#I just like writing about B movies

[overleftdown]

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.

#farleigh start #i have class in 6 hours and i need sleep #saltburn #i threw this down in 15 minutes #it's not good and is in fact deranged #do u guys get me tho #i'm sure if emerald fennell were to write this sequel then maybe the quickstarters would b right #but i kinda hope she would maybe like #she does talk about quickstart as like a #idek #i love emerald #but i have Thoughts on this movie #and this character. #and these fans. #and arghgdjflds #i just want oliver to be CRUSHED #LIKE A WORM #i wouldn't care if emerald added in the hate sex that you freaks so DESPERATELY crave #like I KNOW I KNOW THEY'RE HOT?? #whateverrrr i care more about angst #guys angst mmmmmmmmmm #being asexual is so funny sometimes #i feel like i'm watching penguins in their little enclosure #deprived of freedom #sliding around and feral and slapping each other because they're in an enclosure #i'm so tired help me #i just mean that #you guys are funny like i cannot imagine living life with this craving that u guys r being crushed by #“cmon guys where is the farleigh x reader fanfiction cmon guys” like hello? hello hi? #i'm flipping the script actually

[northern-passage]

very interested to know if anyone would ever leave a review like this on a game that had all cishet characters... is that pandering to the "cisgender" narrative? or is it only pandering when it's the "transgenders"? 🤔 what makes it pandering? just because it's for an audience that's not you? because it's for a group of people you don't personally like? what makes you so special that only your stories are the ones you deem worthy of being told?

#and can you tell me what it is about trans people just existing that breaks your immersion? quickly #'i can excuse the demon ghosts from another dimension and glowing yellow eyes and fire magic and blood alchemy #and a god monster speaking in the mc's head. but i draw the line at the transgenders' #funniest review i've gotten in a while #right up there next to the 'this game is lacking representation because there are no femme women that wear makeup' #i also really don't agree that there are 'cliche' trans characters #there arent enough trans characters or storylines that exist in mainstream media for there to be any cliches #beyond like. homophobic& transphobic stereotypes. lol #and whos fault is that i wonder.... #honestly the first half of this review isn't even bad like it's fair criticism but they had to come in w the steel chair #talking about the 'transgender' in quotes #2 b clear 'pandering' is for like disney corporation making shitty movies and introducing their 20th first gay character #not a independent trans creator writing trans characters for a trans audience. lol #personal #transphobia #yeah i'll tag it cus it's annoying lmfao

[harmcityherald]

#ranxid #ranxidfilms #a movie I would like to make #unreality #seems like a great horror movie in my imagination #poe trying to convince anyone who will listen about the monster in the walls #They label him As mad Of course While he feverishly writes the tell tale heart #The monster in the walls Is The blob creature From the 50s #Poe heroically sacrifices himself to save The city of Baltimore #What do you think I'm thinking tom hardy as Poe #It has to be a horror but it has to be funny And of course we have to involve john waters Any movie made in Baltimore needs to #They don't tell you about that law on the books until you come here and try and make a movie of your own #We need a talking bird too #Movie brainstorms #Let's make it! #a prequel if you will #. I'm thinking of Tom Hardy because he has experience with Blobby aliens #it could be a love story #he's spitting in his grave right now while I'm saying all this Poe not Hardy LOL #I can hear it now Mr hardy we want you to play Edgar Allan Poe but there's one minor stipulation #it involves another gelatinous alien #Hardy looks at the camera and breaks the fourth wall #the creature is from sirius B #all the good aliens come from sirius B #that's where the fish people come from #just ask the dogon #thats the in search of tie in #the dogon tribe #a little blob baby survives to return in the 50s #blob conspiracy

