#prophetic film tbh

[dearly]

ANTIVIRAL (2012)

[just-slightly-chayotic]

i dreamt about going to jeff's concert again. except this time i was sitting in the first row and he came down from the stage and he was so close i started hyperventilating.

[wulfhalls]

May I say something potentially controversial about Denis’ Dune & Zendaya’s portrayal of Chani? I completely agree with you on the topic of her being a perfectly average actress (or however you phrased it), but I wonder if she perhaps also wasn’t helped by Denis’ desire to make Dune as epic as it can get. I feel like he’s so laser focused on the visual beauty of the story he’s telling that it sometimes felt jarring to scale back and focus on more intimate, emotional beats. Not that it was always the case, but certain paul/chani scenes felt a little.. removed? flat?? To me?? Like “ah yes we’re a man and a woman. We fall in love. Bc that’s what we do 🫥. Anyway back to long pans of Jordan”

Idk, I might be crazy. Maybe I’m crazy. I just. Couldn’t sense any attraction between paul & chani (and I wanted to!! I like both actors!! I’ve SEEN them act that out successfully in others films!! )

Also, please don’t hunt me down I am a hardcore denis dunehead those movies fundamentally rearranged me I’m just out there wondering how you might feel about this?

no well yes i don't disagree that the paulchani scenes felt a lil flat but imma be real imma be honest I never really cared about this relationship all that much so. like I do think tho compared to other big franchise productions he did strike a better balance of making the relationship central enough to be believable without it being to overbearing regardless of the fact if I personally found it compelling u know? I do think overall chani as a whole was more interesting than in the books tho with denis positioning her as an ideological counterpoint to paul. the whole loving a prophet u don't believe in thing making them in general much more interesting than ur average blockbuster couple. but yeah like I said I wasn't that invested in them. be it here or in the books I was and am laser focused on the freak fam of it all lmao but yeah timmy and zendaya have more chemistry off screen than on tbh

[oneheadtoanother]

Dune Part 2 was definitely better than part 1. It comes across like all along they were much more interested in telling the Muad'Dib/Fremen story than the Paul Atreides origin story of Part 1. Chalamet was okay but his limits as an actor showed more in this one. Zendaya was better than I expected though and did a lot to carry the movie. Not sure if Walken played the Emperor weak and vague on purpose or if he was just kind of phoning this one in, but it hardly matters. Florence Pugh was pretty flat too tbh but in fairness neither of them got a lot of lines to work with. They dialed up the depravity of the Harkonnen characters, which was needed tbh (they come off very "generic baddies" in Part 1). Sets, costumes, design, effects all pretty comparable to Part 1 but maybe a bit livelier. The film's political "message" such as it is was at times vague or simplistic (also true of the book imo), but it still hit the basic themes from the book pretty well. I haven't read whether Dune Messiah as part 3 is confirmed but i expect it will be. This one's not a cliffhanger of an ending by any stretch but there's a lot of foreshadowing about the jihad and Paul's role as prophet of a new religion that makes the two-part story feel still incomplete.

[incorrect-koh-posts]

i know this is random, but i ask bc you're a KoH expert: i never understood the choice to have Imad appear as the servant when he and Balian first meet? i guess it makes for a surprise when he returns (tho tbh would the scene be significantly different if we already knew Imad's true status?) but what even was the point of it narratively? was it just a misunderstanding on the christian side? did Imad himself promote the idea?? why?? for fun?? for the drama?? any ideas?

Honestly I can only speculate here as well. I mean, the script is easily the worst part of KoH, and much as I love Imad as a character, he doesn't make much sense (or any at all) narratively.

Anyways, I did some digging and found this horrid little movie tie-in book on archive.org. The two measly paragraphs dedicated to Imad give no reasons for his weird game of hide-and-seek whatsoever, and, in my opinion, only make his character more contradictory:

"Another character invented for the story's purpose is the young Muslim knight Imad, Saladin's confidant and commander of his cavalry. He serves as a kind of Arab counterpart to Balian: similar in age, intelligent, honorable, and humane. He is the first person Balian encounters after the shipwreck that lands him on the shore of Palestine, and Imad escorts the Frenchman into Jerusalem. Although he hides his true identity from Balian then, it's revealed when they meet later in the story. While Imad is fictional, his name (and to some extent his character) is an homage to the eloquent Muslim chronicler Imad ad-Din, who accompanied Saladin on his expeditions and reported on the Battle of Hattin. In the screenplay Imad is described as 'scholarly' in appearance, and we might imagine that he will one day set down his own history of Saladin's campaigns."

What I gather from this is that Imad was mainly there for plot convenience reasons, both to provide a little narrative twist and to drive home the fact to sceptical Western post-9/11 audiences that such people as honourable Muslims do exist. *audible gasp*

So I'd say that in Imad's case, the features of the character and the film's ideological undercurrent probably took precedence over logic or narrative cohesion. Like, how would Imad even know that there was a Christian guy on his land when Balian, the way the movie frames it, only arrived via shipwreck perhaps a day ago? Do people report back to him that quickly so that he can think of unnecessarily elaborate ways to disguise himself? It's alllll for the drama, baby.

I suppose the whole thing was meant to show how crafty Imad is and how much foresight he possesses. But the levels of foresight needed to act like he did in that scene would probably equal prophetic powers, which is not what I imagine they were going for, lol. Like so many things in this film, this could have been handled much better.

But then again, the entire Imad character is just a baffling creation to me. I never understood why they didn't just make him entirely fictional, call him Nasir or Imad or some other cool name and keep the allusions to the historical figure out of it completely. Historical Imad ad-Din wasn't exactly a paragon of nicety, after all. Homie wrote about the mass rape of women and girls and made it sound like an achievement, so - dear Ridley Scott, my dude - I'm not sure this is the sort of guy one should be paying homage to in this day and age. On top of that, he was born in 1125, which means that by the time the events portrayed in KoH occurred, he would have been so old it would have made Salah ad-Din look like a spring chicken in comparison.

So yeah, the way I see it, logic really took a bit of a holiday here. As did historical accuracy (not that that is anything surprising in this dear trainwreck of a movie).

