#showgirls was incredible lmao

[jondalars]

movies, tv shows, and books of 2017

((as before,  * is a rewatch/reread; currently watching; can’t get through))

Skam (s3, s4)

The OA (s1)

Misfits (s1*, s2*, s3*)

My Mad Fat Diary (s1*, s2*)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (s1)

Smallville (s4*)

Don’t Breathe (2016)

The Eric Andre Show (s1, s2, s3, s4)

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Hidden Figures (2016) & *

Schindler’s List (1993)

Sophie’s Choice (1982)

Timeless (s1)

Shadowhunters (s2)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Imposter (2012)

Tickled (2016)

Riverdale (s1)

Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett

In the Flesh (s1*, s2*)

Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Doctored Images by Robert Sherrier

Moonlight (2016)

The Happening (2008)

Love & Friendship (2016)

The Office (s4*, s5*)

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall

The Witch (2015)

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

Grey Gardens (1975)

Holy Motors (2012)

Lion (2016) & *

Plein Soleil (1960)

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson

Moana (2016) & *

Arrival (2016)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Confirmation (2016)

Get Out (2017)

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan

Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan

Roswell (s1*)

Pride and Prejudice (2005) ****

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Ultimate Gift (2006)

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

Pain & Gain (2013)

Cold Fire by Kate Elliott

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (LWF, S, WNI, AIH, IBE*) 

Degrassi: Next Class (s3, s4)

Big Little Lies (s1)

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Face/Off (1997) *

Degrassi (s10*)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (s1)

Cold Steel by Kate Elliott

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf *

Feud (s1)

13 Reasons Why (s1)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

The Social Network (2010) *

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Extras (s1)

Chewing Gum (s2)

The Virgin Suicides (1999) *

And Then There Were None (s1*)

My Cousin Vinny (1992) *

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin *

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

The Handmaid’s Tale (s1)

Personal Shopper (2016)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Gosford Park (2001)

Kynodontas (2009)

The Island (2005)

Notorious (2009)

Busanhaeng (2016)

Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Girl on the Train (2016)

Law & Order: SVU (s18)

Rize (2005) *

Phoenix (2014) *

American Gods (s1)

The Bank Dick (1940)

Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (s3)

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The People Look Like Flowers At Last by Charles Bukowski

North & South (2004) *

The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson & *

The Keepers (s1)

The Girls by Emma Cline

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) *

Clue (1985) *

Finding Dory (2016) *

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

The Great Gatsby (1974)

The Great British Baking Show (s3)

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

Suite Française (2014)

Across the Universe (2007)

Casting JonBenet (2017)

Life (2015)

Blindness by Jose Saramago *

The Iron Giant (1999)

Freaks & Geeks (s1*)

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park (1993) *

Habibi by Craig Thompson

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) *

Jurassic Park III (2001) *

Jurassic World (2015) *

Children of Men (2006)

Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017)

Queen of Katwe (2016)

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Testament of Youth (2014)

The Final Girls (2015)

Wandafuru raifu (1998)

Updraft by Fran Wilde

Okja (2017)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle *

Unbreakable (2000)

Dunkirk (2017)

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) *

War & Peace (s1)

Stage Beauty (2004)

Defending Your Life (1991)

Sleepers (1996)

Game of Thrones (s7)

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Odd Thomas (2013)

Spirited Away (2001)

In Bruges (2008) *

12 Years a Slave (2013) *

Elvis & Annabelle (2007)

Showgirls (1995)

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Almost Famous (2000) *

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Kill Your Darlings (2013) *

Francis Ha (2012)

Much Ado About Nothing (2012) *

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Iris (2015)

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Tiny Furniture (2010)

Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead

Following (1998) *

Meet the Blacks (2016)

The Falling (2014)

Amélie (2001) *

Death Note (2017)

Anastasia (1997) *

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin *

The Good Place (s1)

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente *

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

To the Bone (2017)

Experimenter (2015)

The Land Before Time (1988) *

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle *

Wonder Woman (2017)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood *

It (1990)

I, Claudius by Robert Graves *

The Reader (2008)

Bojack Horseman (s4)

It (2017)

Love Songs (2007)

Girl Asleep (2015)

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn *

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Sing Street (2016)

White Noise by Don DeLillo *

The Beguiled (2017)

Def Comedy Jam 25 (2017)

Shameless (s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6, s7)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton *

Goon (2011)

The Breakfast Club (1985) *

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

American Vandal (s1)

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)

Stranger Things (s2)

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell *

Free Fire (2016)

You Instead (2011)

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Factory Girl (2006) *

Girls Trip (2017)

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Sense and Sensibility (1995) *

Emma (1996) *

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *

Amnesiac (2015)

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

The 100 (s1, s2, s3, s4)

Emma by Jane Austen *

Dark (s1)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

Miss Stevens (2016)

Mudbound (2017)

Logan (2017)

Ex Machina (2015)

The Love Witch (2016)

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Walking Dead (s1*, s2*, s3*, s4*)

Just Kids by Patti Smith

X-Me (2000) *

X2 (2003) *

Democracy by Joan Didion

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) *

Dancer (2016)

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Lady Bird (2017)

X-Men: First Class (2011) *

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) *

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Lady Macbeth (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

[bensonhurstbullet]

[ 🧱 ] how would you describe your muses’ morality? what are their core values?[ 🌎 ] are there any aus you have for your muse? what are they like, and how is your muse different in them?[ 😱 ] does your muse have any specific fears? where did those fears come from?[ 🤝 ] how does your muse approach intimacy? are they hesitant, or do they like it? what types of intimacy do they like and dislike? (ex. physical intimacy, sexual intimacy, emotional intimacy, etc.)

1. Has been answered! 3. Has been answered!

4. Has been answered!

In regards to AUs, I have quite a few. Because I now have a FC for Sal that depicts him as a minor, I have a verse where I can portray him in his younger years. He's pretty harmless, hasn't even killed anyone yet - let alone know what wise guys actually do when they're not sitting outside shop corners. (Beyond be 'wise,' he supposes) If anything he's just an annoying, loud kid that hides the fact he's terribly lonely. 😔

Then, I of course have a millennial verse for Sal. Behavior wise he's the same, but he is different in multiple ways. For example, he listens to modern pop & rap because it's been incredibly commonplace from the time he was growing up to now. His mother was in a interracial relationship with a black man (something his mother wasn't that bold to do when Sal was growing up) and he engages with social media.

But more importantly than that, this version of Sal has a non-existent interest in the mafia. Because it's not as though he's a kid in "the old days" where wise guys were influential in his neighborhood. Additionally, organized crime has been commercialized with programs such as Mob Wives, I Married A Mobster or Made In Staten Island. For Sal, this paints a certain image for modern day organized crime. He feels that it consists of old men who don't nearly hold as much power as they did. He feels its kind of...lame, for lack of a crueler word.

Therefore, Sal is a mercenary or gun for hire, as a millennial. He likes working for himself.

Also there's a Sim Version of Millennial Sal who was a once a drug dealer, now an average nobody trying to just survive in my story, "Mean Streets." He's the same in some regards, and different in others because it's a more light-hearted story. With the murder and crime, he feels...relatable lmao. :| This is me promoting my story.

Finally, I've been playing with the concept of verses where Sal runs a casino in Las Vegas. In this verse, it happens because his mother moves to the west coast and settles down, working as a seamstress for showgirls. However, this places Sal in the presence of gangsters rooted in Nevada that he models himself after. It's the same Sal, but in a different location.

[benjaycaptain]

thanks for the rec! i'll definitely have to check it out. i've been looking for a new show to start watching (after i watch s2 of the witcher of course lmao). i don't know anything about the dc universe so i won't have any preconceived notions going in. i don't know if that will be an advantage or disadvantage lmao

yeah, i feel like to enjoy fic writing, you have to be at least a little self-indulgent. usually for gift exchanges i try to find things both me and my giftee like and build from there, so the experience is good for both of us!

it looks like it was a pretty fun convention. they had some cast members from jatp and hsm there too. oh, no, i definitely don't ship actors together. i just love that they're willing to do fun poses for their fans. they're such good friends even years after descendants. so heartwarming to see that.

valid. some fandoms can be incredibly toxic, so i get that. i've never been to any descendants events either, but i would love to meet some of the cast members. that's so fun that you got to watch descendants with your roommate! i always find it fun to see my friends' reactions to the movies, see which ships they like, etc. most of the time they have good taste lmao

what are some of your favorite feel-good movies? or could you recommend me some songs that make you really like to listen to?

- gifter anon

it's fine if you know nothing about the dc universe if you watch the show. the dcau was many many Many people's intro into that world, so it's kinda perfect xD

but ahhh i'm kinda jealous of you! i wish i could experience the show for the first time again xD tho tbh i don't think it would change much. i love it so much that i get lost in it whenever i do rewatches

oh, i didn't mean shipping the actors. i just meant. like people nowadays like to do this thing of seeing an actor do something completely unrelated to a character/franchise/ship, and be like "see, this totally unrelated, out of character, completely human reaction is totally Proof that headcanon/fanon/ship is real!!!" when. actors are just people who have no real ties to the character they play in real life??

but! it is really nice to know costars actually like each other lol i remember being all up in my feelings during the aida obc reunion stream and the cast was nothing but gushing endearments for each other!

hmmmm feel-good. idk lmao i'm not sure if what falls under feel-good for me is the same as for other people lol if you mean what i can rewatch over and over or rewatch when i need a pick me up, then: prince of egypt, ever after, down with love, shawshank redemption, bachelor mother, syfy's alice, teen beach 2, book of life, the young victoria, working girl, stardust, howl's moving castle, power rangers 2017, night at the museum, kiss of the dragon, zombies, the prince and the showgirl, annnnd i guess that's enough lmao

i'm not big on songs i'm afraid... if it isn't from a musical or soundtrack or something, i wouldn't know it. i kinda don't know any of today's music, i grew up on classic/1990s country and solid gold oldies, so. i might not be the best to ask for music recs lmao