#in slo-mo no less

[spuffybot]

Ok was just having this debate with a friend who thinks Mission Impossible 2 is an abomination. And while I will give her that it is an anomaly within the MI canon and arguably is not a MI movie (Ethan doesn’t go rogue, he’s behaving OOC, the tone and vibe are off) I stand by the fact that it is a quintessential, iconic, and absolutely incredible Y2K movie.

1. The Soundtrack: much like the year 2000 classics Charlie’s Angels and Dracula 2000 this movie features Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Butthole Surfers, and Foo Fighters to name a few. It’s such an abrupt departure from the first film (the majority of songs on the first MI soundtrack aren’t even featured in the movie.)

There’s just something so utterly Y2K about Ethan throwing his glasses over the side of a mountain and them exploding to the sound of Limp Bizkit.

2. Ethan: just Ethan Hunt in this movie. Listen there are 6 MI movies that show Ethan as a perpetually serious genius with a passionate dedication to his friends and his mission. But there is only one movie where Ethan hunt is a sexy playful badass and that’s MI2. I would go as far as to say that Tom Cruise has never looked better in his life and I know that’s blasphemy against our lord and savior Lestat. But Ethan in MI2 is just GIVING. The arms. The smile. The ridiculous blowout that both falls into his eyes and tousles in the wind. This is peak sex appeal Cruise (it’s also before we knew he was all culty and creepy so it feels less bad to be deep in my feels about how hot he is.)

3. The John Woo of it all: John Woo said the year is 2000 and we will have DRAMA we will have FASHUN and we will have BIRDS. There is so. Much. Unnecessary. Slo. Mo. In. This. Film. SO MUCH. And the action sequences? I know this is a franchise known for its over the top action sequences but the ones in this film don’t even make sense.

4. The Title Sequence: honestly if anything in this movie is a fever dream (even more than the doves that fly out of an explosion) it’s the title sequence which feels like a mashup of every Y2K music video and action movie combined.

5. The Birds: listen I wasn’t going to ignore this scene. THIS SCENE. What can be said? It’s iconic. It’s absurd. It’s the epitome of the decadence, drama, and corniness of the year 2000.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. MI2 may not deserve a place of honor in the official canon of Mission Impossible but it is hands down one of the best movies of 2000 and it deserves to be remembered as such.

[misshoneyimhome]

How do you think that either intern reader (medical one or MLSE one), would react to William getting injured?

It got me thinking because of the pre season match against the Montreal Canadians and William just and banged his head on a Habs player’s leg. He’s apparently good, but I must say I gasped when I saw the slo-mo.

You and me both! I didn’t get to watch the match though (time zones strike again…) but when I heard… ugh, I just can’t bear the thought of our boy getting hurt 🥺

_

Now, imagine all your emotions applied to our lovely medical intern!

For her, there's definitely a huge level of concern – not just because she cares so deeply for William, but also because of her passion for her field. Seeing any player injured, especially him, triggers her inner physio and caretaker instincts immediately. She can’t help but want to rush in and help, knowing how much it means both personally and professionally!

She’d be by William’s side before she even realises it – a perfect blend of professional care and someone who genuinely cares for him on a deeper level.

Despite her feelings, she knows she can’t just shower him with love and affection outright, and her professional mindset kicks in automatically. She’s completely focused on his recovery, determined to help him heal as quickly as possible, without thinking too much about her personal emotions.

And once they’re alone, she’s still there, watching over him, making sure he’s truly okay. Now that’s when William starts to push the boundaries a little, flirting and hinting at what he really wants, his touches becoming softer, more intimate.

Even then, she’s too wrapped up in worrying about his injuries, insisting they hold off for a few days… much to his playful frustration! 🤭

For our MLSE intern, it’s a bit of a different scenario. It’s not that she cares any less about William’s wellbeing or doesn’t want to help, but she’s far less focused on the professional side of things. The moment his injury happens, she’s more emotionally impacted, gasping and gripping her clipboard in shock as the scene unfolds.

She feels utterly helpless, frozen in place, mentally praying that he’s alright but not knowing how to actually assist. Instead, she tries to keep herself busy by floating between tasks, doing whatever she can to play her part for the team, even though her heart is completely elsewhere.

William, of course, would try to shrug it off and play it cool in both situations. He’s been through his fair share of minor injuries and knows all too well that with some training and time, he’ll be fine. But neither intern would let him just brush it off that easily.

The medical intern would be much more hands-on, making sure he’s following all the right steps to heal without putting himself at risk for further injury. She wouldn’t let him slip up for a second.

