#alexander wright

[mygrowingcollection]

Alexander Wright

[recherchestetique]

Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by an Mayan temple as.,the Ennis House, 1924.

pic by ©Alexander Vertikoff

[dr-lizortecho]

Any other women in your recruit class? Nope.

[cigarrw-s]

"One day, maybe you'll learn that not being able to relate to other people isn't a badge of honor."

American Fiction (2023) dir. Cord Jefferson

[skarsjoy]

New interview! Alex talked to Access Hollywood in a video uploaded today (May 10, 2025)

“Alexander Skarsgård Raves Over Bond w/ His 7 Siblings: ‘They’re Good People’”

Alexander Skarsgård is playing an introverted robot in his new Apple TV series “Murderbot,” but even though on the surface it seems like he and the character are nothing alike, the actor told Access Hollywood they do have some things in common. “I am definitely more of an extrovert than Murderbot,” he said. “But I can definitely relate to the feeling of being socially awkward or being in a room where you don’t know how to fit in,” he added. Alexander also ranked the three favorite characters he’s portrayed throughout his career and talked about his close bond with his seven siblings, including fellow actor Bill Skarsgård. “I’m incredibly proud of all of them. Not only how talented and successful they are but they’re good people and that makes me very proud,” he said. The first two episodes of “Murderbot” will premiere on Apple TV+ on May 16, followed by new episodes every Friday through July 11.

Photos are my screen caps from the Access Hollywood interview, episode 2.08 of True Blood, The Northman film, and episode 3 of Big Little Lies. The professional photo is of Alex, Bill Skarsgård and Gustaf Skarsgård at the premiere of 'It' at TCL Chinese Theatre on September 5, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

[chaos-of-the-endless]

I enjoy their chaotic, beautiful nature very very much, so I share it with my bishes.

You're welcome, bishes.

I love you all very much.

Meow.

[rainbowpopeworld]

I just watched the second (and final) season of Quantum Leap. As a nonbinary person, this scene really got me in the feels. It's really hokey and showing what should be basic human behavior. And I'm really glad it exists and it made me cry both times I've watched it.

Context for those who don't know, Mason Alexander Park plays Ian Wright, a nonbinary character in the main cast of the show. So they are reacting to this conversation among siblings, which is taking place in 1953.

And as a fan of the original QL in the early 90's, this is definitely a far cry from the overtly homophobic and transphobic aspects of some episodes back then. So, I guess it is nice to see specific evidence of some progress. Even as the backlash continues and we fight for actual liberation.

[cinematicjourney]

American Fiction (2023) | dir. Cord Jefferson

[arcandoria]

stinky racerback set by @pinkyjulien coming soon. 💕

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Zack Beauchamp at Vox:

It’s been a rough week in the world of the online intellectual right, which is currently in the midst of two separate yet related blowups — both of which illustrate how the pressures of power are cracking the elite coalition that aligned behind President Donald Trump’s return to power. The first fight is really a struggle over who should determine the philosophical identity of MAGA, pitting a group of anti-woke writers against a wide group of illiberal or post-liberal figures. The lead figure in the anti-woke camp, the prominent pundit James Lindsay, has been attacking his enemies as the “woke right” for months. In his mind, this group’s emphasis on the importance of religion, national identity, and ethnicity is the mirror image of the left’s identity politics — and thus an existential threat both to American freedom and the MAGA movement’s success. In response, his targets on the right — which range from national conservatives to white nationalists — have started firing back aggressively, arguing that Lindsay is not only wrong but maliciously attempting to fracture the MAGA coalition. This might seem like a niche online fight, but given that niche online discourse has been a major influence on the second Trump administration’s thinking, it might end up mattering quite a bit. The same could be said about the second fight, which revolves around Curtis Yarvin — the neo-monarchist blogger who has influenced both Vice President JD Vance and DOGE. A recent post by rationalist author Scott Alexander accused Yarvin of “selling out” — aligning himself with Trump even though he had long denounced the kind of “authoritarian populism” that Trump embodies. Yarvin defended himself with some fairly bitter attacks on Alexander, drawing in defenders and critics from the broader right-wing universe in the process.

Each of these fights is telling in their own right. The “woke right” contretemps shows just how deep the divisions go inside the Trump world — between anti-woke liberals, on the one hand, and various different forms of “postliberals” on the other. The Yarvin argument is a revealing portrait of how easy it is to get someone to compromise their own beliefs in the face of polarization and proximity to power. But put together, they show us just how hard it is to go from an insurgent force to a governing one.

