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the viscerally sexual sci-fi movies remain viscerally sexual
[Alien: Romulus spoilers]
Suffice to say I really enjoyed Alien: Romulus. The film had me hooked within the first 10 minutes by introducing a new angle with androids and the way they’re perceived by their human counterparts. To me, regardless of the writer/direction’s intention, Andy is an allegory for the experience of an autistic person who is also a member of a marginalized community. I prefaced this with to me because I have long been obsessed with androids and always associate them with the experience of being on the spectrum.
I found it refreshing to see an autistic-coded android character who didn’t go the route of cold, calculating and robotic. I love Star Trek's Data as much as the next android enjoyer, but that trope often reads to me as perpetuating the idea that autistic people cannot grasp human emotions & depicts low empathy people as sub-human. Andy’s behavior (prior to the module upload anyway) struck me as warm and kind but with a lot of struggle to connect with people or behave the way others around him expect a "normal person" to behave. I do enjoy rep for low empathy folks, but this depiction of an autistic person* (imo, anyway*) felt closer to experiences I can relate to.
I also think the movie handled the autism allegory well in that even people who treated Andy well- that being Rain- infantilize him. It’s only when Andy is more than capable that people stop speaking to him like a child— but at that point, they begin alienating him in a different way. Now Andy is intimidating and can't be trusted. I think that Rain loves him, and I think she means well, but I think that's also true of a lot of people with autistic adults in their lives who they treat like children. It's not often done with malicious intent, but it still happens.
I myself am still trying to come to a full conclusion on how I felt about Andy’s whole arc. I can say that it was the most impactful part of the movie for me. Loved that the whole thing ended on a hopeful note. The green light on his central processor chip almost had me in tears in the theater.
& with that, the end of Romulus was the kicker for me that cemented as my second favorite Alien movie. Visceral, intense horror and fighting for survival, insurmountable odds and claustrophobia-- but by the skin of your fucking teeth, you make it through.
Oh, and the xenomorph parts were great too.
But genuinely, I’m still sitting on how I felt about all of the birth and sexual violence and frequently yonic imagery. I have a lot of thoughts about it but right now it’s all soup. I liked it. I like abstract and visceral eroticism. And deeply unsettling but well-placed allegories for trauma. The way facehuggers keep you breathing remains for whatever reason the most unsettling thing xenomorphs do. Idk what it is, the intense forced belly breathing just gives me the fuckin heebie jeebies.
I guess a lot of people didn't like the hybrid baby design? I thought it was great. Folks are so familiar with the xenomoprh's design at this point, they're more cool than they are scary. And hot depending on who you ask. But the hybrid? The way they fell into a weird uncanny valley with the humanoid face and the splitting humanoid tongue, the ghostly pale skin... I thought it was a smart direction to go for making xenomorphs freaky again.
#hello tumblr diary would you like a movie review#i specify regardless of director's intentions bc i have not looked into any behind the scenes writing choices#so i cant say with confidence that any allegories i picked up on were actually intended#bc i know i go into sci-fi movies with my own biases and preconceived notions#beautiful movie too#alien
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comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously
#don’t mind me just chewing on drywall#some of the absolute best comics don’t look remotely impressive until you try to make one yourself#and some absolutely beautiful panel layouts and art combine to make a stunning visual that barely manages to get any meaning across#you have to emulate cinematography by cultural necessity at this point#but if you lean too hard in that direction your comics just become Worse Movies#there’s barely any standard practices for anything because people are just barely starting to look at comics seriously#mumbling
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Spiderverse thots
#across the spiderverse#into the spiderverse#across the spider verse spoilers#ALSO GHE COWBOY SPIDER-MAN????? 🩷🩵💖💗#I guess#not really but just in case :)#I fucking loved spider punk#hatred of British people temporarily paused#fuck Miguel#fuck Jess#miguel o'hara#miles morales#gwen stacy#peter b parker#spider man#the word spider doesn’t seem real anymore#god couldn’t have made that movie it was too beautiful for his corrupted hands to tarnish with his sins#god bless the spiderverse#god….. poetic cinema
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I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.
#animation#animated film#animated movies#across the spiderverse#across the spider-verse#spiderverse#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#puss in boots 2#nimona#nimona film#yes i'm posting this specifically because i just watched nimona and am feeling all kinds of things but really these are all PEAK TIER#the fact they have ALL been released within 7 months of each other...like...woah we are thriving right now#stylised animation with its own unique style reflecting the movie i love you forever kissing you on the mouth#films that make me ferally rip up any and all art blocks to shreds#and that's just the animation side of things#i won't get started on the plots. they also make me want to bounce off of walls#hugging all these close to my chest#as well as all the other great animated movies that exist because animation wins all catergories for me always#(let's not forget anime movies either; y'all are beautiful too! keeping 2d animation alive and i'm so here for it)
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- [Nimona]:You should be questioning everything right now. The will of Gloreth, the Institute, the wall. What's it all really for? - [Ballister]: For protecting the realm. - [Nimona]: Oh, you mean from villains like you? Or monsters like me?
#something something we win!!#and something something all the parallels that make me crazy#nimona#nimonaedit#nimona movie#nimona netflix#ballister blackheart#ballister boldheart#ambrosius goldenloin#netflixedit#mine#gif:nimona#gif:movies#all allegories and queerness its just beautiful!!#lgbt#lgbtedit#nimona spoilers#i still have too many thoughts about the whole story#especially nimona's sad realization about the kid being afraid of her bc the society taught her to be afraid of different things#ballister's journey is what makes it all even more visible bc he doesnt trust her at first#and has to unlearn a lot of things but he starts to see her as a person and sees her!! because theyre so similar! theyre the same in a way#and gloreth's journey is similar - where she was told what to think but she didnt question it and immediately turned against nimona#and then the way the director enforces the gloreth's will of keeping them all in something like a cage (wall) without questioning anything#and whover steps out is seen as a threat... yeah just overall really amazing movie.. i have a lot of thoughts
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My conclusion☝️🤓
#wtf is this don’t ask me I don’t know too#beautiful woman and the bald cat who keeps asking for catnip#this is their relationship🫶#dune part two#dune 2024#dune#dune movie#dune fanart#margot fenring#lady margot fenring#feyd rauth harkonnen#feyd rautha#(well but not really)#anyway Sphynx meow meow Feyd
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cw: nsfw/nsft
ken sato, the baseball star that everyone adores! well...almost everyone.
he always shows himself tall and confident, arrogant for most people. he makes thousands of people swoon with a single wink or one of those filtry smiles with his pearly teeth.
that makes you wonder, how many of his fans would percieve him if they ever saw their biggest idol in this way.
on his knees, half naked and looking up at you like you're the one hanging the stars in the sky. there was, ken sato. you smile back at him and reach one of your hands to cup the side of his face. ken leans on it, shutting his eyes peacfully as he melts into your touch.
his big hands are caressing your bare legs with the most care. like you were a goddess to worship. when your hand moves to his hair, he leans his head on your lap, pressing his cold cheek -the one you didn't touch- on your warm skin.
"are you tired, kenji?" you ask, your hand traveling once again, now to the broad of his exposed back, and making circular motions around his skin, listening to the way his breath got steady.
"i'm never tired for you, baby" he answers in the sweetest tone, contrasting his husky voice that he uses to talk in interviews. he props his chin on your thigh to look up at you with those pretty puppy eyes and his cute smile.
your heart swells with love for him. dragging your thumbs through his cheekbones, both of you get lost in each others eyes for a little, before you whisper. "come here" and he obeys. standing from the floor, he takes a seat besides you on the expensive couch, and smiles into your lips as you drag him in for a kiss.
the kiss gets more heated with every second, and your hands started to caress his body until they're found inside ken's trousers.
it didn't take long before the room was filled with his moans as you stroke him fast and steady. he keeps on holding you, kissing you desperately as you were going to disappear. "please baby" he whimpered against your lips, slightly thrusting his hips into your closed fist.
"wanna cum, kenji?" you ask, nonetheless, smiling when he desperately nods. "do it baby. make a mess for me" he moans before kissing you again, finally allowing himself to release thick ropes of cum that end un shooting on his bare chest.
while he regulated his breathing, you placed kisses along his chest, giving sweet caresses to his waist with your thumb. he speaks. "can we make love?" he asks with those begging eyes.
"but-"
“I don't have any training stuff or games tomorrow” he replied before you even asked, and then flashed one of his charming smiles. "please?" he insists and you sigh.
like all his fans, you can't help but fall for his charms. but unlike them, only you can see the great ken sato cry from pleasure.
pretending like i didn't cry like a baby...
#ultraman: rising#ultraman rising#ken sato#ultraman ken sato#sub!ultraman rising#dom!reader#sub!character#dom reader#sub character#sub!ken sato#sub ken sato#ficlet#the movie was beautiful 😭😭😭#he's such a mama's boy#too bad i was too focused on crying to pay attention to how hot he is :(#guess i'll have to watch it again :D
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There’s this way Henry has of listening to the erratic stream of consciousness that pours out of Alex’s mouth and answering with the clearest, crystallized truth that Alex has been trying to arrive at all along. If Alex’s head is a storm, Henry is the place lightning hits ground.
#rwrb#rwrbedit#red white and royal blue#firstprince#userninz#chrissiewatts#userveronika#firstprinced#userclara#tusermira#usersteen#usermegsb#userlang#mine*#yeah.gif#i love this element sooooo much#god the movie showed a Lot of overt ways in which alex was there for henry#but i feel if you know this quote exists then you can see the ways henry was there too#they just Get each other#and i think that's beautiful
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Episode 41: The Jet-Black Shogun
#kamen rider#kamen rider geats#kamen rider buffa#kamen rider tycoon#black general bujin sword#keiwa sakurai#michinaga azuma#keimichi#geats spoilers#fanart#comics#artists on tumblr#comic portfolio#GUESS WHO'S DONE WITH THE SERIES AND MISSES WATCHING IT#still gotta watch the movie and specials post finale but i dont mind spoiling myself about them dfghjk#'why did u tag the ship when u basically draw the literal scene they fight' it's the slow burn ur honor#after drawing michi about 11 times and keiwa i think 6? i think i need to draw the actual protag too#well too bad i have two other keimichi pieces to schedule 🗣️#altho one of them is just lil sketches i'll post on my side acc#i say that but i do love ace too and his rider form is one of the most beautiful i've seen so far#i'm just fixated on the green/purple contrast atm dfghjk
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Honorary appreciation post for this mentally exhausted sweetheart.
#i am utterly in love#beautiful traumatized fictional man#my beloved#he’s the bestest boy#he’s full of heart#so many more expectations he feels he has to live up to because he’s just too young for all of this#he’s being pulled in all directions#but he is TRYING his best#they fumbled so hard with this movie#it was supposed to be about him but the entire thing was another propaganda piece#about how he’s going down the wrong path by straying from Batman’s morals#a decade of no animated Jason content since utrh there’s so much more they should’ve done with him#not counting yj cuz he barely made an appearance#jason todd#dc#death in the family (2020)#ditf#my post#stills#favs
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#the difference in this and my last benlen drawing#basically their spaceship got shot down and lenny got caught that’s why he wasn’t in the first movie!#the lego movie#lego movie#the lego movie 2#tlm#tlm2#benny the spaceman#tlm benny#lenny the spaceman#do i just list them all#denny the spaceman#jenny the spaceman#kenny the spaceman#also happy birthday to my beautiful gorgeous wife gintoki sakata. and reigen too i guess.#my art
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it shouldve been ives........... man.......
#rimi talks#like im glad it wasnt in a way bc im glad megfitz didnt ruin him. if she was gonna ruin anyone im glad it was bernard and not ives or danny#but also the beautiful disaster in my mind of timives as tims first mlm romance that ends terribly but gently bc ives finds him out#bc ives Knows him. so of course he finds him out. it was only ever a matter of time.#and ives knowing tim is lying to him and has been lying to him for YEARS actually has an impact on their relationship. unlike some comics--#anyway they break up but it is gentle. bc ives gets why tim did it but also needs some time/space to process it#so they agree to stay friends. and its bittersweet but it really moves their bond forward.#like... augh the way timives is doomed from the moment tim decides to be with him bc ives knows him too well for the lies to hold forever.#it's a ticking clock from the very first time they hold hands romantical styles and laugh at a bad movie together.#the fact that they know each other so well is the thing drawing together and the thing that will break them apart#MAN. REMEMBER WHEN TIM LYING ALL THE TIME ACTUALLY IMPACTED HIS RELATIONSHIPS#sighs............ timives doomed bittersweet beautiful romance the comic you could have been. the queer themes you could have explored.#alas.......................................................................................................
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So I think I may have cracked the code. Listening to Clara Bow w this context in mind from the 4th, 9th, and 10th 🎃 messages makes the lyrics cut even deeper and explains the purpose of the anthology.
