#monica watches

[stormyoceans]

monica watches » sleep with me

summary: harry, an overnight radio DJ who is in a wheelchair, and luna, who suffers from a sleeping condition, navigate their respective disorders and issues from past relationships as they start their romance

details: GL, philippines, 6 episodes, ~20 min each

content warning: ableism

available on: GagaOOLala, iWantTFC

what i liked:

high quality production and amazing performances

great representation of disability

all the characters, even the side ones, are fully fledged and nuanced. this show is actually a great example of how effective visual language and good dialogues can help conveying informations about the characters without falling into exposition dumps that take away from the feeling of immersion in the story. luna’s character development, in particular, is fantastic and the use of colors, lighting and setting to show it is [chef’s kiss]

janine gutierrez (harry) and lovi poe (luna) have a very nice chemistry and the relationship between the two characters feels incredibly natural. instant attraction doesn’t always seem believable to me, but in this case it fully does, maybe because there’s also an initial awkwardness to it that makes it really charming and close to real life: the characters talk over each other, stumble over their words, hesitate over the right thing to say….. it’s a carefully crafted unpolished feeling that makes you forget you’re watching a show   

communication and consent are SO SEXY it’s honestly insane how sexy and hot those are

it features what has become one of my favorite female friendships of all time!!!!

the cinematography is very immersive and atmospheric, you really get to breathe in the night time and inhabit all the different spaces these characters live in, which is also helped by the editing and the framing of each scenes (some of them looks like paintings)

need me the entire soundtrack of this show tbh

what i disliked:

'disliked' is definitely too strong of a word, but this is one of those rare cases where i wish the show was just a little bit longer. around episodes 4 and 5 the pacing feels slightly rushed to me and i would have liked to linger more on the different stages of harry and luna's relationship. i also would have loved to see more of harry's job as a DJ and learn more about why she wanted to become one in the first place

as an italian, seeing spaghetti getting broken in half got kill bill sirens blasting in my head (JOKING IM JOKING) [but also please don't break your damn spaghetti]

notes: a huge thank you to lisa @stickymoonsoul for recommending this to me, i HIGHLY RECOMMEND it too!!!

#don't mind me im trying something new ;;;;;; #im not sure if it will stick but i wanted to give it a chance #next one should be unintentional love story #and then hopefully 3WBF #sleep with me #lovi poe #janine gutierrez #monica watches #m: txt

[milesworld96]

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Insane how they confirmed young avengers & x men in the mcu in one movie

#LITERALLY WENT INSANE WATCHING THIS MOVIE #I HAD SO MUCH FUN #I LOVED IT #KAMALA WAS SOO‼️‼️‼️🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 #I LOVED ALL 3 OF THEMMM #the marvels #carol danvers #captain marvel #monica rambeau #photon #kamala khan #ms marvel #kate bishop #hawkeye #beast #x men #valcarol #maria rambeau #mcu #marvel mcu

[midnights-dragon]

don’t let the critics trick y’all on this one bc the marvels is so fucking good I’m so serious. “oh it’s rushed” “oh it’s not serious enough” “oh the villain is cookie cutter” you know what. is it not enough that movies can be fun anymore

#i don’t usually hype up mcu movies but IM SO SERIOUS WITH THIS ONE #i wasn’t even excited to see it but it was so good #the flerkens were adorable kamala was awesome the whole relationship between the three of them was AMAZING #the villain was wonderful her motives were insanely believable #the cgi was incredible you can really tell that this is an ai-free product #the cameos weren’t overdone but were amazing #the comedy!!!!! #go watch the marvels #the marvels #marvel #mcu #marvel mcu #kamala khan #carol danvers #monica rambeau

[god-of-this-new-blog]

“‘Cause if it gets you through the night. Well then hey, hey it’s your night, and that’s your right, it ain’t my business” — The Paper Chase

#EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP HE IS HAPPY HE IS GOD HE IS KIRA AND HE IS HAPPY BECAUSE HE WON #if you think Light didn’t throw up and scream-cry-laugh for hours after killing L you are WRONG #per my convos with the wonderful dykelawlight #this one goes out to u xoxo #Real Tags: #death note #lawlight #light yagami #l lawliet #my art #death note fanart #deathnote #anywayyyy #As Monica and Isa and Myself have said Light is Roman Roy coded as fuck #he can not handle funerals at ALL #you all wait and watch out for when I give you the ‘is he in there can we get him out’ Light at Soichiro’ s funeral moment #Until then #for now you get Light’s horrific Pyrrhic victory

[thirstyvampyr]

He isn't afraid to kiss me

#shameless #noel fisher #cameron monaghan #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #gallavich #mickey with a dress was everything 😭 #im done with s7 ;_; #i think if i had to watch it live it would have been harder but binging it isnt so bad #it's gonna suck tho two whole seasons without mickey?? ugh #im glad monica is dead i know they're gonna try and make it like a sad thing but fuck her #i grew up with a monica #my gifs #♥

[incorrect-multiverse]

Carol: While I’m gone, Kamala, you’re in charge.

