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farannir · 4 days
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the chimneys hardly ever fall down
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farannir · 12 days
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folklore (2020) lyrics that made my jaw drop
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farannir · 30 days
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To be an otter swimming in a river
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farannir · 1 month
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passages that make you whisper "oh my god"
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farannir · 1 month
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this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings
mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.
the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social caste system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.
the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.
then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.
then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.
i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.
the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.
they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.
the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.
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farannir · 1 month
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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will
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farannir · 1 month
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Andor does what I think is the most interesting thing Star Wars has done with the Imperials so far, which is to a) show their humanity b) show who they extend that humanity to and c) let us put the wider picture together
We’re shown Imperial officers having the capability to be humane and act out of kindness, but none of those acts are setting up a longer redemption arc, none of those small glimpses of humanity is setting up a reveal that they’re secretly good people or anti-Empire. Partagaz is an encouraging boss and a good mentor to Dedra; Dedra tells her assistant Heertz to go home early instead of staying late; Petigar asks the Aldhani rebels to let the child hostage go; even Mosk shows genuine loyalty to Syril. They’re capable of decency, but they are still fascists; they are capable of kindness but they’re still part of a violent system and none of their small acts of decency cancels out their wider partaking in and enforcement of that system.
But furthermore, it acts a contrast to who they don’t treat as human. They extend humanity to their own people and only their own people, and anyone outside of that is deemed disposable and worthless of rights or dignity. Dedra is still a sadistic torture-happy fascist, Partagaz praises Dedra’s work of rounding up innocent people to put into prison labour camps, Petigar is still overseeing/enforcing ethnic and cultural genocide, and Mosk is still a cop.
There's already dozens of thinkpieces about the terrifyingly normal depiction of systematic evil because it finally forces the narrative to reconcile with how humane and mundane it is, but Andor also shows why people choose to stay within that system. It’s not just ideological conviction and rule by fear, because that simply doesn’t create a sustainable workforce. It’s also loyalty to eachother and comfort in their workplaces that allows them to overlook the vast atrocities of the Empire. The show constantly tells us that fascism is held up by people all the way down - people making a series of choices, repeatedly, and without question, but this also delves into why they choose to continue. People choose the Empire because they’re being treated humanely by other Imperials, with the reasoning that they will never be on the receiving end of systemic violence.
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farannir · 2 months
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evermore (2020) lyrics that punched me in the gut and/or embraced me in the warmest of hugs
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farannir · 2 months
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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories
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farannir · 2 months
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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
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farannir · 2 months
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devin kelly, all that wanting, right?  +  carmy berzatto, the bear
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farannir · 3 months
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farannir · 3 months
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Epitaph of a young child named Soteris, Roman, 1st century AD
“Lo, under/behind this marker are placed the bones of Soteris; she lies buried, devoured by pitiless death. She had not yet filled up twice three years when she was bidden to enter the house of black Dis. The lamentations which the mother ought to have bequeathed to her daughter, these the daughter suddenly bequeathed to her mother.”
from The John Hopkins University Archeological Museum
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farannir · 6 months
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(by pangeanalog)
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farannir · 6 months
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mary oliver, from the deer // @stuffedgrapeleaves // yohji yamamoto // mary oliver, from dogfish // @b0nkcreat // anna akhmatova, from somewhere there is a simple life (tr. by judith hemschemeyer) // alison a. malee // nikki giovanni, from mirrors // george sand (amantine lucile aurore dupin), from the george sand-gustave flaubert letters
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farannir · 7 months
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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?
—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry
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farannir · 7 months
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mom can you come get me things are getting bad again and i feel every insult like a sharp tooth and i feel my dreams rotting under my fingernails and i feel too much all the time or else i feel nothing at all and it doesn’t seem to matter if i drink and dance and party or if i stay at home curled up to study
mom are you sure when i was born i was a person and not just a vortex. always hungry. always swallowing. no matter how much goes in me i always end up empty.
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