Quintessence of Dust

Contemplating a URL change… hmmmm…

beneath-the-willow-tree -> @rosegardenwraith

fully insane theyre gonna drag jacob and assad out for a panel at sdcc like what on earth are they supposed to say they got some of the worst fucking scripts baffling character choices jacob had to be talked into and were sidelined for most of the season like... and tho im sure the majority of fans that turn out for this will be the ones that think this season was a masterpiece or whatever the types of fans that will want to turn out to see jacob or assad specifically probably have not a single good word to say about the season like... is some crazy armand fan gonna get on the mic and tell rolin to kill himself?

gabrielle is always like, "have you seen xena? yeah she's tall, she's beautiful. she's dressed in a leather corset with armor plates around her perfectly shaped breasts (spoken for). her eyes are piercing blue and her long black hair flows in the wind as she fearlessly jumps on hordes of armed men and crashes their skulls with her thighs and chops them up with her sword and it is now covered in blood and she is a little bit too. i blow softly on her wounds as i sanitize them so it doesn't sting. when we settle for the night to sleep under the stars, she lights the fire and invites me to lie down next to her, and as she slowly drifts to sleep she stretches her arm and cuddles me, her body tracing the silhouette of mine, and her breath on my cheek keeping me warmer than the flames. she cannot sleep without me and i cannot sleep without her and nothing can ever tear us apart, not even death, for the ties that hold our souls together transcend all of time and space. have you seen her? yeah she broke my frying pan again, i am soooo fucking mad at her right now."

society has genuinely moved past the need for christopher nolan

my dead wife. interview with the vampire

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human