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autisticandroids · 2 years ago

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not to become a disciple or something. but do you have any media recommendations, like books/films/shows. because i like the way you think. sorry for mass rbing btw

Smiley also knew, or thought he knew - the idea came to him now as a mild enlightenment - that Bill in turn was also very little by himself: that while his admirers - Bland, Prideaux, Alleline, Esterhase, and all the rest of the supporters' club - might find in him completeness, Bill's real trick was to use them, to live through them to complete himself; here a piece, there a piece, from their passive identities: thus disguising the fact that he was less, far less, than the sum of his apparent qualities… and finally submerging this dependence beneath an artist's arrogance, calling them the creatures of his mind…

this passage from tinker, tailor, soldier, spy is what i think of every time anyone tries to put me on a pedestal as Tumblr User Autisticandroids. like genuinely my main skill is making connections with other people and essentially propping myself up through them, though of course i don't really do it on purpose.

anyway unfortunately my taste in media isn't going to contain what you want i don't think. i'm going to give you an extremely random list of things i like. not favorites, but just stuff i enjoy.

my favorite episode of star trek: the next generation is season six episode fourteen "face of the enemy," but if you're going to actually get involved with star trek i would recommend deep space nine instead. when i want to alienate people i put on an episode of the prisoner (1967) because i love that show but it's deeply unenjoyable. i unironically think kill la kill is a great anime. the private life of plants is probably the tv series i've seen the most times.

talking to you, talking to me by the watson twins is underappreciated and contains some of my favorite pieces of music. however, the only thing i've listened to lately is the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars by david bowie because it's a castiel thesis to me.

passing by nella larsen is one of my favorite books ever, and when i first read it i had this free online version where you could actually turn the pages, i think it was this version. i think speaker for the dead is wildly underrated but feel vaguely guilty about recommending orson scott card. a bad book that has brought me a lot of joy lately is absolute friends by john le carre. as a kid i really like the underland chronicles by suzanne collins. a while ago i read the three body trilogy by liu cixin and while the second one dragged and was rather poorly translated, i enjoyed the first for its creativity, classic scifi feel, and understated spookiness, and i enjoyed the third for its dark camp and comparatively strongly drawn characters. even the second had acceptable elements, but mostly because i was tickled by the fact that it reminded me a little of the futurological congress by stanislaw lem.

i just finished relistening to the white vault, a horror podcast which i like a lot but am more ambivalent about now that i know the ending (it wasn't finished the first time i listened). if you hate horror, my favorite non-fiction podcast is you're wrong about.

my favorite source for horror short stories is the scp foundation, and here are some faves.

my favorite movie is alice (1988) dir. jan svankmajer, which is an adaptation of alice in wonderland. it's very much a childhood nostalgia watch for me, unbelievable as that might seem. here's a link, but this version is in czech with english subtitles, so you might have to scout around if you want the english version. not that this movie has much dialogue. a rather eclectic selection of other movies i've liked that i just thought of in the last ten minutes is bride of re-animator (1989), x-men (2000), d.e.b.s. (2004), mirrormask (2005), isolation (2005), the host (2006), hard revenge millie (2009), black swan (2010), excision (2012), the handmaiden (2016), and swallow (2019). my movie taste is probably the closest you'll get in terms of media recs that you might enjoy based on my blog, since i hate movies and can only be tempted to watch them if they cater to me. but also big trigger warnings for some of those lmao.

#asks #leatherat

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darkpoisonouslove · 3 years ago

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Tag Game

rules: tag 9 people to learn more about them!

tagged by: @intothewickedwood Thanks a lot! This looks fresh and interesting! :D

music

♡ fave genres: anything; I have no preference

♡ fave artists: Halsey, Melanie Martinez, Unlike Pluto, Lana Del Rey

♡ fave songs: East of Eden - Zella Day, Easy Love - Lauv, Zombie - Natalia Kills, Where’s My Love - SYML, Kerosene - Rachel Lorin, Young God - Halsey, Lover’s Death - Ursine Vulpine, Devil I Know - Allie X, Never Worn White - Katy Perry, Everything - SMNM

♡ songs most listened to recently: Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra; Pray – JRY; Haunted – Beyonce; Sacrifice – Black Atlas; Dangerous Woman – Rosenfeld; Use Me – PVRIS; Bodies – Bryce Fox

♡ song currently stuck in your head: Woman Like Me - Little Mix

♡ fave lyrics: “You’re a million dollar man/ So why is my heart broke?” (and pretty much the rest of A Million Dollar Man by Lana Del Rey + so many of her other lyrics because they are great)

books

♡ fave writers: James Rollins, Rick Riordon, Ivan Vazov

♡ fave genres: Fantasy

♡ fave book series: The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

♡ comfort book: The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

♡ perfect books to read on a rainy day: The First Wives Club

♡ 5 fave characters: Natalia Aaron (TDC), Ripred (I think that’s how you spell it) (Underland Chronicles), Genya Safin (Grishaverse), Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series), Seshru (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)

♡ 5 quotes from your fave books that you know by heart: My brain has been destroyed by quarantine; you can’t expect me to remember quotes no matter how much I love a book. I can barely remember characters’ names. I guess that one from Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, though:

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

tv + movies

♡ fave tv / movie genres: Fantasy, Sci Fi (tentatively), Mystery

♡ fave movies: The Strange Case of Benjamin Button, Lord of the Rings, True Lies, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Cinderella 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Now You See Me, Zootopia, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Kingsman: The Secret Service

