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Today's government mandated femslash couple of the day is

Ayaka Usagida and Hiroko Kanō!

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so one of the things about “l’amica geniale” is that people keep asking “omg why is everyone in love with Lila it’s so boring manic pixie dream girl” and like ok I get where they’re coming from kind of but there are two much bigger points here (as regards the first book in the Italian version at least)

a) lenú is a profoundly unreliable narrator who is clearly also in love with lila, and evening is filtered through her perspective. One of the ways that her repressed obsession manifests itself is in an obsession with the men she sees as rivals to Lila’s love and affection - pasquale, marcello, stefano- and this manifests itself in the narrative as a focus on the men she perceives to be in love with Lila and therefor a threat to their relationship

b) this whole book is really gutting and undoing so many of the tropes of romance novels, classic novels written by men, the image of the woman in literature etc by taking all these classic romance tropes and showing what they often actually felt like for the women inside them: terrifying. Lila is stuck in a love triangle between Marcello and Stefano and it isn’t fun and sexy, it’s absolutely terrifying and she has no mistake because they both see her as some kind of property they ought to have. All of the typical “I’m cooler than him” overtures with the cars are also scary, because she *has* to pick one, and the other guy will seek his revenge for not having her. The extravagant gifts like the tv that Marcello buys here are a manifestation of his power and how he reaches into her house, her domestic space. It’s all brutal and crude and inescapable, and it guts works like twilight but also a lot of classic literature inside out by making the lack of control and safety and agency felt by the women in these narratives - or more correctly, often, girls, Lila is FOURTEEN when Marcello is making a bunch of these overtures - into the focus of the narrative

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gorgeous woman

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The face of a man who desperately wants a gun:

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L'amica Geniale | 4.09

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SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder

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Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder

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James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock, Fairmount, IN, 1955

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Uniform of the Cumann na nBan (The Irish Women’s Council) from Ireland dated to 1916 on display at the National Museum of Ireland-Decorative Arts and History in Dublin, Ireland

This uniform was worn by Rosie McNamara in Marrowbone Lane Distillery during the Easter Rising and in Kilmainham Jail after the surrender. Many women like Rosie joined the Cumann na nBan who, alongside the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army to form the Army of the Irish Republic. Though they initially thought of as a support role for the male soldiers, they were armed and fought alongside them in the streets and at the General Post Office.

Photographs taken by myself 2017

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Yuri omg

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An extinct breed of lyric video from an era past...

She's no you // Complicated // Monster high // If You Seek Amy // Butterfly // Starstruck

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their friendship is my roman empire…

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L'amica geniale. S2E04. Il bacio.

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t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said / IC3PEAK - Where is my home?

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ALAIN DELON in L'ECLISSE (1962), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni