Oh right yes, we're back with my top ten movies of 2024
1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
Recommended for: easy but, Leonard Cohen fans
2 Sherlock, Jr. & Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton, 1924 & 1928)
Recommended for: Tarsem's The Fall fans
3 Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932)
Recommended for: noir fans
4 Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Recommended for: people with a poetry tag
5 My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
Recommended for: people who have been told they have an old soul
6 3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Recommended for: the witchy wlw Lana Del Rey fans
7 Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977)
Recommended for: Mad Max fans
8 The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
Recommended for: sad girl Christmas!
9 Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
Recommended for: Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies fans
10 A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
Recommended for: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal fans
As before, links go to my original Letterboxd “review” (comment), and if you click the poster or title there you’ll be taken to the short synopsis, cast & crew, wide header image for some vibes, etc.
And then the next ten too why not, it was a Good Year in Watching:
12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook, 2005)
The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
A New Leaf (May, 1971)
Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl, 1945)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ōshima, 1983)
The Lion In Winter (Harvey, 1968)
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodóvar, 1988)
Fail Safe (Lumet, 1964)
I loved all these as well
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@wellntruly and I make a damn good berry pie
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Yes I’m watching m*a*s*h
Dedicated to @wellntruly, I’ve been laughing a lot today watching it
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I am still watching s3 so maybe I am a fool to ask this question but I don't wanna be a delulu when it comes to m/m ships, that too from 2013-15 but like was Will truly like truly jealous of Bedelia 🫠 I saw in Reddit that he was but then I saw other posts saying he's not and that he only wanted her to pay the price . So like is hannigraham one sided canon ? I am fine with that too . I am used to it after spn finale. 😭
I'm not on Reddit so I couldn't speak to what's being said there. I'm barely on here any more, frankly. I couldn't begin to respond to assertions that I'd only be imagining what their logic and evidence is, especially when my memory of all the details is growing dim.
But moreover these Hannigram questions from Reddit I keep hearing about are all dead horses that the meta writers who were around #BackInMyDay have beaten enough to prompt a social worker to climb out of them.
I'm happy to hear that Reddit has a living community of Hannibal fans who are actively debating their interpretations of the show, and that the show is growing new sets of fans to immerse themselves into these interpretations and debates. And if that's so, then if there are those who have taken up the mantle to argue against those things that I believe, then I'm sure there are those who can and have and will take up the mantle to argue for the things I believe as well.
If you want to become one of those people but feel like you need to do a lot of research to get to the point where you're ready, here are the blogs that were active writing meta in my day. Many of them are inactive or have moved on to other things, but I'm sure you can find a wealth of knowledge in their "hannibal meta" tags, or just by looking around their blogs for how they've tagged their own work:
@existingcharactersdiehorribly
@22drunkb
@genufa
@the-winnowing-wind
@wellntruly
@after-the-ellipsis
Please understand I'm not sending you to their inboxes per se, but to the wealth of work that they've already produced. If they still want to field questions about Hannibal or Hannigram, I'm sure they can let you know, here or elsewhere. Please just be polite: I have gotten a great deal of very demanding and entitled messages of late, whether people are coming from Reddit or elsewhere, but that's not the social norm on Tumblr and never has been to my knowledge: much like AO3, people will make updates when the spirit moves them, not on demand.
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Tarra @wellntruly joins the Antiques Freaks for a very early draft of Interview with the Vampire.
To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon!
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10 songs, 10 people
Tagged by @mresundance 💝 (I'm definitely not going to have anything as awesome as I Want To Know What Love Is on mine)
Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people
"Winds Guide You" - Jeremy Soule
"The Restless Town" - Black Salt Games
"Gravity" - Vienna Teng
"Classical Gas" - Mason Williams
"Video Killed the Radio Star" - The Buggles
"La Seine" - Vanessa Paradis & M
"Topeka" - Ludo
"Koshaberibiyori" - Fantastic Youth
"Pottsfield C.M." - The Blasting Company
"bury a friend" - Billie Eilish
Tagging: @warpedchyld @timelordsandkittens @the-monsters-that-ive-been @moku-youbi @no-face-no-shame @orangenottangerine @mageofthelufaines @wellntruly @kiwi-indomitus @radiojamming
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nine (9) people you'd like to know better
i was tagged by @dadvans 😘
Last Song: Carrion // Fiona Apple (it's not summer til i've rediscovered my 25-year-old obsession with Tidal)
Currently Watching: a lot of movies. i've had a hankering for a lot of pre-2000 stuff i either never saw or only saw pieces of on various cable channels in my youth. so that's been fun. also, we will eventually finish Mrs. Davis.
