#Film Form No. 1

[phantomladyoverparis]

Film Form No. 1 (1970), dir. Stan Vanderbeek

#Film Form No. 1 #Stan Vanderbeek #70s #short film #experimental film #american cinema

[sadmages]

Gale stabilizing all 3 party members from death after not getting hit himself at all and then dropping this bomb while everyone's on the verge of death. So funny of him

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #matt marja #finally art of him in his little tag <3 #gabby plays bg3 #gale dropping this right in front of astarion also knowing full well matt goes into his tent every night for some form of sucking #shoot your shot king i respect it!!!!!!!!!!!!! #any other time this would have landed so well. the fact this dialogue popped up while matt was at 1 hp and dying.....incredible #my art #ITS BEEN A WHILE but my film is done so i can do stupid shit like this again

[ianitegal56]

I saw Godzilla Minus One and he is quite literally one of god's silliest showa scientists

#godzilla #godzilla minus one #godzilla minus 1 #HES'S SO PRECIOUS FOR THIS FILM #Koichi and Noriko are also friendship to couple goals #fuck realistic panic attacks #we're here for realistic PTSD attacks #like fuck this movie did such a good job of talking about post war emotions #I'm sorry I like movies talking about post war shit #the Toku brain continues #I could probably write a lot about this movie but #Koichi deserves all of the hugs #insane how his actor was the child form of the overlord in Agito #noda kenji

[chamerionwrites]

See I honestly do find the prequels-era Jedi an interesting (and at times painfully recognizable) portrait of institutional violence in that...they aren't cackling villains. They're mostly sympathetic well-intentioned individuals who via a combo of traditionalist inertia, ideological blinders, proximity to power, a dash of plain old arrogance and a liberal seasoning of end-justifies-the-means compromise end up being at best indifferent to and at worst deeply complicit in some pretty heinous injustice. I don't even think this is a completely against-the-grain reading on my part. At the end of the day it's a pretty mild critique, but it's hard to argue that the PT is entirely uncritical of the Jedi imo.

Unfortunately the narrative is never interested in really sinking its teeth into that. And even more unfortunately, a chunk of the fandom will clutch its pearls in horrified outrage if anybody else is interested in sinking their teeth into that

#i recognize that isn't lucas' reading but (1) the author is dead (2) his is not the sole creative vision at work in those films #and (3) george ''i'm a methodist buddhist benevolent dictatorship is the best form of govt ewoks are my vietnam metaphor'' lucas #says some brain-breakingly stupid shit and i'm under no obligation to accept his takes as gospel #anyway. i don't think you have to hate or lack sympathy for the characters to think that as presented in the pt #the jedi order is sort of a fucked up institution within (and doing the bidding of and dedicated to perpetuating) a deeply fucked up system #fundamentally it's a story about structural failure!!! #the good intentions are what make that failure tragic #star wars #aggressive negotiations #my posts

[pdalicedraws]

kittie <3

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#nimona #nimona movie #nimona comic #nimona film #nimona webcomic #nimona netflix #nimona graphic novel #nimona crossover #nimonaverse #pd alice draws #nimona nimona #ballister blackheart #…should I come up with separate ways to tag the two nims #I’m still tagging both Ambrosiuses with the same thing so probably not lol #anyway IT’S SLEEK KITTY TIME comic nims is easier to draw than movie nims in this form for one (1) reason #which is that for fluffy kitty I have to look up reference photos #and for sleek kitty I just go bother my lad <3 #that conversation was fully genuine btw she only just noticed the other her was there

[pioneer-over-c]

Draw Everything June day 5. Pre-Endar Spire and becoming a different person, Revan was a Form IV practitioner, so I thought this reference might fit him.

#draweverythingjune2023 #draw everything june #revan #kotor #kotor 1 #star wars #san-surien suun #(actually it's pre-endar spire so he's actually still lach sulrass and ACTUAL revan but... i don't have a tag for that haha) #i always want to draw more action poses of revan but the only character in the films (best reference) that uses form iv is yoda #and the actual human people doing form iv on youtube don't do force-assisted acrobatics lol #i guess i've learned enough about gesture drawing now to be able to extrapolate from yoda though. should try that #(post-endar spire the only time he uses a lightsaber is the... uh... dialogue option for the whimpering locker) #i spent the entire malak fight shooting him and then using master speed to run away out of his range. malak must have been so confused #revan shows up saying he's not revan and isn't interested in proving who is stronger #he then proceeds to not even use a lightsaber while fighting and STILL wins. rip malak #also i accidentally made him like an inch taller than malak before i found out malak's height. quite literally overshadowed oops

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

I have an angsty/humorous dream about Koichi having nightmares that instead of marrying Noriko, Godzilla married her off instead because of the G-Cells she possessed.

And Koichi has a mental breakdown for the entire life while his friends, his daughter Akiko, and Noriko (she has G-Cells on her neck so she covered it with scarf) trying to calm his ass down.

