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trick or treat :3

TREAT !!!!!! since you are a Film Guy here is one of my favorite film notes:

& an image of my coworker’s cat 😻😻🎃🎃

[elizabeth-mitchells]

this scene was probs in the compilation but it’s always fun to look at, so enjoy my favorite screenshots of ✨Them✨ i took back in 2022 during my Lost watch :3 they look very gay here (ignore the blue hue, my tv looks like that when i take a picture of it it’s very awful)

LMAO I TOOK THE SAME SCREENSHOTS!! 🤝

it was sooo much fun why are they so gay together i'm obsessed i love them so much i can't wait to watch their scenes together againnnn

[missluthorwillseeyounow]

3 for the writing ask thing :)

3. How would you describe your writing style?

Hmm, poetry-inspired, I guess? And very sensory, I love sensory details. And film-like, I would say? It all happens in my head like a film, and I just try to put it all into words. (Which is the opposite of what happens when I read where I turn the words into a movie instead).

[bluehairedspidey]

🎧

send me a 🎧 and i’ll shuffle my music and give u whatever song that comes up!!

[ladystoneboobs]

idt we talk enough about how a song of ice and fire is also the song of incest and cannibalism. i mean, sure, obviously both of those subjects are noted as present, but the saga feels much more known for its incest, which idt is fair or accurate to the later materiel. iirc, jaime fucking cersei next to their dead firstborn is the last instance of onpage incest happening in present tl, and after that it's all about the cannibals, baby.

(disclaimer: cw/tw sa, cw/tw rape, and i'm not counting cousincest as that's normal in-world even for non-targaryens and also still legal in many places in our world today, nor counting the faux-incestuous freudian mess that is littlefinger/alayne(sansa)/sweetrobin, nor any dark humor jokes and/or unfulfilled threats wrt forced cannibalism)

in fact pretty much all the active incest during the present tl happens in those first 3 books:

the twincest as a major plot point ofc, kicking action off when bran saw them fucking in a tower

and viserys creeping on dany and twisting her nipple

tyrion relating his backstory to bronn wherein he and tysha were both raped by proxy by his father, tywin (tho tyrion does not use that terminology)

craster still being alive to rape and impregnate his own daughters (resulting in dozens of forced incestuous relationships)

and theon unknowingly groping his own sister while she (knowingly) groped him in return

jaime's early pov recalled how he shut up cersei with kissing when they fought after bran refused to die

bella of stoney sept trying and failing to seduce gendry who is (unbeknownst to them both) her half-brother as both were sired by robert baratheon (only example in these 3 books where incest was averted before any sexual activity or incestuous contact occurred)

the aforementioned sept twincest next to joffrey's corpse

tyrion learning from oberyn about cersei twisting his penis when he was a baby

cersei's failed attempt to seduce jaime in wst, pulling out his dick for either a bj or hj until her talk of tyrion's death made him lose his boner

while incest is not exactly absent from the text after that, it seems to exist in the feastdance only in hypotheticals or past memories:

aeron's trauma flashbacks of his (implied only in published text) csa by euron

jaime still feeling lust when seeing cersei nude

and her fond reminiscing about them fucking behind robert's back/brief dream of them as a married couple before her walk of shame

victarion misinterpreting asha's offer of partnership as a marriage proposal and suddenly looking at his niece in a new way with "his manhood beginning to stiffen"

jaime's recollection of fucking cersei at darry next to robert as he was passed out drunk before cersei sent him to hunt arya (which would have happened back in agot and the point of this scene is more his failed hunt for a child just to make cersei happy)

arianne's "uneasy" memory of a past fantasy about being seduced by a man whose description is suspiciously similar to her late uncle oberyn

the aborted marital match of aegon/young griff to his purported aunt dany

illyrio saying (the now dead) viserys tried to rape dany the night before her wedding to drogo (another event from agot concerning a guy we already knew was into incest)

and tyrion once saying he wanted to rape as well as murder cersei

conversely, the cannibalism in the earlier books is most often only unproven hypotheticals alluded to as possible cannibalism:

