Strawberries

doing too much and not enough at the same time

[themoonandmyman]

ever since Jacob said that the show is formatted through memories I can’t help but notice that structure even more significantly. The hockey games are a blur, we don’t see them, because in Hollanov’s memory, the only thing that stands out is each other. It’s exactly how memory works, especially when you love someone- the reality of it blurs over time, but they remain vivid. You fixate on certain details, touches, kisses. (One of my favourite scenes in the whole show is Shane talking to Rose and remembering his encounters with Ilya)

I honestly think this conscious decision throughout is what makes the time jumps completely seamless, because we’re still grounded in the emotional reality of these memories.

It’s what I personally like to call ‘trim the fat’ writing, which so many shows fail to do, with bloated scripts and way too much exposition and audience handholding. JT said ‘fuck that’ and I respect it heavy

anyway I love the little vignettes. #ourvignettes <3

[strawberriesfiend]

Hayden Pike threw the like 20th puck at hockey stonewall, and we thank him for his efforts

[strawberriesfiend]

While I'm giving music opinions that no one cares about, Sunday is the better version of Linger, and it upsets me that Linger got all the attention

[strawberriesfiend]

So I have a playlist called "Songs that should be in the canon" (sorry it is private, but I will probably make a follow up about what songs are there and why) and it's interesting how many of them are about being in a specific time/age Chasing Cars with "forget what we're told, before we get too old" and Lover You Should've Come Over with "too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" and Landslide's "time makes you bolder, even children get older and I'm getting older too". Makes me wonder, partly it is personal, given it's a playlist I made, but I have tried to be objective (my favourite songs did not make the cut) and there are plenty of other songs to consider in this conversation.

Are the best songs(and pieces of art in general) those that perfectly capture how it feels to be caught in a moment. That's something songs do very well in my opinion, capture a moment, using all the layers it takes to make a song, the lyrics, the voice, the instruments (idk I'm not the most musically inclined person so I cannot comment on specifics) but this is just a thought I've been having.

Also any recommendations would be very appreciated, this playlist is limited, as all things are, to my experiences, and I'm just generally always searching for more.

[strawberriesfiend]

Based on discussions irl I feel I must qualify what makes something "part of the canon" not it's influence on the rest of music, not that it has to be a certain age, rather, it has to be about a specific interesting idea/feeling/whatever, and it has to be well executed. For example Lana Del Rey's "Did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean boulevard?" qualifies as it is about a fear of being forgotten an a desperation to be loved, with the metaphor of the tunnel under ocean boulevard, once beloved, now forgotten, being a representation of Lana, and the twist of the final verse from "don't forget me, there's a tunnel under ocean boulevard" to "don't forget me, like the tunnel under ocean boulevard" is simple yet beautifully effective, partnered with all the other great writing throughout the song, it takes you on a journey, it is beautiful to listen to, you can hear that desperation throughout the music, and it is overall just interesting, "making the personal, universal" who doesn't want to be loved, who hasn't feared that they will be abandoned by all who love them?

[strawberriesfiend]

So I have a playlist called "Songs that should be in the canon" (sorry it is private, but I will probably make a follow up about what songs are there and why) and it's interesting how many of them are about being in a specific time/age Chasing Cars with "forget what we're told, before we get too old" and Lover You Should've Come Over with "too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" and Landslide's "time makes you bolder, even children get older and I'm getting older too". Makes me wonder, partly it is personal, given it's a playlist I made, but I have tried to be objective (my favourite songs did not make the cut) and there are plenty of other songs to consider in this conversation.

Are the best songs(and pieces of art in general) those that perfectly capture how it feels to be caught in a moment. That's something songs do very well in my opinion, capture a moment, using all the layers it takes to make a song, the lyrics, the voice, the instruments (idk I'm not the most musically inclined person so I cannot comment on specifics) but this is just a thought I've been having.

Also any recommendations would be very appreciated, this playlist is limited, as all things are, to my experiences, and I'm just generally always searching for more.

[charlunday]

Thinking about how Snow poisoning both himself and his target is the only thing that makes sense for his character, because with every evil act he does, he justifies it by victimizing himself

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[prmcafwh]

So anyway. They're all at least 60 by now.

Camilla stayed single all her life. She lives alone in her grandmother's old house in Virginia, and sits in the rocking chair at night and stares at the fireplace, smoking a Lucky Strike with old country songs murmuring on the radio, and tries to read Jane Eyre, but her thoughts always wander. To Henry. To Charles. To what once was.

Charles never did move out of the trailer he used to share with his girlfriend. Francis's yellowed, unopened letter is still lying somewhere deep in a drawer. He gets the odd job sometimes, washing cars or dishes or toilets. All the little money he has goes to liquor. What more does he need, anyway? His only aim in life is to forget. The owner of his usual place lets him stay past closing time sometimes, and play the out of tune piano, and slurred notes of Chopin fill the empty place, and he imagines they're all still there, in the library, where they can hear him play. But when he's finished, the lazy applause of his friends and the bright smile of his sister fail to appear.

The older Francis gets, the younger the men he goes home with. The doorman sees a new small nineteen year old blond leaving the building every morning, some looking shameful, others almost proud. He meticulously keeps up his socialite facade in public, but as soon as he's home alone, the mask is dropped, the cigarette is lit, and he sits in the windowsill chainsmoking. Looking at the sky. Wondering where Henry is. Wondering what could have been. Wondering why he's still here. His bright red hair slowly but surely fades to gray.

Richard habitually stays up till four or five, looking at the TV without watching it, taking sleeping pills without going to sleep, wandering the city for hours without going anywhere. He leaves coffee stains on the papers he grades. He lets dirty dishes pile up for weeks. Henry still visits him in his sleep, but his shadow vanishes when he wakes. He was born alone in California, and there he will die alone.

