Turned her brain

'She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain’ | Films, tv, people, books and other stuff I love

[brightonstudios]

Okay maybe today wasn’t that terrible

[msmarymillspaulos]

[ohmovie]

ARAGORN in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

[godmerlin]

Merlin 2x01 The Curse of Cornelius Sigan

[sophsun1]

Aliens (1986) dir. James Cameron

[keyfili]

SINNERS / faceless 2025 • dir. Ryan Coogler

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary — 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

[doona-baes]

#mood today

[dailybuffysummers]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 7.04

[1000-life-hacks]

[zou-san]

East Lothian, Scotland

[aemperatrix]

ANDY LOVELL Swirls & Eddies, North Devon / North Cornish Coast / Swans, Incoming Tide silkscreen prints

[summertimenoir]

We're both rotten. Only you're a little more rotten.

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944)

[glorious-spoon]

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[florencemachines]

Costume appreciation series: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir  Peter Jackson

Costume Design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

[snowbairdd]

There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) dir. Peter Jackson