#the only unreality of this post is the idea that goncharov is an actual film

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It’s only been a few days and not only is “gaslight gatekeep Goncharov” already a recommended tag on Tumblr,

There are 225 works on AO3, with the first published work there only happening TWO DAYS AGO (Nov 19, 2022)

SOMEONE ELSE MADE A TRAILER????

Y’all are monsters (affectionate) LOL

#unreality #goncharov #gaslight gatekeep goncharov #the only unreality of this post is the idea that goncharov is an actual film #y’all are amazing #i can’t stop laughing #tumblr collectively went- you know what would be funny? #what if we gaslit the Internet about goncharov #and then you COMMITTED #TO AN EXTENT SO LARGE #I CANT EVEN #the saddest part of all this is that goncharov isn’t real #because some of the stuff that people are creating of this is just so so so good #the fanart?? #the introspections?? #the literary dissections?? #this is absolutely the fanfic experience oh my gods #peak tumblr #tumblr culture

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I posted 8,917 times in 2022

That's 5,741 more posts than 2021!

135 posts created (2%)

8,782 posts reblogged (98%)

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I tagged 2,200 of my posts in 2022

#a swarm of queues - 637 posts

#tma - 167 posts

#goncharov - 87 posts

#rqg - 83 posts

#unreality - 78 posts

#malevolent - 76 posts

#the sandman - 50 posts

#dracula daily - 48 posts

#ofmd - 42 posts

#the magnus archives - 41 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#the fact that i reliably know i can just start daydreaming about some characters or engage with a piece of media and feel driven and stable

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#5

Tumblr podcast fandoms: Man how cool would it be to get a film or tv adaptation of these unique and relatively niche audio-only stories

Netflix: makes an Archive 81 adaptation

Tumblr podcast fandoms: FUCK NO GO BACK

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1,014 notes - Posted October 14, 2022

#3

Anyone else scared that this is gonna be like... yet another example of a poorly thought out, poorly motivated, over-hyped, low-quality sequel? Like... I wanna have faith in Jonny but I've been let down so many times before...

1,703 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

#2

So I've been playing Stray, and watching some YouTubers play it as well, and I think a lot of them are misunderstanding the themes of the game, and what it has to say about human nature. Pretentious rant incoming.

I actually think that this game is a really interesting look at humanity, and a really beautiful subversion of dystopian tropes. One one side of course you do have the classic dystopian mentality, humans are relentless consumers who destroyed the world and left it barren. But the game is saying "the large scale impacts of humans, brought on by the thoughtless greed of the wealthy and powerful and perpetuated by individuals just trying to get through the day", not "human society itself is corrupt and evil". In fact, it goes out of its way to refute this idea, through the robots that carry on our legacy.

Human society is beautiful. It is about love, and creation, and community, and hope. It is about sitting on a stoop playing a song merely for the joy of making music. It's about tending to plants, not for any purpose, but just to see a living thing flourish under your care. It's about lighting colourful bulbs in dark times to keep hope alive. It is about petting a cat, feeling it rub up against your legs and not quite knowing how you could possibly feel such love for something so small.

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My #1 post of 2022

I like my men how I like my wine: full-bodied and with fruity undertones

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I posted 4,545 times in 2022

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127 posts created (3%)

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I tagged 667 of my posts in 2022

#youtube - 45 posts

#goncharov - 10 posts

#unreality - 8 posts

#wow - 4 posts

#t h i s - 3 posts

#this - 3 posts

#since he was the first big screaming angry content reviewer who everyone else copied in the early 2010s - 2 posts

#and some of his repeated claims include that all exposition is bad no matter what - 2 posts

#but also any time a story doesn't explicitly tell you everything that's a plot hole - 2 posts

#media criticism has always been more leaned towards bad faith anyway by the nature of the genre - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#the problem imo comes from less talented writers thinking the quips are the whole point rather than being just one ingredient in good media

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Over the years, film critics have often expressed confusion as to the point of Dan Aykroyd's single scene in Goncharov, portraying a loud, obnoxious American tourist who has a one and a half minute monologue (according to Scorsese and others, improvised by Aykroyd on the day of filming) that is abruptly cut short by Goncharov being spotted by hit man Jacob Papageorge and the ensuing chaos. Speculation has run rampant as to why this broadly comedic moment, so out of place in a film whose comedy is otherwise confined to the bleakest of gallows humor, was even in the film at all. Was it a favor to Belushi to allow his best friend to appear? Was Scorsese attempting to jump start the career of a hitherto little known Canadian comedian in whom he saw great potential?

It turns out that the answer is simple: this was a setup for a scene at the end of the film in which Aykroyd's character is revealed to be Elwood Delaney, an undercover INTERPOL detective working with the Sicilian police, who was portraying the brash, "ugly American" tourist to make himself appear harmless. Delaney arrests Papageorge while the latter is hiding in a phone booth.

This scene proved highly unpopular with test audiences, who had found the character of Papageorge to be one of the most sympathetic in the film, and so it was cut and unfortunately the negative has long since been lost, although a single still of a rehearsal for the scene (seen above) was recently discovered. Aykroyd's character was reduced to the single scene, and Papageorge's ending in the film is left ambiguous as he is last seen fleeing the warehouse where Goncharov died.

However, the lost scene had great impact on Aykroyd's future career. As Papageorge is dragged out of the phone booth by Delaney, he claims to have be a businessman about to make a very important phone call. Delaney smiles and asks, "who you gonna call?", a line which later appeared in both The Blues Brothers (1980) and, most famously, as the catchphrase to the Ghostbusters franchise (1984-present).

93 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#4

Btw once Dracula Daily is finished, everyone needs to check out the Mythgard Academy lecture series about Dracula, it's a free lecture series on YouTube and Spotify in which the lecturer dives into the book and is one of the very few academics out there who wants to examine it on a deep level and who actually knows what he's talking about, it's a very fun series and he also talks about some of the more famous adaptations and the various ways they try and fail to live up to the book.

208 notes - Posted September 9, 2022

#3

Ennio Morricone's score for Goncharov was the only time he worked with Martin Scorsese. When Bernard Herrmann, Scorsese's initial choice, became unavailable, he suggested Scorsese reach out to Morricone, then finishing up work on The Sicilian Checkmate. Morricone liked the idea of an Italian using a Russian alias, and the score features an in-joke: all of the "Russian" sounding music is played on Italian instruments (for example, instead of a balalaika, the main theme is played on mandolin).

266 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#2

And here is the haunting main theme from Goncharov, a sweet, faux-Russian melody whose light tone symbolizes Goncharov's dream of escaping from his bleak existence in organized crime. Truly one of the most amazing film scores ever.

329 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Watching Cowboy Bebop is fun because they keep talking about the Great Disaster of 2022 where the moon crashed into the earth and after the past couple years it's like

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