Amateur (hobbyist) hikkineet writer with original characters.
I have a different username on th. (not used to keeping a consistent online "presence" ^^)
*if you message me, *please* include who you are and where you saw me/know me from in your initial message! I have social anxiety and am hesitant to respond to messages if i don't know the person, especially if they're simple one-word ones from strangers. ><;
Monoconscious median system with kintypes and subsystems from various sources (mostly books, videogames, and movies).
Five main kintypes sorted into different elements (the four and five classical elements) with an upper/lower layer. (External and Internal).
Some general interest groups (what i reblog; still sorting these into fictive groups) are:
Writing(Resources/Advice), Books, Libraries, Linguistics, Languages
The Victorian Era, Literature, Horror, Fallen London
some tags: 'mental health', 'health', 'system stuff'.
The header image is from a game called "A Place, Forbidden.", which is an amazing game that i highly recommend for fans of otherworldly libraries and/or eldritch horror.
Other blogs:
Former occult blog, planning to turn it into a blog for one of my ocs(maybe more)
also have a fandom sideblog, (if you've found this blog from likes i've left on fanart or something.)
(Also use SmokeGhost as my handle on FlightRising; not that I use that website that much anymore though. ^^;)
Extra about me: I'm a hermit scholar/ hikkineet that's been to 48 states and victoria, b.c.
Multilingual, although i can't carry on a conversation in any of the languages and only know a few words in some.
The language i'm most familiar with that i study is Japanese.
Avoidant, Schizoid and Paranoid (<-a lot less than i used to be, though.
May be on some dni lists; (some descriptions may apply to me), *will* block in advance.
That Scene with the Catherine O'Hara Swordfight...
There's a lot of Catherine O'Hara retrospecting going on now (as there should be), with discussions of her best work, and how many times she was the high point of a movie (some lackluster, some great).
I've watched her work ever since SCTV showed up on the tube in the wee hours (the 1/2 hour Canadian version, which begat the NBC-funded show, which begat....); and there are numerous wonderful bits/scenes/skits that she was in which come to mind.
But in our household, the hands-down favorite of her many works is "the Catherine O'Hara Swordfighting Scene", that was one of the extras of Criterion's The Princess Bride laserdisc.
It is a hoot. Yeah, it's full of slapstick/silent comedy conventions (that usually bore me); but the fight scene has a sort of sheer, Looney Tunes cartoon energy that lays waste to all my nitpicking.
And O'Hara, as an ersatz Veronica Lake villain, is the very best part of it. Her delivery, her spoof of the femme fatale tropes, and her sheer unflappable superiority in the face of law and order is a treat.
Here's the full scene, with sound:
Source for the entire episode.
(I know, the resolution of this clip isn't great; I remember it being clearer on the laserdisc. Apparently the scene never made it to the Criterion The Princess Bride DVD/Blu Ray/4K collection of extras.)
Some background and context after the cut:
Back in the 90s, we discovered this scene on The Criterion Collection's Princess Bride laserdisc. Then, as now, Criterion provided a bounty of extras; and amongst all the Princess Bride commentary and background was a curious addition: a scene from an episode of Rob Reiner's very short-lived 1991 TV series, Morton & Hayes.
I'm not certain why it's on the laserdisc; the only connection with The Princess Bride appears to be that it was another swordfight scene that Reiner was involved in. As usual with Criterion, the director has a lot of say in their presentation of the movie, and he may have suggested it be added to the extras.
(BTW, Reiner didn't direct this Morton & Hayes episode ("Daffy Dicks") -- it was Christopher Guest, who also starred in it.)
Morton & Hayes was a true oddball -- an attempt to recreate (as best as I can determine) old 1940's black-and-white movie comedy for a modern (well, 1990s) audience. It seems to have been built on the bones of the Abbott and Costello movies (Morton and Hayes resemble the 2 significantly -- particularly the straight man/clown dynamic), though the humor was closer to Bob Hope's 40s stuff (e.g., the 1939 The Cat and the Canary).
Some context for the scene: Catherine O'Hara's character is, basically, a homicidal Veronica Lake spoof, who is revealed at the end of the episode (a murder mystery comedy) as the evil twin of her saintly (and wealthy) sister, who she has murdered, along with about everyone else in the mansion, to inherit her sister's vast fortune.
The only other characters remaining in the mansion are our two hapless detectives, Morton & Hayes; and the scene opens as she prepares to snuff them out.
(Also, you have to admire a script that contains that fine old phrase, "the shank of the evening".)
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I really enjoyed Catherine O'Hara's work over many years, in just about everything I saw her in. R.I.P.; you will be missed.
there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something
take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)
the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it
but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first
comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now
please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
