#old georgia

[onceuponatown]

Atlanta penitentiary, Georgia 1900. 

[pamietniko]

Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

[purpletrashcans]

I am so fucking annoyed and here is why

I recently made the discovery that i'm probably aromantic and i would like to do what i did when i discoverd that i'm trans which is go and watch/read everything that even has the tiniest bit of trans representation in it, but i can't because there is no aromantic representation

now obviously that's nothing new, i was aware of this problem before and it pissed me right off then as much as it does now

it’s honestly just such bullshit that whenever there is an asexual character in media, basically the first thing they say after coming out as ace is that "they still want to fall in love" like not wanting, not being able to feel romantic love, would make them less human or something like that and of course there are ace people who are not aro, i'm not saying that and i'm not trying to shit on anybodys identity, if you are ace and not aro you are just as valid as anybody else and this lack of aro rep is obviously not your fault, we also need more ace rep while we're on it, that's not the point i'm trying to make, what i mean is that media always tells us that romance makes us human and if you don’t experience that you are either immature, unstable or not human and that's just bullshit

also it is no wonder that when i told my grandma about Loveless by Alice Oseman and how much i love this book, she was worried that i was like Georgia because i never like anyone romantically, she has never heard of aromanticism before, when she thinks of adult people that have never been in a relationship and don't have children she thinks of lonely, sad people and she doesn't want that for me

it is no wonder that when i see my greataunt and -uncle once a year they ask if i have a partner and when i say that no, i don't have a partner, they tell me that i have time and i'll meet someone eventually

and it is no wonder that so, so many people think that they're broken, that they enter relationships and situations that they don't want to be in, that fucking therapist try to cure people, that it took me 21 years, almost losing my friends, actually losing 8 kg in two months do to disordered eating and reading Loveless two times to figure out that i might just be aro, when there is barely any representation whatsoever, when most people haven't even heard of aromanticism

we need more representation and we need it desperately, that way not only will aro people discover their identity sooner and safe themselves a whole lot of trouble, but allo people can also learn how to react to someone being aro and we can all learn that being aro isn't sad or inhumane or weird or lonely

and because i'm a fancy-schmancy college student (who wrote "collage" instead of "college" first because i can not spell)(and have watched too much criminal minds) i would like to end this with a quote by Mariah Wright Edelman (tho the quotes are the worst part of criminal minds, they are so cringe istg):

“You can’t be what you can’t see”

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[ingravinoveritas]

I personally think its disgusting of what she posted yet again its all about her and she the reason why micheal keeps trending 4th day oh please he was trending for days before she came in the picture. And for someone who has no career and basically living off her parter who works so hard and been ill with virus the last few days and haven't been able to perform and she post this. Taking the credit for something that has nothing to do with her. He very grateful that she keep him grounded what that suppose to mean ? He was doing better before she came in the picture since he been with her his career have been slowed a little and she probably the reason for it

What do u say ?

Oh, boy. I saw this a little while ago, and all I could think was that the bar is so low at this point--like halfway between the fourth and fifth circles of Hell--and this still somehow falls short.

I know there has been a lot of talk about the t-shirt Anna is wearing (which was a gift from a fan at the stage door of Nye), but for me, the t-shirt is the least concerning part of all this. It's a reference to a quote from Staged (it's the title of a season 1 episode, in fact), and I am sure Michael found it funny. The only problem is that without the context of why it's a joke, it actually just isn't that funny. And it sets the stage for everything else that is happening.

Which brings me to the caption she wrote, which was what primarily caught my attention. The reason Michael is currently trending on Twitter (X, whatever we're calling it) is because of the overwhelmingly positive response to The Assembly, which aired last Friday night. He is receiving a tremendous amount of praise for being on the show, how he spoke to the interviewers, and the respectful and joyous atmosphere that was cultivated on the show. And rather than allude to any of that--not to mention Michael being sick recently, or the trip they went on to Disneyland Paris--Anna made Michael trending on Twitter about her.

