I literally just work here

my friends call me em

[em-j14]

Love these silly mascots ✨

[em-j14]

I love these mascots ✨

[mens-rights-activia]

I miss the world before AI image generation

Secondly, I also miss the world where AI image generation was just incoherent blobs and obvious fakes

Thirdly, I miss when I had a spark in my eye

[ketchup-cat-sub]

Fourthly, I miss when I throw so watch out

[chilewithcarnage]

Five, nothing wrong with me

[firewirecompatible]

Six geese-a-laying

[starphaserdisco]

Seven (often stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, with Gwyneth Paltrow and John C. McGinley in supporting roles. Set in an unnamed, crime-ridden city, Seven's narrative follows disenchanted, nearly retired Detective Lieutenant William Somerset (Freeman) and his newly transferred partner David Mills (Pitt) as they try to stop a serial killer from committing a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins.

Walker, an aspiring writer, based Seven on his experiences of moving from a suburban setting to New York City during a period of rising crime and drug addiction in the late 1980s. An Italian film company optioned his script, but following financial difficulties, the rights were sold to New Line Cinema. Studio executives were opposed to the script's bleak conclusion, insisting on a more mainstream and optimistic outcome. Fincher, determined to re-establish himself after a career setback with his directorial debut Alien 3 (1992), was mistakenly sent Walker's original script and, convinced of its merit, committed to directing the project if the original ending remained intact. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles between December 1994 and March 1995, on a $33–$34 million budget.

[galindaelphaba]

YELLOWJACKETS 3.10 | Full Circle

[lobsterflaws]

[gaynfl-moved]

me af

[susukimmart]

Un poco de korrasami, para revivir aqui.

[dokirosi]

Water type 💦

[verysadbucket-blog]

Don't know who this character is but my sister requested him :3

[consultingfujoshi]

I really DO NOT understand ppl that insist on making guillermo this sweet innocent little scrimblo baby or whatever. why would you even want that when the canon version of him is so much more fun and objectively better. guillermo is fundamentally deranged and fucked in the head and he is the best character on television because of it

[consultingfujoshi]

guillermo de la cruz changed the world forever when he licked an unknown substance off the pavement in new york city and immediately identified it as vampire piss

[doafhat]

Some absolutely gorgeous animation in this sequence. Excellent work by everyone that brought this to life!

[culverton]

Thinking about how season one of Black Sails deliberately plays into traditional pirate narratives and personas so that when it begins to subvert them in later seasons it’s even more of a fuck you

[cerulean-melancholy]

i agree that the end of black sails is very violent for characters who have had violence systematically inflicted upon, but i think that is exactly the point.

as in, flint and madi’s agency and autonomy is taken away by silver. that is, the queer man and the black, former slave woman are incapacitated by a man who has not known systemic homophobia nor racism or slavery. silver gets to tell their story in the end.

my point isn’t to cast silver as the great villain, i think the series’ writing is masterful enough for us to understand how he’s come to act the way he does. but i think it’s interesting that two of the characters that have been fiercely determined to break free from other peoples’ story are eventually stripped of that ability. and it isn’t some kind of laziness from the writers: it simply falls in line with the leitmotiv of the show, that having your story being told by someone else is violence.

[piratemadi]

thinking about how. silver said “guilt is natural it will also pass if you let it” and max said “this will pass if we let it” and how max said about the pearls “this comes from nothing that is its virtue” and silver said “i am no one from nowhere belonging to nothing” and how they’re both looking for freedom but not the kind of freedom flint or madi want and how they’re both so good at manipulating and reading people that they can both fit into whatever role is asked of them to play and how they each refuse to be defined by their pasts but are still so shaped by it and how they ultimately made the same choice (choosing the one they loved over the bigger struggle they had been working towards) with such drastically different results and how jon steinberg said “she lives in the spaces between everybody else’s stories and so I think that gives you the ability to kind of walk around behind the walls of the house that everyone else thinks has solid walls” and how that applied to silver until he lost his leg and became quartermaster and became long john silver and thus became trapped in a story not of his own making and that was max’s worst nightmare and part of what she was trying to avoid in not marrying the man guthrie picked out for her and so max’s happy ending is remaining in the shadows undefined by anybody else’s stories reveling in her power and freedom and silver’s unhappy ending is being identifiable by his missing leg and everything he lost and everything he gave up and being forever condemned to be Long John Silver the protagonist in a story of unending horrors

[osikla]

I still can’t believe black sails straightbaited thousands of heterodudes into watching the gayest shit on television ever

[itmightrain]

One of the things Black Sails did so well was showing how different people react to oppressive systems. The ways they choose to resist it, or live around it, or give in to it.

I think that Eleanor Guthrie’s story in the final season was one of the most interesting, heartbreaking examples of this. Ultimately, to me, her story was about the horror, futility, and violence of assimilation.

She tried to get power and escape oppression by joining the system that oppressed her. And to do that she gave up everything that truly mattered. One by one she cut away everything that made her her to fit this shape that was proscribed for her.

She gave up her name

(when Guthrie meant so much to her)

and her clothes

(The scene where Mrs. Hudson packs away Eleanor’s clothes is so incredibly sad. Those weren’t the clothes that Eleanor was arrested in. Eleanor must have sought them out after coming back to Nassau. And she kept them in her room. But she was never able to wear them again. She was never able to dress to please herself ever again.)

and her voice

(Rogers cuts her off. He listens when he wants, but he doesn’t listen when it matters. Before she could make things happen on her own, but inside this system she needs him to believe her, to hear her. And he doesn’t.)

and in the end it killed her.

And that destruction of Who Eleanor Truly Was continues even past her death. In the scene where Rogers hallucinates dead Eleanor, he imagines her sitting quietly and knitting.

He only sees the mutilated version of her, the fantasy of “Mrs. Rogers” that she performed to assimilate into a system that would not allow her a place as long as she was true to herself. He does not see Eleanor Guthrie who hated knitting and forced every pirate to account for her in their plans.

Her fate is just as Flint said: “All this will be for nothing…Defined by their histories. Distorted to fit into their narrative.”

In the end it was Max, who refused society’s demands to give up what truly mattered to her (even in appearance), that ended up with everything.

And I think that’s an incredible story.

[pirategf]

thinking about how the reveal of flint being in love with thomas is the greatest thing that ever happened on television again… and even if thomas had actually been dead it wouldn’t have been an evil case of bury your gays trope because it’s not meaningless at all, it’s what gives the show its whole meaning and there is no show without it. it’s the moment you realize flint isn’t the villain, that he’s human, that his rage is justified. it’s the moment you understand and support his anger. the plot twist isn’t that he’s gay, it’s that your perspective shifts entirely because of this episode, and it fueled the show before you even knew about it, and it’s been years and i’m still amazed at how well they pulled that off