On the other hand, the MLSE intern, while still attentive, would likely be more emotionally invested, loving, and unable to ignore the intense attraction she feels toward him. And let’s face it, if William started acting on his primal desires and pushing those boundaries, she’d probably struggle to resist. After all, who could say no to that charming grin of his? 😉

[rootytootypie]

Super curious about Batman- 😳💨🫘❤️(ships could be with anyone or people he's close to working with-ex: Superman)

💨: Bruce isn’t a gassy guy, by all means. Probably a 3/10. He only gets gas at charity galas and if truly forced to eat on the run; otherwise, his diet is extremely refined. But what he lacks in quantity, he more than makes up for in quality. If he fully lets it out, it’s loud as hell and smells like death. He can make them silent, but the stink almost gets stronger. He definitely resorts to any and all means of muffling the sound and smell, and generally takes it to the bathroom, spreads his cheeks, and muffles it with toilet paper. He totally has charcoal lined underwear, regularly takes mints for more than just breath problems, and even has a soundproof room in his mansion for total privacy.

🫘: Hoo boy…do NOT let this man around fattening foods. Other than beef and poultry, Bruce’s stomach is unprepared. Anything rich, filling, creamy, sugary, or generally having empty calories is gonna cause some rumbles. Salad dressing other than vinaigrette gets to this man. And fast food? The other reason other than poison gas the Batmobile has a high-tech automated air filter. It’s also programmed to filter human gas, something other Justice League members are thankful for for their own reasons.

😳: 12/10 on the embarrassment scale. He’s mortified if he farts in front of Alfred, much less anyone else. He has to emotionally decompress after every time he’s forced to let a silent one go, even though he almost always gets away with it.

His most embarrassing moment? Hands down, it was during an at-home interview with Vicki Vale. He had given her a tour of Wayne Manor (at least the parts on the dummy schematics used to ward off nonexistent suspicion). He made jokes. Charmed her and the photographer she brought along. Told a funny story or two about his antics in Europe (that he had invented after rereading The Sun Also Rises). Then it happened (in slo-mo, as Bruce remembers it): she dropped her pen. He went to pick it up. *BWWWWAAARRRRRRTTT!* And his rear decided to play the salvo of last night’s charity dinner - particularly the stuffed mushrooms.

He jerked back into a rigid stance, cleared his throat, and said, “Excuse me.” This took a gargantuan amount of effort, as the last time he’d undeniably passed gas in public had been in his nursery years at a Montessori school, and as soon as eyes went toward him, he’d run out of the room in tears, which he vaguely felt the urge to do now.

To her credit, noticing Bruce’s tomato red face, Vicki said, “We’ll leave that off the record” and changed the subject to the first edition Dickens novels in the study.

❤️: Bruce never intends to let anyone get too close. He never plans to let his guard down. Flatulence is his definition of too close. Especially when, despite his intentions, he starts romanticizing his boyfriend, then having breakfast in bed with him, and then telling stories about his childhood. Damn it, his emotional walls should be too strong for even Superman to break through, and yet the guy has sprinted through them like they were made of foam bricks.

Why in God’s name did Clark have to find out from Alfred that Bruce’s secret favorite dish is escargot, and then surprise him with it for dinner on his birthday? Did Alfred want him to embarrass himself? Because he was definitely close. Especially after Clark decided to gave him a deep tissue massage as part two of his birthday celebration.

Why were Clark’s hands moving towards his butt? Why wasn’t he yelling out stop, knowing Clark would immediately cease? Why hadn’t he begged off the massage and invented a reason to go on patrol?

All this went through Bruce’s mind as, with his active stomach gurgling and his back yielding to Clark like a pie crust, he relaxed too much and so did his hold on his gas.

*Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!*

“Good boy,” Clark said. “Now I’m sure you’re relaxed, Bruce.”

“Ha ha,” Bruce said joylessly. “Please forget that.”

“No, I’m serious,” Clark said. “I’m not teasing you. I’m just glad the massage is working. I’m sorry, Bruce. Please don’t be embarrassed.”

“I literally just farted in my boyfriend’s face,” Bruce said. “How can I not be embarrassed?”

“Because I love you, and would never hold something so natural against you,” Clark replied. “Also…”

And then Bruce’s sweet, doe eyed Midwestern boyfriend did something truly shocking.

*BBBBBRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFRRRRT!*

“Excuse me,” Clark said, blushing. “I think the garlic sauce made me a little gassy too. I didn’t mean to let out such a monster. I only wanted to make you feel better about your little slip. Less…alone in your mortification.”

Bruce sat up, turned over, and gave Clark a passionate kiss. “You’re the greatest love I’ve ever known,” Bruce said. “Thank you for being you.”

And that night, Bruce didn’t feel claustrophobic as the two men passed gas throughout the night, but instead an incredible sense of warmth and comfort he’d never imagined.

