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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)

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i miss early season house md where house and wilson were both still kinda scared of cuddy and looked like this when they got caught doing something they werent supposed to

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Kate Winslet & Jack Black THE HOLIDAY (2006) dir. Nancy Meyers

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I want a new universe where Finnick doesn't die

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"See, I fell in love with Jess the moment she walked through the door."

ABOUT ME MEME: [11/∞] Favorite Ships Nick Miller and Jessica Day in NEW GIRL (2011-2018).

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the victors, post-jabberjay attack:

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

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@pscentral event 28: throwback

Typical, isn't it? You wait twenty years for a dad and then three come along at once.

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Started rereading the Hunger Games series and I feel like it’s so overlooked how in 74th and 75th Hunger Games, we don’t know every Tribute’s names, with Katniss only referring to them by their District numbers but in TBOSAS, we knew every single Tribute by name. We associated them with the clothes they wore on the Reaping Day and Suzanne even goes so far as to describe how they looked, however briefly. We see these Tributes and we’re familiarized with them by the little tidbits provided to the mentors and to Snow and Lucy Gray. But we never get this in the original trilogy.

In two generations, President Snow alienated the Districts from each other so much that Katniss didn’t even care to know all the names of the Tributes sent into the Arena with her, with the exception being those who posed great risk against her safety and those she felt great compassion for (e.g. Cato, Thresh, Rue, Mags, Betee, Wiress etc.). Katniss even went so far as to call the D6 Tributes in the 75th Hunger Games morphlings, for their affinity to imbibe in the drugs that help them forget their own traumas (an incredibly hurtful description, in my own opinion, to be known by the qualities you hate the most about yourself). We never know the real name of the 74th D5 girl, with Katniss only referring to her as Foxface and we don’t even know Marvel’s name until we get to the second book and he was Katniss’ first personal kill. Katniss even kills the D4 girl in the books with the same tracker jacker venom that killed Glimmer and yet still, we don’t know her name. We are so removed from the identity of the other Tributes that we don’t even know what some of them looked like beyond brief descriptions of mangled bodies and dead Tributes in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia.

And, the thing is, Suzanne established the importance of names in the series. Even in real life, we recognize the importance of being named. It is a fundamental aspect of being human. If you’re ever in a perilous situation where a person might be placing your life in danger, we’re told to remind the person that you’re human. “Keep saying your name, how old you are, where you came from. Remind them you are a human being just like them.” Before any propaganda can work against a group of people, refusing to recognize a person’s name is the first step to dehumanization. And just like the people of the Districts, we don’t care enough about the other Tributes to even want to know their names. Their propaganda worked on us, the readers.

In two generations, President Snow completely wiped out any sense of familiarity and camaraderie the Districts may have shared with the other. In two generations, Snow sowed the seeds of distrust and division into the Districts so deeply that even we, the readers, were affected by the effects of Capitol propaganda. In two generations, the Districts ceased to genuinely care about the others beyond the vague sense of injustice they feel for their shared plight. It’s why Career Districts don’t seem to care about killing the other Tributes. How can you care, to show your compassion and humanity, when you can barely see them as people? Yes, they may have been in the Arena with you. Yes, they may have been starved and beaten and forced into labor like you were. Yes, they might be children just like you. Yes, they might be subjected to the same deplorable system that turned you into virtual slaves. But they are not your friends. They are not your allies. They are strange, with different customs and traditions that you have. You do not share the same values. They do not care about you. At the first chance they get, they will kill you with your bare hands and they will do it with alacrity if it meant their survival. There can only be one Victor and it can’t be them. It has to be you.

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Suzanne Collins did such a good job of mentioning small things about Peeta that support the picture of him not being the first choice for anything even before the series started. Like mentioning he lost to his brother in wrestling or that his dad always wanted a girl while we know he’s the youngest child. Or being raised in an abusive household, where even if his dad is portrayed to be nice, his dad still enabled his mom hitting him and prioritized the peace of the house over keeping his children safe. And the beautiful part is that for every single instance of Peeta being in a situation where he shouldn’t be prioritized, Katniss sees reason to choose him

- in contrast to his parents Katniss chooses to prioritize Peeta’s safety throughout the books

- Katniss uses Peeta being second to his brother in wrestling as an example of how strong he is when she’s advocating for him to Haymitch.

- while Peeta’s mom thinks Katniss is the one who could be a winner (and even Haymitch ends up picking Katniss), most of the first book is Katniss thinking of all the ways Peeta could be a contender

- when the Quell is announced, Katniss picks Peeta over her own life

- during the Quell,while Peeta is trying to convince her to go back home to her best friend and the family that includes her sister she almost gave up her life for , she still chooses needing Peeta over all that

- Gale, even before everything with Prim and their disagreements during Mockinjay, Katniss’s actual affection and attraction always came back to Peeta instead of the expected route of her friend from the Seam

- the rebellion not wanting to rescue him but Katniss chooses to become the Mockingjay to bring him back

- at the end of Mockinjay, Katniss is depressed and suicidal and at the point where you would think she would choose death over everything, but the one thing that will cause her to choose to live? Peeta.

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Dreams are important. Maxton Hall, S01E06

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ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - First Kisses [6/7] ↳ Just kiss me already! Not like this!

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These gifs are an example of what I mean by “Damian Hardung has so much depth and range in his eyes”: it’s nothing out of this world or exceptional (you know, compared to really amazing actors), but it’s such a breath of fresh air when it comes to YA/romance tv shows. Too often in these kinds of shows the actors are so stiff with their emotions and act with no subtlety, and their eyes convey very little about what’s supposed to be going on inside of their minds.

Damian, on the other hand, was able to communicate so much with so little. (The directing is also great and a big reason why Damian’s talent shines: it adopts “Normal People’s style” of using the camera, with the camera spending a lot of time extremely close to the actors, thus managing to put on the screen even the littlest changes in the actors’ faces).

There’s so much smugness and playfulness (1, 2 and 3), exasperation (4), fear and resignation (5), adoration (6 and 7), and, ultimately, submissiveness and sadness (8) in his eyes and you catch every glimpse of it.

(All the gifs are by @userbeaufort except for the second to last one which is by @cinevettel ).

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HARRIET HERBIG MATTEN and DAMIAN HARDUNG In MAXTON HALL: THE WORLD BETWEEN US

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Stranger: *Gesturing to Alex* Is this man bothering you? Henry: Yes, but he is my husband. I signed up for this