#What We Left Unfinished

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #604 - What We Left Unfinished

#2022 in Films #Mariam Ghani #52 Films By Women #Directed By Women #What We Left Unfinished

[belligerentbagel]

even Atlas has only two hands

vent art

#this one's for all the teachers out there #horror cw #hands cw #draws #after 2.5 years of caution and masking everywhere; i tested positive for covid on wednesday morning (first day of fall semester) 😔 #at earliest; i can be back in the classroom on monday #wednesday itself was an absolutely horrible 24 hours (but admittedly the anatomist side of me has been going 'ah! physiological data!') #but thursday and friday were a grim indicator of how much capitalism has rotted my brain #because after getting through 24 hours of a MASSIVE illness with undetermined long-term effects; i felt compelled to return to the #6-hr-sleep 18-hr-waking cycle that i was accustomed to; out of GUILT for falling behind in work #(note: i was NOWHERE near 100% back on thursday. i could have charitably been put at 50% - still headaches & fatigue & productive coughs) #a friend had to very sternly tell me 'you cannot solve structural problems through constant 80-hour-week heroic measures' #'you especially cannot do this when you are recovering from a debilitating illness which has the potential to remain a - #- serious lingering problem if you overwork yourself' #like. gods. yeah. it's not my fault that my classrooms are stuffed to the student maximum that our union has valiantly maintained #it's not my fault that the district only gave us one pre-semester prep day; meaning that my room & plans were left unfinished before day one #and - even bigger; it's not my fault that public health in the US is careening into 'can we pretend hard enough like nothing's happening' #my students will have a milquetoast start this fall semester. that is fine. #their teacher might not be able to stand and talk for longer than ten minutes at a time #i will do what i can. i still care about them. i am reading their introduction emails and smiling a bunch. #but i refuse to allow myself to be consumed in order to keep this fire lit.

[doll-elvis]

Meeting Elvis: the story of Donna Dickson and Nancy Laity

On March 1st of 1957 two fifteen-year-old school girls, Donna Dickson and Nancy Laity, were invited to the set of “Loving You”

After finishing filming his scene, Elvis greeted both of the girls by saying “Hi, babies let me take you too lunch”

“Elvis ordered a glass of milk. He reached over a took a sip of Miss Laity’s milk shake, Miss Dickson looked stricken. He took a sip of hers, too. The milk shakes vanished immiditely. To their questions, he said his favorite song was “Don’t be cruel” and his favorite color was black”

Lunch lasted 32 minutes and once he finished signing both of their new Oxford shoes, he was called back to filming and said “Babies, ah got to go. Ah got to go get made up. Ah’ll see you on set”

“At Elvis’ place at the table there remained his glass of milk, three quarters full. Both girls had the same thought, “Do you think he might come back?”, asked Miss Laity. “Let’s finish his milk”, said Miss Dickson. And they did”

(story courtesy of elvisechoesofthepast.com)

#can we talk about how lucky Elvis fans were back then #like what modern artist would do something like this #I’m so jealous 😭 #he’s the sweetest #I hate milk but if he left an unfinished glass of it I would be chugging it too #they were so real for that #elvis fans really haven’t changed since then #we will always be feral for him #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #elvis history #elvis fans #elvis photos #50s elvis #meeting elvis

[impastopesto]

smile say cheese electric boogaloo

ID under cut

[ID: Digital art of Annabelle Cane and Martin Blackwood in front of the Hilltop Road house, styled after Grant Wood’s 1930 painting, American Gothic. Annabelle is a thin person with dark brown skin and short, bleached blonde, textured hair. She wears a black, high-necked garment with leg-o’-mutton sleeves and gold spider-themed earrings. She holds a broken film camera in her gloved hands. On her face are six eye-shaped scars, and on the side of her head is a wound with a spiderweb visible inside. She is smirking at the viewer.

Slightly behind her to the right of the image is Martin, a tall, light-skinned person with ginger hair streaked with grey and stubble on his face. He has icy blue eyes and wears a green jumper, brown overcoat, brown glasses, and a rucksack on his back with a map sticking out of it. He is frowning apprehensively.

