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elisefrost · 4 months

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ANGELINA JOLIE as EVELYN SALT Salt (2010) - dir. Phillip Noyce

#angelina jolie #evelyn salt #salt film #phillip noyce #gif set #gifs #salt #2010s movies #films #movies #filmedit #cinema #flash tw

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Eat Pray Love (2010)

There’s nothing to be learned from Eat Pray Love. It contains no inspiring thoughts either. Should you embark on this shallow pilgrimage, you'll see all of your goodwill towards Julia Roberts vanish and be left either bored, indifferent, or angry. Probably a little bit hungry too.

After realizing she and her husband want different things in life, Elizabeth Gilbert (Roberts) files for divorce and decides to take a year to discover herself. Traveling to Italy to learn to relax (Eat), to India to awaken herself spiritually (Pray) and to Bali to find balance and love (Love), she hopes to find the answers so many of us are looking for.

There's an audience for this film – and I hate them. Eat Pray Love is about a woman who decides out of the blue to go on a spiritual quest, the kind no one reading this review could ever even dream of. Elizabeth lives in a fantasy world where adults don’t need to work and actions don’t have consequences. It's "White People Problems" the movie.

As Elizabeth travels from place to place, she instantly makes friends with everyone (if it weren’t based on a true story, I’d swear this was someone’s fan fiction) and moves from one superficial relationship to another, “growing” and becoming “enlightened” with each stereotype she encounters. Our protagonist doesn’t learn anything you couldn’t pick up from the back cover of any self-help book. Check it out! In Italy (where she meets a man whose last name is “Spaghetti”), the pasta is better than in America! Woah! Isn’t your mind blown? What if I told you spending a day scrubbing the floor in India might offer you a new perspective on life? Do you feel illuminated yet? Most infuriating is the final segment of Elizabeth’s journey, the one where she finds love in Bali. By the time Javier Bardem's character arrives, your patience has long run out. You’re just begging for the film to end. Instead, we have to go through the typical meet-cute, courting, breakup and reconciliation. This movie is like four movies crammed together so there’s no time to explore anything in-depth.

Eat Pray Love looks splendid. The plates of food Elizabeth consumes will have your mouth watering. That’s not enough. As charming as Julia Roberts may be, sitting down for 2-1/2 hours (if you’re watching the director’s cut) and watching her take a paid vacation is hardly entertaining, not when she plays a shallow, vapid, self-entitled, whishy-washy whiner. At one point this woman who’s been living it up and partying for nearly a year encounters a divorcee who is struggling to make ends meet. What does Elizabeth do? She sends letters to all her friends asking them to donate money so Christine can buy a house. I couldn't hold myself back. “Why don’t YOU buy her a house?! You must be well off if you can take a year out of your life to do nothing but eat pasta and make friends!”

There’s nothing inspirational about Eat Pray Love because none of the characters’ actions have any weight and the story is as profound as a thimble. There’s no significant difference between the spiritual elements of this depiction of India and of Indonesia. A find-replace could’ve easily turned Italy into Greece, France, or any other place whose inhabitants don't speak English. The film is too well made for me to give it a rating lower than 1, but I wish I could. I hated Eat Pray Love. (Director’s Cut on DVD, December 1, 2017)

#Eat Pray Love #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #ryan murphy #jennifer salt #elizabeth gilbert #julia roberts #james dranco #richard jenkins #viola davi #billy crudup #javier bardem #2010 movies #2010 films

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scenemovies · 2 years

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Salt (2010) - Car Chase Scene

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foolsocracy · 10 months

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With all the age discourse around Spider-Man Noir right now, I thought I’d compile parts of the comic that imply his age. I want to state that this pulling from his 2009-2010 comic run before the time skip, specifically the first volume. The spiderverse movie has taken a lot of liberties with the characters, so it is very possible that what Peters age is in 1933 in the comics is NOT what his age is in 1933 in the movies.

Peter’s age is not directly stated in his 1st comic run (I can’t speak for the 2020 ones because it has been a while since I read them, plus there’s like a 10 year jump). It IS however heavily implied that he is young. So much so that you can’t seem to go more than a page without someone referencing it.

Like, these all happen in the same scene. The writers beat you over the head with it.

In this issue alone Peter is called both “son” and “sonny” once, “boy” twice, and “kid” 8 times. Outside nouns, he is also referred to as young, and when Urich brings him to The Black Cat, Felicia calls it “babysitting.” Urich also asks Peter if he is “allowed out after midnight” but after some research I can’t seem to find any evidence of NYC having juvenile curfews at this point in time, though they did exist in lots of towns in the late 1800s and early 1900s because of child labor laws. I think this instance is just Pete just being young and an adult being concerned about his well-being.

It is also mentioned in this volume, and again in Eyes Without a Face (vol 2), that Peter wants to go to college in the future and is currently studying & saving up money to do so. This alone doesn’t necessarily mean he’s under 18 as there isn’t a max age to apply for college, plus Peter comes from a poor family during the Great Depression. It wouldn’t surprise me if he started college later than usual because of that (lack of funds & catching up due to not being in school/working).

There is other evidence that does imply he is under 18 though— he’s too young to drink alcohol!

Spider-Man Noir Vol 1 issue 1 starts in January 1933 before jumping back three weeks to December 1932 where Ben Urich meets Peter Parker

It is during December 1932 that he meets Felicia Hardy who owns the speakeasy The Black Cat. Prohibition is still in place and won’t be overwritten until a year later in December 1933. It is important to note that before Prohibition was instated, the drinking age in New York was 18 years old. That law is what the characters reference when they discuss drinking age. And most importantly, Peter doesn’t deny the fact that he’s too young to drink. He just snarks back in true Parker fashion

This is the most concrete evidence there is towards Peter being under 18 in the noirverse. It can even be argued that Peter is under 17 with how easily Felicia picks up on the fact that he’s underage (and that she does so from a distance might I add, as seen in the ‘babysitting’ panel).

There is also a panel where JJJ refers to Peter as an “orphan.” By definition, an orphan is a kid under 18. This is JJJ, so this can be taken with a grain of salt as he loves good ol hard-hitting words. When people speak they don’t always use words by their exact definitions; sometimes if you’re young and your parents are dead, JJJ is going to label you an orphan even if ur a legal adult lol. But if you take this at face value it’s definitely another indicator that Peter is under 18.

TLDR; Spider-Man Noir from his 2009-2010 comic run is most likely under 18, and can be argued to be 15-16+. If not that, then is definitely college aged or younger.

#Hoping praying the format is ok #Tumblr mobile is the death of me #Spider-Man noir #spiderman noir #spider noir #spiderverse #peter benjamin parker #hes just a little guy #ben urich #jj jameson #felicia hardy #Ok gn everyone #Snork memenemememee #If I wake up and the format is ass I’ll repost lol

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charliejaneanders · 4 months

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If you ever meet Angelina Jolie, it's very important to throw handfuls of salt at her (Morton preferred) to show you appreciate her starring performance in the 2010 movie SALT.

She's been known to get very upset if she shows up somewhere and there's insufficient salinity.

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Eddie Redmayne Lives a ‘Monastic’ Life for Broadway’s ‘Cabaret’: Lay’s Chips for Lozenges and ‘the Most Painful Massage’

Redmayne tells IndieWire about life behind the scenes of "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club," where he reprises his West End role as The Emcee for Broadway.

BY RYAN LATTANZIO

APRIL 23, 2024 3:30 PM

Life’s not all a cabaret for film actors making their way to Broadway.

In the case of Eddie Redmayne, who now stars as the ghoul-like and flamboyant Emcee in director Rebecca Frecknall’s “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” at New York’s August Wilson Theatre, life behind the scenes is more “monastic,” as he told IndieWire, than song-and-dance bacchanalia.

“When you’re doing a musical like this, it’s quite monastic living, and it’s almost more like being an athlete than an actor sometimes because when you’re doing eight shows a week, you’re keeping your voice in decent nick,” said Redmayne, Zooming from the backseat of a car between appointments, which just included lunch with Joel Grey, who famously starred as the Master of Ceremonies in Bob Fosse‘s Oscar-winning 1972 film.

“It’s quite a physical role,” said Redmayne, who first played The Emcee on the West End in 2022, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In this just-opened Broadway version, Redmayne sings and dances in gender-bending garb, impishly contorting himself on a 360-degree stage opposite Gayle Rankin as alcoholic cabaret ingénue Sally Bowles.

“I wish I could say I was out living a hedonistic Broadway existence, but actually, you are drinking a ton of water,” Redmayne said. “I haven’t got a huge amount of experience in musicals. I listen to all of our musical theater actors in the piece who give me tips on which voice lozenges to use, and apparently, Lay’s chips, like the oil and the salt in that, [are] very good for keeping your voice moist, and these random Chinese medicines that are good. So I take any piece of advice I can to try and keep me upright basically.”

Redmayne made his Broadway debut with the play “Red” opposite Alfred Molina, earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2010. But Redmayne’s musical acumen is limited to the movie “Les Misérables” (he openly despises his own musical performance in the film) and now “Cabaret.” He displays considerable pipes in this splashy stage show, singing lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Kander from the 1960s musical.

You’re rehearsing from 9 o’clock in the morning to 6 in the evening, and you’re doing these numbers over and over again. Your voice is a muscle, so it’s about getting to the point where it’s able to sustain,” Redmayne said. “There is a lot of not just singing, but there are quite vocal introductions. You’re having to roll out a lot, using those foam rollers. I go to this brilliant man called Greg Miele, who is a bodyworker, on my day off. I go to get a massage, and [my wife] is like, ‘Lucky you.’ And I go, ‘No, but it’s the most painful massage you have ever experienced.'”

Redmayne’s turn as The Emcee — is he a figment of the Weimer-Era Berlin imagination? a manifestation of Nazi terror taking over? a real person at all? — is intensely physical and loose-limbed. Prior to the fall 2022 West End debut of “Cabaret,” now transferred to Broadway in an even more audience-immersing format, Redmayne took a movement course at the École Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq to understand his character’s body language.

It’s housed in this old 19th-century gymnasium. It was a course on Theater of the Absurd, and it was for professional practitioners,” Redmayne said. “There were people from all over the world, aged 17, 18, to 60, and we did lots of mask work, and there were some brilliant teachers there who were incredibly blunt. You made a fool of yourself and put in your place, and yet you’re also liberated to rip off all the excess, particularly perhaps having worked in film for a while, that had built up in me.”

As for that lunch with Joel Grey, Redmayne said he indeed has the original Master of Ceremonies’ stamp of approval. “When I first did the show in London, it was our opening night, and I was halfway through, it was at the interval, and there was this extraordinary bunch of flowers, and I opened the card and Joel had sent me flowers welcoming me to The Emcee family, and he has been so generous,” he said. “He came to see the show with John Kander the other night. I’m not going to lie, I was utterly terrified and intimidated, but they could not have been more generous and kind.”

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” is now on Broadway. Stay tuned for more in conversation with Eddie Redmayne on IndieWire soon.

#eddie redmayne #eddie redmayne cabaret #cabaret new production #cabaret nyc #indiewire #interview #article #the emcee #broadway #august wilson #theatre #cabaret #best actor #obe #talent

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kavat · 4 months

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Random thoughts on Saltburn (small spoilers ahead)

- it's beautiful, every shot is gorgeous, the people are gorgeous, the music is great

- it doesn't really read as 2006 for me, what really bothered me in an unreasonable way is how short Oliver's swim shorts were. 2000s men's swim shorts were basically culottes, they would never be above the knee

- I think it was set in 2006 solely for the reason to be modern but without smartphones. And I think this is becoming more common in movies, because if it's set anywhere after 2010 you need smartphones to be part of the plot. Farleigh has a blackberry I think and that's enough.

