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passingknightly replied to your link “My Own Private Idaho”

this piece of full bodied enthusiasm was such a joy to read

Me, slow-motion dancing at my standing desk as (somehow) an essential piece of the revision process; aloud: “This is....labored.”

Also me, who wrote it: “A labor of love!”

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passingknightly replied to your photoset “MORE HERMITUDE COOKING PICS 4 U”

i am always so jealous when people have mastered the art of Sexy Food Photography

Oh I can advise on that! And don’t worry it’s not just gonna be “watch down Chopped footage for 2+ years”

FOOD FOTO TIPS

- Natural light. I cannot emphasize this enough. Only take food photos when there’s enough daylight for that to be your primary light source. Move closer to the window if you need to. Open your entire front door, whatever it takes. - Honestly, I make fun of myself for how often I do this, but straight down overhead shots often just look best - You want your food kind of organically arranged. Natural randomness. Stray bits, parts where there’s more herbs and parts where there’s less, slight asymmetry. That kind of thing. - If it includes a squeeze of lemon, leave the lemon - For soups and stews, pile up the pieces in a mound in the middle with the broth around them - For meats, rest them against/on a starch if you have it - You may notice that several of these plating tips seem to be specifically about creating volume---they are! As a retail associate at a Container Store once told my friend Jen about an over-the-door shelf system: “This is gonna revolutionize your vertical space.” - And then in the edit: punch up that contrast. Aannnd a little more. There ya go.

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passingknightly replied to your post “tagged by @fursasaida​ Are you staying home from work/school? This was...”

that dubloon necklace tho

My dad brought it to his jewelry appraiser friend along with the rest of my grandpa’s weird stuff, and he was like “yeah that’s a gold doubloon.” “any more information?” “no”

I’m probably cursed; it’s fine

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passingknightly replied to your post “A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 3”

such a great write up! i think s3 came out the strongest for me as a kind of pay off for the first two seasons as things got more and more morally complicated and tragic.

It’s wild that a story that begins with three lovely children being orphaned can simply become MORE tragic, but here we are.

Oh related, I think little Louis Hynes is pretty talented, and especially loved the fascinating way he had of like, adding on? He registers his history. Every time Klaus Baudelaire experiences a blow in this series, there’s this moment where you can just briefly see through to aaall his accumulated trauma stretching back. There was this bit in ‘The Penultimate Peril’ where some relatively minor bad thing happened to him, and it wasn’t that he overplayed it, it was just that when he visibly added it too to the heap I was like oh no Klaus honey don’t topple yet!, because the mountain was just so big.

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pineapple-split replied to your post “what are your complex thoughts on Neil Gaiman the Author?”

You’re right and you should say it. Tbh that is exactly how I’ve always felt about Gaiman’s actual writing, and its been a super weird experience to feel like… obligated to love him because his stories are so baked into the cultural zeitgeist? But the ideas themselves are compelling to me, so idk.

passingknightly replied to your post “what are your complex thoughts on Neil Gaiman the Author?”

i think this is why sandman is, for me, gaiman’s best work because the ideas hold this much more immediate and central place and the issues with his longer form prose are reduced

More from our self-forming Internet Book Club for other souls who find themselves with complex & critical feelings about nerddom’s one Neil Gaiman, and are looking for company.

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passingknightly replied to your post: have you seen drive? it’s worth a watch all round...

i didn’t think i’d seen any of his others but turns out i have too. valhalla rising is also really good. mads mikkelsen as odin is dream casting and i’m sad we’ll probably never get that american gods cameo now. was bronson good?

Idk???? It is extraordinarily violent and I mostly dislike that, but somehow I didn’t hate that movie, which was confusing. Probably because it was also very unusual, and I do like that. Howevs, knowing that the same director was responsible for Drive and Valhalla Rising makes me not want to watch them, so who knows.

memory-for-trifles replied to your post “have you seen drive? it’s worth a watch all round but For The…”

Oo, Drive was MY JAM when it came out. It was the first movie of That Type I’d seen (synthy, neon stylized violence a la Heat etc) and it made a big impression. It’s such a specific memory for me that I can’t look at it objectively but I think it still holds up. The soundtrack is excellent, regardless.

But this is why I AM TORN

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have you seen drive? it’s worth a watch all round but For The Soundtrack especially

I have not! I do like Carey Mulligan. I was about to say that I’ve actually never seen any Nicolas Winding Refn but turns out THAT’S not true. 

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please do share that playlist! :)

I would be Delighted