#(telling people to watch the film)

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[faunandfloraas]

It is kinda funny seeing people talk about Seungmin lately because he definitely has gotten more bold and confident for sure. He's also just getting opportunities to be perceived as an individual on his own as well for the first time in a while but it's still jarring to see people be like Aw he was always such a quiet goodie two shoes little nerd and it's like...... he was the one to leave and seek out his own vocal coach and blatantly talk about it, which of course lead to I.N and Lee Know also doing the same, he was the one to go on bubble and tell off sasaengs who used to camp outside their old dorm for invading members privacy but also because it effected other residents and staff at the complex, something that i'm certain upper management wouldnt have been happy about, and he wasn't curt or nice about it either. like he's never actually been a wallflower, he's always had a pretty strong backbone and seems to stick to his principals, its not really new.

#even silly shit like bringing up drinking even tho staff has clearly told him not too #like yeah its silly but its still sticking to his guns of being like we arent actually children anymore thanks #the food thing too like in an old 2 kids room he said something about not being able to eat on his bday bc they were filming so evidently #there was a moment in time when he caved to the shitty diet obsession kpop had but ever since hes never really said anything like it again #instead hes telling everyone to eat well and reminding people to have dinner or lunch every other day #even the comment about growing his hair out but then being like lol the stylist probably wont like me saying that or whatever #and like the yeah im going to the gym but im not lifting. dont expect me to bulk up. im doing it for stamina<< that made me cackle #bc i did see people on twt being like but what if seungmin got buff tho omg hed be so hot 🥺 Well him bein buff isnt what this is about #so he went and made sure people were realistic. not everyone needs to be noticeably cut yk #idk maybe bc i watched most all the skz content all the way through #and now i go back and gif stuff i notice patterns more easily than if youve been here for longer and havent watched older stuff #for a while- maybe? idk its just funny but i also see takes a lot and have to stop myself from going No <3 #anyway this is my obligatory insane ksm tangent of the week. see you in 5 minutes. #🐶

[uncanny-tranny]

I know this is a very unoriginal observation (much like any other), but I'm finally reading The Great Gatsby, and even I wouldn't describe men the way Nick does.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #i did watch the 2013 film for my ap english class though (i think they didn't have enough time left for us to actually read it) #like the way he described tom was very. superfluous in my opinion. something you want to tell the class NICK (joking) #i find myself really partial to the general writing styles of that time though #i haven't even gotten that far in the book either i'm just barely past the part where daisy is introduced #so nick is just waffling about his family history and how he rents for $80/month #which is relatable when you consider inflation. nick i hope you eat you landlord #i can see why people don't like this writing but i am endlessly fascinated by the prose #maybe i should just free myself from the impulse to hide behind layers of self-censorship and live like nick does #tbh tho i still prefer non-fiction and textbooks BUT fiction is valuable and is useful #fiction is like play - it lets you explore different possibilities and thought in a safe environment

[lastoneout]

Not to go on and on about how much I adore the DnD movie BUT it was also so fantastic to see such ridiculous plans in action? Like I've seen so many campaigns feature shenanigans of the highest order, like real loony tunes meets rube goldberg machine level nonsense, and so seeing Holga pry up a loose flagstone to use as a weapon in a last-ditch effort not to die and the entire scene where they use tree sap, a portal staff, and a painting to break into the treasure carriage was SO beautiful like that's the EXACT sort of plan that comes up when you give four people with assorted skills and random magical items a few minutes to figure something out and it's FANTASTIC.

#so many times in the film I was like 'yeah that's EXACTLY what the average dnd group would do' and it was AMAZING #dnd hat #dndhat #dnd 23 #spoilers #dnd movie spoilers #dndhat spoilers #dnd movie #you can tell the writers were having a blast #trying to think outside the box and make the plans follow player logic rather than like 'realistic' logic #like watching people cut down a tree with a dull butter knife

[keepthetension]

impromptu group project? man, they weren't kidding about dead friend forever being a horror, huh

#dead friend forever the series #dead friend forever #i figured it'd be scary but they didn't have to go THIS hard #alone in some spooky woods with no wifi? but also #group project with my friends who all get along so great already? #and have varying enthusiasm levels about making this film? #terrible no good very bad awful #i'd rather just go die of exposure in the forest thanks #btw someone please tell me what hashtag people are using for this show #or are there simply not many people watching it?

