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i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved

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if i was hannibal i couldn't be subtle i don't know how that man did it. i'd be having dinner parties giggling and being like there is a man. in the pasta. and the wine.

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I do wonder if maybe it isn’t Gerri time. 

J. SMITH-CAMERON as GERRI KELLMAN SUCCESSION — Season 3

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anyone wanna participate in lesbianics

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Rūrangi (2020).

A trans man reunites with his ex-boyfriend. ID in alt.

For a review of Rūrangi, see this link. It's a movie about being trans, being Māori, discovering your sexuality, being exhausted by activism, and reconnecting with family. It was originally released as a series, but was re-released as a feature film later.

Caz, the trans protagonist, is played by a trans male actor (Elz Carrad). All trans characters are played by trans actors. The writer (Cole Meyers) is trans. Tweedie Waititi, Taika Waititi's sister, was brought in as a consultant to develop the film's Māori storylines.

I highly recommend this film.

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tolstoy saying in an 1873 letter that he’d be done with anna karenina “in fifteen days, if god grants me life” and then taking another four years to finish writing it is both hilarious and deeply relatable

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i think the line from black sails that stuck with me the most among a script of impactful lines is mr scott saying "i wonder if ever a war so loudly anticipated ended so quietly" about nassau falling in xxiii because black sails is a story of wars ending quietly. the resolution of the war to win the urca de lima gold is made off screen. the war between silver and flint ends with silver with madi and flint with thomas. it's a story of incredible violence working towards quiet ends.

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do u guys listen to music in languages that aren’t your first language . and if so what languages

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I love reading writers for whom english is their second language and analyzing how their first language influences their style. People whose first language is romantic tend to be very descriptive and flowery with their english, whereas german or russian first language speakers are a lot more concise and almost abrupt. Most of the japanese writers I've read have had a simple, surrealist quality to their writing. Almost like watercolor paints. I just find it interesting.

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Lowery seems eager to dispel the frivolous quid pro quos that define the romance as a form. […] Gawain comes upon a young woman, Winifred, who has lost her head. She begs the knight to help her find it. He seems ready to agree, and then, as if remembering his lines, wonders what she will give him in return. “Why would you ask me that,” she replies. “Why would you ever ask me that?” It’s hard not to think, when watching the scene, of the etymological link between “question” and “quest,” and to conclude that Lowery is striving, even gallantly, to reanimate the second with the first.

↳ “In ‘The Green Knight,’ Chivalry Was Always Dead” by Katie Waldman (x)

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

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Imagine being like a college student or whatever in Gotham and like one day you turn on the news and your ex psychology professor is running around with a burlap sac over his head screaming bullshit like HAROO HRAA , like how do you cope with that