#my favorite part of the book really

[ghouljams]

You’ve made allusions to an android AU, may I venture a hc?

König (my beloved) is the most likely out of all of the guys to just. Literally not have a face. This boy was built exclusively for heavy combat - he’s probably got five cameras for eyes on a composite ceramic face. There is no synthskin. Briareos from APPLESEED vibes.

OK Android au is a Ghost au because that's my husband. I love the idea of König as a heavy duty mech. Let's run through what my thoughts on the au are and then never speak of it again

So Ghost as an android. Military grade, top of the line. I mean literally irreplaceable, no one knows how they made him, where he came from, or how he's able to think and do the things he does. It's almost unbelievable. You, the 141's mechanic, don't believe it. You've fixed up plenty of androids, you'd rerouted circuit boards and rewritten enough code to know that Ghost should not be doing the things he's doing. You think he's thinking. He shouldn't be thinking. Not the way he seems to be, at least.

Androids think, to a certain degree, but artificial intelligence is... well it's not exactly real. It's pattern recognition and computers running simulations. It's math. Complicated math, but still math. Ghost isn't doing math, he's making decisions. The 141 lets him out, free range, in the field and trusts him to think and act within the parameters- Fuck do they even set parameters for him?

He comes to see you the same way the men go to see the doctor. Reluctantly. Another thing he shouldn't be doing, that he's hiding from the rest of the unit, feeling. That's what first tipped you off that he was thinking, the way he lingered in your doorway when other androids would be marched in by their COs. Ghost stood in the door to your workshop and hesitated, like he didn't want to see you, or was hoping you wouldn't be in. When you'd made eye contact with his cameras, the red glow behind sculpted bone, he'd marched right in and sat down in front of your work bench.

"Need some maintenance," He's said, the transmitters for his voice box warm and rumbling behind the slight static. You'd never heard false vocal cords like that.

He's a wonder of mechanics. His back plate is dented, the synth-skin charred and bullet ridden, and when you take too long poking around trying to figure out how to get it off he reaches back and presses a button at the top of his spine. The black composite plates lining his spine -what a human would call a spine- release with a hiss and the back plates on either side pop up with a quiet click. You could spend hours looking at the motors running his muscles, like cogs in a clock. They spin silently, just on the edge of warm when you touch them, expanding his synthetic muscles almost like he's breathing. A cooling system you assume, or exhaust exchange. You grab a few tools from your bench and tug your safety goggles on to get started.

It's strange, you feel like a proper doctor working on him. Ghost sits like a rock for you, but he's sitting, he's active. You glance at his face like you'll catch him flinching away from the laser you drag against powder burns, or think he'll roll his shoulder to test the fit when you tighten one of the millions of tiny screws. You'll have to come up with something new to use on the tight coils of synthetic muscle he has. You've never seen anything like it, you'll need something custom if he comes in with anything bigger than a bullet wound. He's patient as you reshape his back plate, banging the dent out and soldering a patch over the hole.

"You'll need a new one of these," You tell him. He makes a noise almost like a hum, you chalk it up to motors whirring. Strange when they'd been so quiet before.

"Battle scars," He jokes, and you freeze, "That's what Soap calls them." He covers, but- He made a joke. He's covering, it's a good cover, but- He made a joke. Androids don't make jokes, they approximate jokes.

You're still thinking about it when he leaves. You're a good mechanic, a great one, but you can't explain Ghost away as subroutines and ai. You stare down at your diagnostic report, your repair report. You hesitate and mark "functioning optimally" before jotting down the repairs you made. It's probably nothing. No reason to snitch on the 141's prized android just because you're a little spooked.

#cod x reader #x reader #simon ghost riley x reader #simon ghost riley #ghost x reader #ghost mw2 #simon riley cod #simon riley #simon riley x reader #ghost call of duty #ghost cod #android!ghost #or is he..... #“Do androids dream of electric sheep” is one of my favorite books #I think about it all the time #think about the implications of an android completely indistinguishable from human #but never quite human #that's a big thing #my favorite part of the book really #that humans will always be human and you can only approximate humanity in code #but that's not what's happening here #sorry for hijacking a konig hc in favor of my favorite boy Ghost #I do have konig thoughts as well

[corvys-clover]

"I need to get out of a toxic relationship."

