WRITERS + DIRECTORS ON THE POWER OF HORROR
Catriona Ward, interview for The Guardian
Mark Gatiss, in A History of Horror (2010)
Pascal Laugier, for Electric Sheep
Candyman (1992), dir. Bernard Rose
Colin Dickey, Ghostland
Carmen Maria Machado, for Paris Review
Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women
Possession (1981), dir. Andrzej Żuławski
Mariana Enríquez, ‘Notes on Craft’, Granta
Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors
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RIP Ana Clara Benevides. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💖
I have read alot of people posts how disappointed they were with the situation.
Like that one Reddit post on swiftlyneutral. I can't post the link. But the title says:
What are your thoughts on what happened at the Eras tour in Brazil? Do you even know about it?
The post is very recent.
And couldn't Taylor Swift do something before the show? Didn't she know the heat? That fans weren't allowed to bring water in it? What would she have risked if she cancelled the show? A fine? She can pay for it. Disappointed fans? Better than dead fans.
I remember watching a youtube video of Michael Jackson when he got his Hollywoodstar and he made an appearance. There was a huge crowd and people were pushing eachother, some got hurt. He left after a short time. One fan voiced his disappointment that he only shown up for like few seconds or minutes and left. But looking back it was good that he left that none of them got seriously injured. He also got parademics at his shows because people were passing out.
Or Madonna who had a concert just recently in front of like 1.6million people. I don't hear anybody dying. ? And for such a large amount of people at one spot. There sure had to be safety measurement taken before the show.
When a fan of Rihanna died. Not at her show. Rihanna paid for the funeral.
Does Taylor Swift really care about her fans? Or does she care more about how her fans view her? And as an artist isn't it her responsibility that her fans are save at her show? Of course she can't stop any inconvience. But extreme heat is literally something she could have known days before!
This whole thing felt like Taylor didn't really care about Ana. She can't be the music industry the biggest superstar in the whole world but be a helpless little girl who is used by her concert promoters and can't even decrease ticket prices.
And Taylor made this parasocial relationship with her fans. So she atleast should have cared more. Or showed that she cared. It seems like she only sees her fans as numbers.
There was another show, in Buenos Aires, right before the show were Ana Clara died, that TS had to cancel too because of a storm. Now, due to the subtropical climate, storms in Buenos Aires can be quite strong and dangerous. The fans, most of them underage girls, stood in line under the electrical storm up until the time the venue doors were supposed to open. Then and only then, TS announced (mind you, half an hour after the city government did) that the show would be rescheduled. So what happened in Río after was not an isolated incident, TS had a bit of a pattern endangering her fans.
Now, I talked extensively about Ana Clara's death in this blog, and I don't wanna repeat myself and become annoying for it. But for those of you who don't know, my family on my dad's side is Brazilian, my own grandmother has been badly hit by the floods going on in the south, my little sister went to the show after Ana Clara's death. That's why TS's mistreatment of Brazilian fans and fans of color in general hurts SO FUCKING MUCH. Because it's fucking personal. I did not only felt heartbroken because of what happened to Ana Clara, it was absolutely devastating. I know it was just a footnote on the international news, but not here. Here we read the declaration of the young nurse that kept on the CPR maneuvers for over an hour because they refused to let Ana Clara die. We read the statement of Ana Clara's family denying TS or her team had reached out to them when the news were starting to say TS was in talks with them. We KNOW TS's team didn't pay for ANYTHING and didn't reach out to them until over a week later. We saw it all go down on real time, my little sister was certain TS would make a moment of silence for Ana Clara only to be let down when she rushed the show so not even the people attending could do one.
So, let this be your confirmation. Taylor Swift does NOT care about her fans. At least not about her fans of color.
Please, never stop talking about Ana Clara Benevides Machado. Never stop sharing her picture. And never forget that, if you're a POC, TS doesn't care about you. Not even if you're a VIP ticket holder, like Ana Clara was.
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Ana Laura e Nicolas Machado são os Campeões Brasileiros de XCM
Nicolas Machado conquistou o bicampeonato brasileiro de mountain bike marathon (XCM) em 2024. Ana Laura venceu na categoria feminina.
Ben 10 conquistou o bicampeonato brasileiro de mountain bike marathon (XCM) em 2024. Ana Laura venceu na categoria feminina.
O mineiro Nicolas Machado da equipe Sense, conhecido como Ben 10, conquistou no domingo (5) o bicampeonato brasileiro de mountain bike marathon (XCM) 2024. Campeão no ano passado, Ben 10 completou o percurso de 80km com 1.930 metros de altimetria acumulada em 3h31min11s. A…
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Is my soul asleep?
Have those beehives that work
in the night stopped? And the water-
wheel of thought, is it
going around now, cups
empty, carrying only shadows?
No, my soul is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
its eyes wide open
far-off things, listens
at the shores of the great silence.
— By Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, also known as Antonio Machado (1875-1935), Spanish poet. © 1983 Robert Bly (trans) courtesy of the blog “Waking Up”
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Bienal de SP 2024: Confira a programação da Global Editora
Confira a programação completa do Grupo Editorial Global na Bienal de São Paulo. Evento conta com sessões de autógrafos e lançamentos de livros de autores renomados. #GlobalEditora #ProgramaçãoCompleta
Nesse ano o Grupo Editorial Global leva alguns dos maiores nomes da literatura para a 27ª Bienal de São Paulo. Entre os autores presentes, estarão a imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), Ana Maria Machado, Daniel Mundukuru, assim como Ignácio de Loyola Brandão e o fotógrafo Araquém Alcântara.
O estande da Global terá mais de duzentos metros quadrados, portanto, um dos maiores da sua…
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SERRAT: PEQUEÑAS GRANDES COSAS
EUFEMÉRIDES
El noi de Poble Sec cumple 80 años
Francisco R. Pastoriza
En aquella España de principios de los sesenta el panorama nacional de la música estaba monopolizado por las líneas que marcaban el pop de Los Brincos y Los Pekenikes, los alegres temas de Karina y las tonadillas de Raphael, que a su vez habían sustituido a las de Concha Piquer, a las baladas de José Guardiola, a…
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There is no reason why stadium can't provide water, or let people take in their own water. Death is a natural part of life but if there is something we as humans can do to prevent it, then it is our duty to help prevent it. Ana's death was an unfortunate death, but hopefully we can save anyone else forming dying the way she did.
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There is no reason why stadium can't provide water, or let people take in their own water. Death is a natural part of life but if there is something we as humans can do to prevent it, then it is our duty to help prevent it. Ana's death was an unfortunate death, but hopefully we can save anyone else forming dying the way she did.
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