That is what stands out to me the most. The idea of "keeping him grounded" that is coming across more like kicking someone when he is already down. That he somehow needs that, and that she would have us believe he is "grateful" to her for, what...comparing him to a loud bird? Repeatedly making fun of his looks and interests without a shred of respect or affection behind it? I'm also confused by the implication (and the irony) that Michael somehow has a large ego that needs to be kept in check when she is the one coming across as self-involved in this Insta story. So, yes. I'm at a bit of loss here.

I just keep thinking of the things she could have said instead. How she could have uplifted Michael, wished him well on returning to the stage tonight after several days' absence, said how she was glad to have spent time with him or taken care of him while he was ill. Just something that would give him a reason to hold his head high. But I guess it might just be easier to convince herself/everyone else that he is smiling if his head is hanging down instead.

I am just glad Michael is out performing again tonight and getting to be on stage and do the thing he truly loves to do. But those are my thoughts, and I'd be glad to hear from my followers about what you think, regardless of whether you agree or disagree...

[vintage-tigre]

American singer-songwriter, actress, model, and mother of Cher - Georgia Holt. c.1950s

[silentagecinema]

1920s ladies: georgia hale as georgia in the gold rush (1925)

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Georgia O’Keeffe

Yousuf Karsh, 1956

“I decided to photograph her as another friend had described her: ‘Georgia, her pure profile calm, clear; her sleek black hair drawn swiftly back into a tight knot at the nape of her neck; the strong white hands, touching and lifting everything, even the boiled eggs, as if they were living things - sensitive slow-moving hands, coming out of the black and white, always this black and white.’  This portrait hangs in her Abiquiu home, now a museum operated by the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.”

[theborzoiarebackintown]

Sharing is caring etc. etc.

[skateisawesome]

i wish i was good at words so i could express the love i have for all of the characters in loveless

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton, Bud Jamison, and Harley Wood Mooching Through Georgia - 1939

[postcard-from-the-past]

German film actress Georgia Lind on a vintage postcard

[sourcherryandsprinkles]

Hi how are you ? I was thinking if you could do a fic with dialogue 8: ‘’You don’t have to tell me what happened if you don’t want to, but I want you to know that I’m here for you.’’ with Marcus Baker.

Thank you

Have a good day <3

I drew a lot of inspiration from Nessa Barrett’s music for this one. When I think of mental health and all of that darkness, her songs are what come in mind. I relate to her music a lot - especially Dying on the inside, Lovebombs, Talk to myself and Die first. Check her out <3

Warnings: talk of self-harm and depression, dark thoughts, mention of grief/death

—

You met Marcus at your therapist’s office building. Although you didn’t have the same doctor, you were there, in the waiting room, at the same hour every Tuesday afternoon.

He was sitting on the chair opposing yours, his eyes more often on you than the phone he was holding in his hands. You didn’t notice, too busy picking at a thread on your hoodie. Therapy sessions were difficult and anxiety-inducing.

‘’Cool shirt.’’

You snapped out of your thoughts and lifted your head to see who was talking to you. The boy before you had a soft smile on his lips and was looking at you, helping you figure it was him who spoke. You thought he was just complimenting your shirt, but your eyes fell on his hoodie and saw there was a cat too — well, cats.

A psychotherapy office wasn’t in the top places to flirt — or even fall in love —, but you did. They say you fall in love at the most unexpected moments. You and Marcus were the proof of that.

After a few weeks of small talk in the waiting room, you exchanged numbers and made plans to meet outside the psychotherapy offices building.

You texted everyday and met a few times on the weekend. You felt good in his presence and with the way he was smiling around you, you were hoping he felt the same. Marcus took you to Blue Farm for coffee and showed you his favorite park to skateboard…and drink at night. He left that part out though.

On your third visit in Wellsberry, you finally asked the delicate question. ‘’Why are you seeing Dr. Kelly?’’

