Guardian Rose

whenever i see people reference the famous statue of paul and virginie in art im like "they dont know even that these are characters from a bestseller 18th century romance book where the main girl ends up on a sinking ship and her clothes weigh her down but she chooses to preserve her dignity and not disrobe, so she drowns in front of her beloved". but that's what the statue is about

I love Stardew Valley, it's such a comfortable game to play, but the plot feels a little light at times. I bet it would be more compelling if the farmer had amnesia, crippling substance dependence and was suffering so much mental degradation that he thought his clothes were speaking to him.

part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo. it’s a cell of corporate greed ferrying narrowly-trained workers across barren space. it’s huge and yet claustrophobic, cockpits crammed with machinery giving way to yawning berths dripping chains and water. the supercomputer is named mother in a stroke of human anthropomorphization, but instead of providing comfort or protection, it’s only a courier between its creator and its wailing brood. ripley yells “mother! mother!” at a matronly-voiced computer that speaks calmly over her helplessness. the ship is full of endless details and patterns and unlabeled buttons and dials the audience can’t entirely make sense of; to do anything on the ship is a rigorous, technical process, and we must depend on the characters to know it. the internal mechanics of the ship are so alien that a literal alien can hide among the bits and bobs and not be noticed. it’s great.

it’s so fucking funny that the beginning portion of the phm movie pretty clearly shows that grace has always been interested in and is also Not Normal about aliens (see: dissertation, classroom absolutely decked out with space stuff, very sweetly saying “welcome to earth” to the petrova line sample + how hyped up he gets when he realizes they’re cells) and then as soon as he gets the opportunity to meet an intelligent extraterrestrial life form he goes no thank you and hits da bricks

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

thy mother

Art thou for fucking real

that is actually my main principle of explicit fic is that the personalities stay On during sex.

healing happens in circles, not lines. you will return to old places with new eyes.