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#tfw youre hanging out with friends and u throw out controversial take after controversial take #like its me hi im the hater its me #u wanna hear them? i mean thrm in in like the silliest way possible. its not that serious lol #i hated h4n solo growing up and still do. i dont think i like the writing of ne1l gaim4n and only liked the 1st season of g0od 0mens #i thought the 1st season of 0ur flag was fine and didnt really like the 2nd. i dont think anyone in l0rd of the rings is hot. especially #not 4aragon. leg0las is like whatever. sam is my favorite character. i also didnt like l0rd of the rings when i 1st watched it #the gathering was a watch party for that 1st movie and i like it way more now lol. also i dont like overt romance. i like the implication #of romance. if u kiss onscreen im like 99% of thr time not interested. also while im being a hater. i dont thibk steven king is a good #writer and domt like his books. i like the idea of them. wish they were written by anyone else lol. also im too dyslex1c to read physical #books :-( which no one vibes with bc everyone's a grad student overachiever lol. and back to back it all sounds like im trying to b #contrary but i promise its maybe just that i have weird standards. like i also hated movies about animals growing up. it made me mad that #those movies were trying to manipulate my feelings. like jesus child chill tf out. i would also randomly decide i hated lots of things and #characters. some of which i stand by today but most of which im like lol chill #so idk maybe i just have bad opinions. i also wander the earth wearing outfits that i pick out bc it feels like im playing dressup #and i have unhinged options abt narut0. sas and naru fall into the 1% of kisses i care abt lmao #and unhinged options abt bleach the show. idk maybe im just kinda weird. i also study organisms that most ppl look at as globs of goo #and i used to study bits of dirt. my brain was just build ever so slightly weird. not too weird. just enough that i have quote unquote #controversial takes ans im not afraid to say them in a room full of ppl who disagree with me bc its really not that serious lol #i dunno i just think its kinda funny i guess #im just slightly weird in the least interesting way possible #unrelated #also i don't yuvk other ppls yum im just like ay not for me i guess

[marshmellowtea]

the more i read about cozy horror the more i understand why people fucking hate the idea of this being considered a “genre”

#like i’m not opposed to the idea of blending a softer vibes with genuine scares #that juxtaposition is really interesting to me and i’d like to incorporate it into my own writing more #but from what i can tell that’s not what defenders of this genre want #they either A) don’t want horror at all (or clearly prefer horror made for children) #(which is fine but that’s already a genre you don’t need to reclassify that shit thank you) #or B) are completely misunderstanding the actual horror of certain movies in order to retroactively fit them into their idea of this genre #which is how we get these horrid ‘feminist’ takes about midsommer or the vvitch #also. just gonna say it. branding cozy horror as ‘horror made for women’ is insidious as fuck #plenty of women enjoy ‘normal’ or more extreme types of horror #and don’t need a ‘softer’ version of the genre #and insinuating otherwise is just straight up misogyny lmao #anyway yeah the criticism is less about the genre itself and more about how this is a canary in the coal mine for the further sanitation of #media especially horror media which is a genre traditionally built on shock value and making you uncomfortable #and the more i read about it the less i want anything to do with the term thanks #marshy speaks

[catastrxblues]

good morning it is now 4 am and i have just finished watching atonement good night

#atonement #next tags are just going to be personal rants ignore that #i couldn’t sleep at all so i tried reading s&b and then fanfics and then the bell jar but it just didn’t hit #so then i tried writing but i just kept crying so i thought i’d watch a romance movie because yes #should’ve gone for four weddings and a funeral or pride and prejudice because what the hell is this #i didn’t know anything about this movie i just remember having it on my watchlist and saw ONE clip so i picked that help #and yes i ended up crying and the tears are still here but i’m also starting to think that that’s not entirely because of the movie at all #i stripped my bed off its sheets because the bright color annoyed me and it was already peeling off anyway and i was too lazy to put it rig #and when i pulled back from the screen after the movie finished and just look at how bare my bed is and how i’m in the middle of them #i just started crying again #and my legs are aching and i hate myself and i think i want to take a shower but maybe i’ll wait later on #i don’t think i’ll sleep at all honestly i’m not sleepy anymore #besides i’m thinking of going outside today just at the park i don’t know doing something #i always sleep really really late lately because my parents are out of country right now and no one is keeping me checked and i apparently #still can’t take care of myself. cried about that too it was something. why am the eldest daughter i’m so not fit for it #and then i always wake up at like 9 am and it’s already too late by then that i just never do anything productive #and it’s like i’ve been living in a simulation and i’m kinda going crazy and insane but it’s okay because today is going to be better #i hope because i’m not getting any sleep and i can finally go outside at 7 in the morning instead when it’s already way too hot #damn this is supposed to be one of the best years of my life??????? fuck off #also i can hear the azan subuh from the mosque by the neighborhood and i miss praying honestly #it’s so funny because i was happy to get my period because that meant i wouldn’t have to wake up so very early on in the morning #but i miss it now #hopefully my period will end soon #nadirants

