the dumbest stuff in the WOOOORLD makes me cry. like I know what week it is but the song at the end of Big Fun FUCK OFF I'm not even crying bc 'oh "can't we be 17?" no you can't actually oh god oh fuck you actually live in psycho town and you can't escape, no' it's literally just overwhelmingly good writing or directing or whatever. this guy we've NEVER SEEN till now, which is lampshaded even, stands up. okay. who the heck starts a slow clap unironically? oh. oh fuck. oh the slow dawning horror. the eerie rhythmic applause. that's the cult. that's the cult leader. you live in psycho town. no, you can't just be 17.
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A huge shoutout to Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein for making one of the most iconic theme songs in history.
All of their music for the show is amazing, but it was the opening credits theme that first got me hooked.
I'd even go so far as to say that the music was a big part of the reason I fell in love with the show in the first place.
When it started playing in the S4 finale after Will felt that all-too-familiar presence, I shouted!!
The opening theme crossing over into the show itself felt so meta, especially in the final episode of the penultimate season, just as the Upside Down is literally crossing over into Hawkins. It felt like everything in the series has been leading up to this final showdown all along.
It's the Neverending Story effect, too, like we as the audience are suddenly conscious of ourselves and our own experiences with the show as the theme we all know and recognize becomes part of the show itself.
What a track. To this day, I never fast-forward through the opening credits.
Cheers, guys!
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Does it still count as a sapphic poetic love letter if I use all pronouns? Who cares, I have great tits so I think it's valid.
Even through we never met, I feel like I could just find you in a crowd.
It would be so easy, wouldn't it?
But why is that?
Why does your radiance shine through enough for me to recognize it in a sea of other lights?
Maybe it's the way you joke, eyes probably crinkling in delight when someone laughs.
Maybe it's the way you talk so happily about your interests. Oh, I wish I could hear your rants all day, even if I don't particularly care for things you talk about. I think it's enough that you're talking and I can look at the way your eyes shine.
I want to touch your hair and run my fingers through it. See how it feels, see how it shines in the daylight. And maybe under the moonlight, if you allow me to take you out some time. Could I kiss your hands under the moonlight? Those hands of a lovely, blushing girl. Those hard working, calloused fingers still feel so delicate when they trace my cheek. But, of course, only in my mind - I could never allow myself the sin of being under your hands. Oh, but is it? Is it truly wrong of me to look at your skin and see divine beauty in every curve, to wish to kiss your heart so you may never experience it's cold ache? Somehow no one has convinced me fully yet.
I don't feel I deserve your smile - I'm a bitter person, you know? So why does it make me so happy to hear from you? To wonder how your touch feels? I wonder what you truly think of me. And what you'll think of the true me, ugly, bitter side of the one you still seem to cherish.
Love truly is cruel - how could you, a delicate pearl, look at me like I am more that a piece of lonely rock lying deep in the sea where no one will look at me but the oh so lonely fish that live down there?
Just maybe, If I ignore the wispers of the cold-blooded ones and get closer to the skies, to you - I will shine like you? Oh, how I hope so. To reflect light in the ways you do, to be, to feel worthy of being near you, even if my form in darker than yours. Even if I am not as perfect.
And maybe, the closer I get to you, I'd see your true form half hidden inside the shell, under those see-through covers. A little more there, little less here, some scratches - gods, you're beautiful. You're more beautiful then you realize, probably. Why are you so perfect in your imperfectness? Your form, your character - just you. Oh, how I would wish to have your heart just as you have mine.
You're too sweet, you know that? I love you so much, I think I'm starting to love myself through an extension of you. I see myself in your eyes, and maybe I am not the little nimble pebble I once through I was. And maybe you're not the perfectly round in all aspects, cold white pearl I saw you as. Maybe we've both been lost pearls living without protection scratched by the cruel storms in the sea. And maybe we're both better than we think, and only now are learning to see it in each other's expressions under the warm light of love?
I hope so.
The way this begins versus how it ends is driving me crazy. anyway this is us anon
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just finished the creeping shadow
and wow. i loved that book so much.
(i have several lines from the book that i'll post about and talk about later lmao)
i knew lucy would end up joining l&co again, but when i tell you i nearly screamed when i read the line!!! so good.
once again, the locklyle crumbs omg <3<3<3
ugh i loved reading them. especially when they had that deep conversation in the iron chain circle and lucy rejoined l&co!!! and them holding hands ??? and blushing at each other ??? and their shared smiles ??? oh my god.
also i really liked how holly and lucy got on better terms by the end of the book, though holly kind of pissed me off at the beginning, i kind of liked her towards the end.
and george!!! omg. i loved how he and lucy interacted for most of the book — especially when they had that argument at the end of the first case together (at the beginning of the book); because they honestly both needed to have that argument. like it was needed.
kipps was also absolutely hilarious in this book, i've grown to like him a lot lmao
overall i really loved this book!! i've been trying to take it slow so i can savour the books, and i'm on the last one now 😭😭
anyway yeah i really loved tcs, it was so good.
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I should've been sleeping before my flight but instead I drew Seb as Antinous :D
Reference + Commentary:
SEB IS MY MODERN DAY ANTINOUS, OKAY!? I WOULD DEIFY HIM IF I COULD!!!
But seriously I spent like an hour obsessing over statues of Antinous just thinking; "holy fuck, he reminds me so much of Seb???"
Big, pretty eyes? Check. Magnificent curls? Check. Beautiful side profile? Check. Etc etc.
I read this description of a statue and was instantly struck with "this is so Seb.":
"The body and face of this sculpture are in idealized youth, with plump cheeks and round face, and his hair is usually unkempt. Antinous's hair has also been described as artificial looking, even wig-like, because of how similar the placement of his hair is across statues. His youthful appearance, large eyes, pouting lips, and layered locks of hair over his forehead are some of the iconography that can be used to identify him"(x)
Also which AU of mine is this hmmm. It can be either the Renaissance Muse AU(x) or the random Roman Caesar Fernando AU(x) I drew it with the latter in mind(bcs its basis is literally just Hadrian and Antinous), but it's fun to imagine the Martian version as well!! Maybe an AU of an AU, where Mark is Pygmalion, and Seb is Galatea 🤭🤭
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