A Ribbon At A Time

A Soul Made Out Of Glitter.

[priorwaltress]

the change in tone between iwtv and tvl was one of the most exciting creative decisions i've seen in years. reorienting the style and genre of the entire production around the point of view character's personality works so well to reinforce the central themes: the frailties of memory, the impossibility of escaping your own limited point of view. and frankly it was so so funny. but i also love how it worked to deepen our understanding of the characters: the lush, gothic elegance of the first two seasons isn't the show's "world," that's just what it's like in LOUIS' psyche. one william kisses for the team as always

[winslowat3am]

Fidèle, the most photographed window dog in Belgium 🐾

[mangled-by-disuse]

OK i put together my presentation

(it still needs prettifying but it's late and i have more actual work to do)

*ahem*

slide deck, please:

[mangled-by-disuse]

important notes from the presentation:

three different people looked at "his dad is a dick" and strenuously disagreed that this was irrelevant, so, you know. i stand corrected.

we are all very sad that boromir lost his horse. even though the horse, canonically, was fine.

i always forget that people who are primarily film fans just Do Not Know that bilbo ground the whole council of elrond to a halt to give a poetry reading and complain about the catering.

why is this allowed? because bilbo is elrond's emotional support hobbit. frodo is bilbo's emotional support hobbit which is why he adopted him. sam is, of course, frodo's emotional support hobbit. merry and pippin are everyone's emotional support hobbits. fatty bolger is nobody's emotional support hobbit because he stayed in the shire, where fortunately Nothing Bad Happened At All, Definitely Not

i have been vehemently vindicated in my belief that "curse you and all your kin to darkness and death!" is an entirely valid response to being called before 11am

i'm glad i included both the concluding slides because they got the biggest laughs of the presentation

[isolabellz]

first time shane meets svetlana ilya isn’t actually around. Shane comes to boston to spend a rare weekend with ilya but when he lets himself inside he’s met with svetlana who acting like they’ve known each other for years launches into a rant about how she just found out her boyfriend secretly got married behind her back for citizenship which isn’t what she’s mad about she’s more mad that he lied and she had to find out when she was going through papers on his desk and found the prenup but she broke up with him and took his giant golden doodle which she is stashing at ilya’s house for the time being and shane’s just standing there like he stands having no idea what to say to her which is not helped by the fact he’s trying to keep a respectful distance from the dog who keeps trying to stick his nose into his crotch and svetlana is acting like she doesn’t notice but then they bond because his boyfriend once threatened a citizenship marriage to someone else so he can kinda relate to the feeling so svetlana is like “fuck this i need a drink and you’re coming with” and drags Shane to a bar with her which of course gets photographed but before those pictures are posted ilya comes home to find an empty house and a giant dog sleeping on his couch and he’s so confused he takes a picture and texts shane is like “this is either the best of day of my life and you bought me a dog or the worst day of my life because you’ve been cursed by a witch and turned into a dog but don’t worry i will break curse and if i can’t i’ll still love you forever” and shane’s honestly a little too tipsy to deal with the way that text makes him feel like he wants to cry so he texts back “come pick us up” ilya responds “us???” and shane sends a video of svetlana holding the bartender hostage by drunkingly retelling her breakup story AGAIN but in russian this time so the poor guy has no idea what she’s saying. anyway ilya picks them up and brings them home and he can’t hide the stupid grin on his face and how light he feels that he didn’t even have to lock his too favorite people in a room together so he can introduce them like two feral cats and so when they get home he makes them all tea with slices of lemon and they sit on the couch, the dog despite being almost twice her size curled up in Svetlana’s lap and they gossip about svetlana’s ex and not once mention hockey and shane’s like “wow this must be how it feels to be a normal person in a normal relationship” anyway when the photos finally get released of shane and svetlana drunk at a bar and ilya coming to pick them up everyone online is confused as fuck as to what is going on because literally no context of the three of them being in the same room makes any sense and for the whole weekend people are asking for proof of life of shane because they all think ilya killed him for stealing his girlfriend or something stupid like that meanwhile shane hasn’t gone on his phone for 72 hours because once svetlana leaves shane and ilya spend the whole weekend fucking only coming up for air to eat and use the bathroom so when Shane gets papped at the airport there obviously aren’t any hickies because they aren’t fucking stupid but there is still the sense that he just got mauled by a bear (no pun intended) so at the next press conference Shane is forced to make a statement that no there was no threat to his safety while he was in boston and him and ilya just happen to have a mutual friend

[roubeedoobeedoo]

Any vampire truthers out there?

[koiagain]

Stop Humidity the air is trying to touch me Inappropriately

[ankle-beez]

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

[ankle-beez]

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

[starcatboy]

I had unsupervised internet access as a child and I turned out- *remembers every word that comes out of my mouth all the time*- insane.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field as Daniel Molloy INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

[vaspider]

Legit at first I thought they ran Eric through some de-aging CGI, Luke is just that fucking good.

[hollywoods]

THE MUMMY 1999, dir. Stephen Sommers

[willgrahamscock]

I’m really happy for them, congratulations 💍

[the-patrex]

[sexybritishllama]

just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews

[userarmand]

armand + text posts [s3 edition]

[lamiasage]

needed to draw Armand on that motorcycle because those glasses are everything

[reticent-vampire]

– Interview with the vampire 2.02

[thevampirecaspian]