Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970
Text ID: I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.
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here is a clearer photo of my coord from yesterday !! i love this skirt so much pls bury me in it ૮꒰⑅>﹏<⑅ ꒱ა ⋆⁺₊❅⋆ ⁺₊❆⋆
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Henri Gervex, Rolla (detail), 1878.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
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finally accepting my body as it is
poignées d'amour as fuck girl i'm litteraly a greek goddess sculpture bite on them cuddle me like ???
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It's so funny how the Binary Code couldn't even hit Pomme since everyone was protecting her and 4 out of her 5 parents were online.
Pierre reacted immediately and got her to safety on the first attack, the second time the code died by accident and all the other times Pomme teleported inside while 8 people hit the Binary Code at the same time.
If killing Dapper was hard because of how OP he is, killing Pomme will be equally hard since all her parents care and are on guard all the time.
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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Monday, November 5
Text ID: —I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;
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Diary entry 383
ho visto questo esercizio sui verbi e m'è piaciuto per cui voglio provare con un multilingual post (anche perché i verbi in spagnolo: non pervenuti per me -ma pure in francese ormai... dispersi)
ENG - ITA - KOR - FRA - ESP
verb: to eat, mangiare, 먹다, manger, comer
I eat
Io mangio
저는 먹어요
Je mange
Yo como
I ate
Io ho mangiato/mangiai
저는 먹었어요
J'ai mangé/mangeai
Yo he comido/comí
I will eat/I am going to eat
Io mangerò/sto per mangiare
저는 먹을 거예요
Je mangerai/vais manger
Yo comeré/voy a comer
I am eating
Io sto mangiando
저는 먹고 있어요
Je suis en train de manger
Yo estoy comiendo
I was eating
Io stavo mangiando
저는 먹고 있었어요
J'étais en train de manger
Yo estaba comiendo
I want to eat
Io voglio mangiare
저는 먹고 싶어요
Je veux manger
Yo quiero comer
I can eat
Io posso mangiare
저는 먹을 수 있어요
Je peux manger
Yo puedo comer
I have to eat
Io devo mangiare
저는 먹어야 해요
Je dois manger
Yo tengo que comer
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Vampires being Southern confederates in the American pop culture tradition makes so much sense to me logically. Not saying that I don't believe it's propaganda, because it absolutely is. But planter vampires and confederate vampires (Jasper, Damon, Lestat, Louis, Bill Compton) make a lot of sense in the American context, as much as aristocratic and “Old World” vampires make sense in the British context.
If vampires are inherently Gothic, then vampires must symbolize and personify the vestiges of a long-gone past – one which only simmers to life from far below the surface when it’s time to reveal the horrors, or the romance, of what is usually an oft-forgotten history. In 19th-century Britain, through vampire short stories and novellas, and later Dracula, vampires evoked the (misunderstood and misappropriated) time of the Goths. This, in turn, brought to readers’ minds images of towering castles, the superstition of Eastern Europe, and the so-called barbarism of the Old World, that which was made to appear antiquated in its monstrosity and secret imperialist desires. (*sarcastic voice*) The Old World was so at odds with enlightened, modern, industrializing Britain! It’s no wonder that vampires in British literature took the forms of counts, noblemen, and princes – they were the conspiring, powerful leaders of the Old World, or the medieval world, or some forgotten pre-Industrial feudal world.
And if we are to apply this concept of what vampires should represent for the United States, it only makes perfect sense that vampires would be planters and confederates. Slavers, planters, and confederate fighters also evoke the Old America, conjuring images of Southern chivalry, the great Antebellum, and the humble pioneers of this free nation of God and goodness and prosperity! And then the confederates got their ass beat really bad. And they could only hold on to these romantic images of that former “honour and glory” through propagation of the Lost Cause myth. What better vehicle to wield this romanticisation of, yunno, the defense of chattel slavery than through vampire softbois?! Immortal beings who symbolize the survival and resilience of the Antebellum South through time. Why don’t we make them hot guys who were just protecting the South in our pop culture? Sure. If the vestiges of America’s long-gone past are slavery and genocide and, uh, chivalric Southern honour, then vampires do a pretty effective job of reminding us of this horrifying/romantic (you choose here) history. Spoiler alert: it’s horrifying.
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