#anyway. wanna watch john wick with me?

[folieadeuxdy]

it’s real john wick contemplation hours

[banglatown]

when you were trying to girlboss but ended up being the one needing to apologise … wtaf i want a refund

[evrensadwrn]

How do you write John Wick analyses? There are many things you pointed out that I definitely wouldn’t have been able to find myself😅

I notice things because I just like to observe or I realize something way after I’ve watched a movie and then go back to watch that scene/moment again. I admit, no one really decides to check the other details in John Wick films since it’s mostly regarded as an action fest with a confusing story and that’s valid and all. I won’t really be mad if a person doesn’t notice the speck of dust on John’s suit that appears for like 0.0005 seconds while he’s throwing a man over his shoulder.

All of my analyses are just things I notice and then expand upon using theories and just plain out observing people. Of course, body language analyses are there (check this Santino analysis by my friend @bluelolblue )

Details are provided to me by friends, or just random people in YouTube comment sections whenever they post bits of John Wick movies in shorts, and also the god wretched chamber that is r/JohnWick. I mean it’s not really that bad, I just don’t like how they slander my favs and they’re also misogynistic so..

Realized this was getting too long so yeah let me answer your question as a summary plus other things.

I look at details and questions raised and I rip the movies apart finding an answer or something that satiates my hunger when it comes to John Wick lore!!!! When it comes to character analysis, I look at their body language, what their actor says, what Chad Stahelski says, their fashion(yes I know), and also bits of lore when it comes to their backstory and how it correlates to who they are now.

Anyways if you wanna know more about the movies and want to discuss theories and basically anything John Wick my inbox is always open !! :3 give me your John Wick theories I’d love to read them please please please please please please please please please pl

[goodoldwritings]

gaah u have no idea how excited i was 2 find sfl writers out there,,,, it was a pleasant surprise!!! but uhm anyway i was wondering if i could request the four main cultists from date to die for x a masc reader like after the events of the game where its all happy and cheery and stuff... im not sure how it would work for Buck, but i rlly wanna see more of him 😭 if u cant think of anything i would be just as happy if you did before the events of the game instead!! sorry if this is too much but thank u!!!

A lovely ask! I wondered if anyone would ask for the cultists, However I don't have Character edits for them yet.

Warnings:

Spoilers for: Sucker For Love Date To Die For

Summary:

Headcanons for Buck, Kid, Nanni and Billy getting a happily ever after with a masculine reader.

Nanni:

Hot girl summer? Nah 💅Hot girl eternity💅

Even if she is the stereotypical hot blonde girl she isn't stupid, trusting? Yes but not stupid.

Matching nails, it doesn't matter your personality nor your opinion on nail polish you at the very LEAST have your pinkies done to match hers and at the MOST have matching outfits too!

I have this feeling she would volunteer at the library with Muu and gush about the best couples in town. Occationally Rhok'zan joins in to be filled in on all the relationship gossip.

Easily apologizes for her actions in the cult without you asking her to, forgets who she's already apologized to and starts a list in her bedroom.

The only one with family to meet! (None of the other cultists Mentioned family) Nanni constantly elbows you to not mention the cult stuff in front of her parents because they forgot when the world ended and started again.

Also+ double dates with Rhok'zan and Stardust! You are good friends with the pair (How does one give hooves a manicure? Nanni probably looks up a tutorial about caring for goat and Cow hooves to take inspiration from to do it herself)

Rhok'zan loves your relationship with Nanni! You're adorable and she's expecting younglings from you asap! She would love to babysit!

Billy:

Hear me out, Billy is opening a gym, it just feels right. The Gym is based on honor and respect and keeps the utopian folks from "getting soft"

Your "romantic moments" are wrestling eachother to the ground at the gym. She probably kicks your butt no matter how good or bad of shape you are in.

Takes the longest to apologize for any of her actions in the cult, mostly she's just apologizing to Rhok'zan and Stardust.

You two probably keep the town safe by just existing, every Utopia has people who want to mess it up but- look at Billy and think "would I want to fight her and do her loved ones harm?-" No. She will go John wick.

Kid annoys Billy but you don't mind him, it's funny to watch them interact. Sometimes you take Kid with you to the gym just to mess with Billy.

Despite how rough tough and difficult Billy is, helping her braid her hair is a soft activity you two probably do. She is a tad tsundere about it but... she totally could do her hair herself, so she's letting you do it.

Rhok'zan is Concerned, she knows all relationships are different but watching Billy pin you to the floor in a chokehold (lovingly) has her perplexed.

Kid:

I had the most ideas for him first, hear me out- You write and play music together! (Or if you're not musically talented you help the best ya can!)

In Rhok'zan's almost utopian world you two are like a two person boy band working on making his dream come true without Bucks magic brainwashing.

Or you're like his manager, keeping him from doing stupid things in the heat of the moment.

But first there is the guilt, he cannot apologize to most of the people he wronged because they don't remember. He remembers and it causes him doubt about his career on bad days.