- This will make Jacob Elordi a true it boy, step away Timothy

- It's not really a "weird" movie. It has like three weirder scenes in the span of two hours. People will watch explicit violence without batting an eye, but as soon as something is a liiiittle bit out of the box in a sexual way, people go crazy and need to fetch their smelling salts. I feel like the reaction is a symptom of the rising purity culture we've been seeing lately. Sorry to bother you was not advertised as a weird move, but that was way weirder than Saltburn, in my opinion, because the plot was actually weird. The plot of Saltburn is very straightforward and pretty predictable, just with a couple of sex scenes and fantasies in there. If that doesn't scare you, you won't fint it weird.

#no one asked for this but i just expected it to be stranger #gorgeous movie though!#and great acting!#saltburn

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the-rewatch-rewind · 6 months

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Here it is! My most frequently rewatched movie! Thank you for coming on this journey with me.

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Hello and welcome back to The Rewatch Rewind! My name is Jane, and this is the podcast where I count down my top 40 most frequently rewatched movies in a 20-year period. Today, at last, we reach the end of that list as I discuss my number one: MGM’s 1940 comedy The Philadelphia Story, directed by George Cukor, written by Donald Ogden Stewart with uncredited contributions from Waldo Salt, based on the play by Philip Barry, and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart.

Two years after the disastrous end of her first marriage to childhood friend C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is preparing for her second wedding, to George Kittredge (John Howard), general manager of her estranged father’s coal mining company. Eager to cover this story but knowing that Tracy loathes publicity, Spy magazine editor and publisher Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell) enlists the help of Dexter to get reporter Macaulay “Mike” Connor (James Stewart) and photographer Elizabeth “Liz” Imbrie (Ruth Hussey) to the Lord house the day before the wedding. In those 24 hours before her second marriage begins, Tracy is prompted to rethink not only her choice of husband, but also her entire attitude toward people and life.

This must have been one of the first old movies I saw in 2002 because the only thing I remember about my initial experience of it was that I expected Tracy to accept Mike’s proposal, and if I’d been an experienced old movie watcher by then I would have known that obviously Katharine Hepburn was going to end up with Cary Grant, not James Stewart. I certainly did not immediately fully appreciate this movie, although I was intrigued enough to keep revisiting it until eventually it became my favorite. I watched it five times in each year from 2003 through 2005, four times in 2006, twice in 2007, 2008, and 2009, three times each in 2010 and 2011, five times in 2012, once in 2013, once in 2014, twice in 2015, once in 2017, twice in 2018, four times in 2019, once in 2020, twice in 2021, and once in 2022. Part of why I watch this so much is because it has three stars whose birthdays I celebrate almost every year, so I often watch it for Cary Grant’s birthday and then either Katharine Hepburn’s or James Stewart’s (their birthdays are only about a week apart so I don’t usually watch it for both). I think part of why I didn’t watch it in 2016 is because I watched it in late December of 2015 for the 75th anniversary of its release, so Grant’s birthday in January felt too soon to revisit it, and that May I decided to watch through all the Fred and Ginger movies starting with Astaire’s birthday, so I was less focused on Kate’s and Jimmy’s birthdays that year. And then later in 2016 I was too obsessed with Poe Party to watch much of anything else. But to make up for that, the reason I watched it so many times in 2019 is because Mary Kate Wiles used to host readings of plays and movie scripts with her actor friends for her Patreon, and I offered to transcribe the script of Philadelphia Story so she could do a reading of that one, and even though I knew the movie very well by then I decided to go through it a few more times to make sure I got all the details right, so eventually my love of Poe Party led to more rewatches of this. And the current Shipwrecked project, The Case of the Greater Gatsby, takes place in December of 1940 so there are lots of Philadelphia Story references in it and they make me very happy. Anyway, I’ve put quite a bit of effort into not watching this movie too many times too close together because I don’t ever want to overwatch it to the point of getting tired of it, like I did with a few other movies I’ve mentioned on this podcast, and many more that I burned out before they could make it into my top 40. While the stars’ birthdays have contributed to the view count, mostly this is my number one comfort movie that I know I can always turn to when I need something to watch, and I’m afraid of pushing it to the point where that no longer works. Although the fact that I sat through it 51 times in 20 years – the same number of views as number two plus number 40 on this list – and haven’t come close to getting tired of it yet indicates that I probably never will.

I don’t think I can really articulate what exactly it is about this movie that makes it my favorite to revisit, but I’m going to try. Certainly the fact that it features three of my favorite classic film stars helps, although a big part of why I love those stars so much is because of what they did in The Philadelphia Story. Every single member of the cast gives an absolutely fabulous performance. There isn’t a ton of action, but the dialogue is a perfect example of everything I love about the best Old Hollywood scripts: snappy and witty and clever on the surface, with real human emotion and intriguing philosophy underneath. The movie features many different kinds of brilliantly executed comedy, but the more serious moments still hit without feeling out of place. It deals with taboo subjects like divorce, infidelity, and alcoholism in ways that complied with production codes but still don’t feel too watered down. Basically, it has all the aspects I love about the other old movies on this list, only more so.

Several of my very favorite movie scenes of all time are in The Philadelphia Story. One is when Mike has had a lot to drink at a party and decides to visit Dexter in the middle of the night. The way drunk Jimmy Stewart and sober Cary Grant interact is hilarious and makes me desperately disappointed that the two of them never appeared in another movie together. At one point, Stewart makes a noise that’s kind of a mix of a hiccup, a cough, and a burp. Grant, thinking that Stewart has ruined the take, goes, “Excuse me,” sounding a little annoyed but trying to make a joke out of it, but then Stewart drunkenly responds with, “Huh?” indicating his intention to go on with the scene. Grant looks down, stifling a laugh, and then they continue with the dialogue, and I love that instead of reshooting it, or editing around it, they kept that in the movie. There may not be a blooper reel, but we still get to watch Jimmy Stewart almost break Cary Grant, and that’s good enough for me.

