#IT'S LIKE A RECLAMATION

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Body back, body back, body back | BODY BACK

CW: suicide

At first, they just stare at each other. The man’s got the same look in his eye—something gilt, something feral, an identical fear in his mouth. Harrison blinks hard, and the man does too—not a man, actually, but his own reflection.

He approaches the mirror, jolts at the way he touches his reflection—more carefully than he’s ever been touched before. Who are you? he wants to say. He’d like to leave this place now, the club, Las Vegas, the earth. He’d like to buy himself a pet tarantula, run off a cliffside, eat a tub of ice cream with his bare hands. Why did he come here again? His mind is so quiet. This could be peace. But who is he? In Jeremiah’s bathroom he knew, but now there’s this stranger ahead of him, the person who must be him—someone's chandelier earring grazing his jaw, the cowboy hat lopsided, mascara running down his cheeks even though he hasn’t cried. Where did you go? he mouths, but he knows. He’s disappeared also like Jesus in the tomb, his limbs vanishing one by one, his skin melting off his hands—body gone, body gone, body gone. He grabs his cheeks, panicked because he’s on fire, gold tossed into the crucible. He’s going to burn to ash. He’s going to need a burial soon. His face has been stolen, his breastbone and knuckles too. A month ago, someone spat him into a basket like his body was ripe for the offertory—body gone, body gone, body gone.

“Back,” Harrison says, nose grazing the spattered mirror. His chest swells, and maybe he is burning, and maybe he’s right here, hidden somewhere in the pinprick of his reflection. “Back,” he repeats. He isn’t thoughtful. He isn’t profound. Maybe that’s fine. He squeezes his tear-duct, sticks out his tongue. He’ll die eventually, let his body disappear, but not right now. “Body back, body back, body back.”

A TITLE DROP???

[coquelicoq]

it's about...longevity? stability? it's about natsume believing he'll be somewhere long enough to plant flowers and see them bloom. it's about him taking touko seriously when she asks him to tell her what flowers he wants to plant. it's about making something with his own hands, building a future with the fujiwaras. it's about him repairing a rundown home for someone else, restoring it because it's beloved to them, because it's the home of someone they love. it's about him seeing touko's joy and thinking about the youkai saying we'd like to look upon her happy face forever. it's about the box garden making him think of the fujiwaras' garden and his parents' garden, about the flowers being both the memory of flowers that bloomed there before, and the flowers that he and the youkai planted earlier that day. it's about him waking up in both worlds with sensei. it's about touko finding the petal in his hair. it's about him feeling how he falls short and the youkai saying, but you have such gentle hands...

[starjunkyard]

Watching a vid essay about the rampant transphobia in house md and its so funny bc every house fan on here a faggot. Like house will gleefully list off several slurs without provocation in a single episode and i will be like "wow thats actually so fucked up. Surely gay people are rightfully outraged over this" and then i log onto tumblr and see hilson fucking super sweaty yaoi nastystyle & house with pre op man boobies on the same dash page without even scrolling

[txttletale]

like, i think that neon white is obviously gunning for the 'embrace your inner cringe' ethos, but it doesn't work for me because my cringe middle school self wasn't drawing edgy half-demon half-vampire anime twinks with 100 belts, she was sneering at those people for not understanding that Real Art was writing a 10,000 word dictionary for your conlang for your fantasy world thats Like DND But Better (twice as many types of elves and the roman empire is there)

[dlartistanon]

"Irreplacable"

[lildoodlenoodle]

To add on to slang/social norms Noir misses out on is the term ‘punk’. In the 1930s and WW2, ‘punk’ was a term used kinda similarly to how twink used to be used, but typically a lot more derogatory. Point is Noir hears someone call Hobie spider-punk or refer to the spider band as a bunch of punks once and he blue screens/starts throwing shit.

[halemerry]

I just. What do you think was going through his mind when his car exploded into pieces in front of him and the piece that landed next to him was a hand crank? Like the world was ending around him, he'd just gone through the rollercoaster of losing and then finding his angel again, and from the burning bones of the Bentley fate offers him an echo of the same object he'd once been given divinely. What did it feel like to reach for a souvenir and find that object given to him in this new context? What did it feel like to use that again in this moment of once again offering the fate of humanity up to the choice of one it's own? To be able to hold this thing, born again from a human made object, and say this time I am going to use it to give them the opportunity to choose their own fate?

