#captain swan x taylor swift

[killiansprincss]

Timeless - a new Captain Swan AU

Timeless: When Zelenas time portal works, Henry wakes up alone in Storybrooke and must travel to the Enchanted Forest to get his family back. Only once he gets there he quickly realises its not like the one in his book, theres no Evil Queen and his mother Emma wasn't put through a wardrobe, theres a poster inviting the entire kingdom to her engagement ball, to Hook. What will happen once Henry gets them to break this new curse and get their memories back?

For all the Swifites and those who love her music, every chapter in this will be based on a different Taylor Swift song! This fic has been so much fun to write and I truly hope you enjoy it as much as I do and let me know if you would like to be tagged when I post a new chapter!

Link to AO3

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'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this

So, even in a different life, you still would've been mine

We would've been timeless

Storybrooke circa 2013

It was a Thursday afternoon in Winter, for Henry that usually meant going to Central Park to go ice skating with some friends from school, and if he was lucky his mom would let him order a Pizza if he was home alone and get to the next level of his favourite video game. That was what life was meant to be like, for Henry Swan who lived with his single mother. Except that’s not who he was anymore. That was a false life. 

He wasn’t Henry Swan, he was Henry Mills who lived in a town filled with Storybook Characters. Henry’s grandparents were Snow White and Prince Charming, his other grandfather was Rumplestilskin, his adoptive mother was the Evil queen, and his biological mother was something called ‘The Saviour’. And as crazy as it was, he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Except from just having woken up from the false life, he quickly realised he wouldn’t be able to just settle back into his similar routine as before, because his aunt was planning on enacting another curse to give her a happy ending by re-doing her life. Whilst he was confident that his family would win this and it wouldn’t happen, a part of him did wonder if she succeeded and had a redo on her life- what would happen to the town?

 He wanted to go with them, help save the Town, but of course he was told “you’re too young” or “you could get hurt” so he was left at the hospital with zero responsibility trying to console his grandma who had just had her baby taken away from her.  A baby that was his uncle, another strange quirk about this life.

He walks over to the vending machine to get a soda when the lights start to flicker. He rolls his eyes, thinking it just means the magic is acting up, his family is busy saving the day without him, as usual. He puts 2 quarters in the machine and presses B6, giving him a Mountain Dew, so he grabs it and takes a sip when the lights start to flicker again. He rolls his eyes again and walks back to the room where his grandma is crying. 

The lights in the room flicker more and more until the bulbs burst completely. Snow screams and Henry ducks under the table, he looks out the window and sees an orange fog coming towards them rapidly. 

“The curse! It’s here!” Leroy shouts from outside, Snow begins to cry more and more. 

No. Surely no. They failed? But heroes always win.

Everyone in the hospital is either crying or screaming. 

What was going to happen?

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Opening his eyes, and slowly regaining his senses, Henry can hear the soft hum coming from the heaters in the hospital. He opens his eyes fully and realises he’d been knocked to the ground and his head was thumping hard.

As he got up, he looked around and there was no sign of his grandma. He walks out of the room and into the hospital corridor and again, nobody was there. He takes his cell out of his pocket and dials his mom,

“Hey it’s Emma, leave a message.”

He tries his other mom. It rings and rings, and then nothing. 

He tries his grandpa even.

“The number you have called is currently unavailable.”

Where was everyone?

“Hello? Hello?” He calls out, but nobody is around. 

Henry walks around for a while until he comes to the conclusion that he is in fact, alone in Storybrooke. Whilst some teenagers would find this heaven on earth, being surrounded by no adults, free to do what he likes, Henry had a very different reaction.

Zelena’s time portal. 

The orange smoke.

The curse. 

It’s all coming back. His family somehow failed and now they were gone. No they couldn’t be gone, Henry was still here, his existence would be wiped out if they weren’t still out there. 

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The Enchanted Forest (sort of)

‘Queen Snow and King David invite all the kingdom of Misthaven to the ball this coming Saturday to celebrate the engagement of their daughter, Princess Emma, to Captain Killian Jones’

The invitation was sent to everybody in their kingdom, whether they were noble or not. There were banners and posters all over the kingdom announcing the engagement. The story of Snow White and her Prince Charming was beloved by the kingdom and showed that even a commoner can marry royalty, including their daughter.

“I’m so excited!”

“Princess Emma is going to make a beautiful bride!”

“I heard he was pirate! A pirate marrying a princess! Can you believe it?” 

The kingdom was so excited, not many kingdoms allow commoners to attend the balls, only royalty or noblemen and women. The kingdom loved the royal family, and always wondered who would win the heart of the crown princess and it ended up being a pirate, which the kingdom did not see coming. Their wedding was just a few months away and the ball was the chance to see the happy couple together before the wedding.

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In the Western Kingdom of the Enchanted Forest

“My dear Zelena, your magic has come so far. I believe you’re almost ready.” Queen Cora tells her daughter.

Princess Zelena had been training with the Dark One for years now, he was the most equipped in Dark Magic and had taught her mother when she was first married to Zelena step father.

“Rumplestilskin says I’ll be powerful enough to cast his curse any day now.” Zelena had a perfect life, a mother who loved her and believed in her power, and a mentor who trusted her with his life’s mission, and saw great things in her future.

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 Many years ago…. 

Being a pregnant woman who was unmarried was an awful fate. Especially for a miller's daughter who would amount to nothing in life.

‘Prince’ Jonathan. His child. When she didn’t bleed for a month she knew what that meant. It was his baby, but he was no more royalty than she was. What hope was there for her and her child?

But then fate showed her another way. Prince Leopold and his fiancée Eva. The girl was much younger than she was, and Cora thought she would be a bratty young girl. She was so wrong. Cora had never met a kinder soul.

Leopold found her on the road after Jonathan had abandoned her and took her into his castle. She was weak, and they nursed her back to health.

“Are you all right?” Eva stayed at her bedside while she regained her strength. 

“I-I think so. I can’t thank you enough for your kindness.” 

Eva smiles at Cora. “The healers say you’re with child. What is that like? I can’t wait until the day I get to be a mother.”

The girl was so young, Cora couldn’t imagine her being a mother. But then again, she was a princess, and a soon to be husband who would support her. “It’s exciting that there is life growing inside of me, but it’s also scary. I am doing this on my own and I have no idea how I will be able to support myself or my child.” 

“I have a cousin who is King in the Western Kingdom of Ashbourne. His daughter is a mere 13 but she needs a lady in waiting that will sort her out so she does not turn into such a young madam. They pay well and will help you with your pregnancy, and after you give birth, will be able to see your baby all the time. I will tell them you were engaged to a nobleman who died in battle, you will not be judged for being unmarried and they will care for you.” 

Cora couldn’t believe her ears. This princess, she didn’t know her or her story, why was she so eager to help? “Why me?”

“My mother taught me to be kind to everyone. When Leopold said he found you on the road and in pain, my heart soared.” 

