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Details: Ghost clouds - Les Nuages Fantômes. Ca. 1897, by Richard Riemerschmid.

#Richard Riemerschmid

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I put her on Z Lib so everyone can download :)

#I’m reaching out to hold ur hand and I’m blushing 💜💜💜💜💜 #this is such a good end to my day…

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Wait, Andrea “distilling femaleness to its barest essentials–an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes” Long Chu is out here writing reviews of books? Like……………………….this is the person whose opinion is being aired and respected here?

#an expectant what. #actually it is mildly impressive how practically every sentence she’s written gets me up in arms

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Now 2 b Fare I haven’t read any of yanagihara’s other writing but the description of homosexuality and pedophilia as “consistent preoccupations” is just not the phrasing I think works esp when paired with a) saying yanagihara is a lost luxe travel writer and b) whatever chu (notably the author of hmmm. ‘Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?’ and ‘Females: A Concern’) means when she says “the author’s omnipresence in the novel, not just as the “perverse intelligence” behind Jude’s trauma, in the words of another critic, but as the possessive presence keeping him, against all odds, alive” and even better, “the author appears unable, or unwilling, to conceive love outside of life support; without suffering, the inherent monstrosity of love — its greed, its destructiveness — cannot be justified.”

For clarification the most well known synopsis of ‘Females: A Concern’ is “everyone is female and everyone hates it.”

#like. hmmmm. I know it’s the vulture and I realize her new book is getting bad reviews but this is just so awkward.

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I feel like a larger issue is calling a little life the great gay novel and that isn’t on yanagihara — I think it’s absolutely valid to criticize and evaluate her writing but the perspectives people are coming from speak more of virtue signaling and idpol and tbh a weird method of devaluing what she says abt her work for what other people say about her instead

#….misogyny lol #absolutely nothing against ppl who don’t like her/her writing #but even without knowing Andrea long chu’s prior publications (which. are def misogyny-Something) her article is just strangely patronizing

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i think overall my issue with the andrea long chu hanya yanigahara takedown is that it equivocates the act of writing with something more personal than creating stories and characters, that the suffering she inflicts on her characters is her actually being a part of the story and nursing them back to health and like sorry i do not think a male author would be getting accused of this or of having a twisted paternal love for his characters, i think he would get accused of only writing about disease and abt doing it insensitively but it wouldn’t be framed as a sick act of care, the characters aren’t fucking REAL but she is. she’s absolutely worth criticizing but oh my god. 

also i don’t think yanigahara’s personal dislike of therapy is relevant to her writing, sorry! talk therapy has failed a number of people and it’s not a moral failing to not go to it even if you yourself are suffering. it’s also hugely dismissive to act like she as a person who “fucked women in college” might not identify on some level with gay people lmao

#chu is remarkably unforgiving in her depiction of yanigahara considering that I would honestly say chi’s NONfiction works as horror #I feel like her seeming criticism of yanigahara thru the lens of saying that yanigahara’s fiction = her decisions on “what to do to’ gay men #could be better directed towards chu’s own. non fiction. writing #also it’s unhinged to actually take chu on face value when she basically says that yanagihara a woman who had sex w women has no ground #bc it sounds exactly like saying unless yanigahara is like. going down on someone RIGHT NOW her words don’t count #there’s like a quota u have to hit #??? #I just don’t get how a piece can come out in this day and age #trying to pigeonhole someone else’s sexuality #‘prefunctionarily’ ……..

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#‘might’

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From this week’s newsletter, “We never truly know anyone” by Andrea Gibson

#Andrea Gibson #I’m always going to have the nutritionist rattling in my teenage head haha

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Ever seen a cat with a raincoat before? Now you have. 

(via)

#prev tags yes… #raincoat calico rly is everything actually

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mortifying to realize that the only way I recognized what part of the year it is was bc someone mentioned Spotify wrapped and I asked if they were seasonal

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Xiaolin Design ‘Gold Gilded Feather’ Haute Couture Gown [x]

#fashion #!!!!

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ppl are sooooo good at separating wheat from chaff nowadays I wonder if ppl rlly think abt the criteria they’re using to tell the difference?

#genuinely do feel impressed etc like the world is overflowing w info if u don’t build that ability #to distinguish things u will be swept under by the sheer weight but how r ppl finding this info abt what’s good? #still horrified by the stats for like 48% of ppl 18-28 or smth are on tiktok YES I’m judging #u may filter in ur 4u or w/e but literally the funnel itself is guilty #guilty lol I mean corrupt/broken/aligned w smth

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interesting to look at what exactly is seen as “easy to consume” as well as what ppl are! Consuming easily! do we find it hard to talk abt death abt ambiguity abt unhealthy appreciation of each other; are we okay w blood guts gore of all kinds — as long as it isn’t of children of course (and the age to be called a child fluctuates with how sexual the viewer finds the experience) and how do we perceive media that rails against what we hold as commonplace beliefs? is it easy to read abt someone in just as much debt as you or is it better to ignore the cost of an apartment in nyc?