Similarly to wondering if his fans have the free will to love him, he wonders if you too are somehow brainwashed by this world. Prepare for clingy mornings and "are you sure you're not under a spell-"

"Yes, I'm sure you dummy."

Given its a masculine reader- sharing clothes and accessories, he loves to match! At the very least match bracelets at all times.

Rhok'zan thinks your relationship is adorable! You're good for eachother (and definitely wants to use her powers to get you some kids but that's intense!)

Buck:

"I can fix him I swear." I'm kidding! If I can love Nyanlathotep, you can love Buck.

It took a while for stardust to convince Buck to come see the Utopia world. That is when you met.

The first thing is his appearance, he is... messed up, but I just imagine after the equivalent of eons gazing at the stars he has this cool starry look to him. Give the man smoochy kisses to make him feel better, just smother him in affection-

Emotional support, Therapy human.

You are quickly trusted to supervise him and be his tour guide around. Buck has no access to magic nor is he really mad anymore.

You get him some nice clothes and he stays with you at your home, he is a homebody these days with his appearance and what he's done.

Eventually you set up a meeting with the others (Nanni, Kid, Billy and Stardust) for apologies but getting Him and Rhok'zan in the same room is far harder- given he tortured her and they are Exes.

Rhok'zan is worried about you with your relationship but definitely thinks you are good for Buck. Keeps an eye on you jussst in case she thinks he mistreats you.

[bubacorn]

alright, so this is gonna be so cheesy, but i wanna make a post with some of my favorite ST fics i've written this year, if for nothing else, just to remind myself that i can arrange words around, and they can come out half-decent. so, yeah, sorry in advance to anyone who has to see this, i wouldn't dare put the fandom fanfic tag on this, this is only for my dear followers, you are lovely, i apologize if this appears on your dash.

Come Beside Me (This Won’t Hurt I Swear) okay, so i remember being so in love with the last part, especially the whole morning sunlight thing. that was (is?) my favorite piece of writing at that point (which really wasn't hard, cause there wasn't much to pick from yet)

God Gives His Toughest Flus to His Sleepiest Vessels this is just pure mush, but stubborn sick Vessel being taken care of is very close to my heart

And I Don’t Wanna Get in Your Way this all started with the "Get comfortable" "I am" and the "You're allowed to take up space". in my mind, they're watching either The Matrix or John Wick at the end for some reason

I Got Problems Down in My Bones gods, this one. the little parts just wrote themselves and there was this common thread between them and i loved this one so much (still do). there's some pieces of me in this and it makes me feel sad, but seen that people related to this one (i love you, i hope you're doing well)

I Will Shield You from the Waves, if They Find You this is very sweet and all, but i always think of it more as sad

Break and Bend to My Basic Need didn't plan on writing this, but the brainworms made me and then it turned out kinda good

It’s All Your Fault, Even When You Don’t Mean To this. this and the next one are twin fics for me, i always think of them in pairs (probably cause i wrote them back-to-back). can't articulate, but it's also very close to my heart. IV holding the back of Vessel's head and wiping his tears and making him feel worth it make me feel very normal, i almost feel like it wasn't me who wrote it

This Is the Start of Something this!!! i made them watch worst cooks in America cause why not. this one's also very close to my heart, definitely one of my favorites i've ever written

I’m Frantic in Your Soothing Arms okay, the implication that Vessel knows nothing makes the transformation easier from his own experience suffering, but he still tries anyway, cause he would take a tummy ache from III without hesitation, if he could. also, rubbing his stomach is just so intimate and he's so desperate to help, even though he knows he can't, but still tries. and Vessel calling III 'my heart' and 'my III' just came to me and they made me lose my mind so of course i had to include them. feeling very normal about this one, too

And the Pain Still Hates Me for some reason i love the base idea of this, i don't even know how it appeared in my head, but i'm so glad it did. blowing kisses was a last-minute addition, also didn't know where that came from, but it's so cute

And Honey, I Only Appeared So I Can Fade Away this one! i had half an idea for this and like one sentence typed in, then just started writing and i loved writing this, it was so much fun and i adore the end product, one of my favorites. now that i'm thinking, maybe i could expand on this

I Believe I’m Not Alone this was kinda based on one of those posts that was like 'you deserve to be loved and chosen, not almost loved and almost chosen' and my brain went 'Vessel!' and then i wrote this. again, pieces of me, pieces of him

Come Squeeze the World and Drip It Down My Throat Again i was a bit afraid with this one, cause i felt it was a little clumsy (?), with the way the smaller parts revolved around a main idea but weren't all very closely connected. but gods, i made my own heart hurt with this one a lot. also, love this title, some of my favorite lyrics. loaded with layers of trauma, but it's very dear to me