Thinking about my favorite guy again <3

(this one's from back in July after I first saw the film)

Commissions open!

@corvys.clover on Instagram

#Renfield beloved #last year was really a Dracula renaissance for me between Renfield and Re:Dracula and I'm so in love with it #but now part of me is torn between Nic Hoult Renfield and Nic Hoult Jonathan Harker because he's so good for both and they're my favorites #listening to/reading Dracula while picturing book Renfield as Nic Hoult is absolutely wild and delightful #shoutout to this movie for kickstarting me rediscovering my love for Dracula #Renfield #Renfield 2023 #Robert Montague Renfield #Nicholas Hoult #R.M. Renfield #gonna maybe try to catch up on art I haven't posted! #maybe #we shall see

[iambrainrot]

Very quick sketch of the postmaster himself i did last night. The day I learn how colors work will be the day that I die

#in honor of me finally finishing going postal the other day #great book would recommend my favorite part was when groat said anything about medicine #and also that part when adora belle dearheart stabbed a guy with her shoe #im not really happy with this drawing but oh well #i had fun making it #its cool #i was going for the averagest guy ever #but i think ill rework this design one day #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #going postal #moist von lipwig

[steppesliver]

the terror : 1x09 'the c, the c, the open c' / in memoriam by alice winn

#my favorite part of this book was the letters gaunt wrote tbh. okay maybe not really cause i just remembered other scenes #but some of the moments related to them...jeesus #“my dearest darling sydney” best moment all book. to me #the terror amc #james fitzjames #in memoriam by alice winn #mine

[justastrugglinghotchocolate]

Ya’ll I used to jokingly consider this, but nah, there is enough evidence in the book to suggest:

Henry ruins Dorian out of spite and jealousy towards Basil for moving on from him.

Let’s get right into this. 

I went back into the book because I wanted to review the post I made about Henry and misogyny earlier. Besides the usual annoyance at Henry’s dumb stupid rant, I noticed this line:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

And then it hit me that Henry’s worst rants about women only come after the topic of marriage, but more specifically, commitment. Which then led to an even more interesting idea: I’m pretty sure Henry mostly uses ‘women’ as cover to complain about Basil and Basil’s ‘lack of commitment to him.’

I want to note that there’s a lot of interesting things in regards to Henry and his relationship with women that I’d love to go into, but this will focus solely on him and Basil.

Here’s what Henry says in his misogynistic ass rant after Sibyl dies. (This is from the 1891 ver):

“But [Sibyl] would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully  dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman’s husband has to pay for.”

Basil is often considered ‘unfashionable’/‘dowdy’ by Henry’s standards. This is only further proven in what he says about Basil’s disappearance:

“Why should he have been murdered? He was not clever enough to have enemies. Of course, he had a wonderful genius for painting. But a man can paint like Velasquez and yet be as dull as possible. Basil was really rather dull. He only interested me once, and that was when he told me, years ago, that he had a wild adoration for you and that you were the dominant motive of his art.”

But that isn’t all. The last part of that quote matches one to one to Henry’s claim about women (or Sibyl, specifically). Basil was not only ‘dull’, but his only ‘fashionable’ attribute, his art, grew ‘dowdy’ once he discovered Dorian’s indifference to him.

Henry also says this about women:

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.”

And later:

“But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.”

Guess who makes resolutions regarding goodness? Basil, who refuses to believe that Dorian is nothing but a good, pure man. 

“[Basil] could not bear the idea of reproaching [Dorian] any more. After all, his indifference was probably merely a mood that would pass away. There was so much in him that was good, so much in him that was noble.”

Basil’s arc traditionally should have ended once Dorian rejects him. Between that chapter and the chapter where Basil dies, there is no mention of Basil in any form. By all means, Basil’s role in the story is over—and then he demands the ‘sixth act’ to confront Dorian.

And finally:

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. Yes; there is really no end to the consolations that women find in modern life. Indeed, I have not mentioned the most important one.”

“What is that, Harry?” said the lad listlessly.

“Oh, the obvious consolation. Taking some one else’s admirer when one loses one’s own.”

Now before I point out the obvious irony of Henry literally 'taking someone else's admirer' (henry actually has a lot in common with his 'criticisms' of women), I want to bring your attention to a key part we don’t discuss enough about in the book.

