☆ 18, welsh, he/they, film studies student ☆
𖦹 Colin Firth, Los Campesinos!, Goth Music, Film and Britcom 𖦹
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some interests include: Torchwood, The Cure, This Is Going To Hurt, Gavin and Stacey, BBC Ghosts, Edgar Wright, Dan and Phil, David Lynch, Hayley Williams, Doctor Who, and The Hunger Games
I am a film student in the UK who is getting back into tumblr. Please check my strawpage for more info:
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I also do art, including commissions! On my Ko-fi you can commission me and see some of my work.
Note: the things I am most interested in are the band Los Campesinos!, the actor Colin Firth, films, Dale Cooper and my boyfriend.
More interests below!!
I'm interested in many things, and you can see my favourite films on my Letterboxd . (although for reference they are Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), Maurice (1987), I Saw The TV Glow (2024), Supernova (2020), Conclave (2024), Monkey Man (2024), Mickey 17 (2025), A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Hot Fuzz (2007), Amelie (2001), Paddington (2014), Eraserhead (1977)).
I also love series, with my favourites being This Is Going To Hurt (2022), Torchwood (2006-11), Doctor Who (2005-), Ghosts (2019-2023), Twin Peaks (1990-2017), Inside no 9 (2014-2024), Life On Mars (2006-07), Ashes To Ashes (2008-10), Taskmaster, Gavin And Stacey (2008-2024), Sherlock (2010-17), The Thick Of It (2005-11), Fellow Travelers (2023) and also multiple others. Big fan of the Six Idiots' work especially.
My favourite musicians include Los Campesinos!, The Cure, James Marriott, Sparky Deathcap, Hayley Williams, Paramore, Fun Boy Three, XTC, Big Thief, Blondie, Pulp, Catatonia, and Chappell Roan.
Some of my favourite comedians are Stewart Lee, Ania Magliano, Bridget Christie, Ignacio Lopez, Rhod Gilbert, Joe Lycett, James Acaster, Nish Kumar, Greg Davies, and Phil Wang.
Other things: Dan and Phil, Goth history, Film history
You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?
“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!”
Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?
“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!”
What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?
“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!”
Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?
“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.”
You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.
You kinda start seeing it in everything they think, if you start looking for it.
I rewatched Mulholland Drive the other day and it genuinely changed my life. The first (and before this rewatch, the ONLY) time I watched it was in June of 2025 for Pride month and I had absolutely zero clue what was happening, which made me really frustrated and I honestly just gave up because I felt so downhearted at not being able to understand it, which made me miss a load of important details.
Anyway, nearly a year later (plus watching more Lynch works and studying Surrealism as a part of European Cinema History for my Film Studies A Level), I rewatched it and I don't have the words. It's incredible in every way and I regret the resentment I held towards it because I have since added it to my favourites (currently standing at number 16) and I'm tempted to move it up. My favourite Lynch has reliably been Eraserhead but now I'm not so sure...
"Where were transmascs during Stonewall?" Across the street throwing lit mattresses at cops and chanting "gay rights, gay rights, gay rights!" from the windows of the Women's House of Detention, asshole.
"The House of D [was] 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn," Ryan says. "On the first night of the riots, people incarcerated in the prison could actually see what was happening out their windows, and they started a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and throwing them down to the streets below while chanting 'Gay rights! Gay rights! Gay rights!'
"By the '50s and '60s, Ryan estimates, "around 75% of the people incarcerated in the House of D are queer in some way." In the 1960s, the prison began marking gay prisoners with a "D" for "degenerate," and placing them into solitary confinement because they were considered a "danger to other women." [...]
The first waywardism laws in New York State start in the 1880s and they only apply to girls and women, originally ones who are arrested for prostitution and then expanded greatly in the late 1800s to women who might become prostitutes. And that's where they really get into danger, right? Because suddenly the charge of prostitution has nothing to do with sex work or exchanging sex for money. Instead, a wayward girl is anyone who was thought to be improperly feminine to the point where she has an invitation to prostitution. She's either too sexual or she's too masculine and unable to get any other kind of job. So of course she's going to end up being a prostitute.