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a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity (1944) dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

EDIT: part two here + the letterboxd list

edit: part three here

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Do you think a modern Richard or Francis would be a rather stingy Goodreads user?

realistically neither of them uses goodreads it's too nerdy

social media is hard to integrate for tsh because i waver between thinking they're try-hard offline people (the same way in canon theyre sort of LARPing the 50s-60s) or trying to pin down what brand of online they would be. francis does seem like someone who would have a prolific instagram close friends posting career.

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me @ my mutuals

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there is no soul of an artist that distinguishes them from some 'non-artist' category of person that could simply never comprehend what it is like. anyone can make art. you should know this by now. from ratatouille

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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I know you said I’d be going through some changes now that I’m a tween but I didn’t think you meant like this

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Excerpt from Mary Karr - The Paris Review (2009)

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break in the case

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are u ever going to write tdbk again? ive been reading/rereading your works religiously for the past five years haha. thank you for your service (i adore your longshots) and hope you're well

of course ! at least a couple. and witvok needs finishing.

i've got a long backlog of wips with me but i am a massive completionist so most of them just stay w me until theyre done - ive tried to break some up like witvok just so you guys have SOMETHING to read while im off suffering at work, but i find the lack of sharing works (todobaku and otherwise) equally frustrating on my end, trust and believe.

thanks v much for reading along for so long!! 5 years is crazy but ive been writing since i was a kid so i guess that just puts it in perspective :,) the pleasure has been all mine, i love chatting w you all!

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Is amajiki your favorite background character? He pops up a lot in your fics lol

haha i don't really have strong feelings on him albeit i like him fine, it's more that i have a roster of go-to 'other heroes' that i use to populate pro-hero stuff and he must be an easy pick. i think other 1-A adjacent students are too close to todobaku to not have more significant interactions when they pop up, and some of the other pros like hawks and mirko i also like too much to not have them take up screentime, so i go for people im more neutral on if i need quick cameos.

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I just finished reading your lovely new tsh fanfiction and I absolutely need to know what you mean by them being at the start of their honeymoon phase. I can barely imagine what that entails for the likes of them but I am extremely curious on your thoughts.

hahah honestly i think it's just that they've had enough time to settle into the weirdness of them being... in an actual relationship (???) and they kind of mutually have stopped waiting for the other shoe to drop. like richards kind of resigned re his sexuality crisis and francis is kind of resigned re his brokie lifestyle and they both also have come to the tentative realisation that they probably have already seen the worst of each other and still can't be bothered to separate now. so they're less on edge about it all.

it doesnt change their overall vibe of course but i think francis just gets more day-to-day affectionate/cute (francis is i think overall fun to date if you ignore his personality) and richard kind of matches his freak (at least privately) in terms of finally getting it through his head that they are in fact something adjacent to boyfriends.

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I want you to know that I will absolutely ration this chapter for the cold hard winter months.

and well into spring... SORRY

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valley of kings has a very unique tdbk dynamic among your stories in that this is the first time (also in I go for the door— but that can be attributed to time travel shenanigans) that katsuki has already gotten to his point of major character development before shouto has even started on his journey. of course, they'll always be equally immature in the emotional intelligence department, but katsuki gives more season 5 vibes while shouto is fresh on his first day of ua.

i've discovered i like this particular dynamic very much, which in hindsight should be much more obvious considering i've got a particular type of fics i like, that includes all your tdbk fics starting with i go for the door, my all time favourite (if you ever feel like expanding that universe, prequel or otherwise, please do so, i'd be eternally grateful).

regarding the recent valley of the kings chapter, you absolutely delivered on the fight scenes and it was delightful to read katsuki's (admittedly biased) perspective on what's going on in shouto's head. i'd love to know what shouto was thinking when she was patching up katsuki.

i always hesitate to read gender swap fics because they always manage to convey that the character is now somehow weaker or different in a way that goes completely against there actual canon self, i only read this one because its you who wrote it and i'm delighted to say you've surpassed my expectations again. I absolutely love you for making ser bakugou and prince shouto and can't wait to read the next chapter 💙🧡

you get it, anon.

the difference in chara dvp is a funny accident of the fic really. i wasn't intending on it when i set out to write the story, but the logistics of having the camps split up and the necessity of having bakudeku retain their origin story meant they necessarily had reached sort of current canon levels of mentality, give or take some added tension and less emotional healing due to the times they live in and their responsibilities/roles. on the other hand, poor shouto has been stuck in enji's shadow as literal heir to the throne, and although there are people around like inasa and momo + she has been operating quasi-independently and away from her father for some time, she's not been power-of-friendship-ed and she also doesn't have the space to come to the healthy place we know shouto gets to in canon.

anyways thank you very much, i'm glad the girlies are resonating and i'll see you on the other side of the next ch.

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if i were as dedicated to my studies as i am to reading your fics, i'd be getting better grades 🥲

ehhh you're good if anything i should be less dedicated to my job and more to my fic writing if we're being real

serious note though 1) thank you and 2) i don't actually think it's a bad thing to put a lot of your time into your interests, especially because it's often a way to detach from the stresses of study etc, but i do hope you get to engage with other forms of art than just fandom! i think a lot of the escapism of fic is that it's an easy read, but it's really rewarding to engage w slightly less digestible/familiar stuff too. and you'll feel less guilty for it.

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funniest thing about valley of kings will always be-> ofc katsuki thought shouto was a guy at first, she has a distinctly masculine(sounding) name! It'd be like meeting a girl named Prince Clarke or Ray or something

Whats actually funny about this is that, like, endeavor named her this? He set up that gender fuckery on purpose.

Ofc the doylist explanation is that you probably kept the names for recognition but I'm going to run with this lol

hahah yeah tbh i just hate name changes in genderbend fic/fanon bc they're always really awkward/forced to try and sound similar-ish to the OG character names (obviously this has nothing to do w real life name changes which are cool and awesome)

however i do think itd be in character for enji in the witvok universe to give shouto a 'masculine' or at least 'gender neutral' name specifically because he sees her as his 'true' heir and is sexist.

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hello. first, u r my ruler and witvok is my religion. fem tdbk !! i love them SO MUCH. i started out reading tdbk, fell HARD for ur writing, so i: read tsh, watched good omens, ready or not etc bc i rlly just wanted to read more of ur writing. i am now watching iwtv (first mention for me being ur blog). i just, i wanted u to know... ur SO GOOD AT THIS... ur readers are screaming cryin throwing up bc feels.

hello. thank you for the intense praise. i am always delighted by witvok stans and it IS still in progress fear not.

honestly when i see what people get into on my account it just puts into perspective the weird range of things i write for / talk about on here lmao. but thank you very much, and i hope you've enjoyed all the things you've discovered!