#Deah

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

it feels true to life that the martínez family is consumed for these girls' story, both in the wilderness and irl, like we know already who survives, only three of those people are of color, and one of them is dead for nat's story while on our present, and it's like with travis death their very souls all end up being consumed, who will remember travis like nat did, and who will remember travis like javi did, so now who can travis be without nat and the girls and the wilderness? travis has no identity without javi or his father or. mother because what kid fucking does,? not. completely not without conditions or parts of ourselves smashed with the lessons of the world built by that unit, his rage was so.obvious, so easy, trying to distance himself from. his family to be someone by himself, someone away from flex, a teenage struggle well known to everyone, to be someone that doesn't feel shaped entirely by those around us, is it hormones? is it that our society and community can't be enough? is it that simply is human to travel? to adventure? to experiment with the self? to have the the opportunity to break into a million pieces and still be... something, someone?

but... his coming of age, his next universe stunted by the wilderness, his next world is built on gutting all of that off from his heart, so that it can be nat's and the wilderness's, to be able to acquiesce to the society chosen by the girls who make the wilderness' power a reality by the power of storytelling, and specifically through the heads of the pack, nat, van, misty, shauna, taissa, lottie.... of them... nat is truly his perdition, she who doubted, she who runs, she who is loved by travis, his last doubts fade to her radiance and his love, and so he literally destroys his brother's remains for a life with her, an identity forged for them, the king of nat the queen, united in heart and hearth forever, and all it took was this brown family as an offering to the land, like i said, consumed for the story to take place, no adults, no hearts of old are allowed, just the things built out there like nat and travis kingdom

im not sure if it's intentional but it is a mirror of life how often brown families get consumed for white womanhood to rise to power, but simply for white hegemony to break away traditional structures that don't belong to a globalized white supremacist world and that separate families to the point of no return but even so a simple desire to participate in the comforts of capital usually means cutting parts of one self to achieve a certain, white, ideal, like the nuclear family in commercials, i think yellowjackets could benefit with some delving into propaganda and media and civilization vs life proper (van is right there), but what im. trying to say is that modern life asks of brown and black families to mold themselves into whiteness to fit in, and maybe the current hegemony asks that of all of us, because nat too has to break herself and the love she bears for javi and travis to acquiesce to that white womanhood that rises in strength as the story goes, and like maybe it was accidental. i. dont think the writers see the imbalance in how many white girls survived and how many girls of color will die and have done so already, but regardless, accidental or not, that story doesn't belong entirely to white society either so maybe they stumbled upon it, because it's the story of how we manage to belong to the world, by understanding which parts of us go with other people and which parts get cut off for not being able to do so as well

idk what the wilderness does represent truly, because it is not meant to be just nature or one thing in particular if you ask me, the. ambiguity has been the point, and with that in mind there's something there that speaks of its form belonging to the observer, which means that maybe, as audience who observes too, we get to see different things there too, and for me a lot has to do with acquiescing to and preserving human life wherever we are because that's human, we want to love and live, our nourishment isn't just hearth but the warmth in the story of the hearth too, stories as this motivators to live; what greater motivators than the love of life itself as seen in the hearts of others, and this society, this modern world we live in, the ones they inhabit, it's a society that has put white womanhood as the face of all the stories, nat is given to these myths as not herself but as the tool of the group and the wilderness, but it's misty, another white woman, that affirms the violence that the group gets more comfortable with, it's been said, but it's another woman of color, a black girl, akilah, who shows restraint in the face of violence as well as travis who does try to save nat but we don't know if he would have saved anyone else the same save his own brother, interestingly enough he gets crowned king as does travis by the love nat and travis bear each other, he too was doomed always by the poison that drips through their love, with his brother's raw heart he reaffirms his commitment to this society, that maybe it's ours, the only way to belong, the wilderness knows, is by breaking the bonds before like shauna with jackie like misty with kristen, like travis with javi, and in. contrast to them, mari who i don't think was ever to have depth has been calling for violence for a while, so like a really interesting collection of opinions we did get when it came to cannibalism, but they all paled before the strength of the girls that survived because the season already showed us that when it came to opinions, the core yellowjackets' will reigns whole, but it's in the story they build in their hearts a story tied with religious awe and belief, in turn tying them to the wilderness, a wilderness that i think, finds strength in that union. and the ability for its will to be enforced seamlessly with the face of chance and accident, and with this i wonder did the wilderness teach us to break to bond and survive, or did it teach itself that didactic cruelty from us?

