I’ve seen a lot of different opinions about the teachers being gossip girl but no ones addressed my biggest issue with it. They act like the goal is humble all mean rich kids but then they immediately go after the scholarship kid who hasn’t done anything wrong. It immediately undermines their characters. Narratively, it could be interesting to see the teachers go from legitimately punishing these kids for doing actual harm to losing their morality to the inherent pettiness and cruelty of gossip girl. If they had started slower and then built up to a scene like that man taking and posting pictures of a barely dressed 14-year-old, it could have been shocking and major turning point in the season. By jumping into something so horrible to the most innocent character on the show, they lose that whole chance.
Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel
me:
my brain: draw artists as pokémon masters
me: ok
my brain: also make it pixel art and suffer
I just want to feel something besides nothing and pain
Low energy
On September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed. Pinochet converted the national football stadium into a detention facility like Guantanamo Bay. Chile’s economy was turned into a plantation for the 1%, as inequality and poverty skyrocketed under the imposed Milton Friedman-style economic model. Over 40,000 Chileans became victims of Pinochet’s terror. In response, the Nixon administration committed more money, more training, more torture equipment. The world didn’t begin on September 11th, 2001. Rather, for the first time in modern history, Americans were visited by the same violence the US has imposed since its creation. In Chile, the US murdered tens of thousands and impoverished millions. This wasn’t America’s first foray in international terrorism, nor would it be the last. The United States security state is a terrorist and a plague on the people of the world.
I love this photo. As gruesome as the actual scene in the movie is, according to Mike Flanagan's commentary, Jacob Tremblay (Baseball Boy) had a blast and his performance basically traumatized the rest of the cast. Rebecca Ferguson (Rose the Hat) had to pause a few times due to his acting in the scene. This photo really shows that...
Willem Dafoe and John Lurie photographed by Steven Klein, 1990
JULES VAUGHN in EUPHORIA | 2x01: Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door
Everything was fine when Tony Stark was still alive