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I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

"trans inclusive misogyny" okay so you should kill yourself

sorry being misogynist isn't cute or funny just because you're doing it to a trans women

flanagan's crimes are many and varied but at this point his insistence on taking material explicitly critical of family structures (sometimes including portrayal of intense abuse) and adapting it into stories about The Beauty Of The Nuclear Family is all but indistinguishable from an entirely conservative project

Mike Flannagan’s Sharp Objects Pitch: A reporter goes back to her hometown to investigate a murder and must stay with her estranged mother. They bond over the tragic death of her sister, which was no one’s fault because it was a ghost who targets innocent girls. Though initially hesitant, the reporter also builds the foundation of a new relationship with her youngest sister, the curious young Amma. Despite Amma’s happy childhood, she is now being haunted by the same ghost. The reporter and her mother must band together to save little Amma before it’s too late. In the end their mother sacrifices her own life to save them both and they see a vision of her dressed as Persephone keeping the ghost girls safe even in death, because a mother’s love is eternal

Now you might say that’s great Mike but what’s the ghost’s motivation? Well you see the ghost wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, her own daughter actually died of an illness which was 100% real and not Munchausen by proxy. When her child died all she had to remember her by was her baby teeth, one of which was loose right before she died also explains why the dead town girls were missing teeth. This ghost actually only targeted little girls because she mistook them for her own sick child, which is very tragic and moves Adora to tears. Amma hand makes a pair of a mother and baby dolls and puts it them her dollhouse in remembrance.

I am taking a watercolor fundamentals course through an art studio in my area and I have come to realize that while I have been dabbling in watercolor for years, I really had no idea what the fuck I was doing because holy shit am I bad at this.

Unrelated but the studio had this really cute cat aww. She is pure white with a darling pink nose and her name is Angel and I am going to try to take a picture of her next week.