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Every Film I Watch In 2023:
250. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023)
#my big fat greek wedding 3#my big fat greek wedding 3 (2023)#2023filmgifs#my gifs#i don't know what everyone's going on about#that was LOVELY#and of course it was paced exactly like#a holiday in a remote mountain Greek village#but everyone had their own little storyline#and i loved that#and it was so much about grief#the loss of one parent#and the slower loss of the other#and also the theme of education through all three movies#the education of women and girls into making their own mistakes#and deciding their own lives#and parents learning to let them do it on their own
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Ok, LISTEN. I'm about half way through seven minuets in heaven pt.2, but because I'm working on it while watching season 2, I got SatoSugu on my mind. so...
Now Presenting...
A little SatoSugu themed supplementary material.
Ok, so let's start standard
Suguru is a psychology major with a minor in musical performance
Satoru is a theoretical physics major with no minor because "ew, minors."
Suguru joined the ABO frat because fraternity housing is wayyy fucking cheaper than living in the dorms. Plus, easy access to booze.
Gojo did it for the memes and cause his best friend was joining.
Suguru is for sure an alcoholic and in denial about it
Gojo smoked weed once and won't shut up about it. He does take a weak ass edible every once in awhile to sleep though.
Gojos tolerance is absolutely shit. Two shots and three puffs in and he is gone!
Suguru on the other hand could drink an entire bottle of tequila and smoke 12 joints and only really be kinda buzzed.
Suguru is definitely in denial about his bisexuality. Everything that he does with Gojo is just for female attention, ya know?
Especially when they're making out alone in their shared room. That's definitely for attention. Source:just trust me bro
Gojo is very comfortable in his pansexuality, and has been known to use "are you a frying pan? Cause you're so fucking hot" as a pickup line.
Ok, now for their background!
Suguru and Gojo actually grew up together, and are the closest anyone can get to childhood friends,
Which morphed into the well documented phenomenon of an all too intense friendship that blurs the line of friends and dating, where if one of them were the opposite gender they would totally be together, but because they’re both boys there using that as a shield to avoid confronting their identities beyond the default settings
They were each other's first kiss 💋
Gojo actually had really kind and loving parents who were very supportive.
Sugurus' mom died when he was young though, leaving him and his dad to struggle. His dad wasn't necessarily bad, but he did have to work constantly and therefore wasn't home often.
Gojo was naturally smart and school came very easy to him. Meanwhile, Suguru struggled a lot, specifically with anything math related.
This led to Gojo, with his great grades and generational wealth, being able to go to basically any college he wanted to.
He still decided to go to the local community College in the end, at least to get his gen-eds and the first few years of his major out of the way at a heavily discounted price.
Yea, Suguru had no such opportunity, his options were community College or to start working with his dad as a mechanic immediately.
And while he's not opposed to the idea of working with his father, and will even work with him for some extra spending money in the summers, he really wanted to give the whole higher education thing a shot.
He's very proud to be in his community College, as he's the first person in his family to even attempt to get a degree
Now, here's how they are in a relationship because you can't have just one.
These boys have historically shared everything: their hot wheels, their Xbox, their bed, and their women. You are no exception. Lucky you 💜💙
When it comes to the three of you together, you find the boys actually work extremely well as a unit.
Where one struggles, the other thrives. Gojo isn't great when it comes to emotional venting and stuff, always looking to "fix" it.
Suguru is better at actually listening and only offering advice when you ask. He’s always willing to just cuddle and listen.
Suguru is terrible to try and watch movies with, he gets bored so fast. Meanwhile Gojo is obsessed with movies.
Gojos fixer attitude also comes in clutch whenever you need to get something done, but just do not have it in you to do it. Need to call a doctor but have phone anxiety? Gojos your man.
Suguru craves to be the primary partner for both you and Gojo. Yes he's aware this is irrational, no he's not sure what to do about it. All he knows is that he gets jealous when he sees you with Gojo, and has to find ways to cope.
To his credit, he's never made this a problem for anyone other than himself, and he is actively working on it.
Gojo on the other hand fucking loves to see you and Suguru spending time together. Those are his two favorite people in the god damn world, aren't they cute?!
Sugurus love language is music. He'll make you playlists, old fashioned mix tapes, and has forced you to listen to vinyl with him. He's written songs about you too, though he's too shy to show them off.
Will play his guitar for you only when asked because he knows the optics of 'frat guy with a guitar' are not ideal.
Gojo shows his love by sharing his candy. Splitting a Kit Kat, giving you a handful of skittles, sharing a sleeve of oreos. If Gojo shares his sweets with you he wants to marry you.
They two of you bond by baking together. You buy new cute molds and cookware together and set up entire spreads based on one theme.
Suguru was probably the first one to be in your life: I.E. the one that you agreed to date before realizing (and agreeing to) the package deal.
But Gojo said I love you first. He feels everything at 100% and hides none of it.
He said it loudly and in front of the rest of the frat, showing you off to everyone.
When Suguru said it for the first time though, it was quiet; whispered to you late at night while you were curled up in his arms.
Both of the boys are massive cuddle bugs!
You call them Sugubear and Satotoro. Gojo loves it and Suguru does too, but he pretends he doesn't.
#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#satoru gojo#suguru geto#satosugu#gojo x reader#geto x reader#satoru gojo x reader#suguru geto x reader#satoru x reader#suguru x reader#satosugu x reader
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amh if possible could hoy make hdcns for the dorm leaders ( separately ) reacting to their mc fem explaining the marvel universe and then puts them to watch the movies hehe ( ..also mc's fav hero is dead-pool ;) bc it gives me laugh imagine their reactions about this xd) , thanks in advance and take care<33
This certainly ended up being a little bit of a crack fic but it ended up amusing. Hope you enjoy it.
At first, he scoffs as such a time-wasting thing as wanting to watch dozens of movies. Where is the educational value in this?
He is just too polite to refuse to listen, so he’ll end up letting you describe all your favorite scenes to him.
You are better off if he doesn’t take an interest because, if he does, he is going to turn into the worst sort of comic book geek. Be ready to have him quote lore from issues of source material at you during any discussion on this from now on.
What do you mean who would win? In Volume 3 #3, Thor clearly defeated Iron Man. Don’t get upset Prefect, I don’t write the lore, I just recite it.
Doesn’t appear to be interested but, if you pause long enough, he’ll prompt you to go on. It’s important to you, so he’ll try to care at least a little.
You’d never tell him this, but you love to banter with him because it reminds you of your favorite character. Sometimes you wonder if he’d be pleased or offended to know who you remind him of.
Movie marathons? Not only is he willing to do them with you, but he is also often the one who suggests them. Don’t be deceived though, it’s not for the movie but for the quality nap time on the couch with you.
Don’t turn that off, Herbivore, I’m watching it. What do you mean I don’t know what’s going on? This is the part where we learn her mom isn’t dead after all. So quiet down and keep the lights off.
Please, he is in Board Game Club with Idia. You think this is the first time he has hmmm’d himself through a conversation about fictional characters?
Wait, you say that this makes a ton of money? Tell him more about this merchandising and licensing. Especially that, what do you call it…ah, Happy Meal.
You can eventually talk him into watching the movies with you for ‘research purposes.’ When you do, you can’t help but notice how teary-eyed he gets at the sad scenes. He’s just so sensitive!
Deadpool is also his favorite character. He feels a sort of connection to certain parts of his story.
So, she chooses to stay with him even though he looks like that? No, I’m not blubbering. No, I don’t need you to cuddle with me. Ok, fine. Just for a little while.
He doesn’t get it, but he still loves it. Sure, you have to explain everything to him three times, but he gets excited over your excitement. Call him any time to talk about your theories on how things would have gone if Thanos had made a different wish on the infinity gauntlet. He doesn’t mind if it’s 3 AM (just don’t let Jamil find out).
Movie marathons turn into parties. Why just watch the movies when you can have themed snacks and dress up too? Hulk smash cakes and Black Widow berry cobbler? Yes, please.
His favorite part of any film is the soundtrack. If he hears a song he likes, he gets up to dance along. It’s pretty disruptive when you are watching the movie but when you see how much fun he is having, you find you don’t really mind after all.
Sorry Prefect, Jamil says we can’t have dance battles in Scarabia anymore. Ooh! But come by the Pop Music Club later. I’m going to play all my favorite songs for Cater and Lilia. Ahaha!
