Every Angel is Terrifying, Alas! I Sing to You

Cosette returns!! This time with a pseudonym of her own to match her father's penchant for collecting them. I adore the name Mlle. Lanoire and love the contrast she sets against Valjean dubbed as Leblanc (which is what drew Courf in in the first place anyways). I wish contemporary adaptions of Cosette acknowledged her dark appearances more often; I really loved the early renditions of Musical!Cosette black dresses w the lace, but nowadays it's just a lot of greens and blues (coupled with blonde!Cosettes too 🥲)

Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

Cosette and Marius

Honestly we really need to stop being weird about older adults who are virgins.

& not even purely in a "I'm sex repulsed &/or ace &/or not into the idea of so I willingly didn't have it" but also in a "I'm 80, I would've loved to have sex, but it takes two to tango & no one wanted to have sex w/ me-" and in a "I'm 60 & I wanted to, but I had anxiety so bad I just didn't put myself in a situation where I could've" way, etc. [But yes also the people who are like "I'm a virgin because I never wanted to have sex"]

Someone made a post about having their 40th birthday & still being a virgin & someone commented about how it was heartbreaking... [The OP talked about all their other achievements they reached & how they were happy - just never had sex btw. They weren't lamenting about how they never had sex]

You don't need sex/sexual intimacy to be happy. You don't need romantic intimacy to be happy. [Obviously having those may add happiness, but like you won't live a sad depressing empty life if you're single forever &/or never have sex]

when sartre said "hell is other people" he failed to mention that heaven is also other people

Sartre said in 1971, “But that’s only that side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other.’ … Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven, on the other hand, is very simple—and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.”

some of the best musicals are made by guys flipping through ap history books going “man this situation was fucked”

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

Do you think that there were any ships that went out whaling out of New England and missed the entire american civil war

Like they went out in 1860 had a long voyage for the usual reasons and came back in late 1865 with very little idea of what had happened. like "oh boy I've finally finished getting my whale oil I can't wait to see my favourite president Abraham Lincoln after having been out whaling since early 1860." do you think that that was anyone

i think……..one of the many problems in how sex is perceived in society is that we seem to think its this isolated “skill” like people are very anxious about getting experience or practice or whatever wrt sex but that’s not really how it works, it’s fundamentally an expression, a conversation; two-sided, subjective, situational, and figuring out what works for everyone involved, as opposed to being just another objective talent to master for all situations as if its one-size-fits-all without consideration to your specific partner

unpopular opinion: a song of ice and fire is a genuinely incredible fanasy book series and being adapted and elevated to public acclaim in the way game of thrones was watered down all the parts of it that made it genuinely good

sorry but it’s actually so horrific how little of a sense of community people have, how little regard they extend towards the other humans around them. killing people for being loud on the subway or turning around in your driveway. loading your gun and waiting at the door because a child ran your doorbell unexpectedly. ring cameras, neighborhoodapp, community watch group Facebook pages. you’ve assigned yourself the role of the one true peacekeeper and casted everyone else around you as a threat to be controlled. there’s no connection or love or compassion. just a deep distrust and hatred.

and the people who face the most significant consequences from this are the ones who are already deemed as outsiders. people of color, especially Black people, disabled people, people with mental illnesses, homeless people.

and so many people are willfully promoting this complete alienation from each other. the obsession with true crime, the hatred directed at children for existing in public spaces, the policing and controlling of where homeless people are allowed to be / what they’re allowed to do, the constant fearmongering about public transportation. you are building a society of FEAR. you are conditioning yourself to distrust everyone around you. you need to make an active, conscious effort to engage with the world and the life around you in a healthy manner.

The whole point of writing fascist characters as human beings is that real fascists are also human beings. If you think of fascists as somehow less than human you are falling into the trap of letting their mentality frame your worldview, thus legitimizing their course of action!

When you start looking at fascists as subhuman the debate becomes 'which group is actually subhuman and which is being unfairly maligned?' And personally I'm not fucking comfortable with that question being on the table ever.

#ADDITIONALLY #it makes recognizing fascist ideology in the people around you so much harder #bc if you know someone as a person #and a fascist isn't a person #then clearly this person can't be a fascist #or have fascist views #they're your colleague or your neighbor or your family member #they are way too human to be fascist

DING DING DING ✅

Source: the Auburn Journal, 28 January 1909

Transatlantic (2023) 1.03 | The Wilderness

GIF ID: GIFs 1- 10: A series of gifs showing Varian give an emotional speech at the surrealist party while Andre Breton, Thomas, Mary Jayne, and the rest of the guests look on. GIF 11: Thomas and Mary Jayne smile with pride and understanding at the end of Varian's speech while Petit, wearing a paper hat, claps in the background. Caption plain text: Transatlantic 2023. 103 The Wilderness. Indented quote text: Thank you, my friends. This dark journey would be unbearable without you. And Monsuier Fry, for your hospitality and your deep commitment to our cause, thank you for being our North Star. Andre Breton. End plain text.

Seinfeld if it took place during the Heian Period

Jerry: Wait so tell me again, what did she say to you when she got to your place?

George, sighing: She said, "Looking out, I see how the wandering moon as well rises from the hills, finds no solace in the world, and then to the hills returns."

Jerry, sucking air through teeth: That's not a good sign--

George: IT WASN'T A GOOD SIGN, JERRY

Jerry, clicking his tongue: You gave her the morning after poem, right?

George: Oh we're doing the morning after poem now?! I'm taking a stand against all these poems! I'm a no poem guy!

Kramer, sliding in through the folding screen: Guess who's seeing the cherry blossoms with the Minister of the Right's first daughter!

Alicent Hightower, House of the Dragon, 1x03, 1x04, 1x07 // Paris Paloma, labour

we all have that one homie who volunteers to take first watch that they might contemplate the heavens in solitude

Fool that he is, not realizing that it then falls to him to comfort the party member most troubled by their burdens when sleep eludes them.