#I’m rewatching the conjuring movies now

[newlyy]

Sequel to The Nun coming out in September, very excited!!!!!

[agirlandherquill]

Written In Smoke - The Inceptive Letter

Now, for the first post of this series I thought I’d begin with something simple, explaining the name - Written, because of course I’m a writer and I adore the clickety-clack of keys (and writing with a fountain pen in a notebook when I’m outlining plot, which is a new little venture I’ve begun doing) and Smoke, because it’s a weekly account of events, nothing is going to be completely solid, and my memory will have gaps even if I attempt to note things down, and also because much like the flow of ink upon paper, life is similarly fluid too, in my mind at least, it’s very much like smoke - full of substance, beautiful, chaotic, and full of little moments (which I completely adore) and thus the use of smoke, because little moments disappear so quickly but the remnants remain with you forevermore, and that’s as much of an explanation as my mind can conjure, which for me at the very least, composes the introduction to this series!

And now to move on to the main substance of this post - much like the ingredients of a perfect dish, the parts are still a work in progress, so bear with me whilst I work out which to include and how to structure it

 (And come up with working titles for each section, which is part of the fun!)

A Glimpse Through Time - little bits about me and what I’ve been up to this week

This week marked the end of a chapter, a very important one, because I completed (some may say survived, barely) my final three papers and today was my final day of academic normalcy - everything from here-on-out is completely and utterly unknown - no more Lit, Bio, and Chem to worry about for the summer at least, which is very, very daunting but I did it, I made it through and hopefully my work paid off - we shall see in a few months time, but i’m not ready to think about that yet - Having to say goodbye to the people who have taught me for the past few years was difficult but I made it through with no tears, a few hugs and cards written, which was lovely, truly, and I’m grateful for every minute of it.

Other than completing the final obstacle toward the free-fall that Is adulthood (I say that as though the feat isn’t impressive, because it sure would be to me two years ago), only a few things have happened this week:

(I’m making this a list because who doesn’t adore lists? Perhaps only me, but that’s more than okay)

Stuff Your Kindle Day was yesterday, and my poor, poor kindle has to suffer with the acquisition of 50-odd books (I haven’t dared to count past that, and it was my first actual SYK day despite owning a kindle for 9 years), and I have no idea if it has the storage for it, so that’ll be fun to work through

I made a bet to watch star-wars, now of course i’ve seen most of it (movie-wise, definitely, and 3/4 of mandalorian minus s3 because let’s face it, I’m as behind on that as I am with Witcher, which is soon to be rectified but anyway redirecting back to Star Wars) but very little of the shows and it’s been so long I hardly remember the plots and such, which I’m very much looking forward to re-experiencing for the first “proper-ish” time - so I’m starting with Solo, then steadily working my way through ANH, ESB, ROTJ, Mando S1, Mando S2, Boba Fett, Mando S3, TFA, TLJ, TROS, TPM, AOTC, Clone wars (movie and plot-vital eps, I was given a list), ROTS, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka - all of this in exchange for my friend to watch The Boys (I’m going to rewatch it all, then finally see Gen V, hopefully in time before S4 ends and I can watch the last few eps as they come out, like I did with S3)

I decided I want to go on a trip over summer, just me, which is frankly terrifying but I’m really excited - I’m thinking of Bath, possibly, because the Jane Austen Museum is there (Persuasion is the love of my life and i’ve only read it twice, I also need to read more than simply that and Pride and Prejudice) and a few doors down is Mary Shelley’s Museum too! It’s a trip that’s doable in a day, by train, which is pretty perfect for my first solo excursion - so bear with me since that’s in the works

To end this list I’m slipping in a note about a brief-exchange that my delusional mind brands rom-com noteworthy (only it’s not, unless it maybe is? i’ll leave that to the reader to decide), I gifted my chemistry lab-partner a chocolate bar and a note of gratitude because it’s down to him that I survived the practicals (only kidding, I’m not THAT dangerous, but we were the most successful pair in the class which was pretty awesome), and enjoyed the chem course even more than I thought I would - and on the final day (today, insert anxious and clueless screaming because it feels far, far too soon for everything to be over) on the way out, he gifted me something in return - I never thought a chocolate bar would make me want to cry and giggle at the same time, but there you go (part of me prays he will not notice the existence of my Tumblr, but it’s possible, and if he ever reads this - I am so, so, sorry, but either way my appreciation is known, and that’s good enough for me, and he’s very, very sweet)

Now, what else is there to include in this section? Oh, I know! The nightmare that is the vast variety of things that entertain me - cough, slightly melodramatic of me, but you’ll see what I mean momentarily,

Books - I’m roughly 120 pages into the Wheel of Time, which I already know will become my LOTR (assuming that is an actual phrase and not something my brain has made up, which is highly likely regardless - it’s also a slight reference to Ready Player One, since Kira reread LOTR every single year), because who doesn’t love danger, fantasy, and a delicious almost undecipherable prophecy? If I don’t re-read this book every year I will be incredibly, incredibly surprised. Fighting sleep one night this week I sought out my kindle, which had been sorely unused these last couple years, and I started to read Interview With The Vampire, and I’ve spent a couple hours reading it today, I’m about 25% in according to Kindle stats, so I’ll see how it goes. Surprisingly though, I stumbled across Perks of Being A Wallflower on Kindle Unlimited today - and 5 hours later, with a couple of breaks scattered between, I finished it, about twenty minutes before writing this section - and let me tell you, that book was a LOT, but a good lot? i suppose? And I’m glad I finally got around to reading it - It’s also given me the urge to reread All The Bright Places which I read for the first time last summer, and it’s beautiful, and so, so good,

