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these are KILLING me

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one of my formative experiences with sex ed was having sexual desire explained to my class by a catholic nun who was very clearly working on a purely theoretical model. she explained with like increasing mania that women and men are very different because men are "like microwaves" and women "are like crock pots" and the more confused the class (age 13) became the more frantic sister patrick stephen became until she was accidentally making the point that men and women are too much like different appliances to have sex with each other at all. we all felt quite guilty as this was the year twilight came out so we'd all just gotten horny for the first time. so we felt bad for her if anything

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“Canarina’s Gaze” by René Lalique, 1928.

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“The Witch” (2015) Is Not Feminist. It’s Just Puritan Fanfiction With Better Lighting.

There’s a conversation that needs to be had, and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t reek of patchouli and pretension.

So let’s say it loud for the Sabbat in the back:

“The Witch” is not empowerment. It’s propaganda — exquisitely shot, deeply atmospheric propaganda that confuses religious trauma for spiritual awakening and slaps a black goat on it like a fashion statement.

Let’s break it down:

A young girl, isolated in the wilderness, suffers the mental breakdown of her puritanical family.

They accuse her of witchcraft.

Everyone dies.

She finally "escapes" by doing the exact things those same zealots accused her of doing — flying naked, talking to Satan, and signing her soul away like a twisted reward for enduring abuse.

And we’re supposed to call that freedom?

No. That’s not liberation. That’s collapse. That’s psychological ruin turned into a cottagecore aesthetic.

And then enters The Satanic Temple — not content with defending their legal rights (which, kudos, fine), but deciding to embrace this cinematic fever dream as some kind of sacred manifesto.

“We hope it encourages more people to have a Satanic experience.” — Some spokesperson, likely in a robe and no context.

My question is: do y’all even know what freedom looks like?

Because it sure as hell isn’t:

Conversing with a goat in a shed like you’re being interviewed by a demonic HR rep,

Hearing voices because your brain is shattered from religious isolation,

And slipping quietly into the arms of exactly what you were accused of being, just to give the audience the twisted satisfaction of thinking, “Ah. So she was evil after all.”

That’s not a Satanic experience. That’s Stockholm Syndrome in sepia tone.

If your idea of rebellion is to embrace the cartoon villainy the church wrote about witches in the 1600s — you’re not rebelling. You’re just wearing the chains prettier.

I don’t want another film about women “finding power” only after being destroyed. I want women who already knew. Who hexed the goddamn sky and didn’t need a goat to hold their hand.

Give me witches who resist, who curse back, who love fiercely, and choose their path with clarity, not as a last resort after everyone’s dead.

So no — “The Witch” isn’t transgressive. It’s just another story where patriarchy wins, and we’re told it’s a feminist fairytale because she floats in the end.

We don’t need floating. We need fury.

Signed, A Real Witch

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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Bill Viola - The Veiling, 1995

See more Bill Viola posts here.

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Stephan Vasement

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in the waiting room rehearsing my little speech for the doctor like a normal person

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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• the back of cards

sorry for not posting in a while i’ve run out of ideas for the moment

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obsessed with this