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And so Cora, no longer the miller's daughter, became a lady in waiting for Princess Charlotte.

Lady Cora. 

7 months later she gave birth to a baby girl. Zelena. The name of a goddess. And she was going to treat her like the goddess she was. 

Princess Charlotte was a handful. A brat at times but she was kind and had a huge heart. There was also the fact her older brother Henry would often come keep an eye on her.

Of course, the King would never accept his daughter's  lady in waiting to marry his son. Whilst Henry was only third in line for the throne, his father only wanted the best for his children in marriage. There was also the fact she was a mother already, the worry would she be able to give Henry a legitimate child of his own?

And so Cora told them a lie. She told them she could spin straw into gold and that is where she met the infamous Rumplestiltskin.

[peetabreadlover]

rewatching once upon a time and i swear the ships from that show are so taylor coded

[i-will-sing-no-requiem]

Every All Too Well Lyric as a Ship

Emma & Killian (Once Upon a Time)

(10/53)

[insp]

[orion-lake]

Happy New Year! I wanted to shout out “some” posts of 2022 that I really loved. I want to say thank you to all fellow gif makers to put in the time and effort to share their creations. 

Please do not feel bad if you’re not on the list. I have a running queue on my blog, so my post number per month is fairly huge. So I may just have missed your post. 

Feel free to share, and please, if you like a post, please reblog and share the love.

January 2022

Morgana Pendragon ▶ Season 3, Episode 02: “The Tears of Uther Pendragon: Part Two” - @katieskeep

YENNEFER APPRECIATION WEEK | favorite outfit - @yenvengerberg

— New Year’s Day by Taylor Swift - @antoniosvivaldi

WOLF MOON | S1E1 - @teenwolfgifs

February 2022

‘cause we never go out of style… - @jumpthensfall

HAPPY 32ND BIRTHDAY TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT - @newrcmantlcs

March 2022

the wheel of time gifset - @scinnlaece​

allison argent gifset - @bericas​

bau ladies + tarot cards - @cabotism (deactivated)

HARRY POTTER film series based on the novels by the same name (2001-2011) - @yourstarfuckerworld  (deactivated)

stiles stilinski & lydia martin TEEN WOLF (2011-2017) - @crazysjane (deactivated)

MISTY & NATALIE in Yellowjackets | Season One [insp] - @queencalanthes

April 2022

Charmed | Patty & Prue & Piper | Head Above Water - @littletonpace

NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES: The Marauders - @some-people-call-it-tragic

Man the boundaries. Protect us. Do your duty to our school. - @hermoiine

THE DORA MILAJE aka “THE ADORED ONES” - @rachelschu (deactivated)

May 2022

ALL MY GIRLS LIKE TO FIGHT. - @bericas

↳ ingrid, the snow queen - @thewildmother

hogwarts houses common rooms aes - @ostara-goddess

harry potter meme: [1/3] colours. teal - @19-17

laura’s 10k celebration (top 30 ships as voted by my followers) ✵ 21 ➳ buffy summers & spike - @katherineebishop

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) dir. David Yates - @mike-mills

June 2022

i got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined - @learned-civility

the big seven + planets symbolism (insp.) - @hermiione

July 2022

doctor who appreciation week day three ☆ favorite season/era  - @benoitblanc

Taylor Swift in 2021 - @wishfulthinkinglove

AU SPUFFY - they can be a romcom if they want - - @l0veisntbrains

taylor swift gifset - @treachreous

August 2022

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - @drsattlers

↳ SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell - @wakandasforever

— Taylor Swift on 💜 Last Kiss 💜 - @antoniosvivaldi

September 2022

#MetalMonday | ✟ Rest in Peace ✟ (Dorothy) - @x--daughters-of-darkness--x

October 2022

TEEN WOLF APPRECIATION WEEK ☽ day one: female character(s) - @unspokenstydia

MERLINWEEK2022 | DAY 02 Favourite scene or season : season 04 (insp) - @thebookluvrr1816

#the journey - @payidaresque

MERLIN WEEK 2022 day 1: favourite character ➛ arthur pendragon + dnd character sheet (in/sp.) - @arthurpendragonns

DAILYMARVELSTUDIOS 5K CELEBRATION: FAVORITE MARVEL DYNAMIC - @dailymarvelstudios

November 2022

Bridgerton Siblings + Love Interest - @marlenadia

laura’s 11k celebration (top 40 characters as voted by my followers) ✵ 40 ➳ emma swan - @katherineebishop

Grace & Frankie + final scenes - @jakeperalta

Vampire Appreciation Week [2022] October 27th ~ Favourite Vampire/Vampire Dynamic - @sulietsexual

Bridgerton Couples + Tropes - @marlenadia

VAMPIRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 - day one: favorite vampire CAROLINE FORBES - The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) - @naiey

December 2022

EDWINA & KATE SHARMA — The Sun & The Moon - @gifshistorical

WEDNESDAY CHARACTERS as TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS - @reputayswift

favorite non-romantic dynamic MISS EDWINA AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE - @edwinadaily

WEDNESDAY (2022) + RAINBOW - @usergif

marvel characters - @annelisters

WELL! THE PLAN HAS SOME FLAWS, ADMITTEDLY. - @phoebehalliwell

Favorite Romantic Pairing — Colin and Penelope Bridgerton - @wandarogers

WEDNESDAY: SEASON 1 (2022) - @vanessacarlysle

[sprnklersplashes]

Listen you were either on the Taylor Swift stan to Captain Swan shipper pipeline or the Captain Swan shipper to Taylor Swift stan pipeline

[iwonderwhenyousleep]

Hi! I want to diversify my dash a little bit, so if you post about any of the following things please like/reblog and I’ll follow! And, if you’re so inclined, I’m always looking to make new friends on here, so if have an interest in any of these things (or CS) and wanna talk please please message me cause I’d love to talk to you!

-Game of Thrones

-Taylor Swift

-Ed Sheeran

-B99 (Peraltiago)

-Parks and Rec (Benslie)

-Harry Potter

-HIMYM

-Supergirl

-Gilmore Girls (Literati)

-The Office US (Jam)

[lavenderdameron]

Thanks for the tag @virtie333 ✨

Three Ships: Ok so nobody yell at me, I can't list 3 because I have a bunch and I'm not overly loyal to most of them so I'll give you 3 fandoms instead 🤣

Star Wars: FinnPoe/Stormpilot, Reylo, Kanera, HanLeia, RebelCaptain (Jyn x Cassian), and I can also be convinced of Damerey, FinnRey, DinBo, DinLuke and whatever they're calling the Armorer x Bo-Katan

Once Upon A Time: Captain Swan (Emma Swan x Killian Jones)

Marvel: Steggy (Steve Rogers x Peggy Carter), Jennifer Walters x Matt Murdock, Moon Knight system x Layla El-Faouly

Last Song: Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

Last Movie: Legally Blonde

Currently Reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Currently Watching: Trying to pace myself watching Shadow and Bone while still reading the series at the same time lol

Currently Consuming: Using this as a reminder that I forgot to make dinner, better get on that lol

Currently Craving: I live in a constant state of craving Mickey waffles, Dole Whip, and/or Ronto Wraps whenever I'm not at Disney, to be honest

Thanks for the tag @my-secret-shame

Three Ships: Damerey (Poe X Rey), Han X Leia, MSR (Mulder X Scully). Just starting to lean on DinBo (Din X Bo-Katan)

Last Song: Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy. Not even sure when I heard it last, but for some reason I've been singing it this morning. "She likes to potty all the time, potty all the time, potty all the time!"