Another of my favorite scenes comes a bit earlier in the film, when Tracy and her younger sister, Dinah, played by Virginia Weidler, meet Mike and Liz for the first time. Tracy immediately saw through Dexter’s story that they were friends of her older brother’s and knows they’re reporters, but agreed to play along when Dexter informed her that Sidney Kidd intends to publish a story about Tracy’s father’s affair with a dancer unless he gets a story on her wedding. To protest the situation, Tracy and Dinah decide to put on a show for Mike and Liz, who don’t know that they know they’re reporters, and it is maybe my favorite comedic scene in any movie. First Dinah dramatically stumbles in wearing pointe shoes and some gaudy jewelry that was a wedding present she previously insulted. She then puts on an overly posh voice as she explains that she spoke French before she spoke English – “C’est vrai absolument!” – and boasts that she can play the piano “and sing at the same time!” She makes her way to the piano with the least graceful toe walk possible, and then bangs out a very silly rendition of “Lydia the Tattooed Lady,” a song mainly associated with Groucho Marx. While Mike and Liz are staring at her in bewilderment, Tracy peeks into the room and beams like she’s never been prouder of her sister. Once the song is finished, Tracy enters and praises Dinah in French, comparing her to Chopin, and then saying Dinah looks ill and she hopes it’s not smallpox, which freaks out Mike and Liz, but the audience knows it’s a private joke because earlier Tracy told Dinah that the only way she could postpone the wedding was to get smallpox. After Dinah leaves, it’s Tracy’s turn to confuse the reporters, and it is truly brilliant. The dialogue and the way it’s read, as Tracy turns the interview around and starts asking them invasive questions, is so good. Like when Tracy’s talking about how they don’t let any reporters in, “except for little Mr. Grace who does the social news. Can you imagine a grown-up man having to sink so low?” or when she’s welcoming them to Philadelphia and says, “It’s a quaint old place, don’t you think? Filled with relics, and how old are you, Mr. Connor?” It’s the seemingly accidental but actually very deliberate insults that get me. And then on top of that, there is some incredible yet subtle physical comedy going on throughout the conversation. Tracy accidentally-on-purpose pushes Mike and Liz into each other as she offers them seats, and there’s a whole very long bit between Tracy and Mike involving cigarettes, matches, and lighters that I didn’t even notice the first few times I watched it because I was too focused on what they were saying. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable scene all the way through, and every time I watch Tracy exit that room, leaving the reporters to ponder their bafflement, I have to applaud.

But the movie also excels at mixing some drama and seriousness in with the comedy. There’s a lot of focus on how Tracy demands perfection from herself and everyone around her, and as a result is missing out on the joys of human messiness. She makes a big deal about never drinking alcohol, although Dexter reveals that she did get drunk one time when they were married, and later remembered nothing about it. But after Dexter tells her that being married to her felt like being a high priest to a goddess, and George tells her that he worships her like a queen, and her father, who showed up uninvited, tells her she might just as well be made of bronze, Tracy gives in and starts drinking heavily at the party the night before her wedding, which was where Mike also got very drunk. Tracy and Mike meet up at Dexter’s house, then go back to her place, and dance and argue for a while until Mike kisses her and tells her that he sees her as a human being, which is a wonderful change of pace for her, so she suggests they go swimming together. Later, Dexter and George see Mike carrying Tracy back to the house, both of them in bathrobes, and George assumes the worst. The next morning, Tracy can’t remember what happened, but Dinah tells her that she saw Mike carry Tracy into her room – which is another excellent scene, Virginia Weidler was one of the best child actors of all time and people barely ever talk about her anymore, but she and Katharine Hepburn do a fabulous job of getting the point across that they both think Tracy slept with Mike the night before without breaking production codes. And then after that when Mike appears, he and Tracy have the most excruciatingly awkward conversation, and it’s so painful but so good. Dexter also shows up trying to comfort Tracy, and I love the way he doesn’t accuse her or condemn her or even ask her what happened, partly because he knows she doesn’t remember, partly because Mike told him nothing happened, but partly because you get the feeling that he wouldn’t think any less of her if she had drunkenly hooked up with Mike. And maybe that’s reading too much into this, but his reaction is certainly quite different from George’s, which I guess makes sense because technically she would have been cheating on George and not Dexter, but George doesn’t even let her explain before breaking up with her by note. He does finally show up in person as she’s reading the note aloud to Dexter, Mike, and Liz, and their confrontation is so well done – I particularly love Liz’s “Say something, stupid!” to Mike, who is just standing there listening to George accuse Tracy of having an affair with him. But after a while, Mike does eventually reveal that their so-called affair consisted of exactly two kisses and a rather late swim. Tracy and George don’t believe him at first, and then Tracy is offended, until he points out that she was very drunk and he didn’t want to take advantage of her. And like, I know that this movie was made in 1940, so the censors weren’t going to let Tracy actually have sex with another man the night before her wedding anyway, but I still can’t help loving the way they handled this. Tracy makes a bit of a fool of herself and learns that George is not the right man for her without going too far, and Mike demonstrates that it’s not that difficult to respect a woman’s autonomy and recognize when she is unable to consent.

I have a lot of mixed and complicated feelings about this story from an aroace perspective. On the one hand, it is very focused on romance and marriage. Also the whole thing about characters describing Tracy using phrases like “virgin goddess” and “perennial spinster, however many marriages” to illustrate her coldness and lack of human understanding is…not exactly an ace-affirming metaphor. On the other hand, I always appreciate stories about adults who have the chance to sleep together and choose not to, even when I know it’s at least partly because of production codes. And somehow, something about the way Dexter, Tracy, Mike, and Liz all interact give me hints of queer found family vibes, even though they end up paired off heterosexually. Maybe it’s the fact that it was directed by a gay man and features at least two probably queer actors that’s giving me that vibe, I don’t know. Another of my favorite scenes – I know, I have way too many – is when Dexter and Liz return to the Lord house after writing a blackmail note to Sidney Kidd. It’s a fairly short scene, but the way the two of them interact as platonic friends who understand each other but clearly don’t like each other romantically is not something I’m used to seeing in a scene featuring a man and a woman alone, and it makes me happy. Mike also has some great moments with Dexter, as does Tracy with Liz. I like to think that the four of them maintain their friendship after the events of the movie, rather than amatonormatively going off and doing their own thing with their spouse and forgetting about their friends. This movie does portray sex and romance as part of the human experience, but I don’t feel like it portrays them as the only important part. The message is all about pursuing the life that’s right for you, and not looking down on people who have different priorities, and when you look at it from that perspective, it actually is kind of ace-affirming, albeit probably unintentionally. But as I’ve indicated multiple times in previous episodes, asexual representation is so rare, and aromantic representation is even rarer, that if you can find an approximation of affirmation by tilting a story and squinting at it, even that feels exciting. That’s how low the bar is.

With that being said, as a teenager I definitely did relate to Tracy Lord, at least in terms of the way I was perceived. I think a lot of my peers thought that I thought I was better than them, when it was mostly that I just didn’t understand them. I don’t remember anyone calling me a goddess or a queen or a statue, but other middle and high schoolers definitely teased me for being “perfect”, which told me that they didn’t really see me as a person, so I felt Tracy’s pain and confusion when she got called out like that. I do think that like Tracy, I had a lot to learn about letting myself make mistakes and not judging other people too harshly for theirs, but I also still strongly feel that some of the criticism leveled at Tracy – and at me – was unwarranted. I can’t tell if the movie wants us to agree with Tracy’s father when he blames his philandering on not having the right kind of daughter, but I think that’s entirely unreasonable of him, and Tracy absolutely does not deserve that. And I’m not sure it’s fair of Dexter to blame her for contributing to his alcoholism, but at least Dexter takes some responsibility for his actions, unlike Seth Lord. I think my peers didn’t understand me any more than I understood them, but I probably could have cut them more slack and tried to get to know them better before writing most of them off as too different for me to possibly get to know. The circumstances in this movie are very different from being a high school misfit, but as a high schooler who often had trouble relating to movies that were actually about high school misfits, somehow this movie spoke to me. It was an escape from high school that also helped get me through high school. The story helped me become a less judgmental and more forgiving person toward others while also helping me feel better about being who I was unapologetically. I also got similar messages from other sources, so I don’t want to give this movie too much credit, but at the same time, I don’t think any single movie affected my teenage years more than this one, so I would certainly be a different person if I had never seen it.

The story of how this movie came about and what it led to is also very important to me. After appearing in several box office flops in the late 1930s – several of which made it onto this list – Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for Broadway to star in and financially back the stage version of Philadelphia Story, which Philip Barry had written specifically for her. Howard Hughes purchased the film rights as a gift for Hepburn, with whom he had been romantically involved, although it seems like the romantic part of their relationship was over before that, so this is like My Man Godfrey in that it turned out the way it did partly because of exes who were still friends. Katharine Hepburn then sold the rights to Louis B. Mayer for only $250,000 on the condition that she would have input and veto power over producer, director, screenwriter, and cast. She got the director and writer she wanted, but her first choice for the two male leads – Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy – were unavailable. Gable reportedly hated George Cukor and was rumored to be at least partly responsible for the director being kicked off of Gone with the Wind, so it’s probably just as well that he wasn’t involved. Future lovers Hepburn and Tracy hadn’t even met yet at this point, so it would have been interesting if this was their first movie. But ultimately, Cary Grant came on board, under the condition that he would receive top billing, which feels a bit strange to see because Hepburn is clearly playing the main lead, but Grant also donated his entire salary to the British War Relief Society, so we can’t accuse him of too much selfishness. And James Stewart’s performance as Mike would earn him one of the film’s two Oscars, although he apparently thought that Henry Fonda should have won for The Grapes of Wrath, and that he had only received it as belated recognition for his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington the previous year. Donald Ogden Stewart also won for Best Screenplay. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and Cukor was nominated for Best Director, and the performances of Katharine Hepburn and Ruth Hussey were nominated as well. The fact that Hepburn didn’t win – and lost to her rival Ginger Rogers, no less – indicates that Hollywood was still a little reluctant to welcome her back. But this movie crucially changed the public’s perception of Katharine Hepburn, transforming her from box office poison to a box office draw. They were calling her a has-been in 1938, but with The Philadelphia Story she showed them that she still had more to contribute, and her career took off in the 1940s, and lasted into the 1990s.

Even now, generations later, twenty years after Hepburn’s death, it’s easy to tell just by watching this movie why it was such a turning point for her. She completely embodies the spoiled socialite, but she makes Tracy sympathetic enough that when she is taken down a few pegs, as she needed to be, the audience feels sorry for her rather than gloating. Tracy is radiant enough that we understand why George worships her, yet she is down to earth enough that we understand her yearning to be seen not as an object of worship, but as a human being. Hepburn nails both the comedic scenes and the more serious dramatic scenes, with no hint of the desperately-trying-too-hard actress who comes across too often in some of her earlier films. While I obviously still love many of those films, watching this one feels like we’re seeing a Katharine Hepburn who has finally come into her own. There certainly was an element of trying to get the public to like her, but there’s no desperation about it. She gets this character, and knows how to make the audience get her too. I don’t think I could have found Tracy so relatable if she hadn’t been played like that. And listen, I’m thrilled that Ginger Rogers won an Oscar, especially because Hepburn would end up with four and didn’t really need this win, but if I had to pick one single all-time favorite film performance, I can’t think of any that would beat Katharine Hepburn’s Tracy Lord. Although I also have to say that I think Cary Grant’s performance as Dexter is incredibly underappreciated. I’ve said before that sometimes I have trouble taking him seriously in dramatic roles, but this was the ideal blend of seriousness and silliness for him, and he nails every emotional beat. He does an excellent job of showing the audience that he has grown and learned from the mistakes of his first marriage and is ready to move forward with healing his relationship with Tracy, which makes this a much better remarriage story than His Girl Friday, for example. There were a lot of movies made around this time about a divorced couple reconciling, mostly because that was the only way the Production Code allowed the scandalous topic of divorce to be addressed on film, but Philadelphia Story feels different from most of those. It’s more like Pride and Prejudice, if Pride and Prejudice started right after Elizabeth turned down Darcy’s first proposal. Both are about a couple who needed to grow and reflect before they could be happy together. I think those are my favorite kind of romances because they have less to do with attraction, which I don’t really understand, and more to do with trying to become the best version of oneself, which everyone can do regardless of how they feel about romance. Anyway, I’m a little sad that this was the last time Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn worked together, but I’m so glad they got to make this masterpiece before their careers diverged.

