@nafragous starving saints was so good until the ending, then they bash you over the head with the theming of the book and subtlety is ripped from your desperate hands. but i love toxic lesbian bdsm polycule
critiquing this monologue for being entry level feminism is fair but i continue to believe that’s the exact point, and this for the ten year old girls in the audience who haven’t learnt this yet. it’s to take the weight of their tiny shoulders for the first time. that’s a nice thing
nosferatu staged to me the ultimate somatic betrayal tbh…the terrifying reality that your body can desire the very thing violating and destroying you. ellen’s nature is so demonized by the conscious world that its awakening can only manifest as a monster.