#the great expectations

[viking-raider]

Unless I've mistook something, I've just started watching Hulu's Great Expectations, and I'm annoyed at the opening scene implying the Pip would try to hang himself.

That never happened in the book. I know it's been a hot second since I read the book, but I don't recall him ever attempting something like that.

#The Great Expectations #Charles Dickens #Hulu #Pip

[flowerytale]

Charles Dickens, from “Great Expectations”

#charles dickens #great expectations #march #typo #typography #words #quote #quotes #fragments #*

[nyancrimew]

tumblr content moderation just dealt with all FIVE hate speech reports i have made over the last 24 hours in one go, i am not sure if they are actually putting in extra work on catching up right now or if this is because im a big blog and have publicly talked about these hateful asks, but im glad something is being done at least. it will still take a lot for me to be able to really trust this site again, all because of a public tantrum of a CEO, but at least some people on the inside appear to be trying to do what they can.

#this is not to say that theyre doing great #but i didnt expect any moderation action to happen from reports at all right now

[nyamafriend]

none of you are talking abt whiskey which truthfully is such a damn shame. she was introduced and i thought she was just supposed to be the dumb blonde girlfriend - arm candy. but then she ran into helen and we immediately see how badly she wants to do more, but she feels trapped to go along with what duke does in order to build her future. shes also the only person to look at helen, who she believes is andi, and say thats shes sorry, that she was fucked over and didnt deserve what happened. dont look at me and say this character wasnt fucking fantastic

#nyambles #I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GONNA SUBVERT MY EXPECTATIONS #and yeah. shes not a Great person. but i love love love how complex she is even as a side character #glass onion #whiskey glass onion #knives out

[nerdpoe]

The Justice League has been working to dismantle the GIW for awhile, and finally found enough evidence to get them shut down.

Superman is picked to be involved with the dismantling of the base, and equipped with some sort of strange watch bought from a family-run ghost hunting business in Illinois. Apparently, the thing prevents him from being possessed.

He has, of course, ordered fifteen of the things.

Being possessed and used to hurt his friends and family has and always will be one of his worst fears.

As they circle the base, hidden and in groups, waiting for Cyborg to bypass security-Cyborg pauses.

They have someone.

A small-town hero, Phantom. They have him strapped to an operating table, and they're literally about to start carving into him.

Superman sees red.

Inside the base, Danny's waiting for the GIW thugs to start cutting into his duplicate so he can record it and get evidence to the Justice League, so that they know these guys are really fucked up.

He isn't expecting the ceiling to suddenly go missing.

He really isn't expecting to see a spectacularly pissed off Superman start towards the GIW agents while Martian Manhunter (calm down fenton don't be a nerd don't geek out omgomgomgomggggg) himself frees the duplicate.

Then Martian Manhunter pauses.

Looks at Danny.

Danny wills himself onto the visible spectrum and allows the duplicate to dissipate.

Unfortunately, in his effort to not sound starstruck, he just sounds pissed.

"Oh, so now you show up? In the middle of my sting operation?"

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #great news this outburst calms down clark #because “MY sting operation” was not something he was expecting to hear #j'onn on the other hand #he is not calming down #because while he is eternally grateful that a child does not have to know what it is to be pinned down #and experimented on #he can still read the GIW agents minds #and everything they were planning to do #so yea #j'onn is still very VERY pissed

[cor-lapis]

Somewhere out there, Charlotte is still 1 million mora in debt and waiting for the Wriothesley Scoop

(you can find more of my quest summaries here!)

#why did wriothesley say Woow in the same cadence as the vine. #anyway I love the accurate British rep of Wriothesley absolutely refusing to not make tea for guests #anyway furina furina. I wanna know what's up with her!!! #also I didn't expect sigewinne to be Like That. but it's very entertaining #tiny fluffy marshmallow who is a respected coworker and also a GREAT shot #genshin impact #my art #quest summary #tartaglia #aether #gi traveler #paimon #neuvillette #furina #freminet #lyney #lynette #sigewinne #wriothesley #arlecchino #clorinde #genshin spoilers #4.1 spoilers

[hypewinter]

In the middle of a Justice League meeting, Batman feels a tug on his cape. He looks down to see a little boy who could easily pass as one of his.

"Erm," the boy starts. "I frew up."

