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Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???

Gideon most of the book:

"Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black"

papenathys

- Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the wife of deceased firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexeivich (transl. Keith Gessen)

theriverbeyond

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

thesoundofmusic1965-deactivated

Mitski for Pitchfork // Richard Siken for TinHouse

thelonelywell-deactivated202002

- extract from a christine and the queens interview that I saved in my journal

soozspov

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

forestgreenlesbian

boygenius interviewed by Mark Savage

lyingpink

facebook post by björk, december 2016

animentality

kicking a hornets nest.

esleep

i can't remember if i have posted this before but the coffee shop by my house has my favorite hand-washing sign in the world

crazy-brazilian

my-russia

Illustrations for Russian fairytales by Ivan Bilibin

tchaikovskaya

why are like 90% of americans apparently totally incapable of understanding the actual reasons that criminal trials are extremely necessary and an explicitly protected Right

tchaikovskaya

“oh i think its just awful that the evidence in this probable cause affidavit so clearly proves that this guy murdered someone yet he’s going to put the victim’s family through the trauma of a months-long trial. huh, what did you say? what if it were me? this would never apply to me though, i would never find myself in the position of having to prove that i didnt murder someone. because i would never murder someone :)”

tchaikovskaya

also the misrepresentation and demonization of the role of defense attorneys

“how could anyone willingly DEFEND someone who did [morally repugnant crime]?” because a defense attorney’s job isn’t to be a defendant’s bestie or confidant or therapist, it is to poke holes in the case against the defendant that the state lays out in court. the burden is on the state to answer for those weaknesses (this is where the idea of reasonable doubt comes in). is it really all that outrageous to demand that the state can conclusively prove your guilt before being able to take away your freedom for any amount of time? (or worse, your life?)

public defenders are usually more readily forgiven (though not always) for doing this incredibly important job, but honestly it applies to private defense attorneys as well. yes some of them are sleazy or ostentatious or unethical in how they approach trial strategy. but the biggest difference, aside from the freedom to turn down a prospective client’s case, is that they have more resources and more time. it is not sleazy to want the person who is responsible for making the state prove that their case against you is 100% airtight to have as much time and as many resources possible to dedicate to that job.

alwaysnewdepths

Being weird together in museums is a love language

therealklt

He's correct and he should say it.

therealklt

I’ve been trying to ignore the comments on this post for days, but we’re going on 10k notes, now, and I’ve had a bit too much MCU Stans Being Willfully Ignorant And Purposely Misinterpreting Quotes this morning, so let’s take a crack at this.

First of all, it’s not an attack on genre films, generally. It’s not even an attack on a genre of film, specifically. He didn’t speak about “superhero movies” as a whole, like Ridley Scott or James Cameron have in the recent past (although, let’s face it, the genre is synonymous with Marvel at the moment, anyway). He expressly targeted Marvel films; the MCU in particular. Gee, I wonder why.

He also didn’t say that they were “bad”, he called them theme parks. You read that superficially and assumed that he meant, “Things that are fun” but what he actually meant was, “Things that are built with the soul purpose of funneling people into seats to be optimally profitable.”

It’s very amusing to me that you folks will log on Tumblr to hem and haw about late stage capitalism, but then leap at the chance to defend your favorite Mickey Mouse production from the scary old man who’s been trying his best to make good films for 50yrs. What good, respectable consumers!

Lastly, he refers to cinema as “human beings trying to convey emotional, and psychological experiences to other human beings,” and you guys all either went, 1) “Cinema just means it’s a movie played in a theater, hurr hurr hurr,” 2) “Thor almost cried one time when he planet blow up,” or 3) “That’s pretentious! Everything is art! My cheerios are art!” and again this is missing the point.

When you watch a Marvel film, a writer didn’t decide that he had something interesting to say about Frog Man and pen a script, and then a director didn’t get to take said script and produce a work through their own artistic lens. A boardroom full of people in suits sat around and decided which licensed properties they already owned the rights to would be most profitable, and how it would fit into the conveyor belt of content they’d already pre-designed, and then they controlled every single aspect of that production, down to tone and color grading. And if you don’t believe that, ask Edgar Wright.

Martin Scorsese gave you guys an incredibly milquetoast, obvious criticism of movies you slurp down, and it made you all fume, but what you should be mad about is that you’re forced to consume fast food art when you could, just as easily, be getting filet mignon with the same genre and character roster.

Everyone likes to bring up Black Panther, but can you imagine a world where the incredibly talented Ryan Coogler hadn’t been handcuffed by a corporation. Can you imagine the movie that could have been?

hyrude

no offense to sir gawain bc im sure he was pretty checked out from the amount of verbal exposition he’d just received but if someone said “strike me however u want but keep in mind IM A MAGIC CREATURE AND I WILL DO THE EXACT SAME THING TO YOU LATER” i would probably not chop off their head. bc that means i would get my head chopped off. just my opinion

valtsv

you BOIL miette??? you cook her like the soup???

exeggcute

Rupal Gupta wants to raise funds for her son Ayaansh Gupta. He has been suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Your donation can guide them

gonna forgo the usual rage monologue about the pharmaceutical industry here and get right to it: a coworker just shared this fundraiser for a family they know whose kid has spinal muscular atrophy and needs a single dose of lifesaving gene therapy before his third birthday on may 27th (at which point he'll no longer be eligible).

they're just over seventy percent funded, but it costs just over two million dollars for this one-time treatment that can stop (and potentially reverse) the effects of SMA, which otherwise has pretty severe mortality rates. they need about $640k in the next week. only so much I can do on my little slice of the internet but if you can spare any kinds of donation here it'll put my own soul at ease and could make an immense difference for ayaansh.

sailorsally

“all the things she said, running through my head” is angsty alright, but it’s nothing compared to “Я сошла с ума, мне нужна она”

lesblep

take my quiz if you want to feel sad about yourself

there are ten results, all colours, and no pop culture questions whatsoever.

fromthecrypt

un-ionizetheradlab

pink

“you want badly to be kind, to be loved, to be precious, missed when you're gone. you are terrified of being the thing you fear. you want people to come looking for you. you aren't and never have been one dimensional, even when everyone else insists it would be easier if you were.“

#purple

byjove

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

cryoverkiltmilk

The spiritual successor to Miette

manicgoblinnightmarewoman

Might I also add

shydestinybread

May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit

unyanizedcatboys

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

explorerrowan

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.

dualclock

My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang