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i know this is an old post OP, but i’m rewatching now and completely agree with this take.

it drives me crazy how carole was the most hated figure that came out of this show when the men were so much worse. the docuseries also seemed to intentionally twist things to make her look worse or comparable to people like joe or doc anttler. they tried to make it sound sinister for her to rely on volunteers for her sanctuary when it is a non profit. i read a post from someone who volunteered at her sanctuary, and everyone who volunteered at carole had a job and were financially stable enough to afford to work at a sanctuary a few weeks out of the year because they believed in the mission. it was not at all the same as doc or joe who were running for profit businesses based on exploiting desperate people.

we hear several times from doc and joe that the conditions at the sanctuary are as bad as at joe’s zoo, but this obviously isn’t true because she was passing safety inspections that joe wasn’t.

also i’ll reserve judgement on the thing about her husband, i have no idea what happened to him and am not going to come up with a theory based on a documentary. but not only was he a pedophile who met carole when she was a teenager roaming the streets at night, he was apparently going to costa rica every month to visit prostitutes and do who knows what other shady shit. they also don’t fully explain what his “businesses” were. it seems like there were a few things that could have happened to him.

Does anybody else remember how Tiger King made it out like Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin were doing the same thing?

That both of them were abusing animals?

That they were both abusing their employees, Joe Exotic by paying them a pittance and feeding them rotten meat, Carole Baskin by working her "employees" for more than forty hours a week for no pay?

How the show never clarified that Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue is an accredited sanctuary that legitimately helps big cats?

How the show never mentioned that Big Cat Rescue is a registered nonprofit, and that Joe Exotic's accusations that she was lying and manipulating her employees to get them to work for free is at best misleading, because they were legitimate volunteers who were knowingly donating their time to help big cats?

Does anybody else think it's weird that the one woman in the cast was the only one intentionally misrepresented to make her seem like a much worse person than she was?

That there was a stronger backlash against the one woman in the show than there was against Joe Exotic, even though she was the only person in the cast *not* abusing animals OR other people?

I just think that's weird.

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it’s cause you’re always on that blog

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Lullaby for Titania, from Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Mariel Wilhoite (1925)

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artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

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Tyla in a custom Balmain gown for the 2024 Met Gala inspired by “the Sands of Time”.

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where's that quote abt like. being embarrassed abt the thinness of ur life the way ur embarrassed by a threadbare piece of clothing. bc like yeah

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The Flag That Thou Must Follow, from Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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like half the replies to this are mocking this woman’s problems and talking about how she’s dumb and weak for wanting to kill herself because her life isn’t actually bad, which is an interesting response. i get the idea that this is tragic and she should have had better support, but it’s kinda funny when people seem to genuinely be offended by suicidal people they don’t know for being too lazy to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and keep living

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have been fighting w my bf a lot and i think it may be partially because we haven’t been having sex bc i’ve had a uti and been on my period. now i could have sex but i’m mad so i’m not gonna..

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I feel like another important thing is that while self immolation is a well recognized form of protest it is almost unheard of as a method of “regular” suicide.

also, if it’s all the same regardless of intent, what does that say about the mental status of people who join the military during war time, knowing there’s a good chance they will die of become seriously injured? How is “dying for your country” a commendable act but dying in protest of the genocide of another group of people something only attributable to mental illness?

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i saw someone post an anais nin quote to complain about 'hookup culture'...imagining a sex negative anais nin

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we've finally got to the point tumblr and twitter are exactly as shitty to use, have the same weird ads, and equal amounts of porn bots except on twitter the porn bots are a little better at sounding like real people and they're also the top reply on every tweet because they have verification

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worst thing about living with a partner is when you’re mad and want to be mysterious and ignore them you have to go out and Do Something. u can’t just lie in bed and masturbate