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eluxcastar · 1 year

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Pantalone's…greatest interest

── ୨୧：pantalone x reader

୨୧﹑synopsis :: pantalone finds his interest in things he cannot have rather than in what falls at his feet and begs. he suddenly understands what it feels like to beg.

୨୧﹑genre :: mild angst

୨୧﹑content :: gn reader, reader is implied to be the owner of a legal brothel, they're referred to as madam in that context because it sounds classier than pimp 💀, pantalone is a simp, like really a simp to the point of being a bit obsessive

୨୧﹑words :: 600

so long story I was gonna post days ago some Scaramouche fluff in honour of getting him just before his banner ended but then stuff happened and I end up here. I burnt myself again 😭

the way Pantalone loves is…possessive, jealous and if money can buy it he'll have it, a true face of greed. he wants most what money cannot buy. the affections of the madam of a brothel he is loyal to only for its owner. he can buy any of the people there he wants and rent them out for a night and of course the one he wants most is only the manager of this establishment.

he tries his hand at gifts, all of which you have little desire and much less a need for. a banker speaks in money but how is he to bargain with someone who doesn't benefit from his full pockets in the way a common citizen would. dabbling in the unmentionable does have its own luxuries. what do you want-- no, need from him? what can he walk to the ends of the world to get for you that will make you turn around and fall in love with him like he knows he can make you.

you are a greedy little thing just like he is. materialism is like breathing to you. something in your eyes tells him you like watching him chase, letting Pantalone run about trying to appease you, to scrounge and beg for your permission to worship you. he has never been presented with something he cannot buy as even life itself has a price and if it doesn't seem to he can give it one. you seem to enjoy resisting that philosophy, stubborn thing you are.

he wants you, but does he want you because he sees something in you that he believes you let only him see or simply because he cannot have you? how far would he go to have you? in his mind he wouldn't do anything to jeopardise his own pride, but he knows that he can become weak when you want something. how much can you want out of him? he wonders if you'd be able to make him lick your boots and swear his loyalties to you above even the Tsaritsa herself. maybe.

he likes it when you act that way to him, click your tongue and spoil him in your own little way. sometimes you bruise him well. madam he calls you like the title attached to your role. it cheapens him in a way he didn't expect to enjoy but for you, who he grovels for, he'll allow it.

he revels in you finally beginning to play along with him, acting cordially and tolerating him like a common pest who has invaded your life and latched onto you. that or…maybe a little more like a house cat who comes and goes, at least with time. his impression of you changes and your tolerance turns to more spoiling, more rewards. you reward him so well for his efforts in chasing. equally so you punish him for getting in the way of business, or just annoying you.

your rewards always vary, but your punishments are always painful. he drinks every kind you give him in, burning, tingling, throbbing that are always swirling together with an electricity that settles in his body with the help of the vision attached to your hip. normally he would never allow such a thing but for you he would give anything as he finds you to be something he believes only he should be able to treasure, stringing him along in this little game you made just for him.

he was right to think that materialism was like breathing to you, he just so happens to be your highest bidder.

#✦ — headcanons.#✦ — angst.#here's some food #a little bit of food #that I prepared earlier #I didn't like it originally but I reread it #and was confused why I didn't post it #it seems fine I think #pantalone #genshin pantalone #pantalone x reader #genshin impact #genshin #genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader

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little-pup-pip · 5 months

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Strawberry shortcake!!

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atlantic-riona · 2 years

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full offense but if you write a book about Neverland or Peter Pan and have there be a romance between Wendy and Hook I am sending you outside to consider your crimes. don't bother coming back inside until you repent

