#the light across the street

[gatabella]

Brigitte Bardot, The Light Across the Street, 1955

#brigitte bardot #la lumiere d'en face #the light across the street

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

#hot take white culturally christian or athiest leftests do not properly interpret white jewish ppl #like as a poc i and other poc understand that white jewish ppl often get racial privilege #but a) not always b) they experience oppression based off of their ethnicity #idk from my perspective it seems like white goyim either see jewish ppl as 'the disgusting exotic enemy' or 'basically WASPS but they #wanna feel special' #with no nuance. no recognition #look maybe this next part is bc i didnt grow up with jewish ppl and therefore didnt know until I was 18/19 that jewish ppl can count as #white. but like. idk how to say this. i dont wanna speak over white jewish ppl. but like. #jewish ppl that have obvious jewish features (whether Ashkenazi facial features OR they dont have those but wear eg kippahs) #arent like. white. idk pls correct me if this is antisemitic or incorrect or something. #but like. light skinned =/= white obviously. #i just struggle to see how my bestfriend with her lovely dark eyes and curls and nice nose counts as 'white' when ppl call her the k slur #across the street. ykwim? #like white doesnt mean light skinned. it means 'part of the in-group of white ppl' #like my ex who is white and jewish? yeah hes white. if he didnt wear his necklace then goyim wouldnt know. you know #like obvs he still experiences ethnic oppression but he doesnt experience racial oppression #but other ppl with more prominent eg ashkenazi (im singling them out bc most jewish ppl here are ash.) like i dont GET how they have racial #privilege.

[yvesolade]

“I couldn’t find the light switches, and I forgot how to make food, so I ate cheese slices in the dark. No, it wasn’t that bad. I ate cheese slices in the moonlight.”

Richard Siken, “On Perplexity: Chrysanthemum” in Poetry Magazine, October 2023

#richard siken #this particular line had me in tears #just reminded me very specifically of a few months ago #standing in the kitchen in my underwear at 1am eating takeout straight from the carton #the motion light from the church across the street shining directly into my apartment #sometimes the thing that's terrible also isn't that bad #it's as awful as it is mundane #anyway!

[ganondoodle]

hope everyone had alright holidays!

a few days ago when we were driving home in the dark in windy and rainy weather after getting two of my siblings from the train we, for the first time in my lifetime im pretty sure, hit a deer that was crossing the street, none of us saw them before they got caught in the headlights and the first one made it over but we werent yet slow enough to not hit the second one ...

the deer lived but was kinda stunned, my dad pushed it off the street and while we were still on the phone with police it got up and ran away but my parents car got damaged and while its still drivable there are several parts that got bent and since its an older model too it might be hard to get it repaired

anyway, i didnt know deer fur was that grey until i saw it stuck to our bumper :(

merry crisis

#ganondoodles talks #random #personal #we are all fine and i wasnt the one driving #i just feel extra bad bc i was there in the front to help watch out for exactly stuff like that #but it was a weird spot and strange in that weather for them to cross #the police told us there was another accident with deer literally 10 minutes before us in the same area #so maybe thats why it was only two ......... #i hope the deer is fine tho im pretty sure it at least has a broken leg #also i hope insurance covers the cost and it wont take too long #im very glad we were slow enough to not kill the deer and also not hurt it bloody bc i am still thinking about how it tumbled across #i am salty about how many people were speeding past us tho #car on the side with warning lights on and all doors open two people in car and two outside putting warning thingies up #if my dad hadnt pushed the stunned deer off the street when no one was coming it would have ended way worse for everyone involved

[peachdoxie]

The undergrads who ride electric scooters are a goddamn plague upon my town. They are the most suicidally reckless pedestrian-adjacent people I encounter on a daily basis, driving in the streets in dark clothes with minimal lights on their scooters so that I can't fucking see them until I'm 20 feet away, and swerving across multiple lanes of traffic with zero warning. And of course none of these idiots wear helmets. And while I'm at it, fuck Snag for increasing the number of these buffoons. One of these days someone is going to get themselves killed because they can't be smart when riding their fucking scooters.

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #look i know pedestrians and their ilk have right of way and I'm the one in the heavy death machine #but SERIOUSLY none of them have any street smarts whatsoever and joyride across five lanes of traffic IN THE DARK WITH ONE SINGLE REAR LIGHT #with ZERO warning

[aropride]

hate the part of Going Places where i get home and then i feel all the agonies

#text #like i finally stop Doing Things and it all hits #or like we were standing outside and i just sat down on the sidewalk bc i was getting so dizzy #and once i wasnt actively walking i could Feel it #yknow. anyway #now my chest hurts and mywhole body is so tired #but i want to sew a like #sleep mask thing bc the fucking . building across the street from me has the brightest lights ever #ugh. fuck my gay life

[zoobus]

THANK YOOOOOU

FOR BEING BORN

🎆🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY PITS OUT SIMEON🎉 🎆

Also got his birthday UR card but honestly? this ain't about him

#obey me simeon #and FUCK Nightbringer and it's low ass roll rates #you think I'm going to whale for THREE usable cards TWO of which use that overly blown out lighting style? #when dia de los muertos simeon is across the street??? #obey me

[spaceorphan18]

Okay but what if I decorate a bunch with christmas lights.