[jack-kellys]

here’s a short history video about black cowboys, of whom were the original cowboys along with mexican vaqueros in the southwest of america.

just something to think abt when considering artsy city jack kelly “vs” cowboy jack kelly..

anyway happy black history month

[deservedgrace]

"Why would you say 'oh my god' if you don't believe in god you clearly secretly believe in him HAH checkmate atheist!!!" I grew up in a sect where saying that was considered taking the lord's name in vain and a very serious sin, at best I am blaspheming

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Danny Fenton Phantom is trans and mixed race I'm just saying

[teaforce-steph]

Look Green Day may be the most pop band to ever punk, but American Idiot is the definitive punk song/album. Rock solid and (sadly) still painfully relevant nearly 20 years on. It's overtly critiquing far right rhetoric and by extension American politics in general with very little room for misinterpretation, but somehow people continue to barely listen to the lyrics then respond in such a reactionary way to parts of it that are deemed inappropriate... which only serves to highlight its perennial relevance.

You could even say it's comedy and tragedy

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) house having a bad pain day on his day off so he's just in bed, grouchy, stretched out and trying to read some journal to take his mind off it. and wilson trots in all the sudden (also his day off yay!) like "is your leg still bothering you???" all expectant

and house gives him the best 'are you stupid? are you dumb?' look. "what do you think, jimmy?"

and wilson ducks his head for a second like ah yeah right of course it is. BUT then he smiles. "i have an idea." he crawls into bed with him and adjusts until he's curled up around house's bad leg, head resting so high on his thigh he's practically on house's hip. he's still smiling, blinking innocently up at him.

before house can comment, wilson starts purring, a deep thrumming thing vibrating in his chest. and in their position house can feel it down to the ruined muscle easily. it clicks for house then: purring doesn't just affirm bonds, it promotes healing, especially with the deep hums alphas can produce, doubly so if performed on omegas who are already "biologically inclined" to alphas. the groan house responds with in kind is downright obscene.

that is how they spend a significant portion of their afternoon, with wilson wrapped around his mate and house gratefully petting wilson's fluffy head

[assortedvillainvault]

I RETURN FROM DEATH TO DELIVER THIS MESSAGE

MAIN BLACK CAULDRON CAST IS INCLUDED IN 'ONCE UPON A STUDIO' SHORT

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I REPEAT -

NOT

A

DRILL

LOOKATTHEM-

I AM

ECSTATIC

[wolfisland]

do you all remember when jen trúefaggot tried to insist that fruit pansy and faggot were only for amab mlm and transfems. only to like. get outed for not even being amab or transfem and having fucking stolen the identity of another transfem on this site and also been racefaking for literal years?

[antiqua-lugar]

i cannot stop thinking about two specifc quotes from iwtv 2022 which are:

"A wolf mother praised for not killing his cubs" - I know there isn't much to speculate about when it comes to Lestat until we get his version in season 3, but it really feels like a really significant moment of him coming to grapple with all the abuse he is inflicting on others since it's a far cry away from "I have been cursed with my maker's temper" (also love that "maker" could mean both his vampire maker and his human father). Like for the first time he's not acknowledging the violence inherent in him as simply the way things are and can't be changed - he is facing the fact that he lets it happen. I know we had the "I broke him" moment before, but that was about himself as much as it was about Louis and the audience. The wolf mother line is uttered to himself in defeat.

"I own the night" line immediately following Louis' reconciliation with Lestat where he promised to start "living more honestly". There is something very interesting to me about how one of Louis "suppressed" memories was the one where he told Lestat he was going to cut his head off and feed it to the lions immediately following his vivid description of hunting down and killing everyone from the Vampire coven. Like yeah a lot of Louis toning down his more aggressive behaviour comes from this been his retelling of events, which was already very interesting to me in the context of Louis having to tone down himself all the time especially in season 1 as a black man in New Orleans because duh, but especially if you consider that "Be all the things you are" was such a massive reason behind Louis' turning. Like the fact that Louis reclaiming his life also comes through Louis' reclaiming the more aggressive side of himself and that's a GOOD thing as part of him taking control of his own narrative and his own life. (Also the connection to Claudia asking who Louis is without her or Lestat and the role Claudia's anger played in the narrative specifically contrasted to Louis' apparent lack of anger especially in the Paris arc.)

[silicacid]

never believe in tierlist bc they all said mizukis bad and i believed them so i didnt buy him when he was in the shop but i got him in shus banner and hes been carrying in sargon he has true aoe his crowd control with s2 is unparalleled and when i didnt need cc i use s1 for killing yall are wrong about him