Last Movie: It's been so long since I've watched a whole movie. Watched parts of both 'Solo' and 'Wakanda Forever' recently.

Currently Reading: Operation Power Play, book 5 of Justine Davis' Cutter's Code. Catching up on all of them because she is currently writing what will most likely be the last one of this series she started 10 years ago. We're finally going to get the mysterious Rafe's story!

Currently Watching: Nothing. Just listening to music.

Currently Consuming: Just stuffed myself with bacon and eggs; my brother and I have brunch every Sunday; after mass if I don't go on Saturday or after I sleep in.

Currently Craving: I'm full.

No pressure tags: @omgbarbiegurl, @marieziffer, @toracainz, @jewelsrulz, @lavenderdameron and whoever else wants to play!

[sweetbuckybarnes]

sweetbuckybarnes main masterlist

Character x reader fics:

Bucky Barnes

Eddie Munson

Character x Character fics:

Mileven

Jerin (Derry Girls)

Shirbert

Captain Swan

Covinsky

Rucas

Jay Kelso and Leia Forman

Polin

Dodgerfox

Other lists:

Taylor Swift discography

[killiansprincss]

I look in peoples windows is Killian in the missing year constantly searching for Emma even if he knows she won’t be there

[allurespring]

Welcome, please have a seat ✺ 𓈒 𓆇 ˚⁎ 🫖 ⁺˳

Greetings, lovely souls. Herewith, I, Kayla Evangeline will be the storyteller to help you know more about me. First and foremost, you may address me as Kayla or if some idea to address me flashes in your mind, you may call me using the preferred nickname long as it doesn’t offend anyone. 🏹 🪞

I am legal and I identify myself with feminine pronouns therefore please use she/her when referring to me. I have Leo as my sun sign … Libra as my moon and Gemini as my rising 🎐 for long as I remember I have ESFJ as my MBTI type but sadly I haven’t had the chance to take the test again. I must not forget to include that my hogwarts house is Gryffindor.

I am an RP writer that currently use Jennie as my muse, if you wish to know my handle or become mutuals there do leave me a notice!

My interests 🩰🕯️. ♡ᰍ

I love reading! I mostly read novels in my spare time, I'm into romance fiction and psychological books! and by this I hope you won't mind seeing me rambling about my favorite characters <3

I fancy writing as well, although I still lack in some aspects I enjoyed pouring my heart into the paper. If you’d like to see my works, you can check my medium

Kitchen is a sacred place they say and although I am no professional cook nor I have ever taken a cooking lesson but I’m interested into making dishes or dessert. I mostly cook healthy and efficient packed meals in a small portion. I also bake in my spare time with the help of her majesty, mum.

A huuuge MCU, manhwa, and animanga fan! I love captain america and doctor strange the most out of all marvel characters. For anime I mostly watch jujutsu kaisen, haikyu, re-main, spy x family, and fruits basket.

For music, I listen to every genre that fits to my ears. I am an avid listener of BTS, BLACKPINK, Enhypen, IVE, stayc, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, keshi, lauv, lany, jeremy zucker, ruel, NIKI, Fourtwnty, Rendy Pandugo, Tulus, Raisa, Rara Sekar, Isyana, and many more. If you would like to listen to my playlist, feel free to check my Spotify

I am a huge fashion enthusiast. I set my bars high on designer products that you can ever think of therefore you might see fashion related contents a lot on my timeline.

Where did we meet?

here are the list of agencies, squads, and group DMs that I have participated in.

The 4395, Petals

The Adolescents, KID00Z, 99cents, 98-99z, 2016 debut year, GDM mixue

La petit bakery, Monochrooms, The Brooks Club, La’Terrarium, dissnewclub, 22 Officers, Dittours

Jennie of Soonday Club, Jennie of yum_mm_my, Hyewon of 7 Days of Dreams, Karina of Stereo Midnights, Cherry of Above Ordinary, Bella Swan of Legally Starring

Note 🕰️ ୨ ⊹ ۫ .

My account is a safe palace for everyone to visit, whether to chit chat, to stay, or to sip a tea. I have no restrictions regarding my account thus I accept and welcome everyone here.

Love, Kayla Evangeline

[i-will-sing-no-requiem]

I had to make a vid with this song and it reminded me of Captain Swan so I made this!

[dinneratgrannys]

Hey I saw you’re taking requests and wanted to request a captain swan x my tears ricochet gifset if you’re down. The song really reminds me of them in season five after Killian finds out he’s a dark one. If you’re not a TS fan feel free to ignore this lol

um okay first of all i am never NOT down to put taylor swift lyrics on my ouat edits. like any song any ship. send me all the taylor swift lyric requests. i love taylor swift.

also i just posted this, hope you like it!

[perlukafarinn]

Movies (I saw) of the 2010s, ranked

Because I had lots of better things to do but no inclination to do them.

As I went through all the new releases I watched this decade, a few things came to mind: 

I missed so much! Most recently, I still haven’t seen Parasite, The Lighthouse or The Irishman. I’ve also seen only one of Disney’s live action remakes, two out of four Star Wars films of the decade, and I’ve missed quite a few of Marvel and DC’s outings. My tendency to mostly watch older films came to bite me in the ass here. But c’est la vie, there’s only so many hours in the day! 

A huge part of my viewing history took place during film festivals, so festival movies are way over-represented here. I’m not mad about it.

There’s not too many outright bad movies on my list, because I tend to avoid movies that look bad or like I might not like them (shocker, I know). Even the ones in my bottom ten aren’t as dreadful as I was expecting. 

There’s no way I can rank all these films numerically! What about movies that I can tell are good but just aren’t for me? What about movies that are bad but enjoyable? How can you compare tired Oscar-bait with soulless blockbusters? It’s impossible!

Hence these categories. I’m doing a top 10 worst and best, and the categories go roughly from worse to better movies, but otherwise this isn’t based on quality so much as what clever category names I could come up with (or couldn’t, as the case may be). I’m also listing the movies within each category alphabetically because that’s even less ranking I need to do.

Buckle up, this is over 6000 words...

Oh, and if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing I still encourage you to reply with your own favorite movies of the decade! 

