[pjackk]

Can i be sensitive for 1 second or will i be tackled and killed

[orcposts]

do not go gentle into that good night

[orcposts]

be a bit of a bitch about it

[xshayarsha]

“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you – may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.”

— Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form.

[amourduloup-deactivated20210512]

The tragic hero is complete. You can call him unhappy (miserable, utterly broken) even before he is dead. For an instant he is something like divine. And then he dies, because there’s nothing left to do. The center of every tragedy is the image of a human being who has already died but keeps talking, someone whose face is a mask.

— Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

[flowerytale]

Daphne du Maurier, from Rebecca

[mournfulroses]

Daphne du Maurier, from "Rebecca," originally published in August 1938

[janinegregory]

BOB'S BURGERS 3.18 — It Snakes a Village

[moonminho]

[dragonsareawesome123]

"Let's get this sweater off."

Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino