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The five basic food groups

no piece of teen media has ever accurately depicted the quiet psychological warfare of bullying. bullies on TV are always dumb brutes and not the evil geniuses of emotional manipulation that they are in real life. being given a wedgie and having your lunch money stolen is nothing in comparison to a classmate quietly creating a taboo against speaking to you that they intend to enforce against all the other kids. it’s nothing like continuous cutting comments from people you thought were being nice to you. that way that the work of one kid can make you feel like every person on earth silently hates you and that you are dirty, disgusting, worthless, creepy and useless. that you can have friends but many of them will not speak to you at school for fear of the social consequences on their end. how that damage lasts in any social setting for the rest of your life

you can’t even “tell a trusted adult” because you cannot begin to articulate the thousands of small transgressions you’ve experienced building to the horror of knowing your peers would like you dead. they don’t have to say it or hurt you physically. they have other ways of letting you know they’d prefer if you were worn fuel

“ezra miller is going to be the first lgbt+ person to play a superhero!!”

i mean yes he’s going to be the first to get a solo movie but

oh, and:

all im getting from this post are that the x-men are really gay

The X-Men are really gay.

A little brown bunny was so kind and sweet it stretched its whole body out and got long enough to go to sleep

can u pls leave the discussions to the scholars

oh and while i'm here, my wonderful boyfriend brought this to my attention. under tennessee sb03 which passes on thursday, this would have been completely illegal.

i know some of you really only care about social justice when it effects the things you actively blog about so if this is what it takes to scare the shit out of you then so be it.

hey just so you know op reblogs from faggots :/

Saints for Girls

imagine experiencing the gay delirium that was being in an emo band in the 2000s

the ending scene in goncharov (1973) is truly beautiful, i cry at its symbolism every time

I really feel like Goncharov is becoming real. I mean obviously it wasn’t really made by Martin Scorsese in 1973 but it’s being made by all of us on Tumblr.com here and now in 2022. We are all Matteo JWHJ0715. 

The more you learn about the production of this movie the wilder it gets.

Me and "The Fonz" at premiere of Goncharov (1973) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

okay but what REALLY gets me about goncharov (1973) is the scene where andrey and goncharov are sitting on the roof of the factory and goncharov is just going on and on and on about like. the mob and shit and andrey just. puts his hand on goncharov's chin????? like... just tilts it up????

and he's like "why don't you just be quiet for a little while, eh? you've got the whole night."

AND STARES AT HIS LIPS??????

I LITERALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO KISS but NOOOOOO we just had to cut back to Ice Pick Joe trying to figure out how to open a tin of anchovies 🙄

it's the pull tab!!!! asshole!!!!!

oh op you must be watching the edited for tv version from 1992 :/ in the theatrical cut they kiss and the conversation expands

Doctor Who era’s summarised with confusing spoilers

One: My kidnapper is annoying and won’t shut up.

Two: Are Scotsmen hot? Yes. Very.

Three: Are the military okay? No. Except that one Sergeant; he’s sweet.

Four: How many problems can be solved by confectionery and talking out of your arse? More than you would expect.

Five: Single father of three going to be great dad one day.

Six: Tailors are evil and so are the BBC.

Seven: Belief in communism will repel zombies.

Eight: What’s worse than death? The US healthcare system.

Nine: Finding people annoying is not mutually exclusive with overwhelming love for humanity. 

Ten: Can a man be both a twink and a lesbian at once?

Eleven: Baby is also eldritch figure from dawn of time.

Twelve: Punk grandad just wants to play guitar.

Thirteen: Local woman under impression that constant longing looks at blonde lady friend definitely mean platonic affection.

if this goncharov shit happened in 2013 you know there would be a gofundme to make it real and it would get one goncharillion dollars before the person behind it dropped off the face of the earth

this week's episode is so good y'all

Anyway if this post reaches 30000 notes I'll sit down and professionally film a Goncharov movie scene you can send to people who claim it's not real. This is completely serious, I've made movies before and I'm willing to do it for the memes.