The Worst Exactly what it says on the tin. These movies aren’t just unenjoyable or disposable, they are actively unpleasant to watch. 

American Hustle (2013) Wait, this got how many Oscar nominations again??

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) This movie is so bloated and yet they couldn’t find any time to actually develop most of the main characters? I had such a bad time watching this one, I ended up skipping out on the last part of the trilogy. 

Hurricane Bianca (2016) This looked like it might be enjoyably bad but it wasn’t. I still love Bianca Del Rio, don’t get me wrong, but her humor is not the kind you build a whole movie around, yet alone two. And yet…

Hurricane Bianca: From Russia With Hate (2018) Yeah, I watched them both. I’m a simple woman: I see Katya in a trailer, I watch. I really shouldn’t have bothered, this one is even worse.

Iron Man 2 (2010) Superhero fatigue got me bad in the past few years but even before then I hated this movie. Literally nothing enjoyable here, I was aggressively bored while watching. The Lack (2014) This is a movie about women, written and directed by a man, called “The Lack”. You might think I’m being uncharitable to say this movie is entirely about penis envy but the writer/director himself confirmed this at the Q&A I was at. This is why Q&As are always a bad idea, people!

Left Behind (2014) This one tips into “enjoyably bad” at times but in the end, it’s still two hours of your life wasted on a movie meant to make its Evangelical viewers feel vindicated in their horrible beliefs. Morgenrøde (2014) I have a fairly high tolerance for slow movies but this movie is sloooowwww and literally nothing happens in it. This is the movie that taught me not to trust it when festival brochures use the word “contemplative”.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) Just dreadful. This is the worst kind of film in my books: the kind made to follow a trend, not to tell a story. 

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) It’s been eight years since the fourth PotC movie came out?? God, it’s been a long decade.

The Utterly Disposable I didn’t exactly have a bad time watching these but they left no impression on me. 

Alex Strangelove (2018)  Netflix has released so many unremarkable-looking teen movies this decade. This is one of the few I bothered to watch and it’s cute enough, I guess. 

Fyrir framan annað fólk (2016)  I am Icelandic but I don’t watch a whole lot of Icelandic movies and I feel kind of guilty about that. Not guilty enough to give a boring movie a pass, though.

Ghostbusters (2016)  This super did not need to exist and not even my love for Kate McKinnon makes it any less disposable. 

The Great Gatsby (2013)  At least it’s pretty.

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) I remember this getting a few laughs out of me but that’s about it.

The Imitation Game (2014) I think I just… don’t like Beneditch Cumberbatch? Sorry. This movie is the perfect expression of the bland, middle-of-the-road biopic, with the added mishandling of the subject’s sexuality.

Isn’t It Romantic (2019)  I love a good satire but this ain’t it, chief. This movie isn’t doing anything that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend hasn’t done 100x better.

John Carter (2012)  If you’re gonna throw this much money into something, you could at least hire a charismatic lead actor. Then again, it seemed to work for Avatar. Magic Mike (2012)  I did like that this sexy stripper movie kept showing how unhappy the main character is doing what he does as if that wouldn’t totally ruin the fantasy.

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)  Watched this on an airplane, which is fitting. This feels like a quintessential airplane movie; it’s mildly entertaining but ultimately disposable enough that it has completely slipped your mind by the time you reach baggage claim.

Paul (2011)  Occasionally funny, I think? Barely remember it tbh.

Planetary (2015)     There’s some interesting points buried in here but the movie’s too busy trying to look important to actually get them across effectively. Also feels surprisingly padded for just 80 minutes. Valentine’s Day (2010) Taylor Swift was actually kind of funny in this, which was a pleasant surprise. Zero impact otherwise. 

“I Have No Memory of This Place” Movies I literally could not remember watching until I had read the entire synopsis, but for one reason or another was not comfortable calling “disposable”. 

Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2015), The Departure (2017),  Hell Is Empty: All the Devils Are Here (2016), Innsæi (2016), Last of the Elephant Men (2015), Late Summer (2016), Speed Sisters (2015), Una (2016), The War Show (2016) Lumping all of these together because they’re all festival movies I have hardly any memory of and that I may have in fact fallen asleep over.

Incendies (2010)  Chalk this up to me seeing it almost a decade ago. When I finally remembered it, I could vaguely recall finding it affective. Probably due for a rewatch.

Prisoners (2013), Rush (2013), Warrior (2011) Around 2012-2014 I was working my way through IMdB’s top 250 list and I saw so many forgettable movies about men committing various violent acts. Literally can’t remember a single thing about these movies.

I’m So Sick of Superheroes Dear God Make It Stop I’d probably like some of these more if not for superhero fatigue but that is the trade-off for total global dominance. A couple of superhero movies did escape this category and you’ll see them later on my list.

Thor (2011), Iron Man Three (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Lumping all of Marvel’s movies in this category together because I don’t really have a lot to say about Marvel anymore. Special mention to Winter Soldier for being the movie that soured on me the most and to Age of Ultron for in hindsight being the beginning of my superhero fatigue. 

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Boy, this trilogy ended on a sour note.  Man of Steel (2013)  Confused story structure aside, this movie is utterly grey and joyless. It’s also army propaganda! 

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) The only reason I watched this was because it was on IMdB’s top 250 list. Peter Dinklage was good in it, if I recall correctly.

Don’t Like This Nope.

12 Years a Slave (2013)  Very uncomfortable to sit through, which I get was the point, but I’m not sure it was the right choice. It honestly feels like misery porn.

Black Swan (2010) I’ve long made peace with the fact that Darren Aronofsky will just never click with me.

The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) This movie is exhausting to watch because of the near constant country music playing. Loudly. 

Kate Plays Christine (2016)  This is a movie about a really interesting topic but instead of the real tragedy that actually happened it chooses to focus on an actress’s fictional struggle to connect with her role. I think the movie wanted us to think the struggle was real (heh) but for that they would’ve needed a better actress.  La La Land (2016)  I love classic musicals and I really wanted to like this movie but in the end I just couldn’t. As a movie it’s okay but it’s not a good musical and the whole white savior of jazz thing was……….. an odd choice.

Last Days in the Desert (2015)  I’m a sucker for good, thoughtful religious films. The idea of Jesus and the devil being played by the same actor was intriguing to me and I liked that the devil wasn’t evil so much as just tired. But ultimately, this movie felt a little too cold for me.

Magic Mike: XXL (2015)  I have no idea why every critic on the planet seems to love this movie. Strippers aggressively thrusting their crotch in your face is not sexy, it’s uncomfortable!

A Silent Voice (2016)  Melodramatic and not in the fun, over-the-top way.

Vonarstræti (2014) It’s good but it’s just not for me.

Wir Monster (2015) I saw this at a Q&A screening and decided I didn’t wanna stick around after the credits rolled. On my way out, I tripped and almost fell onto the actors as they were walking past me. That experience had a way bigger impact on me than the movie itself. Make of that what you will.

