meet me in the pit

our house of dragon is collapsing

so called free thinkers when it’s 9 o’clock on a saturday

"Gabrielle was a real turning point for me," Anne admitted. "I decided that the mother was not going to die again. She was going to escape. I was definitely thinking of my own mother and her death." To her thinking, Lestat demonstrated great maturity in offering the Dark Gift to his own mother. It meant he was treating her as an equal. Her friend Andy Brumer was incredulous. "Isn't that kind of bonding," he asked, "paid for with a loss of the self?" "When you have eternity," Anne replied, "you can work out anything, even an Oedipal complex." - Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice, by Katherine Ramsland

Shout out to the phrase “I’m going to become the joker” for capturing a very specific and real emotion

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

the odyssey pretty fun movie actually and is not deserving of half the discourse it’s inspired but it is insane to see a movie where every woman’s actions are motivated by fear of or in response to rape and yet the act is never committed, threatened, or even alluded to by any of the male characters except the occasional denial of their intentions to do so. the movie’s big reveal is that the violation of a young woman during the fall of troy is the core point of trauma for odysseus and the tipping point that has led to the downfall of their entire civilization; the entire plot hinges upon this moment. but the movie cannot explicitly present this violation as rape (what it is obviously standing in for, especially within the context of the myth of the trojan women) and instead “softens” it to murder. and why is this? what’s the purpose of not just saying what it is and what this part of the story is about? it’s so obvious to the audience, so intrinsic to the fabric of the legend, that at a point its absence overwhelms its presence. rape exists in nolan’s odyssey, it’s a fundamental part of the story and a textual lived reality for all of the women but it can never be made explicit that the men themselves -even the most heinous- are committing it. it’s truly bizarre. he can’t tell the story without rape but is too offended and overwhelmed by it to know how to sensitively keep it in.