#bc I only wanted some movies for Poirot

[snirtsnirkarts]

GUY I HAVE INTERNET

Lemme explain! We moved and didn’t have internet and it kept being rescheduled to turn it back on and for some reason because of that Tumblr would NOT let me post anything.

Then when I went to wifi areas I’d forget to post. Although we did just get it on one of my devices it still won’t let me post for whatever reason.

BUT I DID POST A NEW CHAPTER AND WE FINALLY GO AND MEET TO THE HARTWIN FAMILY RESIDENCE!!! Yes I may have posted that chapter in a McDonald’s. But I didn’t really have any other options(I did and this is a lie, I’ve just been to busy to go any other place, but I was hanging out with a sibling so)

ANYWHO WE ARE SO BACK I AM CURRENTLY EDITING THE NEXT CHAPTER WHICH WILL BE THE SHOUT OUTS CHAPTER LET’S GO

[skipppppy]

CARMEN SANDIEGO CHARACTERS + MOVIES

Boo I felt like making headcanons again bc I spend more time wondering what these assholes do in their free time than I do on my job

CARMEN

Didn’t have access to movies growing up so Player, Zack, and Ivy have been catching her up on the most popular ones

HORRIBLE to watch with. Doesn’t really understand “suspension of disbelief” as a concept and will ask stupid questions the whole time. Player almost ended their friendship because she nitpicked Lord of the Rings for being “unrealistic”

Enjoys low stakes 2000s girl chick flicks like mean girls and legally blonde. She has enough stress in her life man she just wants to relax

HATES heist movies because of how innacurate they are. Team Red has taken to watching them JUST to hear her pick them apart

PLAYER

Sci-fi/fantasy junkie. Anything and everything that has aliens/magic and shitty practical effects from the 80’s/90’s he is all over

Has never said a single kind thing about the Star Wars franchise in his life. They are his favourite movies of all time

ADORES Edgar Wright and has slowly been converting Team Red to his movies. Zack loved Baby Driver. Ivy loved Shaun of the Dead. Shadowsan loved Hot Fuzz. He considers Scott Pilgrim the pinnacle of Canadian cinema

Cannot STAND the amount of remakes happening in Hollywood recently

ZACK

Canon enjoyer of blockbuster action movies. Everyone dreads the nights when he gets to choose a film bc his taste is so generic

Does not know what the Snyder cut is. Thank god

His only redeeming quality is a love of early dreamworks. Will not stop quoting Madnagascar

Has seen every Marvel movie and thinks all of them are good. Player has BEGGED him to watch better movies but he won’t. He’s the type to rag on Scorsese for being “boring”

Has seen Kevin Feige’s extended filmography. Does not know who that man is

IVY

Horror fanatic

Banned from choosing movies for film night after convincing them to watch her “favourite lesbian romcom” with her. That lesbian romcom was Saw

Ellen Ripley was not only her personal hero but also her gay awakening. The Xenomorph queen was her second gay awakening

Also loves period dramas. Enjoys the tiddies and knows she would look SO good in those fancy waistcoats the men wear

Watches old slashers with Carmen and laugh whenever someone dies in a stupid way

SHADOWSAN

Faculty considered movies “low brow” entertainment so he hasn’t seen a movie made before the year 2000

Loves a good mob flick. Got into Scorsese specifically because Zack hated him. Goodfellas is his favourite

Everyone assumes he enjoys samurai movies but he actually HATES them. Hideo would ramble about historical inaccuracies the whole way through and he’s still bored just thinking about it

Used to love Yakuza films back in the day but they were soured for him after actually living as one

Loved Knives Out, found Daniel Craig VERY attractive, and has since fallen down the James Bond rabbit hole

CHASE

The most pretentious film hack you’ve ever met in your life. He is taking you to a back alley screening of some arthouse eastern european gay porn on a first date and it will be the most profound thing you’ve ever seen in your life

Detective noir movies and cheesy black and white romances are his favourites. He likes falling asleep to them

He and Player both appreciate animation as a form of cinema, but while Player is referring to like. the Mario movie, Chase is talking about some 3 minute Russian stopmotion surrealist piece from 1951. He attends Annecy every year and has been banned from the Oscars due to threats of violence