What Taylor is essentially saying is that above all else she is proud of her humanity. “Human. Human. Human.” “Flesh and blood.” Unlike some ppl in Hollywood like greedy big suits (cough SB^2 cough Big Machine cough) she’s managed to keep her humanity intact and didn’t let these negative experiences corrupt her or turn her bitter. She was able to find peace and courage in spite of it. And she’s saying I am abt to come out of the closet and while I am hopeful I’m also a little fearful. But isn’t that an amazing thing? Because being fearful, sad, furious, insecure, hopeful—these experiences are unique to humans! “Your heart beats red and hot and furious in your chest.”
“And most importantly, they will know about the human heart.” THIS is the purpose of the anthology. This is why she released 31 (13 backwards) songs for her fans to dissect and decode. Bc she wants them to understand that she’s not a god. She’s a flawed human just like the rest of us.
I think there’s a very good chance that THIS is what her movie is going to be about. Her journey out of the closet and all the hardship that came along w it and helping other ppl to understand the human heart. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a memoir that was released w it—“the professor said to write what you know.” And it makes sense too why the manuscript lyrics match perfectly w the all too well short film. Bc they’re talking abt the exact same thing!! She has a relationship w a much older man, experiences heartbreak, heals, and then writes abt it in a book—the story of us AKA the manuscript.
And this is why 🎃 kept referencing the story of us. I couldn't make sense of it a few months ago but now in hindsight it all makes perfect sense. Message in a bottle was probably a red tv vault track for this reason too. Bc the message in a bottle is the manuscript. The puzzle pieces really do all fall right into place.
#taylor u fucking crazy brilliant woman#this is literally the whole ‘fucking story’#it literally just clicked for me that this is why she had the film references at the end of the manuscript#idk that i’m gonna survive the movie#thank you 🎃 anon for sending these beautiful messages and giving more context to these already incredible songs#i can’t believe i get to be alive to witness this i am actually in awe#ik none of this has happened yet but i just wanna say that i am so proud of u already taylor#we’ll be here every step of the way#pumpkin#clara bow#kaylor#closeting#ttpd#the manuscript#all too well#all too well short film#all too well 10 min version#post malone#message in a bottle
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THE BRIDE IS MUCH TOO BEAUTIFUL (1956) Sleeping Beauty woke up in Paris.
#this is actually said earlier in the movie but i put it here because it's cute and i like it 💗#the bride is much too beautiful#brigitte bardot#louis jourdan#the french are glad to die for love#*
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my fav trashy romcom, jodha akbar (2008) <3
#cringe dialogue + beautiful aesthetics#i can make so many more gifs from this movie omg#aish is too pretty#indian cinema#this movie literally runs on soldiers behead him!! level corny dialogue and insane chemistry bw aish and hrithik#indian tumblr#mughals#jodha akbar#period cinema#bollywood#bollyflix#cinemapix#cinemasource#cinematv#film stills#moviegifs#aishwarya rai#hrithik roshan#jodhaa akbar#akbar#filmgifs
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green beetle black beetle
#star wars#the original trilogy#boba fett#darth vader#hi. sorry for star war jumpscare. genuinely#i feel like ive kinda been on an art hiatus lately due to health stuff#i got diagnosed with a parathyroid disease recently (wahoo) so now i know why i have been feeling so bad! need more tests though#anyway. in the mean time most of the entertainment my brain can handle has been like. youtube clip compilations of shows and movies#not even the actual shows or movies. literally just sections of them on youtube#i wish i was joking#the only reason i know what happens in succession is because i have watched it in disjointed order in youtube compilations. not joking#anyway so ive learned a lot more about star wars than i ever. thought i would#mostly just the original trilogy and prequels. some of the old comics & books are interesting too#(sick to my stomach) i like darth vader he has like the same personality as ganondorf except he had no good reason for doing anything#when vader/anakin does literally anything weird or unacceptable it like. makes me laugh so hard its like jerma when he sees a car accident#boba fett’s costume design has been rotating in my head a lot too it’s very good#he’s very colorful and like. matte/unpolished compared to vader and it makes them a cool duo visually#those 2 are my favorites. vader why is the space cowboy the only person aside from sidious or tarkin who is allowed to get mad at you#sidious is my 3rd favorite. he sucks so bad as like a person that you just. you have no expectations of him except just being evil#so its just really funny like everything he does is horrible and he’s so happy all the time like good for him#i’m making it sound like ive never seen star wars before. i have i just never really cared about it until i got an endocrine disorder lmao#but yeah idk art may continue to be slow while im figuring out treatment stuff#if anyone reading this also has or has had hyperparathyroidism im wishing the strength & radiance of 1000 beautiful horses upon you
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