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- As far back as I can remember, I had a passion for dressing up and playing games of 'Let's Pretend', which are, of course, the basic principles of acting, and if you are lucky enough, you get paid for so doing, hard work though it may be.
#peter cushing#birthday boy#thank you for existing!#cannot believe it's taken me this many years here to do a proper peter cushing birthday gifset#just looking at his face through all these films has brought me great joy#even having to suffer larry's hamlet again was worth it for peter's amazing thighs in those tights (sorry not sorry)#the hardest part was having to watch from beyond the grave which is just completely heartbreaking every time#anyway your honour I love him#and his dedication to his craft#like all the greats he never gives less than his best even when the material is a bit shit#I especially love 1950s peter because he's in some great films and gives great performances#but all peter decades are amazing#my wee gifs
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WHICH SYMBOLIC FRUIT ARE YOU?
Cherry. (Man, this is going to need some tag rambling; because while it's what I suspected and it's very fitting in many ways, I need to address one element).
In popular culture, cherries have come to represent sensuality, sex, and seduction. In the cult classic, Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne expresses her sexual expertise by tying a cherry stem with her tongue. "Cherry" is also used to refer to the concept of virginity: why? I don't know to be honest, but here we are. Much like the cherry, you're a sensual person who enjoys all the creature comforts the world offers. You enjoy delicious food, dynamic relationships, passionate lovemaking and stimulating conversation; however, you may also come across a touch vapid or shallow, due to your quickly fading attention when something has served its usefulness to you. To quote some man on tinder: "you're here for a good time, not a long time". You can come across, at times, slightly tart, carrying a bit of a bite to you that not everyone can handle. That’s okay: you’re an acquired taste!
Tagged: @basbousah (Thank you 🩷)
Tagging: I don't tend to tag for quizzes easily but this one was actually fun, so let's harass. @immobiliter (how about Furina?) @kushtibokt @genus83 @genius81 @spiderwarden @delusionaid (Wriothesley, or Zhongli— porque no los dos? 🤭) @apocryphis (Topaz) @aventvrina @resolutepath (Elio) @daybreakrising (Blade) @astrxlfinale @kahakera @cygnor @chasersglow @scrtilegii (Jing Yuan)... and anyone else who'd like to do it, say I tagged you because I'd love to see the results!
#[ games. ] the game only works when we follow the rules; though i'll be none the wiser if they're broken. let morality be your guide.#[ this has been open in a tab since yesterday. ]#[ okay but i actually /love/ this result. BUT LET ME SPECIFY-- to those who haven't read my other post. ]#[ please read 'sex' and 'seduction' through a very old fashioned lens. very old fashioned. ]#[ and then i think it's a lot more fitting. think film noir/1940s femme fatale /instead/ of the modern femme fatale and you got it. ]#[ seductive in the way that a woman can be inherently alluring. ]#[ sex in the way that it /is/ something she engages in. but in the way that one does without overindulging at all. no promiscuity. ]#[ i'm not saying religious-type 'it means everything'. but i'll forever live by that line by blade. ]#[ “she must have sought something extraordinary. everything she does comes at a great cost.” ]#[ the thing is-- he knows she lacks fear. so i don't see 'at a great cost' being a value tied to anything because of personal risk. ]#[ or fear of chasing after it. it also means something that it comes from blade. who likely also has an interesting tie to 'fear'. ]#[ but any way that means 'at a great cost' means investment/engagement (time. effort. sacrifice?) ]#[ which shows a deep rooted dedication to something. which speaks to me of a certain passion that needs to propel something like that. ]#[ and if we take passion into the equation-- then i think that fits for how she speaks and handles everything blade and tb-related. ]#[ then i also can see 'sex' very fitting. she would; when engaging in it; be incredibly all-encompassing but not in a 'dominatrix' way. ]#[ nor a traditional 'dominant' way. but simply incredibly present. engaged. passionate. ]#[ those two things can fit incredibly next to sensuality if you simply look at it from a specific lens that isn't casual and/or modern. ]#[ outside of that... dynamic relationships? ☑️ stimulating conversation? ☑️ which PLAYS INTO THE NEXT PART. ]#[ which is /yes/ she is bored. she gets bored. you /need/ to be able to stimulate her by having something of your own to interest her. ]#[ she also wouldn't/doesn't like people who serve her every whim. no. have your own interests. ]#[ as to elaborate on an acquired taste: she isn't everyone's cup of tea. if you don't have something that interests her-- you won't... ]#[ enjoy being around her. if she doesn't /like/ you. you won't think she's fun. in /that/ she's an acquired taste. ]#[ and has a bit of a bite. ]
