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#this movie really got both ends of the acting spectrum
thnksfrthebands · 1 year
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The thing for me is that Jack Black really is an artist. The man puts in work to become his character when he voices his lines, makes music, and just acts in general. There’s depth and actual creativity in his roles. Meanwhile Chris Pratt seems to just walk into any project he lands to play the exact same Generic Guy every time
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xadoheandterra · 5 days
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I absolutely love the amount of fic that exists that just...explores Alastor's sexuality in Hazbin. That explores what being asexual means, or what being aromantic means. It's been an absolute delight to find fic that outright embraces a character and the nuances that could come from it.
It has also actually educated me a lot about the asexuality spectrum, seeing so many authors outright identify themselves and say how they are exploring their own identity through fic.
I don't say this much, because it has taken me years to reach the level of understanding of where I am, but discovering who you are as a person, your likes, dislikes, and desires is a constant journey. You don't reach a conclusion and just...stop. Learning about yourself. Growing as a person.
When I was younger I didn't really understand what sex and romance were. I knew I felt something for my best friend, and at the time I had thought that made me bisexual. I knew I felt something for my first boyfriend, but I couldn't put a name to it. Love is a weird and confusing mess of emotions and impulses and desires that doesn't translate one to one to every person. I knew I loved these people, but I didn't know myself what that meant.
I knew I enjoyed kissing my boyfriend, but the minute he got a hard on I backed the fuck off. I knew I enjoyed going out to eat and watching movies and going on walks with him, but I found those same activities just as enjoyable without the tie of being in a relationship with the person and wasn't it supposed to mean something different if you were dating the person? It confused me.
We mutually broke up because both of us felt the relationship wasn't leading anywhere. For me it was the fact that I didn't understand why, as much as I loved the guy, there wasn't that something different that I was under the impression to expect. So I kept on, moved on, found a new person that was funny and amusing and I liked. When that person suggested sex, I decided to say fuck it and give it a go.
I went on from a boyfriend to a girlfriend to a friend with benefits to being taken to shibari parties to being taken to a BDSM dungeon for a demonstration to having a birthday sex party thrown for me when I was 25.
By this point I had determined two things about myself: I was not cisgender, and I was definitely not straight. I had taken to thinking I was only just coming to terms with being transgender at 25, and I was firmly of the opinion that I was panromantic and pansexual.
I'm not. I thought I was. It was the easiest way for me to parse the feelings and emotions and I thought I found people attractive in the "I would sleep with you and enjoy it" way but, well. I was 25, my friends threw a sex party for me. We had drinks, they were definitely more drunk than me. We had fun.
They had fun. I ended up watching from the sidelines after the first round, and had a...realization.
For all that I had been through to that point--the people I had been with to that point--I didn't exactly enjoy sex. But that's not quite right either because I did I just. Didn't need it? Want it? I'm still not sure how to phrase this. But it wasn't something that was--there wasn't that spark. I had fun, but I would also find myself adrift in the act sometimes. If there was pain? Oh, that would bring me back. I knew firmly by this point I was definitely a bit of a masochist but, even then, it wasn't the same. It was fun but it wasn't pleasurable. I could physically respond but I wasn't fully there.
I thought maybe it's because my body wasn't right. Maybe I would enjoy this more if I had the parts I felt like I needed. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Eight years later with my current partner, sex still isn't necessary. I'm fine with not having sex and just cuddling. I find that if my partner wants sex, I'll be down, but it's not something I tend to initiate. It's something he starts first, usually. I have had in the four years of us being together maybe...five times were I've ever initiated such acts? Five times where I wanted?
He's the first person that's actually been a thing with. It's what sort of struck the hammer, I think, that made me connect that realization from when I was 25 to not being a transgender thing, but an asexual thing.
And then Hazbin happened and there's plenty of wonderful fanfic exploring asexuality and aromanticism and I had the second realization since I started this journey when I was fourteen and found that I very much liked my best friend in a platonic-but-not-platonic way. I realized that for all my experience and dating, for all the romantic things I've been through or done, they're not...they don't spark that thing I've been led to believe happens. Every romantic gesture I can see happen with a best friend or an acquaintance and I would enjoy it in the exact same way. There's no difference between if I love the person as a partner or if I love the person as a friend.
The emotions about the person are different, sure, but the things we do are the same things I would do with a friend. They evoke the same emotions about the events as if it were a friend. I don't enjoy dating I enjoy hanging out with people, whether the emotions for the person are friend shaped or partner shaped.
So I've begun to realize I might be just a little aromantic too. Which would explain a lot of the troubles I had dating. A lot. Like shit emotions are confusing on a good day, ok?
So yeah. I am loving the ability to explore asexuality and aromanticism in fic because fuck me it is helping me come to terms with a lot of shit I thought I understood.
End all be all sexuality and romance is a continuous journey and sometimes it takes you 20+ years to reach that huh moment.
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fryingpan1234567 · 11 months
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I’m not sure if ECLIPSEWXTCH has a tumblr, but their cop/ mafia(??) au is fire and I’m writing some stuff for em
kidding they do in fact have a tumblr @eclipsewxtch
(characters in the book are all in their 20’s dw)
Griffin—focused post sorry he’s my fav character I’ll do more later
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Griffin is the type of person who unironically listens to Doja Cat
(Also P!ATD and Harry Styles)
And yet his favorite song is Stacy’s Brother by Mad Tsai (then again it’s all their favorite so)
We could talk about how, while it’s pretty fuckin difficult to get him drunk, when he’s really sick he acts like it
Some people are confused by Bruce and Griff and Finn’s affection with each other. It’s just because they’re so close, and have been for their whole lives, and literally couldn’t give less of a fuck about showing those kinds of emotion. That’s a deadly combo
Yeah, they’re cops
Yeah, their morals are grayer than freaking dolphins rolled in ash. It’s a skill
At some point, when Griffin finally decides to let Billy fuck him at work, they’ve been making out for a while, B goes “I’ve had this dream,” with a drunken smile and Griff deadass goes “keep dreaming” and turns and continues working on the dead body two feet away because he’s a little shit like that
Billy was traumatized
Robin and Vance laughed at him for it later
Griff is also the type of person to binge Disney movies for like six hours, suddenly get bored of them, and switch right over to Deadpool or Saw or some shit and his energy doesn’t change At All
Speaking of horror movies– Finney and Bruce are shivering under a blanket, covering their eyes every time something remotely scary happens, and Griffin laughs every time someone is stabbed or killed
The first time Griff showed up to work in a skirt, 90% of his coworkers mysteriously had to leave with nosebleeds
It’s canon but. Billy is OBSESSED with Griffin’s thighs
No seriously that boy is down bad
Like if they’re cuddling or something and his legs are in reach, Billy’s hands are on them, and if Griffin has to shift, he will deadass complain about it and beg him to switch back 
(“no you asshole my legs are asleep we’ve been sitting like this for forty minutes” “pleaseee pretty boy” “NO YOU ABSOLUTE MENACE”)
Bruce would never tell anyone but Vance, but he absolutely had crushes on horror movie killers like Michael and Jason and Ghostface. He got so into true crime, he decided he wanted to devote his life to it, just… on the other end of the spectrum
Finney Blake loves sushi but can’t use chopsticks for the life of him. I said what I said
Griffin redoes his hair every couple months, when he goes back to get it cut– Billy’s personal favorite will always be red, but he’s a sucker for blue and pink and purple as well (really any color jesus this boy has it BADDD)
Sometimes Griffin will walk into work, blowing obnoxiously loud bubbles with his gum, and when he leaves, Billy is trailing behind him, mysteriously blowing his own pink bubbles with a shit-eating grin, Griffin’s nowhere to be found
Finn and Robin probably have the least toxic relationship of the three, aside from the lying about real names from right off the bat
Okay side note I genuinely Can Not Tell whether or not Griff and Finn and Bruce are going to make the other three better or Vance and Billy and Robin are going to make them worse because it could TOTALLY GO EITHER WAY
Not to spoil too bad, but Griffin is a little shit who smokes weed and will weaponize his looks to manipulate people into giving him what he wants
Finney is willing to hear out ANYONE if he thinks they’re speaking from the heart, and he will absolutely not hesitate to shoot somebody if they piss him off
Bruce has kept both dead bodies sent his way by the stalker hitman in some way– pictures of the guy, little bird preserved perfectly in its box. Also manipulates like a boss
Basically core Slytherins who do good only because it offers better pay and are THIS CLOSE to losing it and killing someone for mildly inconveniencing them
Billy, as I’ve said before and IN CANON, is absolutely fucking obsessed with Griffin. So obsessed, in fact, that he had to get closer to him in both personas just to see him more often. We know he’s not a total douchebag from the fact that he lets absolutely no sexual assault happen anywhere near his organization and only sells drugs for the money, not because he enjoys it
Robin liked Finn enough by, the first time they met, HID A BODY FOR HIM, and the second time let him patch him up after a fight and let him drive his fucking car, even when he knew something was up because Finn’s hair and eyes were totally different from the first time
Where do I even start with Vance.
