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Annihilation was amazing. A.Maz.Ing.

I’m outside trying to deal with my dog and his upset tummy, so I’m can’t write about this movie in the way I want lol but I can’t stop thinking about it and will write more later.

I just cannot get over this film. Has anyone read the book? Is it worth reading? I don’t want anything to take away from how much I love the movie and how mind blown I am, but maybe the book is even better? I read a two book scifi series years ago by an Australian author, cannot remember the name, but parts of those books were similar to Annihilation, esp the genetics and botany stuff. I’ll look them up later, too. So happy about this.

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rubyvroom:

neoyorzapoteca:

“But what if some of us want to take our scars seriously? Maybe some of us haven’t gotten the highbrow-girl memo—haven’t gotten the text message from our boyfriends—about what counts as bathos. One man’s joke is another girl’s diary entry. One woman’s heartbreak is another woman’s essay. Maybe this bleeding ad nauseum is mass-produced and sounds ridiculous—Plug it up! Plug it up!—but maybe its business isn’t done. Woman is a pain that never goes away. Keep cutting me open; I’ll keep bleeding it out. Saving Leona Lewis means insisting that we never have the right to dismiss the trite or poorly worded or plainly ridiculous, the overused or overstated or strategically performed […] We shouldn’t have to turn every scar into a joke. We shouldn’t have to be witty or backtrack or second-guess ourselves when we say, this shit hurt. We shouldn’t have to disclaim—I know, I know, pain is old, other girls hurt—in order to defend ourselves from the old litany of charges: performative, pitiful, self-pitying, pity-hoarding, pity-mongering. The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but love.”

— Leslie Jamison, Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain

I’m dropping in the full essay link because it’s one of my all-time faves

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feministism:

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shortforesmerelda:

“That’s blasphemy,” said the vampire. He gasped as Vimes shot him a glance like sunlight. “That’s what people say when the voiceless speak.”

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Feet of Clay (Terry Pratchett)

I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately-

No. First I was thinking about another quote. From Carpe Jugulum: “Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things.”

(as an aside, I super love the follow-up line: “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–” “But they starts with thinking about people as things.” But that’s not all that relevant)

I realized that that line sums up the core message of the Witches books. Take Witches Abroad. Lilith treats people as things. She doesn’t care who they are as people, she just forces them into the stories she thinks they should play out. Sir Terry basically hit us over the head with that point. But it applies to the other books. In Wyrd Sisters, Felmet is the villain because he doesn’t care for the kingdom. He sees Lancre and its people only as a means to get power. Even in Lords and Ladies, the elves’ evilness comes from the fact that they see humans as worthless, less than them.

So I started thinking if there was a quote that played a similar role for the Watch books, and I decided that it’s the one above. There’s a clear message in the Watch books about injustice, and seeing justice done for the voiceless. That much is obvious. But the link goes beyond that. There’s a trend in the Watch books for the villain to be someone who uses tradition, religion, the natural order of things, to justify injustice, painting anyone who disagrees with them as blasphemous. Edward, in Men at Arms, wants to return Ankh-Morpork from its disgusting egalitarianism to the good old days of gods-given monarchy. The dwarvish grags - well, do I need to say more? Blasphemy is what they call it when the voiceless speak.

The point is, Terry Pratchett was a damn good writer and I love the Witches and the Watch.

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I used to pull rose petals off my mother’s plants and eat them, when I was little. I feel like I’ve spent my life chasing that flavor. This is not a winner though, even just a few drops of rosewater in Dr Pepper just doesn’t work. It’s not bad in Coke. Doesn’t work in smoothies (not terrible in strawberry smoothies but not great, ok-ish in mango ones though). I feel like there has to be a drink I can make that’s very rose flavored, but I dunno what it is.