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fist in mouth crying.

“Turn away, he says to Death.” OH MY GODDDDD

“It will be easy for Death to make a mistake.”

😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞

being in love with her seems like a cruel hell omfg

“life was fun if you were young, pretty, and successful in the seventies.” girl thats still the case.

come hell or high water i will find a way to live as messily and fabulously as her

the description of the smell of warning is so scary

I feel like Hamnet is my own son

Incredible.

The cheapest techniques are also the most ancient, Luca. Calling them brutal is… interesting.

Omg @ calling mens fragrance condescending. “

“They seem to say that any man vain and stupid enough to be shopping for a new, different fragrance deserves to smell like a suicide cocktail of dishwashing detergent and rubbing alcohol, and that any person fool enough to spend a lot of time near such a man deserves to breathe unwholesome air. The fragrance seems to be a punishment for trying.”

The leather section of Luca‘s article on masculine fragrances reminds me of that Joan Didion quote about writing being a hostile act of imposition.

“Leathers, via their connection with aviator jackets, interiors of luxury, cars, and saddlery, have an unbroken set of association with luxuries involving remoteness movement in danger.”

Damn, they are obsessed with Tocade.

I’m intrigued by Sanchez’s recommendation to avoid wearing fragrances you believe match your style. I do see her point. Perhaps don’t chain yourself down to one image of yourself or to just what you’re comfortable with. Use fragrance as a tool for exploring the unknown. I see the value in that and yet, I have yet to be awed while venturing outside my wheelhouse.

I like the notion that perfumery is an art of abstraction. I also see value in Sanchez’s point that the finest ingredients do not guarantee a great perfume. If you don’t know how to combine those ingredients, it’s a waste.

completely disagree with her hatred of florals! the aromachemical complexity of florals is unmatched.

the drawbacks of perfumery as a subject of study, per tania sanchez:
- nothing can be smelled without disappearing
- perfume changes over time, especially when exposed to air and light
- direct experience is the only experience
- perfume companies don’t honor their art above profits
- perfume is lumped in with cosmetics
- We are not taught the vocabulary of perfume

really loved tania’s point about how equating scent to psychological and physiology (memory and sex) undermines perfumery as an art form.

So unbelievably devastating, but we must persist!

“The Palestinians individual response to the man-made catastrophes inflicted upon them, are only indicative of the Palestinians disposition as an individual, whether they are our reactions to being forcibly expelled from our villages and towns or our reactions to the air bombardment of our families. These reactions do not change who bear‘s guilt, nor do they imply a standard to be obeyed.”

El-Kurd’s question about whether or not victims are entitled to their hatred is making me think of 9/11 and the Islamophobia that it gave rise to. I know his response would be that the root issue existed long before the event, but nonetheless, the offense gave rise to a hatred that was largely unjustified imo.

I largely disagree with his sentiment that an ideological project should be defined by how it materially manifest. At least partly.

“How have we allowed the world to demand of us, hospitality even in hunger?”

I had no idea Shireen’s Abu Akleh’s funeral was the largest in Palestinian history. 🥺

“Resistance, in the western mind, is a mutating concept. While Ukrainian resistance is glorified for its guerrilla warfare tactics, Palestinian resistance— termed “terrorism”— is puzzling, perverted, and pathological.”

When resistance is seen as propane and disgraceful, where can we go from there?

I just rewatched the reports of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death earlier this week. Like El-Kurd it blows my mind that the assassination of an American journalist by the IDF was so largely ignored. The video will probably will probably never leave me, like the images of Dr. Abu Safieh and the car Hind Rajab and her family were found in. :(

“Obituaries of dead, Palestinian men deploy certain identifiers (profession, education level, beliefs, and, more recently, sexuality) not to eulogize, but to advocate for the deceased, to satisfy the requisite conditions for grieving the deceased.”

“In misplacing their focus, advocates insinuate that the oppressed must demonstrate their worthiness of liberty and dignity, first and foremost.”

El-Kurd points out that this moral code “implicitly accepts these Israeli apparatus, which is one of racial and socioeconomic domination.”