Show rec for my fellow Reylo/ Darklina/ Saurondriels 🖤

it's called Gülcemal and it's a Turkish series about a dark brooding man with no social abilities who adores his baby sister. He comes back to his childhood town to get revenge on their mother, who abandoned them as children. There, he meets a woman, who his mother has taken under her protection, and immediately becomes obsessed with her after she shoots him an arrow and stabs him with a pair of scissors. The result? unhinged drama and god-tier dark romance 😭. I'm telling you, this show has it all.

Hello! I recently found another villain/heroine ship you might enjoy. The very first Wonder Woman movie came out in 1974 and starred Cathy Lee Crosby as Diana/WW. The movie is cute, but Diana has INCREDIBLE chemistry with the villain, Abner Smith (played by the very charming Ricardo Montalban). Pretty rare occurrence for a 1970s superhero film, but their flirtatious dynamic is explored - in fact, Diana's last line references her relationship with Abner. I thought I'd see if you knew of it :)

I've watched it two days ago with my boyfriend and the final scenes are really charming T_T

The movie itself didn't age well (girl spy movie screaming 70s is not my thing), but once Abner Smith interacts with Wonder Woman you feel the charm pouring out from the screen.

My boy is such a good loser when she beats him in the end, like he really likes her style

And when he asks for a cigarette just to hold her hand...

I didn't immediately realized the last line was about their relationship, but you're so right. Homegirl felt the chemistry too T_T

Thanks so much for the rec!

You should watch James Bond No Time To Die there is a nice villainous crush storyline in it

Oh, I've seen No Time To Die

You can find their tag here and here

Where do you get scene packs for your vids? (Just watched your cesare x lucrezia vid and was wondering where you got the scenes for it !!)

I never made a video for Cesare/Lucrezia T_T You'll have to ask the original creator

3. Oh!! Also Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. There’s a film called Stoker which is loosely based on it too. Ok sorry now I’m done lol

Have I already told you guys I've failed you??? Like I've received this more than THREE YEARS AGO and I'm only answering it now

Both anons: thank you so much for your recommendations. Shadow of a Doubt was a fascinating watch. I've always considered edgy vintage movies like this a finding, really puts you into perspective art and entertainment was provoking even at it's earliest stages and people have always been aware of the darker shades of human experience, even in 50s when entertainment seemed so whimsical.

I think it's even more edgy then today's media because the censorship at the time demanded this secrecy and subtext that makes you feel like you're watching something forbidden and wrong. The more explicit-to-be-shocking movies are, the more normal the taboo themes presented seem to be. I loved Shadow of Doubt way more than Stoker for that reason. Sue me.

As for the ship itself, I don't consider it very shippable because although they always speaking about their connection, there is nothing in their personalities that seen to connect. Stoker tried to fix this by making the main girl a potential killer like her uncle, but it created a whole different problem which was I don't understand the character at all nor consider the ship villain/heroine.

However, things begin to look more shippable when seen through another perspective. What if, because of censorship or just an artistic choice, the serial-killer uncle was simply an allegory for a darker theme: the molester uncle. Instead of murder which results in a major personality difference between him and Charlie and kind of diminishes the presumed connection between them, the creators wanted to tell a different story? One in which the crime that tears them apart is not contradictory to, but rather a direct consequence of their unconventional bond.

Suddenly the main girl having a platonic crush on her uncle before the reveal seems a lot more relevant to the plot. Her uncle manipulating her to keep it a secret by using her mother (his sister) mental health as leverage too. It still makes sense in a serial killer plot, but this way just feels more real, something that could and does happen, when relatives cross the line of fraternal love.

Also ready a lovely theory about how the protagonist's mother relationship with uncle Charlie was probably emotional incest when they were young and when Charlie (main girl) is born, her mother unconsciously assign her daughter to be her substitute - to be for him something she could not be. It's canon in my opinion. Makes everything a lot more interesting.

1. Hi! I think the 1987 film Opera would be up your alley - it’s very loosely based on the phantom of the opera. It’s a horror movie but it’s not too gory. Also the musical Notre Dame de Paris, you can watch it in French with English subtitles on YouTube, it’s actually fairly close to the book (especially certain songs). I think the Italian version has the best lyrics but I can’t find the full subtitled version. But certain songs like “Bella” and “Mi Distrugerrai” can be found w eng subtitles.

It's been AGES since I've received this comment, then took me months before watching the Opera (1987) and now I'm finally answering my mail box. Anon, I've failed you. So Opera unfortunately didn't win me over T_T It broke a sacred rule: his interest for her comes from her connection/physical resemblance to an ex-lover AND the personalities between the two women were completely different. Her mother was a sexual criminal and sadist, while the protagonist was just a normal girl.