““Life has always poppies in her hands. Of course, now and then things linger. I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die. Ultimately, however, it did die. I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. Well—would you believe it?—a week ago, at Lady Hampshire’s, I found myself seated at dinner next the lady in question, and she insisted on going over the whole thing again, and digging up the past, and raking up the future. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

So I’m gonna make an educated guess and say Henry is lying his ass off here. He did not have a ‘romance’ with a woman. He certainly did not get an emotional, romantic attachment with a ‘woman’. I feel comfortable saying this because 1) his general distaste for women literally points to this being bullshit and 2) a significant change that was made from the 1890 version of the book to the 1891 version.

This is the quote in 1890:

“I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as mourning for a romance that would not die.”

This is 1891:

“I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die.”

Well, well, well, who is the arti—It’s Basil. He’s literally talking about Basil here. AND GUESS WHAT VIOLETS MEAN IN VICTORIAN FLOWER LANGUAGE?

A couple of things actually, but the top three are:

‘Faithfulness, Modesty, and Love.’

Henry emotionally had been faithful to Basil. While I doubt he was monogamous in anyway, Basil held a special place that no else would ever have. Not even Dorian.

And this brings me back to the quote that originally sent me down this rabbit hole:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

In the 1890 version, it says:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of poppies.”

Poppies are known to mean death and would have fit perfectly if Henry was saying he felt nothing for the relationship, but what does asphodel mean?

‘Love Beyond The Grave’, ‘Remembered Beyond The Tomb’ and sometimes, ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’. 

(NOTE: please keep in mind floriography could mean certain things based on the color and the type of flowers. That being said, considering Wilde described the shit out of every setting he wrote, the lack of detail about the flowers suggest the most broad meaning is meant to be taken.)

Henry isn't over Basil. He couldn't kill the love, so he buried it and took Dorian as a consolation and revenge. He will never be able to get over Basil until Basil or himself dies.

BOY DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY/s

#long post #this is an opinion and a theory. #the picture of dorian gray #basil hallward #dorian gray #henry wotton #book theory #been workshopping this for some time #this post is very long and i didn't even get to go into my favorite example ;-; #anyways shout out to TheMissingMask on Ao3 for writing the fanfic that first got me into this theory. Their fanfic Eros is really good!! #You should read it #honestly read all their tpodg fics #does this make me an english major? uh oh #if someone else has made this kind of post already my bad lol #use this as supplemental or even confirmation #i will be back with the more headcanon-y part that relates to the first chapter alone. but for now i've got a chapter to finish ;)

[bunnieswithknives]

As an avid D&D player and DM, I love this magic system you've created so much- bc it means that necromancy exists like it does in D&D, but because David is David (TM), he just goes "yeah, but yk what would make this better? Puppets." and just is flying by the seat of his pants trying to create a fusion of DIY crafts and reanimation. he even could be inadvertendly creating an entirely new form of magic while messing around with the Book and his puppetry, but no one will ever know bc he just wants to play around with his little flesh puppets instead of, idk, sitting down and writing an actual grimoire/codex on it and i love him so much for that <3

Really tho!! This is the closest anyone has ever come come to actual reanimation in this universe, not just souless zombies or possessed lamps, real breathing creatures with the souls of people and working innards to back it up! And he's not even writing it down!

#dhmis #two of us AU #im going to lay out some of my reanimation hc #Once someone's body has died their body is no longer able to hold a soul #they can't repossess it nor can anything else. its broke #even if you somehow reanimated the corpse it would still be soulless #The other kind of 'reanimation' is putting someones soul into an object (jewlery; technology; favorite objects; ect) #forcing the soul to possess something #the problem being that souls cant possess anything indefinitely #without a meat shield they'll just get weaker and weaker until they fade away entirely then your back to square 1 #souls NEED meat to latch onto #What David's done is combined these methods #Using parts from their dead body to make a brand new and compatible one #The main reason why this hasn't really been tried before is that transmutation magic is *very* complicated #especially involving living things #The book he has is a very advanced transmutation book. the sort that should NOT be available to the general public #I dont think David even realizes how much of a FIND that thing is. literally invaluable #idk if my worldbuilding makes sense but ramble over

[snckt]

without a sub-sub-librarian, or even a catalogue, what is to be done?

@asouefanworkevent day four of woevember : the hotel denouement, alternatively titled,   misfiled, a collection of things not where they ought to be.

#woevember #a series of unfortunate events #beatrice baudelaire ii #series . asoue #laineysedit #i'm thinking the things that are misfiled are part of the larger story of k & d. and thus never really make it to their respective places 👀 #that includes bea !! how she must feel. misfiled. is she a denouement or a snicket or a baudelaire ? she ultimately makes that decision but #that doesn't mean the other two aren't just as much as her ... where do file someone like that huh ? #anyways ! screen accurate prop stationary once again makes an appearance with a love note 💕 and her book is my favorite of beverly's #henry and the paper route !! #oh ! i also made the malt ! pictured here !! #anyways she's my favorite denouement (dont tell the others ahaha)

[jyndor]

lol on the second episode so far and once again I firmly believe the atla fandom is full of shit. this is not bad at all. are there changes I would make? absolutely. am I worried about the pacing? yes definitely. but I'm very much loving this so far.

#also fwiw my least favorite part of the og show is probably book 1 or the end of book 3 so #like idk man this isnt bad at all lol #the atla fandom has always been toxic and weirdly obsessed with these two white men bryke so im not surprised that ppl have been #shitting on the netflix show before it even came out #it remains to be seen i mean the show could shit the bed lol but so far im not mad #i would prefer more centering of katara though #anyway im only on ep 2 so #also yes i am aware of the issues surrounding sokka's actor... and if indigenous ppl are saying hes sus than hes sus #and if he really did lie to get this role... fuck that #thats a major issue and idk what the fuck netflix was doing not doing their due diligence but #atla live action

[thewindsofwolves]

Jon Snow & Sansa Stark Book Parallels & Mentions 5/∞ : A great injustice (they’re dramatic teens)

Jon turned on him in a fury. "I see Ser Alliser's bloody hand, that's all I see. He wanted to shame me, and he has."Dareon gave him a look. "The stewards are fine for the likes of you and me, Sam, but not for Lord Snow." "I'm a better swordsman and a better rider than any of you," Jon blazed back. "It's not fair."  A Game Of Thrones, Jon VI

"I would gladly go with her, Lord Eddard," Septa Mordane offered. "There would be no question of her missing the ship." "It would not be wise for you to go to Joffrey right now, Sansa. I'm sorry." Sansa's eyes filled with tears. "But why?"  "Sansa, your lord father knows best," Septa Mordane said. "You are not to question his decisions." "It's not fair!" Sansa pushed back from her table, knocked over her chair, and ran weeping from the solar.  A Game Of Thrones, Eddard XIV

#imagine if ned had taken the time to explain sansa what was going on #but he really decided to keep doign his favoritism thing even now #smh #also this jon part is hilarious DO YOU TAKE ME FOR YOUR SERVANt sjjjjj what a brat #jonsa #jon x sansa #actuallyjonsa #jon snow #sansa stark #jonsa book parallels serie #my posts #gifs/edits by me #game of thrones #gotedits #asoiaf #asoiafedits #a song of ice and fire #jonsnowedit #sansastarkedit

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: TUCHANKA (PART 2)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, Urdnot Wrex, and Dr. Mordin Solus With: Urdnot Bakara And a Special Guest Appearance by: Kalros, Mother of All Thresher Maws I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... big picture made of little pictures- too many variables. Can't hide behind statistics... can't ignore new data- my responsibility. Need to go- running out of time. Not your work, not your cure- not your decision. Had to be me- someone else might have gotten it wrong... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #james vega #EDI #urdnot wrex #mordin solus #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #i'm gonna continue the rambles in the part 2 gifset but one of the things i adore about tuchanka is the scenic shots #there are literally so many gorgeous ones that about half of part two is scenic shots because holy fuck tuchanka is beautiful #the kalros reaper ones especially? like those are so cool i had to include at LEAST a few of them bc that fight is awesome #and when the cure disperses?? literally the prettiest scene in the game #EDI and james have really cute dialogue together too!! i adored their moments towards the end of the mission #although i did say i was gonna give thoughts on mordin in sur'kesh and i think it boils down to him being an okay?? character in my book #like mordin definitely isn't one of my favorites but i will respect that he's definitely a very complex character and he's interesting imo #especially in terms of how he's written and his motivations/how he sort of grows and evolves over both ME2 and ME3 #like the quote i subquoted the post with is the one you get when you try to stall him from going up into the tower #(so it's not from soph's canon- but i love the scene so i used it anyways) #and one of the things i really like is that you can see the switch from mordin in ME2 who argues that what he did was RIGHT #versus mordin in ME3 who is starting to see what was wrong in the context of all the new information he has #and for me- seeing a character who can grow to recognize that they're flawed and made mistakes- i can respect the HELL outta that #even if mordin isn't my favorite character in the trilogy i'm gonna give him massive props for his character growth arc #because it's always interesting to see someone grow and recognize their mistakes and find a way to be a better person #to own their mistakes and fix the shit that they fucked up #i don't think i'd ever choose the option to not cure the genophage but mordin will always get props from me for his character arc tbh #i'll stop rambling now! have a good day wherever you are <3

