put something good on

film/tv + books + analysis. an ode to storytelling.

[putsomethinggoodon]

how it started vs how it's going

this blog spawned about two years ago when i decided, you know what? fuck wix, i've got a whole platform with custom themes to shout my wonders and worries into!! while i imagined i'd be more of an active poster--film reviews, book reviews, the like--i'll never not be chronic reblogger. sharing art and storytelling and the characters that twist me up into knots. i think i'm still chasing the high of being a 14 year old fangirl or watching your new favorite movie for the first time.

okay so now what?

i'm pushing myself to make this more than a hobby. i want this to be a creative investment. so i can show myself (and other people) look! look how affected you are! by this, by words, by stories, by fiction. write damn it! read damn it! share it damn it! i slink out of my inspiration cave here and there to revamp this place, but it's time to clean house! words are all we have left <3 here's a little cheat sheet about me/tags/my faves if you're new!

[dogsdayilya]

Loyalty (1869)

— by Briton Rivière

Loyalty (2025)

— by Ilya Rozanov

[catjacket-scribbles]

that mouth of yours is gonna get you into trouble

[lilislegacy]

the concept of percy and annabeth watching a marine life documentary together and annabeth is sobbing because the narrator is discussing climate change effects while sad music plays and percy is giggling because the octopus and shark have been calling each other sea slurs in almost all the footage

[putsomethinggoodon]

i'm writing again!!! here's a wee snip of what i'm working on

(i'm putting pen to paper, finger to keyboard no matter what! no more excuses!!!!)

A lot had changed over the summer. Warren’s disappearance united their small town together in bittersweet camaraderie. There were community search parties and a tip hotline. Meal trains and support groups and safety campaigns in the schools. Then the leads dried up. His name was demoted from the front page of the paper. Warren’s parents unwavering hope curdled into frantic desperation. His mom camped outside the police station most days, badgering every officer that passed by. His dad sat on the porch with a flashlight at night. He’d swear he saw Warren, running to a son-shaped mirage like a man in the desert. The neighbors could hear him begging in broken voice for Warren to just come home.

No one in town wanted to admit they’d given up looking for him or that watching his happy family unit crumple gave them second hand embarrassment. At a certain point, you couldn’t argue with crazy.

Then Warren came back like he hadn’t vanished for two months. The pink, boyish skin of his hands warped into leather. They were curled into permanent fists, slammed on the grocery store counter in frustration, crunched against his best friend’s cheekbone, yanked on his (now ex) girlfriend’s hair too hard when they hooked up.

(Maggie hadn’t been witness to any of those incidents, but word travelled fast enough.)

She didn’t want to extend a violent man any sympathies. But this was different than a tough break-up or his favorite sports team choking during the big game. He was decidedly different, on a molecular level, and rotting from the inside out. Warren carried himself differently. The muscle and fat sat on his body differently. She’d been studying him long enough to know that. There was something simmering in his blood that didn’t know how to escape except for up on that field.

[lucylehane]

"The sex tells the story, so it never felt gratuitous to me. The sex is character development. The sex is what is moving this relationship forward, and watching it change over time."

Jacob Tierney on It's Open With Ilana Glazer

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[alphauke]

an angel on letterboxd just dropped a whole playlist of films free on youtube I was filled with so much love and light I had to share with you guys

[alphauke]

it also includes short films, animated movies, documentaries of every genre, full recordings of live performances. all spanning different decades from different countries. YOU DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW

[anphivenas]

there are also websites like worldscinema, solidaritycinema, and rarefilmm hosting incredible obscure world cinema for free! and if you're more inclined towards the esoteric, there's also evilbjork's avant-garde canon playlist on youtube! also important to mention Maya S. Cade's incredible black film archive and the otherness archive, an obscure queer cinema archive! You could always be watching more films !

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[valtsv]

[sugurugetos]

THE PITT — S02E13 7:00PM

[eloiscbridgerton]

THE PITT 2.12 – 6:00 P.M.

[natequarter]

unwilling narrator

[natequarter]

the weight of a story is hard to bear but someone's gotta be atlas

[fem-lit]

Tim Squirrell, a researcher studying social interaction in online communities, says: The first thing you notice when you look at an incel forum is a mix of hopelessness and anger. These people genuinely hate and pity themselves, but, simultaneously (and almost paradoxically), they feel this righteous anger and vindication that they see the world for how it really is, even if they’re at the bottom of the heap. That feeling of absolute certainty that they are correct is twinned with the fact that they’re correct about their own misery, and that’s a powerful and strange cocktail.

— Laura Bates (2020) Men Who Hate Women

[putsomethinggoodon]

currently reading this! stay tuned for my thoughts

[putsomethinggoodon]

dodging pitt spoilers like neo and that goddamn BULLET PLEASE HAVE MERCY (im supposed to watch it with roomie bestie but she's BUSY and i am not... something something the devil and idle hands)

[neoyorzapoteca]

Sour Girl: Jenny Zhang | Office Magazine

[yafriendlytranscriber]

Image Transcript:

“There’s a unique kind of mythmaking with narratives. Girlhood is a story of desire; innocence; fall from innocence; being desired; being not desired; being desired by the wrong people; by dangerous people; by the right people; by excitingly dangerous people. There’s so much storytelling in girlhood. There’s so much revision in telling it. There will always be something special about fiction. So much of my girlhood was fictive. I lived in my mind. I made up the girl I thought I was. Whether that’s delusional or not, I really felt the happiest and safest in my fictional girlhood. I think the girls in these stories are the same way. There’s the story of their lives, and there’s the story that they’re telling.”

[eloiscbridgerton]

THE PITT 2.07 – 1:00 P.M.

[da-pitt]