confession: my main cultural touchstone for the 1978 blockbuster Jaws is the lemon demon song of the same name
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getting my gf to do her e shot by role-playing pulp fiction, where she's an OD'ing bitch that needs a shot in the ass
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ugh anthy is so good. nearly every single other story I've seen about a Mysterious and Tragic teenage girl has failed in some way either because the writer forgot to give the character complexity and an internal life, or because the tragic things in her life were far too aestheticized to have real teeth. anthy succeeds as a character largely because the whole story is dedicated to deconstructing an aestheticized view of her & her suffering, and also showing how that aestheticized view dehumanizes her and denies her agency. she is not a harmless victim or a beautifully agonized one - she is a teenage girl who is reacting in realistic, complex ways to a lifetime of crushing systemic abuses. and similarly, every teenage girl around her is also reacting in complex ways to their own suffering under patriarchy.
depiction of sad teenage girls often posit their pain as a natural phenomenon, something that is just intrinsic to girlhood. adding a layer of mystique onto them just further serves to obfuscate the sources of teen girl suffering. instead, teenage girl pain becomes palatable. consumable, even. #aesthetic. these depictions are unthreatening because, by their nature, they cannot depict societal issues in a way that would demand a restructuring of society. we can posit a familial tragedy but not a tragedy of the family structure. we can lament a beautifully mentally ill sufferer but not the systems of wellness and community that failed her. et cetera. nothing can ever hold up an uncomfortable mirror, only a flattering one.
revolutionary girl utena directly says that that idea is bullshit and that its teenage girls are suffering as a direct result of entrenched systematic oppression. and in that uncomfortable honesty, it's able to be WAY more authentically hopeful with its sad teenage girls. anthy is able to finally walk out of the society that trapped her and live freely of the image that was constructed around her! she can be a flawed human girl who is still going to be happy with her girlfriend! her victimhood is not eternal and does not mean she can never find happiness! A TEEN GIRL DOES NOT HAVE TO STAY IN A COFFIN IN ORDER TO DESERVE COMPASSION!!!!
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I will never stop thinking about this actually
The way she lines up their faces so they're two parts of one person. The slight fall in her smile when he doesn't understand. The way he moves the mirror so that he can see himself better because he's not looking at her he's looking at himself. I love you symbolism I love you motifs and themes I love you clever cinematography I love you hatai
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welcome, dc fans. planning to post something in the kon-el tag? i have a challenge for you: you must state three facts about kon-el, without mentioning either tim drake or lex luthor. (for bonus points, you can't mention young justice in general, either.) if you can't, the saw trap goes off, so choose wisely. your time starts... now.
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I have this headcanon that Elain kinda sucks with animals at first, bc it would be so funny and cute for her to be so eager to approach them but like scaring them off a little or not being able to read their physical language and Lucien just showing her how to get close to a horse and helping her feed them with his broad hands, making her blush as she feels his fingers gliding through hers.
Or showing her how to make owls and ravens and all types of wild birds approach her and not be scared of her, and then when she gets the hang of it (after a quite a few tries) they just simply love her and they start surrounding her like the disney princess she is.
I was literally writing this and I remembered where it all came from:
Good night
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