#me; movies under the stars

[ravensrevcnge]

Closed for @fadedstarsfms | Noah & Adelaide @ White Willow Winery - Movies Beneath the Stars / Victor's, technically

There had been plenty of times that Noah had ventured out to Victor's place when visiting Raven's Peak, whether or not Victor was in town as well. It was touching, though he'd probably never put voice to the thought, to find that Victor had been here at one point or another stashing bottles of wine that he thought Noah and the rest of them would appreciate. Even if their paths hadn't physically crossed.

He was only slightly surprised to find Adelaide amongst the bottles in Victor's personal cellar as he made is way down to find a fresh bottle to waste away a little more time with. He hummed in acknowledgement of her presence as his eyes roamed over to where Victor typically stashed bottles for him. "Great minds think alike, I suppose. But what are you doing down here all by yourself?"

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[staghunting]

it is a cool choice to write regulus as being permanently in sirius' shadow and would grate against that. i understand that some writers make this the basis for the j/egulus dynamic of "i am deeply in love with my brother's best friend but It Cannot Be because my brother and i have a weird relationship", but it's hard to write that without changing a lot of their personalities. while i can see how good writers would take a mile if you gave them an inch of inspiration, i never got on the j/egulus train simply because i was rotted by a more compelling ship route to take

namely, that regulus would get with snape in order to get back at sirius.

your baby brother falling in love with your amazing best friend? ew, but also, you can't fault his taste. your baby brother doing the nasty the worst supremacist scum in the british isles, on the other hand? vile! disgusting! treacherous! sirius would absolutely go nuts if his baby brother debased himself in such a way– which is exactly why i think regulus would go for it. it is the sort of slytherin-flavored vengeance that befits regulus more than softly angsting under dramatic light in a corner

and the reason why sirius would freak is for a multitude of reasons! regulus is a black– pureblooded, high-class, honor above all. sirius' value system of honor would not accept that his own blood would associate with hypocrite supremacists such as snape (though sirius himself is a hypocrite through regulus' eyes because he loudly goes against their traditions but wants to effectively manage and control someone within the institution he left)

perhaps, years later, sirius might still wash out some of regulus' blame— his idiot brother, too soft to know when his lover (shudder) was joining a supremacist organization

but snape is an effective knife for regulus to hold against his brother simply because snape is the sirius-that-never-will-be

because snape is accepted by the same family that callously disowned sirius! he breaks bread with the black cousins! joined the same after-school traditionalist club! quite possibly (i don't remember if it was canon) also named draco's godfather! sirius hated that this greasy git fit better into his family than he ever would

(and had he lived longer, he would be simmering with envy of how effortlessly snape still swans in their circle despite being proved a LITERAL SPY. he is stuck and tied in his house but snape, of all people, gets to have afternoon tea with bella and cissa)

and snape hates sirius because he is effortlessly powerful and cool– even by muggle standards!! it is hard to be cool by muggle standards when there's so much going on in that world but somehow, this posh bloke steps in london and immediately becomes a café racer. he transfigures his robes to mimic muggle clothing and still looks fashionably rockstar handsome instead of looking like he came from a multicolored freakshow circus like every wizard trying to fit in the muggle world

sirius bought a nice flat in the richer side of london right after graduating, without looking for a job. he knows what the current movies are, has paid for all of his friends to watch it together, and is in tune with muggle life the way he would never be

(the day snape found out that sirius, who was raised on enchanted concertos and magical singing kitchenware, bought a pregnant lily potter VIP seats to an artist's concert— the artist who they both first heard on a rickety radio player in his mother's house— he flipped his shit and applied for his second masters)

they are soooo deeply jealous of each other's ability to fit in. and it would make for a really good dynamic. all three of them are playing each other like fiddles

[deer-with-a-stick]

The more time I spend explaining Tolkien lore to my brother the more I realize that Tolkien was just batshit insane

[lemon-wedges]

...

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Rory 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Rory Hugh Culkin

July 21,1989

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

21 Luglio 1989

[notgonnaedit]

At the beach

Bros: *trying to catch fish in nets*

Me: There's always a bigger fish.

Me:

Me: What's that from? Moby Dick?

Dad: *stares at me* It's Qui-gon. In the Phantom Menace.

Me:

Dad:

Me:

[poems-of-a-lover]

stargazing dates <3

[astriiformes]

@weird-ecologies tagged me to name my Top 4 movies from the year I was born, which means I get to expose myself as someone who does not actually watch that many movies AND as a devotee of one particular very questionable movie (Doctor Who TV Movie my beloved, and also a staple of my high school years, for better or for worse)

Including the Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet is sort of a questionable call here because I've only ever seen part of it, but I truly did not have another strong contender for my fourth film and also I respect the concept of weird maximalist Shakespeare on a deep personal level, so I feel like it's allowed to stay.

