#oh btw the movie was called

[moss-sprout]

Signs i need to stop reading so much fanfiction:

I watched a trailer today about a dragon slayer and dragon who were enemies but decided to work together and my first thought was "this paring, enemies to lovers, 100k words on a03 im calling it now"

what is wrong with me

[hildegardladyofbones]

One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

[xtodohdohdoyd]

Me when people say they don’t like Miguel: “I can understand why you don’t like him since he can be a jerk sometimes”

Me when people say Miguel is an irredeemable villain and that he doesn’t deserve to be spiderman: YOUR MOTHER,YOUR FATHER, YOUR ENTIRE BLOODLINE WILL BE CURSED FOR ALL ETERNITY DOOMED TO BE ERASED FROM ALL EXISTENCE FOR THE SIN YOU HAVE DONE BEFORE GOD

[questing-wulfstan]

So, I watched Remainder (2015), because I'm a simple gal who enjoys watching Tom Sturridge play various shades of unhinged gremlin on my screen and, I have my own theory :

I don't think the black out at the end is the fuse to a new loop and that it starts all over again. I think the black out is Tom's death. That Tom's been dying the whole time.

At the beginning, he's declared clinically dead, and I don't think he recovers actually. Rather, the movie is a 1 hour and 43 minutes-long stretch of the few seconds between the accident and Tom's actual death, throughout which his 'life flashes before his eyes', as the established expression go. Except part of his brain is already destroyed from the squashing, and the memories stored in it are erased, and Tom has to do with what is left for his 'life review'.

Except he does not, he's terrified of death (as human beings usually are), and he takes refuge in this ultimate surge of brain activity, lets it delude him that it is, in fact, reality. Thus, it makes no sense to him that parts of his memories are missing, and he fixates on these and endeavours to recover them, like he ought to be able to do since his brain is intact and he believes himself to have already gone through the process of, and succeeded in recovering his motive functions.

And stubborn, sort of patient, repeat has been the method to recover his motive functions, it ought to be for his memories as well.

He 'fixes' his life ー or, his memories of it ー as he goes too. I don't think he was running away from the bank robbery when he's squashed at the very beginning. The first and last scene of the movie are nearly identical, except for one detail : in the first scene, when he looks back to Catherine, she smiles and goes down the stairs towards him. She does not in the last scene.

I'm not sure what exactly was happening before the accident, but it's reasonable to infer from the informations provided throughout the movie that he found out Catherine was 'a real cunt', to quote Greg, packed his things and stormed out. That is why she's so hopeful when he turns and look at her in the first scene.

Except that is a failure, and not something Tom's unconscious want to replay last before his death, nor something he wants to go through ー again ー at all. So he reaches for something else, and grasps the memory of the news of Christopher's death. I don't think he was actually close to Christopher, but his death is 'glorious' to Tom, much more so than his own. And this might not be his own life, but if he can piece motive functions, and memories back from oblivion, surely with enough practice he can make someone else's memory his. So when he reaches the end of his life's tape, Catherine doesn't go down the stairs hopefully towards him because now he's the one who hurt her, he's dangerous, and she fears him, fears what he's capable of. The other way around than what actually happened. And much better.

Plus now, he's turned the flashing of his life before his eyes as death creeps on him into a whole other thing. Respite. Reprieve. A second chance. And surely more chances will be granted to him. Now he's in a time loop that will resume 'until the universe runs down'. Now he's endless.

Except he's not.

[nostalgia-tblr]

in other news i enjoy a bit of sifki because they are clearly exes and you know something emotionally messy happened there but you have almost no canon "facts" to work with so you can just make shit up and nobody can tell you that you're wrong. in some ways that sort of pairing is perfect for fanfiction. you get a vibe from it, but there's no explanation for that vibe so whatever you invent to make sense of it is probably going convince at least a few people.

[istherewifiinhell]

Here look i make a meme for the general vibe here

[ID: The KXCD comic of experts assuming something is general knowledge edited to be about transformers.

The first person says "Transformer names are second nature to us robot fuckers so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Optimus Prime, Megatron, and one or two decepticons."

The second person says "And Bumblebee, of course."

The first agrees "Of course."

Caption at the bottom reads "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, fans of anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field. END ID]

[legoarsonist]

something that i noticed abt the afton family: every member has a name that can be shortened down to a nickname.

William- Will, Bill.

Michael- Mike

Elizabeth- Liz

Vanessa- Ness

and another neat lil detail: aftons only really use the shortened name when they're hiding. Instead of going by David or Steven, William goes by Dave in the books and Steve in the movie when he's hiding with a cover identity. Same thing goes for Michael when he's looking for his father in the games. Where he could be using Michael he instead goes by Mike

could this be a coincidence? maybe, either way it's something neat.

[sulfvr]

I finally got round to watching Beetlejuice. This really yo man??????????

[jiatiful]

when hyunjin said that he went one day to wod and saw minho dancing with his team from soul dance in 2016 before minho joined jyp and then they met in 2017 (jyp) and when seungmin said minho probably wouldn't have met the skz members if it wasn't bc they're in the same group now and minho said he would've met hyunjin. soulmatism.

[broke-on-books]

Am I ACTUALLY going to skip class next week to raodtrip 3hrs to my friends house so we can watch star wars with her DAD

[doerot]

I finally got around to watching ready or not, and honestly, it just really cemented that I much prefer more grounded horror. Like I enjoyed it, it was fun but. I think I would have just appreciated it so much more if there wasn't a deal with the devil angle to it. Like worship satan, perform these rituals to appease him, and when you fail. When the girl survives. Nothing happens. You did it all for nothing. You killed your loved ones for nothing. The horror was of your own creation, it was all you. No higher power making you do it. You. And now you have to face the consequences.

Instead they just like. Blew up or whatever

[averydeadshootingstar]

wait so Elio is 17 and Oliver is 23...?

um..

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

DANNY PHANTOM SHIP NAME INSANITY INCOMING

[angeltannis]

How do you take a plot as amazing-on-paper as “highly intelligent alien race discovers autism and decides to come to Earth because they see it as an incredible asset and want to add it to their gene pool” and flatten it into the most boring “grizzled soldiers swear and shoot at stuff for 107 minutes” while also managing to staunchly avoid ANY sort of meaningful or interesting philosophy about neurodivergence and the subjectivity of what we consider to be disabilities. Anyway I watched The Predator (2018) last night

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

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[pandora-whowalksbetween]

i think the thing that bugs me most about there being a cruella deville character in twst is that 101 dalmations isnt... a fairy tale. it’s a book from 1956. its so weird and all i can think of is ‘what would dodie smith think of this.’ i mean she’d probably be cool with it considering how batshit anything else related to 101d is but still