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Ig : /naomilacrespaa

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lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley

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coming back to a story with a canon f/f ship that gets categorized as "wholesome" and watching people say with their whole chests that two grown women cannot ever get back together because they argued bitterly ONE TIME over a deeply felt moral issue they had different information on--and both of them were, with the info they had, doing all in their power to do the right thing--even though both acknowledge they understand the other's pov and have compassion to build from to forgiveness is just WILD

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"And you'll have to watch it happen, watch your love for each other splinter and rot because of a cruel turn of the Wheel."

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me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly

me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It

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You are both adults. You may do as you wish. After all, it is not as though I asked your permission.

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This black and white photograph is all we have left of a large canvas by Otto Dix titled "The Trench," about his WW1 experience:

Why is the original canvas lost? Because the Nazis deemed it "degenerate art" and seized it. Degenerate for depicting "dark," material, for being about disturbed mental states and honest about the horrors of war.

And here's an example of the kind of kitsch art Nazis promoted:

Everyone had to be "healthy" "wholesome" "pure." Physically and mentally abled and perfect. Ideal little rosy-cheeked Aryan bitches frolicking in a field. Pure cinnamon rolls!

Looking at saccharine shit like this didn't make Nazis good people and -- people can enjoy fluff if they like, but it has no moral meaning and if they use their fictional preferences to hurt real people? They're the sick fucks.

THISSSSSS 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

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Snow, late at night, clutching the Lucy Gray tape:

On the one hand, Ralph Fiennes as a blond with curls sounds bizarre to me. Lightest I've ever seen his hair was in The English Patient? And it's still not full on blond there, more of a sandy brown. And he's got the baggage of Voldemort associations for younger audiences and probably costs a lot of $$$ rn.

On the OTHER hand -- he's starred in a fair number of tragic romances including, notably, starring as Heathcliff. So casting him as the 50something President Snow for SOTR would be something where the actor would know how to lean into the messy Gothic energy of it all as well as the big villain energy.

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Maybe if we were focusing too much on love and missing the point, just maybe, Suzanne wouldn't have made her big bad's ultimate descent into villainy a complete and utter rejection of romantic love.

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On the one hand, Ralph Fiennes as a blond with curls sounds bizarre to me. Lightest I've ever seen his hair was in The English Patient? And it's still not full on blond there, more of a sandy brown. And he's got the baggage of Voldemort associations for younger audiences and probably costs a lot of $$$ rn.

On the OTHER hand -- he's starred in a fair number of tragic romances including, notably, starring as Heathcliff. So casting him as the 50something President Snow for SOTR would be something where the actor would know how to lean into the messy Gothic energy of it all as well as the big villain energy.

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what if this caption was just the entire lyrics of one short day? That would be insane right?

I think a lot about how originally the emerald city was a sham and not green at all, but even L Frank Baum gave up on that idea because green city just much too cool (also he may have just entirely mentally checked out on the oz books who knows)

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Jef Bourgeau, 1950 Post-conceptual painter 

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CONCLAVE (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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It's even worse- Harris explained his policies and warned people about the danger he posed and they still voted for him or sat their asses at home. It's not just naive ignorance. It's sheer vicious pigheadness and bigotry or self-righteousness combined with willful ignorance.

Still can't believe the entire campaign relied on people not googling "Tariff" and spending like a minute to read the definiton. "I'm going to introduce tariffs" as a campaign promise is LITERALLY saying "I'm going make the price of things even higher than they already are, for you (usamerican)"

He literally won by telling people to their faces that he's going to make inflation worse. Joke country.

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Eclipse 🌘

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Third person can be really powerful for depicting the combination of someone's conscious and subconscious thoughts. An example of this that i really love is the first Jon Snow pov section in asoiaf

It's truly beautiful work. We have both what this child is telling himself (that he's fortunate to be a bastard) and what he's feeling (grief, despair, seeking solace in excessive drinking, tearing up and starting to cry).

First person I guess just doesn't strike me as more inherently intimate because of examples like this. Tbosas reminded me, in a good way, of that Jon pov scene. A kid lying to himself and then the evidence of what's really going on with him.

"Collins wrote tbosas in third person because she didn't want to get too deep inside that teen boy's disturbing mind!"

Quite the opposite, actually. Third person allows a writer to explore subconscious thoughts a character is having in addition to the ones they'd consciously admit to "I" having and that's important here because young Coriolanus' arc is a splintering of the self and a lot of lying to himself. Only telling the thoughts and feelings he's consciously acknowledging as "I" at any given moment would only tell, like, 1/3rd of the story.

For example, *after* the breakdown and attempted murder in the forest, still hurting and sick with the snakebite he thought she tried to kill him with, Collins writes him thinking this:

There's *no way* that he would, at that point in the story, admit to thinking this with a line like "I left the supplies in the hope that she might still be alive and use them to escape." Because he's lying to himself so hard. That she betrayed him and tried to kill him. That he's better off without love. But yet *he does think it* and act on it subconsciously.

And it's that part of him that tortures him for the rest of his life! So it's kind of important that we have the full picture, even though he's busy convincing himself he's fine and headed for a great life in the Capitol.

He's not. The ghost of Lucy Gray and the heart that loved her will never, ever, ever stay quiet.