In the background, the house is looming, with many eyes visible in the darkened windows, and sections of the upper level are aflame. The sky above it is green and filled with stylised eyes. End ID.]

#finishing my wip from last year! #tma #annabelle cane #martin blackwood #ahaha what if we went to hilltop road and i was totally miserable the whole trek there <3 #anyways my brainworms are back to finish my unfinished business like a particularly crabby ghost #by unfinished business i mean the silly amount of tma wips i left from last year #ID from saintbleeding #mine

[saphflare]

Me being reminded of how Tallulah and Fundy are so different in how they have experienced love. That Tallulah is so loved by her father since the first day he met her, by the immortal man that had taken up the responsibility and love her the same as his other children, by her brother so devoted to her happiness and protection, by so many people on the island. There is a community of people that love her, unconditionally by choice for who she is. That despite her flaws and her needs, they understand and cherish her so much for who she is. That she has never had to prove her worth or change for the people around her to receive that love. But the one she wants to love and misses, isn't there. And it is a terrible thing to be surrounded by love, but feeling like it isn't enough. And then I am reminded of Fundy, who has never been able to find the love he craves for. That no matter how hard he has tried, over and over again, he ends up in the same desolate space he had begun upon. That he had to fight and do all the things that tore himself apart just to have a place to belong, giving up parts of himself to do so. He repeats the cycle, the same damned thing, making the same mistakes and choices. He tries to chase after phantoms and run away from them at the same time. That all he finds are empty spaces to occupy, and for some time, it is enough to distract him of its conditional nature. But eventually, he is and once again is he left devoid of the care and affection he desires so much from someone else. And it aches, his heart bleeds from all that rejection, by his father, his family and the friends and leaders and companions that he seeks for something missing in himself. But all his effort and who he was could never be enough to be both loved and respected. And that in trying, he has neither and fell apart in despair. So perhaps then, does that means he was never something that could be lovable, despite how he tries so hard to be. And just something something about how love struggles in different ways, in both absence and overflow. Wanting and needing love as different things, trying to hold onto it, even if it hurts. So painful is it to have the capacity for love when life makes it so hard to do so, how much does it matter that the world is both one that gives and takes it in the same space.

#dsmp #qsmp #c!fundy #dsmp fundy #qsmp tallulah #look won't lie #i am a tadbit bias toward foxy little guy he is just sad and depression in huggable shape #AND I AM STILL NOT FUCKING OVER HIS UNFINISHED STORY OKAY I AM IN PAIN #i know Tallulah has her own struggles and she is trying so hard to feel like it is enough but it just isn't and that isn't her fault #but ough I see fanart of the three together and my heart just aches for Fundy #and I just get reminded of what we were left with #someone so broken from their desperation to be loved as they fell into the maw their father's hubris (and perhaps in some way his own too) #was it too fucking much to ask for a goddamn happy ending #;-; #saph rambles

[lyxchen]

I just heard Lockwood & co got canceled and honestly I'm just really tired. Like I'm angry but I'm also tired. I don't get why Netflix keeps canceling all of these amazing shows and hate that I feel like I can do nothing against it

#like #we fought so hard for jatp and it got canceled anyways and we didn't get it back either #and like every two weeks i get a notification that Another netflix show has been canceled #and i'm always so sad for that show's fans even if i don't know anything about the show #because it sucks #having that feeling of something unfinished like a wound that will never heal coming with your favorite piece of media sucks #like we should be happy when thinking about something we love but instead there's always that sadness in the background of #what could have been but never will be #and that just sucks so much #but i keeps happening over and over and honestly i really am getting tired #anyways #i was really starting to love lockwood & co and i'll definetly read the books #but fuck you netflix #i hope you burn #i hope in the end you have nothing left #and everyone cancels their subsciption #just like you cancel all our favorite shiws #*shows #jatp #julie and the phantoms #lockwood & co #lea's random thoughts

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

have been thinking a bit obsessively again about. an objectively bad fic from twenty years ago. like I cannot stress enough the plot is barely there, everyone is incredibly out of character, the writing is very clearly done by someone young who's just started. and unironically I LOVE it. not even exaggerating it influenced my playlist for the involved characters - not because there's music featured at all in it but THEMATICALLY. I can't help it it's so earnest I love seeing work where you can tell it's someone's first foray into a creative endeavor so much