I’m Doing What I Must, Which Is Attempting to Kill the Little Boy Inside (But as Hard as I Try, the Child Will Not Die) again, loosely compiled together around an idea, but this took a shorter time to write i think. it flowed well for me, and again, it hurt right in my meow-meow, but i love this a lot. also, the title just wouldn't leave me alone and i wanted to use it for something and i felt that this was a perfect fit. then at the last moment i added a parallel, cause my brain thought it would be nice. i have to say, it is

okay, so this is just pure self-indulgent rambling about my Sleep Token fics, but writing gave me a lot these past months and i really love it and still have ideas that i wanna share. huge, huge thank you to everyone who's read anything i wrote, left kudos and comments, you are wonderful, i hope you are doing okay! 💕 drop by my dms/tag me if you want to yell at me or something

not gonna say have a great next year or anything like that, cause i don't like making a big deal out of the beginning of a year, as it just puts pressure on it and that's so unnecessary. have a lovely day, i hope you got some rest and could do something you enjoy and i wish all the best to you! see you around! 💖

[joyce-stick]

I don't really wanna directly respond to this reblog of the Sonohana post cause I don't want to bother or argue with this person and I don't want anyone else to bother them either (please don't) but

(This post is sort of now picking up on that one section of the Adashima essay that I said we were going to follow up on but I'm still a little scared to post this)

I do not think takes like this are good. To my mind, eroge or lewd content featuring completely fictionalized teenaged/ostensibly teenaged characters who are drawn/imagined/played by adults isn't "child porn" any more than the John Wick series are snuff films, and in both cases the reasons why the genuine article is bad but faking it is okay is because doing the real thing causes actual harm to someone (e.g., unethical exploitation of a child, or someone's actual death)

If there isn't actually any harm to be prevented (and there's no evidence, to my knowledge, that lolicon art leads to child abuse), then what you're actually saying is "I'm uncomfortable with this being depicted so I don't think it should be allowed to exist" and I'm not comfortable with that moralism being applied to art in general because I don't think anyone should get to decide what is and isn't off-limits to depict in art. And I also don't think we get to defend some art on these grounds but also make exceptions for things we specifically don't like

It's fine to not want to watch teenagers fuck or read about teenagers fucking, but plenty of teenagers fuck in real life, and plenty of people write about it or make art about it or have experiences to relate about that and they should be allowed to talk about it. People should also be allowed to write about age gap relationships or incest or rape or violence or abuse or whatever other "taboo" things they feel like. These are things that are part of the human experience and people should be allowed to depict and talk about them to any extent they feel like and they shouldn't be required to justify themselves when someone is personally uncomfortable with their art

I've met actual lolicon fans (a fair amount of whom are queer or trans folks) and they do not support child abuse! A lot of people who make or enjoy lolicon art aren't making it to be pedophiles or abuse children, but often rather because they themselves were abused as children and enjoy lolicon because they feel like it allows them a safe space to work through their trauma or whatever other feelings they have and like

I don't get that! Not completely. I'm not one of those people. But I also don't think we need to get it, or that people are required to have experienced child abuse to enjoy lolicon art, or justify to others why they enjoy it.

And also historically when anyone with any power tries to any significant degree to ban "only the bad/icky stuff" it results in a lot of genuine queer art by queer people* getting caught in the crossfire (almost as if that is the intention!), and often those casualties include queer art that isn't in any way obscene or salacious, and anyway

Which incidentally has been a side effect of Steam arbitrarily banning visual novels that are not porn! (or as in the case of that one Sonohana game that got banned, had the porn cut out of the Steam version)

These kinds of takes also really bother me when people bring up Happy Sugar Life or Onimai or Citrus or whatever and imply that these stories are somehow irredeemably morally abhorrent and they shouldn't be allowed to exist. Like... okay, you can not like these things, or not find them meaningful, but, is it actually hurting anyone to tell this story? Shouldn't it be allowed to exist for the people who do like it?

An example in this regard I bring up a lot is this Anifem article on Happy Sugar Life. The author simultaneously argues "this manga helped me work through my shit" but also "this manga is morally abhorrent and should not be read or recommended to anyone ever".

Again, I cannot stress that this story is not a lost gem. I came not to praise Happy Sugar Life but to bury it. The manga ends with a childhood suicide pact, for crissakes. And Shio, just as much a victim of recurrent abuse as Satou is, gets very little depth outside of being Satou’s motivation. Horrifically enough, the manga all but confirms Shiho’s damnation into the same twisted, obsessive cycle that Satou was trapped in until the end. I absolutely needed this manga, and I don’t regret reading it. But good lord, it is not good. This is a guilty pleasure that stays firmly in “guilty.” I don’t think there’s anyone out there I can safely recommend it to—I side-eye a lot of people who like it, especially when they start praising its “awesome yandere protagonist” or its worst possible take on “be gay, do crime.”  And, Christ, I would never plug this to an abuse survivor. I joy-rode this tour-de-madness, but even I still spent a week afterward somewhere between “destabilized” and “no bath or shower will make me feel clean.”

I feel like there's a really absurd doublethink being particularly pronounced here, like, it needs to be qualified that this is a "wrong" piece of art, before they can say "here's why I liked it anyway", and this is a kind of duality you see a lot, where it feels like people are obligated to excuse or apologize for engaging with and finding some merit in the "bad" thing. This feels like a positive review of the manga that is reviewing it favorably from a lens that engaged with the story on its own merits, that also isn't "allowed" to be that, because the writer isn't "allowed" to just say that they liked it or found value in it

and just

Shouldn't people just be allowed to say that they liked things?