[yanderes-galore]

I wanted to request a TFA swindle with a human reader with your yandere prompts 36 and 21

Sure! @okchijt helped me with the plot ^^ I took bits from it to create the story! Hope you enjoy.

Yandere! TFA! Swindle Prompts 36 + 21

"I'd hate to hurt you but... if you keep this up I might have to."

"Photos and trinkets only do so much, dear!"

Pairing: Romantic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession at first sight, Stalking, Secret photo taking Manipulation, Kidnapping, Cybertronian/Human pairing, Forced "relationship".

Swindle couldn't get the thought of you out of his mind. He was just meant to be the get away driver of S.U.V and that was all. He could use these humans to his advantage and get paid.

However, during one heist, Swindle saw you. A poor civilian at the wrong place in the wrong time. He was so caught up with looking at you that he forgot he had to leave the scene before the S.U.V yelled at him.

Ever since then he hasn't been able to get you out of his head. His thoughts blink right back to you, making it rather difficult to do the work he made a deal to do. Even at the S.U.V hideout he couldn't clear his thoughts.

It didn't help that he just kept finding you everywhere. Every to every other heist he set out to do he ended up finding you in the crowd. He'd almost pity you...

However, these frequent sightings made him start to think it's fate.

You're easily one of the most illuring treasures he's ever seen. You have a rarity like no other. As a result... he wants you.

To ease his desires he decided to use the S.U.V to his advantage. With excellent charisma he managed to convince the human group you were important to their future missions. As a result... he needed pictures.

Many pictures.

Unsurprisingly to Swindle the group listened to him. Soon photos of the civilian he desires line the warehouse he took as a hideout with the group. Every photo so candid... it all made him giddy.

Swindle liked that he got a constant supply of photos. He even managed to convince them to steal small items from you. All of which was kept in a specific part of the warehouse, only for Swindle's eyes.

Anything of yours was considered priceless to him. He could stare at his collection for hours. Unfortunately, one thing was missing.

Swindle didn't have the real thing yet.

No matter how big his collection grew, it would never compare to you. If anything it all quickly became counterfeit compared to you. Which meant, once again, he asked S.U.V for a favor.

You were needed for a mission... so he needed you brought to the warehouse.

Swindle was pleasantly surprised, if not excited, when the group brought you in. There you were.. all tied up on a chair... staring at him with fear. How adorable!

However, your fear quickly transitioned into insults. As though this was your attempt to intimidate, you began insulting the S.U.V.

You called them laughable. You say they're unprofessional. While Swindle finds all of your points true and amusing... he could see Slo-Mo's frustration.

"I will not stand for such disrespect!" Slo-Mo spits, gaze turning to Swindle. "Make them learn their lesson if we need them so bad."

"A pleasure." Swindle answers, kneeling to you with glaring purple optics. You feel your blood run cold with how close he gets. "I'd hate to hurt you but... if you keep this up I might have to."

In response to the threat Swindle sees you remain silent, most likely in order not to anger him. The members of S.U.V seem satisfied and Swindle heaves a sigh when they finally leave, expecting him to threaten you.

Yet all Swindle wanted was to be alone with you.

"Well! Now that they're gone, we can finally speak." Swindle chirps, entire tone changing. "My sincerest apologies for the threat, it's all an act. I could never hurt my most priceless treasure."

You don't appear very reassured due to the situation. Unfortunately, your captor couldn't care less. He's always been thinking about only himself, after all.

He only cares about the fact his collection is finished. Now that he has you he can finally return to work. He doesn't care what happens now as long as he has his most priceless piece.

While the large Transformer is distracted it gives you time to take in your surroundings. You needed to find a way fo escape. You almost wish you didn't look once you saw what was on the walls.

You didn't find a way to escape...

But you found countless photos of you on the walls.

All of which taken when you were unaware.

Swindle can tell by your expression that you saw his collection. He could already tell the question in your head. In fact... he found himself grinning when you noticed all the photos.

"Photos and trinkets only do so much, dear!" Swindle explains in a chipper tone. "I just needed to have you as the final piece... MY final piece in MY collection. Photos can be copied endlessly... but the real thing is priceless."

Swindle's tone rumbles near the end as he reaches out to lightly stroke your cheek with a finger. His gaze is disturbingly obsessive as he grins down at you. You shake against his touch.

"Now that I have you... I plan to keep you all to myself." Swindle purrs before he picks your chair up. "There's no need to fret... I keep all my best pieces safe."

Swindle takes his time to remember the fear in your gaze as he holds you up.

"I'll have no one steal my most precious piece away from me."

[wormsdyke]

finally watched challengers, a lot less gay sex than i was made to believe but the entire final sequence was a slo-mo heavy nine inch nails gay sex music video so i can’t complain really

[thevagabondexpress]

i may be he/they but that does not make it any less my ultimate life goal to get a slo-mo kdrama woman walk at least once of not more than once.

