🪷 - fav & least fav ship: harry potter, tlou & bottoms !!
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thank you so much!! :D
harry potter:
fav ship: neville and luna
they’re literally the cutest together and it just makes me so happy. plus they’re my two favorite characters, so seeing them get together was really exciting.
least fave ship: ron and lavender
no. just no.
the last of us:
fav ship: ellie and abby
so i know they’re constantly trying to kill each other and all, but like- something’s there. like the way ellie is just obsessed with finding abby plus, call me crazy, but there’s like tension between them when they’re fighting. idk they’d just be so cute together, once they stop trying to murder each other.
least fav ship: abby and owen
abby can do so much better than him. cough cough ellie. plus, just freaking look at abby. that’s a freaking lesbian. she shouldn’t be with owen, she should be with ellie. i will die on this hill.
bottoms:
fav ship: josie and isabel
they’re the cutest together. i love the popular x loser trope, and it’s literally them. it makes me so happy to see them get together every time i rewatch the movie!
least fav ship: pj and hazel
i just don’t see it. pj is so mean to hazel throughout the entire movie, and i feel like the only reason people ship them is because they kissed, but hazel was trying to pull away. also i just really don’t like pj so there’s that.
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supernatural s1e5 bloody mary (teleplay: ron milbauer, terri hughes burton; story: eric kripke)
(this is a rewatch, so spoilers abound)
today's update from the first watch - in fact maybe playing bloody mary as a very sensitive and nervous kid still gives me particular nightmares 30+ years later!
i like that they actually show us sam's nightmare about jess and it's conveniently just the pilot fire footage but blue. but it's effective! and the way they use a clip of his other nightmare where he's visiting her grave (before we get the cheap jumpscare of arms grabbing him from the ground), i always forget that that's all from a nightmare. dunno if it's supposed to also be like, representation of him actually going to her funeral (they did stay a week, i think they mentioned)
SAM
I take it I was having a nightmare.
DEAN
Yeah, another one.
SAM
Hey, at least I got some sleep.
DEAN
You know, sooner or later we're gonna have to talk about this.
and they say dean doesn't want to talk about things!
listen, you know i like first season lighting. but this lighting in an office of the morgue is out of pocket lol the eye strain!!
DEAN
Dude, I earned that money.
SAM
You won it in a poker game.
still counts!
s1e5 chelan simmons as jill / hannibal s1e2 as gretchen speck / her little flouncy skirt for some reason is what i remember most
i thought she looked familiar but then i think that about a lot of pretty blonde haired young women in the early seasons of this show.. but she actually is! in my favorite hannibal rando murderer episodes, mushroom maannn (god the music while getting this hannibal screenshot, yeah it's wacky being so discordant and all but it's also SO GOOD at setting the tone and it's just so unique and special 🥺 link to my hannibal music masterpost)
someone got to have a lot of fun getting creative with all these hallway mirrors (peter ellis directed - he did this and 1x15 the benders and that's it)
smooth, dean-o. very normal response. got the doubletake jaw clench combo from sam lol (gifs i reblogged with pretty much the same comments, i am nothing if not consistent)
dramatic skylight on sam what is happening at this library
such a simple horror trope but so freaky every time
oh, sam.
SAM
Why'd you let me fall asleep?
DEAN
Cause I'm an awesome brother. So what did you dream about?
SAM
Lollipops and candy canes.
DEAN
Yeah, sure.
very distinct visual style going here. it's just like, so blurry in the background of sam's shot and he's kind of soft focus himself.. feels like someone was having a moment with padalecki this episode instead of jackles hogging all the beauty shots :p and looking at her face i'm just appreciating how smooth the matte makeup looks under her eyes and is holding up to crying (which partially is just having young skin but also kudos to the makeup artist)
funny seeing the different supernatural-hunting techniques and gear that never went anywhere beyond this season
oh man, that feels like a lifetime ago. weird days of celebrity via leaked sex tape
casually printing out photos in their motel room. do they keep a printer with them in the trunk too? 😂
some of the score has got a very mark snow xfiles vibe, thanks to christopher lennertz (video down further because i ~needed~ to get the car chat too)
also trying to ignore the not-great green screen driving moments. i know they sort that out sooner rather than later. i think mainly by driving at night with their very cool practical effects lighting setup that simulates passing street lights/other cars etc - this interview with the director of photography serge ladouceur has all sorts of really interesting information and there's a video included about how they did the night driving effects.
So how did shooting in the car evolve? Clearly some of it was on the road, some of it is Poor Man’s Process in the studio, and a small portion of it is greenscreen.
We didn’t do much greenscreen with the Impala. The scenes we did that way were in Season 1 — sending a crew to film plate shots and compositing in post. We went through that process for some episodes, but because of the visual effects costs with outside vendors, the production went another way. Since Season 2, we have had a full-on visual effects department that’s part of the production, so every visual effect is done in-house. It was very convenient to have the visual effect department right here by our stages, so if last-minute questions arose, our VFX supervisor, Mark Meloche, is close by to answer these questions and guide us into the process, on top of having a VFX department representative on set for the days we deal with those shots. Mark was a great asset on Supernatural, having been on the show for its whole duration. He started with the team as the lead artist and then became the VFX supervisor in Season 8, after the departure of Ivan Hayden.
oh i forgot about this part... i posted about this actually back when i watched it.
CHARLIE
I had this boyfriend. I loved him. But he kind of scared me too, you know? And one night, at his house, we got in this fight. Then I broke up with him, and he got upset, and he said he needed me and he loved me, and he said "Charlie, if you walk out that door right now, I'm gonna kill myself." And you know what I said? I said "Go ahead." And I left. How could I say that? How could I leave him like that? I just…I didn't believe him, you know? I should have.
so this one hit really close to home for me, from my linked post above:
i was watching the bloody mary episode of supernatural, and yadda yadda people have secrets and someone is dead. and then we get to the final woman and her secret is her boyfriend killed himself after they had a fight.
i was just internally screaming at sam and dean, and this is the part where you tell her it wasn't her fault ...!!!!
because that's also one of the things i'm carrying around too, that
i still need reminding that it wasn't my fault. had a fight, i knew he was suicidal, but i thought he was just mad. i was mad too, for the first time with him. i could have called, i could have asked for a wellness check, i could have could have could have...
anyway. it's not our fault. i appreciated they told her that, finally, at the end. it's been 15 years now since it happened but it is still heavy on my heart.
the sam parallel finally coming to a head with his guilt about jess, so they get to have their talk. and a little crispy R for posterity's sake on "secret" from padalecki. i think i've narrowed it down to really soft barely there Rs on the ends of words, and very articulated Rs in the middle of words?
xfiles-y score / it's not your fault
DEAN
You know what, that's it. This is about Jessica, isn't it? You think that's your dirty little secret that you killed her somehow? Sam, this has got to stop, man. I mean, the nightmares and calling her name out in the middle of the night—it's gonna kill you. Now listen to me—It wasn't your fault. If you wanna blame something, then blame the thing that killed her. Or hell, why don't you take a swing at me? I mean I'm the one that dragged you away from her in the first place.
SAM
I don't blame you.
DEAN
Well you shouldn't blame yourself, because there's nothing you could've done.
we know especially later that even if he warned her, there was no way it would have helped. the wheels in motion were so far beyond their control. literal forces of hell and heaven working against them.
MIRROR!SAM
You never told her the truth—who you really were. {SAM is now falling towards the ground.} But it's more than that, isn't it? Those nightmares you've been having of Jessica dying, screaming, burning—You had them for days before she died. Didn't you!?! You were so desperate to ignore them, to believe they were just dreams. How could you ignore them like that? How could you leave her alone to die!?! You dreamt it would happen!!!
and these would be my 5th and 6th screenshots of my original viewing. also long slated to paint at some point
DEAN
Sammy. Sammy!
SAM
It's Sam.
forever grateful that dean is stubborn and continues to call him sammy. love a nickname, especially when dean's the only one allowed to call him that
dean getting the ultra blurred out soft focus treatment now, with a side of extra saturation
SAM
Charlie? Your boyfriend's death...you really should try to forgive yourself. No matter what you did, you probably couldn't have stopped it. Sometimes bad things just happen.
DEAN
That's good advice.
good but hard to internalize all the same
DEAN
Now that this is all over, I want you to tell me what that secret is.
SAM
Look...you're my brother and I'd die for you, but there are some things I need to keep to myself.
not quite sure why sam's smiling about this. not to mention how his visions become extremely plot relevant in the future. would think that would be more angsty, not lighthearted
s1e5 / true detective s1e1
i don't know if this is the first time the show made me cry? but the shot of jess on the sidewalk really got me this time around. also reminds me of a shot in true detective s1 that i used in my hannibal / true detective edit.
i've thought about doing some comparative gifs but i do think it's also kind of a common trope. but not like that means it's not worth doing! just selection of the trope from shows i have Feelings about
the song was replaced yet again on netflix, this scene originally had laugh, i nearly died by the rolling stones and they used bones into dust by fred haring instead and it was a good enough sub that it hit me in the feelings, rarity. i don't know what part of the rolling stones song they used but i might actually prefer the vibe a little bit of the substitute?? it's more straight bittersweet melancholy
via the wiki
Dean began to bleed from his eyes when confronted by Mary Worthington, denoting he had a dark secret which creator Eric Kripke claimed would be addressed at a later date. However, the plotline would quickly be dropped and never mentioned again.
lol
so much for these not all being excessively long posts 🤪
10/10 would reccomend writing a "trust fall exercise" scene with your OCs.not only is it fun but it is genuinely helping me establish dynamics between characters that I haven't had interact much yet even if it isn't canon or plot relevant :D
Also - holy shit Nick Offerman knocked it out of the park playing Bill. I’ve only seen him play Ron Swanson so at first I thought it was funny how similar the characters seemed to be handling the apocalypse but as the episode went on.. wow. Nick Offerman, well done. You made me want to cry.
X fell first then Y fell harder: I think in this case I'm pretty firmly cementing Ron as first...and oh (mustache twirl) when Ellie falls... Oh what fun we'll have