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[dead-talents]

saw guillermo del toro's frankenstein last night and i wanted to post some of my thoughts w/o any spoilers bc ive been excited about this movie for literally years lol

it departs from shelley's novel in some major ways, but it also feels devoted to the structure and energy of the novel in a way that frankenstein adaptations rarely do. while sometimes these play into some of del toro's pet themes around war and industry, very often they still do dovetail with shelley's themes.

best thing i can say about this movie is that even with some major alterations from the novel, it feels like shelley’s voice. nobody should forget that frankenstein was written by a teenage girl!

seeing oscar isaac as victor is (pardon the pun) electrifying. he's absolutely manic, and they play a subtle othering in association with his heritage, which i can only imagine is the work of the imagination of a young mexican boy reading this novel born of the european upper crust and finding himself in words like "dark-haired".

i appreciated that the film took this kinda surface level look at frankenstein "what if the monster.. wasn't The Monster" (which i dont think IS actually shallow despite what people say) but they add this thick layer of psychosexuality atop it

like the creature is an innocent, elordi's performance kind of moving between baby ape and child, but when there are those extremely charged scenes with elizabeth where they have this connection, he doesn't suddenly grow up and become acceptably adult

like its down to the letter, classically oedipal

one final quote that really stuck with me, and i kept thinking about as i watched GDT's attempted opus (metatextually mirroring victor's mania? okay okay i'll stop)

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

bringing this prediction into the light but i dont think orange is anger. i think orange is shame

in WTIT - Logan and Thomas ashamed of the messy apartment, ashamed of the intrusive thoughts, humiliated at the idea of being ignored

and even further back - "thomas you need to get a real job" logans shame at being the unused side, the leader on a degree thomas doesnt use anymore and doesnt need

and its a through line through all of WCDBS too. ashamed of his and the baby sides overeager behavior. ashamed of both hiding his relationships and of the potential of using them for content. the exact moment logan's eyes go orange is when thomas is talking about it being less safe to be queer

the anger grows after - the seed is shame

[ultravioletdisguise]

Y'all are actually lucky oscar didn't win bc otherwise i would've genuinely hit the tumblr post limit today and then made a sideblog to post even more Oscar glaze

[elysiansignals]

I think we were meant for each other

(picrew here)

[gothamitelove]

cellmates (joker x reader hcs)

god knows why you're in arkham asylum, but you are, and that's just how it is. you don't waste your time thinking about the past- what matters is now, and how you're going to survive here.

they haven't assigned you a cellmate yet, since you're still staying in the emergency ward. it's only been a few days, and it's clear this place does not have its shit sorted out yet.

but when the scruffy-looking guard with the beard does give you your assigned cell, he looks like the cat that's just eaten the entire pet store's stash of canaries. the name on the paper he shows you reads Joker.

you try to get out of this. it's got to be some human rights violation to shove you in with him. he'll either kill you or drive you mad, he's done it to others before

nobody listens to you, though, because of course they don't.

the joker takes an immediate, very strange liking to you. maybe it's because you don't let him just do whatever he wants- this is a civilized society, dammit, and he'd better sleep in his own bed before you make him.

he thinks it's very cute, and continues to do whatever he wants anyway. eventually you give up on the bed debacle and just sleep on his when he's being difficult about it

has his weird, aggressive mood swings that you learn to predict and avoid better than anybody else. it makes you nearly invaluable to other inmates and the prison staff when it comes to “what will he let us do today”

can be very touchy, especially in front of people he doesn’t like (read: the guards)

you volunteer information about yourself to him- he never tells you anything about himself in return. it’s just not something he ever speaks about, and you don’t push him on it.

but he does listen to you when you talk, even when it looks like he isn’t. he remembers just about everything you say and will quote you in conversations with other people

sometimes you think he’s going to kill you. it’s not a happy go lucky relationship you’ve got here- but it is one of the only consistent ones he has, and he won’t let go of it easily at all. he doesn’t kill you. but on some occasions, he comes very close.

anyway good luck being locked up with him 23/7!! you’re really gonna need it. (i swear i could write an actual fanfiction about this nobody enable me)

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[tulipanthousa]

On mobile and drunk send me horny asks my looooooooves

[versaillesbitch]

“I went through all the trouble of preparing 5000 different topics to discuss after introductions! :(” you. tsumiki mikan. autism

[glimmergf]