#THE WAY ANNA LOOKS AT THEM

[marciliedonato]

Happy Asuka day to those who celebrate ‼️‼️ give it up for the specialest girl and only ginger ever 🤠🥳🥳

Bonus:

#Yeah yeah sorry the collage one looks weird I was literally making it up as I went #asuka langley soryu #Say happy birthday Asuka rn or else 😤😤😃🔫 #Fun new anna burymeinblack2022 lore drop : today was supposed to be my birthday 🤠🤠 #evangelion #Eva #Nge #Anna's shitposts #I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE #neon genesis evangelion #welcome to the circus #asuka shikinami #asuka shikinami langley #Sidenote: the images I used were HD why the FUCK did this fry the quality... Jail #Me going out of my way to make sure the images were crisp only for them to end up microwaved 😩👍⚰️ #Feliz Asuka lunes <3 #Greatest hits

[notmoreflippingelves]

#elena of avalor #beauty and the beast #batbedit #disneyedit #eoa edit #belle x beast #estebalena #kinda but also not kinda #I think a lot about the fact that it's been confirmed that this is an intentional homage #like EoA series supervising director Elliot M. Bour was just like casually bringing BATB into things as an Easter egg #since it was his first job in animation #and like don't get me wrong; I LOVE that he did this. I just don't know how he expected anyone (i.e. me) to be normal about it afterwards #once you've introduced BATB; it ceases to be a fun and casual reference and just makes the literature major girlies go feral #i thought this was gonna be a quick and easy little project but it wasn't #the parallels are all there but they're in slightly different order in EoA than the original and the pacing for each reference is differen #so i had to determine which ones I needed to skip frames for and which ones to use all the frames #and then try to figure out the speed from there #the coronation day scenes were very hard to color because the grey skies and muted filter kind of whitewash the characters #like you don't even understand i added so MUCH vibrance and saturation to the 4th and 5th gifs but elena's skin still is just gray #and the coloring is still just a very very mixed bag #also i've realized that while I don't think it was an intentional reference in the same way BATB was #anna's sacrifice and resurrection from frozen is perhaps just as --if not more-- a clear parallel to the coronation day scene than BATB #so maybe I will do that one someday too? #once i psych myself up again to try coloring coronation day again #which i imagine will be awhile #these do not look like the same scene and pretty much the same scene at all even if i tried to use the same psd when i could #and edit them to make the coloring as close as i could

[cerealbishh]

"I need to talk to Tissaia."

"No. Something is going on here. Something sinister. I know you want this conclave to bring us together, but... you need to be careful who you can trust."

#the witcher s3 spoilers #the witcher s3 #anna shaffer #anya chalotra #triss merigold #yennefer of vengerberg #yennefer x triss #yentriss! #trissefer #look i didn't watch every episode in it's entirety i just skipped around for triss and triss/yen scenes #they seemed like ex-lovers in this episode ngl #the way triss looks at yennefer? #and how softly she touches her cheek???? #and the tender/worried smile after? #happy pride month gays! #how can you not ship them??? #the witcher netflix #tw: fire

[ingravinoveritas]

Why do I feel like this post just got personal and going in for the attack like she did for the radio one on twitter I'm not shocked or surprised by this cos the behaviour is getting more stranger and nasty and a fan on twitter shared this on her page saying we got ur bk u got a whole army behind u. I'm sorry what army and I'm sure if they spilt the fans wouldn't be behind her them they literally making it worst

What do u think ?

So, I saw/got a whole bunch of DMs over this Insta story this morning, but didn't have a chance to talk about it until now.

My first thought was that this was almost certainly in response to the negative reviews and backlash coming out for The Way in the wake of episode 3. The two biggest culprits in terms of media outlets seem to be the Daily Mail (Fail) and the Telegraph, and while I won't link to them here because I don't want to give either site any traffic, both reviews can easily be found via a Google search. Adding to those were a stream of vicious comments, both in the comments sections on the respective websites and on social media, largely from what seem to be right-wing/leaning accounts and public figures.

Knowing that, it made me think that Michael had to have been aware of what the potential reaction to the show could be. We know he was, actually, because he's talked about it in several interviews over the past few weeks, such as this one. And I think with Michael being who he is, he would be entirely amused at knowing he has pissed off exactly the right people. So while I could certainly see him in private having a reaction like the one in AL's story--more than understandably so, given how nasty some of the reviews and comments were--that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good reaction to have publicly. And I think Michael knows that, too.

What also adds to the disconnect for me is that a few hours later, an article that Michael had written as a rebuttal came out in the New Statesman:

What Michael wrote is a brilliant repudiation of remarks made by a Tory MP--a piece that is intelligent, snarky, direct yet unfailingly eloquent. It wasn't just Michael defending his show, but using it (and Nye) to make a point, to make clear what he believes in, and to stand for the truth. And in much the same way that Michael's acting and oratory skills elevate any piece of work he performs, his writing conveyed that same depth, and it came across as effortless as everything else he does.

Which again left me with that feeling of disconnect when looking at Michael's article side-by-side with Anna's Insta story. It's not even that I disagree with her in this instance, as I do think the reviews were unduly harsh and devolved entirely too quickly into personal attacks in the comments. It's that when it comes to acting/directing, criticisms are part of the job, and whether she intended it or not, an Insta story like AL's conveys a sense of unprofessionalism. And when you put it next to Michael's writing, it looks more like a teenager throwing a fit instead of an adult giving a fierce clapback, which again probably was her intention.

Also keep in mind that everything I just wrote is predicated on the idea that someone seeing this story knows what AL is talking about. But I have to wonder how readily apparent it was, because it's so vague that it would probably be difficult for most people to suss out what she is referencing. So it's confusing to me that she is seemingly charging to Michael's defense...but without actually saying his name or the name of the show. Again, it feels like there is a disconnect/sharp contrast between Anna vague-blogging and how specific and incisive Michael was in that article, and it seems like they're not even close to being on the same page.

Those are my thoughts on Anna's Insta story from this morning. It's definitely a fair bit of whiplash, especially given the drastically different tone of her last few recent posts. But I'm interested as always to hear from my followers with your take, regardless of whether you agree or disagree. Thank you for writing in! x

#angel19924 #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #the way #when i tell you this was a very strange thing to wake up to #what even is happening here #because it's so vague it just looks like her throwing a fit over...something #and then Michael not interacting with any of these posts somehow makes it even more awkward #choices #not all of them good #but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds #anna lundberg #discourse

[coockie8]

Okay but like Disney theorists know they literally show Tarzan's parents and they are objectively not Elsa and Anna's parents, right?

Tarzan's mom is a redhead while Elsa and Anna's is a brunette; Tarzan's dad is a brunette while Elsa and Anna's is fucking blonde. Given that Disney very much knows how to work an Easter Egg, if the intent was always that Tarzan is Elsa and Anna's brother, I think Disney would've given their parents the correct hair colours, at the very fucking least.

I straight up do not care what the director said; he's a fucking idiot. If "Tarzan is Elsa and Anna's brother" is what that dumbass was going for he should've made sure these characters looked at least vaguely fucking similar to each other.

No, assuming the article I read about him confirming this was accurate, this fucker saw a cool fan theory and retroactively decided that actually that's 100% what he intended, when that is either painfully obviously not the case, or it was an Easter Egg of such extreme low-effort, that it may as well not even be there.

#you know the way getting shipwrecked dyes your hair and changes your bone structure? #look if you like this theory more power to you #just know it doesn't actually check out when you peel back even a single layer #if Elsa and Anna's parents were actually supposed to also be Tarzan's #then they should have reused the designs made for them 14 years prior

[domesticmail]

reading anna karenina again because i've only ever had two interests in life: miserable people and miserable people trying to be happy

#obviously not everyone in the book is miserable but also some of them are sorry #stepan arkadyich? miserable #dolly? miserable #kitty? not entirely miserable but she certainly is for a while because of a. her mother and b. vronsky #levin? basically miserable the whole book until the very end #anna?? the titular character???? most miserable of all #good book though. love it #i know today levin & kitty would be highly looked down upon due to their ages #but i love the way tolstoy writes about levin's feelings #him🤝me; big feelings we want to express to others but instead keep locked inside our chests #anna karenina

