#((Don't!!! TALK!!! ABOUT!!! FIGHT CLUB!!!!))

[khenzye]

[inkognidamustdie]

what happens in fight club - stays in fight club

[earthiron]

[martyryo]

Doodle Request: Tyler & Jack The Narrator kissing and that would be Fight Club Yaoi

Most hormonal drawing ever

[justastupidlittlelesbian]

I love the contrast between fight club and the matrix because while fight club is all like "this generation is so mistreated everything sucks i hate this time i have to hit bottom for my life to mean something fuck 1999" the matrix says "oh yeah 1999 was the best year of your society, it's all downhill from there"

[j0ly0n]

autistic narrator headcanon is so good because that's literally what not knowing you're autistic does to a mf

[fungi-maestro]

Questionable Images 1/2 - The Question #8 (1987)

[scribbling-punk]

We Don't Talk About It - 12.

Lena is still drying her hair when Kara steps back out of the bedroom and she smiles at the natural wave of her black locks.

"Here you go," Kara said, handing over the clothes. "They should fit okay, maybe a little baggy.” She offers a tentative smile, unsure of how Lena will react to being in her apartment, and gestures towards her bedroom, “you can use my room to change if you’d like.”

Lena takes the clothes with a nod, her eyes briefly flickering up to meet Kara's. All of the oxygen seems to leave the room in an instant, Kara’s treacherous heart racing and leaving a vibration in her pulse points. She’s convinced that Lena feels the same way, but emerald eyes slip to the floor as Lena awkwardly clears her throat and steps around her, their shoulders almost touching, but not quite.

Kara watches as Lena disappears into the bedroom, her mind racing with thoughts of what could happen next. She busies herself with tidying up the living room, trying to distract herself from the nervous energy that pulses through her veins. The sound of the rain outside seems to grow louder, drowning out all other noise except for the occasional creak of the floorboards as Lena moves around in the bedroom.

Minutes seem to stretch into hours before Kara hears the soft rustling of fabric and what she thinks is the click of the bedroom door opening. She turns, expecting to see Lena standing there, but instead finds herself staring into an empty hallway.

"Lena?" Kara calls out. There was no response, only the continued patter of rain against the glass.

Curious, Kara steps toward the bedroom, her feet making little noise on the hardwood floor. She pauses as she reaches the doorway, her breath catching in her throat. Lena stands in front of the mirror, her back to Kara as she slowly buttons up the borrowed shirt.

The fabric clings to the curves that Kara herself doesn’t have, accentuating the delicate lines of her waist and hips. Kara's eyes linger on the sight, the air around her growing thick with tension and, perhaps, something else.

Read Chapter 12 of Fight Club AU early on Patreon.

Chapter 10 has now been added to AO3.

[dafukdidiwatch]

Pete, you and me would get along swimmingly

[silverselfshippingchaos]

so there's this character. i always thought he looked kinda stupid and i never found him attractive. but, uh....

... has he always been this handsome?!

[bubbajoevil]

I need to start a lesbian fight club immediately

[isthatacalzone]

fight club is a wild movie bc before you watch it all you hear is it's about fighting. maybe you know soap is important for some reason. it's apparently the ideal guys movie. but then you watch it and it's like. this movie is queer as shit. these mfs are gay as hell for each other. all the fighting is steeped in homoeroticism. but if you mention this to any film bro they get so angry about it.

[ananke-xiii]

Form and Void... and Hands and Hearts.

Intro.

Part II

Part III

I really like "Form od Void" from S11. It's one of my favorite episodes and it enrages me to no end that it was Andrew Dabb who wrote it. Sometimes a girl just wants to be a hater. But I don't have it in me :(.

Talking about H-A-T-E...

The episodes starts with this word:

H-a-t-e. It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-o-v-e. You see these fingers? They're arched. These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends -- the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. These fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warrin' and a-tuggin', one against the other. Now watch 'em. Old brother left hand -- left hand hates a-fightin'. And it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hot dog! Love's a-winnin'. Yes, siree. It's love that won. And old left-hand hate is down for the count.

This little monologue here is taken from "The Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton, his first and only movie. Laughton was bisexual and I'm telling you this because it's relevant to the usual queer stuff happening in SPN and to the point I want to make in this post.

The title of the episode, "Form and Void" , refers to the Genesis but it contains a meaningful omission. The King James version reads:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Earth is without form, and void. This changes everything because the subject of the sentence is the earth but here we're talking about "form and void" as nouns, not attributes. It's a brilliant call-back to the Genesis (therefore to the beginning of time and the beginning of SPN) and to the dichotomy of God and Amara but it's a smokescreen. The episode abounds with biblical references but there's more, at least to me. There is a secret.

