#marina writes

[turtle-marina]

Wrote this a few days (ie a week) ago and forgot to post it here.

A multichapter (in the future, for now, it's just one) with Malon as the MC!

[demiurgicfeline]

Ode to the Beached Fish

The fish flops  on the hot, hot sand. 

She feels  the foam tips of cool waves teasing her side, giving her just enough relief to suffer

on that hot, hot sand. 

The world above is: round. sharp. scraping. loose. unimpressed, by the little fish sucking in globs of hostile air.

Eventually,  the tide is kind.  It takes her back, satisfied by her display, perfect for a parable to jot down later. 

The heat of the hot, hot sand is stored in the scales of that little fish. She swims, now carrying heat that clings and seeps and seeks for more of her to claim.

Again, the fish beaches herself. Twice, three times, a fourth, some would call it masochism

to swim right into the gaping maw of atmosphere that rejects little things like her.

She wonders if any thing notices the lump that is her body on the shore. The earthly grit and mewling seafoam are her only companions. Nothing living takes to her.  Until

a human takes hold of that little fish.  It holds her up to the bright sun, and she flails, she writhes, unable to take unfamiliar embrace. Out of its hand the fish falls onto a nearby rock, the impact shaking her bones out of place.

All her water falls out from her m o u t h.

[marinavampire]

No te muevas...

Leer en wattpad.

Resumen:

Kakashi queda herido durante una misión y Rin lo cura con su ninjutsu médico. Mientras esto sucede, Kakashi se va dando cuenta de que le gusta mucho sentir las manos de Rin tocando su cara. Esto desata más sensaciones que Kakashi nunca antes había experimentado, y ahora está seguro de que debe besar a Rin.

[annabelle--cane]

I am aware I have died on this hill before but people who really strenuously argue that fanfic isn't "real writing" drive me insane. what do you meeeaaaaannn. besides the fact that any attempt to define "real art" vs "fake art" is inherently reactionary, it just doesn't make any sense. it's Writing. people Write it. what the fuck are you talking about.

[clown-owo]

not pictured: Acht flashback to growing up hearing DJ Octavio say vaguely gay shit about the captain of the Squidbeak Splatoon

[letsplayeternity]

Honest question, I've been rethinking the whole "Colin has done the same with Penelope Featherington" speech Anthony gave to Daphne and his mother in season 1 and the fact that when Colin talked to his brothers in 3x05 both Ben and Anthony were like "I didn't have a clue" and like... do we think Anthony spent the evening rethinking every single interaction he has ever witnessed between Colin and Pen and every single instance where he let things slide because "oh that's just eloise's friend?" and just banging his head against a wall as Kate laughs her ass off??

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva featured in Selected Letters

[jackoshadows]

It's so confusing and weird that Bridgerton introduced in world racism both with Lady D and Simon in season one of the show and in Queen Charlotte and at the same time they also want the audience to accept that somehow Marina Thompson or the dark skinned Indian Kate Sharma has more privilege and power than Penelope Featherington?

Kate Sharma was also poor, so much more than the Featheringtons. She depended on Lady D to host them. The Sharmas were looked down on by the ton because Mary Sheffield married an Indian. The Sharmas were disowned and ostracized by the Sheffields.

Kate was also an unmarried spinster. No one was asking Kate to dance. As much as Kate wanted love and romance and to dance at a ball wearing pretty dresses, she got none of that. She was also the woman on the sidelines watching as others danced and fell in love.

Racism and colorism is also very much a thing in eurocentric notions of beauty considering the setting and characters of Bridgerton is 99% white.

We got so little of Kate's backstory, of who her parents where - we didn't even get their names!! - of the trauma (explained for both Simon and Anthony using flashbacks) that had Kate overlooking her own happiness for that of her sister.

Despite bragging nonstop about the diversity of Bridgerton the showrunners thought that the white Featheringtons needed more screentime in season 2 rather than the South Asian family.

And Kate was planning on going back to India and work as a governess to pay for her livelihood. Because, you know, there's more honest ways of being a 'working woman' than running the equivalent of the regency 'Daily Mail' dragging other women down. The modiste Madame Delacroix, Kate planning to teach and Sienna in season one are all working to pay a living. Black, brown and lower class women looking to alleviate poverty.

And considering how much harder Kate already had it as an outsider in the ton, it wouldn't have been easy with Penelope using her gossip rag to describe the unmarried Indian woman as ' a Spinster of a beast'. What did Kate do to Penelope to warrant this? Nothing. Just a way for Penelope to make money at Kate's expense.

That's the thing I dislike the most about the way the character of Penelope is written on the show - her victims don't deserve her vitriol and are often in much worse circumstances than her. From Kate Sharma to the unnamed seamstress who apparently lost all her customers because Penelope wrote falsely about their work in the her tabloid as a bribe for Madam Delacroix.

