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I love series where the main character(s) didn’t actually save the world to save the world.

They were just doing something else and happened to save the world at the same time.

#hdm #lyra belacqua #about books

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You said it was a ghost story. It isn't. It's a love story. Same thing, really.

#hi i will never stop thinking about this #coco #interstellar #it #it 2017 #fleabag #the book thief #the haunting of hill house #past lives #his dark materials #bbc his dark materials #hdm #hdmsource #eternal sunshine #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #aftersun #up #pixar up #disney pixar #pixar #the haunting of bly manor #la la land #lyra x will

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Media that makes you wander around your bedroom contemplating life and kindness and the power of stories.

#hdm #the book thief #the secret life of walter mitty #little women #the haunting of hill house #studio ghibli #barbie #up #everything everywhere all at once #about time

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Sometimes the stories with the most awful and dark undertones are the ones that make me believe love and friendship are real in this world

#hdm #the amber spyglass #the book thief #the haunting of hill house

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barbie movie: is marketed as “haha barbie has to go to the real world with ken and mattel wants them to go back to barbieland haha funny adventure movie!”

me after watching it: is sobbing hysterically and undergoing an existential crisis, a breakdown, and a metamorphosis into a more confident and secure individual with the knowledge that under the patriarchy it is next to impossible to appease others and that you just have to go “fuck it” and be your genuine self while doing what makes you happy

#barbie #films

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just came back from the cinema and seeing everyone there dressing up in pink or pastel to go and see Barbie is so amazing i feel like I'm witnessing a real moment in pop culture history

#barbie

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get in loser, we're saving barbieland from the patriarchy

♡ prints available on my shop ♡

#barbie

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“East of the Sun and West of the Moon” from Popular Tales from the Norse by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe (tr. George Webbe Dasent)

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

East of the Sun West of the Moon by Kinuko Y. Craft

#storytelling

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lyra reclaiming her personhood and name from her parents by using the last name given to her by the family she built for herself i am sick

#hdm #lyra belacqua

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'yeah i'm working on my next novel'

is actually trying to figure out her characters by wondering what daemons they would have and why

#actually a great strategy #hdm

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omg i need to know everyone’s top 4 movies on letterboxd actually please tell me

#the secret life of walter mitty #little women #la la land #up #films

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what really gets me about the phrase "tell them stories" is that what humanised the harpies were childhood memories, of the days lyra and roger spent together inside an oxford college and on top of its roof. it wasn't anything grand and extraordinary (the word lyra's parents kept insisting on her) but just the happiness of being with an old friend. lyra's journey to the land of the dead was rather extraordinary, but only the simplest of stories brought her home. i think there's an important message there that while you can choose to live a life full of danger and adventure, the most mundane moments such as your friend baking you a birthday cake or a time where you stayed out in the sun until you burnt can create a life worth telling stories about... only emphasised by the serpent sharing the simple memory of falling in love

#posts i wrote while feeling existential on my birthday

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just saw the newest hunger games movie and thinking of the four (4) teens that took down snow

#thg #art

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love how people talk about his dark materials because it is every time without fail like

“it’s about good and evil it’s about innocence and experience it’s about the evils of the church it’s about how science and religion intersect its about if part of your soul was external it’s about how the hubris of man leads to environmental disasters it’s about living with a culture so different from anything you could have imagined. and get this. there’s a fucking armored bear”

#hdm

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neil gaiman singlehandedly cured my inability to devour books in 2 hours like i did when i was a child

#about books

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there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

#shamelessly plugging my own letterboxd review #thg #dystopia

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FLEABAG (2016—2019) cr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

#shows #god.