Currently Reading: The Brutish Museum by Dan Hicks. Enjoying it although the man will use 20 words when 2 would do.
Current Obsession: moving my plants around on the porch until i discover where they most like to be. discovering new artists i've never heard of. my totk obsession has waned, as i am about to finish the game. after that--panic, probably??
tagging: @leenik-geelo, @bookgeekgrrl, @powpowhammer, @sleepnoises, @wellntruly, @brisling, @departo, @klmt1, @lttrsfrmlnrrgby
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This comment was in an ask from @lurking-latinist to @wellntruly ages ago and yet it lives rent free in my head because I have found it to be true.
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Tag nine (9) people you’d like to know better
Tagged by @wellntruly hiya
Last Song: "All The Rowboats" by Regina Spektor. Have been trying this last week to rid myself of the native earworm insistent on singing the Talking Heads' "(Nothing But) Flowers" and the introduced earworm resulting from my partner playing "Killshot" by Magdalena Bay on repeat.
Currently Watching: not much of anything, been too busy. Been re-watching Mushi-shi for the first time but averaging like, 2 episodes once every 3 weeks.
Gonna take a moment here to shill the show: it's a nature-focused episodic anthology anime that doesn't have any of the classic annoying anime tropes. Mushi are these little spirits/essences of life going about their day and sometimes that clashes terribly with a human going about their day. Ginko our mushi-shi is here to restore the balance. Mostly very chill, occasional body horror, beautifully drawn backgrounds.
Currently Reading: Well, I just yesterday finished my first reread of the Locked Tomb series. I first read the books about two months ago, which makes this by far my shortest ever reread interval for a book (or three). To be fair, I'm usually trying to let the plot twists seep out of my mind over time, and this reread's objective was to better understand what the hell is happening and catch more of those one-adjective foreshadows.
So, next I will be diving back into the library assortment of books on native and perennial flora as research for my Supreme Garden Planning Spreadsheet. (I have ambitious plans for my yard.)
Current Obsession: gotta say, I'm not really an obsession person, just not wired that way. But the Locked Tomb comes pretty close at the moment. And learning about gardening, I guess?
And here I must admit I am still learning how to be social on a social media platform, so I don't have nine people to tag. However -
Tagging: @bobcatmoran, @lady-harrowhark, @conniferusblack
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Me, not good at Tumblr and dead chuffed to be tagged anyway.
@wellntruly guten Abend!
Last Song: "Monochrome" by the Sundays (listening to as I type this at ~10:30pm) from their final(?) album, Static & Silence. Although it's hotter than Hades in Texas, there are some things I love about summer, and one of them is music and film with summer-y themes (summer cocktails, Polish recipes like cold cucumber soup and sour cream with dill, hibiscus/lemonade iced tea, Fredericksburg (Texas) peaches are others... guess that's all food, huh).
Summer is also the best time to listen to bossa nova, and Astrud Gilberto's always there.*
Currently Watching: Nothing at the moment. Just realized now, though, that despite summer being my least favorite season by far, a lot of films I adore take place then (maybe because watching movies in the dark is the best way for me to enjoy it)? E.g. Wim Wender's Paris, Texas; Mike Leigh's adorable Life Is Sweet and Secrets & Lies; almost all of Wong Kar-Wai's filmography; Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her... *speaking of Brazilian singers... https://youtu.be/922cxGUW3mc 😌
Currently Reading: Re-starting Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights for the third time because it's rife with so much profundity and I need a lot of uninterrupted quiet time during the day (when I like to read) to read it properly and haven't had much of an opportunity yet. In a few days, though, the house will be empty (excluding my elderly kitty, Saga, and Charli, my parents' very active standard poodle).
Current Obsession: Basically all of the above. I have an obsessive personality and I am sure something new will pop up soon that I’ll read several books about, usually History-related.
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Tag nine (9) people you’d like to know better
Tagged by @wellntruly !
Last Song: Starman (in the stationary store), which set me off on a whole David Bowie discography re-listen.
Currently Watching: I have had so much trouble concentrating on anything recently, but I’ve been slowly making my way through BBC Ghosts. It’s really good! I also don’t have anything to say about it beyond 🙂 so there have been no posts here. But it’s really good!
Currently Reading: Babel: An Arcane History (in hardcover because it’s selling so well that the publisher just WON’T release it in paperback 😭). It’s slow going like everything else in my life but I’m so drawn in by this historical-fantasy premise based on language (!) that I refuse to give it up. So we’ll see if I finish it by Christmas.
