#The Looming Tower

[poisonsome]

Wrenn Schmidt 🇺🇸

Still from The Looming Tower

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[jabberwocky1996]

Ella Rae Peck as Heather in Every Episode - Part 3 “Mistakes Were Made”

[vintagewarhol]

[elyalovi]

John O'Neil era el hombre que se suponía que iba a salvar a América, pero nadie escuchó. La serie Theloomingtower cuenta su historia y cómo desde que el FBI trató de evitar la tragedia del 9/11.

[dekaohtoura]

[proverbialschoolmarm]

[sawmoose]

Pizza tower drawings for you

[thevividgreenmoss]

Did she realize she was speaking to a victim, and that I was her child? If she did, I couldn’t feel it. When I tried to tell her how her husband’s abuse had hurt me, she was incredulous. “But you were such a happy child,” she said.

Meanwhile, Fremlin acted quickly. He told my mother he would kill me if I ever went to the police, and wrote letters to my family, blaming me for the abuse. He described my nine-year-old self as a “homewrecker,” and said my family’s failure to intervene suggested they agreed with him. He also threatened retribution:

“Andrea invaded my bedroom for sexual adventure” — I had asked Fremlin the night the abuse took place if I could sleep in the spare bed in the room he shared with my mother — “ … for Andrea to say she was ‘scared’ is simply a lie … Andrea has brought ruin to two people who love each other … If the worst comes to worst I intend to go public. I will make available for publication a number of photographs, notably some taken at my cabin near Ottawa which are extremely eloquent … one of Andrea in my underwear shorts …”

(I’d forgotten about the photos until I read this letter. I was 11 when most of the pictures were taken.)

In spite of the letters and threats, my mother went back to Fremlin, and stayed with him until he died in 2013. She said that she had been “told too late,” she loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children, and make up for the failings of men. She was adamant that whatever had happened was between me and my stepfather. It had nothing to do with her.

I believe my mother answered her own question about the girl in the story. She didn’t tell her mother because she would rather die than risk her mother’s rejection.

Years passed. My father continued to have lunches with my mother, never mentioning me. I asked him about these lunches before he died. He told me I just never came up in their conversations. My siblings and parents carried on with their busy lives. I tried to forgive my mother and Fremlin and continued to visit them and the rest of my family. We all went back to acting as if nothing had happened. It was what we did.

Jesus fucking christ I had no idea about any of this my heart's breaking for this woman for the child she was...her mother turns out the mishima of white settler womanhood self-serving obsession with a victimhood that to some extent must exist yet pales at every point in comparison with the reality of those most deeply affected and traumatized by those whose colonizing endeavors you've aligned yourself with against the rest of the world whose cries for recognition support restitution are left unheeded even when it's your own fucking child that's the one crying it falls on uncomprehending ears too busy obsessing over one's perpetually wounded self-perception and inveterate desire for validation and attention and what passes for love from the people that you yourself have chosen to "love" the people you enable to whom you are accomplice with whom elaborate fantasies of wounded innocence built upon the bedrock of civilizational scale rape and genocidal murder are constructed...you see what people do to their own families their own children and you can never be surprised at what they'll do to those they've decided are not family whose children are decidedly not their 'own' either but rather immanent & imminent threats to be neutralized by hard labor or murder. They've been doing it all along

[elvenbeard]

🏳️‍🌈 Vince (& Kerry) at Night City Pride (7/10) 🏳️‍⚧️

Would you even still *need* to celebrate Pride in 2077? In a perfect world maybe not, at least not in the sense we need it now. But even if bigots wouldn't exist, it would still be a celebration of love and authenticity, embracing yourself and others, and remembering the fight past generations have fought to get there.

Vince spent a large part of his life hiding, then fighting and standing up for himself, then trying to find his place and acceptance - from others and from within. You can bet your ass he's gonna be there and celebrating, making up for all the years he couldn't, for a variety of reaaons... and finally with his new found family, too.