Shows - Seeing as it’s the weekend I’m making my way through Dexter, I’m currently 3/4 through S4 and loving it, it’s INSANE, I’m also watching Shameless US, I’m on S6 and it’s actually baffling me how much I’m enjoying it (Lip is my favourite character, and this season HURTS me with how much it hurts him, mild spoiler possibly? apologies if so), I’m also going to start rewatching the Boys as aforementioned, seeing the dark side of superheroes is so incredibly genius, if not disturbing, and there’s plenty of that in the show to look forward to experiencing again, so wish me luck dear reader,

Music - I listen to a LOT. That’s the honest truth. Lots of genres, lots of people, but I’ll try and pick out some of the things I’ve been listening to this week: Outlander S1&2 Soundtrack (I’ve only seen up to s2, and after reading the first book last month it was perfect timing for exam season), Like That by Bea Miller (I rediscovered this recently and it fits so well with the characters in my head, and even though I haven’t been writing lately, believe me, I’ve been plotting), Trouble by Camylio (it reminds me of the main characters in my currently not fully-written book, as in the work I need to complete/redraft after I finish Ruin’s Reprisal), Ludens by Bring Me The Horizon (does this song really need an explanation? It’s just that good) and finally, to finish off this little list of things that I’ve hearing a lot this week, The Other Side by Stephen Sanchez, which is so so good

Spills From The Ink-Pot - writing, writing, and more writing

Seeing as it’s Friday, and today is the start of my lengthy, well-needed summer, there’s not an awful lot I can tell you all for writing progress, but so far this weekend I did manage to re-read the chapter I’m editing and the progress I’ve made in it so far, which was super helpful, and by the end of this weekend hopefully I’ll have that chapter all finished, and then afterwards have a lot more to share with you all next week!

But to make up for my absence from writeblr and being unable to post anything these last few weeks, I’ll add this in:

Just a little glimpse into my workspace/theme/whatever you wish to call it on Scrivener - that's right, I'm a Scrivener girlie, and I'm so glad I invested in it last May (take part in NaNoWriMo camps folks, you get 50% off, which is what I did, aka £25 for permanent use as opposed to £50, which is still really good compared to Word etc, in my opinion) - and a sneak peek at some of my Chapter Titles, which I really do love coming up with,

(if it's blurry I do apologise, but you get the gist, hopefully)

Incase it’s not obvious, this account was written in parts, over the course of Friday and Saturday (11pm today, roughly), since I lost the battle against exhaustion and fell asleep before I could finish compiling this lengthy post (that’s not a complaint, i’m really enjoying writing this) so I’m finishing this very first post a tad later than initially planned, but these things happen, and that’s all right - you’ll also notice my battle with autocorrect and its capitalisation, sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I’d rather not go back and correct things this late at night, so apologies for that slight blunder but I promise the next post will be all properly formatted with headers and capitals (as soon as I figure out how to include headers, and make them, hopefully trusty procreate comes in handy, but we shall see)

So that’s it! The very first Written In Smoke is completed, compiled and heading your way - I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it, this is unknown territory for me and it feels as though I’m baring another piece of myself to the world, but it’s worth it, I knew it when this began, and I know it now as I write these last few lines, so if you’ve read this far - thank you, and I’ll see you all next week for the next entry in this series!

~ A Girl and Her Quill

p.s. if there’s anything else you’d like to know about, let me know! suggestions are greatly appreciated (cough, somewhat desperately needed because I have no idea what I’m doing)

p. p. s. being the utter genius I am, I pressed save as draft rather than post, so this is coming out even later than originally planned - whoops!

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[justthegreat1]

Talk To The Hand: Talk To Me Review

Pictured above is the Talk To Me poster.

Image credit: A24

So, this will be my 2nd A24 movie review and I am still processing this movie so if this review isn’t great, I’m sorry. Now, when I first heard about this movie which was a month ago, I honestly thought “oh great…another possession movie.”, but no this is not your typical possession movie and I’m going to tell you right now dear reader… I think this might be one of the best years to be a horror fan. Anyways, enough talking and cut to the chase and “Talk” about this movie in this spoiler-free review…I’m sorry about the pun.

Talk To Me is a 2023 supernatural horror film directed by Danny and Michael Philippou (RackaRacka) and this is their feature film directorial debut. Talk To Me is produced by Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton. This movie is written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman. The cast includes Sophie Wilde as Mia, Alexandra Jensen as Jade, Joe Bird as Riley, Otis Dhanji as Daniel, Miranda Otto as Sue, Zoe Terakes as Hayley, Chris Alosio as Joss, Marcus Johnson as Max, Alexandria Steffensen as Rhea, Ari McCarthy as Cole, and Sunny Johnson as Duckett.

The Plot:

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Positives:

One positive I have about this movie was how the cast worked so well with each other, each cast member nailed their roles…especially Sophie Wilde, her performance makes the viewer feel what she goes through, and she was unsettling in the possession scene which was shown in the second trailer. I appreciated how each character didn’t feel like just another body count as they served their purpose.

Pictured above is Mia in of the many possession scenes in the movie.

Image credit: A24

The second positive I have about this movie was that it didn’t depend on jump scares or violence (except for one scene) to make you feel uncomfortable, rather it was the story itself that made the viewer feel uncomfortable. This movie was made to make you feel something whether that’s discomfort, fear, or whatever emotion you get from watching this movie.

Pictured above is the character of Riley played by Joe Bird in a very unfortunate situation.

Image credit: A24

The third positive is that I’m glad we don’t get a clear explanation as to where the hand comes from, we get hints throughout the movie from the characters, but I liked how they don’t fill the movie with exposition on where the hand came from. This movie is straight to the point which is another positive I have about this movie. It isn’t slow like Insidious: The Red Door or too fast, it is a crisp 1 hour 35 minutes which is a great run time for a movie like this.

Pictured above is the hand that each of the characters used to communicate with the dead.

Image credit: A24

Negatives:

Sooooo, when it came to the negatives, I couldn’t think of one. Now I’m not calling the movie perfect by any means, but when I rewatch this movie I’m sure I will find some flaws but right now, I think this might be one of the better supernatural horror films we had in awhile (Conjuring 2 being my favorite one).