#'ooooooh captain hook is so sexy let's do a love triangle—'#do you hear yourself? why are you sexualizing a story meant for children #really think about that for a second #because you could go and write an original story about a woman who travels to a magic land and meets a sexy pirate or whatever #so why do you want to take a character who is a child and hook her up with a character who's an adult #and is also directly thematically tied to her father #(if you consider that in stage productions and movies hook is always played by the same actor for mr. darling)#(AND FURTHERMORE)#(one might argue that Peter Pan Hook and Mr. Darling represent the boy who won't grow up #the man who didn't grow up and the man who did grow up)#so if we're going down that road why are you simplifying those themes to 'hook sexy peter immature #literally do not talk to me until you have reread the original and considered the actual themes and takeaways from it #I rank this as a worse crime than taking a beloved magic land like Wonderland Oz or Neverland and going #'ooooh what if it was DARK and EDGY and ACTUALLY EVIL'#just stop #go make your own edgy original world #leave the beloved classics that you clearly do not understand alone #but anyway back to my original point: do not do this #if you think to yourself that children's classics need more sex or edginess they don't!! that's the devil speaking #hope this helps #peter pan

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epicfranb · 1 month

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Remember Gem's beehive origin? It wasn't a bee origin, i think the text said it was a lot of bees holding together a form. But my headcanon, which i would've explored more if not for insectophobia, is that she's literally.. a hive. Like, the bees straight up makes home inside of her. That gave me an idea for an urban fantasy new life au, and the irony is that i literally wanted to do the same thing with origins smp, but i accidentally recreated kagepro and i was never the same person again. Either way, didn't go past the ideas stage on both things. I literally want an urban fantasy au so bad but kagepro is literally my only inspo for that 🤷‍♂️ so there's that

#new life was so cool like. you had sausage being a fire mage and reborn as a phoenix.#pearl being a star girl and shubble being sunshine girl #pearl getting to like the copper origin dying then dying again and reborn as a copper origin again #pearl and owen being copper golems at the same time #whatever the fuck oli was up to #stacy living in her remote nether house in the middle of a lava lake #martyn and shubble and some others probably stayed on their first lives for the whole series #fire mage gem and owen's entire story arc and shubble's greenhouse and joey's entire 1st episode and the houses at spawn #and joel choosing strange names and pooping skeleton horses and jimmy being The Guy of The Week and the toy boxes martyn kept making #and messing with create and immersive paintings and the freezing fridge freezers or whatever #i probably would've loved/will love afterlife if i ever watch it. sad that new life didn't work out tho #thanks for reading my rambles tho i loved watching that series and just now recounting my favorite moments #ain't rereading all that tho so if i wrote some nonsense or the autocorrect thing messed up. oh well #life updates

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sysig · 8 months

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Kinda in the middle of planning a defense, no flirting pls (Patreon)

Bonus:

#Doodles #SCII #ZEX #The Captain #Commander Hayes #And my first pass at an Arilou! :D #They're cute! I like them!#As with all the SCII aliens I haven't met yet I'm already injecting headcanons into them lol I'll stop once I actually start playing #I think what's especially funny is that this was mostly just meant to be a warmup/drawing ZEX as a handsome pirate briefly #Again to celebrate how pretty he is in that getup <3 And then it turned into an idea! Come on now!#I am quite pleased with how it all turned out tho haha - I got to draw the Captains coat and an Arilou and Commander Hayes!#Oh and pretty pirate!ZEX as well - as originally intended lol #I like the idea of the tables being turned and the Captain is able to actually act on his righteous indignation at ZEX's treatment of him ♪#Not enough to actually dissuade him (himself) but he still gets to be mad! It's unfair of you ZEX! (He knows haha)#Still not enough to avoid a hug - and in front of his own crew and allies no less haha #At first including the Arilou was just kind of an errant thought #I had mixed up ZEX seeing their ship in-fic and one of the ZEX comic panels as being the same event in my head #Realized the other day that it was not! Still not by rereading lol I went and looked at the art again ♪ It's cute!#And the Arilou did end up being quite fun to draw :D I like the triple eye fold haha I didn't think I'd get to use that again outside of Bar #And only shading the upper one hehe ♪ I think it gives a neat look overall #Been a heck-while since I drew Hayes as well - I didn't see a reference for him either (understandably) so I just made something up haha #Thinking about it I wonder if ZEX likes how the Arilou look :0 They are rather humanoid! Would he be dissuaded? Are they annoying enough lol #''It's a very simple solution to all of this Admiral :)'' haha ♪

