20 | chemistry major
I like to solve problems by accident
(I would make this a studyblr but I barely have enough time to wipe my ass between lectures and assignments, so (๑•﹏•))
We've had poor Things, Lisa Frankenstein is on the way, and my local theatre is doing an adaptation of the Mary shelley novel. I have a feeling 2024 is going to be the year of Frankenstien.
What makes Poor Things so ultimately triumphant for me is the way that Bella Baxter is, despite it all, her own creation. She came into the world in an experiment that violated the autonomy of both Victoria before her and Bella herself, but she steps beyond the parameters of the experiment and into the world, to learn from it. The intentions of men may be to possess her or use her or take joy in despoiling her vulnerability, but their intentions do not determine her experiences. She decides. She explores. She looks at a world full of sorrow that could render her helpless and chooses instead to do what she can about it and then sleep easy at night. She listens to the call of her curiosity before all else, her happiness second, her compassion third. The family that she makes for herself in the end is unconventional, but it's ultimately hers and allows her to flourish as a doctor with an experimental nature and a heart of patinaed silver.
And I don't think it could be that particular kind of triumphant if the movie wasn't so fucked up.
Fun fact. I have burned my hand on a hot plate in the lab not once. But twice! in the last few weeks!...and I haven't even used the hot plate that much, but the minute they put that motherfucker in front of me my hand goes to it like a moth to a flame.
Also BONUS FACT! If you burn yourself, run the burn under tap water! Do not stick your hand in a beaker full of ice! Because that makes the burn worse! :)
You know we live in a misogynistic society when ppl are more offended by one (1) S.C.U.M. Manifesto than by the 443577422 male "thinkers" that said the same things about women.
"queer" is a slur that means "odd" and "strange" and it only became an "umbrella term" to include those who feel like they're special for having sex with no strings attached, those who don't have sex at all, and literal heterosexual people in the lesbian, gay and bisexual rights movement to obfuscate the very real problems that we face and they don't. happy pride month !