"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

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

I know I'm suspicious bc of the depression but I literally feel like the art produced by big tv or big movie isn't worth the amount of waste, pollution and interpersonal abuse that appears to be inherent to these productions. Let's just imagine movies in our heads instead

the most glaring thing when it comes to misogyny with female vs male characters isn’t even just the difference in the amount of sympathy granted to them (though these two things might in the end be very tied up in eachother), they are genuinely not afforded complexity and dimension either. there are so many male characters that people understand as reprehensible but they are simultaneously heralded as complex and incredible masterworks, yet when it is a woman in a similar spot they are treated like they are simple, two dimensional, and are not afforded the same grace and effort when it comes to analyzing their writing. im not saying that writers are exempt from misogyny when it comes to the writing itself, but lord does the audience demonstrate it way more in my eyes

The thing about rewatching riverdale in an ai-dominated world is that you really do appreciate that everything on my television screen truly was handcrafted by a criminally insane inspired gay cinephile

there r literally billions of reels u could have seen b4 u die but instead u wasted ur life being with those u love.

Freud was a misunderstood poet

everyone suspects that being a lesbian is a better life so they're always itching to call us mean and privileged and oppressive. and they're right, it is better. but it's not a privilege, in the same way that waking up every morning and choosing not to eat your shit out of the toilet is not a privilege. we just also happen to live in a world where if you're a woman who refuses to eat shit out of the toilet, you will be bullied, harassed, excluded, paid less, followed on the street, denied housing, called a sexual predator, publicly shamed, refused employment, etc. and who can say how many women would even be interested in the toilet for its own sake, without all these threats hanging over their head. So forgive me if I'm not that interested in whether or not it's valid to eat shit from the toilet

sooo many conversations about privilege on here are like "would you rather eat a human shit every day, or have your lifetime risk of sexual violence rise from 40% to 80%?" like firstly girlll whattttt and secondly do we not think it's meaningful that one of these outcomes you ultimately have autonomy over and one you don't

we are never going to be free until it literally doesnt matter whether a person is ugly or not

its crazy how we've had the art of movie lighting nailed down for like literally 100 years at this point but for some reason nobody wants to do it anymore. do people know they're still allowed to do it

if i was in the world cup well i would just score a goal Lol then if the other team scored one i'd score another