My overall thoughts:

I think this movie is worth your time if you want a supernatural horror movie that has plenty of twists and turns throughout to keep you invested, likeable characters throughout, and has plenty of suspenseful moments. I can picture myself owning this on physical media and rewatching it to find things I might’ve missed in my first viewing.

What did you think about Talk To Me if you have seen it?

Feel free to comment your thoughts and please keep the comments respectful.

Thank you!

Where to watch Talk To Me?

Talk To Me can currently be watched in movie theaters.

[rustbeltjessie]

Poetry’s Dead (Undead Undead Undead)

Poetry & Halloween go together like candy corn & carved pumpkins because poetry is, at its heart, a haunted thing. All poems are about ghosts, even if they’re not about ghosts. They’re all haunted by the traces of memory (the poet’s own memory, but also the ghosts of history that each word carries with it). Writing a poem is a way to summon ghosts, but it can also be a way to exorcise your ghosts & demons, or at least expel them from your mind and bind them with paper & ink. (As Sandra Cisneros wrote: I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.) Poems are also a bit like spells. Spells to conjure the past or shape the future. Spells to heal the writer/reader, or get revenge on what has harmed them. Or creation spells which bring forth something beautiful that wasn’t there before. I suppose any form of writing could be considered a spell, but poetry feels even more tied to spell-work because of its rhythm and sound. There is something inherently incantatory about it.

So, yes, all poetry fits into the Halloween season, at least in some small way. But one can make the connection even more obvious, depending on what is being written about. And that is exactly what I’m doing with both my current works-in-progress. All writers write about their obsessions. I am a giant nerd who is kinda goth, so some of my obsessions are very Halloween-y. If all poems are implicitly about ghosts, many of my poems are explicitly about ghosts. Ghosts are the overarching theme in my in-progress full length collection. Some of its other themes and inspirations include: murder ballads, urban legends, fairy and folk tales, witchcraft, monsters, and horror films. I recently completed a poem for that manuscript titled “Planet of the Monster Girls.” It’s about a group of girls obsessed with classic horror films and their stars: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and Lon Chaney, Jr. Writing that poem rekindled my own obsession with those actors. I splurged on Etsy items relating to them, and built a sort of altar/shrine in my workspace. I rewatched their films, and did internet and library searches for more information about those monstrous leading men. And then the poems came. I found myself scribbling epistolary prosepoems to Peter Lorre. (It started with him because I have a long-running obsession with Mr. Lorre that would require an entire separate essay to explain). Soon after, I began writing missives to the rest of them, too.

I have so many other things I’m working on right now that I tried to resist it at first. No way am I starting another effing book, I told myself. But the epistolary poems kept coming, and then I started doing some erasures as well, from the books and articles I’ve been reading about those men. (Because how often does one find a source text full of choice words like quirky, deviant, venom, mesmeric, dread, and menace?) After a couple weeks, I had to admit to myself that I am, indeed, working on a new book. I don’t yet know what the final form or structure will be, or whether it will be a chapbook or a full-length. But right now I don’t care, because I am enjoying the process. This project is giving me a way to discuss serious topics while paying tribute to some of my favorite actors and films. It is giving me a fun way to juxtapose the ‘high art’ of poetry with the ‘low art’ of vintage horror, noir, and b-movies. (And it gave me an excuse to decorate a special notebook in which to write the poems.)

Yes, poetry & Halloween go together like ghosts and crumbling old mansions. Yes, all poems are spells and summonings. And this year, I’m spending my Halloween season writing spells which summon the ghosts of my muses: Boris, Bela, Peter, Vincent, & Lon.

—Jessie Lynn McMains (originally published in The Poetry Question, October 2019)

[eclaireparlalune]

have been rewatching the conjuring 1 and 2 + watched the 3 movie (from 2021) for the first time. now new 911 stills dropped and i can’t split my obsession on both but i just gotta say…

while i enjoyed all three movies, the first one is the only one i’ve been legitimately scared of. i’m not an expert in movie making or the horror genre, but i do believe that the quality of new horror movies has dropped in recent years, and while we do have better special effects and more dramatic scenes… the atmosphere and legitimate terror are gone.

the first conjuring build up the atmosphere perfectly. you’ve had tense moments where nothing happened, or you’ve had just small moments that had you at the edge of your seat (or hiding your face behind a blanket), and i don’t get that from newer horror films/tv.

there is no suspension, no chills running down your back… no… patience… in building up to those moments. everything is more fancy and loud and more shocking. but that doesn’t translate well into good horror for me…

i love movie ed and lorraine, i’ve loved them in their third iteration, but looking overall on the story and its execution? they could have done it much much better…

[marypickfords]

Hi Hanna! Hope you’re doing well, have been wanting to ask for a while and now that the Halloween is near, ( it’s almost September, I’m ready lol) I thought I finally bother you 🙃

What’s your fav Halloween franchise movie? And what’s your fav Friday the 13th?

Any other fav must watch slashers?

Also thoughts on conjuring? I just watched the original movie, that I thought I would never watch, and it wasn’t that bad.

Also also also, since I’m already asking 124363737 things- fav saw movies and are you going to see the saw x? ( I think you mentioned that you watch saw movies, if not, my apologies)

Hope it’s not too much, if it is, feel free to ignore.

