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Ten years after : Only Lovers Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John Hurt. An international coproduction between the United Kingdom and Germany, the film focuses on the romance between two vampires and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film…
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The aesthetics of this movie >>>
only lovers left alive (2013)
#i want to live in this movie#personal aesthetic#books books books#chaotic academia#that wall is a need#only lovers left alive#aesthetic#goth aesthetic#vampire#dark academia#tilda swinton#tom hiddleston#jim jarmusch#film stills#cinematography#music#indie
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but then i started dreaming of you. and there you were. you and i fell in love in different ways, and it kept me going. and then you were gone, too. i couldn't see your face anymore, just like i couldn't see carl's. i can't live without you. without you, i die.
#rick grimes#yearner of all time#1/2 of the only lovers left alive#michonne#richonne#the ones who live#towl 1x01#**#i'm still here. and never getting over him keeping himself alive by dreaming up infinite ways of falling in love with her because wdym??#the way it's colder and darker in that last dream autumn/early winter nature around them dying just like him? yeah. devastating#towl#towl moments
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as much as i love traditionally married dreamling - and do i - i also have this bruised softness in my heart for 'what we have is outside relationship constructs, define it at your own peril' dreamling, for 'drifting in and out of each other's orbit with each other as perennial anchor point' dreamling, 'i haven't seen you in sixty years but what's that to an immortal, you are always in my heart' dreamling, 'our lives are not quite one but neither are they apart' dreamling. drop in on me, i am always ready to welcome you. and i will always let you go.
hob as a fixture, a constancy, a hearth, and dream as a wild creature coming in from the cold. it cannot be kept, and you would commit no such sin of trying to, but it can be held, warm, before the fireplace for a while. let it go, and trust that it will come back.
hob as a wanderer, life to life to life, and dream as an ancient, enduring kingdom whose protection is reachable just by closing your eyes. continuance impossible in the waking world but offered as easily as a kiss on the cheek.
there is no keeping a dream, is the thing. and dream does not want to be kept, but he does want to be held, held and let go and held again with those arms always open to him. there is no keeping an adventurer, either, and hob is an adventurer at heart, always ready to see, do, the next thing, but adventurers need a home, too, one that doesn't mind when they come back a little bit different.
go where you need to, when you need to. carry my love with you. and come back to me.
that kind of dreamling.
#aka the dynamic of only lovers left alive#auressea if youre out there i saw your comment on the desire fic about relationship anarchy and i was thinkin about it thanks#and then i was reading about it and found the term anchor person and i was like oh.yes#this is not to say they *cant* have domestic married life they can they contain multitudes XD#though the more i think about it the more i think hob would not be happy being permanently in the dreaming#like if dream were to be like hey do u want to come live with me here. he wouldn't want to. unless he was literally going to die or somethn#he can make a second home of it sure and he does love it there but he's a creature of the waking world almost more so than most others#like dream is a creature of the dreaming. or rather is the dreaming#anyway#the sandman#dreamling#sandman meta#idk i guess?#just thoughts#my writing
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[ Caroline Walker-Bynum || Dungeon Meshi || Dracula || Ana Mendieta || Sister-book of Adelhausen (ca. 1318) || Robert Wun || Anne Carson (1986) || St. Caterina who drinks from the blood of Christ (1594) || Carolyn Walker-Bynum || Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) ]
#Wonderful Blood#Dungeon Meshi#ana mendieta#Dracula#robert wun#anne carson#only lovers left alive#medieval#blood#vampire#I really like the scene in DM where Marcille runs her own blood through her hair to do magic#and I have been reading a lot of medieval theory about blood and the body lately#this is the result#blood as living#blood as life#mine#web weaving
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the way those old men in Chernobyl are literally in love is insane
#enemies to lovers speedrun coz they only have like 3 minutes left to live#live autocorrected to love. so real#hbo chernobyl#chernobyl 2019#chernobyl
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Uryu and Chad are gay married by the end of the manga. In this essay i will