old nan saying the others fed their dead servants the flesh of human children (which we have not yet seen with any wights so far, whether or not one counts walking undead eating human flesh as straight-up cannibalism)

the mystery meat in flea bottom's bowls o' brown which may or may not contain symon silver tongue after tyrion had him killed

renly's recollection that cressen kept stannis from catapulting their old master-at-arms by saying they may need to eat him later (which did not come to pass thanks to davos)

joffrey telling his people to eat their own dead (with no way of knowing if any actually did)

lady hornwood eating her own fingers

the mentions of the ice river clans being the cannibals beyond the wall (who are def not among the free folk jon snow gets to know onpage, making it just background detail)

bran's (possibly mythical) story of the rat cook

and biter chewing on people he attacked and other corpses (which seems to be just a side hobby connected to his killing method moreso constituting a snack than a full meal from a person butchered for meat. this tendancy of his is just background detail in acok, with biter chewing a corpse in the background after the weasel soup operation, and the hindsight implication that it could well have been him rather than dogs or wolves who had "been at" the corpses after the skirmish where yoren was killed)

while the feastdance feels much more in your face with cannibalism, having not only more total mentions of the practice but also more confirmed, actual cannibalism (as opposed to the ambiguity of each and every bowl o' brown), for those who know how to look at the evidence:

jaime learned that his father's mad dog aka the mountain fed parts of vargo hoat to all his prisoners (including vargo himself) after recapturing harrenhal

jaime then recalled tales of danelle lothston presiding over feasts of human flesh in harrenhal

and euron bragged about pulling a similar trick with the warlocks he captured (the only twist being that the warlocks knew what they were being forced to eat, which vargo hoat and wylis manderly etc at harrenhal likely didn't)

the elder brother of the quiet isle told of biter eating all of a woman's breasts at saltpans after she'd been raped and killed (prob the largest amount of flesh biter's confirmed to have eaten from one corpse)

bran and co. ate "pig" supplied by coldhands which had to be long pig aka human meat

brienne felt her face being eaten by biter in her own pov (which is so much worse than him chewing others in the background of the weasel soup scene)

theon was told that two ironmen at moat cailin were found eating their dead comrades

the astapori were said to eat their own dead while under siege by the yunkishmen

and then were said to do so again in refugee camps outside meereen

sam and davos sailed past skagos and each remembered stories of skagosi cannibalism

khrazz the pit fighter cut the hearts from his defeated foes to eat them

cotter pyke's last letter to jon snow said the wildlings were eating their own dead at hardhome

4 of stannis's men were executed by burning for butchering and eating dead men (with asha wondering how many others had done so without being caught)

and ofc the frey pies with wyman manderly having his 3 former guests killed and serving their meat to their own kin and the other guests at ramsay's wedding while eating some himself too

two of these examples (involving gregor clegane and euron greyjoy) must have actually happened during the course of asos, but grrm chose to give us the gruesome details in affc, which was brand new information about men we already knew were villains but did not know were into that fucked-up shit specifically, unlike being reminded that agot-era jaime and viserys wanted to fuck their sisters. it's as if after craster was killed and jc effectively broke up grrm decided cannibalism was the taboo subject matter he would fill the later books with, so we'd really feel the increasing danger of starvation-induced cannibalism with winter's arrival (and have no trouble believing rickon's new home of skagos really is a cannibal island). however, in-universe it feels like there's some sort of environmental balance connection so that the decrease in one formerly common behaviorial abomination just allows another such abomination to fill in the gap with a sharp increase in activity, like deer overpopulation resulting from lack of predators as if all the active incest somehow stopped more people from eating themselves or other people.

[academyofbrokenhearts]

Currently enjoying the beautiful episodes of The First Frost before the dreaded Hong Kong arc, and I have some additional thoughts.

The reason why this arc fails so badly is because we are shown during multiple episodes how Wen Yifan is processing and understanding the way she hurt Sang Yan back when she essentially pushed him away and ran off to Yihe. We see her being remorseful and repeatedly thinking that he deserves the entire world and that she will treat him better, being brave and taking steps towards him. And then they fall apart again, both in the novel and in the series, but it's how those moments are handled that makes all the difference in the world from a narrative point of view.

