#this is so scarily accurate to Anthony -

[xxxlovedandlostxxx]

Dark Earth Zodiac

The Guardian

The sign of the Guardian is defined by their questions; the Guardian treasures above all other signs the joy of knowledge. Those under the sign of the Guardian are curious, honest, and indecisive. They like to consider every possibility before making a choice, and this can lead to paralysis. The more they learn, though, the more they love, and they cannot bear to limit truths to themselves-- something that may work against them, for not all are so free with their secrets. The Guardian may grow jaded as they grow, but at their heart is a deep love for that which they study. At their best, the Guardian is a passionate teacher, an excellent listener, and an eager student. However, they can also be clumsy and distant, especially when confronted with unfamiliar situations and complex emotions. They process the world in private. This particular trait leads to the perception of coldness, though this is rarely the case. The Guardian studies above all else themselves; this can lead to individuals who are exceptionally in tune with themselves, or in turn, intensely self critical. The mind turns in on itself, chasing its own tail, and the Guardian is torn by the knowledge that people are irrational creatures, and themself amongst them. If they cannot trust their own judgement, what is there left?

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[howbrightthemoon]

as we expected, EPISODE 5 WAS BRILLIANT

we're REALLLLYYY kicking off things in part 2 huh

SPOILERS BELOW proceed with caution

The intimate scene: we get a love scene not even half way through the episode and it is....SO beautiful, and I genuinely stopped breathing and couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the episode

there's lots of giggles throughout the whole scene because it's Pen's first time, there's check ins, double checks on consent...but Pen isn't totally clueless, she WANTS to touch him but just doesn't know how...and the way he guides her....and the way he makes her feel comfortable first with the ol carriage fingers before asking if she's ready AGHEHREWKENKFJNEWHR

and the way they slowly reveal their bodies to each other....my god it is just incredibly sensual and romantic, he really takes his time undressing her and savoring her, while he really takes his time letting her see all of him (and I mean ALL. OF. HIM.).

they start off slow...but again Penelope is like LETS FUCKING GO and she's giving him the 'fuck me' eyes and he's legit losing himself and honestly, they're both REALLLLYYY getting into it, BOTH. Not only is there the focus on Pen's pleasure, but Colin's too. I think because it's important to show the difference in his sexual encounters at the brothel versus with someone he loves. LN was seriously giving his all in this scene, I was not expecting to see an O face but yeah, he did thaattt

Whistledown mentions: Nicola does an amazing job at portraying the sheer anxiety she feels over this massive secret she's hiding. Now she's part of the Bridgerton family, she has to see Eloise more often and just SEEING Eloise makes her panic. Not even with the 'you have to tell him before midnight' thing, but every time they're in the same room, Pen just loses it. The way she shows how her anxiety builds and BUILDS throughout this episode is so scarily accurate, I really felt for her, poor girl was just trying to enjoy her fiancees engagement speech and Eloise just had to butt in and start ruining the whole night for her.

Cressida's motivations: girl, I get it. I'm sorry she's reverting back to her old cunning ways, but...man no one in that drawing room was listening to her...she had to say something. Can you imagine being in her position? i'd lie that I was whistledown too lol, girl, I get it. It's ELOISE that I'm honestly fed up with in this episode.

ANTHONY BRIDGERTON: Last thing, I wanna shoutout Jonathan's acting in this episode. The way I am so convinced that Anthony is absolutely overjoyed at the fact that he's going to become a father soon, and he plays that joy into every single scene he's in. I could see so much of that playful competitive big brother vibe from season 2 (especially in the charades scene, which reminded me of pall mall s2) from him in this episode, I loved it.

anyways rant over, I am seated for the release of all four episodes later today and you best believe I'm binge watching it

p.s. I just wanna say....Nicola was not kidding when she said she was going to show everything on camera....girl, you are absolutely gorgeous

[avida-heidia-5]

I Just Watched: The Father (2020)

(Originally posted to Letterboxd on 12th May 2023)

Wow! What. A. Film.