Marcus’s eyes filled with tears and you regretted asking. ‘’My…my best friend died last year,’’ he said with difficulty and a heavy heart. ‘’He had cancer.’’

‘’I’m sorry. I should not have asked.’’

He shook his head in quick dismissal. ‘’It’s fine.’’

It wasn’t. His eyes were glassy and he was forcing a tight-lipped smile.

You reached out and pulled him into a hug, wishing you could take all of his pain away. Unfortunately, it didn’t work that way. You could feel his shoulders slump and you tightened your hold, rubbing his back in a comforting manner.

Marcus kissed you that afternoon. Right before you got on your bus home.

*

The following Tuesday, Marcus invited you over to his house after your therapy sessions. He snuck you in while his parents and sister were out to avoid them bombarding you with questions. Especially Max. She was a little much sometimes.

You were pleased to find out that Marcus was a multi-genre artist. He could draw and paint — as seen on his walls and the scattered papers on his drawing table —, play guitar, piano and harmonica.

‘’Is that…me?’’ you asked, seeing a graphite drawing of a girl sunken cheeks on the open sketchbook.

‘’No…’’ he lied, stepping in front of the sketchbook to block your view.

‘’When did you do this?’’

‘’On Saturday after you left.’’

You stepped over to him, grabbing the front pocket of Marcus’s hoodie and looking up. ‘’Why?’’

‘’Because I missed you,’’ he explained simply, biting a smile and looking absolutely adorable.

*

Although you had been smiling a little more lately, the darkness inside your head was still there. You tried writing in your journal the way Dr. Lily had advised you to, but the words on the paper were so heavy and dark that they scared you. You checked the time on your phone — 1am. Dr. Lily had told you to call her at any time if you needed, but your trembling fingers dialed another number.

After a few rings, a sleepy and groggy voice answered. ‘’Hello?’’

You bit your lip, already regretting calling him. ‘’I'm sorry for bothering you in the middle of the night—’’

‘’I was just resting my eyes,’’ Marcus brushed off, whispering so he wouldn’t wake his mom or sister. ‘’Is everything okay?’’ he asked, his voice of genuine concern. ‘’You don’t have to tell me what happened if you don’t want to, but I want you to know that I’m here for you.’’

Just by seeing your name on his phone screen in the middle of the night, Marcus knew you weren’t okay. But he wanted you to tell him.

‘’I don’t know.’’ You looked down at your sleeve-covered wrists, knowing what was hidden underneath, and shook your head. ‘’No. No, I’m really not okay.’’ The words burned as they left your lips. ‘’I called you so I wouldn't hurt myself.’’

It was your first time telling Marcus about your self-harm. It’s not a subject you slip between two laughs or bring up casually during a coffee date at Blue Farm.

You heard Marcus drawing a breath on the other side. He was cursing the distance between your houses and the time of the night, wishing he could get to you. His motorcycle was in the garage, but if his parents knew he had snuck out to dive to the neighboring town in the middle of the night, he would be grounded for months.

Right now, all he could do was listen to you on the phone.

‘’I'm glad you did.’’

*

Meeting Max did not go the way Marcus would have liked. She had found Marcus’s phone on the counter — he must’ve left it there by accident — and snooped through his messages. She had been suspecting that her brother was hiding something from her, and she was right. Invading Marcus’s privacy however, was wrong.

When you and Marcus came in an hour later, expecting to come home to an empty house, Max was sitting on the couch like a mom waiting for her kids who snuck out to a party. His smile fell when he saw his sister, his eyes mimicking the ones of a deer caught in headlights. Shit. What was she doing there?

‘’Hello, brother.’’ 

‘’S-shouldn’t you be at Ginny’s?’’

‘’I was on my way, but I saw your phone on the counter and what I found was much more entertaining.’’ She threw the device at Marcus and he caught it before it hit the floor. 