My man killed somebody and made a biiig mess and delivered it as a gift to a poor boy he made out with in an elevator once and decided to stalk. He knows where he works and where he lives. If Bruce asked him to kill, he’d do it again, zero hesitation, and then turn to him looking for approval like a puppy. He’s almost as bad as Billy, if not worse
SEE WHAT I MEAN? IT COULD LITERALLY GO EITHER WAY. THEY’RE ALL SO MORALLY GRAY THE COPS COULD TURN BAD OR THE ACTUAL CRIME BOSSES COULD GET BETTER AND EITHER WAY WOULD MAKE COMPLETE AND TOTAL SENSE
See I could in fact write forever. But I am in class and I’m supposed to be doing this assignment that was due two days ago so✌️✌️ cya
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macbethz · 4 days
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are you interested in expanding on the ways you think poor things falls short? I am not trying to start up any other poor things arguments but I am interested in your take.
I honestly think I have to do another watch to really solidify how I feel about it because its a film I have conflicting feelings on...on one hand I enjoyed watching it and felt the same kind of satisfaction I feel when watching a good film while it was actually running, but after thinking about it more I just felt like there wasn't enough. I don't think its a bad film by any means I just don't think its INCREDIBLE or particularly life-changing.
I just would have liked to see...more? It feels like it's missing a third act completely. Then thematically you have this woman discovering herself through sex and subverting the expectations of the born-sexy-yesterday trope but I didn't really feel like there was enough examination of WHY sex was empowering for her and what sexuality can represent in our culture. The film brings up socialism in the context of sexuality and then doesn't do anything with it!!!! That's so interesting say something about that!!!!
I think my main issue is it presented as a very artistic film, and most of Yorgos' work is, so I expected a deeper examination whereas what I got felt very surface level, a kind of baby's first female sexual revolution. A very "girlboss" movie with an art film coat of paint in some respects. And I think even that was a little too much for our sex-negative society as you can see from the outrage it received from all ends of the political spectrum.
I've also seen a few black critics talk about something I really agree with which is that the black characters in the film really only serve Bella's journey; all the characters in the film serve Bella's journey to be fair but it feels like the black characters were particularly shafted. Toinette is supposed to be one of her love interests but she has barely any traits of her own other than teaching Bella about socialism and lesbianism.
(spoilers here btw)
I also understand the choice to not have God be placed in the body of her ex-husband to thus ensure Bella as the singular head of household in the final scene but I can't BELIEVE they didn't do it because it seemed like such a clear setup for it. You would have her as both mother and daughter and then her father would be both father and son and husband. + him talking on his deathbed about wanting a life without scars COME ON. I think if that was intended to be a bait-and-switch or subversion they should have made it a little more explicit. But that's a minor complaint.
Visually beautiful tho and I have to give it props for bringing more incredibly sexual films to the mainstream as a fan of incredibly sexual films even tho people seem to REALLY not like that
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elvisabutler · 2 years
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okay now i NEED to know lisa marie’s opinion of all of this in ur hcs…..omg especially bc i feel like she’d have such a soft spot for austin while priscilla wants to kill him sometimes
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so let me preface this with saying i do not know lisa marie or priscilla but damn if i am not hella protective over them both naturally because those are two women who have lived their lives the best they can and lisa in particular has been through a whole hell of a lot. i mean no disrespect to her or her family and especially and i cannot make this clear enough the memory of her son. tw: mild slut shaming and mention of death.
anon you are 100% correct on that. to be honest lisa marie and priscilla tend to be on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to you and austin. or at least, they each favor one of you over the other.
lisa marie essentially ends up adopting austin as sort of a son figure. in real life, she literally says she's protective over him post watching the film so for arguments sake? she'd be protective no matter what when she saw him acting as her dad and seeing how much effort he's put into embodying him.
so consider what do parents do when someone starts dating their child. they investigate said person dating their child. so guess what lisa marie does to you.
consider! those rumors that austin knew about you? lisa also finds out about them. they are not the best of rumors you have never ever confirmed them neither have any of your costars. but they're there and it's a universally acknowledged truth that at least one of them is true. hilariously the one everyone thinks is true? totally isn’t. you and him always laugh about it when you run into each other.
basically you look like someone who sleeps with costars or costar adjacents so their friends. this is not necessarily a lie but before austin you had kind of learned your lesson by this point and had told yourself you wouldn't do it again and then you know that Dick though.
she does not like this she figures that you are going to move on like you tend to always do once you've got a new movie to do. never mind that literally you are always the one getting broken up with never are you the one doing the breaking up.
point being she thinks this is a bad idea she tells austin as such that this is a bad idea. he disagrees and doesn't necessarily explain why he disagrees. consider this mildly changes when you break up with him like you do.
her mom has to remind her to not murder you because you hurt her surrogate son. because she thinks this is mildly all your fault and not just you know both of your faults.
but she's an adult and still interacts with you just fine. eventually, actually talks to you at graceland's private showing because again, actual adult. and by this point you and him are back together again.
"you hurt him." "we hurt each other." "do you love him?" "more than anyone i've ever known." "you hated admitting that to me, didn't you?" "you're the closest thing he has to a mom now, figure i kind of have to since i can't really tell lori it." "get my number from him."
she settles down once she sees how honestly happy the two of you are. and once she knows you two are going to therapy and working on your issues.
she is invited to your wedding when almost no one else is. she comes and enjoys it well enough. she thinks you look too much like her mom in your something borrowed hair piece. austin agrees and they both kind of hate it.
she let's the two of you give your son benjamin as a middle name.
she declines being his godmother.
"be careful with them." "they're my boys, i can't be anything but."
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haraxvati · 1 year
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[rain roundup 2022] extraordinary attorney woo
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo, (June-August 2022, ENA and Netflix, 16 episodes)
I wasn’t going to watch it because the trailer seemed cartoonish in its depiction of a protagonist on the spectrum. Then I glanced at the first episode and found it delightful and buoyant rather than caricaturish. Then I enjoyed the hell out of the first half. Then I’m not sure how I finished the show. It never really became *bad,* from what I remember. It just comprehensively frittered away all the promise it held out for interesting and unusual and fun things to do in a comic coming-of-age story for a brilliant lawyer with autism.
I was really happy that the writer, Moon Ji-won, got to write an update to the work that shot her to fame, the film Innocent Witness. The young woman with autism in that movie is a teenager who’s instrumentalised for her testimony in a murder trial until the hero, an allistic defence attorney, has a change of heart and advocates for her instead of for the rich, powerful men who’ve hired him to be there.
