the testament of ann lee was so good and its only grown on me since seeing but I really think the most interesting part to me is how it frames the shakers as a refuge for people who are sexually at odds with society like of course we have Ann’s own sexual traumas and Williams and Mary’s explicit and implicit queerness but also looking at the Wardley’s in their sexless marriage and John Hocknell being unmarried with a bastard son and how the first testament we see at a shakers meeting being a man who confesses to looking at his sister. The movie shows you the exact type of person that would be drawn to ann and her freedom from the sexual world without like making an explicit point of it or undermining ann’s or anyone else’s own belief in their gospel in a very compassionate way.

imagine it's the 18th century and you have to tell your gay lover that you need to stop having gay sex not because of the gay part but because your sister has been declared the second coming of christ and she has declared that all sex is evil. this is something that happened in The Testament of Ann Lee. and maybe in real life idk.

mike, it's actually more interesting for audiences that margaret is an abusive religious fundie (and also a victim of marital rape) who tries to literally beat the idea of sin into her daughter, it is actually TIMELY to adapt that correctly at this particular american moment. WHY is he so scared of every piece of source material that has ever been handed to him? i MUST know

what if carrie was about a young witch searching for a missing cat in the alps

"lord of the rings: the hunt for gollum" literally sounds like a fake movie that would be made up as a joke on 30 rock. but it's real and coming to a theater near you

No one cared who I was until I put on the cage

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

"i ate too many cookies" is truly an ageless problem. an unlearnable lesson.

‘‘shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media‘‘ i do not ‘consume media’ i read books, i watch movies. like a normal person does. when was this term mass adopted, why is every work of art ‘‘consumed’‘. along with ‘’creating content’’ its terms the little lad on the monopoly box would use

remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right