♡ comfort movies: The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor’s New Groove, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

♡ movies you watch every year: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Lord of the Rings, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, + the comfort movies

♡ fave tv shows: Gravity Falls, Tangled: The Series, Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc, The Golden Girls, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Fairy Tail, Death Parade

♡ most rewatched tv show: The Golden Girls & Gravity Falls

♡ ultimate otp: Griffin x Valtor

♡ 5 fave characters: Griffin (Winx Club), Valtor (Winx Club) Dorothy Zbornak (The Golden Girls), Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Ilsa Faust (Mission Impossible)

Tagging: @her-majesty-wears-jeans, @trashcankitty12 and @darcyinstilettos if you want to!

#tag game #about me #me #movies #tv shows #books #music

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faearies · 5 years ago

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ya book moments that made me cry

i’m really in my feels right now y’all so i’m just going to type random moments of ya books that made me cry (very spoilerly

so i just finished reading 99 days (which is what got me in my feels) and i didn’t actually cry but i got teary-eyed

this book was so good

sometimes i just enjoy a trashy ya, sue me

part of me wanted her to end up with gabe, part of me wanted her to end up with patrick, and part of me wanted her to just start anew

but in a twisted way, i kind of did want her and patrick to have sex, it would have made everything even more juicier

anyway, this got me in my feels so i started re-reading other fave ya books

the selection series: um the one is just a big cry fest?

the scene with maxon and america in the rain? helped invent romance?

the letters he wrote her?

but tbh the moment i cried when i first read them was when he actually breaks it off toward the end, with like 20 pages left and i actually thought they weren’t going to end up together and i was devastated

and then the battle scene with the whole “break my heart” quote??? also pure poetry

damn maxon and america was a really good ship

divergent

so obviously the scenes where tris dies??? remember how almost no one saw that coming? like ???? i think i find out the spoiler ahead of time and couldn’t even read allegiant for months and then finally read it and still cried, even though i knew what was coming

the hunger games

tbh, i get teary eyed just thinking about peeta and katniss and all they went through and how much he loved her??? like my rational brain knows the relationship is not healthy and is problematic, but they were my first OTP that i shipped HARD and i just???? they’re so tragic

um, not technically the book, but i cried seeing the bread scene happened in the movies

definitely cried at the end of catching fire

definitely also cried a bunch of times during mockingjay

like when peeta tried to strangle her? definitely tears and screaming

when katniss killed coin and tried to kill herself and peeta held her back and it was like “let me go” and then “i can’t” WATERWORKS

WHEN PEETA PLANTS PRIMROSES

THE FUCKING EPILOGUE

tbh idk how my mockingjay copy was not soaked in tears

the uglies series

one of the first times i genuinely got really upset with a book (this was like 7th grade) was when zane died

it was just so unfair and tragic???

i literally threw the book across the room and my mom had to come check on me

tally staying a special???

also in pretties when she tells david to get his ugly face out of there. i don’t even like david that much but it was such a powerful scene

the maze runner

when teresa dies???? “i only ever cared for...”

i will maintain until my grave that she wanted to say “you” to thomas, you can’t talk me out of it, bye

lol i was so mad when within like 5 pages thomas just yeeted off to paradise and was like “hey brenda”

i’m still mad

tbh they’re one of the most tragic ya couples, just because...the different sides...the dying...the friendship...the betrayal

the raven cycle

basically when gansey died (the second time), i was a MESS

also when adam was wigging out and no one wanted to hurt him

harry potter

just because i can’t go through a list like this without mentioning harry potter

i was basically in tears the whole 7th book

the underland chronicles

i read these when i was super young, but i still remember crying when gregor and luxa were parted forever??

and ripred and gregor??

and when the cockaroaches DIED for boots????

i also sobbed reading the end in the asoue books

especially when kit died

also with all of the mentions of beatrice

ALSO SPEAKING OF TIMES WHEN MAIN CHARACTERS WERE FOREVER PARTED -- WHEN LYRA AND WILL HAD TO FOREVER SEPARATE AND ONLY HAVE THE GARDEN AS THEIR CONNECTION!!!!! I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO DO WHEN IT GETS TO THAT POINT IN THE TV SERIES!!! ALSO, I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT LYRA IS UP TO IN THE UPCOMING BOOKS

ngl, i cried a little when the darkling died in the grisha trilogy

okay, now i’m in my feels even more, so i’m just going to rant about some moments that bring out the FEELS even if they didn’t make me cry

the folk of the air series

the jurdan kiss in the first book is one of the most iconic first kisses ever

also i know jurdan is very very unhealthy, but my irrational shipper brain seems not to care

basically the last 30 pages of the wicked king just had me in my feels

I WAS SO FUCKING MAD AT CARDAN THOUGH (jude better almost murder him in queen of nothing)

okay but also, the last scene in the cruel prince is just ???? so powerful???? and alluring??? i can’t explain it

the crown’s game

i just finished this book a few days ago and i HAVE ALL THE FEELS ABOUT NIKOLAI AND VIKA

the ending scene where “i love you” and then he tries to sacrifice himself???

i was very disappointed in the crown’s fate though, not gonna lie

anyway, i just needed to get these feels all out haha

#personal #tp

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