[eldritchazure]

mr rochester really decided that jane eyre was going to be his victorian manic pixie dream girl

#one of my favorite parts of the book was rochester repeatedly accusing jane of witchcraft and being a faerie or witch #like dude have you never spoken to a fellow human being before #but yeah he goes on and on about how she’s not like other girls and he sees her as his savior #mr rochester is a Weird guy but you really gotta hand it to him he is genuinely crazy for jane #mr rochester #jane eyre

[ultimateinferno]

Anyways. Finished Yumi atNP. The Realmatic theory wheels are turning so I'm doing a singular post vomiting my thoughts. Major spoilers. Not a book review.

So assuming the Machine (or even cosmere at large) didn't just schlorp most of Yumi's investiture upon its destruction, which is a valid assumption since she nearly died, she technically still is Very Fucking Invested. According to Design, Elantrian level.

Which side note, interesting how we got confirmation that Elantrians have more magic than Returned. The bastards have to die, see the future, come back and eat souls to persist, meanwhile the silver people just automatically get the cool shit with no maintenance. Making up for the 10 years a zombie, I guess. Is Endowment stingier than we thought?

This, honestly explains how Nikaro was able to bring her back with his painting given there's a direct correlation between the amount of investiture a cognitive shadow has and how long they persist upon death.

That does bring me to the thought of if the Machine's repeated amnesia prevented... let's go with the term Sprenification of Yumi's cognitive shadow. As Vasher explained to Kaladin, as cognitive shadows persist in time, they more they're made to embody core aspects of their Identity in order to survive. Yumi has been dead for 1700 years.

You can rationalize this as the Machine pruning her Cognitive development. Then again, her mastery of stacking (which honestly very fun talent, love that for her). I haven't read TLM (despite having it digitally), but it's been discussed that Kelsier may already be undergoing that process, and he's been dead for only <400 years, so 1700 is a lot.

If not, I wonder if Yumi is now immortal because she is (was?) more invested than a Returned. That does mean she might eventually undergo Sprenification, if it hasn't occurred already.

Speaking of, I like how... a lot of the magic is just... not really elaborated on. Unlike other Cosmere books, where their fight scenes live and die on how meticulous use of the magic by our protagonists, and Sanderson likes to stress that there is a correlation of an audience's understanding and narrative problem solving regarding magic. It's... a big reason why there was that pre-Sanderlanche exposition dump. I'm wondering if there was a better way to relegate that information.

Anyways, the pre-existing magic system's primary basis is built on the pre-existing foundation of Realmatics and Perception. Expectation and perception shapes outcome. If you image the Nightmare as bamboo, it is bamboo. If you shove the soul of a 19 year old highly invested yokihijo into the body of an art school drop out, shit dude, that's her's now. With the dissipation of the Shroud I'm curious as to how art can influence the world from there. Can paintings more readily dictate the shape of spirits, due to their similarities to the Nightmares? This magic system I think is the softest of the lot, and I actually find that pretty cool.

Lastly before I wrap this up, while Sanderson has introduced cosmere soceities inspired by non-european cultures, (on multiple planets, no less), it feels especially palpable with this setting. While Roshar is decidedly not European but it's also familiar enough that whitewashing is an active problem within fan spaces. Meanwhile, here, it's so in your face about being not European that people have no excuse (as if they had any to begin with), but maybe I'm too much of a weeb that catching details was easier for me than others. It's cool, though,, we get to see snapshots of the culture as it develops through time, which is only really exemplified in the Mistborn novels so far. Not really relevant to magic but a musing nonetheless.

