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Amanda
Amanda
@apocalypticamanda.bsky.social
She/they. Late-in-life Queer, AuDHD, NB. Gaylor. Sci-Fi/fantasy lover for life. Xennial. Oversharing my inner dialogue since that other site started. Will like for dopamine & because I care. 🥨iykyk🥨
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This new trailer is sending me, not just in terms of my Zelda obsession, but the motifs. Willst thou flee?! Art thou ready?👀👀 youtu.be/8BYDYTh4G9s?...
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The photo in this post is of Rami Malek, from Ira Sachs's new movie The Man I Love, one of two films (the other is Elsinore, with Andrew Scott) about with an actor with AIDS fighting to work as his time runs low. Elsinore opens next month; The Man I Love is, absurdly, still w/o a US distributor.
There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...
Louise - more nobility/royal connotations. Derived from Ludwig (as in Ludwig II - the mad king who built the castle Neuschwanstein). Also means fame & war/warrior. Louise of Savoy is also interesting, served as regent for her son Francis I & negotiated some peace treaties.
Probably worth bringing up that Polo is among the oldest sports in the world (ancient origins), & is largely for the elites/royals/etc. Places of power. I do think there is a cardinal directions patterns vs diagonal patterns story going on at large, what I’ve been calling the grid vs the lattice.
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youtu.be/LKwwWPFsmrY?... I bet he burst into your life like Fireworks 🧨