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provincara · 7 days

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Dorcas best glow up

Bonus Quintana being so fucking real:

#ok but for real though I'm so emo about Dorcas #like this past reread I didn't remember that he was able to snap out of his bond to Bestiano and so this whole scene was EXTRA powerful #like his loyalty was to CHARYN and he was able to realize that and do what was needed #also the whole passage around that second quote is so funny #froi “please......find it in you.....to tell the new king.....and make your own bond.....”#dorcas *fucking chokes out bestiano* “tell him yourself dipshit”#dorcas #froi of the exiles #quintana of charyn #cw blood #lumatere chronicles #melina marchetta #original post

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aeide-thea · 10 months

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like, someone posted an article recently that was like 'i didn't like these books because the main characters were women who slept with women but weren't sufficiently enlightened about it for me as a queer woman to feel Represented,' and i just felt like. i bet i wouldn't enjoy those books either, judging from the reviewer's description! but faced with a review that's like 'these characters had attitudes i found unpleasant'—iirc a tendency to ironic detachment and internalized fatphobia respectively, which, to be clear, i expect i would also find unpleasant! but those are attitudes that plenty of real young women do have; are we arguing it's only acceptable to tell stories about the sort of people we'd personally want to befriend?—'so i didn't find their stories nourishing,' it's hard for me not to think, okay, fair enough, but—should 'nourishing' really be the definitive metric for art? should 'savory'? an author's job is, after all, to make art, not food…

#like. sometimes art is a door and not a mirror or a meal or whatever.#(also sometimes it might be a mirror for someone who isn't you. or for someone you don't want to be.)#anyway. let's all go reread some cheever and then reconvene.#discussion questions: do you feel represented by neddy merrill's nonmonogamy. is it problematic to set a story in the suburbs.#does it alter your reaction to learn that cheever was queer.#bookblogging #(also like. the thing abt this discussion is like. my feelings ALSO revolt at stuff like this. frequently and vehemently‚ even!#i just think like. it's not sufficient to feel‚ & to then regurgitate that feeling & call it a take; you also have to think.#and‚ like‚ *actually* think (and *re*think if necessary)‚ not just apply a veneer of rationalization to yr original kneejerk reaction.#otherwise—how are we actually better than the conservatives we disdain.#we have to have actual thought-out principles we attempt to consult‚ not just a different set of outraged‚ reactive feelings.)#(this also gets tricky because like. we obviously get to dislike things‚ & to complain abt them! fucked up to suggest otherwise!#but at the same time—there IS a point at which censure tips over into censorship.#like. most people will not feel free to behave in ways that are decried sufficiently strongly by sufficiently many voices.#so if we value freedom—and i hope we do!—i think we have a responsibility to be thoughtful abt how we use our voice.)#(which isn't to say don't do it! sometimes it would be shameful not to!#but power dynamics are complex‚ and sometimes punching a person as hard as you'd punch a system means the blow rebounds #and has knock-on effects you didn't entirely intend and don't‚ perhaps‚ on reflection entirely endorse.)

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whoslaurapalmer · 2 years

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⭐ important asoue quotes 📖

have you ever wanted a list of quotes from A Series of Unfortunate Events about subjects like --

-beatrice! -the baudelaire parents! -the opera! -the sugar bowl! -individual vfd character details! -lemony’s life! -stuff about violet, klaus, and sunny! -general vfd shenanigans! -narrative and character beats i myself thought were interesting, such as the appearances of ‘what can i do’ before olaf himself says it and the baudelaires feeling like they’re becoming villains!

that list exists now!! compiled from quotes i flagged during my last read of the series, this is a 66-page googledoc of (fully cited and organized!!) book quotes for hopefully your every need.

this is just from the thirteen books of a series of unfortunate events, this does not include the unauthorized autobiography or all the wrong questions. this now includes unauthorized autobiography quotes! (no atwq quotes yet, though.) i have done my best but it is very likely i have missed things!! if you find something you think should be in a section, feel free to let me know.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #i'll be rereading in about september so if i find anything else then that i didn't flag before or SPEND THE LAST 24 HOURS DIGGING FOR #then i'll add it.#i'd also like to do a punctilio section.......like of headlines geraldine shouts/articles about the baudelaires.........#originally i just flagged these things for myself!! cause i thought they were neat! wasn't sure if other people would think they're neat!#HOPE PEOPLE DO #lulu talks about the sad lemon man