In 1956, The Philadelphia Story was remade as a musical film called High Society, which I watched 12 times. I enjoy that version too, although obviously not nearly as much as this version. It’s a fun romp, and the Cole Porter songs are great, but it doesn’t quite pack the same emotional punch as The Philadelphia Story. Strangely, considering I don’t think anything can touch Hepburn’s original portrayal, my favorite part of that movie is Grace Kelly’s performance as Tracy. She put her own spin on the character and was clearly having fun – probably at least partly because she’d already decided to retire from acting and marry a prince, and was wearing her actual engagement ring in the film. My biggest objection to High Society – and yes, I know I’ve complained about this too many times on this podcast but bear with me one more time – is the age gap between Dexter and Tracy. They’re supposed to have grown up together, but Bing Crosby was 26 years older than Grace Kelly, and their dynamic is just all wrong. The story doesn’t work if Dexter is old enough to be Tracy’s father! Whereas in Philadelphia Story, we’ve got Cary Grant who was born in 1904, Katharine Hepburn who was born in 1907, and James Stewart who was born in 1908. They were all basically the same age! It can be done! John Howard was born in 1913, so he was a bit younger, but I think that works for the way George looks up to and admires Tracy, and still that’s a relatively small gap. Anyway, we can add “getting actors of appropriate ages” to the long list of things The Philadelphia Story did right.

So there we have it. I’ve talked about all of my top 40 most frequently rewatched movies of my first 20 years of keeping track. Thank you so much for listening to all my rambling! I hope you’ve found this entertaining and informative – I know I have. I’m planning to do one more epilogue episode in a few weeks summarizing what I’ve learned from this project, so stay tuned for that if you’re interested. I also have lots of other ideas for movie-related podcasts that may or may not come to fruition, we’ll see. Since I don’t know what the next movie I’ll podcast about will be, I’ll leave you with one last quote from The Philadelphia Story: “We all go haywire at times, and if we don’t, maybe we ought to.”

#the philadelphia story #george cukor #katharine hepburn #cary grant #james stewart #i love this movie so much #this project has been a lot of fun #i'll be back with a conclusions episode soon-ish #but i'm going to take a break first

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“Flipped” Part 1

Pairing: Nishimura Riki x Fem!Reader

Featuring: Ni-ki of Enhypen, Danielle of NewJeans, Soul of P1harmony

Genre: Flipped (2010) AU, Early 1960’s AU, Students AU, Non-Idol AU, Slight E2L, Fluff, Crack, Angst

Reader’s Pronouns: She/Her

Warning: a few swear words! Riki is kind of a jerk in Part 1 but he gets better I promise, Y/N is described as a ‘stalker’ but she is not.

Disclaimer: Only a work of FICTION do not take any of this seriously. This is based of by the movie/book Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen so all rights go to her, I am not trying to steal her work, this is only inspired by her work. My version of her story replaced with my own characters.

Word Count: 1,647 Words

(Part 2)

(# y.is = your initials)

N.RK

All I wanted was for Y/N L/N to leave me alone.

It all started before the 4th grade, when my family had just moved into the neighborhood.

I learned pretty quickly that this girl could not take a hint.

While my dad and I were unloading our moving truck, she suddenly came in and decided she wanted to help us, when dad stopped her.

“Hey, Hey, Hey, what do you think your doing little girl? Those boxes have valuables in them.”

“Don’t you want any help?” She replied.

God this girl was already so annoying.

“No. Now, why don’t you run along to your mother? She must be very worried about you.”

“Oh no. She’s knows where I am, she says it’s fine.”

My farther and I exchanged a look, when he spoke up

“Riki, isn’t it time you, ah, helped your mother in the kitchen?”

I gave him a confused look “huh?”

He gave me a look that said ‘go on son’

I quickly understood and dashed inside the house, and that’s when she started following me!

She grabbed my shoulder out of nowhere and I tried to shoo her away, but we ended up holding hands.

Which was quite embarrassing.

Thankfully, my mother came out of the house.

“I see you’ve meet my son?”

“Yeah” she replied. Was she giving me heart eyes?

Retracting my hand from hers, I quickly dashed away to hide behind my mother. Which was a bit cowardly of me, but what other option did I have?

However, my troubles were far from over.

When the first day of 4th grade arrived, I discovered that Y/N would be in the same class as me.

She ran up to me and started hugging me out of nowhere! Thankfully, she let go because our classmates were starting to tease us.

I internally prepared myself, because this girl, would never leave me alone.

Finally, in the 6th grade, I took action. I had had enough of Y/N’s weird antics and clinginess.

I devised a fool proof plan. It required 3 steps.

Step 1: Ask out the most attractive girl in school, Danielle Marsh.

To further understand the genius of this plan, you have to understand that Y/N never liked Danielle, and I never knew why, She was pretty, nice and she seemed to have a lot of hair.

“Hey Danielle! Wait up!”

“Oh hi Riki! What’s up?”

“I just wanted to ask..do you wanna go to the movies with me this weekend? You know, like a date?”

“I’d love to Riki!”

“Great! I’ll see you on the weekend”

Step 2: The more I’d hang out with Danielle, Y/N will get less and less interested in me.