[daswarschonkaputt]

so im pretty excited abt ur abo kp fic which is new to me bc i normally dont care abt abo? this isnt shade or bullshit btw i hope i just wanted to ask how u conceptualize gender and sex in abo? tags on the notfic r 100% right btw more trans abo. im always put off by most abo for the idea that cis male omegas basically?? have a cloacae for an anus but also a dick? it feels too alien for a non paranormal genre. do u think anatomy ought to be addressed more or left to suspension of disbelief?

right straight off the bat we're putting this one behind a readmore, because i don't want to wig anyone out. a/b/o be weird.

essentially, the way i conceptualise a/b/o and how gender and sex work is:

male/female - usually identifiable at birth, with obviously some grey area in there for intersex people.

alpha/beta/omega - surfaces during puberty, at which point the body changes in whichever way the subgender inclines.

i usually write it that it's not really possible to tell how someone's subgender will present until it does, because i think the inherent tension between "this is how i was treated growing up" vs. "this is how people treat me now" gives the most room for social commentary, and character growth, which is one of my favourite parts of a/b/o. so everyone's body has the base potential to go any subgender way.

relatedly, one of my least favourite tropes in a/b/o is the trope where a character unexpectedly discovers they're an omega and they hate it and take drugs to make themselves a beta, and they wish they were a beta/alpha and as a reader i just have to sit there like, and the logical ending to this story ISN'T that they're trans????

in fact, this trope irritated me so much that i fully outlined and started writing an original fic where the main character gets the whoops! all omega! reveal and instead of hating it and hiding it, feels fulfilled and more comfortable in himself, because it enables him to put into words and be accepted for aspects of his gender identity that have existed his entire life.

ahem. omega biology. back on track.

male omegas are one of those fandom tropes that i just... choose not to look at too closely. science brain well and truly turned off. because of how the kinnporsche mpreg fic is structured (porsche not knowing he's pregnant, and not knowing he could become pregnant) -- we're probably looking at assbabies for that one, though i usually prefer to go the male omegas are intersex (and female alphas are, as well) route, just because it makes most sense to me. but -- this is fanfic. things only make sparing amounts of sense 20% of the time.

truthfully, i think the question of anatomy depends on the fic. i do think there is a level of suspension of disbelief that is needed to read a/b/o, but to me that's true of all sci-fi. a lot of genre studies essays on sci-fi talk about this idea of a novum, a point of divergence that makes the sci-fi story different from our world. it can be a thing, an idea, a hypothetical. for example, in mass effect, the novum is the mass drivers. in star trek it's the warp core. in the martian, it's leaving a man behind on mars. and with sci-fi, you're not meant to question the novum. it's the foundational part of the universe. sci-fi is the question, "what if [x] was different?"

so with a/b/o, the novum is, well, it's the a/b/o dynamics. "what if human reproductive biology was on crack?" the bits i'm interested in are the answers that spiral out from that question -- i'm not really focused all that much on the question itself.

but, like i said, it depends on the fic. if the fic's question is, "so, if we do have these a/b/o dynamics, how does the biology actually work?" then obviously it's a bit more relevant. but i've only seen one or two a/b/o fic that approach the matter like that.

hope that makes sense!