Okay so I know we're all talking about the blatant lesbian tension scene between Katya and Sofia, but I want to get more into the actual details of the scene itself and how it characterizes both of the women--namely, as emblems of the unbridgeable gap between the lower working class and old money families.

The creation of the tension is due to the strangled intimacy of Katya, who feels fascinated by Sofia's cynical venomous personality towards her. Katya is old money, she's never known the sort of pain and suffering Sofia has--she has suffered, and that is what bonds the two women together, but they're from polar opposite worlds. Additionally, everyone wants Katya. She's the Helen of the movie, and is arguably more of the main character than the eponymous Goncharov--or at least has more agency than him working within the standards of the tragic mafia genre.

But Sofia doesn't want Katya. She isn't charmed, she isn't swayed, she isn't even curious about this Russian mobster's wife who has been spending so much time with her. She's just the latest pet project of a rich person's whims and Sofia has no choice but to go along with it.

Now, the dinner shared at Les Poisson has four members attending--Goncharov, Andrey, Katya, and Sofia. Pulling from the clock/time thematics, Katya and Sofia are 20 minutes late to the restaurant (incidentally allowing some interesting implications to happen between Andrey and Goncharov, because we never see what they were doing but they clearly were both flustered). This is because of what I'll be calling the Pearl Scene.

Pearls have always been a standard precious gem for old class. Gold is gaudy and diamonds are loud, but silver and pearls? Eternal heirlooms. Katya inviting Sofia to an incredibly upscale restaurant was an embarrassment for Sofia, yet another layer of vulnerability she didn't want to have to reveal, but she had no clothing appropriate. So Katya purchases her a lovely evening dress in silver brocade. The overlapping patterrns on the dress itself are even reminiscent to both the patterns of light off of the waves seen from the lighthouse and the scales of the anchovies, though I think that's just lietmotif more than actual tying together thematics.

But the really important part--and the reason this scene is so thick with heavy lesbians--is Katya taking her pearl necklaces off and placing them around Sofia's neck as Sofia holds the hand mirror.

See, again, pearls are standard old money looks because they were fucking expensive as shit. A single quality pearl even now can go for over 20,000$. Just one pearl. And we know that Katya's necklaces are her deepest prides, symbols of her own ancestry and family before she married Goncharov. Her taking them off is symbolic of her tying herself to Sofia, but more than that, it complicates the thematics further. The pearls have been the barrier preventing intimacy and vulnerability between Katya and Goncharov the whole time. And now they're a sort of poisoned gift, though none of them realize it at the time.

The 10 minute anchovies scene within Les Poissons Diner is possibly the emotional climax of the movie. Katya, Sofia, Andrey, and Goncharov are all suddenly thrown into questioning their relationships with each other as they've been brought together to try and save Goncharov from his pursuers. Andrey is jealous of Katya over her ability to publicly be involved and intimate with Goncharov, and furious that she chooses not to do so. But when Goncharov notes that Katya gave Sofia her pearls, Katya responds "Every woman should be allowed to feel like she is looked at beautifully." This has the entire table in shock--even Katya herself!--as it basically ties together the whole complicated mess of interrelation feelings.

Sofia feels offended that Katya has placed her mark on her like this, but also cannot deny that she agrees with Katya and that she's being given opportunities she never could have been given otherwise. Goncharov is suddenly hopeful as the speaking look he gives his wife is finally reciprocated. Andrey and Sofia become suddenly connected by the feeling of being outsiders to this whole affair, brought on only out of whim and circumstances. And Katya, the Helen of Moscow, has with a single choice--of giving Sofia her family's pearls as a gift--doomed the entire cast. She wants everything, and to do this she gives everything she can--but it is never enough, and she finally realizes this at the lighthouse, starting the final and most ultimate conspiracy to betray Goncharov--herself.