Day 32: Parker & Moldy (Charlotte)
Source: ONE [cheesy hfj]
oh no it seems two friends are having a rough patch itd suck if something spontaneously occurred that would obstruct them from working through it ever
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I’m watching a video essay about how teachers are quitting because apparently younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha have horrendous behavior problems and a complete lack of wanting to learn or excel at anything education related and that is absolutely heartbreaking. A lot of kids growing up today (like five year olds to younger teens) can’t even read and write well because their parents (mainly older millennials and Gen X) shove iPads in their faces and don’t actually engage with them on a genuine level academically or even emotionally as parents. Since they were basically born with social media and the internet, the nurturing they should be getting from their parents is coming from these addictive devices which in turn exacerbated these nihilistic mindsets, disregard for their own or anyone else’s wellbeing, and complete lack of empathy in general.
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Darlington thinking about how he hungers for Alex and wants to devour her but Alex being the one who could eat Darlington (or at least his soul)
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I often forget most people don't have the Queen knowledge of having had a Queen phase after the movie came out but the only part that actually bugs me is when people assume Freddie wrote all the songs. Every member of Queen wrote at least one top hit song which actually makes them unique as a band and I love how talented they all are. Brian May and Roger Taylor both sing too and they actually sang the songs they wrote early but then they realized having Freddie Mercury sing their songs was better.
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SUE LYON photographed by Bert Stern for LOLITA
The most lasting legacy of the Kubrick film is not even in the film. It's the goddamn sunglasses. Bert Stern's photograph features Lyon staring over the rim of heart-shaped frames with a movie star's arched eyebrows as she sucks on a red lollipop. These sunglasses never appear in the book or the film. If you google “girl lowering sunglasses,” thousands of Lolita-esque stock photos will pop up. You don't have to bother with "heart shape"; they just appear. The art flipped the already-rickety autonomy conversation on its head. The question posed by the photograph is no longer about the degree to which a young girl is responsible for being seduced but about the degree to which she is responsible for seducing. The novel and the film only ask these questions, but the photo decides: She started it. Lolita was never about love. It's about obesession, which is a thorn in the side of love. This is what Lana Del Rey consistently gets wrong about Lolita. - Slone Crosley, "They Stay the Same Age" (Lolita in the Afterlife)
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i was on my annual reread of the The Wind that Cuts the Night when i saw that you're writitng new sw fic on oh!my!god!!!!! i'm so obsessed with it!!!!! it's been on my mind nonstop for three days! I love how different it it from previous one, i'm in love with all of your characterisations of Alex!
I was curious, is there a chance of Haley giving Sebatian a shovel talk? As much as i would love for Alex to find his footing and stand up for himself, I also don't really see him as the one who would bring up how much Sebastian used to/still hurts him sometimes and Haley standing up for him is just a very satysfying thing to think of haha
Yes I'm writing a new Stardew Valley fic! It makes me so happy. :D
It's so awesome that you still read The Wind that Cuts the Night as well. I can't tell you how often I confuse titles between Wind and Stain, because they both have exactly the same amount of syllables, and a similar structure, so I'm cursed to always get them both confused.
As for Haley and Sebastian, it's possible she might, but if she ever does we won't get to see it, because this is an Alex POV story.
I also think Haley would be careful. She's very aware that Sebastian has been bullied by Alex (even though Sebastian has also been a bully), and she's also aware of how the town perceives her, though she gets frustrated with being stereotyped as kind of like... this pretty, bitchy girl. But she'd be aware of it, and she'd be aware of how Sebastian might view that as well.
I don't know if she'd give him a really intense shovel talk so much as just...talk to him. I think she's maturing pretty well, and shovel talks aren't an especially mature thing to do, because 'if you hurt him, I'll kill you' is an extremely immature way of simply saying 'I'm someone who genuinely cares for him, and I want to hold you to the same standard, and that means not hurting him intentionally in any way.'
So while I think it's nice to imagine someone being like 'if you hurt him, I'll kill you' (or some version of that), and defending Alex, I think Haley would be careful how she broached the conversation, and ultimately be pretty sensitive / aware and be able to read the room. She might simply point out that Sebastian can do damage easily, verbally, to people like Alex, and that he should stay aware of that.
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US Vogue May 1961
Deborah Dixon in a mocha brown dress shawled by a vaporous scarf. By Adele Simpson, in Stern & Stern chiffon. Hattie Carnegie earrings: Frances Denney True Pink lipstick.
Deborah Dixon dans une robe marron moka châlee par un fichu vaporeux. Par Adele Simpson, en mousseline de soie Stern & Stern. Boucles d'oreilles Hattie Carnegie : le rouge à lèvres Frances Denney True Pink.
Photo Bert Stern
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