#emily st. james

[filmsoftheflesh]

Emily St. James on Frankenstein, specifically the 1931 James Whale movie, in Queer for Fear: the History of Queer Horror episode two.

[okaydyke]

"But what it [Little Green Men] does best is remind viewers that this isn't a show about aliens as much as it is a show about our need to believe in something lest the night become too dark and terrifying. There's so much darkness in the night sky, but there are also so many stars. And maybe one of them is looking back at us."

Emily St. James in Monsters of the Week: The Complete Companion to The X-Files

[judgingbooksbycovers]

LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series

By Emily St. James and Noel Murray.

[13lizardsinatrenchcoat]

"The powerful want to say that we are entering a dangerous new era where ‘people disliking things en masse’ has coalesced into some kind of crowdsourced [weapon], firing on arbitrary targets from orbit and vaporizing their reputations...The use of mass social sanction gives the less powerful a weapon against the more powerful, so long as they can mobilize loudly and persistently. This is not new. Shame and laughter are vital tools for freedom...

like all weapons, it will do the most damage when aimed at the least defended, the isolated, those with no one to stand up for them, publicly or privately. And we must be careful with the temptation to use it inside our own houses to destroy shapes we think are intruders.”

Isabell Fall, author of Helicopter Story, from the article How Twitter Can Ruin a life by Emily St. James

[pablolf]

“We don’t listen to children. We treat children as manifestly inferior to adults. We give them less rights,” says Gill-Peterson. “We make them economically and politically dependent on adults. We put them in dangerous and vulnerable situations all the time. They have no control or participation in authoring the world they live in, the schools they go to, the doctor’s offices they visit, the adults they’re left alone with. And then we say they’re incapable of knowing anything. Therefore, they have no ability to hold adults to account. That’s a very disturbing way to treat a group of people.”

What’s so scary about a transgender child?

[brightgnosis]

After she checked out of the hospital, Isabel Fall ceased to be Isabel Fall. “I had a few other stories in the works on similar themes, and I withdrew them; that is the most concrete thing I can say that I stopped doing,” Fall says. “More abstractly, more emotionally, I have stopped trying to believe I am a woman or to work towards womanness. If other people want to put markings on my gender-sphere and decide what I am, fine, let them. It’s not worth fighting.”

Isabel Fall was on a path to living as an out trans woman with a career writing science fiction, and now, she says, there will be no more Isabel Fall stories. She is done writing under that name, and she now considers “Isabel Fall” an impossible goal to achieve, a person she will never be.

“I don’t know what I meant to do as Isabel,” she says. “I know [that publishing “Attack Helicopter”] was an important test for myself, sort of a peer review of my own womannness. I think I tried to open a door and it was closed from the other side because I did not look the right shape to pass through it.”

Trans people — trans women, especially — can find their first few steps as themselves in public particularly stressful. That stress is why it’s so often important for us to have safe ways to explore who we are, under whatever veil of anonymity we can concoct for ourselves. When we’re behind that veil, we can divorce ourselves from the identities we were assigned at birth, at least a little bit. To have that veil punctured is a great violence, and Isabel Fall had her veil punctured.

Every day, the person who might have been Isabel Fall sees friends who tore down her story and speculated on her true motivations and identity go on with their lives. They are not stuck in the events of January 2020, like she is. These friends don’t know who she is. Probably. She doesn’t know how to talk to them about it, and to confront anyone about their role in the chaos would require outing herself. She says only one person has reached out to apologize, via Clarke.

[jessmmariano]

A list of reasons why Rory Gilmore is a good person and not the shallow, manipulative person people make her out to be:

Took full responsibility for breaking Paris’s project and offered to help her fix it despite Paris being only rude to her at this point

Didn’t tell anyone that Paris had to take her cousin to the Chilton formal despite Paris taunting Rory/saying Rory couldn’t get a date

Told Paris that she could talk to her if she ever needed anyone to talk to despite the fact that Paris had just exposed Lorelai and Max kissing to the whole school

Encouraged Tristan to ask out Paris because she knew Paris had feelings for him

Helped Paris get ready for her date with Tristan and allowed her to borrow her mother’s clothes

Reassured her mother several times about her relationship with Max

Agreed to a coming out party because it made her grandmother happy

Helped Paris study numerous times despite Paris almost always antagonizing her

Gave Jess a chance and was nice to him when the rest of the town despised him. She even vouched for him/defended him often.

