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HOZIER | "Work Song" in Colombus, Ohio (June 18th, 2025)

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CRIMSON PEAK

2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro

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CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

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Crimson Peak (2015) dir.: Guillermo del Toro

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There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true... it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future. In Ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they call them Firekeepers. And in West Africa, they're called griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities... but it also attracts evil.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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sinners is one of those movies you can find new details after every rewatch, but the dad moments with smoke got to me…. Teaching that girl by his truck how to haggle, then making sure Lisa wasn’t listening when he talked about chicago and violence…. He was really made to be a Girl Dad, huh

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may the sun shine on yr leg hair often this summer

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There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

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we as a culture did not appreciate it enough when Jessica Chastain had her chemise and robe falling off her shoulders, answering the door like hello detective, I have no idea where my husband is doctor, I have no idea how my brother's wife fell over that banister

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but not from being used to train LLMs, or being copied and put behind a paywall on some other site. hmm!

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ADHD is great because I can watch a movie I’ve seen multiple times and I know for a fact I just watched three years ago, and still have an almost completely new and delightful experience

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giant robot in art nouveau style. Alphonse Mecha. is this anything

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good morning it's don't crash out Thursday where we try our hardest not to crash out. on Thursday

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it makes me sad the way cis women are so terrified of and disgusted by their own body hair. and i'm not talking "i have to shave for sensory reasons" i mean i keep seeing videos of women using hair identifier spray on their faces and hands so they can shave the tiniest barely-there bits of peach fuzz that came free with their bodies. hair that serves a purpose and that purpose is cleanliness and protection. i mean when i was in elementary school girls who had barely hit puberty were talking about shaving their arms. i mean full-grown adult women who will have a breakdown if they see two days of stubble on their legs/crotch/ jaw/pits because god forbid you don't look like a perfect plastic barbie doll. god forbid your body that keeps you alive comes with hair that may not be soft and glossy and photogenic. some women are so afraid of having any hair apart from their head and eyebrows that they've uno reversed themselves into six different kinds of gender dysphoria that they can't recognize as such because they're convinced that this unnatural state of highly-groomed capital-informed beauty is how women have always been. you're so scared of looking "gross" or "ugly" or "mannish" that you can't even look at your body in the mirror and recognize what it is. sister you are an ape. why are you so determined to deny your nature.

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kind of in followup to this post and re: whether booker was ooc in 2o2g, since someone messaged me about it last night.

i think that the movie didn't do anything out of character for booker - he's acting selfishly and pathetically, in ways that hurt people, even (especially) people he loves, without thinking thru the consequences of his actions. i don't think the complaints that he's acting out of character are accurate. where i think the complaints have merit is that the narrative of the second movie portrays his actions completely differently than the first.

in tog, booker is clearly Not Right for betraying his family. andy, joe, nicky, and even nile all suffer, physically and emotionally, for it, and they punish him, and the narrative supports their punishment of him, altho it's framed as a difficult decision that may haunt them all.

arguably he's spent the six months healing/growing, except we've seen that he hasn't? he's been dead drunk the entire time, despite support from joe. like. c'mon.

and in 2o2g, booker's actions are framed as being ... sympathetic? understandable? #Relatable? heroic, even? when he's lying to nile (and causing tuah to lie to nile as well - why didn't tuah just tell nile about his suspicions? plot holes abound) and traumatizing her in the future when she finds out she's partially responsible for his death, he's lying to andy and traumatizing her and also making her mortal, which (for all he knows - and for all the audience knows at that point too) she doesn't even fucking want anymore, and to top it all off, his end goal isn't heroic, it's simply killing himself. and we're supposed to applaud this?

again, i DON'T think it's necessarily ooc for him to do all this but i DO think it's weird for the narrative (of this particular movie in this particular franchise) to be like, "this shitty man doing these shitty things is such an icon!" i think the movie could've fixed this by either taking a very different turn, taking his actions more seriously/in a different light; OR they could have had him behave differently - not necessarily even better, just written a different plot with him in it.

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Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :

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Andy & Quynh -- THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025)