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sovonight · 8 months

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xan's candle event is so funny to me. you have to choose 1 specific option for the candles to even be significant to your charname, and yet the next day xan presents you with a lit candle no matter what you said, and if you're like um is that supposed to represent something, he's like yes but also no, and i will not explain, and also i'm still going to use this as a symbol to make a promise to you, even though i literally refuse to elaborate

#i'm so sick of him (affectionate)????#the funniest part is 3 out 4 responses to the lit candle are confusion too! you have to choose 1 specific option there for charname #to even know what's going on! when they supposedly shared their minds the previous evening?? HUH??#anyway i was trying in vain to write that scene for radri based only off my memory--#but now that ive fully reread it im like okay i have my work cut out for me bc it really didn't even make much sense to me in the original #man. when i say that xan's romance has a false neutrality and really charname's personality was predetermined to begin with--#look i love him and i see the vision but i'm going to need him to do a take 2 on this #bc i am Not letting radri just light candles and sit around waiting fruitlessly for him to visit her each night #she would be nervous. she would go see him. sorry that she's not perfect & refined & patient she would definitely go see him #and definitely think his distance was her fault Again #why are they even spending their evenings apart? what happened to 'you can sleep over in my head to escape your nightmares'?#so what--they bond and then he just pulls away Again??? and charname's just not supposed to be worried about that?#in my rewrite ive already altered his behavior a bit... i feel guilty but also not #sovo note

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stars-and-darkness · 2 months

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#girl help i thought it was a good idea to reread the comments on my elena-centric fic #and the bad takes on her character will be the end of me #*pats elena's head* i'm so sorry babygirl dw i love you sm you have no idea #me: *writes a fic that's all about how elena is self-centred and selfish but also extremely caring compassionate and kind*#*and how those don't automatically exclude each other but make for an absolutely fascinating character*#*then explains all my choices in an extremely long author's note*#some people: ugh elena is so horrible and evil bc she didn't *checks notes* let klaus use her as a blood bag to enslave werewolves #honourable mention to:#elena is the literal devil for falling in love with damon who raped and abused caroline #but caroline falling for klaus who killed and terrorised elena and many of her loved ones is something elena isn't allowed #to have negative feelings about???#like ... they hurt each other with these choices. and that's fine.#whether the route we want to take is them breaking off their friendship over it #or learning to live with her friend's choice of boyfriend or dumping the boys completely and going off into the sunset together #let's just ACKNOWLEDGE that it's a fucked up situation and that that's what makes interesting #UGH i have too many feelings about the vampire love triangle show #ella originals

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mmescarlette · 1 year

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Favorite Books Read in January 2023

Since I thought it might be fun to turn this blog into a space to talk about books I've read, here's a roundup of books I particularly liked this month! There may be spoilers for each so feel free to skip between the titles if you like.

The Heir and the Spare - Kate Stradling (personal rating: 4/5)

This was, in fact, the very first book I read this year, a straggler that I started on NYE but put aside so I could read it more at my leisure after my previous challenge was fulfilled, and I'm so glad I did! I SNAPPED this book up. I can't tell you a great deal of what it's about because I kind of liked going into it essentially blind, actually, but it is not a retelling (I somehow thought it was a Prince and the Pauper retelling which it clearly is not but I think that was purely based on the title and not, you know, facts) and it's at my perfect intersection of fantasy, which is the kind of low-stakes sword-and-sorcery tales that I generally tend to write myself.

I believe what I enjoyed and got out of this book most was that it forced me to confront my own relationship with suffering, much like Thorn did two years ago; tw for the main character going through some fairly intense emotional abuse, but for me as a reader, I found it more cathartic and able to make me understand myself more closely, and thus well worth the read for me in particular. I also LOVED the choice to have a second lead who is essentially antagonistic from the start, much in the vein of QoA which I am always weak for. I would say this is low on themes, but high on character work, so if you're looking for an introspective read this is a lovely choice!

