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Jojo’s ABC’s of Drarry fic: a rec list of Drarry fics I love, sorted in alphabetical order!

26 fics ♡ 26 authors ♡ a good mix of smut, fluff, angst and plot ♡ enjoy!!

A — All the Earnest Young Men by @tepre (E, 29.4k)

All over London portraits are disappearing from their canvases.

Auror Harry! Expert-in-Magical-Art-Theory Draco! There's running, dancing, falling through ice, what’s this paper giraffe doing here? A great time was had by all.

B — Beneath the Wave by @moonflower-rose (E, 30k words)

Harry is done with a life in the spotlight. No more adventures, no more mortal peril. He wants a quiet life of food and friends, and family. He even manages to have it for a while, until suddenly there are giant rabbits that need ferrying to a mysterious island, and a handsome Draco Malfoy, and Harry's right back in the middle of the action again, despite his best efforts.

C — Come For Me by Frayach (E, 24.6k words)

After Draco is paralyzed in an accident, he and Harry discover a new way to make love.

D — Dwelling by aideomai (E, 83.3k words)

Curses, James and Lily Potter ride again, several Ministry balls, a teenage Summer of Love, a grim young adult dystopian winter, a few different Draco Malfoys, secrets and the problems re: not having any, alternate lives, impossible lives, real lives, allusions to Dirty Dancing, and just because it's not called the Mirror of Erised doesn't mean you shouldn't know better.

E — Embers by @shiftylinguini (E, 41.2k words)

Werewolf Alphas aren't meant to be alone, or to suppress their ruts indefinitely like Draco has been since he was bitten eight years ago. He needs company, companionship, to knot ― he needs an Omega Heat Companion. At least, that’s what the Healers say, and even Draco can admit contacting the person they’ve referred him to might be nice.

Of course it turns out to be bloody Potter.

F — freely, as men strive for right by @bixgirl1 (E, 17.1k words)

How can Harry love a man like Draco Malfoy?

If only Draco would let him count the ways.

(Sometimes, a happily-ever-after takes a bit longer than you expect.)

G — Going Postal (A 125-Page Comic) by dustmouth (T)

So Draco and Harry sort of maybe have a bit of a thing going. Which is all fine and good, but would probably be more effective if they managed to be on the same continent for more than five minutes at a time.

H — Hermione Granger's Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by waspabi (T, 93.3k words)

'You're a wizard, Harry' is easier to hear from a half-giant when you're eleven, rather than from some kids on a tube platform when you're seventeen and late for work.

I — I Do Not Love You by @writandromance (E, 228.2k words)

In 2013, a carefully-designed Obliviation leaves Harry reconfiguring his life and identity without any memories of true love; an act that's essentially erased Draco Malfoy from his mind despite a wedding band and shared home.

In 2000, Draco had expected Pansy's relationship with Luna to bring the Gryffindors a bit closer to his orbit of quiet, carefully pacifistic existence, but he never expected to navigate such a transparent embrace into a unit of family, friendship, and love.

A mystery, two love stories, and a reminder that learning to love never has an end date.

J — Je te reverrai by @soliblomst (E, 16.1k words)

When Beauxbatons visited Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament, Draco managed to control his attraction to fourteen-year-old Harry Potter.

When Beauxbatons returns three years later for a cultural exchange, Draco's attraction to seventeen-year-old Harry Potter is impossible to curtail.

In his defence, Harry's perfectly tailored blue robes, mixed signals, and French accent do not help.

K — Keep your hands on me by @tenthousandyearsx (E, 21.4k words)

Malfoy binds himself with a sex curse. Harry cannot get enough (but would much prefer to keep Malfoy for himself).

L — Lusimeles by orphan_account (E, 23.2k words)

“You’re not special, Potter,” Kingsley informs him, not looking up from his work.

“But I’ve already done Occlumency training!” Harry splutters, indignant. “And it’s Malfoy.”

M — More Than That by joosetta (E, 10.9k words)

This is a story about two 52 year old men who refuse to age gracefully.

N — No One Ever Told Me by @slightweasel (M, 25.7k words)

Harry marries Draco to get him out of Azkaban.

Things get weird. And confusing. And then weird some more.

O — Our Objective Remains Unchanged by @citrusses (E, 46.1k words)

Harry Potter, returning member of the Oxford University Boat Club, has two goals for the spring of 2005: beat Cambridge, and beat Draco Malfoy. Perhaps not in that order.

P — Probationary Action by @toomuchplor (E, 63.3k words)

As part of the terms of the probationary contract, DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY shall submit for inspection his WAND on the last day of every month, such inspection to be carried out by a duly registered and fully qualified AUROR in the employ of the MINISTRY OF MAGIC, and such inspection to include a PRIORI INCANTATEM spell to ensure that no PROHIBITED MAGICS as heretofore described have been practised by the aforementioned probationer.

Q — Quickie by @greaseonmymouth (E, 11.8k words)

Harry's 8th year is going okay: he's got a girlfriend, the future is far away, and he has no choices to make. And then Malfoy starts sending him dick pics.

R — Rookie Moves by peu_a_peu (E, 75.3 words)

Aurors Potter and Malfoy crack the case.

S — Slithering by @astolat (E, 27.3k words)

Draco found the nest down in the Manor’s cellars, while he was clearing them out.

T — Tandem by @fastbrother (M, 90.8k words)

Harry and Draco meet by accident six years after the war. Harry's an Auror with a drinking problem and Draco's a broke student. Things don't work out well. Six years after that, Draco joins the British Auror Office as a Potioneer.

U — Untouched by @stratigraphywrites (E, 11.2k words)

"The magic demands a sacrifice," Malfoy said. "What kind of sacrifice?" Malfoy's mouth twisted grimly. "A virgin." Harry felt his eyes widen. "Killing one?" "No, of course not, Potter," Malfoy snapped. "Don't be macabre. Fucking one." Malfoy exhaled with bitter disappointment. "Fuck. Rules us out." Harry took a deep breath. His face felt hotter than ever. "It doesn't, actually."

Harry's had some terrible birthdays in his life. But this one - trapped in a cave with Draco Malfoy, and only one way out - has to take the cake.

V — Vis-à-Vis-à-Vis by @vukovich (E, 50k words)

Harry's assignment was simple. Close out Draco Malfoy's missing persons case so he can be declared dead.

But who's making withdrawals from Malfoy's vaults? How is a death omen-turned-Unspeakable involved? Is an organization known as the Moirai to blame?

Harry brushes it off until he can't. Until The Prophet is flooded with sightings of dead people. Until Robards throws himself on his sword. Until Ron turns on his own family. Until Harry scarcely trusts his own reflection in the mirror and trusts the stranger in his bed even less.

Until all that stands between war and peace is Harry, a name plate, a stadium of murderers, and Draco Malfoy.

God save the Ministry.

W — What’s Mine is Yours by @fluxweeed (E, 17k words)

Harry loses something important. Malfoy helps him get it back.