[godbinder]

I have nothing against bg3 really but it is extremely jarring to be like "I wonder what Tumblr thinks of my pal mystra who has a great relationship with my party, or my worstie Shar who was the bbeg for our 5+ year campaign" and getting exclusively bg3 results, which primarily make me wonder, respectively, "why is she so creepy" and "why is she nakey"

[psychiclounge]

dragons dogma 2 is gonna rule i downloaded the character creator and made my kinda empty headed looking tree of an arisen from ddda, saga, and i was going to make my oblivion dark brotherhood oc yvain as his pawn again when i saw the grizzled old catboy preset for the beastren and i was like. Oh shit . so now saga has a new pawn,

[jabberwocky1996]

Ella Rae Peck as Heather in Every Episode - Part 1 “Now It Begins”

[see-arcane]

The reason why La Morte Amoureuse is more sensual and explicit about sexuality is because it's French I think, they had different anxieties than the English-speaking world of the era, and while you could cause a scandal with your writing in 1830's France I'd be not as bad as in Victorian England.

I also recommend Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, though it's not about vampires. But the main heroine is a lot like Clarimonde, and she lives a life of a temporary space that lies parallel to society where normative rules don't apply, represented by women who were victims of scandal, including assault victims, divorcees, women separated or abandoned by husband/lover, or foreign women. I'd say post-blood-ceremony Mina also represents this kind of state, and Jonathan while initially frightened by this "unknown land" he chooses to follow her there if it comes to it.

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Thank you for the rec, friend

[elyalovi]

 La serie “The Looming Tower” está basada en el libro del mismo nombre –“La Torre elevada” en español – de Lawrence Wright, quien también participa como productor ejecutivo con Dan Futterman y Alex Gibney. El primer episodio es dirigido por el ganador del Oscar, Alex Gibeneys, un especialista en lo que documentales se trata. La experiencia de Gibneys en el género documental hace que “The Looming Tower” casi se sienta uno. Además, la serie se cuida bastante de no tener una mirada morbosa respecto a los actos terroristas que presenta como son el atentado contra una embajada estadounidense en 1998 y el atentado contra el navío de guerra USS Cole en Yemen. De ese modo, hace uso de imágenes de archivos para mostrar los eventos más trágicos en vez de reconstruirlos y también se vale de la sutilidad del preludio y/o las consecuencias. Por ejemplo, no vemos al bote impactar al USS Cole pero sí a un niño saludando desde el bote mientras que se acerca al buque. Tampoco vemos cómo los aviones impactan las torres, pero sí vemos el sacudón y la reacción de John O’Neil que se encontraba en la primera torre que fue impactada y después vemos a Robert Chesney  empolvado caminando en una Nueva York desierta. 

 La serie bien pudo haber prescindido del drama personal, pero está buscando que nos encariñemos con sus protagonistas sobre todo con John O’Neil (Jeff Daniels). La historia en la vida real de John O’Neil es fascinante y triste. Se trata de un héroe trágico y carismático que trabajó 25 años en el FBI, brilló como jefe antiterrorista, se especializó en investigar el terrorismo islámico y por su personalidad apasionada hacia amigos y enemigos a donde iba. Entre esos enemigos estaba sus propios jefes que lo obligaron a renunciar a su cargo. A la par de su trabajo, O’Neil tenía dos novias y una esposa, ninguna conocía de la existencia de la otra, y disfrutaba de la buena vida gastando en buena ropa y bares a donde llevaba a sus contactos para generar confianza y obtener datos. Recordado como “el hombre que sabía” o el “hombre que advirtió a América”, O’Neil se fue a trabajar como jefe de seguridad en el World Trade Center porque sabía que ambos edificios, emblemáticos de Nueva York, serían uno de los objetivos de los terroristas y no estuvo equivocado.

 

[dekaohtoura]

[arcann]

Honestly always trying to imagine a Leliana romance during inquisition and i get extremely excited by that idea