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the thing about the "um excuse me if you're as poor as you say you are why don't you just sell all your most treasured possessions" thing that people love to trot out as some kind of "gotcha" is that they do not acknowledge how fucking soul-crushing it is to be in a situation that is already destroying your mental health and then be forced to sell one of the few things in your life that still bring you joy

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sorry about my constant depressive episodes. its just that i have issues and also problems

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LDPDL • Side Eye

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Julián Cerati as 'Inti' & Felipe Londoño as Cristóbal Balboa 2023 • Fake Profile (Perfil Falso) • S1·E08

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YOOOOOO

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Indianapolis, Indiana

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armand according to louis: sexy professor with a knife and handcuffs on his belt

armand according to claudia: mob boss sending you bullets in the mail

armand according to daniel: if the predator from predator was a manic pixie dream girl

armand according to lestat: screaming baby clinging to your leg but his eyes are completely black

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Sport is life

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What exactly is going on with Taylor swift? Did she do something wacky or just release a shit album that's so bad it's funny?

okay i have done time as a swiftie and i now watch over those weirdos like im david attenborough so you’ve come to the right place.

ur correct about it being an album so bad its funny. but theres more. im very sorry but this will be long.

so basically since like 2016 she was in an apparently steady and normal long term relationship with a blond man called joe alwyn whose only character trait is knowing how to shut the fuck up (and i love him for that)

then in april 2023 it was announced that they broke up while she was on tour but bc the relationship had been uneventful and boring this whole time, the general vibe from everyone was “huh thats kinda sad, oh well”

i might be mixing up the timeline a little here but a couple weeks later there were some articles about how she’s now dating matty healy from the 1975. people were mostly just like “pfft its just tabloid shit it cant be true” and then at the next 1975 gig, marty pointed into the camera and said “this is for you, you know who you are, i love you” before playing a love song. THEN at the next taylor gig she did the exact same damn thing and the swifties hit the fan.

to make a very long fuckin story short, they dug up a bunch of dirt about how this dude is a nasty little racist misogynist rat and he needs to get away from their poor little innocent billionaire princess. some people get kinda heated about whether these accusations are true and tbh id rather eat glass than get into that shit myself

SO, swifties outnumber us all and raised absolute hell online while taylor brought this guy to all her concerts and let him perform with the opening acts. her publicist released some statements saying taylor knows what her fans are saying and she doesnt give a fuck. but also said they’re not super serious and are just having fun together.

during all this, theres a small group of swifties that have decided to break away and become very pro-marty and essentially pit him against aforementioned blond man joe alwyn. their general narrative is that because joe loves being quiet and doesnt really do Celebrity Things, that must mean he was ashamed of his relationship with taylor. this is where we get the beloved He Lets Her Bejeweled meme

this fannade narrative becomes more relevant in a bit

at some point during this relationship she releases the joe alwyn breakup song You’re Losing Me, which just describes some very standard long term relationship breakdown stuff. they have different life goals and they’re drifting apart and the communication is breaking down. she kinda wants him to do something to save it at the eleventh hour but that wouldnt be realistic. very sad oh well.

theres a small amount of kicking off from the fandom about he’s awful for this but only bc they’re addicted to the idea that their favourite billionaire is the worlds most tragic victim and honestly whats new

and here starts the very fucking weird trend of her publicist releasing statements that are very clearly deliberately backing up the weirdo fan theories. a lot of “taylor and matty are showing up for each other UNLIKE HER LAST RELATIONSHIP and he is proud of her UNLIKE JOE ALWYN” like..alright.

anyway ratty and taylor break up after about a month of publicly dating and she sings some sad songs and cries at her concerts but everyone mostly forgets about the whole thing.

about a month later travis kelce asks her out and they end up dating and the white women of america collectively cream. personally i dont get it because i dont know what sports are and the only travis im familiar with is the tractor from bob the builder but i digress. the 35 year old deadbedroom swifties are going CRAZY. they’re saying these two are gonna get married and have ten kids and global superstar taylor swift can finally achieve the only real success for a woman: marriage and motherhood. because football man is the only Real Man she has been with due to the fact that he is tall and wide and bearded.

