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Night Walk - Charlotte Sorapure

British, b.1968 -

Oil on linen , 76 x 61 cm .

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blah blah something about trauma coping or whatever

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I was 12 years old in 2011.... you could NEVER make me hate stomp clap hey music

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got another code red moment for us... :/

please actually reblog this post this time, as this one will gut national parks for more fucking paper. we have 14 days to stop it, giving us literally no time to do so.

they are literally betting on us to not do anything about it, because they're that desperate on keeping control, and ruining lives for everyone, but themselves.

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Ideas are cooking for my pride outfit.

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It’s so structurally important and thematically loaded that chronologically we have the scene where Armand describes and reveals his past as a child sex slave to Louis, in which he praises his maker for being “merciful” in the same breath tht he describes that sometimes his maker forced him to have sex with his adult friends when he was a child which Armand considered warranted since he was purchased to provide those skills after all (!?) and this was the price he had to pay for the mercy he was given —immediately proceeding and directly leading into the scene where Armand berates and threatens Claudia because she refuses to endure “fifteen minutes of degradation” a day and should be more grateful and recognize the mercy she is being afforded

And then people take this scene and go “yeah Armand is the perpetrator of racial violence and he upholds those systems because he’s like a horrible racist” like even when the show is saying look at how Armand is a victim of racial violence and genuinely believes that the only way to survive within these systems of oppression is to endure them and not fight the injustice because it will only make it worse and he’s trying to teach this lesson to Claudia because he genuinely believes that by thinking she deserves any better then the minimal amount of abuse she has to take for a guaranteed life of safety that she is being insane and looking a gift horse in the mouth for no reason. Like the point is that Armand is so horrifically traumatized that he can’t even begin to conceptualize the reality that abuse is never warranted and it’s actually incredibly reasonable for someone to decide that they deserve better then to be put through degrading acts and humiliation no matter how “good” they have it.

He’s not the oppressor in this situation 😭 pinning the blame of racism onto the literal former slave who has been victimized for so long and so brutally that he can’t even envision the possibility of a better life is missing the point I feel. Like Armand is definitely not a good guy but he is not meant to represent “the oppressor”. What would the show even be trying to say if he was. He’s not Lestat he’s not a white abuser 😭 can we use our brains

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Absolutely in love with the way The Bright Sessions balances humour and darker, more serious topics.

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I am the vampire Madeleine Eparvier. And my immortal companion is Claudia. My coven is Claudia.

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when amadeo broke down marius' door in tva

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armand blending up a dinner for 2 <33

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Portrait study of Armand

I tried to emulate a traditional style, using the process of Tiziano Vecellio and other italian Renaissance painters. Well, I tried lmao

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Uhhhh Louis’s transformation I guess

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if i chose to (but I prolly wont) I could right on essay on the parallels bw Utah's LDS culture and the way langauge is used in Babel by RF Kuang. Like... there's so much. In how other languages are celebrated as resources, things to use, but for the explicit purpose of maintaining a specific cultural hegemony. (Mormonism in Utah and British Imperialism in Babel). There's so much there.

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Im so pro-drop core

*disappears but my clothes just stay floating because they're morphologically rich*

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Stephen Vollo (American) - Strainer, Paintings: Oil on Canvas on Panel

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luke in the styx

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.