#i have So Many Emotions about this film

[sunsetzer]

Cross posted from Twitter (I'm not calling it X) because I don't have the patience to type all of this out again but. Thoughts on Transformers One. It alarmed me when Charlie said it wasn't doing well in the box office. I really hope more people go see it, I couldn't handle not getting a sequel after the way it was left off. Please please please if you can and you're even slightly intrigued go see it even if you don't like kids films it is not a kids film this film is very much catered to older fans and people who grew up with the franchise, it's especially G1 and TFP influenced but you don't have to know anything about transformers at all to get into this movie. That's the beautiful thing about this IP- there is no one continuous lore, there's multiple continuities with their own lore and sometimes there's overlap in recurring themes and characters but they're very Different from one another. Transformers might actually be the most beginner friendly franchise of all time to get into because of that. I just think that's really neat.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

💙❤️Happy Holidays!❤️💙

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[yllu-stration]

Finally watched Brokeback Mountain, because Isa mentioned on twitter that it was Ghoap coded. It truly is.

Besides that, it's such a fantastic, powerful and important film. It should be in school curriculums to watch it and write a dissertation on it and the cultural problems (current and historical) it represents.

[whiteshipnightjar]

look how prettyyyyyyyy!!!

The Outrun (2024) Poster artwork by Rafa Orrico Díez

[the-lark-ascending69]

I loove the android robin au it's really one of the most interesting au I have seen in a while.

I am always happy to see new post abt it

Also making my favourite characters go through hell and then receiving comfort from their people is like the best thing ever for me so every time I see a whump!Robin post I like automatically

People loving android!Robin makes me so happy anansnssndsnsns she's curious and excitable and full of wonder and the world keeps punishing her for simply being alive. Sometimes it's too painful even for me, big whump lover 😭😭 though seriously, there is not enough Robin whump, and while all the characters in the show are very whumpeable, hurting my little blorbo Robin feels special because... she's just so deeply lonely. She's lonely and she thinks she deserves to be because of something wrong with her (pulling this interpretation from Surviving Hawkins lore which is canon to me 😭). That was a big idea I had when I first came up with android!Robin... that there is something wrong with her. Broken. In this AU she's literally broken in a lot of way (battery and memory problems, weak joints in her lower half, etc), but that's all within the range of normal robot problems. The real issue with her is that she's sentient. It terrifies people because it really brings out the existencial horror of... well, existing. It terrifies Robin most of all. She is the problem. She is what's wrong with her. She shouldn't exist.

But at the same time, she loves being alive so much! She doesn't understand it and doesn't know how it happened, but it happened, and now she's real and wants to experience life and the world and know people like human beings do. So it's her constant battle to become human despite humans having hurt her so much in the past... only for Nancy to already see her as human. Just one made of metal and plastic, but human nonetheless. She's the first person to see her that way and maybe everyone else thinks she's crazy, but Nancy is used to that. She's so sure of this, though, of Robin's self-awareness. She trusts her so blindly. She doesn't even need proof. And not only does she believe her, but she defends her humanity in front of her friends and family so ardently, fighting so hard for Robin to be aknowledged by everyone else as human. Fighting so hard to give her a home and family for the first time in her life.

Nancy has it bad for Robin, really. She's just so in love, even if everyone else thinks she's crazy for falling in love with a machine (no one thinks she is, though, because they all know Robin, and once you know Robin, it's impossible not to love her).

[millionsknives]

the hunger games + cheek and forehead kisses

[purplecelestial-buddy]

Today I watched past lives (2023) and the quote

"You dream in a language I cannot understand"

Will hunt me till the day I die

[asgardian--angels]

anyway seeing people on iwtvtwt being legitimately upset/put off by the previews for ep 7 baffle me, im looking around the room like i thought we were all here to revel in this fucked up vampire love story which is, and I cannot stress enough, fucked up

I mean I'm obviously not seeing this from book fans but, it just is wild to me that show-only fans are somehow having a moment of 'whoa this is so messed up are they really going to xyz? I don't know if I can handle this' or even that they aren't going to watch it

did you miss the part where lestat literally dragged louis by the jaw in a trail of blood down the alleyway, or when lestat stone cold threatened to grind claudia's bones into dust if she didn't get back in her cage for louis's so-called happiness, or any number of the other pretty fucked up stuff in s1? let alone the very bonkers messed up stuff in the books? I just. We literally already had a scene in s2 where Louis hallucinates Lestat telling Louis to kill him because that's the only way Louis knows how to love, followed by Louis actually smashing his skull over and over against a stone wall only to realize he killed a random innocent person instead. That kind of fucked up is the expectation for this season.

Look, eps 7-8 are going to be intense, but still well within the realm of what's established in the show and certainly within the wide wide realm of the anne rice books. The show goes some very dark places emotionally and physically, and that's critical to the point of the show itself. Will it be tragic, and unfair, and brutal? Absolutely, as it was in the book. We cannot stop that Titanic from hitting the iceberg - Claudia will die and we cannot prevent it, but Armand could have and did not. There will be senseless cruelty, and mind games, and dark acts of rage and revenge. This is gothic horror and gothic romance, and I just don't think anyone should be genuinely surprised by what that entails.

Most of all, I just absolutely do not want to see any negativity towards the show after this episode, any 'how could you's or 'this was sick and disgusting' or animosity towards writers, cast, crew, etc. Do Not. This is not the show to be asking for, or expecting, violence or tragedy to be toned down, or major plot points like Claudia's death to be somehow changed. You do not need to have read the books to love this show, but it is imperative to acknowledge the show echoes the books in both content and tone, and that it does not shy away from those dark venturings is a hallmark of an excellent adaptation of an iconic series.

Anyways I am kind of apprehensive of going on Twitter after this episode, because I just want to revel in my feelings and not have to deal with or even think about other people's myopic grievances. This episode is going to make me lose my mind in the best of ways, and the more fucked up it is, the better. I want to see everything unravel, I want to see things in the present day come to a head, I want to see Lestat being made to condemn his sister-daughter to death, I want to feel Louis's sorrow and helplessness and rage when he cannot save her. Let's just have a good time, alright? We're not here because we want a happy show where everyone turns out alright in the end, we want a story that is compelling and complex and tragic and reflective.

basically everytime i see these twitter opinions i just remember jacob anderson in full burnt prosthetics singing jones barbecue and foot massage

[femme-foucault]

Ranking of 7 Best Picture Nominees at Oscars That I Have Seen(So Far)

I have not seen A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys, or I'm Still Here. I plan on seeing I'm Still Here. I unfortunately missed Nickel Boys during its short run. I don't want to see ACU because I like Bob Dylan.

In terms of how much I enjoyed them:

Anora

The Brutalist

Wicked

Conclave

Dune Pt 2

HUGE GAP IN QUALITY

6. Emilia Perez (which I didn't finish).

SPECIAL RECOGNITION "AWARD": The Substance, which is a technically "good" movie in the sense that it was effective in getting the exact emotion out of me that I think they were going for, but I can't say I "enjoyed" it because I'm squeamish and had to skip a lot of scenes in the film so technically I didn't "finish" this one either, though that last shot was GREAT.

So I couldn't finish Emilia Perez because it sucked, but I couldn't watch all of The Substance because I think that movie worked exactly as it was intended.

[evilpenguinrika]

if you end up talking non-stop about your ex to your partner and then write stories about why your ex is a horrible person every single time, even when you're being paid to write something short and sweet and it's nothing but how your ex sucks and then actively messaging your ex's gf to """warn""" her about him just so you can see how he treats her compared to how he treated you...

Pretty sure you're not over you ex and you may wanna look into that buddy

[amateurwordbender]

ok it took me a minute to get used to the serious, almost brooding tone of the pjo show, but man i'm so glad they took that direction??

the dialogue gets a little cheesy sometimes and a few moments don't land, but that's such a small price to pay for the show actually taking itself seriously and leaning into sincerity and drama, because that's exactly how it felt reading the books as a kid. yes, percy's sassy (cue flashbacks) and quippy and there's a lot of humor in the books, but what i latched onto was the depth of character and the tragedy and the grandness of it all

i love that percy's really, truly troubled and angry, i love that you can feel luke's burning resentment for the gods, i love that the monsters feel terrifying and it's not just ~quirky~ that the greek myths are real, the myths feel ancient and the gods are dangerous. also, that outro with art harking back to the original book covers gave me literal chills you guys. i'm so excited for what's in store aaaa

[nuala-luna]

Lies on my bed and thinks about the last unicorn and cries

[teafiend]

After quite a long drought/slump with regard to shows/dramas, I managed to have a few weeks of bingeing - minus some episodes here and there - fun, and had enjoyed the “Mentalist” and “The Good Detective S1” (both in the police procedural/crime genre) for what they were. Both were good in their own ways, and I especially appreciated “The Mentalist” for wrapping up most of their storylines and character arcs in a nice little package! We even got a beautiful “romance” with an HEA! That is the dream, truly!

However, while watching TGD, I began missing Kang Gil Young again (I always miss her but some periods are more desperate than others).

Making my way through “Through the Darkness” (another KDrama crime procedural) now, the lack - of Kang Gil Young - remains keenly felt. So I rewatched a favourite segment from TG again, and so many feels came rushing back. And reminded me of the reasons I love the show and Kang Gil Young above so many others.

The show was so blunt and straightforward with most of its significant emotional beats that I could not help but fall in love with it (over and over again). The punches KGY threw at YHP (foreshadowed and expected) was such a stunning moment! I still hold my breath every time I rewatched that scene. The catharsis was simply, indisputably gorgeous!

TG is still flawed despite its fabulousness but it will forever be perfect in my heart ❤️‍🔥 (and Kang Gil Young the King and Queen of my heart, always❣️)

[cipheramnesia]

I would like to read it.

All I'm saying is Ridley Scott went out and hired the giant mutant genitals artist to design the Alien, and H.R. Giger delivered a monster with a giant penis head, a vulva-outline space ship, a birthing egg with an opening made of two crossed vaginas, a facefucking vagina monster fertilizer and a lil baby dick form that kills the host - the man 100% delivered on his artistic principles.

And because of this, it is just a little bit funny how the penis and vagina designs are enshrined in pop culture, forever being passed between creators who seem to less and less think for a minute that they're working with genital monsters and it turns most of the movie franchise and comics into an exercise in unintentional absurdity where a character can be fleeing from a rolling vulva like the boulder from Indiana Jones without a single shred of awareness or subtext.

[gor3sigil]

Before starting T, when I socially transitionned, I was surrounded by radical feminists who saw masculinity as gross and inherently evil, something to avoid, something to make fun of, something to destroy. The other transmascs in my friend group, sometimes, told me that they didn’t knew if they really were non-binary or if they just were scared shitless of saying “I am a man”. Because they saw this as a betrayal to their younger self who had been SAd and abused.

I saw many of my masc friends and trans men around me hate themselves, not outing themselves as men because it would imply so so much, it was like opening the Pandora Box. Even when we were just together, talking about our masculinity was always coated with bits like “I know we’re the privileged ones but…”, “I don’t want to sound like I have it bad but…”, “Women obviously have it worse, but last time…” and we were talking about terrible traumas we experienced while taking all the precautions in the world in the case the walls were a crowd of people in disguise waiting to get us if we didn’t downplay the violence we faced, or like crying and being upset and being traumatized and afraid and scared and to say it out loud would make us throw up the needles we were forced to swallow every second of every day living in our skin.

Most of us weren’t on T yet, some of us were catcalled every day and harassed in the streets or in abusive relationships nobody seemed to care to help them get out of because they were “strong enough” to do it by themselves.

I was using the gender swap face app and cried for ours when I saw my father looking back at me through the screen. The idea of transforming, of shedding into a body that would deprive me of love, tenderness, and safety, was absolutely terrifying. I knew I couldn’t stay in this body any longer because it wasn’t mine, but I also knew that if I was going to look like my dad, my brother, my abusers, it would be so much worse.

5 years later and I’m almost 2 years on T, and almost 2 months post top surgery.

I ditched my previous group of friends. I was bullied out of my local trans community. But let me tell you how free I am.

I was scared that T would break my singing voice: it made it sound more alive than ever.

I was scared that T would make me less attractive: it made me find myself hot for the first time in my life.

I was scared that T would make me gain weight: it did. But the weight I put on is not the weight I used to put on by binging and eating my body until I forgot that it even existed. It’s the weight of my body belonging to me, little by little. The wolf hunger for life.

I won’t tell you the same story I see everywhere, the one that goes “I started going to the gym 8 times a week, I put on some muscles, I started a diet and now I look like an action film actor”, in fact if you took pictures of me from 5 years ago vs now I’d just have more acne, I’d have longer hair and still look like I don’t know what to do with myself when I take selfies.

But the sparkle in my eyes, my smile, tell the whole story way better than this long ass stream of words could ever.

I want to say some things that I wish someone told me before starting medically transitionning.

It’s okay to take your time. It’s your body, it’s your journey, if you don’t feel comfortable taking full doses and want to go slow, the only voice you need to listen to is your own. Do what feels right.

If you feel overwhelmed, it’s okay to take a break, it’s okay to ask for support.

Trans people are holy. Everyone is. You didn’t lose your angel wings when you came out because you want to be masculine. You are not excluded from the joy of existence, from being proud of yourself, from being sad, from being scared, from being angry. The emotions and feelings you allowed yourself to feel while processing what you experienced when you grew up as a girl and was seen as a woman are still as valid as before. Nobody can take that from you. If someone tries to, don’t let them.

It’s perfectly normal to grieve some things you were and had before you started to transition, like your high soprano voice or even your chest. Hatching is painful. You can find comfort in things that don’t feel right, so making the decision to change can be incredibly scary and weird and you deserve to be heard and supported through this. Wanting top surgery doesn’t make the surgery less intense, less terrifying, less painful to recover from. When it becomes too much you have the right to take a break and take some deep breaths before going on.

You don’t have to have a radical, 180° change for your transition to be acceptable or valid or worthy of praise. Look at how far you’ve come already. It doesn’t have to show, you’re not made to be a spectacle, you’re human and it is your journey.

Oh, and last thing, you know when some people say “Oh this trans person has to grow out of the cringy phase where you think that you can write essays about being trans or transitionning or just their experience because it’s weird” ? If you ever hear this or see this online, remember all the people whose writing you read and, even if they were not professional writers, helped you more than any theorists did ? If you want to write, do it. It won’t be a waste. It can help people. Or it won’t, and even then, if it helped you, that’s enough.

Love every of my trans siblings, take care of yourselves. You deserve the world.