#of a sort

[pyromechanical]

got a fun SOS lineup in rise earlier

[searchingforserendipity25]

the real question wake up dead man (2025) asks is not who is the killer or is god real or what is benoit blanc's favorite musical. the question is can there be such a thing as an excess of stained glass visual callbacks and heavy handed metaphors?

and the answer to that should be as self-evident as the stained glass visual callbacks and heavy handed metaphors. no. the real killer is, as tends to be the case with these movies, entrenched misogyny. we can suppose blanc's favorite musical is les mis or perhaps chicago. god's a story with many uses. and there is no such thing as an excess of stained glass imagery.

[raveninthedusk]

@morgwenmicrofic | prompt: "just this time" | pairing: morgana & gwen

inspired by this tiktok :) i made the list thinking of all the ways morgana and gwen could have been connected while morgana was in camelot, before she became, well, evil. and safe to say i cried :)

[archvillain]

& if you leave me, rest assured it will kill me

[poorlemons]

in a kinder world Sarah, Eric, and Michael would get to be a silly investigative trio that is both very competent and very hazard-prone

[nicklethefool]

Complete Iron Lung rant I spliced together from my friend and I's conversation:

Its the way it does SUCH a good job of making the viewer not know whats real

I love that you could interpret Ava's death either as real or as another hallucination, I love that you can interpret SIMONS death as a hallucination!!!

Did he actually die? Did he become part of the horrors? Did he get eaten? Or was that final climax just another horrifying hallucination conjured up by his oxygen deprived, irradiated, probably concussed dying brain?

Its how there was never any chance that Simon made it off that ship, its the way his fate was always sealed.

There were so many different decisions he could have made, paths he could have taken, he could have been a little more patient, a little more cautious, he could have chosen not to turn himself in for a crime he didnt commit and just try to live with the guilt, but at the end of the day, he was always going to die.

Died with the rest of humanity.

Died by being changed.

Died by the maw of an unknowable creature.

Died alone at the bottom of a red ocean.

It was always. Going. To end this way.

Because its bigger than us.

And its the way they dont shy away from telling us that!!! From very early in the movie, they tell us SIMON IS GOING TO DIE. They dont tell us specifics of course, but its very clear that Simon will not survive the movie from very early on.

We root for him, and we want to believe he'll make it out, he MAKES US want to believe in him, but then he dies.

Because of course he did. This isnt an expedition, its an execution.

And I think thats why this movie is having such an impact on me, its cause I LOVE stuff like that. Where you know deep down that it was always going to end in tragedy but still HOPING and ROOTING for the main character just for all of your suspicions to come crashing into place and you find out to your growing horror that you were RIGHT.

Media that makes you WANT to be WRONG.

Its the way the movie uses space and silence and safety to instill DREAD in its viewers. Its the way it makes you wait and wonder in the quiet, and nothing happens, and you keep waiting and wondering, and nothing happens, and you keep waiting and then it HAPPENS and its horrifying and beautiful and TRAGIC!!

[o-craven-canto]

Thanks, Mesopotamia, for wheat, barley, peas, chickpeas, lentils, figs, apples, pears, plums, dates, pomegranates, cherries, beef, mutton, and pork.

Thanks, Mediterranean Basin, for olives, cabbages, asparagus, beet, celery, fennel, oregano, peppermint, sage, coriander, and hops.

Thanks, Central Asia and Europe, for onions, garlic, carrots, spinach, pistachio, almonds, hazelnut, and rabbit.

Thanks, India, for cucumber, eggplant, mangoes, tangerines, sugarcane, coconut, saffron, cinnamon, cardamon, and turmeric.

Thanks, China, for rice, buckwheat, soybean, oranges, lemons, walnut, litchi, peach, persimmon, kiwi, and tea.

Thanks, Ethiopia, for watermelon, teff, sesame, and coffee.

Thanks, West Africa, for sorghum, guineafowl, and kola.

Thanks, Australasia, for bananas, breadfruit, clove, nutmeg, black pepper, ginger, and chicken.

Thanks, Mississippi Valley, for sunflower, blueberry, and maple syrup.

Thanks, Mexico, for maize, beans, cotton, peppers, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, zucchini, prickly pear, avocado, vanilla, turkey, and chocolate.

Thanks, Andes, for potatoes, tomatos, quinoa, Brazil nuts, cashews, and pineapple.

Thanks, Amazon, for manioc and peanuts.