And I think that's what I find problematic about the writing of the show and even the discourse surrounding it - when characters like Marina Thompson (the poor black cousin who would have ended up destitute on the streets because of Penelope) and Kate Sharma arguably have it far worse than Penelope Featherington as per the show's writing and yet we are supposed to have the most sympathy for Penelope because her crush Colin didn't love her back and she's a curvy white woman?

I guess that's the difference between how I perceive this world and these characters as a woc and the majority white female audience for this show and it's such a huge disconnect for me. I guess this is also partly because the show has this badly written and 'strangely toothless racism' as Ash Sarkar beautifully put it. As in the racism is treated in this world as a little problem solved by handing out a few titles to black people instead of being a white supremacist ideology which treated black and brown people as inferior, serfs and slaves.

From what little we got from season 2, Kate Sharma definitely did not have it easy navigating the ton as a poor outsider and that certainly contributed to her poor choices. She is also put through the wringer, treated like the other woman, is miserable for several episodes, had to apologize again and again and nearly die before Edwina forgives her!

In contrast Penelope's actions have hurt so many and yet she gets a pass by both the show and a fandom that wants Colin to grovel before her because of a single offhand remark and because he didn't return her affections.

Also making it clear here that I am not comparing Penelope to the male characters who always get the better writing, flaws and all. I am comparing Penelope to the female characters of colour - Kate Sharma and Marina Thompson.

I mean, Marina Thompson gets so much vitriolic and sexist hatred for not having told Colin Bridgerton the truth of her pregnancy. How dare Marina hurt this privileged white man Colin Bridgerton. When she was desperate to not end up destitute on the streets or get raped by old white men. And yet Penelope gets a pass for hurting women like Marina and Kate.

It continues a trend of white female characters never being held to the same standard as female characters of colour. Daphne sexually assaults Simon in season one and that was not even addressed on the show. Male rape is apparently no big deal because Daphne wanting children is what's important. It's Simon who has to apologize and within one episode resolve his trauma and accept being a father. This is despite both Daphne and Penelope having more screentime and more writing that builds their character unlike the stick thin writing given to Kate Sharma in season 2.

So yeah, I will be checking into season 3 to watch the ten minutes we get with Kate Sharma since we got so little of her in her own season and it's so singular to get dark skinned south Indian characters in a period drama romance like this. It's just the way the writing on the show, the production and even the fandom treats it's characters, especially characters of colour has been disappointing to say the least.

[sukibenders]

Bridgerton states from season one, through Simon and Lady Danbury, to season two, with the Sharmas, to Queen Charlotte, from the beginning episode to the end spelled out clear as day, that racism exists in this world and many of the characters of colors have been impacted by it in some way. And, supposedly, I'm supposed to believe that Marina, that Kate and Edwina, that they all had more privilege and power than Penelope? No, I don't think so, a lot of things aren't right with that statement.

[rukidokie]

Off the Hook

[sage-nebula]

Sorry for the watermark, but I just had to snip this absolutely adorable moment from "Into the Light" from the 2019 Tokaigi concert. To me, it almost looked like a private little dance between them; like Marina did a little curtesy, and then Pearl a little bow, like she was inviting Marina to dance . . . but then, given the conversation that followed the song, I think it was actually a little pantomime of how Marina tried to introduce herself to Pearl when they first met (when she didn't speak Inkling yet), and Pearl invited Marina to come with her so she could show Marina Inkling culture (despite not speaking Octarian herself)!

Well, regardless of what that adorable little bit was, things certainly did get kinda intimate for a moment there 🩵🩷

[thoughtkick]

I think communication starts when words are not present at all … I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Marina Abramovic

[demiurgicfeline]

little birdies sing for the minerals of the earth

the soil is cold. it sits between her fingers and lounges under her nails, soft to the touch as she puts it back where it was.

each covering of dirt is placed like a cake, and she is playing baker today. each foot of dirt is a sweet chocolate layer, six tiers high, filled with raspberry jam, and topped with bonemeal.

a hum drones from her throat, like the buzz of a little fly, excited for the rot to come.

carpet beetles will feast soon, the flies will have to wait for their feast comes at night, underneath in the cold soil.

fine brown grains are patted down until smooth and ruled by soft hands in soft soil from soft ground that was broken by a hard shovel.

[2d-beefcakes-my-beloveds]

Tim: “The birds work for the bourgeois”

Marina: “Timmy, you’re a bird. You are the bourgeois”

Tim: D:

Dick: “omg all of the bats are the bourgeois we’ve been had D:”

[annabelle--cane]

mag 136 // mag 143 // mag 147

local archivist completely unable to recognize jokes whatsoever

[perfectquote]

Perhaps we may meet each other in a dream.

Marina Tsvetaeva