Guilty Pleasures/So Bad They’re Good An enjoyably bad movie is a better watch than a middlingly competent one.

#REALITYHIGH (2017)  Incredibly clichéd and tries way too hard to be “hip” or “lit” or whatever it is the kids were saying back in 2017. Don’t care, I’ve seen it four times. 

Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) The first Bridget Jones is a highlight of the genre. The second one is just bad but the third tips over into enjoyably bad. I also loved having Renée Zellweger back on my screen!

A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish (2019) Recently watched this with my sister while baking and wrapping Christmas presents. It’s a terrible movie but we had fun (mostly by making fun of it).

Descendants (2015), Descendants 2 (2017), Descendants 3 (2019) I’m not apologizing for this even though I feel like I kind of should. 

The Kissing Booth (2018) This movie is like a 13-year-old’s first fanfic come to life so of course I’m gonna love it. Even if the love interest is incredibly unappealing.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) Who would’ve thought at the start of the decade that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson would turn into indie darlings starring in one critically acclaimed film after the next? I love that for them.

Oscar Bait but I’m Not Biting Not sure the Oscars weren’t a mistake tbh.

The Artist (2011) I kind of enjoyed this but ultimately it’s watered-down Hollywood history made appealing to modern audiences and its aim is far higher than its reach.

Birdman (2014) It was a fun watch but it left no impression.

Darkest Hour (2017) Technically a good movie but such obvious Oscar bait I just couldn’t fully enjoy it.

The Help (2011) Let’s leave the white savior narrative behind in the 2010s, shall we?

The King’s Speech (2010) I love Colin Firth. I barely remember this movie.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)  Don’t love that the racist cop is the most fully fleshed-out character in this movie while the black characters are all unnamed extras.   

Whiplash (2014) It’s just drumming, J.K. Simmons, it’s not that serious. 

I Feel Like I Should Like This More This category is mostly three camps, as you’ll see. 

120 battements par minute (2017), 69 Minutes of 86 Days (2017),  Fire at Sea (2016),  I, Daniel Blake (2016) All important movies with a worthy message that I just couldn’t connect with on a personal level.

Adieu au langage (2014), Before We Vanish (2017), Bridesmaids (2011), Jagten (2012),  A Separation (2011), Timbuktu (2014), Transit (2018), Winter’s Bone (2010) Critically acclaimed, maybe it’s just me?

Her (2013) The rest is all movies I expected to like more than I did. I’m not sure what didn’t click with this one. It’s been a while since I saw it.

Get Out (2017) I wasn’t gonna watch it because I don’t really watch horror so when I finally caved, I knew pretty much everything about it. Watching a movie the first time  knowing everything that happens in it and after seeing it dissected for months on end by every critic on the planet does take a lot of the enjoyment away, as it turns out.

Gone Girl (2014) Really thought I’d love it. It’s good just didn’t click with me.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)  It’s pretty. Liam Neeson is always fun. 

Pacific Rim (2013)  Mako is great and I enjoy the chemistry between her and Raleigh but ultimately this one just kind of slipped out of my mind as soon as I’d seen it. 

Toni Erdmann (2016)  It’s too damn long!

The Tree of Life (2011)  I just watched this the other day so it’s very possible my opinion will change. I was expecting to love it but I… didn’t. It felt like this movie was trying too hard to be profound and important, at the cost of actually saying something, well, profound and important.

No Strong Feelings One Way or the Other I actually have nothing to say about any of these movies and most of them are good but they had to go somewhere.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Boyhood (2014), Brave (2012), Creed (2015), Django Unchained (2012), Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Flavours of Youth (2018), Frozen (2013), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Interstellar (2014), Intouchable (2011), The Jungle Book (2016), Monsters University (2013), Rogue One (2016), Schaste moe (2010), Shutter Island (2010), Three Identical Strangers (2018), To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018), Undir trénu (2017), Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Middling Festival Fare I have nothing to say about these either but I couldn’t lump them in with the others. I mostly liked them more than the movies in the previous category and they took bigger risks. Some of them might even be great, just very much not my cup of tea.

3 Tage in Quiberon (2018), Acid Forest (2018), Amateurs in Space (2016), Barakah Meets Barakah (2015), Der Andständige (2014), Disappearance (2017), Dreams by the Sea (2017), En fremmed flytter ind (2017), Føniks (2018), The Girl Down Loch Aenzi (2016), God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija (2019), Gods of Molenbeek (2019), Jag är Ingrid (2015), Já, Olga Hepnarová (2016), Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017), Mister Universo (2016), Neruda (2016), The Raven and the Seagull (2018), Rester vertical (2016), Slow West (2015), Sugar Coated (2015), Summer Survivors (2018), Tickled (2016), Worldly Girl (2016)

Maybe Not the Best But a Lot of Fun Better than those guilty pleasures but generally pretty flawed. Austenland (2013) A very cute little romcom. Extra points for Jennifer Coolidge, the most underrated character actress of this century.

Baby Driver (2017) I feel like revisiting this one might not be as enjoyable for reasons that have nothing to do with the film’s quality but I had fun watching it in the theater. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) I was a fan of this franchise from the start so even though this movie is kind of dour and dark, it was still a blast to watch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Do I love every choice this movie made? No. But I saw this at a midnight screening, in full cosplay with my friends, in a theater packed with fans. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I, Tonya (2017)  For a movie that contains so much abuse and such a bummer ending, it’s surprisingly entertaining!

The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)    Lego Batman is my favorite Batman.

Nothing Like a Dame (2018)  I just really love Maggie Smith.

On - drakon (2015) This movie feels like it was pitched as “Twilight but with dragons!”. It’s fun, though, and it’s got an interesting aesthetic and a proactive heroine who gets herself out of trouble with ingenuity and bravery.

Sing Street (2016) I love the soundtrack to this movie and the characters are incredibly endearing. The story is very simple in not a great way but it doesn’t need to be deep to be enjoyable.

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) I like that they skip the origin story for once and keep the scope of it fairly limited. A very nice little slice-of-life teen movie combined with a superhero flick. Tom Holland is a good Spider-Man. Would’ve been better without Iron Man tbh. Star Trek Beyond (2016)  I feel like they got the characters right here, which was a problem for the first Star Trek of the rebooted trilogy. It’s a fairly inconsequential movie but it’s a blast.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan so I don’t have a lot of opinions here. It’s fun! Not a lot more I want from Star Wars. Ultimately didn’t intrigue me enough to wanna see the rest of the trilogy.

Ten no Chasuke (2015) This movie is a little weird, a little goofy and a lot of fun. I like the guy who just constantly lives through different movie plots because the angel writing his life can’t think of anything original, that tickled me.

Good Movies I Don’t Have a Clever Title Here They’re good movies, Brent. 

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)  An enjoyable, well-made documentary but considering its subject matter disappointingly conventional.

