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Camille Monet sur son lit de mort, Claude Monet (1879) / Laura Palmer Portrait of a lady, Gustav Klimt (1916) / Audrey Horne

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Me when they all reply immediately: goodnight for now I’ll get back to you in the next couple days I’m going on vacation with limited access to emails please do not CC me

Villanelle's Parisian Apartment by Alexandra Toomey

dani knows that christian treats her badly. she knows exactly what he’s doing when he gaslights her. but the difference between dani and josh is that josh has the luxury of not suppressing his anger at christian. dani makes herself small and amicable for christian because a. women are taught that they’re not allowed to be angry and b. dani feels that she’s better off in an emotionally manipulative relationship than being left alone. josh calling christian out was cathartic because it’s what the audience wishes dani could have been able to do. this isn’t to say that dani is weak. she is simply molded by society’s expectations for women. she tries extremely hard to not seem needy, even when she’s going through things that are understandably taxing. midsommar portrays the pain of existing as a woman so accurately it hurts. ari aster.....somehow gets it.

male individualism is completely dependent on the emotional labour of women, and whenever you try to point this out they act like you’re denying basic human facts

this has to be one of b99’s best opens

(Harappan children’s toy, circa 4000 BCE)

Jennifer’s Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

Cat on Constantine’s Foot, Palatine Museum, Rome