some sansa thoughts! + some side-eyeing of fandom, but you can’t have it all
11 months ago on June 21, 2011 at 04:58pm
Posts tagged word vomit.
Double standards re: rape and sexuality in the media
Alternate title: Hey, what else is new?
Trigger warning for discussion of rape
People have written about this more eloquently, with better examples - whatever. I don’t care. When you’re disgusted and need to vent, you need to vent, and this really can’t be written about enough.
1 year ago on June 03, 2011 at 07:12pm
Eduardo : Mark ? Are you praying ?
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”
The quote is Mark. It embodies him. If a ~spiritual dimension was present more often in the film - as far as I remember, this instance (gif) is the only instance that even hints at the dimension - then the quote would be perfect for a fucking tagline, or something. Incidentally this is one of my favourite parts of the movie, though it’s understated in the fandom in general. Mark has such intensity, such fucking passion for his idea - the idea that he has thrown himself into has taken fruition, and the power he has craved for so long is finally within his grasp. Eduardo’s mild disbelief is so telling - ugh, how do I explain thoughts that may not even make sense? It’s just beautiful, I suppose, that you can see the signs of the relationship’s demise (or, to put it more lightly, signs of the ~rift in the relationship) so early in the film. Eduardo believed in Mark, he did, but never the website. Not the website Mark envisioned.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world.
The quote is written by Ralph Wardo Emerson, by the way.
(via agarfields)
Just leaving this here as a start of an analysis, will delete and re-post when it’s actually DONE! Behind a read-more. Because I could seriously go on for years with this novel.
Lolita is a gorgeous book.
The amount of people that have called it base and pornographic is ridiculous to me. I mean, so many people just hate it! HOW?! If anyone following me hates Lolita, PLEASE TELL ME WHY.
It is the most gorgeous book I have ever read (well, tied with Madame Bovary, but I think Lolita wins out, just by that much). Nabokov is the artist of manipulation and I wish he was alive so he could hone my manipulative skills, seriously. He exercises such fucking control, it’s scary. Humbert is a disgusting, vile man, but we’re drawn in to his story from the first page, because his magnetism, his intriguing combination of brash confidence and groveling weakness is evident from the start. The prose is beautiful. I don’t even want to write about the prose, as I could never do it justice. It’s overwhelming, it’s alluring and skillful and flirtatious and fuck, I cannot.
My favourite character (in terms of a character to pick apart and analyse, not favourite in that she’s strong or funny or - you know) at the moment Lolita’s mother. She is ‘America’, the idea, in the most vulgar sense. Unable to understand or care that America has it’s own culture, and story to tell, she idolizes Humbert, the closest thing she has to the Old World. Her features are a ‘weak solution of Marlene Dietrich’, and her house is full of old paintings (such as L’Arlesienne, ‘the banal darling of the arty middle class’). Obviously, the paintings are reproductions, and that’s essentially what she is - a reproduction, a product, never able to live up to the original. She speaks with polished words. Lolita and Humbert are the protagonist and antagonist, and seem to shut everyone else out of the story, but we get just enough information of Mrs. Haze to form an ‘informed’ opinion - of course, no opinion is truly ‘informed’ because we receive it from one of the most unreliable narrators I have come across.
OK, done rambling for now. But basically, READ LOLITA. You will not regret it. And soon, you will refer to everything amazing in your life as ‘my sin, my soul’, or stretch their name out into three syllables and wax eloquent about it, or describe people’s mouths as ‘cesspool[s] of rotting monsters’, and you WILL improve your own writing because you will feel so, so inadequate next to Nabokov (the sad thing is, though, that the inadequacy doesn’t seem to fade…bleh). Seriously, read it.
1 year ago on March 06, 2011 at 12:38pm
Norwegian Wood (Anh Hung Tran, 2011)
I absolutely adore Murakami, so I went into this movie feeling pretty protective of Norwegian Wood, which for those of you that are unfamiliar is an absolutely gorgeous piece of fiction. I don’t want to meta all over you guys, as when I watched this it was at the Dubai Film Festival and I felt quite high on the atmosphere (to be honest, the FF’s atmosphere was pretty terrible, but what I mean is the idea of seeing an indie German film, an adaption of a Murakami novel and 127 hours all at once) so I’m not sure how accurate my word-vomit would be. But I’ll say this: it definitely seemed like a grower, and it was absolutely gorgeous. And by gorgeous I mean the scenery and the actors. It was quite different from the book, but the atmosphere largely remained, and some scenes were translated beautifully - the screaming! A large part of my enjoyment came from the fact you could tell Tran Anh Hung was emotionally invested. You got the impression, whilst watching, from the overall way the movie was executed, and after the screening he came to answer questions from the audience had and the impression was confirmed. And you guys, he is Vietnamese, and filmed a movie in Japanese - which, apparently, he was not fluent in at all. !!!
(via aryas-deactivated20120107-deact)
1 year ago on February 26, 2011 at 06:57pm
We still never talk sometimes.
Ron Swanson is a bad ass, cuddly man bear with the best mustache in existence, and I love him. Behind his ‘I-couldn’t-care-less’ exterior, Swanson has a heart of gold. We always knew he loved Leslie - compared to his reactions to everyone else around him, the admiration he has for her is blinding (everyone, do whatever Leslie says). But what I loved most about this episode was Ron’s interaction with April and Andy. I’m not sure how much I ship it, purely because Andy is the most devoted thing, and April treated him quite cruelly. I can understand it - she is the more withdrawn, cynical(?) character and I doubt she’s ever been faced with a love like his - and just as she was getting to grips with it, she witnessed his kiss ‘with’ Ann. I don’t blame her for what she feels, it’s just the extent to which she tormented him later and the fact that he doesn’t realize she’s aiming to be cruel because the hearts in his eyes are blocking his vision. Anyway, I digress. Ron pretends he interferes because he wants April the Terrible Assistant to stay, but he truly does love April, and Andy, and does want it to work out from them, and I love seeing that side of him. He’s one of the most hilarious characters in the show - whenever I see him open his mouth I brace myself for silent spasms of laughter - but he also has one of the biggest hearts, and that is why Ron Swanson is the best.
1 year ago on February 18, 2011 at 04:48pm