You were worried Vil would dismiss your favorite Marvel films as inferior art, but he is actually rather generous about it. He believes the film should suit the audience and, as so, there is nothing wrong with films like this that serve to entertain the masses.
Still, he can’t help but be critical of everything while you watch. He doesn’t criticize the things you’d talk about with your friends but topics you’d hardly even notice while you watched like the set design and lighting.
You notice Vil seems secretly fond of Loki. You think the idea of the Villain that survives the main movies to get his own spotlight series appeals to him.
No, Potato, I’m just saying the angle isn’t right for this sort of tone. A shot from below would be more effective. Plus…wait, are you having more popcorn? I don’t think so, it’s past the time you can snack before bed.
You had expected Idia to be all in on the Marvel Universe but, at first, he is oddly resistant to it. He’d rather recommend you one of his own favorite hero movies. If you disagree on which is better, he is more than willing to fight with you over why his is best!
After a heated argument, he puts on some of the movies to watch so he can come up with targeted points about why his own shows are better. This does not work out for him as he gets sucked in himself. Next time you meet up, he wants to go over tiny bits of lore and speculate on future plot lines from hints in the past movies.
You might think his favorite would be Iron Man because they both are innovative engineers, but he is a fan of Ant Man. Shrinking down to a size where you can hide from everyone; it’s an introvert’s dream!
Prefect, this is serious business! I’ve drawn up plans. So long as we sleep only 2 hours a day and avoid taking any breaks for food, studying, and showers, we can finish at least three seasons this weekend. True fans like us need to be ready to sacrifice for the shows we love!
There are many things Tusnotarou doesn’t understand, and this is one of them. For starters, he barely knows how to use his smartphone, let alone how to stream movies and shows. So, before you can even start explaining the plot, you must explain the whole concept of series and interconnecting shows to him.
He doesn’t get it, but he is happy to watch with you. Your reactions to the show are far more amusing to him than the actual show. Plus, he feels like he learns so much about the human world from your conversations. A subway, how intriguing an idea. Humans are so fascinating.
Even though he watches politely, he isn’t very impressed. They can fly? Well so can he. Magic, lightning, superstrength? All just part of being a dragon. Perhaps instead of being interested in these superheroes, you’d rather learn more about him?
Lilia, do you think I am a superhero? The Prefect has been explaining this concept to me in great detail lately. I can’t help but notice the many things I have in common with these so-called heroes. Why yes, Lilia, now that you mention it, I am wearing a cape. Another point in my favor. Fu fu fu.
#twst#twisted wonderland#twst wonderland#riddle rosehearts#leona kingscholar#idia shroud#kalim al asim#azul ashengrotto#malleus draconia#vil schoenheit
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DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION OF FRANKENSTEIN!
This is a sexist and ignorant dog whistle and as a fan of the actual Frankenstein novel, I am furious.
1. First there is the false implication that Percy Shelley co-wrote Frankenstein. He did not. In fact Mary Shelley revised the 1818 text in 1831. That's AFTER Percy's Death.
This sexism was brought to you by such "reliable" books as "The Man who wrote Frankenstein" which was written by a very sexist conspiracy theorist who once claimed that AIDS was spread through pills. That conspiracy theorist used dummy accounts to positively review his self-published books on Amazon (seriously, go check if you want) and his main reason for believing Mary Shelley didn't really write Frankenstein is his claim that she was "uneducated."
Percy wasn't a novelist. He was a poet. Mary Shelley actually wrote many novels after Frankenstein, it's just that none were as successful as Frankenstein. Just because she wrote her greatest novel while her husband was alive doesn't mean her husband secretly wrote it.
He also claimed a woman cannot have written a man's perspective so well and she wrote from the perspective of three men. Victor Frankenstein, The Creature, and Captain Walton.
By that same reasoning Stan Rice must have written Interview with The Vampire, not Anne.
It's a sexist and classist equivalent of the classist conspiracy theories that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because he was "Too poor and ill-educated" to have been that creative.
2. One big problem with novels like Frankenstein and Dracula being in the public domain is anyone can re-publish them any way they want, even with this sleezy and misleading presentation.
3. Frankenstein wasn't really a science fiction novel even though Google and this blurb claim it is. Frankenstein, the novel, never warned about the advancement of technology.
There's no hard science in the book. Victor wasn't studying biology. He was studying metaphysics and he never graduated.
(Metaphysics degrees aren't even currently recognized in the US. You can only get an honorary one from institutions like ULC).
Victor found the secret of life while reading the works of Agrippa and Paracelsus. A self-proclaimed sorcerer and alchemist.
The Creature is more like a Dungeons and Dragons Flesh Golem with a soul than what you see in most of the movies.
Its main morals and themes had nothing to do with "Playing God" or "the advancement of science." No. That overly exonerates Victor Frankenstein and those The Creature interacted with. Victor's main crime was rejecting his creation as soon as he came to life, which may have been a metaphor for what we today call Postpartum depression.
The themes were about parental responsibility, the futility of revenge, and the need to forgive.
If you have a shred of integrity or respect for women do NOT buy this edition of Frankenstein that falsely credits Percy Shelley and feels like it was being described by someone who only watched the 1931 movie. (The more accurate to the book film adaptation is the 2004 Hallmark mini-series version starring Luke Goss as The Creature.)
If you want a good edition of Frankenstein, I strongly recommend the 1831 version republished with Bernie Wrightson's gorgeous illustrations accompanying it. That one is exceptional and respectful to Mary Shelley without falsely crediting Percy Shelley.
Here's the blurb that was attached to the awful edition:
"That’s right, the very first science fiction novel is also a work of transhumanism, though I’m not sure Mary Shelley would have used the term. After all, the monster wouldn’t even exist without technology. So even the earliest sci-fi novel was trying to warn us about the dangers technology poses to our humanity."
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a get to know you better meme
tagged by @zozobruh - Thank you! <333
do you make your bed?
No. I do turn turn up the blanket so it can air out but that's it.
what's your favourite number?
There's 3, and then 9, then 12, then 16 (but only because that's the day of the month I was born), then 21 (for non-SKAM reasons actually), then 27.
3 is the dominant theme. I like to do things in a set of three, but not compulsively.
There's a bit of a system to and a whole story behind the numbers. I could go on a whole spiel. It also goes back to me playing around with words and syllables when I was around 8. I used to collect words with 9 letters.
what is your job?
Don't have one.
If you could go back to school would you?
What school? Elementary? No thanks. Also not secondary. Or night school. Regular school does not work for me, too autistic and the system too... well, a system. People are assholes, teachers included. Most of my schooling was done via distance learning and I definitely don't want to go back to that either.
But also, I am attending school right now (vocational school) and I intend to further my education afterwards. I'd really like to learn how to properly draft and construct patterns and/or acquire the master craftsmen certificate in tailoring (or however you say meinen Meister machen).
can you parallel park?
I don't have a license and I hope to make it through life without having to learn how to drive.
a job you had that would surprise people?
None.
do you think aliens are real?
Earth being the only inhabited place seems unlikely. Though I highly doubt they are how we have pictured alien life forms.
can you drive a manual car?
If I did have a license, I'd be able to since that is the norm in Germany.
what's your guilty pleasure?
I don't know... really bad smut? I have horrendous taste in that, I really do.
tattoos?
I love them on other people, from a single or a few to lots of skin being covered, and all kinds of styles.
But I don't have any myself and I don't think I ever will. I just couldn't be bothered. Way too indecisive and uncertain to decide on a design, and then the work put into researching which artists are the best, nevermind that I am scared of needles. And then afterwards it won't look exactly how I pictured it, especially after a few years or even decades. Oh, and the price!
I do admire them on other people but I just don't think it's for me, too much hassle and not enough passion for it. (But if I would get tattos, I suspect I would get an Against Me! quote tattooed. Something from True Trans Soul Rebel. And an AJJ one.)
favourite colour?
Dark blue.
favourite type of music?
*panicked screaming*
I listen to way too many artists (or sometimes just a single song) from all over the world and from all kinds of genres. And while there are genres I really like, I rarely will listen to more than a few representatives.
But I can say that right now I really enjoy late Soviet/90s Siberian punk (Yanka Dyagileva and Egor Letov).
do you like puzzles?
Yep. I don't know who but someone on tumblr got me into online puzzles last summer. (They did a Jeff puzzle.) I like those.
any phobias?
No proper phobias.
favourite childhood sport?
