#transatlantic 2023

[emmanelson]

GILLIAN JACOBS and AMIT RAHAV as MARY JAYNE GOLD and THOMAS LOVEGROVE in TRANSATLANTIC (2023)

[whoviandoodler]

[Image description: a digital drawing of Thomas and Varian from Transatlantic in sepia tones. Thomas is sitting on a sofa smoking, one leg bent and resting on the couch. In his right hand he has an open book and in his left he's holding Varian's glasses. He seems to have just looked up from his book at a new arrival. Varian is lying on the couch, his head on Thomas's thigh, and sleeping while covered by a cardigan. End description.]

that awkward moment when you boyfriend said he'd just lie down for a second and totally wouldn't fall asleep (he has so much work to do, he can't take naps), but now he's been sleeping for an hour and your leg is cramping so badly but you don't have the heart to wake him because he's been exhausted for weeks

[dailygillianjacobs]

Gillian Jacobs in the Making Transatlantic featurette on Netflix

[thismoleculeisacomedian]

Ahhh I’m now done with Ep. 2 of “Transatlantic” and just. Wow. It’s the best thing I’ve seen in such a long time.

P.S if anyone else wants to chat about it, please feel free to dm me!!!

[amyriadfthings]

Yes please! 🙏

[barrowsteeth]

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[overlookedwwiimedia]

Transatlantic | Official Trailer | Netflix

[forfoxessake]

April (2023)

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films

Triangle of Sadness (2022) a lot of people say this is too much like “The White Lotus”, but I don’t think people realize that director Ruben Östlund had already talked about “white people problems/eating shit” in the brilliant “Force Majeure” so it’s no surprise that he delivered this brilliant study of overly privilege life. 

Late Night (2019) I love Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling but this is just ok, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel did it better in just one episode. 

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023) Is it a perfect movie? Far from it to be honest. But in my heart, it's a 4 and that's what is truly important.Uhtred <3

The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022) I think it had potential, but sometimes the jokes and situations weren't that funny. Anything with Allison Janney and Kristen Bell was great, super funny, and memorable, the rest of the cast had to try and follow along but they really weren't the right fit.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) The perfect mix of nostalgic and genuinely good. Good movie to see on the big screen after so long away from cinemas.

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books

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment  Everyone says this is her hardest book to read, and I agree, it's truly painful. And I have yet to grasp what it all meant to me. 

John Green -  The Anthropocene Reviewed  My first time reading one of his books and I really enjoyed a lot of what he is saying here, I like his style of writing and his personal reflections on life. I might listen to his podcast, but I don't think I will ever read his YA fiction. 

Deborah Harkness - A Discovery of Witches I saw the tv series until the end before reading this, and I'm surprised that this is so bad when the tv adaptation is comparatively so much better. The adaptation goes straight to the point and the book goes on and on and on, it is just pointless to the narrative 50% of the time, dragging things along until I couldn't stand it anymore. 

Marguerite Duras - The Lover  

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tv shows

Doom Patrol (2019 - 2023) - season 01 -  It took me longer than I wished to finish this season but I did love it so much, had so much fun watching it and I’m sad this isn’t as big as it should be. 

The Mandalorian (2019 -) - season 03 - It’s impossible to be as good as we want it, but this really dropped the ball a little bit, it could have been bigger, but they got lazy for a bit. 

Killer Sally (2022) - We don’t know the truth, but her trial could not have been more biased. I’m sure there’s still people who don’t get it at all. 

Transatlantic (2023) - We talk way too much about WW2 - but at least this had a different take, regular people trying to do good. 

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music

Scowl - Psych Dance Routine [EP] (2023) - 4 Stars

High Vis -  Blending  - 5 Stars

The HIRS Collective - Trust The Process - 3 Stars 

Ibaraki - Rashomon - 3 Stars 

The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein - I still don’t know how I feel about it.

songs

Dilly Dally - Colour of Joy and Morning Light (2023) - super sad they are over

High Vis - Trauma Bonds

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[leqclerc]

Btw I know exactly what/where this is, in fact I've flown in and out of this airport many, many times myself but that's exactly why this is so weird to me. It's like seeing Charles shopping for milk at your local Lidl.

What the hell is a polar bear (Charles Leclerc) doing in Arlington, Texas (Shannon Airport)

[emmanelson]

Ralph and Lucas really are those besties

[hauntedwoman]

2023:

- SCARE YOURSELF

- THERE'S A DOOR YOU CAN WALK OUT ANYTIME YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND IT

- GHOSTS ARE JUST LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TOO

- COVER ALL MIRRORS

- GO TO THE BEACH AT NIGHT AND LISTEN TO THE WAVES UNDER THE MOON

- EMBRACE FILTH

- BRING BACK THE TRANSATLANTIC ACCENT

[dailygillianjacobs]

via Lucas Englander’s instagram

[fatehbaz]

Organizing more notes. Some recent-ish books on German colonialism and imperial imaginaries of space/place, especially in Africa:

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German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Edited by Itohan Osayimwese, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)

An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Adam A. Blackler, Penn State University Press, 2023)

Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Holger Droessler, Harvard University Press, 2022)

Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 (Matthew Unangst, University of Toronto Press, 2022)

The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Patricia Anne Simpson, 2020)

Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Erik Grimmer-Solem, Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Marie A. Muschalek, 2019)

Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, the League of Nations, and Imperialism (Sean Andrew Wempe, 2019)

Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Edited by Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, 2018)

German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence (Susanne Kuss, translated by Andrew Smith, Harvard University Press, 2017)

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (Itohan Osayimwese, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)

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German Colonialism in a Global Age (Edited by Bradley Naranch and Geoff Eley, 2014) Including:

"Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1840-1945" (Geoff Eley)

"Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine" (Deborah J. Neill)

"Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath" (Andrew Zimmerman)

"Mass-Marketing the Empire: Colonial Fantasies and Advertising Visions" (David Ciarlo)

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German Colonialism and National Identity (Edited by Michael Perraudin and Jurgen Zimmerer, 2017). Including:

"Between Amnesia and Denial: Colonialism and German National Identity" (Perraudin and Zimmerer)

"Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914" (Jeffrey Bowersox)

"Beyond Empire: German Women in Africa, 1919-1933" (Britta Schilling)

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Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (David Ciarlo, Harvard University Press, 2011)

The German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914 (Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of Toronto Press, 2012)

The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (George Steinmetz, 2007)

[amyriadfthings]

i hope they´ve all been considered ✨

[barrowsteeth]

Transatlantic (2023) 1.03 | The Wilderness

I don't believe in wishes. If we want something, we just have to make it happen.

GIF ID: A series of seven gifs of Thomas and Varian passionately kissing as they make their way upstairs at the villa Air-Bel after the party. They are tearing at each other's clothes and are so wrapped up in the moment that they do not notice Patterson watching them from behind the door to the next room. Caption plain text: Transatlantic 2023. 103 The Wilderness. I don't believe in wishes. If we want something, we just have to make it happen. End plan text.

[captainbucky-yt]

LUKE THOMPSON as HIRAM 'HARRY' BINGHAM

Transatlantic (2023) | 1.04: "No Road Back"