#villa-kulla

[thenightisland]

Grace Kelly, Veronica Lake, Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Hedy Lamarr, and Edward G. Robinson (optional!) 🎬

Grace Kelly: What do you do when you’re bored? read obsessively and waste far too much time on tumblr and zone out plotting stories in my head

Veronica Lake: List some random facts about your physical appearance. my measurements give me a textbook hourglass figure and that pleases me way more than it should. my grandmother's rings skipped over my mom directly to me bc i was the only one with small enough fingers for them. i have to wear petite glasses frames (which i did not know were a thing) bc apparently my face, like my hands, is small despite me being a very average sized person otherwise.

Frank Sinatra: What countries would you like to visit? i want to go back to italy and greece so badly.

James Cagney: What would you call your autobiography? i always wanted to write an account of the years working at the lake and call it Sane in Insane Places, after the rosenhan experiment, which was a psych study that largely critiqued how we go about psychiatric diagnostics and pathologize different behaviors based on biases

Hedy Lamarr: As a child, did you have one article of clothing that you absolutely loved (like wouldn’t take it off type of thing)? What was it? i never had a wouldn't take it off type item of clothing but one of my Special Outfits was a very pretty blue dress with flowers on it made from a flowy material that i dubbed the Maria Dress bc it reminded me of this dress in the sound of music i still have it in a trunk somewhere

Edward G. Robinson: Draw a self portrait. (optional!) thank god bc it is 9pm and i def don't have time for that right now but may do so in the future! there actually does exist a self portrait of me that i did many many years ago which i'll post if i can find the damn thing again lol

[iwritesometimes]

3, 6, 15, 16, 20 for the music asks!

ahhhhhh THANK YOU, darlin!! ^_^<3

3. a song outside of your usual genre

since i already went hiphop with this question in another answer, let’s go with @lazaefair favored genre and something i wouldn’t even have known existed if not for her guidance: electroswing. my friends all have impeccable taste in music, but this genre is WALL TO WALL UNHINGED GREATNESS. here’s a Beyoncé cover by Swing Republic.

6. your current “on repeat” song

yet more Keane - please try and hide your shock. i listened to their newest album on repeat pretty much all the way back from visiting @northstarfan; it fit my sadsack mood, and every time i come back to this record it just gets better and better. probably my favorite track, and the one i wanna play on loop forever, is “Stupid Things.” like the rest of the album, the subject matter is absolutely infuriating and yet horrifyingly relatable in a way, and the whole song is so boppy and fun you can almost forget you’re listening to the slow-motion car crash of a failing marriage. :|

15. a song that reminds you of traveling

always, forever, the ULTIMATE road trip song, for the simple fact that it plays over the travel montage in Field of Dreams, a movie i watched obsessively as a kid: The Allman Brothers Band, “Jessica.” :D

16. your favorite childhood song

oooo, well. my apologies in advance, but until the age of 16, it was all-contemporary christian music for me, all the time. so here’s a triptych of songs from the first “grownup” album i ever owned (i won it in a contest at church, because of course i did), I’ll Lead You Home by Michael W. Smith. you ever encounter artists, in whatever medium, who are honestly so talented you wish they had a completely different set of morals and worldview?? MWS is that artist for me. there’s a reason the man’s won enough Dove Awards to bury his West Virginia hometown; he’s just good. shame about all that virulent anti-abortion activism and hypernationalistic evangelism, huh.

(links bc you can still only embed five videos in a post for some stupid reason)

Trilogy: The Other Side of Me

Trilogy: Breathe in Me

Trilogy: Angels Unaware

20. a song that empowers you

it may be silly and juvenile, but yeah, Linkin Park was my first non-Christian band. they were mine, something i got to choose for myself when i was just starting to figure myself out. i am still broken into pieces over Chester being gone. and every fucking critic and jackass fanboy can shove it: A Thousand Suns was a fantastic album, the last of their albums i really loved. the whole thing tells a single story of nuclear apocalypse and revolution, until the last track, this complete tonal shift of a song, just Chester and a guitar, assuring you that “when life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.” it felt like a revelation ten years ago, and it still does now.

ask me more about my MUSIC OPINIONS!!!!!

[enbouton]

Heyy! I was going to message and see how you're doing over there, but I'll start with the ask meme you posted!:P 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 20 (not sure which ones you've been asked already!)

(Sorry this is so late, yikes! I had A Deadline this week.)

6. how you get relaxed when you’re struggling to sleep

ASMR videos, and when I’m actually trying to sleep, putting myself in an imaginary place or scenario usually works… and keeping the room really cold helps a ton since I can sleep under heavy blankets. (Also, credit where it’s due, I take prescription meds for anxiety and sleep and they’ve helped a lot.)

7. your favourite board game

The classics: chess, Scrabble, Monopoly.

8. if you were going to write a non-fiction book on any topic, what would it be? (answered here!)

17. a bath, shower, beauty or toiletry product that makes you feel revived, or that you always re-order when it’s running out

Since getting turned on to Asian skincare a few years ago, the products I go through the most are SPF50 sunscreen and Matsuyama hydrating toner. I’m also completely in love with Diptyque’s Do Son perfume but haven’t shelled out for a whole bottle yet.

18. a book series you can always escape in

The best escapist book I can think of is Brendon Chase (1944)— three boys run away from home and live in an English forest. The descriptions of the woodlands are just so good, you could get lost in them.

20 a skill you’ve picked up in the past few years

Driving, extremely basic Czech and Spanish, and the fundamental ballet positions— I want to improve them all! And how to do one (1) swing dance step.

