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DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

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“i love him.”

★☆☆☆☆

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

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ok u know that line "if only i could, i'd make a deal with god, and i'd get him to swap our places'??? yeah imagine that as achilles thinking that a few days after patroclus died

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So I just finished reading The Song of Achilles, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but . . .

About two thirds of the way in, Thetis tells the boys that there is a new prophecy, that "the best of Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed." And at first they're afraid that it's Achilles, but then Thetis tells them that he will be alive when it happens

The first time I read this, I didn't understand. It was only when I read that passage again, after knowing what happens, that I realized the prophecy was about Patroclus

The book even acknowledges it later on, when Briseis is saying goodbye to him . . . "'Best of men. Best of Myrmidons.' She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. 'It is truth,' she says. 'Let it stand for once.'"

In the first half of the book, a lot of Patroclus's pov is dedicated to describing how beautiful and amazing Achilles is. And when you see how ordinary and pathetic Patroclus makes himself look in comparison, you almost start to wonder why Achilles loves him in the first place

But Patroclus was the best of all of them, even better than Achilles. No one else had his kindness, his tenderness, his unwavering care for others

And Achilles knew this. Further on, Briseis says that Patroclus was worth ten of him, and Achilles doesn't disagree

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"My pulse jumps, for no reason I can name. He has looked at me a thousand thousand times, but there is something different in this gaze, an intensity I do not know. " [The song of Achilles- Madeline Miller]

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how i feel about all those "q slur" people

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young queers watch "Paris is Burning" challenge 2023

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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— Louise Eldrich, The Painted Drum

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feeling incredibly small bird with an injured wing. may someone please offer up a gentle pair of cupped palms so I may sleep just a moment.

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the day people learn that they can express negative opinions about queer rep without misusing the word queerbait is the day i will know peace

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helen brand smashing things and setting them on fire with justified rage is definitely one of the most gratifying moments i've seen on screen this year. nothing brings me more joy than seeing women absolutely fuck shit up. helen blowing up the house? yeah the destruction was so beautiful i could cry thank you janelle monáe thank you rian johnson for giving me this

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Okay idea—Olu’s moping between eps 7 and 8, Stede asks what’s wrong

“I love Jim but they chose revenge. I understand why, but it hurts”

Stede’s never seen emotions like this and is curious

“How does it feel, to be in love?”

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One of my favorite metaphors of Glass Onion is the Mona Lisa vs the Glass Onion.

Miles is constantly comparing himself, whether directly or indirectly, to the Mona Lisa. He wants to be “forever remembered in the same breath” as her. He plays up the mystery and the complexity of the painting, the artistry, the skill and the knowledge that went into it; All traits that he wants others to see in him.

But when Miles is describing the painting, who gets the closeup shot? Not Miles, but Helen. Helen is the one who gets multiple shots throughout the movie mirroring the Mona Lisa- same pose, same unreadable expression.

Because Miles isn’t the Mona Lisa, however much he wishes he was. Miles is the Glass Onion. Something trying to look complex and layered on the outside, when in reality, the center is in plain sight. Miles isn’t some enigmatic genius, he is exactly what he appears to be at first glance: an idiotic, rich, egotistical, shithead.

He didn’t make his own puzzles, he didn’t write his own murder, he didn’t create his own art, he didn’t even come up with the idea for his company. His island is filled with things made by other people. He isn’t even the person who did the thing that will forever connect him to the Mona Lisa. The thing that will forever tie him to Helen Brand.

Helen is the one with complexity. Helen is the one surrounded by mystery. Helen is the one who’s more than meets the eye. Helen is the Mona Lisa, and the Mona Lisa destroyed herself to take down Miles Bron.

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One of my favorite things about Benoit Blanc, and this applies to both the characters in the story AND the audience, is that he's such a brilliant detective he makes you FORGET he's a brilliant detective.

He's clearly well-known in this universe, enough that apparently Google defines him as the world's greatest detective, and Miles Bron even recognizes him on SIGHT in Glass Onion. And we the audience have, presumably, seen him in Knives Out, so we already know this isn't blowing smoke and is in fact a deserved fame. And yet his bumbling, scattered persona we see in the early film is so believable it immediately fools even people who know better than to underestimate him.

Even when he finally starts slipping the mask a little, after "solving" the botched murder mystery, we don't start seeing the real picture and his real goal until we see his interactions with Helen. His brilliance comes in his comfort with being seen as stupid, as incompetent, of letting himself be undermined and making people let their guard down around him, even when they should KNOW better.

And that works even better for the audience watching the movie. We're so focused on trying to figure him out, the movie hides the clues in plain sight. Even though we should KNOW, if we watched Knives Out, that the answer is not going to be simple and straightforward, that we should be prepared for anything. But we're so caught up in the performance and the story and the layers that it makes us forget we've been here before.

Anyway, Glass Onion is 10/10 and I hope we get more movies with Benoit as a connecting thread, because he and these movies are so brilliant and I love them.

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Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it's insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN'T SHED MICROPLASTICS