The “woke right” redux

The “woke right” debate first came on my radar back in December, when the anti-woke pundit James Lindsay tricked a Christian nationalist website, American Reformer, into publishing excerpts of The Communist Manifesto edited to sound like a critique of modern American liberalism. It might seem to make little sense to describe a 19th-century text on resistance to capitalism as an example of 21st-century identity politics. But Lindsay, who sees himself as a right-wing liberal, is using an idiosyncratic understanding of “wokeness” that equates it with collectivism — the idea that the politics should be understood through the lens of interests of groups, be it the proletariat or Black Americans, rather than treating all citizens purely as individuals. Thus, for Lindsay, communism is a form of wokeness, even if the term “woke” postdates Marx by nearly 200 years. This broad definition also allows there to be right-wing forms of wokeness. Neo-Nazism, Christian nationalism, Catholic integralism, even certain forms of anti-liberal conservative nationalism — all of these doctrines give significant weight to group identity in their understanding of what matters in the political realm. Thus, for Lindsay, they are threatening to American liberalism in exactly the same way as their left-wing peers.

“Woke Right are ‘right-wing’ people who have mostly adopted an identity-based victimhood orientation for themselves to bind together as a class,” he writes. “Like the Woke Left, then, they happily offer the trade-off usually used to describe Marxists: people who will ask you to trade some of your liberty so that they might hurt your enemies for you.” Personally, I find Lindsay’s definition of “wokeness” so broad that it ceases to operate as a meaningful category (if it ever was one in the first place). But the charge has clearly stung his antagonists on the right, where calling someone “woke” is basically the worst thing you can say about them. Prominent figures on the illiberal right, ranging from Tim Pool to Mike Cernovich to Anna Khachiyan, shot back at Lindsay — calling him a “grifter” out to undermine the MAGA movement. Meanwhile, Lindsay’s allies, including biologist Colin Wright and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, accused them of being the true traitors to MAGA. The most interesting intervention in this debate is an essay recently posted on X by the Israeli intellectual Yoram Hazony. Hazony’s main project, the National Conservatism conference, has served as a hub connecting various different strands of illiberalism to each other and to power. Vance, Tucker Carlson, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have all given notable speeches there.

[...]

What the two fights reveal about the Trump era

Both the “woke right” and Yarvin debates revolve fundamentally around power — specifically, how it should be wielded once you have it. The “woke right” debate is, at heart, about what the ultimate ends of the Trump administration should be. While both sides agree that the “woke left” should be wiped out, they disagree on what an alternative vision should look like. Lindsay and his allies argue for a restoration of some kind of right-wing liberal individualism; Hazony and his camp believe that the task is replacing liberalism with some kind of hazy alternative rooted in religious or ethno-cultural identity. This debate is taking place on purely abstract grounds — there’s almost never any reference to concrete policy disagreements — but it reflects an assumption that there are very real implications of this argument for the next four years of American politics. Lindsay has repeatedly argued, in tweets and interviews, that the rise of the “woke right” threatens to derail the entire MAGA project and return power to the left. The Yarvin debate poses a related, but more introspective, question about power: How corrosive is it for intellectuals to be in proximity to it? Alexander, the most intellectually rigorous person in either debate, suggests the answer is “very.” In Yarvin, he sees someone who he long took seriously as tainted by access — by, for example, Vance citing Yarvin as an influence in a podcast appearance. Yarvin’s own conduct in their debate vindicates his assessment. Put together, these debates point us to two major themes worth watching throughout the remainder of the Trump administration. First, how much the administration’s policy choices intensify the fractures in its elite coalition.

Hazony is right that hostility to the left is what brought disparate groups together under the Trump banner. But now, in a world where the administration has to govern, some of those factions are bound to feel like they’re losing or even betrayed.

The so-called “woke right” and “anti-woke right” united to get Donald Trump elected last year. Now, they are fighting for the direction of the MAGA (and post-MAGA) movement.

[underrtheskinn]

BIG LITTLE LIES

season 1

[dr-lizortecho]

gay ass staring

[skarsjoy]

Another Alexander Skarsgård HBO marathon coming on Monday, December 2nd | Big Little Lies season 1

starting at noon ET on HBO Signature

3rd HBO Alex marathon since October 25th (True Blood, Generation Kill)

[k9kid]

Em: so nobody knows we're dating

Will: we're being very discreet

*Meanwhile in the tower*

Laka, Kainalu, Hina, and Uncle Sonny: We all know!

Uncle Sonny: its just beyond obvious

Laka: I don't even know how these dumbasses think they're hiding it.

Kainalu: they're always sneaking off together and taking their fitness breaks at the same time.

Hina: dumbasses.

[chaos-of-the-endless]

Does anyone out there need an Ian fic? Because... I'm missing the fuck out of them and I need to let them carry on living but... I have nothing going on in my brain right now of my own, so.... Hit me up with any ideas if you're missing them as much as I am.

Would also, fucking absolutely do an Emcee fic. Maybe I'm just missing Mai.... 😭🥰

And Desire. Okay, fuck it all, just anything Mason related I'll literally write anything 😂

That went from zero to unhinged in about three seconds, huh?

[arcandoria]

everyone enjoys a good dad shirt (by @pinkyjulien coming soon!)