#lotr radio play

[britcision]

Tell you what tho

I read Lord of the Rings when I was 10… and 11… because it took me that long to finish it

And I do remember reading it, and I remember being a little confused by the tangents and the history and geography and speed reading those bits trying to find the adventure, and first seeing the movies and knowing the story

But I hadn’t read them since

And I know the movies well enough that I can identify which scenes in the extended version weren’t in the theatrical release and which weren’t in the original shorter extended version

But reading the first book again now as an adult… I am absolutely reading it for all those tangents and the history and geography to devour the entire world and I’m barely interested in the Ring and the quest

And all of it feels new

Like, I very specifically remember single lines pretty much at random through the book so every time I’m sorta getting lost in “wow I don’t remember this at all” suddenly I’m finishing the next sentence before I turn the page

And I think that says something about growth and aging and time

Because I was always a little nerd, my bedtime stories were Discworld before I could talk, I read Lord of the Rings solely because it had 1000 pages and I considered that a challenge and I stuck to it even when I wasn’t all that interested in the extended lore because of that

(May Tolkien forgive me, but I was 10!)

And back then I was reading for The Quest and The Story Of The Fellowship and things that were happening now

And so little of it stuck with me that it’s almost all new all over again, and I’m discovering all of this wonderful extended lore and devouring the history and yeah the Silmarillion’s gonna come after the full trilogy and it’s all new to me

And it’s also so familiar

I remember half the songs, but I hadn’t remembered they were Tolkien’s

I just… kept singing them. I can do most of Gilgalad’s from memory, but I couldn’t swear that’s how you spell the name

And part of it is that my family also used to do the radio editions of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on long drives or as family time in the evening, and I really did only read the actual book once

(Possibly not long after we finished the radio drama version, which is why I was so confused by the extended Shire adventures)

So it might just be that I know the now so well already, that’s so familiar, that I can finally focus on the rest of the world

But I think it’s also because the older I’ve gotten, the more I want to look behind the curtain. To see the lore, the making of, how things work and connect and see everything that made the story of now possible in everything I see

The more I read the more I see Tolkien’s hand, his pen, his values and what he believed mattered, and he was right. It matters to care for the land and the world and growing things, even if it doesn’t have monetary value. It matters to choose to do good, even with no reward

It matters to take your time, to do things the right way instead of the easy or cheap way, to cherish and value everything that lives, however small. It matters to care, more than anything shiny and golden

And also yes I am also learning that the way I write apparently has a lot more in common with Tolkien than I thought, so you can all blame him for the length of Dead And Loving It and all the lore and my need to expand the universe in every direction and obsess over every connection

I’m certainly nowhere near on his level, but even in a book I only read once… I think Tolkien shaped quite a lot of what I consider good quality writing and world building

And I think he’d appreciate that

And from now on I’ll be explaining my utter refusal to cut any “unnecessary” perspectives or world building with “would you have edited Tolkien?” Because the answer’s always “nope” his publisher said so

[transvaltrans]

not very coherent, but god. Re-listening to the 1980s radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings. I usually get about midway through the Two Towers before stopping. I'm not always up to the full slow horrific crawl to Mordor.

But. This time. I'm struck at the perverse symmetry between Mt. Doom, and the Lonely Mountain. These peaks that dominate story, that are described in lore long before they loom over the hobbits. A solitary, perilous peak they spend most of the story just trying to reach. Complete with the eagles arriving just in the nick of time, when our protagonists swoon on its slopes.

The radio play doesn't emphasize the connections to The Hobbit as strongly as the book does- or at least, it didn't, up until the later compilation added small sections of Frodo, after the events of the series, compiling The Red Book. Often offering commentary on Bilbo's profusion of titles, the mess of his uncle's notes; the enormity of the undertaking before him, stitching it all together, continuing the story as long as he is able.

The framing device makes clear how Frodo's story is an extension of his uncle's. While the grand tales of Beren and Luthien, Eärendil the Mariner, Isildur and Gil-galad, are brought up over and over- so is Bilbo's story, more immediate and dear to the hobbits. A childhood story, told before bedtime, impressed into their hearts.

I don't know. I'm sure many people have noted these parallels. They just break my heart; the way Sam half chuckles to himself, clinging to Frodo as the rivers of fire course nearer. Thinking he hears eagles, impossibly. He doesn't have to say 'like Bilbo, towards the end of his story' for us to remember, to understand why he's laughing, even as he loses consciousness.

How the memory of the story he was told as a child comforts him, on the burning slopes of a mountain of ash. How Bilbo's childhood tale of cleverness and courage in the face of greed is recalled, at the very end.

How of course Sam laughs, because- how could Bilbo's eagles reach them here? That's not their story. How could it ever be, after the horrors, the tedious miserable resentful continuing, the way the Ring poisoned everything, even the love between him and Frodo. How Frodo couldn't even let go of the Ring, on his own.

It couldn't be the eagles.

(But of course it was. It is, unbearably, all the same story, even as darkened and wretched as it's become. Bilbo's mercy was Frodo's mercy was Sam's mercy, was the mercy of the world. But it's as impossible to remember thirteen dwarves on a quest to reclaim their homeland, as it is to remember the Shire. They can't exist in the same world, the same story. They can't. They shouldn't. They do.)

