Ayla Bayli

reader, writer, occasional lover

[winteringhome]

Eileen (2023) dir. William Oldroyd

I'll be honest: I never finished the book this is based on. Maybe, that's part of the reason why parts of the movie felt like such a surprise. Still, credit is due to the cinematic shots and beautiful adaptation, at least for the parts I remember from the book. Movie lens always has an ability to make even the most gruesome descriptions in the book appear so 'aesthetic' on screen. Rebecca is wonderful and the looks and small topics she shares with Eileen already made me feel like there is some queerness to come but the sudden burst of violence was not something I expected.

It was done beautifully; how we are slowly normalized to the notion of half of the scenes being simply the imagined actions Eileen takes, that one time it is real, we do not even clock it until it cuts to Rebecca.

All in all great movie, wish it was advertised or promoted better, I think it deserves more views,

[primulaceas]

Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

[winteringhome]

Interview with a Vampire is a masterpiece in adaptation

I'll admit, I did not expect to love this show as much as I did when I started watching it. I knew nothing of Anne Rice or the magnificent world she created spawning across books and series. Insane!! It was so refreshing to enter a show without knowing it was an adaptation. I usually set myself up for disappointment by reading the source material first and then complaining about the lack of 'faithfulness' to the original. But this was so good!!!!

First of: the source material offers a beautiful setting and story now that I have done my due diligence and looked into it. Though I bet some Vampire Chronicle fans might have a different opinion I was fascinated. The way they moved it to present times while taste, not overdoing it with modern music or elements (I am reminded of the horrible Pitbull song cover). Daniel Hart!!!!! I will forever be obsessed with the musical accompaniment you produced!!! The scene setting the homage to New Orleans so wonderfully set. Costumes!!! Subtle details and words that carry across scenes!!!!

Then there are the characters and their loaded relationships Luis and Lestat and their endless power shift and dynamics especially after season 2 has left me speechless. The cycle of abuse and carried generational trauma int eh scale and perspective of vampire existence is quite a dynamic to create. Claudia is their foil, she is everything they both can't do she is the fire that warms them and burns at the same time. She sees them for who they truly are and I love her!!! The way Luis is shown to be with Lestat, then the Luis we get to see in the present with Armand and THEN the Luis with Armand in pairs its all such beautiful dynamics and representations of different types of toxic relationships, love hatred, lust, envy all mixed into another, Humans are complex and not even turning into vampires can take that away from them. I love this!!!!

[elainiisms]

"you can't ship those characters they tried to kill each other!" sounds like someone can't appreciate the inherent eroticism of violence 🙄

[sheisraging]

Screaming about it until the end of time.

[damazcuz]

sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

[shattereddteacup]

The Holdovers (2023)

Dir. Alexander Payne

Language: English

[dramamccringe]

Me when something LGBTQ+ happens in the LGBTQ+ series with the LGBTQ+ characters that I watch because they are LGBTQ+ and have LGBTQ+ characters: 🤯

[catmask]

'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

[substitious-bastard]

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to hand make lace so all is well

[lieb-chan]

That unexplained divine urge to scream all your pain and anger away until your vocal cords tear and your voice goes silent.

[thewebcomicsreview]

[queer-as-city-folk]

So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

[queer-as-city-folk]

Also the alternative is more highways which destroy significantly more land for less capacity than railways. So the question is do you want to keep complaining about something that isn't happening and let the environment get damaged as a result or do you want to actually learn how things work

[catboymothman]

So, wait... Were the tracks not in use at all? Or was it like *only* commercial transport on those tracks? Either way, its good that amtrak will be able to use them again, but one would be much more frustrating

[queer-as-city-folk]

Almost all rail tracks in the US are either abandoned or only used for freight rail at the moment

[mudkipspropaganda]

Jesus, we really have no excuse for having such a lackluster rail system, do we?

[queer-as-city-folk]

Sure we do! The US government hate both rail and you personally

[sapphling]

i mean i wrote that post about a real life woman whose actual fingers i want forced in my mouth but it's great that you saw your beatles rpf bleed through the contours of my desire man. all of us are facets on the infinite gem of god's earth. personally i can't see ringo domming

[raining-stars-somewhere-else-de]

just another day of DT killing me with his acting choices

[winteringhome]

Fourteen kicking walls and screaming on top of their lungs only to turn around, say “good” and continue is so personal to me

[genteelblackhole42]

I knew Wild Blue Yonder was going to be weird and scary, but I really underestimated the mavity of the situation.