Shy Latina, ReyLo Trash

Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”

And she’s doing fine

This gif actually, literally made me laugh out loud and send it to every group chat I’m in just to get yelled at. Thank you.

I checked the notes looking for these exact frames and was not disappointed.

Wow. This post went from funny to a life lesson in a way I wasn’t expecting, amd I’m not sorey at all.

See, unlike the capitalist elite, common criminals have a sense of morality and empathy.

he is down so horrible…

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I think the key to appreciating the Knives Out movies is accepting that they take place in a setting where “world’s greatest detective” is something a person can be rock-star-level famous for. Everything proceeds from that. “Oh, but it’s not plausible that the Louvre would let Elon Musk rent the Mona Lisa” like, maybe not in our world, but that doesn’t matter. These folks don’t live in our world. We’re playing by Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe rules here – of course shit like that happens.

(And no, the factual inaccuracies in the depiction of the Mona Lisa are not meant to secretly hint that it’s a replica – this is nowhere suggested in the text of the film, and its entire thematic core is undermined if the painting that burns is a fake. Besides, one of the central tenets of the mystery genre is that if an incongruity is meant to be significant, it will be explicitly highlighted; this is done so that the viewer doesn’t need to bring any unusual knowledge to the film to understand what’s going on, and to insist otherwise is to fundamentally misunderstand what kind of film you’re watching. The film probably chooses to depict the Mona Lisa as a canvas painting simply because canvas burns up more dramatically than wood!)

never noticed this

A Dyad in the Force 😫😭