#actual cinematic experience

[papayafiles]

barbenheimer who? SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX.

[martianbugsbunny]

BITCH they had a WHOLE LOTTA NERVE to SPECIFICALLY HAVE STEVE SAY "bro, it's hard to date when nobody has shared life experience with u"

......IN THE MOVIE WHERE THE GUY WITH SO MANY SHARED LIFE EXPERIENCES SHOWS THE FUCK BACK UP. THE GUY WHO LIVED IN 1940S NY WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO SERVED IN WW2 WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO GOT THE SUPERSOLDIER SERUM LIKE HE DID. THE GUY WHO MANAGED TO STILL BE ALIVE AND LIKE THIRTY IN THE 2000S JUST LIKE STEVE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. WHY WERE THEY SO STUPID

[batcavescolony]

ship of theseus but for comics, if you replace 90% of a character can it still be called that character? Or if you have a team and adapt that team but remove or change 90% of said team can it be an adaptation?

[nohoney]

c&c reader would definitely force touya to get all dolled up to watch the Barbie movie ლ(◉❥◉ ლ)

Normally Touya is the one always calling you doll but he feels like one as you pick out his clothes for him, fussing over certain patterns and trying to coordinate his look until you’re satisfied. He’s not really one to care and let’s you do as you please. But this… he’s not feeling it. “I’m dressed like a douche.” he tells you as you pet the collar of his shirt.

“You’re not dressed like a douche.” you tell him off handedly as you decide if you want one or two buttons undone on the pink button up he’s wearing. “You’re dressed like Ken.”

“Ken is a douche.”

“Well Ken wouldn’t give Barbie this much sass,” there’s a playful tone to your words as you decide on two buttons to be undone and then fix the chain around his neck, “he’d be grateful to her.”

Touya has never worn this color scheme before and he’s visibly uncomfortable. Pink shirt with white pants, it looks fucking atrocious on him. Even if the clothes coordinate with your pretty pink dress, he just doesn’t feel like he looks right when he looks at himself in the mirror. The things I do for my girlfriend. he thinks to himself silently as you fix up the bows in your hair.

You’re free to dress like Barbie, Touya doesn’t really care all that much.

But to dress him up like Ken?

“Doll, I look ridiculous.” Touya tells you as you gather your purse and make sure that you have everything in it before heading out the door. “You can’t tell me that you think I actually look good like this?”

“Ugh stop whining. You will not be the only boyfriend dressed up by his girlfriend in the theatre. Look,” you apply gloss on your lips that smell like guava before speaking again, “it’s just for a movie so can you suck it up for me? It’s really important that I experience this with you.”

A beat of silence between the two of you.

You pull out a plastic baggy from your purse that has three rolled joints in it. Pink rolling paper of course. “You can get high before we go into the theatre and sit down.”

“Deal.”

[thiinka]

Just saw Look Back in the theater. It's a perfect manga to film adaptation: integrity to both mediums, an actual reason to be adapted, and intentional and loving filmmaking as a celebration of human collaboration are all here. The music, voice acting, visual composition, backgrounds, and animation are amazing.

Even if you've already read the original, please, if you can, go see this. It's incredible.

[mumblesplash]

mcu and mcu-adjacent writers who acknowledge sleipnir’s backstory but try to spin it so the original myth was ‘a misunderstanding’ or change it into something more palatable are fucking cowards. loki is that horse’s biological mother and if you can’t face that you don’t have what it takes

[ivyithink]

mmmmmmmm, yes, watched “bungo stray dogs: beast live action” recently and WOW, they did just tell the most tragic goddamn love story like it’s okay and normal and allowed??? no amount of bad cgi is gonna help you cover up the undeniable queerness that was going on, movie, nuh-uh, not gonna work on me, I’ve seen stuff like this before!

translation! text from the 1st pic (from Ukrainian to, well, English, obv) :

oda’s asking “what have you done already?” and the text on the right says “find yourself someone who will look at you like etc.”

[dareduffie]

very funny how every 80's actor wants their top gun maverick moment but what they don't realize is none of them have what made top gun maverick work aka:

- tom cruise

- an actual story

- a guy who is super invested in movies and the film industries survivability (tom cruise)

[rotteneldritchhorror]

I will forever love how Brandon talks and his mannerisms, especially as an autist who pays way too much attention to things like that- his like- vocal patterns OOC, his mannerisms, it’s so fascinating and just— nice?

Idk how to explain it, it’s so pleasing to my autistic lil brain, it’s like a good lil brain scratch

[gemkun]

@oneireth said : ❛ you’re lucky you got away with only a scratch. ❜ sh cae at dh... ↬ &. 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬.