[ent-maiden]

My old sketchbook has a total of 126 humanoids and 169 birds.

My current sketchbook has a total of 55 humanoids and 57 birds.

For a second I thought the humanoids were gaining. Then I remembered that all but two of my watercolor paintings have had many, many birds. But I don't have a birds blog.

Here is proof that I can draw birds better than hobbits.

It's a black American Serama hen. Chickens are what got me into art and I love drawing them yet it seems like lately I've only drawn them once a quarter. Sad. I really need to draw some more.

Oh and here is what I painted while listening to the BBC LOTR radio play. It turns out I have this weird ability to listen to a radio play and catch every word while painting at the same time, like my vision/hands and hearing/interpretation are operating in two halves of my brain. Sadly, if my family member turns on the tv in the same room as me it immediately steals my attention from the art because the moving thing is a lot more engaging than a piece of paper. So I usually have to leave.

[dandelion-jester]

I have recently bought a cassette tape player (I collect old audiobooks and radioplays) but I'm not allowed to use it until I hit 9000 words on my current novel wip. That's 2000 more words. Normally that would take me two days, except this week has been fucking insane and I still haven't done it!

[jewishdragon]

if you picked no or didnt know they existed well:

The Hobbit (youtube upload. for some reason the hobbit radio drama has a lot of youtube uploads?)

LOTR Trilogy (internet archive. THE TRACK NAMES DONT SAY WHICH BOOK IS WHICH ASDFASF. It's all in order but its like 97 tracks)

anyways back when i was a teenager I watched the LOTR trilogy and then tried to read the books and failed... So i tried the audiobooks. Still failed. Then I found these audio dramas (radio plays, not audiobooks). i love them so much there is so much heart in these.

The Hobbit is my definitive version because i listened to it right after i watched the movies (the hobbit movies didnt exist yet, i stand by this radio drama version its incredible)

[tathrin]

@kittyhawk717 makes a good point: #so fucking amazing #i could read a million fics in this universe i #am OBSESSED

Honestly, same. Clearly. So obviously the only thing to do is for more people to jump into this sandbox and start playing to...

Pretty please?

Oh no help, why is my brain suddenly full of an RAF (or RFC) AU where Legolas is a pilot who gets the nickname “Greenleaf” because of how lightly and acrobatically he flies (and also he should probably be Irish or Scottish so the Brits can be derisive about his “more dangerous and less wise” people hmm? ooh or Indian! doesn’t really matter as long as he wears a lot of green so the nickname makes sense lmao) while Gimli was too short for the army but is a fucking amazing mechanic and basically single-handedly responsible for how amazing this unit’s planes are and how no matter how wrecked their planes are if they can get them back to base at all he can fix them, and Legolas fell in love basically the first time he saw Gimli work his miracles with that wrench and Gimli is not in love thank you, he is very very annoyed by this chipper pilot who keeps getting holes shot in his fucking wings and he definitely doesn’t like him at all and certainly doesn’t go out of his way to tinker with Legolas’s plane all the time and make sure it’s the absolute best machine in the air oh no nope definitely not dammit and he certainly doesn’t fret every time Legolas flies off into battle or comes back with his engine smoking again that fucker oh how Gimli loathes him! until one day he finally hops out of a just-barely-landed-successfully plane that is literally on fire Legolas what the fuck you idiot and oh and he stumbles what’s wrong oh no is he hurt oh no and Gimli runs over to help him up and instead they kiss right on the runway oh fuck—!

And the whole unit has been taking bets on this forever, so Commander Strider has to come break up the fistfight between Éowyn-who-definitely-isn’t-using-her-brother’s-ID-and-the-whole-unit-doesn’t-know-she’s-secretly-a-girl-NOPE and Boromir over who now owes whom money before Boromir’s little brother, the only one in the unit who hasn’t figured out that Éowyn is a girl yet, does something stupid trying to stop his brother fighting with “the fellow” he definitely doesn’t have a crush on Boromir please—!

Strider is so tired. He didn’t sign-up for herding idiots in love, he’s just trying to win the damn war, do you lads MIND???

Lord Mithrandir is sitting in his office watching the show from the window and laughing so hard, he fucking loves his deranged pilots so much. He has pulled  so many blatant cover-ups for their hijinks, and everybody in high command knows that he’s tossing aside regulations left and right, but his units are the most successful pilots in the damn skies so nobody can do anything about it dammit. (He’s also definitely in cahoots with General Galadriel, who pulls his ass out of the fire every damn time somebody tries to bestow some kind of reprimand or punishment, and who gets regular “briefings” about his pilots that absolutely aren’t just gossip in disguise, and which she certainly doesn’t pass along to her granddaughter who’s engaged to Commander Strider, who definitely isn’t royalty in disguise, nope nope and also nope.)

[carigm]

The “Teaser”, mlvn rooftop convo, and Lord of the Rings parallel…

This is gonna be a long post, so grab some snacks y’all.

