lily
@lilydemelloworr
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I wrote about performance culture and the manufactured self:. 'if a girl is not a polyglot, does she still make a sound? does she still impress? does she still matter? I was always taught no.'.
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running errands around the eiffel tower and refusing to look at it
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the whole ‘i’m just a girl’ ‘explain palestine but for the girls’ thing is just a way for privileged western women to disassociated themselves from any adult moral duty and responsibility. they’d rather just be complacent in their ignorance. it’s lazy and embarrassing. grow up.
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the way a woman can’t even post a photo without being accused of being a performative try-hard faux-intellectual pandering to social media audiences omg we need to ban that margaret atwood quote.
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if you don’t read this as simply “i love (everything, endlessly)” then there’s no hope for you i’m afraid.
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Being a girl, and learning the world is not for you, it’s like a kind of death. Womanhood is a prolonged dying, starting the day you flower. We rot as soon as we ripen.
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don’t get all the controversy about the opening line of millie bobbie brown’s new book, i think it’s pretty good tbh
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me when sally rooney writes another unlikeable brunette with bangs irish communist protagonist
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wait, if you’re a joan didion fleabag marlboro reds girl, and i’m an esoteric french new wave material feminist girl, then who the hell is flying this plane?.
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if u saw me at 5am drunkenly staring in awe at the eiffel tower no u didn’t
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tweeting something like this should get you sent to the hague.
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ngl i thought we were all being ironic in our satirisation of hyperfemininity but recently realised a lot of you do actually live in the third person and perform yourself for the watcher’s gaze.
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excessive blush not in a 2019 tiktok e-girl way but in a marie antoinette rococo revival catherine the great decadent enlightenment winter palace dionysus-esque way.
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when dworkin said ‘no woman could have been nietzsche or rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomised’.
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the best thing i ever did was delete tiktok and develop my own personal style.
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when james baldwin said ‘the place in which i’ll fit will not exist until i make it’ and when fatima bilal said ‘the world is happening in a room i can’t enter’ and when yesenia montilla said “what / do i know about heaven? the / same thing i know about wings, / i can’t have it’.
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anyone else remember that girl who always bragged about how rich her family was and it turned out her dad worked for ICE.
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@marcmcprostate it’s one of my favourites but it’s started to be used for sinister purposes unfortunately
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horrified by the new language men are using to make misogyny and gender essentialism socially acceptable again
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literally just turning feminist talking points into straight-up misogyny some of you cannot be helped.
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i remember getting called a fake pretentious cunt for posting this last year even though this is exactly what i kept in my bag :(
hate when girls do those incredibly staged “what’s in my bag” pictures like they’re carrying around a full bottle of tom ford lost cherry and a didion paperback at all times.
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wore ballet flats to villefranche-sur-mer you can’t call me not dedicated to the coquette cause
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crazy how a man can literally just hold a child and be branded “good with kids”.
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this whole kate middleton thing has made me realise the large majority of twitter users are fucking idiots.
my analysis of the kate middleton photo saga is that they took her face from the vogue cover she did years ago and edited it in
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to be clear, i’m referring to this.
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lonely not is a gross loser way, but in a romantic muse tortured genius esoteric starving artist no one understands me better than everyone else sorta way.
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@blossomsbroke i’m an agnostic who minored in philosophy and the average religious person knows more about metaphysics and epistemology than i do like wtf.
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personally i’d rather kms that be financially dependent on a man.
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don’t know how people are misconstruing this as being against simplifying information. i’m not saying you need to get a copy of edward said’s orientalism and write a hundred page dissertation on peace in the middle east. just don’t flaunt and aestheticise your own ignorance.
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i am going to make a beautiful life for myself (despite, despite, despite…).
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why are some people more invested in celebrities’ reactions to the palestine/israel conflict than the actual conflict itself. imagine watching world events through the lens of being able to cancel some d-list actor who hasn’t had a gig since 2017. you are not real people.
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ok maybe i’m guilty of this too but i’m trying not to panopticon-post as much these days.
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having olive skin in ireland is crazy a woman just came up to me speaking spanish and calling me chica, girl i’m CZECH.
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essay to be written on the recent liberal feminist obsession with anne boleyn and lady jane grey
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don’t have the time to vocalise all my thoughts on this right now but last month i wrote about my own relationship to performance on my substack, here’s a link for those interested:
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when florence welch said ‘being clever never got me very far’ and when alexander solzhenitsyn said ‘there’s a lot of cleverness in the world but not enough kindness’ and when franz kafka said ‘how about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense’.
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nan goldin, breakfast in bed, hotel torre di bellosguardo, italy, 1996
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@themusingnotes it’s from an unpublished essay i’m working on! potentially will be posting it next week x.
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grief is so strange all i did yesterday was spend seven straight hours learning italian on duolingo.
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believe it or not, when talking about palestine my first thought isn’t “how do i make this kind and palatable? how do i say this with a smile on my face?” i’m not trying to be a joy. a woman doesn’t always have to be.
You sound like a fucking joy to be around.
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