#Mouse talks! #it's unfinished too and they left the only unanswered question in the entire thing in the last chapter #what is the poem......... what is the song.......... we will never know. and it's beautiful

[theophagie]

1.5k words into this fic and still not one line of dialogue between the mcs we are so back

#the heavy narration disease. if you will #fuck it we balling this fr though like. an outline? don't know her #i really hope the concentration gods will be kind to meeee though. i missed writing. the Unfinished Fic is ever haunting #but i'm having fun T-T #left off with a sad and miserable guy. back to another sad and miserable guy. fuck yeah #mytext #wait no what i posted last was the evil t/t one-shot...... left off with a sad and miserable *GIRL etc etc. hashtag feminism

[coryosongbird]

so…

#how the fuck they’re gonna make that work ???? #also the big conflict between Nancy and Jonathan is the lie about college #they have to solve it before the time skip because two years later they’re already in college #but okay they can invent other conflict later to keep things interested whatever #interesting* #but are they gonna make the stncy and jncy love triangle be unresolved two more years #that’s ridiculous #and someone put in my tags that was worried about Max #are they gonna left her in a coma for two more years or she’s gonna wake up and not see how she deals with her disabilities #and Robin and Vicky too!!! are they going to be pining for two more years or we won’t see how they got together #and What about El and Mike are they going to be miserable dating for two more years or what??? #or They’re going to give us an off-screen break up #they have only two episodes to solve all this mess plus the supernatural shit #btw sorry for the typos #byler #the Duffers have said they planned s4 and s5 like one biggest final season… #it’s obvious for how unfinished they left it with the character’s arc like that #that they weren’t planning to write a time skip until people complained about the actors she

[iagreewithlilithsrightsnwrongs]

smth that ive thought abt n that i dont think ive ever seen touched upon is how similar bea n lilith should be in terms of life experience. like we know canonically that bea never drank. probs never went to a party, or rave or anything like that. didnt have partners most likely, probs never had her first kiss before ava n stuff. theres a lot of first times that beatrice probably experiences cuz of ava in s2, a lot of just. normal regular first times, things teenagers or young adults do, maybe college students, whatever. the most freedom she had was when she was younger, when she "was stepping out of line" as she said, probs doing child things n being dumb, ofc.

lilith is probably the same, except even worse. because i think she was taught to be the warrior nun as soon as possible. bea was actively repressing herself; lilith doesnt even acknowledge theres anything to repress. shes just the future warrior nun, not a mere 12 year old. shes a sister warrior, not just your average 16 year old. as long as her parents were there to watch, she is nothing but a legacy. and i do think lilith had her rebellious phase, ofc. but i dont think it was while she was living with her parents, or even when she was a minor. she knew to make all those obedient, nice years count and as soon as she left for good, she declared she was a new girl, n she would now do things she wanted to do. except... she cant.

she still has to train to be a warrior nun. sure she read books, non religion books. but the guilt of not upholding her end of the bargain of being born in her family as the next in line warrior nun would soon overcome her, n she would drop it. "i'll read it in the future" "i'll try that when im older n independent" its smth all teens, especially teen girls think. when im older, i'll be free. but lilith is not allowed that at all. she knows she likes things... but can she even allow herself the time to enjoy them?? can she watch movies in peace? can she go out, maybe make friends, go on cafe dates, go to the cinema, go shopping? without thinking abt her destiny? can she??? is she allowed peace???

lilith wanted to be free, cuz she thought it was only her parents holding her down. little did she know, while her parents built her cage, she was painting it finished. with how she was raised, lilith was never thought to feel *her* emotions as lilith, but only as warrior nun. n even if her parents ever allowed her peace, she wouldnt have taken it. shes going to be the warrior nun. she has to be. what else is she, but that?

