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@fivestyxseven
the great thing about recommending reading material to your religious dad is that you can hand him exclusively queer novels and simply not mention the queer content, thereby deceiving him into enjoying queer art. this is merely the first step in my clever ploy to convince him that cishet people do not exist
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New intern at work does not know many of our names yet, which is totally fine, but she did ambush me with a question about ‘the one with good hair’ thereby forcing me to spontaneously create a Lab’s Best Hair Award and bestow it on someone right then and there in front of god and everyone
Sometimes, as you begin intentionally curating your own social sphere, you find yourself surrounded by people who are bold and interesting and unapologetic, and you realize that you weren’t uniquely resistant to peer pressure as a child, you just didn’t think that the people you grew up with were very cool. And now suddenly you’re a full ass adult trying to Fit In with frantic fanaticism that you probably should’ve worked through in middle school. Please someone send for PBS Kids I need them to remind me I don’t need the right haircut to be cool this shit is embarrassing
Absolutely enchanting when works in a connected universe do not undercut each other, but rather enrich each other’s themes. As a well known example, the Knives Out movies exist in concert, each exploring a different form of financial and cultural power that controls our lives. I’ve seen a lot of people talking about the way that each movie supports the others’ theses. BUT. I ESPECIALLY want to talk about the opposite case, where one narrative contradicts or at least *complicates* the other without rendering it worthless. My best example of this is in Alexandra Rowland’s books. Power structures that pass completely unexamined in A Taste of Gold and Iron form the thematic underpinning of Running Close to the Wind. And this is done with clear intention. I could spend a long time unpacking the precise reasons for this, but we’ll stick with two big ones for now. First, there is simply not room in one book to talk about every problem in the world, and second, the issues that the characters wrestle with in their respective novels are informed by their positions and experiences.
A Taste of Gold and Iron is about the prince of an expansive mercantile empire. Within its pages, the world building is so rich and immersive that you, the reader, necessarily *participate* in empire. Stabilizing the empire is the characters’ core motive, and the reader accepts this as a worthy goal. Meanwhile, Running Close to the Wind is about outcasts, runaways, and revolutionaries—people at the fringes of the social hierarchy—and through their eyes, the empire is a vehicle of control. It’s so obvious, from the outside, that the rules and traditions that the characters live by in a Taste of Gold and Iron are only constructs. By the end of Running Close to the Wind, the clear path forward for our characters is to destabilize the empire. This is *also* framed as a good and worthy goal. I read Running Close to the Wind first, and when I read A Taste of Gold and Iron, the opposite courses of these narratives—unfolding not only concurrently, but with the exact same inciting incident!—left me with a distinct sense of cognitive dissonance. And that’s awesome! In this universe, we read from the perspectives of people with almost every permutation of privilege. It’s possible as a reader to live all these realities. Where else can you get this experience? What could be a more succinct exercise in unpacking your own biases? The friction between these books mimics the real experience of trying to dissemble your cultural conditioning and engage in your culture at the same time.
It’s significant to me that this is not the focus of either book, but still such an inescapable facet of the storytelling. The very fact that these stories work subtly against each other forces the reader to confront the fact that no single story can be correct or even complete.
tldr: In the Knives Out universe, the protagonists could likely commiserate. By contrast, there’s a non-zero chance that, given the right quirk of circumstance, Rowland’s protagonists would hand each other over for execution in the town square. And that is a really valuable meta commentary.
Tag game!!!!
Do this picrew and make urself! (to the best of your ability. And maybe with some extra funsies stuff :3)
@a-dam-tris-prior-fan @i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated @queensnowlake-wof @raynilikescats @justcallmedom31 @algae122 @leeotard + open tags :)
tagged by @rhymingteelookatme to do this, ty <3
lightly (gently) tagging @socratesgirl @gnawdar @lesbianmarrow @corvids-corner @fightclubgayporn @webandofbuggered @all-seeing-ifer @marigoldbaker @average-acorn
I had forgot about this for a sec thank you for the tag holly!!
"what is that flag situation" IDONTKNOWW I like men in theory but haven't enjoyed talking to one since middle school let me die
Tagging with no pressure: @mean-lesbians @collectoroflovelythings @antigonefunnky @barrioghost @jack-fruit @jackknife-roach @chamsou-sabah @therealchickenjoe @thereweresunflowers @jupitersparx @iotaphora
it’s the day before wash day so the hair is up
anyways i think my moots have all either done this or been tagged except @crickets-lovely-place
Never actually done this before but what @barrioghost asks, they will get. I spent wayyyyy too long on this lmao,,,but lesbian flag tie-dye!!!!! INCREDIBLE.
I'll taggg @balladoftime @exasperatedoctopus annnnnnd @probablytoooldforthis
Just for you, @crickets-lovely-place, I will play the tumblr game:
Now to inflict this on others that I love: @bonesdontmelt @fivestyxseven @revrising
Congrats, you’ve been pinged
@exasperatedoctopus for you
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To the unenlightened it may seem strange that I, an asexual person, am so deeply obsessed with running close to the wind—arguably the horniest piece of media I have ever encountered in my life—but what you gotta understand is that, like anything that brings real pleasure, sex is absurd and embarrassing. and rather than pretending everyone involved is experiencing an elevated form of physical and spiritual satisfaction, I think we should admit that sex serves essentially the same function in life as a team sport. Now, I would never suggest that anyone abandon their sport of choice, no matter how odd the rules or how silly the uniform, because it is generally good for people to engage in social sports, but this is the first time I’ve seen media that actually treats sex in this way. by which I mean it makes truly, Olympically horny characters look like either! trained and passionate professionals (Julian) or! the exact kind of determined, delusional, distinctly unbalanced fanatics that people write sports anime about (Avra and Teveri)
I think I’ll take the Avra Helvaçi approach to capitalism: get a job with considerable downtime, apply all my talents to being aggressively mediocre, and retire at thirty five into a life of abject poverty
Running Close to the Wind asks important philosophical questions such as, what if you collected a pension from the government you just robbed? is it lucky to run into your ex who left you for dead on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean? how much can you get away with if you’re very good at paying your tab? what if a hot monk pulled your hair?
really makes you think
cursed so that I can only share my thoughts one time. if you weren’t in the room when I said it the first time you’ll simply never hear about it. this is the story of how I never told my sister I was moving to her state and also the reason that my mom had to learn I got in a car accident by seeing the insurance claim online
