#the theme's very jane

[conceptofjoy]

shut up and listen to hal's theme with me

[gendertrickster]

I DEFY INTERPRETATION // I AM NOT PARTICIPATING IN IT

[broadway-and-books-love]

The Ballad of Jane Doe but as it relates to Sasha/Not-Sasha/The Stranger. You get me?

[deadbeandrop]

neither lumpus nor jane want to die alone and that's both such a massive part of the inner workings of their minds to me and yet what it spawns out of them is also exactly the reason why they shouldn't ever be together ❤️ amen

[foolishlyzephyrus]

I love how similar the themes are in I Saw The TV Glow and We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, about how it deals with the real and the unreal.

We’re All Going To The World’s Fair focuses more on the real—what we’re being shown through Casey’s channel and what JLB perceives—as being unreal. It’s a story, it’s invented, it’s art, JLB is lying.

Where as I Saw The TV Glow focuses on the unreal as real, where The Pink Opaque is truly reality, and the “real world” (the Midnight Realm) in which Maddy and Owen are stuck is actually just a prison for their true selves.

[quietwingsinthesky]

oh, yeah, another thing i noticed that was odd about s5 in comparison to earlier seasons was how much they relied on like. not the history of the doctor, exactly, but the image of that history. whether from little easter eggs of the first doctor’s picture popping up everywhere to i think the two(?) times in the season we get a montage of past doctors. and i honestly can’t remember anything like that happening earlier (with the exception of the time crash short, which felt more substantial to me and was also like. 7 straight minutes of david tennant being allowed to fangirl.)

and i say ‘the image’ because hell knows the RTD era was pulling from doctor who past left, right, and center, but it rarely felt like a moment of ‘look at this old thing, you remember old thing? old thing was cool and so are we for continuing it.’ and more like ‘here’s a species/character/etc from classic who. and here’s how they’ve changed and fit into the new world we’ve built for the show.’

I guess, the difference here for me is that. i haven’t watched classic who. s5 shows me a slideshow of doctors and to me, those are the guys i once ranked by how sexy i think they are. and not much else. i don’t have an emotional connection to an image. but take, say, school reunion? an episode that was my favorite even back when i was a kid specifically because i adored sarah jane? i had no idea who she was then, i only just figured out a little bit ago which doctor she traveled with, and exclusively all i’ve watched of her is that episode in s2 and the sarah jane adventures. and yet, that episode, without the context there for me, managed to make sense to me. i’m sure it was probably even more impactful to fans of sarah jane from classic who, but it didn’t lose its impact without that knowledge.

so, that’s a shift. i don’t want to say it’s a negative one, exactly, because maybe people who have seen classic who like these references and i’m missing something. but, to me, it feels a little more shallow.

[widowshill]

By the way, I couldn't help noticing your new governess seems quite devoted to you.

[lisbonsteresa]

going unbelievably insane over this

[rexscanonwife]

Ok this...probably won't go anywhere but

Nic convinced me to finally watch the sea beast 😳👉👈

[thebestpartofwakingup]

I love Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and it's theme about the tragedy of men and women who become most famous through their impact on children. How they are doomed to watch their most devoted fans grow up and learn to stop loving them, of being an adult and never having the respect of other adults for the work you do. Of being dependent, financially and egotistically on this rapidly changing and inherently fluid class of person. Of not fading away into obscurity, but the much worse and more specific tragic fate of being rediscovered over and over again by your former, now adult, fans and being given the impossible responsibility of upkeeping a sense of innocence and childlike wonder that you are associated with but that is destined to fade from all adults --- of being blamed for that loss when kids become old enough to see the cracks in your façade that were always there, being reminded of your own age and insignificant as children who once saw you as an impossible compenetant adult grow up and begin to perform circles around you, both of you horrified by the development but you the one heavy with the blame

[avephelis]

rtc good

[mindisinmars]

get high and suddenly im spouting some philosophical bullshit

oh, ok *smokes enough weed to forget who i am*

[lisbonsteresa]

losing it

[phaedo]

[image description: a tweet by kurtis conner. the tweet reads, "Peter Parker would be a good drag queen because he is very athletic so he's good at dancing and doing the splits and stuff and he's got little jokes and quips and also he can sew." end image description.]

he’s literally so right about everything

[happylandfill23]

i wanna redo my blog theme but. i really like my current theme hmmm

[silverislander]

i don't know what to be for halloweeeeeeeen im having a crisis of identity. drapes myself over the sofa dramatically