#message from: mari ⁎⁺˳✧༚

[kajibunny]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers!!!

HAII MARI !!!! ☆૮꒰ˊᗜˋ* ꒱ა oh you are one of the things that make me happy too!!! seeing your msg reminds me that we have so much to be thankful for!!!~♡

1. YOU ofc!!! and mari x ume!!!!

2. miffy with headphones (reminds me of kaji for some reason) (๑>◡<๑)

3. kaji ren <33333 and the way kusumi smiles while kaji's on his phone xD

4. kind and sweet people!!! lovely mooties!!! ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ people who say 'thank you' for the little things!!!!!! positive optimistic ppl!!! ppl who have a zest for life and spread happiness!

5. pretty flowers!! ✿ from my recent visit to the rose garden in portland, oregon!

aaaa can i pls add a 6th????

6. this BEAUTIFUL KAJI X MII ART illustrated and gifted by the lovely n amazing lene!!!!!!!! (✿◕◡◕)

(a visual of 2, 3 and 5)

thank you so much for this!! wishing for your eternal happiness!!!!!

love always,

✿ mii ✿

[teyrnacousland]

Okay, I'm going to talk about the Illario comment from the AMA. This one:

It frames Illario in a way that feels like he deserves everything that happened because he is Bad. Viago, Teia, and Lucanis (and Caterina????) are Good and Illario is Bad. Illario had to be kept in check, because he is Bad. Lucanis belittles Illario because he is Bad. Caterina never respected or cared for Illario because he is Bad.

The idea that the reason Illario was treated the way he was is because everyone around him could just tell he was just inherently Not As Good As Them in some way is an awful thing to suggest, but it's also a bad storytelling choice, because it's boring? Illario is a tragedy, he's not a kids' cartoon villain. He's a victim of his circumstances, a victim of favoritism, a victim of abuse. It doesn't absolve him of his own choices (crimes), but it does explain them. In a way that is way more interesting, and tragic, and satisfying than just "well he was Bad all along".

BUT ALSO Illario isn't even that bad? Before *this*, what is the worst thing Illario has ever done? His job?? Is his crime not developing an abundance of empathy and altruism in an environment that was literally intentionally designed to turn him into a ruthless killer?? He is pretty selfish and only cares about himself and his family (which is, again, exactly how he was raised to be), but just because he isn't "good" doesn't mean he's evil.

In The Wigmaker Job when Lucanis asks him to, he rounds up the slaves and gets them to safety even though he thinks they should kill them because they're witnesses. Lucanis says he trusts Illario, says he "may be a snob, but he's true to his word", and he IS! Illario could have just left them and made up some excuse, and the only consequence would have been Lucanis being mad/disappointed, but he didn't. Both Lucanis and Teia mention that he is the one who follows Lucanis and helps put out all the proverbial fires Lucanis starts. Illario doesn't have to put up with any of this. He chooses to follow Lucanis, and chooses to help people when Lucanis asks him to. He's not evil, he is very explicitly neutral.

Because while Illario doesn't have empathy for strangers (which is a survival thing! He can't feel empathy for people he has to kill them! Lucanis is an anomaly) he has an abundance of it for Lucanis. He worries about Lucanis, he cares about Lucanis! He resents Caterina's treatment of not only himself, but Lucanis too. He wouldn't send someone he loves out to die on dangerous missions, and part of him resents that Caterina does it to Lucanis. ("If I was in charge, you wouldn't have to do this anymore.")

And, genuinely, if Caterina had spontaneously decided to retire to some remote island somewhere after The Wigmaker Job and leave Illario in charge, what would happen? What horrible crimes would an "unchecked" Illario have unleashed upon the world that Caterina had to protect us all from? Firing Lucanis? Honestly probably not even that, since it's more likely he'd play up his own rashness in an attempt to convince Lucanis that he most definitely should not leave Illario unattended and should instead stay safe and sound by his side, since that's the tactic he uses to convinced Lucanis to join him in this note ("Would you truly leave me to my own devices? What would I do without you!")