First of all, the teaser the Duffers shared at this Netflix shareholders event was basically all BTS stuff, and according to someone that was there, we have mostly seen all of it. The actual clips from the show they showed were so short that most people missed it. However, over those short clips it seems they played a voiceover of part of the mlvn rooftop convo. Notice how the Suffer Sisters are literally incapable of sharing anything new, and the only audio they disclosed is from the ONE scene that’s been leaked to death, and even transcribed multiple times with the help of AI. In any case, Netflix did not share this teaser with the masses, and it’s unlikely they ever will. Stranger Things is not going to the Super Bowl this year (yes you heard that right) and the Tudum Event isn’t until May. Our only hope before that would be them releasing something on Will’s birthday, but whether in March or May, I believe we’ll be getting a proper teaser by then.

People that attended the event reported that El has a voiceover line where she goes “they don’t get to write the ending, we do” and apparently a voiceover Mike line where he goes “we’ll finish this together” (I’m not sure if this was paraphrased or not). Immediately, we all realized that these lines sound pretty close to what Mike is allegedly saying to her during the rooftop scene. Many people in the fandom have taken the time to transcribe that scene, some with AI and some without, and although some things could be wrong here and there, the general idea of it seems pretty clear. I’m attaching an AI reading of the scene here, so I can point out where I think his dialogue might be from…

Around the 1.43 mark, the AI picked up “enjoying it, together”, however I think this is where the “we’ll finish it, together” line comes into play. If anything, this shows AI isn’t 100% accurate, and it does call into question some of these previous lines 😂…I think it’s possible that after this speech from Mike about stories, fantasy endings and heroes, El tries to follow his advice and be positive, and maybe she delivers the “they don’t get to write our ending, we do” line back to him. It’s unfortunate because obviously we can’t see her face in the video, but I think it makes sense she would reply with that because right after it seems like he says “of, course…” and then proceeds to seemingly add that the Party can have a happy ending, without all the fantasy elements he mentioned before.

I find it very interesting that he’s choosing to speak to her with this storytelling analogy, which at first I believed to be a D&D analogy, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like he’s talking about an actual story. And then the lord of the rings parallel hit me, specifically with this scene. If you’re not aware, Finn Wolfhard has mentioned lotr twice now when talking about season 5, and I personally think it’s possible that Mike is using lord of the rings here as a reference to describe the hero’s journey and relate it to what the party has been through. Think about it, he’s trying to cheer El up, who has been stuck in that fuckass radio station for a year, who’s probably extremely tired of everything she has been dealing with for years, and he just wants to offer her some consolation so she can keep going and fighting. Does that sound familiar?

Well my friends, if it does, that’s because it is a direct parallel to Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings. I’ve always thought Byler were insanely samfrodo coded (funny enough the last S4 Byler scene is almost identical to this scene too), but it seems the Duffers are paralleling mlvn to them here. In lotr, Frodo bears the biggest burden of the story, as he follows his hero’s journey to Mordor to defeat evil. Along the way, ofc, he becomes increasingly weary and hopeless, and it is up to Sam (his best friend) to cheer him up and provide him with strength to keep him going. How does Sam do this? Interestingly enough, he encourages Frodo by describing all the beautiful things that will come AFTER they have won, what they and their friends will be able to enjoy when they get back home. Basically everything Mike appears to be saying to El in this scene, fantasizing about the end of the battle. To make the parallels even crazier, while on his hero’s journey, Frodo has to remain in hiding because there are multiple forces looking for him, and we know that El is basically hiding away from the government.

Another thing I want to point out is that in lotr (spoilers I guess 😭) good does win in the end, and the main characters get to return back home. However, Frodo is so changed by the journey and all the things he encountered that he simply cannot stay with his friends. Instead, he leaves and goes to the Undying Lands, where he finds peace. He doesn’t die, but he also cannot stay in Middle Earth. Him and Sam have a beautiful goodbye scene and then Sam is left with the literal book of stories Frodo started, and is told by Frodo to “finish it”.

Make of that what you will…

[bfleuter]

Had these thoughts on my bsky and wanted to copy-paste them over here.

In retrospect, my middle school RPG group had a clever way we ran our games. Everyone wanted to be a player, so we made a mercenary team and just rotated GMs for every job the team went on.

That way it made sense that 1 of 4 characters was absent each time, and everyone got a chance to GM and play.

Sometimes the GM could still RP their character interacting with the others via radio from home base (we played a futuristic setting of our own making). It was honestly an elegant way to allow the GM to drop in-world hints if the players were stuck.

We played that way till the LotR movies came out, at which point we started to play the long-form elf road-trips usually associated with ttrpgs.

Anyway I could see trying something like this again. A solid concept for anything more mission/hub based than long-form story / travel based.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA FOR TELLING MY FRIEND TO STOP LETTING INTERNET RANDOS RUN THEIR LIFE.

I m20 and my best friend f21 talk about everything to eachother. We’ve been best friends for around 3 years but we got in a fight the other day here’s the tea:

She loves a really popular musician. Infact the most popular musician in the world. And she thinks that she’s being victimized and infact endangered due to the fact that a very small amount of people compared to the amount of fans the musician has don’t like them.

I think this is absolutely crazy. I think this is like when American southern Christians say that they’re oppressed like there isn’t a church on the corner of every street. This musician plays on the radio every other song, this musician sold out their over expensive tour, this musician is the darling of celebrity life and this musician is a billionaire.

Another thing is that the fans of this musician are extremely toxic. There are a few good ones including my friend but usually they are obsessive and mean.

