“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.”
— Susan Sontag, ‘The Double Standard of Aging’ (1972)
I’m surprised movie musicals kept being made after Moulin Rouge when it was made abundantly clear that nothing could ever come close to matching the pure earth-shatterring, dramatic intensity that is El Tango de Roxanne. Like holy shit that number does NOT hold back
one of the greatest temptations as humans is to see the void left in another person by their wounds and believe that we possess the shape and malleability to fill them.
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Welcome to Pettyville by @alrightginger and @women-inthe-sequel
Enchanted by @thejilyship
Everything Stays by @alrightginger and @women-inthe-sequel
Distraction by @magic-girl-in-a-muggle-world
Voyeur by @scriibble-fics
Come Together by @thequibblah
These Lines of Lightning (Mean We’re Never Alone) by @deadlysansa
The Last Enemy: The Howling Night by @chdarling-tle
Dancing Around You by @littlejeanniebean
Fingers Crossed by @pottinglillies
Summer Girl by @myfinestworkyet
Earthquake Drills by @myfinestworkyet
History, Rewritten by marvelfucker
Stars Shine Bright by @charmingwillow
We Can Be Heroes by @blitheringmcgonagall
It Only Takes a Taste (When You Know That It’s Good) by @ritakeetered
Collaboration Squared by @fetchalgernon
Let Me Love You by @thejilyship
Darling, Dearest, Dead by @letthebookbegin
Pride and Purrejudice by @likeawildthing
Lily Evans Definitely Has a Boyfriend by fireflysneeze
New Age Romancing by @clare-with-no-i
Until The Very End by lilypetal
Cliche by @tumbledfreckles
I’ll Go The Distance by @littlejeanniebean
She Was There For It All by @tumbledfreckles
Golden Waltz by evanspotter
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