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firstdegreefangirl · 1 year

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...I would like to know about the podcasts/special features venn diagram

Yay! I love when I get to explain my harebrained ideas!

I'd been thinking down this line for a bit, but the other week I watched a youtube video kind of slamming the popularity of rewatch podcasts and it got me to sit down and really finetune what I was already toying with.

But basically, I think the venn diagram of people who liked special features/DVD commentary and people who like rewatch podcasts is pretty close to a circle. Maybe not a perfect overlap, but they scratch a really similar itch.

Deleted scenes and bloopers don't fit perfectly, but especially people who liked the commentary overlays. I loved watching an episode of whatever show on DVD box set, then watching the same episode with director's commentary, because I liked hearing all of the BTS and making-of and whatnot. That's fallen by the wayside, but now I've taken up rewatch podcasts when I'm in the car or doing housework or that. It's the same thing -- behind the scenes, making of, reminiscing about how the episodes came together, etc.

The same things I liked about DVD commentary features are the things I like about rewatch podcasts. They're different typefaces of the same font, if you will.

On the flipside, an informal poll of a handful of my friends who don't like rewatch podcasts indicates that they weren't/aren't director's commentary people. Maybe I'll throw it up in a tumblr poll later, widen the sample size a little bit, but I think that the overlap is definitely considerable.

#katie answers #anon love #rewatch podcast #director's commentary #venn diagram #katie speaks #katie's theory #fake doctors real friends #the always sunny podcast #office ladies #the office ladies #parks and recollection #welcome to our show #these are just the ones I've sampled and/or listen to regularly

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celeb-8008s · 22 days

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Kaley Cuoco

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meet-parent · 8 days

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#hourglass #liz katz #landscapes #percabeth #Catra #coquette community #stardust crusaders #big bang theory #perfect butt #lee soo hyuk #empires smp #katie mcgrath #death parade #riordanverse #wlw art

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clandestinegardenias · 4 months

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I just taught a sociology class on masculinities this past semester and I had my students do a media analysis of masculine representation in a movie or show of their choosing and—

Now I’m constantly thinking about The Terror.

And of course there’s SO MUCH THERE, I could do a fucking thesis, probably, but

I’m so interested in James Fitzjames and his relationship to masculinity, particularly as a performance. He’s so incredibly image-conscious, and has HAD to be in order to hide the realities of his birth. He buys into the social norms and goals of his time, HARD. He also has, as is slowly revealed in the show, a variety of more feminine longings and traits that are probably part and parcel of his insecurities.

So he adopts this sort of…overperformed masculinity, but a very specific upper-socioeconomic British Navy type. It also makes him very bragadocious (the China story) in an attempt to cover over those insecurities, and I think this is part of why Francis dislikes him at first.

Because Francis also has a variety of reasons to be insecure in his masculinity, potentially, as an Irish man. He’s denied the upper eschelons of male privilege (marrying Sophia, having command of an expedition) despite performing well on all expected metrics.

Yet he takes a very different approach from James. Once he realizes he’ll never be allowed to meet the hegemonic ideal, he kind of just…stops trying. He rejects the performance, the ideal, all of it (and also is uhhh super depressed and reliant on alcohol). And I think he sneers at James because James is doggedly doing the very performance Francis is fed up with.

Then. Later. He learns how much of it WAS a performance to cover up for those self same “failings” of being an outsider that plagued Francis himself. And that bonds them. Besides the fact that Francis APPRECIATES femininity, respects it, in a way that a lot of the other men don’t (see his relationships with both Sophia and Silna) and probably appreciates whatever feminine aspects of himself James chooses to reveal.

But BACK TO JAMES, I gotta talk about the dress scene.

It hurts so much. Because James BUYS INTO Carnivale, and it allows him to express his more feminine creative side in a way that is socially acceptable—it’s for the morale of the men, and maybe finally James’ true self can be a BOON to his role as leader instead of a drawback. He has the opportunity to combine those masculine and feminine parts of himself and have that combination be CELEBRATED and lauded as good leadership.

And then. The blood at his hairline. And reality comes crashing back down. And he doesn’t wear the dress.

Anyway, this is just some preliminary ramblings. Obviously a lot more going on here, esp re: intersectionality and race and class.