I didn't really do sports. In fact I hated sports, still do. Worst of all was school sports class, I had a stomach ache every the evening before. But my family was active and we regularly went swimming, rock climbing, hiking. I did horseback riding for several years but it was therapeutic.
do you talk to yourself?
In my mind yes, but rarely out loud.
what movie(s) do you adore?
I adore Latin American movies though I can't say I have seen too many. (Quemar las naves, María, llena eres de gracia and El cielo dividido are my favourites.)
I enjoy Nordic comedies, not just with Mads Mikkelsen but I really do like those. (The last one I watched was Riders of Justice though I really wouldn't classify it as comedy. It has comedic elements.)
I like movies with open, ambiguous endings, ones that leave you a bit unsatisfied, ruminating, on edge. When they linger. I don't like it when movies make it easy for me.
And above all else I adore Astrid Lindgren movies. I feel like so many conversations I have lead to me mentioning how much I love them but it's true. I really, really do.
coffee or tea?
I don't (can't?) drink coffie and when I drink tea, then not black (or any other proper tea) but herbal and spiced tea.
first thing you wanted to be growing up?
I think a teacher? I adored and really looked up to my elementary school teacher. I loved German and correcting texts so I wanted to be like her.
tagging @lady-guts @thestrangeillusion @toppingjeffsatur @scattered-stardust @sitron-sunni @die-schwanenkoenigin
#meins#playing tag#i was just done with the other tag game when i was tagged in this one and couldn't resist#but i am going to resist proofreading even if i feel anxious about any mistakes I've made#but i really need to get ready for bet now
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Bella's Book Club FAQ 🍎🌲📚
What is Bella's Book Club?
Bella's Book Club, (sometimes abbreviated to "BBC"), is an interactive virtual book club created by the Three Books One Plot podcast. Each month, participants read a selected book from the list of Bella Swan’s (really Stephenie Meyer’s) favorite books and authors as it appears in Chapter 13 of Midnight Sun, then come together to discuss it on Discord and other social media.
Where can I find Bella's Book Club?
We post most of our important information here on our Tumblr, as well as in the #announcements channel of our Discord. You can also follow along on our Goodreads and Storygraph (mainly used to keep track of past and present books we’ve read/are reading.)
Who can join Bella's Book Club?
BBC is open to anyone! You do not have to have participated in previous discussions, or even be a listener of the 3B1P podcast (though we’d love that, of course.) All we ask is that you be prepared to encounter mature themes and situations in some of our books (and discussions.)
How do I participate in Bella's Book Club?
BBC is designed to let you choose the level of participation you’re comfortable with. Most of the action (and fun) happens over on our Discord, during our monthly real-time discussions, but you're also welcome to share your thoughts or fanworks on a book by tagging us on tumblr or sending an ask/submission. We also sometimes post challenges, ask/tag games, and “scavenger hunts” to go along with our book of the month, and encourage each other to get creative. Past BBCers have made moodboards, fanbinds, playlists, shitposts, written fic and parodies, done scientific research, and even recreated recipes from the books we’ve read! The pressure is totally off, though—you’re welcome to read along and lurk from the cozy corner of your choice.
Who runs Bella's Book Club?
BBC is run primarily by bookworm nerds M (@gashousegables) and G (@volturialice) with occasional help from Shannon (@flowerslut).
M (she/they) is an Australian book nerd with librarian aspirations. From Animorphs to a Smeyer-adjacent Dragon girl phase, she's also the weeaboo in residence for the book club. When not feverishly promoting their Virtual Best Friend known as the Libby App they are swallowing pulpy Romances and mandatory sociological theory.
Favorite books: Imagica, the Locked Tomb series, Friday's Child, Picnic at Hanging Rock
G (she/her) is an American book nerd who grew up devouring like 3 high fantasy doorstoppers a week and considered the Scholastic Book Fair a national holiday. She enjoys reading gory Jacobean/Elizabethan tragedies for fun and has worked in Shakespeare education when she’s not stanning her local library.
Favorite books: Annihilation, The Bloody Chamber, the Locked Tomb series, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Shannon (she/her) is an American jock who read oodles of fic but thought books were mainly good for propping up wobbly tables until she had her own Reading Renaissance in 2022. Now she's on a quest to discover new favorites by seeking out recs and devouring every book in sight!
Favorite books: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the Locked Tomb series, The Vanishing Half
When is Bella's Book Club?
This year, Bella's Book Club runs September 2023 through June 2024, followed by a break for our summer reading challenge. Books are announced one month in advance, and discussions take place once a month on Monday nights at 8 PM EST (Tuesday mornings at 11 AM AEST) during 3B1P’s off weeks. In the event of a postponement, we announce it on Tumblr and Discord.
The current discussion dates for 2023-4 are:
October 2nd
October 30th
November 27th
December 26th (Tuesday!)
January 22nd
February 19th
March 18th
April 15th
May 13th
June 10th
Nominations/recs for the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge will open May 20th.
Do you do movie nights?
Yes! We sometimes take a break from reading to host Bella's Movie Club. Many of the books we read have been adapted for film and TV (and when no adaptation is available, we often watch a thematically similar movie.) We host movie nights on our Discord, scheduled according to demand and availability. We usually announce movie nights on Tumblr and Discord a week or so in advance, and schedule them on weekend nights (US)/weekend or Monday mornings (Australia) to accommodate the max number of time zones. If you’ve never watched a movie on Discord before, it’s super easy—anyone who wants to watch joins in via our voice channel, mutes themself (if you don’t know how to do this, the mods can do it for you), and then chats (mostly jokes) in real time via the #movie-discussion channel. It’s a rollicking time.
What books have you read in the past?
For our Season 1 (Twilight) lineup we read Jane Eyre, The Princess Bride, Sense and Sensibility, Tooth and Claw, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Little Women, and Northanger Abbey.
What’s the BBC Summer Reading Challenge?
The Bella's Book Club Summer Reading Challenge is our yearly summer break activity, designed to coincide with 3B1P’s hiatuses. Phase 1 of the challenge involves recommending up to 5 books through a Google form. In Phase 2, everyone’s recs are compiled into a list. Readers then choose 5 books from the list to read (and, optionally, review) during the summer months! You can find last year’s list here (and reccer spotlights here.)
Why are the books on your list Like That?
The list we’re pulling from was made by a white Mormon woman for her Not Like Other Girls YA protagonist. (We’ve found that Stephenie Meyer’s taste in books varies from “a quality classic but uninspired as a rec” to “this is actually a pretty cool deep cut.”) But don’t let that put you off too hard—we love reading through a more intersectional lens and Queering The Narrative, for example! We also take summers off to read each other’s book recommendations, which can be of any genre and include more diverse characters and authors. Even when choosing our lineup of monthly books, we try to schedule so that we end up with diversity of genre, era, style, and subject matter if nothing else.
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got more questions? send us an ask!
happy reading! (we'll see you at book club)
#faq#book club#booklr#online book club#twilight#bella swan#bella's book club#official™ announcements
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welsknight x rendog || theme: theatre || extra: implied autistic wels (bc i’m projecting)
welsknight loves horror movies and books, shockingly. he has posters for all different kinds plastering his bedroom walls. his favourite of all time is Frankenstein, and when his local theatre company decide to put it on for the week of Halloween he decides he NEEDS to work on it.
he auditions for a supporting role, but is… terrible. And he knows it. The director was kind, and did his best to spare his feelings, but Wels knew he wouldn’t get a part. Not to mention he’d totally embarrassed himself in front of everyone.
he was sat on the curb, trying to get a lift home to avoid the rain, when the director approached him.
“Please, Mr Dog, leave me alone. I… know I’m not getting any part in this.”
“Call me Ren, dude. And uh yeah. You were kinda awful at the acting, but… You seem to know the source material well. I’ve seen you reading the book in, like, every cafe in the city. And the Frankenstein phonecase also gives it away a bit. Aaaand my friend Jev also knows you and told me you’re totally obsessed with Frankenstein.”
“This is so humiliating, Ren. Please leave me alone.”
“Uh- Wait! I mean, I need a Dramaturge. Some of our actors still think the monster is called Frankenstein! Would you like to be that for us, Wels?”
“I’d be honoured to get to rattle on about my special interest, Ren.”
“Excellent!”
And so, Wels joined the crew as their Dramaturge, helping to fix mistakes in the script and educate the cast and crew on Frankenstein and it’s deeper themes, he watches the cast blossom and has the absolute best time.