He likes Poirot tho. Transmasc king

JULIA

If she has a few hours to herself she’d rather watch a documentary than go to a movie theatre, but she loves historical dramas

Enjoys biopics but thinks it’s stupid to make them for people who are alive

Likes watching movies for the sake of trash talking them, so she is the only person who can tolerate sitting through one with Carmen

LOVES Wes Anderson though. Chase got her into his stuff and the symmetry scratches an itch in her brain. But don’t tell him that

Also enjoys period dramas for the tiddies

CHIEF

Shitty cop movie enjoyer. The kind of person who insists that Die Hard is her favourite christmas movie

LOVES heist movies because of how inaccurate they are. Will mentally nitpick whatever secret service is going after them and be like “ACME wouldn’t do that lol”

She’s semi aware that she’s the antoagonist in Carmen’s own heist narrative so she’s started having fun with it

Closet lover of b-tier comedy movies. Like the ones with Adam Sandler and Kevin Hart on the cover

Does not enjoy watching movies socially. That is quality time for her and her cat. She does not have to shush Commander

[lesbian-helen-gansey]

books I read in May

I had a very exciting month! I graduated college, which was pretty cool. Proud new owner of a Bachelor of Arts in Media. So now I’m trying to figure out what to do with my life and all that good stuff.

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Our comfort books pick us, and for some reason this is mine. It looks good for my mental health that this is the first time this year I’ve read this. It’s Ronan Farrow’s book about his investigation into Harvey Weinstein. It’s emotional, and funny, and infuriating. It always makes me feel better when I’m stressed and upset (There’s actually really interesting media effects research into why upsetting media makes us feel better if anyone cares. If you’re really anxious or stressed, watch a horror movie or something and it actually might help you feel better. I won’t tho bc I hate scary movies. I’ll just read this book.)  (non-fiction)

Davos Man by Peter S. Goodman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book is about all the ways billionaires are hurting the world. It talks about the different ways that they’re able to manipulate the political and economic system to profit and prevent anyone from interfering with this process. It was published recently, so it included a section on covid-19 and how for-profit healthcare hindered the global pandemic response as well as how billionaires were able to profit from the crisis. This was the most interesting section to me since it was so recent. (non-fiction)

The Nightworkers by Brian Selfon ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I almost hesitate to criticize this book, because I don’t actually think there’s anything wrong with it, it’s just really not to my taste. It’s about a family in Brooklyn who runs a money laundering scheme, and one of their runners is killed and 250,000 dollars goes missing. The plot was good, and by the time I was about half-way through, I was invested in it. It used a really poetic, artistic writing style that was non-traditional, especially for this kind of plot. I don’t like that kind of style, the sort of verbose lit-fic thing. It’s just not for me. (adult fiction). 

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved this one. I feel like this was the Poirot, Hastings, Japp dynamic perfected.  Sometimes Christie’s mystery’s are a little clever, but I felt like this one was more accessible. I had a general sense of how it might be solved. The whole premise was just really fun. (adult fiction)

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a family drama about a woman who is a week from her wedding when she discovers her fiance has been keeping a huge secret from her. She returns to her family’s vineyard, trying to decide what to do about the wedding, only to find the whole family is also having problems. I thought it was fine. My mom gave it to me because she loved it, but I just never really got into it. I don’t love Laura Dave’s writing style, and I never connected with any of the characters. Maybe I’m just not at a point in my life where any of their struggles resonated or compelled me. When my mom gave me the book, she also gave me a bottle of biodynamic wine, since that is what the vineyard in the book makes, and the wine was really good, so there’s that. (adult fiction)

We Wish to Inform you the Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families by Phillip Gourevitch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This has been on my tbr list forever, and it was really great. I read it so fast, and I sort of regret it because it’s the kind of book that feels like it deserves a deep read, but it was super good, and I didn’t want to put it down. It’s about the genocide in Rwanda that happened in the 90s. It also talks about the influence of colonization on Rwanda and the failings of international organizations in their attempts to help Rwanda. (non-fiction). 