The Stolen Heir - Holly Black (personal rating: 4.5/5)

Holly basically OWNS me at this point. There's a high likelihood just based on this book alone that this duology will capture me in its clutches even MORE than Folk of the Air could, simply based on the fact that I love the two leads (and Wren in particular) like there's no tomorrow. For one thing, I think it's such an interesting and quite frankly beautiful and touching change to have both the leads be so downright kind people to their core, as opposed to the chaos gremlins (affectionate) of the previous trilogy. But for another thing, the particular theme that my dash is sucking me into loving this year is that of shared history of love of all along between people, and I looove that is very present here! FotA was very much about learning to love but I'm pretty badly invested in how much this story leans on how to trust even when the love was already there.

The reality also of Wren being this bleeding heart being who will undo bonds and chains and ties simply because it's the right thing to do is something that makes me feel insane! Everything about Oak coming from a family he can never abandon or leave behind because he cherishes them so deeply makes me sob! The entire theme that lingers from it all being "I have never had the true luxury of being free in any way that matters to me so I have the compulsion to save every person I possibly can even if it is at great personal cost" is something that can be so personal and dear to me and I LOVE it so much.

(Also I had a great time wailing at Wren every time she talks about Jude to be like "JUDE WAS SORRY FOR YOU WREEEN SHE FREED YOU ON PURPOSE BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T LIKE PEOPLE BEING BOUND EITHER" and whilst I have no doubt there will be angry Jude in the next book I love that there's this tie of fae-nurtured human and raised-by-humans fae between the protagonist of both the series! There's so much richness of kindness in that dichotomy and I'm so intrigued about where she'll take it.)

Thirst - Mary Oliver (personal rating: 5/5)

I'm always on the hunt for more Mary books to read, and this one is a stirringly beautiful example of her work. Very few things have made me cry like the titular poem does.

Part of the reason why I glommed onto this book so much is because, at its heart, it is a book about grief; from what I can tell, this was Mary's first book she wrote after the death of her partner, and because of that it is so deeply infused through and through with love and light and sorrow and tenderness that it seems almost impossible that I, at least, could not love it. But perhaps more than anything, the reason why it struck me so much is because it filled me with that which I am most on the search for in my life right now, wonder.

Mary's work makes me see the stars, the sun and the moon and the sky, all whilst I'm tucked away in my house, in my reading chair at one in the morning without moving a muscle. It makes me glad to live, but more than that it gives me reason to live, that most tricky part of staying alive and being glad for it. She always finds a way to lead me back to the emotion I am best at and struggle most with, that of gratitude of being here and being well with what I am given, that even when the tossing and turning of life tears at my soul I can always say a prayer in thanks for it and find my way back to something simple and still and true, and that-- is always worth the effort for me.

And while that is me talking about her work at large, I will simply say, this book made me see the stars at night and the rosebuds in late spring and the shadows of the geese making their way across the fragile sky, and for that alone I love it dearly. Also The Messenger is only the poem I have in full pasted on my wall which to me is the biggest peer-review test of all.

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (personal rating: 4/5)

A read that I embarked on because a dearly loved friend (hi Lu!!) adores this book, so I wanted to take a peek because the themes appealed to me. I'm a big lover of post-apocalyptic media that focuses in on what relationships look like between people in the aftermath and how often it is love, in the end. While this is not my favorite example of that particular genre, it is an extremely competent entry, and a good introduction if you're never dipped into the genre before.

Beautiful, dark, and luminous, Station Eleven is what I would call a slow amble through the book's contents. It neither tumbles you along with the impetus of its own story and pace (as a YA book does), nor does it urge you forward with the hastening steps of its plot that grow louder and louder over time (as speculative fiction often wants to do) but it is quiet, self-contained and self-possessed. From what I can gather, this is the kind of book that either resonates with you deeply, or doesn't whatsoever, but for me in particular I found it scattered with such moments of gentle beauty that made me have to close my eyes and hold them close to myself that I found it worth the read, despite the fact that it is also littered with enough violence and sorrow that it's not truly as comforting as I had expected it to be.

