Venomous Silence

  The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

1.pat the bunny, I'm not a good person // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

oh how the horror of existence eats away at my heart but look how i cling on to the simplest acts of compassion, kind gestures, easy natural connections. bitter as i am i can't help looking at the world as if it's handmade just for me. i love loving, i love loving people. i love a soft love. no drama. no loudness. no doors being slammed. a silent love. steeped into the heart like a strong tea. jasmine scented. a love nurtured and moulded delicately with sturdy hands on a potter's wheel. a love made with love. a love to live for. a love that makes you want to stay alive, for tiny birds and the sky, for the ocean and the charcoal night. dying is no feat, we die all the time. if you are a lover, you must do the unthinkable, you must live. for you will be remembered and you will be immortalized in every bit of beauty that ever graces this earth.

[ID: excerpt from The gender of sound, Anne Carson

“Putting a door on the female mouth as been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.”

poetry line by Meggie Royer @writingsforwinter

“A woman’s first blood doesn’t come from between her legs but from biting her tongue.”

excerpt from Hunger makes me, Jess Zimmerman

“The low-maintenance woman, the ideal woman, has no appetite. This is not to say that she refuses food, sex, romance, emotional effort; to refuse is petulant, which is ironically more demanding. The woman without appetite politely finishes what’s on her plate, and declines seconds. She is satisfied and satisfiable.”

excerpt from The unruly woman: Gender & the genres of laughter, Kathleen Rowe

“…voices in any culture that are not meant to be heard are perceived as loud when they do speak, regardless of their decibel level.”] 💔

Every time I wrote your name, I lied. Every time I wrote your name, it was the truth.

1.Clarice Lispector | 2.Nickie Zimov | 3.Warsan Shire | 4.Pablo Neruda | 5.Madeline Miller | 6.Nickie Zimov | 7.Madeline Miller | 8.Vincent van Gogh | 9.James Joyce | 10.Nick Lantz | 11.Ocean Vuong | 12.Nickie Zimov | 13.Richard Brautigan | 14.Keaton St. James 

 From the beginning: 1) from Michelle Lyn King’s Taylor Swift Youtube Videos  2) Sarah Nicole Prickett 3) from “Whistle While You Dixie” by Dodie Bellamy, When The Sick Rule The World4) From “Does Your Daughter Know It’s OK To Be Angry”? by Soraya Chemaly 5) a tumblr user paired this text with this dog image and I can’t refind it…if you see this, please let me know and also maybe where the agression text originated from? sry sry. 6) Dodie Bellamy 7) from Camila De Onis’s “Vengence Be Mine” 8) from Letters from Medea by Salma Deera 9) From Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Anne Carson 10 )from Anne Carson’s translation of An Oresteia | Agamemnon by Aiskhylos 11) Mad Men still 12) from Helen or My Hunger by Gale Marie Thomson 13) Alice Notley, from Doctor Williams’ heiresses 14) From The Book of Repulsive Women by Carrie Lorig 15) Stills from Sex In the City

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

— Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King

[it - stephen king // blood brothers - bruce springsteen // dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir // maurice - e.m. forster // stand by me (1986), dir. rob reiner // bobby jean - bruce springsteen // no surrender - bruce springsteen // the body - stephen king]

finally making a part three of video essays ive enjoyed in the part few months! one, two.

movies + tv

in search of the distinctively human | the philosophy of blade runner 2049

the tragic beauty of blade runner 2049 explored

sia's music: the trap of symbolic autistic representation

remembering with a twist | a jojo rabbit & the book thief video essay

the stormtrooper paradox

the case against the jedi order

finn: the winter soldier of star wars

finn the lost protagonist

y'all still mad about cuties?

the fetishization of disney princesses of color // mulan revisited

the day rue "became" black

the confused politics of promising young woman

indiana jones – a primer on racist film tropes

exploring the blair witch mythology

what the hell is trolland? (the ugliest animated movie ever)

inspiration p*rn: oscar bait!

color grading and modern cinema – an essay on ugly movies

why terfs misunderstand the handmaid's tale

the tyra show, ego masquerading as empathy

hbo's euphoria is not "real" it's creepy

teen wolf, in retrospect

the secret life is the worst teen drama of all time

dinosaurs, the sitcom before time

the wasted potential of scream queens

fake anime in western media

the impact of dragon ball z: the series that changed everything

music

the dark side of one direction

the rise and fall of the 2000s video vixen

the misunderstood mind of left eye

mariah carey: the magnificence of 'butterfly'

the rise and fall of syco music

banned before debut? the controversial debut of honey popcorn

teen girls, boy bands and objectification, a video essay

video games

rationalizing brutality: the cultural legacy of the headshot

the girl games of lost media (part 1) (part 2)

a deep dive into animal crossing

books

'the secret' and its cult following

gabbie hanna vs rachel oates | authors, stop responding to negative book reviews!

a deep dive into the warrior cats fandom

the mortal instruments is... fine

internet

the man that lost everything for internet fame: dan bilzerian

tumblr's fakest story: the tale of oppa homeless style

msscribe: the harry potter fandom's greatest con-artist (trust me on this one. i wouldn't add this if it wasn't worth it)

family vloggers: something needs to change

we need to talk about true crime youtubers 🤨 | the ethics of monetizing tragedy

the tumblr iceberg (explained)

internet history: dramageddon 1

creepshow art | the lies, manipulation & slander that ruined a community

the weird phenomenon of youtube redemption arcs...

misc

grooming aaron taylor-johnson

why koko couldn't talk (sorry)

the problem with true crime

what we don't talk about in the jeffrey dahmer case: flipping the script

the "rampant transphobia" of bisexual history

a deep dive into littlest pet shop

tiktok is kinda bad for fashion

lifestyles of the rich and famous | wealth p*rn and you

the y2k aesthetic explained

god is weird: a close look at adam and eve

how hollywood damaged the olsen twins

the mouse utopia experiments

anti-maskers

tinky winky vs the religious right

the strange world of breatharianism

doomsday preppers | neoliberalism, f@scism and the apocalypse

let's look at the gruesome world of victorian medicine

make sure you add some neoliberalism when you talk about capitalism | i don't dream about labor

that’s literally why she’s so me