#absolute masterclass

[sunny-sainz]

CARLOS YOU BEAUTIFUL MAN!!! P3!!!

[mrspiastri]

charles my beloved

[pressedstresseddepressed]

also let’s not let zhou guanyu’s p5 go under the radar

[mistressemmedi]

Esteban Ocon vs Pierre Gasly, Monaco GP 2024:

[annemarieyeretzian]

chetney saying “orym keeps the sword… I agree, it’s his to do with as he chooses. laudna, he’s lost more than we have, and I trust him. but I also trust you.” and laudna snapping “thank you. but do not ever speak to me about loss again.” and leaving,,,

it’s finally clicked for me why this bothers me. because laudna has lost. laudna is still suffering loss. she’s allowed to bring her experiences, her feelings, and her grief up however and whenever she wants. but this is the thing laudna always says: “don’t speak to me of loss.” it refuses to allow anyone else to have experienced (or to also be experiencing) loss. again, of course laudna has lost. of course laudna has suffered. but��� so has everyone else in bell’s hells. treating loss like the suffering winter’s crest festival isn’t fair, healthy, or helpful.

if anyone else should be ‘allowed’ speak to laudna of loss, chetney is maybe the most reasonable choice: he’s lost his entire family, he’s lost his home, he’s lost lovers, he was cursed with lycanthropy (no matter the fact that he loves this aspect of himself – it was still a change, still a loss of sorts), he’s likely outlived most everyone he’s ever known. chetney does get to speak of loss. laudna is the only one living with her murderer in her head. that’s horrific. no one understands it. no one can understand it. and, not but, everyone else’s grief is also extensive, significant, and valid. it affects who they are. it informs their day-to-day decisions. they are allowed to speak of loss.

[medievill]

the fact that ed can stand there in the jungle looking with big dopey disney eyes at stede's disappearing form as he runs off, LEAVING HIM THERE ALONE, ON LAND, telling him to WAIT, and he just TRUSTS. THAT STEDE WILL COME BACK??? no. no I'm sorry I have expired

[zoomclown]

So it goes like this.

Warren and Gordon are foil characters.

I've been thinking about it a lot.

How Gordons primary goal is gathering knowledge. He wants to learn as much as he can about Cryonics, about Red Valley, about overhead. How Warrens primary goal is ignorance. He will do anything to avoid having to learn about his past. He doesn't care what other people know about him, but he doesn't want to confront the truth himself.

How Gordon is patient, watching and gathering information about Red Valley for years, all the while managing to fly under the radar of the very company he works for. Laying in wait. How Warren is impulsive and reactive. How literally the day after Warren learns about Red Valley he decides in a moment of avoidant spontaneity that he and Gordon are going to pay the base a visit.

How the only time either of them deviates from these behavior sets are in regard to each other.

Gordon could learn about Warrens past at any time, but he actively avoids that information. He chooses ignorance for Warrens sake. Meanwhile Warren, upon waking up in 2064, demands information. He doesn't want to escape into oblivion anymore, he wants to know if Gordon is okay. He wants to know where they are and what's going on. He is choosing to *know* because of Gordon.

Gordons riskiest, most impulsive decisions are all for Warrens sake. Gordon has spent *years* covering his tracks, doing everything in his power to remain inconspicuous. But within a couple weeks of meeting Warren, they are going to red valley together. Everything from following Warren into the building in the first place to sending Aubrey the files to choosing *not to run when he had the chance* because he just couldn't leave Warren. All of that was far riskier and more impulsive than anything he would have done before meeting Warren. Meanwhile Warren, who has only ever ran and hid, who avoids emotional discomfort like the plague, who doesn't seem to have managed to maintain a single adult relationship, chooses to wait for Gordon. Warren who has never waited for anyone, choosing not only to wait for Gordon, but to sit through a 40 minute recording of Gordon waiting in the rain because even across time he can't just let him go through that alone.

So yeah anyway I think about them a completely normal amount.

[hussyknee]

[Video description: Dated black and white video of an interview between a man off-screen who speaks in an upper-crust English accent and a handsome brown man in his thirties seated at a table. He is lean with short curly dark hair, a very sixties moustache, and wearing a casual shirt with an open collar. The camera is zoomed in on him, leaning forward on his elbows, head low and tilted towards the interviewer, brow furrowed, and an intense gaze that flicks down at the table after each question in careful contemplation. He speaks with an Arab accent. The timer of the video recording ticks away at the top left of the frame.

Transcript:

Interviewer: "Why won't your organisation engage in peace talks with the Israelis?"

Ghassan Kanafani: "You don't mean exactly peace talks. You mean capitulation. Surrendering."

Interviewer: "Why not just talk?"

Ghassan: "Talk to whom?"

Interviewer: "Talk to the Israeli leaders."

Ghassan: "That's the kind of conversation between the sword and the neck, you mean."

Interviewer: "Well, if there's no swords or guns in the room you could still talk."

Ghassan: "No. I have never seen any talk between a colonialist case and a national liberation movement."

Interviewer: "But despite this, why not talk?"

Ghassan: "Talk about what?"

Interviewer: "Talk about the possibility of not fighting."

Ghassan: "Not fighting for what?"

Interviewer: "Not fighting at all, no matter what for."

Ghassan: "People usually fight for something, and they stop fighting for something so you can't even tell me speak about what—"

Interviewer: "—Stop fighting—"

Ghassan: "—Talk about stop fighting why?"

Interviewer: "Talk to stop fighting to stop the death and the misery, the destruction, the pain."

Ghassan: "The misery and the pain and the destruction and the death for whom?"

