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Selene in The Wheel of Time S02E03

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Me, when I'm depressed.

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Thank you for including me your fake mom who left you home alone not once but twice to share in this happy occasion. I'm so proud of you. 

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER 1x08 The Raven

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we-- Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee -- Edgar Allan Poe

requested by anonymous

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Sharon Stone & Isabelle Adjani in Diabolique (1996) dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik 

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if you love me, henry, it's not in a way i understand.

diabolique (1996) + wishbone by richard siken

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Movie recs for an uncultured person who wants to become cultured?

I assume you mean in a Criterion way and not in either a "Spielberg Ready Player One" way or a my "80s grindhouse/70s giallo" way. So here we go fancy cultured movies:

Sherlock Jr (1924) dir. Buster Keaton*

Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang*

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) dir. Dorothy Arzner*

La belle et la bete (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau

Rashomon (1951) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu*

The Hitch Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino

Diabolique (1955) dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton

The Killing (1956) dir. Stanley Kubrick*

Peeping Tom (1960) dir. Michael Powell

Scorpio Rising (1963) dir. Kenneth Anger*

Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman*

Belle de Jour (1967) dir. Luis Buñuel*

Midnight Cowboy (1969) dir. John Schlesinger*

American Graffiti (1973) dir. George Lucas*

Mean Street (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

House (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Nostalgia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Brazil (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam

Do The Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee*

Poison (1991) dir. Todd Haynes

The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion*

The City of Lost Children (1995) dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Marc Caro

Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas

Happy Together (1997) dir. Wong Kar-wai

Trouble Every Day (2001) dir. Claire Denis*

Whale Rider (2002) dir. Niki Caro*

Children of Men (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

I See the Devil (2010) dir. Kim Jee-woon

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen*

Holy Motors (2012) dir. Leos Carax

Paterson (2016) dir. Jim Jarmusch

Vox Lux (2018) dir. Brady Corbet

*movies I watched for college courses so 100% confirmed fancy smart people movies

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(Thanks for the movie recommendations!!) You mentioned What's the Matter With Helen? being one of your favorites lesbian horrors, do you have more to recommend?

Yes! I have a few lesbian recs. Note that many of these are not explicitly gay and more subtextual, but its still definitely there and they're worth watching!

Lesbian Horror

The Haunting (1963): this is a 60s horror movie based on the Haunting of Hillhouse book and RIFE with queer text/subtext. It's shockingly overt for being so old! Very good movie, more psychological than scary but still has a chilling feel.

Rebecca (1940): adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier book, VERY good and gothic and haunting.

Vampyros Lesbos (1971): There's a shockingly popular exploitation sub genre in the 70s thats ALL lesbian vampires. Most of it is wild and campy and trashy and pretty graphic, this one is the most famous. It sucks but it delightfully fun. The Vampire Lovers is probably the next most famous!

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972): This is my fave of the lesbian vampire 70s movies I think. It's a Carmila adaptation and actually has a plot! which I can't say for the others lol.

Twins of Evil (1971): weird religious trauma, and even weirder sisters. Not technically lesbian but lots of subtext, super gothic/flowers in the attic vibe.

Gingersnaps (2000) : speaking of sisters and subtext, this is one of my faves for gay vibes without being outwardly gay. The teenage girl werewolf movie of your dreams, unhinged and bloody.

Thelma (2017): full disclosure, I have not watched this one closely, I had it on in the background on a client's request as I tattooed, but it sounded awesome and what I saw was awesome and it seemed like it was a lesbian teenage witch/telepath narrative? Not sure but it had a happy ending and I plan to watch it again some day, paying attention

All Cheerleaders Die(2010): a fantastically meta rape revenge/slasher movie. Very aware of its genres and super fun. I have not watched it since my freshman year of college but I remember LOVING it.

May(2002): lots of body horror, very very weird and unsettling, Frankenstien meets Carrie.

Heavenly Creatures (1994): I dunno if this really counts as horror but I fucking love it so it's on the list. One of Kate Wislet's earliest movies, directed by....wait for it...PETER JACKSON pre LOTR?? It's about girls so obsessed with each other they commit matricide.

The Craft (1996): The ultimate teen coven/witch movie, one of my all time faves. It's not explicitly but WOW is it better if you view it this way. Nancy's obsession with Sarah....I have thoughts. This movie made me gay, sorry.

Make a Wish! (2002): this is an absolutely terrible movie, but it is the only lesbian movie in the weird surge of gay slasher movies which happened in the 2000s. It was billed as Lesbian Psyho and I think thats pretty...innacurate and arrogant but it's still really fun. Think, the L word but with a murderer haha.

Les Diaboliques (1955): if there's a lesbian psycho, it's this one. this movie is about a man's mistress and his wife plotting to kill him and it's VERY SEXY and queer coded and loaded with subtext. Not really horror, more of a thriller, but a great Hayes code era movie.

Cat People (1942): this is another very Hayes code gay style movie...lots of subtext and stuff about otherness and hidden identities. About a woman who is trying to conceal she can shapeshift into a cat. Feels very much like a metaphor for coming out/hiding one's sexuality.

The Descent (2005): Not explicitly gay at all, in fact the conflict between the main women is because one cheated with the other's husband, but the girls weekend set up and the intense tension between the all female cast...it has vibes. It's really scary and good too.

The Sentinel (1977): this is not explicitly gay, it's a haunting/religious horror/vampire sort of movie....but the side characters all feel very queer coded and it's sort of gay panic narrative. WILD cast.

The Hunger (1983): David Bowie as a villain, lesbian sex between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Denue. Who cares if the rest of the movie sucks haha.

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Person of Interest (2011-2016) || 4x11 - If-Then-Else

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Class of '07 (2023) | S1Ep1 Bird Shit

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I love how in yellowjackets the implied cannibalism is a quasi-religious ritual portrayed with horrific awe, but in class of 07 my aussie girlies are like "fuck it we've boiled the last shoe let's host a survivor tribal council to vote who we eat" and then they film it like survivor elimination. thas what I call a cultural dichotomy innit

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→ James Mcavoy and Ruth Wilson about the cut season 2 episode of HDM (x)

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I really hate it here…

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girl help. I got high and read the cruel and self-centered opinions of the imperial core's middle class, now I feel hopeless about the state of the world where once I was simply apathetic to said middle-classes insignificant understanding of the world and I don't know how to achieve peace of mind

puyi was the last qing emperor of china. as a child he would regularly have his servants flogged and shoot at them with a BB gun. as an adult he continued this cruelty and ran the japanese puppet state of manchukuo, presiding over countless war crimes. when he was imprisoned by the CCP, he was confronted with people he'd hurt: his concubines, the victims of japanese massacres, people who had worked and starved in manchukuo's factories. he realsed what he'd done--overwhelmed with guilt, he considered suicide.

after nine years in prison, he was released. he led an ordinary life as a street sweeper. he was apologetic to waiters in restaurants--they reminded him too much of having servants. he took care to be the last person on the bus. he acted in plays as a hobby. he was happily married to a hospital nurse, who said of her husband: 'When I was having even a slight case of flu, he was so worried I would die, that he refused to sleep at night and sat by my bedside until dawn so he could attend to my needs'

there's no amount of cruelty that cannot be unlearned. there is no level of self-centredness or brutality that cannot be recovered from. the people with these cruel opinions--maybe they'll die like that. but they have within them somebody kind and gentle. the possibility for such a person exists within everybody, without exception. so don't be hopeless when you see cruelty. just steel your heart and tell yourself that not only are there good people--but that cruel people can one day be good. that there is hope for every human being and so there is hope for the world

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