#the good bad girl

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Winifred Van Duzer's The Good Bad Girl, published in 1926, is typical of the romances of the era. A naive young lady named Mimsi Marsh leaves her small Connecticut town, Tranquility, and comes to New York to become an artist. She rooms with a girl named Trixie True and has a collie called Lucky. In order to pay the bills, she compromises her dream and becomes an artist's model. This is actually the highlight of her big city experience, which involves murder, drug use, and stalking.

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[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[bookliteratibookreviews]

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market edition (25 April 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529090288ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529090284Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up Book Blurb Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith may…

[godforsakenpaladinofnigh]

Girl dad 🌸

[camofag]

the public reaction to i saw the tv glow is like a perfect case study into how cis people take up queer spaces and unknowingly mock and enjoy trans suffering. sitting in the theater, i had a pit in my stomach the entire time. so many times, i would tear up and then someone else in the theater would laugh. and i wouldn’t cry because how would they look at me when the lights came back on? because they don’t see it. they don’t see the pain. they think it’s funny. i left the theater completely silent, not saying a word to my boyfriend and he didn’t say a word to me until partway into the drive home. the people around us immediately got to picking it apart, explaining what it all meant to each other, dumbing it down, making theories. cis people see the the movie, just like transness, as something to debate. a conversation. something to dissect because it makes them uncomfortable if they don’t understand it in their easily digestible way.

[walkerrenee]

sometimes i randomly remember how insane maggie stiefvater was for making ronan lynch—a man that can create reality—a man of god, when he himself is a god of a man. then to take this man and have him be not only in love with, but a literal soulmate of a man named adam. parrish. adam parrish. who, mind you, lives above ronan's very own place of worship. and is the namesake of the first of mankind that the bible says god made from the literal dust of the ground (adam parrish: comes from nothing, hair "dusty" in color) and appoints him to care for the garden of eden (adam parrish: sacrifices himself to ronan's sentient forest). then has adam viewing ronan as a god and ronan saying "maybe he dreamt (created)" adam???? like who just fucking writes that and goes about their life?

[zaana]

Crosshair and his new pup

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[theolivetree123]

Art block sucks.

ANYWAY HERE’S ADEUCE AS GGBG

AAAAAAA I LOVE THEM but now my wrist hurts these took me forever

[nortsauce]

BEEN OBSESSED WITH THAT ONE MUSIC VIDEO FROM YEARS AGO!

[yananaua]

Good girl, Bad girl, what's it gonna be?

[kayshasiemens]

Rising from the dead to share this painting and then disappear again

I have spent over 90 hours of my life on this thing because I have had the brain rot for the last 2 years of my life (almost 20 if you count when I first read the comics) and it had to express itself somehow

Hope this dramatic bitch feels appreciated

(A Dream of Morpheus, handmade egg tempera on panel, 12x18 inches...if by any chance you'll be at SDCC or Gen Con, I'll be at booth 934/936 at the first one and Art Show #13 at the second one - come see the original, maybe get a print, or just yell/cry about Sandman with me?)

And here, have some more details - I had fun combining some favorite elements from both the comic and the show ♡

[sapphire-or-smth]

She's a 10 but she murdered a serial killer and then framed it on a rapist so obviously she's an 11

[zoestanleyarts]

Good Girl Bad Girl

[avriion]

Alignment Chart of Shows I’ve seen

I will maybe take input if you so desire