#watch challenge

[femtober]

Happy #SawX Day!

While no film in the main franchise has been directed by a woman, an interesting bonus feature on the Saw II DVD was. The Scott Tibbs Documentary tells the story of the titular Scott Tibbs, who develops an obsession with Jigsaw following the disappearance and presumed death of his supposed best friend Adam Stanheight. The mockumentary is the only found footage entry in the franchise, and even features an appearance by Shawnee Smith as Amanda.

The Scott Tibbs Documentary is just 1 of the 31 films on this year’s Femtober list. Feel free to follow along with me here, on Instagram, or Letterboxd!

#saw #saw x #scott tibbs #the scott tibbs documentary #adam stanheight #women in film #movies #femtober #saw series #watch challenge #film blog

[lost-in-mangaverse]

My 2023 anime watching challenge ! I have a year to watch these 6 animes recommended by mutuals :)

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#anime #anime challenge #watch challenge #2023 #tsuritama #girls' last tour #lucky star #komi can't communicate #dennou coil #noragami #first post :)

[charlignon]

New year, new animes !

Send me recommendations, and I'll try to watch them in 2023 ! You can find the list of what I've already seen > here <

#anime #anime challenge #watch challenge #I'll prioritize mutuals suggestions but everyone is welcome :) #not too long please #you can ask me for my tastes if you want to #feel free to reuse the template btw ! no credits needed

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

thank u emily axford for providing insane tshirt design ideas

#dropout hire me challenge #acofaf #d20 acofaf #dimension 20 acofaf #dimension 20 adventuring party #adventuring party #Emily Axford #a court of fey and flowers #a court of fey and flowers spoilers #dimension 20 a court of fey and flowers #d20 spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 #originals #judith watches acofaf

[avelera]

Laois from Dungeon Meshi legit feels like someone said the generic blond main character guy in a fantasy story can never actually be an interesting character in his own right and Ryoko Kui went, “Oh, bet?”

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #I first saw him and thought oh no generic blond Everyman #this is usually the most boring character #and wow Laois is anything BUT boring like I started watching for Senshi #but by the end Laois is one of the most fascinating characters #which is a major feat for a character who has to be the hero and carry the plot to pull off #just speaking as a writer often your hero is stuck Doing the Plot so doesn’t get as many interesting quirks #but Laois just shows that making even the hero be weird as hell and want something is always a winning formula #imo the creator of the story saw it as a challenge to make him actually interesting and SUCCEEDED

[geeburieru]

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time watch challenge #7 - Madame de…, directedy by Max Orphus, 1953 (film =90 out of 100)

The next group of tied films are just as varied as the films tied for 95th place on this list and I’m starting this batch with Madame de…. by Max Orphus, also known as The Earings of Madame de… here in the states. The film tells the story of Louise, an aristocratic woman who is married to a high ranking general in the French army. The marriage between these two resembles a companionship rather than a relationship, with the two being childless and sleeping in separate rooms. The core drama is centered around a pair of earrings that were gifted to Louise by her husband on their wedding day, which she sells back to the jeweler who made them and then pretends to have lost. The earrings keep reappearing and disappearing throughout the film, representing loneliness, indifference, love, desperation, and obsession all at different points depending on who has given the earrings to whom and why the earrings are forced to move hands once again.

Orphus’ camerawork is so delicate and fine-tuned here. I think it’s rather rare to see a camera that centers a woman like this in the time it was made. A lot of these French romances of the time period tended to focus on a male character’s feelings on a woman, but that’s not the case here. Orphus puts Louise’s feelings first and foremost, with the opening moments of the film focusing on just her hands as she moves through her jewelry trying to decide what she wants to keep and what she wants to get rid off, finally settling in on a view of how she looks in the mirror, holding the earrings to her face. This way of moving the camera and taking control of the space in order to center things on Louise is carried out even in how Orphus weaves the camera in and out of rooms. There’s so many fantastic ways he uses objects as barriers both in shots and as metaphors for the society that Louise, her husband, and her new lover live in.

