#I saw spiderverse twice I’m obsessed

[w4rigari]

The brainrot is real 👀

[xaeyrnofnbe]

Have you seen astv yet? What was your opinion?

(assuming you mean across the spiderverse) I HAVE SEEN IT!!!!! TWICE ACTUALLY!!!!

i saw it the first time around a week after it first released it theaters with my gf, (second time was with my family but that’s not really relevant to any of this) i went into it feeling sooo cautious and wary cause the first one was so monumental. it was groundbreaking. SURELY the Industry-Defining into the spiderverse was a one-off thing, a lucky fluke, an accident, right? SURELY they couldn’t follow that up with anything other than mediocre!! i was concerned it wouldn’t live up to expectations (so i kept mine incredibly low just in case,) and i was worried about the teased romance between miles and gwen. the visuals, however, would be about equal to the first, so at least there would be that if the story wasn’t good.

it was in the intro with gwen on her drums that i immediately knew they had outdone themselves, and with each new twist and turn and reveal and character my mind was blown just as much as the entirety of itsv. it wasn’t without its flaws, to be sure,but the grandness and spectacle of it all impressed me so much, i loved all the character designs, environment, actually i could go on for SUCH a long time about how ungrounded in reality this film felt in comparison to the first, but like. in a GOOD way. like it was SO cool. dimension and physical space didn’t feel as important as more attention and focus was brought to the characters and story, and i LOVED IT. i was delighted by the heroes and villains, the spot took up such a weird little corner of my brain it’s unreal, miguel was genuinely frightening at times and i mean that as a compliment, and i ended up actually really enjoying what was going on between gwen and miles! it didn’t feel at all forced like i had feared, it felt natural and restrained in a way that was still just as refreshing as the LACK of it in the first movie.

spoilers in case whoever’s reading this hasn’t seen it yet, but when i watched it i was just overall kinda bummed because probably my FAVORITE part of the first movie was the section of plot with uncle aaron/the prowler, the character just left such an impact on me with both the storytelling and THE SOUND DESIGN, aughgifhfj yeah distorted elephants are my favorite sound effect i think. and that character died, yeah? so i was a little sad about him and his cool sounds not being in the sequel, but OHOHO that ending did NOT disappoint, i’m so obsessed with characters and their fates and destinies like. in general. so you can probably imagine how stoked i was to find out that these two miles’s basically swapped stories by accident and there’s potentially Big Consequences for that.

all in all, i guess you could say i liked it. ¦]

[joecial-distancing]

2019 in review in review:

A few years ago I started tracking yearly goals, books read, movies watched etc in a year, along with overview blurbs, in private posts. End of 2019/beginning of 2020 I was really frazzled/burned out about a lot of stuff and just never finished up making the thing. 8 months later, got the urge to read back what I’d got done, then figured I’d maybe go ahead and see about finishing. 

Media tracking below the break. thoughts/blurbs written in 2020 italicized, 2019 not.

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Didn’t do so hot on explicit personal goals, but had a lot of stuff go ok around them this year.

School’s been fine/better than fine.

Job’s probably the biggest failing. Still with same job, haven’t made the firm moves to jump off, dragging my feet too much on exploring stuff w/ Columbia/NASA GISS.

Did not get better with covid, lol

Dating life still non-existent, but I’ve registered on apps, gotten more comfortable with selfies, improved general social life dramatically, been flirted with, updated my wardrobe, and generally started to get comfortable accepting that I’m a hot person.

Somehow got extremely better during covid.

Books

Grant (finished)

We stan a taurus legend

Guy was good at exactly one job, and was fortunate enough to have been in the right place/right time to get to do it.

Mort (discworld)

Definitely best discworld I’ve gotten to so far.

Don Quixote p. II

Really entertaining in a way that part 1 wasn’t; I was shocked how much the meta element landed for me.

Consider the Lobster (DFW collection)

had zero context on who DFW is/was when I read, and still don’t exactly tbh. Wanted to wait for a pause in The Discourse before diving into more of him, but dunno if I’m ever going to get that.

Crime and Punishment (revisited)

Weirdly didn’t get much more out of this than I did the first time I’d read it

Better Than Sex (HST Gonzo papers)

Xerox/widespread fax accessibility opening citizen access to mass media in a manner really reminiscent of what social media would go on to do at a much larger scale. Has a much more deliberate narrative arc than the other gonzo papers collections, also has that excellent HST richard nixon eulogy

The Brothers Karamazov

SPQR

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion collection)

Pet Sematary

Not my favorite King, but not bad

Sourcery (discworld)

still funny/charming, but Mort really made clear/reminded me how much the hapless sadsack Rincewind mold of protagonist wears on me after a while.

The Devil's Teeth

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Liked it a lot more once I realized it was doing a Fear and Loathing thing.