[may-bonne]

-I found Bloodrayne uploaded to youtube in hd so it's next on my watchlist. I skipped around the timline to see if it really was or it just wanted to me to visit a website that would give me a virus, and I did catch a glimpse of the Mrod accent. In love already

-I think you posted about having a physical copy of The Assignment, but I found it on some russian youtube site. It's a good place to find a lot of Mrod movies in hd tbh. Tubi also has a bunch and it works with adblockers and screen recorders.

-I would have loved to see Frank sitting in a back corner with his drink at the bar, staring at the table when Johnnie comes up to hit on him and he looks like a deer in headlights. It definitely seems implied that he came up to her, but watching him sit there looking like his brain can no longer form thoughts would have been infinitely better

-The look on Johnnie's face when Frank first fucks her deadass startled me during the first watch. It is like Awkward Fuck Frankie to not be able to read that look, though. Man breaks out "I'm not a mind reader" regularly but he just straight up can't read blatant tone or facial expressions because he only interacts with people for work

-It doesn't seem like he was too into her during that first coffee, but I guess he could have started chickening out on trying to connect and that's why he drops the "I'm leaving town real soon" right after he gets her number. I needed more of a "Fuck, what's wrong with me?" look on his face after she leaves I think

-Frank already has pretty chunky heels on his boots when you see him tape the extra bullet on at the beginning lol. I think he should be put in platforms personally. Or those boots Letty wears during Race Wars

-Loving every new addition to the rewrite you're sharing. Perfect expansion on Johnnie's character. I'll always find joy in bad films and it's nice to see them get made into something legitimately interesting

hi assignment anon! if you watch bloodrayne i'll have to rename you

imo it's worth watching just for katarin/rayne potential and also the fact that every single other woman is wearing a vaguely period gown. when rayne's original crop top and capris combo gets destroyed the stronghold tailor (who presumably also makes katarin's clothes) immediately makes her a second even sluttier crop top and capri set so i imagine it's just one tortured man with prophetic visions of y2k. also the guy playing katarin's very campy dad gives a performance that is actually decent. which makes him stick out like a sore thumb lol

i've been watching the shitty blurry youtube version so i don't have to deal with my dvd player so i might switch to the russian one! i dunno if it's the sound quality or just the performance but half the time with the one i have i CANNOT figure out what honest john is saying

at first i thought maybe frank couldn't see johnnie's face because he's staring at himself in the mirror (side note: because the version i'm watching is so low quality i had to watch him rip the condom open with his teeth like four times because i mistakenly thought he was tearing off his fake moustache) and it was meant to be foreshadowing that she had an ulterior motive. but then she literally gives him that look so i don't know what was going on there

maybe it's supposed to be sultry? or he's just not thinking. i imagine about ninety percent of the blood flow in his body goes to keeping that cock up and running. once his system wasn't trying to support that anymore i bet it was like that movie where scarlett johansson unlocks one hundred percent of her brain's capacity

anyway setting sexual chemistry aside after writing my own ending i'm honestly more miffed that frank and johnnie didn't end up together!! i dunno why he couldn't forgive her seeing as she was the world's least effective informant and didn't impede his plans in any way. (also, how long did honest john know about that? the whole time, right? if i were him maybe i would have asked johnnie to try to prevent frank from fucking killing all my men! i assume john promised the doctor he wouldn't kill frank but once frank started picking off his guys i feel like john could have reneged on that deal.) if i were making a movie about a hitman getting REVENGE and calling it REVENGER'S TALE then maybe for character development reasons i would have him forgive someone at the end but i guess it's supposed to be meaningful that he's leaving johnnie alone in reno and not seeking REVENGE on her

my new theory is that he fell in love with johnnie as soon as she used the word "fuck buddies" because he's so jersey that "buddies" is the only kind of relationship he can conceive of

mm, letty's new rocks. i feel like i'm cheating on her and mia a little bit but i gotta get frank and johnnie out of my system

this rewrite is honestly just for you and me and maybe like two people browsing the "medical experimentation" tag. it'll be up by...monday, maybe? i've written maybe 30 scenes out of 69 (nice). full warning i have no idea how to write a screenplay. i have learned a lot about custom ao3 workskins, lol. so it'll at least be in courier new

<3 <3 <3

(thank you for the link!)

[baekhvuns]

No offence but wtf is Al-Nassr 😭 big names playing in these clubs is always so fucking funny. Suarez in an Uruguayan club makes sense since it's his home country, but others??? Also whenever they go to the USA 🔪 I'm looking at you Zlatan. Changed football into soccer real quick ajishshahsjahshsgsgs and now we have this 🙉

It's sad to see top players go for the money, but they're often treated like shit towards the end of their careers so I'm not shocked

Hahahhahah thanxx Baek. My birthday was boring, I had to work then went out, but nothing crazy. I don't like celebrating my birthday actually. I almost got the Pope, damn was a but late. Why are people dropping dead at the end of the year. Ok but get this, my British friend killed Liz and her sister killed Phillip hsyuahsjsjahagsgshha

Oh jesus, I got hit with a tennis ball once, had a bump on the top of my head like in cartoons 😭😭😭😭 so I feel your brother. My friend took a golf ball to the eye. No joke some middle school girls were acting like Pepe or maybe he's acting like them 🔪 I had my moments as well, but jfc

Speaking of hockey when I used to attend the games sometimes the puck would fly and we had to avoid being hit. But I actually "caught" two and they let me have them, so that's cool

Yes I watched the FRA-ITA final with my grandfather. At that time we didn't know what happened so people were like "Zizou????" Ah wait I messed up the link

Mourinho meme material for sure akshusyshsbhshash sometimes you wanna slap him, sometimes you can't stop laughing at him. Sometimes it's both

Exo's not making it easy for you all </333 SM you're getting stabbed

It seems Edenary wanted to mix a lot of their songs, Answer, Inception, HH, Wonderland, Guerrilla, Ktinys compared Halazia to all of them, hahaha But I wish it was less autotuned, just more majestic and dramatic. As long as they don't release another Paradgim I'll be content, but I miss their older songs tbh </3 San was struggling in the video, damn rip! (Hopefully he didn't die)

The popping in the choreo is insane also Hwa is giving Tomoe... O_O definitely need a fic with this look and vibe, fire bender Hwa? Prophet Hwa?

More and more people bring the topic of Seonghwa being excluded, it's not that serious, but certainly annoying, sad many people ignore it, cause he's popular enough... Ngl I didn't know that Post Malone song before and I don't like it ajshishsjsjsjdhhs, but Seonghwa should get a chance for real :(

Okay the hair is fine! Why did he send us into panic mode for no reason 🔪 I think his scalp doesn't look too bad actually, could've been worse 😭 Yeosang's hair ❤❤❤❤

God, guess who's gonna be the next token gg. Baby Monster though what a name 💀 and fuck you YG you creepy ugly ass

Antoine?!?! Okay pop off I guess, also I'M LOSING IT WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY

Oooohhhhh hahahahahaha anyways 😵 Hands... pretty

Thankfully he's also a cat!

Also I'm gonna die if this is true 😭❤🥰 but it's highly likely, did Ryan film down the street???

I can't do this this is sick 😭😭😭😭

I got LAZINESS on that quiz, it said I feel connected to cats akdyaigsjasnshsguaja

Happy NY Baeksy! - DV 💖

hi hello!!

No offence but wtf is Al-Nassr 😭 big names playing in these clubs is always so fucking funny. Suarez in an Uruguayan club makes sense since it's his home country, but others??? Also whenever they go to the USA 🔪 I'm looking at you Zlatan. Changed football into soccer real quick ajishshahsjahshsgsgs and now we have this 🙉

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 al-nassr lower than the farmers league 😭 no literally it’s so funny and the ppl who make memes about it have me cRYING,,, FBWMFBWKHDKCJC STOP THE PLOT ACTUALLY LOOKS INTERESTING,, see zlatan’s personality makes me forgive that he went to LA <33

It's sad to see top players go for the money, but they're often treated like shit towards the end of their careers so I'm not shocked

no yeah good for ronaldo bro secured the bag but paid a hefty price,,, plus its only for 2 years mayhaps somethings will change 😭😭 but glad he didn’t go kansas city 😭😭

Hahahhahah thanxx Baek. My birthday was boring, I had to work then went out, but nothing crazy. I don't like celebrating my birthday actually. I almost got the Pope, damn was a but late. Why are people dropping dead at the end of the year. Ok but get this, my British friend killed Liz and her sister killed Phillip hsyuahsjsjahagsgshha

wELL I HOPE U HAD FUN EITHER WAY, calm birthdays with no celebration but just the presence of u >>> ALMOST GOT THE POPE,,, december 31st is like the grim reaper, every year it waits for it’s best victim and snatches them actually,,, LMFAOOOO NO WAY????? ICBWKCKCKC WHAT A COINCIDENCE that would actually be such a big flex tbh

Oh jesus, I got hit with a tennis ball once, had a bump on the top of my head like in cartoons 😭😭😭😭 so I feel your brother. My friend took a golf ball to the eye. No joke some middle school girls were acting like Pepe or maybe he's acting like them 🔪 I had my moments as well, but jfc ///// Speaking of hockey when I used to attend the games sometimes the puck would fly and we had to avoid being hit. But I actually "caught" two and they let me have them, so that's cool

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭😭 NOT THE BUMP i will assume it’s like this forever now

A GOLF BALL??? WHAT IS GOING ON 😭😭😭 no bc ur so right, why are ppl so aggressive in PE chill it’s JUST PE STOP ACTING LIKE PEPE,,, my theory is that PE is derived from PEPE 🤚🏻 u ever think pepe can win a wrestling match,,, i still think about how that moroccan player kissed pepe’s head bc they missed a pen 😭😭 U CAUGHT THEM?? ANON THATS UR MAIN CHARACTER MOMENT

Yes I watched the FRA-ITA final with my grandfather. At that time we didn't know what happened so people were like "Zizou????" Ah wait I messed up the link ///// Mourinho meme material for sure akshusyshsbhshash sometimes you wanna slap him, sometimes you can't stop laughing at him. Sometimes it's both

my dad still talks about it every time he spots zidane and just points at him “I KNOW YOU??” what a legend tbh,,, but the italian player had it coming, zidane didnt lose his honour <3 LMFAOOOO STOP FBWKBDWK ITS THE WAY ID GET PISSED AT THEM IN THE PAST FOR DOIKG THAT DO BARCA PLAYERS BTT UT NOW ITS JIST SO FUNNY 😭😭 the way neymar has more red cards than pepe is unbelievable actually,,,, the comment “When Ramos and Pepe were on the line up the other teams doctors were more prepared then the team” 😭😭😭😭 seriously what a duo they are,,, NO SERIOUSLY BUT HES SO FUNNY MY ANGER JUST WHOOSHES AWAY this one esp the smile he has on 😭😭😭

Exo's not making it easy for you all </333 SM you're getting stabbed /// It seems Edenary wanted to mix a lot of their songs, Answer, Inception, HH, Wonderland, Guerrilla, Ktinys compared Halazia to all of them, hahaha But I wish it was less autotuned, just more majestic and dramatic. As long as they don't release another Paradgim I'll be content, but I miss their older songs tbh </3 San was struggling in the video, damn rip! (Hopefully he didn't die)

exo not making it easy, BUT FINALLY GETTING THE EXOTEEZ CRUMBS

bestie SM IS GETTING STABBED BC SUPERM CB???? if we manifested this, then the red light is tvxq and it better be max 🔫🔫,,, wait u are right, it does seem like they mixed them all together! no wonder!! right! lesser autotune would’ve let their vocals shine, it rly wouldve been majestic fantasy sound tbh,,, gonna also be that fan and say i miss their old songs as well,, something with a mix of inception answer and all,,, fever pt1 after went a little 📉📈 in my personal humble opinion <3 tho their bsides have def improved alot!