In the 2012 list, Madame de… was tied for 93rd place with nine other films. Most of these films also made jumps higher in the list and those that didn’t fell off in favor of more recent films and first time appearances thanks to the wider voting base for the 2022 list. I do find it interesting that despite how different Madame de… is from the other films it shared 93rd place with in 2012 is that it made the smallest jump this year even though the expanded voting range theoretically should’ve allowed it to rise much higher in the rankings like other women-centric films did this time around.

#film #french film #sight and sound #greatest films of all time #watch challenge #madame de… #the earrings of madame de… #max orphus

[thund3randrain]

real footage of me when even more of the people who defined my childhood/early teens turn out to be shitheads

#yeah this is about wilbur #holy fuckballs #mcyts dont be awful challenge #id watch that shit #wilbur soot #wilbur soot situation #cw wilbur soot #fuck wilbur soot #cw abuse

[nerdpoe]

Little Zuko and little Azula love Lu Ten. They love Lu Ten so much, they successfully smuggled themselves into Lu Ten's baggage when Lu Ten left to go fight.

Lu Ten, meanwhile, finds out that his little cousins snuck along for the ride way too late.

He knows they're gonna lose the fight.

He isn't about to let a couple of little kids die like that, murdered by Ba Sing Se soldiers too hyped up by war.

He may have been prepared to put his own life on the line, but he's not sacrificing Zuko or Azula's. But he also knows that if he flees the field with them, then Ozai will absolutely use that as an excuse to "punish" his own children.

Lu Ten does not want to know what that punishment entails. He is, in fact, more terrified by whatever it may be than the literal war raging outside his tent.

So.

So.

He swallows his pride for his country, his love for his father, and his dreams of being a successful general.

He grabs the kids, fakes his death, and runs.

#atla au #atla #lu ten #azula #zuko #zuko and azula raised by a stressed and trying lu ten #iroh still grieves #but during his journeys he realizes that lu ten probably isn't dead #but he steers clear of where he thinks lu ten went because he doesn't want to lead ozai to him #he has the order watch over them from afar #ozai still had his father killed #but his meeting was interrupted by ursa instead #so he challenged her to agni kai #and scarred her #and ursa is the one banished from the fire nation in search of the avatar #iroh went along with her #but she intends to help the avatar destroy the fire nation #since it is the one that took her son and daughter #story prompt

[orionsangel86]

You know every single fandom ever has done the merman AU. There is a mountain of fanfiction and fanart out there for merman AUs. You think of a popular ship, I guarantee you there is merman AU fanworks of it.

OFMD just decided to bring the merman AU to canon for a hot moment. A bold move. A batshit crazy move. A fucking power move in my opinion. Anyone doubting this show was for fandom can no longer doubt it. Call it cringe or embarassing all you like, but I am so fucking impressed they did that. Amazing. 10/10 no notes. Sorry to any Kiwi's present but Rhys Darby makes for a very hunky merman too. They fully dedicated themselves to getting New Zealands funny uncle into a proper silicon merman tale, complete with pretty flowy fins and actual GLITTER and made him swim up to Taika Waititi underwater in a recreation of that scene from Splash. No one is doing it like them. I think the only way a show could top this is somehow bringing omegaverse to the silver screen... but that is perhaps a tad too far across the fandom/canon divide!

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #blackbonnet #our flag means death #rhys darby #taika waititi #stede bonnet #edward teach #there is only one other person alive willing to cross these fandom boundaries #and that person is neil gaiman #i hope he watches ofmd and takes it as a challenge #the only way to top this is to put david tennant and michael sheen through just as much carnage in gos3 #i dare him

[oh-gh0st]

shadowpeach fans i hope this finds you well 😁

#ghost's doodles #lmk posting #sun wukong #six eared macaque #macaque x wukong #shadowpeach #lego monkie kid #my friend showed me a picture of this meme but it was a different fandom and said “shadowpeach. roles are reversable” #and i took it as a challenge to see how long i would last before i drew it #anyways yay! new hyperfixation!!! #the story of me liking them is so funny i didnt even watch the show yet and i was already wanting them to kiss lol