In its heart, this book is very simply about a girl who is part of a wandering troupe of actors in the world after an apocalyptic event whose life is shown in tandem and parallel to an actor who she worked with as a child; but it is also deeply about kindness, friendship, love and loss and the search for beauty when the surface of the earth has been so ravaged that it seems almost impossible that it could still be there. More than anything, Station Eleven is a book about care-- it's about Kirsten's care for her work, for her friends and the rare moments of beauty she carries about, it's about what goodness we can save and spare when all else is lost, it's about me weeping over the joy of electricity casting its light on the sky when that seems impossible. The longer I sit with it, the more I can find to love in it, because what lingers from this story is the love that stays within it through and through.

#reading tag #i also reread 84 charing cross which is a joy as always #read brine and bone which is probably my second favorite of kate's #i LOVED the choices made in the structure of that story so much; being a long-time lover of the original little mermaid #made it all that more precious to me #and i finally read beau brown which sadly i /liked/ but didn't /love/#because it kind of stressed me out more than i was expecting to!#it lacked the whimsy that makes heyer so precious to me; so lots of the hijinks were just painful rather than humorous & that weighed on me #(whimsy being in the sense of being able to bear heavy things lightly; i'm not very good at defining what it means to me #but i don't mean it in a silly goofy way only; i think it has to have a component of making me laugh but also able to bear it you know?)#however i love the main couple! i think they're just so sweet and they clearly love each other in such a true friends way #and that's kind of the savior of the novel #anyway. i've trapped you all in here with me and i am now subjecting you to my reading life. ha HA!!!!

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imaginationinstitutes · 11 months

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reading the disney at dawn rewrite because it's what the library gave me and trying to assemble a mental timeline without losing my mind

#rambles #i'm soooo normal about this series #since finn heads into runaway railway we knowwww it has to be march 2020 at the EARLIEST #buuut i read the original for disney after dark so i don't KNOW if that's contradicted #is this an alternate universe where covid didn't happen?? is this just in the future?? what?????#also weird to think that finn wouldve been born in like 2006. that is a child.#next time i give in and reread this series i'm making a timeline and some exhaustive video essay

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years

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fury road. when furiosa has one evening of downtime for the first time in two days and also two decades and goes blankie mode

#she's everything. obviously #the rich genre of ppl driving around killing people then respectfully Not having a convo literally face to face #presumably not just downtime but also abt having had a [furiosa's big day] or two lately #your arc as a protagonist Just had its low point. you can't just walk over normally like so anyways....#walk over normally but Cozy Mode while getting through mutually coughing up blood over the effort of a brief exchange. never gets old #anyways i'm obsessed with literally everything she does at any point & think of any of it all the time b/c. i've simply seen this film #obsessed with things other people do also and even go ''yeah this action movie is like an action movie to me'' for once but You Know #everything i could cite is like this is so funny. and so excellent. and so [aaarghhh i - ]#tangential but when i learned they were originally trying to produce this film in the 00s......god delayed that #for one thing i couldn't have seen it like at least once a week for as many weeks as it was in theaters if that happened lol #partly just so happening to go see it the first time like going ''ah. i see'' over & over after various shots like well. i'm different now #blankie mode not necessarily among them lmao but hey. 7 yrs later N viewings later you can appreciate specifics afresh #there was something or other i only Got watching it the other year for the zillionth time that wasn't even like meant to be like #an easter egg or tiny detail or anything. i just missed something / needed to receive the info totally afresh lol like oh okay [parses]#the other day it was like damn haven't read through this narrative comic in ages & that means i forget plenty of details / how they connect #had only done a handful of Straight Through catchup rereads Ever but only this time was i like ohh. i've connected some dots so much more #clearly in a case or two like [didn't quite Get this one plot point but kinda had breezed past it] [a Mystery point is obvious now]#anyways #i've gone ''did the blanket somehow survive / make the transfer'' (not so far as i can tell) like oops doing more media analysis like nice.#there's threads here....have your last seen exchange while more literally coughing up blood. more literally face to face & Yet Only Kinda..#okay anyways. she's everything. and [cinema]

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pinkpuffballdude · 2 years

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listen. listen. my brain? cheese. but I finished Human Resource Violation (HLVRAI fic) today and I need to acknowledge that somehow. it's. ough. it's GOOD.

