I Made Joan Baez Laugh

21 | sapphic | he/she |INFP| The dreaded Film major neurodivergent but no longer minor Occasionally nsfw I lost the common decency to be ashamed of myself a long time ago Co-bad decision maker @cupidofcarravagio Ao3: Anewhope303

[theworldsforgottenboy]

I never understood people and their dumb oc's until i got a dumb oc of my own. this is Hope Ironwood and if anything happened to them i would kill everyone and then myself

(I did give her my name, when I refer to Hope in the tags, I’m not talking in the third person that’s them)

[teaboot]

Why so many wolf attacks in fantasy. Where are the Boars. The immortal and humongous Boar

[downtofragglerock]

#king bobby b just before being slaughtered by 20-30 feral hogs

@theworldsforgottenboy

[innit1]

Happy tvl day to all who celebrate !! I need anyone but lestat on my screen asap

[contemptible-scoundrel]

true hustlers don't cry when they see baby shoes, never worn for sale. those could flip easily for a quick dollar, and time is money, so it's basically doubling your income. the real sad story is that so few understand this

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

it makes me so mad that "confessions of a human shield" by emily nussbaum doesn't exist anywhere outside of the physical essay collection it's a part of because it's so fucking good & i think it deserves to be a foundational text in how we approach good art made by shitty people, and especially good art about women made by misogynists. like in the wake of the neil gaiman variety piece i wish everyone was able to read it because truly no one gets it like her

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

groundbreaking text on media analysis in a MeToo world that you can only read by buying a book that is mostly about buffy the vampire slayer

[haywardfreud]

To this day, this is the only letterboxd review that I actually remember and in fact think about very often

[visenyaism]

Please explain harrenhal the concept

What if a castle ate blood and it was so good at it that it also ate time and warped the narrative around itself so that everything starts and ends there. What if it was a living ruin with blood in the walls and burnt-out towers that scream in the wind. What if the staging place and slaughter house in every major westerosi land war remembered it was this. What if a castle was perfectly ordinary and its “curse” was just that it so happened to do to feudal lords what those lords do to peasants.

[visenyaism]

Also I’m american so all our historical sites and big fancy buildings are like this blood-soaked charnel house built by the overambitious where every horrible thing you can imagine and more that you cannot happened to people here is the foundation of our national identity as long as you pretend the blood isn’t there. Yeah it was built in atrocity and half-burnt out in the war but we rebuilt it exactly like we think it was. There might be a curse if you pay for the ghost tour. So harrenhal the concept reads as familiar

[downtofragglerock]

@theworldsforgottenboy

[visenyaism]

Going to the tidewater peninsulas like northern and middle neck is crazy because it’s like. Oh this is the birthplace of the deep ancestral evil festering at the root of everything it is right here. Colonialism, slavery, genocide, the nexus of capital and blood at the heart of America. But it’s also almost all gone both in material and popular memory.

So many American historical figures were born there and all made themselves by leaving. Tobacco turned the soil to sand and the blood money got drank up or migrated down the river over the years and a lot of the buildings have rotted away or got burned out in the war (Bacon’s, Revolutionary, Civil) and the islands are slowly sinking into the bay. Ozymandias. It’s quiet there now. Flat and greener than green in the summer. The river yawns open. Not much left but the evil. Alternating English aristocratic and indigenous place names. Water in the air, blood in the dirt. Being there feels different.

[visenyaism]

and the southern peninsula has that field of rotting 10-foot tall president head sculptures. a little on-the-nose if you ask me but no one did

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[killrockstar]

lauren elkins new book.

[sacredheart-stigmata]

Please pray for those participating in the hunger strike at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center in New Jersey. Tom Homan, white house border czar, has gone on record that he plans to produce a court order to force-feed protestors. The people detained in the facility are protesting lack of food, most of which is already unsanitary to the point of being inedible, the lack of medical care, and brutality and abuse from ICE guards. I pray for the safety of the strikers, their freedom, and their families. I pray for the souls of the ICE members who enact this violence, and the politicians who legalize it. May God's divine justice and holy mercy rain down on them all. God have mercy, Christ have mercy.

[and-her-saints]

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

Omar and Ibrahim are building a library in Gaza. You can learn more about their project and donate here.

We are not just building a library — we are rebuilding a chance to learn, and restoring books to their role in protecting what remains of our children’s and students’ future. Every book that reaches this library gives a child a moment of calm, a student a window to the world, and a person a reason to keep going.

[rozieramati]

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

[william-s-churros]

i think i saw a movie like this once

[fuckyeahgreatplays]

“One of the first things you learn in drama school is that there are more roles for men than for women. This is a wonderful thing to learn because it is true of the real world as well, except for Thelma and Louise. At drama school, in order to compensate for this problem, the women each year got to act in either The Trojan Women or The House of Bernarda Alba. This prepared us for bit parts on Designing Women and A Little House On The Prairie. Although, these shows have been cancelled now…and we have nothing to do…”

— Medea