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"Dracula except Sherlock Holmes joins and he immediately solv-" they already have a genius detective her name is Mina Harker

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Everyone wish my good friend Jonathan luck, he's studying to pass the bar rn and apparently has a big work trip/promotion thingy coming up 🥺

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WAIT. WAIT HOLD ON

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Forced to say ‘Media is subjective and all interpretations are valid. Creative license is cool :)’ Born to say ‘Anyone who makes adaptations where Jonathan is a bad person so that Mina can fall in love with Dracula should be shot point blank’

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i’m just thinking about a news channel in camelot. can you imagine

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something that i haven't seen people talk about much is that as much as grantaire loved and venerated enjolras, it wasn't strong enough for him to look past his cynicism for most of the brick. his love for enjolras prior to OFPD was in really only in words, as evidenced by the one time enjolras entrusted him with a task and he immediately abandoned it. in other words, he romanticized the idea of enjolras but nothing that he actually stood for. only faced by the national guard moments before death did he finally proclaim himself as one of them and gave his life for the cause. also, enjolras scorned grantaire for his cynicism the whole time but the moment grantaire finally believed, he was the one who pressed his hand with a smile and welcomed him to die with him. what i'm saying is, enjolras would've immediately welcomed and loved grantaire if he had believed in the cause earlier and even gave him a chance to prove himself, but nothing (not even his love for enjolras) could move grantaire past his cynicism until the very end

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i see a lot of neurodivergent people talk about how they can't handle bright white overhead lighting at home, so their preference is to have warm/yellow bulbs in lamps as the main source of household lighting, often with colouful neon lights/fairylights/candles as other secondary lighting sources. I feel like this is actually more common than we think but maybe there are some insane people who love or at least are indifferent to bright white overhead lighting. so poll time.

if you say bright white overhead lighting is your main lighting preference please tell me why

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I am of the full opinion that a Silmarillion adaptation of any kind can:

never adapt the whole book

never be a live action feature film or tv series

needs to forget the aesthetics of the lotr movies (as much as we love them)

in comparison. I do think a successful silm adaptation could be

a 2D - NEEDS TO bE 2D - animated film/series

a play (but like a 4 hr Shakespeare epic) - I do think one could get away with a musical but they would have to get super weird with it. HOWEVER it could also totally be an opera or ballet.

a single chapter/storyline of the book

I think the silmarillion is too weird to be a live action anything because movie production ceos are too concerned with marketability. this is where the forgetting of the lotr film aesthetic needs to come in. Lotr worked because they made those designs from scratch (like elves - from like art noveau and shit) rather than a lot of subsequent adaptations which were like "we need it to look consistent with lotr" so it got stale its so tired. go completely different cultural/historical period inspiration start from scratch we get some really cool stuff here on Tumblr.

single plotline - self explanatory. silm is too long and too broad with too many characters for a single adaptation. focus on making 1 good story rather than trying to tell 530200 shitty ones.

the 2d animation/opera/play thing comes in because THOSE MEDIUMS ARE ABLE TO GET WEIRD. They can stretch the limits of believability!!! they can get the weird singing, character vibes perfectly AND have crazy things happen to characters because they have much higher suspensions of disbelief. like u can have someone turn into a bird in a play using practical effects and rather than some poor overworked cgi artist doing an animorphs level job because they aren't paid enough to do a good one, u can have a puppet or a hectic costume. Also u can have hectic wigs please and thank you I want the most hectic devastating wigs for all of the elves (and dwarves). also opera/ballet costumes are so awesome they would do the elves justice.

anyway u got to the end of my silm adaptation fever dream agree or disagree I dont care.

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i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.

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here for you

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happy Thursday the 20th

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Have an electrician over today & he comes through from the kitchen like 'i was looking at that poster on your wall wondering how I hadn't heard of the movie so I googled it. What is the point. Is it just there to catch people out.' And I'm like, well,

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no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"

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Happy Ides of March!!

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