#no offense to ppl living in hcol areas I’m cradling your face in my hands #tbd but like rlly sometimes I’m like?? what is meant to be easy and are you okay with that ease #idk if it’s hip to rail against the prevailing desire for safety again or what’s up

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a supportive helpful cannibal

#Hannibal was absolutely right but also I don’t think I initially noticed the bright red against Margot’s throat? #Mischa/Miriam/Abigail/Bedelia/Chiyoh continuum of speech and being heard

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yes Will is a poor little meow meow etc but I hesitate to characterize him as “trod over” or incapable of enforcing boundaries esp when ppl are so keen to disavow any affection between him and Jack like Will clearly cares abt Jack in meaningful ways and they interact mainly focused on work bc that’s how they met…thru high-intensity, emotionally grueling work that centers exclusively on tragedy. I love convo abt physical dynamics in the show and agree w a lot of discussion abt ppl stepping into Will’s space but the discussion is largely based on usa-traditional personal physical boundaries. I like the convo abt Jack immediately going in to adjust Will’s glasses as over the top but it’s starting to sound rlly condescending when ppl are like “it’s so disrespectful anytime it happens” when there’s plenty of places that boundaries can be malleable not to be like “work in a field w contamination protocol” but ppl can get handsy

#this is clearly not actually saying that I disagree w EVERYTHING ppl say but it’s ridiculous to use a one-off that technically #can be explained simply by ‘different boundaries’ to then brush off EVERYTHING Jack and Will go thru together #yes Jack is brought up in show as testing Will’s boundaries but that’s not a mark against him as much as an initial way #to show his ‘use every option’ methodology before we #see Miriam #will delete I mean I’m not arguing this is an actual stance but Why are ppl so focused

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nowadays everything has endless scroll and it’s so easy to forget the sheer volume of info that being allowed online initially gave me

#not to sound like a fool but for a while when I was a kid I kind of thought that any website I couldn’t write the url out for was like. #a dark forest or smth #do not ask me how or why I got this idea but yeah I was like ‘if the url isn’t something I can spell it’s a no go there be monsters whatever

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I agree with you so much about how violence in Hannibal is often sexualized in a really terrifying/unsettling way! I'm glad Bryan chose not to depict graphic sexual violence, but the undercurrent of sexuality in many of the more violent scenes is really... disturbing, but in a way that I find fascinating.

Yes!! I’m so glad that other people feel this way - I really appreciate Fuller giving us the comfort of knowing that we aren’t going to randomly be exposed to graphic scenes of sexual assault just for the shock factor, because it also really heightens the awareness of what /is/ sexualized.

I feel like there are two ways to look at it in the show too: one side is scenes like what I was talking about in the tags of a previous post, like Hannibal intubating Will to put Abigail’s ear in his stomach. The scene works on the physical level of what’s essentially a phallic object being forced down Will’s throat so it’s a physical violation with an object, but also a symbolic one on multiple levels. There’s a lot of focus in the cinematography on Will’s expression while the violation is happening; he‘s damp with sweat, eyes rolled back and lashes fluttering. Will is having a seizure and Hannibal is very casually manipulating his body and touching his face and shoving things down his throat!

But what’s also happening is that Hannibal is specifically shoving a piece of their symbolic daughter to be regurgitated after a period of incubation. Congratulations, it’s an...ear? Pregnancy and anything related are super easy buttons for horror to press on me, so I was really aware of the scene as a substitution for the “birth” of Abigail and the rest of their life once I watched Mizumono and realized that she had been alive at the time. Will throwing up her ear is the catalyst for Will’s transformation from acted-on to actor in terms of his relationship with Hannibal, and provides a pretty definite before vs after in terms of his arc. Continue to Mizumono, and Hannibal guts Will, leaving him with a scar suspiciously similar to Margot’s forced hysterectomy, and then cuts Abigail’s throat - pregnancy and birth reversed, since in order to get an ear down Will’s throat, he would have had to cut it off beforehand, but also essentially the removal of what had sprung from the original violation (Abigail as an opportunity and a life). Will’s agency in this is absolutely nonexistent, and tbh I get the vibes of that really messed up anti-abortion sentiment where they tell victims of rape that if they get pregnant they shouldn’t “give the child up”. This makes a lot more sense in Hannibal because Abigail Hobbs is an actual person who exists, rather than a fetus, but she is inextricably linked to Hannibal in Will’s mind, and in a parental manner as well (going all the way back to S1E01 where Will tries to save her after GJH cuts her throat but can’t until Hannibal steps in - Will provides the opportunity for Abigail to exist by killing GJH but for her to be alive requires Hannibal’s help).

This sort of thing is compounded by Hannibal’s physicality with Will in the flashback as well; he’s forcing something down his throat, but you know, he’s got his lips pursed and he strokes Will’s hair back and slides his hands along his jaw as he convulses.

And then, to make it better, when Will tells Jack he’s recovered a memory, Jack responds, “that’s meaningless”. Everyone spends all of their time (without meaning to!) gaslighting Will about his perception of reality, since...you know, Hannibal looks super respectable and also there’s zero evidence, but when Will says “not to me” it’s especially poignant when put in context of sexualized violence and penetration, since enough people are told irl that their memories don’t matter.

Actually I’m not sure if this is actually about what you were referencing about the undercurrent of sexuality in violent scenes hdhdhd because if you’re talking about how the fight scenes are shot kind of...sensually?? I also agree!! Tbh watching that weird Margot/Will/Hannibal/Alana scene half of it is shot kind of similarly to when you see Hannibal cooking or dismembering people, which are two very different things!!

#wrt last reblog…… the motif is just so strong…