#maybe it's more of a hamlet than a town tbh

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life could be a dream...

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Sea Monster and Tressures

captain! Ellie x pirate! Reader

In which instead of finding your brother in a pirate crew, you end up fighting the Ellie Williams, the infamous pirate. however, fighting would not be the end goal, for Ellie longs for something deep, every time she sees you.

Content warning: swearing, smoking, mentions of drugs and alcohol, burglary, fights, swords, denigration, abandonment issues, a bit of gore, you aren't the good guy, neither is Ellie lol. Morally grey characters tbh.

The village you were in wasn’t much than a shaggy mess, with infants running wild alongside goats and small dogs, the people, mean eyed and guarded up. The rumours of pirates and thieves expanded alongside the shores hamlets, melting the people together in fear of being disposed of the little to no belongings they had. So you could imagine how they must feel, when a new woman in town appear out of nowhere, no men beside her, only one horse and a brass hip flask with leather cover. Your dishevel appearance did not much to help you. Your Whild locks leaps with every step and jump that Callous, your beautiful brown horse gives. You found him after a village was sweep by burglars, however, you knew she had something to do with it.

You have been following her every step, from coast to coast, in land or sea. she feels like a smoked dream, a foggy memory of the fantasy your soul desired.  At first it felt like admiration, the town you were born at knew her pretty well, so much so that your older brother got to talk to her, agreed upon being part of her navigation. He was your best friend, so, naturally, you thought, he would not leave you behind in the filth, down with the woman who took care of every parentless child. You were wrong…

For the longest time you thought he had abandon you, how dare him not take you alongside his adventure, an aspiration you so much longed for ever since a toddler. And then it got to you, the need of revenge, how fucking dare him leaving you behind, knowing fully well how capable you are, how much you hated were you lived, and how much you loved the sea. Finding him at first wasn’t easy. so you thought, he, a nobody, the leads came to abrupt ends very fast. So now, the target was her, however, you came to realize that maybe, she was always who you were hoping to find.

You knew as much of her as the stories could tell, have never even seen her face before, it was told that she was a natural beauty, auburn hair and freckles, green unwelcoming eyes that didn’t forget nor forgive. The more you heard about her, the more you wanted to be likewise, or alongside…

She wasn’t even much older than you, if the rumours were true, she could only be around three or so years older than you, then… how come a 23 year old achieve as much as she had…

Walking along the narrow streets with callous wasn’t the easiest task, the people selling stuff outside their doors, making the way even thinner, residing like the forgotten path of a river, the chatter could be hear from everywhere, the screams of the kids and the barks of the dogs, the smell of the sea intensified, you knew what was coming, you could feel it in your skin as the air got chiller, it was the first time in all your journey were you had arrive on time.

Agitating the reels of Callous, signalled him to move faster, this time not caring on portraying a low profile. the dangles in your hair clacking alongside with the jewellery that you had taken from your past visits, as to not forget, how many places you’ve been.

Callous was sprinting, moving alongside the shore the sand heavy behind you, leaving clouds large enough to find your whereabouts from miles away, you saw it. The sea monster, the grandiose nature couldn’t compare to anything you’ve seen before, the sea fog opened itself for it, in fear it might have repercussions itself. The plan? It was easy, find your brother, fight with him, and when he feels his defeat, you forgive his life, in exchange of course, to convince the E llie Williams, to join her crew…

Honestly, this is only like a synopsis, cause I would like to know if you want to read the full thing…

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I watched Speed and Speed 2: Cruise Control the other week and they were both really awesome!

The first one with Keanu Reeves trying to keep the bus going at the same speed, well really Sandra Bullock did it while he did other stuff ... he never drove the bus like I expected or not for long if he did. He found the bomb and did other stuff and then tried to stop that train at the end but ended up going off the rails to save them and also the elevator scene at the start. I actually think the elevator scene at the start was the most exciting part, the bus and train was exciting too but I dunno the elevator bit was quite good too. 