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I’m just happy to know no Disney/Disney adjacent films won for the sole fact they are Disney/Disney adjacent
Congrats to The Boy and the Heron on the Oscar win, still proud of each movie that ended up nominated in the section
#like I would’ve cried big tears for ATSV or Nimona to have won#but still proud of them being nominated yknow?#oscars#oscars 2024#also no shade to elemental I do think it’s a nice film#I just know when it comes to the academy’s history#if not for the years of prior backlash they definitely would’ve chosen it because of that leg up of being a disney/pixar feature#and I still think a lot of the movies in the category this year just had more weight to their stories than elemental did tbh#I really liked the themes of the boy and the heron on creating a better world with your own hands#a vision of optimism that’s so desperately needed while still acknowledging like the unfortunate/bleak status of the world#I was really hopeful for nimona cause of the message served there too#of how history/empires can so greatly twist a narrative#of spurning the world around because of treatment received so long ago and finding acceptance in the unlikeliest place#of coming up from the mud to become something greate spiting all those who spoke down on you#and I don’t think yall need to hear me gas up atsv again for the narrative#but you know imma stand on the fact of not walking in the path others think you’re supposed to and writing your own story#in spite of all your nay sayers#I think honestly there were a lot of great picks this year
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I remember talking to a friend last week and saying that if I'm reading obsessively it either means I'm extremely happy or extremely in need of help. alas goodreads my good pal you have GOT to be kidding me
#i have hit 60 books this year. we are three days into april. i have not been at the pinnacle of happiness this year so it is not that lol#ah well we hit rock bottom we bounce back up! i am trying to claw my way to the surface again!#granted this has been a series of not great distracting tactics to get my mind off the Horrors (i.e. through the mass consumption of#stories in book and film form) but at least i'm recognising and acknowledging it now#i need to actually deal with the Horrors so that there's a chance they'll actually go away!#but i am glad that i HAVE been surrounded by good stories. it has helped. it has been a method of conflict avoidance#in all areas of my life but it HAS helped to have those stories of hope hammered into my head and heart#anyway it looks like i HAVE lost a friend or am very close to losing one because it has been 1.5 weeks and there has been zero response#and there's a ton of Decisions i have to sort through this week#along with other mental health assessments my GP wants me to do#but God is good and He has been very patient with all the bouts of despair and loneliness and frustration etc etc#i just need to keep holding on and keep clawing my way upwards#despite all my failures as a friend and student and probably as a daughter as well this year there has been a lot of grace#and i am trying not to dwell on the past#slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21
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Saw Back to Black (2024) tonight and I'm not going to lie to y'all. I actually quite enjoyed it like it was a decent film- not at all perfect and the most accurate or like. y'know. thing in the world obviously but I actually found it enjoyable for the most part
Also I saw it with my mum and she was sobbing literally five minutes in during that Fly Me To the Moon section
#this is why I can't watch these with her#because she then gets me and I cry#this happened with the Whitney film too lmao#anyway#so YEAH those were my thoughts on the film#I would actually watch it again ngl#this is my version of enjoying the new Ghostbusters despite it being objectively shite#we all have at least a few films that aren't great that we like surely lmao#so in short. reviews bad but I liked it#about to go and binge listen to her music for at least a week now lmao#cass thinks ab stuff#back to black#Amy Winehouse
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honestly the thing that baffles me the most about all the disney “live action” remakes is that they won’t touch the live action adaptations that not only existed long before their remake plans, but have been WILDLY successful!!!
the theater/broadway adaptations of beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, and the fucking LION KING??
disney, you already own all of this material. why are you dumping money into mediocre remakes when you already have the exact thing you’re looking for, but better??
