#savvylikeyeahhh

[nicolegendary]

tagged by @bloodsoakedbuckley to describe myself using images from my camera roll.

tagging @wernerherzogs @absolutelybifurious @savvylikeyeahhh @sevenpoints @buffiest anyone else who wants to do this

[madgearandmisilekid]

Tagged by @savvylikeyeahhh

Anyone who wants to can do this, because it's kinda fun to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out the best ones

[jakey-beefed-it]

List 7 Comfort Films and Tag 7 People

Tagged by @knighthawkchapter. Haven't done one o' these in a while, but here goes. For my purposes, 'comfort movie' is 'movie you would pretty much always plop down to watch if it came on the tv' as well as 'movie you genuinely enjoy'. Comfort in the more strict sense doesn't really factor into all of these.

Willow- The tone is pretty much exactly what I strive for in my d&d games. Yes, there's a plot, there are stakes, and it's fairly serious, but there are also drunken French brownies and slapstick shenanigans taking the piss out of the self-proclaimed great warrior.

Ladyhawke- Different tone from Willow, a bit more earnest and a lot more Medieval (except for the gloriously 80s synth soundtrack) but still a great story about the persistence of love and the shittiness of the church.

Independence Day- An extremely stupid movie with an extremely stupid premise (conveniently biologically similar aliens with even more conveniently compatible computer systems invade Earth for its resources rather than just bombard it from orbit and sift the debris) but lots of fun to watch.

Aliens- The film is just a sci-fi horror action masterpiece. The best parts of Alien- vastness and hostility of space, mounting tension, sense of creeping dread -but with lots of exciting action and character development to boot. And then Ripley and Hicks retired to raise Newt together; end of franchise.

Ghostbusters- Pretty dated already in some critical ways and only getting worse as time goes on, but many of the jokes still land and no movie has made me laugh as consistently throughout my life. Also one of the first films that lodged itself so thoroughly in my psyche it permanently warped my vocabulary.

Pacific Rim- Look. I could probably have just said 'The Entire Guillermo del Toro oeuvre but this one probably better fits the definition of 'comfort' than, say, Pan's Labyrinth or The Shape of Water. It's just a delightful film about choosing hope in the face of incredible odds. Also there are kick-ass kaiju, giant fighting robots, mad scientists, and one of the best love stories (platonic or otherwise) on film. And then Mako and Raleigh retired to hang out together; end of franchise.

Mad Max: Fury Road- I mean, you've seen it, right? Fucking look at it. It's pretty much the Perfect Film- pacing, characterization, cinematography, thematic consistency, law of conservation of narrative. Rewards casual viewing, REALLY rewards analysis. Still frothing at the mouth about this movie after eight years.

Tagging- @motheatenscarf, @petepaintswarhammer, @copperforge, @relentless-endurance, @savvylikeyeahhh, @13skeletons, @adhdgrapher, and anyone else who feels like it and needs the excuse. As always, please regard my tagging you as an invitation which you are free to ignore or decline without causing any offense.

[noblecharley]

I was tagged by @bethanyactually (thanks! 💜)

List 5 things that make you happy, then tag the last 10 people who reblogged something from you.

Puppy snuggles (there's no happiness quite like your pup choosing to curl up against you)

Clear skies and fresh air

Rainy days I can spend curled up under a blanket with a good book

Enjoying a good meal I cooked myself with local ingredients and fresh herbs

Getting lost in a music album (whether new or an old favorite)

Tagging (no pressure, only if you want!): @yessikg @whystuck @savvylikeyeahhh @gingerswagfreckles @adverbedly @jenneferofjengaberg @maygrantgf @zoewashburne @trilliastra

[fille-lioncelle]

I posted 2,167 times in 2022

56 posts created (3%)

2,111 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@sevenpoints

@sequencefairy

@aimmyarrowshigh

@savvylikeyeahhh

@uneventfulhouses

I tagged 2,085 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#watcher - 193 posts

#ryan bergara - 151 posts

#heartstopper - 145 posts

#shane madej - 130 posts

#ryan and shane - 111 posts

#fandom is awesome - 108 posts

#spoilers - 89 posts

#l'art pour l'art - 87 posts

#amazing - 73 posts

#charlie and nick - 70 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#can i do it when i'm like 85 and in case i come out in a completely different time period it's fine cause granny was gonna die soon anyway?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Guys. Please. How do I unpin a post. 😭😭😭 I cannot figure it out.

