#Valerious

[aterfish]

i love ways the word 'halfa' can be interpreted

[mooseymi]

It's a complicated relationship.

[faerynova]

read [DYING TO KNOW YOU] on ao3!

the actual submission i made for @ecto-implosion!

@fridurwrites did an absolutely amazing job of bringing this idea to life with a massive fic, everyone go read and send her love

[spookberry]

boxy got em 😔

[breakfastatmiles]

Took forever but I finally made a redraw of the Barbie Meme with my updated designs 😪

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)

[wanologic]

fortunately, or unfortunately, they only see each other like 3 times a year…

[astravis]

Thanks everyone at @ecto-implosion for your hard work managing this event!

And thank you @torscrawls for being such a wonderful partner, it's been fun! :D You killed this!

Reaching for a Phantasm on AO3

[jaytalking]

At this point his hair being on fire is just a sign that his ultimate is ready. Anyways here's some scenes from the AU in my brain.

[snailianz]

Still here, despite everything

Happy 23rd anniversary to the Ace Attorney series! Originally this was supposed to be an "animation" where the background characters fade one by one (in chronological order) while maya/pearl channels mia as a way represent the game's timeline and events but it turned out... really bad. It didn't even make sense.

The vision was there but the excecution was not T_T I'll try not to take this loss too personally. Onto the next drawing !

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[seasonofhorror]

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | The Craft (1996)

[ladysantos]

a morning stroll 🌻

[murcielagatito]

i showed these to my coworker and he said i cuntified him

[breakfastatmiles]

Portal Accident, Take Two

So excited to finally share my pieces for @invisobang!

A huge thank you to my wonderful author @jumping-mirrors and fellow fic artist @ghozteevee for making this project so fun! It was a pleasure to work with you both!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Check out the fic here:

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)