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Watching Through My Collection: Day 64/67
IT (1990)
Day 63 / Day 65
I've seen the more recent adaptations of It, and even gotten a little ways into reading the book, so there wasn't much this movie could surprise me with. That allowed me to sit back and simply enjoy the art of the effects and acting.
CW: Child abuse, regular and sexual assault.
This was a tv miniseries, of course, so all gore is deeply tuned down. Along with other darker themes the R rated newer movies got to play around with. Of course, that doesn't mean this version has no tension!
There's plenty of tension.
The love of the Loser's Club- or Lucky Seven, as they're referred to mostly in this series- is real. The friendship between the characters extends to the actors and it makes everything better for it. The moments where characters are enjoying each other’s company and having fun are more real and therefore it's more of a juxtaposition when things get dangerous.
Tim Curry, of course, deserves all the accolades he's gotten for making Pennywise such a bully of a beast. He always comes across perfectly like he wants nothing more than to start breaking kids' limbs, whether he's actually threatening them or cracking jokes.
My favorite dynamic across the versions I already know is between Richie, Eddie, and Bev and that favoritism is maintained strong by this miniseries. Though I did also love the additional scenes of Bill and Mike rrepairing and riding around on Bill's bike, intercut with flashbacks of them doing the same stunts as kids.
Honestly, the way the flashbacks were used and interspersed throughout the film was a great use of the time and format of the miniseries: Keeping more of the fast-paced action and the kids' fight against the monster in the first half to get viewers hooked, and then letting the second half draw out the tension of the adults returning to Derry for the people that are invested.
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#32#have a nice day#aesthetic#indie#neon#DVD#dvd collection#dvd review#aotv dvd#physical media#dvd cover#action movie#cult film#bluray#00S
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The duality of goodreads.
#the anthropocene reviewed#a random collection#of useful information#that is also a spectacular miracle
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You have no idea how much I really wanted a 'call Orin out on her bullshit' dialogue option
Wishful thinking this comic. I did not know about the initiate-combat-while-talking option until after this campaign, so I have no idea if there are actual consequences to kicking orin's ass mid-trickery or not
Bonus in Regards to Sleepy Gale:
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 spoilers#astarion#....do I tag this as halsin or orin??????#greygold#gale of waterdeep#jaheira#tw:violence#DID I MENTION IT WAS A LONG DAY THAT DAY????#Its okay I let Gale take a break at camp after this ahaha#Look Stelmane's book collection was funny to me because I was having similar questions at that very conveniently same time#needed a quick illithid lore review and Stelmane didn't let me down
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Pls rate my small trinkets collection
#i can make more detailed review later#trinkets#goblincore#crowcore#trinket box#trinket collection#charmcaster#charm casting#throw them bones#korijs thingies
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#pokemon#stuffed animals#toycore#plush#drifloon#pokemon center reviews#there aren’t a ton of funny halloween collection reviews but still happy october 😈
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An IRL friend of mine recently suggested I cut back on posting content because "maybe a dozen or two dozen people" like my posts and they weren't sure why I bothered when there was no money or engagement in it.
I definitely felt a bit like that a few years back, particularly when I'd see people repost my scans on other platforms and get tens of thousands of likes. If I'd shifted platforms and focused on engagement that could well have been me.
However, that's not really what I've ever been about. I share what I share because I like it and want other people who like these works to enjoy what I have in my collection too (or to discover new works they might not have encountered). Nobody has to engage with what I post though, I could get 0 likes/reblogs and I'd still keep plugging away because ultimately this is just a hobby and I'm just a fan.
I don't want to harp on with the cheesy "you should do things for yourself first and foremost" with hobbies, but at the end of the day my affection for certain series and artists won't evaporate just because my posts about them aren't popular on Tumblr.
I've been here for 14 years and have only just hit 10,000 followers. I'm not an important internet person by any stretch of the imagination and I think that's OK. If I'd been angling for something beyond simply being a fan of certain things, I can see how this might be considered failure. For me (personally) though, I don't feel like my hobby needs to have any form of hustle attached to it. This is what I do to express my affection for things.
Not everyone will feel the same way as I do about sharing content online and that's fine, we're all individuals and we engage with things differently. I just wanted to express this while the thoughts were still fresh in my mind.
Enjoy your hobbies in the ways that work for you. You'll find people who appreciate your contributions (big or small) wherever you go online and if you move onto different fandoms or hobbies, you'll find new folks who like what you do there too. Just don't feel locked into numbers as the ultimate way of judging your own love for media.
#personal#ramblings#nothing deep here just rabbiting on#i'm still on a lot of medication so err please forgive any mess ups#i just wanted to get this out there before i forgot my train of thought#to be clear the above is not about shading people who post on other sites or who choose to ask for donations or monetise what they share#(we're different people doing different things)#and it is similarly unrelated to original or transformative work that lends itself to monetisation like art/video reviews/podcasts/etc.#this is very much just about my personal situation and how i approach it rather than broadly speaking in place of others#anime collecting#archiving and media preservation
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a collection of things that are the raven cycle but are not the raven cycle:
#collection of things basically#gotta love humans sometimes#trc#ronan lynch#adam parrish#the raven cycle#blue sargent#richard campbell gansey iii#pynch#the raven boys#blue lily lily blue#adam and ronan#the anthropocene reviewed#john green#chiharu shiota#hadestown#mine#ouch
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"Unmortricken" was a lot. In fact, it might have been a little too much.