[aespabangedbang]

you’re right, i dont think smut should be written about ANY real life person but you would listen even less if i brought up that point. i only saw your post because people were talking about how people were writing nsfw content about a freshly 18 year old.

“You could make a fuss about non con or underage” and i do. that is even worse. but there is always something worse so you are unfortunately not exempt from criticism.

“How about Hwasa who is always down bad? Even she didn't consent any of us.” well yes! you are so close to getting the point!!! in general just because a woman is open in her sexuality doesnt mean you have the right to sexualize her. there is a difference between sexualizing yourself and others sexualizing you. you quite literally reblog SLO MO clips of idols dancing because in their normal speed there is nothing sexual about it😭😭you are going out of your way to actively sexualize something not sexual. even if in some depraved world it was the same, how has eunchae ever acted in such a way? especially since has been less than a MONTH since she turned 18. again dont sexualize something nonsexual!

“People start having sex from 16 gives you an idea that 18 is old enough” people start having sex at 14, does that make 17 old enough by your logic???? i’d hope not!

it can be hard to have people go against your opinions, so i hope that eventually you grow and realize how weird your behavior is and reflect on what i am trying to say but for now i wish u the best and hope that you will at least try to understand my points :)

I told you anon, "Morality don't exist in smut community." So all the point I mentioned before still standing valid.

Now tell me why am I the only one you are so interested about? I am a new face around here. How about you preach to the veterans in this community?

About Hwasa entire world know she is a bad bitch. She is literally fucking all the rich folks left and right since her rookie days. You are defending the wrong person.

There is absolutely no difference between someone sexualizing themselves and other sexualizing them. It's not like they are doing it at their bath, they are doing it on stage for their fans IN ORDER TO GET SEXUALIZED.

Those slow mo clips were already sexy, people made them slow to give a better glimpse at the assets at display. What do you think when Le Sserafim, Viviz, Kiss of Life or aespa throw it back? They are still sexy at full speed. Me reblogging slow me simply imply nothing special.

When did Eunchae did anything like this? Dude, I am a fic writer. Well filthy fic writer but not, in any way, a historian. What I write, as you can see, never happened!

Don't sexualize anything non sexualize. Ok, best of luck staying virgin for the rest of your life.

17 is more than old enough. Everyone just following the law when they talk about 18.

I understood all of your points and it only shows you don't understand the very first statement I started this answer with.

SMUT COMMUNITY DON'T HAVE ANY MORALITY.

I literally start my smuts with this warning for good natured people like you.

[dearweirdme]

Responding to some of the comments from my last mole anon ask I'm not new to the group but I am new to the ship. I first started listening to the group around 2018 but watching stuff like Run and the festas a few yrs later and from that, I wouldn't have guessed taekook were dating or even one of the closest friendship. They seemed touchy yeah but i think that for the whole group tbh. It wasn't really until solo era that I started focusing more on fan stuff. I'd say before that I was more fo a casual fan who enjoyed watching the content but wasn't really desperate to see everything bts. Like I knew the basics and the memes but never really was inclined to delve any further and my knowledge of shipping was mostly critical. I did see some of the narratives in the backlash to shipping such as taekook being less close than other members and with (what I now know is edited) official content reinforcing that, it was much easier to believe that than a secret taekook love affair.

But Layover turned out to be one of my favorite albums because it was closest to my musical tastes and culture of music i grew up with and so I started hitting up twitter and specifically searching stuff up to discuss more about tae and his musical influences coz I thought he did such a great job with that album and had some real soul in it despite not being raised in that culture or country of that kind of music. And I think because of the algorithms and how popular taekook is that's when I started seeing my taekook posts pop up on my timeline and from a ship critical perspective, I brushed most of as delulu coz wlmy first exposure of ships being discussed in fandom was that it was weird and inappropriate to ship.

And the stuff that I did see out of morbid curiosity (and I admit it wasn't a lot at that time) just really validated the 'fake' accusations because it was all slow mo'd edits and taekook seemed to have 7 different anniversary dates according to the taekook stuff I read so it was seeming more like shippers were just trying to fit a circle onto a square hole or something. Plus I'd see people responding to those slo mo edits with the real time links and that made it seem even faker.

The I recently saw the mole video on twitter that brought me here and that was the first thing were I couldn't really rationalise it with a platonicary answer because one of the first things I can remember doing in a relationship is laying in bed counting and mapping each others marks and freckles.

So that to me seemed just highly romantic for a couple of bros.