Homage to Catalonia

This should be the Orwell that gets taught in schools. Make it a followup to All Quiet on the Western Front or something, jeez.

Lyndon Johnson I

Having now finished all of them, this one’s probably the least-interesting but sets up a bunch of important context that the others still then feel the need to retread.

The Razor's Edge

Recommended to me as a “white guy discovers eastern mysticism” book, but also is more interesting in its treatment of that than I’d expected (helps it was written in the 40s). 

Cat's Cradle

There’s a part in this where Vonnegut’s making fun of people who try to bond with strangers over being Hoosiers, and my dumbass immediate thought was “ooh, Vonnegut’s a hoosier? Me too!”

Lyndon Johnson II

Robert Caro felt compelled to apologize for spending so much words lionizing Coke Stevens, segregationist opponent to Johnson’s senate run. His goal was pretty clearly to show lbj’s lack of campaign charisma by contrast, definitely definitely overcommitted in his own narrativising.

Libra

I want to go back to this after reading some more De Lillo.

Gravity's Rainbow

This book absolutely kicked my ass

Overstuffed and referential in a specific way that really keeps me hooked in instead of put off. When I learn about some piece of cultural context that I retroactively recognize as being referenced in this, I want to go back and reread the entire thing.

From Caligari to Hitler

Kind of fails both as film criticism and cultural analysis, but absolutely made me want to run for the hills when considering current relationship between mainstream movies and demands of pop culture.

I took a class on Weimar cinema in undergrad that I now realize was probably biting pretty heavily from this and never once referenced it.

Movies

Venom

Movie itself is not as fun as the Tom Hardy hype coverage. PG13 was the absolute worst space to aim for, PG- or R- versions of this could have been a blast.

Harryhauser Argonauts

Was tripping when I put this on, and it was all kinds of fun.

2001: a Space Oddyssey

First time seeing this, all-time classic for a reason!

A Good American (the NSA doc)

Dr. Strangelove

Mel Brooks History of the World p. I

Not my favorite Brooks, best joke was at the beginning.

In Bruges

Had been a while since I saw a proper dark comedy.

Spiderverse

Fukkin awesome!

Visually great, and extremely better than usual superhero stuff for being aimed at PG instead of PG-13.

You Only Live Twice

Highlander (Revisited)

I watched The Old Guard on netflix recently and it mostly just made me wish I was watching Highlander instead, because at least Highlander knows exactly how goofy it is

Moonraker

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Much like The Shining, I though this would have been 100% spoiled for me by cultural osmosis, but turns out it wasn’t, and even the scenes I had seen *totally landed* in-context still.

Kung Fu Hustle

Ichi the Killer

Really gross, really fun

Matrix Reloaded (watched thru highway scene) (Revisited)

The highway scene was not nearly as cool as I remembered it being.

John Wick 3*

Probably dumbest plot of all of them, best choreography. I like how every single fight had its own distinct flavor. “Knife museum fight” “horse fight” “halle berry dogs fight” 

Akira

A classic

Pet Sematary * (ugh, bad)

Why can’t john lithgow be in good movies anymore

The Revenant

MCU Spiderman

Fuck this was awful.

MCU Spiderman 2*

Really weird, complete Rorschach Test of a movie: it’d be totally valid to read into this that global warming is Fake News, for instance.

Lmao this was completely awful

Rites

Dredd (non-stallone)

oh hey Lena Headey’s in this

For All Mankind!

Watched in honor of moon landing anniversary

Lion King *

Watched it way too stoned, was like dark side of the moon + wizard of oz except instead it’s a lion king script reading + nature footage edited for lip syncing.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood *

Many scenes of very long setups for really stupid shaggy dog jokes, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. I do kinda want to rewatch now knowing more about manson, which I knew pretty much nothing about beforehand

Blowout

A good john lithgow movie

also I think I like travolta in things.

Lord of War

A Good cage movie

I like when Eamon Walker shows up in stuff.

Taxi Driver

A classic

Snowpiercer

Watched in a bar with only one speaker working, which is the correct way to watch. Weirder and funnier than I thought it was going to be, which still doesn’t make it good, but,

dbz big green dub

Exorcist III

Brad Dourif just tearing it apart

Deep Red (argento)

Suspiria (1977)

Watched the remake in 2020, which was ok, but nothing tops the Goblin score.

Elf Bowling

Thanks, Gnome

Parasite *

Interesting to me that this one seems poised to hang around people’s good esteem for a while

TV

FMA: B

Rick & Morty

Saw some episodes, generally pretty funny, some misanthropy that’s probably appealing to a certain type of teen al a something like House, but ultimately I don’t totally Get the intensity of discourse about it.

