From Todays Newsletter

Carrie (1976) dir. Brian de Palma // Wuthering Heights -Emily Brontë // Jennifer’s Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama // White Oleander -Janet Fitch // Ginger Snaps (2000) dir. John Fawcett // Wolf Like Me -TV on the Radio

— mimi evangeline, from girlhood is godhood

My grandmother told me a story of how after her mother died she had a dream where she was walking through water and her mother told her that she has to leave her behind. She told me she didn't need anyone to interpret it, but she knew that it really was her mother speaking to her.

Funeral, Phoebe Bridgers/La Lune, Jacques Prévert/Dream States, Henrik Uldalen/The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Helen More/Leviton 3, Quang Ho/Some British Ballads, Arthur Rackham/Hamlet, William Shakespeare

“The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then…”

“the mermaids” - marianne boruch // “hylas and the nymphs” - john william waterhouse // “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” - t.s. eliot // “a mermaid” - john william waterhouse // “the siren” john william waterhouse // moby-dick - herman melville // “the knight and the mermaid” - isobel lilian gloag // “the land baby” - john collier // “lamia” - john keats // of “hylas and the water nymphs” - henrietta rae // peter pan // j.m. barrie

Halsey, “I would leave me if I could” / Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” / Kiran Desai, “The Inheritance of Loss” / Mary Ruefle, “Woodtangle” / Opie, “The Angry Father” / Josephin August, “Half a Woman” / Catherine Lacey, “Cut” / Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” / Rupi Kaur, “Milk and Honey” / Henry Chapin, “Cat’s in the Cradle” / Dick Lourie, “How do we forgive our fathers?”

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

if any of yall are interested in poetry and learning how to read, analyse, and appreciate a poem, check out this free course by the University of York that goes in-depth about reading poetry! i’m taking it now and it’s really good, 10/10 would recommend to anyone who is even a little bit interested in poetry

“I held my grief like two limp tulips. What am I allowed to have? I’m still here. I’m still hers. I’m still a body licked by stars.”

— “Departure” by Erika L. Sánchez (via decreation)

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

hi! i'm not sure if you already did this, but could you do a web weaving about the eldest daughter/ child (as a parental figure, taking care of younger siblings, etc.), but it doesn't have to be specifically about those things. thanks :)

@thisisalovestry (x)

Holly Warburton, Sisters

Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

Taylor Swift, tolerate it

Tabitha Suzama, Forbidden

@ch3r1b0mb (x)

Becks_Rylnn, How the Light Gets In

Supernatural (2005–2020), 1x18: Something Wicked

@thrill-of-first-lovee (x)

Daughter, Smother

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

When Older Siblings Step Into Parents’ Shoes, NPR