Except I lost the video on twitter so I tried YouTube to find it, nothing. Searched the Internet on general, nothing and I ended up stumbling across this blog. I think I discovered while browsing after seeing a response to an ask that I thought sounded fair enough a d really kinda middle ground for a shipper. It was framed as like 'idnk for sure but here's what I think' and after looking for the link and coming across people who were more definitive in their theories and stuff, I thought somewhere like here would be the best place to ask for the info.

Because at that point, shipping didn't have any good associations to me and I wasn't really comfortable with my own speculation that the mole vid was leaving me with but I also couldn't stop second guessing my own first reaction to deny, deny, deny and make an excuse for it.

So my intentions really were to post here, get a link to the vid, watch it again and be like 'oh yeah, that's been blown out of proportion. No ships sailing here' like I had when people sent those real time links in response to ship edit videos.

(Except we all know what happened next)

While waiting for a response which came pretty quickly, I was looking up for more info on taekook in general and was coming up with mostly horse shit but I was also noticing the more reasoned stuff now that I was actively looking for it.

And in the response, DWM mentioned and tagged the taekook timeline which really topped off me taking a second look at the ship because again it was presented as kinda 'this is what I think, beware, I could be just high on delusional and this whole post could be wish fulfilment but here's what happened and what I think' and angles like that I can appreciate because I find it way more trustworthy than someone presenting a theory as fact which is what it felt like taekook lyves was doing a lot of, imo.

The timeline really sealed the deal for me, tbh, because seeing all their interactions in one place and running on concurrent really blew the hinges off the 'distance' narrative.

Which lead me to the ultimate question which I think is the fossil fuel that taekook sails on; what's with all the fucking secrecy and what's bighit hiding??

Because to me and with the timeline on front of me there was no distance on their distant relationship.

And so I've recently started a rewatch of some of their biggest hits. Like I started with bon voyage and I'm kicking myself and wondering why I didn't consider stuff like the room choosing situation in Bon Voyage Morrocoo or Malta wherever they were, more closely. I can't even explain why I just took it at face value as a joke because looking back JK made it so damn obvious.

And I started noticing the subtleties of their touching and the lack of space. I think part of me started reqatching the BV and Run episodes to be kinda proven right that there was nothing more to the ship and I was being delulu but the more I watch, the more Im starting to notice and those fossil fuel questions keep popping up in my mind.

And as a logical creature who said taekook isn't real when I couldn't see anything proving it, I can't then refuse to consider the possibility that it might be real now that I'm seeing stuff that I consider legit proof or support of a relationship.

As for theories, I don't want it to come across like I'm acting smarter or more superior than anyone else because I think everyone is working off theories even the people who don't believe in it because none of us know these guys or their lives but I don't like when theories are pushed as fact or manipulated or framed as the only possible conclusion to a question. Like could I make another theory as to why taekook ate mapping out each others moles, yeah, course I could but based on my own experience perception and no real clear arguement otherwise etc---the romantic reason is still the strongest supported to me.

So I don't have anything against theories just the way they're framed.

So yeah I guess that's my looong (sorry) story about how I accidently became a taekook shipper.

Hi again mole anon!

It’s really nice to hear your story actually. I think skepticism is definitely a good way to get into this. Also, props to Kayla @taekooktimeline for documenting so well 💜.

[tomatette]

Okay, so … @wyomingnot told me about their headcanon that Ma-Ma is actually Techies mother. And, I somehow couldn't stop thinking about it, so here goes:

Madeline gets knocked up at sixteen, homeless and prostituting herself for drug money. She doesn't want a kid, but she also has no money to get rid of it, so she breaks into an electric shop in Peach Trees, trying to rob it.

The owner, an old man, catches her in the act. But instead of calling the judges on her, he offers her food and a place to crash. She's suspicious at first, obviously, but, being pretty much out of other options, she stays anyway. After a couple days she comes to the conclusion that the old man really just genuinely wants to help. And he convinces her to have the baby. He has no family, he tells her. He would support her and the child in any way he can. And Madeline is maybe not happy, but its probably the best time she's had in her whole miserable life.

The baby is born. A little boy she calls Tadgh to please the old man (it's his middle name). But it's stressful and exhausting and, frankly, she doesn't like to be a mom. So she falls back into bad habits, finds herself a drug cook boyfriend and a pimp, and shows up at the electronic shop less and less.

The shop keeper takes care of the kid everyone calls Techie (because Tadgh is Irish and people twist their tongues trying to pronounce it correctly), treats him like he's his own grandkid. He might not be able to help Madeleine, because she doesn't want to be helped, but he can at least try to save the boy, help him set up a good life.

Next Madeleine's, now Ma-Ma's, known backstory happens. She plays no role in Techies life during the time she builds her Slo-Mo empire. When she takes over Peach Trees, Techie is around eight years old. It's then that she remembers her son.