That paternalism is still to be seen in EAW, though this time it’s the neurodivergent character who’s the protagonist and the chief agent of both the story and her own life. It’s possible for a work to be in deadly earnest about its good intentions and still feel compromised. @beingjanee crystallised its realities in a beautiful thread: “Young Woo is written to be understood and to be accessible to allistic ppl. So things get cut, smoothed over, made platable. It is, for the most part, not a story for people who have autism.”
EAW is full of cool courtroom drama, with a phalanx of great guest stars. Bbut its most moving moments are small ones. Jun-ho showing Young-woo the painting of the whale in the conference room. The flashback in which Young-woo offers to be friends with Geu-rami. The meal at which Young-woo tells Su-yeon her nickname should be “spring sunshine.” The moment late at night when Young-woo starts telling Su-yeon a whale fact and segues into talking about her own closely guarded sadness. These sequences make me happy at how committed the show was to depicting a main character with autism who is enveloped in love and mutual trust. They’re all so well-written and acted: they have fantastic rewatch and recall value, maybe among the best scenes in all the dramas I watched this year. In its finest moments the show rose above the idea that a minoritised character either has to represent all people from their social group, or has to stand in for some puerile and catch-all “human” quality. Young-woo has a rich emotional and private life that is intimately connected to her public and professional life, and all these scenes helped underline that connection.
So did an early episode in which she faces a difficult ethical choice, goes against her own principles to make the more business-friendly decisions, and learns a lesson in how hard it is to deal with that guilt. In another episode, in the second half of the show, she meets a lawyer who *doesn’t* make moral compromises: an activist whose work is a struggle and whose cases don’t often meet with success, but who’s able to support her clients all the same, and lives a fulfilling life. For quite a long time, in fact, Extraordinary Attorney Woo looked like it was going to be about how many different kinds of struggles can be interlinked. Young-woo’s own love of the law and her budding camaraderie with Su-yeon and Jun-ho, her lovely and principled friends and colleagues, made it seem like we were seeing the birth of a new kind of legal justice squad. They were cutting their professional teeth at this rapacious law firm where business wasn’t always equal to justice, but were they going to change the firm without letting it change them too much? Or was Young-woo, perhaps, going to discover the kind of lawyer she wanted to be and strike out to be that gal at the end of the show?
To me the collapse of the second half is not marked by the fact that neither of these things happened. It’s that it seemed like none of these things even *mattered.* I really can’t tell you how the show concluded because it left no impression on me at all. I know she and Jun-ho got together, which is great. I know her relationship with her birth mother (Jin Kyung, absolutely amazing in the first half and completely ghosted in the second) is at a stalemate. I know she has friends and a place at Hanbada, but I knew that in episode two. It’s not my idea of fun to criticise the work that is on the basis of the work that could have been, but rarely have I finished a TV show that seemed so confident about where it was going, only to wipe out all traces of its journey at the end.
I’ll say one more thing. Park Eun-bin is one of my favourite actors, and I know it took her lifetime of hard work and craft to make the show’s most dramatic scene a success: the halfway mark of the show, in which Young-woo (brilliantly) unties the Gordian knot of her birth secret by telling her mother who she is.
I don’t think she was wrong to accept this role on a show that might not have gotten greenlit if she or someone with her name recognition wasn’t in the lead.
But I don’t think that covers for what it did get fundamentally wrong.
I read that the writer and PD of the show disapproved of the viral reactions it got on social media, playing off Young-woo’s autism as a cute thing and imitating the character’s tics and speech. But I feel like if the show had fulfilled its early promise to be about something more than “you can love someone with autism (as long as they are like Park Eun-bin),” it would have been easier to see it as something opposed to that mockery rather than in continuity with it.
I believe representation is important in entertainment, but I also don’t think that people who care about movies and TV should talk about representation as fundamentally the preserve of actors. Representation is about the prevention of theft, and redistributing the accumulated capital of show business should reflect in where a film’s financiers, writers, directors and crew come from, too. It has to reflect in production houses and studios and platforms even more than it needs to reflect in cast lists, imo, because capital moves below the line — and that is where it’s most difficult to get dominant groups to let go of their control. The fact that there appeared to be no one on the spectrum in any of these departments working on EAW made the fact of its wholly allistic cast* even more glaring.
*-I say this reluctantly because I simply don’t know if there are people on the spectrum on the cast and I don’t think we’re owed a discussion of their medical history. But that doesn’t apply to the project as a whole, and the absence of any voices of neurodiverse people on the production really did echo hollowly.
In an earlier post about EAW I wrote more glowingly about its first six episodes, here.
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otdderamin · 1 year
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How Spoiler Alert and Bros Challenge Romance Movie Norms
Spoilers for Spoiler Alert (2022) and Bros (2022)
Thinking about how the romanticized cultural narrative we have about love is that two people meet, some spark connects them, and once they have the courage to let themselves be together, everything is just good forever.
And obviously that's bullshit or there wouldn't be so many breakups and divorces. But we rarely write stories about those. We want our stories to live in the limerence of new relationships where anything seems possible before the complexity of reality sets in.
The audience for allocishet normative media has very strict and often formulaic expectations for romance films. Guy meets girl, they fall in love, all obstacles are overcome through the power of love, and they live happily ever after. That audience really only supports that story.
Queer media comes from a vastly different and more complex tradition of romance. There is almost always a backdrop of the world trying to intervene. Even Big Eden (2000) in all its softness had this. There's a much greater love of messy relationships. There are no guarantees.
Bros flouted the heteronormative love story formula by being about two guys with commitment issues who often project their fears on each other and are sometimes even right. Bobby and Aaron have ideas about what they need to prove in life to show they're fulfilled & can't see past that.
It's a complicated journey to figuring out if they even want to be together. If all the baggage they're carrying can fit with them. And the end, parodying Hallmark endings, is simply an attempt, and not an answer. No pressure that it has to last forever.
Spoiler Alert is about a 13 year relationship that was an audience know from the begging will end in loss. The first act is short. They find each other, they connect, sometimes it's weird and awkward but they know very quickly they want to be together.
It's the middle that makes it profound. Where we flash forward and see the relationship after more than a decade. The complacency, the repeated mistakes, the hurt they've caused each other. Wondering if things have run their course.
And then the illness. The realization that they may not get to choose the end. That under the calcification of little built up resentments are all the reasons they still loved each other. Letting go is also no longer getting in your own way.
There was a realness to that. Things weren't just magically fixed. In many ways it's not sentimental. It's built on all the small moments that make you understand that you are alive in three constant presence of someone else because they've overall made your life better.
Both these films are about love without certainty that doesn't have to last forever to mean everything in its time. They are so deeply, inherently queer beyond being about gay men. They're about deeper realities in relationships normativity pushes aside but we need to talk about.
Either one of these films coming out this year would have been a good year in queer cinema. Both together—the spectrum of romcom and sentimental tragedy—are a landmark distillation of the last century of our media culture. I think both will join the canon of must see queer films.
Before I got into queer media, I would have told you I hated romance movies (even when I thought I was allocishet). If always felt forced worth nothing new to say. Turns out it's because allocishet media is culturally invested in saying nothing new about relationships and love.
But queer media inherently is about love that challenges norms. Love that has to be meaningful enough to risk loss for it. Love that's truely freeing instead of conforming to stale expectations. And so the stories we get to tell are far more interesting and real.
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kunkutarpulla · 7 months
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My Doug related theories
1) Doug Funnie shows signs of insanity.
He has serious blankouts in bad moments, even in the middle of the traffic. He had almost died more than once!
He acts his fantasies, not seeing reality around him. In "Doug to the Rescue", it's the worst since he starts to act like Quailman in the middle of the class.
In "Doug's Older Woman", he cannot make a difference between fantasy and reality since he thought fantasizing about Cassandra asking him out on date with her until Skeeter pointed out it did happen.
There is no way the things Porkchop does actually happened!
Even psychopathy, if you think about it.
He got angry at Cassandra for using him, and yet he hypocritically did the exact same to her.