THIS is Anthony Hopkins at his peak. I might have been disturbed by his skin-crawling turn as Hannibal Lecter, but this…! This was even more disturbing! Oh my god! 😳

I was unexpectedly moved to tears by Hopkins’s role as a father (called Anthony, funnily enough!), who was diagnosed with dementia. His depiction of the illness was scarily authentic. In all honesty, it made me feel uncomfortable BECAUSE of how authentically he portrayed it. His behavioural patterns and mannerisms mirrored how a real dementia sufferer would act, and I know this because my granny and my mor-mor (mum’s mum in Danish. My mum’s side of the family is Danish) both struggle with dementia. A lot of experience meeting dementia patients must’ve helped Hopkins create a realistic portrait for him to take with him. Let’s just say he stole that portrait and ran with it and didn’t stop running until the very end. That’s astonishing given he’s now 85 years old! What a legend!

Acclaimed French playwright Florian Zeller wrote and directed this film. Not only that, it was adapted from his own play La Père back in 2012. I had an inkling it was based on a play as the cinematography certainly reflected that. Through his use of symmetry and a mixture of soft and harsh lighting and minimal locations, Zeller presented his story like a live theatre show. His experience as a theatre director must’ve helped massively when planning out his little passion project.

Choosing actors who’ve had experience with performing in theatre was the right call to make. Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman are absolute naturals at the craft and performed well beyond what they were used to in front of a camera. It’s an entirely different experience for them yet very familiar at the same time. They, of course, stole the show. Apparently, Zeller already had Hopkins in mind when writing the play and wanted him in his film for years. Now, it’s finally happened. It’s a match made in heaven! 🥰🥰🥰

Usually, it can be very risky adapting films based on plays; they tend to take away elements of what makes a play stand out, in a way that almost makes it unadaptable. Watching a live show provides a unique experience compared to watching it onscreen as it makes you feel more involved somewhat, like you’re there, living and breathing in that moment. Here, it works simply because of the way it was shot and acted. I felt like I was there with these characters, feeling the same emotions as they are feeling. It’s scary and I love it.

I loved everything about this film: the acting, the cinematography, and…this will be a very weird thing to comment on…but I loved the pacing. It’s on the slow side, but I didn’t mind. I was too engaged to even notice. I liked the unique way dementia was presented in the film. It’s something no one wants to live through in any stage of their lives. It is left, right, and centre, the most brutal and heartbreaking depiction of dementia I have ever seen put into a film. It’s startlingly accurate to the real thing.

Everyone involved in this deserves every single award given to them, especially to Florian Zeller who created this masterpiece in the first place. Impressive given it’s his directorial debut!

10/10! ❤️

Bonus:

So do I, dear reviewer! So do I! 😢😭😭😭

[sunnylighter]

what do u think the ninjas would dress up as 4 halloween?? (do u think the adults would dress up too,,)

Let's see...

Lil'Loyd would dress as his dad and everyone would think it was adorable.

Luh-Loyd has a dragon costume that he has worn for the last 3 years.

Cyan Nya would be the same as Luh-Loyd, only her costume is Lady Iron Dragon. Koko is always flattered.

Red Nya would try and say she's too old for this, only with the actually older than her Ninja doing it she'd have no leg to stand on, but not realize that until the last minute and have to wear the couple costume that goes with Jay's (when they're dating at least, if they're not dating at the time, she's stuck with a bedsheet ghost because Kai keeps messing with her so she can't get anything better).

Spike Kai would put on shades and be his own evil double. He gets a little too into the act.

Buddy Kai dresses like a skeleton just so he can play fight with his sister.

Freckles Jay dresses as a mad scientist and can get scarily into the act to go with the part. Lots of maniacal laughter and scientifically accurate plans.

Nick Jay would want to wear super romantic couple costumes with Nya. Romeo to her Juliet, Clyde to her Bonnie, Anthony to her Cleopatra (pointedly ignoring how all those are tragedies), those sorts of things. (If they're not dating, he just dresses like a pirate because he thinks eyepatches are cool.

Cliff Cole does the barest minimum of costumes because he'd spent his childhood stuffed into silly uncomfortable costumes for dance and he is not willingly doing that again. So a 'This IS my Halloween Costume' T-shirt would be about his speed.

DJ Cole, meanwhile, has very intricate costumes because his parents work together to make them, and he can't say no to their hard work. It helps that they know his tastes, and tend to dress him as famous rock stars. Last time he was dressed as a member of Kiss.

