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tgtbata

my piece for the wonderful @very-sincerely-yours-zine 💙🔍

#tender smiles 😭#fan art

mikimeiko

The Expanse | 3x06. Immolation

#it's cheesy and it works like gangbusters #love the amos prax thing #should rewatch #the expanse

fuckyeahilovefilms

#just watched #rewatch #been on a bit of a lonely island kick recently (ie i watched roy rulez for the 7000th time a couple weeks ago)#thought i would check back in with macgruber #feel about the same way as the first watch #it just never quite lifts #everything feels assembled correctly and everyone's doing what they need to do #and most of the jokes are good and true #but it's somehow heavy instead of light #muted instead of sparkling #maybe because it rarely surprises or the tone remains so steady?#maybe philippe not knowing how to be a funny straight man?#forte is genuinely one of the funniest humans alive tho #jorma taccone #will forte #kristen wiig #lonely island #i'm surprised there's so little of it on tumblr #some of those jokes do deserve preservation

talesfromthecrypts

Mickey 17 (2025) dir. Bong Joon Ho

#just watched #first watch #i had it in my head that this was more of a comic thriller for some reason so took a minute to adjust to the okja-parasite blend #love the extremely specific sledgehammer point of mr bong joon ho's view #much like okja less somehow than the sum of its parts #and i don't know if it will have an image that haunts me as much as the abbatoir fields of okja #but stronger than okja overall #i enjoy the way all those parts are introduced so casually and weave together #it gives everything a disjointed but intentional weight #like the creepers starting out as a hoth-wampa reversal before developing into a huge part of the plot and argument #and pattinson giving a pattinson-class performance is always a thrill #bong joon ho #robert pattinson

classichorrorblog

The Addams Family (1991)

#just watched #rewatch #we thought it might be time to try jurassic park last night but the opening scene was Too Scary haha #all suggestion -- entirely goreless -- but that's peak spielberg for you #so we changed direction rapidly #let me tell you morticia and wednesday were a HIT #the essential perversion of this #the ceaseless repetition at every level of 'they think bad things are good and good things are bad'#is the funniest easiest and most rewarding thing for a 6yo to grasp #the magic in all that simplicity is that it's a great pleasure for the adult viewer too #gotta be the verve with which the core cast and craftspeople approach their jobs #every joke (witness the above) is doubly-layered and perfectly paced and arranged #it's just delight after delight #barry sonnenfield #angelica houston #raul julia

tgtbata

you recognize an open door

#ahhhhhhh so cute and vivid!#love how the pool edge divides the frame into a white and blue field #love their lovely bodies #Dean must take advantage when he has the opportunity to be taller #wincest #fan art

thirdtwin3

"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" 02.16 (1998)

#rip to a real class act #anthony head #😭

antiqueanimals

Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) Wild Horses of Nevada. 1927.

Wikimedia Commons

#this was my lockscreen for ages #art #maynard dixon #horses

rogerdeakinsdp

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2004 — Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Directed by Peter Weir Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

“Master and Commander — gee, that was a hard film to make. There is no easy film, of course, but Master was very demanding physically — because of the water, even though a lot of it was shot in the tank in Mexico that had been built for Titanic. Peter Weir once said to me — and I’ll never forget it — he said, ‘Come on and do a film of mine, and I’ll take you on an adventure.’ And he does!” — Russell Boyd for The American Society of Cinematographers, February 2018

#just watched #rewatch #these gifs load very slow they must be enormous haha #i mean #close on a perfect movie #the only places where it doesn't work for me are when for the purposes of it being a movie #one tells another guy something that the other guy already knows #also boyd (billy) is a weak link unfortch - badly cast #too essentially pippin haha #there's only one shot where you get a shocking sense that he's normal sized #even if i didn't think he was poor casting for bonden specifically i think i'd think he was still misfit #but whatever - that's like it #shares a quality of many of my favourite movies of of absolutely hypnotizing and subsuming you to its rhythms from the first frame #along with the black stallion is in my person canon of all time greatest achievements in sound effects and editing #this time around i noticed drunk blakeney with the remains of his chocolate galapagos dessert around his mouth #so impeccably precious #russell crowe #paul bettany #peter weir #james d'arcy #russell boyd #aubreyad

zmediaoutlet

fic: the treachery of images (chapter seven)

pairing: Jared/Jensen rating: E length: 13k (part 7) tags: Alternate Universe - Hollywood, Actor Jensen Ackles, YouTuber Jared Padalecki, Celebrity Crush, Recreational Drug Use, Closeted Character, Slow Burn

For as long as he’s been playing Captain America, Jensen Ackles can’t do anything in public without being recognized. As a result he spends a lot of time at home and in his trailer, watching YouTube. The opportunity to meet his favorite YouTuber comes as a surprise; what follows is a bigger one.

note: This is called out in the tags, but to be clear: this is an AU where Jensen and Jared live in Los Angeles, but the characters in this fic are only loosely based on the lives of the real actors. All other celebrities mentioned are ‘themselves,’ inasmuch as is possible for a fic depiction.

This is a multi-chapter story, intended to post once a week on Wednesdays. I expect it to be eight chapters, based on the current length.

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Chapter seven: in which one truly weighs the relative value between a pipe and an image of a pipe

(AO3)

#big brain z hits again #the deep detangling thought that goes into every bit of this is kinda creatively inspirational ngl #reading this chapter made me think about performance and life roles and sacrifice and being a mother and all sorts of wild shit #got tears in my eyes!#it was fascinating and compelling to see 6.5 chapters/a half lifetime of jensen's almost brutal rationalisations get renegotiated here #how purposeful he is about reading and restructuring his paradigms #(that he has developed for important reasons of psychological safety and self-understanding and meaningful being-in-the-world!)#jared is such a good thing for him (i love him so mu-huh-huh-huh-huch etc)#fic recs

the-ravening

At risk of getting too pedantic up here, one thing I’ve noticed is that often when we talk about metaphor, we’re actually talking about simile. We’re poetically likening one thing to another thing. And similes are very handy—I myself have bandied about more than my fair share along the way. But I’ve come to prefer the quiet authority of a true metaphor. Not saying that something is like another thing, but saying that it is that thing. And performing this feat of semantic transmutation so vividly and so concretely that the reader accepts it as truth. […] simile requires little more than imagination and intelligence. Simile by dint of its phrasing seems to doubt itself. It’s polite and socialized and it leaves room for the possibility that others see the world in a different way. Semantically speaking, metaphor doesn’t apologize or try to justify itself. A proper metaphor hurtles its audience deep into the private mythological landscape of the writer. It imparts upon its audience a sudden, bracing fluency in the writer’s private symbolic language. Metaphor is artless and unaffected and feral. You could say it’s raised by wolves, but more to the point, it’s raised outside of words. A good metaphor makes me shiver, as if a ghost has passed through my body, because in a way it has. Metaphor is a kind of immortal certainty. You might not agree lastingly with the words you’re reading, you might not even be able to later recall the electric sensation of summoning and possession and resurrection that shot through you when you encountered this writer’s words. But in that one moment, you walked freely within their symbolic domain, preserved and untouched and momentarily more tangible than your own. In that moment, the fog never could have rolled in on anything besides little cat feet.

– Joanna Newsom, City Council, Nevada City declares May 27th 'Joanna Newsom Day'

#fun #give her more keys #joanna newsom #writing