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To be honest my parents are healthy, but one of my first memories as a child was the despair I felt at realizing they would one day die so I guess it's just how I am
Staying in my old home makes me so melancholic, like I'm on pre mourning already
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Staying in my old home makes me so melancholic, like I'm on pre mourning already
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I mostly worried about my mother. The cat is her baby, and she finished university and retiring in a few months. I'm just scared she'll feel lost without all of this.
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My cat stopped eating but at least today there was a little sun and he could enjoy it in the outside closet.
I'm going to try to cook him a boiled egg tomorrow to see if he'll eat it
#we tried so many types of cat food and baby food#he seems to be okay a part from this#he's just tired and a bit absent#sleeping a lot
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Finished watching Netflix's BABY REINDEER in one go.
This show.
Not to trivialize it This "show" is actually seven episodes of an artist who flays himself open to examine the very real, extremely harrowing trauma of his past. Based on the award winning one-man play of the same name,
BABY REINDEER presents actor/comedian Richard Gadd's stalking journey to television. Playing a version of himself, Gadd stars as struggling comic by night/bartender by day Donny Dunn who becomes an object of obsession by customer Martha (Jessica Gunning) after her performs a kind gesture for her.
People are comparing it to HBO's Michaela Coel created I MAY DESTROY YOU, but to me the only similarity is that both shows - both created from the personal experiences of their creators - branch off into more than what the initial subject seems to be. BABY REINDEER deeply explores trauma and the guilt/shame/self-recrimination and overall destruction it can cause.
It's gut-wrenching, but a vital piece of work.
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OUT NOW! A Tavern at Night: Firelight
Past, present, or future. What fate will the cards uncover?
After striking up conversation with a wandering terrifying mercenary in a remote tavern, he's agreed to travel together for a while before you go your separate ways.
That separation is approaching soon. To commemorate your final night together you suggest reading him his fortune; might be useful for the road ahead, right?
Except neither of you are particularly looking forward to saying goodbye..
PLAY IT HERE!
features:
♡ a cosy campfire
♡ chooseable pronouns
♡ a variety of fantasy-tarot readings
♡ multiple endings
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me after finding out my real dad has been a woman all along:
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Yes she did
the only important question i have after the last episode (the answer is a resounding yes)
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FALLOUT — 1.08 "The Beginning"
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Slowly going through Charles kj books... Masterpieces
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One of the things Black Sails did so well was showing how different people react to oppressive systems. The ways they choose to resist it, or live around it, or give in to it.
I think that Eleanor Guthrie’s story in the final season was one of the most interesting, heartbreaking examples of this. Ultimately, to me, her story was about the horror, futility, and violence of assimilation.
She tried to get power and escape oppression by joining the system that oppressed her. And to do that she gave up everything that truly mattered. One by one she cut away everything that made her her to fit this shape that was proscribed for her.
She gave up her name
(when Guthrie meant so much to her)
and her clothes
(The scene where Mrs. Hudson packs away Eleanor’s clothes is so incredibly sad. Those weren’t the clothes that Eleanor was arrested in. Eleanor must have sought them out after coming back to Nassau. And she kept them in her room. But she was never able to wear them again. She was never able to dress to please herself ever again.)
and her voice
(Rogers cuts her off. He listens when he wants, but he doesn’t listen when it matters. Before she could make things happen on her own, but inside this system she needs him to believe her, to hear her. And he doesn’t.)
and in the end it killed her.
And that destruction of Who Eleanor Truly Was continues even past her death. In the scene where Rogers hallucinates dead Eleanor, he imagines her sitting quietly and knitting.
He only sees the mutilated version of her, the fantasy of “Mrs. Rogers” that she performed to assimilate into a system that would not allow her a place as long as she was true to herself. He does not see Eleanor Guthrie who hated knitting and forced every pirate to account for her in their plans.
Her fate is just as Flint said: “All this will be for nothing…Defined by their histories. Distorted to fit into their narrative.”
In the end it was Max, who refused society’s demands to give up what truly mattered to her (even in appearance), that ended up with everything.
And I think that’s an incredible story.
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HOW DID I MISS that in the first episode of Black Sails when the navy comes in to interrupt Flint's meeting with Guthrie, the guy says "without shame, the world is a very dangerous place"
oh my god
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just remember… in black sails there are three wlw Main characters… yeah.
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What I mean when I say that OFMD is a lib show is that it caters to a liberal fantasy where everyone is nice to each other and respects each others' preferred pronouns, but there is no meaningful engagement with the underlying power structures of this society, and how those inherently affect those acting within it. It reduces everything down to the personal level and refuses to acknowledge the societal - the same instinct that leads people to see representation as the be all and end all of a story's political engagement.
This isn't a moral judgement against enjoying libshit, just a reminder that if you're gonna start making hay about how Politically Important and Representative a TV show is, I'm gonna call it out for being libshit.
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♫ Hit Me Like A Man - The Pretty Reckless ♫
My queen 😍❤️
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With Black Sails being back in streaming in some areas, I'm imagining how much it would infuriate the current slew of people who are convinced that watching morally gray/bad characters makes you as a viewer a morally gray/bad person.
Our leading man straight up beats someone to death with a cannon ball in the first couple of episodes and kills many many many people while acting out of grief, loss, remorse and rage. Also, he is baby and cries in his cabin.
One of our leading lady abandons and double-crosses her lovers (both male and female) out of her desire to do what she believes is the right thing to keep their world alive and running, trading, bartering and fighting every step of the way.
And the best part is that none of these characters start out this way. We have so many idealists. The hopeful ones who want the better world, but the better world isn't something 'civilisation' will allow them to have and the carnage comes when they try and change things. It's a scream against the injustices of the world that pushes people to desperate measures to hold onto and protect what little they have.
This is how they survive. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons. Their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark there is discovery. There is possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.
Everyone else is ruthless, survivalist, determined to do whatever they have to in order to get what they want/need. People make horrible decisions out of desperation and because there's literally no other choice. And there are consequences. Each action causes ripples in the canon pool. No decision, no matter how reckless/hopeless/desperately made, comes without repercussions.
Unlike so many series, what happens in the episodes before directly impacts how the events that follow play out. Action and reaction. It's a narrative that begins long before we join the story and, when we leave it, it's a narrative that will continue long afterwards. It's a bloody, chaotic, glorious and devastating would-be revolution.
In case I hadn't mentioned it, I adore this show with every fibre of my being. It is packed with so many layers and so much nuance and history and phenomenal character arcs.
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