femme fangirl filleretive

current: the terror, bg3, aubreyad, the locked tomb, gentleman jack, black sails, les misérables, the pale beyond former: spn, wolfstar, merlin, hannibal, torchwood

[wandererseas]

cross-hatching practices with the ep.1

[filleretive]

*Jeremy Clarkson assembling a Land Rover in rural Mongolia voice* I AM A MANUFACTURER OF SQL QUERIES

[filleretive]

I fear Project Hail Mary has gotten its little claws in me. Boat media wins again.

[anishenanigans]

rlly fascinating phenomenon to me is when a character is extremely popular, and that popularity seems understandable enough because they've got something interesting going on, and then you look at the fandom and realize 99% of their fans don't actually care about engaging with any of the things that make them interesting and instead seem to be fans of an imaginary milquetoast version that exists solely for ship and/or angst content and is so far removed from the canon character they might as well be an unrelated OC at this point

[wandererseas]

Captain's heart

[kushblazer666]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

holy shit its for real

[joeyclaire]

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

[spiralingintocontrol]

goose

[lensdeer]

I made a little web app to generate xkcd 2501 edits right from your browser

[filleretive]

I have been procrastinating playing my embrace Durge for so long that I forgot that I got “Acheron” (his name) from Master and Commander. The way my head snapped up in surprise when I turned Master and Commander on in the background while doing boring things as I sometimes do and they started talking about pursuing the Acheron…

[filleretive]

Someone please explain to me like I’m five why One Battle After Another is a good film? Because I kept an open mind for a solid 60 minutes of my life, hoping that it would become a self-aware parody of Tarantino and Scorsese, but all I am seeing is a deeply philosophically and emotionally conservative film that tries to be deep in the Dunning-Kruger effect way Crash sought to be deep, i.e., while retaining the white male casually misogynist gaze as the priority lens. I am trying so hard to see something redeeming in this but I’m not seeing any value.

I’m still watching, but I don’t actually think ironic observation of human foibles and quirks under trying circumstances makes a good film? People doing stupid, human things in extreme circumstances is a deeply boring premise for a film and hasn’t been worthy of accolades since the early 2000s, I fear… What am I missing? Help me understand?

[asystolle]

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

[deityofhearts]

we share a warriors bond (we were both in the same fandom at the same time and now neither of us are in that fandom anymore but we’re still beloved mutuals)

[filleretive]

this is gonna sound so fucking pretentious

but

anyone else ever feel mega-isolated by being smarter than most of the people around them? i'm not even saying this in a "i'm better than them" way (because i'm not--they're lovely people who are indisputably kinder people than me which matters way more than being "smart"), but i just grow weary of being trapped in the most surface level conversations with people about art

like what do you mean you hated that book or movie because the character was "unlikable" and you didn't bother to think deeply about 1) what makes the character "unlikable" and 2) why someone might want to make art about an "unlikable" character and 3) what they might be saying about society or human nature by framing the character the way they did and structuring the narrative the way it was structured

why are people genuinely approaching art expecting that the characters should be simplistically and obviously "good" or that there should be an "edifying" moral otherwise the art is "bad"

what kind of "anti-degenerate art" fascist slash Hayes Code bullshit attitude toward art is that

why are so many people allergic to a deep and nuanced analysis of art

[filleretive]

Gosh, I forgot until just now how much I genuinely enjoy close reading for fun. I just rewatched Maurice in celebration of E. M. Forster's birthday, and I've stretched it out to over four hours watching it slowly and taking notes. The sheer joy and pleasure I get from paying close attention to motifs and themes and symbolism is really delightful. I have enough notes that I could sit down and write 5+ separate essays about this film if I needed to. The themes of class (and love as an equalizer), Englishness (and geography), society (and existence outside of society), education (or ignorance), dirtiness... the question of embodiment and deeds versus words and thoughts... the whole theme of existing entirely in the subconscious, liminal, or unspoken... contrasting "decency"/Christian doctrine with humanist philosophy... the recurring "are you all right" motif... the casual misogyny of male society... the rain symbolism... the piano being such a different prop in Maurice's first meetings with Clive and Alec... the way Maurice appeals to teachers and doctors as replacement paternal figures...

Anyway. Happy birthday to E. M. Forster!

[fuckyeah2000s]

[invisibletripwire]

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[messrsage]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[burr-ell]

[somevariationofgay]

My origins...