#NGL but this is stupid IDK what put my mind into something...off with it #maybe an angst or a humor IDK both? #technically this is off show #I can't react whether I was laughing or whatnot but... #yeah maybe both of it... #anyway #if this goes off the film I'd rather traumatized of Noriko's form #godzilla #kaiju #toho #reiwa era #gojira #godzilla minus one #godzilla minus 1 #koichi shikishima #noriko oishi #ryunosuke kamiki #minami hamabe #akiko #kenji noda #tachinaba

[polyamoryprincess]

I truly do understand the fear people have regarding people doing “fanfiction commissions” and making money off fanfics after the Anne Rice debacle, but we don’t have to act like it’s an inherent moral failing and like you’re a Fake Fan tainting fan spaces if you want to be paid for your work the same way fan artists do.

Anne Rice is a dick head for what she did and should be treated as such, treating the fear she’s wrought as some holy thing is fucking weird.

#I genuinely used to think this way too but there’s no reason fan artists are allowed to be paid for their art and fanfic writers can’t #Most people who act this way essentially just admit they think writers do less work than fan artists and you gotta fuck off with that #There’s this idea that fanfics are just rip offs of the original work and that is so tremendously rarely the case #Most fanfic is borderline unrelated to the og media #And it’s always worth remembering that 1) copyright laws are really just for protecting major IPs to shit on the little guy #And 2) what someone is willing to pay for is not for you to decide the og creator would never have seen that money anyways because #They’re not producing the type of content being paid for in the same way buying fanart with a distinctive look and ship wouldn’t have gone #To the og #There’s always capitalistic shit that goes too far but fanfics has already experienced that in the form of trash 1D & HP fanfics being made #Into published novels and feature films so what really has you being so weird about small writers trying to experience being paid #For their work #I know fan artists get copyright strikes and things like that but the attitude towards it is not even remotely the same #And I’m not saying you shouldn’t remind people WHY you can’t safely do fanfic commission #But don’t act like “It’s a good thing actually” or morally wrong to want to be paid for fanfiction writing #I feel like I make a post like this every couple of years but I always see that shit pop up sporadically #And the vibes of the posts giving the warning are always RANCID.

[from-beyond]

I watched Bad Dreams (1988) just for Bruce Abbott and I was NOT expecting it to be good but actually I really enjoyed it? I think it’s kind of a horror hidden gem. And the soundtrack slaps.

#ej.txt #like it has less than 1000 reviews on letterboxd and its super hard to find so i expected it to be like #an incoherent low budget horror movie which can be fun so i was like sure ill watch that tonight #but its actually got a really creepy and well executed premise with good performances #im also reluctant to watch horror movies that center around mental illness/take place in psych ward because they can be exploitative #and like the depictions of BPD specifically wasnt GREAT but none of the horror in the movie felt like it was coming from the patients #like the fact that they all had mental illnesses wasnt what made the film creepy they were very much the victims #and all of the characters felt developed and more than 1 note #also: #leave it to my man Bruce to always play a doctor who forms wildly inappropriate relationships with his patients

[phantomladyoverparis]

Film Form No. 1 (1970), dir. Stan Vanderbeek

#Film Form No. 1 #Stan Vanderbeek #70s #short film #experimental film #american cinema

[fortheturnstiles]

oh also i watched sleepaway camp (1983) for the first time tonight and am now really uncomfortable with the way i've heard cis horror fans talk about that movie on the internet lol

#cis people are banned from discussing 1. silence of the lambs and 2. sleepaway camp until further notice #maybe forever because you guys will never not be fucking weird about it #most conflicting moment ever when you go into a movie knowing there's transphobia in it and then #the movie kinda rocks . and yet the use of a trans body for shock and spectacle is still horrifying and upsetting #but there is also kind of some interesting angles you can take to it in terms of analysis #like how angela is so clearly alienated/ostracized/dehumanized from the start and the way her monstrosity is construed by the film #oh angela 💔💔💔💔 #aaurgghg its also one in the morning and i cant form coherent thoughts but yea #i'm just very . ououhghhhghg

[currentlyonstandbi]

there’s so many writing choices in this film that i could gripe about but i can’t deny the way the end scenes have me chewing dry wall. we’ve just spent the entire film seeing alex paint himself as the victim in all of this, a hapless bystander swept into the insanity of nigel’s world and having to pay the price for it. there’s little hints here and there that maybe there’s more to the story - e.g. nigel’s comment about alex and susan (to which alex offers immediate refutation) - but there’s never any real and clear indication. until the end. until we get that 9 month time skip and we see sally pulling up to the cemetery. until we learn that susan’s grave has been dug up and the skull stolen. and then the train scene my god, the reality sets in that alex has been playing them this entire time, that he’s become the very thing nigel always wanted him to be. the ending to this film is both the end of alex’s story and the beginning of jack’s.

