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Three o’clock. Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon. Today it is intolerable. A cold sun whitens the dust on the window-panes. Pale sky clouded with white. The gutters were frozen this morning. I ruminate heavily near the gas stove; I know in advance the day is lost. I shall do nothing good, except, perhaps, after nightfall.

As if life could be packaged up like this, contained, delivered in a few anecdotes, bright and glistening, easy to swallow: all insight, all joke, all moral. As if real life offered any consistent essential truths. As if it were possible for me to explain myself. As if I wasn’t always leaving out the most important parts

reading this because my life is in shambles and it’s making me so mad…. every description of the main character’s tattoos makes me want to yell…. they keep using the characters full names like they went to the Wattpad school of writing…. I have to go

“While it may be possible for lesbian viewers to derive some pleasure from the vampires’ sexual escapades, these scenes invariably cater to male heterosexual fantasy. One particularly explicit scene from the Vampire Lovers is a perfect example of male voyeurism and, ultimately, male sadistic impulses” pg 92…. HARD disagree

“According to Jackson Lears, through this process, ‘Newer values, which sometimes seem potentially subversive at first, are frequently sanitized and incorporated into the mainstream of enlightened opinion.’ By assimilating these values, the dominant culture co-opts and disempowers them while it also legitimizes itself as flexible, liberal, and enlightened.”

“But the prevalent representation of lesbianism which emerged in the 70’s and 80’s incorporated ideas and values of the gay and women’s movements into a safe, non-threatening framework… whereby the dominant culture, rather than relying on direct repression, is able to absorb into its ideological framework the political or cultural definitions of less powerful groups.”

“…threatened to proceed with the film without approval from the Hays Office, and suggested that if the Code regulations could not allow the film to be showed, the regulations, and not the film, should be changed. His threat payed off, and the Code, on October 3 1961, was revised so that ‘tasteful’ treatments of homosexual themes were now permissible. Presumably suicide was what they meant by tasteful.”