it means we don’t have sex with him as often as we have sex with each other but we DO love him and he DOES live here and he’s in this relationship. captain jack is IN this relationship
i have. a lot of big complicated thoughts about how people tend to treat depression as like. as if it’s nothing. like it’s the most basic easiest mental illness ever. why do we do this. depression kills people. constantly. people will throw around “depression and anxiety” and say they’re totally normalized nonstigmatized disorders and then you realize they only think mild versions of these disorders exist. i have a laundry list of mental disorders and the only one that’s ever actually put my life at risk was depression. if you throw around depression as if it’s the mildest least harmful mental illness ever have you considered shutting the fuck up.
Wait, would The Handmaiden’s plot still work if everyone were men? I just ran the scenario over in my head, gave the script a once-over for small dialogue adjustment, and I feel like it technically might.
I cannot stress the unbelievable degree to which it would not work as well if gender swapped. Come on now
like yeah I guess the story would still cohere but thematically it would lose p much everything 😭 this is a movie whose central plot hinges on the sexual exploitation of a woman for the pleasure of wealthy men + the men in the film objectifying, projecting onto, and underestimating the film’s female characters on account of them being women like it’s a pretty significant part of the narrative
Medieval scribes writing things like “fuck the abbot” (their boss) and “I am so hung over I feel dead” and “that goddamn cat got in here and pissed on the manuscript” and drawing penis monsters and purposefully unflattering portraits of public figures and animals in the marginalia is funny, yes. But more than that it is so deeply quintessentially human. It reminds you that they were largely just frustrated young adults who did an extremely repetitive and tedious job 6 days a week during daylight hours in poor conditions and felt the same malaise young adults feel now.
“This parchment is very hairy” is my favorite. That poor scribe, trying to write on hairy parchment, so annoyed.
How low quality it would have to be since parchment back then was literal animal skin stretched to the max
imagine copying text by hand from dawn until dusk 6 days a week doing what is essentially thankless unpaid labor (since you’re a monk) and they have the audacity to give you low quality materials that are difficult to work with
why is everyone i talk to an only or oldest sibling wtf!!! i need to say things only comprehensible to younger siblings!!
oh god i decided now was an important time to download all my contraband songs onto my new phone, and now im listening on repeat to a song she danced to when i was 15 (my suicidal era) that her coach dedicated to her own sister who committed suicide. so.
wait lets use that spotify stats page i want to know what everyone’s long term most listened to artist and track are! mine are the cure + “the river the woods” by astronautalis