The popping in the choreo is insane also Hwa is giving Tomoe... O_O definitely need a fic with this look and vibe, fire bender Hwa? Prophet Hwa?

u did not just say that..

More and more people bring the topic of Seonghwa being excluded, it's not that serious, but certainly annoying, sad many people ignore it, cause he's popular enough... Ngl I didn't know that Post Malone song before and I don't like it ajshishsjsjsjdhhs, but Seonghwa should get a chance for real :(

yeah, it’s def a topic that should be discussed about but the WAY it is being discussed is annoying 🔫🔫 IM GONNA PRETEND I HAVE NRVER SEEN THAT SENTENCE 🔫🔫 he should! need him in the pretty boy group collab 😭😭 juyeon hyunjin hwa <3 a NEED

Okay the hair is fine! Why did he send us into panic mode for no reason 🔪 I think his scalp doesn't look too bad actually, could've been worse 😭 Yeosang's hair ❤❤❤❤ //// God, guess who's gonna be the next token gg. Baby Monster though what a name 💀 and fuck you YG you creepy ugly ass

bro looks like einstein 😭😭😭 little nerdy genius guy <33 bestie now….hopefully he dyes his hair bc the euro tour hwa CANNOT BE BLOND !!!!!! if u can’t experience it no one can 🤚🏻no cause baby monster,,, and the girlies are aged 2002-2010🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️ YEOSANGS HAIR 🤚🏻🤚🏻 THE BEST ITS BEEN IN A WHILE

Antoine?!?! Okay pop off I guess, also I'M LOSING IT WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY //// Oooohhhhh hahahahahaha anyways 😵 Hands... pretty

NO CAUSE RHWKDHWKDHWKHDKW WHAT HAPPENED IT SENDS ME neymar’s influence 😭😭

bro can’t believe it 😭😭😭 HE JUST SAT THERE AND I WAS LIKE ???? UR NOT GONNA CELEBRATE??? 😭😭😭 also 😭😭😭 he just kept sliding,, all the way back to brazil fvdbvdd also 😶😶 psg loosing their match for the first time coincidentally the day where their main players aren’t there <3 guess mbappe isn’t the one who carries the team <3 but tbh psg are 🔫🔫 them not letting players go to brazil for pele’s funeral 🔫 

and?? 😭😭😭 a NUMBER! OVER A NUMBER

Thankfully he's also a cat! ///// Also I'm gonna die if this is true 😭❤🥰 but it's highly likely, did Ryan film down the street???

JDVWKDHSK THE WAY HES LOOKING 😭😭😭 WAIT?????? NO WAY???? SKZ WORLD DOMINATION WTF,,, he did actually 😭😭 and now it’s percy jackson’s filming!

I can't do this this is sick 😭😭😭😭 /// I got LAZINESS on that quiz, it said I feel connected to cats akdyaigsjasnshsguaja /// Happy NY Baeksy! - DV 💖

no bc imagine what he must be feeling 😭😭 his career is really so spontaneous i wonder if he’s tired 😭😭,,, but… anon ur getting laziness im getting sadness <3 happy new year to you tooo!!!! hope u get to see ateez this year!!!! <33

he saved me actually

AND THIS! THIS! THIS!!!!

DO U REMEMBER THIS FHWKFHWK

aND IU AND LEE JONG SUK???? WE WON???

[diamondot]

FLASHBACK

damn, Picard was only kidnapped by the Borg for six days?

i know it was 1993 and they were using models but this seems like very few ships for the battle of Wolf 359

if you have a telescope you can see Wolf 359; it's a red dwarf in the constellation Leo. find Regulus and follow the ecliptic down. it's one of the closest stars to earth!

one of these days maybe Starfleet will make their bridges less explosive

Sisko, best dad since the first five minutes of the first episode

oh man that's a harrowing cold open. jesus.

I'm pretty sure that this is just because California looks like California, but that pond looks like a filming location from Twin Peaks. and actually, this was filmed only a couple years after Twin Peaks, so.

hey, there she is! lookin good, Deep Space Nine

i love that the credits are just loving glamor shots of the station. incredible

nice to have the Enterprise-D there. a familiar face

O'Brien! my man!

unfortunate that the Zocalo is a huge mess

prophets await you? or profits

funny that Sisko has a TNG uniform but O'Brien's got the DS9/VOY one already. but not the Dominion war one yet? lots of costume changes to look forward to in this series

O'Brien's role in this episode is just to explain to both the Siskos why everything sucks

O'Brien, CLEARLY thinking about Ro Laren: so uh... you ever served with a Bajoran before? no? i see.

hi Major Kira! it's a joy to get yelled at by you

i'm really glad Michelle Forbes turned down a role here. like, i love her and i love Ro Laren, and she and Kira Nerys are very similar, at least at first, but it's good that Ro isn't the only Bajoran to exist

ah. Lurkers. is that Nog?

say hello to your local liquid cop. hi Odo!

i'm glad that Odo and Quark get introduced pretty much together

Sisko is definitely not avoiding Picard for any reason

man, i remember watching this as a 6 year old and being confused and distressed by the animosity Sisko has for Picard, and my dad struggling to figure out how to explain it so a little kid could understand why Picard might not be universally beloved

both Avery Brooks and Patrick Stewart are incredible in this scene, actually. holy shit.