Leterkenny

Mob Psycho 100

One Punch Man

Deadwood

Watchmen

Only watched like half of it. Was playing around with a lot of hefty imagery/thematics, but didn’t really seem ready to rise above playing (tho also I feel like it’s weird on some level to *expect* them to rise above that in the first place)

Music

New Avantasia

HEALTH/ show

lol remember concerts

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard/ show

Just learned about King Gizz in 2019 and got completely obsessed with them. I don’t tend to expand my music selection very readily, and a lot of what I currently *do* know is old/inactive stuff, so it was/is incredibly exciting to have an active group with good momentum just immediately win me over like that.

Mistimed the edibles and ended up with a really good finale and a really long subway ride home.

New Yeasayer

Sad they split up

Steve Wilson Tull remixes

Aqualung’s a good album and the sound mixing’s kinda bad, so I liked this project.

Stonefield

Opened for Gizzard. Really good as studying music

Video Games

Civ VI: Gathering Storm

Hades

Turns out Supergiant’s design proclivities all work *extremely well* on a roguelike

Baba is You

Untitled Goose Game

Cute, if maybe a bit overhyped

finally fucking finished Pillars of Eternity

Had fun with it, but too long, and really dour for how long it is.

Pillars II

Kinda drifted off it eventually, but I do genuinely like that the flavor of the fantasy is colonial era rather than medieval.

There’s a Balancing Bastard Factions element where it’s like the writers are just being smartasses after a while. Having to go extremely out of their way to make siding with colonizers seem like a competitive option.

Pokemon shield

Cuphead

pisses me off, which was a nice outlet when I was stranded by flight cancellations during thanksgiving

Celeste

Also very difficult, but really easy to stay patient with, which is nice.

Disco Elysium

None of the discourse made me want to play this, but people talking about the mechanical stuff it did got me extremely interested. Mostly Delivered IMO.

Breath of the Wild

You can approach the nodes of the main quest in the order you choose, and the second one I chose made ninjas start fucking spawning everywhere when I’m just trying to explore, and there’s no way to make it stop. May go back to it one day.

Podcasts

Relentless Picnic Patreon feed

The treats really helped me start distinguishing individual personalities, compared to the regular eps.

Picnic Discord!

<3

FatT Counterweight

Fun, but also I think Mechs are not my shit.

FatT Spring in Hieron/ end of that particular world

8 months since I’ve last tuned into FatT. ah well.

Law School

He’s in everythiiiing!

You Must Remember This: Manson family

*There’s* the context

Misc.

Kindle train guy

Times Square sleeping guy + kids taking selfies w/ him

toddler singing along after Psycho killer (a, ya, ya ya, ya)

drunk and dragged to a drag show

Central park football family

Soft Steel Drum Subway Busker

Weird old lady going to grand central for oysters

2018 in review (cards):

MySelf (CC)

Self: Tower

Blocked: 10 Cups

Ethereal/subconscious: 8 Swords

Material: 3 Swords

Past: Justice

Future: Page Wands

Attitude: Sun

External: King Swords

Hopes/Fears: 5 Coins

Trajectory: High Priestess

Also Self:

Hierophant

7 Cups

7 Coins

Blind Spot:

(self & others): 5 cups    ||    (others not self): High Priestess

(self not others): Moon   ||    (nobody): 3 Cups

[shirehobbit]

7, 14, 20, 29, 33, 47, 48 ♥

Heyy thank you!!! 

7. what was your life like last year?

Stressful - good old honours year at uni 

14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you?

lol damn I can’t even remember - whenever I saw my friend at his work? two weeks ago? actually my dad probably side hugged me like yesterday or the day before 😂I don’t get out much

20. what is your favourite song at the moment?

I’m actually hyped I get to answer this twice! 

Laps Around the Sun - Ziggy Alberts 

29. favourite film(s)

How to Train Your Dragon 

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Princess Bride 

Paddington 2

Matilda

Into the Spiderverse 

Gattaca

I’ll just stop there for now 

33. something you want to learn

Well I’m currently learning to surf which I’ve always wanted to learn! 

I’d also like to learn how to be organised 😂

47. turn ons

kindness, guys with long hair, liberal views, 👌🏻style 

48. turn offs

guys who don’t know personal hygiene, and being money obsessed 

some cute questions

[tigercallalily]

TAG GAME

tagged by @wh1te-tsh1rt THANK YOU!!

Rules: tag folllowers you’d like to know better

Name: Lilly

Birth year: 1997

Sign: libra

Height: 185 cm (6′1″)

Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first 4 songs:

I’m so Sick - APINK

DamDaDi - Golden Child

Gangsta Boy - (f)x

Warning! - DAY6

Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23, what’s the 17th line? my mother. I steel myself and climb the steps.