Black Panther (2018) This movie could have been much better had it not been under the constraints of the MCU. Still one of the best offerings of the genre this decade.

Boy Meets Girl (2014) We need more movies like this. Not just for representation (although that is important) but also because cinema needs a greater variety of stories than are currently being told. 

Brooklyn (2015) The scope of this movie is very small but the characterization is nuanced and every aspect of the film goes towards furthering that. 

Bugs (2016) The focus of this movie is split between its very interesting subject matter (the use of bugs as food around the world) and the chefs we’re following around who kind of seem like dicks and honestly drag the movie down a lot.

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)  Steve Rogers is one of my favorite MCU characters, purely on the strength of this movie. In a world where no one seems to know how to adapt Superman to film, it’s nice they got this one right.

Cloud Atlas (2012) This movie has such lofty ambitions and I admire it for that, even if the execution is off at times. But the use of yellowface is..... bad. It’s very bad and the directors should have known better. 

Cold War (2018) I love the music in this, which is good because it is near constant.

Damsel (2018) I love a deconstructed western and I love Robert Pattinson. It’s a shame that the female character at the center of the story wasn’t better developed, considering how much screen time she got.

Damsels in Distress (2011) This movie is quirky and cutesie, which isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (and usually isn’t mine) but I love it. Some solid acting goes a long way.

Der kommer en dag (2016) This movie is two hours of children suffering yet it comes across as so optimistic? I think it’s the space race stuff. Who doesn’t love the space race?

Frantz (2016) I am always down for stories that reckon with the effects of WWI. 

Future Baby (2016) There’s a scene in this movie where a surrogate mother gives birth and it is both very graphic and heart-wrenching. If the rest of the movie were more like that one scene, it’d be on my shortlist for the best of the decade.

Fyre (2019)  How was Fyre Festival a real thing that happened?

Girls Don’t Fly (2016) Girls don’t fly because the man training them to be pilots is a dick and treats them horribly. It’s a bummer but important to uncover. 

Hidden Figures (2016) Kevin Costner’s character needed to be written out - black stories that don’t involve “good” white people are both possible and necessary. But I adore all three main actresses and they do some amazing work.

Hjartasteinn (2016) The subject matter is cliché but it’s handled beautifully. 

The Lego Movie (2014) Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you’re part of a team!

Journey to the Shore (2015) I honestly wasn’t sure how to feel for most of the run time of this movie but by the end it got me.

On Body and Soul (2017) This movie feels like a dream and I mean that in a good way.

The Salvation (2014) Have I mentioned that I love deconstructed westerns? Mads Mikkelsen is always on point, even with garbage material, but he’s got some good stuff to work with here.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018) This movie made me more interested in its director, Margarethe von Trotta, than Bergman himself. Everyone should check out The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum!

The Shape of Water (2017) This movie is very much like a fairy-tale, which means it’s not particularly nuanced or complicated, but it is beautiful.

Still the Water (2014)  This movie starts with a cow being graphically slaughtered and yet the only word I can think of to describe it is “gentle”. But maybe skip the first five minutes if you’re sensitive to blood or animal death.

Studio 54 (2018) How were the 70s even real?

Sumarbörn (2017)    It’s a rare feat to get such good acting out of child actors.

Thor: Ragnarök (2017)    The best MCU movie. It’s a lot of fun without once losing its heart, which is a rare thing for Marvel (just google the words “bathos” and “mcu”, other people have covered this already). 

Warm Bodies (2013) The cutest rom-com of the decade features a zombie as its main lead. I’m not mad about it.

Wild Tales (2014) The dissonance between the realist shooting style and the cartoonish violence often results in some excellent dark humor. The rest of the time, it just feels kind of off. 

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Jordan Belfast is both a lot of fun and utterly despicable and the movie is not afraid to go as balls to the walls as it needs to.

The Young Karl Marx (2017) So like... Marx and Engel were into each other? At least a little, right?

Great Movies Also No Clever Title

Andið eðlilega (2018) Okay so I don’t watch a lot of Icelandic cinema but from what I have seen, I am incredibly encouraged by the direction it is heading. Call this exhibit A.

Ága (2018)  This movie is very slow and not a lot happens but that’s kind of why it works so well. It hooked me in and had me genuinely interested in every uneventful scene.

Brecht’s Threepenny Film (2018)  I walked away feeling like I’d understood maybe one third of this film but it left me with a feeling of exhilaration that’s hard to define and that few films manage.

Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)  Adèle Blanc-Sec is like Tintin and Indiana Jones combined except way better. In a just world, she would be a much more popular character and the reported film trilogy would have actually happened.

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (2014)  This movie is delightfully weird and messed up. Nothing more to say here.

The Favourite (2018)  I was honestly expecting to be let down by this movie after all the overwhelming praise but as it turns out, it deserved all of the accolades and possibly more.

Gravity (2013)  This movie was kind of marketed as “realistic sci-fi” and while I can’t say it felt particularly real, the emotional arc sure as hell did.

Inception (2010) The complexity of this film was vastly over-hyped but it’s still the best work I’ve seen by Nolan (though to be fair, I still haven’t seen Dunkirk).  Kreuzweg (2014) The film is composed of just fourteen still shots, representing the Stations of the Cross. That could have come across as really gimmicky but it works because the shots are well staged and the material is just that good. Loveless (2017) This is the bleakest, most depressing movie I think I’ve ever seen.  The Martian (2015)  The best thing about this movie is the way it shows the world coming together just to save this one guy. International cooperation is the future!

Paradies: Liebe (2012)  This is a movie about sex tourism and it is as unpleasant to watch as that sounds. But it’s also incredible. 

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)  The third in Seidl’s paradise trilogy (I missed the middle part, don’t remember why). Just as messed up as Liebe but mildly more palatable.

Une nouvelle amie (2014)  I saw this movie with my dad, which was kind of awkward, but that doesn’t take away from its beauty. We really do need more stories like this.

Tale of Tales (2015)  I am always here for a fairytale adaptation, particularly ones that stick close to the dark, gruesome, humorous tone of most traditional fairytales. 

Welcome to Norway (2016)  This movie is just really, really funny.

White God (2014) If you’re sensitive to animal abuse then this is not the film for you. The dogs in this movie actually won the Palm Dog Award and it was well deserved. They’re very good dogs! Tom of Finland (2017) How refreshing to see a movie about a historical gay person that isn’t all death and tragedy! It does have some of that, unavoidably, but it’s also a lot of fun and ultimately is a celebration of a very important sub-cultural figure.

Vinterbrødre (2017) I wasn’t expecting a movie set in a mining community to look this beautiful. 

Wonder Woman (2017) The best superhero movie of the decade, despite the slightly messy third act. It’s such an earnest, hopeful movie and unlike most films of the genre, it’s not afraid to take itself seriously or to come across as cheesy. Superheroes are cheesy! That’s one of the best things about them!

Amazing Animation I don’t like animation being singled out from live action as if it’s somehow less, but I wanted to highlight how many excellent animated films were made this decade. 

The Breadwinner (2017) I’ve seen this film’s production company, Cartoon Saloon, been called the Irish version of Disney but Disney has never made anything half this daring. Coco (2017)  The ending made me sob like a little kid. This movie doesn’t get enough credit for being one of only two Pixar films this decade to live up to their early work.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) The flight scenes in this movie gave me actual vertigo and I loved it.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)  The rare sequel that’s actually better than the original! For all the franchises that exist out there just to continue milking that cash cow, it’s nice to see something get continued because the filmmakers had more stories to tell.

Loving Vincent (2017)  This movie has been criticized for a weak plot, to which I say: it’s an animated movie made up of oil paintings! Do you really care about the plot? Sometimes the spectacle is all you need, especially when it’s something that touches you as deeply as Vincent van Gogh’s art does.

Moana (2016)  Moana’s scenes with her grandmother and Te Fiti are up there with some of the most emotionally evocative stuff to come out of Disney studios. It’s a pity the rest of the movie couldn’t quite live up to that.

Rise of the Guardians (2012)  Mostly, this movie just looks incredible. I am also an eternal sucker for Chris Pine, even if his voice sounds weird coming out of a teenager’s mouth.  

Song of the Sea (2014)  This is the most beautiful animated film I’ve ever seen outside of Studio Ghibli’s best, both the look and the feel of it. 

Tangled (2010) I know I sound like an old fogy but this movie would’ve been much better if it had been traditionally animated. Still pretty good!

Toy Story 3 (2010) It’s been nine years since the third Toy Story came out?? Christ, this decade.

Your Name (2016) I really should be watching more anime.

Zootopia (2016) Disney’s best work since Treasure Planet, which is an underrated masterpiece. It’s almost worth the resurgence in furries (jk furries, you’re okay).

This Is Why You Guys Should Be Watching Documentaries Because documentaries are a seriously underrated art form.

Ama-San (2016) This is the kind of cinema vérité filmmaking I live for.

Behind the Curve (2018) The existence of flat earthers remains baffling (well, maybe not that baffling when you look at the rest of our society) but this documentary is excellent.

Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)  This is a documentary about a cache of lost silent films that were found in the 70s and most of the movie is silent, with information being conveyed through text and images. It’s these kinds of choices that elevate a good documentary beyond just educational programming.

Exodus: Where I Come From Is Disappearing (2016)  Absolutely heart-wrenching. It’s difficult to watch but the issues it discusses shouldn’t be looked away from. 

Foodies (2014) There’s a foodie in this movie who rates his food on looks before he even tastes it and a chef whose signature dish is a dessert called “sex on the beach” which includes a very realistic-looking used condom. I wanted those two to meet but they never did and that is my one criticism of this film.

Free Solo (2018)  I developed a fear of heights after watching this movie.

The Great Green Wall (2019)  I had never heard of the great green wall before seeing this movie. It’s so surreal to get a window into a society where no one is arguing about climate change because they are already undeniably feeling the effects of it. And by strange, I mean incredibly sad and upsetting.

How to Let Go of the World: and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change (2016)  Speaking of climate change. This movie takes on climate grief and shows why you can’t stop at that, why you need to push past it and keep fighting. I’d argue The Great Green Wall actually does that same thing and better but it’s still a very necessary message.

Into the Inferno (2016)  Werner Herzog is just. The best. Especially his documentaries.

Kismet (2014) This movie examines how art affects people by way of one of the least respected art forms out there (soap operas). I just really love that premise and the execution is even better.

Merchants of Doubt (2014) Honestly fuck every single person making money by hastening our descent towards climate catastrophe. Good movie, though.

My Scientology Movie (2015)  This was the first Louis Theroux movie I saw and it’s a great one to start with. For all they’ve been treated like a joke, Scientologists are actually pretty scary.

The Other Side of Everything (2017)  The personal is the political in this film. What an incredible look at the ways our past shapes our present and future. 

Pervert Park (2014) This movie fucked me up.

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) The conceit of this film is looking at the US prison system indirectly by keeping the camera outside the actual prisons and off actual prisoners. It works incredibly well, just astounding documentary film making. 

Push (2019)  Just when you thought you couldn’t hate the rental market any more!

Safari (2016) Fuck trophy hunters.

The Silence of Others (2018)  I didn’t even know about the Spanish 1977 Amnesty Law until I saw this movie. Maybe that’s just my own ignorance but I feel it shows how necessary documentaries like these are. 

Tower (2016) I cried like a baby watching this movie. Using rotoscope animation to tell the story of the 1966 shootings a the University of Texas was I think an excellent choice and made for a unique documentary.

Visages villages (2017) Agnès Varda is possibly my favorite director and it hurts to leave this one off the “best” list (call it an unofficial #11). Still not sure I shouldn’t have swapped out one of the actual top ten for it. 

Welcome to Sodom (2018) The world is so fucked up. 

It Stayed With Me Movies that left me reeling and that I couldn’t get out of my head for days after watching (call all of them an unofficial joint #12).

The Act of Killing (2012) Speaking of fucked up! It is absolutely surreal seeing these mass murderers try to justify their actions to the interviewers. “I was just doing my job” is no excuse and trying to use it as one is actually reprehensible. 

Arrival (2016) I didn’t actually see it until this year and I felt it couldn’t possibly live up to the hype but it did! It’s reminiscent of Interstellar in that in this ‘hard’ science fiction story the ultimate solution is based on an emotional revelation but Arrival pulled it off much better. The Congress (2013)  This is basically two movies in one; one is fairly grounded sci-fi and the other is just a straight up acid trip in film form. In any case, Robin Wright is absolutely flawless.

Carol (2015) Cate Blanchett please date me. Grüße aus Fukushima (2016)  I’m always gonna be a sucker for a movie about women connecting and helping each other through trauma. 

High Life (2018) I saw this one knowing nothing about it and ngl it shocked me a bit. The way it incrementally got more and more fucked up made me feel a bit like a frog being slowly boiled alive.  November (2017) The atmosphere this movie creates is unreal. Maybe not the strongest characterization but it balances a feeling of magic and wonder with just utter bleakness and it left me reeling. Paterson (2016) I can’t even fully explain why I loved this movie so much or why it stuck me. Mostly, it’s just so damn cozy.  The Square (2017) I mean, that scene with the ape man was fucked up right?  Tangerine (2015) I don’t think filming on your iPhone is the future of cinema or anything but it does show how accessible filmmaking is slowly becoming. Also, that scene of Alexandra performing Toyland is one of the best musical moments in cinema this decade and that is not up for debate. Team Hurricane (2017) I’ve never seen a movie with an aesthetic like this before (it’s very vaporwave) but this film is about and was mostly shot by a group of actual teenage girls. It’s a little melodramatic in places but at the same time that feels very sincere and the girls all clearly have a lot of talent and a lot to say.  Varda par Agnes (2019) This movie probably wouldn’t have stuck with me so much if Agnès Varda hadn’t died earlier this year. She is a truly unparalleled figure in film history.