#moi#disney#beauty and the beast#the little mermaid#little mermaid#the lion king#lion king#WHY WHY WHY#JUST GIVE US THE BROADWAY VERSIONS#I WOULD RATHER HAVE ‘human person in a costume’ THAN WHATEVER CREEPY CGI UR GONNA SHOVE AT US NEXT#there’s a reason these films weren’t made live action to begin with!!!!#and it’s because the more realistic you try to make it#the weirder it feels!#because these stories are full of impossible things and magic#which works great for animation#and for theater#because both of those are mediums that ask you to suspend your disbelief#weird animated tiny candlestick or guy in a candlestick costume holding a smaller candlestick to represent the actual size?#i will take guy in a candlestick costume thanks#can you imagine if they had done like a beauty and the beast live?#these shows aren’t easy for people to see!#they could have just made a film ‘adaptation’ of the broadway versions#and shipped that#it would have been better than what we got
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Shoutout to @cabincreaking for not only getting me movie ticket but also a poster and making me a bracelet 🥰
#Eras tour movie#Yes I am still uncomfy about those kids shrieking at that part of vigilante shit#Other than that the vibes in our theater where pretty great#Wait because some of it was filmed when you and wisteriawatching were there does that mean we all attended together???
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Do you have a list anywhere of Chinese films you recommend? I'm a first year student of the language (Mandarin) at uni, so there's a lot of stuff I obviously won't get, but any sorta cultural resources would be nice.
for mandarin-language films, i would recommend hero (2002), to live (1994), farewell my concubine (1993), eat drink man woman (1994), ash is purest white (2018) (not entirely in mandarin, but an incredibly good film), a touch of zen (1971), the big road (1935), detention (2019), a world without thieves (2004), and red cliff (2008-09). i'm not sure how these films are for language education, but a lot of them are really interesting explorations of cultural perspectives and societal problems faced by china and taiwan, and there should be enough styles and genres represented that you can find one that resonates with you and watch more like it :)
#it was hard to pick a sixth generation film because those directors love representing various chinese dialects#which i also love! but isn't great for learning mandarin
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I have literally never given a fuck about Beavis and Butthead in my life, then I watched a Serena G video analysing them as characters, and now I’m in serious danger of falling down a B&BH/Daria/Grungy 90s things hole, and that will not be good for me.