[rotzaprachim]

everyone calling for the end of translations into and out of the hebrew language, removal of israeli novels and movies from discussions and events, deplatforming of israeli artists from international events, "isolation" from israeli media...i hope you are getting a fat fat check from miri regev and miki zohar i hope you are the likud's favorite rabbit for how you've been doing their work for them

#it's literally so dumb AND stupid... nothing the likud would love more than for all internal voices of dissent to be quashed #also tells me you haven't watched many il films or read many il novels #they don't way what you think they're saying #i don't think a lot of people clock the extent the gov of IL has been in a flat out war with many members #of the very left-leaning artistic community for literally years now

[commsroom]

doug eiffel is relatively offline, his choice of... constant, unyielding background noise so he never has to be left alone in the company of his own thoughts... is the radio and/or tv, but he is also always watching youtube videos like "Can We Drive 1,200 MILES in an ABANDONED Van With NO TITLE? - First Start in 17 Years" and "Monster Jam - INSANE AIR Compilation." zero doubt.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #will never let anyone forget he's a monster truck guy. i love it. #the other day i was trying to think of like. eiffel is definitely a youtube guy if he's any kind of social media guy. #but i was blanking on specific channels. anyway. no. this is the answer. he's watching like junkyard digs and high octane films #and monster truck compilations. #i see clearly now. #eiffel sees something like 'will it run?' or 'will it work?' in the title and clicks immediately that's his genre. #the rest of his youtube search history is various clips from movies and tv shows that he pulls up to show people on his busted phone #whenever someone makes the mistake of telling him they don't understand a reference he thinks is iconic. which is a lot of them. #he's so annoying i want him so bad. sorry #well anyway. that first one's a great video.

[oatbugs]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

#on my friends living room floor they love together but one of them has been london for weeks or maybe months #to be with her love. im on a foam mattress from one of their beds next to a glass bottle of water opened by one of them #in a mug given to me by another. the weather felt like my childhood today and it also felt like 2 years ago. #(put space in the heavens Einstein's idea and hes your friend too so nothing to fear) around the table they drank and laughed and i thought #i hope you keep growing so full with the love you receive . i hope your appetite becomes insatiable from how used to it you are #and i know youre all leaving soon but i hope one day you miss this and that youll be happy you miss it #its worth missing i think #i thought he didnt care but he said after exams hes going walk around this area over and over #(this is near where he lived and where we visited almost daily for a year) #(hed come across the bridge on a lake) #we went where she used to live and at the entrance a fox sat calmly. it just yawned and stared. #it felt important somehow. i think maybe their impressions of me will never be close to how i feel inside but i think #i love them enough for that not to matter. i dont think theyll ever know this. i dont think if they did it would change much. #and seeing them smile makes my heart glow anyway. today i tried their malaysian tea the ginger burned my throat #they warmed my heart. hes going to canada soon and hes going to the US soon and shes going everywhere soon ill never understand #how were supposed to live with memories and with seperation and with the past but we do it anyway so i think it doesnt matter much #i wanted to write a poem for the lab rats with the fibre optic wires lit with blue forcing them to turn around and around #something about how im sorry that the two photon arrays burned the inside of your brain. im sorry about the sharp points of multielectrode #arrayes. im sorry about everything we do to you. she asked to see me tomorrow. im trying to have self control but i miss her so awfully #last night my friend talked to me and i updated on everything that happened with love and the lack of it and she just started laughing #and she told me about the same thing from her side. and she told me about how she loved london because she would walk the streets #and she felt like the people were her. and her eyes would go over the people and the bag of bagels and the construction men they probably #have a kid at home maybe shes a daughter. this kid is crying for her mother and the building you just walked past caused #blisters and pain and people died in it and very likely people were born in it. we talked for hours and i felt like #i was holding her hand just like that time she held mine watching a horror film. i love her so much #my friend is a genius and i remember her picking up the charms of my phone and staring at the leaf hanging from them. shes side stepping to #music drinking dangerous cider and cocktails from a movie and chit chatting with billionaires and undergrads #i love her dearly. his head covered in electrodes. she tells me about a syrian guy shes in love with and she says #what you feel and what i feel is like cocaine. ive tried a lot of fucking cocaine. #she says ive reminded her of what living actually feels like and to never put energy into someone who doesnt see me this way.

[thecowboykatsuki-anon]

Katsuki would absolutely make those thirst trap cooking TikToks

#yknow the ones where they wayyy over sexualize what they’re doing #yeah he’s got an entire series of them for PR #everyone in the comments is like ‘oh my god his partner is so lucky’ #and you’re just clowning him the whole time he films just out of sight #he tries to tease you and be all sexy and you’re just laughing and telling him to get his lame ass away from you #you finally chime in one time on the comments and say the only perk of these videos is that you’re eating what he cooks after #he stops letting you watch him film because you make him laugh #so you start duetting reaction videos that people go crazy for #Bakugou imagine #bakugou headcanons #Bakugou Katsuki

[sciderman]

Mutant mayhem was solid (love how they talked like teens) just the cowaboomers love their iteration from 12 years ago.

