#read more bc i can't shut up

[taiturner]

tagged by @thenelse​ to post 8 shows to get to know me better ✨

twd: world beyond:  i don’t care that the twd fandom hates teenagers + stories about coming of age + stories that have nothing to do with **** ****** because i do!!  no show is doing family like this one.  the core family is made up of people who are not blood related and the show makes it so clear how incredibly irrelevant that is in the definition of family, between a beautiful sisterhood between 2 girls who were adopted at birth, their father who has never tried to force them to follow the extreme pressures of being the children of the literal smartest man in the world, a brother / son adopted into the family in young adulthood after he’d been kicked out by his homophobic birth parents - who then also becomes (basically) a co-parent when their mother dies, and the dynamics built between literally every single one of them are so fascinating and so complex and are not given nearly enough credit by the twd fanbase.  teenagers are coming to age not only in the apocalypse, but in an apocalypse they’ve lived in for a decade but haven’t actually experienced / seen up close due to being sheltered / isolated, and they make it!!  this show has everything between beautiful sibling dynamics, gut wrenching betrayals between best friends, heartfelt love stories (that never take away from the story but heavily add to context of who these people are + what they fight for), and so much more that this show is incredibly unappreciated for solely because it’s attached to the twd name and fans were expecting one specific thing from it they were never promised in the first place. anyway <3 it’s my comfort show it’s my family show it’s my best friend 

yellowjackets:  i don’t know what to say about this because my brain is literally [buzz buzz buzz] now that it’s back and i can’t form a straight thought to save my life it’s just so loud up there, but!! a show in which i love every single character?  every single character & dynamic is so complex and so fun to sit and think about (literally. every dynamic. you can pair these people all day and see how fun they are or how deep they go. and then you can do it again through their adult versions).  my favorite type of show is apocalyptic, and yellowjackets isn’t, but... it feels like it?  it’s still about people surviving and that’s what first intrigued me by the initial promos.  and isolation!! isolation being its own character entirely, how everyone responds to that and how they choose (or don’t choose!) to survive in it,  and then even better, multiple timelines to show me how this experience affected + continues to affect people in present day? literally a dream show to me.  plus the metaphors you can find in literally everything and the way this show is just so smart + mysterious etc makes me itching for the next episode (in a way that it’s a perfect example as to why the week to week model still works).  i love that this show doesn’t try to give us all the answers right away, especially in season 1 without knowing if they’d be renewed; being willing to take those risks makes having multiple seasons planned even more fun.  i have a thousand questions that i probably won’t find out for years, but they’ll hint and torture me for those years!!  i could read people's theories about this show all day, even if some make me angry <3. also jackie taylor has literally the best arc in television to me and i could talk about how pivotal her death is to the narrative literally all day.  it also has taissa turner.  so.

the umbrella academy:  have i mentioned yet how much i love adoptive families because that’s literally it.  i’m not really a superhero fan but that’s probably why i love this show,  it takes all your expectations about superheroes and turns it around.  it’s about superheroes reclaiming their own identities after a life spent forced into that box of a superhero, and now they’re left trying to figure out who they are beyond that.  it’s about love.  it’s about family.  it’s about claiming that family despite all odds stacked against you.  it’s about childhood trauma + what becomes of you + how you work through it, no matter how late you have to start + how you come together because of it.  the fights can get nasty, but we typically get to see them actually learn why they got so nasty to begin with + work through it.  every character has so many layers and i am so invested in their stories.   (i’d have so much more to say about this show when i’m actually in my tua era but for now. know that i love my family).

the last of us:  beautiful characters, beautiful scenery, beautiful found family dynamics, beautiful storylines, beautiful friendships, beautiful.  i’ve loved this story for a few years now and i loved the characters even more so the fact that this show actually exists now is so fun for me.  i love how focused this show is on character moments (seemingly above all else), because i can feel so invested in an episode even if they’re literally just driving in a car chit chatting all day.  so good at melting my brain for a solid 3-47 business days.  

twd:  the only reason this show is so low on my list is because for an 11 season show, i don’t really get invested in it until seasons 5-11,  but the last three seasons especially are so special to me.  for all the shit they get for it, twd does minor characters really well in terms of getting me invested in them + excited to have a show that includes so many different communities to which there are always characters i care about around, even if they’re not prominent  (which is so important to me in a show where there are many main characters that i really don’t like. twd minor characters my beloved<3).  

scream (tv series):  this is going solely for seasons 1-2 pre-reboot but i got invested in these characters + this storyline way before i got invested in the movies and i think a slasher series can work so well in a series.  it’s so fun to get to actually see how their lives are affected in between, as opposed to the movies when everything moves so quickly (not that it makes the movies bad! we just don’t have the time to really sit with the tragedies + etc).  maggie duval you will always be loved by me and brandon james was innocent btw hope this helps<3

the purge:  i never hear about this show from people and it makes me so sad, because imo it’s so much more satisfying to watch than the movies.  i always left the movies feeling frustrated that they never took the opportunity to really establish what this universe was like beyond purge night, and that’s what the tv show gets to do, especially in season 2 as it’s focused on the year between,  and it gives such fascinating context to what we see in the movies.  esme carmona you will always be famous.

kevin can f*** himself.  number 8 is probably interchangeable with so many other shows, but my gut says to say this.  if we’re going to talk about fun friendship between women who are also absolutely in love then hi!!  this show is such a good commentary on everything i hate about a lot of sitcoms, especially from the early 2000s (re: the sexism / abuse played off for jokes, etc) and i love that it breaks that glass to force you to see it.  the format of the show is so different and jarring in the best way, and in a way that i think will feel so new to me every time i revisit it.

in conclusion i love siblings i love found family i love survival etc etc etc 💖

[mamawasatesttube]

swear to fuckign god sometimes im like 👌 This Close to taking down sotm. and every single time i get a comment from someone with no reading comprehension who goes "I know you said no clark bashing in your authors note but hear me out: im gonna bash clark" i get a little closer

[house-in-the-backyard-trees]

Me, my friend, and her daughter (she's 5) were walking at the park today and her daughter just reached up and grabbed my hand and held my hand for like 5 minutes while we were walking and i almost started crying

[nocturne-of-illusions]

want to reread ciconia bc i love those kids so much and i love that so many countries get represented in it and it's just. so emotionally impactful.

don't want to reread ciconia bc, while there are a lot of fun and interesting and compelling moments from the get-go, a lot of the end-game impactful emotion is Depression and Disillusionment... and the Horror that, in ryukishi's words, "it was like writing about Godzilla and Godzilla really ended up coming".

[faethfigueroth]

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[nspolaris]

read the sunshine court and have never been more impatient in needing a second book my god

[ojirocardigansniper]

gnawing on drywall. plurality that barely exists until you look at it on purposed. is so. many real reasons this state can occur and even last for years. but of course. the big one which brain leaps for at the drop of a hat. 'What if you're faking or overexaggerating to yourself. If nothing happens except when you poke it then how can it be organically real 🤔' which like. [KERMIT.JPG] ITS NOT FUCKING FAKING YOU PIECE OF SHIT DEBUNKER

[memoryoflife]

you ever write something and go "eh, good enough lol"

[fastasyoucan1999]

brynn hi hello!!!!! 20 + 13 + 17 for the book asks please <3 i want to hear all your thoughts you are just so cool!! xoxox hope your flights goes well MWAH!! <3

liv hiii!!!! and stop it youre making me blush... the flight is over which i'm thrilled about! how are you what are you thinking abt tell me!

what was your most anticipated release? did it meet your expectations?

i'm not much of an anticipator! i'm really not a part of the wider book culture... i have no clue what's happening out there..

i guess braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer? i'd heard some fantastic things about it and it did for the most part meet my expectations! i think it dragged around the middle and towards the end.. but nearly every essay had me on the brink of tears (pls i'm begging take this with a grain of salt. i cry at dove commercials, and at those barbie ones where five year olds are lecturing to a college class and then it fades out and they were playing with a barbie the whole time...)

uhh and true grit by charles portis... it did come out in the 60s but. the cashier told me i'd love it and he was right. i did

what were your least favorite books of the year?

you're a pot stirrer. do we need to talk more about the seven husbands of evelyn hugo? bc i will. what a bland dry shallow book. it was so.... lackluster? ineffective? unoriginal? i just found it boring on all fronts. i've never read a book that left me with so little after i finished it. i can't even talk about it at length bc it's already slipping from my mind; it might as well have not existed.

also moby-dick. felt like pages were added the more i read. it was some sort of never-ending infinite silk-pulled-from-a-pocket magic trick. shocked and appalled that somehow more pages kept appearing after i finished one... i would've dnfed it but i was reading it for a class :/ and my prof was so kind, she reminded me of jessica day and she loved moby-dick. she loved it so much. so i read all of it for her <3 despised every second

the monk by matthew lewis and the italian by ann radcliffe. classic classic gothic literature. so much happening... so little actually being done. i do however respect how incredibly horny both of them were.

did any books surprise you with how good they were?

east of eden... persuasion by austen... but i'm going to answer this indulgently and say i reread gregor the overlander by suzanne collins. and though i wasn't surprised by how good it was bc collins is fantastic and i trust her implicitly... i just feel the need to emphasize what a masterclass in middle grade fiction the underland chronicles are. whatever youre thinking when you see 'middle grade fiction' literally erase it from your mind bc the series beats out everything i've ever read. percy jackson kid this harry potter kid that... hit me up if you know anything about giant rats and the casualties of war ok

[rrogueamendiares]

anyway map of the problematique by muse is such a vash song gOD

[drybranmuffin]

tagged by @cosmicrhetoric to share my top ten films... i am possibly the worst person to share my taste in cinema. but you asked for it babe i’m sorry i warned you. in no meaningful order, here we go:

1. WEIRD: the al yankovic story (2022): saw this movie the night it came out (11/4) and am STILL thinking about it. it’s (guess what) a really uh, strange film and not at all what i expected--or actually kind of wanted??? bc i do really like Actual “Boring” Al--but i thought it was a lot of fun!! and the re-records are fantastic. the entire rocky road scene makes me so happy.

2. baby driver (2017): hey look i know i know half this cast is absolutely terrible and they should’ve gotten run over with a car in real life but the first time i saw this movie i was in kansas visiting my freshman college roommate for her wedding and it was only like. the third time i’d ever been stoned and it was incredible. literally was the most incredible and life changing experience. made me want to become a stunt driver. i cannot legally operate a motor vehicle at 24 so that isn’t happening but it was a nice feeling while it lasted.

3. dead poets society (1989): i rented this movie the first weekend at college--literally got a library card just to check out the physical DVD copy of this movie because i did not have netflix yet. i was so dramatic and 18 about majoring in something i didn’t want to do, at a college i didn’t want to be at in the first place, that watching dps immediately made me cry. also mr. keating’s little speech of “Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing” haunts me every day.

4. how to survive a plague (2012): idk if this counts but this is my favorite documentary. it always makes me cry but i think it is such an important and informative documentary. but also it tells the whole story of all the people involved so well. like the way people’s voices stop appearing as voiceovers as the years go on. like you MISS THEM you FEEL the loss of all those people from the queer community in the 80s and 90s. it’s just so fantastic.

5. rocketman (2019): i don’t think i can accurately describe how much i love this movie. elton john is such a cornerstone of my childhood and feeling at home. and the performances in it are so incredible. i watch the crocodile rock scene whenever i’m close to losing my mind. it contains curing and healing properties.

6. glass onion (2022): not to be like i finally watched a modern, relevant movie and fuck people were right it IS GOOD but. guess what i watched a modern, relevant movie and fuck people were right it was very good and i had a lot of fun watching it. also blanc’s outfits made me feel so goddamn envious. the linen pants COME ON!!!

7. ghostbusters II (1989): not to say i don’t also love gb1 but the the “higher and higher” sequence, baby oscar, sigourney weaver being a cellist, “boys, you’re scaring the straights.”, “no, i believe it's one of the fettucinis...”, like c’mon. this movie is amazing. okay i’m realizing that i really need to make you watch ghostbusters II with me. even if you haven’t seen the first one i don’t care we’re watching the guys imply that egon has fucked the goo.

8. groundhog day (1993): okay so maybe i’m just a guy that really likes a certain era of bill murray movies??? ironically this is a movie that, i’ve found, i can really watch again and again and again. like: credits roll, start it again. andie macdowell’s blue coat has been on my mind since i was eleven and saw this movie for the first time. i love the town it looks so delightful--and actually was reminded a lot of it when i was in vermont recently--but it has destroyed me to know that the set was not in punxsutawney but actually somewhere in illinois... boo.

9. beetlejuice (1988): i’m saying beetlejuice as a stand in for like all tim burton movies from 1982-1993 (& like, two in 2005). but i remember watching this movie as a kid and literally not being able to regurgitate the plot at all. like, jump in the line is playing and i’m like “i have no idea what anyone’s name is and don’t know what’s going on. but that lady’s dress [barbara] was nice!!” haven’t changed much but now i at least know what’s happening. also: know that me listing this movie is also me saying that anything danny elfman touches is amazing and i love the soundtrack to this movie so much i wrote a paper on it in undergrad [music in film class] and made my professor read ten pages about the genius of danny elfman making the film’s main melody motif be three. notes.

10. barbie as rapunzel (2002): best for last. i don’t need to explain myself here. the movie is like: 20 minutes of experiencing the horrors of both servitude and otto, 5 minutes of the best dress montage of your life, 10 minutes of being like “oh my god is the prince really that stupid?”, 10 minutes of “yes, he is...”, 15 minutes being confused by the romantic pasts of the kings and gothel, 15 minutes of family therapy between two talking dragons, and 3 minutes of crying over “I know Rapunzel's secret. She painted what she dreamed.” “When you do that you’ll never be wrong.” and it deserved an oscar.

[enbyboiwonder]

Trying to read Death Note is excruciating, I hate Light so much he is so fucking insufferable oh my god (does he die in the end? Oh please tell me he dies in the end. I read this in middle school but I have zero memories of any of it) but the posts on here are funny

[newl0ndonfire]

while it’s great that being at my mom’s means I don’t have to deal with my dad’s blatant bigotry, it also means that I have to listen to her prattle on about things that are incredibly irrelevant (and I don’t care about in the slightest) in addition to being around her messes with my already fucked eating habits while she says shit that fucks with my eating more. she’s also bigoted but not intentionally like my dad and doesn’t bring it up nearly as often

[this-is-a-url]

Homestuck ships can so easily be "experts warn that polycule could expand to cover all of seattle" style, but then that sucks so much bc nobody else ships it but you

Nepeta: :33 < This is my moirail Equius, and his matesprit Karkat, and Karkat's boyfriend Dave, and their girlfriend Jane

[what-if-i-dee-eye-do]

google search how to tell my wife I'm sick of her extreme emotional crashes every time we go broke due to poor emotional regulation skills and that she needs to get better at Being Poor if she wants any chance of relief or to not drive me insane within a year

[shidoukanae]

got a hold of the TME light novel and i've been reading it nonstop bc it's the only thing keeping me sane right now and man

MAN

im kind of excited to catch up to where the manhwa leaves off but also kind of scared to catch up because the light novel is such a rollercoaster compared to the manhwa (ESPECIALLY when you have knowledge of the manhwa to compare with)

Definitely going to try and draw some scenes from the light novel because im really enjoying where the story is going/has gone and if it wasn't for the fact my attention span is shot bc of irl things i'd be trying to catch up to when Helene next appears ASAP