#12+1 movie

[nellarw95]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Sharon 🎂💔

Sharon Marie Tate 🤍

January 24,1943 - August 9,1969🙏🏻

We Miss You So Much 🕊️♾️

Buon Compleanno in Paradiso 🎂💔

24 Gennaio 1943 - 9 Agosto 1969🙏🏻

Ci Manchi Moltissimo 🕊️♾️

[tossawary]

I don't have a solid plot attached to this idea, I don't currently really have the desire to drop everything to go write "The Hobbit" fanfiction, but for a while I've had the idea of *gestures vaguely" some post-canon story (probably some form of fix-it) taking place before, during, and after a grand dwarven opera performance in Erebor.

Because I am absolutely certain that the Lonely Mountain had an absolutely stunningly beautiful Royal Opera House (and plenty of other, less grand performance halls) that, at the city's height, was putting at least one show every single day. Orchestral symphonies, operas and operettas, dramatic plays, dance performances... you name it, they had it and more. The various cultures of Middle Earth evidently ADORE music, dwarves absolutely included. The Company all bring instruments to Bag End to play and sing themselves off before their quest!

Also, beyond the music side of things, with how dwarves are named as master crafters? Smiths and toymakers and magicians? No way that they did not have some of the most gorgeous costumes, sets, and effects on the planet. Dwarves would go WILD with their articulated stage puppets, I know it.

One of my biggest issues with the film trilogy is that it failed to deeply explore the Company as people who had lost their home, beauty and culture included. Smaug not only killed countless people, entire families, and leave many of the survivors poor and desperate, the dragon went on to hoard their heirlooms and life's work and leave these priceless gold treasures UNUSED. It is an additional heartbreak to imagine Smaug tearing through Erebor neighborhood by neighborhood, house by house, so that he could tear out every gemstone in, say, mosaic made by someone's grandmother that sat above the breakfast table every morning. To think that Smaug in the aftermath tore magical lanterns off the walls, the sort that might have been decorated with animals or flowers, to make some daycare walkway just a little more cheery for the children, and in his greed left a dead city in the dark.

The live-action movies put both Smaug and the Balrog in these... absolutely enormous chambers that serve somewhat unclear purposes. The king's treasure vault and a former marketplace, I think? (Moria has been raised by goblins, I can forgive the emptiness.) It's a quick visual depiction of Thror's uncontrollable gold lust to give him a Scrooge McDuck room, sure, instead of anything with an actual organizational system (normally, I assume dwarves are big on sorting their vaults if they have one). Super big columns and hallways and staircases do somewhat effectively communicate the "lost glory" of Moria (I am very fond of these movies!!!), even if I also think it's not as interesting as it could have been. And the other obvious purpose of big, open warehouse-like spaces is 1) it's easier to animate the big creatures moving around in them generally and 2) it allows the films to show off the full-bodied visual spectacle of their big creatures.

But I think it would have also kicked ass to put Smaug in Erebor's former Royal Opera House or something, some enormous theatre decorated across generations. That could be big! The ART (statues, fountains, banners, windows, general architecture) that you could put on the exterior, which has had its face ripped open for the dragon to get inside? The ART that you could put INSIDE (mosaics, murals, and more) as Bilbo sneaks inside? Ohhh, you could include so many potential lore references with thematic relevance!

Also, Bilbo could get jump-scared by old articulated stage puppets or something. IT'S THE DRAGON-! Oh, no, it's some old opera prop. (Yes, we're talking more about an actual adaptation of "The Hobbit" rather than fanfiction concepts now.)

Sure, there's raw material treasure and coins hoarded here in this place, but there would also be musical instruments and toys and household tools and cookware and fancy dishes, wedding jewelry and anniversary gifts and family shrines and festival costumes, fountain statues and street lamps and mailboxes and business signs, and other evidence that people really LIVED here. These are all ordinary objects that Bilbo recognizes from the Shire.

We could tie these objects directly back to objects we saw featured in Bilbo's home early in this adaptation, which he was trying to "protect" from the dwarves during their "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates" song. There are half-burned portraits of people's late parents here too. Did he think that there weren't any dwarves who made doilies or handkerchiefs embroidered with flowers? Of course they made things like that too.

It's perfectly symbolic to, say, place Smaug's bed in an area like the king's throne room. The dragon is now the King Under The Mountain. But I think it would be deliciously haunting to have the throne room of Erebor be empty, the throne half-broken, the silver stripped from the walls and moved elsewhere, because Smaug doesn't care about Thror's old audience chamber. What's a dwarf king to a dragon? He burns the same as all the others. The dragon has instead made his bed in a beautiful public place of art and culture that was for the people, by the people, surrounded by the lovingly crafted belongings of the ordinary people he killed. Gold is gold to a dragon whether it's in a coin or a candlestick.

I think if you really want to sell one of the key messages of "The Hobbit", which in my opinion is: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." then you ought to throw yourself behind EREBOR being a place where food and cheer and song had value, not just the Shire. Thorin isn't lost at the end because he's a dwarf and dwarves don't value such things, but because he as a specific person who makes the mistake of weighing pride and gold over people, and he comes to regret that on his deathbed.

