#kathi thinks

[archiveofpiaandkathi]

Lying in bed, drinking tea, eating sweets, listening to bowie and browsing tumblr for fluff headcanons...

Realising that it is some sort of marauders coded...

[dandelionfool]

You and me, kid

[scholliski]

how did Riko gaslight everyone into calling him the son of exy? like sure Kevin might be but Riko?? that man’s literally a nephew of exy, not even the nephew, this is so embarrassing for him

[foxstens]

kevin was signed to the baltimore exy team before he broke his hand

[voidedjuice]

Some alternative outfits for Ethel

[g1rlr0b1n]

I like to think that no matter what it's hard to keep Jon and Damian apart.

Like they get grounded? They're going to find a way to sneak off and meet up with each other in secret.

So much so that that their parents just give up on separating the two as a punishment.

You can't separate it buy one get one free deal

Absolutely, they are joined at the hip!!! Gonna add to this and say even their friends have given up on keeping them apart. They are essentially one being and their friends jokingly treat them as such (romantic or platonic they even have a "couple name" with their friend group).

Maya: Hey Kathy, have you heard if DamiJon are coming to the party this weekend?

Kathy: They can't, Jon has to work so Damian is gonna stay home.

Colin: Geeze, you would think they're married! Can't they be apart for five minutes?!

Kathy: That would be impossible, they share one brain and it looks like Jon needs it tonight 🤣

[chelbea-art]

The goober gang. If I had things my way I would put them all on a team together lol. Damian leads. I can't come up with a an actual team name though :,) More on this later.

[razorsadness]

When other people I knew in grad school read Kathy Acker’s books they were shocked. Appalled. Particularly most of the budding young feminists. I actually began weeding out women friends by their reactions to her books. The ones that smiled and lowered their eyes with sly understanding and touched themselves, I kept. The ones that freaked out, well, they were idiots. Once I read a paragraph from Empire of the Senseless in my theory of gender class and one of the women began to cry and ran out and barfed. No shit. Pussy, I thought.

—Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis and Kathy Westmoreland. 70s.

[munchkinmanchkin]

Like if Singin' in the rain polyamory

[archiveofpiaandkathi]

If an Animagus dyes their hair, does that chance the fur, feather or skin colour of their animagus form too?

[ingravinoveritas]

Thinking about the photo from tonight, I almost wonder if Michael is feeling a bit self-conscious about his appearance at the moment--perhaps because of still getting over being sick this past week--and didn't want to be photographed because of that. (Especially not next to David, because we know how gorgeous Michael thinks he is.)

Which makes it even sweeter somehow that David took the picture with the poster, as if to say that he is a fan of Michael's no matter what and will take him any way he can get him...

[topnotchquark]

In the spirit of this quaint men-on-motorcycles-enthusiast blog I went to watch The Bikeriders and had my heart quietly broken by a slow but softly luminous movie. Something about men's expansive lives and how movement is ultimately the seed from which all freedom grows. When you see Tom Hardy's Johnny slowly strain and crack under the realization that something he created out of simpler desires is now turning into a hydra headed problem he can't seem to solve, you understand something about existing in a world where your need for belonging is a vulnerability that eventually gets you.

When he asks Austin Butler's Benny about taking over the gang from him he's submitting himself to someone he trusts. Their faces slowly coming together, closer and closer, in the dark with just the incandescent glow of the streetlamps on the edge of their faces, like burning paper. How Benny is too stubborn to understand that its not a favor being asked of him, but a declaration of something deeper from Johnny. What a beautiful narrative choice it was to have a woman recollect this entire story of this rag-tag group of men, who herself was affected by the atmosphere she found herself unable to get out of. I love that it works like a non-judgemental narration of how quickly boyhood bluster breaks down when real life circumstances get rough. How difficult it was for Johnny to keep the community together because he didn't expect it to be anything more than a quaint cosplay when he started it to escape boredom. At the end where Benny finally gets the news of Johnny's murder, something done to usurp his frayed authority, and he returns to Chicago and breaks down on Kathy's stoop, I found myself crying alongside him.

The movie was clearly a labour of love from someone who had deep fascination with the lives of these men and with motorcycles. Wild that a two wheeled liquid fuel powered machine has been the site of so many meditations on masculinity and rebellion and anger and power and authority. I don't know if I want to revisit it but I am glad I got to watch it in the time period of my life that my deep fascination with bikes and men's lives makes it so much more valuable to me.

[tummyhurts]

speaking of the bikeriders, every single scene austin is in he looks insane like INSANE insane but holy shit on my first watch when i first saw the cut to him immediately after kathy is almost assaulted, that slow pan up to his face, the music, the lighting, the way the camera stays on him for what felt like 5 hours in my head ohmy god that shit gave me butterflies and it affected me the exact same way when i saw it again and again like jesus christ austin butler you are perfect. AND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW FUCKING PRETTY HE LOOKS WHEN HE CRIES/TEARS UP WHAT????!?!,????????? the colour of his eyes omg. i can’t deal with him. i need months to recover from this and i Need him

[hwajin]

whenever i see videos of ppl talking about kpop concerts and how insane ppl act for them and the person making the video is like "and after all, they're just guys. like they're literally just men no need to go crazy" like no. like yes they're just guys but i need one of those guys in particular to thrust his hips INCHES away from my face or i will collapse and die of drought and hunger and heart break i need to see him UP CLOSE (the only tickets i will MAYBE get are the ones in the very back with the biggest luck ever)

[evermoving]

One thing that bothered me this season is how Kathy views what happened, because of this I don't like most of her lines in regards to this "you're so rich, mom wouldn't like this" and "you have so much I just wish you could get over not having Frank" but it wasn't really about him or not having him, and for Kathy to not get this- she doesn't seem to know how damaging all of it was for Deb, her trauma, every fucked up thing that she had to go through because of this and it makes me wanna scream she lost her baby sister! Her family! She lost her support system! Because of this she thinks nobody will ever want to stick around! Because of this she thinks people will always betray and leave her, so she betrays and leaves first!! I don't think Kathy's all to blame or unforgivable, and chances are she truly has little idea about how it was for Deb- it just leaves me wondering too because it makes sense that Deborah didn't really say anything back, she still can't be vulnerable like that, she still can't say true emotional things that easily, so I really hope this will be explored and fleshed out further in the series. I hope they give room for Deborah to finally open up, to acknowledge how this affects everything else in her life, and that in order to not only forgive and make space for Kathy but also to be in Kathy's life means they have to find a way together to amend this, to be honest about this thing, the anger won't go away until Deborah can say how much it hurt her and to realize that Kathy can't know unless she talks about it.