Tagging @marypsue @howsyourweirdbrotherdoing @thesixthstar @fishdetective @wild-west-wind and @chaumas-deactivated20230115 to join in if you want, though like with all tag memes it is of course totally optional

[ravensrevcnge]

Closed for @glitchfms | Kara & Banks @ White Willow Winery - Movies Beneath the Stars

"Okay Banks, listen," Kara says, catching her nephew's shoulder and shaking it. "I know that I am cool, fun, awesome, the best company ever, Aunt Kara. I understand why you'd rather hang out with me than your friends tonight. I totally get it. But what if...we find you a hot date, instead?" Now she was patting him on the back excitedly, like this was the best idea she could've ever come up with. "Yes. Yes. Okay, we are totally doing this. You deserve a nice person in your life, okay? And listen, it doesn't even have to be romantic or anything. Just like. I don't know we'll figure it out." She brushed her fingers through his hair, straightening up the strands, before looking him over. "Maybe you should try like," she waved her hands, "A smile! That will really draw them all in. Unless you're really looking to sell the broody look. Which is totally okay, too. You do you."

[thresholdbb]

Losing my mind over Year of Hell (again)

You would think that the Voyager episode that parallels 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea would be Thirty Days, since it’s about an ocean planet and they name drop Jules Verne, but nope, it’s Year of Hell, specifically part 2

Annorax is Captain Nemo — Paris even calls him that at one point. He has countless rare treasures aboard his ship, much like the submarine Nautilus. He is a mysterious figure, a person who has cast himself out of society.

He takes Chakotay and Paris prisoner at the end of part 1. Chakotay plays Aronnax to Annorax’s Captain Nemo, indulging him and participating in the temporal incursions. He defends Annorax’s actions to Tom Paris, aka Space Harpooner Ned Land. He is scheming to get out from the second they are on board, and he is moody and frustrated with Chakotay’s collaboration with Annorax. There is no direct parallel to Conseil, though the argument can be made that its Tom’s buddy Obrist. Annorax makes secret attacks and has motives that are unknown to his prisoners, even though Chakotay is working with him.

Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land escape the Nautilus when the submarine encounters a maelstrom. In Year of Hell, Voyager and Captain Janeway together are the maelstrom. She is a force to be reckoned with that destroys the time ship and Annorax. Her actions free the timeline and consequently Chakotay and Tom Paris.

During/after the Voyager maelstrom, we learn Annorax lost his wife under unknown circumstances. His grief for the loss of his family motivates his vengeance, which we get hints of from the beginning. During 20,000 Leagues, we don’t learn Nemo’s full story, much like we only get hints of Annorax’s life before the events of Year of Hell. Was Annorax a prince/royal of some sort before he lost everything? We see him in a kind of palace after his ship is destroyed, so he could be royal since Nemo is the son of a maharajah.

If they had made Year of Hell a whole season, they certainly could have drawn more parallels between the two stories. As it is, Tom Paris who has read Jules Verne clearly picked up on the similarities.

[woodelf68]

For @nostalgiamonth's Monday "music" prompt --

American singer-songwriter Jim Croce wrote Time In A Bottle when he found out his wife of five years, Ingrid, was finally pregnant with a much wanted child. It appeared on his first major label solo album You Don't Mess Around With Jim in 1972, but was not released as a single at the time. Then, on September 12, 1973, an ABC TV movie called She Lives aired and used the song to good effect. The movie is about a young couple who fall in love, only to face a devastating battle when the woman is diagnosed with cancer. The movie ends with the cancer having gone into remission, and Time In A Bottle begins to play as the man rejoices in the fact that he's going to get a second chance at a life with the woman he loves. The television studio was deluged with calls from viewers asking about the song, and by the next morning, Croce's record label had already received 50,000 orders for the album.

Demand for the song to be released as a single increased when on September 20, while on tour to promote his next upcoming album, Jim Croce died in when the airplane he was in crashed shortly after takeoff, killing everyone on board. He was only 30 years old. Five days later, his wife received a letter that he had mailed her while on tour, saying that he wanted to quit the music business in favour of writing endeavours that would allow him to stay at home and spend more time with her and their son, Adrian James. AJ was only 8 days away from his second birthday when his father died, and the lyrics to the song -- to treasure every moment of the time you have with the people that you love, because it will never be enough -- became even more meaningful in the wake of Croce's tragic death.

Time In A Bottle was released as a single in November 1973 and entered the Billboard 100 Top 40 chart for the week ending December 1. It reached the Number One spot on December 29, three months after Croce's death, and stayed there for two weeks, a fitting memorial to a talent whose life was snuffed out way too soon.

[ask-zacharies-snackarie]

He's doomed by the narrative, ahhh he's mad 🤣🤣

[hauntingblue]

I love this movie about.... zoro's past boyfriend being taken over by a curse

[likeimsittinginanairportbar]

just watched dune for the first time, greig fraser the cinematography genius that you are