THE GREATER GOOD

Julia, Netherlands. When I started this blog, it was kind of a mess. Now, a few years later, it has evolved into a complete mess (but hopefully a fun one). TV shows, books, movies, some serious stuff, weird text posts, cute animals, the occasional tag tangent... a little bit of everything. Unless I have a new obsession, than it's a whole lot of one thing. Sorry. UPDATE: Not on tumblr that often anymore, so expect a lot of nothing and then a sudden burst of posts. Sorry again. 

[kazs-inej]

HOT PRIEST & FLEABAG — S02E03, Fleabag (2016-2019)

[solitairians]

WWDITS main cast + (tumblr-assigned) characteristics

[bodhimcbodeface]

I need a Thank u Mr Terry tag

[spiffybug]

#thank you mr terry#thinking something isn't doing it and doing is all people see#and deep down it means that when the ugly thought reared its head to be realized#you stood up in front of that ugly hurtful thought and said 'sit down'

Pardon me, but I needed to read your tags tonight.

[sheryl-lee]

JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) + letterboxd reviews

[bourtange]

ever since sites like the new york times caught on to the private browsing trick to get around their bullshit paywall, i’ve been using the google translate trick instead. google translate isn’t restricted to text you paste; you can also paste in a url and it will generate a link to a translated version of the webpage you wanted. it’s this service you’ll be using

go to google translate and paste the url of the paywalled article you’re trying to read on the lefthand side (where you’d normally paste foreign text). set the “from” language (the one on the left side) to russian, arabic, japanese, etc. – any language that doesn’t use the latin alphabet. set the “to” language (the one on the right side) to english. it will generate a url on the right, and you can click it and enjoy

(the reason you want to pick a language that doesn’t use the latin alphabet is that false cognates are inevitable. if you don’t want to read an article that’s mostly intelligible but every instance of the word “after” is changed to “anus”, for example, you don’t want to go with german)

this DOES NOT work with every paywall! i just tested it on a number of sites, and it doesn’t work on wall street journal. but it does work on the new york times, the la times, the washington post, and the san diego union-tribune. i make no guarantees!

hope people find this helpful!

[3liza]

many/most paywalls can be foiled by putting the url into Archive.is as well. this has the secondary benefit of creating an archived snapshot of that particular article on that day, which is invaluable to historians and researchers

[dushku]

halloween 2021 marathon ↳ day 15 🎃 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) | dir. wes craven

[lea-ts-deactivated20211009]

there's this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to "consume" art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren't perfect representatives of the social movement that's being projected onto them, they don't know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

Most targets of “cancel culture” are women and people of color for this reason.

[courtesyname]

There’s also something very paternalistic about judging art from anyone who isn’t a white man by how flawless and “non-problematic” the representation is in their art while we judge (mostly white, mostly western) men by the metric of good prose, good characterisation, themes and narrative for example, when it comes to books. It feels as if the “universal” work is reserved for them, while everyone else gets to sit at the kids table and get an award for stuff like “book with most likeable bisexual character”.

[curseworm]

john william waterhouse wanted to get fucked by a witch sooo bad

[curseworm]

those wands r just metaphors for the strap

[curseworm]

john william waterhouse wandering aeaea like oh boy i sure hope no morally complex seminude witches debase and humiliate me by transmogrifying me into a filthy animal 😏

[james-flint]

While working on the film, Bong Joon-ho called Parasite a “staircase movie”. It is an upstairs-downstairs film that explores every available rung on the ladder of class aspirationalism. The movie starts in the half-basement apartment of the Kim family, with windows that barely peer above the ground. Half-basements are distinctively Korean spaces in urban centers like Seoul, and while the Kim house is firmly below ground, it still “wants to believe it’s above the ground.” 

 A story about two homes — the upstairs family and the downstairs — reveals yet another lurking underneath. The original housekeeper confesses that her husband has been stowed away in a secret bunker underneath the Park house for four years. The Kims are shocked by the state of his living conditions.

In the end of the film, the father becomes the new resident in the bunker, hiding from the police in the last place they’d look to find him. The Parks move out, only to be replaced by a German family. The particularities may have changed, but everyone’s station has remained the same. There would always be a wealthy person to live upstairs, just as there would be another poor person positioned beneath them. - by E. Alex Jung

Parasite | 기생충 | Gisaengchung (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho, production design by Lee Ha Jun

[basketcasemp3]

“a nice place to visit” the twilight zone (1960) // “michael’s gambit” the good place (2017)

[fairweathermyth]

Patrick “Buffering” Brewer, season six edition (part one)

[abigaillazaar]

Dark greetings of the night to all the members of the Vampiric Council, from all the continents, gathered here together on… Staten Island. O-On Staten Island.

[la-cineaste]

In The Mood For Love (2000)

Wong Kar-wai

[asleepinawell]

[isabelladjanis]

박쥐, THIRST Park Chan-wook, 2009

[chotomy]

Leda and the Swan.

[transpeterafterdark]

[transpeterafterdark]

[cantdewwrite]

The dress he’s referring to. 😍