I think fiction is allowed to depict emotionally uncomfortable or morally dubious or socially taboo things, because those things are potentially interesting and art is less interesting if it's limited in what it can be about, and I don't think that creating such things or liking them reflects poorly on either the artist or the audience, or that anyone has any business enforcing limits on what's acceptable to depict in art, and people shouldn't be required to present a "why this actually has artistic value and is therefore one of the exceptions from being problematic" take in order to be allowed to like a thing

And also

You can also say that you don't like something without implying it's morally wrong for it to exist, that also

Anyway this post got a bit rambly but also

Read Subahibi, if you think you can stand it

Reading Subahibi is how I and my headmates came to the conclusion that "problematic" art is not ever bad

*not that that really matters, cishet people are allowed to make queer art too, that is how many cishet people find themselves to not be cishet (and many such people find this out through creating porn)

okay so locking reblogs to only certain people doesn't work if you edit mentions to the people in after the fact. Whatever. I will let this be a hill to die on

[mortalfollies]

First Time Watches of 2023 (3/3)

SILENT NIGHT - The idea of a Christmas apocalypse film where everyone dies was immediately appealing to my mother and I because our family sucks. That Jojo Rabbit kid is fucking stellar, made me sob.

THE THING - practical effects 💖. Just such a solid film, again another tumblr recommendation I really wanted to tick off, the descent into distrust, the tension, the stakes, sexy Kurt Russell; yeah, 10/10.

LADYHAWKE - Everything about this was made for me except for that excruciatingly 80s score - get that sound outta here! Matthew Broderick is incredibly endearing as Phillipe “the mouse”, i absolutely adore him. The curse is brilliant - and hell, that scene with the transformation as they lie beside each other - MAN! I just wish that instead of telling us about the priest’s curse, and him summoning the devil or whatever, we’d been able to see it. Even if it had just been shadows on the wall, or a semi-animated sequence - would’ve added a little extra.

TREASURE PLANET - My friend Hannah had recommended this to me a decade ago and I’m very sorry it took a literal decade to get to it. The most I knew about Jim Hawkins was that people that made non/disney amvs back in the 2000s/2010s shipped him with Ariel, those Jelsa bitches don’t even know how bad it was. Anyway, this film was gorgeous, oh my god? And while I hate “I need a father figure” plots this one was well-written and genuinely moving. Great ensemble, tho the robot played by Martin Short feels unnecessarily jammed in.

THE LION IN WINTER - Numerous mutuals have posted about this; god, I’m so glad. This was another one I picked up a DVD of in my favourite antique place. KATHERINE HEPBURN. is everything. This whole thing was…insane…Shakespearean delivery for dialogue that is 90% fitting and then 10% bizarre. Timothy Dalton hot asf. Anthony Hopkins really using his eyes. All the Eleanor & Henry scenes are of course, absolute highlights - i love it when people just lie to each other, and between all of that, reveal their devastating truths - but what struck me most, and has stayed with me, is the three princes locked in the dark dungeon, reduced to little boys by the violent whims of their father & the schemes of their mother. a manipulator, a warrior, and, well, john, utterly powerless. Bizarre & entertaining.

THE BOY AND THE HERON - Saw this today, it was visually stunning; Mahito is a strong character and his VA is great; Mark Hamill delivers, but Christian Bale is wobbly, his accent fluctuating. The character of the Heron is a real highlight and wow, kudos to RPats. Love the world this film creates. Kiriko is my new fave ghibli woman. Dreamlike, mournful, fantastical, tugs on the heartstrings, enjoyable but actually made me appreciate Spirited Away more, which has never been one of my favourites but now I really wanna rewatch. Spoiler, btw, if you’re like that: when the tower started crumbling I started welling up because it just felt like a goodbye from Miyazaki, and I don’t even idolise him; it just really feels like his heart, and the heart of all the animators, was in this, and by god I appreciate that.

oh and a shout out to john wick 4, the peter cushing version of dracula, puss in boots the last wish & spiderverse 2, which were all pretty great! I have had a great time with movies this year.

[echthr0s]

saw a "name 7 comfort movies" tag meme goin around so I'ma just do it bc I wanna <3

also it was interesting to try to delineate what movies actually feel home-like and grounding/affirming in that specific way, or movies that give me the warm fuzzies or are nostalgic, as opposed to just being movies I like or am in love with or whatever. there are many movies that I love to fucking death, that are legitimately a part of my soul, that I can't rightly call comfort movies because they also put me through the fucking ringer every single time so I can't actually watch them all that often and I need to be sufficiently emotionally prepared (or have sufficient time to go insane for a few hours afterward) when I do

anyway! the list, which is actually 9 bc I do what I want ~

Event Horizon

Dead Ringers

John Wick (any of them)

The Fly

In the Mouth of Madness

Anastasia

Rise of the Guardians

Quills

Enchanted

[theorist-influencer-untitled]

7.6.24 Saturday

1:32 am

I feel bad my first on-line journal here was being hacked and erased... It was started year 2013....I feel bad... Then, someone just copied me and removed me again and again...

