#perks in life

[frodo-a-gogo]

also final word on this probably- I *like* Joyce Messier a great deal as a character. I think she's cool and interesting. I find it fascinating that she tends to approach things very bluntly. the words she uses and the manner in which she analyzes things, this is sort of an instance of a character who knows exactly *what she is* and articulates it in a manner congruent with the writers of the game. she is, as she says wryly but honestly, "a bourgeois woman". i cant think of too many rich people who would without prompting and prodding, self identify with marxist social taxonomies in this way, even with a thin veil of ironic self deprecation. She's educated. she knows the words and the motivating logics of class analysis. and shes *cool*. harry picks that up. honesty is cool. bluntness is cool. cynicism is cool. she is quite open about her place in the world and how she conceives of it. unlike a lot of other powerful figures in the game, i dont think shes completely swallowed by self justifying rhetoric the way, say, sunday friend is. or she is up to a point. she knows about countercultural movements and she has affinities for them and is also aware that they inevitably are consumed by capital. (this, by the way, is kind of complex in that like. ok its a depressing reality but also i think if the de team was fully bought into that line of thinking, they would not make this game. it is telling that joyce of all people would critique cindy on the basis of capital subsuming revolutionary art. I dont think joyce is wrong per se, but i think she is drawn to that line of thinking because it is *very comforting for someone of her class position to dismiss the value and power of revolutionary art and critique of capital* just a thought) She's disgusting in that her power is not rightfully hers. her position is not rightfully hers. she is actively repressing and oppressing others in service of disgusting, semi-fascistic, hypercapitalist forces. shes enjoying the comforts and benefits that such a role allows her. shes disgusting shes frustrating shes profoundly arrogant (as her clash with evrart claire proves definitively). Her self satisfied idiocy is what allows her to play with fire and foolishly assume she cannot be burned. She's smart but her comfortable position puts the blinders on her and so she's also pretty fucking stupid. and shes also deeply deeply sad. I empathize. I pity her. She's so fucking sad. I don't think she is drawn to self medication and self destruction through constant pale exposure or all that rueful nostalgic rumination for no reason. She knows what she is to the world and she knows what she's doing and she's too cowardly and comfortable and self interested to change, but she's too self-aware to ignore it completely. I think she probably dislikes herself to some degree and i think its destroying her. Like most of the cast of the game, she's complex and deeply human. She's hateful, but I also think she is too well realized to hate, at least not for me.

[joshpeck]

just got my film back from my solo birthday roadtrip down the california coast :'-)

monterey / carmel-by-the-sea / big sur

[kozmicmizuu]

sanegiyuu once again hehe

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sanemi: GIYUU— DUMBASS PUT ON YOUR COAT BEFORE LEAVING

giyuu: oh- i’m fine..! i can handle the cold— not like i can feel much anyway-

sanemi: I DONT CARE

giyuu: ok then, whatever makes you happy :)

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housewife sanemi guys real

anyways, yes, giyuu really can’t feel the cold cause (in a previous post of mine) his nerves are just done. no more feeling in his arms and legs, so cold doesn’t really bother him anyway (hehe)

sanemi being the eldest child and overall VERY protective of any loved ones would still make giyuu wear some warm clothing.

giyuu doesn’t mind it, he thinks it’s sweet.

giyuu is also naturally messy, being that he’s oblivious and very much dense to social norms, he’s just a mess. also he grew up poor and was in the woods for like- most of his life, he don’t gaf

sanemi on the other hand, CANT STAND MESSES, he cleans up after giyuu or makes giyuu clean, no in between

the only pass giyuu gets it’s if he’s sick or just in ache cause having shot nerves usually means aches.

they love each other by beating each others ass in spars and acting like an old married couple

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[thinkingoffrancis]

oh to be able to read my favourite books for the first time again. or to view my favorite films the same way i did when i’d never even heard of the title or the actors before. or to hear my favourite songs like i did when they first were introduced to me. that is the dream.

[thehopefulquotes]

And if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[sunsetquotes]

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[wovi]

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perks of being a wallflower / a little life / matthias & maxime / frances ha / at a dinner party by amy levy

[thoughtkick]

And if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[quotefeeling]

And if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[apricote]

welcome to generation 2 of the baudelaire nightmare legacy challenge!

goals: complete the joke star + musical genius aspiration max the entertainer career max comedy, media production and guitar skills become at least a 2 star celebrity

[wasco]

maybe my friends can be the great loves of my life

seven - Taylor Swift // Dead Poets Society (dir. Peter Weir) // A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara // Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig // The Orange - Wendy Cope // Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (dir. John Hughes) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky // dedication on a bench // The Miseducation of Cameron Post (dir. Desiree Akhavan) // dorothea - Taylor Swift // Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) // Frances Ha (written by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower (dir. Stephen Chbosky) // The Long and Short of It - Richard Siken // The Goldfinch (dir. John Crowley) // Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers

[pratchettquotes]

It was said to be a wonder of the world, except that very few people around here ever wondered much about anything and were barely aware of the world.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

[xoxave]

let me have mutuals!!! (I FORGOT TO ADD LIFE IS STRANGE IN HERE BUT I LOVE LIS)

[clarkkantagain]

gabriel perks by jack junk

[perfectfeelings]

And if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[surqrised]

And if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky; The Perks of Being a Wallflower