Have a nice day! 🦇

haha hi! still not used to asks being this long now. first off this got me so excited that for the first time i'll be able to decorate my own apartment for halloween..!!

favorite halloween franchise movie: of the original franchise i'm a big fan of 4 & 5. and i love both rob zombie movies.

favorite f13: i really like part ii & vii (and special mention to jason takes manhattan)

some must watch slashers: folies meurtrieres (1984), just before dawn (1981), the prowler (1981), the mutilator (1984)

on the conjuring.. honestly not a lot of thoughts, i don't particularly care for it and due to patrick wilson reasons i never know which one is conjuring and which one is insidious. i stopped at 2, not my type of christian horror.

fav saw movies: oh it's been so long since i've watched them but the saw movies are dear to me, they were part of my 'im a big girl now' movies when i was like 13 and started renting horror movies by myself. so i have fond memories of the first 3, but i need to rewatch them. i never completed the franchise and i've no idea whats going on in saw world rn but i'd love to watch the new one if it ever gets released where i live with SUBS.

and ty! you too ^_^

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

Sorry about this, but it’s is me moaning again.

I dunno. I am so worn out.

Everything is broken or breaking. Everything needs work. I can’t afford to fix or replace anything, and the basics of things like “shelter” are getting rather conceptual rather than real.

My body is failing me, and has so much wrong at once I don’t even think my standard answer to how I’m doing of “surviving” is true anymore. Like, the clock is ticking on when I break down for good. It can be summed up as: on physical/health level a pretty bad.

I need proper exercise, like not working on stuff, but like my walks in the woods. I miss the woods. I used to go every single day, and now I haven’t even been managing once a week!

I don’t have time for just being with animals, so they only see me when I feed them or give them medicine. I feel guilty all the time.

You know, I haven’t taken pictures of my sculpting for over three weeks now. I haven’t even taken a single photo in a week…a WEEK! ME! Who had been taking 5,000 photos a month! I carry my camera but I never have time or energy or focus or…I dunno, I just don’t care.

I haven’t gotten any sculpting ready to sculpt with. This little bit of old stuff will take forever to grind back into usable, and if I didn’t have to make an Easter gift for Mom I think I might just give up. It’s no fun with sculpey that crumbles and won’t stick, that has given my thumbs and fingers huge calluses, and I’ve no energy to waste making this god awful crap.

But I’ve gotta make something for Mom. I have no ideas and awful sculpey that won’t even let me attach ears on a damn rabbit! I’m really stressed about this…

Long ago I gave up writing except for my nightly journal entry. Even that has gotten to be more of a laundry list of my day since my life got too wrecked for contemplation. I haven’t missed a night since I was in my late teens, but for the last five months I’ve been falling asleep writing almost every single night! It’s gotten so bad that I am falling asleep before I finish writing about even my morning.

Then I wake up, at 3 or 4 am with a light burning my eyes, ink all over me, an a deep sense of fear and despair overwhelming me. I lie awake for hours, desperately trying to distract my brain from feeling like I’ve fallen out of a plane without a parachute.

Six hours of sleep. No matter how early I go to bed, or late I lie in, I can’t seem to get more than 6 hrs of sleep! I dream about sleep when I actually do dream.

I miss dreams. Proper dreams. I used to have the most amazing dreams.

I also miss daydreaming. I used to do that ALL the time. My hands could be busy but I could still conjure other worlds. . I loved being cozy in bed just so I could imagine, and now I lie there and worry. I can’t even daydream in that most perfect of settings!

Hell, I can’t think. As a child when people asked my favorite thing to do I’d say “thinking” first. Now it’s like there is no space or energy left over. Am I getting stupid too? I feel like I am. I certainly can’t focus.

That includes focusing on movies. I used to watch a movie every single night. Now even when I watch one I feel like it slides right out of my head. I “watch” it enough to tell you the gist of the plot but it’s like a partially over heard voice rather than a conversation.** I do a lot of “I think I’d like it, but I need to rewatch it when I can actually, you know, watch…”

I keep forgetting things. I understand why. I have soooo many things to do, new things get added every damn day, I have only one me to do it all, and this me is exhausted. Of course I forget things. But it still bothers me.

Today I remembered I had forgotten the new book to start reading Mom. I’d left it at her house yesterday, having picked it out before spending the next three hours working on stuff. So I went around there to get it to read it when I called her, but it turned out I had also forgotten where I put it. (In my defense, I’d set it on top of a stack of stuff I’d been sorting out, and when it fell over I’d been too tired to pick it up right then. It was kinda out of sight, out of mind under the pile) Then, when I went to call Mom it turned out I had forgotten to charge me phone! So today Mom never got her call because I’m a forgetful idiot!

I’m terrified I am going to forget to pay this one bill by the end of the month. I have to save the money for it out of my grocery funds, so it’s going to be after next week’s shopping trip before I can pay it. Until then I have it set up on the stove, which, yeah, is a bit of a hazard, BUT at least I have to look at it every day.

I have to look at it every day. My chest tightens when I look at it. And this is a doable bill! I just have to spend a few weeks with mac-n-cheese or bean soup. Imagine what it would be like if I had gotten the car worked on, like I need to, or if I went to a doctor, like a normal sensible person would do?

Sorry. I don’t suppose there is a point to all this. I’m tired, I feel rotten, my life is getting more precarious by the day, I am mostly not doing any of the things I enjoy, and not having fun when I try to. I have no money or energy or time. And, being isolated and alone in all this, I vent on my silly blog where people are trying to enjoy two year old snow pics without having to put up with my constant whining!

LOL/**sobs**

(And now I’m thinking of all the asks, comments, and messages I haven’t replied to yet. Geez! That makes inflicting this on you folks even worse!!)

**Movies are like conversations, at least if you do it right. Watching isn’t a passive experience as you let yourself go “into” the movie. It doesn’t matter if you hate it and mock it, or adore it and are inspired. Your watching reacts. You aren’t watching the “same” movie as the person sitting next to you, because you bring your experiences, personality, and so forth to it. The object of the movie is incomplete without a viewer, but each viewer completes it with themselves. Not explaining this well….

[shehungthemoon]

@dead-scorpio you message got lost in the tumblr notifications! ty haha it’s been forever since i’ve done something like this 💖

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Three Ships

Oh man. I’ll just put my most recent obsessions:

1) Brad x Drew from The Conjuring. Yes the horror film. Yes the random cop and the intern tech that follows them around. YES you literally never seen them together again after the first film. The potential is stellar.

2) Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell’s characters from Minority Report. That movie is BRILLIANT and if it came out today tumblr would be all over it and them. Rewatched it in the other week and remembered just how much I loved Danny Witwer... how they made such an incredible and complex character just in that one film WHEN HE DIES HALFWAY THROUGH TOO is insane. 

3) Obikin. I’ve been in a constant fluctuating state of shipping them since the TV show came out. They define me a bit too much. otp <3 

First Ever Ship

EMBARASSINGLY it was probably either Percy/Annabeth from PJO or Jay/Nya from LEGO Ninjago... yes you heard that last one right. It was life-consuming back in the day 

Last Song

Give A Little Bit by Supertramp, it’s on my favorite radio station right now!

Last Movie

The Conjuring 3 (see above lmao). But we did watch the first 20 minutes of Moana after so we could go to bed not scared to death!

Currently Reading

Fool Moon, an entry in the Dresden Files! I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t read them give them a shot. Best way to describe the series is the most thrilling magical fantasy buddy-cop detective mystery film noir monster movie - themed ride of your life. 

Currently Watching

True Detective Season 2... TD s1 is one of the best television shows ever made, and I gave s2 a shot a while ago and didn’t immediately love it so I never continued. Am on a Colin Farrell kick recently and when I remembered he was in s2 I decided to give it another go and WOW. I actually am loving it. I have no clue where it’s going, too, so I’m happily buckled in. 

Currently Consuming

Honey & lavender glazed almonds... they taste EXACTLY like you would think. 

Currently Craving

Nothing!... for once. I have chocolate ice cream in the fridge for later when I’m crying over my astro problem sets. I would love some fresh motivation rn though. 

tagging people i see in my notifications a lot <3  @lucifers-lawyer@gisatako  @lexkent @duvetghost @vera-dauriac @jillybeannnssss @dantaliones @adizzyninja

[waitingforsols]

I was tagged by @dogwooddiaries and I am so happy because I love doing these!! Thank you so much for thinking of me 🥹😭

LAST SONG

Cut My Lip by Twenty One Pilots

FAVORITE COLOR?

Army Green, hands down. A nice neutral Gray would be second.

CURRENTLY WATCHING?

I am currently rewatching Band of Brothers, couldn’t recommend it more.

LAST MOVIE?

The Band of Brothers accompanying documentary, “We Stand Alone Together” yesterday!!

If we’re talking what actual movie I think it’d be Annabelle Comes Home because my family is currently working our way through The Conjuring cinematic universe. This was probably my least favorite we’ve watched if I’m being real, The Conjuring has always been my absolute favorite horror movie.

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY?

Definitely sweet, but savory is great too

RELATIONSHIP STATUS?

I have a wonderful boyfriend of threes years who is almost too supportive of my fandom relations (he won’t beta read any smut I write though 😔 /j)

CURRENT OBSESSIONS?

A lot of historical stuff so like Band of Brothers, The Boys in the Boat, a touch of Masters of the Air, and also general military history. I’m never not obsessed with aviation, airplanes fill in any gaps I have in my brain if I’m being real. I couple months ago I finished a binge watch of 9-1-1 for the first time, so I’ve been reading a lot of 9-1-1 fanfiction. A lot of my fandoms are small so I I usually run out of fanfics and am constantly refreshing their ao3 pages, so having a fandom that big with some much content is heavenly.

LAST THING I GOOGLED

“Business Casual for Women” because I’m convinced it doesn’t exist in the stores at my local mall. I’ve had a job as an engineer for a year now, but I still struggle when shopping because everything is too casual or too busines-y

[self-loathing-angel-of-thursday2]

Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 14x10 Nihilism

“God this Michael shit is frustrating” “At this point, just give me a MOTW so I can forget this garbage” “when the TV goes dark, it’s too hard to cut my cheese” “why the hell is there a taxidermy squirrel holding a beer bottle? That’s what I saw, right? Good god man” “Who is this lady?” “Isn’t she dead?” laughter “that’s kinda funny” “these never end well” laughter

“You gotta voice it over, because you can’t talk with those kind of teeth in your mouth” “She just finds this to be a normal activity?” “That’s fucked up” “No” “How did Michael change so quick?” “what a fkn cock” “what’s the point of the show if I can’t watch Dean prance around and say stupid shit all day?” “more sacrifices, got it” “lots of junk in that trunk” “I mean, you already have a few times. Well, Jack only once” laughter “that was good. I enjoyed it” “Jack’s not good at subtlety. I’m not either. It makes me sound stupid saying that out loud” “You brought everyone else back; why not Crowley?” “So Dean dreams about doing paperwork and turning down business deals every day?” “Is Jack capable of seeing right through that?” “what a fkn prick” “this is a great pep talk” “Don’t bother shinning a flashlight in there or nothing” “They’re really giving away how unprepared she is with the inflection of her voice” “where are the schematics? How does Sam know what he’s cutting right now? Didn’t he go to school to be a lawyer or some shit? Last I checked, they don’t take electronics classes at lawyer school. But what do I know? To be fair, not that much about lawyer school” “Why is Dean’s hair all combed over? It’s gross” “why the hell is Cas there?” “good time for one of these realizations. Go in without a plan. Have a realization.” “oK’ “there goes the record” “that was a few years ago” “I wonder how many people have adopted that as their actual safe word” clapped hands at the Cas impression

“So just beat Michael’s ass. 3 on 1.” “Isn’t this straight out of that one movie with the girl who can turn 90 degrees?” “sure” “let’s get the soul report. I just want to know how much Jack has left” “I need a good hunt” “this is the most confusing advice ever. You’re burning off your soul, son, but I know they would have killed me.” “if he burns it all off, isn’t Jack just an angel?” “I know Dean makes the rules, but you’d think he’d use more than that little screw driver. Maybe conjure up concrete like 60’ deep all around the bar” “who the hell does Billie report to? God’s not around” “I didn’t think Dean would get to read that. All of a sudden, Billie doesn’t give a shit about the rules?” “well what the fuck man” “fuck no”

[innocencefactoryblog]

NOVEMBER 2023 FILM DIARY

A few days late, but here is my NOV23 film diary!