Kamala: Yes!!

Carol, whispering: Monica, you’re secretly in charge.

Monica: Obviously.

#incorrect multiverse #incorrect quotes #marvel #the marvels #captain marvel #carol danvers #photon #monica rambeau #ms marvel #kamala khan #I just watched the marvels can you tell #source: the thundermans

[mrsducky]

The man's a stealth pilot. Literally. Weapons systems officer, actually.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK 2022, dir. Joseph Kosinski

#top gun maverick #top gun #monica barbaro #greg tarzan davis #lewis pullman #mine: movies #mine #I couldn't find any gifsets of this part on it's own so here it is for me #missed this dialogue on my first watch. made me 'aw' outloud the second time lol #what an endearing little guy

[lesbiradshaw]

phoenix + hands because i’m gay

#[REDACTED BEGGING] #lord #id take her with the watch on and bun up idk! #phoenix #natasha phoenix trace #natasha trace #top gun maverick #tgm #monica barbaro #top gun phoenix

[togrowoldinv]

*Carol, Kamala, and Monica watching the eclipse together*

Kamala, starting directly at the sun: It’s so bright!

Monica: Kamala, sweetie, please put on the glasses. You will burn your retinas

Kamala: If Carol doesn’t need them, I don’t either

Monica, holding glasses in Carol’s direction: Carol does need them and she’d be a great role model if she put them on

Carol: I literally restarted a sun with my body. I think I’ll be fine

Monica: Do I really always have to explain science to you two?

Carol and Kamala, simultaneously: Yes

#carol danvers #kamala khan #monica rambeau #they watched it together in my brain #everyone’s happy and together #marvel incorrect quotes #source: my brain #incorrect marvel quotes #captain marvel #the marvels

[prideprejudce]

I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy a scene was cut from a show

#friends #friends tv #friends tv show #monica geller #chandler bing #chandler x monica #mondler #matthew perry #courtney cox #matthew really said ‘you aren’t going to Ross-Rachel-ize this pairing on my watch’ and I love him for it #because this would have changed EVERYTHING #the only other time chandlers character pushed it for me is when he almost bailed on their wedding #but then they wrote him snapping out of it and giving those beautiful vows #but if they had him CHEAT monica barely a year into their marriage……throw the whole character away #and matthew knew this and was like FaUck NO #i love when actors defend their characters and the writers actually take their advice #and they had already filmed the cheating scene apparently!!!!!!

[stormyoceans]

what are your impression of midnight museum?:) did you like it as a whole? who's your favourite character? what didn't you like?

OH I LOVED MIDNIGHT MUSEUM!!!!!! i mean, okay, let's be honest.. it was an absolute mess and if you asked me to explain what the hell happened in the last two episodes i probably would not be able to do it, BUT STILL!!!!!!! I LOVED IT. sometimes being able to entertain your viewers is more than enough to make a show both memorable and likeable, and i think midnight museum is the perfect example of this

the show is a mixture of fantasy, science fiction and mystery, which are three genres im personally very weak for. the first half also has an episodic nature to it that i miss in television a lot: it can be boring when there isn’t a strong horizontal narrative getting advanced in the background, but if you can make it work it’s really fun for the viewers, and in this particular case i do believe the show was at its strongest when it fully embraced this format. the ‘artifact of the week’ with the enigma of dome’s identity was really entertaining to me, and i loved how creepy and disturbing some of the storylines were. the decision to throw in an abundance of biblical symbolisms as well in the second half of the show probably wasn't a good idea for the plot as a whole, but that's something i find incredibly fascinating so i'd be lying if i said i didn't love every (confusing) second of it

