eliocentrica

personal blog for TV shows, movies and books I like she/her, potterhead who disagrees with jkr, ao3 author

[eliosamavros]

A few years ago I started my mental health recovery after re-watching a TV show as an adult and fully understanding its message.

Then I looked for books to read on the same theme. I found one but I only got round to reading it over the course of the past month.

The protagonist's journey really resonated with me and the journey I've been through since re-watching that TV show. And these words... they reminded me of the steps I took to heal.

Happiness cannot be a constant, it can't be every second of every day. But I can sit with sadness or anger or disappointment for a bit and know that I'll be happy again.

[aertepeo]

i love this show about two men pretending to be what they believe a man should be, lying about the men that they actually are, and destroying all of the relationships in their lives, including the one that could have been the most transformative and fulfilling, in the process.

[1960z]

half man is a story about two men who only knew how to love each other through violence, whether it be physical, emotional or psychological. hurting each other is when they felt closest to each other, and when they were close to each other, it’s the only time they felt whole. which is why it could only end the way it did.

[eliosamavros]

i LOVE ao3

Every time I think I couldn't possibly find fics written for some obscure piece of media... it never disappoints!

[unspeakablebeauty]

making jamie bell say this is genuinely the funniest thing richard gadd has written so far

[highlyincorrect]

Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.

[starmaker-astral]

Aziraphale and Crowley loves the earth and humanity, season 1 made that statement very clear.

That's why they preferred to sacrifice themselves, thus offering humanity free will (something dear to Crowley) and a world without angels or demons (something Aziraphale wanted).

And even with their sacrifices, memory wiped and in another universe, they still managed to find eachother ❤️‍🩹

This is what the end is about.

Love transcending sacrifices and alternative universes ✨️

They sacrified themselves for the humanity, they gave away their power, immortality and everything. And even with all these, they still found their soulmate in another universe

[eliosamavros]

sorry about video quality but CORPSE was lofi too

WARNING: loud music

I cannot be the only one who thought of this mashup. The Venn diagram must be a pin head but still.

Video: Half Man S1 E1

Audio: e-girls are ruining my life by CORPSE

[eliosamavros]

Smiley (Netflix series)

I was wondering why this show didn't take off in the English-speaking internet... well, besides the obvious language barrier. I got 3 minutes into S1 E6 and I understood.

Representation of sex is more casual and less conservative outside the U.S. where it doesn't fly unless it's violent.

Let's fight purity culture.

BTW this is the original scene but the pixelating is mine. One guy is erasing something from his drawing (he's an architect) and the other guy is f***ing. Very nonchalant.

Good thing that more international shows are being brought to the U.S. audiences more recently.

[eliosamavros]

is my mind the only one that works like this?

I see:

and I think:

...and 10 seconds later I see:

and I think:

[ngalitzine]

I want you back here with me. I want your body and I want the rest of you too.

[eliosamavros]

It's fascinating how brains work! As soon as I saw these GIFs I knew that moment was the unconscious genesis for the Rykter fanfiction I've been writing in the past few days.

Thanks for making me figure it out!

[eliosamavros]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity.

- W. B. Yeats

[eliosamavros]

The path isn't a straight line, it's a spiral Prisma [2/?]

Act Three: planting a seed of doubt

Act Four: questioning ⤵

Act Five: soon™

[santiagonex]

#SAVEPRISMA

Unfortunately, Ludovico Bessegato, director of Prisma, announced today that the Prisma has been cancelled by Prime, concluding with its second season. He noted that a third season had already been written and was highly promising, but Prime made the decision to cancel the series due to unsatisfactory viewership figures. Therefore, I would like to kindly ask you to help us out by signing and sharing this petition: https://chng.it/DpDG4k5RBF which takes a few seconds to fill in and submit.

Italians were able to save a show once before - SKAM Italia, maybe this can happen again if we put enough work, spread the word, rewatch the show on Prime and generally talk about it on social media, using hashtags #prismalaserie and #saveprismalaserie . It's is a very important show and means a lot to many people, in Italy and outside of Italy. Visually and story-wise, there's nothing quite like this. Please, let's try to get this show the third season, which they deserve to have.

[eliosamavros]

Bummer! I've already started compiling GIFs for Andrea/Daniele storyline.

[eliosamavros]

The path isn’t a straight line, it’s a spiral [1/?]

Act One: catfished

Act Two: fooled ⤵

[I plan to post Act Three tomorrow - check this space 😊 ]

[quotemadness]

The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.

Barry H. Gillespie

[eliosamavros]

Kinks in movies vs. expectations (as a ff reader)

Whereas:

My thoughts below the cut

I avoided watching the Fifty Shades movies (let alone reading the books) for the longest time because when the movies came out I was told by a friend that the plot wasn't that good, and because there's plenty of well-written fanfics available online *for free* if I want to read a story with BDSM elements.

Fast forward to a few months ago, one of my friends was surprised that I hadn't watched the Fifty Shades movies and told me that they're alright, they aren't that raunchy. Like, my friend thought that's why I didn't want to watch them.

I was confused from the conflicting information I had received (several years apart) so I decided to give it a go and let me tell you that both of my friends were right. I feel that the main characters are pretty bi-dimensional and that the hype around what happens in the Red Room was undeserved. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...I don't know what to tell you but then some European movies must classify as soft-porn for the general American populous.

The thing is, I watched Fifty Shades after watching Saltburn so my expectations of Jamie Dornan were high.

lol I couldn't have been more wrong!