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

#Fear and Hunger #D'arce Cataliss #Cahara #Ragnvaldr #Enki Ankarian #Unlike Dungeon Meshi - I cannot in good faith recommend this game to a broad audience. #My background with F&H goes as follows: I am hanging out with a friend. He says “hey try this game I've been playing.” I say “Okay!” #I have never heard of this game. I pick the mercenary. I go through 5 min of character history and background. I am mauled to death by dogs #It took me 4 resets to even get in the dungeon. But I finally get there. I am caught by a guard. He cuts off all but one of my limbs #I am forced to crawl around in a blood and corpse pit until the game tells me 'give up idiot'. #I reset. I am mauled by dogs again. I realize this is not for me but I am intrigued enough to go home and watch some playthroughs #And WOW what an interesting game it is! I really do appreciate games that blend their design philosophy with the theme it wants to set #This is a game about fear and hunger. And persevering. And penis (my god is there a lot of penis) #I recommend this to people who like extremely challenging games and can handle the many *content warnings* within this series #If the idea of Bloodborne/eldenring and undertale having a little RPG maker baby sounds appealing to you - give it a shot #It's made by ONE GUY and it's a great horror game. I am just really bad at it. #My friends just enjoy putting me in situations where I scream and yell. We don't talk about the corn mazes. Or the other horror game nights #Apparently I'm funny when I'm Scared! #As people who follow me on twitter might know; I am deep in the pits of this series right now. I will be back with more art.

[femtober]

FEMTOBER BLOG: Fridays & Franchises

Happy Friday the 13th!

While no woman has directed an installment of the Jason Voorhees saga, there have been a few franchise films that women have helmed, including one featuring Jason's rival Freddy Kruger, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, directed by Rachel Talalay.

Perhaps somewhat predictably, Freddy's Dead received poor reception but was a modest box office success, outgrossing its previous installment. The movie was relatively tame in its violence; Talalay instead wanted to focus on more surreal meta humor that the series had begun to stray from. True to its name, Freddy's Dead is the last film in the original Nightmare canon. The next three installments (New Nightmare, Freddy vs. Jason, and its 2010 reboot) all existed in a separate canon from the original franchise. While Freddy's Dead is not necessarily looked on fondly, I personally find it to be a very passable installment in a franchise I otherwise don't really enjoy. The 90s introduced the more acerbic side of humor in horror, so the slapstick goofiness of Freddy's Dead feels like a fitting goodbye to the previous decade.

The most powerful man in horror currently, Jason Blum, infamously stated in 2018 that "There are not a lot of female directors period, and even less who are inclined to do horror." He's since rightfully walked back on this statement, and while Blumhouse - under its various labels - has produced a fair number of horror films directed by women on streaming and television, theatrical releases of these films are few and far between. Enter Black Christmas (2019) directed by Sophia Takal.

Black Christmas is an interesting beast. On first glance it seems as though there's heavy studio interference. There's virtually no language or blood, and the story seems fractured. How much interference, it's hard to say. Sophia Takal stands by her vision for the film, wanting to make it as feminist as possible for a PG-13 audience. The end result, unfortunately, is underwhelming. Black Christmas ultimately feels like a shadow of its predecessors. While the 2006 remake is also maligned, there's a certain level of insanity that serves the film well in hindsight. The 2019 version often feels less focused on horror and more on identity, a criticism I hate to make about a female-directed film. Black Christmas's negative reception may have helped it fade into obscurity; in addition to being a critical failure it was also a box office bomb. I'm not the biggest fan of Takal's work, and certainly not of Black Christmas, but I think the most important takeaway we can have from this film is that women should be allowed to fail. We do not need an all or nothing approach to intersectional filmmaking. Sometimes things can be bad, and sometimes they can be worse than bad. We persist.

To date, Black Christmas is the only major theatrically released Blumhouse horror directed by a woman. Of course, this will change in just a few weeks with the release of Five Nights at Freddy's, directed by Emma Tammi. I can't say I'm particularly excited about the content of the film, but the prospect of a highly anticipated studio film directed by a woman is a major milestone. Between FNAF and Barbie, it's a good year for women to be making films, but of course there's always room for more.

My biggest pet peeve with major films directed by women is the passing of the torch to a male director when the first film succeeds financially (see Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, etc.). Blumhouse is obviously planning on making FNAF a franchise IP, so it would be great to keep the momentum going with Tammi or another woman continuing to lead the series. Fingers crossed!

