Blair + prose & poetry 4/5

Adélia Prado (trans. Ellen Doré Watson), Denouement / 5.16, "Cross-Rhodes" / Erica Jong, “Bitter Herb” / Heather Christle, "Dear Seth" / James Baldwin in conversation with Nikki Giovanni, transcript / Azra Tabassum, “Fruit” / Heather Christle, "The Air of Ruthlessness in Spring" / Eavan Boland, “The Room in Which My First Child Slept,” / David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest / Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

a small, elite... high school friend group

Maybe the cats are copies of Roth, maybe

"are you saying you wouldn't fight for me" "darling, i would burn this world for you" ships

Hey guess who was cleaning out their files and found stuff from their film editing course?

This was the last of a three-part final where we had to take scenes from existing movies and recut them into short format videos, in this case into a theatrical trailer. When I saw Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield were on the list of available films my found-footage-loving heart couldn’t resist.

one thing i still genuinely do not understand is why all of these teen shows set in high school aren't just set in college instead. when i think of all the shows i watched in my teens/early 20s they all have the exact same problems and all of those problems could be solved if they were just. set in college instead?????????? actors don't look 16?? that's cool bc they're in college so they can reasonably be anywhere from 18-24. parents seemingly non-existent or disappear for episodes at a time??? nbd all the characters moved out for college so they don't see their parents that often. characters going to endless parties, having unlimited access to alcohol, and sleeping with a different person every ep??? sure makes a lot more sense if they're in college!!!! characters randomly having free time in the middle of the day??? everyone's college schedule is different!

like!!! there are so many shows that completely lose the run of themselves by s3 bc their characters start off 16 and now they're supposed to be graduating and all the plans they had and colleges they wanted to go to now need to Go Away bc they need a reason for them all to still stay in the same setting which means basically messing up 2-3 seasons worth of character development. and i just cannot understand how none of these tv execs thought, hey maybe if we make them freshman in college this would make more sense bc we'd at least have a plan for 4 seasons and even if we reach graduation we could still feasibly transition them into their career paths without disrupting the existing dynamic??????????? teenagers would still watch that, the demographic wouldn't change???????? college is still a tumultuous time where people are growing and learning and making mistakes and having new experiences?????????? where are all the shows set in college where are they?????????????????????????

this has to be my favourite one yet

Blair + prose & poetry 5/?

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 / 1.04 "Bad News Blair" / Hye-young Pyun, The Law of Lines: A Novel / Sandra Lim, "The Stronger" / Sylvia Plath, “The Rival” / Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diaries of Anais Nin 1939-47 / Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things / user thehoax, “Reading too much into a Tongue bite” / Joanna Hoffman (unknown work)

Billie Blair in Loris Azzaro for Virginia Slims

Screaming Meals and Reductress headlines

One of the things that peeves me in Teenage Bounty Hunters is how much more Blair loves Sterling. Like Blair has made herself content being Sterlings henchman, her sidekick, she just supports her in her endeavors and backs her up regardless of her own feelings on the matter, like showing up to Bible class because Sterling needs a good reputation there. Blair doesn’t have her own friends or her own things at school, she has her sister, and her sister has her own things. Blairs thing is bounty hunting, that’s what she gets excited about, and Sterling doesn’t prioritize it for her and it costs Blair her relationship. Blair gets blamed for Sterlings shortcomings, it’s expected that she’s the screwup and that Sterling is the good one. It just pisses me off