#true story #hlvrai #listen. listen. I haven't read much fic here #cause people are fuckin Weird with Benry and Gordon #but like. this is. yea. yea. kogodogo understood the fuckin assignment #I didn't even click on this one originally!!! I found it through the first part in that series!!!!!#which is literally just benrey eating some poor motherfucker and stealing his face so he can talk to gordon #like????#idk idk they did a really good job of continueing the Vibe of an improved show with friends with no real end goal in mind #without wandering off into obscurity and actually Giving Closure #also these characterizations are simply *chefs kiss*#and I love the team name of Black Mesa Bit Beasts #it's so good I'm just klashdflkshf muffled brain noises #anyway. I think Gordon should port everyone into starsdew valley they've earned it #also Benry lives with Gordon now I don't make the rules #congrats Josh you have THREE dads now #insert meme here #also also the fact that I read the first eight chapters while on my sleep meds #so I had to reread them #cause my memories of them were So fuzzy and dreamlike #very on brand. very in keeping.#honestly I didn't actually remember it that incorrectly it's just Like That (complimentary)

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grimbeak · 1 day

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going to eat peter hyams alive just watched 2010

#i. you. you cant.#i expected it to be not as good as 2001 and it was so much worse than i thought it would be #like yeah. kubrick burned most of the og material bc he was kinky like that. and they did a rly good job recreating it #and adding new things #but in terms of dialogue. cinematography. soundtrack???#genuinely. how did you fuck it up THAT bad.#i went in with a low bar and they dug to the center of the earth with it #at least we got reqium and thus spoke zarathustra. dunno what i wouldve done without them #you could have TRIED to make more than like. a singular symbolic shot #kubrick was an abusive dickhead but by god. he made a good fucking movie #he burned things in fear that anyone making sequels would fuck it up. and then he let you make a sequel. and you fucked it up.#like it didn't have to be great! for hyams to have had 4+ major roles in the creating of it he was prbly already taking on a lot of stress #but jesus fucking christ the dialogue and the shots sounds and looks like EVERY OTHER FUCKING ACTION MOVIE #YOU CANT MAKE A SEQUEL IF YOU ARENT GOING TO AT LEAST TRY TO FUCKING IMITATE THE ORIGINAL #like you could have TRIED to imitate it and not done a great job and i would have been so much happier!! you couldve tried!!!!#for the love of god could you have at least given me a correct shot of hal!!!#ive read the wikis for the sequel novels looking forward to reading 2010 #bc ik they got the plot right. but. that was pretty much the one thing they got right.#also shoutout to keir dullea for somehow looking the same 16 years later. how the helld you do that #hold on rereading the wiki. wdym some of the characters were whitewashed. wdym max and curnow were bisexual and dated.#that. that better be true istg #ANYWAY.#i have to stop. otherwise i'll keep going.

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gentlethorns · 2 days

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uggggghh tired. today's words are gonna suck

#she bork #novel 2024 #idk i have been STRUGGULLEENG to get my words down the last few days. like i said in an earlier post i think it's bc i'm hitting the last #little bit before the climax so it's like crawling along bc i want to rush it lol but i just have to be patient and get the words down no #matter what. also i'm like slightly disheartened bc yesterday i was reading over a section i wrote last week (which going back and rereading #anything was my first mistake lol) and i realized that i've done a lot of like. summarizing. so when i start that first round of editing i #think i'll have a lot more work to do than originally anticipated. which like booo that sucks and it's gonna be laborious bc like if i #didn't want to fully write those scenes the first time around why would it suddenly become easy on my second spin lol. but i'm still excited #to get there bc ik the story will be way better once i do that. fuck i wanna RUSH THIS SO BAD but i cannot 😔

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