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Roni Horn, Images from “Some Thames” series, 2000

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The Black Sisters

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https://pin.it/nIsmOGFNH added the kids🤍

oh my god

vega:

arcturus:

perseus:

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oh my god please talk about regcissy i’ve been thinking about them forever

the loneliest people in the black family!!!!! the spare and the youngest sister.. lowest in the family hierarchy.. seeking solace and comfort in each other.. the ones on the sidelines, the overlooked ones, the observers. and maybe it’s really about something else, reg projecting his obsession with his brother, narcissa projecting her obsession with her oldest sister.. or a way for them to feel like they’re in control, entering this god-awful affair as a delusion of agency or maybe it’s a power trip for them.. making them feel like blacks by possessing another black. seeking familial love and crossing the lines, wanting to feel desired like their siblings/cousins are desired….

it would be the most depressing affair in existence i think… wet and sloppy and pathetic, neither of them really being able to give the other what they want or need but not being able to let go of it anyway!!!! it’s the only place where they sort of actually feel like blacks.. ?? their only claim to the family name, having another member of the black family (each other) respect you/see you/want you/put you first. it’s the only place where they’re not on the sidelines…,,,,,

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ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENINGGGGGG

JUST BOOKED A FLIGHT TO SEE KARA IN AUGUST !!!!!!!!!!!

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“Mythos, in Greek,” said Borges, “is not a story that is false. It is a story that is more than true. Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight.”

Jorge Luis Borges, quoted by Jay Parini in Borges and Me

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i love your takes so much 🫶 i want to get into quillkiller but am so exhausted by how overlooked all wlw ships are in favour of mlm ones and can find so few headcanons for rita as a marauders era character:,) would you mind giving us an introduction to how you view her? house, background, blood status, personality, etc? 🙏

RITA SKEETER MASTERPOST

first off, here’s mine & kara’s rita character study-posts compiled:

— pinterest character study

— rita skeeter & womanhood

— rita & gilderoy academic/work rivals

— rita & the article (kara’s post)

— rita’s stint at the janus thickey war, post first war (kara’s post)

& rita-centered fics, mine & karas:

— quillkiller d/s dynamics microfic

— rita fantasises about killing bella microfic

— I Could Stare At Your Back All Day (quillkiller)

— crawl back to her (quillkiller)

— Bellatrix’s Obituary (quillkiller)

— The Ill-Advised Adventures of a Teacher’s Pet (ritaminerva)

kara’s

— We who stained the world with blood (quillkiller, and genuinely the quillkiller fic of all time)

— I’ll burn this house, I mean it (quillkiller)

— Where can I put it down (quillkiller, eight letters to bella while in azkaban, one is from rita and it’s so fucking brilliant. and so is the rest of the fic!!!!!)

— An inch away from more than just friends (quillkiller)

and finally, to the thesis:

background & blood status

rita lives with her grandmother!! im unsure where her parents are, if they’re dead or if they’re somewhere else. im flexible on the matter. but! her parents aren’t in her life. she’s a halfblood and from a working class family with one single mission: fame & success. she’s going to be a success story, from rags to riches, knows in her bones that it’s her god given right and that it’s meant for her. she’s been planning and scheming her entire life and she refuses to fail

house & academic life

i’ve seen some people putting her in slytherin, and honestly i’m not entirely against it, but to me she’ll always be a ravenclaw. i personally think slytherin!rita lacks nuance.. like it’s just not very interesting ?? she’s so ”bad and evil” so lets put her in slytherin.. yawn!! she’s an information-seeker first and foremost and she even made it into her entire career. is she also a bad person? yeah! a backstabbing bitch?? yeah!!!! the ravenclaw traits are thirst for knowledge, intellect, wit & creativity and i think that’s a perfect way to describe rita. she well and truly intends to change the world with her journalism/writing, thinking it’s genuinely what she was meant to do, her fate. even if she has to manipulate and cut corners. you know how jesse j said she believes god put her in the world to like change the world with her voice…. that’s rita. she has a god-complex like you wouldn’t believe

rita, to me, excels in the theoretical aspects of magic. history of magic, astronomy, herbology, etc. history of magic, i’d say, is her favorite class <- thirst for knowledge. she excels at the reading and/or writing, aka with her quill and paper. she lacks in the actually having to do magic-department. she’s weak at charms, transfiguration, defence against the dark arts, etc. she’s too methodical, perfectly capable of (eager to, even) learning everything there is to know about the spell she has to perform, which unfortunately results in her overthinking it. magic is flexible and sometimes unpredictable, rita is not. she’s also not willing to accept that her way of doing things might be the wrong way, so she’s not listening when teachers suggest another way of thinkint (or not thinking). she knows the spell better than anyone in the room damn it, it should work !!!!!!