#fic: kp mpreg au #guys pls don't get me started on the a/b/o as sci-fi again #kaputt writes stuff #asked and answered #a/b/o cw #omegaverse cw #totally respect not being able to turn off science brain tho #there are some sci fi movies i have to turn off bc i Cannot #things spiralling out from the novum is one of the best parts of sci fi tho #like in mass effect there's no ammo bc the mass driver means they can use grains of sand as ammo #just accelerating them to NYOOM speeds #so they're functionally bullets #genuinely one of my favourite parts of worldbuiling #i rave about it all the time to people who know me

[portokali]

incomplete list of artists i'm convinced are unwittingly eldritch horror writers, but the eldritch horror they write about is america:

f scott fitzgerald lana del rey

#important 2 factors for entering this list: a. artist writes a Lot about america as this one big all encompassing and -consuming entity #that takes shape beyond reason and about being/becoming american as an Identity somewhere close to one's own humanity or even transcending #t #to the point where it becomes something of a Signature style and particularly the tragic side of americana suchas being your own downfall b #of greed or chasing an unreachable dream. nevertheless unable to break from this fate #and b. artist does not appear aware of the horror/camp horror implications in that artistic choice and seems to be in 100% earnest abt it #talk.mp3 #ohh wait i just realized young and beautiful one of thee most known lana songs was written for gr8 gatsby the movie.. nice #also btw i dont like lana but i like her music better when i pretend she is pretending to be a siren/eldritch horror w an angelic (??) voic #luring young men to their deaths w promises of plenty and gold. etc

[marklikely]

you guys know that phenomenon where dudes will be like "women aren't funny" but its just bc when a woman makes a joke they don't get it and take her seriously and just think she's like an idiot? like a woman will say smth silly as a joke and they'll just be like "smh you can't be serious you're so stupid" bc theyd rather think a woman is stupid than think that she's just saying it to be funny.

i feel like thats what happens in the reviews every time a woman tries to direct a campy b movie right now.

#look at the ratings of like. a cheesy b horror movie from the last couple years directed by a woman #vs directed by a man #the reviews for the ones by women are all like avg rating 1.8 stars plot holes the dialogue wasnt realistic its not an elevated drama #vs directed by a man its like avg 3.0 stars a fun romp a delightful ride packed with hilarity don't take it too seriously #with the bonus that usually the one by men is not actually even a fun romp it sucks #anyway. i think its the same as the women aren't funny thing. #the urge to just like dismiss women making things for fun and for camp to be like ACTUALLY THIS IS NOT GOOD BY SERIOUS STANDARDS #avpost #the only way they'll praise a woman's movie (that's not about male characters) is if its a flawless prestige drama #but women aren't allowed to make silly campy movies. at least not if it also is about women. #bc if you do that they will trash you for not making the next shawshank or some shit. #god forbid you be a woman having fun etc. they just cannot comprehend it #theyd rather believe you're an idiot who can't write. than to just believe that you made the movie to be a fun ride. #and the best that we fans of these movies can hope for is that they get the jennifers body treatment in 10 years and become beloved later #yknow after many years of being trashed unfairly for liking them. ive had dudes harass me on lbxd for defending some of these lmao

[crossbackpoke-check]

Oh these all look so lovely. May i ask about good dog bad dream for WIP files?

of course!!! 🥰💕 i answered a little bit about it here, but this is one of the tag stories i really, REALLY want to actually become a fic so i did promise a little snippet of the 2K that is done:

Things that Dylan should do: turn off the light, shut the door, walk back inside to the rumpled sheets still warm from when he left them to grab a glass of water. Leave the creature outside to the lightning bugs and the quarter moon and the shifting shadows of the woods along the gap-toothed fenceline of his yard, and then come out in the morning to nothing more than a paw print and the clean reassurance of sunlight to tell him nobody’s there, to ignore the prickle of discomfort that shivers its way across his body as goosebumps and raised hairs when he thinks about turning his back on the memory of those red eyes.

Things that Dylan does instead: whistle.

