Tw: Brief Mentions Of Miscarriage And Suicide Attempt

okay but why are there such good roasts in crime and punishment? like oh my god, they're all so petty and the conversations are gold! it's so ridiculous but at the same time i'm so entertained. it's like watching a reality show in book form if that makes sense.

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One of the most accurate descriptions of Innocent I’ve read - it’s written like a theatre piece or an opera. It’s exaggerated, flamboyant, dramatic, and the characters are merely actors, who are thrown on the stage, whenever they are needed. They all serve a purpose and stand for something the author wants to convey, so nothing about them has to be realistic.

I honestly love it! Whoever wrote this review, thanks, I couldn’t put my finger on it at all, but it’s the perfect comparison!

Best part of the movie lmao

mads mikkelsen looking you right in the eye and asking “did you paint this? and you call this a painting?” and then right after going “it’s ugly”

As a licensed therapist, let me tell you that the most success I’ve found with patients is not being uwu soft happy thoughts guy, and instead being someone that validates all the rage, anger, frustration and sorrow they have. Curbing it with fake positivity is unhealthy and self-destructive. Express it. If you need to cry, you cry, if we need to rage, we rage, if you aren’t good with words, we can do something more physical; I bought cheap plates one time, for this 16 year old girl who just couldn’t communicate and convey properly, then we smashed them together whenever our slow conversation touched on the things that truly hurt her, the idea being that giving a physical component to speech could help her organize ideas better, and it worked.

And after we get all that rage out of you, after we validate and shape it into something that’s nothing to be ashamed of and that needn’t be kept in a little cloister until it blows you to kingdom come, then we talk about how beautiful shit can be once rage and frustration are things you can grab by the throat. Yeah it’s not going to solve everything because a lot of psychological issues are symptoms of a greater root problem, and a lot of times, you don’t have mental illness, you simply don’t have money, but with that wholly on the table? Yeah it becomes easier to navigate potential solutions and increase resilience.

But seriously, “fake it until you make it” has a lot of merits but there’s a big red line that says “FAKE HAPPINESS” that you shouldn’t cross. Can’t blame you if you do, because we are taught “negative” emotions exist (they don’t) and that we have to repress and never ‘fail’. Fuck up a lot, and learn from it, learn how to get angry in a way that helps you and doesn’t hurt others. Way more productive than thinking happy thoughts.

Hot take: Bird Box: Barcelona was better than the OG Bird Box

Robert Mapplethorpe Embrace 1982

the Guardian

Vinette Robinson: ‘The collective effort was magic – I’ve never felt that on a set’

The actor stars alongside Stephen Graham as a chef on the edge in one-take restaurant drama Boiling Point

While I’m here ... you’ll hear/read a lot about Stephen Graham in this newish British film, and of course he’s good, but Vinette Robinson is totally brilliant and the best reason to see it. Just saying.

WATCHED IN 2023:

Նռան գույնը The Color of Pomegranates (1969), dir. Sergei Parajanov

MELKON ALEKSANYAN as THE POET AS A CHILD

the poet as a child & books

Stop motion movies are so comforting and joy and a lot of it is insanely underrated and deserves way more attention

"I'll stay with him!"Razumikhin exclaimed. "I shan't turn my back on him for a second, and to hell with all those guests of mine, let them climb up and down the walls if they want to!"

Razzy please you're too pure. An angel on earth