X — Ex Nihilo (And Other Feats of An Untrained Veela) by Kandakicksass (E, 129k words)

Ever since returning to Hogwarts, Harry has had nothing to do with Draco Malfoy, who exists at the bottom of the social ladder and is just trying to survive their "eighth year."

One veela presentation (and Harry's natural resistance to veela allure) changes all of that.

Y — Yours is the Earth (Hold On, Hold On) by chickenlivesinpumpkin (E, 127k words)

After a serious accident in the Forbidden Forest, Draco's personality begins to undergo subtle changes. At first, Harry credits this to a new enthusiasm for life. But as the days pass and Draco's behavior becomes more and more mysterious, Harry begins to suspect that something bigger--and darker--is at work.

Z — Zenith by @corvuscrowned (E, 20.6k words)

Desperate to find relief from worsening migraines and broken magic, Harry sets out to reach mystical hot springs that are said to grant healing and realignment.

The only problem? The springs lie deep within a cursed forest that lures hikers to their death by tempting them with their greatest desires.

So when Harry sees Draco Malfoy in the forest, he must be hallucinating.

Right?

Or: A hero’s journey but gay.

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FILMES COMING-OF-AGE ⏳🤱

filmes sobre amadurecimento, amor inocente, primeiro amor, conflito com os pais e a dificuldade de se tornar adulto enquanto busca sua própria identidade.

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Aftersun

Aos Treze

As Vantagens de Ser Invisível

As Virgens Suicidas

Booksmart

Call Me By Your Name

Casa de Beija-Flor

Conta Comigo

Diário de um Adolescente

Eu, Christiane F. - 13 Anos, Drogada e Prostituída

Jojo Rabbit

Jovens, Loucos e Rebeldes

Juno

Moonlight

Moonrise Kingdom

Nobody Knows

Nunca, Raramente, Às Vezes, Sempre

Oitava Série

Pequena Miss Sunshine

Palo Alto

Quase 18

Submarino

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Couch surfer in his 30s. Oscar winner in his 40s. Why the whole world wants Taika

**Notes: This is very long post!**

Good Weekend

In his 30s, he was sleeping on couches. By his 40s, he’d directed a Kiwi classic, taken a Marvel movie to billion-dollar success, and won an Oscar. Meet Taika Waititi, king of the oddball – and one of New Zealand’s most original creative exports.

Taika Waititi: “Be a nice person and live a good life. And just don’t be an arsehole.”

The good news? Taika Waititi is still alive. I wasn’t sure. The screen we were speaking through jolted savagely a few minutes ago, with a cacophonous bang and a confused yelp, then radio silence. Now the Kiwi ­ filmmaker is back, grinning like a loon: “I just broke the f---ing table, bro!”

Come again? “I just smashed this f---ing table and glass flew everywhere. It’s one of those old annoying colonial tables. It goes like this – see that?” Waititi says, holding up a folding furniture leg. “I hit the mechanism and it wasn’t locked. Anyway …”

I’m glad he’s fine. The stuff he’s been saying from his London hotel room could incur biblical wrath. We’re talking about his latest project, Next Goal Wins, a movie about the American Samoa soccer team’s quest to score a solitary goal, 10 years after suffering the worst loss in the game’s international history – a 31-0 ­ignominy to Australia – but our chat strays into ­spirituality, then faith, then religion.

“I don’t personally believe in a big guy sitting on a cloud judging everyone, but that’s just me,” Waititi says, deadpan. “Because I’m a grown-up.”

This is the way his interview answers often unfold. Waititi addresses your topic – dogma turns good people bad, he says, yet belief itself is worth lauding – but bookends every response with a conspiratorial nudge, wink, joke or poke. “Regardless of whether it’s some guy living on a cloud, or some other deity that you’ve made up – and they’re all made up – the message across the board is the same, and it’s important: Be a nice person, and live a good life. And just don’t be an arsehole!”

Not being an arsehole seems to have served Waititi, 48, well. Once a national treasure and indie darling (through the quirky tenderness of his breakout New Zealand films Boy in 2010 and Hunt for the Wilderpeople in 2016), Waititi then became a star of both the global box office (through his 2017 entry into the Marvel Universe, Thor: Ragnarok, which grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide) and then the Academy Awards (winning the 2020 best adapted screenplay Oscar for his subversive Holocaust dramedy JoJo Rabbit, in which he played an imaginary Hitler).

Waititi playing Adolf Hitler in the 2019 movie JoJo Rabbit. (Alamy)

A handsome devil with undeniable roguish charm, Waititi also slid seamlessly into style-icon status (attending this year’s Met Gala shirtless, in a floor-length gunmetal-grey Atelier Prabal Gurung wrap coat, with pendulous pearl necklaces), as well as becoming his own brand (releasing an eponymous line of canned ­coffee drinks) and bona fide Hollywood A-lister (he was introduced to his second wife, British singer Rita Ora, by actor Robert Pattinson at a barbecue).

Putting that platform to use, Waititi is an Indigenous pioneer and mentor, too, co-creating the critically acclaimed TV series Reservation Dogs, while co-founding the Piki Films production company, committed to promoting the next generation of storytellers – a mission that might sound all weighty and worthy, yet Waititi’s new wave of First Nations work is never earnest, always mixing hurt with heart and howling humour.

Waititi with wife Rita Ora at the 2023 Met Gala in May. (Getty Images)

Makes sense. Waititi is a byproduct of “the weirdest coupling ever” – his late Maori father from the Te Whanau-a-Apanui tribe was an artist, farmer and “Satan’s Slaves” bikie gang founder, while his Wellington schoolteacher mum descended from Russian Jews, although he’s not devout about her faith. (“No, I don’t practise,” he confirms. “I’m just good at everything, straight away.”)

He’s remained loyally tethered to his ­origin story, too – and to a cadre of creative Kiwi mates, including actors Jemaine Clement and Rhys Darby – never forgetting that not long before the actor/writer/producer/director was an industry maven, he was a penniless painter/photographer/ musician/comedian.

With no set title and no fixed address, he’s seemingly happy to be everything, everywhere (to everyone) all at once. “‘The universe’ is bandied around a lot these days, but I do believe in the kind of connective tissue of the universe, and the energy that – scientifically – we are made up of a bunch of atoms that are bouncing around off each other, and some of the atoms are just squished together a bit tighter than others,” he says, smiling. “We’re all made of the same stardust, and that’s pretty special.”

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We’ve caught Waititi in a somewhat relaxed moment, right before the screen actors’ and media artists’ strike ends. He’s ­sensitive to the struggle but doesn’t deny enjoying the break. “I spent a lot of time thinking about writing, and not writing, and having a nice ­holiday,” he tells Good Weekend. “Honestly, it was a good chance just to recombobulate.”

Waititi, at right, with Hunt for the Wilderpeople actors, from left, Sam Neill, Rhys Darby and Julian Dennison. (Getty Images)

It’s mid-October, and he’s just headed to Paris to watch his beloved All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup. He’s deeply obsessed with the game, and sport in general. “Humans spend all of our time knowing what’s going to happen with our day. There’s no surprises ­any more. We’ve become quite stagnant. And I think that’s why people love sport, because of the air of unpredictability,” he says. “It’s the last great arena entertainment.”

The main filmic touchstone for Next Goal Wins (which premieres in Australian cinemas on New Year’s Day) would be Cool Runnings (1993), the unlikely true story of a Jamaican bobsled team, but Waititi also draws from genre classics such as Any Given Sunday and Rocky, sampling trusted tropes like the musical training montage. (His best one is set to Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears.)

Filming in Hawaii was an uplifting experience for the self-­described Polynesian Jew. “It wasn’t about death, or people being cruel to each other. Thematically, it was this simple idea, of getting a small win, and winning the game wasn’t even their goal – their goal was to get a goal,” he says. “It was a really sweet backbone.”

Waititi understands this because, growing up, he was as much an athlete as a nerd, fooling around with softball and soccer before discovering rugby league, then union. “There’s something about doing exercise when you don’t know you’re doing exercise,” he enthuses. “It’s all about the fun of throwing a ball around and trying to achieve something together.” (Whenever Waititi is in Auckland he joins his mates in a long-running weekend game of touch rugby. “And then throughout the week I work out every day. Obviously. I mean, look at me.”)

Auckland is where his kids live, too, so he spends as much time there as possible. Waititi met his first wife, producer Chelsea Winstanley, on the set of Boy in 2010, and they had two daughters, Matewa Kiritapu, 8, and his firstborn, Te Kainga O’Te Hinekahu, 11. (The latter is a derivative of his grandmother’s name, but he jokes with American friends that it means “Resurrection of Tupac” or “Mazda RX7″) Waititi and Winstanley split in about 2018, and he married the pop star Ora in 2022.

He offers a novel method for balancing work with parenthood … “Look, you just abandon them, and know that the experience will make them harder individuals later on in life. And it’s their problem,” he says. “I’m going to give them all of the things that they need, and I’m going to leave behind a decent bank ­account for their therapy, and they will be just like me, and the cycle will continue.”

Jokes aside – I think he’s joking – school holidays are always his, and he brings the girls onto the set of every movie he makes. “They know enough not to get in the way or touch anything that looks like it could kill you, and they know to be respectful and quiet when they need to. But they’re just very comfortable around filmmakers, which I’m really happy about, because eventually I hope they will get into the ­industry. One more year,” he laughs, “then they can leave school and come work for Dad.”

Theirs is certainly a different childhood than his. Growing up, he was a product of two worlds. His given names, for instance, were based on his appearance at birth: “Taika David” if he looked Maori (after his Maori grandfather) and “David Taika” if he looked Pakeha (after his white grandfather). His parents split when he was five, so he bounced between his dad’s place in Waihau Bay, where he went by the surname Waititi, and his mum, eight hours drive away in Wellington, where he went by Cohen (the last name on his birth ­certificate and passport).

Waititi was precocious, even charismatic. His mother Robin once told Radio New Zealand that people always wanted to know him, even as an infant: “I’d be on a bus with him, and he was that kind of baby who smiled at people, and next thing you know they’re saying, ‘Can I hold your baby?’ He’s always been a charmer to the public eye.”

He describes himself as a cool, sporty, good-looking nerd, raised on whatever pop culture screened on the two TV channels New Zealand offered in the early 1980s, from M*A*S*H and Taxi to Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson. He was well-read, too. When punished by his mum, he would likely be forced to analyse a set of William Blake poems.

He puts on a whimpering voice to describe their finances – “We didn’t have much monneeey” – explaining how his mum spent her days in the classroom but also worked in pubs, where he would sit sipping a raspberry lemonade, doodling drawings and writing stories. She took in ­ironing and cleaned houses; he would help out, learning valuable lessons he imparts to his kids. “And to random people who come to my house,” he says. “I’ll say, ‘Here’s a novel idea, wash this dish,’ but people don’t know how to do anything these days.”

“Every single character I’ve ever written has been based on someone I’ve known or met or a story I’ve stolen from someone.” - Taika Waititi

He loved entertaining others, clearly, but also himself, recording little improvised radio plays on a tape deck – his own offbeat versions of ET and Indiana Jones and Star Wars. “Great free stuff where you don’t have any idea what the story is as you’re doing it,” he says. “You’re just sort of making it up and enjoying the ­freedom of playing god in this world where you can make people and characters do whatever you want.”

His other sphere of influence lay in Raukokore, the tiny town where his father lived. Although Boy is not autobiographical, it’s deeply personal insofar as it’s filmed in the house where he grew up, and where he lived a life similar to that portrayed in the story, surrounded by his recurring archetypes: warm grandmothers and worldly kids; staunch, stoic mums; and silly, stunted men. “Every single character I’ve ever written has been based on someone I’ve known or met,” he says, “or a story I’ve stolen from someone.”

He grew to love drawing and painting, obsessed early on with reproducing the Sistine Chapel. During a 2011 TED Talk on creativity, Waititi describes his odd subject matter, from swastikas and fawns to a picture of an old lady going for a walk … upon a sword … with Robocop. “My father was an outsider artist, even though he wouldn’t know what that meant,” Waititi told the audience in Doha. “I love the naive. I love people who can see things through an innocent viewpoint. It’s inspiring.”

After winning Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for JoJo Rabbit in 2020. (Getty Images)

It was an interesting time in New Zealand, too – a coming-of-age decade in which the Maori were rediscovering their culture. His area was poor, “but only ­financially,” he says. “It’s very rich in terms of the ­people and the culture.” He learned kapa haka – the songs, dances and chants performed by competing tribes at cultural events, or to honour people at funerals and graduations – weddings, parties, ­anything. “Man, any excuse,” he explains. “A big part of doing them is to uplift your spirits.”

Photography was a passion, so I ask what he shot. “Just my penis. I sent them to people, but we didn’t have phones, so I would print them out, post them. One of the first dick pics,” he says. Actually, his lens was trained on regular people. He watches us still – in airports, ­restaurants. “Other times late at night, from a tree. Whatever it takes to get the story. You know that.”

He went to the Wellington state school Onslow College and did plays like Androcles and the Lion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Crucible. His crew of arty students eventually ended up on stage at Bats Theatre in the city, where they would perform haphazard comedy shows for years.

“Taika was always rebellious and wild in his comedy, which I loved,” says his high school mate Jackie van Beek, who became a longtime collaborator, including working with Waititi on a Tourism New Zealand campaign this year. “I remember he went through a phase of turning up in bars around town wearing wigs, and you’d try and sit down and have a drink with him but he’d be doing some weird character that would invariably turn up in some show down the track.”

He met more like-minded peers at Victoria University, including Jemaine Clement (who’d later become co-creator of Flight of the Conchords). During a 2019 chat with actor Elijah Wood, Waititi ­describes he and Clement clocking one another from opposite sides of the library one day: a pair of Maoris experiencing hate at first sight, based on a mutual suspicion of cultural appropriation. (Clement was wearing a traditional tapa cloth Samoan shirt, and Waititi was like: “This motherf---er’s not Samoan.” Meanwhile, Waititi was wearing a Rastafarian beanie, and Clement was like, “This ­motherf---er’s not Jamaican.”)

With Jemaine Clement in 2014. (Getty Images)

But they eventually bonded over Blackadder and Fawlty Towers, and especially Kenny Everett, and did comedy shows together everywhere from Edinburgh to Melbourne. Waititi was almost itinerant, spending months at a time busking, or living in a commune in Berlin. He acted in a few small films, and then – while playing a stripper on a bad TV show – realised he wanted to try life behind the camera. “I became tired of being told what to do and ordered around,” he told Wellington’s Dominion Post in 2004. “I remember sitting around in the green room in my G-string ­thinking, ‘Why am I doing this? Just helping someone else to realise their dream.’ ”

He did two strong short films, then directed his first feature – Eagle vs Shark (2007) – when he was 32. He brought his mates along (Clement, starring with Waititi’s then-girlfriend Loren Horsley), setting something of a pattern in his career: hiring friends instead of constantly navigating new working relationships. “If you look at things I’m doing,” he tells me, “there’s ­always a few common denominators.”

Sam Neill says Waititi is the exemplar of a new New Zealand humour. “The basis of it is this: we’re just a little bit crap at things.”

This gang of collaborators shares a common Kiwi vibe, too, which his longtime friend, actor Rhys Darby, once coined “the comedy of the mundane”. Their new TV show, Our Flag Means Death, for example, leans heavily into the mundanity of pirate life – what happens on those long days at sea when the crew aren’t unsheathing swords from scabbards or burying treasure.

Waititi plays pirate captain Blackbeard, centre, in Our Flag Means Death, with Rhys Darby, left, and Rory Kinnear. (Google Images)

Sam Neill, who first met Waititi when starring in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, says Waititi is the exemplar of a new New Zealand humour. “And I think the basis of it is this,” says Neill. “We’re just a little bit crap at things, and that in itself is funny.” After all, Neill asks, what is What We Do in The Shadows (2014) if not a film (then later a TV show) about a bunch of vampires who are pretty crap at being vampires, ­living in a pretty crappy house, not quite getting busted by crappy local cops? “New Zealand often gets named as the least corrupt country in the world, and I think it’s just that we would be pretty crap at being corrupt,” Neill says. “We don’t have the capacity for it.”

Waititi’s whimsy also spurns the dominant on-screen oeuvre of his homeland – the so-called “cinema of ­unease” exemplified by the brutality of Once Were Warriors (1994) and the emotional peril of The Piano (1993). Waititi still explores pathos and pain, but through laughter and weirdness. “Taika feels to me like an ­antidote to that dark aspect, and a gift somehow,” Neill says. “And I’m grateful for that.”

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Something happened to Taika Waititi when he was about 11 – something he doesn’t go into with Good Weekend, but which he considered a betrayal by the adults in his life. He ­mentioned it only recently – not the ­moment itself, but the lesson he learnt: “That you cannot and must not rely on grown-ups to help you – you’re basically in the world alone, and you’re gonna die alone, and you’ve just gotta make it all for yourself,” he told Irish podcast host James Brown. “I basically never forgave people in positions of responsibility.”

What does that mean in his work? First, his finest films tend to reflect the clarity of mind possessed by children, and the unseen worlds they create – fantasies conjured up as a way to understand or overcome. (His mum once summed up the main ­message of Boy: “The ­unconditional love you get from your children, and how many of us waste that, and don’t know what we’ve got.”)

Second, he’s suited to movie-making – “Russian roulette with art” – because he’s drawn to disruptive force and chaos. And that in turn produces creative defiance: allowing him to reinvigorate the Marvel Universe by making superheroes fallible, or tell a Holocaust story by making fun of Hitler. “Whenever I have to deal with someone who’s a boss, or in charge, I challenge them,” he told Brown, “and I really do take whatever they say with a pinch of salt.”

It’s no surprise then that Waititi was comfortable leaping from independent films to the vast complexity of Hollywood blockbusters. He loves the challenge of coordinating a thousand interlocking parts, requiring an army of experts in vocations as diverse as construction, sound, art, performance and logistics. “I delegate a lot,” he says, “and share the load with a lot of people.”

“This is a cool concept, being able to ­afford whatever I want, as opposed to sleeping on couches until I was 35.” - Taika Waititi

But the buck stops with him. Time magazine named Waititi one of its Most Influential 100 People of 2022. “You can tell that a film was made by Taika Waititi the same way you can tell a piece was painted by Picasso,” wrote Sacha Baron Cohen. Compassionate but comic. Satirical but watchable. Rockstar but auteur. “Actually, sorry, but this guy’s really starting to piss me off,” Cohen concluded. “Can someone else write this piece?”

Directing Chris Hemsworth in 2017 in Thor: Ragnarok, which grossed more than $1.3 billion at the box office. (Alamy)

I’m curious to know how he stays grounded amid such adulation. Coming into the game late, he says, helped immensely. After all, Waititi was 40 by the time he left New Zealand to do Thor: Ragnarok. “If you let things go to your head, then it means you’ve struggled to find out who you are,” he says. “But I’ve always felt very comfortable with who I am.” Hollywood access and acclaim – and the pay cheques – don’t erase memories of poverty, either. “It’s more like, ‘Oh, this is a cool concept, being able to ­afford whatever I want, as opposed to sleeping on couches until I was 35.’ ” Small towns and strong tribes keep him in check, too. “You know you can’t piss around and be a fool, because you’re going to embarrass your family,” he says. “Hasn’t stopped me, though.”

Sam Neill says there was never any doubt Waititi would be able to steer a major movie with energy and imagination. “It’s no accident that the whole world wants Taika,” he says. “But his seductiveness comes with its own dangers. You can spread yourself a bit thin. The temptation will be to do more, more, more. That’ll be interesting to watch.”

Indeed, I find myself vicariously stressed out over the list of potential projects in Waititi’s future. A Roald Dahl animated series for Netflix. An Apple TV show based on the 1981 film Time Bandits. A sequel to What We Do In The Shadows. A reboot of Flash Gordon. A gonzo horror comedy, The Auteur, starring Jude Law. Adapting a cult graphic novel, The Incal, as a feature. A streaming series based on the novel Interior Chinatown. A film based on a Kazuo Ishiguro bestseller. Plus bringing to life the wildly popular Akira comic books. Oh, and for good measure, a new instalment of Star Wars, which he’s already warned the world will be … different.

“It’s going to change things,” he told Good Morning America. “It’s going to change what you guys know and expect.”

Did I say I was stressed for Waititi? I meant physically sick.

“Well…” he qualifies, “some of those things I’m just producing, so I come up with an idea or someone comes to me with an idea, and I shape how ‘it’s this kind of show’ and ‘here’s how we can get it made.’ It’s easier for me to have a part in those things and feel like I’ve had a meaningful role in the creative process, but also not having to do what I’ve always done, which is trying to control everything.”

In the 2014 mockumentary horror film What We Do in the Shadows, which he co-directed with Jemaine Clement. (Alamy)

What about moving away from the niche New Zealand settings he represented so well in his early work? How does he stay connected to his roots? “I think you just need to know where you’re from,” he says, “and just don’t forget that.”

They certainly haven’t forgotten him.

Jasmin McSweeney sits in her office at the New Zealand Film Commission in Wellington, surrounded by promotional posters Waititi signed for her two decades ago, when she was tasked with promoting his nascent talent. Now the organisation’s marketing chief, she talks to me after visiting the heart of thriving “Wellywood”, overseeing the traditional karakia prayer on the set of a new movie starring Geoffrey Rush.

Waititi isn’t the first great Kiwi filmmaker – dual Oscar-winner Jane Campion and blockbuster king Peter Jackson come to mind – yet his particular ascendance, she says, has spurred unparalleled enthusiasm. “Taika gave everyone here confidence. He always says, ‘Don’t sit around waiting for people to say, you can do this.’ Just do it, because he just did it. That’s the Taika effect.”

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Taika David Waititi is known for wearing everything from technicolour dreamcoats to pineapple print rompers, and today he’s wearing a roomy teal and white Isabel Marant jumper. The mohair garment has the same wispy frizz as his hair, which curls like a wave of grey steel wool, and connects with a shorn salty beard.

A stylish silver fox, it wouldn’t surprise anyone if he suddenly announced he was launching a fashion label. He’s definitely a commercial animal, to the point of directing television commercials for Coke and Amazon, along with a fabulous 2023 spot for Belvedere vodka starring Daniel Craig. He also joined forces with a beverage company in Finland (where “taika” means “magic”) to release his coffee drinks. Announcing the partnership on social media, he flagged that he would be doing more of this kind of stuff, too (“Soz not soz”).

Waititi has long been sick of reverent portrayals of Indigenous people talking to spirits.

There’s substance behind the swank. Fashion is a creative outlet but he’s also bought sewing machines in the past with the intention of designing and making clothes, and comes from a family of tailors. “I learnt how to sew a button on when I was very young,” he says. “I learnt how to fix holes or patches in your clothes, and darn things.”

And while he gallivants around the globe watching Wimbledon or modelling for Hermès at New York Fashion Week, all that glamour belies a depth of purpose, particularly when it comes to Indigenous representation.

There’s a moment in his new movie where a Samoan player realises that their Dutch coach, played by Michael Fassbender, is emotionally struggling, and he offers a lament for white people: “They need us.” I can’t help but think Waititi meant something more by that line – maybe that First Nations people have ­wisdom to offer if others will just listen?

“Weeelllll, a little bit …” he says – but from his intonation, and what he says next, I’m dead wrong. Waititi has long been sick of reverent ­portrayals of Indigenous people talking to kehua (spirits), or riding a ghost waka (phantom canoe), or playing a flute on a mountain. “Always the boring characters,” he says. “They’ve got no real contemporary relationship with the world, because they’re always living in the past in their spiritual ways.”

A scene from Next Goal Wins, filmed earlier this year. (Alamy)

He’s part of a vanguard consciously poking fun at those stereotypes. Another is the Navajo writer and director Billy Luther, who met Waititi at Sundance Film Festival back in 2003, along with Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. “We were this group of outsiders trying to make films, when nobody was really biting,” says Luther. “It was a different time. The really cool thing about it now is we’re all working. We persevered. We didn’t give up. We slept on each other’s couches and hung out. It’s like family.”

Waititi has power now, and is known for using Indigenous interns wherever possible (“because there weren’t those opportunities when I was growing up”), making important introductions, offering feedback on scripts, and lending his name to projects through executive producer credits, too, which he did for Luther’s new feature film, Frybread Face and Me (2023).

He called Luther back from the set of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) to offer advice on working with child actors – “Don’t box them into the characters you’ve ­created,” he said, “let them naturally figure it out on their own” – but it’s definitely harder to get Waititi on the phone these days. “He’s a little bitch,” Luther says, laughing. “Nah, there’s nothing like him. He’s a genius. You just knew he was going to be something. I just knew it. He’s my brother.“

I’ve been asked to explicitly avoid political questions in this interview, probably because Waititi tends to back so many causes, from child poverty and teenage suicide to a campaign protesting offshore gas and oil exploration near his tribal lands. But it’s hard to ignore his recent Instagram post, sharing a viral video about the Voice to Parliament referendum starring Indigenous Aussie rapper Adam Briggs. After all, we speak only two days after the proposal is defeated. “Yeah, sad to say but, Australia, you really shat the bed on that one,” Waititi says, pausing. “But go see my movie!”

About that movie – the early reviews aren’t great. IndieWire called it a misfire, too wrapped in its quirks to develop its arcs, with Waititi’s directorial voice drowning out his characters, while The Guardian called it “a shoddily made and strikingly unfunny attempt to tell an interesting story in an uninteresting way”. I want to know how he moves past that kind of criticism. “For a start, I never read reviews,” he says, concerned only with the opinion of people who paid for admission, never professional appraisals. “It’s not important to me. I know I’m good at what I do.”

Criticism that Indigenous concepts weren’t sufficiently explained in Next Goal Wins gets his back up a little, though. The film’s protagonist, Jaiyah Saelua, the first transgender football player in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, is fa’afafine – an American Samoan identifier for someone with fluid genders – but there wasn’t much exposition of this concept in the film. “That’s not my job,” Waititi says. “It’s not a movie where I have to explain every facet of Samoan culture to an audience. Our job is to retain our culture, and present a story that’s inherently Polynesian, and if you don’t like it, you can go and watch any number of those other movies out there, 99 per cent of which are terrible.”

*notes: (there is video clip in the article)

Waititi sounds momentarily cranky, but he’s mostly unflappable and hilarious. He’s the kind of guy who prefers “Correctumundo bro!” to “Yes”. When our video connection is too laggy, he plays up to it by periodically pretending to be frozen, sitting perfectly still, mouth open, his big shifting eyeballs the only giveaway.

He’s at his best on set. Saelua sat next to him in Honolulu while filming the joyous soccer sequences. “He’s so chill. He just let the actors do their thing, giving them creative freedom, barely interjecting unless it was something important. His style matches the vibe of the Pacific people. We’re a very funny people. We like to laugh. He just fit perfectly.”

People do seem to love working alongside him, citing his ability to make productions fresh and unpredictable and funny. Chris Hemsworth once said that Waititi’s favourite gag is to “forget” that his microphone is switched on, so he can go on a pantomime rant for all to hear – usually about his disastrous Australian lead actor – only to “remember” that he’s wired and the whole crew is listening.

“I wouldn’t know about that, because I don’t listen to what other people say about anything – I’ve told you this,” Waititi says. “I just try to have fun when there’s time to have fun. And when you do that, and you bring people together, they’re more willing to go the extra mile for you, and they’re more willing to believe in the thing that you’re trying to do.”

Yes, he plays music between takes, and dances out of his director’s chair, but it’s really all about relaxing amid the immense pressure and intense privilege of making movies. “Do you know how hard it is just to get anything financed or green-lit, then getting a crew, ­getting producers to put all the pieces together, and then making it to set?” Waititi asks. “It’s a real gift, even to be working, and I feel like I have to remind ­people of that: enjoy this moment.”