He had a fantasy in "Doug's Career Anxiety." Connie was nowhere to seen. Did she die?
He had a fantasy of pixelated Roger being shot in "Doug's Lost Weekend."
He wished death on Guy in "Doug Gets It All."
In "Doug's Fair Lady", he had a very creepy smile on his face.
Since Quailman villains are based on people Doug antagonizes, it only means Dark Quail is based on Doug's dark side.
Since Doug is stalkerish towards Patti, I bet things won't end up well. If "Doug" was for mature audiences, he would be collecting everything from lost pins to used tampons.
2) Roger Klotz has autism.
Roger's not doing well in school. He's repeated the 6th grade three times for not understanding the material given to him. He's immature for his age, and causes troubles for everyone else by being a troublemaker.
He has difficulties with socializing. He has showed clear signs of wanting friends, like in "Doug Vs. The Klotzoid Zombies", but doesn't know how to make them.
In "Doug's Secret Admirer", "Doug's Worst Nightmare", "Doug's Runaway Journal", "Doug's Big News" and "Doug Graduates", it's confirmed he has dyslexia. His handwriting is big and child-liked like most disabled people have.
In "Doug's Cookin'", he got panicked and tried to "solve the problem" by himself, not understanding what "6-8" means.
In "Doug's New Teacher", Roger clearly struggles with reading. When he read text out loud, it's clearly heard he stumbled.
He's fixated in art. In "Doug's Mural Mania", he's that talented he can paint a breathtaking picture only using a one color. His hobby is ballet, confirmed canon in "Doug Wears Tights." "Doug's No Dummy", "Doug's Pet Capades" and "Doug's Sour Singingbird" show Roger also has a great voice and can play guitar. He also loves joining the school plays.
Vitamin D deficiency isn't only linked to rickets, which fans also speculate him to have, but also to autism and other intellectual disabilities.
Billy West, the voice of both Doug and Roger, is in the Autism Spectrum in real life.
Now I have a reason to think why Mrs. Klotz got a divorce and why Mr. Klotz hasn't visited him until they became rich. (In Nickelodeon series, it's subverted he's abusive or negletful.)
3) Guy Graham isn't a bad person.
Guy Graham is described to be "a very handsome but rather selfish and inconsiderate kid", and also "serves as a secondary antagonist and is Doug Funnie's (one-sided) rival for Patti Mayonnaise."
But is that rich spoiled brat really scummy? Or does Doug only make him sound like that, because he hates him?
Quailman and Quaildad: Guy got surprised, when he saw Mr. Funnie playing the drums like a professional. After he finished, he clapped with everyone else. Since Guy is confirmed to be a fan of disco music, he could've bought one of the vinyls. It's assumable the music The Psychedellic Fuss played is similiar to Abba's.
Quailman, The Un-Quail Saga: Just like Chalky Studebaker, Guy might also suffer from inferiority complex. In a journalism contest, Guy wanted to make sure they win. He accidently said how he wants to make sure he wins the contest. Maybe he's pressured to perfection by his parents and told how he has to be perfect, no matter what it costs.
Doug's 1st Movie: Everyone got angry at Guy for attempting to kill Herman. No one have ever seen Herman. Patti and Guy didn't even meet him before the ending of the movie! How he could've known is the monster harmless or not? Maybe he actually thought Herman was a threat and tried to protect everyone from the certain doom. He tried to capture the monster in secret, because he wanted to avoid mass panic.
Doug has a tendency to demonize Guy, because he's also after Patti. In his Quailman comics, Guy's either a villain or a coward. In "Doug Gets It All", Doug makes an animation of Guy getting squashed under the anvil! What a little psychopath! Guy probably saw some of Doug's sketches and got offended how he's portraited in them. Maybe he did recognize that donkey but said nothing specific about it. Maybe he actually wants to be part of Doug's friend group, but he doens't give him a possibility. He's not even trying to get to know him. No wonder Guy hates Doug, even though he still remains polite to him.
4) Guy and Roger are boyfriends.
Anyone who've read this, know where I'm going after.
This theory gives some Doug episodes, like "Doug, Quailman VI, The Dark Quail Saga", "Doug's Midnight Kiss" and "Doug Plays Cupid", completely different interpretation if you believe Doug being an Unreliable Narrator.
5) Roger's mansion in Disney series used to be Beebe's playhouse.
It looks like a princess' castle, something little girls in princess phase would love.
It has a garden surronding it.
One of its colors is pastel pink.
The lobby has stairs you can easily imagine Cinderella walking on them.
It's been deserted for a long time.
It's right next to the Bluff mansion.
6) Guy's real father is Mr. Bluff.
Thinking about it for a while, this would actually make sense.
Guy has facial features similiar with Mr. Bluff's.
He's as ambitious and arrogant as Mr. Bluff.
Guy has a good relationship with him.
He belongs to the club which admires Mr. Bluff and he's the most enthusiastic member of it.
He can ask money from him, whenever it's a dance in Funkytown or having a band in the school consert.
He helps him to cover his tracks about him polluting Lucky Duck Lake.
We never see Guy's parents nor his relationship with them, so it's assumable he visits the Bluffs often.
He's allowed to attempt in exclusive meetings.
How would Beebe, Mrs. Bluff, Ethan and Mr. Graham react if they knew? Does even Guy himself know?
7) Skunky Beaumont was a role model for Roger, Boomer, Ned and Willy.
Skunky has gotten detention and bad grades in school more than once. Who wouldn't be a better teacher for troublemakers than an actual troublemaker?
8) There really IS a ride called Suck Face Tunnel.
But it's for adults only…
9) Judy Funnie was on her periods during Doug on the Road.
That's why she was desperately looking for another bathroom, even after she used the one previously. Anyone who gets periods know how uncomfortable it's to sit on the bench blood leeked on it.
Do you have Doug fan theories of your own?
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Obligatory pride month post, talking about one specific topic: the acespec kiddos in my 'fics!
This year marks 10 years since I learned the words aromantic and asexual, and I'm still just as happy to know I'm ace as I was back then. I'm most likely arospec as well because I've never felt drawn to anyone, and I usually say I'm cupioromantic if asked directly.
This post is a shout-out to the aces I've written over the years, but only the ones from my FOP 'fics specifically because otherwise we'd be here all day.
(Under a cut because this shouldn't be so long it breaks)
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Sanderson! Heteromantic asexual. Feels romantic attraction towards girls, but often hides that because he feels ashamed as a pixie. He carries the weight of being H.P.'s firstborn and being the "good stereotypical pixie" so that's hard for him, but you go, little dude. You're valid. Sanderson refuses to call Cavatina's milkmother his girlfriend, but they're on good terms and Cavatina loves his mom.
Cavatina! :'D He is firmly aro/ace, but due to a lot of trauma he went through when he was young, he's not sure if he is ""truly ace"" or ""just has trauma."" Poor thing does not understand that it's okay if you think your trauma might have an effect on your identity. If he feels comfy with the aro/ace label, he can still use it. Feeling unsure doesn't mean it can't be a true label if it's the one that fits his experiences and makes him feel right. 10/10 would wear pride buttons.
H.P.! He's akoiromantic asexual. Has occasional celebrity crushes (romantic spectrum). My favorite joke is that line in "Health Bars" where H.P. says he only likes celebrities and Anti-Cosmo just stares into the void mentally questioning if he, a politician, is a celebrity and if H.P. is trying to imply something slkdfj
H.P. doesn't like admitting his feelings, but they do exist. Has had two QPRs over the years, so good for him! Things have been rocky for him as he's tried to figure out his identity, but I'm proud of him for trying to explore it even when he makes mistakes.
Lots of other pixies tbh!! Not all of them are acespec, but a lot of them are. Bayard, Chidlow, Jardine, Madigan, Keefe, Springs, Mullins, Tolbert, Faust, Rosencrantz, and Southmark off the top of my head are canon aces [and I also know Newman, Hamilton, Hawkins, Wilcox, Longwood, McKinley, Thane, and Smith are not].