#Hyperfixating is all fun and games until...#Sometimes I think I don’t actually hyperfixate then things like this happen#Thing is I fucking love film/TV history#Like I’m not an expert or anything#but those books that are like “IconicTV through the decades”#And I’m like yes tell me more!#Tell me how influential and great they are and how so many people loved it#tell me how it shaped a genre/decade of TV watchers#I cannot fucking buy more DVDs I have no rooom#TV shows are the worst because you either have to pay for a subscription service that probably won’t give you all the episodes anyway#Or you buy DVDs which I prefer but they take up so much space#Also my parents will judge me if I get either a B&BH or a Daria boxset#Because I used to mean it when I said I didn’t care#Now suddenly I’m curious and thinking about it all the time#I also want to watch The Simpsons again because it’s been years#but again#no space#Ahhhhh#beavis and butthead#daria#cartoons#television#90s televsion#hyperfixations
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My experience with Prometheus (2012)
#prometheus#xenomorph#Age 24 and somehow missed out on anything having to do with the Alien franchise besides obviously knowing what a xenomorph looked like#in hindsight I think that's what saved me from the onslaught of negative opinions folks had on the movie#I thought the film was very inspired and so artistic in how it was handled#I remember being so impressed with the framing and use of color#I wish I could go back to 2012 me and experience the movie again without knowledge of the franchise#NOW DO NOT GET ME WRONG#I love the Alien movies!#I'm glad Prometheus motivated me to finally watch them back then because now I understand all those references I kept seeing my whole life#But I genuinely think people were too hard on it#I think it's great that Scott went into it not wanting to do the same cues or make so many references#I like that it stands out as it's own thing so well#Anyway I just watched it again after not seeing it for a few years and I still think it rocks
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If you guys thought i was insane for the mike and food analyses just wait until we get to the victor and food analyses. i have so many thoughts all the time
#stranger things#victor creel#victorposting#no literally like#im not saying ‘victor has an ed like mikes’ im saying ‘victor grew up in the great depression And with rations as a soldier’#and im saying that theres a lot of interesting details surrounding the feel imagery w the creels and how it ties to the food imagery w the#cunningham family & those parallels. and some of victor’s very specific costuming choices and parallels…#and god im reayd for the bitchy ‘dont talk about actors’ bodies’ comments on this analysis but#victor/kevin l johnson DID gain weight between the moving in scene and the dinner scene#AND theres specific costuming and storytelling choices that coincide EXACTLY with that weight gain#AND kevin went back to the ‘moving in day’ weight/lost the weight right after filming#so it seems very intentional.#like i hate when people are like ‘don’t point out weight gain for an actor/character’ like bro im sorry its part of the show#dont MOCK them for it is completley fair#but im not mocking at all#victor/kevin is fine as FUCK at either weight#if anyone acts like im saying the weight gain is a bad thing im biting them. victor literally went from hot to hot#moving in day scene victor? hot. dinner scene victor? hot#so anyone who has an issue with me talking about it can leave. because its There and its paralleled to hopper’s weight stuff#and i support victor ‘born during the depression & wat rations’ creel gaining some weight. its literally a good thing
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ohhhhhh my god my lead actress's big brown eyes...... girl you're killing me......
#and my male lead is quite literally blonde with blue eyes it's ridiculous#he's ok tho. actually i did find out today he played clarient in marching band in hs#so that's a red flag but hey i just need him to act and he's been pretty great at it. red flags are allowed <3#he also got us our other guy we needed for some small scenes. so he's been invaluable despite the serial killer eyes#in truth he actually looks lke a panda to me. there's nothing wrong with his serial killer blue eyes i'm being mean#sorry for being anti men who play clarient. in my defense i've known those guys and i have never met one that didn't annoy me a little#anyway. she has beautiful big brown eyes and he is there. and our other guy is beautifully tragic and doomed <3#that was my criteria for casting him. i said 'he needs to look beautiful and tragic' and then we found him#he did great today. i don't know if he likes me but he showed up and he wore all the outfits i told him to wear so#actually i think i act weird around good looking men. i think it's because once a hot guy is around i get one notch lower on the hierarchy#and i'm usually up there. frankly. so i don't like being lowered...#i mean you guys will see what he looks like eventually i'm gonna post the link to the film when it's done and i'm graduated#but he's Hot. i was scared of him for a moment. he was wearing sunglasses. and then i made him walk up a bigass hill#and then i made him be in vaguely homoerotic pictures. his words. he didn't seem to mind there were jokes had. jests even#and tomorrow at 11am im gonna make him stand on a bed and put stars on a wall while yelling at him to smile and look pretty#and well. that's awesome. heirarchy is restored once we all remember that i'm the guy in charge......#anyway. i had an eventful day. 8am to now. i gotta go to sleep girls.#unfortunately that's not happening soon due to i've committed myself to reviewing today's footage. ok