My friend says that people bully her for liking this musician and she acts like it’s a weird interest that only a few people have but I think that’s crazy talk because this musicians fans bullied me as a child for liking things like doctor who and lotr. The even crazier thing is my friend has a ton of actual interests that people are mean to people about. Like indie video games and other bands but she chooses to act like this one is ACTUALLY the biggest thing that people don’t like about her.

I listened to her rant about how oppressed she was for liking this musician for around 30 minutes before telling her that she couldn’t let random people on the internet dictate her life or how she lived and that none of these people affect the musician in any way. I told her that the musician is a billionaire with a hot Boy friend who is literally not hurt in anyway by people on the internet not liking them.

She got upset and told me that she thought I would understand and that she listens to me vent about people mischaracterizing my characters all the time so I should’ve just listened to her.

Now there are a couple things about that that are funny including: she does the same thing. She talks to me about when people mischaracterize her characters and I agree with her and support her. She also vents to me about every single problem in her life all the time and I listen to her and give her advice.

I love her she’s amazing and smart and kind but this one time I drew the line because she is not the victim here.

Anyways she hasn’t talked to me in 3 days and I sent her an apology text which she has not responded too. AITA?

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Laughing my ass off at the James Patterson table everyone is ignoring at the library sale.

Meanwhile, absolutely delighted to score the BBC LotR radio play in today's "fill a bag for $7" deal.

[cantsayidont]

For anyone who's keen on the Peter Jackson LORD OF THE RINGS movies and has had difficulty getting into the book, I really highly recommend Phil Dragash's Soundscape LOTR project, an unofficial, unabridged audiobook with music and sound effects from the film soundtracks. (Because it's unauthorized, you can't buy it, but it's around if you look on the interwebs.)

Dragash is a very good voice actor — so good that the retention of "he said" type dialogue markers is sometimes jarring — and captures the characters very well (although he mostly recites rather than sings the songs). Every so often he stumbles on the pronunciation of a word (curiously, more often real ones than Tolkien's constructed ones — for instance, in Bilbo's song of Earendil, "mariner" becomes "mareener"), but that's also true of the authorized audiobook readers. The Dragash version is clearly superior to both the 1990 audiobook by Robert Inglis (Inglis sings, but his performance of the characters is often stuffy) and the recent 2021 Andy Serkis version (Serkis is a wonderful actor, but some of the characters are beyond his range, and he sometimes seems daunted by Tolkien's poetic constructions). The main downside is that because the Soundscape project is a labor of love done without benefit of professional audio mixing tools, the music can occasionally drown out the narration; Dragash has redone several of the chapters over the years to address this.

Dragash's audio version is a good bridge for people coming from the films, since it's informed by them (in the performance of the characters as well as in the music), but as an unabridged adaptation, it restores excised subplots and flattened characterization, while capturing the sweep of Tolkien's language.

I now prefer it to the two modern audio dramatizations of LOTR: The 1979 Mind's Eye version, adapted by James Arrington (who also plays Gandalf), is essentially an abridged audiobook with multiple voice actors; Arrington is excellent as Gandalf, but the rest of the cast, drawn from local community theater, is not, making it a very mixed bag. The 1981/1982 BBC radio version, adapted by Brian Sibbery and Michael Bakewell (initially as 26 half-hour episodes, later reedited to 13 hour-long installments), is generally very good, with Ian Holm and Bill Nighy outstanding as Frodo and Sam and Michael Hordern a fine Gandalf (although I think Arrington better captured Gandalf's prickliness). However, not all the actors are of the same caliber (Jack May as Théoden isn't a patch on Bernard Hill); the clever idea of presenting the Battle of the Pelénnor Fields as a medieval ballad (by Oz Clarke and the Ambrosian Singers) ends up being hard to decipher; the transformation of narrative exposition to dialogue works in some spots and not others; and the inevitable abridgements are painful if you're familiar with the full text. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from the BBC version, and at 12½ hours, it's not much longer than the extended versions of the films, but it's no longer the gold standard for Tolkien audio.

[ageless-aislynn]

I took yesterday (and finished this morning) to do something very important: I started, finished and 100% the game Firewatch, lol.

My 100% shelf!

Anyway, Firewatch is a nice, fairly short game, mainly a walking sim but the environments are pretty (though they grow increasingly smoky and orange as the fire spreads). You're not in any danger, though. Here's the Steam description:

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

I enjoyed it a lot, though I discovered I truly suck at reading a map and will definitely die if I'm ever lost and alone in the woods with a map and a compass. ��😂😉

Anyway! You have dialogue options, so you can shape your/Henry's relationship with Delilah over the radio and you also have other options (how much rations to take, etc) that produce various outcomes. Overall though, I found this to be a very non-stressful game and perfect for taking my mind off *waves hands in vague circles to indicate the world* things.

Up next, I think I'm going to double back to Dear Esther and get the last 3 achievements that will 100% that one, then I'm on to another game!

I went ahead the other day and installed The Quarry, so I think that's the next full game I'll be tackling.

I also picked up some new games on sale this past month that I'm looking forward to!

I've wanted to play the Lego Star Wars and Jurassic World games for a long time and this seemed like a great time to grab them! I've heard kinda meh things about the Shadows of Mordor/Shadows of War LotR games but they were, like, $5 together? So I figured I should be able to at least get $5 of fun out of them, right?

