Strong French Feelings

I’m gay and I write things. Oxford comma, ride or die.

[fridgebride]

[fjeldmouse]

[epersonae]

[ispyspookymansion]

yes carrie killed over 400 people ok. thats bad i know. but have you considered that i feel really bad for her :(

[d0gb0yy]

carrie deserved to kill 400 ppl as a treat

[breya-etherium-shaper]

[madseance]

That's because he didn't write, nor intend to write, a horrible terrible disturbed woman beyond redemption. The genesis of Carrie (told in its entirety in the 1999 edition's introduction that you can read here, and in King's memoir On Writing), was this: sometime in high school, King read an article in Life magazine about supposed poltergeist activity in a home, which seemed to be associated with the teenage girl who lived there. The article included the hypothesis that poltergeist activity is, in some way, tapped into or manifested by girls at that critical and tumultuous age.

And some years before that, King had gone to school with a couple of girls he pseudonymously calls Tina and Sandra, who were bullied and shunned by the other kids—Tina for wearing the same clothes every day, Sandra for her epilepsy and extremely religious mother, but both really for having some undefinable Other quality that kids pick up on like blood in the water. Both of them were dead by the time King began writing Carrie: Tina by suicide, Sandra from her epilepsy.

Carrie was what King imagined might have happened if that explanation of poltergeist activity were correct, and if Tina and Sandra had been able to tap into such an energy. He started writing the story a few years after getting married (his wife Tabitha is also a writer), but abandoned the idea a few pages in; the raw, merciless adolescent cruelty the story called for was too much to deal with, and what did he know about teenage girls, anyway? But Tabitha dug the pages out of the trash and read them, and convinced him it was a story that needed telling.

Carrie is a story which, perhaps like poltergeist activity, could only happen to a girl on the brink of womanhood, when every emotion and sensation is excruciatingly vivid and nothing makes sense anymore and every single occurrence in your life is the most important thing that will ever happen to you. It's about being horribly powerful and vulnerable at the same time, and alienated from your own body. It's about the visceral, starved animal fear and rage of being a teenage girl, and it goes to show what an arcane and powerful craft creative writing is that a man could manage to capture that without having experienced it firsthand.

"Sometimes—quite often, in fact—I wish that Tina and Sandy were alive to read it," King says in the 1999 introduction to Carrie. "Or their daughters."

[headspace-hotel]

Yeah, if you read the man's own words she was clearly intended to be sympathetic and human

[aubrey-plaza]

The only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago, “Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.”

THE SHAPE OF WATER 2017 | dir. Guillermo del Toro

[rheajarrells]

Holly Hunter as Rhea Jarrell in Season 2 of Succession (2018-).

[imallapart]

Women of Succession + textposts

[specialagentmapp]

I can totally sleep on the couch. That couch? Please.

[specialagentmapp]

What Ardelia Mapp said to the young man made his face turn white, and he left his breakfast uneaten on the table - The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

[patrik-star]

[wonderluck1]

For The Rise of Skywalker, I need someone to draw an L Word style relationship chart. Like what did I just watch?

[camhowes]

the thing about xena: warrior princess is that it has already covered so many “imagine your otp” situations 

“imagine person A of your otp forcing the other to meditate and do yoga and person B isn’t having it” 

“imagine your otp babysitting a child and fighting for control over the bedtime story”

“imagine your otp reading romantic poetry to each other”

“imagine your otp playing pranks on each other”

“imagine your otp roleplaying master/slave”

“imagine your otp arguing about whether or not to murder person A’s forcibly inseminated satanic infant, which grows up to murder person B’s estranged but angelic child”

“imagine your otp being crucified together by julius caesar and then person A goes to paradise and person B goes to hell so they incite a cosmic war in order to get back together, and how did they end up in the Christian afterlife anyway if they’re pagans who died in ancient Rome?”

what a charming show, awwwww

[benjaminlinus]

poi + texts

[najaaozixxjsiaaiaiia]

i love how safe it feels when you are only surrounded by women

[aledanvers]

(requested by anon)

[permittedvermin]

[tamamoland]

[aeonlamb]

[lightninstar-deactivated2020091]

[notbadforafailedvessel]

[thelonelywell-deactivated202002]

[grison-in-space]

unpopular f/f opinion

I am tired of soft lesbians. I would not mind them, but they are everything I can find. 

Give me hard lesbians: women who have suffered, and women who have caused suffering. Give me survivors. Give me women who know what it is to live in a world that is unforgiving and know how to make love in that world anyway. 

Give me broken lesbians: women with scars mental and physical, who are stretching their cut tissue into something functional. Give me women who know what being broken looks like and who know how to put themselves back together again. Give me women who don’t know they are broken and who are trying to fix themselves anyway. Give me women who make bad decisions because they are in pain or never learned how to do better.

Give me experienced lesbians: women who have had sex before and like it (or don’t), women who know what they like and what they don’t, and women who negotiate different opinons on what is good. Give me women who know that they have sensitive nipples (or not) and who prefer stimulation (or not) of different types; give me women with strong opinions about strap-ons, and penetration, and vibration. Give me women who have sex, because that ain’t just something that men do. 

Give me conflicting lesbians: give me women whose relationships are imperfect, and messy, and complicated. Give me women who fight about silly things or looming, massive things. Give me women whose relationship is tense sometimes. Give me women who are unhealthy, women who need to break up, and women who have already mentally checked out and are looking for the next place to land. 

Give me inexperienced lesbians: give me women who make obvious errors in interpersonal relationships. Give me women who don’t know what they want or how to become acquainted with their bodies. Give me women who don’t know how to be supportive of others, and give me women who don’t know how to care. Give me women who are greedy. 

Give me f/f with one lesbian or even no lesbians at all: f/f with bisexual characters, or pansexual characters, or asexual characters. Give me f/f with people who have a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and tastes. Give me f/f with women whose tastes do not match up completely, women who negotiate different orientations or different preferences, and show me how they reach a comfortable medium. 

Give me all of these things, because I need them and I want them. 

I am tired unto death of soft lesbians. There are only so many iterations on specific well-trod f/f themes that I want to engage in, and soft dollies that sit next to each other and gaze emptily and softly into each other’s eyes is not enough. I want women with personality, with flaws and strengths and sparking character. I want women who step off the page or out of the screen and impress their realness onto my mind. I am greedy for them; I will consume them and roll their lifelike words into my skin.

Why is that so hard to find?

[forest-of-stories]

@haedonists

[crispygoblintenderloin-deactiva]

@fiction-is-not-reality I believe you’ve made points before about femslash being turned into something “pure” long before m/m

[fiction-is-not-reality]

Yeah, I reblogged almost 9 months ago a very similar thread. 

[suburbanforestwitch]

[patchworkdk-deactivated20181203]

May I take a moment to recommend Person of Interest?