May 2012
Anonymous asked: BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award, you are supposed to paste it in the ask of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it’s sweet to know someone thinks your beautiful inside and out (:
April 2012
"I am a leaf on the wind": cultural trauma and... →
weatherveins:
Found this article in the academic journal Extrapolation. Really interesting perspective on Firefly as an alternative response to cultural trauma (focus on relatively normal people just trying to survive rather than typical hero vs villain).
A few key quotes:
“Whedon’s is a story of the defeated, survivors who linger at the margins of a dominant culture and must find a way to...
In The Night Garden....
skeletalroses:
vi0letnocturne:
Night flowering plants
Evening Primrose
Moonflowers
Angel’s Trumpet
Night Phlox - As dusk comes on, they open releasing a honey/almond/vanilla fragrance
Evening Stock - Small pink or purplish flowers are not showy, but emit an intoxicating fragrance at night
Four O’Clocks - Sweetly fragrant and colourful trumpet-shaped flowers, open in late afternoon...
The Byronic Hero saw the poster for the Vegas...
TBH: The tagline is "be seduced."
Me: Shouldn't it be "get shot down"?
The Phantom taglines very rarely make any sense. There are, like, thousands of ads in NYC and all of them say stupid shit like, "You always remember your first time."
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My reading response for this week is so exemplary...
“The first section of Dracula includes two important elements as part of the larger interpretation of the novel as addressing English anxieties about Jewish immigrants. The first is regarding the Count’s day-to-day observed activities. His nocturnal behavior, described as extremely disturbing to Jonathan when he is forced to comply with the same schedule, can be seen as the association...
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish,...”
– Charles Baudelaire (via skeletalroses)
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I'd apologize for spamming y'all with literally...