I wasn't sure about Kingdom Come: Deliverance but I read a review where someone said you can play the game by ignoring anything you don't want to do and just wander around, appreciating the incredible environments. So if I suck at the game actual, then that's my plan to get my $5 worth out fun out of that one, too, lol!

Anyway, what are you currently playing, if anything? What are you looking forward to or hoping to pick up on a sale? 😎👍

[nowandforalways]

Catkin tagged you in one of my posts so I was curious about you because my top song was Now And For Always at (clearly a measly) 49 plays!

I watched the LOTR musical twice here in New Zealand, I have a post about it somewhere (I’m a horrible tagger😅) and I enjoyed reading about your Chicago experience! Did you also go to the London production and Watermill??

Anyway can I interest you in this radio interview excerpt of Michael and Spencer’s Now And For Always that I screen-recorded and turned into an mp3🤣 I like this rendition more than the youtube one

AHHHHHH. Hello, fellow Now And For Always enjoyer!!!! "Tired and cold" truly does come for us all.

That's so exciting that you got to see the show twice!!! I'm off to find your post about it right after I answer this ask lol.

Chicago is the only production I have seen live. Watermill and London, well... 😏

I think I heard that radio excerpt on someone's insta story! It's absolutely gorgeous; I really do love them muchly. Thank you for sharing it!

Heyday! <3

[thealmightyemprex]

Fantasy Month :Sword of the Valient

So Ive been looking at diffrent stuff for Fantasy Month:Video games ,comics,Radio plays ,Cartoons ,a retrospective and even a concept album ,but I havent done the main thing I do for these motnhs :WAtch a film I havent seen before .Now some of you might be disappointed this isnt Ladhawke ,Die Nibelungen or Son of the White Mare ......But I wanted to start with a light one(Especially since the LOTR reviews are so in depth ) and Ive had this DVD for a few years now ,so lets talk about Sword of the Valaint

In this 1984 film The Green Knight (Sean Connery ) he purposes a game to the knights of King Arthur (Trevor Howard ) ,to which only a squire Gawain (Miles O Keefe) accepts ,cutting off the fey knights head only for the fella to put it back on and gives the young man a riddle to which the answer will save his life and one year to solve it.......Or his head belongs to the Green Knight

So this is a very loose adaptation of the poem Sir Gawan and the Green Knight,,,,,,,,But also its a remake,Stephen Weeks directed a film version of the poem in 1973.....And I guess ten years later he wanted to remake his own film.Now Ive actually looked at that film as well as the excellent 2021 film the Green Knight .....But while I could compare Im not going to ,I want to view the film on its own . If you want the short version ,this is better then the 73 film,but the 2021 film is better then this

As for the film itself....It is what it is ,kind of a standard sword and sorcery film.I guess I wanted a little more .I dunno I love this tale and a lot of the actors in this like John Rhyse Davies ,Peter Cushing,David Rappaport ,Douglas Wilmer and Ronald LAcey are good performers.....But other then Lacey who is the main villain ,a lot feel under used .Will say LAcey is a perfect villain,slimey and creeppy.....Though I think Lacey might be too old for the role ,cause his dad is played by John Rhyse Davies,,,,,Who Lacey is VISIBLY OLDER THEN.....By 9 years

Miles O'Keeffe is decent as Gawain and I like the idea of his journey ,but I dunno why but I dont really feel him change that much .Also the original choice was Mark Hamill,but the producers at Cannon really wanted Miles O'Keefe.....Which baffles me cause wouldnt getting HAMILL be such a coup for this film ,but who am I to argue with the guys who made superman 4

Now lets talk about our main antagonist,while most takes on the Green Knight are more neutral ,this is an antagonistic take ,An ancient and powerful fey who even Morgan Le Feys power is eclipsed by him,and he is played by Sean Connery ,one of the most beloved moviestars of the mid to late 20th century ,and the favorite actor of my grandfather ......And I am of two minds on Connery.On one hand ,I prefer the more mysterious takes by Ralph Ineson and Nigel Green ,and while those actors sort of embody and become the character,,,,,Connery is just Connery ,he is one of the most recognizable actors of his time and doesnt disappear in the role ....At the same time Connery has great screen prsence ,its fun to see Connery play not a villain but certainly an antagonist when we are so used to him in heroic roles ,I really love his costume design very elaborate but effective without being to inhuman ,and its just fun to see Sean Connery with magic powers ,

I keep flip flopping but while not a lost classic,it is fun to watch ,especially the glittery Connery .I do think it is especially an interesting watch now that the Green Knight exists

@countesspetofi @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @princesssarisa

@the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @ariel-seagull-wings

@barbossas-wench @filmcityworld1 @amalthea9

[the-everqueen]

5 - Corinthian, Rose Walker, Desire of the Endless

9 - Donald Pierce, Ty Shaw, Steve Murphy

5 - go on a six hour road trip with (no car radio, you choose who drives), sit next to on a six hour plane flight, sit across from on a six hour train journey mm...once i placed the Corinthian i felt good about deciding the other two. CLEARLY gotta get in a car with the Corinthian. will that road trip end with me dead? yeah, probably. BUT i think he'd have a fun phone playlist. also he'd be the one driving, most likely, not because i can't but because i assume he'd have a much cooler car than i ever will. ideal road trip partner, imho. Jed obviously had a fun time!