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dcxdp #hyper prompts #don't ask me why this prompt is so funny to me #i truly don't know #there is no context for this within my brain #this scene is a singularity that won't leave me alone #and strangely i don't mind #i honestly don't even expect many people to see this #but i feel i would be truly depriving the world of something great if i didn't share this #so enjoy

[yaboi-beowulf]

Great Expectations (1946)

"Great expectations" is a film made in 1946 based on the Charles Dickens book "The Great Expectations" and mostly follows the plot of the book, with minor details being changed, for example from the top of my head i don't know... His sister being straight up murdered!?

...well okay not murdered, but there was a murder attempt and she dies later because of it but unlike the movie im gonna cut an actual small detail and say she was murdered. Also the timeline is a bit jumbled up but the main story and plot is there so, honestly, no biggie.

The plot itself is really simple, Pip is a blacksmiths wife's brother who will become a blacksmith in the future, then he meets a criminal who makes him steal, and later the said criminal is captured and his life moves on. Then he gets invited to play (👀) at the old ladies house and he meets the girl who he develops a crush on. The visits eventually stop and he goes back to his previous life.

Until that end too when he gets a lotta money and Great Expectations (roll credits). So he goes London where he loses all that money, meets his benefactor, tries to run away, gets injured… basically a lot happens in london. After that the movie finally ends by him realising what kind of a prick he was being.

Throught the movie Pip changes quite a lot. In my opinion he goes through 7 stages.

Number one, the poor little child stage

This is the stage he starts at. The child who has no parents and was brought up by hand by his sister, he isn't rich, doesn't have great expectations and is quite happy with hsi future apprenticeship.

Numero dos, the realization stage

In this stage he sees how the rich live. He goes to Miss Havishams and gets a taste of the wealthy life, his eyes are opened and his hands reach to grasp it.

Number three, the coming to terms stage.

This is the moment he realizes that the Great Expectations he has can not be grasped by him and he goes back to his simple life, his simple house and his simple apprenticeship that he is now quite ashamed of.

Number four is the chance stage.

Here he gets a chance. He gets to chase after the dream. (googles the 500 pounds into todays money) He gets a huge sum of money and goes off to London

Number five. The snob stage.

Aaaand now that he's in London he not only loses sight of where he came from he feels embarassed of his past. Of course it happens gradually while he learns how to fit within the wealthy. But in the end he becomes a literal snob.

Number six. Losing it all stage.

Life has a funny way of doing things, and be it karma, be it god or whatever other mythical thing,or even be his own bad decisions, but the money goes poof, he is drowning in debt, has a benefactor that is running from the law and so many other troubles. basically hes left with nothing.

Number seven. Realization part 2 stage

Just like basically every other story this is the end, and just like in romance films where the girl realizes her soulmate was the best friend all along, Pip realizes he was an ass all along. He looks back and sees what he had become.

And that's his journey

From a boy that makes dumb decisions to a man that... makes dumb decisions.

In a way his story is quite relatable. It's a story about how things can blind us and change us drastically, like in Pip's case, money. We see him change from a small innocent boy who is quite content with his life, to him glancing at how the high society lives, to getting a chance, changing because of it and to coming back to his senses. Maybe it was too late for him, maybe not.

But what I really want to know is diD HE GET THE GIRL OR NOT????

#Really though #how can you gloss over his sister being killed #that was a pretty big thing #but fiiine #fine whatever #Pip is an ass #and i stand by that #like i get the corruption arc but cmon #Joe mighta been a pushover but he didnt do anythin wrong for u to do that #the attitute too #movie review #more like analysis #school work #tumblr is a blog site so this counts as publishing #english class is funky #the great expectations #Pip

[tsukinoshinjiu]

A little something I did over on twitter :)

#my art #artwork #digital art #artists on tumblr #art #legend of zelda #zelda #daruk #sidon #totk spoilers #link #princess ruto #revali #ravio #great fairy #color wheel challenge #it took me a lot longer than i expected #but thats life aint it

[crimsonclad]

I keep seeing Takes about how recent media like Glass Onion and The Menu aren’t taking “eat the rich” seriously enough to launch real change or revolution and like?? yeah??? popular crowd-pleasing entertainment where horrible rich people Suffer A Comeuppance for the pleasure of an audience is one of the oldest tropes in all of human history???? It is a crowd pleaser! It is the bread (ha) and butter of the Western canon! It is in Chaucer it is in Dante it is in Shakespeare it is the stuff of Dickens and 95% of Agatha Christie and almost every teen movie ever made??????? “look at these horrible rich idiots and hypocrites…and now enjoy their DESTRUCTION” transcends time and space and historical moments! It is so strange to be surprised that Hollywood returns to this well without any intention of seeking anything more transgressive than an audience having a hearty chuckle lmao

