#tsh liveblog

[eerna]

I say that is my baby!!!!

[nighttimewalking]

The entirely too diaphanous gown situation making a comeback in TSH 👀👀

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

...aight

[st4rry4pples]

israel more like palestine

[karinyosa]

watching power of the dog what the fuck is going to happen to that bunny

[robobee]

I LOVED TSH!!!! IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER IN SUCH A SIGNIFICANT WAY! PLS LIVEBLOG EVERY PARAGRAPH😊😊😊😊😊😊😊I LOVE UR WORK AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHT ON EVERY LINE

WHOO SHIN8NG ENDORSEMENT! when I get a moment free I will start it I promise

[sleepymarmot]

Ravenous (1999)

Liveblog

“George, people don’t still do that, do they?” “White man eats the body of Jesus Christ every Sunday.” First of all, laughed out loud. Second, oh so this is why the newcomer looks so Christlike :D

Did he really need to call it “virility” lmao

Was disappointed when Carlyle’s character suddenly became very animalistic

How long did Boyd lie in that forest with a broken bone without food and water? With the blood from the wounds fresh on his face as if no time has passed? And then ate the other guy which implies the meat was fresh? Based on the moon, at first I thought it was almost a month, then realized it should be less because it was close to half a cycle instead of a full cycle, then realized the moon phases were shown backwards anyway. But even if we count backwards it should be about two weeks.

“Perhaps later, you might… contribute [to the stew]” this guy was Hannibal before Hannibal

Thoughts

*checks another Gay Subtext classic off my list*

Surprised to see multiple reviews describe the film’s subject matter as unusual or unmarketable; I guess I’m lucky to live in the same general area of the internet as a bunch of fans of various intersections between “angsty men in a period piece”, “repressed homoeroticism”, and “eating people”.

Full disclosure: I’d been meaning to watch this for years, but the real motivation to pick this specific film out of my watchlist and press play was that I’d decided to watch at least one movie per month, and then missed the entirety of March and was left on the evening of March 31st trying to pick something not too long or too heavy. 

Luckily, the vibe turned out to be exactly what I expected. Though I didn’t anticipate how much this film is at once! It’s a comedy, it’s a tragedy, it’s western, it’s horror, it’s romance. There’s a precarious balance between naturalism and camp that I’m not sure I was satisfied with, but the unevenness adds to the unpolished, uncommercialized arthouse aesthetic of the film (fitting for a work about raw meat to feel raw itself!), and the resulting stew is tasty enough that in the end I don’t really care. The ending is so neat that the tragedy feels satisfying rather than heartbreaking (I rewatched it months later while finishing this review, and was grinning from ear to ear), and the overall story manages to be simultaneously refreshingly straightforward and thematically rich (lots to chew on! ba dum tsh). 

Other people are better equipped to write about the political themes of the film (or its treatment of Native American characters and folklore) than I am, but I was surprised and impressed by the scene near the end that textually compares cannibalism to colonialist expansion, and then, without a pause, makes cannibalism stand for homosexuality in subtext so strong that it’s almost text, that I have to forcibly remind myself that these lines could possibly be about anything other than the protagonist’s repressed attraction to men in general and the antagonist specifically. 

Special shout outs to the Christian imagery and how well it works with the themes, and to Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn’s work on the soundtrack (I remember how months or years ago I first learned who wrote music for the niche gay cannibal movie I’d seen mentioned from time to time, and did a double take). And the final shout out — to the Native American final girl.

[museenkuss]

what is Prof Julian the Greek but an academic sugar daddy? makes you feel special by giving you attention and all the education you want....manipulates you for his own amusement....[leaves when convenient]

[purplebass]

I'm enjoying TSH because of the references about different humanities, so if you are into philosophy and thinking about human behavior and its consequences, I think you may like it! It's not much about the story itself but about how it plays out.

AGGFM is cool so far. I like that there are interviews and that Pippa writes about what is happening as if the reader is there with her and she's telling us her thoughts about what she is investigating. I will go back to this once I'm done with TSH

I still have to reread LOTR hehe but I own the book. Maybe I should liveblog it or read with someone because I remember the first time it tore me out because it's really descriptive

Yes, I read TVD!!! I read the duology a few years ago and wanted to read the spin offs FLF and the other one. It was okay, I enjoyed it, but it was nothing special because some things reminded me of other series I've read so it felt like something I'd already seen

What's the last book you read?

Hi Lola! I'm still finishing The secret history by Donna Tartt that I've started two weeks ago hehe I'm such a slow reader 😬 but I didn't have time to read much lately. I'm also reading A good girl's guide to murder by Holly Jackson but I'm still at the beginning

What about you? Do you have any book recs?

[eerna]

Vivi always supporting her siblings' abandonment of responsibilities and duties <3<3<3<3<3

[gaysie]

francis is like yeah you gay bitch keep scrolling......icon

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

FISHLEGS??????

[johnbottoms]

WHERE does this story take place im gonna lose it

[midnight-in-paris]

It's 8am and im stressing out about finding the perfect bar cart decor to perfectly articulate my style. Being a dream girl is exhausting

[vampiremotif]

the secret history by donna tartt

the goldfinch by donna tartt

[kittykatninja321]

You know how people make posts like "I dont have ocs I just break myself into pieces and give each piece a name" Kishimoto did that with Naruto when he gave Shikamaru all his misogyny