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"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.

#sometimes... #phantom of the opera

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Friday Evening

#art #skyscape

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#stained glass #windows #architecture #decor

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like literally if i didn’t want to see some weird nonsense i wouldn’t be consuming scifi

#storytelling #science fiction

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#cats #dogs #adorable

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Here's the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?

He's made up.

That's not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she's a teenage girl who doesn't know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.

"but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers." He's an archetypal oxymoron. He's both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine's suffering, Cinderella style. He's fucked either way by being both. She doesn't know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it's too late for him!! it's too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he's Cinderella's prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.

But it doesn't work buddy, it can't work. You're just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He's so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn't understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.

"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me." I'm sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.

#labyrinth #meta

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Happy Stabbing of the Witch King Day!

Let’s not forget that, on 15th March it wasn’t just Julius Caesar who got stabbed to death by unexpected opponents! On this day, Éowyn daughter of Éomund and Meriadoc Bradybuck killed the Witch King of Angmar, chief of the Nazgûl, during the battle of the Pelennor Fields.

#the lord of the rings

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René Magritte – The Victory, 1939

#rene magritte #art #portals

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this is targeted tumblr content

#shakespeare #comedy

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I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

#libraries #current events #ugh ugh ugh

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In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok

#comedy #adrian bliss

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

#shakespeare

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Ballad of Sexy Blonds and Snake Piñatas…

I wrote you all a parody of the new Hunger Games movie as a St Patrick’s Weekend gift!

LUCY GRAY: I got the cake with the cream.

CORYO: It’s true I’m brave and handsome.

LUCY GRAY: What I’m trying to say is…

LUCY GRAY: Do you have snacks!!!

Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of the dystopia, an evil blond shows up! (No shade, evil blonde. You know I love you.)

#brilliant as ever #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games

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Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

#fairy tales #folklore

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DUNE: PART 2 (2024) Dir. Denis Villeneuve

#dune #chani kynes #paul atreides #dune spoilers

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He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it. Dune: Part Two (2023) dir. Denis Villeneuve

#dune #dune spoilers

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(nkorhobushlodge)

#cats #lions