[repressionrepresentation]

Ren sayang, what are your thoughts on cesare & micheletto?

only on s1, so haven't gone through their full relationship again. But so far, there's a lot of unfailing loyalty and discussing methods of assaination together. if that isn't courtship, i don't know what is.

[markedbyindecision]

holy fuck that heat vision/krypton flashback was so good. oh my god i got shivers

[vulcariusdafurry]

Why does the cold and crooked claw of death grasp so unkindly?

That it may take one with such life and promise?

Why does life and death live in parlay? That the grass could live forever but one could die in an instant?

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

i love u deah 💕❤️💕

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

[duskenharmony]

Soon...

[silencethroughts]

I don't have the strength to continue fighting...

[arthropooda]

[gael-garcia]

The Handmaiden (2016) || Monster (2023)

idea from @dandelionandkrindle!

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

i may need to talk to a therapist about it cause i still can't let go if nerds going THE MAZE WAS TOO EASY TO SOLVE like the point flew over the head of so many nerds, like they don't say it twice in the show, first the little girl to the man in the black and second when arnold tells dolores she has built her a maze, the maze isn't for humans, like idk why people thought the mystery was the point of the show when the emotional journey itself and the acting olympics are what matters, fuck by the time we're told this tale, it has been happening for a while, dolores kept waking herself up even without the reveries, it just speedran it for many of the other hosts, but the story itself is so beautiful because it's written not even to us as an entertainment audience but one that can coexist with the kind is heralding, the one awakened by the story of grief and pain and love that the first season 1, the damn thing is an ode to stories and the self, and being able to contextualize oneself against cycles of suffering like im gonna fucking explode, the maze isn't meant for you or me, not if we cannot find ourselves becoming them, like maybe the distancing happened naturally because this society tends to other everyone but in this case, their parents are humans, those are our children, aren't our vices, hopes, dreams, cruelties, griefs, there too?

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

@shesnake

it is. quite literally. all about antlers and knives and horror and love

[markedbyindecision]

kara zor-el danvers u r so full of repressed anger

[holly-mckenzie]

“I will not fight you,” Princess Meria told Rhaenys, “nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king. Tell your brother that.”

“I shall,” Rhaenys replied, “but we will come again, Princess, and the next time we shall come with fire and blood.”

“Your words,” said Princess Meria. “Ours are Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. You may burn us, my lady…but you will not bend us, break us, or make us bow. This is Dorne. You are not wanted here. Return at your peril.”

Thus queen and princess parted, and Dorne remained unconquered.

FIRE & BLOOD | Aegon's Conquest

[akajustmerry]

dgmw I love obi wan kenobi but it's so insane to me how people will act like he suffered the MOST out of any star wars character. as if Anakin "born into chattel slavery and only freed by space cops who essentially abducted him and forced him to abandon his mother and then later punished him for trying to save her" Skywalker is not literally his padawan. it makes me feel insane how little Anakin's origins as a slave born into chattel slavery is acknowledged by the fandom or even by the current Star Wars storytelling. AND I would go so far as to say that this dismissal of Anakin's slave trauma is related to how society at large is conditioned not to take slavery seriously because of anti-Black racism and a systemic desire by colonial governments to frame slavery as something that has no lasting effect and as something firmly in the past or happening elsewhere. Like, Anakin's whole personhood was taken from him violently and systemically by slavery, then by the jedi, then by the sith. and youse wanna tell me that fucking obi wan or that little middle class incel kylo have suffered anything remotely close? please.

[knightleyfans]

Keira Knightley for Vogue, June 2024.

[weirdlookindog]

Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972) - Totengericht (Judgment of the Dead)