#basically i love this film

[the-woman-upstairs]

For anyone who likes romance and spies and yearning and a short king being completely head over heels for a woman that can (and does) kick his ass, Argylle is the movie for you. Feel like the marketing team is leaving money on the table by not appealing to the romance crowd that is crying out for more genuine love stories on film and the one in this movie is actually really sweet and features an attractive couple with actual personalities.

#argylle #argylle spoilers #i am notoriously harsh on m/f couples in film especially modern ones #but i really liked this one and loved how it felt like a real partnership #this movie is not gonna win any awards but it’s very cute and the action was fun #and bryce dallas howard getting to play a whole woman instead of a terrible string of misogynistic cliches in Jurassic World was refreshing #plus sam rockwell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> chris pratt any day #i guess he’s only a ‘short king’ in comparison to other guys but you know what he’s basically an inch taller than bryce dallas howard #so i’m letting him keep the epithet especially since the other guys are much taller and more built

[uhhh-ghouls007]

This is how the movie ended. Right?

#I cannot believe I love a Will Poulter character so much. what am I. #I’m succumbing to the basic teenage girl allegations #they are so in love and boyfriends (did they speak to each other at all in this film?) #guardians of the galaxy #gotg vol 3 #star lord #Peter quill #adam warlock #my art

[weishenkun]

poppin' love dance practice : kun

#wayv #kun #qian kun #kuntent #i'm sorry lmao i have apparently too much free time #anyways i did it basically for the first gif only lol the rest just happened to be there #also i love how the filmed the dance practice if it werent for the zoom ins and zoom outs it would be a proper 2nd gen video #and i will pretend this is the only reason lol we love sm's fav group!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also :D the way on my youth totally messed up my spotify history the whole album is my top everything now :) blondie who? i know wayv only

[chirpsythismorning]

Ya'll catch the final rose ceremony at the end of s4?!

#byler #stranger things #'last nights episode ended on a cliffhanger with the audience left wondering who bachelor-mike would choose--' #'will he choose the one who walked around the rose delicately to stand with it framed neatly in the background between the two of them?--' #'or will he choose the one who bulldozed it?' #'all will be answered tonight on the series finale of bachelor apocalypse' #no but seriously is that flower in front of el cgi? #depending on how many takes this shot took... i don't think they'd have something like this occur unless they wanted it to #i know they hand picked flowers for these shots #but it's not like that rules out them using movie magic #especially in this case where it was apparently important enough for them to handpick in the first place... #meaning there is in fact some significance to it #i hope this shot puts the 'it's not a love triangle' allegations to rest #like idk why fans would rather believe the duffers are sorcerers who can do dozens of things coincidentally all fitting a specific narrativ #bc that would honestly be way more impressive to me than them just using basic film techniques and tropes lmao

[deadpoets]

DIEGO LUNA + (some of his) FILMOGRAPHY

#diego luna #diegolunaedit #swcastedit #tuserjyn #lavandorhaze #userjoanne #happy birthday to diego luna <3 #this is basically just all the diego luna movies i've watched except for y tu mama tambien #i have yet to watch it but i felt like i had to include it bc it's his most iconic role #also ! even tho i love rogue with all my heart i think book of my life is my absolute favorite film of his #it's my childhood and the apology song is constantly looping in my head always #*mine #*mygifs

[laughingwith-bluelips]

I finally got why I love so much the "dragons are gone" ending in the books while I hate it in the movies:

The books set the dragons free.

The movies simply sent them away.

That's basically the idea but I had a vision yesterday at 3am so I will be getting into detail below the cut.

The books have a very strong message about slavery. Some would say that it is a concept that is only important within the context of the last five or four books, but the ones that have been paying attention to the saga as a whole knows that there are things happening in the background. You know, stuff like

People eating dragons

People stealing dragons from their families so

The dragons can serve the vikings

And they're expected to obey because

People threaten to turn them into bags.

That's mostly the first book.

Dragons are constantly showed as unsatisfied with the status quo trough out the books, some more annoyed with the vikings than others. We have complete monologues from different dragons before the war is even a possibility. Sincerely, when it happens, it feels natural.

The idea of freeing the dragons is not one that comes up in the last book, not even close. The first time it is considered an option is in book 9 (I think), and, by the time being, we've already stablish lots of concepts as slavery within human beings, the dangers of a war, how this could lead to the end of all and freeing the dragons is the only option.

It is fatalist to say the least, but it's not going out of nowhere. There is a lot of worldbuilding (more on that later), but it is also the right thing to do. By the time Hiccup is presenting the option, Cowell has made us root for the dragons to be free and wild and do whatever they want, even if what they want is to hide under sea for thousands of years. Or if they don't want, or if the want to but just not in that moment, they can do it.

