Jeanne Thornton

I Saw the TV Glow Screenplay Book Sometimes The Pink Opaque feels more real than real life. Book 016 in the A24 Screenplay Collection includes an introduction by Atom Egoyan, essays by Jeanne Thornton and Eva Victor, an excerpt from T...

guys i have an exciting preorder announcement to make at last <3 this was such a Kick and an Honor to contribute to; thank you a24 for trusting this soul

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Maybe it will help me if I imagine her as Data: A diffident robot created by brutal Victorian parenting, inserted by Dickens+Chancery into the world of Bleak House merely to bear witness, appeal, and Appreciate. (and who sometimes says really really weird stuff--"my pet--I cannot help writing it!")

Why Esther is hard for me (1) she feels constructed to be a maximally sympathetic Novel Character: she underrates herself, overrates others, is loved for this
(2) This also describes how "angel of the house" works
(3) Yet it is *actually nice* to see the kid who buried her doll get nice things?? 🔒

Esther denies she's crying, so the mysterious coach passenger in the fur hat reaches over to wipe her face with his giant fur sleeve in order to show her the tears. Alarmingly empirical to imagine! Shortly he offers her a plum cake and an imported foie gras pie from ~france~, which he throws out the window rather than eat. I have to imagine it was so awkward to be in a stagecoach with randos back in the day??

Wiping your tears in order to show them to you: Imagine someone actually doing this! This commitment to empiricism from this rando stagecoach passenger 🔒

Esther, who yearns to be good and earnestly wishes for this with her doll for so very many words and pages. Every time I bounce from this book it is during an Esther Chapter

:long, resigned sigh, then looking up with tight fixed smile:

hello, esther 🔒

lifehack: take an undirected walk for hours

oh cool, a real mitt romney type. folks love that

"but how can i be a workaholic if i'm failing to finish things or get back to people all the time?" bitch you are not a substance abuser because you have the power to do all the cocaine

workaholics anonymous: 20 question self assessment

whoa guys i got a perfect score

intimations of death in my laptop keyboard intermittently losing the power to type l m , -

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Lady Dedlock believes she is a cool mystery, and yet every dim little star thinks they know her. Mr Tulkinghorn may know her, or may Not??

Accurate rendering of Fisher Stevens as Mr. Tulkinghorn in Hackers (1995)

I love how deeply the book gets into information and differences in overlapping perception from page one. If 🛖 was the world whose god is rumor and public opinion,🔒 is the world whose god is secrets, information and how you leverage it. Mr Tulkinghorn its sinister goth broker. Like the Plague 🖤

Yes I just want the MUD and FOG and LEGAL DYSFUNCTION, in any season

The cat, her limbs all somehow visible in full and without optical perspective

Cubism

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Best music pairing for my lady Dedlock staring out at the rain: Balinese gamelan 🔒

I kind of burned myself out on Dickens at one point but little dorrit remains on my "one day" list (also Pickwick); this evil financier bathhouse death Intel v much reinforces this belief <3

Deal if we do it in may

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SO VERY MUCH PAPER! BILLS CROSS BILLS ANSWERS REJOINDERS INJUNCTIONS AFFIDAVITS ISSUES REFERENCES TO MASTERS MASTERS REPORTS! No light! All fog! Even the glass?? Is STAINED!

Yeah ur fucked lady!! You saw all the paper earlier! Bills! Cross bills! You only have reticule of documents! Paper matches! Dry lavender! Squeezed bonnet! See all those yawning court officials? Hundreds probably! They will never help you!!! You young trans writers! Read Dickens!!! Copy this man's insane powers at creating cartoon realities <3

Im teaching a class in July about worlds and objects in prose and you'd BEST believe we are going to be talking about the Court of Chancery!!!! Just look how much CRAP this guy Dickens gets into these paragraphs yet how lucid it stays (and how interested you get about J&J how fast??? Chef kiss) 🔒

Fog everywhere. :sickos meme:

I'm going to London for the book fair in just over a week and I'm so so excited we are all doing this at this time 🔒

My source on this is admittedly a Monty Python biography my friend and I were fascinated by in high school (it's I think the 20th anniversary one; my copy rests in my parents' basement), but it was an extremely memorable fact!!

Two fave python trivia pieces (1) the sketch about convert your pet into a different pet is based on Cleese adopting cats and having their voice boxes removed (2) Cleese got REALLY UPSET when palin/Jones wrote a sketch about a wine collector who admitted all of his bottles were actually "wee wee"

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one day all the storms are going to pass away, we're going to have our shit together and not be scared about money and unhappiness all the time, and we will publish the little zine month after month in a quiet little work of no purpose

anyway i did it because i realized i wanted to also try keeping up my patreon zine again. last year it devolved into periodic advice from space updates bc i was mostly just redrawing the same pages, but i miss the monthly stock-taking it represented, and the possibility that people were reading it

weird trick: i set a soft bedtime of 11 this year as a way of keeping in emotional equilibrium. and now it feels really wicked to stay up past it. is this the secret to life, to invent arbitrary little restrictions for yourself to inflate false feeling of freedom? have i reinvented being protestant

too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection

In the thought experiment it's way too bad once you get over a certain threshold! Like you can no longer be in polite company because you make everyone vomit, and you yourself are unable to enjoy ordinary pleasures from constantly vomiting/dehydration due to your wealth-smell. and i have two ponies