Adventures in Obsession

"Your beauty in Requiem for a Dream detracted from the narrative." - Simon Amstell speaks to me on a personal level.

[sparvverius]

i like that black sails ends in an ambiguous way that says You can believe what you want :] and whether you say i believe this happened because i want it to have happened and it comforts me or i believe that happened because it disturbs me and makes for a good story you're proving all its points and themes

[tedchaough]

"What do I want? I want to see this whole goddamn city, this city that you purchased with our misery, burn. I want to see you hanged on the very gallows you've used to hang men for crimes far slighter than this. I want to see the noose around your neck, and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands!"

BLACK SAILS 2.08 XVI 2.09 XVII

[hillhouseeleanor]

I know the “Vane called Flint gay for living in a house” thing is funny but I think in all seriousness Vane was calling Flint a class traitor for living in a house which is in some ways much funnier

[fuck-you-jack]

i love these tags so much

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[primarybufferpanel]

I love a highly specific pet advert

[redstonedust]

it's usually morally correct to make fun of the usa but whenever i hear british people do it it feels kinda tone deaf. idk if we have the high ground here guys. its like your mom making fun of your mental illness like ma'am where do you think i got it from.

[flowerbobatea]

[herewegobebe]

Happy Birthday Taemin 💕✨💎🐥🧀🥳💕

[villiersmaturin]

“Although I never met Patrick O’Brian I have read all of his books and I think it’s clear that his intent was to live for his full Biblical span of eight hundred years and to write a volume about Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin every year. He’d have slowly worked his way through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, we’d have read about their adventures in sailing ships in the Great War, and rescuing people at Dunkirk. Eventually he’d have yielded to history and advancing technology and taken them into space and had them fight against aliens and study the fauna of new planets, always keeping in mind the career of Lord Cochrane and the actual historical accounts of battles and the progress of natural history. I feel sure of this because he died so young, at a mere eighty-six, a few chapters into this new volume, starting new plotlines, dangling new hares, with not the least idea of ever coming to an end.”

— Forever Bailing, Jo Walton (via anchorfaced)

[sparvverius]

i really like how the walrus getting its shit completely wrecked by the spanish man o' war is done bc it does not have you saying "flint you really fucked up this time" it has you saying "ohhh my god 🙄 if these people would just FOLLOW FLINT'S ORDERS and FIRE WHEN HE SAYS FIRE then we wouldn't fucking be here. this is what comes of defying him" it really puts you in flint's headspace.

[inthevasoline]

guys what should my 10,000th post be

[inthevasoline]

im so fucking stupid

[phaptomoftheopera]

the first time I saw masquerade, madame giry handed me the rope right before learn to be lonely, and I was like “ok I will hold this prop and be a very reliable audience member” so when the phantom held out his hand for it I immediately handed it over bc like yes good this is a prop for actors I do not want it. And then I Realized what the next scene was going to be and audibly said “oh” which got scattered laughs from my fellow audience members. and that kids is the story of the time I became an accomplice to the murder of joseph buquet

[theunsubtleknife]

Sleeping poorly is so embarrassing... sorry im grumpy I stayed up past my bedtime. Like a toddler

[zoctopode]

can you imagine being a parent in the pokemon world and your kid comes home with one of those straight up basically human pokemon. i know those motherfuckers can talk.

its morning. i see my childs Throh getting some oj from the fridge. 'morning', i say. he doesnt catch himself in time and says 'morning' back. he freezes and we both stare at each other knowingly. 'throh,' he says, but its too fucking late

[sabrebash]

Is That Allowed

[sabrebash]

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Black Sails & text posts (14/?)

[sparvverius]

while i'm thinking about my thoughts and inclinations wrt the finale. the LEAST convincing arguments that i've read on whether flint lives or dies are ones that say that it Isn't In His Character to give up the fight or that it Isn't In His Character to *not* give it up. bc i think the story has been maneuvered very deftly to a point such that neither choice would feel out of character or out of keeping with the themes of the story. i mean we see that when silver asks him directly if he would trade the war for thomas hamilton he says he doesn't know, and i think that we as the audience also do not have the tools to know what he would do when presented with some version of that choice. because his participation in the war wasn't just out of grief, even if silver thinks that--he has ideological convictions, he has more personal resentments about his career ambitions and a sense of wounded pride which could not be redressed no matter who miraculously came back to life. but he also clearly values companionship, comfort, domesticity, not being seen as the bad guy etc etc. these things are at least a little bit mutually exclusive but that's what makes for a good character. he goes back and forth on whether he can reconcile with england depending on the circumstances and his emotional state. such that saying that he ever reaches a point where it is impossible that he could ever accept or impossible he could ever reject a situation that is roughly the same thing is like. i just don't think you can definitively say either of those things! both of those contradictory things are in character!! what about the human heart in conflict with itself you guys used to love the human heart in conflict with itself...

[innerchildabortionclinic]

this is how all high protein dessert vids look to me