Oh, yes, because they leave GRADUALLY.

It is a sad ending, but still manages to get as satisfactory because, yet again, we know this happens and the books remind us this will happen eventually every time they can. “There were dragons when I was a boy” is literally the first phrase in the saga.

And then we got the movies.

The movies never followed the books. Like, not very much. The writers decided that they wanted to tell a story of a broken relationship between a father and a son while using dragons, the heroic and prophetic aspects of the books were getting on the way of that and they scrapped the idea. So, no, you can't tell me the movies actually follow the books.

However, if you're very technical, you know the Hiccup we see in the movies resembles Hiccup I, the one that stopped the war between vikings and dragons in the books, stablishing an equal relation between the two races. And this idea of the movies being a prequel can work for the second and specially the first movie, disregarding the fact that there are no prophetic or magical elements at all.

But THW exist and... Exist.

Suddenly the writers and producers decide that they want to follow the books and want to get rid of the dragons, something that is completely against the message of the other two movies.

(I am just talking about the movies, the shows-books relationship is very different and I will someday make a post ranting about it)

The movies do NOT talk about the dangers of dragons being with vikings or how the vikings mistreat the dragons or how bad is slavery or anything like that. The second movie does, yes, but the second movie also sends a message about how people benefit of being with dragons. They have their dragons and they're strong because of that friendship. Being at war with one another only brings loss and suffering for both bands while being together promises an actual future. A bright future that no one imagined before the first movie and that now they cling to.

Dragons and vikings are friends and together cand do basically anything.

That's a very strong message, you know?

And you know what? The third movie decided that such a strong and important message about friendship should leave the franchise completely.

“Free the dragons” it's a concept that doesn't fit with the movies. They're not slaved, they're not away from wildness and, most importantly, they CHOOSE to be with the vikings in the first place. They are already equals, they can do what they want and, you know, they are with the vikings because they want to.

But no, let's do a movie about letting friends go as if it could actually fit in the saga.

(I know it could actually fit but the execution was terrible).

As I said before, the movies resembles Hiccup I befriending dragons and we know how it ends. And someone who has never read the books will go and say "well, it was bound to end that way, why are you mad?” I tell you the difference right now: there's 1000 years of difference between the befriending and the parting in the book, 1000 years in wich we witness the deterioration of said friendship (from being friends and equals to being slaves). That's no what happens in the movies. The films give us 6 years and the only deterioration is within Toothless' character and how they made him a horny dog.

The dragons shouldn't have leave. This was a whim from the writers that thought that ending both stories the same way would be cool. It isn't. At all.

Long story short, it doesn't fit thematically. The movies and the books have different themes with different concepts and different characterizations of the dragons. While the books got story building and present the theme's since the beginning, the movies get it out of no where ignoring the themes in previous works.

Anyways, go read the books they're jewels and the ending isn't as shitty as thw make it look

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd 2 #httyd the hidden world #httyd book #httyd books #im angry about the ending #probably because I'm watching rtte and i llve the relationship wuth the dragons #and the characters themselves #freeing the dragons is an actual theme in rtte but not in the movies #that's sad #also i don't think the shows follow better the books but #they actually use themes from them #english is not my first language #sorry if i wrote anything wrong #i love the films #i know it sounds as if i hate them but i don't #they're basically my favourite movies of all time

[bumblebeebats]

Wow, Guillermo del Toro really said You know what my animated kid's musical needs? Catholicism. War. Death. Alcoholism. Fascism. Frankensteinian undertones. A haunting meditation on mortality and grief. Cate Blanchett making monkey noises. And he was so fucking right

#i really shouldn't be surprised after Pan's Labyrinth and like basically every one of his other films but #Pinnochio was extremely good y'all #and the making-of was incredible too - just the LOVE and CARE that was poured into the overall look and design is just??? #im frothing at the mouth. i love stop-motion so much #pinnochio netflix #guillermo del toro #ANIMATION IS A MEDIUM NOT A GENRE AND THE STORIES IT CAN TELL ARE SO FUCKING COOL

[canisalbus]

Hopefully this isn't too weird but I love the way you draw hands, it's like the way you draw them seem just as expressive as the faces on the characters, I just love how they look and I hope I get there someday (if you have any tips please share but if not that's okay!)

I love your art and characters and how you draw their expressions/poses, it's all so nice!

Not weird at all, I'm very flattered! Hands have become extremely important to me, I tend to put a lot of effort in trying to get them look just right. I'm still not where I want to be with them but improving nonetheless. If you ask me, a thoughtfully and intently drawn hand can be almost as expressive as a character's face, just like you said. They're such complex and intricate structures with massive emotive and aesthetic potential, it'd be waste to not make use of them in art.