To start, I loved the glimpse of what exists outside the Central Finite Curve. The visuals were stunning and reminded me of M.C. Escher's drawings. The Jetson-like family was a nice touch--if anything can happen, who says they can't have different animation styles? All those colorful portals make me wonder what's lurking just out of sight.
It's also funny that the space outside the Curve is full of Rick's favorite thing: crystals. If he took a trip there, he'd come back with his pockets stuffed with gemstones.
Evil Morty's reappearance gave us a decent character study. Since he wasn't the antagonist, we saw him interact with the C-137s as a regular person. Morty's a little impressed, and Rick has a grudging respect for him. Others have called Evil Morty the Rickest Morty, and I agree: similar intelligence, similar technology and similar bloodthirst.
I was glad that he left in the end because that's what his character arc is about anyway. He doesn't want to be part of anyone else's story, not even another Morty's.
However, that's also part of the issue that I had with this episode. Seeing Evil Morty was great, but it was also a little...pointless? You could've had the same story without him. He's not working with Prime, and he has no ties to C-137 after "Rickmurai Jack," so it felt like the writers just said "Hey, you know what would be cool?"
I'm not against writers having fun and giving the audience what they want. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" (yeah, groan at me, Marvel haters) is fan service in blockbuster form, and it was one of the best theater experiences I've ever had.
Still, if Evil Morty came back, I think he should've had a separate episode. The episode juggled C-137 Rick, Morty, Evil Morty and Prime Rick pretty well, giving them satisfying interactions with each other, but no Evil Morty would've meant more relationship development for the C-137s.
Evil Morty's backstory also didn't reveal much about him. I mean--yeah, we all figured that he had an abusive Rick and got fed up. The fact that he had a "regular" Rick instead of a deranged lunatic does make a point about the banality of abuse. Monsters aren't always raving maniacs who torture people in their basements. Ordinary people can wear you down with a slow drip of toxicity and neglect.
I enjoyed this episode, and Evil Morty's return was exciting, but cramming the series' two biggest antagonists and storylines into twenty minutes was a little overwhelming. New plot developments kept showing up, too: Rick found Prime! Prime's various lairs! Omega device! I would've preferred a two-parter.
I'll admit that if you told me that we'd see Evil Morty and Rick Prime in the same shot, I never would have believed you, but here we are.
On that note, Prime's characterization was perfect. No attempt at a cutesy, sad backstory; he's a laughing monster until the end. And is it really the end? He has regeneration abilities, but C-137 acts like he's dead and even gives up the search. This leaves us with a few options:
C-137 killed him.
Prime fooled C-137 into thinking that he's dead when he isn't.
C-137's keeping him alive for later use.
Hopefully, this is more complicated than it looks because I'll be disappointed if this is the end of Prime. He's a brilliant reflection of C-137: the Rick he'd be without his tiny shred of humanity.
And Prime's a maniac, but he tells C-137 the truth. Rick broke into Prime's house. He pretended he belonged with this group of strangers. He latched on to Prime's grandson because he never had his own. His brutal, violent streak never went away no matter how long he tried to play house.
Prime says "Admit it! You would have been me!" In season three and parts of season four, Rick was close. His love for his family--love that he pretended he didn't have--and desire for their approval just barely pulled him back. But what kept that spark alive? How close was he to becoming a cold, unfeeling shell?
In the end, C-137's not satisfied after he destroys Prime--and weirdly, I'm not satisfied, either. Beating Prime to an unrecognizable pulp doesn't bring Rick's original family back. It doesn't erase the atrocities that Rick's committed. It doesn't make his grief go away. It doesn't change the fact that Rick teetered on the edge of turning into the monster that he despised.
What's more satisfying is that Rick didn't turn out like Prime. His Morty doesn't give two shits about Prime, but he loves him. He hugs him in relief (come on, Rick, hug him back already!), cries out "Rick? Rick!" and shakes his body when he thinks he's dead, and talks excitedly as they return home.
Rick's going to therapy, which Prime would have mocked. He went from having nobody to living with FIVE kids if you count Morty and Summer. Even he and his Jerry are pretty tight.
Rick knows this, but he still feels empty all the time. Vengeance doesn't work, drinking doesn't work...wouldn't it be easier if he just switched off his humanity and laughed at everything, even his own death?
But now that he knows how it feels to be loved, especially by his hypothetical grandson, I think he'll always find himself at the Smiths' doorstep.
#rick and morty#rick sanchez#morty smith#prime rick#weird rick#rick prime#evil morty#boy that's quite the collection of tags#unmortricken#season seven#review
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The Japan first edition blu-ray is here! \(^o^)/
The digital content is the same save for an additional Japanese dub, so I'm way more curious about the trinkets!
2nd pic is a set of six postcards that iirc are DVD volume covers. (Wow remember the early days of TCW where there's ZERO Ahsoka on any promo materials) Each cover features screencaps of the episodes it contains.
3rd pic is keychain charms. 4th pic is a poster by… I think, Kilian Plunkett? It looks a little too finished to be Filoni… Enlighten me if you do.
#the clone wars#star wars#tcw reviews#now I only have the lost missions and I'll have a complete collection#unfortunately S6 doesn't include any bts bonus so I keep forget it :p
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Watching Through My Collection: Day 63/67
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Day 62 / Day 64
This guy really tried to mansplain, manipulate, mass murder his way to getting the girl.
This movie's an odd one. A pre-undead zombie story more akin to magic hypnosis than any sort of substances creating the mindless shamblers.
Set around World War I, the movie opens with some pretty compelling threads about zombie armies and the colonial Allies wanting to step in and get rid of the secret to this control. Unfortunately, most anything interesting about the setting, mythology, or themes is pushed aside for most of the movie to focus on a love triangle.
I did get a kick out of the character that does discover the secret to making zombies then using his power just to try and strong-arm the girl into agreeing to marry him. With better focus there could've even been a message about toxic masculinity in there.
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hey some very smart people (my babes @captainrayzizuniverse and @goldcrumble) have cracked a 28 Clothing pattern check this out: Drop 1 and Drop 2 came out August and November last year and were both Collection 01 (labeled on the clothing tags); Drop 3 (this July) is Collection 02...
...which suggests a possible pattern of one collection consisting of two drops close together late in the year per year, which feels consistent with teasing items from the next drop in the promo for this recent one; so we would see Drop 4- the second half of Collection 02- in October or November, and then another long wait until the second half of next year for more?
#doing SCIENCE here the if thens are iffing and thenning!!#submitting for peer review lol#taking louie mathing to the word problem area#28op#28 clothing#also this makes sense with why you could still buy drop 1 items along with drop 2 until just now#collection one all together#now collection 2 only#so we could expect drop 3 stuff thats left to stay up after drop 4 for a while#the first two were so close together!!!! its no wonder we were confused by the long wait after#literally why are they so allergic to just telling us things there's NO REASON not to simply share this info😂#I mean I enjoy a puzzle I guess but COME ON WHY
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This negative review for Hi-Fi Rush is fucking sending me like--
Bro, what did you expect???
#Hi-Fi Rush#Hi Fi Rush#this has the exact same vibe of people leaving negative reviews for Hollow Knight like#''UGH you have to run around the whole map to collect power ups because some areas are locked until you get said power ups#there's just so much backtracking'' Um- yes? you just described a metroidvania? which is what Hollow Knight is?#are haters okay
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i forget there interests I don’t really talk about to other people or keep to a minimum bc I know they’re not the most conventional but I have a huge special interest in crayola art supplies/and collecting and I have almost every recent release of specialty crayon and I get so excited when they release new ones . I got so excited recently bc they just released swirl crayons ( I think they’re a revival from a 90s version) but I’m literally so fucking excited you don’t get it. you don’t even know. Sorry I wanted to ramble. Hark! to my completely unrelated tumblr blog I go!☝🏽
#there’s this woman I watch on YouTube#she swatched and reviews all kinds of art supplies#and she does crayola ones often!!#she has to be in her mid/late 50s bc she talks abt the ones she had when she was younger#and she would but them for her kids too!!! she collects a bunch now too!!!#I’m watchybf a video of her swatching all the retired crayon shades… autism heaven ….#Jenny’s crayon collection my beloved <3#Maybe I need to make a side blog for this or something bc I know a lot of ppl aren’t interested#but I want to Yao sometimes sorry 💔💔💔#txt#*yap
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Figure review: Lucky star FREEing mini figures ^_^ I love theseee theyre my only lucky star figures so far! They all come with a second hand pose that you can switch out :3 the only issue is that the parts of the figure come apart easily, but that makes sense since im pretty sure these r older figs. Overall they are super cute and look nice next to my larger figures =^_^= 10/10
#anime figure#figure review#figure collection#lucky star#anime#animecore#konata izumi#kagami hiiragi#tsukasa hiiragi#miyuki takara#otaku#otakucore#neetcore#neet#2000s anime#kawaii#denpa#denpacore
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And now we're gotten to the point terf's are claiming now our choice of toys is biological based, aka somehow our hormones choose our toys I guess.
#uk politics#british politics#cass review#okay by this logic: i'm cis#i liked to play with dolls...but i also liked to play with doctor who toys aka the boy toys#what does that say about my gender terfs#come on now#hell nowadays im into collecting both gender stuff as been collecting MH dolls but also transformers#like out of all the arguments to put in their terf review#that was put in there#wonder what that'll do for future kids who like toys that are deemed the opposite of their gender#since labor wants to implement this shit somehow
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