Rose for the flight. i HATE flying, esp. "long flights" (for me, that's anything 4+ hours), i usually get red-eyes when possible so i can sleep. so i trust that either Rose and i could politely do our own things for most of the flight (also we're both on the petite end - VERY handy because, uh, sorry to her but she will be in the middle seat because i always get a window seat but at least we won't be cramped like every time i end up sitting next to a dude who's 6 ft and miserable). OR we could talk about books/whatever she's writing. i'd happily rubber duck for Rose Walker. if the flight is 6 hours, are we going to the UK? i'd have a bunch of questions for her if she's going for family history stuff, so long as she's cool with that.

Desire for the train. this is mostly because i assume any sort of extended trip with Desire involves sex and i'd be less squicked out about that in a train bathroom vs a plane bathroom. i do NOT trust Desire's taste in music, so no car playlist privileges. we'd have fun gossiping about the other passengers. if this is a six hour train trip through some part of the U.S., they'd be a fun distraction from All Of The Farmland (inevitable).

9 - watch a soap opera with, go to a play with, watch your favourite movie with soap opera goes to Pierce. that bitch loves a good telenovela, i'm sure. we could make it a weekly thing. he's got theories about where Vanessa's arc is going, i've got the latest chisme on his coworkers. win-win.

Steve Murphy is so...old-fashioned, in some respects, that i'd want to go to a play with him. OBVIOUSLY it would be something queer (maybe we just go all out and see "Angels in America"). unlike Pierce, he doesn't gab the entire time, and he buys me a drink at intermission. he's quiet and profoundly, visibly uncomfortable the entire time. afterward we go to the nearest diner and he makes awkward comments on the parts he thinks were done well. i eat a stack of pancakes and stare at him.

(even more ideal than a play...a musical. i DO think Steve Murphy would low-key enjoy a musical, even if he pretended it was silly. what musical would i take Steve to? the 2023 revival of "Merrily We Roll" or maybe a Dave Malloy thing)

i'm trying to decide what my favorite movie is in this context but regardless it goes to Ty Shaw. if it's something overwhelmingly sincere, like LOTR, he's definitely already seen it and goes into the rewatch with sweet enthusiasm. if it's something in the vein of "made just for me, horse," i.e. The Social Network or Challengers, then we end up having really intense sex somewhere around Act 2. either way, he brings beer/popcorn and i either bake cookies or smuggle a bunch of candy into the local theater.

send me a number and three names

[polyamorouspunk]

How would you tell the story of your life up till now through music? Artists and bands that marked key moments, lyrics that changed how you thought, albums that helped you grow and live, etc.

This might be the best ask I’ve ever gotten.

The first music I remember listening to is what my mom played in the car: classic rock and hair metal. Specifically my mom was the one who drove me around everywhere, but that’s not to say that I didn’t listen to my dad’s music either. He would play old country on Pandora. I liked some of those songs enough that they ended up in my own music for a while, as did my mom’s.

I also remember knowing the words (in part) to a lot of my favorite kids media. Nothing specific comes to mind outside of some Scooby Doo movies. I mean, who doesn’t know the chorus to the Hex Girls song?

Middle school I had my own iPod/early iPhones/DSI that played music.

You could find songs ranging from Jingle Bell Rock to Kesha to Elvis on my DSI.

You could find AC/DC, Kenny Rodgers, Katy Perry, and more on my iPods/early iPhones. My music was really a mix of what my parents and my contemporaries listened to.

Around this time a few things musically happened around me, that I remember.

First, I also started paying more attention to the music my brother played. My brother played 90s pop, as he grew up in the 90s. Therefore there were some traces of the songs HE liked in my music too, like Gwen Stephani.

Second, my mom started playing Elvis Gospel in the kitchen radio on Sunday mornings. I’m not religious, but Elvis Gospel still brings me some childhood comfort. I also know there is a South Park parody of a very specific Elvis Gospel song.

Third, my mom would play film scores on Pandora in the living room. The channel was called “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows” and it had film scores from things like Indians Jones to Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to Inception and more.

Around this time I started listening to film scores on my own, to a point I was very invested in them and really felt like maybe that was something I wanted to do as a career. This was around 12 years old roughly. You can even find diary entries where I mention my favorite parts of film scores.

This brings me to the first favorite song I had: Forbidden Friendship by John Powell from the film How To Train Your Dragon.

I used to listen to this song on the way to school as I watched the snow fly around outside and it was truly magical.