Current Obsession: My new cat, who is the most beautiful boy and a black velvet little creature of the void. 🥰
Tagging: @somfte @renmorris @illuminated-in-darkness @jackandmaxanne @noknowshame @bring-it-all-down @thebookofmaev @laughingpinecone
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I made my top ten list for 2022
1 Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Recommended for: Interview With the Vampire fans
2 Chungking Express (Kar-Wai, 1994)
Recommended for: Cowboy Bebop fans
3 Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
Recommended for: poor little meow meow fans
4 The Night of Counting the Years (Abdel Salam, 1969)
Recommended for: Piranesi fans
5 The Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)
Recommended for: Yann Tiersen fans
6 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
Recommended for: Lawrence of Arabia fans
7 California Split (Altman, 1974)
Recommended for: 'friendships are romances' posts fans
8 The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
Recommended for: actually, David Lynch fans
9 All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)
Recommended for: Carol fans
10 All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
Recommended for: Velvet Goldmine fans
Let me know how you like the single, askance reference approach, I'm experimenting with succinct weird ways to pitch things to the people I think will like them. Links go to my original Letterboxd "review" (comment), and if you click the poster or title there you'll be taken to the short synopsis, cast & crew, wide header image for some vibes, etc.
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Milestones: I turned forty this year.
I thought this particular arbitrary milestone would mean more, but it was swallowed up in the everyday grind. My usual anxieties about not achieving the goals I should have already achieved at my age were magnified for a little while, but that eased too as time continued to move on.
I wished I could have celebrated more, but this year being what it was, it didn't work out. I did have a lovely brunch with @paprikatupp and @wellntruly took me out for high tea!
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Finally finished building this kit I picked up while in Halifax. @wellntruly can I interest you in some Canadian maritime history?
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I posted 5,480 times in 2022
That's 2,986 more posts than 2021!
35 posts created (1%)
5,445 posts reblogged (99%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@smolalienbee
@orderlyhouse
@classicwhostuff
@wellntruly
@horse-girl-dean
I tagged 5,479 of my posts in 2022
#the witcher - 930 posts
#fanart - 615 posts
#art - 610 posts
#doctor who - 575 posts
#our flag means death - 494 posts
#classic who - 424 posts
#photography - 303 posts
#black sails - 281 posts
#witcher fanart - 258 posts
#dracula - 188 posts
Longest Tag: 140 characters
#maybe i just have my rodney loving goggles on but good lord it is eminently clear to me how much rodney feels responsible for collins' death
My Top Posts in 2022:
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hiiiiiiiiii it's me again, another prompt, here it goes “We’re in the middle of a thunderstorm and you wanna stop and feel the rain?” + either geraskier (cause i'm a simple bee) or your choice
hiiiiii again bee i'm a simple salt so have exactly 100 words of geraskier (implied, anyway) in a thunderstorm!!
(send me a character/pairing and a prompt and I’ll write you a drabble!)
Jaskier hates getting wet. It makes his clothes stick to his body, which makes him want to crawl out of his skin. Unfortunately for him, it's started raining, and Geralt has stopped walking.
"Geralt," Jaskier begins, "we're in the middle of a thunderstorm, and you want to stop and feel the rain?"
Geralt doesn't turn around. "Lighting's not going to hit us."
"That's not—"
Now Geralt does turn around. "You don't like the rain," he says, softly, like it's a revelation. "Okay. Let's find shelter."
If it wasn't for the rain, Jaskier would be rooted to the ground with shock.
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hi. hello. how about 45. “Tell me a secret.” for some soft geraskier in these trying times?
hello. it's not mentioned, but the grass they're lying on is very soft, so I hope that suffices!
(send me a character/pairing and a prompt and I’ll write you a drabble!)
“Tell me a secret,” Jaskier says. It’s a pleasant summer evening, and they’re lying next to each other in the grass, looking up at the stars.
“Why?” Geralt asks.
“I’ll go first,” Jaskier continues, undeterred. “I love you."
Geralt snorts. "That's not a secret."
"It is!" Jaskier insists. "There's a lot of people that don't know that about me."
"Not for lack of trying."
"Tell me a secret?" Jaskier says, again.
Geralt relents. "Okay. I love you too."
And Jaskier beams. It's no secret that Geralt loves him, but if it makes Jaskier smile like that, he will gladly pretend.
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Knight’s Spurs
G / wc: 857 / summary:
When Geralt arrives back from a hunt, he gets a rather unexpected welcome.
also on AO3 here!
