Illüme

[scullyillume]

Here's the thing about William telling Victor that he is actually the monster. It's not just about the line. It's about the delivery of the line. It's about the utter tiredness and defeat in William's voice. It's about it not being a realization for him.

What William is saying is "I've known. I have always known. We have always known, and yet we have loved you, and we have helped you"

What does it say about you that no love was ever enough to fill you? What does it say about you that we loved you in your monstrosity, and you can't love your own walking reflection?

[scullyillume]

I did end up writing that mirror analysis, and it is long enough without me going into too much detail. But know that I know that Claire and Elizabeth being played by the same actor, thus falling in doppelganger territory, is also a mirror.

Anyway, here's the mirror analysis ft. Jacques Lacan:

Post by @scullyillume

💬 2  🔁 17  ❤️ 72 · The long awaited, has been haunting me in my sleep, mirror analysis of Frankenstein 2025! One of my favorite psychoanaly

[depsidase]

[blessedbrick]

That's kind of why they exist actually

[scullyillume]

Listen. I could say a lot of things about why I didn't like the Odyssey movie. It barely had any color, most of the spaces felt empty, like these characters moved into the same ruins we know today. I kept looking to the sides of the massive screen expecting to see that space used for something, and it wasn't.

At the end of the day, I didn't like it because I didn't feel anything for most of it. And I simply cannot be moved to care about this story if I didn't feel anything.

[gigglybumbug]

randomly getting intensely interested in some bullshit like

[scullyillume]

Shout out to the first time fan fiction became more recognized than canon: Lancelot. As a whole. Just. Everything about Lancelot.

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[loveridden1999]

one thing you should know about me is that i condone violence

[imwiremother]

‘‘shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media‘‘ i do not ‘consume media’ i read books, i watch movies. like a normal person does. when was this term mass adopted, why is every work of art ‘‘consumed’‘. along with ‘’creating content’’ its terms the little lad on the monopoly box would use

[what-even-is-thiss]

You’d think that once you finally get long term access to a cat and your yearning to have cat access is fulfilled that you’d become slightly less obsessed with seeing people’s cats but no if anything it gets worse

[scullyillume]

Listen. I am not too invested in the ship, and I have shared in the joy very casually up to this point.

But. I think that the "bloodymary" ship is giving me some hope for literacy. I am not remotely joking.

People see two movies, two stories, notice their similarities, the differences, the themes, the characterization. They can tell the stories have the common subject of "man who definitely doesn't want to be here is forced on a one way trip to maybe save humanity," and they notice the difference in circumstances. They notice the different ways in which you can tell a story, and how that changes it from hopeful tragedy to joyous hope.

Then they go "okay, now what if they kiss?"

And, at the end of the day, isn't that what all of us, literary critics, have been wondering since Gilgamesh?

[cparti-mkiki]

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

[butchflint]

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[yeetus-6942069]

[tysonfurybattlepass]

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

[tysonfurybattlepass]

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

[aspiringsorceress]

One of worst things copaganda ever perpetuated is the rhetoric that if you aren't guilty of breaking the law, you shouldn't value your personal privacy against the state's surveillance and interrogation. That only guilty people hire lawyers when talking to police.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

[cheaphalloweencostume]

really? you don’t say

[scullyillume]

If I had a nickel for every time I watched a queer storyline went:

loneliness will try to kill us. If you could just hold my hand, we might make it.

I would have...three nickels. And they hit me every. single. time

[me-and-michael]

Leviticus really said yes life will be harder because I choose to be with you but I choose to be with you despite it all

[doctornerdington]

Loved that the film lets love and fear exist together, without easy resolution.

[fineassdorito]

Happy father's day to Ethan Winters only

[writingblus]

i dont "go on walks," i dont "use character sheets" and i dont "plot before writing," i raw dog it, and if it doesnt flow, I FUCKING CRY.