My adoptive parent's taught me to avoid people who copied me and removed me being first that I was really the first one who used this tumbler.

All those details were important to me...

1:48 am

Still,have windblow...

I got it... Thank God, coz the first account was also important to me... I planned to print it out as my memories as my personal journal...

There are people who are bad angels... People who can't be fair on a particular thing.

1:59 am

Still,have windblow...

Anyways, done doing live in Tagged, I just hope and pray my voice synced in....

I feel frustrated... I'm just being real there are wicked people... But there are fair people as well and hoping those are my angels...

I still feel frustrated in life... I wanna get my cousin-white that is closer to reality and I feel irritated...

Angels and guys, there are group of wicked people like removing you on a scene and stealing your stuff and some of your style and worst of all stealing your bf's on purpose to steal. Those are wicked people and irreligious!

On other angle, I need to pay my loans and I wanna buy Starbucks everyday... I want some vanities... I still feel fat,ugly and wrinkled....

8:47 am

Still,have windblow...

Whew! Done, washing my baby John's floormats... It is a bit hellish to do it manually... So, it is very important that my cousin white should respect me on having John in our life but we need to think of something modern on how to clean John's floormats...

I'm on a manual and not that my ideal life here with my 2 Uncle's....I don't have a car... But I guess it is part of it washing John's floormats manually? But I need a wash-sink that is much more comfortable??? I think so...

10:48 am

Still,have windblow...

I love dreaming and wishing angels... We have so many problems here but beauty still matters....

Actually,this is just a dirty kitchen to be considered but Filipino's we don't practice it yet but this can be a good simple kitchen though I love glass house...

Simple,neat and clean...

But this is a good dream... I love the sun-glass...

11:07 am

Still,have windblow...

Given a chance here, I wanted a dog wash spot, where I can wash John's floormats having a good poise or on a standing position... It will be outside or a dog's wash room...

Outside faucet for dirty floormats or whatever...

12:40 noon

Still,have windblow...

It is so depressing being flatten this way... I had have dreams to have a pretty house where everything are on a good set-up... It was really hypnotizing to play and dream in Pinterest...

Argh! I need money and job and still want vanities and I want a coffee machine as well...

3:34 pm

Uncle DD and Aunt Karen are here again since this am or yesterday... I was just really wondering, it seems Uncle DD didn't actually feed Neko or probably they are all sleeping???

3:53 pm

Still,have windblow...

I'm not happy being this way angels... I really wanna do nose perfection it is not because I'm insecure....Don't take it that way... They took my younger face angels... My face is now sagging and I'm on my 40's single and bitterish... It is for my self-esteem or at least a botox first, I hate having this "deep smile lines"...

Plus, thinking of money... How will I pay my loans... But will do my medical on Monday...

I wanna gain uppish friends and meet good people along the way...

I can't meet my old friends coz I don't know where are they? Plus, I have the complexities that I'm not ready... But if they need to say sorry then I need to hear it...

I wanna get my cousin-white... I want the smart or google glasses. I wanna work and earn and better life. I want the one which I can watch....I feel self-pity... I don't wannna die this way...

4:27 pm

I feel self-pity.... I want vanities and some stuff angels...

I need a job, I know.... I want to progress... I'm having complex. I really wanna do a nose perfection or botox... I feel self-pity 17 years,they just want me to fade for nothing...

4:35 pm

I don't know... I want a child but I'm thinking now if there is a wealthy and handsome man and a woman who can carry my child and child of my handsome bf2x aside from my cousin-white...

If someone can give birth for me and my bf2x will pay for it but it is my child and my child of my handsome wealthy bf. This is my dream, I wanna have that kind of image where I will be modern and science...

Like can we do that?

I can be a Barbie mom... Of course I can have sex forever and work and happy and waiting for my child as he or she goes out from the other vagina'z... It is my dream image...

A funny thought...

4:47 pm

Still,have windblow...

I'm fading for nothing here... Self-pitying since 2007... No achievement...

I wanna have a child but then I'm not yet fulfilled... I feel my time and life will be nothing if I can't have a child but at the same time, I was supposed to be spoiled... If given a chance I love modern science...

I wanna find love... I wanna have success for myself that I can buy Starbucks everyday...

5pm

Still,have windblow...

I really do feel self-pity... I will be working soon but hoping for a success this time coz I feel self-pity... I feel self-pity...

6:15 pm

Still,have windblow...

I really wanna have my cousin-white... I wanna get him...

I wanna get some progress in job as well...

I hope my cousin-white will support me on doing my nose perfection, in time...

7:56 pm

Hmm... Strange character of Uncle DD... They are not feeding Neko until now...

8:05 pm

My friend is not in their house... I need a toothpaste angels... Ely is the one who is backing me up... But I still have 1 sachet here...

Whew! I don't wanna lose my teeth for not brushing it... hahaha... Worst to have a bad breath hahaha... I need a toothpaste...