Techie's grown into a clever kid, very tech-savvy, who helps his Da in the shop. He knows that his Da is not his real father, and that his Ma is still somewhere out there and loves him very much.

It's a shock for the little boy when he has to find out the hard way that his Da has lied to him. Ma-Ma is pretty much the opposite of a loving mother. And he hides behind the tool-rack when she storms into the shop and demands her son. Da tries to reason with her, when that doesn't work, he tells Techie to run.

Which he does - until he hears his Da scream. Then, he heads back and returns just in time to see Ma-Ma kill his Da. She takes a struggling and fighting little Techie "home", and just like that his childhood is over.

She doesn't really have many motherly feelings for him, but she does keep him fed and in relatively good health. It'd be an understatement to say their relationship is complicated. Techie hates and loves her in equal measures. She's the embodiment of every bad thing that has ever happened to him, but she's also his only source of touch or affection, as few and far between as those might be …

I might use this for my Techie fic, but I wanted to share this here anyway :)

[cerebraljopper]

okay i really really enjoyed gran turismo. coming from someone who hates action movies and could care less about cars 😭😭 i had an amazing time.

racing sequences were incredibly done. drone shots, gaming visuals… it looked exciting. the theater was cheering at the victories. see it in dolby or other premium formats— it almost feels like you’re in the car too!

also… david harbour is incredibly sexy in this. yes he was shirtless for a bit. yes they put him in a slutty little tight shirt with extremely short sleeves that showed off his enormous arms. i loved his character and he did an extremely good job bringing him to life. maybe a career-best performance for him?

i hope people actually see this movie and that it does well. i hate that it’s become a meme but TRUST ME the trailers did a horrible job at advertising this movie 😭 it shouldn’t even have been called gran turismo imo.

the drive home makes you feel like you’re in slo-mo. might invest in a racing car. does it come with coach david harbour?

[asgoodeasgold]

Hackett A/W 23 with Matthew Goode - Part 4 gifs

A wee goode swagger (hand in pocket of course) and some puppy love (observing Matthew in Dunhill Links, I can attest he adores dogs & they love him back).

Matthew looks so dapper as a country gent (he described himself less kindly as a 'country bumkin' in the recent Welt interview).

📷 My edits from Hackett A/W23 ad campaign on YT. Photograph by Charlie Gray.

See Hackett Part 1 GIFs

See Hackett Part 2 GIFs

See Hackett Part 3 GIFs

[ellcrys]

i wasn't going to share this story but you know what fuck it y'all get to hear about the great pie saga of nov 25, 2024 lol

so. i brought a frozen pumpkin pie to friendsgiving tonight. got it from honey pot hill orchards and i was honestly really looking forward to sharing this pie bc it's a great fucking pie. honey pot hill orchards knows its pies. but i guess we didn't bake it correctly or something bc after taking it out of the oven we didn't realize the custard hadn't fully baked through. we thought it was strange that the filling seemed quite soupy but we'd followed the instructions and the instructions did say that the custard would set while cooling at room temp, so we left the pie alone.

after waiting the instructed hour before serving we were like it's still kinda a soupy. i guess we'll wait longer. and basically didn't circle back to it until we were all getting ready to leave/turn in.

it was still soupy lmao. couldn't serve it for obvious reasons. determined that the pie simply hadn't fully baked through. not sure if it was the oven, us, the pie, or what, but since we couldn't serve it it was decided i would take the pie back home with me. a bummer. bc i'd been looking forward to sharing this pie. but it was fine like it was one of those 'it is what it is' moments and we joked around, i promised i'd bake it further when i got home and send them pics/updates.

THE SAGA WASN'T OVER YET.

i should have just put the goddamn pie on the floor of my car but no i had to put it on the passenger seat bc i'm full of hubris. made it all the way to one block away from my apt when i got jump-scared by pedestrians bc it's pitch fucking black outside. was forced to brake hard and the pie went PLOP on the car floor. womp womp womp.

given that it was pitch fucking black outside, and i fumbled with the car light, it took me a hot second to find the box and at least flip it right side up again. turned the block and parked my car and examined the damage. def lost a lot of filling. but it hadn't all fallen out. so i was like fuck it we're baking this bitch anyways.

baked it following the instructions again but left it in for slightly longer than the instructions said. took the pie out and was like. well. it's significantly less jiggly. in fact it's kinda not jiggly at all. this is a good sign.

was tired af so i thought i was going to turn in but apparently my heart needed to see this pie through to the end so up for another hour it was. when i finally cut into the pie i realized a LOT more custard had fallen out than i'd originally thought considering the center of the pie was like 2 cm of filling and then the crust lmao. and the edges of the pie crust where the filling had overflowed was burnt for obvious reasons. but the custard had solidified. it was still edible. and it was fucking delicious.

obviously i updated my friends. unfortunately they will not get to try this pie this year lmao. but i guess their loss is my roommates' gain. such is life and fate.

i just can't get over the fucking pie flopping onto the fucking floor. what comedic timing. at first i was like what was that fucking sound and then the immediate realization of horror except in slo-mo. murphy's law in real time.

