Contextually Unprepared

this layer-cake of a show. wow. yes, to all of the above. and if we add the eucharist representing jesus' sacrifice to save humanity... because of that sacrifice he opened the way for mankind to be able to have everlasting life in heaven

god it’s just. the layers of barthtanrak’s first kiss are making me feel insane because it’s like. they are in this place where they have essentially no privacy right? they all sleep in the same room, they bathe in the same room, and both of these spaces that are usually meant to be private are so OPEN and for a place thats meant to be private it almost gives you this sense of panic. the only truly private place in the house of magdalene, it seems, is the bathroom stalls, and we saw tanrak make use of one of those at the end of ep2. which, you know, “god always sees you,” it makes sense!

Ticket to Heaven Character Check in: Episode 3 Edition

tanrak: /intense inner turmoil/

The great critic Barbara McClay has written about the "politics creep" in every corner of human life, though really of bourgeois Anglophone human life, where every act from reading a novel to lighting a scented candle can be justified - and in fact, self-consciously needs to be justified in advance - as a bold act of resistance. Pretending that self-care is a brave political act detracts from actual political acts, and it sucks the life out of life itself: turning every moment into a performance for an audience, for an imagined crowd of other people on social media. This is other people not as fellow complicated human beings, but as fearful object, whose inner lives are imaginable only insofar as they might be watching and comparing and judging us for whether we've done enough, whether we're wasting our time. And books and movies and TV shows and every other form of fiction will always be, to some extent, a waste of time, as having friends will be a waste of time, as being in love is a waste of time, as every possible action or thought you may have could be considered a waste of time if every second of your life has to prove its value, and has to get a job.