its severely tragic and vicarious

once again the focus does not remain on the couple. they’re turning on poor puppydog joe alwyn again. this time he’s evil not only for being “ashamed” of her but also for wasting her time by not marrying and impregnating her, because as we have established, thats the only point to life as a woman. how dare he waste all that time locking her away in the six mansions that she owns.

and her publicist does the same shit as before with the “he supports her and shows up for her UNLIKE JOE” bullshit. all of these people are over 30 and have never experienced a real problem.

this creates a cycle that is honestly kind of concerning, where the fans invent a strange theory, the publicist backs it up, the swifties add to the theory, the publicist back up the new additions, and so on. taylor continues dating travis and they go to each others concerts/games and act like a relatively normal honeymoon phase couple. the narrative has massively broken away from the reality.

so this continues, people hyping up travis and hating joe. at this point i want to note that taylor and her team have spent a lot of years crying about how the nasty misogynistic media only ever cares about her relationship drama and ignores her art because they hate powerful women or something. the irony is that just about every bit of publicity she’s done over the last year+ has been directly linked to whatever breakup or boyfriend she’s going through currently. they’re definitely not hiding that this is the PR direction they’re going with.

so, with the weird fan rumours continuing to reinforce themselves, the swifties become very confident that their imaginations are telling the truth. they stalk joe alwyns social media presence, of which there is very little. but if you go out looking for mess you never come back empty handed. they find that he has been around women. because he is an actor. and some other actors are women. anyway they fully believe this is proof that he cheated, and they launch harassment campaigns against these relatively small actors, who end up having to private their accounts. then the swifties find another woman to harass for being “the other woman”. it goes on.

then the abuse and domestic violence accusations against joe alwyn are created. not from taylor or anyone close to the situation. only from the fans. her PR team have at least stopped reinforcing the fan theories at this point, but the ball is already rolling.

when she announces her new album, the swifties ERUPT with joy that finally she is going to end joe alwyn, the man who im pretty sure has just been chilling in his house this whole time. the harassment of anyone and everyone deemed in any way guilty continues tenfold. they are openly tweeting about finding him in london and physically attacking and/or killing him (he’s not a huge celebrity and is often just hanging around alone with no security team or anything. im sure these threats arent serious but they feel kinda more dangerous when the target essentially just hangs around as a private citizen)

the album promo is pretty much just.. “hey i dated this dude and he made me sooooo sad isnt that interesting, swifties?” over and over again. each new post brings a bigger wave of joe harassment. they’re champing at the bit for taylor to tell them all the many ways he hurt her so dreadfully.

then the album leaks and its all about matty healy, which is very funny on the dismayed swiftie-violence front but also just..terrible in that she used the harassment of joe as an album promo tactic when the album barely mentions him. the only thing she really says about him is that he suffers from depression and it made their relationship difficult.

..and yeah, the album is about how she’s been obsessed with marty for over ten years and she fantasised about him while in her long term relationship, and theres maybe some overlap of the two relationships. the irony. all the “this man hurt me so much!!!”-type lyrics that were released to promote the album were actually about matty, not joe. a lot of the swifties are continuing to double down on hating joe bc they cant accept that the matty relationship even happened. theres a song about how much she hates her fans for hating her relationship with rarty. its called but daddy i love him. its a whole embarrassing mess for everyone involved, including me for typing all this out.

and after all that most of the songs fuckin suck

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paying a little visit to a beloved mutual's blog after not seeing them on the dash for a while as if i'm dropping by their cottage with some biscuits and jams in a wicker basket

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Has anyone ever spent a huge amount of time just watching old Jam interviews because they are absolutely amazing and beautiful and have the cutest friendship? They are legit soulmates and hearing all the wonderful things they have to say about each other, as well as the way the cast and showrunners talk about their bond just drowns me in all the feels. Plus, there’s no denying the chemistry between them♥️

Love that someone put this compilation video together a year ago.🥰

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New post, old one lost traction.