#the terror #fitzier #james fitzjames #francis crozier #katie does sociology #masculinity studies specifically #should i make this an actual article/presentation for the next terror camp?#my ecological niche is applying social theory to fandoms I’m obsessed with sorry not sorry

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 1 year

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allgirlsareprincesses · 7 months

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Love At First Sight (2023)

Okay, we’re going to talk about the new Netflix romance directed by Vanessa Caswill, Love At First Sight, because I’m seeing almost no chatter about it and that cannot stand. Full disclosure, I’ve never read the book on which this movie is based, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, so I’m reacting only to the film (which I’ve now seen 4.5 times in 2 days).

The Surface Reading

It’s a perfect, tight, adorable little RomCom that’s heavy on the Rom and light on the Com, with a wrenching dash of angst and the most hair-twirling chemistry between two leads that has graced our screens in years. Truly, if all you want is 90 minutes of two actors being saccharine precious cinnamon rolls, look no further!

There are simple takeaways here, like that chance can only take you so far, but in the end you have to choose to love. Or that change and loss are part of life and you can’t run from them. Or that London is a massive labyrinth of eccentric people that probably looks 400% cooler onscreen than it is in reality (I wouldn’t know, I’ve never visited, so this and the 90s Parent Trap are the extent of my knowledge about the city, sorry).

Anyway, I adored how straightforward the story was - that the narrator (played brilliantly by Jameela Jamil) tells you directly in the first two minutes that it’s a story about love, fate, and statistics. She then repeatedly describes every development as it is happening, the characters’ histories and internal monologues, and all the context you need to follow the thin but fast-paced plot. The writing, performances, and production design are all solid, allowing the audience to get lost in the romance as it unfolds.

BUT if you’re slightly unhinged like I am and you’re always looking for more layers in your media, HAVE NO FEAR! There is in fact more going on in this little movie than you might expect.

Color Theory

For starters, the use of red and green in the film is fascinating. Yes, I realize the action of the story takes place a few days before Christmas, so you might assume it was just a seasonal aesthetic choice, but if you look closer, you can see very carefully selected shades of red and green repeating throughout the film. The red is a cool, deep rose color, sometimes pink, while the green is cool and dark, like oxidized bronze rather than emerald. Further, while they appear over and over, these hues are rarely used in a purely decorative or festive way. Instead, they play a role in the separation and coming together of the couple. On a color wheel, red and green are complements, perfect opposites that are never adjacent but always joined in the middle.

The title card during Hadley’s introduction is literally a green stripe over a red stripe, then the hallways of the airport are green, and of course Hadley’s ever-important backpack is a rosy red. As the couple grow closer on their flight, the light turns pink. Once in London, a green van takes Oliver one way while a red taxi takes Hadley the other. At her father’s wedding, Hadley is dressed in red (“the color of a bruise” she calls it), contrasting beautifully against her green jacket. Upon realizing Oliver’s true purpose, she chases after him on an iconic red double-decker bus. Meanwhile at the living memorial, Oliver’s father is dressed in red while his mother wears a faded green, as if to say she is already beginning to fade away. The event is decorated with green drapery and streamers, and there are even stacks of red and green chairs in the stairwell where Oliver begs his mother to receive treatment.

Hadley gifts her red and green bouquet to Tessa, and when she is driven away, a green-clad narrator returns the red backpack to Oliver. Wandering London alone, Hadley exchanges her painful red heels for a pair of green trainers (“sneakers!” she insists), and tries to call her dad first in a red phone booth and then on a phone from a stranger sitting in a cluster of red chairs. Finally, Oliver chooses to pursue Hadley to the wedding reception which is lit in pink, and where they finally share the long-awaited kiss.

There are many more examples, but in general we see that green indicates separation and loss, while red symbolizes joining, intimacy, and (what else?) love! It lends the film a gorgeous, subtle aesthetic without being garishly festive, and shows the lovers’ emotional journey from lonely childhood to vulnerable, loving adulthood.

Death and Rebirth

Speaking of which, there’s plenty of rebirth imagery too! When Hadley and Oliver meet, they are both still children, struggling with the impending loss of parental security through divorce and death. Thus, when they board the plane, it is as if they enter an underworld or womb, separated from their families and remade as new adults. They emerge on the other side into a hallway (read: birth canal), as each must still confront their own dying childhood before they can join as full and equal partners. Hadley journeys to a bright, red-strewn celebration of life, while Oliver must enter a dark green commemoration of death, his fear driving him deeper to hide in another hallway. Here his mother comes to find him, begging him to emerge into life, but Ollie still can’t confront her death alone.

