Secondhand Serenade

Gra. Graffias, seconda stella a destra dello Scorpione - la prima era già occupata - poi dritti fino al tramonto. Italian (fan)girl. 30.

[uncanny-valerie]

Happy Valentine’s day from the ocean! They’ll give you hugs but you might get wet. Or stung.

Featuring a blue-footed booby, a sea otter, a manatee, a blue whale, a hammerhead shark and a mauve stinger jellyfish. 

[hashtagfeelz]

#Feels: Fandom Life

Having a life in Fandom is a bit like the life cycles of a butterfly, but all of us can’t be Chicken Nugget the non-binary butterfly. Which is our loss really.

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[itsmealis]

This is the single most accurate thing I’ve ever laid my eyes upon.

[lkjtq]

[gbookshop]

Duckenstein di Mary Shelduck, di Bruno Enna (soggetto e sceneggiatura), Fabio Celoni (disegni), Luca Merli (colori). In occasione di Halloween, sul Topolino n°3179 e n°3180 è stata pubblicata in due puntate questa parodia, che conclude la cosiddetta “Trilogia Gotica” di Bruno Enna e Fabio Celoni, iniziata nel 2012 con Dracula di Bram Topker e proseguita nel 2014 con Lo strano caso del dottor Ratkyll e Mister Hyde. Io ho un grosso debole per le sceneggiature di Bruno Enna, hanno quella punta di malinconia/nostalgia (e spesso anche struggimento per qualcosa) che mi piace tantissimo, e il tratto di Celoni mi piace pure un sacco, quindi io già alla notizia dell'uscita di Duckenstein ero come una foca sovraeccitata che batte le pinne. Le precedenti due storie le avevo trovate geniali e divertente, anche se con una leggera preferenza per Dracula, però ammetto che Duckenstein è entrata di prepotenza nella mia personale Top Ten di parodie Disney preferite di sempre. Duckenstein è profondamente poetica e nostalgica, ho amato da morire come sia divertente ma anche malinconica al tempo stesso, e quel “Calisota” finale mi ha ucciso un po’ il cuoricino, e soprattutto ho trovato geniale il modo in cui hanno adattato Frankenstein come mostro: era logico che non potessero usare pezzi di cadavere XD e la sua trasformazione in… CARTONE ANIMATO è bellissima e in ultima battuta perfino dolcissima. E niente, io ho amato tanto questa storia, sul finale mi ha pure un po’ commossa e ne vorrei altre diecimila di parodie su questo stesso filone XD Lascio qui sotto una brevissima sequenza che mi ha particolarmente intenerito, sperando che possa incuriosire anche voi :)

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[gbookshop]

‘Weddings, Edgar,.’ he said. 'They are grisly affairs, are they not?’ I had to agree, having suffered some interminable examples myself, during which I was forced to talk for hours to dreary aunts and uncles. 'Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.’ said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.’

Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, Chris Priestley (via gbookshop)

[gbookshop]

Remember that the devil is the one who tells you to play a tune that’s not your own, and you can drive him right on out into the cold by playing what’s in your soul

Devil and the Bluebird, Jennifer Mason-Black (via gbookshop)

[gbookshop]

“Don’t you know what instruments do?” the woman asked. “They suck people in and continue to echo them out forever once they’re gone. Didn’t you ever wonder why some dusty old violin has so much power?”

Devil and the Bluebird, Jennifer Mason-Black (via gbookshop)

[gbookshop]

Io non voglio tutto ciò che desidero. Nessuno lo vuole. Non veramente. Che divertimento sarebbe, se potessi avere tutto ciò che desidero, senza problemi? Non avrebbe nessun valore. E poi che succederebbe?

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (via gbookshop)

[gbookshop]

‘Le storie sono creature selvagge e indomite’, continuò il mostro. 'Quando le liberi, chi può sapere quali sconvolgimenti potranno compiere?’

Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte, Patrick Ness (via gbookshop)

[captivequotes]

‘Say it,’ said Laurent.

‘You broke a man today. Doesn’t that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.’

‘You’re wrong. We are on my uncle’s board and these men are all his pieces.’

‘Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are,’ said Damen.

Prince’s Gambit - C. S. Pacat

[captivequotes]

‘I was never a fighter,’ said Laurent. ‘That was Auguste. But after Marlas, I was obsessed with …’

Laurent stopped. Damen could see the moment when Laurent decided to continue. It was deliberate, his eyes meeting Damen’s, his tone subtly changed.

‘Damianos of Akielos was commanding troops at seventeen. At nineteen, he rode onto the field, cut a path through our finest men, and took my brother’s life. They say—they said—he was the best fighter in Akielos. I thought, if I was going to kill someone like that, I would have to be very, very good.’

Damen was silent after that.

Prince’s Gambit - C. S. Pacat

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → tangled

save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → zootopia

where anyone can be anything

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → snow white and the seven dwarves

over the seven jewelled hills, beyond the seventh fall, in the cottage of the seven dwarfs, dwells snow white, fairest of them all

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → the little mermaid

i just don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → cinderella

so this is love; this is what makes life divine

[forsimplicityssake]

disney aesthetics → beauty and the beast

it’ll turn out alright in the end, you’ll see