brainrot (general)

I conjure the boy I knew

[greenthgil]

everyone wants a toxic problematic ship until there’s an actual complex problematic relationship then everybody loses their minds

[epiphainie]

i hope beatles biopics show paul seeing john around town before they met and trying to look not too hard at him like the 14 yo gay boy he was

[sadiesingssongs]

Funny how music historians/critics acknowledge that Paul wrote “Here There and Everywhere” outside of John Lennon’s house while waiting for John to wake up and join him for a writing session, but they don’t examine the implications of that fact.

[silversunsailing]

still i dream of it

[silversunsailing]

id be crazy not to follow where you lead

[binarisunset]

something I think a lot of people forget when talking about snowjanus’s dynamic is the fact that they genuinely get along. When I finally read the book, I was surprised to see how well they bounce off of each other. And Sejanus is constantly making Coriolanus laugh and smile!!!

Even when they’re in the arena, they’re still laughing at their silly little joke 😭

Mind you they’re literally in a death trap? They quite literally could die right there and they still got time to laugh and tease each other. That’s chemistry, baby!

Also these interactions from when they’re still in the Capitol…alright.

“And he was about to return it” they’re just two silly boy friends.

And Sejanus is such a tease when it comes to Coriolanus:

like yes they’re toxic and tragic and unhealthy but they were also just two boys who used to smile and laugh and tease each other. Not everything about them is as bleak as a lot of people make it up to be.

[allthingskenobi]

Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen being adorable on the set of Revenge of the Sith. 

[greenthgil]

when you know nothing about mclennon you think john’s in love but it’s not reciprocated. then you learn some more and realize no they’re in love with each other. then you learn some more (watch get back) and start thinking paul’s in love but it’s not reciprocated

[muzaktomyears]

happy Nerk Twins Day!!!! for today and tomorrow since the plaque lies and they actually performed twice

[greenthgil]

tcomc 2024 villefort letting me down in the last scene.. why didn’t you let him go mad and tear out his garden looking for his son

[rainsofcamelot]

don't let me stop your great self-destruction

got into a villefort anddd pilate obsession (again) this year and i wanted to show the similarities between these two characters that i think fall into the same (very compelling!) category of being an authoritarian figure that, hesitantly, condemns an innocent man to save himself (and his position) and lives to deal with the consequences and the guilt.

the relationships between the two pairs (jesus & pilate, edmond & villefort) are too incredibly interesting to me. these men who do not know each other, who have just met, and who manage to make a deep impact and change each other's lives by deciding their fates (this goes both ways!)... when the powerful choose to condemn the innocent, they condemn themselves. they lose their own humanity, their own sanity. all that is left of who they used to be is the voice within that haunts them, constantly reminding and reprimanding them for their crimes. and the doomed, injustly sentenced, flesh-and-blood men, seemingly weak and broken, manage to rise and become more powerful than their perpetrators ever were. the final sentence of blame being left to those who are told their stories.

i'd say the parallels are also THERE. edmond refers to himself as an agent of god plenty of times, and villefort appears in chapter 108 with his hands stained with ink, symbolizing the blood on them. and there's not only edmond/jesus & villefort/pilate parallelisms, but edmond & villefort and jesus & pilate are mirrors of each other in these respective works! they're opposites but have so much in common too, trapped in the same position, in an unexpected situtation they would rather have nothing to do with.

[duchesspeggy]

setting aside despair agony anguish madness etc.

i love how dantes gives his biggest reveal speech, so dramatic, so intense, and villefort just. moves on immediately.

so far, every time he revealed his real name, people were thunder struck and all previous matters where abandoned, because it's DANTES ! a ghost rising from his grave !

while villefort's response is just: "ok. are you done ?"

[greenthgil]

when villefort realizes him and dantes were getting engaged at the same time and thinks 'wow... the parallels.. 🧐🧐 almost like we are narrative foils.. 🤔🤔 I should add this to my speech' like how can you not love him

[whitealbum]

i’m starting to think something might’ve happened between john lennon and paul mccartney

[greenthgil]

the high i get from talking about my hyperfixation to my friend for two minutes

[eleancrvances]

random but i've been thinking about tcomc again and how i find it sort of disappointing that adpatations, when picking which conspirator to build up as edmond's ultimate adversary (which i sort of dislike in the first place tbh), always choose fernand, when if there is one that fits that role better it's villefort. usually mondego ends up as the more prominent of the enemies because he's the one with the most personal motivation, and ends up as mercédès' husband and albert's father. he's the one "closer" to edmond, being the one who somewhat "takes his place" in life, becoming the husband of his fiancée and the father of a son that mercédès says "should have been ours". plus, focusing on the love triangle is easy. but in the text of the novel, the conspirator who gets more space and is, in my opinion, a more definite foil to edmond, is villefort. edmond is arrested at his engagement/wedding party, villefort is picked up from his own engagement party to go interrogate him. both edmond and villefort are strongly motivated in life by their bonds with their respective fathers, though for wildly different reasons - and villefort keeps his disabled father in his home, while still resenting him, when edmond will never see his father again because villefort condemned him to protect his. both of them lose their first love, though in different ways. it's villefort's daughter edmond has to save from the mechanism he set in motion himself because his own surrogate son, maximilien, is in love with her. benedetto is villefort's son but spends some time believing his father is actually monte cristo. villefort's defeat is the only one that edmond (and the reader) doesn't enjoy, because inadvertently by destroying him he also causes the death of his innocent child, and that is what leads him to realise he may have gone too far. villefort ends up mad, when he'd hoped edmond would go insane in the chauteau d'if. and both of them of course have an intense and complex relationship with the concept of justice. and i could go on

[sleeper9]

Georgie ~