Poem For Sekhmet

Poppy and Ian are like. They’re soulmates, but also they’re horrible for each other. They’re miserable when they’re apart. They can’t stop hurting each other when they’re together. They bring out the best in eachother and also the worst. They love eachother. They are like an old bickering couple. They aren’t romantic. They have linked their lives too tightly to untie themselves. And it probably would be even worse if they did. They both hold a button that allows them to exploit and attack each others most vulnerable core, and they’ve both pressed that button a hundred times each. They believe in each other more than anyone in the world. They’ve been cosmically linked since they were kids. They have faith that the “being together with you” of it all makes anything worth it.

I love that Rosie knows LGBT+ sexualities, but Alastor is too "old-skool" to probably care

today feeling like Emily Dickinson (have a thunderstorm inside your head, poison in the veins, dancing with a death, adore your weirdness, being a genius)

Season 3 promo posters!

''This is all I need: grief counselling from my own assassin.''

Greg Egan, 'The Walk' (Axiomatic, 1990).

”you will eat less than you desire but more than you deserve” is SUCH a banger of a line. I’ve been thinking about it for days

therapy can't replace getting so angry alone in your room you feel lightheaded

The most interesting thing to me thus far about this whole goncherov thing is that Tumblr has collectively constructed some pretty convincing side characters for this movie. Katya leaps off the page as this frustrated woman caged by her lack of autonomy, Sofia coyly plays both sides and acts above it all when really she's desperate for the same freedom Katya is. Ice Pick Joe is a less developed character who nonetheless acts as a stand in for the inescapable nature of cycles of violence. andrey, loyal to a fault, gets pulled deeper and deeper into goncherov's orbit until there's no way for him to make it out alive

and yet with all that I have ZERO sense of who goncherov is supposed to be himself. i've see a lot of stuff suggesting that the film is theoretically about loss, including the loss of one's identity, shown primarily through the way goncherov becomes unrecognizable to himself by the time of his death at the end of the film (seeing himself in a fractured mirror is a common motif). it's very interesting to me that we have a fine time coming up with a group of collective blorbos based on mafia movie tropes, but somehow the main character feels unknowable, to the degree that we had to make that one of the core themes of the film.

There is nothing more painful in this world than to be in love with something that can never be.

-Laura Chouette

i will sign any and every petition to save this show. i will ask any and every streaming service to save this show. to save the crows. they are just so special and important to so many people out there, I refuse to let them take this away from us. I will not get tired of advocating for this show.

because that's what we do, we never stop fighting.