Jules. 25. they/them. ⚢.
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A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe… those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It’s found truth in its maturity, which if a virtue in man ought to be no less so for the things men create. - Black Sails, XXXVIII
I wanted her to leave with me. I know. I came to get her. She told me. I couldn’t get back. You shouldn’t be here now, Cass. But the last time I saw her, we argued. Don’t. I told her I was coming back. Stop. I should have never left that morning. Stop. She told me you’d say all this. — ANDOR (2022) ⪢ EP12 Rix Road
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.”
Andor S01E12: Rix Road
goncharov (1973) dir. martin scorsese // h of h playbook - anne carson // @/orpheuslament (x) // wolf in white van - john darnielle // “the gods show up” - michael kinnucan (x) // @/annevbonny (x)
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE || 1.07 || The Thing Lay Still
Could the children murder the father? He was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in a diminished form. Add to the toxic air a new ever-present paranoia, and now, you are with us. We were compelled to sleep in the same chamber together again. He would have it no other way. We would spend our hours enduring, with little pretense of getting along, locked together in hatred. He would have it no other way.
you've heard of ghosts as repetitions of memory now get ready for ghosts as the absence of memory
Bailey Bass in Interview with the Vampire (2022) and Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.
But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something with the audience instead of to the audience.
the journey home is an endless one
may sarton “letters from maine” // james baldwin “giovanni’s room” // neil gaiman “the graveyard book” // @wordsnquotes-net // anne carson “men in the off hours” // miriam adeney // “no longer fits” // han kang “the vegetarian” // “garden state” dir. zach braff // richard blanco “mexican almuerzo in new england” // mitski “there’s nothing left here for you” // julian barnes “a history of the world in 10 1/2 hours”
Capitalism is a psychological game. There’s an emotion only the wealthy can overcome while the poor cannot. What emotion is that?
A sense of loss.