#the two moods of just: #HI THIS IS TERRIFYING 😭 i think this is the first time i have a) shared something in progress and b) shared something that is like. real fic #and then also: #YAY TYSM FOR ASKING 😭😭😭 me rn just like 🥹🥺🥰💕✨‼️☺️ you want to hear about my fic??? #ALSO ALSO ALSO. i forgot to mention in the last post my formative m*ggie st*efvater influences growing up (read shiver) & seeing the video #on twitter the other day of them actually starting to film??? for a shiver tv show/movie??? made me be like OH GOD I HAVE TO ACTUALLY WRITE #(also a devastating notesapp sentence i have written down that i said prior to the bertuzzi trade but you know it’s fine i’m fine) #liv in the replies #also i work so much better FOR things (creating for people etc) akdjskdjak so i’m just like. who wants to beta read now #so that i have to write in order to not disappoint you is this not what beta readers are for #other tag stories i also want to become fics (and technically could have listed since their docs are me stealing tags & accumulating them: #pk carey ​lonesome cowboy au / the vestigial old gods detroit au / jackty the breakup / catch carter faerie prince) #tyler borzoituzzi #anyWAY. the absolute poetic justice of me sitting on these two asks for like. days bc busy and then coming to tumblr & IMMEDIATELY seeing #a post and going TYLER BORZOITUZZI about it i can’t explain to you how hard i’m laughing akdhskdjaksj #also yes i DID write another 300 words so i could say 2k in this post instead of 1.7k we love to be a stubborn taurus rising l m a o #wip ask game

[kickedshins]

you think you’ve seen the most annoying that letterboxd has to offer and then you look at the reviews of blockers (2018) staring the one the only kathryn love newton and see MULTIPLE people calling it homophobic because it was like... a comedy with a gay storyline. Because apparently we can’t be funny and gay at the same time. Because That’s Problematic

#like who cares. john cena drinks a beer up his ass. no one said this was groundbreaking #it is literally not homophobic tho. Like it just isn't. idk what to tell you #people just love to moralize. let b movies be movies... wow im so deep #its not even a b movie its too high budget for that whatecer #the POINT. is everyone needs to calm down and accept that sometimes. things are fun and not that good #and just because you personally think that things shouldn't allowed to be fun and not that good doesn't make those things morally bankrupt #live a little. touch grass. get laid #etc #why am i writing a manifesto in defense of blockers (2018) #rly its just in defense of the sex comedy and this is my catalyst #i have a LOT OF OPINIONS ABOUT THINGS #isaac talks

[keylovesstuff]

13 and 30? :D

Is there a trope you wouldn’t write if it was the last trope on earth?

Alternate Universe. I feel like it's already challenging to keep characters in character as they're presented in media. So not only would I have to come up with some engaging plot to drop some pre-existing characters in, but also try to keep the in character enough to make whoevers reading think "Yeah blank would totally be like this if they were in this type of universe". If they sway too far from their in-universe counterparts , its like might as well create your original story at that point (at least imo) 🤫.

Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future.

A longfic!??!! You're asking the impossible from me. It's already a challenge writing a decent 4k oneshot 🤣🤣 and at least when I think of longfics, I think multi-chapter fics and oh gosh, thinking of an overarching plot and spanning it for so many chapters 😳. No ideas in the near future, at least for me, but I think it would be so fun to try my hand at rewriting a season for a show or movie, which would probably actually help with those prints maybe now that I'm thinking about it. 🤔

#Another addition I think AUs work really well with certain fandoms and others not so very much #granted its hard to get into them for me in the first place and I really do try cause I've seen snippets of some and its so good but #getting from A to B cause context is key is hard 🥲 #like I can easily open a South Park au fic and I can read all that no problem but like others....not so much. #some people write AUs so well but I wouldn't be one of them tbh that's for sure 🤣🤣🤣 #omg now that I'm thinking about fic rewrites I know its been awhile since I've read Winx Club ones and thers probably been so many updates #So many people write them so well and you're able to see that subtle difference from how they acted from ch 1 to ch 20 like you're actually #watching it again and its just with words 😩👌🏾 (swear fics be better than the shows/movie) #That and I'm like really a sucker for everyone's interpretation or analysis for any and everything #I could never lmao...but I will read it all day 😊😊 #Thanks for the ask Spockify!! 🥰 #Key Answers

