Do we get details of what happens in drivers briefings?? Because I soooo wanna know what goes down in that one tomorrow

What if instead of a sequel we get a film that dramatises the story of the making of Monkey Man. Hear me out.

Like Dev Patel plays Dev Patel, in the archetypal role of the tortured auteur, who makes and unmakes himself in the process of creating his magnum opus.

The resistant beats of Monkey Man are echoed in the Making of Monkey Man as we watch a fictionalised version of Dev Patel - writer/director - struggle against political and industrial blockades (westerncentrism, Hollywood) in order to triumph for the marginalised (make a film with unprecedented representation).

And as fictional Dev Patel - writer/director - battles to create this work, the world of Monkey Man and his world start to blend, Black Swan-style, and he finds himself inextricably collapsing into the Kid, into being the Monkey Man.

Suddenly the making of the film within this film is the making of himself, as well.

And the Making of Monkey Man replicates its source by itself being high genre. It's an homage and a love letter, but also a challenge to the 'Troubled Artist' and 'Brilliant Protege' genre. It transgresses the mould of some historically noteworthy white man being deified by cinema and replaces it with a brown man whose personal artistic goal becomes a shared point of justice through common struggle and triumph.

And in the end you find out that the Making of Monkey Man was written, directed, captained... by Dev Patel.

(and the only reason this won't happen is because he's literally too humble and nice for the egoism of such a venture)

WARRIOR NUN | 1.09 vs 2.08

If your muse suddenly grew wings, what would they look like? (i.e: feathered and bird-like, leathery bat-like wings, insect-like, ect...)

(Fairy wings the shape and color of fallen Autumn leaves, the kind that are just starting to turn! They'd still be that deep, vibrant Fall-red around where the wings connect to her body, bleeding into that crumbly-looking brown color the closer you get to the wingtips and with a reddish-brown outline and leaf veins... You also wouldn't be able to see through the membranes. When they move, they'd probably shed bits of dusty leaf residue, instead of the standard sparkly fairy-dust.

River is pretty heavy due to having a bit more muscle-mass, so the wings would likely be too delicate to support actual flight for her; but she'd be able to use them to glide, and would be able to hover off the ground for a little bit if she put the effort into it. They'd also be able to give her a 'boost' in speed when running after her targets in order to close the gap a little quicker, she'd definitely keep them hidden and whip them out for a 'surprise-attack'!)

thinking about deh again… like i think one of the things that makes deh age weirdly is that the latter portion of it is incredibly uncomfortable to sit through. and it doesn’t quite give you the full catharsis you expect (i.e full closure with all characters). so it gives you an exceptionally like. emotionally tense feeling. it’s so heavy. when i finished watching it the first time it took me like all night to process it and finally relax and sleep. i liked the discomfort a lot though, it’s rare that a story makes you sit through it and sit with it and doesn’t feed you the perfect happy ending.

the entire Moment of evan revealing everything to the murphys is like. not quite second hand embarrassment, it’s like. second hand “totally fucked” (spring awakening style) and second hand “i want to kms” (how can you not empathize with/have compassion for evan during words fail) and second hand pure desperation of wanting to be anyone else but yourself but also wishing you could want to be yourself.

but in the end the murphys DON’T totally fuck evan à la melchior gabor…like….because they got attached to him and still feel that attachment, because he helped them get closure, because they realize he was very troubled and the truth coming out could make him go out the same way as connor and they wouldn’t be able to stand the guilt and knowing they could have prevented it…again…that is SO compelling. it’s not even about redemption or forgiveness. his lies helped them, and if you’re really extraordinarily cynical, the lie (platitude) that you will be found (the original lie that evan was found by connor), that there’s always going to be someone who’ll come running also helps people…and it’s not really a lie if the musical itself found people, right….the layers of #ywbf in universe and out of it are insane and I honestly think a lot of them are unintentional considering. but i would argue those layers were originally intentional (since the original idea pasek/paul/levenson came up with was a cynical satire on parasocial grief) but layers later pushed away in favor of fully celebrating joyfully and optimistically their song and story and theme and audience at the time, removing the nuance, leading to the direction of the movie.

could deh the musical have said what it wanted to say with more sensitivity and grace? sure. but what it *does* say is worth accepting its messy conclusions for, because expecting things to be neat and tidy and perfectly moral is just another lie we force ourselves to present to the world that prevents us from ever finding each other.

Right but as I am writing the Wall E AU I keep finding plotholes in both the film and in my interpretation and god its driving me up the bend

Like- yk how all of earths population is living in space at that point? Thats alot of bloody ships and now I've gotta come up with an explanation for it because they dont properly explain it in the film but then I was doing some research on it and then I found out that in film canon there was a climate disaster which wiped out over half of the worlds population and thats why theres not as many ships,

BUT I CANT BLOODY WRITE THAT PLOTPOINT BECAUSE THE WALL E'S IN MY FIC ARE HUMAN SO THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT TOO IF THERE WAS A CLIMATE DISASTER

godddd why've I decided to make this fic more complicated than it needs to be its literally Silly Red dwarf guys but Silly Wall E robots, I dont know why ive done this to myself wtf

Anyway I'm probably gonna try and ignore that plothole and let it sit in a corner while I continue to write lolll

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i keep hearing noise about a linked universe discord where is this. where can i find this. i wanna lurk.