/ The pixie race reproduces asexually, but asexuality as an identity and parthenogenetic reproduction are not the same <3
Chester! He's aro/ace and adores spending time with his friend group. He doesn't feel attraction to anyone, but he's super supportive of his friends and a great wingman. He loves meeting his friends' partners and tries treating them all with respect, whether he's known them for 5 years or 5 days. He has pride buttons that he likes to wear. I like to think he gave his identity a lot of thought over the years, even wondering for a while if he might be bi, but in the end he found something that worked for him.
I am forever obsessed with my headcanon that Chester gets into acting because then he upgrades from living in a trailer park to living in a movie trailer, wheeze... He's always been ace and happy, and any kisses he shares in the acting world are strictly professional. He loves that his friends never ditched him when they got partners. Get you a friend like Chester! <3
Juandissimo! He's demisexual [Spoke about it in this post HERE]. Felt attraction towards Wanda and fell for her hard, and he's never really found another person who clicked with him. He doesn't know what demisexuality is and just kind of flits about fearing that his life is over and he'll never fall in love again... he has a hard time with those feelings. But he's also channeled a lot of his emotions into showing his beloved godkid Remy the parental affection Remy never had, and things are looking better for them both.
Remy! My grayromantic graysexual. I never pinned down exactly what his experience is. If you told him about asexuality then he would immediately say "That's me" because in his mind that means "I don't want a partner or sex," but I never really decided where he is on the aro and ace spectrums. Hence, gray zone! I think he would feel content that the ace label fits him though, even if he doesn't have the mental stamina to dive deep and learn about the details.
He chooses not to marry because he saw how rough things were for his parents and he doesn't really want a partner, but it's my headcanon that he takes in a miserable orphan girl one day and it's a real rags to riches story for them. His parents neither notice or care, but he's happy.
Anti-Cosmo! He's panromantic demisexual / gray-ace. Although he deals with nymphomania [hypersexuality], that doesn't invalidate the gray-ace part of him. He dislikes it and doesn't really understand it. Anti-Cosmo's specific experience is that his attraction tends to fade out when he realizes he doesn't know someone as well as he thought he did, or when they show a side of themselves that makes him believe they aren't really his friend. He struggles a lot with that and it's confusing for him, especially before he married Anti-Wanda.
Now that he's older he's happy to stay married to her long-term with full trust that his attraction to her will come back, but it was very confusing when he was younger and he felt like his mind and body were playing tricks on him. He has a lot of flaws and chronically cheats on people, which is not a good thing to be doing, but he is definitely one of the guys who has ever been!
10/10 would wear pride buttons as a teen, but the modern flags didn't exist back then. I do have an entire scene written where he explores the pride symbols of his world, but I'm not sure if it'll make it into the final draft of Knots since that was originally going to be the way that he found out Blonda was into Anti-Fairies, but that's not necessary since she came out to him in a different way in the current version. We do see Anti-Marigold wearing Hiccup's pride hoodie in the "Temptation" prompt, though :)
Also, not relevant to the ace topic of this post, but Anti-Cosmo would also have a pronoun button that clearly states He/Him because as we saw in Knots, he gets annoyed when called They/Them even when it's for Anti-Fairy cultural reasons. Give the man a button.
Jorgen! You could drag him over hot coals and he still would not face the fact he's ace because it is Scary to him, but he is. He deals with a lot of anxiety regarding his role in the von Strangle bloodline, seeing as he's supposed to pass on the family name. He delayed marriage until really late in life because of that anxiety, but the Tooth Fairy has always cared about him and supported him and she makes sure he always feels safe and comfy around her.
If you're curious, in Riddleverse Classic canon they do end up having kids, but it's in-vitro with a surrogate because it was important to Jorgen that he continue the family line even though it was a rocky decision for him (Didn't want it interfering with career, also lots of discomfort from political pressure and limelight, plus perfectionism issues).
Once the twins are born he's quite nervous as a father, but once he slides into the role then he finally feels in control of his life again, and realizes that the choice he made was okay. He starts relaxing a ton and finally starts opening his emotions more to the Tooth Fairy. She always supported him even when he kept himself closed off. They're sweet <3 And the twins cameo in the upcoming 130 Prompt "Approval" so you'll meet them eventually.
Anti-Marigold! Biromantic asexual. Being a counterpart who is forced to mirror your counterpart (and mirror the relationships and children they have) can be really difficult, especially when your counterpart loves chasing after boys. She struggles with her ace identity and doesn't really like it, but she is still valid and I love her.
(Also bonus nod to Foop for being aromantic even though he's not ace, he can still say hi in this post because the aro & ace solidarity between Foop and A.M throughout their teens is one of my fave secret subplots... They are 150k years in the future and do not know what aromantic and asexual mean but they are doing their best to support each other <3)
Noon / Anti-Lance! He's aro/ace and always has been. Anti-Cosmo respects the heck out of him and tries to respect his boundaries even though he has a crush on Anti-Lance. Their relationship has its ups and downs throughout the years, but they've always respected their friendship even when confessions and conflict make things awkward. Anti-Lance would definitely have pride buttons on his school bag.
There's a scene in the upcoming Frayed Knots chapter "Crossroads" where Anti-Cosmo mentions Anti-Lance's identity in casual conversation, and I like that moment because there was never a coming out scene for Anti-Lance, it was just something implied to have happened off-screen. They are just two boys who are friends and it didn't even register in Anti-Cosmo's mind as important enough to share with the reader because... it's just a normal thing for his friend to be and didn't need to be a huge thing :)
Bennett Buxaplenty, AKA Remy's dad! :) He's aro/ace, but doesn't really understand himself. He's convinced that everyone feels the same way he does and he thinks his parents (who had 11 kids) were "just weird." He's a posh 90s and early 2000s businessman who doesn't discuss sex or attraction in polite company, so he doesn't have exposure to information that could help him understand himself. He mostly just reads his adventure books.
He likes dragons, which was genuinely something I didn't notice until after "Whatever" had been up for a while, because I had just given him a book to read and didn't even notice the dragon until a later look, ha ha. We saw in "Whatever" that he withholds sex [and all affection tbh] from his wife Seneca, much to her distress. Their relationship is strained because she wasn't prepared for this when she married him but she also can't leave because they are Rich and Fancy, So People Would Talk. Remember to communicate with your partners! Don't be Bennett.
Happy Peppy Gary! He's aro/ace, but doesn't know what that means and would probably squirm a little if you tried to get him to label himself that way. Hates kisses, but grew up pressured by H.P. and Anti-Cosmo to kiss Betty on occasion so he could temporarily pass his genie DNA to her (and genie powers along with it). He had a lot of conflicting feelings about that, but didn't know how to stand up for himself and his comfort levels (Shout out to that time in Pink and Gray he was like "Growing up on a golf course prepared me to feel like rental equipment" wheeze).
Gary's a witch with a 500-year lifespan and he's still holding out, wondering if some kind of attraction will kick in when he's older. He's not sure if he wants it to or not because he mostly just feels lost and alone. He doesn't have anyone to talk about it with (well. he's got Crocker but that's a whole thing). He doesn't hate himself, he doesn't mind who he is, but struggles socially because he feels like Betty dropped their 10-year friendship to start a romantic relationship with someone else, and when he asked to keep in contact, she started drawing lines. She is setting healthy boundaries for herself and Gary wants to understand that, but it's still very hard for him. He's valid and I love him.
Chloe! She's demisexual. I like to think she didn't really examine her identity growing up because she's always been what her parents expect of her (Good Girl Who Will Marry a Nice Boy and Have Kids), so she was in her late teens when she found out about demisexuality and said "Oh, that sounds like me; this explains a lot about my life and I'm happy to figure this out even though I don't plan to do much with this information." She confessed it to Timmy because he's her best friend and he just /stares back a little blankly and gives a thumbs up even though he doesn't really get why this matters to her, but he wants to be supportive anyway.