Bajor: the most beautiful mess in the Alpha Quadrant

LOVE the colors of Kai Opaka's robes

oh my god, this mystical flashback thing. Sisko and Jennifer are SO cute together.

this is video game plot shenanigans. the Cardassians have the nine orbs and you gotta find the celestial temple before they do?

like i have no problem with this, it's just funny

it's your DENSITY, i mean DESTINY, Sisko

MORN IT'S MORN

i know JMS has hinted at some, uh, thoughts about how DS9 ripped off some stuff from B5 and good lord, looking at Quark's Bar and the Promenade/Zocalo it's hard not to think that. but i also could very much believe that it was just... a combination of the early ’90s looking the way they did and coincidental parallel development?

proud of Armin Shimerman for playing that conversation as flirty as possible

Bashir keeping it awkward

"he's a bit young, isn't he?" "meh, he's an adult"

clever way to explain the Trill tbh

oh no O'Brien is having feelings about leaving the Enterprise and now i am too

"permission to disembark, captain" oh no i am compromised

haha, Gul Dukat telling Sisko that this was his office only two weeks ago and Sisko LOOKING HIM DEAD IN THE EYES as he sits down behind the desk, i love it

oh right, they don't know about the wormhole yet

i hope Kira starts a brawl

bahahahahaha Odo the carpetbag

MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON. I WAS SHOT THROUGH A WORMHO--

wow i do not appreciate all the strobe lights

all hail the celestial temple

LMAO IT'S THE GARDEN WHERE WESLEY CRUSHER ALMOST GOT EXECUTED FOR STEPPING ON A FLOWER

oops, Dax got et

honestly this is some quality scifi horror. very good

nice to have the main transporter right in CNC

oh i LOVE that they're gonna *move the fucking station* from orbit around Bajor over to the wormhole to stick it to the Cardassians

it's time for Odo's backstory and oh god i just got so depressed about what happens to him

maybe Gul Dukat will get stuck in the gamma quadrant

welp, it's been a time. a week ago i was in labor and now it's 5am and i'm stuck under a baby. i haven't slept more than 3 hours at a time, so let's try and reintroduce some routine into my life. it's

Star Trek night

it's probably been 25 years since i've watched a Deep Space Nine episode. I'm going to try not to make too many comparisons between DS9 and my beloved Babylon 5, but from what i remember of DS9 that might prove difficult. Let's find out!

Also, i make no promises about getting through the whole episode all at once. things are chaos. you know.

The Emissary, parts 1 and 2: i do actually remember watching this on TV when it first aired.

[soundsof71]

FIVE ALBUMS YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!

aka, My Top 5 of 2020, but I didn’t want to seem too retro!

Yep, I have a classic rock blog. Yep, I think that the best rock and roll in history is being made RIGHT NOW. And yep, ALL of it is being made by women. 

(Shown at top, Nova Twins by Ant Adams [x] and The Tissues by Michael Espleta [x]. I was planning to make a collage of all my faves in concert, but  not all of them were able to play in 2020. Both of these photos are pre-pandemic.)

There’s been quite a bit of movement on this list, and all five of these have spent some time at Number 1 as the year has done (gestures broadly) All This™. Anyone looking for rock and roll is going to dig any of these. 

Rocking out is just the start of it, though. Wrestling with my bipolarity and schizophrenia is tough on a good day, and there haven’t been too many of those lately. The plague has also taken its toll around me, with two family members dead and a third who’s doing better, but will likely never be all the way back. (Mask up, kids!)

I’ve written plenty about how deeply Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers have moved me this year (and will do so again), but in those rare stretches where I’ve had enough spare energy to listen to music at all these days, I’ve mostly been looking for more than beautiful music. Heavy times need heavy lifting, and I find that in heavy music. 

The five albums here have all helped carry me, pointing the way toward light.

1) BULLY, SUGAREGG

Alicia Bognanno is a force of nature as a guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer/engineer. (While working on her degree in audio engineering at MTSU, she interned with Steve Albini, who remains both a fan and an admirer). A Nashville transplant from Minnesota, she’s still a natural fit in her home on Sub Pop: as heavy as Soundgarden, as hooky as Sleater-Kinney. 

I was blown away hearing her searing honesty while working through her discoveries of her bisexuality and bipolarity (double bi!), and her triumphant roar lifts me out of my seat every time I listen.

“She sings the hell out of [these songs], her voice fraying to the point of combustion every time she launches to the top of her range. This is phenomenal music for converting anger and anxiety into unbound joy.” ~Stereogum, Album of the Week

Also, check this fantastic interview with Alicia in the New York Times talking about what she’s gone through to get here. 

TURN IT UP!

2) GANSER, LOOK AT THAT SKY

Ganser syndrome is a rare dissociative disorder characterized by nonsensical or wrong answers to questions and other dissociative symptoms such as fugue, amnesia or conversion disorder, often with visual pseudohallucinations and a decreased state of consciousness. ~Wikipedia #it me

‘Just Look At That Sky’ doesn’t presume to offer solutions; it’s an honest document of what it feels like to wade through anxiety, day by day, not a survival guide or handbook of answers none of us actually have. Whether or not you pay attention to this, Ganser are simply one of the most invigorating, exciting new bands. ~Clashmusic

I saw one very positive review compare Ganser to a cross between Fugazi and Sonic Youth, but I think they hit much, much harder than either of those. And as you can surely guess, I also deeply relate to their themes of mental illness and dissociation while trying to make it through All This™. But my god, are they TIGHT. This is a BAND.

Ganser has two fantastic lead vocalists, and on “Bad Form”, bassist/vocalist Alicia Gaines wrote the song for the voice of keyboardist/vocalist Nadia Garofolo. Alicia also wrote a FANTASTIC essay on the strains that making an album during a pandemic puts on the mental health of the entire band at talkhouse: “Writing, recording, reaching out, balancing relationships outside and within the band, I found (and still find) myself under-rested and agitated to no particular end. More than not doing enough, I was not enough.” 

(If you can’t relate to that, I can’t relate to you, tbh.)

This video also does a fantastic job of showing dissociation. TURN IT UP!

3) THE TISSUES, BLUE FILM

“Blue Film” is a ten-song shot of dagger-twisting electro-(s)punk. It’s completely addictive from the very first listen. The tour de force is “Rear Window”, an art-punk masterpiece of slashing guitars and mad caterwauling. Copious doses of jaunty poetics and social commentary reward the earlooker patient enough to untangle Kristine Nevrose’s hysterical meowing about intergalactic salt shakers and hysterectomies, but I’m too emotionally invested to look under the hood.” ~ Sputnik Music

“Rear Window” is in fact my most-played 2020 track. TURN IT UP!

4) GUM COUNTRY, SOMEWHERE

It’s not all heavy! But even when I’m looking for something light and hooky, I need a bite, and Gum Country has done it with the kind of swirly, feeedback-laden wall of sound that Lush or Yo La Tengo would make if they lived in LA. (Recent transplants to SoCal from Vancouver, I do think that the sunshine has gone straight to their heads, in the very best way.)

Indie music nerds will know guitarist/composer/singer/front woman Courtney Garvin from The Courtneys, and she really does throw up a glorious wall of sound. I adore this video too! Sweet, swinging, fun -- and yes, the drummer is playing keyboard with one hand while slapping the skins with the other! 

I mentioned earlier that all five of these albums have spent part of the year at #1 on my list -- I think that this one might have spent the longest stretch there. Like all shoegaze, even as hooky as this, the truth of these songs is revealed in VOLUME. TURN IT UP!

5) NOVA TWINS, WHO ARE THE GIRLS?

Now, THIS is heavy! Amy Lee (vocals, guitar) and Georgia South (bass) are fucking LOUD, and insanely intense. A mix of grime, hip-hop, metal, punk, and good old rock and roll, they’re a harder-hitting, more theatrical Prodigy, with a pyre of intensity that recalls the heaviest howls of Rage Against The Machine. Indeed, Nova Twins spent a good bit of 2019 playing heavy metal festivals and toured as openers for Prophets of Rage. (Tom Morello has been a fan and supporter from the beginning.)

As you may have noted in the photo at the top of this post, their musical audacity extends to visuals too: they design their own clothes, hair, and makeup, they art direct their own videos, and more. They impress the hell out of me, and I’ve been a huge fan since hearing their first singles in 2018. I’ll plant a flag and say that Georgia South in particular is the most innovative musician on any instrument in any genre right now, but they’re both absolutely monsters. 

I’m honestly not at all sure that #5 is high enough for this, but I’m absolutely certain that after this video, you’re gonna need to rest for a little. LOL

“Taxi” is the story of two gleefully and creatively violent women shaking up the local crime syndicate as they use a vintage cab for their moving murder scene. This is the movie that Robert Rodriguez wishes he was making with Sin City, if it were combined with Blade Runner and The Matrix. And gangsters. And a snake.

I’m gonna take your crown I’m gonna, I’m gonna bleed you out We demand it by the hour We devour, control, power

I’m gonna burn it down Even the, even the royals bow

So not the same kind of therapeutic work being explored on this rekkid, but you know what? Fucking shit up is therapeutic too! 

Definitely take this full screen, and for the love of fuck, TURN IT UP!

SO. Not done with the best of 2020 yet? I’m sure not! A lot of my favorite songs aren’t on albums (at least not yet), so for an unedited list of everything I’m finding, check out my Spotify list, 2020: Shuffle This List! 268 songs and counting, over 15 hours, and not finished yet. I’m still checking out everyone else’s Best of lists (including yours! Message me links to yours!!!), so will probably be adding to this for most of 2021, too. 

And for more banging tracks by women from 2020, plus a few 2019 gems that I’m still grooving to, check out my more thoroughly curated Spotify playlist Women Bangers: A Tumblr New Classics Jam. (You’ll see a couple of these tracks there!) I’m working on a YouTube playlist and an essay to properly roll that one out. I’m also still tweaking the ending, but the three dozen or so tunes there are definitely bangin’.

Tell me if you hear anything you dig here, and tell me what YOU’VE found! We’re gonna get through this together.

Yr pal, Timmy

[alittlefrenchtree]

So it seems we will have part 2 😊 Box Office is doing great and someone from WB said it recently l think. Denis must be working on the script now. But it will probably take at least 2 years to film...you were reading the second book right ? How old is Muaddib in the second book and is he phisically more buff looking cause in one of the recent interviews Timmy said maybe he need to start working on his body for the 2. movie but tbh l don't want a muscular looking Timmy 😬

Shhhhhhh, Nonny! Don’t jinx it 🤫🤫🤫 It might be too early to say box office is doing great in the new markets even if we’ve been working hard since it came out eveywhere else. And I saw the quote you’re talking about. It looks positive but also ambiguous enough to not be total confirmation. So, let’s stay safe and patient and wait until the right celebration time.

I’m pretty sure Denis hasn’t waited for anyone to work on the script 😂 When you cut in half the movie of that scale with this universe and an already written book, I think you have to have the second part pretty much all written already when you’re working on the first. You have to make sure everything work together and be sure of what you’re doing when and how, so you don’t end up with a shaky part 2. At least this is how I see it. If i had to make a bet, I’d say part two for fall/late 2023, if it ever happens. And then we’ll have all the time in the world for the Messiah 🤗

And now we’re talking about the books sooo… SPOILER ALERT.

So far, I’ve read Dune and Dune Messiah. Dune is the first big book that has 3 parts called…books. But let’s call them chapters so we all understand each other. The 3 chapters of the first book are called : Dune, Muad’Dib and The Prophet. Dune Part I (the movie) covers the first chapter and a part of the second. There is a big chunck at the end of the Muad’Dib chapter that is not in the movie. You’re not even supposed to know the word Muad’Dib if you’ve only watched the movie. Between the Muad’Dib chapter and The Prophet chapter there is an ellipse of 2 to 3 years. Paul is supposed to be around 17, almost 18. I wouldn’t say he’s supposed to look more buff, since Paul is already supposed to be a trained fighting/killing machine in part 1. So I think you’re safe. I don’t think Paul is supposed to be a muscular figure, ever tbh. But he’s definitely supposed to look a bit different. More tanned for sure and the skin and the hair less… Glamourous. More desert-y. Fitted to live there. Like Stilgar. I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to have a beard so not sure how they could go there with him but we’ll see. It’s going to be interesting to see the choices they’ll make for him. If they ever make it (no jinx).

The second book (Dune Messiah) is set 12 years after the end of the first book and it’s the whole different thing so we’ll have time to talk about this when it’ll be time 😁

[britomart]

vickyyyyyy hiii top 5 lines of lyrics and top 5 movie directors!

oh omg hiii lauuu ermm i'm just going to do random ones that come to mind for lyrics-

and i'll bury my soul in a scrapbook with the photographs there and the moss and i'll yield to the flood of your beauty my cheap violin and my cross (leonard cohen, take this waltz) (essentially all of leonard cohen's lyrics tbh)

and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made and the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming then the sign said, "the words on the prophets are written on the subway walls in tenement halls" and whispered in the sound of silence (paul simon, the sound of silence)

i remember that time you told me you said, "love is touching souls" surely you touched mine cause part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time (joni mitchell, a case of you)

kiss me underneath the moon's side boob (alex turner, tranquility base hotel and casino)

woo-hoo (blur, song 2)

take those as you will<3 as for directors hmmmm i don't really know..... maybe john cassavetes, hirokazu kore-eda, elaine may, wong kar wai, autumn de wilde ? idk i've been trying to find new favourite directors but i still have to watch a lot more films in order to do so</3 honorary mentions go to more or less all the overlords of the filmbro canon (excluding tarantino)

[ohsuni]

onewe covers i think need to happen (because i said so✨)

1. the sound by 1975

-a life where we hear giwook/dongmyeong/yonghoon sing “a sycophantic prophetic socratic junkie wannabe / and theres so much skin to see / a simple epicurean philosophy” is a life worth living tbh

2. girls on film by duran duran

-REMEMBER THE LATATA COVER??? YES I KNOW THEY WILL NOT ONLY KILL THE VOCAL PART OF THIS SONG, BUT ONEWE !!!!!! JUST SHREDDING THE FREAKING INSTRUMENTAL LIKE ITS NOTHING !!!!!! AND ITS THE SHEER ICONICNESS OF IT FOR ME MA’AM

3. trash candy by granrodeo 

-can you guys tell i’ve been watching lots of bungo stray dogs lately lol? i know dongmyeong’s voice got deeper and more velvety, but iwouldalsoliterallycommitoccultandpossiblyillicitritualstohearhimsingthebeginning ANYWAYS ! more shredding the guitar for hyungu = pog

4. getaway green by all time low

-classic summer song and like? more summer onewe? 😳😳😳😳😳

5. fireworks by herd

-herd is actually another korean band i discovered recently!!! this is the song i first listened to, and i listened to another song but i forgot its name lmfao but i think having an indie pop rock concept, while also nostalgic, would really suit a concept change if onewe wanted one??? ugh yes my one braincell really worked hard for that explanation guys 💆💆💆 LOL 

[dreamcrow]

For the WIP questions please! in my sleep i dreamed of waking: 8; for bodyswap au: 12, 14; Gaggletack Slap Bracelets: 13, 16(if you want hehe); General: 19, 11, 25

this ask walked into my house, watered my plants, completed my skincare routine, and cooked me a delicious meal oh my god tysm as always nico for the delicious ask!! :v

for in my sleep: 

8. when creating the characters for your wip, what came first to you?

i still remember exactly how the first draft of in my sleep began, actually!

When she's in the hospital, after the concussion, she dreams of flying.

Nothing clear, nothing distinct. She's had flying dreams before, though never as clearly as this one. It's not a nightmare, she thinks. The dreamscape, for what it is, is almost relaxing, a soft plain of moonlight-colored clouds below, and a thousand thousand stars twinkling like rhinestones against the blue-velvet sky above. Whatever the narrative is, it stays disjointed and vague: something is happening, something urgent, though exactly what is never clear. Sometimes, she can almost remember a voice, but it's never quite clear enough to make out; on waking, she never remembers what was so pressing.

She can never recall any more than any other fragments of dream, nonsensical, embarrassing, terrifying or otherwise. All that's left, when there's anything left at all, is a series of impressions: terror, exhilaration, freedom.

And even in the waking world, the impressions linger.

parts of this got recycled later, particularly into the escape from the museum. but originally this fic was something much more...art film-y, something jungian and weird, about linked consciousnesses and prophetic dreams. trying to recreate the feeling when—you've just woken up, and you're trying to remember a dream that's already fading. which is still really cool!! all stuff i'm still interested in. just...something to be saved for a different fic, hehe.

for [as yet untitled] bodyswap au: 

12. what part is the hardest to write?

honestly................the plotting in this is kind of killing me, tbh. i've got some great *moments* but nothing to really paste them together? and absolutely no idea how to finish it, lol. the fic starts the day after strickler gives barbara the charm, but the whole bodyswapping thing changes the canon trajectory of events pretty substantially! i got pretty lucky with in my sleep as i could basically just crib off of whatever the actual show had already written, but with this i'm in much more uncharted territory. which gives me a lot of freedom! but which also is vaguely terrifying.

14. tell us about an upcoming scene that you’re excited about.

when jim realizes his mom's not his mom ;)c

for gaggletack slap bracelets:

13. are there scenes that you cut already?

oh for sure. barb finding the amulet, for one (too clunky!); also the old detention scene (nothing happened, and now we...meet someone important :3c). other than that however everything in this au is so preliminary there's not much that's gotten the opportunity to be cut yet! :v

16. give a spoiler.

lenora turns to look at barbara, eyes wide, hands clasped tight around the staff. 

"tell zelda," she says, voice small and sure and brave. "tell her—i love her."

in general:

11. how do you structure your plot?

backwards! most of my fic concepts start with a single Scene, which i can usually envision pretty clearly. once i've got that, it's mostly a matter of putting up the scaffolding that lets us get to that point. as a consequence, though, i'm terrible at coming up with endings ´ A `

19. do you know how your story ends before you start writing?

hmm...usually. at least how i want it to end, lol. though see above re: bodyswap au—sometimes the idea just comes at you, and you just gotta roll with it! (ง •̀_•́)ง but i cling to the illusion of control.

25. what authors and books have inspired you to write your work?

aside from the typical 'authors i read when i was younger' (k. a. applegate, brian jacques, terry pratchett) the shameful fact is that i simply do not read much non-fic nowadays! which is regrettable, but...not sure how to fix it, tbh. (i don't handle audiobooks well, and most of my 'reading new things' headspace is dedicated to my dayjob, for which i read actually quite a bit, but nonfiction, most of which is...not written for clarity, to put it mildly.) every time i try to get back into reading, i end up feeling so overwhelmed... maybe if i just assign myself a single book at a time? or just get back into my library's ebook app. hmm.

[sothischickshe]

Arright!

Quarantine tag game

I was tagged by @mego42 and I've probably botched some copy pasta somewhere but that's life baybee

ARE YOU STAYING HOME FROM WORK/SCHOOL?

Wfh, it's been pretty smooth/chill

 IF YOU’RE STAYING HOME, WHO IS THERE WITH YOU?

No one! It's pretty dope

 ARE YOU A HOMEBODY?

Mm yes and no? When ppl meet me they assume I'm an alley cat not a house cat, but I need time alone to recharge to be an alley cat ya know? I think I'm homebodyesque cos I live alone, not cos I love a home

 AN EVENT THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT GOT CANCELLED?

Mm, at least one wedding (well presumably postponed, not cancelled!) and a holiday

 WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY?

Like none man?? I think the last film I saw is still parasite in the cinema?? Or did I rewatch destination wedding since then? 🤔🤔 That film is straight bananas. If you held me at gunpoint and demanded I write a script after copious quantities of red wine and cocaine, that's pretty much what would fall out. Also the direction is fucking amazing???

 WHAT SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING?

Mm, good girls, only connect (so sad the season is over 😭), university challenge, high maintenance... I think those are the only things I'm actively keeping up with, and I'm actually behind on the last two. There are a few comedies im behind on but vaguely watching: blackish, B99 (im just not thrilled with it since Gina's gone), Bob's burgers (feeling pretty meh abt it these days tbh). And I'm v behind on better call Saul, htgawm and supernatural (haven't watched any of the latest seasons but will get to it I guess). Super behind on empire. Will get v excited when the good fight, Rick and morty, iasip, handmaid's tale and grownish are back though! Or are they?? What is time??

 WHAT MUSIC ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

God yea all of it. I'm mostly just playing banging album after banging album, I'm loving getting to have music I love on all day long!! I do not turn it down during my calls ha ha. Some artists on common rotation atm: Anderson .paak, joni Mitchell, beach boys, lauryn Hill, a tribe called quest, Joanna newsom, outkast, Jeff buckley, non-prophets

 WHAT ARE YOU READING?

Yea mostly fanfic! Maybe this week I'll get back into reading my book...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF-CARE?

Straight chilling

Tagging @jnlnyaface @bourbon-ontherocks @jazillia007 @fairhairedkings if you're feeling like it!

[garbagequeer]

8, 14, 25, 42 !

8. what three songs can you not get enough of right now?

girlhood by the preatures, slow burn by kacey musgraves and summer love by carly rae jepsen. special mention to watch me while I bloom and pure love by hayley williams tho stream petals for armor (2020)

14. if you could have dinner with anybody who would it be?

tbh my fucking friends i cannot stand this quarantine stuff anymore. also some of them are/were doing semesters abroad and i just wanna have them all in one room. i dont really know enough about any historical people or academics or famous people to say id like to meet them one on one plus if like virginia woolf or lorde or whoever didnt like me id never get over it. oh wait fuck can i have dinner with myself? like im there twice? that'd be fun

25. name three songs that stir up the deepest emotions

famous prophets (minds or stars idc they're both insane to me) by csh, and lately it's been kick the tragedy by drop nineteens and im on fire/400 lux by lorde i wish to god that was on streaming

42. favorite film genre?

coming of age! idc what else goes on if someone's on a journey towards being a more grown up version of themselves im IN

thank you for asking!!! :–)

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[keitheaverage]

Tintin, Munkunstrap

oh, a twofer, eh?

TINTIN:

How I feel about this character

idk why but I’ve been hyperfixating on this funky lil twink for the better part of a decade and I don’t plan on really stopping any time soon. I just think he’s neat!

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Y’all abt to get real mad at me, but it must be said. I don’t see Haddock and Tintin as a father and son dynamic, despite their obvious age gap, but rather two adults (with an age gap, yeah, but adults regardless!) on equal terms that just fall stupidly in love with each other and the stability that being in each other’s lives brings for them.

I really can’t see one of them living without the other, they keep each other safe and sane. Tintin was literally abt to drop his whole Chang (aka his Platonic Soulmate who he had literal prophetic dreams about) Search Party in Tibet and let himself fall to his death rather than let Haddock take the fall alone. You Jump, I Jump. Ride or Die. I am shook to this day.

Also Tall Dude Short Dude dynamic hot.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

It’s gotta be Chang. I think a lot of the values and morals that Tintin grows into started with Chang planting that seed in The Blue Lotus. Tintin starts the series as such a loner, but after meeting Chang he seems more receptive to opening his heart to others and making new friends that he can be emotionally vulnerable with.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don’t really HC Tintin as a transman but as an he/him nonbinary character. Like, I’m totes down for either interpretation, but when I’m doing art or fanfiction, he’s NB in my head.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

uhhhhhhhhh where is his French accent in the english translations of his shows/movies?? I’m still on that. Give him one.

MUNKUSTRAP

How I feel about this character

tbh I just feel kinda bad for him. not just for the clown shit he’s gotta put up with in the actual show, but when I plan out headcanons and stuff, he usually gets a lot of the heavy/sad stuff happening around him. He’s a satellite for tragedy. 

but he’s a helluva dancer with a big-ass heart and we stan

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I love to think he’s in a happy polyamourus relationship with both Alonzo and Demeter. They keep him anchored in a sea of chaos, and he does the same for them in return. They all love and dote on their sweet baby girl Jemima/Sillabub!!

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I kinda like the dynamic 1998 film Munk has with Quaxo. The latter is not Munk’s right-hand-cat by a long shot, but Quaxo’s constantly trying to help him and Old Doots out with his magic and lighten the load. Munk sees this, appreciates this, and wonders how the hell a cat like Tugger managed to score such a diligent and hardworking partner.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don’t really have an unpopular opinion abt him honestly. Nothing comes up.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I hope one day he gets to put on one of his plays for his dad at the ball and everything goes right for once.