When I was a kid, my dad used to cut out newspaper articles of topics he thought pertained to my interests (neuroscience and China mostly) and then he would mail them to me with no note. Every once in a while I would receive an envelope with an assortment of newspaper clippings from the five newspapers he reads a day.
And as I sit here sending star trek memes and mourning dove pics to friend 1, and knitting memes and terrible puns to friend 2, and sexy radishes to friend 3, never with any explanation or even an expectation of acknowledgement of receipt, I have to reckon with some hard truths about the person I have grown into and how it relates to my parenting.
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protect trans kids! 🛡️💖🕷️
gwen and miles are some of the most joyfully trans-coded young characters i've ever seen, especially miles' journey towards autonomy ("doing things his own way") in the second film, and the thought of their t4t joy and solidarity brings me so much happiness. i'm not just saying that in a shipping context - trans friendship is so important to me & we need to protect and cherish it, and we need it to protect each other. i hope this piece makes you happy too!! 💖💖💖
ALSO, exciting news, i finally have an inprnt! here is the link - this gwen & miles piece is up on there if you're interested!!! please DON'T HESITATE TO ASK if you want me to put a piece i've posted up on inprnt for you to buy, if it isn't there already! thank you all for your support :')
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I know I can't be the first person to say this but the integration of the face masks at the beginning, when all the characters are meeting and you see the scientist and the detective wearing sturdy masks which are secure, the rich white antisemitic woman who is wearing a net for a mask, the governor who is wearing a mask but allows it to fall (rendering it therefore useless), and the Joe Rogan stand in + the stereotypical armpiece gf not wearing masks at all
is such a good way to read into these characters personalities
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ive been thinking about this but. i think shuro understands laios' character pretty well, but he doesn't value his strengths or interests (monster knowledge). in the DVD extra where laios imagines what would have happened if they'd been on better terms, shuro STILL leaves because he thinks his chances are better with a trained crew (which....... is likely to be true but. look at how he ended up anyway lmao). meanwhile kabru recognises that while the party isnt particularly strong, the reason they get so far in the first place is BECAUSE of what laios knows about monsters. shuro seems aware that laios knows about monsters or has an interest in them, but views this as frivolous and a waste of time and doesn't seem to realise how much this knowledge carried them in the first place
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i think ppl criticizing saltburn for being a bad addition to this weird influx of self-aware class conscious movies we’ve seen in these last couple of years are so funny because that is literally not at all what this movie is going for.
its so easy to conflate aestheticism with classism, especially when saltburn plays with this kind of gauche idea of beauty, but the problem isn’t that the catton’s have an unnatural relationship with wealth and material, it’s that they have an unnatural relationship with beauty and a seemingly never ending supply of it. and of course these things go hand in hand. in a house where desire is unheard of, to be of want is a messy ordeal that’s shunned and repressed.
but this movie is never asking what you would do for material gain. it’s about obsession with a relationship and a person that is close enough to touch but still off limits. how do you tell somebody that has never wanted in their life that you want them? how badly do you want them? would you do something ugly for them? would you kill for them?
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speedrun number 2 and a few doodles
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