Welcome to the season of new releases! Bottoms! Anatomy of a Fall! Dream Scenario! How To Have Sex! May December! Saltburn! Woweeeee! I could talk about each and every one of these films, but my two standouts were May December (cos it was great) and Saltburn (cos it was shite). There is not much to say about Saltburn that hasn’t already been said. Film is a game for the rich, and many directors are born into privilege. However, I can think of few directors who throw their lack of empathy at anyone who wasn’t born with a silver camera in their hands back into their audiences' faces like Emerald. It is a distinctly English view of class, a dystopia where class mobility is impossible and where the ultra rich should be in no position to help. The generous rich are punished for being far too nice, and the not even poor are leeches. What would Emerald do if she was faced with a rock and a hard place (50p instant noodles or 50p cup of soup for dinner)? Ah well, at least everyone who thought the peach fucking in Call Me By Your Name was scandalous had a good time. 

What else happened? I FREAKED OUT about having not seen enough films! Literally up in-bed at-night-talking-to-my-partner-at-5AM-about-why-I-haven’t-seen-Citizen-Kane-yet kind of freaked out. I went to a party and all I did was talk about how bad it is that I’ve never seen The Godfather for fucks sake. I’m starting an MA in January, so naturally my imposter syndrome is through the roof. To rectify this, I made a big list of all the films I need to see before I start. Caught right in between Douglas Sirk and Fellini was David Cronenberg’s The Fly. WHAT THE HELL HAVE I BEEN DOING?! I thought to myself. More importantly, why the Hell have I seen eXistenz but not The Fly already this month? I sought to rectify this almost immediately, and luckily The Fly was as fab as I expected. I also finally saw After Hours, Hardcore and There Will Be Blood, all of which were obviously great. 

I ended the month with Evilspeak, a video nasty about a bullied boy in a navy academy who discovers he can contact Satan via dial-up. Now THIS is an internet horror film! It stars Clint Howard, of Gentle Ben, The Waterboy and Ice Cream Man fame, as the poor boy who just can’t catch a break. Even his teachers bully him! Instead of dropping out, he researches black magic online and performs a ritual to conjure Satan, who can enact revenge through the power of the computer screen. Pretty nifty no? Clint Howard wears a toupee throughout, the costs of which were not covered by the film's producers, although surprisingly being the only boy with a hairpiece is not the reason he is bullied at school. AND the founder of the Church of Satan considers Evilspeak to be ‘very satanic’, whatever that means. It’s slow for the first forty minutes, but the final scene is one of my favourite things I’ve seen all year, so seek it out for a fuuun party movie. 

Now it is officially winter, brrrrrr. Staying inside with old films is maybe all that's on the cards for me this month. Gotta write some short stories, gotta get some editing done, gotta send some emails but even buying a train ticket is too much forward planning right now! November was long and exhausting, but now the festive period is just around the corner maybe I can rejoice? Time to dust off that Criterion of the Magnificent Ambersons and mull some wine, Molly Miles you WILL go to the movies!

DIARY 

5th - Hardcore, Paul Schrader, 1979. 

8th - After Hours, Martin Scorsese, 1985. Possibly the funniest film ever made.

8th - Ratatouille, Brad Bird, 2007 (REWATCH). 

9th - Hellzapoppin’, Henry C. Potter, 1941. No more seasonal depression for me! Anarchic fun! 

9th - Night On Earth, Jim Jarmusch, 1992. 

10th - A Former Cult Member Hears Music For The First Time, Kristoffer Borgli, 2020 (SHORT). 

11th - Bottoms, Emma Seligmann, 2023. WHERE IS LESBIAN GREGG ARAKI?! Watched in Rio Cinema.

13th - Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, 2023. Watched in Ritzy Brixton.

14th - eXistenz, David Cronenberg, 1999.  

15th - Dream Scenario, Kristoffer Borgli, 2023. Watched in Ritzy Brixton. 

16th - How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker, 2023. Watched in Rio Cinema.

20th - There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007. 

20th - The Fly, David Cronenberg, 1986. 

21st - May December, Todd Haynes, 2023. Watched in Rio Cinema. 

26th - Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma, 1974 (REWATCH). 

27th - Saltburn, Emerald Fennell, 2023. Watched in Rio Cinema. 

28th - Birth, Jonathan Glazer, 2004. 

28th - Evilspeak, Eric Weston, 1982.

Favourite First Time Watches: Hellzapoppin’, After Hours, The Fly, There Will Be Blood. 

[gatual]

HIIII BOM ✧˖°. bro just this morning i had a small talk with some guy at the gym without hearing a single word he said lmao but ig it went well bc he gave me a fist bump ?? actually you’re right, i think we could figure something out and watch a movie together online 👀 i really should dive into the conjuring, i always forget about it when i’m craving a horror movie marathon 😔😔 i’ve been thinking about rewatching saw movies but i’d really like something i haven’t seen instead 🤔 ALSO dw you can take as much time to reply as you need, i’m always excited to hear from you 🥰✨ i hope you have a lovely week and a nice weather, LUV UUUU ฅ/ᐠ. ̫ .ᐟ\ฅ ✧˖°.♡

omg hiiii☺️☺️☺️🩷LMAO well still small talk w guy at the gym sounds hard anyway so fist bump is a great sign (also I might go to the gym after winter break w a frend👉🏻👈🏻) speaking of which today is day two of winter break!! and ive done nothing else than sleep until 2pm and watch anime djdbdjd but I feel like I deserve it 🩷😔🩷 now that I have time we should def arrange online movie meeting👀we could watch the conjuring ones if u want, Ive actually been feeling like watching those! it's been a long while since the last time I did;; also omg :0 I've never watched the saw ones bc i thought they'd be too raw but I always kinda wanted👁️👁️ but HHH how have u been ? ^-^ any new life updates 🩷🩷 for me tomorrow my friend will come to where i am atm to enjoy a few days tgt before going back to our hometown I'm v excited (⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♡🩷💘🩵🤍💗💕 but hhh love u and wish u a nice weekend ☺️☺️🩷

[isopodonanescalator]

thanks for the tag hun!!