Usually "replacement gold-fish" ships are very tricky for me cause it's already hard to accept that someone else had power over him before the main girl. If their personalities are similar, meaning the first girl was not a villain either, I'll probably ship the villain with first girl more than with second girl - it will be the superior villain/heroine cause she literally ruined him for anyone else. However, if the personalities between the women are completely opposite, I can't ship either: villain/villainess simply doesn't hit as hard as villain/heroine (SPECIALLY if it's off screen), but the only villain/heroine available is meaningless because the guy is not in love with her soul. She is just a projection, a poor replacement. Which was a shame cause I liked how in the end she pretends to reciprocate the villain - always a smart move from the heroine that promises many interesting scenes between the two characters. Oh, I have found Notre Dame de Paris the musical as a teenager. You can't stalk villain/heroine fanvideos without bumping into it 👀 HOWEVER I had no idea the italian translations would hit EVEN HARDER then the original french!

"And that winter heart of mine It's a spring flower And it burns in hell As if it were made of wax You are the one who fans the fire You, beautiful foreign mouth I spy on you, I want you, I invoke you I am nothing and you are real"

Oh Notre Dame, for once I'd like through her door, to enter her like a church

So much pain in us, so much anger.

We burn in hell, we go crazy.

I go weird places in search for villain/heroine ships T_T

skyfall (2012)

Something about Chani and Paul from Dune gives me major Eremika energy. Just imagine this soundtrack "A time of quiet between the storms" in the last moments between Mikasa and Eren.

Valdrin Sahiti 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection

As the pain sweeps through Makes no sense for you Every thrill he’s caused Wasn’t too much fun at all But I’ll be there for you As the world falls down

Available at Society6 and Redbubble.

Artwork from Labyrinth: Artist Gallery (Jim Henson's Labyrinth Artist Tribute) book.

Unsure which artist did this piece specifically so if anyone knows, please fill me in so I can give them credit or reblog it directly from them.

Labyrinth dir. Jim Henson | 1986

CHARACTER EMOJI ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE

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one of my most treasured supported-by-canon headcanons about Maeve is that she's physically incapable of saying "I love you." says it/shows it in other ways, of course, but absolutely averse to those words, at least when she means them. and the other thing that is delicious to me is that homelander KNOWS that.

in episode 204. when he questions her about Elena. "And you love her?" Maeve averts her gaze and doesn't answer. Homelander goes. "I see." He might not have known Maeve as well as he thought over the years but he still knows her well enough to know... that's real.

which is so fucking sad and funny and insane... the man who has a voracious hunger to be loved and the woman who cannot say "i love you"... that they were together for years... knowing homelander, I don't know that Maeve could've gotten away with never saying "I love you" in the time they were together BUT she is a terrible liar, as we know, so i imagine saying how much he loves her, just to make her say it back, and she assumes she's getting away with it fine because he doesn't question her but deep inside him he can tell she doesn't want to say it. but he convinces himself she's just uncomfortable with the words or whatever... still clings to hearing it... but in this moment, seeing that when she really does mean it, she can't say it... oof

an alternative headcanon i have and i cant decide which i prefer is that maeve never did say it to him, not even as a poor lie, BUT she had to say it once in the script of one of their movies when their characters got together, and homelander keeps a tape of that, and plays it over to himself, when he's feeling lonely. maeve smiling at the camera going "I love you, Homelander," and he rewinds and plays and rewinds and plays for hours

man from my last post I also just got hit with a realization that when homelander says to maeve “don’t say I never do anything for you” in episode 107 in regards to sparing Annie it’s like. A direct follow up to when he refused to save even 2 people on the plane while maeve begged him to

do you think maeve ever found out about john’s true history — when it comes to the stuff with being born in a lab and so on?

that's something I think about a lot... when or if he told her, and if so, how much. I think there's a decent chance he told her PART OF the truth... from canon, here's what we know that he must have told/not told Maeve:

his real name is John (as she uses it in 305)

he was raised in a lab/cell (he talks about this casually with her in 307, so it seems like it came up before, though who knows when or in what detail)

however, in episode 203, Maeve is blindsided by the Compound V news, so Homelander definitely did not share with her everything that he knows about his own origins

that still leaves a lot of room for speculation. I'm gonna admit here that I don't spend nearly as much time thinking over the details and nuances of Homelander and his mindset as I do about Maeve, lmao, so take or leave these thoughts...