the real strength of the show lies in its cast, though. i already knew that gun and nanon are incredible actors, but i wasn't familiar with tor before midnight museum and i will always be grateful to it for introducing him to me because he is phenomenal. he showed up on that set every single day and decided to give so much yearning longing pining aching worrying agony anguish guilt restraint with the twitch of his mouth alone, and i respect him so much for it. honestly there aren't many people who are able to convey so many emotions in such an effective way. the supporting cast was also pretty solid and some of the guest actors gave an outstanding performance, like fah and tu in episode 5 for example

the other strong point of the show is the relationship between khatha and dome/chan/one. it’s basically on the level of chinese censored gay romance, and even when the writing didn’t give it justice, gun and tor’s on screen chemistry still managed to make it incredibly compelling to watch (an anon once told me that gun would have insane chemistry with literally anyone he got paired with and you know what? I COULDN’T AGREE MORE). the choice of not making their relationship a romantic one does baffle me a little tbh, especially because they were trying to push the brothers agenda while also giving explicitly romantic elements and parallels, but i can easily overlook this since the ending was very satisfying to me (i also don’t think this was queerbaiting btw, but that’s another story)

as for the things i disliked, my main issue with the show is the execution. the premise was original and had a lot of potential, but it’s obvious that the writing team lacked an overall vision of the (overcomplicated) story they wanted to tell: the moment they abandoned the episodic structure to focus on the larger narrative, the events start missing a sense of unity and direction, and the characters feel aimless too. i find every member of the main gang really interesting and likeable, but with the exception of khatha (love that old man btw, he is my absolute fave) they’re all criminally underdeveloped

MDL originally had midnight museum listed as having 15 episodes, and im not sure where did that information come from, but i actually think they did need those 5 extra episodes to make the plot more coherent, give more depth to the characters and explore the relationship between them (we should have had AT LEAST another june focused episode, a couple on triphob and bam and their relationship, one on anthika and boon, and one to let dome gain a little more sense of identity). if we ever get a season 2 they better fix this and fully develop all the characters BEFORE they try to explain what the hell is going on

ANYWAY. TL;DR:

#making reviews isn't a talent i possess but im trying ;;;;; #also i didn't mention this because it's a spoiler but another thing i disliked is [SPOILER][SPOILER][SPOILER] anthika dying #you don't make a character who is taught from a young age that she has to sacrifice herself to god finally learn to believe in herself #and LIVE just for herself #only to kill her off the next episode by sacrificing herself #i understand the predestined doomed 'you can't escape your fate' narrative but to work they should have given her way more emotional depth #ANYWAY I NEED TO STOP RAMBLING #thank you for wanting to know my opinion anon that's so sweet 🥺💜 #hopefully you're not regretting it ;;;;; #midnight museum #m: ask #monica watches

[pyroclastic727]

The Marvels is being scathed by critics, and that's a good thing.

I finally saw The Marvels today. I'm a bit late to the party, so all I saw about the movie was the teaser at the end of Ms Marvel, and way too many critical reviews of it.

Now, obviously on Tumblr you find the good reviews, like, the cats outnumbering the white men and how Kamala Khan is, like, basically all of us. But in person, I've had someone tell me that it's bad because Rotten Tomatoes rates it 43%, which-- besides wondering why anyone would listen to Rotten Tomatoes, I'd have to wonder why the website would give it such a low rating. The easy answer is that the Tomatoes review committee is populated by white men, who, upon having no one to relate to, react badly to the movie. But I think there's more to it.

The Marvels is a revolution. Through its character-driven writing and brazen exploration of morality, it rewrites the superhero formula completely, by questioning what exactly it means to be a superhero.

The Marvels was directed by Nia DaCosta, an award-winning Harlem native and creative visionary whose approach to this film was to define these characters as humans, not as superheroes. Her approach to heroism directly addresses that the idea that a hero is not always right. A hero, DaCosta claims, is "someone who's trying their best with the information and tools they have at the time. They'll always get it wrong." Carol Danvers's arc directly addresses this, as the resolution of her subplot involves her re-igniting the sun that she snuffed out. Her heroic act is to undo the damage that she wrought.

When compared to old Marvel, this message just doesn't come through. In WandaVision, Wanda's grief is for a family that was killed by the Avengers. Yet, she is painted as a villain, even as she searches for a happy home, even as she at one point joins the Avengers. The Avengers cannot undo what they did, and don't really try. They defeat the big bad, sacrifice their lives, but nothing brings back Wanda's family. Nothing undoes that war. No one searches for Wanda after the event, to try to help her with her grief, except for Monica, and she's working against orders. Their heroics are militant, but while they excel at destruction, they leave the people they hurt in the dust.