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock were both really awesome in it and had so much chemistry!~ not surprising since we found out on both their recent appearances on Ellen that they did both have a crush on each other but didn’t do anything about it which is cute and sad but we’ve all been there. Awww, imagine if they’d gotten together and were still together, that’d be cute. But at least their still friends, as he said they might not have kept that friendship if they’d gotten together and if they’d broken up. They did get together at the end of the movie and made out which was hot but it didn’t last in the movie franchise as he didn’t appear in the second for whatever reason.

I wasn’t sure about watching the second one but wanted to because I do quite like Jason Patric and I actually think I enjoyed it maybe slightly more than the original. This time Sandra Bullock was with Jason and their characters were together from the start and she explained she broke up with Keanu because as she said in the first movie repeatedly, relationships born in extreme situations don’t last and it was true. 

I thought the plot and action was kind of more exciting than the first movie tbh with you. I didn’t expect to but I did I think enjoy it more.

Plus Willem Dafoe made for an awesome dying villain who was trying to get back at the company that fired him after he got ill because of the work he did for them. BTW, I Googled it and you can not get what he had from computers if you were wondering and what he used would not cure it which I didn’t think so but I was curious and it got the better of me and literally the number one site that came up said “a lot of people have been asking if you can actually get sick like he did in Speed 2 and the answer is no” and it explained it lol. Now I can’t find the site again and I can’t remember what I Googled but I tried a few things. Oh, found it here when I looked at my internet history. Willem Dafoe was crazy insane and birthed an internet meme from his crazy eyes in the scene where she tried to reel back Jason Patric. He’s just such a good actor. I’d say much better at acting than Dennis Hopper who is more B List whereas Willem is A List. I’ve just never been impressed by Dennis Hopper much (didn’t think much of him in Easy Rider when I saw that either in film class), he doesn’t have much range I don’t think which Willem has in spades. I think they should have cast a better actor as the villain in the first movie tbh and I would’ve liked it more I think. Dennis was okay but nothing more, Willem brought it. He was the better villain by far. 

I just thought there seemed more action in the second one if you ask me. It was really big set pieces, the first had them too but it seemed like this had more I think. It was more explosive. The end where the boat went through the town was insane and so awesome! It was more fun.

Jason Patric also got topless a few times so we got some fanservice which we never got from Keanu Reeves. I love Keanu Reeves but don’t think he was topless in it. Jason Patric is also gorgeous like Keanu and got topless. 

Apparently, Reeves only turned it down because he read the script and thought a ship was slower than a bus lol. Well yeah but it was still an exciting movie and better if you ask me tbh. It seems he thinks Fox blacklisted him for 14 years after because he turned it down. That doesn’t surprise me that they’d be salty after thinking they made him in to an action star. That also says he did Hamlet instead. Gotta be careful in Hollywoodland, you don’t know who you’ll piss of. Not saying they should do things they don’t want to but it was a bit of a silly reason to pull out just thinking it was a slower form of transport still. But whatever floats your boat ... or not lol.

I’d definitely say watch both and see what you think and see if you enjoy the second too as much as I did. Just forget the first had Keanu and roll with the punches and use it as a form of escapism and it’s a good movie in it’s own right just like the first one was. The only connection really is Sandra Bullock and transport. There are some others on IMDb who believe the same as me and the second was better so it’s not just me that thought it had more action and better and bigger set pieces. I also maybe think in this case Jason Patric was better in the leading role of man of action than Keanu tbh.

The second one was also funnier and Sandra and Jason also had good chemistry and were funnier together although she was funny at times with Keanu. It was funny seeing her taking her driving test at the start and end of the movie again too, I like when they mirror what happened at the start. Plus, it was just funny. As someone who just booked my practical for the end of August after passing my theory last week I hope I don’t do as bad as her lol. I don’t think I will. She makes me laugh driving. I’m surprised she passed it the first time, but a lot of times she distracted from talking.

Keanu Reeves and Jason Patric <3

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I tried reading Hamlet before, it was a miss for me. Maybe I would try Romeo and Juliet. Can you recommend some Shakespeare or any classic stories in general that I could read?

oh boy here we go

first of all, out of the Shakespeare plays I have now read (I have not yet read many of the works which are considered Shakespeare’s best!!!), I’d rec these (purely based on my own enjoyment lmao):

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (you’d already read this one)

Love’s Labour’s Lost

A comedy about four guys who vow to fast, avoid women and sex, and sleep as little as possible so they can study and become intelligent/renowned. Cue the arrival of a French princess with her three lady attendants.

“Wise fools”, a witty pair of lovers, poking fun at artifice and pretense, sexual jokes -- this play’s got it all.

Romeo and Juliet

This is the play I finished most recently. I know there’s a lot of debate about a lot of things, especially about how young the main characters are and how quickly they fall in love and blah blah blah, but I loved it. Yes, they fall in love immediately (”love at first sonnet”) but it’s so. beautifully. written. Like, I’m the first in line to complain about instalove but. The point is, if it’s well-written and there are symbolical meanings and shit, I don’t see a problem. (And it’s not like the play itself glorifies what happens to R&J??? Like, none of it tries to say, “look at this, how great, this is what love’s supposed to be like, killing yourself over someone!!” Like there’s a bigger plot and point re: feuding btw the families and pride and how it’s all so irrational and ridiculous and pointless and R&J’s tragic deaths are what finally(!!!) seem to get through to the parents (maybe??? do the parents really understand what’s what in the end??))

There’s some really elaborate and deliberate use of language throughout the play and the theme of opposites (light/dark, bawdiness/love, young/old) is pretty cool. My favourite thing is probably how the play is structured as a comedy (with lots and lots of foreboding remarks) that turns to tragedy halfway through (Marjorie Garber calls it “a comedy gone wrong, a comedy turned inside out” in her book Shakespeare After All).

Henry VI tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III)

History plays! I’ve gathered not a lot of people care for these that much(?) but I really liked reading them, especially 3 Henry VI and Richard III, mostly because there are some really interesting female characters in these (Margaret, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Lady Anne).

Basically, these are dramatic retellings of the Wars of the Roses; there’s lots of corruption and infighting at court and civil war.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

For some reason I have a soft spot for this very early (and slightly weak) romantic comedy. Maybe because it’s filled with tropes that Shakespeare would refine in his later plays, so it’s just fun to read it and see how it anticipates his later works idk.

Anyway, The Two Gents is about two guys who fall in love with ppl and shit happens; there are love triangles, cross-dressing, horrible dominating fathers, horrible men in general, elopement plots, friends made rivals in love, clownish servants, and A DOG.

And now, to some non-Shakespearean classics I’d like to rec (fair warning: I haven’t really read all that many, especially recently TT____TT also, the total lack of female writers on this admittedly short list is very distressing to me!! pls someone rec me some classics written by women!!):

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Art for art’s sake, the most important thing is The Aesthetic™.

Dorian Gray is a philosophical meditation and a Victorian thriller about an exceptionally handsome man whose portrait starts to age while the man himself stays young and good-looking.

The Iliad by Homer

I don’t even know how to sell this tbh. Just, there are heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses, and war, and the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus pretty much made me cry.

I read a beautiful, lyrical Finnish translation of this last year -- it was superb!!! and I can only thank Otto Manninen (the translator) for making that experience possible for me! (the descriptions of achilles’s grief killed me)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I’ve been planning a reread of this ever since I first read it in like two years ago. I read it super quickly so I don’t have much to say except I loved it and that it’s so much more than most film/theatre adaptations lead you to believe (so many side plots and side characters and side stories and shit that just don’t fit into a couple of hours).

I seem to really gravitate towards super long books with a million different characters... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1-3 (Under the North Star 1-3) by Väinö Linna

Probably interesting to us Finns only, idk, thought I’d rec it anyway.

This trilogy is a sprawling family saga about the Koskela family (and some of the other inhabitants of the Finnish small town in which they live) from the 1880s to the 1950s. It explores the major historical events and social changes during that time in Finland (e.g. language strife, nationalism, socialism, WWI, Finland’s independence, civil war, WWII, etc.) through the perspectives of ordinary people.

I cried buckets. My favourite part was the second book (”The Uprising”), which centres around the civil war between the Whites and the Reds bc I’m very very very interested in that part of Finnish history (and it was also probably the saddest book and I apparently live for tragedy and death who knew???).