A doomed-by-the-narrative romance, where the twist is that they're still together by the end
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I've got to tell you guys to watch the sea beast on netflix. I think it just came out today, but it's already stolen my heart. if the mandalorian, moby dick and how to train your dragon got mashed together in beautiful animation, this would be the result.
karl urban as a blonde bombshell/dad/goofball. a 10 year old ball of rage and righteousness who likes to wield knives. a sea monster called red. a sea bug called blue. jared harris screaming at the ocean. vastly diverse characters with gorgeous designs. sea witches. danger. death. destruction. hope. hair. heroes who are wrong sometimes and that's okay. beautiful music.
I haven't enjoyed a movie so much in a long time. it was insanely sweet and I encourage you to sink into this movie like it's a warm bath and hot chocolate and a hug, mostly because I want another one 🥲 look at these goobers
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deranged post-canon farleigh speculation
so. archie madekwe said something that makes me question a lot of the other post-canon speculation (often quickstart dynamic post-canon fics, speculation, etc.). Basically, he was talking about how tired Farleigh was getting, in the point in time that the movie is set. This is depicted through his confrontation with Felix, which Archie confirmed was the first conversation Farleigh has had with the cattons about the issue of bias.
a review by hilton als briefly touched on farleigh's possible future, as well. it was a very negative and... honestly understandable idea of what farleigh would grow up to become. aka, someone who exploited and tokenized their race for "brownie points," pun not intended. i see a lot of people crafting stories of farleigh finding different ways to rejoin the ultra-rich class. and i kinda wanna say that i... don't like that. here's an anecdote: my cousin and i had a conversation about his experience moving from a white-dominated, suburban environment. he argues that although racism is still prevalent where he now lives, the racism he experienced in his hometown was so painfully, covertly delivered. it's this sort of "could you just call me a slur or something" mentality.
although farleigh is terrified of change, although farleigh is terrified of losing what he believes is an accommodation for his marginalization (it isn't; you can't buy your way out of racism), although farleigh learned to be materialistic through the ways in which he was raised, although farleigh is constantly running away from something--i think he was reaching a point of genuine hatred for the ways in which racism is delivered to him in this environment. i would also go insane. so freakishly insane. i think his conversation with felix made him understand that maybe the cattons will never even try to change. that the cattons couldn't even acknowledge the problem in the first place. that you can't really win, with people like the cattons. it's always a game of when, and never if. when will they finally, politely discard me?
this leaves a couple options. the first, farleigh learns to be financially independent and very much successful. he would never rely on other people again, especially not white people. this leaves room for hilton als' interpretation, but the fact that farleigh was cognizant of and willing to mention racial bias to felix is evidence for me to assume that farleigh is beyond belittling himself like that. farleigh already experienced so much shame from catering towards the cattons and their whiteness... i don't think he'd keep going with that. not with the way it ended. not after he had the horrible wake-up call that was both his cousins dying. so, maybe farleigh does find his way back to wealth. maybe through fashion, through modeling like his mother, through another form of art, through business, whatever.
the other option is that farleigh just... doesn't acquire that level or even close to that level of wealth again. i kinda like this idea. i kinda like imagining farleigh in a city flat or smaller suburban house, finding a significant other and probably never ever having kids. that, of course, still leaves room for farleigh to go and brutalize oliver out of saltburn. but i'd like to think he wouldn't take saltburn back. as i've said before, farleigh was never greedy. he never wanted to replace or succeed the cattons, nor did he want any form of dominance over them. to be their equal, yes. to be seen and heard and given attention, yes. but never did he play his games to knock felix or venetia down. i feel like farleigh would be the "eat the rich" that saltburn didn't have. not in the corny way, because farleigh is no robin hood, nor is he an innocent and selfless person.
my ideal "sequel" type situation would be farleigh returning to saltburn after living comfortably and humbly for the last 20 years. he's not here out of moral obligation. he's not here to steal back the catton wealth. he's here selfishly, and out of burning hatred. he's here because oliver stole any sense of closure farleigh could've ever had. he's here because oliver never gave farleigh the opportunity to forgive his family, nor to mourn them, nor to visit those memories, nor to make new ones. farleigh is here to wreck oliver's shit. it's not healthy, it's not pretty, it's not clean. i'd imagine 40-year-old farleigh, having matured, returning to saltburn and regressing to the same games he always used to play. lying, people pleasing, pretending, sex, drugs, sass, etc. ahhh. my ideal sequel. a man who found peace without closure and finds closure through a significant lack of peace. and, also, oliver dead as hell.
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Anyway so like. If Bad Romance manages to ever hit 2k kudos. Then I’ll write the follow-up one shot with Cell and (c)Roier on the island
And that’s a guarantee
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In Vince and Peter's defense, they don't really have a reason to give me what I want.
If they make a sequel where Kim is behaving like I want her to, I'll take it as confirmation that I'm on the right path and continue my radicalization to the far-left.
If they don't make that sequel, I'll conclude that if I want something done right, I'll have to do it myself, and continue on my radicalization to the far-left to show them what they're missing out on.
The only real incentive for making this spin-off, is that intelligent women becoming more bloodthirsty in the wake of the attacks on our reproductive rights is an inevitability, so Vince and Peter might as well impress everyone by predicting the obvious, instead of waiting for history to happen before they can parody it in their art.
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“Beomgyu, it’s just breakfast.” You reassure him but he shakes his head. “I want to give you the best. Do you want to go eat out? There is this really good restaurant 20 minutes away.”
When he tells you the name of the restaurant, you frown. “Isn’t that really expensive?”
He shrugs. “Only the best for my princess.”
You shake your head. “I don’t need something fancy, Beomgyu. Pancakes are fine.”
He frowns at that, seemingly upset that you don’t want the expensive restaurant. What’s the deal with him? Sometimes you think he dislikes that you don’t want him to spend his money on you.
Still, in order to make him stop fretting, you say, “Being with you is enough.”
That makes him light up, and he is suddenly content with pancakes too.
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Okay...
I'm going to be that person but am I seriously the only one who thinks that Quynh is not going to just suddenly forgive and forget ~500 years of torture by constant drowning, built-up rage and the resultant insanity/instability all because Andy cries and says she's sorry?
Because I don't think she would. However I see a LOT of that in the fandom.
I refuse to believe that Andy is going to die in the sequel so her and Quynh will eventually reconcile their relationship but it's just not going to happen in X number of minutes.
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