Ever had a song or a poem written about you? not that i’ve been told

When was the last time you played air guitar? i have no idea but it was probably against my will for a game

Celebrity crush(es)? Lee Sunmi but also lowkey Tessa Thompson and Lana Condor

What’s a sound you hate/love? i hate the sound of bouncing zippers

Do you believe in ghosts? not really

Do you believe in aliens? yeah

Do you drive? and if so have you ever crashed? i do drive and i’ve never been in a big crash but when i was learning i forgot which pedal was which and ran into a low retaining wall (i was only going like 5 miles(8 km)/hr)

Last book you read? i think The King’s Men, the third book in the All For The Game series by Nora Sakavic, was the last one i finished but i started Dear Madam President in january and still haven’t finished it

Do you like the smell of gasoline? i used to but now it gives me a headache

Last movie you saw? d i saw Avengers: Endgame in theaters but since then i’ve watched xXx: The Return of Xander Cage and Into the Spiderverse twice each but i don’t remember which was most recent

Do you have any obsessions right now? kd

Do you tend to hold grudges? kind of??? i’m kind of petty abt some things

Are you in a relationship right now? no

tagging:

@kaedanaida

@djjiahn

@darkkness

@mingied

@reading-wanderer

[lloronala]

Who Are You?

NAME: alice

STAR SIGN: leo

HEIGHT: i’m like in between 5′2′’-3′’

WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? jean

PUT YOUR SPOTIFY ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 6 SONGS THAT POPPED UP? 1. bad guy - billie eilish 2. no new friends - lsd (diplo, sia) 3. way back home - shaun 4. nasa - ariana grande 5. high without your love - loote 6. one way ticket - ONE OK ROCK

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? nah lmao

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? it’s been wayyyyyyyyyy too long

WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? oof--i have too many....uh but if i have to think of it from the top of my head? michael b jordan, jameela jamil, naomi scott, lupita n’yongo, gina rodriguez, frankie adams, tom hiddleston, zendaya, david castañeda, zoe saldana....and just...it goes on and on

WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE; SOUND YOU LOVE? i hate extremely loud noises overall? especially sirens. sounds i love tho? music obviously and summer night breezes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? i might be skeptical

HOW ABOUT ALIENS?

indifferent about it

DO YOU DRIVE?

yea

IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED? nope--but i almost crashed into a bus when i first started learning how to drive so :)

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? i was rereading good omens cause i’m preparing myself for the series to come out weeps

DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE? i don’t really care tbh??

WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? missing link!!!! pls watch if you haven’t!

WHAT’S THE WORST INJURY YOU’VE EVER HAD? sprained my ankle--twice in the same leg

DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? the expanse, spiderverse, the chilling adventures of sabrina, the twilight zone, santa clarita diet, AND SOON TO BE MCU AGAIN CAUSE THIS THURSDAY!!!

DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO DID YOU WRONG? usually no, but you would have needed to fuck up real bad for me to have not let go of that grudge. which has happened once, but that’s it.

IN A RELATIONSHIP? & if i am?

tagged by: stole it!! tagging: anyoneeeeee

[boyohazard]

TAGGED BY:  @samenkomen

TAGGING: @dvmpstcrdcnvt @fuckingvictus @cinnamonmeggnog @redacted-metallum @elritchs @octaviosilvaa

NAME: Eddie or Ed

STAR SIGN: Aries HEIGHT: 5 ft 5 in WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? - David Theodore

PUT YOUR ITUNES or SPOTIFY ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 4 SONGS THAT POPPED UP?

Jesus Christ - Brand New

Die On Time - Young Guns

On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons

Fell In Love With a Girl - The White Stripes

GRAB THE BOOK NEAREST YOU AND TURN TO PAGE 23. WHAT’S LINE 17? (did page 24 cuz page 23 is an image) “...for computer processing. The cataloging and administrative information (call numbers, headings...”

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? I don’t think so lol

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? Probably the last time I watched the Bill and Ted movies

WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? Currently: David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba, and John Boyega.

WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE + SOUND YOU LOVE?

HATE: The sound that eating makes when you’re wearing headphones.

LOVE: The sound those squishy water tube toys make.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? Not really...?

HOW ABOUT ALIENS? Of course!

DO YOU DRIVE? I never got past the permit stage

IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED? I crashed into my cousin’s broken down car lmaooooo

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? I’m currently reading Borne by Jeff Vandermeer and Pacific Fire by Greg Van Eekhout

DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE? Yeah

WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? Into the Spiderverse. It was just as good as everyone said it was!

WHAT’S THE WORST INJURY YOU’VE EVER HAD? I’ve had a concussion and I’ve broken my nose twice

DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? The Umbrella Academy, Geek and Sundry’s VTM campaign

DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE YOU WRONG? If they wrong me badly enough. But usually, no.

IN A RELATIONSHIP? No, I’m a lonely boy