Morningstar Menagerie

The name is Fae | They/Them Pronouns | Gender neutral/nonbinary | Demisexual/Asexual | Polyamorous | Disabled - EDS, POTS, Chronic Migraines, Seizure Disorder, MCAS | Nope, no theme here, just random reblogged bullshit | Any OP from me is considered a rare cryptid sighting, and an Omen (yours to decipher) | Good luck

[dogdayafternoon1975]

"While a superbly performed and filmed realistic story can hold the viewer’s attention, a film with fantastical visual effects may find a larger audience.

If the aforementioned popcorn films can persuade and affect the viewer, and if—as some film theorists argue—the power of cinema lies in its ability to make the everyday fantastic, Pan’s Labyrinth accesses both sides of the film-as-art, film-as-reality option and thus manifests some of the most persuasive and engaging attributes of film expression. With its paralleling of real and fantastical worlds using neomagical realism, Pan’s Labyrinth represents a powerful and innovative new genre."

"The Parallelism of the Fantastic and the Real: Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and Neomagical Realism" by Tracie D. Lukasiewicz

Book Title: Fairy Tale Films, Book Subtitle: Visions of Ambiguity, Published by: University Press of Colorado; Utah State University Press

(Film Analysis Hours)

[finnglas]

you don’t need purity in the material you consume

you have a brain, you are capable of critical thinking, you can sift through the material and keep what is edifying for you and discard what isn’t

flaws don’t necessarily make material worthless

[finnglas]

all right i queued this last night because i was already posting a lot and didn’t want to flood anyone’s dash but you guys i need to talk about this more.

like, okay. i grew up REALLY STRICT christian. like. every piece of media i consumed underwent a fine-toothed comb by my parents to be sure there wasn’t anything “sinful” in it. I got into a tearful, screaming fight with my mother over whether I was allowed to watch a piece of educational children’s material on PBS because one of the characters said “damn” once.

(I’m still not sure they did. In retrospect, I think my purity-focused mother misheard something and, having her suspicions confirmed that you couldn’t trust any “secular” source not to be sinful, reacted accordingly.)

(Pay attention, that parenthetical was also relevant.)

Do you know what my teenage rebellion was? Listening to the oldies station in the car when I had my driver’s license and could go places on my own. That was my big fuck-you to my parents: listening to the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and the Fifth Dimension when they couldn’t tell me how I shouldn’t be listening to them because the creators of that music were drug-addled, free-loving atheists whose own disregard for God and religion might just infect my impressionable spirit. Like I was gonna listen to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and go do LSD and become an atheist. This was my teenage rebellion in the year 1999.

I’m 35 now. And all right so I became agnostic. But I didn’t become a drug addicted prostitute because I loved listening to psychedelic rock music as a teenager. (And you know what? Even if I had become a drug addicted prostitute, I’d still have worth as a human being, so dissect that one.) And it wasn’t even the psychedelic rock music that turned me agnostic: It was Christianity itself. But that’s another story altogether.

My point here is: Y’all are on here acting like my goddamn parents, “don’t watch this” and “don’t listen to that” because this character does XYZ problematic thing and this author said ABC ignorant thing two years ago at a con when they were put on the spot in an interview. If you watch this movie where a teenager falls in love with someone five years older than them, you’re going to become a pedophile! If you read this book by an author who once used an outdated term for someone in the trans community, then you’re a transphobe!

Y’all need to sit the fuck down and stop acting like nobody ever taught you to think for yourself, because I know damn well that you’re capable of critical thought and you don’t need your media chewed up and spit into your mouth like a baby bird. And I’m an adult and I sure the hell don’t, so stop telling me I’m going to choke because I’m consuming something complicated, complex, and not already pre-morally-dissected for me.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[depsidase]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[linguisticillustrations]

Finally, society managed to combine Morphology (linguistics) and Morphology (biology)

[theinwardlight]

Poem from The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme. 

[furbearingbrick]

some asshole: lizards are boring

me:

some asshole: holy shit

[moonachilles]

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

[psikonauti]

Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta)

[gothiccharmschool]

Happy October 1st!

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

this was funnier in my head

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Then you must be in hysterics

[lethalbutterfly]

[summersweeet]

[agoldentattoo]

I T   I S   T I M E

[sosuperawesome]

Iron-On Patches

Seventh Ink on Etsy

[doesitsparkjoytho]

[sindri42]

Every cat I have known would immediately climb up through the hole and start stealing everybody’s food.

[graycoin]

Crime porthole

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

this was designed by cats

[ilovecatsandbaking]

Just get one of these and put them over the whole, you can have cat and food protection.

[lurking96]

You imprison miette. You put her under the glass like the cheese. Jail for mother for hundreds of years.

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

this is the most deadpan miette I've ever heard omg

[mikugenesisevangelion]

that’s because miette’s had enough

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

victim of gender identity theft

[captin-owl]

sorry wasn’t a fan of the factory provided one

[brooklynbornhaitian]

[catchymemes]

[fluttershyplushie]

honestly the boundaries between friendship and romance don’t really matter that much like at all if everyone involved is ok with it

[fluttershyplushie]

like most of what is and isn’t romance is cultural/constructed anyways... you can take and leave what you want with it as long as you maintain boundaries. does that make sense

[coldtragedytaco]

how could you hide this in the tags

[chasingtheskyline]

not to be ancom anthropology major on main but it is fine to enjoy beautiful things actually, and to want them in your life. good craftsmanship is an essential part of the human experience. when you are making on a small scale to meet individual consumer demands the quality, comfort, and intricacy of those goods goes up. forced minimalism and utilitarianism is a capitalist lie. beauty is punk.