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-randomly sees a screenshot of jamie and lily from the city of bones movie, where they seem to embody jace and clary, and am once again sad that we didn't get a city of ashes movie-
#like. to be clear. i KNOW that the city of bones movie has flaws--and i can tell you what they all are--but for me at least the positives#outweigh the negatives#and one of those things is that the cast really was perfect imo (and a lot of other people's opinions too)#though that's not to insult the shadowhunters cast at all of course. i think they're great and did the best with what they were give#i. personally. just don't really like shadowhunters because of how much they changed from the books#and even outside of that--if i ignored book to show comparisons--at least with the first season (the only one i watched) a lot of the#choices they were making with their own rules they were making didn't make a lot of sense. though i hear it gets better if season one so#maybe i should give it another chance sometime...#but back to city of ashes... i feel like. if city of bones had done well. city of ashes could have been better than city of bones and even#more book accurate (since that was some fans' issues with the first film) since the studio would have realized there was an audience there#and to take it more seriously. we've seen that kind of thing before. like with how the twilight movies actually became more book accurate#after the first film was a success#though that's not the world we live in of course. -sighs- oh well#maybe someday we'll get a really good and accurate tmi adaptation#i'm also looking forward to/cautiously optimistic about the the infernal devices show. PLEASE don't mess it up. PLEASE#that's my--and many--fans' favorite of the shadow world series. and it could/should be SO good. PLEASE!
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i think everyone needs to have very good taste and very bad taste & also your bad taste should be amazing and your good taste should be atrocious
#so tired of being self concious of my spotify wrapped#like yes i have great music taste i show ppl. but also i turn on private listening when i listen to the undertale OST while studying.#yes i have very good taste in queer media like those 90s artsy indie films i talk abt forever. but also im a good omens/ofmd enjoyer :/#yes i read classic books. that's because i barely read books outside of school bc im hashtag dyslexic lowkey
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365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 253
Adjective: Remarkable
Noun: Soul
Definitions for those who need/want them:
Remarkable: worthy of attention, or striking
Soul: the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal; a person's moral or emotional nature or sense of identity; emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance; African American culture or ethnic pride; soul music; the essence or embodiment of a specified quality; an individual person; a person regarded with affection or pity
#im late this time because ive been playing a lot of splatoon (it is splatfest right now after all)#speaking of which those close friends who hurt/betrayed me yesterday continued to do so today if not more so#so that was great and i love that for me#im hoping something changes tomorrow and i can get an explanation or an apology#i mean i would just like some acknowledgement at the very least#other than that id say my girlfriend and i had a great day together#anyhoo i love this prompt#it makes me think of the disney-pixar film entitled 'soul'#and how all of us matter and have significance and all of our lives matter and have significance#so thats probably going to be what i write about#thanks for reading#writing#writer#creative writing#writing prompt#writeblr#trying to be a writeblr at least
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I saw the Barbie movie today and tbh I have mixed feelings about it. It was really funny in parts I won't lie and I liked the humor but there was something so... I don't know. I think the message was nice enough but the film felt shallow?? Idk
#yes i know i went to see barbie#but honestly the trailers intrigued me i wont lie#i think the whole thing felt very shallow#like it was pro women but in a very shallow way if that makes sense? im sure someone could put it better than me#the acting and music was great and it was really funny 😭 the fucking ken music number had me laughing so hard 😭#but i think it felt a little too boy vs girl#if that makes sense#and i hate that kind of thing#i think my complex relationship with gender probably plays into it#maybe i just didnt get it#it was a decent film though but not one id rush to see again if you get me#the scene at the end (the emotional one for those who have seen the film) THAT was powerful#that had nothing to do with the feminism thing that was more like what it means to be human#and that got me i was much more invested#edit:#maybe boy vs girl isnt what im thinking of because tbh it showed how patriarchy fails both men and women#but it still felt shallow if you get me#i just can't vocalize how
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