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I can’t decide how I feel about this book. It took me a little bit to really get into it, but then I got through about the last half really fast because I was really intrigued and wanted to know what everyone was hiding. I was interested in all the characters. That being said, it was just sort of weird. I think that sometimes domestic fiction can’t quite figure out how to make the stakes high enough, so authors create these out of place endings. Most of the book was this really intriguing slow-burn domestic thriller about a pregnant woman who meets an odd friend at a birthing class. But the end felt like it was from a different genre, and like the author couldn’t quite wrap it up without just explaining everything. If you read things in the domestic thriller genre, there’s no need to read this one too. Nothing special imo. (adult fiction) 

[simone-garnett]

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag blogs you would like to get to know better! I was tagged by beautiful @rebelscaptain and the stunning @reeseneseira :)

Nickname: ruthless (which doesn’t reflect my character at all) or ruthie. both are cool :)))

Starsign: Pisces or whichever one is march 19. i swear i read that they changed it or added a sign, i dunno.

Height: 152cm

Last thing I Googled: abesuda. so story time: i wanted to make himbasha with my mother and she couldn’t remember the english name for one of the ingredients. so she got a cooking book and translated it to abesuda. but she and myself were like ??? when it came to the spelling. so i tried different types but we never ended up getting the correct spelling but she’s pretty sure she knows where to buy it now so im happy and im hungry.

Fave music artist: don’t really have a fave. i mean, i have a hella lot of hillsong and backstreet boys so you can probably say it’s them.

Song stuck in my head: none, which is a miracle. bc i can get songs in my head for days.

Last movie I watched: rogue one in the cinema. but p&p aired on the tellie and y’all i was weak.

Last tv show I watched: im adding for longer than 5 minutes on it bc then it would be rbt (random breath testing - yes. driving peeps getting breath tested is a show in australia) but i only got the v end so all i saw were names and their convictions and that reminds me i need to google what ‘novice drinking range’ and ‘special drinking range’ is or whatever that man was convicted under. no chance of it ever happening to me bc i dont drink. but i need to know.

anyways freaKING BOURNEMOUTH WERE SO CLOSE. 70 MINUTES. @ 70 MINUTES YOU WERE WINNING 3-0. HOW THE HELL DID IT CHANGE IN 25 MINUTES FROM 3-0 TO 3-3. I BELIEVED IN YOU DAMN IT. YOU COULD HAVE CRUSHED THOSE MFERS. 

... bournemouth v arsenal. was called out by my broski for being emotional. i mean, he could be happy. his team fought back.  

What are you wearing right now: white top n some shorts. okay, now im wearing a nightie dress bc im going to sleep soon. it goes half way between my knee and ankle. how scandalous! 

When did you create your blog: juneish of ‘14.

What kind of stuff do I post?: all kinds of crap. a lot of flash/ ouat i think. a lot of regina probs. some bonkai. just my ships really. i write fanfic so sometimes its that. a lot of adoration of some cuties in the world.

Do you have any other blog: no. i struggle with just one are you kidding me?

Do you get asks regularly?: no :( 

Why did you choose your url?: 

it was this moment when zuzu realised she shouldnt challenge me bc i will follow through. i also need to fix the spelling bc i used an ‘o’ and not a ‘u’. later my homies, later.

.... and if i happen to change it to frostyregal any time soon => frosty (caitlin) +regal (regina)

Gender: female

Hogwarts house: i’ve never watched it or read it so ????????? i mean id say ravenclaw bc i follow someone who associates with that house and there was a book rec list based on houses and the first book rec was sherlock holmes + poirot + miss marple.

and so basically whichever house gives me poirot i will support. solely based on poirot. but if your asking for accuracy wouldn’t have a clue.

Pokemon team: ????????? again. i never played it, can’t really say i watched it, maybe in passing, so ??????? is the way i go. 

Fave colour: purple.

Average hours of sleep: its holidays so 8 :))))

Lucky number: 19 bc i was born on the 19th and that is how i roll.

Fave character: rose gupta (mi high), regina mills (ouat), caitlin snow (the flash). disclaimer: this list is not exhaustive; i’ve in all likelihood forgotten someone, but my life will always be those three.

How many blankets do you sleep with: 1... but it’s summer so i kick it away before i start sleeping..

Dream job: i dunno. a math teacher.

Following: 97.

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