This antiheroic plot of old Marvel is precisely what appealed to so many American audiences. Their protagonists are: a rich corporation, a super-soldier, a privileged teenager, a scientist who makes weapons, an ex-convict, a man born into godlike power, and I'm sure there are others but I don't actually care that much... (these would be iron man, captain america, peter parker spiderman, hulk, antman, thor, and etc). All these archetypes appeal to American ideals that the wealthy would sympathize with. They claim that there are people who are inherently bad and seek the power that they have, in the way that a poor person might want a job that a wealthy person wants their child to secure. They claim that it is their business to save those which cannot save themselves, and use this to get involved in wars that are not theirs, and beat up badguys whose backstory they have no way of knowing-- and they punch before they stop and listen.

They are cops in every sense of the word. The responsibility of the vigilante is to defend against evil, but part of that responsibility is to figure out who exactly is evil and who is in need of help.

The Marvels creates a team that tries to distinguish evil from good, and delves into the grey area between them. The final battle between Carol Danvers and Dar-benn has the superhero pinning the grey-haired antagonist to the ground as she begs for, then demands, that Carol fix what she damaged. Monica urges her to listen. Through this, The Marvels argues that a hero does not always beat up the bad guy and fight against unrelenting evil, but that a hero can be wrong, and that a hero can reconsider. It's kindness in the way that is revolutionary, where it's much easier to choose cruelty.

The fact that the movie is getting torn apart by critics, then, is not just because it is a "girls movie" or it doesn't have a strong white man for the white male viewer to sympathize with. The Marvels cannot appeal to Marvel fans because it rewrites the genre itself. It takes a film series whose purpose was to depict the struggles of cops, of the wealthy, of people with too much power who are trying to learn how to responsibly wield it, but don't. And it gives that power to people who have watched superheroes try and fail, who are slowly learning to be better heroes than the ones before them.

The next generation is a critique of the last, a group trying not to make the mistakes of the chosen ones that came before them, and as such, the movie exists to critique the movies that came before it. Therefore, a viewer of Marvel who would positively review it, due to sympathizing with the previous heroes and enjoying the power fantasy, would dislike it out of its existence being critical and contradictory to the films they like themselves.

The Marvels is not for Marvel fans-- at least, not those who saw the Avengers as purely heroes. Instead, the film reaches out to people who would have been against the old Avengers, who want a story that dismantles the unquestioned idealism of superheroes and writes about people trying to protect their communities and the people they care about.

So, let the critics complain. The MCU is shedding its roots as a pro-cop and pro-colonialism power fantasy, and evolving into an exploration of what it means to be a true hero.

#the marvels #ms marvel #captain marvel #photon #kamala khan #monica rambeau #carol danvers #.pyro #pyro.txt #the marvels analysis #can you tell that i loved this movie #it's been so long since i've done an analysis but this one SPOKE to me #anyways i'm coming from the perspective of a marvel hater until i watched ms marvel #honestly i just put the images in there to break it up. they are not very relevant. i didn't pirate so i don't have good screenshots

[damnamour]

UPA Next (2023) - Silvia & Sira 

#silvia x sira #upa next #un paso adelante #silvia jauregui #monica cruz #marta guerras #pls watch this show #its GOOOOOOOOD #they're coming back to me in 4 days #im so excited #wlwsource #wlwgif #dailylgbtq #mine

[shernb0t]

school stuff. im NORMAL now as you can see.

#cody tdi #harold tdi #kyubi #silver the hedgehog #ze luis #total dramarama #total drama #yokai watch #turma da monica

[booasaur]

The Marvels (2023) - Teaser Trailer

#themarvelsedit #marveledit #mcuedit #the marvels #monica rambeau #kamala khan #carol danvers #photon #ms. marvel #captatin marvel #teyonah parris #iman vellani #brie larson #the marvels spoilers #oh no a friend linked the trailer and I curmudgeonly watched but then I was so charmed?? #it was very cute! #it looks fun as hell #and I assume monica and carol will work out some mother-daughter stuff :o

[gojoest]

keeping your relationship with satoru a secret from the entire gang proves impossible bc he ends up kissing you goodbye out of habit in front of everyone

#— ai rambles #and he’s like #oh 🧍‍♂️ #his body acts on his own alright #also can u tell i’m watching friends bc this is what chandler did with monica LOL #i was like SATORU WOULD BE AN AIRHEAD LIKE THAT TOO