#its like watching Christmas movies for me

[hmslusitania]

The thing that I love about Lito and Wolfgang’s connection is that, more than any other particular pair in the cluster, they know and acknowledge that they each lack a particular strength that the other definitively has.

The entire sequence of events between Wolfgang being trapped because he can’t lie to (literally) save his life and Lito stepping in even when he’s at his lowest and being able to help and get Wolfgang out of the situation because “lying is easy. It’s what I do” to Wolfgang stepping in and beating the absolute fuck out of Joaquin on Lito’s behalf is just! An exercise in mutual appreciation that exists on a one-to-one level that doesn’t come up a lot in the other sensate pairs. They all help each other, of course they do, but it tends to be more cyclical in a Will helps Nomi who helps Sun who helps Capheus who helps Riley who helps Kala who helps Will sort of way rather than direct. And I love all of them, absolutely, but I love these two for this in particular

[ravnervn]

Okay fuck it. I need to exorcise this from my brain. This has haunted me for 2 or 3 years since I saw this film by chance, so I am going to, as best I recall, recap the plot. And then at the end I will say what it is so you can understand why it haunts me. I will say off the bat that you might read this ramble and go "huh this sounds good actually" and it is not. It is not a good movie.

So the film is framed as a story being told to someone -- we're not quite sure whether it's meant to be taken literally or allegorically but the ending and some other details IMPLY it's actually true.

So there's our narrator, who is an average mortal guy living a happy life. And then there's our second protagonist and actual main character, a celestial bureaucrat whose order's numbers are drawn entirely from those who have been denied a chance at a normal happy life. Whilst they can forsake their status to become mortal, as far as the bureaucrat and his peers are concerned, they are happy and performing a valuable service to reality. Our MC has been sent to Earth to investigate a threat to his organisation, and to do so he has infiltrated the narrator's life, seemingly metaphysically convincing everyone that he is the narrator's brother -- except the narrator, who sees through him and ends up convinced to help our MC as it's mutually beneficial; once the mission is done, the narrator's life returns to normal and the MC returns to his role.

So what's happening is that a rival organisation to the MC's has started up and is diverting... Okay so you can see the obvious parallels here and "worship" would fit, but I'll use the film's term of "love" because it's thematically coherent. Anyway, this organisation has a big scheme they're going to hatch to divert all love away from the Rightful Celestial Bureaucracy, and it's up to our protagonists to stop them.

See, the thing going on here is that love is finite. If someone only has one thing to love, they'll love it wholly, but if they have two things to love, that divides the love in two and so on. If they find something they love more than the original object of affection, it could fully supplant it, and that's the crux of the villain's plan.

Because the villain is a fallen celestial bureaucrat who lost his ability to hold onto his celestial form and was forced to become mortal. His plan for revenge is to supplant the love people have for his former order with love for a false idol, thus destroying the whole celestial bureaucracy. The fact this is considered a legitimate and real threat by the celestial bureaucracy implies that this is, metaphysically, how this works. Even if we take this story allegorically, the allegory still has the basis "love is a finite resource and you learn to make do".

Obviously our heroes defeat him, and obviously during this time they've genuinely bonded and decided that maybe having this guy as a brother/maybe having a loving family as a mortal is okay actually. So our celestial bureaucrat becomes a mortal and this whole story becomes just a funny whimsical reframing of the brothers' childhood.

Yes, childhood. Because here is where I unbury the lede and reveal that the villain is the CEO of PuppyCorp, whose plan is to give everyone a free puppy so that they'll love babies less, because the celestial bureaucracy is BabyCorp.

The movie I have just described to you is Boss Baby. I am being deadly fucking serious.

[whistler-king]

that little farm where every wish comes true by HangmanBradshaw

“You’re unbe-leaf-able.” “You’re a sap.” “And you look radish-ing.”

[breadfacednerd]

This is a really stupid thing to be asking in late July but do you think Karkat would get uncomfortably attached to Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer if he ever watched it?

bro this fucker is candy red and an outcast out of like 12 people hes just fucking like me

[skitskatdacat63]

Pictures that fuel the 007 vettonso au that exists in my head(for now)

Also go listen to "You Know My Name", and think of Vettonso while doing so because I think it is SOOOOOO them coded(but also f1 in general tbh.) And also if you've seen Casino Royale, hey, remember that chair scene? >:)

[boimgfrog]

Bf is always surprised when I recommend him media and he ends up loving it as if his interests aren't so easily curated and understandable. Oh wow the guy who likes eldritch horrors and aquatic horror absolutely loved playing dredge. Crazy. Whatttt the guy who loves zombie games and government conspiracy media went nuts for the maze runner movies? Who would have guessed. You mean to tell me the guy who's favorite part of star wars is the space politics aspect was gushing abt dune days after seeing it?? Whattttttt no wayyy. You've gotta be yanking my chain.

[kissingarthurclaus]

Good morning everypony

[guinevereslancelot]

starting to kind of date someone right before christmas is so stressful fr. do i get him a gift or what we've been on two dates but i'm seeing him tonight n it's christmas eve.....but what if he didn't get me anything then it will be weird.....

[beansnpeets]

I have been trying to get Echo comfortable with the crate slowly. I have been trying to prepare her for me being away from the house for work during the day eventually. Unfortunately, it's not going well at all, and I am gonna have to just start crating her when I am gone for more than an hour. I can't let her keep destroying stuff. I know she is scared of being in the crate. But this is not gonna work. I do not have the ability to keep doing this slowly. Not when she does things like this. I was only gone for less than 6 hours. And it's not like she's destroying the whole house. She also doesn't do this every time I leave. It seems arbitrary. One time, she even did it when I was gone for 10 minutes, and literally right before I had left, we had gone for a run. And it's always small, inexpensive things. But the muzzle was the last straw. That's a major inconvenience for me now.

[b1mbodoll]

i Hate being sick

[jamboreeartsupplies]

watched Fantasia with Edamame tonight ⭐🩷🎄

[bunnyb34r]

I forgot that ion plays one show a day ALL day and guess I'm back on Criminal Minds at least for today 😅😅

I missed this stupid show

[jorvikzelda]

I started reading Lord of the Rings (bought Fellowship of the Ring like… last spring but never got around to starting) and I’d just like to say. Holy fuck what a slow book. You mean to tell me I’m over a hundred pages in and this man is only just leaving the Shire? Sign me up for MORE I love this shit. Tolkien said “I will take exactly as much time as I want to describe things and you will like it”. AND I DO

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

the way i live my life makes it hard to achieve anything, which perhaps implies that i should change the way i live but it's difficult bc i really have a strict schedule

[gracieblood]

me when i answer my own question

[skitskatdacat63]

post 10 of your favourite comfort movies & tag 10 people

Thank you both @suzuki-ecstar and @renaulonso for the tags!!! I don't rewatch movies very often so I feel like these are moreso movies I've actually watched several times more than they are comfort movies lmao, also in no particular order!!

Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Ford v. Ferrari

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc

Star Wars: A New Hope

Casino Royale

Young Frankenstein

Inglorious Basterds

Interstellar(not comforting, makes me sob every single time)

Ocean's Eleven

Blazing Saddles

I tag: @sweatyflytrap @antimonyandthyme @ayceeofspades @sewellove @schumigrace @ellearts @huginn01 @hungriestheidi @skeleton-gluvs @sebbuh (sorry if you've been tagged already!!!)