#BUT IM ACTUALLY WATCHING NOW ALRIGHT

[retro-animes]

finally finishing mob psycho after -checks calendar- 4 years of not finishing it and MAN…..

can’t believe I left off in season 2 right before the good shit starts LOL

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

....so as it turns out I'm mentally ill over dragons rising

[dunkinbublin]

happy sonadow to all that celebrate LMAO

[triglycercule]

i mightve found the only other undertale fan in my entire school and he's playing one of those roblox ut fighting fan games. and then i saw his avatar and i'm like 80% sure it was dust but i cant tell because theres an undyne head over the avatar. man what the hell

[5hrignold]

ok surenwhy not

[hella1975]

you wouldn't understand the suffering i've been through (the anime im hyperfixated on is airing its new season but im a dub anime watcher and want to wait for the dub to come out even though everyone is TALKING ABOUT IT)

[the-holy-ghosted]

*putting on a moustache and sunglasses*

So like what’s the deal with ghosted what’s that about

now see the deal with Ghosted is that it's not what happens within the events of the film that captivates me so much, though don't get me wrong i love this film to bits, but rather, it's the idea of what happens after the whole thing that makes me FUCKING NUTS

because the whole thing is relatively cut and dry in the sense that we don't have to guess about what happened before and we don't have to guess about how everybody is feeling in the present. we know (MOST) important characters backgrounds and what they're doing at Falkhill and slowly revealing Paul's context was pretty interesting if not a little abrupt at the end there but its the very last scene of this film down to the very frame that flips the whole hour and a half you just watched over on its head and prevents me from getting a good night's sleep because i can't stop thinking about it

ELABORATING WITH A LOT OF SPOILERS UNDER THIS

explaining the plot of this movie is hard without sounding like im writing a pretentious review and not just talking out of my ass on tumblr but for my followers who haven't watched this movie and dont care enough to: Ghosted (2011) is set in a british prison in which Jack (John Lynch) is a long time prisoner who's wife just dumped him apparently on the anniversary of their sons death (tough break) and is being advised by his friend and cellmate Ahmed (Art Malik) (who does NOT get HALF as much screen-time or plot relevance as he DESERVES,) to find something to put his mind to and be proud of outside of his failures Paul (Martin Compston) is a prisoner who was just transferred out of a Young Offenders prison AS FAR AS WE'RE TOLD... though its noticeable from the beginning that hes not a very good liar and his story is suspicious at best Clay (Craig Parkinson) is kindof The Guy of their prison wing whos dealing drugs to other prisoners and assumes the position of authority over everybody else, though compared to other inmates with bigger cliques, his foundations are shaky. the description of this film on letterboxd calls him "the wing beast" and i have never cried laughing so hard reading something in my life

Clay and Jack both hone in on Paul immediately for different reasons. Jack, after his pep talk with Ahmed, sees Paul as a source of "a little self belief, something to be proud of", but Clay scoops him under his wing for being relatively young and impressionable. This puts Jack and Clay at odds with each other. after some plot, Paul gets into very big trouble with Clay and after An Incident is promptly plopped into Jacks hands, who had requested Paul move into his cell earlier but didn't have a good enough excuse for it. Well You've Got A Bloody Good Reason Now ect ect

Jack and Paul buddy up immediately and its noticable that Paul is sort of filling in the empty space where a son would be for Jack, however we discover that Paul has been lying about his past to everybody, including Jack. he lied about his family and he lied about having only just been transferred from Y.O. and hadn't been telling the whole truth about his sentence. what the truth ends up being, in a nutshell, is that Paul is accidentally responsible for the death of Jack's son, having been the one who started the house fire he died in (we were never even told that Jack's son died in a house fire before this, we are only told this in Paul's flashback at the end of the movie and are supposed to act, like, surprised?? whatever). consequentially, Jack flips his lid and prompts my personal favorite scene in this film in which he beats the living shit out of Paul with his bare hands and immediately regrets it the second the adrenaline wears off, hitting an alarm button within the cell that alerts the guards.

the guards whisk him away and he is put in solitary confinement, which we find out was actually the first sequence of the film where hes shown with an absurdly long beard, and considering every other fucking scene he's in is of him shaving his face, i assume this is to show just how long he's been kept in solitary confinement, which quite honestly was kindof exciting to realize at the end of the film.

and then. the end scene.

after solitary, Jack is put in cuffs and brought to see Paul who looked Extremely Dead after Jack had him, but hes not dead! just almost dead. Jack is sat next to him and tries to apologize but starts to cry, reaching out a hand to hold Paul's but retracting it regretfully. Paul, having looked unconscious not five seconds before, moves his hand to place it over Jack's...

