#parallels post

This post features a collage of text and images. They are as follows:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: 

Shall I respect man when he condemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.

The text is black on a white background, with the exception of the sentence beginning with “But that cannot be,” which is written in burgundy.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. 

Part of the Wikiquote entry for The Little Prince, again black text on white background. The first sentence, in French, is bolded to signify that it is the original quote, and the second line appears as a bullet point beneath it as the most common translation.

THE ONE AND ONLY UNIVERSE OF KAY RAINIER by yves.:

“Okay,” Elizabeth says, gazing up at him.

“It’s not—it’s not really important,” he says. It’s immeasurably strange, how she’s looking at him. He shouldn’t be involved in this. This is not his family. But he continues— “The clothes or whatever. I mean, I recognize you. It’s not just about what you wear.”

The text is off-white on a near-black background. From Incident 6: PROMISE I’LL BE KIND.

You Be Love by Avicii:

A still shot from the music video, picturing two female statues looking into each other’s eyes before a kiss. They are surrounded by statue arms which grab at them, but seem unaware.

Your Father’s Son by yves.:

Whatever they are calling her is wrong on the surface but correct much deeper down; Kay is no fool, she knows she is not like them. Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt.

This text is blue-black on a white background.

Sleepless by Sarah Vaughn and Leila del Duca:

The first panels from the first page of the comic, which show first a close-up of a skull’s eye sockets and then a parallel close-up of Cyrenic’s sleepless eyes. Cyrenic has tawny skin and black hair; his eyes are green and framed by dark brows.

Your Father’s Son:

Her reflection digs its nails into the palm of its right hand, which means she’s doing it with her left. It is isn’t is isn’t her.

Formatted the same as the last excerpt from the same work.

THE ONE AND ONLY UNIVERSE OF KAY RAINIER:

But at this point, you’re probably wondering, how does he know? Especially if you are not trans yourself. And that’s a fair question. Atlas is looking at her hair and the way she talks and the way she sits. Subconsciously, he is probably cross-referencing with the trans people he knows, and the cis people he knows, and himself. So he knows that she’s a woman, and he knows he’s right. And he thinks that she knows that he knows, but that’s getting to be too complicated of a thought, so he stops thinking. 

Formatted the same as the last excerpt from the same work. From Incident 1: YOU GOT ME ALONE.

The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro:

A still from the film, featuring the main character, Elisa, a woman with a brown bob in a soft green shirt, wearing an expression of pleading pain. Over the right side of the image a screenshot of the script is overlaid featuring the dialogue for this scene: 

“The way he looks at me. He doesn’t know what I lack... Or how I am incomplete. He just sees me for what I am. As I am. And he is happy to see me, every time. Every day.”

 Artful by Ali Smith:

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.