He and Ren also get closer. Ren loves having someone so passionate working with them and Wels loves how attentive and willing to listen to him Ren is. They even start hanging out outside practice. To revise the script and work on the show, ofcourse.
And they watch all sorts of Frankenstein movies together one night.
And they even start watching some of Wels’ other favourite horror movies, even the terrible ones so as Ren can critique the acting and writing.
And maybe they stop calling them “hangouts” and start calling them dates.
And maybe during the applause of their first show, Ren is brought on stage… and maybe he drags out Wels, their dramaturge.
And maybe they kiss, and maybe Ren says he loves Wels.
And maybe Wels says he loves him too.
Now that sounds like a story straight from the stage, right?
-🌻
The thing is, Ren has watched Wels.
No- that sounds creepy. He's not stalked the guy or anything. But when he first started working on the proposal for Frankenstein, he noticed it more in the world around him. Like a giant red calling card, sitting in the corner of a café. Wels would be curled up in the chair, in positions that can't be comfortable, three empty mugs in front of him.
His copy of the book had scuffed edges. The spine is creased, title hard to read for the lines through it. Coloured post-its stick out of the edges, Wels flipping from one to the other without pause.
Ren remembered feeling so jealous of Wels's passion as he struggled his way through reading summaries and creating a pitch. When Wels turned up to the audition it felt like fate.
Except. Well. The acting (or lack of it.)
But Ren has never been someone to let opportunities slip between his fingers. He wasn't going to let someone so passionate get away from him. His gut hadn't guided him wrong yet.
And as he kisses Wels on the stage, proud to have his name on the show... That track record stands.
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Since it’s still Disability Pride Month I decided to share this relevant 2008 interview between blind journalist David Block and David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers’ impressive 30 plus year acting career spans Broadway,
concert halls, movies and television. He has worked with Hollywood
A-listers such as Woody Allen, Tom Hanks, and Jim Carrey. He has been the
Associate Conductor for the Newport Symphony Orchestra for over 15 years.
He has also lent his distinctive voice to numerous PBS documentaries and
the 2006 motion picture Lady in the Water. However, despite his remarkable
and varied career, he is probably best remembered for his brilliant
portrayal of the tough, yet sometimes sensitive war-time physician, Major
Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H from 1977 through 1983.
Stiers’ illustrious career makes him a household name and face. But, what
fans may not know about him is that he stuttered throughout his childhood,
adolescence, and even into his early acting career. Stiers said that being
an actor helped cure him.
“I didn’t stutter when the lines were written for me,” said Stiers.
“Without lines to read was another story. One day, I noticed that I wasn’t
stuttering anymore, with or without lines. I overcame it by not giving up,
by continuing to play roles, and by overcoming my fear of saying something
wrong, or sounding stupid.”
The fact that he stuttered was not his sole reason for compassionately
portraying people with disabilities.
Stiers said: “The task of loving people doesn’t have to do with their worst
aspects. It has to do with their best aspects. My feeling, we’re all the
same person but differently expressed. There’s some things I can do others
can’t, vise versa. We’re all accomplished. We’re all on the earth, and the
more we help each other get our tasks accomplished, the better our lives.”
This was exuded when he portrayed Dan Franklin, a special education teacher
in the 1977 movie, A Circle of Children. One of the themes of the movie
included special education teachers helping autistic children reach their
full potential.
While preparing for the movie the cast visited a classroom for autistic
children.
“We sat in the class with them,” said Stiers. “We sat on the floor with the
class. We did a lot with them.”
None of the children who appeared in the movie were autistic.
Being in the movie was not the only time that Stiers
interacted with autistic people. While on M*A*S*H, Stiers and other cast
members frequently interacted with William Christopher’s autistic son, Ned.
Christopher, who was the compassionate Father Mulcahy on M*A*SH, often
brought Ned to the set.
“Ned was beginning to function pretty well,” said Stiers. “Whenever Ned
felt comfortable enough to come over to a group of people who were talking,
he was immediately included. Ned was an intelligent young man who thought
at a rate of speed that I could never do.”
In 1976 and 1977 Stiers guest starred on The Mary Tyler Moore show, three
times, portraying the WJM Station Manager Mel Price, who happened to
stutter. At the time, Stiers stopped stuttering.
“I auditioned for the role and because it was terribly easy for me to
stutter realistically, they hired me.”
Stiers summed up Mel Price as being a falsely nice person. Stiers said that
this was particularly evident in episode 157, “Look at Us, We’re Walking.”
In that show, Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
told Mel Price that if they didn’t get a raise, they’d quit. Price refused
and they walked out. At the end of the episode, Price asked them to return
and he even promised them a raise.
Stiers said: “that episode was like a forecast of what was to come in
corporate America. ‘You put in some good work; we’ll kill your 401k. If you
don’t like that, if you get upset and walk away, we won’t care. We’ll hire
someone better qualified for less money. If you want to go, then go!’
That’s pretty much how I view corporate business now. I don’t think that
they care about middle management or medium numbers staff.”
While on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Stiers learned from the M*A*S*H writers
and producers that Larry Linville, who played Major Frank Burns, was
leaving the series and they hired Stiers to replace him.
“They wanted to keep the character number in tact,” said Stiers.
Although there were a number of episodes when Winchester was incredibly
benevolent, two of them dealt with him helping disabled soldiers.
In episode 188, “Morale Victory,” Winchester was kind to Private David
Sheridan (James Stephens) who thought that his dream of being a concert
pianist was ruined because of his permanently injured hand. Winchester
showed Sheridan that he could still pursue a meaningful music career, and
that his dream could never be silenced unless he allowed it to be.
“That episode was actually an idea and a present from Loretta Swit,” said
Stiers. Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, had the idea
of having an affair with Private Sheridan but changed her mind because her
character had had flings with other wounded
Stiers said that the producers did not develop that episode because Stiers
used to stutter or because he portrayed Mel Price.
soldiers. Swit wondered who else could have a rapport with him. She knew
that Stiers studied at Julliard, so he became her obvious choice. She took
her idea to the producers and they liked it.
“They told me this was from Loretta,” said Stiers. “That was the hardest I
ever hugged her.”
“There are those serendipitous overlap realities that don’t actually know
one another,” said Stiers.
In 1987, four years after M*A*S*H ended, Stiers appeared on Matlock in
episode 26 “Blind Justice.” Stiers portrayed Arthur Hampton, a blind
sculptor who committed murder.
In episode 244, “Run for the Money” Winchester befriended Private Walter
Palmer (Phil Brock) who stuttered. Winchester told Palmer that from reading
his record, he knew that he had an incredibly high I.Q. To prove this, he
gave Palmer his copy of Moby Dick and told him that that the book was
worthy of his intelligence. When Private Palmer asked Winchester why he was
being so nice to him, Winchester changed the subject.
At the end of the episode, Winchester returned to his tent and played a
tape that his sister Honoria mailed him. She stuttered.
Stiers explained why Winchester refused to tell Palmer why he was being
kind and supportive: “It was part of the character trait that Winchester
would NEVER admit that he had been kind to someone. He would never admit
that that kindness came from a part of his heart that was wounded by
someone else’s trouble. He would not admit to things like moments of
compassion or insight. He maintained that awful glacial exterior.”
“The producers hired for me a blind advisor to be on the set,” said Stiers.
“She was a wonderful young lady with a gorgeous golden retriever, whose
name was unfortunately Andy. (There were two Andy(s) on the set, the Seeing
Eye dog and Matlock’s star, Andy Griffith.) I was not adept to being around
people with disabilities, never attaching my stuttering as a kid to anyone
else’s. I thought that I would never understand anyone else’s problems.
That changed when I was on Matlock. It was opening my head and my heart;
getting on with the empathy that we all need to bring to bear on getting
along with each other.” On the Matlock set, Stiers committed a memorably
embarrassing faux pas: “I would finish rehearsing a scene; I’d walk to the
woman and ask, `How did I look? Did I do everything right?’ I forgot that
she couldn’t see. She forgave me. We became good friends.”
Stiers’ advice to all aspiring actors and musicians, both able-bodied
and/or with disabilities is the same…… never give up!