#warrior nun #sister lilith #oh hey im writing #sister beatrice #what i wanted to say is that lilith looks cool but is an actual loser #never got drunk. never went to the cinema with friends. never fangirled over some band #she was never allowed normal. n when she got her freedom she didnt seek it out. just accepted *her* normal #probs felt comfort abt it. im not like other girls. i have a world saving duty. im smart n capable n strong #but she looks at her sister warriors trading inside jokes. or talking abt the new movie that came out. #or talking abt their middle school crushes n their embarassing haircuts n their emo phases. #mary smoking n drinking freely. beatrice starting the whole cruella de jesus thing. shannon n her pranks #she was their friend ofc. but she also felt weirdly left out. like she wasnt completely whole or just unfinished #but knowing that the path of the warrior nun is singular n straightforward. so much comfort in that. so simple n right n easy #n still she yearns. shes always been greedy n ambitious. she just wants more but doesnt know how to make the first step #i do think when she got to the ocs she started to find herself. mary definitely helped. #but those 2 months we didnt see?? now THATS the lilith i wanna meet. she was uncontained. but also ruined. so whats the point?? #why still be perfect n right when she is already wrong?? why not just go yolo n try all new things?? why not???? #so yh ava bea n lilith had some wild 2 months let me tell ya

[alliedn]

last week I finished a pirate themed campaign and I’m gonna miss playing Avon so much ;_; my sahuagin barbarian grandpa...

#artists on tumblr #dnd #sahuagin #original character #barbarian #avon #oc #my oc #dnd 5e #we left a lot of unfinished backstory siquests but that's what happpens when you have to stop an evil god from destroying the world #you don't have much time you know #also i fucking forgot how to use csp. these took me HOURS

[depresseddepot]

Holy ahit holy shit I am losing my fucking mind

#spoilers #the glory spoilers #I WAS JUST ABT TO MAKE A POST LIKE ''oh shit yeo jeong's dad (grandpa?) was murdered and now HE agreed to murder'' #but then there was the running scene so my post changed to ''shit yeo jeong is hot'' #BUT THEN THERE WAS THE KNIFE SCENE?????? #THE SLOW PAN FROM SWEET SILLY DOCTOR WITH HIS COLLECTION OF SCALPELS #TO HUNTING AND GUTTING KNIVES WITH EQUALLY AS SOFT A HAND #HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS AUGXGXHAJHAHSHSS #i was wondering what his ''unfinished business'' but holy god #HI IM LIVEBLOGGING AS HE DAYDREAMS KILLING THE MAN THAT KILLED HIS DAD (grandpa?) AND IM LOSING IT #GOD THIS SHOW IS SOOO FUCKED UP AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH #go baby go baby go #god. GODDDD I CAN'T STAND IT #WE THOUGHT HE WAS SWEET AND CUTE THIS WHOLE TIME #god no wonder he was like ''your bullies did this to you? damn. which one should i kill first'' #OHHHHH THIS IS SO UNHEALTHY GZHAIKANSBSHAHJAS #also #moon ''i don't feel anything bc it distracts me from my goal'' dong eun: no i don't want the unmatched button removed from my coat #also also yeo jeong offering a form of communication between them that doesn't involve actually speaking is my autistic dream #edit AGAIN: god he's such a subtle sort of crazy. i assume dong eun left the resume bc she wanted him to give the nurse a job #but like. HE doesn't know if its to help her or to keep the nurse close so he can eventually kill her #and the sweet little smile he gave her when he told her he was excited to be working with her #HAVSHJXJAMANBAA I NEED AN EMOJI THAT'S FOAMING AT THE MOUTH #GIRL THE ''you weren't able to fix me after all'' AS HIS EYES TURN 100% EMPTY AND DEAD. THERE IS NOTHING BUT HATRED IN THERE #ohhhhhhhhhhh LORD HELP ME

[pocket-pal-salt]

They demoted the person who posted that WIP of an adopt that got anonymously preclaimed. I really do not think that the mods or the owners know what they're doing... They should have rules set for this type of thing me thinks. Do not post this if it isn't anonymous!