she’s also very good at potions <3 not the top of her class (again, because she’s too methodical. remember half blood prince and his journal ?? and how he altered the recipes for a better result…?) but she is very decent in potions !

rita’s magic

i’ve always loved the idea of different like levels (?) of magic.. like some people are born with really strong magic, and some are born with weaker magic. just like how some are born squibs. squibs are still magical beings, but they don’t have magic. well! what if it’s not black and white like that. sort of how most blind people actually do have some degree of actual sight, but not enough not to be considered legally blind. some squibs have magic, but not enough not to be considered a squib!!! how much magic does hogwarts say you have to have !!!! can rich purebloods buy their way in anyway !!! interesting to me. sorry i got off track :/

i don’t necessarily think rita’s magic is weak, she is an animagus afterall, but i don’t think she’s very powerful !!! and that’s also part of the reason why doing magic doesn’t come naturally to her. she doesn’t have like. a strong connection to her magic, and that’s why she learns everything there is to know about magic. it does strengthen her bond to her own magic, but it’s also an obstacle because it makes her overthink. <- this is why she’s really good at potions, because it is magic, just not a spell she has to cast, and it requires her to be methodical. it’s also the reason she manages to become an animagus !!! it’s an incantation she has to cast, but it also demands an insane amount of preperation and knowledge

personlity & morals

people tend to think that bellatrix is the bad seed in the quillkiller pairing, but i 100% think it’s the other way around. that’s not to say that bella is a good person but i think people forget that there was a before azkaban / after azkaban. she wasn’t always that unhinged insane woman, and most importantly… she was just a girl once!!!! obviously i still think that bella was a strong-headed force of nature, but i think rita was the truly unhinged one when they were teenagers. bella had rules to follow and a house to represent and that matters to her. it still mattered to her when she became a death eater, which is why she wasn’t insane or evil-just-because during the first war, because she hadn’t been to azkaban. she would’ve hidden her darker morals before then, i think. nothing matters to rita as long as she gets ahead/gets what she wants, she’s got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

rita is an egotistical self centered woman with a god-complex the size of the universe, who’s certain her magnus opus is just around the corner. she’s also delusional.. her writing is MID !!!! again, because she’s too literal and methodical 😭 she’s manipulative and lives entirely by her own moral compass, by her own rules, thinking of herself as superior. she’s teacher’s pet because she has an agenda, your fake best friend (so she can get your secrets), the hottest girl in school if you’re not standing too close to her and a genuine man-hating dyke. she could never !!!! respect a man. she doesn’t respect anyone really because she thinks others are below her, but she sleeps with women because she wants them and with men if they have information she needs. she has a complex relationship with her own womanhood because she comes from nothing but intends to become everything, but she doesn’t have the resources. so she fakes it !! her make-up is a little too jarring and her outfit is from two seasons ago. she probably has an eating disorder if only because she hates that she needs to eat. she’s busy!!!! she doesn’t care for three meals a day and only eats when she’s near passing out lol. anyway she’s my girl

rita hasn’t met a line she isn’t willing to cross and it knocks her off her feet when bella takes the dark mark and rita realises she can’t join her, that she does have morals. it freaks her the fuck out and takes her completely by surprise, and most of all because bella went and did something without her, made this decision without her !! bella is meant to worship rita, to indulge her delusional god-complex. and now she’s gone and found herself someone else to devote herself to ???? making rita lose control over her, meaning bella isn’t hers anymore. it happened while rita wasn’t looking, bella slipping away from her and bella doing something that rita, for the first time, morally objects to. whereas rita is used to being the one having bella on a leash, having her follow her around, being the one who lacks morals. switcharoo!!!!! sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them. or whatever richard siken said

and that’s a wrap !!!! 🤍

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Diego Luna vs Gael García Bernal on Y tu mamá también 😂

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ISABELLE ADJANI as Anna POSSESSION dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981

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Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

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fucking up my friend’s youtube algorithm by listening to a metric ton of t swizz

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god I love when there are full-blown festivals for tomatoes or garlic or salmon. truly what we should all be getting together to celebrate

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Lake Michigan ripples, hypnotizing.

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so funny of dante to walk through hell and just make friendly small talk with the people being tortured there. watches people get literally torn limb from limb or something and turns to virgil like “hey you think we know anyone here?” dante you messy bitch

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my vocabulary is rapidly dwindling. "yay" is one of my default responses now

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im pregnant and its songs and albums #musichead #musiclover

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Enough with bedrotting and also enough with living your life through the veil of Routines and Habits. What u need is to live ur life like it’s a bizarre 1969 avante grade art film documenting the life of an 18th century poet and musician through abstract visual-poetic representations