"I'm sick of the zombies, afraid of their own fucking imaginations." This is a multi-muse blog! Muses & Mun are all 21+ Please read the rules and about pages before interacting with the muses. /Indie and semi-selective Only Lovers Left Alive roleplay. Side blog of lokisredledger. I also have Discord available for RPing upon request. \
Computer simulated image of an area of space more than 50 million light-years across, presenting a possible large-scale distribution of light sources in the universe—precise relative contributions of galaxies and quasars are unclear.
The Antennae Galaxies in Collision : Sixty million light-years away toward the southerly constellation Corvus, these two large galaxies are colliding. The cosmic train wreck captured in stunning detail in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot takes hundreds of millions of years to play out. Cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, the galaxies’ individual stars don’t often collide though. Their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the wreckage. New star clusters and interstellar matter are jumbled and flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational forces. This Hubble close-up frame is about 50,000 light-years across at the estimated distance of the colliding galaxies. In wider-field views their suggestive visual appearance, with extended structures arcing for hundreds of thousands of light-years, gives the galaxy pair its popular name, The Antennae Galaxies. via NASA
Central NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide : How did this strange-looking galaxy form? Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of unusual jumbles of stars, gas, and dust like NGC 1316. Inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that somehow includes dark dust lanes usually found in a spiral galaxy. Detailed images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows details, however, that help in reconstructing the history of this gigantic tangle. Deep and wide images show huge collisional shells, while deep central images reveal fewer globular clusters of stars toward NGC 1316’s interior. Such effects are expected in galaxies that have undergone collisions or merging with other galaxies in the past few billion years. The dark knots and lanes of dust, prominent in the featured image, indicate that one or more of the devoured galaxies were spiral galaxies. NGC 1316 spans about 50,000 light years and lies about 60 million light years away toward the constellation of the Furnace (Fornax). via NASA
One of the most creative and humanized takes on vampire tropes to date is now available on Amazon Prime.
The Forgotten Tom Hiddleston Vampire Movie You Can Watch On Amazon
[Looper | 31 August 2021]
Stories about vampires have been getting the Hollywood treatment since the dawn of film, starting off with the 1922 film "Nosferatu." Since then, filmmakers have immersed the spooky creatures into everything from teeny-bopper TV shows to comedy flicks — and of course, endless horror movies.
No two vampire productions are exactly alike. The "Twilight" saga romanticized vampires as superhuman beings with various powers and glittering skin, while alternatives like "What We Do In The Shadows" have taken a comedic approach to showcasing these blood-sucking monsters acclimating to the modern world. And then you have franchises like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," or the "Blade" movies, both of which portray their vampiric creatures as horrifying antagonists whose only narrative purpose is to be destroyed by their respective vampire hunting heroes.
There do tend to be some similarities between productions, with many of them leaning into the same vampiric tropes — they're typically nocturnal, immortal, and have a thirst for blood. However, outside of those major three aspects, directors are pretty across the board in their interpretations for implementing vampires into any tale they try to.
And one of the most creative takes on vampire tropes to date — and one that not enough people have watched — is Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive," starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Only Lovers Left Alive is an underrated, humanistic approach to vampires
"Only Lovers Left Alive" is arguably one of the most in-depth and an eerily humanizing approaches ever taken to a film about vampires.
The 2014 film follows two star-crossed vampiric lovers Adam (played by Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (played by Tilda Swinton). The pair are highly cultured, with Adam being a tortured artist living in Detroit while Eve is a high-fashion jet-setter currently docked in Tangier. After years apart, the pair reunite to put a stop to Adam's suicidal thoughts, and rekindle their love. Meanwhile, though, Eve's sister Ava (played by Mia Wasikowska) is on a mission to disrupt their age-old relationship with her uncontrollable ways. Point blank, "Only Lovers Left Alive" strikes the perfect blend of spookiness and romance, as Jim Jarmusch tells a beautiful story of two outsiders living in their own blood-colored world.
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Only Lovers Left Alive" holds an 86% fresh rating for its slow and steady plot, with Hiddleston and Swinton's acting elevating the story to new heights. What particularly sets the film apart is how much it subverts the expectations that viewers have about vampire movies as a whole: as said by critic Bill Goodykoontz of AZ Central, "This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above."
"Only Lovers Left Alive," a film which runs just over two hours, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
CARING FOR STUBBORN MUSES. for when the person you’re trying to care for insists they don’t need your help.
“at least let me clean the wound!”
“you’ll be even worse off if you don’t let me bandage this.”
“i really think you need to see a doctor.”
“i made you some soup, and i’m going to sit here until you eat it. i can wait.”
“your feelings matter too! i can’t help you if i don’t even know what’s making you upset!”
“..i’m here if you need anything, okay?”
“stop trying to push yourself! you can’t do this on your own!”
“listen, i know you don’t want to, but.. maybe you should rest for a while. you’re not going to get anywhere like this.”
“i’ll make you a deal: i’ll just get you some bandages, and nothing else, and you stop making a fuss over it.”
“how long has it last been since you slept?”
“have you even been taking your medicine?”
“i know you think you have to get through this by yourself, but you have people here to help you.”
“let me take care of you, for once.”
“you’re gonna hurt yourself even more if you do stupid things like that!”
“i hate to break it to you, but you’re not supposed to do any strenuous physical activity for the next couple weeks, and if i have to personally make sure you don’t every waking hour of the day then i’m fully prepared to do that.”
“it’s okay to cry in front of me, you know. you don’t have to carry this alone.”
“stop trying to act like you’re not bleeding out in front of me!! this is serious!”
“listen, asshole. i’m gonna carry you home whether you like it or not. you’re not in any condition to get there yourself.”
“oh my god, why didn’t you tell me it was this bad?!”
“The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.”
Happy birthday to one of cinema’s fiercest and most singular nonconformists, Jim Jarmusch, whose remarkable body of work has given us some of the screen’s most unforgettable characters!
As I run a marker along Eric’s s back he attempts to duplicate the movement on the wall. My activity stimulates a kinetic response from his sensory system. I am, therefore, Drawing Through Him.