So, back to the fanfiction idea, I think that Erebor had music again in it as soon as dwarves started living in it again. It will take decades and decades before the Royal Opera House is half as splendid as it was before, and there is a performance there with beautiful costumes and puppets and sets comparable to those that came before, some traditional historical show that is part of specific seasonal holiday for dwarves. But that very first winter, when the future still looked grim, I think the dwarves cleared out a small stage and cast the roles of this traditional musical retelling of their history among them, based on who knew the parts best, because they aren't just miners and smiths and soldiers, and there was music again in Erebor that winter despite all the damage that the dragon did.

[likopinina]

MORTIFLIERS in FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (2024)

[cat-b0t]

Funny little headcanon height chart thing (and also some design changes because this is for like a dorky personal au I've had since I was actually 12) (⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠)

[monarchamos]

heyyy chuuya lovers

I made a compilation of every. single. scene. of Chuuya. spanning from season one to season 5, including dead apple and the ova. also its in dub.

so like. if anyone wants

{BSD but it's only Chuuya}

Update! After a bout of boredom, i have created

{BSD Wan! but it's only Chuuya}

[shantechni]

Me when someone apparently hacks Netflix's database and drops a major leak of DanDaDan, Re:Zero, Terminator Zero, the Mononoke film, and Ranma 1/2.

[meownhi]

had to do this once i saw the template (by @/_ksgi on twitter) <3

unbloodied tim drake under the keep reading & weird details about my brain in the tags :D

[ducktracy]

reminder that if you're not watching Crayon Shin-chan then you are living a hollow and empty life. this is not edited. this ripped straight from the movie (Movie 8: Jungle That Invites the Storm, highly recommend for fellow Masaaki Yuasa lovers)

if you need further convincing: these monkeys run an animation sweatshop

[mexican-neji]

i wish they could've done a filler episode on the alternate universe we see in road to ninja that wasn't for tenten's infinite tsukuyomi dream... i like the concept- an episode of her being self aware and trying to escape but ultimately succumbing to everything she's wanted, there's some kind of horror to it. but i doubt creepy neji, mean hinata, playboy sasuke and a cold naruto whose name isn't even naruto anymore are part of her greatest desires is all i'm saying 😭

[aethersea]

I don't think the Wicked movie will be good. I don't think they'll do it right. I worry it will be, on the level of story, character, and theme, the equivalent of those pop covers of disney songs they used to play at the end of the movie: flattened and made palatable to a presumed "average" audience, stripped of all the emotion and context of the original.

I would love to be wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

but I listened to the original soundtrack yesterday and it made me realize one very important thing: even if the movies are exactly as bland as I fear, I'm still going to cry like a baby at the end.

[clowndensation]

top 9 movies i watched in 2024, tagged by @confinesofmy :) i will admit this was kind of scary, because for a moment i was scared i didn't watch 9 movies i liked this year. luckily this was not so <3

1. brokeback mountain. first time seeing this movie at the tender age of 27. cried a lot.

2. 12 angry men. we need more chamber dramas, there's nothing i love more than a chamber drama. the ultimate litmus test to whether you can write interesting dialogue or not. if god is real this will happen in luigi mangione's case. frustrating to watch.

3. stopmotion. visually fantastic movie exploring the effects of parental abuse, and the way that presents after losing that parent. it's not groundbreaking, but it IS solid and ticks all my boxes on what i'm looking for in a horror movie.

4. past lives. cried. this list is NOT in order, if it was this would be number 2 i think. got into an argument with my friends about the value that different types of love hold in a person's life. cried again.

5. i saw the tv glow. it turns out movies are only good if they make me cry. it's not a subtle movie, but it's very intentional with its message, and it landed solidly for me.

6. it follows. fuck man it sure does.

7. conclave. just a fun time! visually quite pretty. not necessarily a lot of depth to it imo, but it has an extremely clear message, and i do love a silly catty drama with old men in it. bitches named vincent have and will always rule.

8. mamma mia. such a fun musical, i can not BELIEVE i hadn't watched it until now. silly fun goofy time and meryl streep is there.

9. twisters. sorry for thinking glen powell and daisy edgar jones have insane rizz. it's a movie that hit me right in my romcom nostagia and i had a good time with it! kind of a throuple if you include the tornadoes as a vital part of the relationship. which i do.

tagging ummmmm @eastgaysian @courtjester69420 @blackchrlstmas1974 @jadziadykes @fooltofancy @goatsandgangsters @bredforloyalty if you'd like to share your movies <3

[hellblaux]

got the remaining tapes i wanted for my south park vhs collection today :-D (might post a pic of it sometime? :-0 )

[thecheshirepath]

Happy Friday the 13th! 🔪💀🩸🪓

[tacagen]

OKAY MY NEWFOUND AGENT BISHOP TMNT AUDIENCE. ANY THOUGHTS ON WHY THERE ARE

two of them?????

[coconutcows]

Hey whenever I mention like trading shiny pokemon if anyone’s interested I really mean it, I don’t have just, like a couple, I have around….300???? Spare shinies?? I estimate about that many, I have nearly 120 in PLA alone, 3 or 4 full boxes in Home, and a bunch in Go I haven’t counted because I can only transfer like five a week and I have a bunch to move over for my living dex (248 in Go total between keepers, spares, and costumed ones that can’t be moved)

So yeah, I’ll make a post sometime listing what I have (and what I need for shinies but that’s less important), and if anyone’s interested in trading let me know.

Only catch is none of them are like bred for stats or whatever, I don’t know any of that, breeding for shinies melts my brain, and some are from Go which some people “don’t count” but that’s a weenie opinion imo, but they’re all legitimate