like a sledgehammer to a disco ball 🪩🔨

Despite my support for iran against the US empire, I never believe in demeaning people like satrapi who have a more complex relationship with iran and was victimized in childhood by religious dogma. But at the end of the day her worldview was "theres fanatics and everybody else" without ever really questioning who the fanatics are, why Europe and America with false civil liberties would be concerned with the civil liberties of the mena region. Its so easy to fall to the liberal to neo to right wing pipeline when u never confront your worldview

Here she just regurgitates zionist propaganda that iran is the head of all these resistance groups

She said about leftist politician Melenchon saying his relationship to "hamas is quiet" and thinks hes an antisemite which is just lines repeated by right wing zionist media

thank you to @goldturnedgray for music suggestions, this post by @peachyjude, and everyone who has ever told me i caused them emotional damage, the highest compliment i could hope for

this edit combined at least three topics i've been rotating in my head for months: @hazmesentir and @moonmanatee on hudcon mutual gender envy, @mrmnn on connor's thing for hudson's strength, and @hollandar on hudson's thing for connor's size. closer felt like the perfect song to continue exploring the physicality of it all.

@peachyjude: #but like for hudson who’s been an athlete and thought physical touch felt inappropriate this really is like. crazy.#bc he really has very little barriers with connor ‘you could do anything to me’ he gets that freedom to touch and talk about his body bc.#well. he spent a lot of time with it. he knows it well. his character is deeply attracted to his body… and he’s attracted to it too#is it jealousy or admiration or sexual attraction or all three#all three… anyways i just think it’s interesting that being in this role allows him to talk about being attracted to men—#under the guise of his character - big sexy russian etc.#you construct intricate rituals mr williams… don’t pretend you don’t like that. you like that

is there any desire more queer than wanting to get close enough to be consumed and/or transformed, the age old confusion of do i want to be you or be with you, love so powerful it manifests physically

@gonnabeokaykid: #also ugh the body compatibility. the strength they both have (just in different ways). the reasons to touch. the Excuses to touch. LISTEN

they're just SO aware of each other's bodies, and i get that it was literally their job, but they're so compatible it makes me crazyyy

@alphabetsouppredictsyourdoom: #their mutual obsession with each others bodies#the laying on each other and rolling around with each other#they want to be closer!!!#i think connor would swallow hudson whole if he could

rpf aside, this is such a buzzy blurry character bleed dynamic to have with the best friend soulmate costar coworker scene partner you've known for less than a year. come here, no you come here, your characters say to each other. come here, on the red carpet. "all I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me" just like before.

@goldturnedgray: #the brief: a song that fits hudcon vibes + has an instrumental break long enough to fit the dedication to connor#suggestion number 6: a song that changed my life in college#and is making me simultaneously weepy and nauseous to hear in this edit over a decade later#the queer joy is massive and huge and never ending and all encompassing#the speech into the bridge gives me the biggest fucking chills HERE COMES THE DREAMS OF YOU AND ME!!!!!!!#they were supposed to be alone at the top but they're there together and they haven't can't won't stop dreaming

many disabled people spend years navigating ableist medical systems and having tests turn up with nothing over and over. & having medical professionals gaslight you about your debilitating symptoms is perhaps the most universal experience of disability among those who even have access to see medical professionals in the first place.