#it would be great if we could all walk away from Omelas but expecting billion dollar studios to lead the charge seems a bit misguided #spoilers #kinda but not really more than the trailers tell you #the menu #glass onion #Norton Anthology of Literature #etc #Clue! #The Sting! #now I’m just naming movies I’ve watched this week

[horang-07]

FNAF SPOILERS! SCROLL! TALKING ABOUT THE SPRINGLOCK SCENE!

i’ve seen so many people discussing the springlock scene in both negative and positive ways and i think it brings up really cool points about how matthew played that scene and balanced fan expectations with his own characterisation.

i think the discussions around this movie have rlly exposed the disconnect between fanon and canon in fnaf, especially talking abt the core games in isolation, bc frankly in the game universe (ignoring the books) we get Very Little characterisation for William other than the obvious, but Matthew managed to add so much in the way he talks and his body language.

in the reveal scene, we see afton at arguably his peak. in his first scene, he comes off as somewhat demeaning and judgemental until he recognises mike’s name, at which point he seems to have this nervous energy, rushing to cover it up but stumbling slightly, his reaction to the tables being turned even slightly is massive.

this is a man who committed multiple mrdrs in essentially broad daylight, hid the bodies in the most obvious place, and still got away with it, and then kept the crime scene as a trophy of his actions, and an ongoing prison sentence for his victims. he has been in complete control for decades, and is confident that he can deal with any kind of threat quickly. his confidence in his reveal is palpable

it changes when vanessa shoots him. the whole parallel with vanessa and the animatronics is hugely interesting too- how william refers to the animatronics almost endearingly as “kids” when he wants them to obey, how both vanny and the animatronics have an unearned loyalty to him, almost a pseudo-adoption through what he did to them, taking them from their parents and keeping them under his thumb, forever stuck as naive, forgiving, obedient children. vanessa breaking from that control shakes him, but the mask slips back into place almost immediately.

then, he’s outsmarted by the brother of one of his victims, and the child he planned to end next. his pseudo-children turn on him and he can no longer manipulate his appearance or shed his skin to escape. he explodes on them, and his language is incredibly telling that he is being dishonest.

he calls them small, trying to belittle them into submission, even though they are ten feet tall metal animatronics powered by rage. he is grasping at straws to regain control, and failing miserably.

finally, the springlocks go off. the locks in the movie look more like a ribcage, so the first two likely puncture his lungs. they’re slow, and painful, but he doesn’t scream or beg or sob. he grunts and groans, gritting his teeth and only letting out sounds of pain that sound almost involuntary. there is no way in hell he would visibly let himself show weakness or pain in front of these creatures that he believes he has control over. he isn’t brought to his knees until there are eight metal spikes embedded in his abdomen. he doesn’t let the mask fall for even a second, until he literally PUTS THE ACTUAL MASK ON and finally collapses. even then, he’s fighting for consciousness, twitching and writhing with no control over his body. william afton thrives on control, and his soul will not rest until he gets it back.

it’s why he keeps the pizzeria- he always comes back. he can’t help but return to the scene of the crime, putting on his old costume, continuing his killings. he revels in being a constant threat on the horizon. and now, he knows he is going to die, and he knows the suit will bring him back, and noone will be able to get rid of him then. so he puts the mask back on, and waits.

in terms of the sfx- they’re pretty accurate. with stab wounds, you need to leave the knife in the wound as long as possible for best chance of survival, as it stops the blood from escaping. in terms of the springlocks, there wouldn’t be copious amounts of blood as the locks are keeping the wounds filled- which is good because it means a slower, more painful death.

#fnaf #fnaf movie #eden rambles #william afton #matthew lillard #springtrap #five nights at freddy's #fnaf spoilers #idk i thought it was a great scene #ppl just need to manage their expectations of what fnaf 1 Actually Is in isolation #not the years of other media and fandom and lore and theory #we literally saw him get springlocked one time in 8 bit with no audio and four frames. how is this worse in comparison #wanna make another post talking abt how the film explores images vs the reality when you look deeper #specifically abby and her drawings/the drawings at freddys vs mike’s motivation being based on the images he sees in his dreams #and how it’s so perfect for fnaf 1 being a game almost entirely made of just scary images without actually exploring the reality #that these robots are Children and Scared and Lost #tldr the fort scene was necessary

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Average Drama Enjoyer observes some peak drama.