#cosmere #cfsbf #yumi and the nightmare painter spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter #brandon sanderson #cosmere spoilers #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #this post isnt a review as ive said but as a whole the book shot up to some of my favorites in the cosmere as a whole #character dynamics are very fun for me (which is why WoR is also up there) and the setting is quite refreshing #im already a champion of animated cosmere but this of all things *needs* an animated adaptation i will not accept alternatives #if i had it my way i'd hone in and develop a lot of the supporting cast in the adaptation. #really spice them up and bring out the slice of life parts of the narrative #and hopefully inject added foreshadowing to avoid that exposition dump pre sanderlanche #at the end of the day it's a slice of life fantasy romance. lean into the slice of life #developing it directly in japan would be cool unfortunately from what ive gathered cosmere isnt particularly a notable property there #which isnt really here nor there. not everything jumps cultures super well and thats fine

[crunchycrystals]

riordan you cant just drop the fact on me that percy and annabeth have both discussed marriage before im going to lose it

#crunchyposts #pjo #cotg #cotg spoilers #reading commentary #percabeth #GOOD CHAPTER. REALLY GOOD CHAPTER. I LOVE THE MIX OF SLICE OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE STUFF #ITS DEF DIFFERENT TO THE PREVIOUS BOOKS BUT THE SLICE OF LIFE STUFF IS MY FAVORITE PART I JUST WANNA BE AROUND MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS AGAIN #anyways. im losing it every time theres a percabeth moment #i get more percabeth moments auauagksajgfjkdlsgklsdgs

[cool-as-steel]

I really do like it when you enter the book feeling Dread and Expecting The Horrors but instead you discover a book which is. Fairly Okay Actually.

#the captain's library #my reviews thus far for 'a lady for a duke' are 'I do not think I am the target audience for this but I've gotten halfway through without #once wanting to chew glass' and 'AHAHA 95TH RIFLES JUMPSCARE' #95th rifles everywhere forever. funny as all get-out that this keeps happening. #anyway. more to the point I think that my quibbles are mostly in the vein of Well The Book Wasn't Really Trying To Do That #(setting-texture and specific clothing logistics being the main ones here) #and I feel like the parts of the plot that revolve around community and identity and addiction are being smoothed out too easily #but Then Again my bar for 'strangegirl/man with laudanum problem and also napoleon is there' is diana/stephen #and nothing is ever going to be on pob's level for Whatever That Is. #the gender parts of the deal are so far nothing worth writing home about but it's nice that the book exists! #all in all it's not going to be a favorite or a reread but it's light and not terrible and I'm having a Little fun at the very least

[tls123]

top first watches of 2023 — tagged by @sensazioneultra (thank you nico ily baci baci 🧡🎥)

i only watched forty-two movies last year and ten-ish of those were re-watches, so there's not a lot to pick from for my top watches. that being said these are what i enjoyed the most, for one reason or another

i'm definitely going to try and get back into movies this year because i miss them and my watchlist keeps getting bigger and bigger <3

in no particular order:

call me chihiro / bottoms / polite society

they cloned tyrone / ballerina / mockingjay part 2

not tagging anyone, but if you'd like to do this and haven't been tagged yet then i'm tagging you

#fra.txt #log.txt #it is/was a running joke between me and my sister - the fact that i never watched the two mockingjay movies #AND the two breaking dawn movies when they came out #despite watching the movies before it AND reading the books #for breaking dawn especially it still baffles her to this day that i haven't because it used to be my absolute favorite part of the saga #like i would sometimes just re-read part two of breaking dawn at random #i didn't /not/ want to watch them i just.... didn't get around to doing it lmao #but last year she was like. no. we're rewatching the hunger games AND you're finally going to watch mockingjay for the first time #and it was a really good time #i think there's a lot that they could have kept from the books but as a whole the hunger games movies are probably one of the few #books-to-movies adaptations that was done well (or well enough)

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

I wanted it in s1, and i know it's incredibly more unlikely for it to show up in s3, but I have to.

Neil. Please. Please have the knock-off horsemen of the apocalypse make an appearance

#good omens #let.me.dream.with.goodomens #genuinely my favorite part in the book #zira and crowley sure but im more of #a fan of their tv counterparts #i just really fucking want the knockoffs #maybe portrayed by Shoot From The Hip improv group?