[pile-of-secrets]

HI! IM PUTTING MY CASTLEVANIA SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 (and a little of episode 10) THOUGHTS INTO THE WORLD! HERES YOUR SPOILER WARNING NOW!!

oh my god, ok, so. The absolute MADNESS of this episode starts LESS THAN 4 MINUTES IN TO A 28 MINUTE LONG EPISODE. That’s 24 whole minutes of death defining battles and really controlling s3x.

I mean like, the fights were really cool, they were interesting to watch, ISAAC? Bro that’s insane, I really liked the whole mind control concept that town had, I also don’t think the wizard spoke a word the whole time which was an interesting dynamic for a fight. Isaac breaking out of the mind control is like WOO GO ISAAC. But by far, (and yes im aware this was SUPPOSED to be serious) I found all the people slo-mo falling from the building quite funny for some reason?? I guess it was just unexpected.

Then there’s the whole alucard situation, SUMI AND TAKA? WHAT THE FUCK GUYS? YOU WERE GOOD CHARACTERS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? WHEN DID THINGS CHANGE?? they were genuinely enjoyable, alucard seemed SAD he genuinely seemed like he wanted them to stay as long as possible! THEY COULD SEE HE WAS LONELY 😭 AND THEY USED IT AGAINST HIM! They basically seduced him, tied him up, TRIED TO KILL HIM. And died. They deserved to die hurting the poor dude like that. Alucard has scars everywhere now and I feel so bad for himmm

Trevor and sypha, good lord. POINT 1: SYPHA WAS RIGHT. SHE SAID, “do you think we can wait?” AND JUDGE BEING DUMBBB went “this is my town. You will do as I say >:(“ AND IT MAKES ME SO MAD! SHE CANT DO ANYTHING AND SHE KNOWSSS. “I just didn’t see it” GRAH POINT 2: that WHOLE fight, oh my god, the FIRE the MONSTERS PRIOR “DRUGLORD” SALA. The whole thing was constructed really well, AND SEEING DRACULA AND LISA. AFTER THE END OF EPISODE 9 IT ALMOST MADE ME THINK IT WAS ALUCARD THEY WERE SEEING. JEEZ IT WAS CONSTRUCTED WELL.

And lastly, my dear wife Lenore, I love her with all my heart BUT WHAT A TWISTED WOMAN?? OH MY GOD POOR HECTOR. IN THE BEGINNING I THOUGHT “oh this has to be more consensual than what’s going on with alucard, she’s probably just Seducing him 🤷‍♀️” WRONG. THE SLAVE RING? THAT LOOKS LIKE IT HURT. AND ALL THEIR SCENES I FEEL LIKE ARE WILDLY MORE REVEALING THAN ANYTHING WITH ALUCARD. BUT SERIOUSLY, That whole plan was really pulled off SO WELL she did a very good job of keeping her own face while KNOWING exactly what she was doing every step of the way. All in all this whole episode pulls together really well into a shamble of absolute terror. And I love it.

[superwholockian93]

So I started season 2 of 911 Fox and have watched 7 ep so far:

Eddie is in this season! and holy shit it wasn't a fan edit where he puts on the shirt to that what a man song? in a slo-mo with Buck turning around to look at him

Why did Buck dislike him? I still don't get it. Anyway it barely lasted. That anger seemed so forced lol

I love Chim's storyline this season? Esp when he tells Hen why he wants to win the calendar thing and later with the ex-fiance thing

I love Athena and Bobby. Whenever they are on screen together, I'm like Parents :D

I miss Abby :(

The cheese is less so far and I love the eps?

I love that Athena is raising her kids with her best friend and they both have other people to enjoy their lives with

Is it a bit not funny that Buck and Eddie have (had?) love interests women with an ailing mother

I love Hen and Chim's friendship (dunno if I mentioned it in the last post)

Let's talk about Buddie (what is this name xD) that I had only ever seen in passing multiple times on the dashboard in the form of GIFs over the years (so pretty much everything about the show is unknown to me)

Buck, who loves kids, meets a single dad whom he dislikes at the beginning which is too shortlived and they get along

It's funny that in their initial 'bonding' moments, Eddie says something like 'I think you could have my back' and Buck is like 'you- you mine' or whatever and not too many ep later, Eddie tells his wife 'you didn't have my back' and she responds similarly like???

