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every year after you turn 17 you get further away from being the age of the dancing queen and that’s my least favorite thing about growing up
ah but when you turn 34 you’re two dancing queens and thus having twice the time of your life. and at 51 you become the dancing triumvirate and three golden crowns are forged in your honor
lots to look forward to
St. Denis Carrying His Own Head
thinking about that one feminist I read who said we have to admit to ourselves that the perfect hookup who magically knows how to touch us is nothing more than a myth, because it is just not possible to be “good at” sex in a technical skill kind of way, which applies equally to everyone we sleep with. we all know, when we’re being honest with ourselves, that the only good sex we have ever had was in long term relationships with people who know us and love us. and so inasmuch as that is true, the sexual revolution has been a pointless failure. it is not helping women have better more fulfilling sex lives. it is just helping them have more worse sex.
and this is the horrible tragedy of lines like “struggled through the night with someone new”, “you never measured up in any measure of a man”, and “it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden”. of course it wasn’t sexy, of course he didn’t measure up, of course it was a struggle. there’s no familiarity there. what a fucking nightmare.
Baby is flexing on me by being able to eat peanut butter.
the lotr trilogy are the best movies on earth but one thing i’ll never forgive them is the complete lack of aragorn and éomer friendship. i know i already made a post abt it but i honestly cannot believe these two talked One time in the movies while in the books they became literal besties. what do you mean they promised they’ll fight together, draw swords together, upon literally their first meeting, then repeated the same promise later again and again. what do you mean “Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.” what do you mean “And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.” LIKE HELLO?????
another thing i want to talk about more when i have more of a brain is the way Taylor talks about insanity and specifically crazy/mad women -- who are not actually insane -- or at least not an actual commentary on mental illness or appropriation of such -- but having extremely appropriate reactions to the way men treat them
“…not the least of his graces was the light to see and understand this truth; to see that this day, like all the days of my life, came from his hands and served a purpose in his providence. I had to learn to believe that, no matter what the circumstances, and to act accordingly—with complete trust and confidence in his will, his wisdom, and his grace.”
— Walter Ciszek, SJ: He Leadeth Me
"People who want Taylor to sing about Palestine are nuts," said the woman who wants Taylor to sing about the Wednesday audiences of Pope Saint John Paul II
🎶He said his theology was my body
I said: "The one who lives in this way
‘according to the flesh,’ that is, who
subjects himself-even if not altogether
consciously, nevertheless effectively-to
the threefold concupiscence,…ceases to
be capable of this freedom for which
“Christ has set us free”; he also ceases
to be suitable for the true gift of self,
which is the fruit and expression of such
freedom. He further ceases to be
capable of the gift organically linked
with the spousal meaning of the human
body".... OOoooooOOOOOh BABY 🎶
See my specific brand of insanity is I think she could sing that and make it sound good.
obsessed with her painting her beloved committed partner of six years and her manipulative whirlwind love affair with the same brush because like. objectively speaking. if we want to get really stark black-and-white about it. both of them fall into the same moral category, of men who are not her husband. and only Taylor Swift could come out and admit that in her actual lived experience, that was what mattered in the end.
Catholics: We don't worship Mary!
Catholic Mystics:
I think we're using "worship" to mean different things
Call it what you want, but if you don't see a problem with the idea of Mary being the incarnation of a different deity... I don't know what to tell you.
There's...a lot to unpack that's wrong here but I just want to point out:
1. The above quote is from an early 20th century Finnish art historian and is not necessarily an accurate representation of authentic Catholic belief or practice in the middle ages or now.
2. Even in the quote he's not saying Mary is a literal incarnation of a deity but merely a metaphorical incarnation of an idea.
"People who want Taylor to sing about Palestine are nuts," said the woman who wants Taylor to sing about the Wednesday audiences of Pope Saint John Paul II
