#about ghosts

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[image description: a screenshot from season 2 episode 6 of bbc's "Ghosts" showing the Captain, Fanny, Kitty, Julian, Thomas, Alison and Mary huddled in front of the window as they watch the second bride arrive. /end ID]

this shot. this damn shot. i've been raving about the composition since i first saw it and i know i've said this all before. i know it's my favourite shot. i know it does an amazing job at showing that this moment is most significant to the captain by centering him even as he doesn't say anything. i know i always feel the special tension of this moment, soaking up what everyone else has to say about this, what everyone elso might have to say about YOU. i know it's an exceptional example of how to tell a silent queer story focussing on interal conflicts rather then the external. i know fanny and alison arguing about the morality of a same-sex marriage are placed each at one of the captain shoulders as if they are his own internal argument of old formality he clings to for comfort against new ideas he's trying to grapple with. i know, i know, i know. and STILL! after 2 years! i watch this scene and it still hits me like a brick!!!

[nonesuchrecords]

Here's Mary Halvorson's "Carved From," from her forthcoming album, About Ghosts, due June 13. The video was made by Robert Edridge-Waks, from DM Stith's album cover artwork. 

Halvorson performs on About Ghosts with her sextet Amaryllis: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles join the ensemble on five tunes, and Halvorson adds Pocket Piano synthesizer overdubs on a number of tracks, including "Carved From."

[purpleminte]

When you think about it, it’s a bit goofy how ghosts in things just sorta like to exist purely to be scary.

Like simply being dead and the shock value of proof of life beyond death isn’t what’s frightening, it’s more like “I’m gonna stand in the corner of your room or in the mirror and like.. pull my skull out from my mouth and throw it at you because… reasons." and shit like that. Like lost souls just have nothing better to do than gaslighting and pranks I guess ??

[the-blind-assassin-12]

A 👻 HYPOTHETICAL ?

Not saying it’s going to be ANYTIMESOON (like at all- think more along the lines of October 31st) but if I were to write a ghost story, complete with spooks and scares,who of all the characters currently on my Disasterlist Masterlist do you think would be the right candidate for a good old fashioned haunting?

Current victims include: Din, Ezra, Oberyn, Javi, Whiskey, Billy, Logan, Ryan, Benjamin, Caspian, Nick, John

No wrong answers here! I have a few thoughts about a few of these characters but they’re very wispy thoughts and I would love to hear what you guys think!!

AND AN UPDATE NO ONE ASKED FOR:

June Prompts will start showing up this week. You guys asked for so much skinny dipping 😏

[welcometothetripguys]

A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they're just what we want to see

Steven Crain

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you know

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thinking about thomas .... like we know he mostly liked seeing himself as a poet but his poetry wasn't really that successful (/good?) and he was just well enough off to afford living like that + he said his family was very supportive. and when he was trying to prepare alison for the interview, he might not have been a good teacher but those were genuine technics for speaking on stage, like this man has had actual training.

and just. that scene where he describes the sunset and it's really good when he doesn't think about it but sucks when he tries to make it deliberately poetic. he actually is naturally good with words and i imagine when he was young he got a lot of praise for it and people suggesting he become a writer, but every time he goes to write something down he can't. imagine having a passion for an art and a natural talent, but somehow still not being able to do an actual piece that you could share with people that comes close to what you could do.

as an artist myself i am full on weeping