Took partial responsibility for the car accident with Jess instead of letting him take the entire blame, which the entire town was doing (and she reassured Luke as well).

Dyed Lane’s hair and then also then dyed it again after Lane freaked out (and she even left the Kim house through the window so that Mrs. Kim wouldn’t see her)

Agreed to go with her grandfather to visit Yale to make him happy even though she didn’t really want to and was only interested in Harvard

Apologized to Dean after their break up and took full responsibility for the problems in their relationship (even though it wasn’t all her fault).

Took time out of her busy end of the year schedule (when she was dealing with finals and being valedictorian) to help her grandmother pick out an outfit for her graduation

Went back to Kyle’s house the day after the disastrous party to get Lane’s heavily stained backpack and deliver it to her

Was always super supportive to her friends (Lane with her band, Paris with academics, Lorelai with the Inn, all of them about their relationships, etc.)

Helped her mother throw a baby shower for Sookie (albeit they never got to have said shower).

Took care of Logan when he in the hospital and after even though he hadn’t been the best boyfriend at this point.

Always encouraged Dean to pursue his dreams/passions and told him he could do what he put his mind to.

Anyways this is all I can think of off the top of my head but stop saying Rory Gilmore is a terrible person. Yes, she made mistakes, but everyone does lol

[reputayswift]

GILMORE GIRLS CHARACTERS as TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS ( insp x x )

[westofessos]

I’m watching season one of Gilmore Girls and every time Emily shows a little bit of growth, and she and Lorelai start getting along, it just hurts so bad because this is what we could’ve had! A slow, beautiful growth of a complicated character who goes from being selfish and manipulative and controlling to understanding and someone who listens when people speak. And it just. . . never happens. She never grows, never changes. It really sucks. That character arc could’ve been one for the ages. Best of all time. Damn.

[okaydyke]

As long as the show exists, X-Files fans will be tentatively saying to fellow fans, "I really love 'Small Potatoes,' " and then, with a rush of smiles and shared memories, they'll hear in return: "I do too."

Emily St. James in Monsters of the Week: The Complete Companion to The X-Files

[lovealwayssay]

I’m re-watching Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life and I’m realizing why I didn’t like it the first time I watched it. The whole plot doesn’t make sense for the time period. All the things, sans Richard’s death and Sookie being gone, don’t make sense for 10 years after the finale, they make sense for the characters at their season 7 ages. Lorelai and Luke shouldn’t have waited 10 years to discuss kids and marriage, that should have been a season 7 plot. Rory shouldn’t be wandering from home to home and sleeping with an engaged Logan at 32, she should be doing that at 22/23. Jess shouldn’t still be waiting for Rory, they should have figured it by now. Their character development should have continued through the ten years, not gone stagnant.

[randomperson1234sblog]

[pablolf]

The mistake I see a lot of new critics making is to assume that if they don't like a thing, then its existence was some sort of accident, rather than a series of deliberate choices by the artist that led to the thing they disliked. It's far easier to decide that you know better than the artist, that they are here to listen to you about where they failed, than it is to consider that the choices they made are just not choices that spoke to you. To be clear and to repeat myself slightly: You do not have to like those choices. You do have to engage with them. You have to take the work seriously on some level, even if you're going to write an excoriating review of it. Otherwise, you just end up being mean. Being mean can be fun in short bursts for every critic – god knows I've written mean reviews – but it's ultimately a dead end. Once you're too far down that road, you box yourself in to a jeering self-certainty.

You are not smarter than the art you critique

[loving1sabelle]

Rory before Yale is my inspiration fr