idk if its because im an adult or like on mood stabilizers but im getting to a point where i increasingly see discourse and its not that i have no opinion or am incapable of comprehending it or why people are upset but i still go "ok well thats fucking stupid" and then move on. like its a nothingburger
just remember… in black sails there are three wlw Main characters… yeah.
lesbiantwinpeakswhen someone mentions a wlw in black sails but doesnât say which one
![a screenshot of what hozier said the song eat your young is about. it says âI donât know how intentional the reference to Jonathan Swift was in this. That essay [Swiftâs 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal in which he suggests the Irish poor sell their children as food] is such a cultural landmark that itâs just hanging in the air. I was more reflecting on what I felt now in this spirit of the times of perpetual short-term gain and a long-term blindness. The increasing levels of precarious living, poverty, job insecurity, rental crisis, property crisis, climate crisis, and a generation thatâs inheriting all of that and one generation thatâs enjoyed the spoils of it. The lyrics are direct, but the voice is playful. Thereâs this unreliable narrator who relishes in this thing which was fun to write.â](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5513446542757aab44ed1ea8e1ada450/6fb2be2459b285bf-83/s500x750/2084743cb915fa577a7a8359f0aa772d4f60eb2a.jpg)
The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.
kill them with kindness? wrong, eldritch blast
you watch black sails, it rewires your brain, and then what. what now. every queer abalysis of media sounds superficial. I want - I need, sometimes - to compare movies and TV shows to black sails so I can make a point, but I can't, because like, five people have watched it. And now what. I try explaining the monster metaphor and how minorities shouldn't conform, but no one gets it. so I just sound like I'm being insane. Which I am, but it has a point and a rationale. And then some media comes out and everyone treats it like it's revolutionary in how it portrays queernes but you've seen it before and you've seen it done better, more carefully, more genuinely, but you can't say anything lest the fans of this new media accuse you of being a prejudiced asshole. And maybe you are. Maybe you're expecting too much of media that should just be allowed go exist as it is. But if that media is putting itself forward as some kind of metaphor for how queer people are treated in society, and it comes to a certain conclusion, and you're queer, aren't you allowed to disagree with that conclusion? Aren't you allowed to think it's shallow at best and homophobic at worse? So you just watch black sails and go insane. and let the cycle repeat over and over. and it's still just you and those five people.
"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."
vs
"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."