and then the movie ends. and i am left writhing on my floor in anguish BUT NOT BEFORE I EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THIS

THIS is what the deal is with Ghosted

the pathetic gestures of "im sorry" and "its okay" are what kill me. sorry is nowhere near enough to justify anything that EITHER of them did, NOR should they be forgiven. AND YET.

and what gets my gears going is the thought of what everything looks like AFTER this scene. after they've bonded so close and after Jack already thought that Paul stopped lying to him, thinking that he could protect Paul from Clay now... after they started to fill the spaces for people they were missing in their lives... and after they've RUINED each others lives. They Have Ruined Each Others Lives and yet Paul probably would have had to DELIBERATELY ASK for them to bring Jack to see him because he just BEAT Paul within an INCH of his life and would NOT !! have brought Jack to see him upon Jack's own request!! Paul would have wanted to see him too!! after all this what does their relationship look like now... the image of father and son has been all but shattered in each other's eyes, one can assume, but are they still close... does the guilt and responsibility drift them apart or does it pull them inseparably together? Ahmed tells Jack that "there is no such thing as coincidence, only fate" but what does their fate look like... does it end here or does it mean that they're together indefinitely? the end of this film swings the door wide open and i think about it. way too often. unacceptably often, even.

all in all theres no reason that this should be my favorite film but it is. if nothing else it's made me look into the other actors involved and branch out with a to-watch list as long as my arm that will only get longer once i branch out from there. is it the perfect movie? no this film is mediocre at best. have i made a number of my friends sit down and watch it and listen to me yell incoherently about it? of course i have.

[silverselfshippingchaos]

ugghhh wintertime sucks!! I'm sad and tired and sad all the time.. I need a nap.. and f/o cuddles.. and another nap..

[jils-things]

memoryshipping x studio ghibli: the masterpost ✨✨

see them separately: (x) (x) (x)

no need to rb!

[gasstationclown]

oh hey its. its more ace attorney. red is for apollo justice, green is for dual destinies, and dark blue is for spirit of justice but after that its just kind of a general thing. as ive done before, theres a comment for SOME of them under the cut (i limited myself :) but also theyre like. self explanatory mostly)

#7 i was so fucking shocked (ha) when it was revealed that fulbright put shock shackles on blackquill. shouldve knew smth was up fr. but they are worsties

#8 i love thinking of athena squeezing between phoenix and apollo in the last (i think) case instead of just going on the end. she wants to be in the middle !!!!

#9 at the penrose theater in the background theres this guy walking their dog and its so fucking rotund and i just love it so much. i love that dog.

#11 & #13 sahdmadhi loves twos things in life.... burgers and peaches. i get it

#15 i drew ema ONCE and it was like 4 years ago and it was a little tiny version and she was younger so i felt like i needed to draw ema. here is ema. shell be back im sure

#16 i sometimes think about the relationship between phoenix and klavier. i think that has to be real awkward. i think they try not to talk to each other and avert their eyes when they see each other

#17 its kinda small but phoenix is saying "ive been working on some dad jokes-" and i just think phoenix would pull out a whole document/binder full of them at Dinner With Kristoph and start reading them all out

#18 this is the most suggestive thing ill post and its a "the beanie stays on during sex" joke

thats it thats the post

[slimeciclecock]

My queue's gonna start going but getting to actually catch this stream and event live is lowkey making me want to do it regularly. Like on the weekdays

[todayisafridaynight]

i know kiwami 3 isn’t coming any time soon but the fact that it was CONFIRMED to be coming soon makes me tweak rlly bad like i need it so bad I WNAT IT NOW!!!!!!!!

NOT SOON FRIEND tho i guess relatively soon. a confirmation of sorts at all is enough to make me sick really....... it still makes me wanna see hd mine so.........

[autism-disco]

the car seat is headresting that’s for certain

[gnomeantics]

HOLY SHIT i got a cassette of ginger root's nisemomo EP (i know people hate casssettes be quiet there were no CDs left and anyway its pretty and its fun ok !! stop being haters) and i dont know an awful lot about cassettes so im not sure if it's the tape or just my player but it's raised the pitch by a tiny bit and !!!!! HOLY SHIT !!!!!! i was apprehensive but this sounds GREAT i am IN LOVE .

[dogcollarpunk]

amazing how the toxic mix between anxiety and whatever other specific thing is very wrong with my brain will lead me to literally do nothing for 12 hours straigh t. Academic fucikgng weapon

[tkbrokkoli]

just finished midnight mass. hit a little too hard after a family member of mine seemingly almost died this week but i think it was rly good to have to deal w the possibility of death