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NI NI for theBallroom, January & February 2023

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Andor 2.10 - Make It Stop

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Andor Appreciation Day 2 - Everyone Has Their Own Rebellion

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No but the Hunger Games really said "what do you hate more- the atrocities or the people who commit them against you? Because like it or not there IS a difference. If you hate the people who commit acts of pure evil more than you hate the acts themselves, what will stop you from becoming just like your enemies in your pursuit of justice? What will keep you from commiting those very same acts against THEM when the opportunity arises? And what then? The cycle of pain and suffering will never stop. Round and round it'll go. Nothing will ever change. But. BUT. If you hate the atrocities. If you hate the vile, senseless acts MORE than you hate the people who did them to you. If you are able to see that evil is evil regardless of who does it... The cycle ends with you. No, you may never get justice. But you will never be responsible for making others, even your enemies, suffer the same crimes you have. The atrocities will never be committed by you, never by your hand. And that's the way you change the world. It's the ONLY way" and that's why I am sure it will never stop being one of the most relevant works of fiction ever created

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some people just have no true appreciation for terrible women. oh she killed and ate people? well maybe she was hungry. "I cant defend her anymore-" well then fucking stand aside so i can talk to my client

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Interview with the Vampire 1.05 | 2.05

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and obviously you find yourself thinking oh i do wish i could get severed to do this one thing. would you actually maybe not. but you do wish you didn't have to undergo medical procedures you do wish you didn't have to do the things that give you anxiety you do wish you didn't have to do tedious tasks that barely even require you to be present for them. it's tempting. that's why the premise works. but the premise is also that somebody has to do it. somebody has to go to the dentist and somebody has to get on that plane and somebody has to write those thank you notes. just like somebody has to clean the house and somebody has to harvest the food you eat and somebody has to make the clothes you wear. you can't eliminate inconvenience you can only delegate it. you can't eliminate suffering you can only delegate it. and always the easiest way to live with this is to see that somebody as less than. less than you less than people. and if that somebody has to wear your body to do it well maybe it's not all that different. they're not a person. you are. it's capitalism all the way down baby

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YELLOWJACKETS 3.04: 12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis

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"Buried", Not a girl, Ashe Vernon//Death of Sappho (1881), Miguel Carbonell Selva//Vengeance is Sworn (1851), Francesco Hayez//Plainwater, Anne Carson//The Unequal Marriage (detail), Vasili Pukirev (editor unknown)//Vesuvius, Amber Sparks//Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974), Toshiya Fujita//Furious, Jade Bird//Lady Snowblood (1973), dir. Toshiya Fujita//David Foster Wallace//Mitski//Ira V Simon//Candle Clock Aflame, Takato Yamamoto//Tjawangwa Dema//Emily Carey and Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon//safia elhillohome is not a country; “haitham”//Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror, Rebecca Harknis-Cross//Kill Bill vol.1 (2003), Quentin Tarantino

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lestat + piano

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YELLOWJACKETS 3.06 // 3.07

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I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.

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SEVERANCE season 1 finale / season 2 finale

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they’re growing on me

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Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen as Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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oh so you thought existing only to perform a soulless office job was bad. how about existing only to go to the dentist. how about existing only in planes. how about existing only to perform stupid and repetitive yet socially expected tasks. how about existing only to withstand every unpleasant thing that somebody else decided to go without