(Also that gym scene where Buck is trying to compete with Eddie was so embarrassing! The second hand embarrassment was hiiigh)

I have a poor memory so I am just blanking but like so much of it already is like Eddie needs someone who will help him take care of his son, Eddie has no one- and right after there is Buck silently? unasked helping out Eddie and that Buck is obviously that person like wth?

That scene where Christopher slides down the pole and Eddie and Buck are next to him and Buck's like very-dad potential is all I am saying

I was expecting for the show to take a while to get there for me to board the train when I actually started the show and instead wow

I still cannot get over how much of it is already like single dad is having a hard time raising son and then there is the new co-worker who is like 'I love kids :D' and I have watched a lot of shows and movies in many languages where it generally signals that is the real love interest

Season 1

[sloshed-cinema]

The Fountain (2006)

Few filmmakers approach life’s great questions with less humility than Darren Aronofsky. Whether it’s the Honors Freshman English Earth metaphor and Biblical allegory of mother! or the boundless pedantry of The Whale, Aronofsky moves forward with a misplaced tenacity and self-assurance not befitting of the subject matter. Existentialism isn’t exactly groundbreaking in art, be it on film or across other media, and there’s healing and engagement to be found both in creating art that questions the nature of life and in dissecting those works. It can take many forms. The quiet introspection of Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light or the bombastic annihilation of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia each have a staying power in their own right. Aronofsky’s fable of the persistence of love across oceans of time in The Fountain does something different: it feels adjacent to parody, or at the very least smacks of insincerity. Despite its trifold structure, the basic thesis isn’t too difficult to untangle. Dying is a strange journey of grace that not all can accept, but it is something that must be. There are other forms of eternity, perhaps, or of persistence. Tomás/Tommy/Tom’s quest to preserve his love’s life is always a fruitless one, and this chronicles his journey to understanding that. Interweaving the stories, finding visual motifs throughout, on paper sounds like an interesting narrative structure. And in points it achieves a modicum of success: Tom using the pen gifted to him by his deceased wife to tattoo a wedding ring on his finger to replace his lost one, uniting his blood with her ink, has a genuine poignancy to it. But Aronofsky is so declarative about his statements, so bombastic in their execution, as to both seem on some level like he’s the first person to ever make such statements, and to almost mock them in this discordance between intellectualism and spiritualism. Superficially silly imagery like Tom achieving galaxy brain status could be forgiven—lord only knows half the shit David Lynch cooks up looks corny as hell, but it just works with his vibe, for instance—but to go from zero to nirvana undermines an emotionally honest inner journey. It’s less irritating than Darren Aronofsky has proven himself to be capable of elsewhere, to be sure. But in its execution it comes across more as a middling exercise in narrative structure masquerading as existential pondering and healing.

Using colonial Spain during the Inquisition was certainly a move. On an aesthetic level, it feels like a mashup of The Lord of the Rings’ Elf Music Video Scenes (looking at you, Aragorn floating down the river in Two Towers) and Apocalypto, though of course the release timeline wouldn’t work out for Aronofsky to have been ripping that off. Bafflingly, though, perhaps JJ Abrams stole this film’s silly map-knife idea for his own epic sci-fi catastrophe in Rise of Skywalker. Mid-00s vibes aside, building some kind of National Treasure situation out of the Maya leaves me scratching my head. The indigenous people are presented at once as savages to these conquistadores, but also demonstrate their practices to be rooted in blood, the priest immediately baring his throat once Tomás goes Super Saiyan. Izzi has an almost fetishistic fascination with their beliefs, also inadvertently espousing their notion that death is a path to awe, and the nebula Xibalba is… the nexus of all of it or something. So these Maya got it all figured out and are woke to accepting death, but also fuck ‘em.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select either DEATH or LIFE and sip whenever it is mentioned.

SIP

A time jump happens.

The ring motif appears in some form.

Slo mo running.

BIG DRINK

Someone says 'Xibalba'.

Nebula imagery.

[fugottron]

I had a dream last night that Hannibal Season 4 was released. I don’t remember much about the plot. Something about how there was an unsolved murder of a man who suffocated and the case had gone cold for months. A superior was getting mad at the woman who was handling the case. Then like a majestic angel, in slow mo while doing poses and violins accompanying him, Will Graham roller skates on the scene. He had an 80s mustache and a bright green crop top shirt (idk why my mind went to this but just imagine an 80s twink on roller skates) From my POV I was just watching the show like omg yes I can’t believe we finally have a 4th season. Then Hannibal comes into the scene, also roller skating down slo mo doing poses with music. He was less 80s but was wearing kind of a costume gray suite you’d see a figure skater wear. And then I woke up from just the awe of his entrance and the hair flip he did running his fingers through his hair.

Anyway that was my dream last night