You People Have Got To Start Being Fucking Nicer To Lgbt People (especially Trans Women) Who Want Biological

I feel like any discussion of class in saltburn ultimately just sort of falls apart especially in conversations dominated by americans. it's where we constantly get the weird "upper middle class" takes and jokes. not only is oliver not upper middle class, but felix is not even moderately more wealthy than he is. he is living on what is basically an entirely different planet than oliver. the cattons are literally landed gentry, with the title and the massive fuck off castle to show for it. there is no true equivalent to that kind of social class in other countries especially in the usa but it is absolutely important to factor in. felix isn't just a rich kid, he's an aristocrat and heir apparent. it's honestly just insane to think about that level of disparity lol

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

I was wrong. Many are actually excited about the war. And asking for more killings. I want to vomit now.

One thing I found really interesting: I still hold the assumption that North Koreans are probably brainwashed and can be actually good people. But I can’t think the same about people in my country. Maybe it’s because I was bullied by them. My friends were bullied and threatened by them. And the saddest thing is people closest to me could be one of them.

For @island-in-the-shadows because

Gavey Haters in the House- I'm not tagging this because like... If you're into him, cool! Don't wanna yuck your yum, you go and share a crunchie with him, good for you.

I don't like Michael Gavey because I was an awkward, quiet, nerdy kid, and I had a Michael Gavey.

I think a lot of awkward, quiet, nerdy kids do- a friend who isn't really a friend. You're together out of circumstance, because they're a dork too, but you don’t have anything in common other than being on the outside. What makes that friend a Gavey is that this friend isn't interested in having you on an even footing; they want you to be the rung lower on the social ladder. To be their bootlicker.

Gavey is a maths genius. That's his thing. Like Oliver, he probably went to Oxford expecting to find people like him and found himself in another popularity contest... And he's pissed about it.

He's not socially oblivious. One of the first things he points out to Oliver is that everyone around them already has friends, that they're all from the same schools, and Oliver is alone. In fact, he's already bitter about it- "so you're a Norman No-Mates too, Oliver Quick?"

Oliver is oblivious, and he tells Gavey as much. So, what does Michael do?

FUCKING ASK ME A SUM, THEN.

That interaction is grim, because Michael knows what he's doing. He forces Oliver into doing what he wants by embarrassing him, on the first night at uni, in front of their assembled peers. Gavey doesn't give a shit if people think he's weird, because he’s already decided that everyone else there is beneath him and his calculator brain... He just hates that they aren't worshipping him for it.

You also see this in the pub scene. Michael complaining about a girl in his tutorial group.

MATE. SHE GOT IN TO DO MATHS AT OXFORD. SHE CAN DO HER FUCKING TIMES TABLES. He’s just pissed that someone else was getting attention, because MICHAEL GAVEY IS RIGHT THERE. WITH HIS SPECIAL GENIUS BRAIN. It's got to be that it's just because this tutor is distracted by some tits, not that the whole Oxford Maths department isn't there specifically to tell him how special he is.

This need to be superior is why Gavey's so invested in Oliver. Their limited interactions aren't good. There's no banter, no jokes- it's just Gavey being bitter and negging Oliver.

This whole fucking interaction sums it up.

Michael interrupts Oliver.

Michael tells Oliver about a way they've been excluded- one Oliver didn't even know about.

Michael knocks Oliver's attempt at being positive in the dirt.

Michael then rubs Oliver's face in it- giving Oliver a tiny little bit of hope (maybe he did get an invite, he could check?) then crushing it.

Would you do that to someone you considered a friend? Fucking doubt it.

Michael Gavey wants Oliver to be his little subordinate. To feed his ego, nod along when he rants about girls who can't do maths and how much the alpha hotties suck. He's the popularity equivalent of a temporarily embarrassed millionaire- rather than admitting that people don't like him for actual reasons and working on that... Instead he tries to turn Oliver into his little whipping boy yes-man.

He doesn't just call Oliver a bootlicker because he's gone over to the rich kids- he calls Oliver a bootlicker because that's all the value he sees in Oliver, and he's mad Ollie isn’t slobbering on his feet.

MIC DROP LEIF OUT

刺绣 茶点（抹茶✌️）

paperchase和tfl联名出的东西也太可爱了吧

《烈女》 “处事能干 你叫我手袋党 想框死我形状”。武旦要踩跷，女将军行军打仗穿的是“石榴裙”，骑的是“桃花马”。圣女贞德在画像中也总被套上裙装。社会对女性的想象总是狭隘刻奇。听说《特警密恋》里面有解构、反讽和女足比赛作为重要背景设置，要找来看看。

找了几个大登殿来看 感觉都没怎么跪啊

或许我应该转变心态 像14年他说的 即使徒劳无功

限制我人身自由

非要我穿高跟鞋

给翻看旧帖的自己：千万不要再回国。记得这次回国回家的遭遇有多难受。身体+精神+work受到多少影响。

好喜欢这期眼球 跑马灯也有亮点