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#hhhhh i just wanna lay in bed watching movies all day. i need some sort of wizard to turn me into a salamander so i dont have to do my job #it takes me all day to relax and for what? its Sunday and i have to grade at e #least 45 lab reports and make a presentation about photosynthesis so i can teach tomorrow so that i can barely tread water #im so behind on grading. and thats not to mention all the other bullshit i should b doing. ugh. i just wanna not do anything #i got covid vaccinated yesterday so im kinda exhausted on top of preexisting exhaustion. anf i would like my problems to stop existing #also i forgot how annoying it is to live in a place with mice. like stop scurrying around in my walls! stop trying to make mouse holes #dont make me murder u bc i will. ill buy mouse traps and thdn youll b sorry #but id rather not do that bc itll b annoying to check the traps and dispose of the bodies. bleh #i just wanna watch surreal movies abt self destruction and cosmic horror #so annihilation and maybe sunshine bc i havent watched it and oh god whats that polish movie uuuuuh #i can't remember. it starts with s i think but all i can think is susperia which is not correct. solaris? i cant remember if i watched #it or just read thr book. idk i like surreal slightly pretentious movies. under the skin is another i lov #god. i dont wanna get up. i still only got 7hrs sleep. i just wanna lay here and decompose #fuck. i have so much to write for Wednesday. and i think i have to share a paper Friday. fuck. #unrelated

[startrekandstarcrises]

don't think i realized how much of a sucker i am for the Found Family trope until a one-off character i barely had an opinion of said "can i come home now?" to the main character he was staying with meaning, obviously, "can i ditch this weird dinner you've sent me to and come back to your house, which i am spending a few days at" but my whole brain went "HOME??? adopt him? new son/nephew/precocious younger sibling/protege? 11/10 yes please. i love him i want to protect him etc."

#found family #murder she wrote #michael digby #unfortunately fan wiki says he's in exactly one episode #aND nobody else has yet posted a convoluted au fanfic in which he does stay in cabot cove #but consider #1. travel writer who is successful by Travel Writer standards #2. BUT not as name/face-famous as J. B. Fletcher best-selling mystery author #3. down to do whatever weirdass bullshit mrs fletcher points him at #4. One Weird Trick To Prevent Drunkenness is already 10/10 but elliot spencer this man and give him a ton of weird tricks #tldr he is the perfect partner in crime-solving #i want five seasons and a movie of him calling her up from wherever he's writing about to tell her about Suspicious Events #sometimes she drops everything immediately sometimes he has to talk her into it #always holds back the weirdest detail in case she REALLY needs persuading and then he's like *sigh* ''okay #i guess i'll just never know how the victim's shoelaces ended up in the garbage disposal #but if you're too busy on your FAKE murder to help with a REAL one i guess--'' ''stop complaining michael i'm already packing.'' #she's still quite capable of getting information herself tyvm but sometimes people are like ''THE jb fletcher???'' #''i've read some of your books and ALSO read about your real-life detective skills in the paper!'' #jb: ''…okay michael they're on to me #you're gonna have to ~coincidentally~ befriend these people'' #he's very ''dammit jess i'm a TRAVEL writer not a MYSTERY writer'' but he always gets something useful #one ep she can't come to his murder because there's one in cabot cove #they consult via phone on their respective murders #he does some top-notch sleuthing she pulls one of his One Weird Tricks they both catch murderers #he ends up living in cabot cove when he's not travelling to 'relax' #*episode in which he buys a house there: three people in cabot cove are murdered*

[lesseraive]

it is impossible for me to get a perfect grade in a class bc i'm always like hey if i don't do this one assignment i'll still get a passing grade that's all that matters

#im really like who cares about the number as long as i didnt fail #my summer classes r abt to be over and for one of them it was literally just write 6 essay-ish assignments and youll get 100 but ofc i was #like hey if i dont do one of them ill still get a B #always trying to do the bare minimum ig #it really would not have been hard to do all 6 of them 😭 #uk this is a deeper conversation but this also has to do w how a class is being taught and whether the intention of the teacher is for the #student to really be Learning or if they r just like do this and that for a grade #bc the other class im taking is being presented in a way where the focus is so much more on deeper thinking and what kind of things can u #take away from the material #and i could have skipped a class but i went to all of them #it also inspired me to read academic articles about the movies i watch? which i have never wanted to do before so . actually life changing #ANYWAYS time to write 700 words :p #mp