#dungeon meshi #toshiro nakamoto #laios touden #kabru #izutsumi #Before anyone mistakes this as mischaracterization: The joke here is that it's ambiguous what the hell he means. #Kabru does love getting into fights a bit more than average but he's mostly here for the drama. #I screenshot the scene of him going 'The dark arts!' with a little smile everytime I re-read dungeon meshi. He's so catty. I love him. #And shout out to Izutsumi for adding fire to the drama. Girl said 'I am the listener. I heard that shit.' and refused to apologize. #Joke two: the deep cut - Welcome to more propaganda for whatever the hell is going on between Laios & Shuro & Kabru. #Laios trusting Shuro with some *heavy* information because he admires him so much! And wants to be his friend so badly! #Kabru also has another great character moment when he immediatly clocks Laios as not being as malicious as expected. #We love a character who can put the clues together! It is such a good subversion of what role we think Kabru is to play in this story! #Now he's eager to befriend Laios - who is barely interested and currently trying to befriend Shuro - who is barely interested and...well. #The painful triangle of people trying to get to know the other person better and being rejected...Friendship triangle. #We have all had a friendship triangle situation before. Right? You guys have also struggled to read people. Right? #Laios is universally relatable. Right?

[yenvengerberg]

i hate what bingeing culture has turned the consumption of media into. the pressure to watch everything all at once as soon as it drops otherwise you simply can't go onto social media or 'it's your own fault, you should know better!', the way it forms a dread around shows you know you can't watch straight away because of life commitments when you should be excited for them, and the way buzz only lasts for a few days before inevitably, everyone moves on and forgets about it. i just wish i could return to the excitement of weekly releases that kept me guessing for months on end and fostered a discussion around media

#i'm just.. feeling a certain way today #as we get closer to tua releasing this week i should be excited but instead i'm just like #great i have no time to watch it (bc they're dropping it on a weekday like wtf???) #and i will inevitably get spoiled in the time it takes me to watch #and it's just SO annoying #i want to be excited but this release and consume content immediately has taken the fun out of media for me #anyway i'll stop rambling #i'm just v tired and in my feelings #1k #didn't expect this to take off but i'm glad it resonates with so many people!!! #thanks for coming to my ted talk

[writebackatya]

Me: Oh it’s just a new adaptation of Scott Pilgrim, it can’t be that different

Me after the first episode ended:

#hey whatcha tryin to say to me? #was NOT expecting that ending #loving the show so far #it’s great having the actors reprise their roles #can’t wait to see what happens next!! #scott pilgrim takes off #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim vs the world #scott pilgrim netflix

[just-the-celestial-lights]

Zvtara shippers: GUYS LOOK AT ALL THE ZVTARA BAIT THEY’RE DROPPING!! IT’S DEFINITELY GONNA BE CANON THIS TIME!!!

Zukka in the corner:

#ITS A GREAT DAY IN ZUKKA NATION #like it was literally posted by the OFFICIAL NETFLIX TWT ACCT #zvtara warriors are so blind i almost feel bad for picking on them #even Toph would be able to see it #i don’t expect zukka to be canon #but if we’re going off bait alone #well… #natla #zukka #sokka #zuko #ian ousley #dallas liu

[wifegideonnav]

so listen. we all know that if they ever made a tlt show it would be bad pretty much no matter what. so my pitch is let’s just give the project to steven moffat and see what he does with it. by the time he’s done we’ll have a show called “john” all about how tragically and manlily sad jod is and how you know what maybe imperialism is ok sometimes. tamsyn gets buckets of cash, some white guys get acting roles that they’ll regret the rest of their career, and i get a new hbomberguy video essay to rewatch every six months or so. someone call the fucking bbc ive solved this.

#as the great media critic hbomberguy said in his magnum opus ‘sherlock is garbage and here’s why’ #about the sherlock teams attitude towards the art and craft of storytelling #‘it’s so disgustingly wrong on almost every level and so hateful towards people for expecting things to make sense […] that- #-it’s almost avant-garde’ #and I just wanna see that mindset applied to my favorite work of fiction ever <3 #op #tlt #tlt memes #the locked tomb