In the novel, the moment of them falling apart is a character progression. The misguided desire to protect him is still there, but she has learned from the past and she doesn't cut him off, she simply hides something unpleasant from him, and when she realises she has hurt him again, she gains a new understanding of what it means to be in a relationship, to be actually vulnerable and open up to the person you love the most - so she follows him to Yihe, opens up about her past and apologises for having dumped him in the past, and it's a moment that brings them even closer.

In the series, them falling apart cannot be described in any other way than character regression. She repeats the same mistake she did in the past - she runs away (and this time he doesn't even know where she went), cuts off all contact, dumps all her responsibilities (including her cat!) on him, and stays missing in action for more than half a year. And when they do reconnect, he's the one coming to her instead of the other way around, and while she does apologise for dumping him in the past, she doesn't apologise for her Hong Kong antics, leaving the viewer with the impression that she takes him for granted and expects him to always wait for her, no matter what. In that context, her subsequent worry and care for him come across as hollow, because they reflect her growth in the novel without said growth being supported by the novel storyline, and so the only way in which the viewer can keep investing in the relationship is treating the Hong Kong arc like it didn't exist (sort of like the characters themselves are doing). And it angers me because this exercise would have been completely unnecessary if they would just have followed the damn novel in the first place.

[jbcchan]

[morweneledhwen]

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[fellinesca]

David Wojnarowicz response to the United States about the AIDS crisis - early 90s. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Proitas, 2022)

[fragiledate]

AHHH

[dancedance-resolution]

now i’m coming into YOUR ask box to ask, who’s your fave btvs character?

willow obviously!! :D

i find angel really compelling as a character and he definitely adds a lot to the show but i’m not his biggest fan lol??? and i don’t understand how the show is going to resurrect him a million times over and make it so clear that he’s buffy’s endgame ,only to not have them end up together. esp since he got his own spin off show - bitch why not just keep him on the show??? i want buffy with a woman obv but even i can see that’s the most appropriate path sigh lol.

i love buffy a lot but i feel like veronica mars had my heart first so im not as enthused about her as i could be lol?? but still adore her obvs

so far i like faith! and i love her tattoo lol! but i haven’t seen enough of her to have a strong opinion other than she needs to kiss buffy stat 😂

oz i could kind of care less about? same w cordelia - i like her more than i like oz but i don’t have emotional investment in her like i do xander for example

giles my beloved!!! i love giles :) and i loved julia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( i miss her i loved her a lot

lastly i must mention the praying mantis lady. i’m OBSESSED W HER, like damn not to be horny on main but like 😩

[elizabeth-mitchells]

3 for the fanfic ask thing! (and if you already had someone ask 3, then do whatever question you want to answer but hasn’t been asked you yet!)

thank you so much!! 💜💜

3. In your opinion, what’s your best fic?

OOHH that's a tough one!! listen, i physically can't pick just one! every time i get a question like this i bring up my andromaquynh ghost AU because it has a special place in my heart. but since then, i'm the most proud of my ronance choose your own adventure fic. AND one more because i'm still in my yellowjackets era, my best lottielee fic i think is God's very simple and love shouldn't burn <3

[headsplit2008]

reposing these becose i updated them a bit 🔥🔥

[rose-from-ashes]

@theblackrcse

The Doctor is ready for the ball <3

[nikki-le-terrible]

OK sorry if I'm annoying you with takomushi but do you think we can consider it a rarepair ?

Because like, the most common ship with takoyama involved is takoguru (so takoyama and guru ant), it has a lot of fanarts and both characters are really popular, however (as far as I know) there are no fanfics about it

In takomushi's case, there's like, let's exagerate à little bit, 8 fanarts of it (correct me if I'm wrong), BUT ! There's, somewhere on the internet, a fanfic that MENTIONS it (which looks cool idk I haven't read it YET) and well nobody cares about mushi (I'm exaggerating)

So can we consider it a rarepair ??? I'd say yes but what do you think ?

OK HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE !!!! 🦄🦄🦄