Near-life Experience

Miscellaneous. I come here to yell into the void about my various interests

[oleander-neria]

Maybe the real turning into your mother is realizing she was actually right about a lot of things and choosing to be more like her on purpose

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[donteventry-itdude]

i’m telling you

[oleander-neria]

I really don’t understand the concept of Catholic guilt. As if Catholicism wasn’t (one of) the only denominations that offers complete absolution of sins through the sacrament of reconciliation, which Catholics are encouraged to avail themselves of regularly and often. If you are Catholic, you are not supposed to be living in a state in constant, soul-crushing guilt! Go to confession and be free of it!

[heisenbergsays]

can’t believe these two invented romance

[itspileofgoodthings]

when people compare the Brontes to Austen it makes me go feral with rage actually.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

It's quick it's easy it's free - lying down on top of your bedding in your day clothes and just closing your eyes for a bit then waking up five hours later disoriented and dehydrated

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Aha but those five hours are not real time! As is evidenced by the total feeling of unreality after you awake? The 1.4 seconds it takes to fall asleep in this situation however? Very real.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[oleander-neria]

On some godforsaken whim I actually watched the Netflix Persuasion with Dakota Johnson, and I was genuinely surprised that I didn’t completely hate it? I mean it’s not very good and it’s a dreadful adaptation and an enormous disservice to Anne Elliot and Jane Austen, but I didn’t hate it. I think that there was the possibility to do a Persuasion along these lines and do it well. I kept thinking about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but the not zombie parts. It’s goofy and everything is dialed up to eleven, but it’s still recognizable as a fun, campy take on the story. In its better moments the Netflix Persuasion is the same—specifically the supporting characters. I definitely have room in my heart for a Mary Musgrove who says things like “I’m an empath.” Because it’s true to her character! A lot of the supporting cast felt perfectly like themselves, just with this heightened, tongue-in-cheek contemporary styling. I think these kinds of adaptations can work and be fun if done well. Back when they first released trailers for this movie I remember thinking the “now we’re worse than exes, we’re friends” line would actually be perfect for a Clueless-style teen romcom adaptation of Persuasion. After watching the movie I still think that—a lot of the stupid modernizations actually could have fit just fine in an alternate version of this movie that had a stronger identity and better execution.

The real problem is that this movie fundamentally doesn’t understand Anne Elliot, or the main conflict between her and Wentworth. This movie has never even met the real Anne Elliot. Anne is woefully out of character and her and Wentworth’s story is so mishandled that it drags the whole thing down and turns it into an unrecognizably bad adaptation. If they had figured out how to create versions of Anne and Wentworth along the same lines of what they did for characters like Mary, Elizabeth, Sir Walter, and Mr Elliot this could have worked great. This movie knows how to take an accurate read of a character then turn them into a funny, faux-contemporary exaggeration of themselves, it just doesn’t do that for Anne and Wentworth.

On the other hand, I think it is worth asking whether a funny, faux-contemporary version of a character like Anne Elliot could even exist. Unlike someone like Elizabeth in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies who has character qualities that can be exaggerated for comedy, Anne is such a reticent, gentle, and internal character that perhaps an exaggeration of her just couldn’t be made campy and fun. And if that’s the case, then they simply shouldn’t have attempted a Persuasion with these foundational sensibilities, even if it did give us a perfect Mary Musgrove.

[oleander-neria]

ANDREW GARFIELD DR. POMATTER WAITRESS

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[oleander-neria]

Overheard a lady at work say “I just eat salsa straight out of the jar as gazpacho” completely seriously and I feel like that’s the kind of statement that belongs on tumblr

[oleander-neria]

I wish I could turn off my comprehension of the English language so I could fully enjoy the new Great Gatsby cast recording

[oleander-neria]

I think praying for someone might be the ultimate Get Loved Idiot

[symphony-in-a]

hi Symph!! thank you sooo much for posting the Les Mis audios! if i were to request anything else, I would say Bring Him Home, Stars, One Day More, and/or the Finale! 🫶🏻

Bring Him Home had a lot of background noise unfortunately - a plane flew overhead, someone’s phone rang, the person next to me was eating popcorn… but I do have it! Here it is, just bear with me on the audio quality:

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John Riddle makes you forget any background noise, though! I’ll also get your other requests uploaded in the morning - I can’t possibly deprive you of Jordan Donica’s “Stars”!

[itspileofgoodthings]

And some lass would win him over. His nature was loving, and he’d find someone to love.

[oleander-neria]

Look I love Disney movies too, but honestly I am so over the cultural assumption that they are the standard/definitive version of fairy tales

[oleander-neria]

Apparently I’m in the Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 2 phase of this quasi breakup.