★weekly thoughts, #032★
(1/26/26-2/2/26) (belated, whoops)
★ FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP FUCK THOSE WHO ARE COMPLICIT. Watching what’s happening with ICE not only with the literal murders perpetrated by ICE agents (Keith Porter Jr, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Parady La, Heber Sanchez Doniniguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yáñez Cruz, Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos) but the mundane brutality and hate that has been steadily and increasingly embraced over the past few years, the violence of action and of rhetoric, the decomposition of the soul of society, all of it pointed at specific minority groups like immigrants of color and trans people…. it’s super clear what’s happening and it’s soul deadening to be witness to. The state is defined by its actions and its actions are cruel, insidious, evil.
As Karl Stock famously said, “It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.” To put it another way, or to point out another niche within the growing fascist state, “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.” — Natalie Schulman. The boogeyman isn’t some shadowy concept you can allude to and not be a part of, not in the structure of the real world we live in; the boogeyman is built and maintained, fed and clothed, is himself just a man, a neighbor, and it’s easier than one expects to descend toward boogeyman-ism. Do big and small goods and be kind in big and small ways, call out big and small acts of violence or ignorance, reach out in big and small ways — it’s genuinely radical and necessary !! Don’t give in to doomerism and don’t pretend there’s nothing you can do.
I think this (links to resources, compiled by Sarah Schauer) is a really good collection of actions that can be taken in using your voice to show clearly that we the people oppose these brutalities and then also actions that can be taken to support those being materially affected by ICE.
★ The diaries and assorted documents released in this bloc of the Epstein files are horrifying to read. Just devastating.
⋆｡°✩this week, i’ve been thinking about….⋆｡°✩
★ My beautiful lovely cutie pie bestie A came to visit and we had a wonderful weekend. We saw Hadestown and.. the current cast is unbelievably good amazing show stopping talented. Jack Wolfe is so powerful and so adorable and his voice might actually be perfect. Morgan Dudley is the best Euridyce since Eva and her voice is so strong and clear and angelic and dynamic. Allison Russel is an amazinggg Persephone I’m sort of obsessed with her, Paulo Szot’s operatic Hades is so cunt. We got lots of good food. We went to lots of cute bars (shout out N Between and Monseiur) and got hashtag silly shwasted. We went to karaoke. I burned my tongue on tofu kimchi soup and on pork soup dumplings, multiple occasions, but like to burn your tongue is to know you are alive.
★There’s something really magical about the savory plate, forage for your lunch type of video trend on tiktok — to me at least. I think my whole life I’ve sectioned off how to live into prescribed notions, but under the radar so that I didn’t realize I was creating these structures and rules, I thought it was just a given, so the idea of just… collecting a plate of things that taste good, finding nutrients in whatever you want, is super freeing and inspiring. Like.. sorry, (Tim Robinson voice) I didn’t know you were allowed to do that!!
★ I think it’s very chic and cool of me to read batgirl and wonder woman comics while working at the yoga front desk. Sitting there all vibey, making conversation with everyone, drinking my green juice, and that’s just hidden behind the desk. You think I’m reading something really cunty esoteric cool girl on my kindle and it’s just comic book.
★ Every time that I contemplate bleaching my eyebrows, I have to use a fake no brow filter to remind myself that me without brows looks alarmingly like Danny DeVito in the episode of IASIP where Frank shaves off all his hair and covers himself in hand sanitizer (“I just want to be puuuuuure”).
★ I am feeling bad^trademark about my lsat score. Sigh.
★ The Guarav Gupta couture show, the pure art that was created for and around and despite and in tandem with the human body... wow to the max. Schiaparelli show.. wow x 2.
★ I’ve been saying this for years but I really would like to buy the rights to direct the adaptation of The Morganville Vampire series. Why has nobody else heard of this book series it was so good?! Truly I know I can make a bomb adaptation I feel it in my heart of hearts.
★ The Broadway rocky horror cast announcement is so fun !
★ Thoughts on me trying to publish a watchlist and book shelf at the top of each month so we know what’s ahead? that way you can have an idea of what might be coming and maybe try to watch the same stuff or read the same stuff so these reviews don’t just head out into the void, they can be based around shared consumption? and also then I can do that thing I always talk about of shaping my time intentionally, planning out options of things to read and watch each month. idk lmk .
⋆｡°✩movies⋆｡°✩
HAMNET, directed by Chloe Zhao and written by Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell, based on the book by O’Farrell (2025)
He made the whole world remember Hamnet !!!!!!!! They didn’t know him and they won’t know him and they will never get to know him and yet he is in part known, remembered, shadows of his person are shared and beloved. What is special is what is singular is what is universal; everything that you are is so specific unto you, and yet people find avenues of exchange and shared emotion, they find through lines to know. Holy shit this was so beautiful and tragic, but not in the ~trauma porn~ belittling way pundits have been saying; I found it so moving and full of love and light. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal have both been loves of my life for years and years and to see them together was almost too much; they matched each other so well in that understated evocative vulnerable manneristic charming pulling in way they each act, and both looked so beautiful doing it. I think I would’ve embraced Shakespeare in school sooner if someone had just told me he had a cunty little hoop earring. I loved the connection to nature, this very round and open look at the cycle of humanity where things need to be passed down and where everything that’s good and important and bad and central in life is connected. It was grounding but also really magical, making life feel larger and grander without being unreachably large or grand, it elevated the emotion in realistic ways. It all felt very Chloe Zhao. I love Zhao’s slow melodic camera work where it’s not dissimilar to a stage play, she lingers to let the actors do the moving, and she pauses to let scenes exist and flow. Buckley’s performance was really singularly beautiful, almost animalistic in the sense that she embraced a natural approach to life while still being a person who is charming and vexing, guarded and hopeful, just very open and honest in mannerism without wearing everything immediately on her sleeve. I also liked the element afforded to the act of creation with William’s love of the arts and the general rejection of said arts by society and his father, and the idea of getting caught up in the unreality of stories and the terror of not knowing how to translate and share the story. Also love that they legit just never really named him until the end (unless I missed something lolz), didn’t mention he was William Shakespeare until the end when he’d become who he became. Really great supporting cast and really great child actors. I cried duh!!!! Beautiful scenery and cinematography, I loved the landscapes and then at the end the constructed landscape for the round. The sound design really engulfed. Us Max Richter heads never lose (I used to listen to his music so much that he made it into my spotify top 3 one year), and it was a low blow but also perfect to use that needle drop of his song. On the Nature of Daylight is a modern day motherfucking masterpiece.
⋆｡°✩books⋆｡°✩
★ ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #1-10, sorry going to keep reading this so will credit the authors and illustrators next post, I am feeling hashtag lazy.
Wowww so beautiful and effective. I love this transformation of her story, and the absolute universe is really as good as it’s hyped up to be. I need to read more WW because she really is the other side of the coin when it comes to my love for Poison Ivy, in terms of her connection to animals and the natural world; one shows the essential tragic beauty of the natural world and one shows the essential beauty and potential of it all, the connection being lost versus the connection forever being woven. Love the use of myth and the dialogue around Medusa. Loooooove Diana so much and the way she talks and moves and speaks and does and acts. So so so fucking good.
★ BATGIRL (2009) #1-2, same as above re: crediting authors and illustrators
Babs I literally love you so much. Steph is such a great introduction to the group just in terms of being an underdog/transforming past underdog-ness into living up to a role that’s already been made.
a’ight that’s it she’s a short one byeee