Thankfully, Hadley travels to this underworld to find him, bursting into the memorial like a bright red flower. Even the bruise metaphor works, acknowledging the pain they are both experiencing at the changes in their lives. But Oliver still refuses to face his fears, trying to take a shortcut around death to life with Hadley. Still, she knows he’s not ready (likely because she’s not yet, either), and gently pushes back. And so, Oliver returns to the underworld, and Hadley walks off alone until she descends barefoot through a soggy riverside tunnel (birth canal again!). Finally, she calls her father and admits she is “lost.” When he arrives, Hadley at last gathers the courage to ask why he ended their old life, and to tell him how much it hurt her. But as Oliver predicted, she forgives her dad and even begins to accept his new bride.

Back at the memorial, Oliver is reminded by Hadley’s red backpack - his unaddressed emotional baggage - to be honest about his pain. In at last openly mourning his mother and his own childhood, Ollie takes a step into adulthood, just enough for his family to nudge him that extra bit to go after Hadley. And so, the family delivers him to his bride, who has meanwhile learned to dance again, even through her heartbreak. With one last confession, the two consummate their love with a kiss, bathed in pink light before an open door.

Happily Ever After

There’s so much more, with the hand-holding, numbers, Shakespeare, Dickens, the music, and beyond, but the point is that this cute, charming little romance is actually very deliberately constructed. It follows timeless patterns and motifs which we instinctively understand through visual and auditory language. And the narration plays a huge role in this as well, not unlike the prologues and epilogues of the Bard’s plays in that they state the story’s lessons plainly: that we cannot always be prepared for unwelcome surprises, but that we can make the choice to love every day.

Anyway, Vanessa Caswill deserves all the flowers and if you haven’t seen her gorgeous adaptation of Little Women (with all due respect to the marvelous Greta Gerwig and Gillian Armstrong), please do yourself a favor and watch that after you finish this!

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kiiwukiiwu · 12 days

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jshk 113 spoilers

i feel like this chapter just solidified more to me that the akane that teru likes is not ao-chan

like he does not gaf and he’s just using it to torment akane more and to me that screams true love ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

#jshk 113 #jshk #terukane #katie delusions #but that’s just a theory #a game theory

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training-hotel · 7 days

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#big bang theory #parks and recreation #30 seconds to mars #perfect butt #sorry for being depressing #countryside #life #lee soo hyuk #rp #geto x reader #empires smp #katie mcgrath

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im-a-regular-joe · 12 days

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My Katie Killjoy Theory

Fun Fact - The term maneater refers to extermely promiscuious woman and her design resembles a spider or a praying mantis the OG maneater because they are know to eat there male counter parts.

SO .... maybye she also killed her husband(s) or partner(s)

BUT HEY YE KNOW TELL EM JERRY

#hazbin hotel #hellaverse #katie killjoy #hazbin hotel theory #hazbin hotel thoughts #theory #thats just a theory #but thats me #hazbin katie killjoy #hazbin hotel katie killjoy

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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By: Reality’s Last Stand

Published: Feb 3, 2023

Last week, trans activist Katy Montgomerie gave a talk at The University of Edinburgh that included a slide containing a scattered list of what Katy considered to be transphobic “dogwhistles.” A dogwhistle refers to coded language that obscures a more extreme view in order to garner support for something without provoking backlash. But the purported “dogwhistles” Katy included on the slide were simple statements of fact, such as “homosexual means same sex attracted,” and “sex matters.” The slide also contained reasonable positions on certain issues relating to transgenderism, such as “defend women’s sports” and “keep prisons single sex.”

This is an overt [attempt] to take away the language people use to defend reality and common sense positions. Many people also pointed out how this is a perfect example of gender ideology colonizing the LGB part of LGBT, and applying their bizarre worldview to re-envision what being LGB actually means.

[ Tweet link and video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1619986219718553600 ]

Katy takes issue that “sexuality is based on your sex.” Because a lot more that genitals can be involved in attraction, Katy assumed this means the definitions of gay, straight, bisexual, etc., that are rooted in the sex categories of those involved are meaningless and should be abandoned. But this erased the actual meaning of gay, lesbian, and bisexual, and means that same-sex couples can now be considered straight if they happen to identify as different sexes. This is purely ideological and does not reflect reality.

The T taking over the LGBs is why many organizations explicitly related to LGB issues have sprung up in the last few years. Given that LGB is about sexuality, which requires no ideology whatsoever, people who identify as transgender have very little in common with them. But the Ts desperately need the LGBs in order to confer to them the appearance of legitimacy.