If you're interested in any other female-directed franchise horror films, check out the following: •Candyman (2021), directed by Nia DaCosta •See No Evil 2, directed by the Soska Sisters •Critters 3, directed by Kristine Peterson •The Slumber Party Massacre series •The Pet Sematary Series, directed by Mary Lambert •Sorority House Massacre, directed by Carol Frank •The Fear Street Trilogy, directed by Leigh Janiak •V/H/S/94, 99, and 85 •Darlin', directed by Pollyanna MacIntosh •Mirror, Mirror, directed by Marina Sargenti and more!

#black christmas #black christmas 2019 #sophia takal #blumhouse #femtober #femtober2023 #femtober6 #horror #watch challenge #friday the 13th #nightmare on elm street #freddy's dead #rachel talalay #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #emma tammi #female filmmakers #women in film #women in horror #movies #candyman #v/h/s #fear street

[seochangbingifs]

FAVORITE CHANGBIN DANCE MOMENTS 11/∞: Super Lady Challenge with Jeon Soyeon

#jeon soyeon #soyeon #gidle #gidlegifs #gidleedit #dance challenge #dancechallengeedit #seo changbin #fav changbin #changbin #stray kids #changbin choreo #straykidsedit #seochangbingifs #staysource #skzedit #maleidolsedit #bystay #jypartists #3rachasource #malegroupsnet #stray kids gifs #stray kids changbin #i wasn sure if he was ever going to top the love me like this challenge #changbin i should have never doubted you #i've watched this an absolute absurd amount of times #also made better by the fact that i've started to get into gidle and soyeon is amazing #THE BUTTON #gifs

[wrenisnotdead]

listened to the ineffable husbands spotify playlist i made while drawing this thats how you know im too far gone

#fnally drew these two #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #wrensdoodles #watched both seasons within the span of two days im far too deep #thanks jamie #ineffable husbands #wren spell ineffable right challenge

[nothingbizzare]

Been thinking of the trans shoes for weeks

#he is trans !!! LIKE WHEN I WAS WATCHING FOR THE FIRST TIME MP100 I ALRRAFY HEADCANONED THAT HE IS TRANS AND WHEN I SAW THE SHOES IN S 2 #GO SILLY GUY GO !!! #nothingbizzare art #teruki hanazawa #what if i make a challenge like “ Drawing Teru everyday till i finish my exam or something something ” #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho fanart #mp100 fanart

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

#happy world bipolar day to all my bp babies #(more thoughts at the end of the tags) #shameless #shamelessnet #shamelessedit #ian gallagher #cameron monaghan #*macygifs #bipolar disorder #hello pals how are we doin #i made this gif set in july of 2023 and never posted it because 1) i was terrified to share it and potentially see Bad Takes in the tags #and 2) because my hyperfixation was waning. and while both of those things are still mostly true (the fixation comes and goes) #i feel like it's really important to share as ian's bipolar storyline was not only so vital to his character it was a bit of representation #that isn't often given to the disorder and those (like myself) who live with it every single day #world bipolar day is a day where we can both celebrate ourselves and our resilience and also raise awareness of the reality of the disorder #which is both terrifying and beautiful at its core. this disease is not a death sentence or a sentence to an unfulfilled and miserable life #while there are challenges galore when it comes to balancing life with this disorder it IS possible to live a full and productive life #and i think it's really important to have representation of that in media - and while shameless dropped the ball on a LOT of storylines #over the years THIS is the one they really fucking nailed and i am incredibly grateful #i first started watching shameless while in the midst of a major depressive episode and i was later (finally) diagnosed during an extended #hypo/manic episode - this show and ian's storyline got me through so much and made me feel so seen and validated in my struggles #world bipolar day is also vincent van gogh's birthday (happy birthday buddy) who was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder #and who experienced both depressive and hypo/manic episodes during his lifetime (and was regularly institutionalized) #it takes a lot of help and support to keep us going. it takes the support of our family and friends and *most* of all #it takes patience and kindness and understanding - which is so so so easy to give if you are willing to love and listen #so please. be willing. listen to our stories. be patient with us. show us love without conditions. support us in any way you can. #we are worth it #i promise #anyway. that's really all i wanted to say. happy world bipolar day to those who celebrate (me) and may all of us living with this disorder #go on to live happy fulfilling beautiful magical lives