And I Need To Stop Using This Account Like A Journal.

I was so happy to get tumblr back just to get saddled with that God awful tumblr tv feature. The children crave for blogging sites not one more app with horrible short form content.

idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+ 

study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

Honestly I am so done atp the universe needs to drop a down bad man right into my lap. I really wanna experience love before this world fucking perishes.

“AI made art more accessible!”

Makes me think of that Roald Dahl short story where he called people who use AI to plagiarize art dumb and mediocre and nothing makes me give more pleasure than the fact that this diva clocked these losers 71 years ago.

They have mis-characterised Darcy so much it is awful. I hate that this is what the pop culture has done with Austen's Legacy.

Jane Austen: *writes novels where the worst thing the male lead ever does to the heroine is talking badly about them*

Modern Love Stories Set During The Regency Era Specifically Inspired By Jane Austen Novels : but what if our male lead was a jerk and a womaniser and a borderline sexual predator? After all, nothing demonstrates the sex appeal of a man quite like his ability to transmit syphilis to the love of his life, right?

Bro İ hate being an academic they're making me write shit 😭 İ thought İ was just supposed to sit in an old chair smoke & say something french every now and then 😢

Pedro Friedeberg — The Sphinx (La Esfinge Deborah Devora El Arco Iris Arkoyriz) [ink, gouache and acrylic, on board, 1968]

THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED

One that is ever kind said yesterday:

"Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey,

And little shadows come about her eyes;

Time can but make it easier to be wise

Though now it seems impossible, and so

All that you need is patience."

Heart cries, "No,

I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain.

Time can but make her beauty over again:

Because of that great nobleness of hers

The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,

Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways

When all the wild Summer was in her gaze."

Heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head,

You'd know the folly of being comforted.

William Butler Yeats, c.1902

Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.