[deacf-coffee-is-a-sin]

yall i know im late to the party but u HAVE to read 13 storeys by jonathan sims. holy fucking shit this book was so fucking good

#deacf talks #like omg im gonna be thinking abt this nonstop for like the next week lmaoo #like omg i loved seeing the progression of everyone showing up in each others storeys and trying to piece together everything #like i wasnt too into it at 1st bc this book kept getting marketed as like 'pure horror'which it really isnt at least to me. at most its #just extremely unsettling. Which is good!! some of the storeys like jason and Anna /really/ unsettled me!! #but yea its def not the straight horror all the quotes on the book made it out to be #its mainly reflective? if that makes sense #like all of the stories have the central theme of 'capitalism sucks!' and u get to see how either bc of their complicity with the struggles #of the working class below them or the struggles they face as being the working class influence the horrors they face #while also tying into fells misdeeds!! and its just so good #and it made me like sit there and while also trying to piece everything together be like 'capitalism Does suck :|' lmaoo #this is one of the few books where im REALLY looking forward to a reread bc i want to mark the book up #an keep track of who show up where and my own opinions on why these ppl r facing their specific brand of 'haunting' and how it ties to fell #but like!! yea!! i know im making no sense here lol im just trying to get my thought in order lmaoo #so many times id read like a sentence or paragraph and hear it in johnnys voice. like DAMN id love to get my hands on an audiobook #but go read the book!! its so fucked up in a good way! #but im gonna go Insane thinking abt this book lmaoo #thirteen storeys

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing about me is that I have this need to pick up every angel on supernatural by their scruff and place them into an enclosure that will allow them to, if not heal and become better, than at least to be petty and vindictive in a way that causes less death and destruction and is just kind of annoying. which I would argue is also good for them. let angels make choices where the consequences of their actions are non-existent rather than world-ending. teaches them free will in a safe, healthy way.

#this is still about Zachariah to be clear #it’s about all of them. I’m putting them all in such nice enclosures. with so much enrichment #but mostly this is about Zachariah. just kind of want to put him in an actual office and watch him whirr away. maybe he prints things. #stands at a water cooler and makes awkward small talk. #I don’t know what happens in offices. what do I look like. I don’t think he does either really. he just likes the aesthetic #he’s constantly cosplaying and it makes all the other angels slightly uncomfortable like. Okay Zach We Get It. This Is Your Businessman OC. #Can We Please Go Back To Talking About How To Stop Castiel From Breaking Containment For The Fifth Time This Month. #(my integration of old and new angel rebellion canon is per s5 all angels have the capacity to rebel. and many do. often. and are punished #for it. and also per s8 Cas just does it the most because he is so sooo annoying <3 #also maybe because a combination of factors like. Anna is his boss for a lot of that time and she goes lighter on the reprogramming because #she’s already having doubts. and then also he’s paired with Uriel always. they make each other question things. but they also work #too well together for Heaven to separate them. the cost isn’t so high (yet) just toss them in the brain cleaner after each assignment #and they’re still useful.) #sorry this was supposed to be about Zachariah. #his enclosure has fax machines in it. he likes them. you know. the same way most angels like radio towers. he *likes* them. #spn #Zachariah spn

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Russian Poetry!; Or, Birthday Gifts, Plus Some.

I studied Russian in college and, despite my Duolingo efforts, miss it, so I figured the most approachable way to Get Back Into That was to read dual-language poetry. Rationales: It's nice to have someone (read: the translator) hold your hand when you're out of practice; Poems Smaller than Novels or Short Stories and therefore bite-sized/less intimidating; I can do a couple poems a session without risking Losing The Plot like I might for fiction (and isn't that how you're supposed to enjoy poetry anyway??); I can take notes and jot down new vocab words in this handy little journal! (Do I read much poetry in English? No. Are we ignoring that? Very much yes, thanks.)

The three books on the top are Actually Dual Language, with Russian on one page and English facing. THIS IS US LOSING COUNT is contemporary, but Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva are decidedly not, so I'll be starting with LOSING COUNT.