ミ★

#this situation might go both ways. #saltpost #staff woes #ongoing situation #queue... a human creation. #to share my thoughts... #i have yet to see this happen in any other closed species that i have personally boosted... of which there are a few. #i don't think it's a case of not knowing what you're doing if this PA did not ask permission before accepting a private preclaim on... #an unfinished WIP. #it had never been done before and I'm sure that ceos and directors did not think it was something to be guarded against until it happened. #on the other hand i feel for the artist getting demoted. it seems they have struggled with getting demoted previously and it seems - #this incident was enough to make them step away from the server altogether. ultimately we don't know what goes on behind closed doors. #i did state that i wanted one of their designs. i think it's a shame they are leaving the team as they had more unique and masculine pals - #which are a rarity in the server at times. it's a niche people are almost always interested in though... #maybe they felt misled and left the team because of it. maybe the species wasn't a good fit anymore. either way i have pity for both sides #of the story. ironic given my inbuilt impartiality. #haha. #the longer set of tags will most likely not happen again for a while. i hope this commentary is not too much for your tastes dear anons?

[elegyofthemoon]

i think this is something i have to go search around for again but im wondering if the jibashiri DID in fact leave enkanomiya or did they wind up dying/left behind in it ?

i cant remember which quest talks about this or if it was just in the books you can collect but at some point as rebellion/resistance against the sunchildren and the jibashiri, someone sought out orobashi to save them and that in turn led to orobashi taking them up to watatsumi, meaning that the people that were saved was actually the rebellion rather than the jibashiri

but i also dont think i got information about who it was that sought out orobashi. aberaku did also seek out orobashi to create helios but that was at the beginning of the timeline, prior to the sunchildren. besides, if it were aberaku, we wouldn't have the sunshadow in enkanomiya

so who was it that sought out orobashi? who created the rebellion in the first place when so many other rebellions failed?

maybe that would actually be mouun and ayame's family in watatsumi. i just haven't really found the bridging point of what happened when they all moved to the surface

#genshin rambles #snow speaks #HEAVY BREATHES sorry i accidentally watched kokomi's demo vid again #its actually one of my fave demo vids!! bc of how much lore references they pull into it #but it made me think more about the rebellion or her takl about rebellion #yes its also against the raiden but it did make me think about all the kinds of rebellion in watatsumi with orobashi and then in enkanomiya #but anyways. #i have to reread that quest with spartacus cuz i dont really remember how much info #that quest in particular felt unfinished #like we got the dragonborn fruit but now what #i dont wanna sell it for cash i want lore wtf. #we dont even get a lot of cash for it so like. id rather hold onto it as a souvenir than give it away >_> booooo #ig im just trying to figure out if there can be some trace of jibashiri somewhere and im missing it #yes this is just so i can develop the kids more sorry i just want a full story lmao #the only reason why i think the jibashiri left was because i got sad thinking about the prisoners who got left behind #WHO ARE STILL IN THE PRISONS BENEATH HELIOS BTW as sunshadows but yknow...

[llycaons]

omg I just realized I'm so close to being done with my pinned long fics...I took a break this week and did some rereading instead so I just have a few short chapters of that reread fic left, a fairly substantial multi-work series from a jin ling pov im excited for, a sunshot AU where wwx was hired by the wens, the very end of the cssr backstory fic, and that's IT! afterwards there are still 24 pages of my mfl but we really are winding down with this

#dang what I supposed to read on my phone when this is over #eh ill find something #im flipflopping again about re-adding that fic. I might after all since it's really good in a lot of ways #the wen wwx AU IS ooc since wwx's moral code is so strong but it's still like ohh 👀 #also its unfinished but it's fairly long so i hope there's some good stuff in it anyway #the cssr backstory literally only has a few paragraphs left I just don't want to see her die #wow what a journey....ive read so much boring nonsense #and also stuff that makes me point and laugh. we have fun here #ficblogging

[onepiexe]

oh g

no 😔

#logbook #woke up and then got hit with fake birth pains. . .i wont be able to drive 40ish min to work like this. . . #so i guess todays my day off. . great #i just texted my coworker. i feel so bsd bc we have that project left unfinished but i cannot drive that long like this lol #i also feel an incoming migraine so i just told her that was what was happening. #now im going to try and maybe nap for a lil bit. or maybe i nap later. idk. #im st least going to close my eyes a bit. im so tired. at least this means i get a break. ugh. bad timing tho. #my off day was supposed to be tmrw lol #gm btw