lifted in the arms of god away from new orleans

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.  

!! So funny to get a friend's tweets sent to me, haha, but yes! She and I were literally just talking about this in DMs too! There was so much marriage symbolism this episode, and it doesn't look like that's going to stop given we're at the very least getting a blood ring and the wedding cake! The red and white flowers too:

Psychological warfare à la Louis de Pointe du Lac

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it appears that gentle death still stands sentinel at the end of our lives and casts a shadow back over us as if he were interposed between us and a fantastic radiance but OTOH crowdsourcing has made it incredibly easy to buy a “minimalist wallet” made of aircraft-grade aluminium weave and hey