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the most recognized as comedic song being the best part of the movie musical because the conventions that serve as a mode of communicating ideas, for example "people just bursting into song" or "choreography" or "'noticeably stylized' cinematography" that accentuates nonliteral nonrealism-invoking choices, are regarded as Silly or Frivolous. and the effort to shove everything else that's more "serious" into what is expected to be read as dramatic cinema that's not stylized in any ways that seem too "Genre" which only makes [but someone's singing?] underwhelming and out of place because no other elements are supporting it

#that plenty of Thee Establishment most concerned w/the commercial angle of musical theatre is also like ''musicals? is silly'' #or rather is forever defensive about this. all the musicals you know tonys will be comfortable with b/c they're gently ''edgily'' Serious.. #that old deh interview where p&p are like ''haha eugh we're not writing MUSICAL numbers musical numbers X'D this is serious this is real'' #deh as a living room play....like don't get me wrong. all Critiques / dunks on deh the stage musical even deh the movie...are not the same #all mine are better and wiser. but actually really for example like ''ben platt old?? he hair a joke??'' are criticisms i reject lol #wait a second does anyone in the Stage Musical ever do any more dancey choreography than they do in sincerely me....probably not #remembering the great times of that jared goldsmith interview where they were telling him to walk less dancily in ywbf lmao #taking some chassés across the stage....finally looked up if ''sashay'' is just a misheard + phonetic ''chassé'' & yes #anyways and just connect this all to the broader issue of Any ''genre(tm)'' understood as like. Unserious. style that is so unartistic.... #insert joe iconis talking about it. basically that if some Noticed ''unusual'' style usage is taken seriously it's presumed ''self aware'' #such that it may be like; parody of; commentary on; homage to whatever Conventions.... #like is a movie too associated with women as creators or audiences? some style choices that might seem to have some odd effect or w/e is #then just like wow guess this isn't good enough to be an experience i can completely intellectually disengage with as viewer.... #whereas if it's Not ''''gendered'''' so associated enough w/men as creators & audience (not much room for ''&/or'' there) then like #oh that perhaps somewhat awkward noticeable Style Usage? that was innovative; fresh; if it's funny it's ''clever'' rather than comedic #Don't Even Get Me Started on comedy also being an unserious ''easy'' too-Genre(tm) lesser style / way to communicate ideas #but i'm already started! it's right in the premise! ppl not even noting Sincerely Me has any material About anything b/c like #well it's Just Funny. jared & alana are Easy parts b/c they're so often Funny & set apart from the Serious Drama of parental angst #i actually haven't seen that many movie musicals but the ones unembarrased about themselves are superior #plus the idea of Worthy funny/noticeably styleized things as being Distinguishingly ''Self Aware''....the idea of Being Funny as either #being Unselfawarely the butt of the joke; or awarely deliberately Clever as what makes one superior to others; laughing At them surely #and i'm right back as well to what i was musing on re: the limits of billions' own language and in turn the limit of ideas if it cannot eve #express otherwise / beyond....that worthiness is awarded with this Dignity backed by the elements of the medium as tv's discretion #versus if someone's undeserving & unserious; or usually deserving/serious but is messing up & we want you to notice; then #they Will be beset with some humiliation; probably at least more proximate to being Laughed At; material may go out of its way to do this #another thing is that billions seems to have so little to no room for anyone having a capacity to be Silly #people Being Funny On Purpose is largely making references or pwning another character; both establishing competitive Worthiness #another shift from 5x08 onward like. rian truly able to humor herself is gone with her desk clutter #the fate of winston's =] ness is found in 6x01 when both quants are being funny until rian's funniness goes [abuse coworker] mode #that illustration that Hierarchy generates a Joke; at someone's expense. characters (& the writing?) Can't do otherwise to him or fathom it