I've blabbered before on here about how one of my favorite things about Homelander and Maeve (and also how little we REALLY know about them) is everything is 100% blurred in terms of how public vs private their interactions are, even when they're alone together. I mean. Both of them individually are playing characters all day every day, and also with the s3 confirmation that their relationship started as a PR stunt before it became real, like, that would definitely taint all of it, forever, even the best parts that felt honest and real between them, they'd both have that underlying sense of, is this still real, can i really trust him/her, am I still saying lines... and still being a slight VERSION of a character of themselves, even if it's a version that's a bit CLOSER to "real" (as much as we can define the "real" version of someone) than the public facing version. and that's why they keep stuff from each other. I mean, we know for a fact that Maeve kept things from him (notably: her past & present relationship with Elena), and I can only assume he would feel similarly conflicted about sharing his most intimate/vulnerable secrets with her.

It's hard for me to know HOW much he would've told her and what would've sparked it. But I like to believe that at some point he did confess to her that he was raised in a lab. Given that Maeve doesn't know about Compound V, he probably told a mostly-true but slightly edited version of it along the lines of - he never knew his parents, was taken from them as a baby to be studied by Vought, raised in the lab for his whole life. I feel like that version would be tragic enough to gain sympathy and still feel somewhat good to confess, while editing it juuuuust enough that he could feel confident it wouldn't alienate Maeve (if they're at a point in their relationship where they've already bonded over how isolated they feel even in comparison to other supes, and how their level of power can be hated or ostracized as much as idolized, in different circumstances)

and Maeve, hearing that, I imagine, would feel a lot of sympathy. Because - in my vision of her childhood, the common looming fear, the threat if she hurt people or didn't fit in or if she didn't help her dad get enough money to pay the bills, was "Vought will take you away and raise you in a lab", which at the time she had no tangible evidence of it being real but was still scary as fuck to a kid... so learning that it happened to him would make perfect sense to her & also engender pity...

on that note, Maeve's pity towards him, she brings it up in 305 to try to hurt him, but it's something I can imagine kinda going both ways at different points in their relationship. i can imagine it being a tender exchange early on, such as when he makes a confession like this, because he probably could count on one hand the number of times anyone has felt bad for him or CARED if he felt bad. so in that moment Maeve hearing & understanding just how awful that is would probably feel nice, make him feel seen/heard. but that's also kinda part of why they're drawn together but inevitably never gonna work? Because, to Maeve, Homelander is like, a cautionary tale? that's not the right word. he's like... an example of how it could've been worse for her. She's #2 strongest person in the world and that sucks ass in a lot of ways but she gets to know him and slowly realizes boy does it suck way fucking harder to be #1. and she has trouble connecting with regular people, but she has at least ONE person who loves/loved her... and even if her dad is shitty, at least she HAS a dad. yknow? Maeve looks at him and realizes: god, that could've been me, I'm so glad that's not me. which is like, never gonna be a foundation for a lasting relationship

like I said I have simply not spent as much time thinkin on his psyche but I wonder at what point he felt comfortable sharing those details and also at what point he (consciously or not) clocked Maeve's pity for him... My general best sense of how he feels about their relationship is that both early on and later on he aggressively WANTS to believe they are meant for each other and perfect together because, well, if not Maeve, then who is out there for him? thus him even in early s1 acting possessive over her even though they're clearly not together... like to me that attitude reads as he THINKS he wants them to be together bc he can't envision any other alternative for himself, but deep down he has probably already known for YEARS that he and Maeve aren't it. So like, at what point did he clock that she sees him that way, as... if not a monster, a thank-god-I'm-not-you? he probably tried to ignore it for a long time just as she tried to ignore his... um... murderous tendencies for a long time. because both of them are so used to acting and selling an ideal story all day every day for OTHER people so why wouldn't they do it for themselves? If both of them believe they are mutually the best option they're gonna get (Homelander having potentially no other alternative he can see & Maeve convinced that she has fucked it up permanently with Elena)... then I can see why they would keep on dating/fucking long after the real spark is gone.

anyways, uh, tl;dr - my conception of their relationship is that they don't spend very much time talking about their pasts and were never 100% open and unguarded with each other but there probably was SOME degree of honesty there at some point

EDIT: I just remembered that in ep 203, the first person Homelander goes to share the news about Ryan with is Maeve. the person he still feels closest to at that time. And it also suggests he does like sharing intimate stuff with people he trusts … to a certain degree. and then there’s also the whole thing where he has this berserk button over being lied to / having information kept from him which is both very understandable and hilariously hypocritical given how he lies to Maeve and others… but that sort of self-centered scale of “it’s okay when I lie, sometimes, because I just gotta” is something Maeve shares too (other supes to lesser degrees but it makes sense homelander and maeve especially both have this flaw being lied to so much throughout their lives and also TAUGHT slash FORCED to lie for a living)