Chimbi told me Ely went to the party...

I need some toiletries here angels..

8:19 pm

If Uncle DD can kill Neko, he can kill us here angels... It is easy for him to do that.... A simple way to analyze a person's character.

8:56 pm

I'm fixing my stuff, I feel bad if someone can access my door and getting stuff from me and passing it on someone without my approval... I feel bad... The leggings as well my channel style leggings is missing...

I don't wanna sell my stuff coz I love material stuff coz I'm religious...

I'm not gonna sell my stuff it is better to sing to survive coz I love acquiring stuff...

[the-cat-chat]

May 25, 2024

Extraction (2020)

A black-market mercenary who has nothing to lose is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.

Warning: Review may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

JayBell: It's Memorial Day weekend, and how better to celebrate than a movie about an Australian mercenary. Patriotic? Maybe not. But close enough.

If someone told me this movie took place in the John Wick universe I would believe them. Chris Hemsworth's character has the same health stamina as Keanu Reeves, and the same ability to survive the impossible while also dealing with extreme loss. Don't get me wrong, I love this type of action movie that walks the line between superhuman and regular badass human. And I think this is a pretty great showing of the genre.

It's got great fight choreography, some emotional moments, betrayal, exciting car chases, and of course a wild David Harbour appears. I appreciate the relationship they built between Chris Hemsworth's character and the teenager he was guarding. Although the teenager was maybe a bit too emotionally mature at times. I know they did it so that the viewer could learn more about Chris Hemsworth's character's sad past, but the level of the teenager's awareness is a little crazy.

Basically, this is a great action movie. So if that's what you're looking for, then no complaints. Well my only complaint is the almost silly way for them to contrive a "cliffhanger" type ending. I really don't think it's necessary, and that's probably the only thing I'd change about the movie.

Rating: 6.5/10 cats 🐈‍

Anzie: I had no expectations for this movie bc I only knew it had Chris Hemsworth and it was a Netflix action movie. And bc of that the plot was whiplash inducing. First- watching it is exhausting, I legit joked the whole two hours was going to be the same fight scene from the start of the movie but just continued and I kinda wasn’t wrong. And can I just say I really didn’t appreciate the bone crushing of the one guy fixing his busted up nose or the way Chris Hemsworth killed some guy with that rake. Why was a rake even inside??? Just to harm my psyche??? I CLOSED MY EYEeeesss!

Anyway it is very nerve racking and gets you invested in what’s going to happen next and obvi we know this tough guys gonna go soft and wanna keep the kid safe- not just bc he’s a job but cuz he likes him. And speaking of Ovi. Where’s his degree is psychiatry?? He’s good. Anyway—- I totally knew David Harbor would be evil. Netflix just wants to keep crushing my soul? Right?

And can I say even that- I was “ok” - but the end. I’m mad. And I know it’s drama- it’s how it goes- blah blah blah. I love that he’s indestructible until the very end when the helicopter is THERE and ONE BULLET takes him down and OF cOuRsE he’s next to ThE BrrIDdge!! And of course it’s a callback to him jumping off the cliff in the first scene. And of course Ovi has to jump off the high dive into the pool to blurry looking Chris Hemsworth standing off to the side- so we know he’s actually still alive. Ugggh. I hate it. I can’t waiiiit for the sequel just to get more of Ovi’s words of wisdom.

Rating: 5.5/10 Cats 🐈‍⬛

[hyperculture]

1, 11, 38 <3

hiiii jo thank you for sending these <333333

1: Talk about the first time you watched your favorite movie.

i dont have an all time favorite movie but once upon a time my mom and i were trying to go see john wick 3 and the freeway was closed because an important politician was visiting so traffic was. HORRIBLE. we finally get there over an hour later and lo and behold outside the movie theatre is an uncle yelling on his phone "fuck this [politician name] ruined my john wick!" . never before have i felt such immediate brotherhood with a stranger.

anyway john wick 3 is deffo one of my top movies. im simply way too attracted to asia kate dillon high femme adjudicator and well. i can never say no to keanu.

11: Talk about the best dream you’ve ever had.

i dont remember my dreams and when i do they're ssri dreams so. uh. yeah idk they're actually horrifying

38: Talk about songs that remind you of certain people.

i have a whole playlist of song's that remind me of bestie and our relationship arc thru the years. im not confessional type of guy so it was easier for me to be like "this is us" rather than just say it in my own words. it's here if you wanna give it a listen

[apencilandpen]

MAC Movie Reviews 7 (8? 9? Hell if I know)

In my attempt to watch every movie mentioned in They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: the Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action, I have listed and cross categorized each movie in a spreadsheet, and am watching them in whatever order I feel like, adding other action movies that weren't mentioned but pique my interest as I see fit. Most recently (last night) I watched Predator (1987). And I have Thoughts!

So very Movie. Like, so very 80s Man Movie. And that's not necessarily a bad thing! Just very Macho Man Fight Monster 😄 Not a lot of emotional nuance but like, not every action movie can be First Blood.