#you guys don't even know how much I love xmas lights #and the folks across the street have them up and it's delightful

[kingdomoftyto]

Decided to check out the audio drama Fawx & Stallion this weekend and GUYS... guys this show is SO FUNNY. I couldn't stop laughing for the first three episodes straight.

It's the story of some wannabe detectives living in Victorian London. Specifically, they live at 224B Baker Street, just across the street from a certain pair of decidedly more famous detectives--and they're sick and tired of having all their potential cases scooped by Sherlock Fucking Holmes. Luckily for them, while Holmes and Watson are out of town looking into some matter about a dog, a new case comes along and drops--by default--into our would-be heroes' laps.

And just who are these aspiring crime-solvers?

Hampton Fawx: detective and gentleman. What he lacks in common sense he makes up for with raw theater-kid enthusiasm.

James Stallion: gentleman and detective. A loyal friend and companion when he's not being a self-important arse. Runs on approximately 20% gin and 80% spite.

and finally Madge: neither gentleman nor detective. She's just been stood up by her date and she's going to make that everyone else's problem. She'll agree to help on this case just for the Drama.

It's a hysterical romp so far. A lighthearted farce set just offscreen from Holmes' own capers (for now!). Our main trio lacks even a single braincell to share between them, but by GOD they're going to solve this case and I'm going to be cheering them on the whole way there!

From what I can tell, new episodes are typically every other Monday, but the show's on a short hiatus for the holidays, to return in 2023. The first five are currently available to listen to, though, and I highly recommend it!

#Fawx & Stallion #certain details omitted so as not to spoil the little ep1 surprises :3c #this is a fun one to go into without much prior knowledge so if you're sold then please check it out now!! #I don't want to rob anyone of the gleeful little gasps that I let out as certain details came to light #but if you would like a few tiny spoilers to give you some more miscellaneous character info: #Hampton is asexual (I did not know this going in and it took me a bit to pick up on it but it is alluded to already in the show!) #James and Madge are legally married (which is why I left her surname out of the main post) but #they're both gay and happily pursuing other relationships with each other's blessing. #James is in a committed relationship (basically reads as married) to an Inspector from Scotland Yard and they're disgustingly cute together #his partner Archie is extremely long-suffering because Hampton and James' antics end up getting them in trouble more often than not #and Archie has to clean up their messes without seeming like he's showing favoritism. #(that description sounds like it could be tense but it's actually more in the tone of sitcom hijinks. it's lighthearted and hilarious) #and Madge is a complete disaster lesbian who apparently has an on-again-off-again relationship with Martha across the street #yes THAT Martha across the street #and anyway the three of them--Hampton James and Madge--all just share a flat with an ancient cat and #spend their days drinking booze and amateur boxing and bitching about Holmes and Watson #it's great. please give it a listen :)

[faeparrish]

the amount of near death experiences i’ve had from cars straight up ignoring the red light at a pedestrian crossing. i should start a tally

#twice this week 😋 #this woman just now decided to just ignore the red light and the fact that i was already midway across the street… #i literally had to stop in my tracks so she could go across the pedestrian crossing. yes we made eye contact yes i swore at her #yes she looked fucking embarrassed lol

[generalized-incompetence]

If it was raining I would let Dirk into my house but I would make Todd stand on the porch sopping wet in the rain while I lectured him about not bringing an umbrella. Does this make sense.

#farah would bring four umbrellas: one each for her todd and dirk and one extra #mona would be a bright yellow rain jacket or perhaps some rain boots #ken would contrive to be somewhere it was not raining #bart would murder the raindrops #michael assistent would not ask to come in but he would stand across the street looking nauseatingly pathetic till i gave up #friedkin would not realize it was raining #hobbs is already inside lighting the fire and tina went outside specifically for the rain #i cant put this in the main tag these are follower exclusive liminal airport thoughts

[mccoys-killer-queen]

Styx obsession, day -38: I'm gonna see Styx at the M3 festival in May! I think it'll be fun :)

Styx obsession, day 176: I've never been to Canada before but I just met Lawrence Gowan in an alley in Ottawa in the middle of the night and I know what underwear he was wearing and also when and where he bought said underwear

#this is literally my 2023 in a nutshell and i cannot stress this enough #december 30th 2022 i bought the m3 tickets and knew i was going to see styx but only knew like 6-7 songs MAX and didn't know anyone's names #except tommy's #and maybe dennis #5 days shy of a year later i can say i met larry in an alley in ottawa in the middle of the night and i knew what underwear he was wearing #while i was waiting in the alley behind the venue i was sitting there on bitchasscold concrete #looking at the lights on the balconies of the apartments across the tiny back street in front of me #and laughing at myself saying out loud ''what the fuck am i doing here ???'' #bc it was just so ridiculous to me how fast this shit happened #six months prior i didn't even know larry's name and had never been out of the country before #and there i was sitting there in the middle of fucking ottawa in the middle of the night in the fucking BITTER cold for Some Canadian Guy #btw yes it was exactly 176 days between the day my styx obsession started (june 7th) and the day i met larry (nov 29th at exactly midnight)

[phoenixcatch7]

Looking at spider info for Spidey and the wiki says he has super jumping. Not just as a result of super strength/speed/agility, but as its own thing. Understandable since apparently jumping spiders make up the largest percentage of spider species!

