BARBIE
(2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

there is no end to human hubris

meeee

i think some of you need to eat a slice of cheesecake and listen to ambient rain noises ten hours

I want you to know I did this exact thing yesterday and it was so surreal seeing this post I thought I wrote it in my sleep

you are one of my sims

Lord save me

Vegaspete x The Wicked King by Holly Black

Reblogging this again for these taaaaaggssssss:

#the cure and the poison #the loss and the gain #the cause and solution #the pleasure and pain #there is some meta in this #about how most medicine will kill you in the wrong dose #and how things can both poison and cure you #depending on how you use them #but i am too busy crying on the floor #thanks op (via @tumsa)

and the way they made me think of how carefully we have to calibrate chemotherapy meds, and how despite the fact we're targeting particular cells, you can't get away without affecting the rest of the body, and so we're essentially poisoning someone just enough to (hopefully) kill the cancer without killing the person.

This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds

is it working

Yes

@rootingformephistopheles Missed opportunity in enmeshed, sequel idea