#i'm hitting a slump lately and motivation is low so have the incoherent ramblings of a mildly sleep deprived lunatic #but i always have the end of this movie on my mind #especially because i'm obsessed with it all from the pov of forbes sr. of all things?? imagine being alex's dad #your son is suspected of the murder of both susan and nigel #and then you find out he's basically been tormented by the very kid he tried to WARN you about right from the start #but you didn't take it seriously and chalked it up to his usually dramatic antics and need to act out for attention #but then it turns out that kid was not only responsible for the murder of his own parents and 2 other students #but may very well have almost killed alex that night at the railway yard #so you take him home and you try to get things back to the closest approximation of normality that you possibly can #but you've never been particularly close to your son. you struggled to form a connection with him before #and you're certainly not any better at it now after everything that's happened #so you give him space and you tell yourself that it will be alright #and then 1 day. 9 months after. you wake to find your son is gone. packed up and left #not only that. but you find out the police suspect he was lying this entire time and the grave dug up by him #what do you do? do you look for him? do you believe the police - believe your own child capable of any of the things they describe??? #anyway i just have a lot of thoughts about alex's dad post-film . clearly #like minds #alex forbes #i love that john colbie gets a name but alex's dad is 'headmaster'

[glassphinix]

[ID: the “touching grass is not enough” meme of text over a flowery field that has been edited to read “touching grass is not enough, i need an update about the edge of sleep tv series.” end ID]

#the edge of sleep #teos #literally ive only listened to the first three episodes bc i struggle to find an excuse to listen to an audio drama #i dont really listen to podcasts. i turned on distractible while i was cleaning my aunts house cause it was good to have as background noise #but teos is a work of fiction it's a thriller/mystery/horror story that i want to give my undivided attention #and thats hard to do because my brain Refuses to stay on track if listening is all i'm doing #when i was into bmc i had to be reading the script while i listened to the audio bootleg or i wouldnt fucken stay concentrated #i only listened to it initially during a shift w a disability support worker bc we were driving and we had fuckall else to do #but 1. i dont always have the same worker and it feels rude to keep listening to a story halfway through with no context for them #and 2. from my understanding shit gets decidedly fucked up from ep 4 onward so its probably super not appropriate to listen to #in somebody elses fucking car #but i wanna finish it SO BAD i wanna be able to pour through the teos tag and talk about it with other people without getting spoiled #ive gotten spoiled on a Lotta shit just from reading the tvtropes page #auauufah im so torn between figuring out how to listen to it as a podcast or waiting for more info on the tv show #fellow autistic people do you ever do that thing where ur special interest is always some form of media but its prone to changing #so like every few months youre defined by a new fucking show or game or film or whatever #but Every So Often when ur between big interests u have a very short-lived (hours/days/week or two) but INTENSE obsession w something niche #yeah its like that #my brain is that little ms paint creature thing on all fours with pointy teeth and red eyes biting something in its mouth savagely #and the something is teos #internal monologue

[richkidcityfriends]

thinking about hatching (2022) again...

#ooooh that film #its like #my favourite genre of film in its most distilled form #like its not my no.1 film ever (although def top 5 atm) #but its sooooo #horror films where the monster is in some way also the female protagonist my beloved <3 #ESPECIALLY when theyre coming of age #like yes give me everything #the monster as an inheritance the monster as a becoming the monster as a craving the monster as a mirror!!!!!!!!!! #pls i have half an essay written on this in my docs atm #raw (2016) is also very good for this #hatching 2022 #pahanhautoja

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #Plagiarism #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQIA #youtube #Solidarity #gay erasure #Make them un-erased

[unityrain24]

The Tragedy of Loki, One of Many

A summary of Loki's life from the start to his suicide attempt on The Bifröst, as told in the form of an (irregular) sonnet

Cast alone upon a rock in the cold wastes of Jotünheim,

A blue infant giant was abandoned, or so the story reads.

So the conqueror proclaimed it his own, (“it would be a king in time,”)

But really, he wanted another pawn in the game of evil deeds.

And so the child grew up in everyone’s shadow,

Intelligent, cunning, beautiful, but somehow never enough for his father.

In his despair, the shunned child would wallow.

Why could he never amount to anything when placed beside his brother?

Taught to hate the Jötnar, with every fiber of his being,

When the child learned of his true blood, only tragedy could follow.

Turned against himself, hatred all he was seeing,

He sought out to eradicate, to make the cursed realm hollow.

And so the tragic story, with no happiness anywhere seen,

Ended (almost) with a rainbow bridge, a suicide, and a brother’s scream.

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If you linked this work, feel free to show appreciation for it on ao3 or wattpad

(i posted this a while ago but iv'e been putting off making tumblr posts for my writing works for a bit, so i'm only just now posting a link)

#unityrain.author #sonnet #sonnets #poetry #doggerel #irregular sonnet #fanfic #fanfiction #loki fanfic #loki fanfiction #poetic fanfic #poetic form #loki #mcu loki #thor 2011 #thor 1 #thor films #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 link #wattpad #wattpad link