Hanif Abdurraqib,Ā They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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idk what ur talking about this is raw as hell
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āthe arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each otherā the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch
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Florence Welch, 2023 š§š»āāļø
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Barbie was about motherhood and belonging and feminism and love and identity and toxic masculinity and existentialism and humanism and it was, most importantly, pink.
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Before Barbenheimer, there was āApocalypse in Pink,ā the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issueās controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, ārevel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,ā an āanxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.ā
āItās The Hot Pink Cold War,ā Clairmont wrote in her introduction. āItās āMaterial Girlā on the radio and āWarGamesā at the drive-in. Itās āGirls Just Wanna Have Funā interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. Weāre told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure weāre just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up ā but STAY VIGILANT! and for Godās sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just donāt stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - itās bad for the economy.ā
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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. Iām so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You donāt have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.
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Foolish one (me) stop checking your mailbox (Tumblr) for confessions of love (news of AO3 up and running again)
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When will my husband (Ao3) return from war (is up again)
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Ok but hear me out
In 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle wants to kill off Sherlock Holmes so he invents Moriarty, his criminal intellectual match.
In 1939 poet TS Eliot writes Macavity the Mystery Cat, a poem about a cat version of Moriarty which borrows phrases from Arthur Conan Doyle's story.
In 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber sets that poem to music in his musical Cats
In 2019 we got... that.
Butterfly wings, and all that.
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