“Under His Eye.”

Sometimes when you buy a prepared oxtail they include pretty much all of the usable length, from the big fat rosettes up at the bum end down to these seemingly useless tapering bits at the end that are basically all bone with hardly any meat on them.

This is......not a new thing unfortunately. People have been writing for years about how the pressure to appear effortlessly perfect fucks folk up, especially women. Courtney Martin’s “Perfect Girls and Starving Daughters” from nearly 20 years ago comes to mind, it’s still a good and useful read. (It focuses on how…

The way that women who do *not* meet appearance/attractiveness criteria of gross powerful men get denied opportunity, advancement and attention/support they’re entitled to as employees or potential employees, is a facet of #MeToo that doesn’t ususlly get much discussion and I’m not entirely sure why.

Like I say it’s not pleasant but felt oddly.....cathartic. Like I say you don’t often see a horror movie where the monster is rape culture, and the awfulness and emotional darkness of the story and characters actually felt earned. The Wikipedia article summarises the plot effectively. 

Did you know I Spit On Your Grave got rebooted? Give the first and second ones in the rebooted series a miss but there’s an I Spit On Your Grave 3 and it’s obviously not a pleasant experience but it’s about Jennifer joining a sexual assault support group and meeting a bunch of people utterly let down by the supposed…

Oh eww fuck no, I haven’t come across that yet, thank fuck.

THIS. IMHO if you can see it was made with preserved dark juicy sour cherries it will probably be a good one, but with those fluorescent red maraschino cherries it’s a bit more of a gamble. It still might be okay, but is more of a gamble.

The problem is that most portrayals seem to focus on the two extreme ends of the spectrum. So most of what you see is either the most glamourised narrative (“Confessions of a High Class Callgirl”) or the most oppressed (“Underage Trafficking Victim Forced On Drugs By Pimp Boyfriend and Chained To A Bed”). I’m one of…

It feels like pretty much all of the Harry Potter cast, with only a few exceptions, have turned out totally okay with totally fine adult careers in the field of their choosing. That’s impressive, given the ensemble size. I swear the producers must have secretly psychologically profiled them during the casting process,…

Oh, men fucking love and respect period costume dramas. As long as they’re about men, doing Important Historical Man Things, and there’s only a few women involved, as satellite characters around the Male Protagonist. 

Downton Abbey is hilarious and one of my go-to turn-brain-off-and-watch-fluff shows.

I distinctly remember her being 17 in Bend It Like Beckham because it feels so rare for actual teenagers to play teenagers in movies LOL. Parminder Nagra was 27!! XD

Oh Jesus fuck no, boning poultry is only necessary if you’re doing a rolled stuffed thingie. Don’t put yourself through that annoying exercise if you’re just doing a normal roast.

Which thank god he has been given a chance to do, as I think most of his work since has been pretty solid.

Which I then followed with a paragraph which I thought made it clear my unease wasn’t with him doing movies he didn’t like but doing them and simultaneously pandering to the anti-fans who were, and are still, a very big and visible element of the whole Twilight phenomenon. Like you say my thing isn’t about him doing…

Which I followed with a paragraph which focused not on Pattinson doing the movies, full stop, but his doing the movies *whilst simultaneously repeatedly shitting on them and the fans*. It’d have been just as easy to address the super problematic aspects of Twilight without coming off like he was making fun of its (and…

I’ve noticed that Kristen Stewart has seemed to manage to stay fairly gracious about the Twilight experience when she gets asked about it. Like she hasn’t denied there were problematic aspects or tried to suggest they’re cinematic masterpieces or that Bella Swan is a role model and icon for our generation, but she…

Exactly. He’s done plenty since then, why not call interviewers asking baity questions out and focus the discussion on his post Twilight career? 

Yep and it’d be totally cool if he didn’t get baited into smugly shitting on Twilight when he gets asked about it now, and directs the discussion to the work he’s done since then. You get it. Others I’ve expressed this opinion to seem to think I’m either stanning for Twilight (which LOLOLOLOL nope) or reduce my…