Apparently they can jump up to 50x their own length. For Spidey that's 100 metres!! But the hilarious part is they manage to do that at such speeds by literally SHOVING THEIR BLOOD INTO THEIR LEGS for maximum thrust. And in humans that kind of rapid change causes momentary sight loss and dizziness.

Forget web slinging and aggressive reflexes, whenever someone startles Peter he blacks out and wakes up five streets over.

#Lowballing the streets tbh the average house is 16m long you could probably fit seven if he was by an open window XD #This happens at the speed of LIGHT. Watch any video of a jumping spider and those guys practically teleport in low resolution #Flash probably thinks he's an invisibility meta #spiderman #spidey #peter parker #Marvel #spider man #miles morales #This would also happen to him lol #Oh btw Spidey has super speed. Like that's a thing. Besides the reflexes he can cruise a steady 200mph on foot #Between that and the jumping he can probably get across the longest point of nyc (35 miles) in less than SIX MINUTES #I assume if you've ever tried to travel in nyc that is a HUGE deal #i love numbers #Gonna add my #character analysis #Tag because I know I'm coming back to this later #Also #Fandom maths

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

oh our power is OUT out, like "something on the utility pole at the corner of our (small, suburban) yard got Actually Hit By Lightning and now the pole is leaning and the wires look like somebody turned them into yarn barf and there's electrical shit down in the grass ten feet from our deck" OUT

#text #personal #'the outage affects. twenty-four (24). houses.' according to the little robo man in my mom's phone 🤣 #like yeah dude we know we see the neighbors across the street with their lights STILL ON #anyway its been a very exciting time here and the tornado watch is almost lifted but its gonna storm til 3AM

[floral-hex]

woke up at 4am feeling the weight of my life crushing me, so I’ve been sitting out in my car for the last couple of hours because I just need. to. be. somewhere else.

#tumblr ate something like this but I think I deserve to shout uselessly into the void #shits rough dawg #I know it’s rough for everyone. I feel shitty even talking about myself. still… compelled to vent… big butts #haven’t really been on here much since it hasn’t really scratched that itch lately & just makes me feel lonelier #it’s cold #saw the Jazzercise studio open across the street. 5am for Jazzercise? wow. early. #and then everyone left an hour and a half later. lights out. everybody gone. weird schedule. I am perplexed. #went down the road and got a soda and I’ve been sitting in my driveway contemplating for the last 2.5 hours #guy at the gas station tried to talk to me but I just half assed a smile and nod and left #even though I know I’d love to just… talk to someone. I suppose it has to be ‘on my terms’ whatever those are #I miss having a therapist. or even just when my little brothers would talk to me. when anyone would. blegh #my insurance is still a mess and I’m about to run out of one of my blood pressure meds this week #maybe I’ll have a stroke. scary to think about. I think about dying a lot but that potential feels too real. just… pop! and I’m done. #I’ll try today to finally push to straighten it out but everything feels daunting #woke up with so much anxiety. about my health. my hearing. no money. my life. had to get out of the house even if it’s just right outside #hate to say it but I need(want) thc. haven’t wanted to spend money on it but I could have really used it this morning #can’t be sad if you can’t feel anything (jokingly but also not. whichever is less sad sounding) #actually treated myself to Dune 2 last week and it was so so good. wish I could go again. but it’s drugs food or movie right now. so… #I know. dumb priority but BIG SCREEN. maybe it’ll hit theaters again for the next awards season hopefully. just a real nice loud experience #anyway… I should go inside. almost 7am. need to take my brothers to school then drive my mom to her daily appointments #I’ve felt so hollow and angry and sad for so long it feels like. I feels so weak and sad and I’m tired of it. I’m so tired. #I’ve been eating about 1 meal a day and sleeping a lot. this is the worst my body has ever been. I feel like I’m just waiting to die. #is this relatable? #just have to look past it. it is nothing. this body is nothing. just enjoy your soda. #gonna look at pictures of butts now #ok gotta go I love you goodbye forever #you can ignore this #text

[wuntrum]

weather stop being scary and harrowing challenge

#personal #its so scary out there 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #n the polar vortex hasnt even hit us yeT #one of the lights in the construction across the street got like. exploded #so i just saw BRIGHT LOUD CYAN LIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW