#i was hollering at the screen

[sophsun1]

louis in those modern day fits though, my man looked delicious like a goddamn snack 🔥

[thekinglemingle]

They finally vinced him!

[ahollowgrave]

-- satisfied.

[vladdyissues]

DANNY PHANTOM | 1.20 "Control Freaks"

[evol-astraea]

Rewatching the Aoi reveal trailer from a while ago Because Reasons™ read: better/higher quality reference(s) and...

This f@ckin' man here. (affectionate) It's that little silly smirk of his that does it, for me. =////=

[nalyra-dreaming]

I'm really hoping they won't go into the route of ''Armand and Lestat hooked up''

Since this is Armand’s little fanfic version of his and Lestat’s past I BET they will lmao ;))))

[cantsayidont]

September 2020. Not to be confused with the Nicola Griffith sci-fi novel, the Francis Lee film AMMONITE is a slow-moving, grey drama, positing a romantic and sexual relationship between paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), who later became a noted geologist. (They were friends in real life, although the movie's depiction of their relationship is speculative.)

Like the very similar PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, the story wants to make a feminist statement about the social and professional marginalization of women (Anning is frustrated that the members of the Royal Geological Society — which she isn't eligible to join — are getting great mileage out of her work without compensation or credit, as she lives hand to mouth selling fossils and shells in a little shop), but it's also determined to separate its feminist thesis from socioeconomic class in a way that ultimately feels very uneasy.

Winslet is quite good, but the script doesn't ever really get into Anning's head, so her two main modes are prickliness and repressed wlw "I am, regrettably, attracted to you, so I must ask that you immediately go far away and never speak of this again." A subplot about Anning having previously had a fling with an older woman (Fiona Shaw) feels underdeveloped, and while the film centers on a particularly vivid sex scene, its version of the Anning-Murchison relationship isn't really convincing. It also ends on an odd note that doesn't seem to jibe with the fact that the real women remained friends for most of their lives, if more in correspondence than in person. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Indeed. VERDICT: If you're not just watching for that scene, it's typical underwhelming bourgeoisie art house filmmaking.

[misterelectrojazz]

Ever see a mens that makes your brain brrrzzzzzz

[meitantei-shitpost]

kaito kid for the character bingo :)

If I had a Kaito Kid plushie I would tie it to the ceiling fan and spin it around at mach speed. He is absolutely ridiculous I love all the Kid heists, ESPECIALLY when they’re from his POV. He’s such a bastard I love him but I want to chuck him into a wall (affectionate). Plus, having public beef with a 7 year old is crazy

[carlyraejepsans]

new L void meme compilation, you know what that means!!

*all the utdr artists gather together on the sofa like we're watching the big match & hoot & holler every time one of us is on screen*

[non-un-topo]

One of my duties for today is to make a list of queer movies (+ links) for the film nights at the library in June. I'm being paid for this !! 👏👏👏

[coruscantjedi]

playing jedi: fallen order!!!! i watched my bf’s play through of survivor which got me into the characters so now i’m finally playing jfo myself. i’m so excited to see the characters start off and meet and all that weeeee i suck at it so far though so sorry to you Cal kestis jedi knight i am beating you up a little bit

[floral-stede]

they did this specifically for you K

they really did huh 🌼

[liquidmalice]

when the jonelias tag is so dire you just start rewatching hannibal

[dirtyoldmanhole]

it absolutely galls me to say this because i am the furthest thing from a marvel enjoyer but if you want a fantastic example of how i imagined gunter's body language in YRMR, magneto in the '97 reboot is the literal spitting image. exactly like That.

[cantsayidont]

August 2021. I'll freely admit that Series 1 of VIGIL has a solid hook for a detective story: Scottish civilian police detective Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is assigned to investigate a suspicious death aboard the Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine HMS Vigil while it's still on patrol, effective trapping her in a claustrophobic environment where everyone has something to hide, no one respects her authority, and the commanding officers seem eager to sweep the incident under the rug even though there may be a killer onboard. Meanwhile, Silva's partner and ex-girlfriend Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) investigates a related murder ashore, with both the Navy and MI5 seemingly determined to obstruct her at every turn.

The first few episodes are well-directed and well-acted, with a cast that also includes Connor Swindells (of SEX EDUCATION) and the perennially underutilized Anjli Mohindra, and the show initially maintains a high level of tension despite some implausible and cliched story elements. However, much like the American NCIS shows, the plot eventually does a jarring about-face that transforms what initially seems to be a rather sordid exposé of the Navy into a propaganda piece about the importance of maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent, with activists who want nuclear weapons out of Scotland painted as cowardly dupes (a reminder that costar Rose Leslie is a Tory who campaigned for Remain in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum). All this is on top of some really egregious copaganda even by policier standards.

The main reason I bothered with the show at all was learning that the two lead characters were actually presented as lovers, or ex-lovers (as opposed to fandom "gay"). I'm as susceptible as anyone to Suranne Jones' expressively pensive frown, and Rose Leslie is certainly attractive despite her terrible real-world politics, but the faux-mo relationship between Amy and Kirsten is neither very convincing nor ultimately very satisfying. Part of the problem is that it plays second fiddle to Amy's traumatic memories of the death of her former boyfriend and her determination to regain custody of the daughter she raised with him — a lot of plot to squeeze into a six-episode series that's also preoccupied with murder investigations, official coverups, and nefarious Russian spies — but even the flashbacks to the beginning of Amy and Kirsten's relationship seldom suggest any real affection between them, much less passion or love. Given a choice, I guess I'd rather have a bad show with chaste and unconvincing wlw than a bad show without any, but it still feels like pinkwashing, a half-hearted and somewhat cynical attempt to attract viewers who might otherwise find the show's subject matter and politics too unpalatable. Given the show's surprising popularity, it seems to have worked.

I only watched the first part of the ill-advised second series, which awkwardly retains the same title despite no longer having anything to do with the submarine. The second series has Amy and Kirsten back together, but they're still at odds because they're about to have a baby, which replaces the first season's conflict about Amy's commitment phobia with a tonally identical conflict based on her being a passive-aggressive control freak about Kirsten's pregnancy, thus once again sparing Jones and Leslie the need to feign too much unseemly gay affection. There's one (1) scene of them cuddling to suggest that perhaps these characters do indeed love each other, but they're then separated by the contrivance of the plot, which has the same problems as the first series and is also chock full of racist, Orientalist nonsense involving a fictional Arab country called Wudyan. Truly dire.