Nobody would swallow gender ideology if they didn’t feel like they were abandoning the LGBs by rejecting it.

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Just to demonstrate that this isn’t a strawman, Katy was thrilled to get the message out so, posted the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1619694371280158720

Whenever you see something referred to as a “dogwhistle,” look closely to see what they might be trying to misdirect and hide from view.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. … Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”

– George Orwell, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

Social constructivists are attempting to socially engineer away reasonable positions, to remove reality-based and science-derived understanding and impose their radical fantasies and fundamentalist authoritarian demands, by trying to invent a false sense of moral inadequacy.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Church did the same thing, taking completely normal things like sexual attraction, masturbation and contraception, and fostering guilt with the imaginary affliction of “sin.”

Anti-science, anti-biology, reality-denial anti-gay hate preachers like Katy cultivate disciples who espouse rhetoric such as “kill all cis gays” and “burn in hell.” They are a mirror image of the Xian hate preachers who call for gay people to "be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head."

With the new puritans, everything old is shiny new again.

Don’t be coerced by sexual predators like this Katy individual. Your desire is not a “preference,” even when the homophobes deliberately lie and call it “genital preference” or a “genital fetish.” You don’t have to apologize for who you are or what your boundaries are, and calling you names for not complying with their attempts to shame or coerce you demonstrates their controlling, predatory nature.

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icezansky · 3 months

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the icemav brainworms have caught up to me again send me good vibes that i can write this fic idea in the next two days

#i've got two days off can i knock out a ~12k fic? in theory yes! in practice!!! WE'LL SEE!!!#but i've been writing too much angsty roosmav i need some good old fashioned icemav #i've said it before and i'll say it again: i go to other pairings for fun but if i go too long without writing icemav the brain parasites #get to me #katie text

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perplexingluciddreams · 3 months

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I would love to collect BBC Merlin / Katie McGrath related things... it is such a strong special interest since a very young age (age 7, when I first watched BBC Merlin. I distinctly remember watching the first episode for the first time!). I always come back to it, it is the biggest comfort to me!

I can rewatch again and again and again, and not get tired or bored of it. I can think about it for hours and hours on end, nothing else crossing my mind. I couldn't even begin to count the number of hours in my life I have spent completely dedicated to Think About Merlin™️.

I was always enamoured by Katie McGrath, and loved the character of Morgana. I think this TV programme was really good for helping me develop understanding of other people's actions, even negative or harmful ones. I loved Morgana from the very beginning of the programme, so even when she "went evil" I still wanted to be on her side and understand her perspective. Yet I still had to look at the situation objectively and see what is right and wrong, what is kind or unkind, etc.

I still struggle with understanding different perspectives, and even remembering that others have their own thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc. And that others don't automatically think the same as me (when I remember that they can think), or know what is in my head (by osmosis?). But I definitely would have more of a struggle if it wasn't for this special interest developing at the age that it did.

Special interests are so important to me, not only because of the emotional importance, but also because I learn things through it. It can be used as a vehicle to teach me new concepts and skills, things that I might be completely unable to grasp without the special interest. It gives me a context that my brain already connects with, and a motivation that would not exist otherwise.

Because my special interest(s) consume so much of my brain space and thought capacity, so much of the time, they shape how I see and think about anything else. A special interest is the lens through which I view everything.

#fragments of an idea #special interest #bbc merlin #merlin #morgana #morgana pendragon #morgan le fay #katie mcgrath #autism #autistic #theory of mind

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moderat50 · 1 month

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So Many Claims & Conspiracy Theories Didn't Happen

PizzaGate, Return of John Kennedy Jr. , Covid vaccination turns people into zombies, Horse tranquilizers/bleach/UV light cures covid, cell phone signal/Gen 5 causes cancer.... haven't occurred, yet people still fall for these wild claims made by some anonymous person on the internet. Is it a surprised so many get scammed out of their life savings.

#democrats #republicans #election #donald trump #catholic #christianity #conservative #maga #exvangelical #biden 2024 #scam #conspiracy theories #swifties #nba #nhl #march madness #caitlin clark #katie britt

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january-summers · 5 months

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While we’re talking about conspiracy theories and ridiculous character connections by the way:

I am fully prepared to believe Katie Jensen and Agent Iowa are biologically related, and their ability of accidental vehicular destruction is genetic.

#rvb #red vs blue #katie jensen #agent iowa #crack theory

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