The Best According to me, anyway. But I’m right.

Cameraperson (2016) This is a different kind of documentary filmmaking. What it most reminds me of is Beaches of Agnès (no, I’m never done talking about Agnès Varda) but even that is not a perfect comparison. It’s deeply personal while also covering an insane variety of topics.  Embrace of the Serpent (2015) This movie feels like a dream and I mean that in the best way possible. At turns beautiful, brutal, and absolutely baffling. The Florida Project (2017) I’ve seen this movie criticized for glorifying poverty and I can’t discount that opinion. For my part, I thought this movie did an incredible job balancing the world as seen through the eyes of a carefree child enjoying her summer and the dangerous, precarious reality of living in poverty.  Inside Out (2015) When Pixar gets it right, they get it really right. The Love Witch (2016) I just really, really love witches. The best looking live action movie of the decade. The fact that writer/director/editor/producer Anna Biller hasn’t made another film since is an actual crime.  Melancholia (2011) No movie has ever hit me this hard in such a visceral way; I was miserable for days after seeing it. Lars von Trier is an asshole but he knows how to film depression.  Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Believe the hype, it is actually perfect. And I don’t even like action movies! Moonlight (2016) It’s rare to see a movie this deeply, devastatingly human. The final two shots of the film, paired together, are literally the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a theater. Kona fer í stríð (2018) The best Icelandic movie that’s been made yet. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is a national treasure.  Shoplifters (2018) I mean, who’s expecting a movie called ‘Shoplifters’ to be so devastating? It’s such a painful film but it is also heartwarming and intimate.  Un couteau dans le coeur (2018) This movie is strange and funny and violent and gorgeous. I’ve never had such a good experience at a film festival as I did the two times I went to see this movie.

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Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, ダイヤのA | Daiya no A | Ace of Diamond, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, The A-Team (TV), Magnum P.I. (TV 2018), Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, House of Night - P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast, LOVECRAFT H. P. - Works, K-pop, K (Anime), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Christian Bible, Fall Out Boy, Prinsessen paa Ærten | The Princess and the Pea - Hans Christian Andersen, The Siege of Thebes - John Lydgate, GIRLSブラボー | Girls Bravo - All Media Types, Gilmore Girls, Pocket Monsters: X & Y | Pokemon X & Y Versions, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), KISS (US Band), The Who (Band), Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Legally Blonde - Hach/O'Keefe/Benjamin, Legally Blonde - All Media Types, Legally Blonde (Movies), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Adam Lambert (Musician), Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Kris Allen (Musician), Taylor Swift (Musician), Music RPF, W.I.T.C.H., Raffles - E. W. Hornung, Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon, 古剑奇谭 | Gujian Qitan (Video Games), 秦时明月 | Qín Shí Míngyuè | The Legend of Qin - All Media Types, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Wings of Fire - Tui T. Sutherland, Green Creek Series - T.J. Klune, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot, Hoshi no Kaabii | Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, L'appart du 5e (TV), Despacito - Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee (Song), Only The Brave - Louis Tomlinson (Song), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson, Danny Phantom, Deryni Chronicles - Katherine Kurtz, Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew (Video Games), Overwatch (Video Game), Undertale (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dragon Age (Video Games), Sackett Series - Louis L'Amour, Dracula: l'amour plus fort que la mort - Ouali, L'amica geniale | The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened - Kenelm Digby, Black Closet (Video Game), American Dad!, Dungeons and Daddies (Podcast), Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster, How I Met My Mommy Series - Calliope St. James, Panic! at the Disco, mommy long legs - Fandom, My Chemical Romance, Set It Off (Band), BLACKPINK (Band), annie leblanc - Fandom, Annie (1982), Annie - Strouse/Charnin/Meehan, Little Mix (Band), Only You - Cheat Codes & Little Mix (Song), Lv2からチートだった元勇者候補のまったり異世界ライフ | Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life (Manga), Ariana Grande (Musician), Camila Cabello (Musician), hollstein carmilla, Selena Gomez (Musician), Zendaya (Musician), Emma - Jane Austen, War for the Oaks - Emma Bull, Emma Chamberlain - Fandom, loren gray, loren grey, New Rules - Dua Lipa (Music Video), dialipa, Dua Lipa (Musician), Riverdale (TV 2017), Riverdale (TV 2017) RPF, Dove Cameron - Fandom, millie bobby brown - Fandom, Stranger Things (TV 2016), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, DOGS - Fandom, golden retriever - Fandom, tampax - Fandom, Pocket Monsters: Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon | Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Versions, ultra - Fandom, Blood - Fandom, period - Fandom, fat load, pad - Fandom, diva cup - Fandom, 反派白化光环 - 好大一卷卫生纸 | The Villain's White Lotus Halo - A Big Roll of Toilet Paper, 聲の形 | Koe no Katachi | A Silent Voice (Manga), Charlie and Lola, Lola (Song), Logan Paul - Fandom

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Mad Hatter | Jefferson, Captain Hook | Killian Jones, Emma Swan

Additional Tags: SO, mah, jd - Freeform, d - Freeform, F, H - Freeform, T, e - Freeform, A - Freeform, s, c - Freeform, jfds, v - Freeform, HR, w - Freeform, z - Freeform, jdjc, sjx, SI, mamy, fhd, aiciskaokJzuxj, Gay, i hipster, Dress, rehearsal

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[padme-deserved-better]

@ramblingsofachristiannerd thanks for the tag!

3 ships: Emma swan x captain hook, Cassie x james (from the 12 monkeys TV show that I just finished), And I'm currently watching peaky blinders and am obsessed with Tommy x grace. The show is a bit too violent for me but I live for the moments they have.

Last movie: I just watched knives out and holy SHIT. My expectations were high and it surpassed them

Last song: look what you made me do by taylor swift. It's honestly catchy as hell and it's always getting stuck in my head

Food I'm craving right now: honestly that spinach feta bread you wrote about sounds really tasty and now I want that. My boyfriend is currently going to pick up sushi though bc I had a craving for that.

I'll tag; @witchmd13 @jgvfhl @angiethewitch @amidalahsoka no pressure if you're not interested!

I was tagged by the lovely @ladycavalier to “tag nine people i want to know better or catch up with”, so here

-Name 3 ships: uhhh Ben Solo x Rey, Doctor x Rose, Rumpelstiltskin x Belle

-Last movie: Terminator 2. which is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time

-Last song: That Unwanted Animal from The Horror and the Wild

-Food I’m craving rn: spinach and fetta bread from Dominoes

I tag @kwat01 @makerofrunevests @s-tevenrogers @space-gay-ahsoka @wynnemoon @bandtrees @nothinginlifebutmist @gywin97 @dearestdahlia