I’m partial to Rise of the TMNT

cowaboomers... astonishing, astonishing

i haven't consumed any tmnt content except the 2023 movie and... wait. i think i might've watched... one of the michael bay live action movies that we all collectively decided to suppress the memory of. and i didn't hate it. but i didn't think it was very good either. but does a movie have to be good? is it not enough to simply look at megan fox?

#you know #lately i've constantly been coming to the realisation that actually i don't have very good taste #people will tell me i should watch some very critically acclaimed film that is very profound high art and my eyes glaze over #and i say something stupid like how i didn't hate a michael bay movie #i wonder what it means #but i think i'd rather be honest instead of pretend that i get something when i don't #the fact is sometimes good movies are boring. and sometimes junk movies are entertaining. #sci talks movies #i do not remember anything from the michael bay tmnt movie. but i do remember that i didn't hate it. that is about all i remember.

[mundifinis]

i pray the day never comes when tiktok discovers gregg araki's films (specifically the teenage apocalypse trilogy ones) because the amount of discourse i can already picture.... oh my god

#“actually it's problematic all these bad things happened to these queer people!!! it's bad representation!” #tell me you missed the point of these films #sorry this isn't h*artstopper..... #like i think these films #and other films apart of the new queer cinema genre (not new as an adjective to describe NEW modern queer movies #but the genre itself) are important to watch and learn #because a) they're actually good and show the context for queer history #but also b) it's authentic and usually made by queer people and they didn't have to worry about appeasing to cishet society #but like most of them would cause tiktok's head to explode and frankly i do not wanna be there for that #can already picture the too many brain dead takes.... #very glad i deleted it though so when that day comes i will not see it! #gregg araki #nowhere #the doom generation #totally fucked up #mysterious skin #the living end #film #ashla.txt #hmm

[bulbabutt]

no offence to people who genuinely enjoyed james somerton and feel cheated but you could kind of tell he didnt give a shit about anything he ever said. there was no passion or personable anecdotes in anything he ever made, and the fact he was constantly posting videos was crazy. like if you watch your more popular video essayists theyre always coming from a point of 1) education in a field 2) passion in a subject and 3) being open about themselves

like , this man hopped on the video essay train because of the popularity of his peers and just tokened himself into "the gay video essayist" as if so many other people werent already doing that? and the lack of care for intersectionality was obvious. i stopped ever watching him after he took it personally that some marvel show was about black exploitation in america and not about two men kissing each other, cuz it became abundantly clear that was the only experience he gave a shit about (his own)

#idk im GENUINELY not trying to be rude im just saying be sus of people who dont put themselves in their work #like i remember lindsay ellis and dan olsen talking about their film school experience and then you look at their work and its like oh yeah #i see how this is their work because they know what theyre talking about and they enjoy it #and you can look at like quinton reviews or jenny nicholson deep diving into media for hours and its like theyre taking you on a journey #and you feel like youre watching them go crazy but steering the ship in a way only they can #or theres people like princess weekes who bring up their own experiences watching queer media and where they were at the time #she once was like “yeah i made i kissed a girl amv disney crossovers” LEADING ME TO REALIZE ID SEEN SAID VIDEOS 15 YRS AGO............ #cuz i was subbed to her and she introduced me to all the things she said and we have a mutual queer experience from that kinda source lmao #anyway you can tell these people put themselves in their work! #and when it came to james that was just never there because nothing he ever said WAS his own experience #it was always money to him not passion or experience or community #idk this might be a nothing post but ive been thinking about it since watching the hbomb video

[carefulfears]

mulder and diana literally have the most intense divorced energy anyone could ever have...they have the chemistry of two people who've been married for decades and maybe don't wanna be married anymore, maybe aren't married anymore, but once you're married you're grandfathered in. you're always married. haven't touched each other in years, go most days not even considering the other, but owe each other something, and aren't sure of what it is. diana lies and lies and lies to his face, and then dies to save him. she feels entitled to him, she knows what's best for him, what's his is theirs. always. she was there when he got it. she helped him build it. (she tells him herself: "don't forget that"). so much of what she does appears as she's trying to establish a claim over him, but she doesn't have to try. she just is. she's irreproachable. you don't talk about the wife. (and you don't talk to her, as scully and diana arguing is met only with mulder's impatient, "scully...scully...scully.")

any time she comes up in conversation, his friends are uncomfortable. i love the way byers goes "well....yeah?" when scully asks if he knows diana. he says it like he's surprised that scully didn't know about her. when scully won't stop pressing mulder about diana in one son, all three of the boys tense up. the camera keeps going to their reactions. (you don't talk about the wife. they were there. "i always wondered why they split up.")

scully says "special agent diana fowley" as though maybe if she had one more title to throw in, she would disappear. diana says "fox" like she has something to prove. mulder says "diana" like it communicates everything he doesn't say. and in a way, it does. the first time scully heard him call agent fowley "diana," she knew.