Illario isn't a bad person, and Caterina wasn't "keeping him in check" oh my god.

[marie-cuttlefish]

Hey. It's me, Marie (obviously) with a super important message.

If you see this blog user around tumblr, block there butt. They have been sending rude, threatening and racist messages/asks to people who don't agree with the Big Man x Callie ship or other things they ship or like. They sent a very horrible message to me and they called me a racial slur on my other blog. Rude, huh? They are also sending Callie x Marie pictures to people too, including me. Yeah, gross, I know.

If I were you I just wouldn't message back or answer the ask. It's only going to make it worse.

So please, to protect you from these things please block them straight away.

Stay fresh, stay safe, AND BLOCK THEM!!!

Thank you. 💚

[booasaur]

From (2022) - 2x07

[waateeystein]

Okay y'all I'm doing it, I'm once again analyzing an out-of-context picture from Guillermo De Toro's Frankenstein movie! I am now donning on my "grad student studying scenography" hat lets fucking go!

First off, What are the giant green vats? Is there a significance to having two of them, what step of the creation process are they related to, what's the deal here??? Everything else I can kind of see what the inspiration or reference is, but these green vats are running a big blank for me. I don't immediately hate them, I'm just mostly curious. They are certainly a vibe!

The next thing that is immediately striking is the massive window, and I'm kind of obsessed with it! From the Vanity Fair article we get this very relevant quote from Del Toro, "Gothic romance was born partially out of the fascination with ruins - Sometimes they’re more beautiful than the building complete because it’s the clash of creation and destruction." We have this beautiful gothic-style window contrasting the massive abandoned structure it seems to be inside of. The architecture of it all reminds me of gothic cathedrals, and I don't want to make a call yet on whether or not Victor has set up shop in an abandoned cathedral or church, but I do think that would be funny if it was the case. A bit of extra research taught me that they did use the Glasgow Cathedral as a filming location, I'm unsure if it was specifically for this scene, but it definitely gives us a sense of direction as far as inspirations for the production design.

What is confusing me about the architecture is the metal grates on the ground. It makes me think sewer grate or basement drainage, but the massive window directly next to it says very high above ground, so I don't know what going on with where exactly in the building we are. It makes sense to have it here from a practical "I have a bunch of oozy body parts on ice in here and those juices need somewhere to go" perspective. Idk, it looks neat and it might just be a suspense of disbelief moment.

Speaking of those oozy bodies, holy shit body parts! I honestly didn't fully process the giant piles of flesh on my first viewing of this picture, but damn those are fucking great! It really puts into perspective the sheer amount of matter that Victor would need to make his creation (I mean look at the blood on those sleeves), and how messy that process is. I feel like a lot of adaptations I've seen don't lean into that gorey aspect of the story, so I really appreciate that they are doing that here. I'm especially a fan of the giant ice block cooling what seems to be a head and torso, I don't know who got that big ass hunk of ice on that table but I'm impressed. The set dressing overall is really fucking impressive and is super effective, I really could dive into the details forever!

There are also a lot of big mechanical things happening here, like the massive wheels by the windows for instance. I'm not sure what these are or what they say about the original usage of the space, I was trying to search for what these might be, but because my personal knowledge on this is very limited, I have no clue what to even search to find more information on them. If anyone has any hints for me I'd appreciate some direction! The other mechanical thing we see is the table that the creature is laying on. Looking at the way it's attached to the ground, and the block at the creature's feet, I'm guessing this table tilts upwards to bring the creature to a full standing position.

On the creature himself, I think this was our first look at the creature design! I am cautiously optimistic about this design, but really I think I need to see his face to make a final call on how positive or negative I personally feel about it. This movie, from all evidence I've seen, seems to have a lot of influence from the 1931 James Whale film, in addition to Mary Shelley's original story. This creature seems to be more closely aligned to the book description, but again I don't think we see enough of him here to make a full judgement call on that. At least he's not green!

Overall, this first look is really cool, I'm really excited to see what production designer Tamara Deverell, set decorator Shane Vieau and costume designer Kate Hawley do with Del Toro's direction! This wasn't the deepest analysis ever, it's hard to do it justice when we know so little and everything we do have is out of context. But I'm excited to get more production photos eventually!

[bandzboy]

discord putting voice messages is gonna be a mistake bc i am gonna use that all the time like i'm doing a podcast in my friends dms

[spooky-something]

These playlists are gonna make me cry, I can't, they're so bad...

Don't you dare try to gaslight me, Victor would NOT listen to Will Wood, leave him out out this...

Like, for actual characterization, this one had it, a lot of these songs are actually on our own Frankenstein playlist...

Heavy on HAD...

[thebandghostofficial]

[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]

We wish to inform you Ghost's song "Mary On A Cross" has gone Silver on the UK #officialcharts. Thank you for your continued support.

[myremnantarmy]

"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬."

[bxriles]

I’m not going to waste my time responding to the insane hate messages I’ve gotten for being critical of acotar and SJM. I’m just deleting them because they’re likely all from the same person who’s too scared to come off anon and they don’t deserve the attention, but I would like to point out the following:

No one, and I mean no one, is demonizing Feyre for discussing her trauma from her time in the cabin. That is not what’s happening here. People (myself included) are criticizing Feyre for her inability to acknowledge the fact that she wasn’t the only sister suffering in that cabin. People are criticizing Feyre for shifting all the blame that should be on Papa Archeron to her sisters who were also children at the time.

Like be so fucking for real with me.

[quatregats]

Truly one of the most intriguing songs on this album and that's saying a lot

[vieja-histerica]

Imagine casting Anne Hathaway, Chris Pine, Raven Symone, Mandy Moore AND JULIE ANDREWS in your DISNEY MOVIE, of all things, and NOT making it a musical

[borgialucrezia]

who are your all time top 5 favorite characters and shows?

ohhh this is the most difficult question for me because instead of answering all time favs i just dump by current fixations 😭 but i'll give it a shot, here goes (i promise this is legit but every character number has two characters tied);

1. lucrezia and juan borgia (the borgias)

2. sam and dean winchester (supernatural)

3. queen maeve and soldier boy (the boys)

4. sonny and michael corleone (the godfather)

5. emma of normady and earl godwin (valhalla)

now, top 5 shows:

1. the borgias (duhh)

2. cw's supernatural (kripke era)

3. cw's nikita

4. bbc's the virgin queen

5. prime amazon's the boys

[littleplantfreak]

may i bring to you happy-go-lucky, embarrassing, sometimes dumb-as-a-rock bf umemiya with his much calmer, smart little gf who’s always busy doing SOMETHING. it could be working or studying some new topic or reading or literally anything, but she’s always busy. he doesn’t always understand what she’s talking about or what she’s reading, but he’s excited anyway. her brain is almost always on the move and sometimes she can’t sleep, but she can always count on her big, muscular, hung bf to take care of her.

and HE’S always MORE than happy to stuff her full over and over again and bully her twitchy, little clit until she’s sobbing and squirting all over the his pelvis and her brain is leaking onto the sheets below from between her weak, shaky thighs :(( he always holds her up, more than strong enough to support her weight even after her body gives out and her head lolls uselessly. she’s so fucked-out that she can barely feel the feverish, sweet kisses he presses to whatever skin he can reach and the way he pants against her neck as he drives her to the peak of her final orgasm. and it hits HARD. the most powerful one of the night, and the one that all but solidifies his satisfaction that this will be her best night of sleep yet.

and he’s right. she oversleeps the following morning, actually.

yeah so this is actually about you if you didn’t notice

i left you alone in discord for FIFTEEN MINUTES and this is what you do? You’re a sadistic sick girl smh Togame ur brat’s running loose in aisle Mari over here

[astarionass]

mutuals i love your ocs. i rarely have a social battery these days but please know i am staring at them all lovingly like the autism creature every time you post about them or infodump in tags of a random post. i see it and i love u and them

if we’re mutuals i will happily give you my discord