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[nurtleteck]

finally starting to live my best life n i love it

[vibrantbloom]

hi becks pls do a tv show rec post

Thanks for asking bub, sorry it took me literal weeks to finish it! There are a lot here so just the first ten are above the cut since you wanted my all time faves rather than current shows, these are a mix of what’s important in my heart for tv:

Jane the Virgin: Gina my love, leading up a wonderful cast! This show is my biggest rec, it makes my heart so full

Gilmore Girls: My lifelong fave, I’ve been watching this show for 14 years and I’ve never found a show as important to me

The Good Place: This show was meant to just be a fun light watch and now it’s something I eagerly wait for every week because it’s gotten so damn interesting

The Bold Type: I love these girls so much, it’s the fun group of pals show that I’ve been looking for with the added mix of the Kat sexuality/Kadena storyline

Breaking Bad: This is still the best show I’ve ever watched tbh, I think about it constantly and I just started another rewatch of it! I hated it at first but friends got me to stick with it and it was worth every second in the end

Parks and Rec: One of the best light comedies out there, basically every episode is gold and something you can put on at any time and enjoy

Crazy Ex Girlfriend: Everyone who talks to me a lot knows that I had the weirdest relationship with this show, I hated everything it’s made up of but was fascinated! Now I’m just completely hooked and it’s overwhelming

Lost: This show is a mess and I still love it in my heart, it started my life of analysing tv shows intensely

Big Little Lies: This was prob my show of the year, obviously the subject matter isn’t for everyone but it’s great

Black Mirror: Bleak and dark and so many episodes are things that have stuck with me for years

The Office: I mean we’ve all seen this right? You all get it 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Is there a lot of shit to do with this show? Absolutely but it was also a huge part of me falling in love with tv so here we are

Grey’s Anatomy: Why am I still watching this after 14 years? I have no idea but I’ve watched it every week of those years and still going strong so here we are

Broad City: It disappointed me a bit this season but I think the spark is back in the last couple of eps, the chemistry between Ilana and Abbi is gold

Orange Is the New Black: Has turned to shit in a lot of ways but I’m still in it for a bunch of the characters, even if I expect they might fuck them over

Last Week Tonight: I’ve been following John Oliver for years so I was incredibly happy when he got this show and it’s still one I watch as soon as I possibly can after it’s come out

Scandal: It’s a terrible over the top show in so many ways, especially now but I’d die for Kerry Washington and I know I’ll watch it as long as it’s on

Mindhunter: It wasn’t everything I wanted it to be but still an incredible show and one of my fave directors so I love the style

Chef’s Table: I’m all about food shows in general but I’m so completely here for the montages of food they do at the end of this show

American Crime Story: I thought the OJ series was done extremely well and I’m waiting in anticipation for their take on the other stories they have coming up

UnREAL: This is so trashy but also v well done, I absolutely love this show bc the fake behind the scenes concept speaks to me and I can’t wait for it to be back

New Girl: This is such a comfort show for me, I’m okay that it’s ending but I’ve really loved it over the years

Black-ish: Another fab sitcom, I always need a few comedies in my life

The Handmaid’s Tale: This show is ofc slightly terrifying but such a fantastic adaptation of the book

How to Get Away With Murder: It’s lost the magic now but what a great show it was in the beginning

Humans: I’m so into any sort of dystopia type of tech stuff so this show was right up my alley

Master of None: If you watch nothing else, please just watch the Thanksgiving episode because it makes my heart feel so much

Please Like Me: I just finished a rewatch of this and it’s still such a great gay show to have on, a bit heavy for me at times but great show

Santa Clarita Diet: I really expected to hate this but I actually really loved it and am looking forward to more, becks enjoying an odd humour zombie comedy who saw that coming

Pushing Daisies: This show was weird and both sunny and dark at the same time, it’ll have a place in my heart forever

The Good Wife: One of the only shows I watched week to week up to the very end, my kind of show

[aheartofgold]

The lovely @princesscarriefisher tagged me to post my nine photos of 2017!

I’ve had so many amazing experiences this year, but I’ve also been through some of the most difficult and scary moments of my life. So I wanted to share some photos of just me as a kind of reminder to myself about how much I’ve grown this year, and how I’ve come through all the bad stuff and I’m still smiling!

I want to tag all of the friests, the elephriends and thepinkera to share their photos of 2017, but also if any of you want to do it, consider yourselves tagged!

[vibrantbloom]

I’m going to get to hug some of my fave people next week!! All of us together at the same time for days, unimaginable yet actually happening

[vibrantbloom]

Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Set your entire music library on shuffle and report the first 20 songs that pop up. Then choose 10 victims.

the lovely @rogueandeskimo tagged me to do this

1. all of me wants all of you / sufjan stevens

2. smother / daughter

3. youth / troye sivan

4. that girl / tegan and sara

5. cut to the feeling / carly rae jepsen

6. pride. / kendrick lamar

7. hard times / paramore

8. love & hate / michael kiwanuka

9. what you do to me / john legend

10. coaster / khalid

11. wild horses / the rolling stones

12. dream / bishop briggs

13. midnight river / vaults

14. sober / lorde

15. girls / the 1975

16. both sides now / joni mitchell

17. outside / george michael

18. running up that hill / kate bush

19. the box / damien rice

20. wonderful / lianne la havas

I tag the friests, @thechainlive, @liam--payno, @rapunzelstyles, @wildwomanofthewoods, @princesscarriefisher and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it! Tag me if you do because I’m always looking for music recs

[vibrantbloom]

it’s only four weeks until I see my girls, I could cry with excitement @lizlemo @peachcrema @studyinpink @nurtleteck @pearther @femalfoy

[aheartofgold]

the duality of woman

[vibrantbloom]

how about a classic becks movie rec post?

This was so much harder to cut down than the books one was! I did the best I could but since @johnwatso wanted my little comments on the vibe and that got long, it’s under the cut

General

The Dark Knight - one of my bby heath’s best performances, one of the only superhero films I’ll ever love

Pride and Prejudice - I love these straights with my entire heart

The Importance of Being Earnest - this is my kind of comedy tbh

Room - really hard to watch at points but it’s one of those movies that made me fall back in love with film, I found it breathtaking

The Truman Show - my worst nightmare in a really good film

Inception - I’m still fucked up by this film honestly, what kind of messed up thriller action @ christopher nolan

The Social Network - andrew garfield going off in this film is everything

Walk the Line - did you know this is another film I used to watch at least once a week for a couple of years

Lion - I cried and cried, the casting for little saroo and then dev patel is perfection

Jackie - admittedly the being brought up around jfk obsession might be an influencing factor here but what a performance from natalie portman

Ex Machina - that oscar isaac dance scene will stay with me

Gone Girl - more women fucking things up tbh!!!

The Lives of Others - this follows a Stasi officer who is eavesdropping on a couple and it’s one of the most fantastically put together, heart beating fast films I’ve ever seen

Get Out - I can’t wait for jordan peele to do more stuff, this was truly an instant classic horror film

Sense and Sensibility - I think in hindsight 7 year old me was just a bit in love with kate winslet in this movie, this is still a go to comfort film for me

Romeo + Juliet - as some of you know, I was weirdly obsessed with this movie at age 5 to the point where I’ve seen it hundreds of times so that’s a thing

Persepolis - such a beautiful mixture of gorgeous style and social commentary

Dead Poets Society - absolutely heartbreaking, even worse now with robin williams but a complete must watch if you’re a film lover

Atonement - so many shots in this are completely stunning, a story that will stick with you and also my fave film costume of all time (keira in that green dress)

The King’s Speech - colin firth as king george vi, v quiet gentle film but fantastic

You’ve Got Mail - the height of 90s romcoms with tom hanks and meg ryan and a classic in my heart

Bridesmaids - honestly I can never remember laughing more in the cinema than I did at this movie, I need more good female comedy films

Catch Me If You Can - I just love the playful chase vibe of this film, leo dicaprio was so perfect for it

Misery - read the book first pls!! but then come and enjoy how fucking incredible and terrifying kathy bates is in this film

Musicals

Moulin Rouge - this is one of the film loves of my life, there’s not a single moment you could ask me if I want to watch it and I’d say no

The Sound of Music - man did I go through a sound of music obsession as a kid, I was brought to the singalong as a 7 year old and

Singin’ in the Rain - the dancing alone brings me an unreasonable level of joy, should also be in the classics section and perfect to watch at christmas

Once - this is close to my heart since it’s set all over my city but it’s also just quietly beautiful with one of my favourite soundtracks ever

Billy Elliot - I love the film even more than the stage version, everything about it is so well done and young jamie bell is perfect as our little ballet dancer

Chicago - this film is just such a joy, like considering the subject matter is murder it’s so much fun

Classics

The Philadelphia Story - I also fell in love with katherine hepburn in this film, her with cary grant and james stewart is some of the most amazing early comic timing

Brief Encounter - this is a classic romance on its head a bit and it was a film I absolutely could not thinking about as a young teen, completely fascinating

It Happened One Night - fucking love it, claudette colbert is unbelievable with that sharp tongue and that hitchhicking scene is Iconic

Rebecca - does it feel conceited to say one of my fave films is my name? sure but while this isn’t quite the book, it’s such a classic suspense film

Funny Face - okay that age difference is fucked but audrey hepburn absolutely shines in this film, there’s one dance scene of hers that going to haunt me forever bc it’s weird and oddly sexy and a little genius

Some Like It Hot - great and hilarious all round with amazing comic timing plus classic marilyn, prob one of the first classics I ever fell in love with as a kid

LGBT

Moonlight - this is up there as my joint fave film of all time, it moved me unlike almost anything else I’d ever seen and I think about it every single day of my life

Pride - great story of the lesbians and gays support the miners movement, there’s so much love and joy and pride in this film and it means so much to me

Brokeback Mountain - fun fact: this is the first gay movie I ever saw and I used to watch it at least once a month if not weekly until heath died and I couldn’t anymore but it’s still one of the most heartbreaking and meaningful things in the world to me even if it’s incredibly tragic and ruined me

Carol - 50s lesbians!! they love each other!! I would die for them!!

The Way He Looks - beautiful brazilian teen love story, one of the scenes is the most tender thing and it still makes my heart flutter

The Normal Heart - all the pain, set during the aids crisis and will shatter your heart completely

A Single Man - this film hurts and just be warned for death in general in it but it’s stylistically stunning, as we should expect from tom ford

I Killed My Mother - I think this is still my fave xavier dolan film, plus the paint scene is another iconic one

Documentaries

Citizenfour - the edward snowden stuff fascinates me, watch this rather than the utter shit that is the snowden film

13th - I would watch anything that ava duvernay makes and this is a particularly well made look into race and the prison system

The Queen of Ireland - a bit of a personal thing since my local gay bar is owned by the drag queen star of this film panti bliss but it’s a good look into lgbt stuff in ireland as well

The Celluloid Closet - essential gay documentary watching, gave me as a baby gay a lot to think about