Personal ad (via @josephoholmes)

Not just any paper maps, they had textbook sized atlases of the entire delivery area with each street meticulously mapped out.

These were insanely handy and a new edition came out just about every year to stay up to date on construction and road changes. I remember stocking my car with these for any of the cities I tended to travel to because they were the only way to actually get anywhere unless you wanted to call a friend and get very in depth instructions on how to get there.

no i am NOT interested in these “hot singles” in my area what i WANT is hot ENEMIES in my area!!! i want a meaningful hateship with someone who’d try to kill me on sight!!!

firstly, how dare you

oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???

Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her biss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

when hozier said "if im a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" and when hozier said "no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her" and when hozier said "i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door" and when hozier said "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and when hozier said-

I want to know how Hozier's brain works. Like, how do you come up with a metaphor for gluttony that's also about the destruction of the planet and the disposability of young people within the war industry??? AND it's also a bop??? Sir???

take me to church is still an amazing song. btw. if you wanted to know

the thing about Hozier is that he's gonna use mythology, literature and folklore to be horny and to make his songs political every time and i'm gonna eat it up every time

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows? 

[ PART TWO ]

If I miss anything or get anything wrong, let me know! I'm so interested to know what everyone else thinks, too :]

Another long post, but I simply have too much to say.

when hozier wrote "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" and "the only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you"

"i want to love something without having to apologise for it" - queerness, shame, desire

nelly arcan // richard siken // hozier // rené magritte // emily m danforth // richard siken // hala alyan

'I've always known I'd marry rich. Why should I be ashamed of that?'

'There is nothing to be ashamed of as long as you love him.'

'Well, I believe we have some power over who we love, it isn't something that just happens to a person.'

'I think the poets might disagree.'

It amazes and infuriates me, how as a woman of the 21st century, I still agree with most (there are ways for making money, though still not for every woman) of the argument made by Amy, a character representing ambitious women of the later half of the 19th century.

Wonderland Fall/Winter Issue: Emma Watson - A Review

Thank you to the Anon who told me I could find the scans on Sue's blog and thank you to Sue for sharing!

So this post took little bit for me to complete, as it honestly took me a few days to even begin it after a first look at the scans. The format and amount of text was off-putting, though it could also be that as I've gotten older, I don't want to read something formatted like this or be this prolific (obviously minus the fictional literature I enjoy reading).

That being said, I did my best to review this interview. Since they are scans, it was harder for me to interject between paragraphs, so I wrote after each page instead. I believe I figured out the order of the interview, also, but I could be wrong.

Scans are from: Wonderland Magazine Fall/Winter 2022 - Emma Watson Gallery - Photo Gallery (sosugary.com)

Please note that the commentary here is just my opinion based on what has been shared by her with the public.

Editor's Note:

And I think that's it.

Overall thoughts:

In my opinion, as I said in my short post regarding working on this review, she has to stop playing victim to the standards she set for herself. You can't market yourself as an A-lister and then play victim when people expect that level of acting and leave criticism when they don't see it. You can't market yourself as a groundbreaking feminist voice of our generation and then play victim when you're silent and people expect you to speak about the many different horrible things happening in the world to women and children (she tried to dismiss Twitter as a place where people create rumors about her, but plenty of normal people ask her to speak on various feminist topics). You can't market yourself as saving the world with eco-activism and then play victim when people call you out for constant traveling and flying (especially during the height of the pandemic) and not attending the Kering board meetings (and dating a Green). She can't play victim to being Emmione when she chose to be Emmione, maintained Emmione, and benefitted greatly from Emmione. She chose to not move forward with cutting her off after Harry Potter, which she did try to do but went right back to her. She chose to still use Emmione when she needs to garner attention for her projects. This aspect is why Emma Watson is an interesting topic when it comes to public relations. She is an example of why you don't create a public relations image so heavily unlike yourself. You end up being stuck in a box and the only way out is blowing it up and hoping people still like you. It didn't work for Watson, so she went back to Emmione and completely compartmentalized her, and stopped interacting with her fanbase beyond what they can do for her. Emmione became a card to trade for other opportunities. Emmione was never really real and Watson was generally okay with that until people started holding her accountable to her OTT marketing.

I find it interesting she basically acknowledges Emmione is fake and not true to herself. It is a shame, however, that she does not take ownership over the creation and maintenance of the false image. I also wonder how her fans feel about this admission, as Emmione is largely why they still follow and support her despite the cracks in her image over the past decade or so.

Overall, I'm not surprised by this interview. It further shows me that Windsor was doing exactly what Watson wanted him to do before (with the larger-than-life angles). I can see why Watson rubs people the wrong way: there is a very strong air of egoism. Some may even say this interview is pretentious, especially the bit where she says she broke boundaries and pushed the limit with her Prada ad (she should let people naturally come to that conclusion). It also focuses entirely on her, her vision, her struggles with Emmione, and her process with only a few nods towards the Prada perfume itself. To me, this interview made it very clear that Prada was just the vehicle for her to do what she wanted: to direct and have a big company fund her self-project. It was about her from the beginning (despite Prada already having a script and vision) and she wanted things her way because it was about her. Not about a perfume and not about Prada.

I think the images from this interview look nice, though I am surprised Watson would do a pose that showcases her ribs since that can send the wrong message to women and girls with body image issues, which I would think goes against her marketing.

I am interested in seeing what doors this ad opened for her, as I personally found her ad to be fine, but not boundary-breaking. It definitely didn't sell a product, but it sold Emma Watson. This interview did not do her any favors, in my honest opinion.

Happy Sunday,

Sam

Only gender critical TERFs would see a woman get a pixie cut and make snide comments like “oooh guess they’re trans now”. So much for “let women be non-gender-conforming!” 🤡

don’t lose the notes:

#they always see ‘pixie’ and ‘dream’ and ‘girl’#but forget the terrible awesome driving power of ‘manic’

Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It's so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here

For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:

It's ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself

Fuck Chick-fil-A. That homophobic chicken isn't even that good, y'all are literally simping over chicken that tastes like it was made at a White cookout

The sauce:

The chicken (deep fried):

Air fryer version:

Fresh lemonade:

Lemonade milkshake:

Whatever thing you love at chikfila you can make yourself fairly trivially (if! you are able to cook! which I know not everyone can).

Simply look for a "copycat recipe" for the item, eg, "chikfila copycat chicken recipe."

There are literally thousands of extremely dedicated food bloggers out there who have long ago perfected there at home versions of stuff.

Chik Fil A contributes to groups who think trans people should be forcibly sterilised

No chicken is that fucking good

POV you’re the king and i just made an inappropriate joke about your virility in front of the whole royal court and you want to punish me but you can’t react in anger lest the court think my joke is true

thank you all for understanding my vision