fairy tales got it wrong. true love is when your partner emerges in the middle of the night, passionately argues with you about complex themes in fiction you both love for forty minutes, and then goes back to bed.

[ghibli]

get to know your mutuals.

tagged by @screechfoxes

Favourite colour: the kind of orange pink you only get in coral and sunsets. you know the one. tbh love all oranges and yellows. for personal style i'm sort of... green based goth atm. lots of dark forest green and emerald with black.

Last song: watched the "i lied to you" scene from sinners where his singing calls the past and the future into the burning bar. masterful shit.

Currently watching: mostly Clocktower content (Chris Grace's YT channel especially but also the NRB backlog). watching The Pitt every week. been trying to get through my Letterboxd watchlist and try some older films - watched Mulholland Drive last night!

Currently reading: perpetually doing a The Locked Tomb reread. but i was disappointed by my last five or so books and I'm on more of a writing kick right now.

Currently playing: daily NYT games, Animal Crossing (restarted my island this year).

Currently craving: ny style cheese pizza. really specific bloodweave smut that i have to write for myself. chats with friends.

Coffee or tea: cold black tea with soy milk and caramel sugar syrup. boba optional tbh.

tagging: i always wanna hear what is up with @starments @scholar-hect @kaesaaurelia @tuffgreg @cobrajuincy @magictavern @cassiline but also if you are my irls you should do it too ilu. also NO obligation hajksg tagging is so stressful, i just love when ppl do this meme every so often and i can see what they are into atm. chinhands.