#this is the interview that is cited in that one metv article and it was a little tough to find the whole thing#mash#disability pride month#david ogden stiers#I just copy pasted the interview as it was on the website#so any formatting issues aren't my fault#speech impediment#blindness#autism#disability
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Pinocchio's education (4/4)
Here is actual end of the article (follow-up to this)
The problem of Collodi’s Pinocchio was that he had to go from the world of ruined and poor craftsmen to the middle-class. Three urban steps marked the puppet’s social ascension: his journey to the neighbor town where he was the marionette theater ; then his travel to Catchfools, and finally his sojourn on the Island of Busy Bees. [Note that these three towns are images of Florence between 1865 and 1870, the brief period during which the Tuscan city changed its status and social importance] Each time, Pinocchio was presented in the position of either a buyer or a seller. He only reaches economical reality by his third attempt, when he understands that only work can bring wealth. Psychologically, the puppet went from an outside and mechanical constraint to an internal one. Refusing the strings of the traditional puppet because, since the beginning, he was moved by an internal will expressed through insolence, Pinocchio encountered an intermediary world in which he slowly learned freedom and individuality. He also learned there to distinguish reality from imagination, as this intermediary world was filled with dangers and monsters, and mysterious beings sometimes benevolent sometimes hostile. By looking at their origins, we understand that these beings are at the same times product of the traditional folktales, and the projections of the child’s own fantasies, that he develops as he matures. This is why these beings can be read with a dual view, one anthropological, the other psychanalytical. The collative images of monsters and intermediary beings that fill the folklore of rural societies, and through which our ancestors personified nature, these images do not completely disappear as new values, tied to the urban growth, impose themselves to people’s minds. The first, archaic images are simply internalized throughout several generations – they become the fabric of the subconscious, who feeds on them, individualizes them, and reworks them into personal fantasies. They are a stock of primitive pictures, many of which are carried away by the flow of the psyche. Pinocchio stands at this crossroad: by turning the images of the folklore into characteristics of his subconscious, he reaches individuality and cuts away the strings that tied him to the old tradition.
The second Pinocchio, Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, undergoes a different journey. He does not want to reach individuality or interiority: on the contrary, he needs to escape interiority. The psychic processes do not manifest themselves as confrontations with monsters: they become completely subconscious. For example, the ambiguity of the parental couple towards the child is replaced by a complete transparence when it comes to familial relationships; and in a parallel way, the love between the fairy and the puppet, that a deeper analysis of the original plot could even interpret as romantic, is reduced to a mere subconscious existence. As such, Collodi’s numerous intermediary beings are erased by Disney. Their presence was there to highlight and allow an exploration (fantasized or intellectualized) of the subconscious of the characters ; a subconscious that Disney’s movie negates and in its entirety, and buries in an absence. Even the shark of the novel, within whose belly Pinocchio finds back his father, loses his imaginary connotations with Disney: instead of a devouring maternal monster, the animated movie weaves on the theme of Moby Dick – a myth that is one of the structures of the American imagination. By vanquishing Monstro, Pinocchio enters the American legend. Not only does he become a real boy, he reaches the status of an exemplary child that all will have to imitate. While Collodi’s character tried to reach a form of individuality, Disney’s character must not stray away from the group with his individualistic behavior. He simply needs to be better than them, while still looking like them.
In 1940, the Pleasure Island, whose appearance was inspired by the Luna Parks, is still an ambiguous place. Entertainment of the lower classes, those we meet here are not of the right or proper sort of encounters. A few years later, when the society of abundance will impose its values and when the education system will become more externalized, Walt Disney himself will turn Pleasure Island into… Disneyland. It will be, however, an entertainment park approved by the moral, purified from any “popular”, “lower” nature, expressing all the pleasures of the middle-class. With their parents, every American child will accomplished there an obligated pilgrimage that will make them, just like Pinocchio, a “real little boy”. [The article references further analysis of Disneyland and the ideology it carries, more precisely Louis Marin’s “Utopiques: jeux d’espaces”, and Umberto Eco’s “La Cité des automates” (Automaton city), in “La guerre du faux”, “The war of the false”]
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"Learning to Thrive: 3 Idiots - A Journey of Friendship and Fulfillment"
"3 Idiots" is an iconic Bollywood film that continues to inspire and touch hearts since its release in 2009. Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, the film features an ensemble cast led by Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Boman Irani. Set against the backdrop of an esteemed engineering college, the movie beautifully captures the trials and triumphs of friendship, self-discovery, and the pursuit of true happiness.
Why "3 Idiots" is a Journey Worth Celebrating:
"3 Idiots" is an extraordinary journey that resonates with audiences for several compelling reasons. Firstly, it goes beyond the stereotypical college narrative, offering a poignant reflection on societal pressures, academic stress, and the importance of pursuing one's passion. The film's central message of following one's dreams instead of conforming to societal expectations strikes a powerful chord with viewers of all ages.
The film's heart lies in the profound bond of friendship shared by its three protagonists - Rancho, Farhan, and Raju. Their camaraderie, humor, and unwavering support for each other throughout life's trials embody the true essence of friendship. As they navigate the complexities of life and education, "3 Idiots" reminds us of the significance of genuine connections and the strength they bring during the toughest times.
"3 Idiots" also shines through its exceptional performances, especially Aamir Khan's portrayal of the enigmatic Rancho. His charisma, wit, and wisdom make Rancho an unforgettable character, and Aamir's portrayal adds layers of depth to the film's narrative. The cast's chemistry and brilliant performances make the movie a heartwarming and relatable experience for all.
The Film's Resonance:
"3 Idiots" strikes a chord with viewers not only for its universal themes of friendship and perseverance but also for its celebration of the joy of learning and the pursuit of true knowledge. The film encourages us to question the norms, embrace creativity, and forge our unique paths to achieve fulfillment. Its uplifting narrative ignites the flame of inspiration within, motivating us to pursue our passions fearlessly and live life on our own terms.
Furthermore, "3 Idiots" touches upon the importance of compassionate and unconventional teaching methods. The film's depiction of the unorthodox teaching style of Professor Viru Sahastrabuddhe, fondly known as "Virus," played brilliantly by Boman Irani, contrasts sharply with the free-spirited and innovative approach of Rancho. This stark contrast prompts us to reflect on the transformative power of educators who inspire curiosity and passion in their students, rather than merely adhering to rigid academic syllabi. "3 Idiots" challenges the traditional notions of education and advocates for a more inclusive and nurturing environment that fosters creativity and critical thinking, leaving an enduring impact on how we perceive the role of education in shaping our lives.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, "3 Idiots" stands as a cinematic masterpiece that has left an indelible mark on the hearts of audiences worldwide. With its celebration of friendship, wisdom, and the pursuit of true happiness, the film encourages us to break free from societal constraints and embrace our individuality. Through the remarkable journey of its "three idiots," the film reminds us to cherish true friendships, embrace lifelong learning, and strive for fulfillment in every aspect of life. "3 Idiots" is more than a movie; it is a heartfelt celebration of life's most profound values and an enduring source of inspiration for generations to come.
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While much has been made of the inarguably homoerotic tension between Andrey and Goncharov, both after the 1973 premiere and after its' recent rediscovery, Katya and Sofia's relationship and especially its' lesbian subtext has been sadly underexplored - despite the fact that in many ways, their relationships homoeroticism mirrors and refigures that of Andrey and Goncharov just as much as the relationship in general does. The general themes of competition within the Mafia world, creating or finding an heir, Freud's Thanatos and Eros drives and class all colour Katya and Sofias relationship as much as they do Andrey and Goncharovs. Scholars thus rightfully regard Katya and Sofia as a foil to Goncharov and Andrey, noting the similarly tragic ending but consistenly ignoring the similarly present but much more subtle queer implications.
And, to a certain degree, this is understandable: the progression of Katya's feelings for Sofia from anger and almost hatred for the woman trying to ensnare her husband and replace her to an exploitative look at Sofia as her ticket to freedom to begrudging yet genuine respect and something resembling care already asks viewers to suspend their disbelief, consindering how little screen time this relationship actually receives. Vice versa, Sofia regards Katya first as an obstacle to securing her own future and then as a manipulator abusing her class privilege trying to damn her to a life Katya herself attempts to escape who she has to and finally manages to outwit. Especially the fact that Katya is a rich, educated Russian socialite who chose the life of a Mafiosi wife when she could have chosen differently and then tries to move Sofia - who has never really had a choice - into this life Katya now wants to escape seems like an unsourmantable reason for Sofia's deepened antagonism towards Katya in the second half of the movie. That erotic or romantic feelings and a relationship could develop between these two characters, in these conditions, seems almost preposterous. But does it seem more preposterous than the idea that an aging Mafiosi and the man sent to kill him could form such an attachment? And if it does not, as I would argue, why have both the audience and many scholars been able to suspend their disbelief for Andrey and Goncharov's homoeroticism but are unable or unwilling to do so fo Katya and Sofia?