SPEAKING OF this movie felt really influenced by First Blood (1982). Like take Rambo and make him an alien killing machine bad guy instead of a highly traumatized and villainized Vietnam War vet (but that's a post for another day, it's still stewing). And then you sick Rambo on him! It's like Rambo vs Rambo! Though I do find it super interesting that Dutch and his team use super sized guns while Rambo uses a knife for most of the movie. Something something American military power something something American guns woo-hoo. BUT ANYWAY I'd really love to learn more about the making if Predator and see if/how much First Blood influenced it

I'm not a huuuuuuuuge fan of Schwarzenegger. Idk, I just don't get it. Well, yeah I do, again, something something American bravado/machismo/yada yada (I know he's wasnt *born* in America but like most of his movies are American). That being said, I think his style of acting works pretty well for this movie, and his physicality really sells the match up between him and the Predator. Love hearing "get to tha choppa!" In its natural habitat 😄

I loved loved loved the Predator. His design is so cool and instantly iconic, I love that it's all practical, I loved that we saw him have to perform field medicine on himself, I loved that his blood glows!!! I'm also an enormous fan of the Jaws tradition of "don't let them see the monster too much" bc it means you have to get clever with your storytelling and tension. The first time we see the Predator's hand in his heat vision was so cool and genuinely kinda scary! The fact that they plant the idea that he can also mimic voices was so well done and raised the tension, esp when the CIA guy (I'm sorry Carl Weathers I don't remember your characters name) is following Mac and we hear him but can't see him and we're like "oh no! It's the Predator!" And then it ISN'T! Really good storytelling. And then at the end when the Predator laughs! It's a messed up version of Billy's laugh! So wack!

I thought the use of the heat vision was so cool and well done. It instantly keys us into the fact that this isn't just some guy, but something else! It's also a cool stylistic technique. It reminded me of Pitch Black (2000) where they use not only the colors of the different suns to tint and blow out the frame, but also Riddick's goggles and how he sees. The use of sight to set creatures and people apart is such efficient storytelling in my opinion. And then is you wanna work in sYMBOLISM OF SIGH- (is dragged offstage).

ANYWAY, this movie areally reminded me of Pitch Black a lot actually. If Predator is Rambo -> the Predator, then Pitch Black is the Predator -> Riddick. Like, Riddick is the Predator if you turned him human and gave him back part of his humanity. Pitch Black is even shot like Riddick is a predatory character (psst its because he is!) He's not the protagonist for most, if not all, of the movie, and he sneaks and slinks all over the place, hiding and watching and stealing bits of hair before becoming useful and stepping up. He's a known violent killer and criminal who is the top of his game and the best at what he does who also happens to have wack eyesight! Rambo -> the Predator -> Riddick. I rest my case. (Oooo Riddick vs the Predator...move over Alien vs Predator that's the movie *I* wanna see 😄)

I feel like I had other thoughts, but this mightve been it. Will update if I remember

Predator (1987): not as good as First Blood, about as good as The Terminator and Pitch Black, and I'd need to watch the original Alien again before making comparisons. I'm not feeling compelled to watch any of the sequels or crossovers, but I *will* be watching Prey (2022) bc that movie looked AWESOME

I'd say 6/10 burned trophy skulls, and I would a) have it in my collection and b) would watch it again

[deadbirds-and-daydreams]

Thoughts on hunter the vigil?

I am a looot more familiar with hunter the reckoning than I am with vigil tbh. I know that vigil doesnt really have the imbued which is prolly a good choice. Dont get me wrong i love the imbued and i love the messengers in htr. But it is quite religious leaning and overall I think i prefer regular humans like teaming up together to fight the unknown and monsters much greater than them. I think I enjoy how v5 made a standard hunter game without the imbued. Tho i do wish they will get their own book of smth later on cuz im a big fan of being able to choose wat u wanna play. But i doubt wod will do that. I assume itll be like the SI book. Which ergh. Dissapointing (and I adore the SI)

EITHERWAY general thoughts on them both, i love the way how humanity and friendship is a corner stone of it all. But also i enjoy to look at it more critically. All hunters have to be a lil fockin wackadoodle to do wat they do. And they are just folk with weapons n such fighting wat thry assume are monsters while also lacking the propper knowledge about these monsters. Its a fear of the unknown. Look at vampires in vtm. Most are pretty damn bad. But not all. Some choose to sustain by animal blood and cling on to their humanity. Others have no other choice and simply try to survive underneath the boot of their sect. And then a hunter cell shows up at ur haven who think ure a terrifying monsters when really ure just some guy who got recently embraced and u didnt choose the vampire life either. Its a wee bit funny. But also one can read some more critical undertones as well when looking through the lense of reality.

Besides that tho, hunter is kinda fucking funny. Like, terrible situations usually but. Real fucking funny as well. I highly recommend hunter the parenting for all just so one gets the idiocy that can be a part of a hunter game. Hell theres just smth hilarious bout a group of humans trynna stop forces beyond their comprehension no matter if they fail pr succeed itll be a great time to write or play.