9 people you want to know better tag

Three Ships: THIS IS TOO HARD AAAAAHHHH 😭😭 ummm Destiel (supernatural), buttercup and westley (the princess bride), luke and lorelei (gilmore girls)

First Ship: it’s between romione (harry potter) and sokeefe (keeper of the lost cities)

Last Song: American Pie - Don McLean (absolute banger)

Last Movie: just started a marathon of The Conjuring series (i’ve only seen them all once before and i have yet to see The Nun so i’m having fun!) and i am on the conjuring 2, so the last one i watched was Annabelle

Currently Reading: absolutely NOTHING and it’s quite literally KILLING MEEEEEE

Currently Watching: rewatching supernatural as usual, also rewatching gilmore girls Brooklyn 99 and how i met your mother, and the only show im watching that i haven’t already seen is The Boys!

Currently Eating: i’m drinking a shirley temple, eating brownie ice cream and raspberries!!!

Currently Craving: holy fuck dude i want boba through an IV right now

tags: @loganschwarzy @richie-shitlips @marvelmaniac715 @soggedboytroutanti

thanks for tagging me @unnamednarrator <3

9 people you want to know better tag

Three Ships: everlark (who's surprised), marianne + connell (normal people) and rory Gilmore + jess mariano (gilmore girls) i'm actually posting my 100 favorite ships!!!

First Ship: probably romione because i read harry potter when i was 12 or something

Last Song: the last time (taylor's version) - taylor swift feat. gary lightbody. i'ms SO in my red era, this album is everything, this song is perfect

Last Movie: one day (2011) dir. lone scherfig

Currently Reading: scenes of a graphic nature by caroline o'donoghue

Currently Watching: criminal minds (s1)

Currently Eating: it's 7am in brazil, so coffee and toast

Currently Craving: i visited my parents this weekend and brought a frozen typical brazilian food (feijoada) to eat for lunch today and it's the only thing on my mind.

tagging: @littlemarianah @sillygooseun @swiftlark @dangeroustaintedflawed @definitelynotisabel

[rivertigo]

do you have any horror recs for transgender freaks (me) who are only now getting into horror

I feel sooo honored by this ask and I wish I was more of a horror buff than I outwardly present as but I’m a sucker for shitty big budget horror movies that are not that good that I watch with my friends at the theatre.

Here are the only recommendations I can give (and they are NOT in good conscious) and I only recommend watching them with friends while you’re all a little bit sugar high from a massive pop:

The Conjuring 3 (there’s a hot twink who gets covered in blood he’s very gender)

Truth or Dare (it sucks so bad but it’s so funny I loved yelling at the screen)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (it’s a guilty pleasure movie that I only watched because two 15 year olds couldn’t pass as 18 to get into an R rated horror movie)

Old (ITS SO BAD IT SUCKS SO HARD BUT ITS HILARIOUS!!)

Ok so those are my really bad recommendations, I wish I had more but I think I watched all the classics when I was under ten and I do not remember anything. I watched Re-Animator really recently and I loved it very much! The shining is also one of my all time favorites but that’s more thriller, still a great watch. I loved reading the book Carrie and the quarter of the movie I watched so maybe try that?

Hope this at least kind of helped and that you can watch these and giggle but hope your journey goes good!! I really love horror and i need to rewatch all the stuff I forgot about!!!

[chiveburger]

I’ve seen them all before, but I’m rewatching all four insidious movies that are on netflix and I gotta say... this series holds up. If you watch them all at once it’s easy to follow the overarching storyline but if you’re only watching them one at a time when they’re released years apart, it’s not. especially the first two. It feels so much more redundant if you were to look at them as separate movies but the connections between all of them are quite pleasant if I do say so myself. that’s kind of why I still enjoy the whole conjuring cinematic universe because in some way or another, these movies do eventually draw back to one another. some are better than others, but more often than not most of them hide easter eggs that are somehow related to prequels, sequels or other continuations of the story. I like the flow of insidious to be honest, and I know the premise of the stories always feel so similar like elise always get the living hell beat out of her in the further but she somehow makes it every time. I think the “twist” in the second installment is only good if you’ve seen and remembered the first one. If not, it’s really not gonna make much sense. the third and forth are fine and they talk more about elise, but I personally enjoy when they talk about patrick wilson instead. which is why I’m kind of excited for the fifth one now because he’s gonna be in it but also because I see the merits in the series after watching it all at once. the annabelle series do not hold up though and the most recent one sucks bad, both as a stand alone movie and as part of whole umbrella of conjuring movies. 

[enigmaticxbee]

✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️ 7x17 All Things

The one where... Scully runs into her old med school mentor/ex and goes on a spiritual journey that leads her back to Mulder.

Best: Scully: What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to. Mulder: Mhmm. And all the... choices would then lead to this very moment. One wrong turn and... we wouldn’t be sitting here together. Well that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot. Fate vs free will is something that’s raised throughout the show and I love the idea that Mulder and Scully are meant to be because of their choices - they chose each other, and they keep choosing each other, despite and because of everything that has happened to them. The ending is one of my favorite moments in the entire show. The way time slows down and the music starts up again as he brushes the hair off her face and pulls the blanket over her. The way he gazes at her face. It’s love.