It's not often that Geralt comes back from a hunt being welcomed by the town that hired him, though it's been happening more often lately. He doesn’t quite understand it, but who is he to deny what the world sees fit to throw his way? Sooner or later, it will change, but he is in no hurry to see that happen.
(He’s not entirely stupid, he knows Jaskier has had something to do with it—what he doesn’t get is how Jaskier ever managed to do it, or why he even bothered to in the first place. Or why he’s still doing it.)
Perhaps the most baffling part of his welcome is, after he’s received the reward—which they gave to him, just like that—a child comes up to him (to him!) and offers him a tall purple flower. He freezes, unsure of what to do, acutely aware that the townspeople are all watching him. He wonders if the child knows no one’s ever offered him a flower before.
“Thank you,” he says softly, as he takes the flower in his hand. The child grins, then runs off, presumably to join their parents.
Then the moment’s gone, the people continue to go about their day, and it’s like nothing ever happened. Except for the fact he is still holding that flower.
“Geralt!” he hears a voice from behind him. It’s Jaskier, bouncing up to him, as if excited to see him. “You’re back! How did it go?”
“Fine,” Geralt replies.
Jaskier pouts. “How am I meant to write a ballad on just the word ‘fine’? Honestly, Geralt, do you not know how songwriting works?”
Geralt raises an eyebrow. “You didn’t specify.”
Jaskier huffs. “I’m not letting you off that easily, trust me, tonight I'll—why are you holding a flower?”
“A child gave it to me,” Geralt replies simply. “I accepted it.”
Jaskier blinks. “Why?”
“You’d have to ask the child. I didn’t. Would have been rude”
“Right, yeah, that’s—never mind.” Jaskier runs a hand through his hair. “I expect you’re tired and dirty—” he pauses, quickly glancing at Geralt, “—yep, definitely dirty, so I’ve taken the liberty of asking for a bathtub and some hot water. Let’s get you bathed, and since it’s this late, it’s probably best if we stay the night, I’ve asked, they don’t mind, I just had to give a concert, quite enjoyable, really—”
Now that he’s mentioned it, Geralt would like a bath, actually. Jaskier prattles on all the way to their room, and Geralt lets him. So long as Jaskier doesn’t need him to pay attention to all of it, he can talk as much as he likes.
“...and so I thought... Geralt? Are you planning to hold that flower in the bath, too?” Jaskier’s voice cuts through his reverie, and belatedly, Geralt realises he probably expects a response to that question.
“...no,” he grunts, and lays the flower on the table next to the tub.
The rest of the evening proceeds as normal. Bathing takes a little less longer, because he didn’t get as dirty, but that’s not entirely out of the ordinary. A little more out of the ordinary is the flower, and if he carefully puts it next to his bedside, no one needs to know.
(Jaskier might know, but he doesn’t comment on it. Geralt appreciates that.)
The next morning proceeds as normal, too. Geralt wakes up feeling refreshed, but that’s not entirely out of the ordinary. A little more out of the ordinary is the flower, still where he’d put it last night, and if he carefully picks it up to take it with him, no one needs to know.
(Jaskier might know, but he doesn’t judge him for it. Geralt appreciates that.)
“I see you’ve still got the flower,” Jaskier says, smiling softly, and well, that answers that.
“I have,” Geralt confirms.
“I hadn’t thought you were one for flowers,” Jaskier continues, idly playing with his hair. “You continue to surprise me every day.”
Geralt shrugs. “I couldn’t very well refuse it, even if I loathed flowers.”
Jaskier knits his brows. “Couldn’t you?” he says, so quietly Geralt isn’t sure he meant to say it at all.
“Why would I have?” Geralt replies. “It’s not like the flower was going to hurt me. And besides, people probably would have gotten angry if I’d made the child cry.”
Jaskier smiles at that, but this time, it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. Geralt doesn’t know what to make of it. When Jaskier stays quiet, he doesn’t know what to make of that, either.
No need to dwell on things he doesn’t understand. He tucks the flower behind his ear, so that his hands are free. “Are you ready?” he asks Jaskier, who nods—still not saying anything—and stands up. “Let’s go, then.”
After they’re out of town, Jaskier starts rambling on about something or other—Geralt isn’t quite paying attention, but he knows Jaskier doesn’t mind that—just as normal, and Geralt almost forgets he’d been silent for as long as he was. Almost.
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My #1 post of 2022
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Chapter 74 of Varney the Vampire is up on the Antiques Freaks Patreon! Special guest Tarra @wellntruly rejoins us for the reunion of Charles and Flora - plus vital Jack Pringle lore.
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