(RE)WATCHED IN 2023: —Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die? —It's my story. —Mine too.

THE FALL (2006) DIR. TARSEM SINGH

DEAN

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

Stede and Izzy scenes cause it's actually a wholesome experience watching these two do their shit without Ed for the moment

i really think the fandom kind of glosses over the trauma annabeth endured in ttc. like, the poor girl fell off the side of a cliff, was manipulated into holding the literal weight of the sky on her shoulders for hours, and (if i remember correctly) was tied up at one point. but this is all we can be certain happened because that's all of what percy saw. but what about what we didn't see? the poor girl probably spent the first few days immobilized and in so much physical pain once artemis took the sky from her. she was probably starved, or at the very least, not getting the amount of food and water she needed consistently. she probably spent most of her nights in an endless cycle of torment knowing that her friends were coming for her, but not knowing how long it would take them to find her. she probably quietly cried herself to sleep knowing the reason she was even in this mess was because of luke. i could go on and on, but you get my point.

love when shakespearean tragedies imply that the audience are complicit in the protagonist's downfall/how the story unfolds

what, didn't you know most amphibians shed and eat their skin? what did you think was going on there, peppino? this is normal frog stuff. come on now.

many more sketches bc i had way too many thoughts about this to try and illustrate all in a comic. horrid beast fp agenda ❤

a lifetime of indentured servitude

used this frame from the mv of "femme fatale" by kedarui as ref for this piece ! just thought that it fit them perfectly orz

something something the beard picking scene and the most early explicitly queer character on the show being the one observing it and recognizing it and naming "this is happening", something about queerness as a site of knowing, something about the audience is queer and the audience knows what is happening between the leads before the leads themselves do, something about self recognition, something about being hurt so many times it needed to be said explicitly on screen, something about so many STILL didn't believe it was happening despite being told, something about straight audiences being so used to ignoring queer audiences they ignored being told, something about the relief of not being tricked by the narrative, for once not being tricked by the narrative, for once being told and having it be true, for once, this is

really

happening

I do love that essentially Stranger Things Day is "Everyone wish Will Byers a happy kidnapping RIGHT NOW 😤"

You can’t create me, and then just press the pause button!

HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN (2020), DIR. EOIN MACKEN

via metatextual fatherauthorgod theory, the spn we see is merely the shadow on plato's cave wall

One thing about Andor is the fact that this entire town hates cops so much. Cops come to town and the townspeople immediately start doing everything in their power to harass, annoy, inconvenience and slow them. Both in solidarity for Marva who they love, and just bc they don't want cops in their town.

This show hates cops so much. This show hates the prison industrial system. This show hates fascism and authoritarianism. This show peels back the layers to show you a Normal Day At Work At Fascist Inc. This show has well intentioned cops, bad intentioned cops, and robot cops who don't care either way, and all of them do harm all the time. This show says that cops will endanger people on purpose and make dangerous mistakes. This show says that community and solidarity are the way to stand up to empire.

Cannot believe the mouse company allowed this to happen

Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.

Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.

*laying on my floor staring at the ceiling, completely distraught* I mean, what even is Horatio’s role in the play??

“Horatio, Friend to Hamlet.”

Horatio, stranger, young student, trusted confidant and friend of Hamlet, trusted aid to everybody else in Elsinore, advisor, assister, orator, oracle, Cassandra, mourner, witness to all events unfolding, lingerer in all scenes with no dialogue, more an Antique Roman than a Dane, thou that he knowest thine, the sole survivor of tragedy, the audience itself-

Neuvillette wanting to see Furina perform again