One - almost painfully obvious reason - is of course screen time: Katya and Sofia are given at best a third of the time the movie takes to flesh out Andrey's and Goncharov's dynamic. However, the second reason seems much more important to me. It seems like the introduction of Sofia as a love interest for Goncharov and challenger to Katya has locked Sofia into the character dynamic as solely heterosexual in most of the audience's mind. Additionally, the classic analysis in which the eponymous Goncharov is the protagonist and all character dynamics in the movie are to be analyzed as to how they affect him does not need to be abandoned to account for Andrey's and Goncharov's homoeroticism but it squarely obscures a lesbian reading of Sofia and Katya. But Katya, too, is named and is thus Goncharov: she, too, can be the eponymous protagonist. In this more postmodernist reading, the movie stops being about one man and three people struggling with and for and against him, and becomes about the relationships and struggles between four people, all of which are given equal weight.
Finally, there is a third reason that Katya and Sofia's lesbian relationship remains understudied. Goncharov and Andrey are not just given far more time on screen, they are also given many opportunities for tenderness, beginning with Goncharov cooking Andrey pasta and ending with Goncharov's memory-hallucination of the famous cigarette scene. Katya and Sofia are not given such room; apart from the pearl scene, they never touch, and even that scene is primarily framed through a lense of heterosexual competition for Goncharov. The movie locks the characters into their heterosexual prison-norms: Goncharov and Andrey's male homosociability can only turn into subtext homosexuality in moments of violence and death, in intricate and hallucinated rituals allowing them to touch each others skin and at least in their fantasy escape fate, as Rubek (2003) has so expertly delineated. And, in true 1970s patriarchal fashion, the movie can only present Katya and Sofia as heterosexual women, struggling for the affection of and power given by proximity to a man in a way that destroys them both to the point where they, one after the other, die off-screen.
But much like we as the audience, as critics and scholars, can see past these norms for Andrey and Goncharov, we can and should also see past them for Katya and Sofia - especially because they are not even given on-screen deaths. It is the lack of screen time that creates ambiguity, that allows and asks us to take small gestures from short frames to imagine them safe, and it is their seeming antagonism over the idea of Sofia replacing Katya that can be read as the source of their affection. Because what if rather than trying and failing to damn Sofia to take her place to save herself, Katya takes Sofia’s sudden unwillingness to play her part and her growing resentment seriously and decides to save her instead? And what if in turn, this is what allows Sofia to save Katya? What if, in and after the pearl scene, they are no longer struggling for the affection of Goncharov and power over each other but begin struggling simply for affection and power, power to shape their own fates? And, most importantly, what if they - and thus, Katya Goncharov - succeed?
Holly McPhearson, „Failures of the Imagination: Absent Lesbians and Heterosexual Prisons in Scorseses Goncharov.“ Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2020, pp. 33-49.
#goncharov#katya goncharov#katya x sofia#sofia x katya#goncharov (1973)#goncharov x katya#goncharov x andrey#this has driven me insane#sorry except I’m not
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Children’s Movies based on Children’s shows
So there are shows specifically for kids that get movies made about them, and I think it’s fascinating to see how the movies adapt the children’s shows. Now, I’m not talking about just shows for kids, but actual kid’s educational shows. In particular here, I wanna talk about Dora the Explorer, Paw Patrol, and Blue’s Clues (or more specifically, Blue’s Clues and You, the reboot with Josh as Blue’s friend). And I want to point these 3 out because the movies are so wildly different in how they present the material. I’m going to start from Dora the Explorer because that was the one that had a movie of the three first.
So the Dora show is about Dora and Boots going around and solving the usual little kid show type problems of stuff like, “Get the baby duck home” or “We need to get stuff to make a pie” and will then focus around the usual rule of 3 type things where the show will have Dora ask the audience things like “Which way do we go” and have the answer be based on the skill that particular episode wants to highlight. Then we have the movie. The movie is such a wild departure from the show, in that the stakes are amped up to 11 in that it’s no longer just “Here’s a fairly friendly romp” into “The fucking CARTEL has KIDNAPPED YOUR FAMILY”. It has little nods to the original show, but I cannot understand how the movie relates back to the show other than I guess when the show first came out to the end of the run, any kids who grew up watching it would have become teenagers and possibly even actual adults.
Next we have Paw Patrol. The usual structure of an episode is something akin to “Establish the situation” where we see what issue is about to or currently unfolding to “Plan a solution” where Ryder (and his team of pups) work out which members will solve the problem and how to the twist where something mildly goes wrong during the resolution where there needs to be an improvisation to the resolution where things get solved and possibly comeuppance served to any bad actors through some funny happenstance. The episodes tend to have stakes that can vary wildly. Some episodes are things like “Someone is stealing all the pies” to “Turbot and his Cousin are stuck in an actively erupting volcano with actual real lava in it threatening to KILL THEM”. Then we look at the movie and we have a semi similar structure where there are issues being caused by a bad actor (Mayor Humdinger) and need to be resolved with the pups various areas of expertise. Unlike in the show, there is no planning phase, they always just activate all pups and go, but do always find a reason to use most of them in each scene. Also, the movie does something that only happens in a few episodes where there is pup character development, in this case with Chase having difficulties being back in the city he was found orphaned in. The stakes in each issue that gets solved slowly get higher, starting with fireworks endangering widespread fires, to a loop-de-loop (which is a jab at the idea of the hyperloop when Mayor Humdinger calls it his own hyperloop) which strands a subway train full of people at the top of one of the loops, to a renegade storm that starts demolishing a tower Mayor Humdinger built. Obviously, the pups solve each one while Chase finally gets his confidence back in the 3rd act and then Humdinger gets his comeuppance and is humiliated/defanged. Overall the movie acts as a seemingly natural escalation from the tone and themes of the show to the movie. The structure stays the same but we have more characterization of characters and more plot threads at once. So we can see that the idea is as the kids age up, the movie can appeal to them because the danger is more apparent and even more real, the characters have obvious motivations, and some of the things that would normally be spelled out are more implied instead.
Finally we have Blue’s Clues. The show itself has the usual rule of threes with three clues, interspersed with small diversions where Josh and “You” help various friends around the house. There’s a skiddoo into a book or other location, and then a thinking chair solution followed by the enacting of that solution (making the treat, playing the game, learning the dance, etc). Generally, the stakes here are very low, the games are almost always about finding out a favorite thing of Blue’s or some piece of fun information. One of the highest “stakes” one that I’ve seen in Blue’s Clues and You is probably the emotions episode where Blue is sad (and props to the writers for carrying that emotion through the ‘How to play’ song) where there is sort of an antagonist. Now the movie, again follows the same sort of structure, in that Josh, Blue, and “You” are in NYC but Josh forgot his notebook at home and they don’t know where to go for his Big Broadway Audition. So we play Blue’s clues to figure it out. We have the same beats as the show, where “You” will see a clue and the disembodied child voice will say “Clue, RIGHT THERE!” but after Josh does his “Wait, a clue?” bit, an actual human person or two will clarify the clue’s location to him. But there are two very big divergences from the show. First, Mr. Salt and crew try to bring the notebook to Josh, but they don’t know where he is. They find Steve (and later Joe) for help who notices that “You” are with them. This however, is not the same “You” that’s with Josh (otherwise, they’d just tell Steve et. al. where Josh is) but rather, based on what Steve says (”Oh my gosh, look at you, you got so big!”) we are to believe that there are two different “You”s, the one with Josh is the actual child, and the “You” with Mr. Salt, Steve, and Joe are the parent who may have watched the original Blue’s Clues. The second departure comes from the fact that after solving Blue’s clues, they don’t actually know where to go still, where they get into the cab and the cabbie (played by Alex Winters of Bill and Ted fame) is like, “that sounds like a cool theater but I need like, the name or an address or something”. They do eventually meet up with Mr. Salt and gang, get to the theater, but oh no! Auditions are over! Josh shows genuine sadness and does a good job of showing being shook up over it, no happy ending here. Of course, through a device shown at the top of the movie Josh performs anyway and Mr. Salt broadcasts it to Time Square and the producer sees it and they give Josh the part. In this case, we can see that the movie stays fairly true to the source material, but does two things differently, first it acknowledges that this movie is being watched both by a parent and child both of whom may have watched Blue’s Clues. The second is it let’s bad happenstance happen. Even with solving Blue’s Clues, they don’t make it in time and it is only through some extraordinary means that they still win the day, breaking away from the usual “The game ties up the episode neatly”.