If it wasn't for Tumblr I'd have missed out on the mess Sharls Eclair created when he was probably shit faced

Not gonna be normal about B tonight when I reawaken and rewatch frootloops animation again, I swear on my LIFE

Harrow the Ninth playlist. I’m finally ready to trip ass backwards into this fandom for real

making lucky again my ✨️🔮manifesting🕯 song, thank you louis for sharing your songs with us

Katie, I need to know your answer

That’s a hard one, but I think it would have to be Louis, Harry, Niall, Zayn, and then Liam. It’s only the top 2 that I’m not sure about. Niall would definitely be 3rd because I really enjoy his music but not as much as Louis and Harry’s. And I still don’t listen to much from either Zayn or Liam, but from the songs I do listen to, I prefer Zayn’s.

As for the top 2, I debated about it. I obviously love Harry’s albums, but Louis’ new album Faith In The Future is just so good. I even like it so much more than his last one. It’s the only thing I’ve been listening to other than Midnights (and occasionally Christmas music.) So I’d have to go with Louis first. It feels like he’s finally found his niche (I almost used the word direction and then realized that would sound like a bad pun) so I look forward to seeing how he explores that further.

That would be a chaotic night though! I’d love to see how other people would react to that.

love my favourites but i have objectively the worst pick of the litter so i want to personally beat them up and i think i wwould win

Simon Riley! who isn't traditional in the gross way but in the he wants to protect you and make sure you don't feel like you have to provide for yourself, he wants to be a safety net, something to rely on

Simon Riley! Who made it a point to buy your dream house as soon as you were married,

Simon Riley! Who didn't expect houses to require so...much...work

"Baby! The water won't turn off?"

"The fuck you mean it won't turn off just-" Simon grumbled as he dropped the moving box and walked into the kitchen, grabbing the handle of the faucet and trying to pull it, only for it to come flying off. Leaving him dumbfounded and you a giggling disaster.

Simon Riley! Who likes handy man tasks as much as the next guy but the people at the store are beginning to know his name

Simon Riley! Who didn't have a dad to teach him some stuff like plumbing and whatnot so he calls Price

"Oi, Cap-"

"She came to her senses and ran away, yeah?"

"No...I need you to tell me ho' to turn off th' water."

Simon Riley! Who does know how much you love watching him do yard work but doesn't dwell because these godddamn weeds-

Simon Riley! Who loves nothing more than watching you paint the walls of the house, finds it like to be a scene of a movie and it would be a lie if the reality was much better than the cinema

Simon Riley! Who hates facebook because you would randomly send him across the city because you found an old China cabinet you thought would be perfect

Simon Riley! Who doesn't care how his buddies tease him about becoming a domestic civilian so soon, because he would happily fix a thousand houses if it meant a thousand more years with you

(Comments and feedback make my day! annnd yeah that's it <3 )

tags; verses

*❈ ‣ you sigh before your window and gaze upon the town — ( v: canon. )  

*❈ ‣ had no way to guide you so i sang day in‚ day out. i thought i'd drop and still i sang. — ( v: foggs. ) 

*❈ ‣ and we’ll sail the world and see its wonders‚ from the pearls of spain to the rubies of tibet — ( v: post. ) 

*❈ ‣ isn’t that her dainty footstep on the stair? yes‚ isn’t that her shadow on the wall? — ( v: alternate. )  

*❈ ‣ how i would like to have wings – blue ones – how i would like to open them and raise — ( v: modern. )

*❈ ‣ if we lay a strong enough foundation‚ we’ll pass it on to you. we’ll give the world to you. — ( v: single mother. )

*❈ ‣ she's been living in her white-bread world as long as anyone with hot blood can — ( v. hawkins )  

*❈ ‣ don’t need a ring for my finger just need a steady hand to hold — ( v: main. feat. heygutlcss )    

*❈ ‣ chasing our heart’s desire but we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings — ( v: affair. feat. heygutlcss ) 

*❈ ‣ i believed i had a choice til the music in her voice turned my whole world around — ( v: singer. feat. heygutlcss )    

*❈ ‣ i know you‚ you know me. one thing i can tell you is you got to be free — ( v: feat. honorhearted )

*❈ ‣ the world was my oyster but where was the pearl? who dreamed i could find it? — ( v: feat. iocaneimmune )  

*❈ ‣ if you love me tell me that you love me. if you don't just tell me that you do. — ( v: workhouse. feat. heygutlcss ) 

*❈ ‣ and even if the dream were not impossible‚ i know too well the ending would be sad — ( v: feat. gamblecity. )  

*❈ ‣ for somebody i thought was my savior‚ you sure make me do a whole lot of labor — ( v: feat. whenjet )  

*❈ ‣ i had this feeling as i was falling the sound across the bay was the sound of you calling — ( v: great gatsby. feat. playboths )

*❈ ‣ only we know what we’ve both been through‚ if i save you will you save me too? — ( v: main. feat. playboths ) 

*❈ ‣ this was an escape plan‚ carefully timed it‚ so let me go and dive into the waves below — ( v: panem. )