Interviewer: "Of Palestinians, of Israelis, of Arabs."

Ghassan: "Of the Palestinian people who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for twenty years and forbidden to use even the name Palestinian?"

Interviewer: "Better that way than dead though."

Ghassan: "Maybe to you, but to us, it's not. To us, to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself."

Ghassan Kanafani is one of the heroes of the Palestinian liberation and celebrated in the canon of modern Arab literature. Forced out of his home with his family during the Nakba in 1948 at the age of ten, the shame of their surrender to Zionists moved him to devote his life to Arab nationalism, Marxist movements and Palestinian liberation through his career as a newspaper editor, journalist, novellist and non-combatant member of the armed resistance group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He coined the term "resistance literature" for the genre of his writing, that came to be instrumental in shaping the Palestinian national identity and ideology of its resistance. In 1972, he and his 17 year old niece were murdered in a car bomb by Mossad.

His obituary read:

"He was a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages."

[annabolinas]

Anne Boleyn Week 2024

Day 5: Most Underrated Fictional Portrayal: Dorothy Tutin in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

"You mock me! To other women, to men in my court. You keep people about you who hate me. The things you dare say! 'This child was sired by another man.' You're not fit to be father to my son!" - Anne to Henry

"And I am innocent. That is sure. And I am a victim. That, too, is sure. This whole mockery is unworthy of you, Uncle. It is unworthy of you as representative of my gentle husband. This trial is no trial, but a signature on a document. The poorest subject is given justice that I am denied. I am the Queen and entitled to better than you have given me. Accusations, papers, lies, are easy means of denying the truth to a court of men. But the truth shall be known in that court which shall judge us all in time. I am sorry for you, Cromwell, for in condemning me, you condemn yourself elsewhere. Give your verdict, gentlemen, but remember, I am your Queen." - Anne at her trial

Anne: "The king wants a divorce?"

Cranmer: "Aye, he does."

Anne: "I cannot."

Cranmer: "Yet you were found guilty of those charges."

Anne: "Which he knows to be untrue."

Cranmer: "Your peers judged you."

Anne: "My equals did not." - Anne to Cranmer in the Tower

[ghostzzy]

i’m still thinking abt the debate we were having in the chat while rewatching ep 1 of iwtv last night…

i don’t think lestat made paul step off that roof. i think it is much more likely that paul was already struggling with the changes going on in his life — grace getting married and moving out, and louis being increasingly distant and evasive as he grew closer with lestat, and being the only one left at home and knowing his mother would rather he be institutionalized — and that those factors were the driving influence in his destabilization and suicide.

BUT. having lestat mess with his mind probably didn’t help. if you already hear voices, spending any amount of time around a vampire who flaunts his telepathy is going to fuck up your perception of reality even more. especially since so much of paul’s distress was rooted in his religious beliefs and we know how lestat feels about god and the church, i have no doubt lestat said some cruel things to him. but other than that one dinner, i dont know how much time lestat really spent around paul? sure, he could’ve fucked with him from a distance, or in passing, and i don’t think he liked paul, but i also believe him when he told louis he didn’t make paul do it. lestat has also lost brothers, and lost loved ones to suicide — even if he was going out of his way to be unkind or drive paul away from louis (out of possession, jealousy, etc) — i don’t think lestat ever Intended paul to die.

so like. i wouldn’t entirely absolve him of being a factor in paul’s death with 100% certainty, but. like. i wouldn’t entirely absolve louis either! he loved paul, absolutely, but pulling a sword on your brother and threatening him and dismissing his experiences and minimizing his concerns (even if they are rooted in hallucination or delusion, which, not all of them were!) are like. objectively not acceptable ways to treat your mentally ill sibling. and definitely doesn’t contribute to an environment where paul would’ve felt safe and secure and respected and supported, you know, all the things that combat suicidality.

and like. ultimately. lestat was a very troubling man that he met, on screen, once. even if he did continue to meddle, i think paul’s treatment from his family and the changes in his home life were probably much more significant influences in his ongoing mental state.

tldr i think it takes a lot to make someone walk off a roof. and i don’t think anyone is truly at fault for paul’s death, but i also don’t think anyone’s entirely blameless. and that’s one of many things that’s cool about the show. ambiguity is uncomfortable! no one’s hands are clean!

tldr2 Paul :^(

[the5thcellar]

it's been more than a year and it's still incredible how ted lasso S3's ending made me lose all respect for Jason sudeikis as a showrunner/ writer.

it was clear from the onset - as audience and also as a writer myself - that the show was clearly paving the way towards a romantic resolution for Ted and Rebecca.... TOGETHER.

all those fucking hints about romcoms ... about finding love again in someone who KNOWS you and ACCEPTS you and adores you for who you are ... just paid absolute DUST.

what's even MORE embarrassing is the way JS keeps dating young model/influencers à la Rupert Mannion lmao ... all along we thought he was writing a self-insert TV show where he's the protagonist who gets the girl - and maybe that's still how he sees it - but it's become increasingly clear over the years that he's actually the villain ...

[lilopiccolo]

Oscarinas how we feeling out there?

[telecommunikate]

i did not get up at 2am to watch my driver overtake brilliantly into p2 only to be fucked over by his team except apparently i did

[89ghoul]

Holy shit Marc and Jorge were in a class of their own. What a race god damn.

[mariocki]

The Evil Dead (1981)

"Why have you disturbed our sleep, awakened us from our ancient slumber? You will die! Like the others before you, one by one, we will take you."

[magnetic-dogz]

My biggest horror movie recommendations are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Fog (1980). Btw