If we look a little beyond Christianity the terms "form and void" are used in one of the most important sutras from Mahayana Buddhism. The Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya, "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom", or simply called "The Heart Sutra".

I think you know where I'm going with this. The heart of the Heart Sutra is the following: "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form". Sūnyatā is such a vast concept that I cannot possibly even IMAGINE to summarize it here. Just for the sake of my argument I'll say that it's often translated as emptiness, vacuity, void... without form. Very broadly (and I'll go to different kinds of Hell in different religions just talking about this stuff in relation to fucking CW Supernatural LOL) it means that ultimate reality is EMPTINESS because there is no FIXED reality, no STABLE self and EVERYTHING is connected and dependent on something else. Therefore form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

You undestand that in this light "Form and Void" is no dichotomy, thefore the episode is telling us to subvert how we view things. And it starts with that quote from "The Night of the Hunter".

Little useful background: the movie is about a fake preacher who preys on two children to get to their father's hidden treasure. He's the big wolf in disguise, a hunter wearing a preacher persona. So we need to take what he says with a grain of salt and he says a lot.

Right hand vs left hand: the preacher/hunter says that the right hand is the hand of love and the left hand is the hand of hate. This follow a well-know misconception regarding everything associated with the left as "sinister" and satanic. It's a Christian view of the world. He also says that Cain killed his brother using his left hand while the right hand has "veins that run straight to the soul of man". This man is conning people.

Notoriously, the hand that has veins that run to the heart is the left hand. This is the reason why people put their wedding rings on their left hand's...ring finger. It's an incredible old assumption that has been debunked by science but we don't care about science here. We care about symbols. And symbolically-speaking the left hand is the hand of the heart and love, not the right hand.

Now where in the hell does this idea of right and left hand? And am I crazy for seeing hints of Buddhism in a story about the Christian God? No.

The left-hand and right-hand paths are two approaches to magic and Western esotericism in general. They're called this way because people in the '800 got interested in Tantrism and translated the sanskrit terms "vāmācāra" and "dakṣiṇācāra" respectively "left-hand path" and "right-hand path". I'm not gonna go into details but I think you understood by now that the "left-hand path" was the "evil" one, the one with sex and other Very Bad Things, while the "right-hand path" was Good and Sexless and Serious and Real. In other words, the right hand represents White Magic and Controlled Sexuality while the left hand represents Black magic and Uncontrolled Sexuality. Practitioners of black magic were evil AND gay.

LOL.

Let's go back to the serial killer preacher: he says that Love wins and that it's the right hand that triumphs over the left hand. All these fingers connected to the soul that are always tugging and warring and getting entwined and hot dog! it's hot in here! But, remember folks, he's conning people. So what he says it's the opposite of what we should understand.

the preacher shouldn't be talking about this stuff in front of children. but then again, he's a predator.

Wait there's more: do you want to know if you're left-hemisphere dominant or right-hemishpere dominant? All you gotta do is to weave your fingers. If your right thumb goes over your left one then you're LEFT-dominant. If your left thumb goes over your right one you're RIGHT-dominant.

Confused much? As you know left emisphere controls controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing while right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills. It's the opposite of what we might think (because of the stupid assumption according to which left is Bad and Evil. Well, ACTUALLY left is rationality and control so the joke's on you, stupid assumption).

The dear preacher over here is right-hemisphere dominant. It may possibly mean that he's LEFT-handed and thus this image is a huge foreshadow of his "evilness" and his eventual demise. It also means that what he's saying is bullshit.

So to sum it up: in this episodes there are hunters and preachers that aren't really hunters and preachers, there are innocent children who might be seen not as innocent, left hand and right hand are subverted and they mean the opposite of what they should mean thus actually meaning what they mean, the title refers to something AND to something else and this something is very much related to hands and love and hearts...

In just one fucking scene we are told the whole episode and I H-A-T-E-that Dabb wrote it, have I mentioned it?

[mzannthropy]

The least important point about Chapter 9, but it seems LMM is no fan of late winter/early spring time. In AHOD she says it is the ugliest time of the year. (I don't mind it personally, but then, as someone who has spent a lot of time doing photography in the past decade, I can find beauty in the most unlikely things.)

Also if we're talking parallels with The Blue Castle, Uncle William is the nearest thing to Uncle Benjamin. He seems to be quite smart and his advice on letting Andrew have Jane and "don't let him see us annoyed and then he will stop" is actually sound; reminds me of when Uncle Benjamin said "just leave Doss be" after she married Barney. They might have the wrong reasons for it, but they are right. *shrug*

[edraculation]

i got a post pinned in a subreddit im in. this is the post

[gegengestalt]

One thing to know about me is that I'm a little bit annoying about Fight Club