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If you haven't checked out the 19 vids made for Fall Equinox yet, here are the fandoms waiting for you in the AO3 collection:

Interview with the Vampire (2022) - 3 vids!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2 vids!

Dead Boy Detectives - 2 vids!

Alias Grace, Cloud Atlas, Corpse Bride, Frankenstein fandoms, Heaven Official's Blessing (cartoon), I Saw the TV Glow, The Others (2001), Poor Things (2023), Scavengers Reign (cartoon), Stigmata, What Dreams May Come - 1 vid each!

Check out the collection and give the vids some love.

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THE WICKER MAN (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

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do you ever think about bunter also having bad moments bc of the war, and peter noticing and doing his best to help out in his own peter-y way? because that's what's on my mind today and I'm Emotional

Hello, friend; I too am Emotional about the intertwined histories of Bunter and Peter and the War, and here is my theory. My theory is that living with and working for Peter is Bunter’s therapy. 

Here is my evidence, starting at the end of DLS’ writing. The only time, as far as I recall), when we see Bunter responding to events based on wartime instincts is during the nocturnal uproar at Talboys, with running around and screaming… and Bunter comes rushing downstairs with the poker, and “brings his weapon to the present” when he sees Peter in charge of the situation. (I love them.)

Now. Going back to the beginning of their association, as recounted in Busman’s Honeymoon: Bunter worked as quickly as possible to “wrangle himself out” (to quote the Dowager Duchess’ vulgar way of putting things) of a permanent situation and an assured future, living near his mother and with promises of advancement, in favor of tracking down a mentally fragile scion of the nobility who made him a promise in a foxhole. And he marches in and takes charge. He commits himself entirely to Peter, at a time when the question of whether or not Peter will ever be functional is – to put it politely – unresolved. Bunter views this as a preferable alternative to his comfortable and conventional future. That says a great deal, I think, about Bunter’s own difficulties in readjusting to civilian life.

In both Whose Body? and Clouds of Witness, Peter is shown in flashback-inducing situations, and Bunter is shown as fairly unfazed. He adapts quickly to Peter’s nightmares, assuring him that the noise of sappers is of their own men, that they’re “safe as houses.” (Ugh, my heart.) And then he literally has to drag Peter out of quicksand in a fog (let us recall trench warfare, here) and by the time we catch up with Bunter in the aftermath, he is all cleaned up, fed and cheerful and preparing shaving water. And then there are all the conversations we don’t hear, in Murder Must Advertise and elsewhere. It’s a truism to say that one of the things that rendered WWI traumatic is that it couldn’t be talked about. (A lot of historical scholarship in the last 20 years has complicated that truism, but let’s let it stand for now as Mostly True.) And Peter and Bunter do. One of the many lines in Gaudy Night that punches me in the heart every single time is where Peter says to Harriet “I got so far as saying to Bunter one night: ‘Here we go, Sergeant; it’s back to the army again.’” Cue spiritual wailing from me, because this implies that, in the two-person household of Lord Peter Wimsey and Mervyn Bunter, the War is never a taboo topic. It’s something that shadows them both. It’s something that’s changed them both. And it’s something that they learn to live with together. 

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one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

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ANTHONY PERKINS as NORMAN BATES

Psycho (1960)

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The first one is the distraction.

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Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in photos taken by their friend John Engstead (whose Hollywood photography career was launched by Grant) at their "Bachelor Hall" Santa Monica beach house in 1935. Grant and Scott owned two homes together, the other being a Spanish Revival mansion on West Oak Drive in the Los Angeles suburb of Los Feliz. Their friend and fellow Paramount star Carole Lombard once candidly commented, making a reference to Grant's well-known frugality: "They have the perfect relationship. Randy pays the bills and Cary mails them." The French Normandy style beach house, built for silent screen star Norma Talmadge in 1929, was later rented by actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski in 1967. Both houses are still in existence today, and the beach house sits right on the Pacific Coast Highway with public parking lots on either side and Del Pierro Beach directly behind.

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Technically true.

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#Moo Deng is literally the cutest menace I have ever seen

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SHŌGUN (2024) | costume design by Carlos Rosario

“I’ve never worked on a project that was so careful and put so much emphasis on attention to the details, to making sure that we were as accurate and as authentic as possible.”

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Copenhagen Wilderness

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Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea) near the outlet of Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona.

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We have just digitized our copy of The First Six Books of Euclid by Oliver Byrne (1847) which uses diagrams of intense color as an aid to learning geometry. Although it sold poorly at the time of publication, it's recognized today as a masterpiece of design and printing.

Typ 805.47.3730

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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reblog ONLY if prev is a mutual, i want to see how far this post can go

say in the tags what part of tumblr you’re on i’m so curious so see how this goes