8 notes - Posted August 21, 2022

#4

Saw The Batman.

Things that movie did:

make me hold my breath

make me cry

make me giggle and kick my feet in delighted excitement

it right

8 notes - Posted March 11, 2022

#3

Okay, so, admittedly I hadn't watched Goncharov until, like, yesterday. It's one of those films you hear about but it just never sounded like my thing, you know?

Anyway, I watched it because I found the whole "loss of identity" thing Tumblr has been talking about really interesting, especially with Sofia and Katya, but then when I saw it it really struck me how I hadn't seen a lot of this talk about Goncharov and he's literally Goncharov! The reason for the season, baby!

I think part of the reason we're maybe all eating this up right now is because it's it just loss of identity, it's active rejection of it. Not of identity as such but of a specific identity he feels locked into.

The whole chapter where he takes Katya home to the village and you get this sense that people there are both afraid of him but also kind of still treat him like the boy he was when he left? His mother is the only character I think we ever see call him "Luca"! You wouldn't even know the guy had a first name! (Sidenote, love that that was Scorsese's mom.) (Sidenote to the sidenote: have we considered Goncharov as fictionalised autobiography cause I have thoughts.)

Anyway, Goncharov in Posianna is Luca. He's very big fish in a small pond, or at least he fears that's all he's ever going to be if he stays - so he leaves for Naples back when, meets Katya (and Andrey!) etc etc - goes to Moscow - and then returns. But at every stage he keeps having to work harder and harder to convince people he's this tough guy, right? He keeps having to prove himself and not just to other people, but, I think, crucially, to himself! It's like a fake it till you make it in mirrorverse because there's this sense of this not being where he "should" end up (and then we also already know that the stuff with Andrey is still coming up and how that's gonna go). It feels like he keeps trying to make the mythos of himself bigger and bigger because he's measuring himself against some sort of weird ideal that keeps outgrowing him. And, like, who can't relate, eh, generation of "you can be anything!".

On that note - I find it really interesting that Katya is kind of his foil here. She starts in Moscow but she keeps yearning for smaller places, but then once she gets there, she hates it. She could never be happy in Posianna. She actually needs the bigger ponds. (And Sofia.)

Anyway. It's not a fully formed analysis or anything, just something that kept nagging at me while I watched it. And maybe I'm just projecting but I find the deliberate construction of the self vs. the "authentic" finding of the self an interesting thought.

10 notes - Posted November 21, 2022

#2

Multifandom December Fic Countdown

Yup. We're doing this again.

Look. This marks the 10th year I'm doing this. I can't not.

-- Whaaaat, I hear you say. How old are you?? Shush.

Tempting as it is, because I am weirdly competitive about the most useless things and also let's not lie, there's always a pet fandom, it feels weird to break with tradition in this, the anniversary year, and fandom-lock my prompts.

So, I'll be using @skepticbeliever-bookclub's lovely prompt list, but I'm opening the list up to any and all fandoms you've seen me reblog stuff for. If you want to ask for something else, just give it a shot! I may or may not treat Watcher requests preferentially on account of abovementioned competitiveness and favouritism but I'll try to hold back on that.

-- But wait, you say. There's only 24 prompts on that list! Correct, I say. I'm adding 7 wild card prompts for AFTER these 24 are done. So I'm giving definite preferential treatment to those 24 but the other 7 are entirely up to you on a first-come-first-serve basis.

I've also reblogged @aimmyarrowshigh's Hannukah bingo - if you give me a prompt that fits that either in combination with one of the 24 or as a wild card, I'm also giving it preferential treatment. As I am not Jewish (or even Jew-ish) though, I ask for goodwill and patience with my fills.

The usual set up applies: I'm not here for rape, abuse, or death fic in this month and I aim for about 1k per fill.

Any other questions, just shoot me an ask or a message.

Without further ado!

Candlelight

Ghost

Ring

Chestnuts

Evergreen

Cosy

Scarf

Hot Cocoa

Cold Toes

Hope

Quiet

Family

Joy

Cider

Snowman

Night In

Candy Cane

Tradition

Eggnog

See the full post

11 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Just a heads up: if you read Heartstopper fic, someone has been posting deliberately horrific stuff (so far I've only seen two stories) clearly meant to upset people to the AO3 tag. I'm not sure reporting them will go anywhere since it's all technically labelled correctly from what I can tell without actually reading it? But they also are arguably being homophobic in graphically violent fictional ways so. Maybe??? Hopefully they'll get bored of being a miserable person and simply leave.

Just, if you want to avoid seeing it, exclude the warnings (particularly rape, graphic violence, and death) from your search and proceed as normal.

18 notes - Posted May 24, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[lesbiansatan]

savvylikeyeahhh replied to your post: sad

hugs

<3

[ravenvsfox]

your metaphors and similes are so powerful. they fundamentally changed the way I write because I love them so much and want to bring that type and level and intensity of imagery into my own work.

:(( god that’s such an incredibly kind thing to say, really just. a tidal wave of a compliment

I’m honoured to death, and I hope you know I’ll be carrying this message with me for a long long time 💜

Anonymously - or not - tell me what passage, fic, line of narration, or anything you remember me by as a writer.

[boneforts]

thank y'all all v much!!

[annie-banks]

savvylikeyeahhh replied to your post: (to the tune of jingle bells) open up the can mix...

……..are you okay

we have a team building exercise we have to do at work every year where you have to write a song, rap, poem, skit whatever about a specific thanksgiving dish. and mine was catchy af

[winnifredburkle]

Return of the King won ELEVEN OSCARS with the BIGGEST SWEEP IN OSCAR HISTORY and it deserved EVERY GOD DAMN ONE OF THEM!!!!

[nicolegendary]

savvylikeyeahhh replied to your post: a running list of the most unexpected things about...

I didn’t know you’d moved so this post is a shock all on its own ��

ahaha yeah i guess i didnt really mention it! but it was only 2 weeks ago so it’s still relatively new. im here for 2 years for law school. honestly it’s so lovely here that im already sad about having to leave in 2 years haha

[desertpups]

@savvylikeyeahhh (that's rude tumblr) @lesbianchrispine 😂😂😂

[noblecharley]

10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags  

I was tagged by @skatingthinandice! 💜 (sorry this is like....9 months later) I went for the characters I adore within stories I love!

Dana Scully - The X Files (if I’d watched this show when I was younger there’s a strong chance I would’ve actually majored in something science-y like I originally intended)

Joan Watson - Elementary (my queen!)

Greg Serrano - Crazy Ex Girlfriend (my depressed angry disaster boy)

Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables (she’s been it for me since I was in elementary school, I’ll never not love her)

Sarah Manning - Orphan Black (thee clone)

James Holden - The Expanse (if you don’t love coffee and justice gremlin Jim, I don’t understand you)

Kaz Brekker - Six of Crows (feral murder kitten, my beloved asshole)

Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark - The Hunger Games (look, don’t ask me to choose between them, they’re equally important to me)

Captain Kathryn Janeway - Star Trek (o captain my captain!)

Anne Elliot - Persuasion (she’s not the flashiest Austen lead but I love her so so much)

Tagging (if you’d like! no pressure): @oatflatwhite @adverbedly @tbelchers @first-kanaphan @jenneferofjengaberg @savvylikeyeahhh @heartonfirewrites @whystuck @histoi @zombeesknees

[fille-lioncelle]

savvylikeyeahhh replied to your post: Things that still confuse me: the concept of...

I mean you could argue that the appeal comes from them being a different size/cut than you would but for yourself otherwise. plus the whole branding of clothes sharing with a s.o… idk my dude. it’s a weird one.

Yeah, I guess. It just confuses me cause "boyfriend jeans" is a specific cut, so which cut exactly is the "girlfriend jeans" one, y'know? And then I'm also not sure if this is supposed to be actual girlfriends or GirlfriendsTM cause I always assume everything is marketed @ straight people haha. Basically it sends me into a whole tailspin of "what is this concept even meant to do?" lol

[russiawitheugene]

savvylikeyeahhh replied to your post“Kale parsnip 😂😂 that's my new favorite”

Parson discourse aside, I genuinely like Kale chips :(

oh my god Kathryn I can’t believe we’re friends

[vaxxildan]

@savvylikeyeahhh Thanks, hon. I'm just really really upset because she lives 2 hours away, and if anything DID happen, I wouldn't be able to make it in time, which is exactly what happened to me when my grandmother passed away. Like, my mom is my only family left, really, besides my wife and her side. (My dad doesn't count. He lost that right a long time ago) I know, logically, she's okay, and people can live in Afib if it's monitored and stuff, but my brain keeps playing the "what if" game. I can't handle the thought of losing my mom right now.