‘’You went through my phone?’’ he asked, outraged that Max had invaded his privacy like that. 

She ignored him and continued. ‘’Wait until I tell mom and dad what you've been up to. What you’ve been hiding from them.’’ The brunette glances at you over Marcus’s shoulder, giving you a nasty eye. ‘’Does mom know about her? She didn't pay for this expensive therapist outside town so you could flirt with the other patients and charm them to get in their pants. You really have no self control, you feral cat.’’ 

‘’Who I see and date is none of your business,’’ Marcus hissed in defense. ‘’So what if my phone was on the counter. It didn’t give you the right to go through it. You don’t understand boundaries.’’

’’And you don’t understand how terrified I was when I read that my brother thought of dying.‘‘ 

The mood suddenly turned.

The words had slipped from her mouth and she immediately regretted them.

You shifted your eyes to Marcus and saw colors draining from his face. You had never seen him this pale before. You almost thought he was going to pass out.

Was this why he was seeing Dr. Kelly? Because he was suicidal?

‘’The messages you sent to Lucas, I saw them. I've read them — all.’’

A tear slipped from Marcus’s eyes and Max continued, revealing more secrets she shouldn't have known of.

‘’One evening, Mom told me to come and get you for dinner, but when I came into your room, you were sleeping. You had left your phone open and I thought I was going to find some weird porn, but what I found was much darker.’’ Max paused, blinking tears as old emotions hit her. “I wanted to tell Mom and Dad, but I knew it would crush them so I kept my mouth shut. I’ve been keeping this secret, this burden, since that day and it’s so hard knowing that my twin brother was thinking of taking his own life. Every once in a while, I go to Lucas’ contact and see if you’ve sent him anything. I was doing that today, but I saw a girl I didn’t know had sent you a text and I ended up reading some of the messages.’’

Without knowing much about her, you quickly tagged Max as the kind of person who made everything about herself. She was allowed to be scared and worry for Marcus, but what about Marcus' pain? Did she think of how much he must be hurting if he thought about the option of dying?

Your heart kept breaking and aching.

''Marcus, I’m sorry, I—’’ Max started with tears running down her face. She stepped in her brother’s direction, asking for his forgiveness, but you stepped in and you blocked the way.

Right now, Marcus needed space.

‘’I think you should go,’’ you said to Max, speaking up for the first time.

Max opened her mouth to speak again, probably to tell you to ‘mind your business’ or ‘this is not your house, you don’t get to tell me to leave’, but she looked at Marcus, assessing the damage she had done, and retracted. 

*

On Tuesday, Marcus didn’t come to his next therapy appointment. You texted him to ask why he wasn’t there, but he didn’t respond.

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[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

To be fair to Michael Sheen, if I had my own TV show I’d write in a pointless bisexual polycule scene that had no bearing on the plot too

[shebpaw]

These tags made me laugh because I grew up in Atlanta, GA sorta-suburbia and when I learned Warrior cats kinda also takes place in a similar setting I went "yeah"

[ingravinoveritas]

So al was asking ppl to ask her questions as her Fridays are so dull while her partner doing a play. Doesn't she find when she wiv michael it dull cos usually shows it or the other way round and then the bird one I found interesting cos since when have we seen Ms be protective over Al we haven't seen him speak or defend his relationship of what the journalists or ppl say about his relationship of what was said on weds where she defended it and and put a insta story about it we all know he loud but protective I think if he had to choose to protect or save someone it would be david hands down not al

What ur thoughts love to hear ur take on this

(Grouping together for ease of answering. @hyperfixating-rn-brb's Ask is referring to the last screenshot.)

So, I saw this as it was happening on Friday, and...yeah. I'm not sure what the impetus behind this random Insta AMA was (perhaps PR suggesting that Anna do something to counter her rash of recent off-putting social media posts?), but whatever the reason, choices™ were definitely made with some of (well, most of) her answers.