The two on the bottom are English only, but the whopping 948-page complete Akhmatova as All Her Poems, plus context, which will definitely be helpful (the Selected Akhmatova above is a companion volume!), and the Parnok is a combination of context + translated poems and she was a lesbian, Harold.

I'm planning on making a year(s)-long (however long it takes!) study of this, and chipping at it regularly. Expect to see volumes pop up in my "Books of [Year]" posts intermittently!

#books #book photography #my photography #russian poetry #anna akhmatova #marina tsvetaeva #sophia parnok #this is us losing count #please know that the complete akhmatova came shrinkwrapped lmao #apparently 948 pages is SO Many that they wrap it separately prior to shipping haha #(selected did not have this problem) #i am excited for this! my grammar is shit and i know poetry is a fuzzy way to practice that buuuut #we'll see lmao #i want the language practice and i don't think apps are quite it for me #i mean they Help but they don't make me do deep focus #i miss the deep focus of hauling my russian copy of onegin into the library to read the nabokov translation side by side #so we'll replicate that in individual book form :) #i am gonna have to try to look up the parnok poems in russian though #i thought those were presented in this book too but i did some flipping and i think they might not be :( #will check the notes and see if i can find them online though!!

[scientologisabethmoss]

BREAKING NEWS: Not putting your fingers in your mouth, not picking and chewing on the skin around your nails, and continuously using hand cream and cuticle oil throughout the day for two weeks straight is actually revelatory and greatly improves your quality of life. Who would have thought! It turns out skincare can actually be self-care!

#in all seriousness though #watching The Salon Life (aka Anna's) videos on YouTube has actually changed my life #my fingers still have some healing to do #but relentlessly moisturizing them and using kerasal once a day on them #has drastically improved the way they look and feel #so so so so thrilled

[whyshedisappeared]

Taylor being besties with an evil antisemitic idiot who's spreading the worst possible lies and calling convicted terrorist prisoners "innocent" and posting blood libel to 79 million people... feeling really bad about it!!! 😡😬

honestly, dude. i have enough to be mad and worried about to care about what some asshole wanna be model says snd the lies she doesn't even try to make believable.

#personal #ask #i know youre also the one that sent me the ask when anna died #pls stop trying to make your stupid reasons to be mad my prob #we have enough as it is and im not looking for ways to be mad at taylor #we arent children and she can make her own decisions #i can agree or disagree with them but i honesty dont give a fuck about this idiot #(the idiot being gigi not taylor)

[elialys]

Thoughts on having Olivia say I love you first and Peter not saying it back?

I'm going to be honest here and admit that I never really liked that scene. Well, not the scene in itself, but the fact that they used THAT ONE to have their first "I love you" being on screen. It very much felt like the writers went "Waaaait, we need to have at least one of them say 'I love you' before Peter steps into the Machine because people expect stuff like this to happen in scenes like these!!"

Now I am very biased because I wrote hundreds of thousands of words about Peter and Olivia through the years, so I have my own very personal headcanons when it comes to their relationship. Part of why I never really liked that scene in 3x21 is because it didn't really...fit them and their dynamic, I don't know how else to put it. To me, at this point of the show, after going through everything they went through, they know they're in love with each other.

Love is Olivia crossing over to get Peter back. Love is Peter choosing to go back to the blue verse with Olivia when she asks him to, even if she doesn't make it back herself. Love is Peter being honest with her and telling her about his failures and being deceived, when he could have lied, when he knew it would break them. Love is Olivia forgiving him and giving them a chance.

Love is them cuddling in bed at sunrise, not caring about Walter being butt-naked on the other side of the door.

I could go on and on, but hopefully you get my point.

To me, Peter and Olivia are more about acts of love than about the spoken words themselves. I'm sure they say it to each other, and that they mean it when they do. To me, it doesn't really matter much how it happens the first time, or who says it first, or even if the other says it back right away.

So basically, I don't really like the way it happens on the show because it felt a bit contrived, but I forgive the writers because those two idiots are beautiful and in love anyway.

#peter x olivia #look at me go #haven't even rewatched the show in years and i'm still drowning in my p/o feels #they will probably forever be my favorite OTP tbh #bless anna and josh for the tangible tactile way they played them #(despite whatever was going on with them xD) #one otp to rule them all #hug!box

[jamesunderwater]

Tarot question, the high priestess!

