Hate How Everybody Just Expects Me To Bounce Back

Celeste. Film & English student.

[kendallroynsfw]

the utter love captured in Vision’s words. “and there you are”. looking at Wanda and all of her broken pieces, her traumas, her mistakes, her tragedies and saying, with hope and relief: there you are. what a beautiful fucking thing it is to be loved. i’m ruined for life.

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[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

[a-book-of-creatures]

“Could you please, please stop doing that?” said Beowulf, disarmingly.

[illbeoutofthewoods]

PSA!!!!!!!!

IF YOU GET ANYTHING SENT FROM ME (WHAT SEEMS TO BE ME AT LEAST!) AND IT IS WEIRD, VILE OR GROSS OR ALL OF THE ABOVE - PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!! I’m only occasionally on tumblr anymore and I think my account has been compromised!!!! If you know me personally contact me on instagram to let me know.

OR IF YOU SEE ANY WEIRD POSTS OR ANYTHING!!! LET ME KNOW ASAP

Thank you!!!!!

[the-big-mood]

In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.

[ruinedchildhood]

[moonymoon90]

In the meantime I discovered that yesterday, in Rome, this happened

[fitzdyke]

caesars assassination but with empty cardboard tubes

[fitzdyke]

[uncle-beanbag]

Et tube Brute?

[collectivefandomstuff]

Ok now THIS is the stuff I wanted when I followed the Julius Caesar tag and I don’t even get it from there?? Am upset by this betrayal of the tumblr system

[wholesome-animal-images]

[saltywinteradult]

just look at these fluffy motherfuckers. i want ten of them

[random-chaos-thoughts]

[snowpaw23]

wait wait wait you're actually friends with Mike Hill, the creature designer for GDT's Frankenstein??? that's INSANELY COOL 8D any chance you could share any insights from him about the production, working with Jacob, the design process, that sort of thing? I've read the art book but it's not nearly enough, I'm obsessed with this movie and I need moooooore <3

Lol, yeah. What do you want to know? He's kinda specific with what I can and cannot share regarding the film. I definitely can't share any of the pics he's sent me, but as far as details about the production, maybe?

He says Jacob was a miracle. He said he'd prayed for a "Christopher Reeve and Superman" situation, and found just that in Jacob when he and Guillermo watched Saltburn. He said he was the best "patient" he could ask for, so quiet and still, never complained about the torturous makeup process. I asked a bit about certain scenes and how the makeup varied, and Mike said there's natural variation in the application, given they're basically doing a whole painting every single day on top of a person.

There are a couple scars on the creature of significance. There's a mark on his upper right rib cage that's reminiscent of the painting "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" by Caravaggio. As well as a yellowed patch of skin over the left pectoral, above the heart. Both of these wounds frequently bleed, with Mike citing the perpetual trickle as a "bleeding heart of gold", I think he said.

Though certain scenes, specifically the ending with Victor and the creature, he said he really pushed Jacob to emote harder through his brow to fully convey the scene. It's a bit hard to get the emotions through the thick brow appliance, lol.

Mike and I were complaining about the randomly flipped scenes throughout the film. Done for "framing", but I felt upset on his behalf, given the hours of work disregarded. When you have a character that's inherently asymmetrical, you can't really flip shots willy-nilly.

As for design process, he said it only really took about a day to conceptualize a design on top of Jacob. He inspired him, apparently, with his lithe form and strange, spastic movements. He told me he needed the creature to fit the period, and he and Guillermo really wanted to emphasize the childlike nature of the beast, especially during the beginning phases of his life, hence the baldness and the larger contact lens. He based his scarring on broken stained glass windows, as well as the human muscle anatomy, trying to envision how Victor may have been working on key access points that would need to open.

Mike Hill is an incredible artist, I can't even describe it. I love this dude. He's a phenomenal multi-faceted gem with so many skills, its insane. He likes to do most of the work himself on a project, sculpting from scratch as well as life-casting, hair rooting, painting, all that stuff. This guy does it all. He's so humble, too. Too humble! He complains about his own work to me and I just want to cry because he's so phenomenal and I feel like sometimes he doesn't see it. I wish he'd take me as his apprentice and emotional support friend.

Oh but he also hates when you compare his work to other people's. He got after me for that once. And he messaged me worriedly to the lead-up of my first film viewing because he wanted me to like it so badly lmao. I would post a drawing of the creature and he'd go "You're making me nervous." Like dude YOU made the thing, you shouldn't care what I think. But he does. He and Doug Jones are so kind. Doug's real touchy, too, fixing hair and stuff absently as you talk to him. He was considered to play the creature a decade ago back when the film was to be made under the Dark Universe moniker, I think.

[celestialowlryxs]

How to Train Your Dragon / Flow

[drbtinglecannon]

You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up

[illbeoutofthewoods]

I am heart broken.

[oddarette]

Oooo ahhh. It’s a porcelain snail. I wonder if she’s carrying tea in her shell ☕️

[ismenes]

When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."

I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.

"Inside," he said.

"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.

But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.

"Outside!" he said.

You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.

But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett

[gcballet]

So tired of that godawful "the Creature's scars are reversed in the final shot on purpose" post oh my god stop being stupid.

They filmed the Arctic scenes on location and couldn't easily reshoot when they realised they actually wanted him moving from left to right on screen. Left to right is how most Western languages are read, and it's how audiences process a shot, it's just the standard visual language for film, it would look so weird if they didn't flip the footage and left him moving from right to left.

That is literally the only reason: they had a long shitty overnight with Elordi spending hours in make up and then getting out on location in the snow before actual fucking dawn to get that shot, then realised they fucked up, but doing the whole thing again would be so wildly fucking expensive and maybe not even possible if there was no snow at the location by the time the editor flagged the fact the direction was wrong.

THEY FUCKED UP BC THEY WERE ON A VERY STRESSFUL NIGHT SHOOT IN THE SNOW AND COULDN'T RESHOOT THAT'S ALL IT IS STOP WITH YOUR HALF-BAKED "OH HE'S SEEING HIMSELF WITHOUT OTHER PEOPLE MIRRORING HIM" OR WHATEVER.

[daincrediblegg]

... while that may be true (and I have suspected this as an explanation for why that final shot is that way myself, as a prospective filmmaker who thinks about such things), it's also one of those death of the auteur situations where even though they may not have intended it, it does convey a pretty powerful transformative meaning to that final shot regardless, and people picking up on that in a poetic way isn't a bad thing. And honestly I bet if you asked Guillermo about it directly and he DID confirm that continuity was the main reason behind it, he'd probably tell you that he kept it that way because he thought about it that way too when he was editing and/or that he loves the way people are interpreting it that way because, if nothing else, he loves the poetry of the conversations we all have around art, and this one is a particularly great one to have.

[titsay]