I think what struck me about the ones in these screenshots is how they’re lowkey insulting to Michael, but all in different ways (and not overtly, but passive-aggressively, as hyperfixating-rn-brb mentioned). It also seems odd that AL is currently in London, one of the most dynamic and attraction-filled cities imaginable, yet acting as if there is nothing to do on a Friday night. (Because Michael (and/or Georgia) aren't there to entertain her, I guess?)

Leaving that aside, the entire way this happened was just strange. A lot of the questions felt very boilerplate ("Are you currently reading anything?" "Who is your biggest inspiration?") and almost like they were planned in advance (I think at least one actually was from someone AL knows personally, IIRC), yet interspersed with enough "wacky" questions to give the impression of it being this spontaneous Q&A thing.

As for the answers in the screenshots above, I saw people on Twitter getting outraged over the "girly" question on Saturday, but predictably for all the wrong reasons. In particular, I noticed people once again blaming Michael/David shippers for it, but just from the wording alone, my feeling was that whoever sent in this question did not seem to be a shipper at all. "Girly" has a very specific, borderline homophobic connotation to it (akin to someone asking Anna if she "acts dykey" around Georgia), and while I know English is not her first language, I don't think that meaning is something AL would have missed.

So, no, it's certainly not a great or appropriate question by any means. But the bigger issue, at least in my opinion, wasn't so much "Why would someone ask this?", but rather "Why would she post this?" Because Anna is a grown woman who could have very easily just ignored this question altogether. Instead, she chose to draw attention to it, and to react in much the same way as her "vagueblogging" from the other day. It was as if the purpose in sharing it was to show people what she has to "put up with"--either from the fans or from Michael or both.

That's the other piece of this--that she shared this question with seemingly no regard for how it makes Michael look, or whether it would or could be embarrassing to him. It immediately made me think of this tweet from Michael two years ago, where he chose to answer a question in such a way as to deliberately not embarrass David (further explanation can be found here). It's something that seems so small but means so much, and that you'd think would happen effortlessly for someone you love. So the contrast of that to Anna posting this was striking to me, and it was further compounded by her answer to the "favorite bird" question.

Again, it's almost unsurprising at this point. Anna has previously made unflattering comparisons between Michael and Cousin Itt, a Hobbit, and Hagrid--among others--and now we can add a cockatiel to this list. What’s weird is that the question itself had nothing to do with Michael, so there was absolutely no reason to bring him into it...and yet. It felt like name dropping for the sake of name dropping, which just seems like a weird thing to do when she's been dating him for five years now. Did she think we forgot? That we needed a reminder? Whatever the reason, this definitely seemed like such a strange choice, and another instance of passive-aggressively putting him down under the pretense of a compliment.

(A note about the "protective" part, as I noticed that was particularly mentioned in this Ask. I would agree that there are a lot more overt/visible instances of Michael being protective of David--many of which I have talked about on my blog--than of Anna. That does not mean I don't think he is protective of her, however, but that there is a distinction between the two. It is possible to be protective of someone out of a sense of responsibility and obligation, and those are not necessarily bad things. But it's very different to being protective of someone not because you feel like you have to be protective, but because you want to be. Interpret that how you will...)

Finally, I just need to mention that one of the questions AL was asked was about Georgia ("Is Georgia secretly holding you hostage?"), and what I have hardly seen anyone talking about is that Georgia reshared that Insta story a short while later...and added a song called "I'm Trapped"...

I just...was this meant to be shady on Georgia's part? Who, exactly, is "trapped" here? The subtext and potential implications can go in so many directions here that it's hard to know where to start, but...yeah. The optics of Georgia resharing this story and adding that song in the middle of AL's Insta Q&A were and are questionable/cringey/unintentionally hilarious on multiple levels.

So yes, that is my take on the events of Friday night. As I've said before and will again, I know I could be totally off the mark here, so I'd love to hear from my followers as to what you think. Thank you for writing in! x