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#;across the stars. #;go‚ then. there are other worlds than these.

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art comic

#;comics.

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@gehayi said: can you please tell us more about Israel Rank?

POV: We are at a slumber party and I am kicking my feet and giggling and telling you about the boy I like.

"Oh my god, his name is Israel Rank, and he's from a book called Israel Rank: Autobiography of a Criminal, and he is so hot! The musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and the movie Kind Hearts and Coronets were both based on the book, but they made him other things besides Jewish, which is so bogus. Roger Ebert said it made the story more 'universal', which I guess means half-Italian is more universal than half-Jewish, which, what the fuck?

Anyway, he's the worst person in the world and I love him. He's like Heathcliff plus Steerpike plus Edmund the Bastard. He's the really distant relative of and earl, and his mother was disinherited for marrying a Jewish man. Israel isn't technically Jewish, he was baptized and raised Anglican, but he looks Jewish- and also really hot, and he says that combination upsets people! Kind of an Adrian Brody thing? I would have cast Ezra Miller before they turned out to be a shitshow of a person. And his name is Israel, kind of as a fuck you to mom's family. So he decides if people are going to give him shit about it anyway, he's going to embrace it.

He's in love with this girl Sibella, who won't marry him because he's both half-Jewish and poor, so starting as a hypothetical lark he wonders if he could just murder every single family member between him and an earldom. And then he does it! After sexual fantasies about Lucrezia Borgia encouraging him to! What an absolute freak.

So he starts killing, and his narration is so dry and funny about it. He tells the reader that in his experience, Jews aren't all that violent- he speculates that Shylock would have walked back the pound of flesh if he'd had time to calm down- but he has the blood of evil rapacious noblemen on his non-Jewish side which are to blame. He kills most of his family, except for the cousin-in-law whom he marries. He also still love Sibella. And his wife! He just can't stop fucking, he's so awful! (And I think he's bisexual. At least, I don't know how else I'm supposed to interpret the part where he's in school and "the boy I loved chose me as his Jonathan.")

And he gets away with it! He's super popular at his trial because he's so handsome and charming and the same society that scorned him, now that he's an earl, gossips that his Jewish ancestry must be very slight and distant. And there's a twist that gets him off the hook which is actually a real bummer of a plot point, even he's bummed out by it, but it's such a perfect capper to a life of cruelty.

Honestly, I do get why none of the adaptations keep the half-Jewish thing, they're probably afraid it would seem antisemitic, but in my opinion it's a real shame because it's so central to his character and I think I do want a sexy Jewish Byronic antihero. He's the worst. I love him. I would marry him. I would immediately divorce him. His favorite book is Emma!"

For a more academic discussion, I did a podcast episode on him way back when!

#what a guy!!! #mira i’m so happy for you and your terrible wonderful edwardian boyfriend #;i am unbodied by thy books. #;israel rank.

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your email finds me ripped apart by wolves

#;text.

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massive grudge against the horrible histories crew for the fact that i can’t watch the victoria and albert song without actually crying

#every time!!! the thing is i love them!!! #;swan has a word.

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

#;text.

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Antonio Banderas and Sarah Brightman performing “The Phantom of The Opera” at The Royal Albert Hall Celebration, 1998

#the hill i will die on is that he should have played the phantom in the 2004 movie instead of gerard butler. #it would not have made the movie *that* much better but goddamn it surely would have helped. #;stranger than you dreamt it. #;you’d never get away with all this in a play.

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Your disbelief destroyed the faith of my congregation. Without them, I am nothing. So I was obliged to come. And now I must kill you.

CANDYMAN 1992 dir. Bernard Rose

#;candyman. #;celluloid heroes. #;we have such sights to show you.

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#;about swan.

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Stanislav Wyspianski - Portrait of Casimir Lewandowski (1898)

#;all that color and light. #;stanislav wyspianski. #;the long nineteenth century.

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The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

#;culture. #;not all that is over is past.

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The Lost Boys (1987)

#;celluloid heroes. #;the lost boys. #;we have such sights to show you.

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#oliver and company always cracks me up#because transforming the children to dogs and cats#(only one of whom seems to function as a child)#transforms a clearly unethical situation to one that is definitely weird but probably fine and also pretty impressive

via @maddie-grove

Fagin teaching children to steal: a bad thing

Fagin teaching dogs and cats to steal: a superpower

#;dream factory. #;oliver and company. #;oliver twist. #;text.

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when a powerful figure is reduced to kneeling. when the lord is forced to bow. when the exile stumbles into an unwelcoming bar. when the “beast” is chained by their horns. when a god is dragged behind their enemy’s chariot, a captive and trophy. when the loyal “guard dog” character is muzzled and the silver-tongued thief falls silent in horror.

that’s the shit

it’s about the contrapasso. the reversal of roles and the sudden, plunging terror of being unable to hide.

#;text.

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#depends on the weather #during florida summers with high humidity i would shower once or twice a day depending on how much i was exerting myself #but in socal dry heat unless i have been outside a lot i do not mind skipping a day #and in the winter every three or four days #;text.

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‘third wheel other sibling to brother-sister incest’ funniest trope in the world. pouring one out for tyrion lannister and juan borgia

#this is also sarai organa-solo from venus’s and my starred wars OCs. ky and evie right in front of her salad. #;text.

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#;about swan.