#therese

[literalite]

treat me right, i'm still a good man's daughter

[tomicscomics]

10/27/2023

Another quote from "Story of a Soul"!

And so ends our little October of the Little Flower... but St. Thérèse will return!

JOKE-OGRAPHY: This cartoon is based, one more time, on a passage from "Story of a Soul", St. Thérèse's autobiography.  In the book, Thérèse responds to her father by saying that, if he entered politics, he'd be made king, but be miserable, so she's glad he doesn't.  In the cartoon, I've used those same lines but made it seem like she's debating with herself.  Holding one opinion very strongly, then talking yourself into the opposite opinion, is larious of the absolute HIGHEST order.  HIGH-larious.

[sersh]

Maya Hawke in the music video for Sweet Tooth

[lesbianremu]

i am a “i don’t know how, but i’m taller” “sleeping off the growing pains” “i can’t believe childhood is over” “i don’t believe in that stuff anymore” “if only you had seen what you know now then” “you’re still an innocent” “i miss everything” “you know you’ll always know me” “before i learned civility, i use to scream ferociously” “i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” “and i was catching my breath” “i rewind the type, but all it does is pause” “and i’m still a believer, and i don’t know why” “the end is here” “it’s like the tide going out... it can’t be stopped” “i’ll stop it” “if i were a girl in a book this would all be so easy” “and though i can’t recall your face, i still got love for you” “and i woke up in my childhood bed” “romanticise a quiet life, there’s no place like my room” “wishing i was someone else” “so i got wasted like all my potential” “fell behind all my classmates and i ended up here” “all your closets of backlogged dreams” “she reminds me of memories” “to be certain, we’ll be tall again” 

[golddustdykes]

x cishet men dni x

[nicotinaddict]

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Stolas Has A Blandanthy Problem

If anyone who is a fan of the Canadian comic strip, "For Better Or Worse", you would understand what I am talking about. It was a long running comic strip focusing Patterson family a usual sitcom family consisting of the typical nuclear family stuff. However, unlike many other comics they did age the characters where we see the parents become 30 somethings to 50 something grandparents. The children go from toddlers to preteens to teens to finally adults who get married with children of their own. As a result, the kids eventually get love lives of their own as well. Here comes in Anthony or as the detractors call him "Blandthony".

Anthony was the high school boyfriend of the middle child and oldest daughter, Elizabeth Patterson, during the later strip years he got focus on the one who would definitely get together with Elizabeth. But as you can see from my argument this would be looked on as cringe and in hindsight have many similarities with the forced Stolitz ship.

Just like both, the series establishes Stolas and Anthony as childhood sweethearts/friends of the main characters in order to emphasize how they would truly be together in the end and young love revived again. For Stolas and Blitzo, it's really a forced retcon in contrast with the latter how established it was from the beginning. But it's all the same thing which is your first love should be your only love and you can ignore the rest who were side steps (even if you have better chemistry).

Also both parties would drift apart and end up with spouses they really don't like. In the case of Anthony like Stolas with Stella, he would end up with a French-Canadian woman named Therese who is presented as a thorn in Elizabeth and Anthony's relationship not so different from Stella when it comes to Stolitz.

Just like Stella, Therese was never given any nuance or redeeming characters just so she represented everything the author hated in a woman. She was meant to be again an obstacle that both end game pairs were to come and just a tool for drama, but never her own character.They were even used as an excuse to make the male intended character more "sympathetic". As a result, many fans were disappointed that the creators used such lazy characterization to move an end game ship.

Also both Stolas and Anthony have a daughter who is meant to give them good daddy points. However, due to the bad writing surrounding them they could instead come off as neglectful or self-centered in their desires with their children. With Stolas, despite the narrative often telling us he's a good dad he's often shown to neglect her in favor of trying to get in Blitzo's pants and Octavia having to forgive whenever he falters. With Anthony, it's the fact he wanted a child and pressured his wife into it under the promise he would take care of her. Despite emphasizing how Anthony is being presented as as the one doing all the parenting, it never dawns on it that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to have a child with someone who as reluctant to have children and again expect to drop everything to raise her when it was your idea in the first place. Both daughters are used to bring them together with their love interests further due to both having either a connection with kids or their own daughter. Again these kids are tools for the narrative and not their own people.