Source: The Age

By: Konrad Marshall (December 1, 2023)

[cm-punks-bbl]

getting to know me tag game

tagged by @punker-topia

last song: (f)lannigans ball by dropkick murphys

last book: I dont normally read, at all, but last night I read some of crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

last movie: jojo rabbit

last tv show: I dont watch tv shows but wwe raw i guess, I didnt watch smackdown

last thing I searched: "did the protestant reformation begin in scotland" (it didnt)

favorite color: dark red, I love it, half my closet is dark red

sweet/savory/spicy: I LOVE spicy, sweet is okay though

relationship status: I have a girlfriend, she's pretty cool

a beautiful relationship in my life right now: my homoerotic friendship with bestie, he means the world to me

looking forward to: getting the next chapter of ddmd out, it might take a while

current obsessions: writing, music, wrestling, and history. i love learning about anything in history, most recently it was the cuban missile crisis. I LOVE pro wrestling, it's so cool, I could rant all day about it

im tagging @wrestling-fiend, @ashesofthehive, and @punk-o-ween

[laresearchette]

Friday, March 21, 2025 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: BE@RBRICK (Apple TV+) THE INTRUDER (Paramount + Canada) TRAINING DAY (Paramount + Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA AFTER 30 AMERICA MADE WITH LOVE: PART I FINDING NINA THE LAST DUEL NHL COAST TO COAST SING SING WICKED

CBC GEM ABSOLUTELY CANADIAN: THE CAMINO GHOSTING WITH LUKE HUTCHIE AND MATTHEW FINLAN (Season 2) JOJO RABBIT THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (Season 2) THE STONES AND BRIAN JONES

CRAVE TV ACROSS THE UNIVERSE BELFAST FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC THE G THE MASTER OF DISGUISE MAYDAY MEGA ZOO (Season 1) REAGAN ROBOT DREAMS VERONICA MARS MOVIE WHITE NOISE WILD GOAT SURF

NETFLIX CANADA GO! (South Africa) LITTLE SIBERIA (Sweden) NO HARD FEELINGS REVELATIONS (South Korea)

NCAA MEN'S MARCH MADNESS (TSN/TSN4) 12:00pm: First Round (TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 6:00pm: First Round

NCAA WOMEN'S MARCH MADNESS (TSN2) 12:00pm: First Round - Liberty vs. Kentucky (TSN2) 2:00pm: First Round - Stephen F. Austin vs. Notre Dame (TSN2) 4:00pm: First Round - Tennessee Tech vs. South Carolina (TSN2) 6:00pm: First Round - Nebraska vs. Louisville (TSN2) 8:00pm: First Round - South Florida vs. Tennessee (TSN2) 10:00pm: First Round - TBD vs. UCLA

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 1:00pm: Phillies vs. Jays

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:00pm: Blue Jackets vs. Penguins

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 8:00pm: Hornets vs. Thunder (SN1) 9:30pm: Grizzlies vs. Clippers

MARKETPLACE (CBC) 8:00pm (SEASON FINALE): Joining forces with top scambusters to take on scammers from around the world, the team cracks into networks of organized crime groups, watching some through their own security cameras, and confronts fraudsters in real time.

LOVE SWITCH (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: On the brink of divorce, James and Michelle have drifted apart over the years. They wake up to discover they have somehow switched bodies. Unable to switch back, they are forced to understand what the other goes through on a daily basis.

2025 WORLD WOMEN'S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP (TSN) 9:00pm: Qualification

THE FIFTH ESTATE (CBC) 9:00pm: "764" is a global network of online predators - many are teenagers. They coerce minors to self-harm, maim animals, kill themselves and have even plotted acts of mass violence. Police struggle to contain what's being called a growing terror threat.

WILD GOAT SURF (Crave) 9:00pm: In a run-down Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, surfing-obsessed 12-year-old skater girl Goat navigates the unbridled, unstructured summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer.

RAGING GRACE (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: Nothing is as it seems when an undocumented Filipina immigrant takes a job as a caretaker for a terminally ill man in a lavsh home. She and her daughter soon become ensnared by a terrible secret that threatens to tear them apart.

THE G (Crave) 10:50pm: Ann Hunter and her husband are snatched from their home by a corrupt legal guardian. They are put in a prison-like "eldercare facility." Trapped in a corrupt system, "THE G" begins to fight to get them out and get revenge on the people who did this.

[jankenshouta]

f/o list + tags

all tags with start with a "𓏲𝄢" symbol. i like musical notes, also this one looks a lot like a heart.

CW for themes such as age gap; shotacon, yandere and abusive relationships.

𓏲𝄢 Main F/Os

– Toshikazu Hazamada (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ Rotten Boy, Grotesque Romance (strictly non-sharing)

– Noriaki Kakyoin (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (non-sharing)

– Yukako Yamagishi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ It's Tangling up my Heart (selective)

– Ken Oyanagi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (sharing, maybe?)

– Alessi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ Leave me in the Dark (sharing)

– Nnoitora Gilga (Bleach) ꨄ My Sacred Moon (non-sharing)

– Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach) ꨄ A Sweet yet Cold Rabbit (sharing)

– Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project) ꨄ Bloody Devotion (sharing)

𓏲𝄢 Minor F/Os

– Okuyasu Nijimura (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (sharing)

– Kyoka Izumi (JJBA / Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (sharing)

– Oingo (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ I Would Change for You (selective)

– Boingo (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ Our Future Together (selective)

– Illuso (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (non-sharing)

– Mariah (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) ꨄ Magnet (non-sharing)

– Orihime Inoue (Bleach) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (sharing)

– Nelliel Tu Odelshwanck (Bleach) ꨄ NO TAG YET. (sharing)

– Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project) ꨄ Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder (selective)

[have-some-candy]

HI! im the sideblog of @clown-around-and-find-out for... i guess being crazy over characters without clogging up main (bc i am incredibly annoying abt the characters i like).

i like, reply and follow from my main blog!

here are my fave f/o's

my main f/o's & comfort characters (under the cut)

Media in red = not part of the 'fandom'/not an active interest

Media in bold = don't consume the media and hate it but can't stand to separate myself from the character

Italicized = SUPER MEGA AUTISM BLAST...!

F/O's:

Phineas T. Ratchet - Robots (2005)

Toshinori Yagi - Boku no Hero Academia

Richard Hayden - Tommy Boy (1995)

Kuzco - Emperor's New Groove

Spamton G. Spamton - Deltarune

Edward Nygma - Batman

Reginald Tetra - Cemetery Mary

Hu Tao - Genshin Impact

Yoshikage Kira - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Mr. Snake - The Bad Guys

Jimmy Crystal - Sing 2

Man Ray - Spongebob Squarepants

Kishibe Rohan - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Ernesto de la Cruz - Coco (2017)

Sangonomiya Kokomi - Genshin Impact

Infinite - Sonic the Hedgehog

Shota Aizawa - Boku no Hero Academia

Ennard - FNAF

Serval - Honkai Star Rail

Julie Joyful - Welcome Home

Howdy Pillar - Welcome Home

Knuckles - Sonic the Hedgehog

Klara - Pokemon Sword

Megami Saikou - Yandere Simulator

Idia Shroud - Twisted Wonderland

Dr. Starline - Sonic the Hedgehog

Yukako Yamagishi - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Monika - Doki Doki Literature Club

Luocha - Honkai Star Rail

Ilima - Pokemon Sun/Moon

... Dr. Eggman - Sonic the Hedgehog

Bowser - Mario

Doralee Rhodes - Nine to Five (film)

Comfort Characters:

Kamek - Mario

Jevil - Deltarune

Pietro - Animal Crossing

Papyrus - Undertale

Sango Suzumura (Cure Coral) - Tropical Rouge Precure

Yunjin - Genshin Impact

March 7 - Honkai Star Rail

White Rabbit - Alice in Wonderland

Twyla Sophio - Cemetery Mary

Josuke Higashikata - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Doodlebob - Spongebob Squarepants

Arataki Itto - Genshin Impact

Amy Rose - Sonic the Hedgehog

Loretta Geargrinder - Robots (2005)

[aimsreadsalot]

About me...

16, she/they, scotland

I really really love reading, will never be caught without a jumper or cardigan on, and always carry my headphones around with me.

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Here's some of my favourite things!!:

Films~ jojo rabbit//benjamin//heathers// i saw the tv glow// how to train your dragon//paddington// labrynth//wwdits

Shows~ BBC ghosts//merlin//ahs//good omens//ianowt//ofmd//dr who//dead boy detectives//taskmaster//tua

Books~ adsom//soc//frankenstein//tpw//vicious//the starless sea//tcp//legendborn/

Musical Artists~ hozier//f+tm//matilda mann//wolf alice//fleetwood mac//paramore//david bowie//the sundays//swim school

Comedians~ charlotte ritchie//mike wozniak//the six idiots//fern brady//sam campbell//james acaster//alex horne

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Because BBC ghosts is my favourite thing ever, here are some of my ghost-specific favourites:

Characters~ the captain!!! with mary as a very close second

Episode~ redding weddy (s2 ep3)

Quote~ "hes got my legs!!"// "pom pom!!"

Scene~ when julian and thomas play rock paper scissors in s2 ep3

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That's about everything i can think to put here!! i hope it has somewhat encapsulated myself and my interests :)

☼☾♫❀

[ao3feed-undertale1]

Danganronpa '25 - Meet the Hell Despair

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/62227999 by Paktoyjan2006 Yayoi Kise, who was trapped in the nightmare-ish Wonderland fairy tale land, with the 22 other people, thanks by the sadistic bear who wanted them to fight each other in a game of despair. Can Yayoi will trust the hope and despair? Words: 3927, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Danganronpa Fictional Fandom Series Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa Series, スマイルプリキュア! | Smile PreCure!, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Hunter X Hunter, Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime), Epic Mickey (Video Games), Undertale (Video Game), Murder Drones (Web Series), ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Miraculous Ladybug, ハピネスチャージプリキュア! | HappinessCharge PreCure!, SpongeBob SquarePants (Cartoon), ユリ熊嵐 | Yuri Kuma Arashi, The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), Little Nightmares (Video Games), Cuphead (Video Game), The Cuphead Show! (Cartoon), Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel), Among Us (Video Game), Winx Club, Madness Combat (Web Series) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, Multi, Other Characters: Kise Yayoi | Cure Peace, Tomoe Mami, N | Natural Harmonia Gropius, Killua Zoldyck, Rem (Re:Zero), Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Papyrus (Undertale), J (Murder Drones), Dio Brando, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Lila Rossi, Emilie Agreste, Shirayuki Hime | Cure Princess, Sandy Cheeks, Tsubaki Kureha, Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), Mono (Little Nightmares), Chara (Undertale), Cuphead (Cuphead), Natsuki (Doki Doki Literature Club!), Cyan (Among Us), Icy (Winx Club), Tricky the Clown | Dr. Hofnarr, Monokuma (Dangan Ronpa) Relationships: Yayoi Kise | Cure Peace/Mami Tomoe Additional Tags: Multi-dimensional killing game, Killing Game (Dangan Ronpa), inspired by danganronpa 69, Protag!Yayoi Kise, POV First Person read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/62227999

[gregxb]

At this time, I now present the following comedies:

A: Blazing Saddles

B: Tropic Thunder

C: Jojo Rabbit

D: Galaxy Quest

E: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

F: Airplane

Of these six, which have you seen? And for the ones you HAVE seen, what are your thoughts?

Just seeing this now for some reason. A. I've seen it, it's a classic! B. I saw it once, I remember enjoying it... I've been meaning to watch it again. C. I never saw this one. D. Classic... I know every member of the Babylon 5 cast adores it. E. Classic. I prefer "Life of Brian", though. F. It's fun. Not a favorite but fun.

[wintvies]

What your fav movie? :3

oh i have a LOT of favourite movies. asking me this was a mistake i will now talk forever.

i love war movies with anti-war messages, one of my favourites were the pianist and all quiet on the western front! don’t know if i can add jojo rabbit to this list, but i will. 🤭 loved that movie.

i also absolutely love movies about darker topics with great cinematography!!!! one of my favourites are christiane f., last night in soho, the shining, fight club, black swan, taxi driver and the craft!!!

i also loved the truman show, girl interrupted and perfect blue. i’m actually the number one junji ito fan🤭

[alexlacquemanne]

Aout MMXXIII

Films

L'Appel de la forêt (The Call of the Wild) (2020) de Chris Sanders avec Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Karen Gillan, Dan Stevens et Bradley Whitford

Indiscret (Indiscreet) (1958) de Stanley Donen avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert et David Kossoff

Jojo Rabbit (2019) de Taika Waititi avec Scarlett Johansson, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell et Rebel Wilson

Le Verdict (The Verdict) (1982) de Sidney Lumet avec Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse et Ed Binns

Mondwest (Westworld) (1973) de Michael Crichton avec Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Anne Randall, Majel Barrett et Terry Wilson

La Grande Lessive (!) (1968) de Jean-Pierre Mocky avec Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard, Jean Tissier, Michael Lonsdale, R. J. Chauffard, Jean Poiret, Karyn Balm et Alix Mahieux

La Traversée de Paris (1956) de Claude Autant-Lara avec Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti, Georgette Anys, Robert Arnoux, Laurence Badie et Myno Burney

Austerlitz (1960) d'Abel Gance avec Pierre Mondy, Jean Marais, Martine Carol, Elvire Popesco, Georges Marchal, Vittorio De Sica, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Claudia Cardinale et Leslie Caron

La Bride sur le cou (1961) de Roger Vadim avec Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James, Mireille Darc, Edith Zetline, Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles et Claude Brasseur

Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) d'Alain Resnais avec Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas et Pierre Barbaud

Quo vadis (1951) de Mervyn LeRoy avec Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Buddy Baer et Finlay Currie

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer, Joël Martineau, Jean-Claude Montalban, Roger Rudel et Gérard Rouzier

Beethoven 3 (Beethoven's 3rd) (2000) de David M. Evans avec Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney, Joe Pichler, Michaela Gallo, Mike Ciccolini, Jamie Marsh et Danielle Keaton

The Big Short (2015) d'Adam McKay avec Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall et Marisa Tomei

GoldenEye (1995) de Martin Campbell avec Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Tchéky Karyo et Alan Cumming

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) de Wes Anderson avec Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Saoirse Ronan, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe et Jeff Goldblum

Le Hussard sur le toit (1995) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Claudio Amendola, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne : le colporteur juif et Pierre Arditi

Heat (1995) de Michael Mann avec Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson et Natalie Portman

Excalibur (1981) de John Boorman avec Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Cherie Lunghi, Nicholas Clay, Paul Geoffrey, Robert Addie, Gabriel Byrne, Patrick Stewart et Liam Neeson

Le Grand Chantage (Sweet Smell of Success) (1957) d'Alexander Mackendrick avec Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols et David White

Séries

Castle Saison 2, 3

Rire et Châtiment - Le Flic fantôme - La Guerre des cuisines - Doublement Mort - Espion d'un jour - Présumé coupable - Mort par prédiction - Rencontre avec le passé - Duel à l'ancienne - Anatomie d'un assassinat - Triple Tueur - Célèbre à tout prix

Happy Days Saison 1

Échec ou mat - La Première Bagnole - La Première Cuite de Richie - Une visite inattendue - Le Festival rock - Le Club des Démons - Fonzie vient dîner - Nuit au palace - Une rupture difficile - Qui perd gagne - Rendez-vous surprise - Le Tatouage de Richie - Richie et les beatniks - Le Garçon d'honneur - De la bagarre dans l'air - Un homme prudent

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 11

Les Noces de sang - Fusillé à l'aube - L’assassin est servi - Macabres Découvertes - Une alliance maléfique - Le Crépuscule des héros - Le Mystère du bois des moines

Downton Abbey Saison 1, 2

Question de succession - Le Nouvel Héritier - Le Diplomate turc - Entre ambitions et jalousies - La Rumeur se propage - La Fiancée de Matthew - L'Entraide - La Maison des intrigues - Portés disparus - Nouvelles Vies - Épidémie - L'Esprit de Noël

Affaires sensibles

Mai 68, le coup de théâtre du Général de Gaulle - Autoroutes françaises : la machine à cash - William Randolph Hearst : de Citizen Kane à Donald Trump - Orson Welles - La guerre des mondes - François Fillon et le "Pénélopegate" - Contrat Première Embauche, mieux que rien ou pire que tout ? - 31 août 1997 : mort d'une princesse anglaise

Kaamelott Livre II

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Okay, bare with me, i asked you your top 5 when i don't have a top 5 myself lol.

TOP 5 GLEE SHIPS (my mind is a constant fanon, pls don't judge me LMAO)

1. Seblaine (obviously, they are the reason ships are worth being shipped for me ngl, loves of my life)

2. Quinntana (powerful couple, obviously the writers couldn’t write them to be something)

3. Samcedes (i shipped these two so hard, ngl, the writers did ruined them, but they did that with almost every couple, so... who am i to judge?)

4. Huntbastian (pls, they are really appealing to me idk why, in my headcanon they have similar experiences with family and stuff and could relate to each other, in my mind they wouldn't even be endgame, just really good friends who have lots of sex with each other and don't ever define their relationship, sorry, i just went on a tangent in this one lol)

5. Blam (ultimate friendship goals, but i can also see them as a couple, honestly... Sam should've been bi and they should had a thing on seasons 4/5, but the writers are biphobic as f*ck)

TOP 5 FILMS (this is the hardest thing i've ever done, idk even think this is accurate lol)

1. The Lion King (the animation kinda defined my whole childhood, ngl, every person on this earth should watch this movie)

2. Jojo Rabbit (I really like historical movies, or movies that try to touch historical events without being disrespectful)

3. The Conjuring (perfect horror movie, coming from someone who's really picky with horror movies lmao)

4. Finding Nemo (pls, i sound like i am 10-year old, i'm just a forever child, and this movie was the first movie that i've gotten a DVD from, rewatched it an unhealthy amount of times)

5. 1917 (another historical movie, i love them!)

TOP 5 ACTORS

1. Grant Gustin (i will stan this man until i die)

2. Darren Criss (my other favorite, probably the most talented person on earth)

3. Jonathan Bailey (my new obsession, really need a Grant and Jonathan movie in my table)

4- Michelle Yeoh (this woman is perfect in every thing she does)

5- Melissa Benoist (my precious girl, love her and Grant's friendship)

Okay, i'm gonna be basic on the sleepover saturday thingy.

But tell me your top 5 Glee ships (doesn’t have to be canon, of course)

Your top 5 films.

Your top 5 actors.

That's it :)

ooh yay okay !! you should reply with yours as well ;) I don't really have a definitive list for any of these things but here are my thoughts as of right now!

TOP 5 GLEE SHIPS

seblaine - should be obvious to anyone that knows me lol

brittana - the original sapphic cheerleaders I love them with my whole heart

finchel - talk about basic...but they're basic for a reason!

niff - they would be higher but like does this even count as a glee ship? I feel like they are entirely fanon

pezberry - like why wasn't this canon in season 4/5? or what about quinntana??

TOP 5 FILMS

all of us strangers - one of the best movies about queer loneliness that's ever been made and I will recommend it until I die

when harry met sally - the best rom com of all time and I will die on that hill

mamma mia! - some of the singing is mid but it's such a happy feel good musical that how could you not love it

legally blonde - reese witherspoon is one of the best of all time

high school musical 2 - was extremely formative in my childhood and is the best of the three hsm movies

TOP 5 ACTORS

this is probably the hardest one...I don't feel like I have a lot of actors I obsess over where I have to see like everything they're in? but here are some!

Grant Gustin - I will watch anything this man does I planned an entire New York trip around seeing him on Broadway last year

Darren Criss - same as grant - I've seen Darren in New York three times and I've watched every film/tv project he's done

Dianna Aaron - third glee person on this list who's surprised

Reese Witherspoon - I love her so much guys she's an icon and she's like incapable of making bad projects

Rob Lowe - he's someone who I've liked like 90% of what I've seen and really vibe with it and the outsiders was one of my special interests as a kid

honorable mentions: Nicholas Galitzine, Jake Gyllenhaal (I know I know but he has so much good shit), James Marsden, Hugh Grant, Leighton Meester, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Dylan O'Brien, Kerry Washington, Jonathan Groff, and probably a hundred more lol

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JOJO RABBIT (2019) dir. Taika Waititi

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i'm watching the boy in the striped pyjamas rn and it may be the single worst movie I ever watched

how is bruno unaware of hitler and the war? he would pledge an oath to hitler every morning in school and he would be taught about the war (in a heavily glorified way)

not to mention that he would've learn about why jews are supposedly evil

how is schmuel even a thing? he's a kid in auschwitz-birkenau, he would be sent to the gas chambers right away

the german people knew about what was going on in concentration camps

not to mention that it tries to get you sympathetic towards literal nazis