i've been rotating shadowheart saying "stop being so gentle" in her dark justiciar sex scene in my head ever since i saw it bc it is so. SO devastatingly sad. here is a woman raised in a cult to believe pain is good and suffering is good and all the agony she suffered as a child and still suffers now in the name of her goddess was right. and then somebody comes along who loves her and they treat her with tenderness and she can't fucking bear it and she begs them to stop because if she thinks about the fact that being loved and cared for doesn't have to involve pain then she'll have to question what the point of all her suffering was and she's committed too many sins to look back now.
Killers of the Flower Moon plainly portrayed the casual violence that has historically upheld whiteness in this country, and so the subsequent shutout at the Oscars is the most unsurprising thing ever.
Pictures we took of each other at the Marina Ambramović retrospective
I've been waiting for this exhibition to happen for so long and it was a dream that it opened for my birthday. I don't have many photos because a lot of it is live performances, but I enjoyed it and I bought a membership so I can go back and spend more time with some of the longer two-week performances later this season.
Photos: some of the work Marina and Ulay made in their final pieces, including some prints made during walking the Great Wall of China towards each other for 90 days and some giant vases. And me lying on a piece intended for audience participation and performance; it felt very wrong and strange to touch a piece in the gallery, to lie down in the gallery, to perform and be a piece in the gallery
I wouldn’t call the brief romantic interactions Gabrielle has with men “relationships”. With Xena you can get away with that. But not Gabrielle.
Let me put it this way… Xena is a show where they’ll show you a male and a female kissing but not allow them to have a long lasting relationship of any kind and then give you a long lasting relationship between a female and a female but won’t show you the kissing.
You have to pick and choose your wins and your losses. What matters to you more? To see an amazingly substantial, in-depth and forever-evolving dynamic or physical intimacy?
Xena literally invented straightbaiting. The opposite of queerbaiting. Don’t worry. The creators were on the right side of history. Xena and Gabrielle are the central relationship in the show no matter which way you want to interpret it. They’re the beating heart.
There’s no relationship made more of a focus than Xena and Gabrielle’s - be it romantic or platonic.
The Man-Inserts mean nothing. Trust me. If anything, they just show you how much more right Xena and Gabrielle are for each other because the show is always fucking awkward whenever a random male love interest is introduced. It doesn’t feel right.
Simply put it down to intentional straightbaiting cause the only reason they’re there is to appease the straight audience. But this show belongs to the gays/queers. The creators made sure of it.
Ryan Gosling didn’t deserve that Oscar nom but neither did Margot Robbie. The level of performances this year were insane and the real snub was Greta Lee’s performance in Past Lives. Also, Lily Gladstone just became the first Native American (US) woman to be nominated at the Oscar for Best Leading Actress. The white feminism off people be having is insane.
jacob catching strays for being bafta nominated for his performance in saltburn .. people who have never suffered the misfortune of 15 minutes with a posh boy could never understand the intricacies and layers and with what accuracy he portrays them
Paul doesn’t have a Mercedes logo on his suit anymore… And he gave away his helmet with the logo…
i hate this. i hate this SO MUCH.
like i know there was so much talk about how merc doesn’t have 2 drivers in the same category, and now kimi going to f2…. but i thought we debunked that shit 😕 but now he gave away the helmet, he’s not wearing the logo on his suit, and he doesn’t wear any other merch either…. truly a bit scary :(((
the only good thing that could come out of this is the following: