#the rooftop scene also........

[transmascutena]

another thing about the cantarella scene that makes me blow up into a million pieces is that it happens while utena isn't wearing her ring. what if i discarded the thing symbolizing the role i took on in order to save and protect you and i still loved you unconditionally outside of it...

[saltpepperbeard]

Robed Ed + Being Precious

[fisheito]

blade, superspeed superstar investigative extraordinaire (flinging entire men around since , uh, Saia)

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Anyways, in the Newsies book, Davey refers to Jack as “dashing” in his inner monologue that is all thank you

[thesweetnessofspring]

"I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch. I nod. That's it.

All these months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

HungerTown 6/?

[elderwisp]

today's project: find a high school that suits your storytelling needs

[good-to-drive]

[pynkhues]

Speaking of Sam's tiny ankle agenda, this is ridiculously specific but as a horror media enthusiast, I must say I hope they fully lean into the horror aspect in the Magnus scenes in s3 and have him properly haunt Lestat before capturing and turning him. I'm talking about Magnus blinking in/out of the frame like a ghost, dragging Lestat by his tiny ankle at night like the Demon toying with Regan in the Exorcist, mind-controlling other people to make Lestat feel even more paranoid and crazy. Dread and paranoia is honestly my fav part of horror and TVL gives sooo much potential. Plus I just think Sam would be having so much fun lol

It was actually one of the things that really struck me in re-reading that part of TVL in writing Ungodly Hour, but Magnus literally does stalk him for months. The book's pretty clear that Lestat gets on stage the first time in the summer, first sees Magnus sometime at the end of the summer, and then keeps seeing him in flashes and glimpses until Magnus abducts him and at that point it's snowing. And man, there's even horror before the turning sequence, because the abduction scene where Lestat's taken from his bed with Nicki + the snowy rooftop scene that immediately follows are genuinely scenes of pretty abject horror even before we get to Magnus' tower at all.

I kind of touched on it in my Byronic Hero post, but there's a real difference between genre conventions of terror and horror in gothic literature and they're often gendered with terror being considered female gothic and horror male gothic. What's interesting (and I genuinely think is pretty masterful in Anne's writing) is the way she shifts between the rising terror towards the end of the Lelio Rising part of the book and The Legacy of Magnus part until it shifts very suddenly and dynamically into full-blown horror. It's honestly a pretty brilliant use of genre conventions, and a real showcase of Anne's talent of a writer.

It's so obviously something Rolin's been drawn to, or at least compelled by, given how often he's brought it up in press for the first two seasons, and so I'm really curious as to how he envisions it. Given what he's said already, I can't really see them not going all in, and even putting the turning sequence aside, I think there's so much room for what you're talking about. Like, his face appearing like a disembodied mask in the audience at Lestat's shows is terrifying, and even the stuff afterwards of Magnus having chosen and laid out an outfit for Lestat after he's assaulted Lestat and then burned himself alive in front of him is like, the best, most insidious sort of gothic terror dressed up as something borderline romantic, which to me, just amplifies the horror of it all.

I don't think they're going to do a 1:1 adaptation of the book at all either (especially given they've already changed a few things around, particularly the timeline), and I'm really curious as to what that actually means.

[wist-eri]

[ ＊ she would like to talk to you. ]

also, alternate color edits i’ve made:

[emblazons]

*the city waits in uneasy silence–one sleep away.*

Glawen & Astarion + a moment (before the end) looking over Baldur's Gate • Baldur's Gate III

[stunie]

Angry ume has changed me............... why is he so...... wow

AGREED NONNIE. agreed agreed agreed.

now that we have that lil panel of him im thinking back to one of the first episodes when choji visited bofurin and there was like a 1 sec clip of ume angry ?! the part that scared poor sakura ? and then now with him being like “who is that…” after seeing current ume is just …. love that so much. he’s always had it inside him > <

[ingravinoveritas]

Me right now thinking about GO 2 and The Kiss after what Rob Wilkins said today:

[fortune-maiden]

Huh... there are a lot more changes to the 'f-f-friends' scene than I thought!

Mostly dialogue getting shifted around and streamlined but the most interesting change to me is that in the original the 'f-f-friends' line happened towards the end of their heart to heart but there was additional dialogue about MQ's talk with Jun Wu and MQ's final line was how he's glad to find out that XL doesn't hate him.

In the revision the 'f-f-friends' line is actually the last line. And leading up to is the part about Jun Wu and also how MQ struggled to believe that XL was really a good person and finally admits that he is

[starlooove]

“I can see Dylan O’Brien as Danny phantom”

What is wrong with u

[krispyjb]

Ah fuck I’m thinking about Water 7/Enies Lobby arc again

Whoops I wrote an essay in the tags

[aster-may]

Caroleena and Vincent Creecher // Dancing

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Vinnie's little nub hands 😭