#as for the tips I guess I like to reference my own hands a lot #take photos and use mirrors if you can't get the angles right otherwise #look at your hands like you've never seen them before basically #I also love to watch animated films and really focus on the hands because due to the nature of the medium a lot of animators have really #perfected simplifying hand shapes and gestures in a way that is easy to read visually and communicates feelings extremely effectively #it's funny many artists develope a signature way of handling hands and I often look at their art and wonder if their own set of hands looks #similar to their style #I try to give my ocs a bit of variation but my default hands (and Machete's hands) seem to be just my own little gremlin mitts #at least more often than not #answered #anonymous

[braisedhoney]

oh, damien.

what has she kept from you?

brushes:

jingsketch sketch round (for everything! i just increased the maximum size for the cloud effects.)

#damien wkm #damien the mayor #markiplier fanart #markiplier egos #darkiplier #maybe? does this count? #maybe not bc this is like just before he takes over for celine #ney’s art #this was interesting to draw and the damien film deserves more attention so #if you haven’t seen damien GOGOGO the art is really pretty! plus it’s basically all damien content! #i was shocked it was the least viewed #maybe it’s bc it wasn’t live action? but it meant the backgrounds could go wild so i loved it

[sneez]

some posters for conrad veidt films with my cat mole edited in in mspaint

#i have been watching. A Lot of conrad veidt films recently #the man who laughs is now one of my favourite ever films ive watched it three times in the past few weeks and i cry violently every time #i love all of them though hes so much fun to watch and so lovely i wish i could have met him #also hes like the best actor who has ever existed and im a homosexual so can you blame me #anyway ive been having fun putting mole on the posters. shes a star :) #i havent talked about her much here but my life basically revolves around mole she is my world 4 ever #i wish you all could meet her she is very small and old and i adore her with every part of my being #i hope you are all doing well friends i am very almost on holiday (yippee) so will hopefully be around more often #yippee 2 #ghost post #id in alt text by the way i thought it made more sense for a post like this

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

#horror #horror novel #i need a reading tag #horror books #mister magic #dark harvest #the cabin at the end of the world #camp damascus #i think Brother was the most surprising for me in how much i loved its awful nastiness and gut punch ending #but props to Rachel Harrison for making a story about how your mother loves you enough to make you hate her #and never be nostalgic for a home that will gleefully kill you #two out of the three books here have terrible film adaptations #bones and all innocent #especially since Luca Guadagnino worked overtime to make the movie about queer life on the margins #john waters and i agree: timothee was doing his best impersonation of a butch lesbian #also loved that Mister Magic was basically IT fanfiction on a campaign against Mormonism

[forcedhesitation]

Man.

there's just something about the love between a woman whose impending death is inevitable and a man who's an immortal undead...

#bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #starlach is so beautiful but so fucking tragic #apparently you cannot save karlach as astarion unless you've ascended #you cannot join her in avernus as a spawn :( #bro and it kills me karlach has been unwillingly celibate for 10 years #but that doesn't matter. she loves astarion SO MUCH she just wants to be with him. however she can. #AND THE FUCKING KISSES????? dude she is SOOO gentle with him!!!!!!!! #makes me think of this one short french film. which is obv a bit different from karlach and astarion's romance. #but it's still about valuing the love you have while it's there. because it can be lost so so easily. #basically a husband is cheating on his wife but then his wife falls terminally ill. and so he takes care of her. #and while taking care of her he realises just how much he loves her. he stops seeing the other woman. and stays with his wife to the end. #just the devotion he shows her in her remaining time alive and then the final shot where he's alone and just. dumbstruck with grief.... #I saw this film years ago and it still sits with me. it was so beautiful and tragic. very french! lmao. #just makes me think of starlach in a way though. like the beauty of that limited time karlach and astarion would have together. #and the fucking tragedy that would be karlach dying and astarion...immortal astarion.... being alone again. #ugh MAAAN!!!! starlach and wyllstarion and wyllach are all SUCH good pairs #they offer a veritable buffet of the most wonderful. tender. and tragic romance tropes T____T #I have to give credit where credit is due. thank you larian for two VERY fucking good m/f pairings. #so easy for writers to come up with piss poor m/f romances that have no chemistry but karlach works SOO well with either astarion or wyll. #i wish the fandom wasn't. well as fandoms normally are. you know. 😒 #literally any of these three pairs SHOULD be the most popular imo. #if you disagree- that's your own opinion. I am not here to fight with people. #also one last thing? the youtube poster's icon fucking KILLED me. please look at it.