There is also the narrative's focus on the constant wangsting about the titular creator's pet problems over bigger issues that other people have. For instance, in context for Anthony in this scene he's driving Elizabeth after she had been assaulted by her co-worker, but the narrative can focus on is his marriage problems when Elizabeth tells him that she doesn't want to be a homewrecker and he retorts he has no home. Again despite trying to make him into a uwu nice guy he comes off as self-centered and only interested in his problems than his supposed love interest and a lot of issues with him are because of his own damn fault. The same thing with Stolas the narrative tries it's hardest to make him sympathetic but all it ends up is making him look so pathetic and self-pitying when a lot of issues are self-inflicted and despite saying he truly loves Blitzo he actually comes off as trying to flick true responsibility for what he's done like extorting him for sex and the narrative switches blame to Blitzo when he rejects hsi advances. Instead of them coming off as sympathetic it's more like whiny babies who can't understand other people's problems that are not their own.

And again emphasized again how despite the narrative tries to make the hated spouse so hated it ended up with fans emphasizing with them because it made the other sympathetic guy look worse or showing that maybe they weren't the only contributing to the marriage's dysfunction. With Therese, the narrative basically shames her for getting post-partum syndrome and Anthony doesn't do shit to comfort her and just pities himself. The same thing with Stolas and Stella who the latter never gets considered in the fact that she as well is saddled in this loveless and forced situation, but nope she's just a one dimensional obstacle for Stolas to overcome and eventually conqueror just like Anthony with Therese.

And again the narratives does everything it can to treat what they did (cheating) as if it wasn't bad. For Anthony, it treats his emotional affair with Elizabeth as okay because they are the destined pair. While with Stolas they treat him cheating as Stella okay, because they did everything to demonize her into a bitchy witch. Also again it treats Blitzo as the right one for him and that Stella is an obstacle to overcome to get his deserved ending. Again instead of letting the narratives let them own up to their issues it instead just lets them be innocent angels incapable of doing wrong

All in all Stolitz and Elizabeth x Anthony are an example of author favoritism infecting a story's quality that it derails good storylines and potential for characters. Also despite the intended endgame getting talked about it ends up just turning people away when you realize the intended isn't as good as they are played up as. Both pairings really lack good chemistry and it is shown with the way everything about them feel forced instead of natural. As a result, just like Anthony and Elizabeth when they finally get together everyone will be just fed up.

[astral-ii]

When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.

[sexystevebuscemi]

one thing about. having my best friend die before her time. I'm not afraid of being corny or feeling weird abt telling my friends I love them too often. Im more open about my feelings towards people now. Because I'm never sure if my last words to someone will be something trivial or if they'll die before knowing how much I love them.

Therese died right after I left her on read when she asked for my Netflix password. It's dumb but I'll never forgive myself for not responding to her and making excuses about work or the holidays or whatever. She died before I ever got to hug her or kiss her cheek or treat her to ice cream or any of the shopping sprees and smoke seshes we imagined together.

[strangertheories]

Maya knows her target audience and I love her for that.

Now go stream Sweet Tooth!

[tomicscomics]

09/30/2022

Happy (almost) feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the most remarkably unremarkable saint!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: Also known as St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, she's another young female saint, but unlike some of the others I've done cartoons about, she didn't torture herself, fast herself to death, or get murdered for her beliefs.  Apparently, Thérèse led a very normal life, though she died young of tuberculosis.  She was an emotional little girl who was eventually inspired to join a convent, and while she was much younger than was normally allowed, her persistence got her accepted.  Her dedication to showing love in the smallest details of everyday life has led some to say that she, more than many lofty theologians, rediscovered the Gospel, and in the simplest way.

[chickenbutts-posts]

When i first heard 'Therese' by Maya Hawke I thought she was saying "it's just her ass" not "its just Therese". So i assumed the song was about the ongoing debate on women's bodies, ("it's tactless...it's a test") the oversexualization of women, and how we view a woman showing her god given body as some sort of temptation or plea for attention when truly its just a person's body ("it's just her ass"), which I guess isn't too far from the song's intended meaning.

[gwenstrikesagain]

maya hawke - therese tour

washington dc - night one

photographs by me

performance of ‘to love a boy’ by maya hawke

[ivarthebadbitch]

The princess doesn't seem to appreciate your valor. You saved our city. Please allow me to demonstrate my gratitude.

(requested by @myrcnahlaedige)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Luitpold Maximilian Ludwig Karl, Hereditary Prince of Bavaria and Princess Irmingard Maria Therese José Cäcilia Adelheid Michaela Antonia Adelgunde of Bavaria

German vintage postcard

[poetrylovinglesbian]

i’m just gonna leave this here