I destroyed it

Shannon | ♀ | United States | Professional destroyer of classic literature through fanfiction | 

[ri-chietozier]

[leafcrunch]

kids today are too fucking powerful.,, we merely adopted the internet, they were born in it

[whiskeycravenraven-deactivated2]

This kid is a fuckin master look how long it took him to break

[tonraqsd]

This kid!!!

[blu-iv]

LOL what youtuber is he draggin in this??? i wanna see 

[dickgraysoni-deactivated2021102]

LISTEN TO ME:

THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE NOT FUCKING, GOODBYE. 

[computersaresadtoo]

XP/98 remix

[aloe-jelly-deactivated20170907]

ok what the fuck

[cowboyjimkirk]

I’m gonna go ahead and be a film snob and talk about why this is one of my favorite shots from TOS. (I could also say that it’s one of my favorite scenes, because the entire scene actually consists of a single shot.)

We don’t see a lot of bald expressions of emotion in film and television, especially if that emotion is fear or sadness or vulnerability. Dramas will give us some tears, but they always cut a way after a few seconds because a closeup of someone crying is deeply uncomfortable and most movies and TV shows aren’t in the business of making their audiences uncomfortable. It just doesn’t sell well.

But in this scene the camera never looks away. It follows Spock as he sits down at the table, and it circles him as he cries. But there are no cuts. We don’t even get music to create some distance, make it all a little more palatable; we just hear sobs and mumbled math equations.

It’s absolutely excrutiating. It would be excruciating no matter who we were watching, because we are so unaccustomed to seeing unadulterated emotion. And then there’s the fact that it’s a man. And that it’s Spock.

Fifty years later and this is still one of the most daring filmmaking decisions I’ve ever seen on TV (I of course can’t be exactly sure who made it, but I’m assuming it was the director of the episode, Marc Daniels). This shot lasts 1 minute and 45 seconds. We’re in the middle of space and in the middle of a high-stakes episode where the crew is going crazy and the ship is going to blow up or some shit and everyone’s lives are in danger, but we pause 1 minute and 45 seconds to have an uncomfortably human moment with an alien who doesn’t even want to be human, and it’s so awful and amazing.

[remellarkable-deactivated201504]

Writing fanfic

Mixing tenses

Losing focus

Doubting myself as a writer and a human being

[relucant]

every single one of these has been me in the last thirty minutes

[jianyitopia]

Person A *unbuttoning shirt* : god it’s so hot in here

Person B : I know that but why are you unbuttoning my shirt ?

[imagine-jim-bones-and-spock]

Spock: I do not experience human emotions such as ‘irritation’ and ‘annoyance’. Such things are -

Bones: *says anything*

Spock:

[feilongfan]

I miss this duo

[taire-valtaire]

Watching Les Mis with my Mum - The Bishop: “There is wine here to revive you // There is bread to make you strong” Mum: don’t mention bread to him

[modernmissbennet]

people in period clothing doing modern things is my aesthetic

[starsfadingbutilingeron]

i can’t believe you forgot the most important one

[kitschcowboy]

hugh jackman and russell crowe are both moderately handsome dudes, both very dad-like, and i think jean valjean and javert should have smooched instead of dying tragically. it would have been a lot better and i actually contacted victor hugo via ouija board and he said he was cool with it

[apriki]

[ledamemangociana]

happy Ides of March all y’all plebeians

REMIND ME TO REBLOG THIS EVERY MARCH 15TH UNTIL I DIE

[valjean69]

I CANT BELIEVE I MADE THIS

[0011000111110010100]

“Abstinence is not immortality.”

[definingthelimit]

All valvert fics are required to have at least one scene where they bang on the mayor's office desk it's a law

[lemorgo]

i’ve been drawing a lot of lesmis stuff lately i know the fandom is dead bUT (i’ve read the book so those are my headcanons )

[hatarlakrits]

my brother pointed out that “my name is marius pontmercy” “and mine’s cosette” weirdly parallels “my name is jean valjean” “and i’m javert” and now i feel like a different person i never.