In all, the different movies each seem to target differently based on who the producers think would be watching it, kids who watched it in their youth but are now grown way beyond the original target age, kids who watched it and have grown a little, and kids who watched it and are now watching it with their own kids.
#i'm normal i swear#children's learning media#blue's clues#paw patrol#dora#essays no one wants#at least it's not in my brain anymore
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Hello Silm fans, I’m reading your book for the first time
Hi! So, I’m reading the Silmarillion for the first time and thought I’d post my thoughts as I went as I’ve heard that some silm fans enjoy hearing people’s first thoughts on the silm and also just as a way to keep track of my own thoughts on the thing. Before I launch right into it, I thought I’d explain some background on how I got here, to explain how I know a good many random things contained in this book I’ve never actually read before.
First, I got into Tolkein as a kid when my dad read me the Hobbit and the entire LOTR trilogy as bedtime stories! It took from when I was about 8-10 and while the Balrog actually gave me a nightmare or two I thought it was a really cool series and tiny me was set off into the wide world of fantasy books and I’ve never given it up. I saw the Peter Jackson movie trilogy at some point and enjoyed them, several animated versions of the Hobbit that I enjoyed, and finally that trilogy of Hobbit movies which were overall meh with all the added extra stuff, but good otherwise. I hadn’t touched Tolkein specifically other than this, even though I knew the Silmarillion existed because I had been told it was “dense, uninteresting, confusing, disjointed, and not worth it overall.” So why am I reading it now?
Several of you are gonna lose your minds at this, but I watched the Rings of Power show with my dad and kinda liked it. I went, “y’know this stuff is all really interesting but all the fans online are saying it got butchered. I wanna know what they mean.” and through the mystical ways of fandom delving I found out what exactly got butchered by that show (Celebrimbor’s entire storyline, anyone?) and here I am now several months and millions of words of fanfiction read later, actually reading the Silmarillion.
Now, this is not my first time reading a book written by someone from a significantly older time than myself (I read a lot of my dad’s favorite books from high school) so I am somewhat accustomed to sifting through cultural biases that have shifted over time and looking through both the frame of the time and my own cultural reference frame to analyze books and their themes and meanings. As such, I’m gonna list out some of my own biases that I think may be relevant here to help anyone who’s reading this figure out where I’m coming from.
Raised female, but no longer ID with that
Atheist raised by atheist parents, I really don’t jive with religion, especially organized religions and struggle to understand how anyone does, although I always do my best to be respectful of other people’s beliefs when interacting with them. I do have a soft spot for Jewish people though, on account of all of the bullshit that’s happened that they didn’t deserve (nobody deserves the level of death in their history to be clear) and also all of the memes I’ve seen that are like “3 Rabbis 5 opinions” which is incredibly funny and also exactly the kind of energy I intend to bring to the table here.
American, which isn’t totally relevant except that I live in the south, so christianity is pervasive enough here that I somehow ended up culturally christian without my parents or I noticing. I mean culturally christian in that I do things like celebrate christmas and have catholic guilt syndrome, but when I was like 7 I asked my mom why people sang about Jesus on the radio so much every December.
I’m white
I’m in college and everyone in my family has gone to college for three full generations so I have a skewed idea of how well educated everyone around me is, as in I used to expect everyone to know how the government works by age 12 (my parents started discussing politics at the dinner table when I was like 8 and I thought everyone did that) until I started working with kids and several six year olds have assumed batshit things like, that the marker of adulthood was being married and having children, not like, turning 18, and I had to yank my worldview around and am still in the process of figuring out how much other people know about things.
I might be autistic? Many of my autistic friends are like “that thing you do? That's autism. No neurotypical does that.” But my older sister is autistic and much of my childhood was shaped by being “the normal one.” so. Lots to unpack here.
My friend group has a token straight guy and it’s not me
I walk a very thin line between “I have to fit in with everyone and be normal and do things like them and never stand out ever” and “WHY does everyone do this thing the dumbest way possible FUCK that I will be doing this completely differently and you all may watch if it so pleases you” (but the second one is usually about like, wearing mens pants instead of womens because they have functioning pockets). This means my views on individuality culture vs communal culture are disjointed and contradictory af.
Not sure if it’ll come across in my posts here since most of the writing I’ve done in my life has been academic but I have a fuckin potty mouth. A friend analyzed my discord messages once and I averaged one fuck per five point something messages, other swears not included. Fuck is an excellent word and sometimes swears are just what you need to get the point across y’know?
In my fanfiction delving to get a basic understanding of the silm, I started with Elrond (as one does), and got interested in kidnap fam and stayed there for a good long while, so now I have many Feanorian murder babies who I will be seeking any and all information on during this read-through. Primary blorbo here is Maedhros, but all of them come along for the ride.
When I say I’ve read millions of words of fanfiction I’m not kidding. A good part of what I’m intending to do with this read-through is separate fanon from canon, as I think there's enough fanon that all agrees with itself you could write several reference books containing it. And then do it again with alternative sets of fanon. This fandom is old and y’all have been busy.
I think that’s all, but I may come back to this later if something keeps popping up! I’ll be tagging all my posts about this with #baby’s first silm read if anyone wants to see what I’m up to!
Also, I am yelling into the void from a 10ish year-old blog that I’ve basically never done anything with so my post history will be undergoing renovations at some point so I can tag and actually find later all those useful references I found in the past couple weeks before they get buried. If you (the void) would like to yell back I would love that! Your thoughts on my thoughts, If you think I’ve misinterpreted something, you want to talk about blorbos together, anything!
#silmarillion#Baby's first silm read#yelling into the void in the hopes of making friends#will the void reply?#silm
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Full Name: Nia Bailey
Nickname: Nia
Age & Birthday: Thirty-six (36), December 18th.
Occupation: Restaurant Manager
Preferred Pronouns & Gender: She/her & cis-female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Hometown & how long in town: Manhattan, New York. In Briar Ridge for eight years.
Neighborhood: Downtown
Family: Tba, but they're not local. I might add one of her brothers as a wc.
PINTEREST || CONNECTIONS
Born the oldest of three to a 'new money' household in the infamous New York City, Nia admittedly felt pressured growing up to achieve.
Her parents are both long standing healthcare professionals who met originally as an EMT and ER Nurse.
Nia has always been a bit of a mathematics wiz, which was encouraged but in wanting the best for her Nia's parents tended to push her into a lot of extra curricular activities with a 'think of your future' and a smile.
Track, lacrosse, debate - helping her younger brothers, given their parents busy and demanding schedules. In the city that never sleep it often felt like Nia's early years were spent in fast forward mode.
She attended Columbia. An Applied Mathematics major, who, graduated with zero idea of what exactly she wanted to do out in the big wide world.
She ended up working as a budget analyst, dating a family friend, and still very much feeling like she was going through the motions until well into her 20s.
Which is when her life was rocked. Her parents divorced, shattering the illusion she'd grown up with that they knew what was best & the path she was on had to be right because it was molded with their help.
Learning they'd both had affairs really split their family apart, her siblings taking sides in a dramatic fashion and Nia finally decided she needed to get away from it all and make some choices for herself.
Nia ended up in Briar Ridge by a bit of a roll of the dice, she didn't quite know where she was going just... somewhere. She'd stopped in Luther's, saw a job posting in a nearby restaurant window and decided it seemed like as good of a place as any to stay if only for a little while. That turned into years, and Nia got to start fresh in the small town seemingly worlds away from her old life. Now, combined with her hard work and education, Nia has ended up as the restaurant manager at Alvaro's and she's happy to use her head for numbers in a way that she actually cares about.
Fun Facts:
- Didn't get her license until after moving to Briar Ridge in her late 20s.
- A bit of a gym rat, she likes doing those ridiculous themed runs.
- Doesn't understand the concept of a day off.
- Will agree to just about anything for the low, low price of a New York-style Cheesecake.