This was peak nerd phase for me. I was heavy into Lord of the Rings and Marvel. I was even writing my classmates into a self ship LOTR fanfic and reading it to them with permission from my teacher. Ultimate cringe. I was OBSESSED with The Avengers. Still has a great film score. I was in LOVE with Pippin from LOTR, and Billy Boyd’s performance during Denathor’s order of the raid of Olisgilith to take back control, though different from the movie, was one of the most cinematic and poignant moments of the triology. Also Vigo Mortensen singing while Aragorn gets crowned as the rightful heir to Gondor? Also amazing. I really love the few reoccurring overtures in LOTR. There’s also a specific track from the third Harry Potter movie (understand, this was before anyone knew that Harry Potter was problematic, and even reading in the text I was too young and naive to put 2 and 2 together) I liked. I was a VERY avid reader at this point. I had read the Harry Potter books multiple times, starting in 2nd grade. I had read LOTR once and once was enough because honestly the books kinda suck ngl. I was high cringe because I would listen to film scores in computer class where we were allowed to listen to music (WHAT???) and I would hum VERY loudly and not realize (hello, autism?) and I was bullied for it, but I didn’t give a shit. However, I was still listening to the music of my peers, but being a bit more selective about it. Around this time I was listening to actual artists like Johnathon Young (because he covers movie soundtracks and I was really into film scores) but also more mainstream artists like Imagine Dragons, which was my best friend’s favorite band at the time.

In fact, there was one Imagine Dragons song I liked in particular, and it even came off of a Marvel soundtrack, but tracking down this song is VERY difficult outside of YouTube.

Thus enter my second favorite song ever.

I loved this song because it fit SO WELL to a ton of my favorite books and movies.

Actually, speaking of, my favorite book series, Skulduggery Pleasant, had one particular scene that I always listened to the SAME song whenever I read (and I’m telling you I probably read this book like 5 times at least). I can’t remember the song, but it was on my DSI.

Back to Imagine Dragons, by this point I’m leaving the music of my mom, my dad, and my brother behind. I’m rarely touching music on my DSI, and around this time is when I’m starting to find “my” music. This is 9th grade for me.

I love Ready, Aim, Fire by Imagine Dragons so much I cry myself to sleep at night with it I start offering it as a “music trade”, asking for my friends for song recommendations in trade for this recommendation. Two songs in particular stand out.

1. Centuries by Fall Out Boy

2. Mona Lisa by Panic! At the Disco

Thus, if YOU are my contemporary, you know this means one thing: this is 2/3 of the emo Trinity. 1/2 of the emo quartet. I’m about to become. EMO.

Summer of I wanna say 2015 was the summer of Fall Out Boy for me. I fucking LOVED Fall Out Boy. I would sit on the couch reading my YA fantasy novels for HOURS listening to Fall Out Boy. It’s funny, I used YouTube, but if I had Spotify, a decade ago FOB would have been my top artist too. Literal insanity.

I actually was able to go see Fall Out Boy, my first “real” concert, on the Boyz of Zummer tour in 2015. I still have both my tour shirts.

When I did arts and crafts, sometimes they revolves around FOB. Oh we’re face painting? Put on your war paint! There is a photo of my buried somewhere with my hair all in a frizz I think wearing my Boyz of Zummer tank top with AB/AP face paint I did myself on my face looking like a frumpy as fuck tween. It might have helped too that the person who gave me the FOB recommendation was my FP, probably my first FP tbh.

It’s the summer of 2015, I’m dating a guy, my first real boyfriend. Shitty relationship. Traumatic. I don’t want to get into details. Dumps me over text like 2-3 weeks after being MIA after I almost died at his house. Actually let’s talk about that. First songs to ever keep my sanity and basically save my life? You’re Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring and WTTBP by MCR (we’ll get back to this in a second). I’m listening to this, I’m fighting tears, I’m texting my FP freaking out, I had a gut feeling as my mom dropped me off that something wasn’t right and I should have listened. Baby’s first Big Trauma™️ to the soundtrack of YGGFK and WTTBP. Over and over and over again. Like my life fucking depended on it.

It’s 2015, I just had the worst night of my life up until that point. My ex doesn’t talk to me for 2 weeks straight and dumps me over text and I respond with “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” and never text him again, and I swore when he dumped me I was going to make the sweatshirt he gave me into a FOB sweatshirt. My FP’s favorite band. My favorite band. And the first person I tell is my FP. I loved my FP the whole time, and I hated myself for it. How could I love someone while dating someone else?

It’s 2015, my parents are getting a divorce. My brother is moving out of the house and we’re going through his things. He has a stack of CDs. I see Blink-182’s Enema of the State. I don’t know what an Enema is. I grab it and say that I’m taking that CD. I don’t think I even asked. I just said it was mine now. It was my first CD, passed down from my brother, even if unwillingly. We’re nothing alike, but at the same time, super similar. I’ve never heard him listen to Blink-182 ever. But I think music was almost less segregated back then. MTV. Teeny bop girl magazines I didn’t read because I hated boy bands with a diehard passion. The good old days.

It’s 2015. I’m uprooting my life. We’re moving house. I’m watching emo band music videos. I hated music videos up to this point. The main music video I remembered was a Nickleback music video from a song I honestly loved but was super depressing. But I had never seen anything like Danger Days. I LOVED Danger Days. And I decided that while making music was cool, directing music videos seemed a hell of a lot cooler. And I thought that’s what I wanted to do.

It’s 2015 and I become close with the person who recommended me PATD’s cousin. Really close. And he likes MCR too. I got him into it. So we start writing Ferard smut together. One day I’m staying home sick with cramps and I’m reading Ferard smut in my new bedroom and I’m thinking man I wish I was gay. And then I realize. I think I am gay.