Zen Zane was dragged into the whole Halloween thing but is having fun dressed as the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. It helps that Alexa Pixal agreed to be Dorothy.

Pep Zane and Penny Pixal had been planning their costume for months, and have been scaring kids with their costumes of Frankenstein's Monster and his Bride.

M!Morro's a jerk who likes to dress in the scariest thing he can make and then jump out of the bushes at unsuspecting trick-r-treaters.

Of course Lord G can't resist dressing up too, (which means the other adults are dragged in too). He has the whole family's costumes planned out with him being Darth Vader, Koko being Queen Amidala and all but stuffing Master Wu into an Obi-Wan costume. He is absolutely bummed that Luh-Loyd doesn't want to give up his dragon costume to be Luke and/or Leia.

With Lord G dressing up, Sensei G, Sensei Wu, and Misako feel they have to too, or Lil'Loyd would be disappointed. When he realizes Lil'Loyd dressing as him, Sensei G decides to dress as the Green Ninja to surprise him, and the irony is lost on no one. Sensei Wu just puts on a pointy hat and calls himself a wizard, while Misako scares them both with a scarily accurate costume of one of their many old enemies.

[newstechreviews]

The 2020 Emmys had to be different. Such is, of course, the reality for all awards shows right now. But the TV Academy’s annual self-congratulations ritual was begging for a revamp long before COVID-19 hit. Without a host to personalize the ceremony, the downbeat 2019 telecast drew just 6.9 million viewers—a 32% decline over the previous year. Another drop of that magnitude, and it might be hard to justify devoting three hours of Sunday-night airtime to a glorified industry event.

Hopefully, it won’t come to that. Because despite the unprecedented challenge—or, perhaps more accurately, because of it—this year’s Emmys turned out to be one of the most enjoyable awards shows in recent memory. That success wasn’t necessarily the result of any one big decision on the producers’ part. But many of the details worked well, from H.E.R.’s lovely rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U” during the In Memoriam montage, to Jennifer Aniston frantically extinguishing a trash fire as part of a gag about sanitizing award envelopes—and then reappearing two hours later flanked by her Friends co-stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. Bits by genuinely funny people like David Letterman (“Regis, I checked; you’re in the montage, buddy”) and Anthony Carrigan as Barry’s NoHo Hank (himself flimsily disguised as a U.S. postal worker) earned their laughs. Inviting essential workers to present a handful of awards could’ve come off as patronizing, but the show avoided schmaltz by actually letting them share their experiences. And clips of luminaries like America Ferrera and Lena Waithe speaking candidly on their early encounters with Hollywood was a welcome alternative to the usual guilty jokes about the industry’s racism and sexism from the obligatory white-guy host.

Speaking of which: Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t an extraordinary host by any means, but he was certainly better than nothing. (If that seems like faint praise, it’s a whole lot more than I can say for Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes this past January.) His mere presence throughout the evening brought much-needed consistency and enthusiasm to a telecast that, due to its far-flung nominees, could’ve felt scattered or low-energy. In fact, there was something kind of comforting about the very averageness of “Pandemmys” jokes aimed at easy targets like anti-maskers and Quibi (which Kimmel rightly identified as “the dumbest thing to ever cost a billion dollars.”) I mean, what feels more normal than an awards-show host doing just OK?

ABC via Getty Images—2020 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.Anthony Carrigan in a bit as his ‘Barry’ character NoHo Hank during the 2020 Emmy Awards.

Really, though, it was the winners who made the 2020 Emmy Awards special. It’s always heartening to see some of the best nominees take home trophies (or have the trophies delivered to their homes via interns driving Kias, as the case may be), particularly after the farce that was the Game of Thrones‘ atrocious final season winning top honors last year. And while there weren’t too many surprises on Sunday, Zendaya’s richly deserved Lead Actress in a Drama upset livened up the proceedings nicely.

As for the favorites that dominated the night—Schitt’s Creek in the comedy-series category, Succession in drama and Watchmen in limited series—each one fulfilled some vital function for Americans toughing out this pandemic year from our couches. And the acceptance speeches reflected how thoroughly the casts and crews understood what we were getting out of their work. Along with his gratitude, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong underscored his dramedy’s cathartic lampooning of the super-rich and mega-destructive with a torrent of “un-thank-yous” to Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and nationalist leaders around the world.

