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I keep thinking about Thomas Andrews, Jr.

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from the personal library of David Lynch

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The shades of Pemberly being blessed

On the grounds at Pemberly

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yeah so haymitch gets to finally live in a free world where his tormentors are dead and he gets to love a woman (effie) without fear of anything happening to her

RIP to Suzanne but I’m different

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I've been saying this to my friend for years! Finally someone else who also sees it!

Christopher Plummer should have played Thomas Andrews in a movie

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the conclave has chosen the dark lord for the president of panem.

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Fourteen year old me would've fucking lost it, if I found out that Voldemort himself would one day play President Coriolanus Snow!

Imagine having the two of the most iconic villains of our time under your belt what an icon!

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Flow (2024)

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“Oh, you like Jane Austen? You should read Jane Eyre!”

Please, people. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë are indeed both women and they both inhabited the same wet, European island (though they only overlapped for a year when Charlotte was a baby), but they have nothing to do with each other.

Jane Austen wrote satirical comedies of manners, praised for their realism.

Charlotte Brontë wrote dramatic gothic fiction, with miraculous supernatural communication methods.

If you feel that you must recommend a Brontë, the proper Brontë is Anne.

If you feel you must recommend a woman, the proper woman is Elizabeth Gaskell (start with Wives and Daughters) or George Eliot.

If you must recommend a English Wet European Island person, the proper person is Oscar Wilde (specifically his four drawing room plays).

Charlotte Brontë wrote negative reviews of Jane Austen and in uncanny preparation for such an insult, Jane Austen mocked the concept of Attic Wives 13 years before Charlotte was even born.

(A lot of people do like both Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, but something always has felt kind of inherently sexist about grouping them together since they write completely different genres and in different time periods. Like why not group Wilde and Austen, or Dickens and Brontë? George Eliot is noted for realism, which seems like a much more sensible match to Austen than Brontë. Anyway, I’m done my little rant.)

Carry on and/or suggest me which literary people we should actually be matching up in our heads.

Edit: forgot Oscar Wilde was Irish!

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- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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What do you mean there's no other explanation?

Don't you know its perfectly possible for a writer, while writing a book, to not know the events of the prequel they will be writing a decade later? That they can come up with new stories and ideas about preexisting characters long after finishing the original story, and that these new ideas need not necessarily have to have been in their head while writing the original books? SC or no one person involved in the movies ever mentioned her going around the set instructing the film makers or actors to act or do something in a certain way because she "knows" some backstory that they, and the world, as of yet, don't know. Do people really think an accomplished actor like Woody Harrelson really need the author of the book to come hold his hand and tell him what gestures to make while playing his character, when everything he need to know about the character is right there in the original books? Like there's no need for Woody to know extra backstory to act like this in this scene. Him (and the readers) already know that Haymitch has been watching kids from his district ride these chariots to their deaths for the last 23 years, so there's no need of a backstory involving a loved one for this moment to be traumatizing. It was always supposed to be traumatizing! We don't need a very specific backstory from sotr to know that.

I can understand interpreting this scene in this way as a headcanon. But insisting that SC already knew everything she was ever going to write in her life from day one itself, and that she went around discreetly imparting this knowledge on the movie set (with no evidence to base any of these speculations on), that is some wild levels of overanalysing.

Honestly though, all this general speculation and discussion involving and insisting that SC knew everything all along wouldn't have looked so funny to me if sotr didn't have any plot holes and inconsistencies regarding the original trilogy. Like wdym sotr is proof that SC had the whole back stories of all the characters planned out as far back as the late 2000s, when the book in question is shooting holes at the plot of the entire saga?

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Bellini is like the girl who tells you she doesn't like that guy because ugh, how disgusting, who could like him??? And then she gets mad at you because the guy in question asked for your Instagram, and you didn’t even give it to him because you don’t like him at all, but she still blames you for him looking at you instead of her. He's so pick me, so real.

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I just watched Conclave—what a masterpiece of a movie. It’s basically your average teen drama where the mean girls are fighting over the prom queen crown, while Ralph Fiennes spends 90% of the movie wanting to end it all because he has to deal with an Italian queen bee addicted to vaping, a sex scandal, and a pick-me girl who secretly wants the crown more than anyone else. And when he finally decides that maybe the best solution is for him to take on all the responsibility as the father figure of this dysfunctional family he’s spent nearly two hours managing, God decides to throw in a terrorist bomb which conveniently paves the way for the new girl transferred from a public school—the only one with street smarts—to take the throne.

Special shoutout to the classic sassy, cunty side character played by Isabella Rossellini, whose role is brief but intense. She’s over it all, observing everyone with disdain while chain-smoking in the bathroom and reading some Sartre.

I love it when fiction so perfectly captures the essence of my twelve years in Catholic school. Amen.

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girl help! the popular fanon interpretation of my favorite character is stupid as fuck

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Suzanne Collins: wrote the first thg trilogy making Katniss shoot Coin because the real enemy is fascism/dictatoship and not a single man, but the system

Fans after sotr: "Suzanne wrote sotr because she saw all of the Snow thirst trap and wanted to make you remember who the real enemy is!!! 😡"

... Clearly half of this fandom never get the point she tried to make since the original trilogy.

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There are always at least three books I have with me at all times for eternity, because you never know.