I'm a trans woman in rural oregon, and my partner and I just recently (april 4) had a baby in a way that was stressful, expensive, and a bit earlier than we were expecting due to a sudden health crisis. I have recently started a new job but it is unfortunately paid monthly and I won't get my first check until May 5. My partner had to begin leave early and although Oregon does have paid leave through the state the system to actually get that process going is extremely dysfunctional and we arent expecting to be paid through that system until sometime after their leave is already over.

We're mostly doing ok and yall have helped us so much, but we did burn a few hundred dollars in gas going to 3 different hospitals in under a week, not to mention incidental expenses we dont usually accrue like takeout food and whatnot while they were hospitalized.

We're extremely grateful for everyone who has helped us thus far and please, if you've already helped us out dont feel obligated to do so again, but we are stretched fairly thin for April due to these circumstances, so any financial assistance possible would be incredible.

Thanks so much everyone, love y'all.

paypal.me/daveigh

Venmo: @ v0id-queen (with a zero)

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yesterday, Oct 4, was seminal pop author and horror icon Anne Rice’s 78th birthday, and if you care about that here are some words about it:

I think the best thing about Lestat’s character over nearly fifty years of canon is that he is a completely evil, unforgivable bastard whose consistent singular redeeming trait which allows him to perform heroic acts is that he unconditionally loves everybody he has ever met. I think this is maybe the funniest and best character concept I can imagine- a totally evil person who loves everyone he has ever met- ESPECIALLY because he is also Rice’s self-insert character. what a conception of yourself to have! if Lestat is handed something good, he doesn’t know how NOT to fuck it up. he is a sadist and a murderer and more than that, he is just an ass; but he takes everybody in good faith, including people who are obviously trying to fuck him over. Rice said that when she wrote Memnoch the Devil, she kept trying to make it work with a mortal protagonist but couldn’t write a human person evil enough for the Devil to appear to him and ask for help- so she realized it HAD to be Lestat. he is that bad. but also, Lestat fucked that one up by taking THE DEVIL in good faith. what a combination of things to exist in one character! the thing about Rice is that when you wind up reading a lot about her, you can’t help but develop a sympathy even though she is somewhat unlikable in basically every traditional way because she and her protagonist share the same fundamental character trait: they keep fucking up, being stupid and venally bad, and keep getting up again. to be so hurt and angry all the time and incapable of not taking it out on people, and to also believe fundamentally that people are basically good, even the ones who hurt you. to leave the Catholic Church, and then re-join the Catholic Church, and then to leave it again! to be an ex-Catholic TWICE! to pledge that you will never write about vampires again because you are trying to be Good For God, and then publicly go back on it because you think there’s worth in writing about vampires! Lestat knows he is unforgivably bad, but he still wants to be good. he is the villain and the hero of his own story, like Anne Rice, like everyone. the crux of Lestat is that he’s a character about, what do you do when you know you are too terrible to be alive, when you are irredeemable and just have to keep living? what DO you do, when your very existence hurts other people, but you can’t give it up? you hurt, mostly. other people and also yourself. it took eleven books and forty years for Anne Rice to write some novels where Lestat does some heroic things and DOES NOT fuck it up, and it turns out its because his superpower is that he is empathetic towards every asshole because he, himself, has been every kind of asshole. Lestat sees someone who is an annoying evil pain in the ass and goes: Damn, that guy is probably hurting. this is also how Anne Rice feels about Lestat. if you are bad down to your bones and you know it, the only thing you CAN do is love the people around you and try to make them a little less lonely. Oh, Anne, O Lestat, Patron Saint of the Inimitable Fuckup- you just keep getting it all wrong and getting back up again. your stories say: There IS life after death, life after making the biggest mistake, life after being the Worst. but what DO you do? well, you try again. you fuck it up. you get up, again. and you do it again. and you fuck up again. get up again. you keep singing songs, even if they’re sad ones. otherwise, what’s the point? the sun will never rise, but you gotta keep singing to it. 

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Doubt

Dialogue

Question

Trial

Inference

‘Portals’ series, August 2021 at 1stDibs.

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