before fire could catch me

Eryn (she/her). 30s. Displaced Midwesterner. Book dragon. Struggling writer. Theatre lover. Baseball fan. Shakespeare enthusiast. Actual Cosette. Forever Swiftie. I also post about scary movies and I'm probably currently obsessed with a TV show that ended years ago.

[swiftzeldas]

I’m not even like necessarily a Christopher Nolan fangirl. I fucking adore inception and Oppenheimer but I dislike his Batman trilogy and i found dunkirk so boring I turned it off midway through (maybe I should give it another chance). The Odyssey is just an incredible feat. It’s not the type of movie that gets made anymore. It’s an epic about gods, magic, monsters, and the hubris of man and it takes itself so seriously. Most filmmakers are afraid of this kind of earnestness. And this is THE blockbuster of the summer!

[myrnadalgleish]

downton abbey + haunted houses (part 4)

Ash by Tracy K. Smith

[goslinggf]

Dragon Age: Origins (2009) dev. Bioware

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[clytemnestraaa]

one of my creative writing professors once said that to evaluate a work as good or not, first you ask what the work is attempting to do, and then you evaluate how well it does it. and this is how to judge everything from critical essays to romance novels to snack packaging to theory tracts.

[swiftzeldas]

what if I said Erin Kellyman should have played Athena in the odyssey

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[swiftzeldas]

we need more movies with detestable villains because I s2g I have not loathed a movie villain like I hated rpattz in the odyssey in AGES. I would have applauded when he died if anybody else in the theater had joined in

[swiftzeldas]

Elliot Page supporting actor nomination RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

[katebeckets]

idiots (affectionate)・[77/?] ⤷ 3.22 — “Quagmire”

[frodo-sams]

"The land was rich and kindly, and though it had long been deserted when they entered it, it had before been well tilled, and there the king had once had many farms, cornlands, vineyards, and woods. Forty leagues it stretched from the Far Downs to the Brandywine Bridge, and fifty from the northern moors to the marshes in the south. The Hobbits named it the Shire, as the region of the authority of their Thain, and a district of well-ordered business; and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk."

[livingintheglitterbaby]

7.18.2026

[swiftzeldas]

thinking about dragon age. The iron bull would be perceived really differently if he were a conventionally attractive man but then again I guess the point is he isn’t that

[starcut-sand]

the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.

[sayspeaknow]

[slimegargoyle]

guys you gotta stop thinking of women in their 30s as elderly it’s just misogyny

[courtesyname]

you also gotta stop thinking about actual elderly women as lesser human beings. Youth is not a measure of one’s worth.

[okthisway]

You… are as surprising as ever.