Worst: WHY the blond woman with the long ponytail and the baseball cap and the beige jacket? She stops Scully from getting into a car accident, leads her to a Buddhist temple, and then leads her to Mulder - who is very strangely and uncharacteristically wearing a similar baseball cap and beige jacket. She doesn’t conjure up anything from Scully’s life for me - if she’s supposed to be some manifestation of Scully’s unconscious or the universe I just don’t get it.

❌ Flashlights

❌ Woods/Desert

✔️ Slideshow

❌ Autopsy

❌ Evidence Disappears

❌ Scully Misses It (Mulder does this time - doesn’t even see any crop circles)

❌ Mulder Ditch (He went to England without her but he wanted her to come!)

❌ Sunflower Seeds

✔️ Voiceover: Scully intro

❌ Catch Phrase

✔️ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky

❌ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

✔️ Casual Scully

✔️ Casual Mulder

✔️ Trench Coats

❌ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

✔️ Taking! It! Personally!: Scully

50 States: DC x70 (40/50) - I’m not counting Mulder’s trip to England because we don’t see it

Investigate: Apart

Solve Rate: 62%

✔️ Bechdel Test: Think it’s a coincidence that the first episode written AND directed by a woman in 7 seasons (ahem, make that the only one in the entire show) passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors and actually cares about the inner life of its female protagonist?

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽

Creepiness: 👽

Humor: 👽👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

SOSS: I still remember the WTF moment of watching the cold open for the first time during the original run - is that? Bare leg... Bare chest... Mulder? Naked in bed?! Is this? Did they... CONFIRMATION!! 🙌 It feels like a forgone conclusion now that the show would get here eventually, but let me tell you, at the time it did not - they’d been fucking us around for 7 years at this point! (Ok it was only 2 years for me but seasons 6 and 7 went intense on the msr teasing). And I LOVE that it was GA who wrote and directed this, I feel like she and DD are the OG shippers and she wanted us to KNOW.

When I think about the season as a whole I don’t think that this is their first time. But I’ve also read many, many wonderful first time All Things fics. So this is one of the biggest ‘many truths’ moments on the show for me.

Slideshow! Oh how I’ve missed you, though Scully clearly hasn’t.

Scully: Look, we’re always running. We’re always chasing the next big thing. Why don’t don’t you ever just stay still? Mulder: I wouldn’t know what I’d be missing. Or you’re going to miss what’s right in front of you Mulder!

Does anyone know what the old movie Mulder is watching while he packs is?

Dr. Daniel Waterston... When I first watched this it really bothered me, the idea that she had an affair with an older, married teacher - I had a hard time reconciling it with the Scully I idealized as a teenager. And I remember just thinking: really, this guy? But now it does does fit for me. Young Dana Scully was looking for something to devote her altruism and intelligence and her authority-figure pleasing but rebellious nature to and I can see how a smart, respected doctor who thought she was brilliant but was also technically off limits because he was her teacher and married would have been temporarily alluring to her. And how she would have pulled away when she realized the fallout of their affair and he began to stifle her. It’s not until Mulder and the X-Files that those tendencies found the right home - rebellion for the right cause and with the right person.

Scully does not treat the realization that this man followed her across the country and has been holding a torch for her for over 10 years but never contacted her with the concern it deserves. That’s hella creepy behavior!

Notice that the green of the heart chakra is the same green as the green sweater of sex...

I’m not sure how well this episode handles throwing together Buddhism and alternative medicine and energy healers, but I do appreciate that we see Scully exploring faith in a different way from the show’s usual Catholicism storylines. The healer talking about auras over a hospital bed makes me think about Melissa in 2x08 One Breath.

I know it’s not everyone’s favorite but I enjoy that this episode is slow and contemplative and not your typical x-files episode.

Colleen: You may be more open to things than you think. It’s just a matter of what you do with it. Scully to Waterston: I’m not the same person, Daniel. I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t seen you again. Scully to Mulder: I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I would have missed. The show has been invested in keeping the skeptic and believer status quo but this episode highlights - to us and to Scully - that she hasn’t truly been a skeptic in a long time, if ever. She’s grown over the past 7 years but if she hadn’t always been open to more she would never have chosen to invest herself in the X-Files and in Mulder.

I’m not sure what we’re supposed to read into Scully’s expression at the beginning of the episode - chronologically the end of the story, when she’s getting dressed in Mulder’s bedroom, leaving him asleep in the bed. At the end of the episode she seems like she’s had a breakthrough about the choices that have led her here. But the expression on her face at the beginning of the episode is more contemplative than peaceful or joyful. And she’s leaving. Although if this isn’t their first time, maybe that has less meaning than viewers tend to assign it. A vision and some emotional realizations and hopefully some good sex don’t mean all the issues in her life have been resolved. She needs time to process things. I’ve just never been sure exactly what GA’s trying to convey here. Although certainly the image we’re left with at the end of the episode is Mulder’s tenderness and devotion.

Tonight I realized that right now I’m the same age as Scully in All Things - I first watched this when I was 15 so that... does not seem right.

Episode-Related Fanfic Recs:

I’m pretty sure I’ve read hundreds of All Things episodes and sadly I do not have the time to reread all of them this week to find my favorites. So here’s a great All Things fic rec list as well as a few I read or reread.

All Things fic recs from @lilydalexf

The Physics of Strength and Flashbulb by pinebluffvariant - post ep, NSFW. Great banter, great sex, a fave.

Cotton and Down by shannono- first time, NSFW. This night is cotton and down, comfort and warmth; tonight, they will be in no hurry. (On Gossamer so if the link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

Like the Winds Outside by @aloysiavirgata - angsty missing scene exploring why Scully leaves.

Inevitable Things by @storybycorey - first time. You realize, though you’ve probably known it deep down inside for years, that nobody will ever be Mulder.

Standing Still by KatyBlue - missing scene, lovely and contemplative.

Cadence by @aloysiavirgata - post ep, first time aftermath, NSFW. So, so good.