#bleach#it's half-joking but not entirely so#see both are kinda each other's foils on several ways (uryu is also ichigo's foil in some ways but that's for another post)#both have a promise to each other relating to their ancestors and both eventually break it#to me there's no greater symbolism to queerness than breaking family expectations (even if they were only self-imposed like in uryu's case)#then they go on to live lives they weren't supposed to live back in their youths (-AHEM-)#also they're the two characters who never got married to girls by the end of the manga despite being enough girls in the cast for it#and you can see his face while watching chad's fight can't you? that's not the face a straight guy makes while watching a friend fight.#that's clearly a lovestruck look. uryu is watching his lover utterly kicking some guy's butt with loving eyes.#kubo could NEVER make them canon endgame because of shonen publishers' rampant homophobia#we do have another implied gay couple in the manga which are ikkaku and yumichika (don't tell me they WEREN'T a couple you know they were)#but again we could only see them bickering and caring about each other in a way no two bros usually do and never see any confirmation#(no like it WAS pretty darn obvious)#and if kubo couldn't make those two side characters openly be a couple do you think he would be able to do so to two MAIN characters?#but yeah tite kubo left all the hints in there because he knew some people would get it#(and let's be real here kubo KNOWS his audience or else he wouldn't fill the manga with well-dressed pretty boys)#i should be paying attention to class but i'm getting bored by it oops
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Sweet tooth characters as things I find on pinterest (part 41)
#posting this one early cause i got excited about it !!#but it's literally them and their entire dynamic captured in a single quote#like they seriously both acted and spoke like lovers (or an old married couple when arguing)#and i think for them that was enough for them at the time since they number 1 were the leaders of an entire army#and were busy spending their time saving hybrids and killing last men and just didn't dwell on what their relationship actually was#or actually talk about their feelings for each other and just ran on a label of best friends to both describe what their relationship was#and to also kinda convince themselves that their feelings for each other were just them being best friends and not in love#but also number 2 they were scared of admitting their feelings for each other because if they did everything they built#and have might come crashing down on them and they weren't going to let that happen since it's the only thing they have left#in their lives since they've both lost everything else before and they didn't want to lose each other as well#sweet tooth show#sweet tooth netflix#bear sweet tooth#kenz talks about sweet tooth#tiger sweet tooth#becky walker#tigerbear#bear x tiger#becky and tiger#they seriously make me insane
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I'll cling to my "Durge remains an outsider and quasi-deity" headcanon 'til the world ends and won't let go, but I suppose there's a potential story in Jergal rendering them fully mortal, because mine... would not take the theft of their divinity well. (Having been forged and used as a murder weapon and other things beside from "birth", with promises of godhood and destiny whispered in your ear your entire life... all this warping your mind, and then being brutally murdered, having everything you were stripped away and told to live a normal life with all that blood and filth on your tainted flesh, and your mind warped and twisted into obscene shapes, left behind in a world you don't belong in... yeah no. That's not working out well with this guy.)
After a few subsequent rage freak outs the cycle would just begin anew as it continued in Bhaal; adventuring in search of power, researching gods and ancient powers to hunt down and slay for their divinity. Maybe the hunt should start with the Dead Three... Myrkul went down easily enough... Doesn't have to be a full god; just so long as he's not forced to be a person.
That or he'll just find a way to annihilate his soul.
#Everybody: “You have won personhood!” :D#Vel: “I don't WANT it!!!”#It might destroy his relationship with Astarion but Vel fundamentally cannot/won't live as a mortal#He's barely coping as an abandoned godchild that's just one blow too far - he's lost his father his faith his purpose#Will you steal the only stable identity he has left too Withers??#After a lifetime of people deciding what he is for him#Suddenly somebody deciding he's to be a regular mortal with the burden of his past+free will will destroy the last shreds of coping he has#The best he can do is wait out a few centuries under the assumption that his lover will tire of him eventually and free him to this task#He *might* chill out with time but never completely#OCs#Vel#edgelord hours#/durge#babbling
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#only lovers left alive#tilda swinton#tom hiddleston#vampires#undead#live forever#jim jarmusch#John hurt#mia wasikowska#film soundtrack#kool fonts
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A clarification on Athenian Laws concerning male homosexuality.
(because this particular small thing is often misunderstood, due to inability to accurately translate specific ancient greek terms into english, or lack of comprehension of context.)
In classical athens, there was a very specific set of laws, concerning ONLY male athenian citizens (so slaves, women and metics were not subject to it). These laws said that a male athenian citizen who engages in intercourse with another man IN EXCHANGE FOR PAYMENT, was not allowed to do certain things, such as hold positions of power or speak in the assembly. There were also potential penalties (not described in detail) for the person hiring an athenian citizen for this purpose. Again, this is often misunderstood, so I have to repeat, this was only when it was done in exchange for some sort of payment/recompense. The word used for these men is of the same root as εταιρα, which was the female counterpart. It is often mistranslated, there's a whole thing I could go on explaining about the different types of prostitution terms, but basically there was a distinction between prostitute and courtesan/escort/whatever you'd call them in english. Also, this law did not forbid this, and it was not a prosecutable offense by itself. The offense was if one such man disobeyed the limitations set by the law, and it's unclear to me what the deal was with the person who paid.
SO yeh. Next time someone says there were laws against homosexuality in classical athens, here's a helpful article of a guy explaining this much better than me, and goes into more detail about all the weird intricacies of the legal system, as well as the laws set in place to protect boys from grown men:
and here's our original source about these laws:
#tagamemnon#ancient greece#this isn't my field of expertise so if i've misunderstood anything let me know#but this is why I recommend going as close to the original sources as possible#always#because it would've been easy for someone to mistranslate this one term#and someone who doesn't know the context of the entire text#might read that and think all bottoms lost their rights in classical athens or something#which would make no sense because alcibiades was publicly called a bottom in plays which would mean that ppl knew it#(or the joke wouldn't work i think)#but he held the highest possible position for a short while after his recall to athens#also to anyone who says these relationships were only for adult men and teen boys#pausanias and agathon were lover-beloved when they were both grown adults#agathon is around thirty in the symposium#and they even left athens together at the end of their lives#ANYWAYS UR WELCOME HAVE A NICE DAY
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So I was thinking of a Greek myth I read a long time ago:
"The lover of beauty." And the story is about a man named Pygmalion who is devoted to his art. He spends hours working on sculptures that are absolutely gorgeous and one day he begins to work on a sculpture of his ideal type. And he's besotted, he's dropping his chisel for hours on end to just stare at his work, lost in his own fantasy. She's appearing in his dreams and he is slow to finish the construction just imagining the joy he'd feel if she were living. When he finally finishes the statue he can only look at her and sigh. However, just around the time that he's finished the festival of Aphrodite begins and as a devotee he goes to pay his respects.
Afterwards he comes home and sees the statue move and he takes Galatea in his arms as she breathes for the first time. The next day they go to pray to Aphrodite, one grateful for being given life and the other grateful that the goddess answers his dreams.
(This is heavily paraphrased but I just wanted to share it cause it's interesting)
#I also really like the one about the golden apples#In the story they end up as lovers and I really don't know how to feel about that like on one hand it's cute but on the other 😬#at first I was like oh yeah fic with AI reader or character cute/horny#now I'm thinking of it being more of a study of love angsty/realistic cause while it's all good and dandy for the creator#if you were given life only for anothers purpose? the conflict of it all considering you sort of owe your being alive to them 🫨#how can you truly love and live if you've never been given the freedom to find it for yourself?#this bitch is yapping#inspo#better yet his love was all projection all based on her physical beauty what about substance what's left when beauty fades?#hashtag Lana del Rey young and beautiful lmao#this fits my other blog better except that this will probably be fic a very tragic one.. happy ending pending.. depends on the weather tbh#I have a character in mind for this and I feel a bit cruel to do this to him but it's in the name of art 🤧
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rewatching season one really has me angry for marina. she deserves so much better
#i know the actress is basically guaranteed to not come back (i mean idk much abt her situation but damn i think she deserves better too) but#they had better change her story from the books#even just where they left her if they do not mention her again at all itd be better than her book plot. sorry to the book plot truthers#what really sucks is like. just one or two things had to change for her to be happy. if george hadn't died.#or if she'd been told he died sooner. if they hadn't locked her in her room another kind suitor might have been who she set her heart on#penelope was backed into a corner because no one would listen to her. but so too was marina backed into a corner by way of her 'condition'#she is everything a tragic character should be and yet i wish she doesn't end in tragedy this time#her mid yet practical marriage (so long as her husband is only what he's been shown as in the show not the books) is tragedy enough#perhaps her and her husband could just both take lovers and live happily that way and the books for this particular plot just cease to exis#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#← for the book spoilers#txtly
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Was Anyone But You a good Much Ado About Nothing adaptation? No, not at all, but fuck it was fun!
#y’all know I have many thoughts about this play and these characters#but even though the movie didn’t completely live up to my expectations as an adaptation#I still really enjoyed it!#and I really despise all those people making posts about how sydney sweeney can’t act#idk it seems a little rude#my main problem is how they messed up the benedick and beatrice characterization and dynamic#I love that they played up the ex lovers thing (which is left up to interpretation in the play)#and i love love queer Hero and Claudio!!!#but their hatred of each other didn’t really pack the same punch as in the original#I suppose I wish they weren’t afraid to make the characters bigger assholes?#ya know- give them more flaws?#because right now the enemies part doesn’t really feel believable for big parts of the movie#They really could have leaned more into making Bea a bit of a cold and snappy mess (as she is in the original)#and Ben more of…ya know…actual human disaster who can’t commit#both of their characters in the play are driven by their desire never to marry and their distrust for the opposite sex#They included this a bit with Bea (her not believing in true love and all that)#but her break up with Jonathan (because he was too nice???) didn’t really convince me of it#They also keep insisting that Ben is a fuckboy but we never really see it demonstrated?#I personally don’t mind the fact that they changed up the whole ‘convincing them that the other secretly loves them’ bit#especially considering this is only loosely based on much ado#but I do think they made it a bit messy considering they included the gulling scenes but only as a joke#I wish they’d either leaned fully into the much ado plot or ditched it#I think what a lot of adaptations get wrong is that they’re either too afraid of leaning into their og media#or too afraid of seperating themselves from the og media#oh god I’ve reached the tag limit help#anyways- rant over#anyone but you#maria talks about things#much ado about nothing#beatrice x benedick
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watching Only Lovers Left Alive like it's Loustat fix it (?) fic picking up right at the end of 2x08
#Adam is lestat depressed and alone in america playing sadboi music with a with a silly lil assistant#Eve is Louis in his self actualisation#live laugh love era living half way across the world#surrounded by books#but still worriedly lovingly thinking about her lover#just to bad the hair doesn't match#and ava can be Daniel as a little shit disturber#Marlowe can be Marius maybe???#iwtv#only lovers left alive#loustat
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trying to craft a funger oc like aughhhh i can see him i can picture him in my head right now [image of the most off putting little man possible]
#he does not have a name yet but he DOES have a vague concept. author from the eastern union who got drafted into the military and--#--met another guy during the 1 week he had b4 getting shipped out to basic training. they immediately develop a WAY intense relationship--#--and constantly send letters to each other. author is a total chickenshit and comes to cope w the violence of war thru--#--alcoholism and a complete retreat into his obsession w the other man. gets a couple wires crossed and has his lust morph into more + more#--violent fantasies that the other man plays along w bc its Fun+Wild (at its core its the authors desire for CONTROL. if hes the one--#--bringing the pain then hes safe. even better if its with the single person in existence he feels like he can trust during that--#--period of time). manages to live throughout the rest of the war and rushes back to his lover. spends a slowly degrading week w him where-#--the man comes to realize what he thought of as simple metaphor+exaggeration was TRUE desire from the author + the author flounders--#--without the then expected+familiar terror day in and day out. culminates in the man demanding the author leave and never try to contact--#--him again (saying their romance was wild and exciting and unlike anything hed ever experienced but the only good way it couldve ended--#--was if the author died out on the front and forever left him Wanting without the actual reality of those desires realized) and the--#--author either tries to shoot himself or the man (fails to do so. lol) b4 running off to the first train out of town. worlds messiest guy#ya it leans a bit into samarie territory but hes fun. his theoretical ending b would probably have smth to do w sylvian worship + marriages#even more vague idea for his moonscorched form is a sopping wet pathetic red wolf ('red wolf' being one of the mans terms of endearment--#--thru their wartime love letters) w its legs tangled up in barbed wire so it has to drag itself around. red bc its incredibly--#--thin skin (<-- do you get it .) splits and bleeds thru with every movement. a lot of whining and incoherent babbling as it hesitates to--#--ACTUALLY attack anybody. should have some cock horror element but ive no ideas on that front LOL#skill ideas are persistence predator (more melee damage dealt the less mind hes got- a backstory choice where he focuses entirely on the--#--love letters rather than splitting focus on his on-pause career with short stories) and an unnamed one playing into his terror/lust deal-#--where he gets a buff to either melee damage or speed when his phobia is active. want to come up with at least one more though#mmmaybe him being an author doesnt play that well into his concept as a whole but hes my strangeguy so whatever
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