      ⸻       smearing   crimson   ,   knuckles   drag   across   a   cut   lip   ,   pressing   to   stave   the   remnants   of   red.   his   eyes   firm   on   his   assailant   ,   wielding   that   bloody   bat   ,   tinged   in   a   splatter   that   gleams   against   even   the   dimmest   of   lighting.   but   so   too   ,   does   cloud   —   piercer   ,   albeit   with   marginally   less   than   the   amount   the   stellaron   hunter   gloats   about.   in   fact   ,   most   comes   from   the   projectile   that   flies   from   his   swing.

  ❝   or   —   ❞   his   volume   raises   whilst   he   straightens   ,   adopting   his   offensive   stance.   pointing   the   sheen   in   a   vicious   manner   ,   intent   on   striking   down   his   foe.   ❝   —   you   are   simply   weaker   than   you   thought.   ❞   running   with   the   weight   ,   he   leans   into   his   weapon   ,   aimed   at   the   troublemaker.   determined   to   deal   with   the   threat   ,   before   he   run   rampant   ,   paving   crimes   in   his   wake.

  the   clash   of   met   blades   sear   across   the   field   ,   but   the   force   behind   his   elegant   swipes   do   not   falter.   for   even   an   instant   ,   could   cost   him   the   battle.   let   his   opponent   taunt   him   ,   he   reminds   himself   ,   for   the   stellaron   hunters   are   full   of   cheap   tricks   and   foul   strategies.   to   provide   no   reaction   is   his   best   bet   ,   and   vehemence   embeds   itself.   enabling   zephyr   to   drive   itself   towards   his   sole   target.

  ❝   you   will   not   win   this   fight.   i   will   strike   you   down   ,   so   you   may   never   lift   that   bat   again.   ❞

[deepspaceclawstation]

Just listened to the audio equivalent of the Transformers movies. It's like listening to looking at a high budget trainwreck but you can't look away (despite not understanding a thing)

[pink-lighter]

mitski’s first love/late spring while walking through chinatown. that’s it, that’s the post.

[checkyesifulikeme]

I gave M❤️IAC 4 stars but I can’t stop thinking about it. I think I read it too fast so I want to go back for a re-read maybe in a year and a half or so…Don’t Fear the Reaper is otw!

[celestialholz]

Live long and fuck in Hondas (or 'why that Vulcan salute is way more significant than you think it is')

Hey. Hey Holz. Did you know Deadpool and Wolverine fucked in the Odyessy? Did you know that they now live in a one-bed with Blind Al? Did you know that -

Yes, friend. I know all of it. And you're all super fucking valid for pointing it out.

... But maybe all of you aren't seasoned Trekkies like me. Maybe not all of you gorgeous people understand the true significance of this.

Or maybe you just want a definitive way to win the argument of "are these two fucking?"

But either way, I'm here to help, and to tell you why, amongst all the absurdly homoerotic text of this film, this moment? Might be the gayest of them all.

Now, we must start by saying that although you wouldn't know it from the bullshit Abrams films, these two:

Are the fathers of gay fanfiction. Spock and Kirk here are the reason you're living in the fantastic timeline where you can write/read men fucking without any other shred of plot and that this is a legitimate and normalised internet experience - everyone say thank you, iconic papas. These guys were so homoerotically coded that even in the 60s, the era of wondrously overdramatic performances of all kinds and fairly prevalent homophobia, The Girlies still took notice, still started mailing each other fics and making zines and being just hugely excited at the thought of these two getting space-married. They are fandom as we know it today's beginning, and seventy years later they're still an enduringly popular ship on AO3. (You should all go and watch Amok Time, by the way. Contains the Honda Odyessy scene of the 60s, except there's weird biology and wrestling and just go and put it on your screens, thank me later. They fucked on that planet.)

Anyway, these two were as close as early colour TV could ever allow two men to be, deepening their *coughs* friendship almost every single episode or film - Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry even gave them a unique word in Spock's Vulcan language, with the meaning of 'friend, brother, lover.' (And if that isn't ringing any Poolverine bells, I'm not actually sure what you want out of this post. Enjoy it anyway, love you.)

... And then we get to 1982's The Wrath of Khan, and to that moment that every iconic screen couple must face - the ol' classic, it's you or me and I won't let it be you.

Sure, the set-up's a little different here - the chamber Spock's in is filled with radiation, and the scene's quieter, softer. And Kirk isn't a mutant so he can't smash his way in, he can just sit there and inwardly die as his emotional support Vulcan does.

... But you get where I'm coming from here. Ryan Reynolds doesn't take a million other potential love scenes from across the cinematic ages - no, he takes this. What is for many the romantic acknowledgement of a whole generation. The humble and desperately sweet beginning of it everything we fans know and love nowadays. The most ambiguously romantic homosexual relationship in television, directly comparative to what is now arguably the most ambiguously romantic homosexual relationship in cinema. And lest we forget, Wade doesn't believe in a fourth wall - this is a conscious choice, both in canon and in the writer's room.