- Really loves horror movies, but might also then answer her door with a baseball bat xD
Feel free to look at her wanted connection page for plotting ideas! <3
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♕ ( n/a / 33 / female / she/her ) — did you see MILLIE MONRETTI wandering around the island today? they kind of look like LILY COLLINS from certain angles? i heard around town that the SERVER AT NONNA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT is OPTIMISTIC and COMPASSIONATE, but also HOPELESS and INSECURE. people say that they remind them of PASTEL PINK, THE GLOW AND WARMTH OF A LIT CANDLE, and RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS, and GOOD LEGS by JENSEN MCRAE is definitely their theme song. they seem like a nice enough person, but we all know how hard it is to keep a pristine reputation in a small town. ( sie / 29 / cst / she/her )
tw: car accident mention
↳ FULL NAME: millie elizabeth monretti ( nicknames: mills )
↳ AGE: 33
↳ PRONOUNS: she/her
↳ FACE CLAIM: lily collins
↳ BIRTHDATE: june 22
↳ ZODIAC cancer
↳ HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5'3 ; 105 lbs
↳ JOB: server @ nonna’s italian resturant ; former ballerina
↳ RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single
↳ SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual
↳ HOMETOWN: around nashville, tennesee // been in kingshaven for three months
↳ FOUR TEMPERAMENTS: phlegmatic
↳ SIN / VIRTUE: envy / kindness
↳ CHARACTER TRAITS: compassionate, agreeable, creative, responsible, reserved, trusting, moody, secretive, perfectionist, indecisive, insecure, loyal, passionate, clumsy, dork
↳ LIKES: fuzzy socks, the glow of the moon, baking, art, ballet, red wine, acts of kindness, an organized bookcase, the ambiance of candles, visiting museums, the colors of a sunrise and/or sunset, farmer’s markets on the weekend, adult coloring books, the ocean or any bodies of water, touching (hand holding, etc), high heels, making lists, macaroons
↳ DISLIKES: cold weather, crying in front of anyone, comparing herself to every other girl she sees, spoiling a book or tv show or movie, talking about her feelings, pranks, rejection, pantyhose runs, arrogance, losing touch with people, pineapple, overcooked pasta, having to wait a long time, mac and cheese, feelings of jealousy
MINI BIOGRAPHY
she grew up near nashville, tennessee the daughter to a wealthy lawyer as her father and stay at home mother. she knew she was destined to be a ballerina the first time she saw The Nutcracker ballet. she begged her mother to let her go to ballet school, which luckily met a few days a week after school hours, which was the selling point that allowed her parents to let her go.
it was important to her parents that she finished her public education through high school at least, so she did and she didn’t slack off or anything in school. she tried to maintain decent grades, but it was clear she wasn’t as interested in classes that she couldn’t express her creativity in. she worked much harder to train and impress her teachers in ballet school.
her teachers often complimented her hard work, saying that she had excellent discipline and form. by the time she graduated high school, she had even been in minor roles for the Nashville Ballet’s Nutcracker but now she was ready to dance for the company full time. she would spend most of the ballet season downtown in the actual city of Nashville for the season and the few months she wasn’t on stage, she’d come back home.
she did have many solo performances throughout her years dancing for the Nashville Ballet, but she knew after battling through a few minor sprains that her body just wasn’t up for the rigor of the ballet anymore. she moved in with her parents temporarily but that was cut short when the three of them were in a car accident and millie was the sole survivor. after the funeral, she learned she was getting a pretty nice inheritance and she also sold her parent’s house, got in her car, and she didn’t look back.
she didn’t have any plans as far as where she was going — just somewhere where no one would know her name. she stopped in kingshaven for gas primarily but then she ate at the Italian restaurant and ended up charmed by the town. she got a job at the restaurant for now and has stayed in the town for three months now. right now, she doesn’t have plans to leave but she is still a little cautious about planting too many roots in town, but she’s also not the type to be closed off as she enjoys getting to know people and maybe finding people that make it worth staying for good.
connections: she really needs friends from all stages of life, artsy people, coworkers at the restaurant, hookups, fwbs, etc! I’m pretty open to ideas!
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What do you think were the Soy Luna kids favorite shows growing up?
YES thank you, I wanted an ask with them too after I got the Violetta one. This will be easier especially since the SL characters are closer to my age.
Luna - So, I literally cannot decide on ONE kids show she'd like, so here's a mix:
- Cardcaptor Sakura. She'd be VERY inspired to roller skate to school. Also she'd like the magical girl story. I think she's very into those in general.
- My little pony. Not necessarily friendship is magic (though she'd probably like it fine when it came out), but also the G3 movies and MLP Tales (she'd probably get that show on DVD).
- Lazytown. Please she is Stephanie.
- Tweenies. Just. Just watch the theme song to Tweenies, it's. It's something baby Luna would watch like it was crack.
Ámbar - This is interesting, cause I feel like she'd act like she was "too old" for kids shows already when she was like 8, but that was far from the case. Though, I feel like she'd like more not-cartoons. But... she would really enjoy Totally Spies, I think she found it to be "cool for a cartoon". But I think she also enjoyed A gURLs wURLd (that is how the title is spelled apparently in english, it's puns on "url" cause, if you didn't know, it's about three girls who live in different countries but through a ~magical chatroom~ they can travel to each other just by a click). Actually, I think she'd enjoy most shows with "teenage girls in a trio".
But, also, I think she liked the Eloise cartoon. Mostly because, Eloise looks like her and is rich. I know Eloise lowkey acts more like Luna, but I also thinks Ámbar kind of wished she lived and could be like Eloise.
Simón - Oh he'd be so into Bakugan, watching the show religiously and then have bakugan battles at recess. I think he'd enjoy Lazytown too, like I feel like when he and Luna were very little they'd pretend to be Sportacus and Stephanie. Actually I think there was a LOT of kids shows he and Luna watched together and then pretending to be the charactes, but these were probably his favorites. Also Pokemon, I think he'd like Pokemon. Oh, and ATLA.
Matteo - I feel like every single kids show he watched, he declared as "lame", but I feel like he'd have a guilty pleasure for Shaun the Sheep. I have no idea why, but I feel like he enjoyed the kids shows with no dialogue. Maybe because he moved around so much and didn't know every language spoken in the different countries, so he could much more easily follow the shows with no dialogue.
Gastón - For some reason, Ben 10. I don't know why, because I myself never watched Ben 10, I only bopped to the intro and then turned off. But it gives me Gastón vibes. Honestly the boys are much harder to do than the girls for this.
Nina - She'd like the kids shows where it felt like they took the kids seriously, and didn't talk down to them, as well as the educational ones. With a rough homelife with arguing parents, and no friends, she felt like the characters in her books and on TV were her friends. She probably when she was very young liked Bear in the big blue house, because it was comforting, spoken in a soft tone and she felt like the bear could be like a babysitter to her. Also, I think she enjoyed Scooby Doo quite a lot.
Jim - Ok... Futuri wa precure. It's a kids show I have not even seen myself, but the INTRO and the premise of the show, about two besties being magical girls together (and I think they even have to HOLD HANDS to be able to transform)... it feels like something Jim would watch and definitely want to play with someone who could play her magical bestie. And even if I never saw it, cause it sadly didn't air in my country, I know it aired in Spain, at least (and Jim was born in Spain! So!)
Yam - Lou! She'd read all the graphic novels too and was so excited when a new came out. I think she got so happy when Lou was confirmed bisexual in the latest graphic novel. Besides Lou the cartoon, I think she also liked every kids shows with musical segments.
Ramiro - Ok, so everyone loves Phineas and Ferb, you're not a 00s kid if you didn't enjoy Phineas and Ferb (/hj), but Ramiro ESPECIALLY loved it. Like he has formed his entire personality after it and quote the most obscure quotes from it.
Jazmin - Ok definitely Totally Spies, a gurls wurld, but also I think she really enjoyed Trollz. She probably had a bunch of trollz dolls. Also, Horseland.
Delfi - Also the two shows aforementioned (please, you just know Delfi, Jazmin and Ámbar played Totally Spies at recess), but I think she also really loved H2O Just Add Water. She feels like a mermaid kid.
Genuinely can't come up with anything for Nico and Pedro. BUT:
Emilia - I legit feel like, even if she's all edgy now, she enjoyed the crap out of care bears, my little pony, all the "super-girly" kids shows, and still finds comfort in them. She refuses to tell this information to anyone.
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