Watchmen honorees from Regina King to creator Damon Lindelof and writer Cord Jefferson leaned on the series’ most political moments, such as its wrenching depiction of the 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa, and urged viewers to take advantage of voting tools like Ballotpedia. I was especially moved by Supporting Actor in a Limited Series winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen‘s speech, in which he acknowledged that Watchmen was a story about white domestic terrorism and inherited trauma, before pointing out that “it was also about a god who came down to earth to reciprocate to a Black woman all the love that she deserved. He’d offer her sacrifice and support, passion, protection. And he did all of this in the body of a Black man.” Abdul-Mateen continued, “I’m so proud I was able to walk into those shoes.” He dedicated his Emmy to the Black women in his life.

Nothing captured our collective thirst for comfort, positivity and familial togetherness more than the Schitt’s Creek sweep, which had the show’s major players—gathered in masks and formalwear at a small, socially distanced party—accepting seven straight awards. The Canadian ensemble was humble as always, giving generous shout-outs to each other and fellow nominees they admired, such as Issa Rae. “The internet’s about to turn on me,” Daniel Levy, who co-created the comedy with his father and fellow Emmy winner Eugene Levy, joked after his third time at the mic. “I’m so sorry for making this political, but I had to.” Even when they kept their masks on, you could tell how thrilled the members of the fictional Rose family were for each other. (“I can’t believe that Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are my friends!” exclaimed their TV daughter, Annie Murphy.) Maybe it got a little old hearing them reiterate that the show was a celebration of kindness and inclusivity, but those values could not have been more refreshing at a time characterized by isolation, anger and mourning. For a few minutes on Sunday evening, it was possible for millions of struggling people across the country to imagine ourselves as honorary Roses—punched in the gut by life but united by human decency and capable of finding their way back to something like normalcy, together.

[whatisa-legacy]

The cast finds a janthony fanfiction

this makes me cringe thinking about this ever happening and them finding mine, but i hope you like this! :)

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Jasmine decides some of the best part of their jobs is the downtime in between shows, where they’d all cram impossibly into Javi’s dressing room and spend time together, like everything around them wasn’t going 100 mile a minute. Jasmine always found herself pressed against Anthony’s side or sat in his lap, laughing between the few conversations making their way around the room.

“What is this?” Daveed declares through the room, staring at his phone. Anthony tries to peer over to see what he had been staring at, Daveed abruptly pulling the phone away before he has a chance to read anything. “Someone’s been writing some fan fiction about our favorite lovers,” Daveed sings, Anthony feeling his cheeks flush as he tries to swat the phone away.

Daveed’s too quick for Anthony’s actions, Jasmine giggling from the other side of her boyfriend, leaning her head against his shoulder. Daveed proceeds to read them out loud, the cast making various comments on actions in the fics, only making Jasmine and Antony more embarrassed.

“They’re way too sweet about you two,” Oak decides, looking towards both Jasmine and Anthony, “But they did get how affectionate you are to each other. God, even people who don’t really know you can tell you’re always all over each other.”

“We’re not always all over each other,”  Jasmine argues, although she knows it’s weak and they really are closer than either of them want to admit.

“Try saying that when you’re not sitting impossibly close to him. It’s crowded in here, but not that crowded that you can’t move over a tiny bit,” Javi smiles, Jasmine just rolling her eyes as she looks over, continuing to sit as close to Anthony as she possibly can.

They only have to endure two readings of fics before Daveed declares that it’s too weird for him to keep reading, wondering how they had gotten so scarily accurate both of their personalities. Jasmine and Anthony are firm on the fact that it’s not really how they are, but as they listen to all of the arguments and shouts back that they’re lying, both of them realize they’re doing the exact things the fics said they do.

Jasmine prays that they never have to endure dramatic readings about fics of them as she would much rather leave them online. Anthony knows he can’t listen to them anymore, far too embarrassed that they seem to be calling the two of them out on everything they do despite having no idea who they are in real life.

The cast plans a few more jabs at their expense after reading a few more fics, thankfully the two of them still finding the humor in it for now. And while the thought of reading them out loud will never be erased from their minds, Anthony at least finds some comfort in knowing that people see them for exactly how he feels about Jasmine — completely in love with everything about her.