Oh it's so clever and so beautiful a girl could weep. Ryan just introduced the MCU to the gays, just as Kirk and Spock did all those years ago to the masses of the time.

And then there's what it means.

This is the Vulcan salute, created to mean either 'live long and prosper' or 'peace and long life' - it's used more or less interchangeably.

But part of that's irrelevant when you're as immortal as these two.

So we're left with the sentiments of prosperity and peace, given to a man who up to this point can't imagine ever prospering again, is the furthest thing away from being at peace. Wade gives Logan the opportunity to go on, to find the things he's been lacking for so long now - things he has already helped him find. Spock tells Kirk during The Wrath that 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,' and that's exactly what Wade's doing here - sacrificing himself for the greater good of his friends and his newly beloved, however much it will hurt them all.

And that's lovely, and poignant, and character-growing, and I think we all would have been content to leave it at that and have our noble sacrifice, however much we would have wept. Kirk goes on to find the remnants of Spock's soul in the next film in the series, to bring him essentially back from the dead because he felt it was more than his own soul's worth not to have done... which, again, ringing a bell anyone?

Because Logan, in not so many words, tells dear Wade to fuck right off, and we get this.

What we've got here is a direct translation of one of cinema's gayest moments, made somehow infinitely more gay. A true achievement here - I genuinely think I spontaneously acquired tetanus in the cinema for a good minute, my jaw dropped so hard on seeing this. The pillars are the same colour as Kirk and Spock's original uniforms, for fuck's sake. I'm dying out here.

What we've done here is create narrative equality. The whole film's kinda done that leading up to this anyway - they're both mentally fucked up men who can't die, who are constantly dying anyway, who are evenly-matched in battle and both enjoy Honda fucking, who have forged a real love even as they piss each other off at every turn.

But here, they place one another in narrative equality for the first time. It's not about a sacrifice, not now, even though they're assuming it is one - it's about what should be done. It's about righting wrongs, being heroes, being together because every option other than that is unacceptable, because neither understands quite how to lose anyone else. They've both made the same choice, and that's not to let the other die alone.

It's about holding hands and loving and never letting go, even if it kills them.

... It's just about the most romantic and gorgeous thing I've ever fucking seen.

There are no more instances of masks, once they're done in this station. They don't need them any longer; they will never need them again.

And that's only emphasised by the parting shot we get of this... almost directly after Vanessa and Wade share a final sweet look.

I don't know, man. It's almost like the true conclusion is hidden behind the acceptable masquerade. Imagine that in the MCU, folks.

They've taken one of the most intimate and sweet moments in screen history, and made even more glorious.

They did The Wrath of Khan better than The Wrath of Khan did it.

And that's... that's gay. That's just about the gayest thing they could ever have done, and I adore it to the smallest pieces.

So remember, the next time your friends disbelieve you... show 'em this. Show them that they redid the very beginnings of slash fandom, and did it better.

(And then you can add on that they now live in a one-bed with their grandma, daughter and dog, and will do for the rest of their lives. Kirk and Spock didn't even get THAT shit.)

[nonbinary-vents]

Being a creative with adhd is so weird because you want to make things so badly but your brain is just refusing to, so you’re just stuck there replaying the exact scene or piece of dialogue or drawing or cinematic shot in your mind while not actually being able to do anything. But at the same time the adhd is actively giving you unique creative experiences and ideas and it feels like a fundamental part of you as an artist. It’s such an interesting dichotomy of feeling the thing that you want to make so strongly and wanting nothing more than to just pour it all out but also being completely unable to do it, and that coming from the same source. But then also you have to live through said dichotomy and it just becomes completely and overwhelmingly exhausting.

[crysdrawsthings]

I have almost forgot to include these two sketches, so I will put it here, as a little bonus: little star and toxic yuri (gender neutral)

Compilation of sketches with three characters from the CCU: Extended Edition.

All three in one way or the other representing the fact, that taking mortal people and making them into immortal personifications of such exciting concepts as vengeance, ill omens or hope would give them various flavors of trauma and issues.

More specifically we have here Measse - woman of many anger issues, deific equivalent of hitwoman and part-time Morgoth cosplayer, naturally including having negative rizz (but thankfully not trying to convince people that he, in fact, has all the sex available).

Lily - the fascinating root cause of slavaboo elves, little ray of hope and kindness, who makes magic playing gusli and may or may not be terrified of her timeless future erasing her human side.

And Makar, who might need to go and get this constant cold checked at the medical professional, but otherwise is a uniquely unlucky personification of weaponized misfortune and bad omens. He also crochets and was born more or less alongside rotary phones.