always obsessed, always alive

I don’t want people to think im just brunette. I want people to think of elena gilbert, bella swan, Gabrielle solis, aria montgomery, katherine pierce, vanilla, the smell of books, lana del rey songs, coffee, fall, lipgloss, smokey eyeshadow, 2000-2010 autumn, warm candles, brown eyes, chocolate, and cinnamon rolls when they think of me

I love The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it's a man who developed the world's highest maintenance disguise so that he could be a messy bitch in secret. If you wanted to be free from British Repression™️ so badly you could just do drag. Drag would have saved Jekyll. You still get to have your little costume and alter ego and everything. You didn't need to do all that.

12 Angry Men the book drama is proof you can feel attraction without appearance being a factor there is no description of those men they are words on a page but when 8 baited 3 into threatening him I was twirling my hair at that

god every time i watch 12 angry men it's such a cathartic rush bc it's a pure fantasy that we can outreason and outlogic prejudice, bias, and just plain bad thinking. yes, we can bully the racist motherfucker in the room to silence, yes we can push back against the people in the room demanding we stop asking uncomfortable questions that challenge their views or their beliefs, yes we can use reason to save someone's life. i love seeing it because it does give me hope that even in the most stubborn, toxic, prejudiced, biased people there's a kernel of rationality and even kindness that can unfurl with enough patient effort and steady reason.

Y'all remember in 12 Angry Men when Juror 4 is saying the knife used to kill the victim is a very distinct knife and he's never seen one like it so the defendant had to do it because he owned one like it because there couldn't be two knives like it and Henry Fonda just stands up and sticks an identical knife in the table because goddamn

it’s very important that in twelve angry men, a movie made in 1957, when the racist starts going off on a racist rant, everyone, even the guys who still think the defendant is guilty, just moves away from him and says nothing to him until he gets the fucking point and sits down away from the table alone in shame and says nothing else for the rest of the deliberation except “not guilty”