Helloooo :) how long has classic film been an interest of yours and what got you into it?
Hi!! So I have been very interested in film since I was a teen and since then had periods of being really locked in to movie watching and periods of not watching anything (just the way life is I guess). This year I am very locked in and I wanna continue being so bc I truly love film sm. So I watched a classic here and there just as a virtue of being a film fan, but I never considered myself truly a big classic film fan. BUT I watched The Philadelphia Story at the end of last year and I absolutely adored it and was like I need to watch more classics. So that kind of kick started it but also discovering Be Kind Rewind ‘s yt channel really got me going (her video about Bette and Joan did something to my brain 😂). So I still feel very much like a newbie in regard to classic films but I am having the time of my life! ❤️
For the sleepover asks: top 3 fav ships of all time AND some Helen Umstead headcanons if you have any (or about any of the pluribus characters)
hi!!!!! :3
of all time is tough...i feel like im not truly ride or die for anything i've cared about for more than a few years. ok.
GemCaseHellyna (this list EASILY could just be different combinations of these two/four/29/infinite characters but i'll leave it at that. i've written so much fic for them and i intend to write more, perhaps the only thing that is that serious to me. i don't believe i will recover in this lifetime)
ViolaOrsino from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (these two have followed me relentlessly from my teenage years to now and will also probably never leave me be. what is their fucking problem. wasianism save me)
Honestly i cant muster any other individual ship its like a 100 way tie so im gonna say generally my ocs, selfship or not. i have so many canon/oc ships and oc x oc ships that i never talk about but take up more real estate in my brain than most canon/canon ships could ever everrrrr dream of
i can totally do Helen HCs!
I think she's a New Englander, specifically a masshole considering how many times Mass locations come up in the little backstory snippets we get (Carol is definitely a southerner).
i think the bella-donna painting was her favorite painting, or at least her fav okeeffe, not Carol's. i also think she like's carol's painting ouvre more than her writing
i feel like she didn't come from a conservative family, just a really small and not very close knit one that just wasn't involved in her life after she left home
she was an english/business majorrrrr ewwwwwwww i love her
Happy Bat Week!! Might I receive an assigned bat please? 😇🦇
Happy Bat Week!
Your bat is the Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus)!
Ranging from Canada to Mexico, this bat has adapted to eat a variety of insects, particularly arthropods. They eat almost half their weight in bugs every night (I did the same thing today at my workplace's chili cookoff) and are probably most famous for being immune to scorpion venom. These bats look at those little venomous sword-wielding insects and go "yeah, that looks gourmet." Studies are still being done into how, exactly, Pallid Bats manage to resist the venom, but it is believed that they might have a mutation that replaced the amino acids at their voltage-gated sodium channels. When they're not slaying tiny, angry dragons, this bat will sometimes treat themselves with nectar or cacti fruit.
Hi, friend!! For the ask game: 31, 33, 58, and 60 (what’s your favorite season of x files and why?)
A hearty 'hello' in these strange times! :D
Gonna mix these up and answer what I want to first.
33. something you want to learn
I just picked up my Japanese notebook an hour ago; and I've forgotten (but haven't, in that weird, familiar way) so many words since 2017. Never got that far to begin with, but it felt good to stretch my brain out. So, probably that; or pick up Spanish again.
Or learn how to make quality videos because A. I can and B. you never know when that skill might come in handy.
58. description of my best friend
This might sound morbid, but I don't have a best friend. (Correction: my siblings are my best friends. They're great.) I'm an antisocial tiger who wants to connect with people until I have to actually... connect.
31. 3 random facts
-I have a theory that Chris Carter showed David Duchovny My Struggle IV's script before Gillian Anderson not because he was good friends with DD-- he's not really friends with, nor does he trust, anyone-- but because David's scene came first in the last two or so hidden pages. I'd have to reread a few of his post-MSIV interviews and take a look at the scripts (can't find 'em anywhere); but the pattern was set during the OG run when he didn't tell anyone anything (not even his principle actors or writers) because of his self-admitted paranoia. Which is his... thing to work through; but I'll bet that's the case (hence why he got mad at GA and felt she unfairly maligned him; and hence why GA felt singled out and ignored.)
-Love photography. My old PowerShot died a year or two (or three?) ago; but I haven't found anything "complete" under $200 (the market prices exploded.) Need to get on that.
-Currently in a "cerebral fiction" era (which included a few DD recs: Master and Margarita, DNFed; American Pastoral, finished; One Hundred Years of Solitude, still reading) and stumbled on Jodie Foster's audio version of Contact. First science fiction book! (Bonus: before this "era", I'd read a lot of self-help books-- some which overlapped with GA's recs... which I've since forgotten, oops-- and before then, I burnt out on Victorian/Russian novels.)
60. ask me anything you want: what’s your favorite season of x files and why?
Season 8, for the same reason that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson loved and struggled with it.
Scully was given a role away from Mulder's side, and proved her own strength and capabilities by heading the files and leading Skinner and Doggett; Mulder was abducted, then returned shaken by his experiences and his place in the world. Mulder and Scully were becoming parents but were still on their own conflicting journeys: Scully tried to preserve the files for Mulder only to realize she wanted them for herself; Mulder followed the truth back to Bellefleur and was stripped (literally) of his wonder and gumption. Both of them knew that his problems extended beyond the baby in Three Words. Both knew that he was ready and trying in Empedocles. Both swung back in the saddle-- with their own secrets, without consulting the other-- in Vienen: an independence that showed they were the same, still. Both had to tread new, domestic territory without the files to back them up in Alone. Both didn't want the files to rule their lives anymore in Essence and Existence.
Also: Doggett and his cunning and good nature and growth; Skinner and his shining belief and dogged courage and gruff comfort; TLG and their assorted mischief and tender hearts; Kersh and his diabolical avarice.
"You Know My Memory Isn't What It Used to Be" was the first fic (I believe?) to include Tena Mulder! I tried to balance her victimization with her determined deceit.
I wanted to touch upon the dynamic she and Scully share: Scully created a connection with Mrs. Mulder after Mulder's disappearance and supposed death. Each time they meet in the series, Tena appears poised, graceful, and well-bred, traits she and Scully recognize and seem to respond to in each other. But there's a reliance Tena seems to have on Scully, too-- this young woman who told her that her son was still alive, and who helped her "speak" when she was lying, voiceless, on her deathbed.
Further, while I wanted Scully to understand there was more than Tena was letting on, I also wanted her to defer from probing deeper-- a "Mulder, what difference would it make" reflex. It allows her to sympathize with Mulder's mother in Demons and later in Sein und Zeit; or, more accurately, to the pain Tena must have felt for being inadequate to her son. How could these two points be linked? I did my best. XDDD
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She combed through again, flipped back to an older record; and found it. The numbers, Scully was certain, were different. The date remained unchanged, perhaps even the time; but Tena's blood pressure, pulse rate, heart rhythm-- everything-- had been adjusted to more reasonable, recoverable levels.
Hey! For the get to know me ask game: daffodil, camellia, and ivy :)
daffodil ⇢ do you have siblings? if yes, in what ways do you think you’re similar to or different from them?
I have a brother who is four years younger than I am. In most things, he's the male version of me, lol. He's good at drawing whereas I'm a writer without any art skills, and he is really into disc golf, like, enters in competitions for it. Personality-wise, though, we're extremely similar.
camellia ⇢ what were you like when you were younger? do you think you’ve changed a lot?
I am pretty similar to how I was then, I think. The main difference being that I was MUCH more shy as a child. I've really worked on that.
