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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

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if everyone in the world was always so niceys i'd totally dox myself and see who comes to hang out. alas there is evil in the world yet

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writing tip #3736:

it doesn't need to make sense it just needs to be cool as hell

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"Twilight vampires are stupid! Twilight vampires are for little girls!"

NO! LISTEN!!

Twilight vampires are a direct result of Purity Culture of the 90s and early 2000s, the AIDS crisis, and the War on Drugs.

Many vampires are prolonged feeders. Hell, the original literary babes like Carmilla and Dracula, feed many times from people, and those folks never went through any change besides anemia, potentially becoming obsessed with or enslaved to the vampire, or DEATH.

Not to say that some vampires in between don't have a one-and-done in biting and turning (My Best Friend is a Vampire [1988], Blacula [1972], My Babysitter’s a Vampire [2010]), but Twilight vampires truly do it with every aspect of these guys. Bella meets Edward ONE TIME and is obsessed with him, drawn to him. He seems to be her first love, and they end up getting married. They have sex THE NIGHT AFTER THEY WED, and BOOM, PREGNANT! True Love Waits, the organization that formed in 1993 with the aim of reducing premarital sex (some members even thought actually dating before marriage was towing the line), had its first Purity Ball only seven years before the novel came out. This is an important context to be looking at this media from!

This one bite thing is not a popular thing in vampire media in years since Twilight, many people seem to prefer the method of vampires swapping blood with their sires (True Blood [2009-14], Interview With the Vampire [2022-present], What We Do In The Shadows [2019-2024]). One of the inspirations for Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even has this method in place. But Twilight is in the age of D.A.R.E. where we gotta say, "Not even once!!"

These guys also really dig in on moral superiority of being "vegetarian." They are able to control their want to feed on humans, their LUST for blood, by feeding on animals. This is another product of purity culture! Vampires feeding has long been a metaphor for sex. They partake in a 'cleaner,' 'more moral' type of feeding, much like "soaking" or dating without engaging physically at all. Edward has been a good boy, basically his entire vampiric life, feeding on wild animals, and he constantly mentions that Bella even being close to him is a threat to her safety (and her mortal soul). This is straight-up purity culture nonsense!! Painting women as the gatekeepers of sex and pleasure, and men as wild monsters that seek to corrupt these delicate flowers.

Yeah, Twilight mainly appeals to teenage girls in terms of sincerely thinking that Edward or Jacob are good people worthy of being attracted to, but I think that the vampires in the franchise are incredibly fascinating in the wake of all of these important changes to how we as a culture view sex and sexuality! I've even seen cases made where these vampires are much closer to Mormon angels than vampires due to their diverse range of abilities and sparkly skin. These are bonkers versions of the vampire myth, but they are still important! All vampires ever are products of their time, and these sparkly, horny, guilt-ridden monsters are practically engineered for girls and women of the aughts, playing out the sexual and courting behaviors they have had shoved down their throats their entire sexual development.

Be nicer to the folks that like Twilight! And analyze your media!

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It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

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oh hamlet you are so transgender and asexual it's unreal

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“why can’t the queer community be all sunshine and rainbows and never ever disagree with each other!!! let people do what they want!!! stop the infighting!!!” <- thing that only gets said when lesbians and trans women are upset about something

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Per something @butchhamlet was saying on his blog about how Hamlet doesn’t necessarily need to be a teenager but needs to be treated like one (because of how much conflict is created by the infantilization of him in order to maintain his social role as ‘son of a king’ and keep people from thinking that maybe he should be the king)…

…I think that is a really good argument in favor of physically-disabled Hamlet. Much of that kind of infantilization later on can be explained by how mental illness is treated (alternately dangerous and childish, depending), but he’s treated like that well before his madness-related plans start and visibly-disabled adults getting treated like children (or getting ‘help’ they don’t want/need without asking for it) is soooo pervasive, it could make for a really compelling performance choice (because of course much as people joke about him being a hot mess, it is one of THE most respected roles in the English theatrical canon and the audience takes Hamlet very seriously even if the other characters often don’t).

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if one more person comments on my "we need to keep payphones/public phones" post with "what we need are free phone charging stations and wifi hotspots, like in new york!" i am going to lose my mind. what do you people not understand about "not everyone has a smartphone" and "phones can break". how are these new concepts.

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★ Hear evil, See evil, Warn of evil

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My proposal for a terrible and inconvenient piece of dual theatre

Basically when the pieces interact, the curtains open and the two plays become one. This would be awful to time and would probably suck mad shit, however I think I should be allowed to try and make it anyway

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all articles about tumblr’s “decline” boil down to 2 things: you can’t get famous on here and you can’t make money on here. And they don’t get that that’s why we like it here.

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live blogging your breakdown on tumblr then rb a random post

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just made the best non-looping gif i think

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