Chronic yapper and overthinker

🌹 Brie | 20s | Bi | NZ 🌹 Certified lover of women/freaks who can't seem to shut tf up about her interests. For your own sanity consider blocking the tag "the bobbing saga continues"

[secretsofthewilde]

Since I think I'm going to start posting more analysis etc, and just want to generally encourage more discussion about my favourite media on here, I figured it would be useful to create this as a sort of masterpost to help navigate/sort through some of my recent posts.

My brain currently tends to be occupied by Wentworth, Phantom of the Opera, Pamela Rabe, Tom Cruise, fandom studies and ✨women ✨

Asks tend to remain open, so if you feel inclined to feel free to drop in with an ask

Links/Side Blogs

My Ao3

Letterboxd

Serializd

@bisexualvampiretrope (horror related)

@akumatrash (animation/comics related)

Analysis etc

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

【Sexual Intimacy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1 -3】: Part 1 (Cordelia, Buffy & Faith) Part 2 (Willow)

Wentworth

【Joan Ferguson & Physical touch】 - Part 1 【Vera and Joan - Saving each other】 【Vera and Joan became mirrors to one another】 - season 8 reflective Vera's difficulty with forming relationships Joan Ferguson is autistic - this is not a serious post about it, but if anyone asks I will turn this into a proper analysis bc I do believe she is Wentworth & human nature/found family - i will return to this if asked to A reflection on Marie Winter - this is very much a brain dump/surface thoughts but I might come back to this later if asked and do a proper right up on her character arc

Deadloch

Half baked summary of thoughts - I will be returning to this later/expanding 【Margaret Curruthers - Mother Coloniser】 【Vanessa Latham - Ignorance through victimhood】 - I will be returning to this as well

Fandom Discourse

【Internalised Misogyny in fandom P1】 - comparing the popularity of m/m and f/f shipping 【Internalised Misogyny in fandom P2】 - the neutralisation of male characters

"Edits" - images + webweaving/quotes

Wentworth

Shit posting etc - mainly just tumblr text post edits

Lost Wentworth Dark (2017)

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[blackheart-biohazards]

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

[dovesndecay]

[awesomebutunpractical]

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

[waddei]

a lot of people seem incapable of giving their favorite characters or OCS opinions that they themselves disagree with and that's very very boring on my opinion

[waddei]

" X character would hate ai art" "x character would vote for (politician you like)" like idk I think making every character a perfect woke internet leftists is boring as fuck. You have to accept that some of your faves would be "apolitical" centrists that don't vote

[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[chupachups]

Christian Lacroix Spring/Summer 1998 Couture

[probuccalfat]

avoidance is lowkey funny because it’s like i don’t want love on the off chance that it gets taken away from me and then i have to become john wick or something

[probuccalfat]

we’re all on the only social media that matters and this is why.

[waddei]

a lot of people seem incapable of giving their favorite characters or OCS opinions that they themselves disagree with and that's very very boring on my opinion

[waddei]

" X character would hate ai art" "x character would vote for (politician you like)" like idk I think making every character a perfect woke internet leftists is boring as fuck. You have to accept that some of your faves would be "apolitical" centrists that don't vote

[moszertone]

William Teason - book cover for "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

by Shirley Jackson

[cozyrogue]

the "rip ___ you would have loved ___" meme is inherently more fun with ancient characters. rip clytemnestra you would have loved morse code. rip theseus you would have loved the airtag. rip callisto you would have loved wearing shorts.

[newsiesiswhyimhere]

rip Icarus you would have loved parachutes

[walkingproof]

the worst thing you can do is let this world steal your whimsy. protect your whimsy at all cost. don’t let these joyless doofuses steal your magic

[bumblingest-bee]

jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

[secretsofthewilde]

So I finally got to see Mārama at a local cinema last night and not only was it such a great experience to see the first gothic māori film on a big screen, but the following Q&A session with director Taratoa provided such beautiful context for the creation of this deeply ambitious and personal debut feature film of his.

Full review available here:

A ★★★★½ review of Mārama (2025)

Whakapapa. Whānau. Utu. From the very first scene Mārama makes it clear that this film isn’t going to be a run of the mill gothic ghost film

I found this film deeply moving and am somewhat doubtful that there will be a film released this year that will knock this one out of the top 2026 film spot for myself personally.

This was the first time I've attended a Q&A event for a film and I'm so glad this was my first one as Gothic Horror is a favourite genre of mine, and Mārama has immediately wound it's way into my favourite gothic films. The conversations had in the Q&A session were so interesting and despite my inability to trust myself to ask a question at the start I thankfully had a friend who realised I had a question I missed out on asking thanks to someone speaking over me and went down to Taratoa after the host ended the session to say their friend (me) had a question. This is why in my review I mentioned Mārama not originally being conceived as a gothic horror, because of course when given the chance to I asked him about whether his original concept from 2020 was intended to be gothic horror. Thanks to my beloved friend I not only got to ask this question and discuss the answer briefly with Taratoa, but he also gave me the below photocard!! (excuse the shitty picture, I took it while tipsy later on that night)

[secretsofthewilde]

With all the talk and praise about how Gothic cinema is so back, I really hope to see people keep this energy up if/when Mārama releases internationally. This looks like it's going to be a really gorgeous film and not only is it one of the first Aotearoa/New Zealand Gothic films, but it's specifically a Māori Gothic horror.

And don't even get me started on the poster design!! I gasped when I saw the tag line on the trailer

Whakapapa. Whānau. Utu.

I like what ive seen so far of Ariana, I enjoyed her as Tui in Madam earlier last year, so I'm excited to see her step up into this leading role.

[johnanderton]

TOP GUN (1986), dir. Tony Scott