#just because it isn't warm doesn't mean dd and mimi rogers didnt have chemistry #they have the chemistry of two people who played a married couple in a movie that ends with religiously motivated murder/suicide #they have cold ancient unsettling chemistry #watch any scene between the two of them and tell me it doesn't feel exactly like your parents silently moving through the house. saying #what they aren't saying #txf.txt #diana #the direction and camera placement in 'one son' frames scully as SO small #especially in that argument scene #they filmed it from mulder's eyeline/perspective #whereas typically scully's side would've been shot at her level (over his shoulder) or they would've put her on the box #but it's set up to where she is so small in front of him. and she FEELS small. and she is small. she's disadvantaged. #and it isn't fair. because where the fuck was diana? does having started it count more than following through? does having been there first #when gibson said that scully doesn't worry about what ANYONE thinks. 'except for her.' #what diana thinks matters. she's this looming figure with so much influence. and she IS irreproachable. #he won't let a word be said about her. she won't let anyone else have final say over him. #and more than anything else that's why i think they were married. more than the wedding ring in flashback episodes. more than the tension #they have this territoriality that feels very specific to divorce

[videoviolence]

idc what you think about august underground as a movie but you have to atleast admit it is kinda one of the last "greats" of the 2000's indie disturbing horror scene [and a really unique example of gritty + realistic found footage horror] before it all literally went to total shit

#witnessing behind the scenes in alot of film groups im in and watching people talk about some of the movies i see around is draining #like 75% of the stuff people make is genuinely just . lazy . and pathetic . or really bad rehashes of movies that succeeded before them #lucifer valentine shit . 'mr rape's first date' . all that bullshit like are you seriously telling me this is the best yall can come up wit #its so boringly offensive it isnt even shocking anymore its just pathetic LMAO #hudson.txt

[badolmen]

Some of y’all have GOT to get obnoxiously into amateur indie films on YouTube made for fun by Just Some Guy (gender neutral) and their friends. Go watch some shaky camera work and the best acting college age kids can muster for a story or concept they loved so much they put it out into the world. They’re braver and more genuine than literally anything you’ll see in a box office or streaming platform because they’re making art for art’s sake without a multibillion dollar industry breathing down their neck.

#ra speaks #personal #sick sick sick of people acting like no film based media is made with love and wonder and care anymore #when I feel creatively drained I spend a few hours watching animated short films or scifi short films or horror short films #made by people going through school for film or animation or for fun. #if there a lot of bad stuff? on a purely technical level yeah plenty. but there’s also so so much GOOD technical stuff. #and even the bad technical stuff? it’s still good - you can feel the love the artists have for their work and their drive to improve #to grow and tell the story they have in their head in a way that does the idea justice like #go!!! go support them and see love and wonder and creativity you haven’t seen in the box office since the turn of the century!!!

[jorvikzelda]

I started reading Lord of the Rings (bought Fellowship of the Ring like… last spring but never got around to starting) and I’d just like to say. Holy fuck what a slow book. You mean to tell me I’m over a hundred pages in and this man is only just leaving the Shire? Sign me up for MORE I love this shit. Tolkien said “I will take exactly as much time as I want to describe things and you will like it”. AND I DO

#i can already tell this is the sort of thing that’s going to be so good I’ll never recover from it #I’ve watched the movies like casually-in-the-background a couple times so I know the approximate plot #(they often run on TV somewhere around Christmas and New Year’s in Sweden so they’ve been on more than twice) #but there’s so much detail here that’s just… missed out on… in the films #Or I forgot about it lmfao #Either way loving the book detail #And also reading a book for the first time in months i told my mom id been reading today and she was like YOURE READING?! #It’s part of my social media healing process. Forcing me to like… sit down and take shit in #Used to DEVOUR books when I was younger #Just Kinda Stopped at some point (much like every other former gifted kid) #But it’s a well missed moment of escapism and calm and centering myself. meditative almost #I find lotr to be good also because it’s like… a little heavy. You can read a chapter and then sit with it for a little while #Im not quite reaching the heavy cliffhangers yet either #Each chapter feels pretty concluded #It’s a healthier reading method I feel than the ‘devour in one night then don’t read for 6 months’ thing I did in high school #the few times i DID sit down to read a book #God damn those are some long tags #z talks #not horse game #I feel so late to the party because I always see all these people enjoying lotr ;-; its so established and here am i…. #but alas