The high priestess: what is your dream date?

Well, since it didn't say it had to be a first date I'm gonna say this would be with someone I've come to feel safe with but I'm still getting to know: we have a whole day set aside, and with a parameter of going at most maybe 2 hrs outside our city, we each pick a place that represents something abt the core of who we are. So I take them to the closest biggest body of water and tell them about growing up in Florida and how the ocean knows me in ways humans never can. Maybe they take me to a random town they've never been to before and we go antiquing bc they like seeing new places rather than old, and antiquing is what they did with their grandma growing up. Or, idk, they have us hike to the highest point within the radius and tell me how they like hikes with a challenge because when their legs burn and their heart rate increases they feel wild, like they belong there in the forest. And while we're driving we both play songs for each other that have meant something to us in our lives, taking turns, telling stories, their song reminds me of one from when I was 9 that I forgot existed, they haven't listened to this genre in ages and start remembering all the songs they used to love. When we get back to our city we get ice cream. I go home buzzing and dance around my apartment with my cats to one of the songs they shared.

#i thought deeply about this and cant tell you how perfect it sounds #maybe doing all that in one day would be a lot but the adventure of it is half the fun #we're on the way to my spot and i see a waffle house and im like. wait. detour. my mom thinks WH is the best restaurant in the u.s. #we get bad coffee and waffles and then when we're going to their spot we pass a sign for the town where weiner cars were started (idk) #and theyre like fuck we were gonna go hiking but i was obsessed w weiner cars as a kid. i dressed up as one for halloween when i was 7. #so we go nd take pictures w the OG weiner car and then they drive us around until we find an abandoned building w vines in the windows #and we sneak in and they tell me how they always wanted to be a ghost hunter and still kinda do so we try to hunt ghosts w/o getting tetanus #and so the day could go way off plan and it'd still be on plan #(we hold hands in the abandoned place but wont admit we were creeped out until we get back to the car) #(we take our shoes off and stand w our feet in the water and our shoulders touching and i say close your eyes nd breathe deep 3 times #and tell me what the water tells you) #(and they dont hesitate or look at me skeptically. the water tells them beautiful things its never told me.) #Charlie mail #me #anna tag

[potatoesandsunshine]

falling down a fic research hole but it's really just me scrolling through hermès scarves and drooling a lot

#anna's fic notes #i'm really not someone who 'gets it' about luxury goods #like in real life... i do not see the point of them. it makes no sense to me. #but i do think these are so so beautiful in kind of a... not even an aspirational way #i just like them like art i guess. pretty to look at. #absolutely enamored with the planifleurs scarf 90 rn. and for what

[zorilleerrant]

Jason thinks the reason Damian is so attached to animals is because he never really found the one that was him. And now he never will.

It’s not like with Jason. He knew exactly who he was, before, died knowing it, and never had a doubt. Or, at least, the version of him that had doubts isn’t one he really remembers clearly, being kind of out of it before the Faustian bargain that brought him all the way back, if not all the way back.

Kitty was a racoon, because of course she was, all tiny searching hands and judging eyes and the instinct to blend into shadows. And she was, before, so often, because Jason had to be quick and quiet and resourceful, too. And she was the day that Jason couldn’t find his mother’s daemon to ask if it was okay to come in, because they were tense, and it was a flexible, useful form. And then it wasn’t flexible anymore, just useful. Useful for years.

He remembers the kinds of looks people gave him, back then, when Kitty just wouldn’t ever change, and the worse ones if they found out she couldn’t except that Bruce had Ace since that night so he just pretended. The way he couldn’t when Damian showed up, nine years old and already alone. Eternal life, yes, but.

Damian carries around a little flask, as if his daemon is shifting from bug to bug, and his glare is surer than any physical measure at keeping people in the dark about it. He’s bad at making friends, sure, and everyone says it’s more how he was socialized than his real personality, but Jason thinks it’s mostly in the fear. If people find out – and that’s why he doesn’t talk about it, even through the wondering, cycling through animals like if he can somewhere find the answer then there won’t be that feeling of promises unfulfilled. Like if he knows then he can finally mourn.

