#someone take me back to college

[lorephobic]

literally nobody asked for it, but here's my list of saltburn essays that i've slowly been drafting over the course of the last week which WILL be required reading for anybody trying to engage with me about this movie. my very personal saltburn 101 syllabus just dropped

A Wolf in Deer's Clothing: Saltburn's Attempt at Innocence

an examination of party costumes and our character's last attempts to masquerade as something they're not: felix—an angel, all-forgiving and all-knowing, something to be worshiped; and oliver—a prey animal, prey to class-divide, prey to saltburn, prey to felix.

thoughts about oliver specifically are loosely organized in my #bambi tag

A Midsummer Night's Mare: Farleigh Start as the Ultimate Victim of Saltburn

a farleigh character study, about the ways he was mistreated and manipulated at saltburn, about fighting to stay alive and the scars left behind by knowing when to give in

alternatively titled "QuickStart", may be adapted into a conclusive essay specifically focusing on oliver and farleigh's relationship

The Eye of the Beholder: On Saltburn's Voyeurism & Violence [working title]

how wealth and class pushes the catton's toward the volatile reality of being able to look, but not touch. on desire and the lack thereof, and portraying yourself as an object to be desired

may end up as two separate essays on wealth and aestheticism but i'm pushing toward a conclusive essay about the intersection of the two, which i feel is at the heart of saltburn

alternatively titled "Poor Man's Pudding: A Melvillian Approach to Saltburn's Class", again, may be adapted into it's own essay

Gender-Fluid: A Study in Sexuality and Saltburn's Desire to be Dry

a deep dive into the bodily fluids of saltburn and how oliver upsets the standard of men who are just so lovely and dry. on the creative choice to lean into the messy wetness of sex and desire and the audience's instinct toward repulsion

a celebration of the grotesque and an examination of why we would label it as such

least developed of the four, heavily inspired by @charnelpit's lovely post about the fluids in saltburn

if anybody is actually interested in any of these, i can work toward something closer to a finished piece instead of just bullet points and quotes in a google doc, but mostly this is so i can share my very brief takes on a multitude of themes in saltburn that have been haunting me

edit for people seeing this in the future: all posts about my essays are being organized into my #saltburn 101 tag if you’re interested in following these through to development!

[stardustystudies]

my city-pop themed bullet journal spread(s) for september!!

[thedrotter]

throwing in the air my vision so you all can be delusional about it too even when it isnt drawn ... rosas by la oreja de van gogh reminds me of yuu so much its so good you have to hear it

[front-facing-pokemon]

[thus-spoke-lo]

I’m delighted at the love for my silly older!reader drabbles (that I’ll probably start working into fics shortly). I like writing a sort of ageless, appearance-less, grey blob reader, but man do I like making reader like me (and a lot of you) and thinking about how that changes the dynamics.

[isa-ah]

yall ever end up thinking back on periods of ur life and ur like. bro what

[yo9urt]

applied for a job a while ago and wrote in my spreadsheet "i am not fucking getting this job" not because of the qualifications but because my application was honestly just not that good. today the lady called me and scheduled an interview. Ok

[thesargasmicgoddess]

I think you give off more of a dark academic vibe! Plus, I feel like dark academia offers better opportunities for hoe shenanigans! Who doesn't want to get frisky amid the halls, libraries, and secrets of a Cambridge-esque setting? 😏

I mean.....haunted halls and Tudor/Gothic architectural influences for the win 🤭

Although, I'm partial to light academia influences in my own home....think pottery barn with a sprinkle of parisian glam 🤣

And white linens everywhere, lol.

Clearly, my mental state and aesthetic tastes are conflicted at times.....😆

[sydmarch]

no interest in any of my hobbies next to no concerts going on all summer feeling abandoned by the majority of the few irls I still have no idea where to meet new people to replace them now that I'm not part of the highly social hard partying sales culture I spent basically all of my post college life in anymore literally what reason is there to keep trying

[ow1et]

one day i'll finish my hour by hour account of the first two days that athene is in the labyrinth (which are a continuous 48 hours btw) because i want to elaborate on just how warped her perception of reality is afterward and the lasting effects it's had on her mentally and physically.

[hyuck-xix]

do you ever feel

like a plastic bag

like you're the world's biggest loser and even when you accomplish things you never thought you could do, it still doesn't make you feel any prouder of yourself because you know you're still more of a loser than everyone else you know and then when someone from your past reaches out and asks how you've been you just want to run and hide and scream "dont perceive me i'm hideous and pathetic"

[livvyofthelake]

rachel from work making a crazy play for favorite coworker… if she leaves me i’ll kill myself btw

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

had quite the night drive earlier this evening.

[subsequentibis]

ive been saying the 'im a humanities major i cant do math' joke for a long time but i was just reminded today of how much i liked math when i was in high school. math was a bunch of fun puzzles that you got to solve and as long as you understood the process it was so satisfying and rewarding to complete

[thedevotionaltour]

i havent even read enough gl to justify the feelings and emotions i have about kyle i just have the lovers heart and also something wrong with me. and my projection. in my mind he's just like me. and he would have loved college vending machine frozen cheeseburger and heating it up in the microwave at 1 in the morning because he was bored and didn't want to work on a drawing assignment on 20" x 30" paper that was due tomorrow in his freshman year. he would have loved going to the club to push off finals work that's creating the worst stress known to man in his brain. and he would love to annoy the fuck out of his roommate when high and avoiding homework on a saturday.

[bright-and-burning]

when jo (?) said it seems like i am friends w everybody i laughed at that but actually now that i am thinking abt it. that is just . my entire life dfaldsjflajd. inescapable extroversion. by which i mean. no one around me escapes my extroversion. i will make friends w u and that is a THREAT