Garden of Iron updated! Read it here <3
Diane Dillon (1933-) & Leo Dillon (1933-2012) The Abhorsen Trilogy (2003) Source
americans love doxxing their home states more than anything. we hear the name of our home state and everything goes black and we wake up 10 minutes later, having reblogged no fewer than 8 posts featuring the name of our home state
h/t to emilyscartoons
you have to sleep. you have to sleep you have to sleep you have to sleep you need to sleep you have to prioritize sleeping you have to you have to you have to you have to
the big three questions of media analysis: what the author wanted to say, what they actually said, and what they didn’t know they were saying
for the last one i don’t just mean oh the author inadvertently wrote in gay subtext or whatever i’m talking about media as a cultural artifact which can reveal a ton about societal norms, biases, ideals, etc. it’s all about positionality and an unexamined positionality is often the most revealing of all
This also heavily ties in to the concept of "all art is political", because even if something just portrays what the creator thinks is normal... "defining what is 'normal' and thus unquestioned" is the win condition for any political position.
"when i was your age, netflix came to our house in the mail" never gets old. they don't believe you, because they can't, because they cannot conceive the apparatus by which this would be true. but it is true. they mailed me season 1 of the sopranos with stamps. with fucking stamps man
I do sort of think the way drag queen characters are used in a lot of Queer Media is really OFF, in a similar way to how it would be OFF if your diverse cast of characters included Sproingo the Clown, who's a clown 100% of the time, always fully in character as the clown, and this is just not remarked upon by anyone, as if Clown is a distinct type of person and not a performance put on by the actual real person who's playing the role
And also Sproingo was treated as a preferable substitute for like, an actual minority demographic