[fontainebleau22]

A, B, D, H, L, X for the book asks! (also I don't know what W is doing in there haha but by all means go for it)

A: What’s the first book you see with a red spine?

!! It’s a book of poetry, John Burnside’s A Catechism of the Laws of Storms, which is an illustrated book of poems about the sea; I went to an exhibition of the art when it was published, and R bought the book for me as a surprise next birthday.

B: What’s your most expensive book?

Well, for work I spent an eye-watering £128 on Jashemski’s Gardens of the Roman Empire (and that was reduced-price) - it’s a huge illustrated archaeology book. For my own stuff, probably the hardback edition I have of Neil Gaiman’s Endless Nights.

D and H I just answered below.

L: What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure read?

I’m not sure that I have any guilt about what I read, and I’ve read so much over the years that most things are in there. I think the only time I feel judged about what I read is when other people comment on stuff like the Lucifer comics, which are violent and explicit, because I don’t really notice myself that it’s what some people count as extreme content.

X: What book has your favorite cover art? 

I used to have a book of the art of Roger Dean (found on all good 70s psychedelic rock albums), so I think the cover of that counts best!

And as for W, I would willingly eat my own weight in ice cream every day!

Thanks so much for the asks!

[academicgangster]

Movie Gifs Tag Meme

rules: post ten gifs from your favourite movies without revealing their titles and tag ten people!

I was tagged by @villa-kulla and @screwtheprinceimtakingthehorse! Also I suck at picking favourites, so I’m just going to pick ten from the films I’ve rated four to five stars on Letterboxd. :D

tagging @tsilvy​ @mdwolf​ @vegetarianvampireduck​ @diabolicalfiend​ @actiaslunaris​ @newlyorange​ @justastormie​ @iwantcustodyofme​ @afoxintime​ @rhyatt-deauxtreve​ @ishipallthings @geekery1987​ @ford-brosnan-spader​

bonus, because I couldn’t find a gif from Space Cowboys (for shame!):

[dreamsinteacups]

villa-kulla replied to your post: I just watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first... 

   I need to see that one so much!!   

Omg yesss I’m sure you’d love it, especially the cinematography and score. It was just added to Canadian netflix too! It’s nearly four hours long, but absolutely worth devoting a couple evenings to

[harvestingred-archived]

I forget if I sent numbers for the ask meme, but if not then 24, 27, 28, and 34 for Red, Faraday and Vasquez!

Thanks for sending these!  :)  I’ll do the ones I haven’t already answered.

24. MVP of the movie. Emma Cullen, hands down.  She led that revolution and got her justice.  Love her to pieces.

28. What was your favorite weapon used? Hmmm, have to go with Billy’s knives on this one.  So badass, he made killing look so easy and so cool.  

34. Send me a F(uck)M(arry)K(ill).  Red, Faraday + Vasquez.  I have to be honest, I hate you a little bit for sending me this one. I do know I have to marry the shit out of Red, though.  Regular sex with that man seems like the best option here.  For a fun night in the sheets?  Fuck, maybe Faraday?  Pratt has a stocky build which I really love and his character’s shown himself to be a very clever, perceptive guy.  I have a feeling he’d know what do with a woman in bed.  As for Vasquez...he’s super handsome and could whisper Spanish sweet nothings in my ear, so maybe we fake his death and then he and I do a one-night thing, too.  Is that cheating?  YOLO.  

[adigeon]

For Recurrence 1, 3, 5, 6, and for Binary System Blues 11, and 13!

//// ALCOHOLISM TW //////Recurrence:1. What inspired you to write the fic this way? Ah, pettiness? Annoyance -- I didn’t like the way some other existing fic had handled PTSD and alcoholism, and I didn’t like the way other fandoms had handled reincarnation fic. I thought I could handle it in a better way and so tried my hand at it. #petty3. What's your favorite line of narration? [Ethan] smooths his palms on his pants, carefully refusing to dwell on the unhelpful memories his brain immediately rustles up. Like, this sentence could two with two fewer adverbs for sure, but I like the meat of it -- evidence that Ethan has already started down the trailhead of recovery, as it were, /g, and also evidence of how much further he has to go5. What part was hardest to write? #oversharing but I started writing this before acknowledging my own alcoholism and, uh,6. What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics? Just how personal it is, mostly. Like, there’s a mundanity to it and its setting that isn’t shared by anything else I’ve written, too, in that it’s kind of just a quiet drama set in the present, whereas I favor stories with higher stakes most of the time. It feels intimate in a way a lot of other things I’ve written don’t feel, to me at leastBinary System Blues:11. What do you like best about this fic? The number formatting!! At the time, I felt like it was a little gimmicky, and like even now I’m not sure I don’t think that, but it’s meant to be fragmentary and a little impressionistic. Using numbers instead of line-breaks works well with how many breaks between scenes there are. 13. What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading? I listed to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack!! Binary System Blues is technically a Cowboy Bebop fusion -- sidenote, do people still use that term? In my first fandom days, lmao, a crossover was where characters from different fandoms interacted, and a fusion was where characters from one fandom were placed in the setting of another, I’m not old but I’m probably Fandom Old, relatively speaking, and I have no idea if this is still a term in common use. But anyways Cowboy Bebop is incredible and for those of yall who haven’t seen it yet I can’t recommend it enough -- go for the dub over the subbed version, it’s streaming on Hulu. I’ve gotten waylaid here, my initial point was gonna be that the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack fuckin rules, here’s a link to the theme for the unfamiliar, and here’s a soundtrack best-of for reading accompaniment for the interested!

(author q&a ask meme)