[mikimeiko]

Free Guy (Shawn Levy, 2021)

#free guy #freeguyedit #SUCH FUN! #i loved it and i loved everyone in it and it was basically perfect in its genre #also if you want to see a movie with basically the same premise but a lot more fucked up and cyberpunkish #you should try nirvana by gabriele salvatores XD #films i watched in 2023 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[beanghostprincess]

Favorite Nami outfits?

I love Nami's style and I think that if I started mentioning all the outfits I like, I would never finish this post, so I'll try to make a top 5/10!!

1- Whole Cake Island (1st dress)

Look at her go!!! This is by far my favorite Nami outfit. Perhaps it's just that WCI is my favorite arc, but I just love her. I love the Hansel and Gretel energy. I love her little hat. I love the ribbon on her back. I love the colors. I love her silly hair. I love her. And she wears it in one of my favorite scenes in the whole show, so of course I love her outfit here.

2- Film Red (1st Outfit)

Literally the lesbian flag, she couldn't be more obvious. The closet is glass. 100% something I'd wear. I love the summer vibes. I love the glasses. The lil drawings my beloveds. The earrings? The boots? The shirt around her waist? The top? The hair???? I absolutely love this!!

3- Wano-Egghead

She looks absolutely stunning! Once again, literally something I'd wear. This is probably in my closet. I love the colors! I love the overall! I love her undone hair! I just love her. I'm so sad it's an outfit that doesn't last longer.

4- Whole Cake Island (3rd dress)

It looks so comfy and soft!! I need this dress. It's just so cute,, And she looks gorgeous with her braids and undone hair and,,, I just love her WCI outfits. They live in my head rent-free. Also, she matches Zeus with this one and I love it.

5- Enies Lobby

This is probably my favorite outfit pre-timeskip. I love the little dim jacket. The top. The skirt. The sandals. I have this clothes, even. She's gorgeous. She's the it girl. The moment. An icon. I miss her short hair every day.

And now a quick top to show you my top 10!

6- Wano (the pink one)

7- Skypiea (especially when she wears the glasses)

8- Thriller Bark

9- Stampede

10- Zou

#basically: i want her wardrove #also shout out to egghead and her 2nd film red outfit #and also when she dresses as a marine #and her original outfits which didn't make it to the top bc they're just too obvious to be here but i love them #one piece #nami

[writer-room]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any type of media so clearly portray how my writing changed before and after I realized I was queer like Nimona. ND Stevenson’s work is just so familiar it pains me in an absolutely incredible way.

Plenty of people point out the differences made between the comic and the movie (and loving both regardless, of course). Most of them mention how the movie has a happier ending, its portrayal of its messages has shifted slightly, and its way more obviously a queer (especially trans) metaphor. I don’t know if any other writers had this happen, but if I had to describe how my writing changed from tiny little twelve-year-old me to the current day, I’d just point in the direction of how Nimona changed from the comics to the movie. It’s alarmingly similar.

Its all just...dripping with coming to terms with ones queerness. Not just from the plot, but from its very existence as a film. Its an evolution of growing up queer. The end goal, the base message, remains the same, even if the methods getting there are different. Because what someone made when they were twelve and had no idea what they were going to turn into and what they made as an adult with so much that changed, and so much left to change, are going to have so many different methods.

How Nimona was born the way she is, how the story changes from a corrupted core with no happy ending to being about ending that corruption and coming out okay, how Ballister’s grudges and issues with Ambrosius changed, all of it is just so indicative of changes made throughout ones life where these tiny little details are tweaked into something new, but still fundamentally the same story at its heart.

Even if this is just a me thing, I didn’t realize how excited I could be at seeing so much familiarity in a film. Good lord, I need to watch this movie again.

#nimona #nd stevenson #netflix #text post #talking #writing #story #queer #IT MEANS A LOT TO ME OKAY #I JUST NEED TO SAY ALL THIS FOR MY SAKE DONT LOOK AT ME #i realize stevenson made the comic in college this is about ME BEING SAD ALRIGHT LMAO #QUEER WRITERS DO YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. OR IS THIS A ME THING #its such a fun movie and i love it as a film but as a PIECE OF FILM IN COMPARISON TO THE COMICS IT GETS ME MAN #someone said its basically like stevenson looking back and saying 'alright. from the top. but we're being queer on PURPOSE' #and YEAH THATS IT #THATS IT YOU GOT IT!!! THATS IT THATS WHAT IT IS #GOING BACK LIKE 'THIS TIME ON PURPOSE' BUT ALSO 'THIS TIME WE'RE BEING REAL PERSONAL ABOUT IT' #BECAUSE WRITING CHANGES OVERTIME BUT SO CAN QUEERNESS AND SO CAN THAT ACCEPTANCE #GOD IM IN SANE