See? Their family says. It hurts, but it’s a healed injury. He hasn’t lost, anywhere along the way, his ability to bond. He stores it in his flask, and his imagination.

Jason carries around a little flask, too. Calls it Kitty. Talks to it, sometimes, when he’s delirious, and doesn’t remember how shitty it’ll make him feel in the morning. Kitty was there, after, helping him claw through dirt, that much he knows. She could change again, he thinks, but she didn’t, not then. He doesn’t know when. She was gone by the time he remembered.

Damian never had one, though. Oh, well, of course he did, back when, but that was years ago at least, before the first time they threw him in the Pit. He doesn’t remember. They never had any favored forms and, as Damian vaguely suggests, sleepily, without prompting, some nights – sometimes they didn’t even have a form at all, just trembling darkness at his side. If they had a name, he doesn’t remember it. He calls his faux grasshopper Iphigeneia, but he doesn’t remember. So he surrounds himself with everything they might have been.

It’s hard to blame Bruce, some days, for assuming he wasn’t human. What’s human that’s all alone, wandering across the city crushing daemons into dust?

And that’s the crux of it, isn’t it. Jason was just some masked homunculus, a simulacrum, a philosophical zombie with a gun to someone’s head. And there the Joker was, in dire straits, and with his daemon all tied up beside him, proving once and for all that he was more human than Jason would ever be again.

(They’re just ignoring the fact that Joker’s daemon is a human, too. Everyone does.)

He can remember the look in Bruce’s eyes too clearly, once he realized, and how hard he fought not to show that look where Jason could see. A member of the family again, he reassures, if never more than half of one. Jason still sees him pull out pictures of Talia, whenever he glances too long at the shadows where Kitty used to sit, but it’s mostly back behind the charming mask, the conversation civil. With Damian –

With Damian, Bruce’s voice breaks every time he remembers. He starts topics, and takes an abrupt left turn, even though all of this stuff is stuff Damian needs to know. More than most, really, when he has no one by his side to help him fake it. It’s not like he’s willing to go to Jason with his questions, after all, engraved cricket cage or no.

Jason can tell he burned the design in by hand, you see. There’s a smudge on the corner of the J that wouldn’t be there if a machine had done it. And the W is just a little too squished.

#look i said something #my writing #fanfic #batman #batfam #jason todd #damian wayne #I'm sorry I don't know anything about daemons I never read these books the AU just looked fun is all my bad if anything is wrong #I got suckered in by penny-anna's stream of daemon recs if you need someone to blame (or thank! I'm not judgy) for my fic #I've been reading through them and they're lots of fun in a way I'm not sure this one is but hey you decide if I did it right

[bumblingbabooshka]

That silly “Guys/Girls whose name starts with (letter)’ll ruin your life” type posts but the poster is vulcan so they only ever post “Girls whose names start with T” or “Guys whose names start with S”

#there are vulcans who don't have that naming convention but cast a wide net and all that #Tuvok asks Janeway to pick his kid up from school please and Janeway goes up to the desk like 'uhh hello I'm looking for.... #...um well I can't remember his name but it starts with an S? S-E? Something short?' and the attendant sighs so deep...ma'am... #ma'am thats half the school...please... #Asil @ the two other girls in her class that don't have a T' prefix: Do you want to form...an alliance with me? (yes. absolutely.) #Janeway early in their friendship says she's going to look up Tuvok's wife and Tuvok says (in a more Vulcan way) YEAH. Good fucking luck. #Good luck looking up T'PEL of VULCAN. In my mind T'Pel is a very common name as there're TWO T'Pel's in star trek #which to a tv show is like...probably the MOST common a name can be #T'Pel is to Vulcan what Anna is to Earth #Sek as a teacher is like 'I wish people's parents would stop fucking naming them spock. I have FOUR spocks in my class ALONE.' #I have a LOT of thoughts on Vulcan naming conventions actually - specifically last names but that's a whole post not a rambling below tags #Also Tuvok is such a gnc name to Vulcans...impossible to tell the gender when just speaking it #Someone: T'Pel? She's married to Tuvok. #Someone else: Oh....is she.....you know...? #Jesse v Jessie situation