What could have been

What I thought Claudia and Madeleine might've looked like in the 1970s, photographed by Louis

(If yall see this on Twitter posted by the user ihavehands_wtf, that's my friend who commissioned this and I gave them permission to repost <3)

[guy who keeps falling asleep for 8 to 14 hours due to pain voice] wow crazy how there's no time to do anything in a day. also my body is colld and my limbs are nunb

courtney eaton via kiaracarlylemakeup

thinking again about vampirism as disability

what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.

curious that you think I'm a bitch, considering the homunculus clone of you that I keep in my basement has never said something like that to me. could it simply be that the stresses of your daily life are making you irritable?

its all 'be gay do crime' until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton

This post is about racism. This post is about racism and antiblackness. This post is not about how cool YOU are for doing crimes or about how much you hate 'antis' or how bad tesla suck. This post is about how ostensibly progressive white people will clutch pearls and moralize about not listening to rap or engaging with black art or culture because it seemingly condones drugs, or violence, or is overly sexual, while having no issue with those topics in other, non-black contexts. There are conversations to be had about the topics surrounding this but in the meantime the original post is One Sentence and I'm not convinced most of the commenters in the past few days even read it.

i feel like a deer someone stuck a knife into and now its running half blind through the wilderness until it bleeds out. this too could be yellowjackets

so this was because. i was bleeding out twenty percent of my blood volume. this will make the fuck ass white man ER doctor go ‘woman moment. embarrassingggg’ but at least i have blood clotting med now <3 it only took nine hours for a five minute consult <3

@casualtea96 adds:

This is dead on. To paraphrase Emma, If you can't dance (and/or be supported such to the extent that you can dance by the rest of the community) it's a shitty revolution.

two headed lamb imagery for the peeta & prim dynamic.... not that you would understand .

not that any of you would understand.

Prim is crazy making cuz how do you write a character who haunts the narrative from the start but doesnt actually die until the end. echoes of primrose are everywhere you look but shes not dead yet. you still have time to get to know prim as the reader- shes still alive. but instead you get a ghost of a girl who floats around the peripheral of the story, always slightly in and out of frame. always on your mind but never tangible. always just out of reach until shes unreachable with finality. the living dead girl.

YELLOWJACKETS 3.06 "Thanksgiving (Canada)"

need to string together my thoughts more on this but reeeeeally interesting to see the influx of media - severance, the substance, mickey 17 - centered on the idea of a double/expendable iteration of yourself.

the dehumanization of workers by the way of non-livable wages, unsafe working conditions, and identity based discrimination (and the current removal of dei initiatives), all drive a wedge between our personhood and the value we are prescribed as a member of the workforce. something something the effects of ai and deepfakes already putting people in danger, the way we live and present our lives online vs in reality, there’s a lot to unpack here. but it’s fascinating to see this trope so widely translated as a storytelling vehicle for these ideas, and that this is the story that people are interested in telling.