I love watching movie credits like whoa all these people worked on this movie. And not one of them at any of point was like whoa don't you think this movie is perhaps too dark and you can't see shit?
"Basically everything that I'm algorithmically served are constantly placing people into in-groups and out-groups. Like, if you disagree about a White Lotus episode in person, you're just hearing another perspective. But when a group of people have a different opinion on Twitter, it feels like large swaths of strangers are not like you over a micro-diversion of an opinion about a show from Net Schneebly."
— Eddy Burback, I hate my phone so I got rid of it
fwiw this is a lot of why i'm not big into the whole "i'll block people over anything" thing. everyone should do whatever they want forever and ik we all use social media for different reasons etc etc, but i think it's worth considering how that kind of siloing influences how we think about other people in general as being acceptable or totally not worthwhile at all based on some small thing. not just when it comes to echochambers about big important topics (sometimes everybody needs a break from hearing from The Other Side about politics or whatever) but about tiny little bullshit also
THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c
I hope I’m not just an annoyance to you but also an object of your pathological psychosexual rage
tozer being confirmed for straight but has sex with men anyway is soooo much funnier than if he was confirmed for bi. also serves as fuel for my already deeply held belief that in the modern day hickey would be one of those gay guys whose a fetishistic chaser for the kind of 'straight' dude that fools around with other guys
Cornelius Hickey + the Victorian "fallen woman"
The Role of the "Fallen Woman" in Three Victorian Novels: George Eliot's Adam Bede Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jane Rogers / Thoughts of the Past, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope / Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti / How did Dickens deal with prostitution in his novels? Little Em'ly in David Copperfield, Jane Rogers / Found, Dante Gabriel Rossetti /The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet / Eve Tempted by the Serpent, William Blake / The Prodigal Daughter, John Collier / The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy
big ups to the terror writers for having their protagonist inflict torture sexual assault corporal punishment on a subordinate without pulling away from the narrative sympathy crozier is given and his (eventually realized) capacity for positive change or downplaying what a terrible thing that was to do and for hickey to experience. it's not a just punishment against a dehumanized other and it's not a mystifying unknown committed by a dehumanized other; it's the natural consequence of a flawed person with ultimately good intentions but deep insecurities - among other personal issues - being thrust into a position of godlike power under incredibly dire and stressful circumstances
part of what I was getting at with that webweaving I posted earlier was crozier lashing hickey being a culmination of the unspoken courtship between them & a sexual assault that while not 'ruining' hickey does leave him forever altered. probably could have been a bit more explicit about the second point but I didn't wanna include the super graphic and upsetting shots from that scene
Tozer Hickgib surrogate comic
Cornelius Hickey + the Victorian "fallen woman"
The Role of the "Fallen Woman" in Three Victorian Novels: George Eliot's Adam Bede Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jane Rogers / Thoughts of the Past, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope / Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti / How did Dickens deal with prostitution in his novels? Little Em'ly in David Copperfield, Jane Rogers / Found, Dante Gabriel Rossetti /The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet / Eve Tempted by the Serpent, William Blake / The Prodigal Daughter, John Collier / The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy
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