So far, being Danielle’s boyfriend was great. Sure I didn’t quite understand what she was saying half the time, but seeing Y/N give Danielle the death stare that would’ve bored holes in her head, made me happy. Because that meant Y/N would finally stop liking me.

One day when we were both walking down the halls, I spotted Y/N in-front of her locker.

To add salt in her wound, I decided to grave Danielle’s hand.

I know it sounded evil, but the furious look Y/N gave us, made me feel satisfied.

Step 3: (my personal favorite) I’ll finally live a peaceful Y/N-less life.

For two weeks, not having a certain unbearable someone, bothering me and breathing down my neck, was heaven.

But my supposed best friend, Haku Shota, had also taken an interest in Danielle. And loyalty gave way to desire, he told her my master plan that I only shared to him, just to get an opening to Danielle.

The next day of school, while I was peacefully reading a book, Danielle walks up to me and slaps me on the face.

You can assume she didn’t take it well.

Word got out and soon enough Y/N started giving me the goo-goo eyes again. It was so annoying.

But next year, 7th grade, would be different. New class, bigger school, maybe I could finally get away from Y/N.

The first day I meet Nishimura Riki, I flipped.

It was those eyes, those dazzling eyes. Gosh, I could stare into them forever if I could.

His family had just moved into the house across mine, and I decided to go over there and help him, and get a better look at this cute boy.

I started to help them unload the boxes from their moving truck, when his father stopped me.

“Hey, Hey, Hey, what do you think your doing little girl? Those boxes have valuables in them.”

“Don’t you want any help?” I asked him.

“No. Now, why don’t you run along to your mother? She must be very worried about you.”

“Oh no. She’s knows where I am, she says it’s okay!”

He and his father exchanged looks. I couldn’t quite tell what that look was.

“Riki, isn’t it time you, ah, helped your mother in the kitchen?”

So his name is Riki huh? An adorable name for an equally adorable boy.

He ran back to his house, but I could tell he didn’t want to go, so I chased after him.

I was about to ask him if he wanted to play a little before he got stuck in his house, right before he reached out to hold my hand.

Everything slowly went into slow-motion, was this it? Was this going to be my first kiss?

Before we could get any closer, his mother interrupted us.

“I see you’ve meet my son?” She asks.

“Yeah” I reply. I’m pretty sure I was giving him heart eyes.

Before I could say another word to him, he let go of my hand, and hid behind his mother, he was so cute.

That night, I contemplated the kiss that could’ve been. I was sure he had a crush on me, because he was so shy and cute, he couldn’t even talk to me!

Boys were like that, my mother said. If they couldn’t talk to you and started blushing around you that meant he liked you. So that must mean Riki likes me, right?

On the first day of 4th grade, I was so happy to see Riki walk into class.

“Riki! You’re here!” I tackled him in a hug, he got so embarrassed that he tried to let go, maybe it’s because all the other kids were looking at us while laughing.

I reluctantly let go of him, since he looked so shy and embarrassed.

When 6th grade rolled around, I had learned to contain my excitement whenever I saw him around.

But just when I was about to greet Riki good morning, I noticed he was talking to Danielle Marsh.

Danielle Marsh was nothing but a snobby, rich little backstabbing gossiper.

I didn’t hear much, but when I pieced together that she and Riki were going to go on a date, I had heard enough.

I was furious! The next few weeks I’d find them in the hallways, acting all lovey-dovey with each other.

One school morning, I saw them walking in the halls, as per usual, Danielle was blabbering on about nonsense, and Riki grabbed her hand!

She was holding hands with Riki. My Riki! I got so mad, I slammed my locker, which made some heads turn and look at me.

But I didn’t care. I was so mad I got back home and started furiously crying. How could he do this to me? I thought he liked me?

N.RK

Seventh Grade brought changes all right, but the biggest one didn’t happen at school. It happened at home.

My grandma had come to live with us, and whenever I got back home from classes, I always saw her looking out the window.

My mother said it was because she missed my grandfather, but it wasn’t something she would ever talk about with me. In fact, she rarely even talked to me.

That is one day when Y/N appeared in the local newspaper.

I had just gone down to take a snack from the kitchen when I was about to go to my room,

“Riki, may I speak with you for a moment?” My grandmother asked.

I stood there, a little confused, but I answered “Yeah sure, what’s up Grandma?” And then I took a seat beside her.

She handed me the newspaper “Your friend, Y/N L/N’s on the newspaper”

I took the newspaper from her hand and stared at it.

‘13 year old girl refuses to climb out of tree’ It read.

Y/N and that stupid tree. Specifically it was a Sycamore tree.

She had always had a fixation with that stupid tree, ever since we were kids. And I never understood it.

“Riki come up here with my brothers! It’s so fun!”

“No thanks!” I yelled. That not what I needed.

It would be all back to the 4th grade again. ‘Y/N and Riki sitting in a tree!’ Yeah right, I’d rather eat Lima Beans for the rest of my life.

I handed back the newspaper to my grandma. “She isn’t exactly my friend, more like uh, an annoying acquaintance.”

“Well why not? She seems like a nice girl” Grandma asks, seriously, did she really want to be friends with this girl?

“You’d have to know Y/N Grandma..” I answered her in a low tone.

“Well I’d like too!” I guess that she did want to be friends with that girl.

“Read this. Without prejudice.” She tells me, and hands me the newspaper.

“Alright grandma”

I go up to my room and toss the newspaper on my desk. Yeah right, like a needed to know more about Y/N L/N.

I knew exactly how she was, she was a stubborn know-it-all and a stalker. I don’t need to know more than that. And I don’t want to know more than that either.

