In a cupboard. Under some barricade.

- Rini - - - I make it so TV can get made... - - Musical Lover. - - General Fangirl. - -  mdzsnet

[rinielle]

The Tate bros got arrested and charged with even more crimes. Spain beat Argentina. Reform have dropped like 5 points in the polls and Farage is still gonna spend his summer arguing with a bin.

Ah. Gotta celebrate the good days when they come.

[gerardwaysbob]

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[therozanov]

THE UNTAMED | episode 3

[rinielle]

I don't think I have fully processed that I actually saw MCR at Wembley... like that really happened.

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[shitpostingkats]

Everyone else when they’re undercover during a con: *just standing around* *miming the actions of the job they’re supposed to be doing* “What supervisor, there’s a very valid reason I’m not doing my job, I, uh……”

Eliot freaking Spencer: Guys stop the crime for a minute I have to go deliver these pizzas. I have to plate 300 hors-d'œuvres by 7:00. Get out of my way I have to go build a house with my bare hands.

[igorafvckassbowlcut]

there are days where NO ❌️ video games are played and there are days where video games are played for 10 or maybe 14 hours straight

[rinielle]

Exercise videos will be like:

Hey! Here's the simplest way to get started building your strength back up.

-demonstrates a thing-

And I will attempt it, immediately fail, continue to try, continue completely failing. Sit on the floor. Cry. And then stop bothering for 3 months.

Meanwhile. My body is falling apart.

This is sooo fun.

[bethanydelleman]

The thing that pisses me off about bad period movie adaptations is when they go for a realist tone but don't care about what real people wore or thought. Like the tone is realist, the acting is realist, the colour palette is realist, and the clothes are things that real people at some point in time have worn. But they aren't accurate to the period, and it's just like. That's not a realistic depiction of the period or the people in it. So what's the point in being realist???

Incidentally, this is why I don't care that the recent Wuthering heights wasn't realistic period dress or society etc. It was blatantly symbolic (and Symbolic!) and wasn't trying for realism or period accuracy, so I don't criticise it for period inaccuracy. Like, who walks across the moors in a massive tulle gown in real life? No one ever, and that's the point. It's obviously performance, and that's what its going for. My criticisms are based on other criteria.

But this new adaptation of S&S seems realist - the colour palette and grading, the costumes and hair that aren't accurate but look like something real people at some point in time have worn, the characters that read like real(ish) modern women... It's trying to read as realist without being realistic and just. What's the point in setting it in the past then?? Why adapt Sense and Sensibility, a realistic realist novel, into an unrealistic realist movie?

I'm just so tired of earth tones being "realist." People wore bright clothes! The past wasn't drab, honestly it might have been brighter than now given our whole obsession with beige minimalism.

But no, it's not realistic unless it's BROWN and BORING

This is just modern minimalism imposed on the past. Just make a modern.

This is all just P&P 2005 recycled over and over

[mimicofmodes]

The thing I find particularly irritating is that they will then justify it with stuff like "and people didn't sit still for hours and hours to have their hair and makeup done everyday! stuff wasn't pristine because they lived in it! and those fashion plates only reflect the absolute top of society!" (as the writer for this adaptation did). Because it's like,

a) If you are doing Jane Austen, you are doing the top of society, percentage-wise. Stop lying to yourself. (Even the Dashwoods. They're poor in comparison to their previous situation but they still have incomes and more to the point, their old clothes.) They have servants. There is someone waiting to help them change clothes.

b) Oh my god it does not take hours to twist someone's hair up and stick a comb in it, and cosmetics were minimal. The alternative to pristine is not "full blown mess".

c) Have you ever heard of this marvelous technology, "cotton printing"? It had been around in Europe for about a century by the Regency and recent technological advances had made printed cotton even more affordable by 1800, such that basic prints were quickly becoming the cheapest and most common fabrics among the poor and middle class. The more you know!

[marmota-b]

Re: a) & c): And even without cotton printing, when you look at images that actually depict even lower class, not-up-to-date-fashionable people of the era in landlocked areas of Europe where cotton may have been a bit more of a hassle to acquire still, guess what, they LOVED their colour. Some colours might have been more affordable than others, but if a peasant girl in Bohemian-Moravian Highlands* in 1814 who's literally depicted barefooted and with a sickle in her hand can afford red and blue in her outfit, your Dashwoods can definitely afford colour. It doesn't take that much to put different colours of yarn in your warp to create some stripes in your fabric, as this girl (and the entirety of traditional women's garb from this area) demonstrates neatly.

*) For further context: One of the top areas in Czechia from which people emigrated into the US for better prospects later in the century.

(Original source is Miroslava Ludvíková: Kvaše z roku 1814)

With cotton printing... seeing her kerchief... My initial gut instinct at point c) was I wanted to say "I live for the day someone puts a Regency era character in indigo resist print", and then I realised I don't have to because F. L. Věk already did back in 1971. (Well, a 1790s character.) Sadly in black & white. That series is far from authentic in its costuming, but I get the sense at least it did not commit this mistake of "realism".

Epizoda 11/13 - F. L. Věk | Česká televize

Dávný sen českých vlastenců se splnil. Rakouský císař se vydal na Hradčany, aby přijal korunu českých králů.

Re: b): Can confirm, I live my life in an everyday braid and zero make-up or jewellery and the constant ADHD state of "oops, I kind of forgot I'm leaving in ten minutes", and even I am capable of putting my hair up for the occasional Regency event! In my version it goeth thusly: 1) Take your braid; 2) Fold it up the back of your head; 3) Stick about six or eight U-hairpins in it along its length. Ta-da, you have an updo! (I have not got a comb. Haven't found one that looked authentic enough with long enough teeth to feel like it could actually hold my hair.)

[moethh]

die die die

[lycosofscribes]

It's a pain in the ass, but it's my pain in the ass!

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[fursasaida]

adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

[nondelphic]

writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Book that was good: I liked it 👍

Book that was bad: this sucked 👎

Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me

[a-book-of-creatures]

I don’t know why I’m making it exclusive to books. Any other media too. Sometimes I forget that there are things other than books.

[future-crab]

Buffy Summers saved the world with the power of friendship and unnecessary backflips.

[future-crab]

and☝️ the power of libraries