It’s 2015 and I’m having a sexuality crisis. And I start falling in love with someone I bonded over MCR with. And our characters are in love but that’s not a story, surely that doesn’t mean anything between us… right? Or does it? And then suddenly it’s my 16th birthday and I’m feeling high on the rush of being infatuated with the person I still consider to have been my soulmate and I ask them out and they say… no. They say no. Until. They change their mind. And then they say yes. And suddenly I’m dating someone in a GAY relationship that I’m writing MCR fanfic with. And our characters had relationship issues but surely it wasn’t a metaphor for us…

By this point I wasn’t just listening to FOB and MCR as I read my nerdy YA books. I was also listening to bands like CTE, BVB, FIR, PTV, SWS… full on metalcore emo. Some dark shit. I mean, have you ever listened to Knives and Pens, and seen the music video? But I wasn’t that mentally ill, of course. I mean, other emo kids I met cut themselves. I would never do that. And I didn’t. Until this year. And I wasn’t suicidal… until, I guess, I was.

By this point I had my first internet friends I had made by being dragged into a FOB group chat. I knew these people for years, and when I disappeared one night after telling them I was thinking about killing myself, them and my ex freaked out. By this point it was senior year, I was hardly talking to my own best friends. I had a group of younger emo kids I sat with in the morning instead of my friends I grew up with. I was truly One Of The Emos™️. That night my mom had enough of my undiagnosed BPD and cut my internet. I was able to listen to music and that was what held me together. I don’t even know what I listened to. People thought I was dead.

2017, 2018, 2019 same deal, musically. I was clinically diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I was on antidepressants. I was listening to emo and metalcore music.

2019 I moved to North Carolina. That winter I started to feel… different. Like. There was a part of me who loved artists like Halsey and Hayley Kiyoko… and a part of me who loved BVB and shit… and I felt almost�� torn.

Covid hit and I started feeling more that way. Like there was the “bad”, angry part of me, and the soft, gentle part of me… so I… split. Not in a BPD way but a… I guess system way.

And thus I made this blog. This was angry me, metalcore me, and my main blog was light me, airy me, soft core me… nothing much has changed, really.

2021 I saw Ice Nine Kills for the first time in concert intentionally, my favorite band. Met a guy there, we started seeing each other, it was unhealthy, but I loved it, because my ex had just dumped me, the person I thought I was going to marry after falling in love over MCR fanfiction, and this gave me an opportunity to break out of that domestic lifestyle and be a bit of the person I felt like I couldn’t be before. 2022 I started listening to more bands like Motionless in White, who I saw with Ice Nine Kills that year. They joined my main playlist with Fall Out Boy and All Time Low and Panic! At The Disco, titled “system failure”, a reference to me realizing I was some sort of plural system, because I felt so at odds with the self who was angry and listening to metal music and using he/him pronouns to the self that loved dressing in yellow, listening to Tessa Violet, recommended to me by people who watched soft core Dan and Phil…

2023 I discovered a song by one of my favorite artists Maisie Peters, who specializes in “shitty ex boyfriend” music, that PERFECTLY highlighted the guy I had been somewhat with during that time period:

In fact, Savvy’s playlist was (and still is) filled with this “shitty ex boyfriend” genre of music. Eventually, though, that year, we even started adding some metalcore into her playlist, like In This Moment, who we saw with Ice Nine Kills again.

2024 rolls around and I am HYPED to see OG metal band Metallica headline on a tour with 5FDP and INK (again). Did not get to see INK play because they got rained out (devastating) but around this time I’m checking out some other OG metal bands that were too heavy for me at the start of my emo era, like Slipknot.

Growing up I saw older emo kids who intimidated me, but I wanted to be like them… and that’s what I aspired to be. A metalhead dude.

Backtracking a little, end of 2023 I discover a musician I’m super into as a person and an artist. Talking to him every day was a blessing during that time. Around March 2024 I started to get really depressed and started to lean into the band Beartooth, which really has some heavy music, lyrically. I spent nights upon nights crying to Beartooth in my car on the way home from work, if I wasn’t already crying at work. I had 3 bands I wanted to see last year: Tallah, Beartooth, and Electric Callboy (and INK ofc). I technically went to all of those concerts but like I said INK got rained out.

And welcome to 2025. Honestly I’ve been listening to Savvy’s playlist a lot, which contains pop music, female-led metalcore, and more.

There’s a lot more that I didn’t quite include as well.

I had a few phases where I listened to a lot of wlw music pining over girls, or at least songs that weren’t outright heterosexual, even if it was implied.

There are some classic 2010s songs on Savvy’s playlists, the highlights from that time where even if we weren’t super into pop music, the songs were good enough that they survived the test of time (aka being majorly overplayed).

We took a music production class senior year where our main influence were artists like Skrillex, who we used to hate but found a love for playing Just Dance 2014 (?) which was the artist of our favorite track to play on that game, playing it year after year.

In 2023/2024 we also discovered a love for “female hysteria music” with artists like Ethel Cain, Kiki Rockwell, Paris Paloma, and more. Songs that take history and horror and blend them into a narrative of historical suppression and exploration of women by men.

If any of these things interest you, check out my and Savvy’s accounts on Spotify:

Punk:

Savvy:

Joint playlist:

This is probably the most interesting ask I’ve ever gotten, and though it’s been sitting for a while, it was a joy to work on. Thank you so much.