Chloe's not over the top about it, but it's important to her because it helps her understand her own feelings, especially when there's so much about herself she's afraid to question. Kevin also doesn't totally get it, but he has two thumbs and loves supporting his girlfriend. He loves feeling warm and fluttery when she gets excited even if he doesn't know what it means. After she told him though, he definitely cooked a color-coded meal and got her flowers and balloons, and teen Chloe feels very grateful to have a boyfriend who cares about things that are important to her even if her revelation doesn't seem like an earth-shattering, life-changing thing. They're in love, your honor. They are holding hands.
Honorable mentions:
RR!Sanderson! The Sanderson we see in Reedfilter Rules has a different personality than Riddleverse Classic!Sanderson. RR!Sanderson is sex-repulsed while Classic!Sanderson isn't. He's still ace, that didn't change, ha ha.
Longwood and Poof! They are not aromantic or asexual but in fact a secret third thing: the equivalent of asexual in the preening world. There's not really a word for that, but they don't have urges for preening licks.
Poof realizing this about himself was the focus of the 130 Prompt "All I Ever Wanted" and we'll see Longwood face this soon in Origin. The pixie Smith has a very high preening drive, though, which we will also see soon in Origin, where he acts as a foil for Longwood. Yay for spectrums.
Imaginary Gary! Being imaginary, he does not age and will never experience those urges because he is perma-locked in his 5-year-old mindset. Technically he is aro/ace although he would probably switch to being pan if he got older. Labels can be fluid!
Finley! He never gave himself the chance to explore his sexuality because of his physical health [i.e. born without magic; cannot mate or he would literally die] so he doesn't think about it. He never explored those feelings, so he identifies as a homoromantic asexual even though he isn't sure about the ace part. He identifies with the label that he thinks fits him, though in a world where he didn't have health problems, he'd probably give it some more exploration and maybe adjust his choice. He still believes the term fits him and we respect that :)
There might be additional characters we can add, but these are the ones who came to mind today. I love being an arospec acespec author writing arospec and acespec kiddos and I love having a wide range of them so I can show their different experiences <3
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Just saw your Batman masks/public image post and it made me think about how the Batman’s version of Bruce is one that hasn’t figured out his “Brucie” persona yet. He’s got himself, and he’s got one mask in the form of Batman, but he doesnt have the opposite public mask yet. He let the public shape their perception of him without his input. I really hope future movies focus on that at least a bit because I’ve never been a fan of the whole “Bruce Wayne is the mask and Batman is the real person” that gets thrown around fairly often. I much prefer the idea that playboy Bruce and Batman are at opposite end of a spectrum that Bruce Wayne sits in the middle of. It provides balance and I would also LOVE to see battinson figuring out how to act like a gothams hot weird playboy
yes yes yes. i like them BOTH being parts of him, and real bruce somewhere in the middle.
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Wow, I finally got to watch the last two episodes of The Boys.
I have to say I'm blown away! Both by the quality of the episodes (which were both really good imo, the best ones so far) and by Jensen's acting!
I thought Jensen was phenomenal!
He blends in so well with the rest of the cast and I love watching all of them play off each other. Especially the Hughie/Butcher/Soldier Boy trio. I'd watch a movie with these three lol
I was skeptical at first, but I'm gonna say it, I'm officially a fan of the show now.
Oh, gosh, yeah! I would happily watch a weekly comedy hour of Soldier Boy saying grossly inappropriate and unknowingly awkward things completely straight-faced with Hughie comically trying to decide how to react and respond. While Butcher wanders in and out making profanity-laced commentary. Those scenes of them together were just so damn funny!
I've been really enjoying The Boys. No, the writing isn't perfect, but it's solid enough I'm not being actively distracted while watching by the few quibbles I end up having - a refreshing and very needed change after the last seasons of Dabbernatural. Which is definitely helped along by how great all of the performances are! It's an impressively talented cast and Jensen has seamlessly slotted right in. This show could very easily be unwatchable with what terrible people most of these characters choose to be, but the choices of the writers and the actors make them enjoyable to watch regardless of where they fall on the spectrum of gray they all inhabit. For instance, Jensen's character may be a massive asshole, but boy have they given him some great lines that his delivery sells perfectly! Not only that, but there are plenty of moments of humanity where, if you still don't entirely sympathize with him, you can understand him a little better. Same for characters like Homelander or A-Train that could easily come off as one-dimensional if handled with less finesse.
While I think I'm going to have to check out of spectating fan theories (I've seen too much stupid stated with bizarrely overconfident surety), I think there are still quite a few different ways the various storylines can go in the finale and I'm really excited to see what happens next. First time in a long time waiting a week for the next episode feels way too long!
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Hi there again, Flo! It is Sarah again! Can I please have a Narnia ship please?
Physical Appearance: I have long brown hair with blonde highlights, ocean blue eyes with bluish-purple glasses, I have a curvy but lean body with strong calves thanks to the years of dancing (cheerleading and ballet), horse-riding, running and jumping, I am 5'1 feet tall, I have pale-tan skin with freckles on my face and also I got random moles and freckles on my arms and legs as well and people say I got a smile that can brighten up any room.
Personality: I am an open-minded, kind-hearted, optimistic and friendly girl with a love of learning things like zodiac signs, MBTI types, crystals and Disney etc. I can be very impatient, stubborn, naive and I am also in the spectrum so I can be blunt and quirky only because I see the world in a different way from other people but I see the good in people no matter what and I am loyal and dependable to my friends and family and when someone hurts my friends and my family I can be fiercely protective all over them.
My type for a perfect person: I just want to be my best friend and partner in crime, I want a gentleman or gentlelady who will be proudly hold my hand and being glad that I am their girlfriend, I want someone to bring me flowers and compliments everyday and being the mother/father of my future kids someday and treat me like a queen all the time.
Sexuality and Pronouns: Bisexual (Both male and female preference) and She/Her
MBTI Type: INFJ-T
Big Three: Sagittarius sun, Cancer moon and Aquarius rising
Moral Alignment: Lawful Good
Enneagram Type: Type 2 (The Helper)
Temperament Personality Type: Sanguine-Choleric (The Influencer)
Hogwarts House: Slytherin
Likes: Singing, dancing, acting, writing, reading books, typing, watching Disney movies, Zodiac signs, MBTI types and crystals.
Dislikes: Mean people, vegetables, yelling, someone who hurts the ones I love the most and bullies.
Random Facts: I've been in the school musical productions for 5 years and my childhood nickname was Sarah-Bear.
your perfect matchup is 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧 💌
𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 <𝟑
𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝟐 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 <𝟑
i feel like you’d be really good friends with susan so i can imagine you standing with the pevensies on the platform waiting to get to school.
and then like the weird freezing thing happens and you’re super confused but susan grabs your hand and like you end up on a sandy beach with them and you’re so confused???
they explain narnia to you and all you can wonder is why am i here???
obviously like skip forward to them meeting caspian.
caspian and peter are fighting and you run to see what’s happening and when caspian sees you he’s so shocked that he literally drops the sword….
because he knows in that moment that you’re who he wants to make his queen.
what neither of you know is that that’s exactly what the prophecy states. that you’re destined for each other.
he asks you your name and you obviously say sarah. when you do he mutters under his breath “queen sarah”
you hear and blush softly.
you wont mind being his queen that’s for sure.
𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 <𝟑
ok because you too are such a power couple. 
like obviously he courted you and all of that but courtship doesn’t last very long so i’m just gonna refer to you as his wife because we all know that that’s what happened.
first of all he’s so in awe of you, all of the time, he never  stops being in awe of you. 
like you literally be like what are you looking at and he’ll just say “you”
the pair of you are always exchanging love letters, he writes the most gorgeous poetic things in the world.
and he showers you with gifts, especially crystal tiaras because he knows how much you love crystals.
he loves riding his horse to go on trails with you, it makes him so giddy.
he often fantasies about what your heir will look like. will it have your eyes and his hair or maybe his hair and your eyes either way he couldn’t be more excited.
when the time comes that the pevensies leave, to his sheer joy you stay smiling at him saying “the kingdom would be a mess with at me” he laughs and says in response “the kingdom wouldn’t be the only mess” <333
𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 <𝟑
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hugs and kisses, flo <333
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I was (unofficially) tagged by @bbgirlsteve to list nine of my favorite movies.
Gotta tell you, narrowing this list down was hard. I was a Film major back in the day, so I have a ton of movies that I love dearly.
Tumblr arranged them in alphabetical order, so below is the actual order, along with a little blurb about each!
(1) Requiem for a Dream (2000) This is my all-time favorite movie, and one of the few I view as being perfect. It's about four people going down the downward spiral of addiction and experiencing all of the consequences that come with it. It was the first movie I watched on my own when I was trying to be a Serious Film Student, and I was blown away by it. In particular, the editing style is remarkable. It uses over 2000 cuts, whereas your average film of the same length uses about 600 - 700. It's done in such a way to mimic a drug user's experience, going from rapid, frantic movements to slow calms. I must stress though, if you want to watch this movie, PLEASE exercise caution. The whole reason I found it was because it was on several Most Disturbing Films Ever lists, and it earns its place there. It's like a very long, drawn out sucker punch - painful, dark, and potentially will leave you laid out for a day.
(2) Legally Blonde (2001) On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Legally Blonde is my second favorite. I'm sure most of you know it, but in case you don't: A "dumb blonde" goes to Harvard Law School to win back the boyfriend who dumped her. I love it because it works hard to subvert the dumb blonde stereotype - Elle is smart, hard-working, and above all has a good heart. This movie just has an overall positive message, plus it has a ton of female positivity, which the world needs way more of. It's my go-to sick day movie because it never fails to make me feel better.
(3) Coraline (2009) Ah, Coraline. A cautionary tale about a little girl who discovers a gateway to a perfect parallel world in her new house (except it's not so perfect). This one I love because it manages to perfectly marry the magic and pains of childhood with extreme darkness. Coraline is just a kid who longs for adventure and a family that pays attention to her, which hit home for me in a lot of ways. And then they come in with "oh by the way you have to have buttons sewn into your eyes." God, that moment still makes me shudder. Also, fun fact: Coraline held the world record for the longest stop motion animation film (100 minutes) for seven years until it was overthrown by Kubo and the Two Strings (101 minutes).
(4) Colossal (2016) Colossal is probably one a lot of you have overlooked. It's a got a very strange premise - a drunk, down on her luck woman is somehow linked to and controlling a kaiju that randomly appeared in South Korea? What? But this movie is so, SO good. After not really paying much attention to movies for a few years, Colossal was the one that made me take notice again. It's a masterclass in acting from both Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis. Its premise, while strange, lends it a unique charm I have yet to find in another movie, even other kaiju or body swap type stories. And its another positive message movie - no matter how hard life or other people knock you down, you can get back up and keep fighting. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
(5) Cat People (1942) This movie's premise is also pretty bonkers: A woman won't have sex with her husband because she thinks that she will turn into a giant cat and eat him if she does. However, do you like modern horror movies? If you do, you have Cat People to thank for them. Obviously, horror movies had come out before Cat People. It was made by RKO as a response to Universal's success with Dracula and Frankenstein, after all. However, Cat People set up a lot of things that would inspire later horror movies. In particular, its use of the idea that "What you don't see is scarier than what you do" and emphasis on subtlety rather than in your face scares is something you see coming from here. It's also credited as the source of the very first jump scare.
(6) Coco (2017) I love movies about music and/or that have good soundtracks. Coco falls into both categories, since it's about a little boy who wants to be a musician and ends up seeking out his musical ancestor in the Land of the Dead after his family rejects his musical aspirations. It is visually gorgeous - I legitimately think this is the prettiest movie Pixar has ever made, which is saying a lot. (The moment where Manny crosses the marigold bridge into the Land of the Dead comes to mind) I also love the way that the Mexican culture and music is seamlessly woven into the story. It truly transports me to a new world.
(7) The Ring (2002) Everyone knows the story even if they haven't seen this movie: It's about a video tape that kills you seven days after you watch it. And this is the single scariest movie I've ever seen. I first watched it when I was about 13. I watched it on VHS alone in the basement of my childhood house late at night (which definitely upped the scare factor). I actually thought the movie was over after they discover Samara's body in the well and stopped the movie. But then I decided I wanted to watch the credits because I wanted to see who was in the cast. And boy did I get a surprise. That single moment redefined horror for me. To this day, there hasn't been another movie that has scared me that badly.
(8) Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) Conversely, there hasn't been a horror comedy that hit all the right notes quite like Tucker and Dale. It's a spoof on your typical summer slasher movies like Friday the 13th or Wrong Turn, but done right. It takes every single slasher horror trope you can think of and turns it on its head. This movie made me laugh harder than almost any other movie. It's also made from a place of love, honoring the tropes and movies that came before it, and working with them to make an amazing movie.
(9) Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) Yes, this is a romantic comedy about two friends making a porno together. And it's good. It's hard to make me like romantic comedies. They have to have something that really sets them apart. Zack and Miri does this by leaning hard (hehe) into its premise. It's not ashamed, it gleefully shows off its cast in every sense of the word, and it still manages to create one of the most intimate sex scenes I've ever seen. (Yes, in a film about porn) Plus it's funny as hell. Just do yourselves a favor and don't watch it with your mom like I did.
Some honorable mentions:
The Omen (1976) Happy Death Day Ratatouille Us Pan's Labyrinth Candyman Stranger Than Fiction Wolf Children Cabin in the Woods Little Miss Sunshine A Quiet Place
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Someone I follow was just talking about her struggle in knowing if she's actually aro or just her priorities just differ from the general expectations of society and she's just questioning.
And I feel so seen tbh.
Like it's hard. It's so hard sometimes. Like don't get me wrong I'm a fan of shipping too but like watchimg media sometimes the added in romance sours the story because it feels like they think it more important than friends. They act like friendship and romance are separate and romance ranks above it and it tends to be something that feels to be the case irl too but to me that's just not the case. The person I follow said that for her friendship is more important and she doesn't get why people crave to be in romantic relationships when they have friends and that's exactly it right? Like for me friendship is first and foremost but also for me romance is soooo close to friendship anyway.
Like literally to me the only difference is really the intent/motivation and mood behind it. Like like in the simplest terms you can go to the movies with a friend that's normal. So is going to the movies with a date. What's the difference? Like you're going to spend time with them and enjoy something together either way. Both are your person. There's just a slightly different mood when you set something up as a date. But that doesn't mean it's more important that a friend hang out.
But then it's like. Am I the only one who sees things that way? I at times fantasize about a happy love story but I wouldn't say I crave romance. As a matter of fact sometimes it sounds very off putting to me. When I "fantasize" about it it's honestly more like "what if this thing led to me meeting the love of my life tee hee" kinda way. Like I'm definitely a hopeless romantic most likely. But also sometimes it's like what if that person had a crush on you and I'm like please don't. That's my thought sometimes. Even up until 8th grade I was so sure I wasn't even gonna look for a relationship until I had a successful career. (That only sorta ended because I told one of my friends that and she was like "but everyone will be gone by then" and all that did was shake my world and I've never had a solid future plan again.)
And of course that doesn't mean I'm on the aro spectrum nor the ace spectrum. Heck I've had two full crushes and 2 half crushes. But the thing is I've never just found people attractive(I can tell when people are pretty but I still don't find them attractive lol) or even really wanted to date them. The two full crushes I moreso did but even then I didn't. I didn't even think they were "sorta cute" until I liked them. And my goal in telling them I liked them was to be rejected so I could move on. I had a whole friendship courtship first. They were people I was friends with first.