[anothergoddammystery]

The only way I can read The Secret History is as a comedy, the whole thing is hysterical.

A group of 20year olds decide the only way to re-enact an ancient sacred ritual is to get apocalyptically drunk and they’re right.

The French professor has unexplained beef with half of his own department.

They plan to get away with murder by running away to Argentina, then by mushroom poisoning, then by just shoving a guy off a cliff.

There’s an ongoing subplot about an evangelist car mechanic.

Everyone is high at least 40% of the time, mostly using a college dorm’s communal coke mirror.

Richard nearly dies of hypothermia and spends the whole time thinking that’s just how New England is because he’s too Californian to know the difference.

[strawberriesfiend]

it's important to note the plan was really just "do whatever Henry comes up with" they really thought he was an infallible genius, it's a wonder he didn't kill himself due to the sheer pressure that would put any sane person under.

[strawberriesfiend]

I think The Inheritance Games tv will either only be one season (if it gets cancelled) or only the first trilogy, I just don't see them making The Grandest Games trilogy. Firstly because I don't think it is as good for a tv show, the first three books are able to feel both compact and grounded, while also having some good world building. With The Grandest Games I think it just became too surreal, like I can forgive spending lots of money on adding secret passageways in your house, because it's your house, it's an investment, making elaborate houses solely for one game seems wasteful in a way I don't think the current climate would enjoy. Also there is something to tie the first three books together, the mystery of why Avery inherited the money, you can tell it was planned from the start. Whereas the second trilogy is more just character stuff, which is funny because it focuses mostly on characters introduced later down the line.

My one exception in I think The Brothers Hawthorne will feature somehow, I think the book is a good exploration of the two brothers and I can see the flashbacks there making an appearance, although again I think the plot probably will not. Maybe if they are desperate for a secondary plot at some point they will introduce the Graysons and Sheffield Grayson's reasons for attempting to kill Avery.

And to be honest I think if they try and fit in stuff with the Mercy it will just serve to make the story worse, and again, less focused.

[strawberriesfiend]

thinking conrad fisher is 'toxic' for being depressed when his mum was dying, and therefore being unable to the perfect boyfriend tells me two things, you lack empathy and you do not understand how plots and character development works, he gets better guys, he confesses how he feels towards Belly, multiple times and is willing to stand by it, and you used that as further evidence of him being toxic, it really is damned if you do damned if you don't

[strawberriesfiend]

All too well is such a good song becuase it has the catarsis of silver springs,

[strawberriesfiend]

What Never Have I Ever did well was have Devi be messy on purpose, this woman not only dated two men at the same time, thoroughly enjoyed the fact that she was leading them both on. The Summer I Turned Pretty on the other hand was obsessed with people viewing Belly as a good person, when she should have been messy, she should have been dreaming of Conrad on the night of her engagement, and her wedding. I still think she should have fantasized about cheating on Jeremiah with Conrad, it would sell Belly and Conrad's love story more if it was clearer she was in love with Conrad, which it was obvious, but it should have been more so.

[strawberriesfiend]

Kaz Brekker and Nikolai Lanslov actually mirror each other so much that i don't think you can have a thorough conversation about the characters without discussing them in opposition to each other. Nikolai is what Kaz pretends to be, he is a bastard, he does wear gloves to cover scars. Then when they interact Zoya says Kaz is like Nikolai, a boy with an unquiet mind, constantly in need of a challenge. And then you consider the fact that they are both younger brothers, and their older brothers are quite similar, both make stupid mistakes that would haev killed them, mistakes that the younger brother would not have made, then there's the joke that they dealt with those issues in such opposite ways, Kaz threw himself into revenge, Nikolai seemingly got over it easily and took his place as next in line. They both wax poetically over their imaginary parents "my mother is ketterdam i crawled from her harbours" and perhaps my favourite line ever "my mother was an oyster, and i'm the pearl" they're both obsessed with money and gaining more, especially when Nikolai is introduced in his sturmhound disguise, they both did awful things to get their monikers. They both have monikers. If they were swapped at birth they would end up in the same situation, nikolai would have become the bastard of the barrel, Kaz the demon king. Whereas the only other person who could have been in either situation is Zoya if i'm being honest, but her experience is shaped by her status as a woman, and then also as an oppressed woman, but there are defiant similarities that she has with both kaz and nikolai. what is the point, idk i think i would have to give the books a reread, but i would say it is probably something about class, kaz was dirt poor, nikolai was the son of a king, kinda, not

[hyrude]

invariably when i read or watch something and my thought is "i expected this to push the envelope a lot more, this touted itself as being weird but it could have gone further. it also over-explained an already obvious metaphor which comes across as self-conscious and mistrusting of your audience," i'll look at the reviews and half of them will be like "this was so weird im scared WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!!!!!! i didn't know things like this were out there... i don't know who to talk about this with. this shouldn't be allowed to happen"

[strawberriesfiend]

I don't think Linda knew that Willy was cheating on her, one of her introductory lines is that she shares Willy's dream, and throughout the play she forces Biff to play nice with his father and not harm him, because she, like Happy still holds him on a pedestal, they still believe in him, and that's why they're both so unwillinging to let go of the beliefs that are slowly killing all of them, which lead to all of their metaphorical 'deaths' to the capitalistic systems.

[strawberriesfiend]

i cannot stress enough how much i just disagreed with this in my last lesson, with my whole chest I was saying why I think she did know but forgave him, mind you i had no evidence and was just saying she would have stuck with him if she knew, smh

[strawberriesfiend]

I cannot stress enough how the only thing getting me through this setback is a redbull, a bag of skittles, a prexisting plan and Oikawa from haikyu