big fan of marriages of convenience. marry your best friend for tax benefits. marry your roommate for college tuition breaks. "marry" your love interest for plot-contrived reasons at a fake wedding, then accidentally fall in love & get married for real in the epilogue. so many possibilities!
one of my favorite lines in sweet nothing is “you’re in the kitchen humming” because it continues the motif throughout her entire discography about kitchens being such a sacred and pivotal space in her life and her relationships: ”barefoot in the kitchen sacred new beginnings” / “i’m here on the kitchen floor” / “dancing in the kitchen in the refrigerator light” and the whole kitchen fight scene in the atw short film. and then additionally it’s so loaded because food/cooking in general have brought her both happiness and self-care (which she just talked about in the ina garten tribute) as well as a lot of pain and self-destruction obviously. and then to have this place filled with so much complex pain and memories being a symbol of peaceful, steady love is so wonderful <3
I still can't believe that Thomas Andrews the man who designed the Titanic ship sank with it and 111 years later, Stockton Rush the person who designed the Titanic submarine also sank with it at the same spot
very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.
which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason
anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones
Brazil is the only non-Muslim country to host the most Shi'a Muslims in the world
Brazil has the "most X-people outside of X-place" of like, most kinds of people tbh
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Brazil famously has the highest amount of Lebanese people in the world, including in Lebanon itself
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literally Brazil is always "the largest X nation outside of X"
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J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson in every timeline has to be one of the funniest running gags ive seen in a movie. anyone can be Spiderman but there can only be one J. Jonah Jameson
summer and green ! Mark Tennant / Pascal Campin / Pascal Campin / Oamul
me (facing the consequences of my bad decisions): god forbid women do anything
Théodore Gudin, Sinking of One of the Ships of the Spanish Armada on the Coast (detail), oil on canvas, 1849
jennifer's body is good horror because it's about needy.
jennifer isn't a bogeyman, she's isn't something that goes bump in the night. she is never supposed to be the anonymous evil in the dark.
no, jennifer is set up as needy's personal monster, in a number of ways. she's needy's very best friend, her abuser, her worst tragedy, her responsibility. needy's nightmare isn't what jennifer does to people, it's what's happening to jennifer.
the movie follows a teenage girl, who watches as her drunk best friend is taken away and can't do anything about it. needy has to watch her friend self destruct directly in response to her assault. she does all of this research and finds the right term and tells other people only to be...
dismissed. not believed. told to calm down and not jump to conclusions because nothing is wrong with jennifer.
jennifer's body hits different for teenage girls because it's their worst nightmare, one that actually happens all the fucking time.
murderous immortal sluts my beloved <3
megan fox could do twilight and robert pattinson could do jennifer's body
JENNIFER CHECK JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama
Horror/Comedy films are more subversive than most normal horror films, because a horror comedy will not only question the concepts we find scary, but also provide frightening perspective on things we consider too silly to be an obvious threat.