Actually part of the reason I think I've question being demi is because of that and I saw someone say that being demi for them they get squishes (friend crushes, people you really want to be friends with) and that of their few crushes all of them were squishes first (not that all their squishes became crushes but all their crushes were squishes first) and that more inlined with myself. They get a lot of squishes I get a lot of squishes. They were friends with their crushes first. Same but.
But like. I don't know that I am demi. I've had a celebrity crush and of the info I've gather people who are demi don't tend to? Mine was a strange case and I got over it rather quickly. But does that make me demi? Does falling for Kurt Cobain after reading abunch of his quotes and his wikipedia biography to the extent that you wished you'd gotten to meet him, that more people were like him, that you do the math to figure out how old he'd be make one demi? Not neccessarily.
So ye.
Uhm. This is going on longer than I entended I don't know where I was going but I haven't eaten breakfast and I feel my brain shutting down so I'm just gonna end it here. Thanks for reading this if you did. There's no conclusion.
I mean... The person I follow found comfort in knowing certain things to be true about herself even if she doesn't quite know if she falls under any label. I guess I find comfort knowing well seeing that there are people questioning the same things I have. Now to find people with other similar hesitations to me on other sorts of labels
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a-life-in-film-by-wc · 8 months
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Men In Black 2 (2002)
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AKA MIIB AKA Men In In Black. I think this was a date with F. and we enjoyed it as silly fun. I was very taken by my first glimpse of Rosario Dawson and I loved the pull back at the end to show how insignificant we all are like that old Louis Armstrong Guinness advert in reverse 
Big Willy Smith’s obligatory single stands out as the only thing not by Danny Elfman in the soundtrack. Perhaps there’s a neuralyzer solo at the end as it’s almost instantly forgettable. Shame about the lacklustre music considering two notable cameo appearances* from talented musicians no longer with us. The first being Biz Markie as a beatboxing alien. He appeared in one more film (again with Will Smith) before his untimely death in 2021 as an uncredited funeral guest. Perhaps more notably, this film also marked the last movie appearance of Michael Jackson, playing a keen MIB applicant who’s given the runaround by Rip Torn’s Zed. 
At the other end of the spectrum, Johnny Knoxville had his first movie role (aside from a few seconds of drooling in a bar in Coyote Ugly), which I liked in principle but I don’t know if his acting was quite there yet. He played both heads of a two-headed alien but he only got paid once. The thing I really wanted to see him star in wouldn’t come out until October though… 
They showed a teaser trailer for The Two Towers, which was the most excited I’d been for a new film since, well, probably Spider-Man earlier that year. While on comics, I recently read the first issue of the series Men In Black was based on and they take out a cult on a mad new drug; no aliens. Apparently they don’t exclusively deal with extraterrestrials; more generic paranormal stuff. And drugs. Oh and they just kill witnesses instead of wiping memories. 
*Or are they bit parts? I thought that a cameo was when an actor plays themselves but wikipedia says otherwise. Named after a carving that stands out of a gemstone, apparently a cameo is by a recognisable person who usually doesn’t speak, and a bit part has direct interaction with a principal actor and no more than 5 lines of dialogue. There you go.
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Autistic/ADHD Wolverine Headcanons
These can be taken for most Wolverines, except for a few which are based on specific versions
HATES loud noises. Hates em. Has asked Beast to fit his mask with mufflers multiple times so he doesn’t have to cover his ears every time a car explodes or siren goes off
Smooth foods are the devil. He really despises anything that isn’t chewy, which is why he usually eats meat.
Special interests include histoy, mostly stuff to do with ancient cultures. Will talk your ear off about feudal Japan, don’t you worry
Cyclops pisses him off because he never bothers to say what he means, and Wolverine really struggles trying to articulate this. E.g. Cyclops tells Wolverine to “deal” with a threat, intending for Wolverine to just knock them out, Wolverine misunderstands this because Cyke didn’t tell him what to do at all, ends up doing the wrong thing, gets yelled at, rinse your hands and repeat
Loves saying “snikt” as a stim. However, due to societal pressures, he smokes instead to get a similar effect.
Only uses one brand of cigar consistently. If someone offers one, he’ll take it because it’s better than nothing, but he won’t buy any other kind other than the one he has. Is it old? Yes. Is it not even that good? Yes. But it’s routine.
Wolverine and the X-Men centred: Emma Frost slowly realised Wolverine was on the spectrum, and started treating him the same way she would one of her neurodivergent students, but still with the respect she would give an adult (and the no-shit-taken attitude she has with him). Wolverine didn’t know why Emma was suddenly so interested in trying to ‘get’ him, and after confronting her proceeded to flip his entire fuck when she told him why. He didn’t hit her, it was barely even directed at her. He just angrily stammered for five minutes and rambled to the ceiling while pacing back and forth before going away for two days. Emma and Logan then proceeded to have little sessions where she would teach him the coping mechanisms she had taught her own students
He also has a bad habit of eating his own cigars whenever he’s stressed. He’ll be chewing on it, thinking about something, and then suddenly whoopsie-doodle it’s gone and now his throat tingles. Sometimes he does it intentionally, much to the disgust of the other X-Men.
Scratches himself a lot. It’s both a stim and a nervous tic from the adamantium transfer, where he, for days after, would constantly itch and claw at his skin to try and alleviate the painful sensations
Wolverine also tends to gnaw at himself. Due to his healing factor, evidence of this is difficult to find, but he’ll randomly bite at his own skin until it bleeds, sometimes seeming unaware of the fact he’s doing it
Ok last stimming one: his dog tags. They’re his comfort item and a stim. He’ll fiddle with them when he’s anxious, and sometimes he’ll even chew on them. The latter is incredibly easy to notice despite him having his hand over his mouth to not arouse suspicion, due to the sound of metal grinding against metal
This one is more centred on the movies, specifically Origins: only Sabretooth knows. He knew Logan was diagnosed with something when they were young, and later found out it was likely some form of neurodivergence that no one in the 1800s really knew about. When they were younger, Logan got really attached to Creed since Creed would explain things to him in a blunt manner, which was a far cry from and much easier to understand than the flowery language of everyone around him
Goes non verbal a heck ton, usually only talking in grunts and growls. He isn’t intentionally trying to be rude, but he’s stopped caring wether or not people think he is.
Has a habit of suddenly jerking back his neck or cracking his knuckles pretty aggressively mid-conversation surely for the Sensory GoodnessTM
Loves rain. And I mean loves rain. He always acts really chill whenever it’s raining outside, since the noise is calming to him. Thunder and lightning spook him, though he won’t admit it
He was scared absolutely shitless when he first saw fireworks. Half was because of war flashbacks, the other was IT’S TOO DAMN LOUD
Got the word “bub” off of Alpha Flight. When any member would say it, he’d repeat it over and over again under his breath. The word just feels good.
Would rather just…not talk. At all. It’s one of the few benefits he sees to being friends with telepaths - he doesn’t NEED to talk to them.
On rare occasions, when he does talk, it sounds completely incomprehensible. It usually ends with him getting incredibly frustrated since no one can understand what he’s saying
Hates malls. The noises, the smells, the stupid stupid LIGHTS- it’s all awful. He has had a meltdown inside of one; it ended with him curled up in a ball inside a clothes rack, practically pulling at his hair with his eyes screwed shut. The X-Men that came with him - Storm, Rogue, and Jubilee - were looking for him for hours. It took them a good few minutes to coax him out, since it was like he couldn’t hear them. Xavier was furious at Wolverine’s “immature behaviour in a public place” and decided sensory overload training would have to be added to the Danger Room’s capabilities. (Because Charles is an asshole)
I’ll add more later I dunno
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