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what if you called making adaptations of shakespeare plays “modding” them. like yeah im working on a new hamlet mod. its set in new york city. every actor is a bear

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not 2 be dramatic but those posts yall make that reunite poetry about a certain subject... that is what art is about

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shout out to the girl in front of me watching “all riverdale sex scenes compilation (season 1-3) (SPOILERS)” without earbuds in the dining hall. youre the only motherfucker here who can handle me

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Thinking about something

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“If you want to understand any moment in time, or any cultural moment, just look at their vampires,” says author Eric Nuzum. Our vampires are not like the remorseless Victorian vampires, who had a taste for the blood of babies and did not seem to feel badly about it. Our vampires are conflicted. Some of them go hungry rather than feed on humans, and some of them drink synthetic blood. “Almost all of these current vampires are struggling to be moral,” the journalist Margot Adler observed […] “It’s conventional to talk about vampires as sexual, with their hypnotic powers and their intimate penetrations and their blood-drinking and so forth,” she reported. “But most of these modern vampires are not talking as much about sex as they are about power.”

Power, of course, is vampiric. We enjoy it only because someone else does not. Power is what philosophers would call a positional good, meaning that its value is determined by how much of it one has in comparison to other people. Privilege, too, is a positional good, and some have argued that health is as well.

Our vampires, whatever else they are, remain a reminder that our bodies are penetrable. A reminder that we feed off of each other, that we need each other to live. Our vampires reflect both our terrible appetites and our agonized restraint. When our vampires struggle with their need for blood, they give us a way of thinking about what we ask of each other in order to live.

— Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

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being 25 is like: im dying. im living my best life. im a failure. my life hasnt started. everything interesting has already happened to me. im achieving my dreams. im cutting my hair with kitchen scissors. im starting a skincare routine. im a corporate professional. im a sellout. im out of groceries. i have too many groceries. i am never going to be successful. i am going to win a hugo award before im 30. im crazy. im boring. i need to finish this essay. i need to finish this story. i need to start a newsletter. i need to start tweeting more. i need to stop tweeting. i need to ghost all my friends. i need to tell my friends i love them. i need to find a new apartment. i need to take out the trash. i am the trash that needs to be taken out. 

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Rachelle Hampton analyzed Twilight’s murmurs so we didn’t have to.

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ok that was fun now do woody allen

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the episode where david meets patrick on schitt’s creek is so funny like. as the viewer you’ve now known david long enough to like him, but patrick is simply introduced without preamble to the full force of his whole picky, aloof, unhelpful malaise and before the encounter is even over patrick is visibly saying to himself ‘whatever’s going on with this here, i want to experience more of it and pretty much for as long as humanely possible’

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No more "updating" old lit to modern day in new productions, gonna start backdating instead. Dorian Grey is now a Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. Pride and Prejudice is set in Restoran England. William Shakespeare's Henry VIII now takes place in the 1200s, and Marley's ghost is gonna haunt Ceaser till he lets Bobitis Crachitus have Saturnalia off work

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If I get at least one thing done in a day I’m a genius if I get two things done I’m a god

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Many of the political attacks on trans people—whether it is a mandate that bathroom use be determined by birth sex, a blanket ban on medical interventions for trans kids or the suggestion that trans men are simply wayward women beguiled by male privilege—carry the same subtext: that trans people are mistaken about who they are. “We know who we are,” Page says. “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”

Page was attracted to the role of Vanya in The Umbrella Academy because—in the first season, released in 2019—Vanya is crushed by self-loathing, believing herself to be the only ordinary sibling in an extraordinary family. The character can barely summon the courage to move through the world. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” Page says. Now on set filming the third season, co-workers have seen a change in the actor. “It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” says showrunner Steve Blackman. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.” For Page, returning to set has been validating, if awkward at times. Yes, people accidentally use the wrong pronouns—“It’s going to be an adjustment,” Page says—but co-workers also see and acknowledge him.

Whatever challenges might lie ahead, Page seems exuberant about playing a new spectrum of roles. “I’m really excited to act, now that I’m fully who I am, in this body,” Page says. “No matter the challenges and difficult moments of this, nothing amounts to getting to feel how I feel now.” This includes having short hair again. During the interview, Page keeps rearranging strands on his forehead. It took a long time for him to return to the barber’s chair and ask to cut it short, but he got there. And how did that haircut feel?

Page tears up again, then smiles. “I just could not have enjoyed it more,” he says.

ELLIOT PAGE for TIME Magazine › 2021 interview by Katy Steinmetz, photography by Wynne Neilly

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Derry Girls really nails the whole “living through a major crisis” thing

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pirating movies by seeing them in tumblr gifs and basing my own story around them

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what does it say about us as a culture that most of our microwaves have a dedicated popcorn button

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fuck every other personality test, reblog this with your sign and whether you were better at algebra or geometry