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the-candyman-ships · 2 months

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F/o List

Romantic

Main F/o’s(uncomfortable sharing)

•Pierre Bezukhov(The Great Comet)

Tags:

~🧸My Cuddly Bear🧸~

~🧸The Bear and The Squirrel 🐿️ ~

•William Shakespeare(Something Rotten(Christian Borle)

Tags:

~🪶It’s Hard to Be The Bard🪶~

•(Young)Charles Xavier(X-men)

Tags:

~😈🔮~

~PsychicDæmon~

(They’re almost always on my mind:3)

F/o’s I’m currently hyper fixated on:

•The 4th Doctor(Doctor Who)

Tags:

~🍬Have a Jelly Baby🍬~

~🌌Me and The Doctor🌌~

•Sweeney Todd(2023 Revival)

Tags:

~🩸Sick at Heart🩸~

~🪒Pretty Men🪒~

•The 7th Doctor

Tags:

~❓~

•Oleg Salt(CaTCF)(Broadway version only)

Tags:

~🧂When Veruca Says🧂~

~ 💗💜💙~

•Patrick Bateman(American psycho)

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~🔪Hip to be Square🩸~

•Kurt Wagner(Nightcrawler)(X-men)

Tags:

~💙Fwuffy boy💙~

•King John(Robin Hood 2010)

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None yet

•Terzo(Ghost Band)

Tags:

~✨Can't you see that you're lost without me?✨~

F/o Limbo

•Oz,The Great and Powerful(Oscar Diggs)

The Wizard of Oz

Tags:

~💚Me and The Wizard💚~

Secondary F/o’s

•Karl Heisenberg(Re8)

Tags:

~⚙️Hobo Magneto⚙️~

~🤴Beauty and The Beast 🐺~

•Remy LeBeau(X-Men Comics)

Tags:

N/a

•Erik Destler(Poto)

Tags:

~🪽My Angel🪽~

•Wilford Warfstache(MEU)

Tags:

~💕Life needs a little Madness💕~

•Mephisto Pheles(Blue Exorcist)

Tags:

~💜Mephisto💜~

•Gale Dekarios(Bg3)

Tags:

~🪄I’m Going to Fistfight Mystra🪄~

•Raphael(Bg3)

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~😈Me and The Devil😈~

•The Easter Bunny(Rotg)

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N/a

•Montgomery Gator(FNAF)

Tags:

~🐊Hey!Little Guy!🐊~

Clowns

•Jack the Clown(Jack Schmidt)(Halloween Horror Nights)

•Krusty the Clown(The Simpsons)

Joint Tags:

~🤡Hear me out guys🤡~

QPR’s

•Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown(Bttf)

Tags:

~⏱️Time Travel Buddies⏱️~

•Jack Rose(Just Dance)

Tags:

~🌹Lover Boy🌹~

•Skimbleshanks

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~🐈A Cat That Cannot be ignored🐈~

•Darkwing Duck(Darkwing Duck)

Tags:

~🦆Daring Duck 🦆~

•Sportacus(LazyTown)

Tags:

N/a

Stede Bonnet + Edward Teach(Ofmd)

Tags:

~🐙The Gentleman,The Kracken and Me🐙~

•Darkiplier(MEU)

Tags:

~🥀My Hearts Desire🥀~

•Illinois(MEU)

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~🎢My First Adventure🎢~

Crushes

•Raoul De Chagny(Poto)

Tags:

~❤️The Vicomte❤️~

•Scrooge(Muppets+Netflix Version)

Tags:

~🦪Solitary as an Oyster 🦪~

•Dracule Mihawk(Opla)

Tags:

N/a

•Aziraphale and Crowley(GO)

Tags:

~👼I can be yuor angle👼~

~😈Or yuor devil😈~

•Anatoly Sergievsky(Chess)

Tags:

~♟️~

Maybe F/o’s

•Marvin Gardens(Falsettos)

Tags:

None yet

Special Case F/os

(these are special because it they were my first f/o or they have some sort of meaning)(Won’t post about these much)

•Johann Faust the VIII(Shaman King)

Tags:

~♥️First Love♥️~

•William Afton

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N/a

•Grell Sutcliffe(Black Butler)

~💋My Fabulous Wife💋~

•Arataki Itto (Genshin Impact)

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~Boyfie~

•Carlisle Cullen(Twilight)

Tags:

~🧛‍♂️Hey Edward!Im f*cking your dad!🧛‍♂️~

•Yancy(MEU)

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~🚫I don’t wanna be free🚫~

•Royal Margarine Cookie(Crk)

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~🐉The Handsome Dragon Rider🧈~

•Remy LeBeau (Gambit)(X-men)

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Tertiary F/os

(Don’t talk about these ones much so none of them have tags)

Overall Tag:

The Doctor’s Loves

•Bowser •King Dice •Doc Ock •Puss in Boots •Finn Mcmissle •Godbrand •Emperor Belos •Ken(Barbie Movie 2023)

•Spamton.G.Spamton

•Calico Jack(Ofmd)

•The Narrator

•Divus Crewel

•Vinsmoke Sanji

•Cole Cassidy

Familial F/os

(None of these have tags except for a few)

Sun/Moon(Fnaf)

Caretaker

Tags:N/a

Allan+Midge(Barbie Movie)

Brother+Sister-in-law

Tags:N/a

Anatole+Hélène Kuragin(The Great Comet)

Brother+Sister

Tags:~😈The Troublesome Trio😈~

Eda Clawthorne(Toh)

Mother

Tags:~🦢birb🦢~

Glamrock Freddy(FNAF)

Father

Tags:~✨You’re my Superstar✨~

Stanley(Tsp)

Twin Brother

Tags:~⁉️Wait!Two Stanley’s?!?!?⁉️~

Adam+Barbara Maitland(Beetlejuice)

Parents

Tags:~🧟Fright of their lives🧟~

Nellie Lovett(2023 Revival+Movie)

Mother

Tags:~🥧Me Mum🥧~

Ethan+Mia Winters(Resident Evil)

Brother+Sister-in-law

Tags:~❄️The Winters❄️~

The 12th+14th Doctor(Doctor Who)

Dads

Tags:~🙄Do you even know what thinking is?🙄

~🌌Wibbly Wobbily Timey Wimey🌌~

~🌌You’re like my dad!🌌~

The 11th Doctor(Doctor Who)

Brother-Figure