It also gives me great trans masc enjoyment tho i couldnt tell ya why. Maybe cuz u can play it a wee bit like dem taxi driver or john wick movies which are very ya know TESTOSTERONE YUH typa movies. Which i very much enjoy. Me n my friend been watching those movies lately for our toxic masculinity movie night~ its all been great fun.

ANYWAYS TL;DR Hunter in gen is pretty fun! I know waaay more bout htr than htv so sorry for dat. Watch hunter the parenting on youtube! And ehh look at ur games critically sometimes especially in hunter. But also just have fun shit doesnt have to be serious always ♡

[ramblesbrambles]

John Wick AU where the man GETS A HAPPY ENDING (ish)

Literally cannot watch the john wick movies anymore because it just makes me sad so im writing this to cheer me up ANYWAYS

AU where, after his wife dies, John get protection squad. Even BEFORE his wife dies he gets a protection squad because, lets face it, there’s gotta be like an assassin fan club of the Baba Yaga himself right??

Fanboy Assassin #1: So. News on the street is that the Baba Yaga is retiring

Fanboy Assassin #2: he WHAT????

Fanboy Assassin #1: You know what this means, right?

Fanboy Assassin #2: Our fantasy of domestic terrorism, as in, our man himself wrecking shit as a househusband, may actually come true???

Fanboy Assassin #1 and #2: swoon

Like legit, he’s well known as a legend. He’s killed in basically any way a person can think of. He’s got the Cleanest rep of all the assassins. Everybody knows not to get on his bad side. AND HE GOT OUT with minimal fuss??? Man just wants to live a quiet life with his wife???? (And he’s not a bad looker either damn)

Even the other assassins in the movie were just in it for the pride or money but just. imagine. The Continental, and the High Council or whatever theyre called straight up putting a notice out saying ‘Retired Assassin, Do NOT Engage’ because they don’t wanna mess with John no longer. He may be useful but theyve seen how deadly he is just on the job, they do not want to see him motivated beyond that against them.

Meanwhile, the fanclub is stalking him everywhere. As in, to the park. To the shops. They have cameras everywhere, not even half poised for any nakey photos nah straight up they saw a middle-aged married man and collectively decided to hero worship him and his relationship with his wife because - get this - the relationship is healthy. There’s no faffing around where theres cheating or theres the secret nonsens John straight up told his wife ‘yeah I used to be an assassin and retired for you’ and Daisy goes ‘Haha nice’ but also ‘incredibly fucked up of you’ but also ‘wow thats incredibly romantic of you’

Of course he’s gonna notice the group of mercenaries following him around. Of course hes gonna try to confront them.

Try.

Heres the thing: these may also trained mercenary assassins, but like hell they gonna confront their celebrity crush the Baba Yaga so this is basically just evasion training advanced for professionals and above. John Wick may be the best at what he does (killing) but he was Not prepared for a whole group of mercenaries to scatter like cockroaches the second he takes a step towards one of them

Eventually this is just John Wick pulling the Unamused Keanu meme at his fans and his fans looking upon him in adoration.

[yup-thats-me]

Take care of you || Keanu Reeves x fem!reader

pairing: Keanu Reeves x fem!reader

warnings: periods nothing major, mentions of blacking out. Just fluff

summary: you're on your period and Keanu's there to help you through it

a/n: guess who's on her period? me ): anyways hope you enjoy!

masterlist

Keanu was shocked to say the least when he saw you laying on the living room floor, your body seeEmingly limp. Rushing to your side, he knelt down beside you.

"My love, you alright?" His face full of concern. You lifted your face from the wooden floor to look at him. Your face dull, the bright in your (e/c), that Keanu adored, non-existent. Oh he knew the look. You're on your period.

"I hate being a woman", you croaked. "It's so hard being a woman." He gave you a light smile before wrapping his hands around your fram, pulling you in for an embrace. He kissed the top of your head, rocking to side to side. "I know baby. I know," he whispered.

Keanu knew your periods were hard. The cramps were so bad that one time, you blacked out from the pain. From then on, he made it his responsibility to take care of you whenever your week arrived. But, he didn't know that today was the day as he had left the house before you woke up, having to go to the studio for filming.

You two stayed there for a minute before Keanu spoke up. "How about this? You watch a movie or anything you like and I'll make a quick round to the grocery store and get everything you need?" He suggested.

You looked at him in awe. He always knew ways to cheer you up whenever you're down. Smiling at him, you nodded your head.

He stood up and gestured for you to get up as well. "I feel like I'll die if I stand up", you whined. He chuckled at you. He scooped down again, lifting you up bridal-style and walked towards the couch before the tv screen. You gave ot a surprised yelp at his action, giggling at him.

He sat you down on the couch, and handed you the remote. You pouted, a sign that you wanted him to pick you a movie. Chuckling, he shook his head at your childish nature, the one he grew to love more and more. "What do you wanna watch?"

You thought for a minute before a smug smile spread across you plump lips. "John Wick." Keanu knew you'd choose that. The film was your comfort film and you absolutely loved John. Although Keanu would be ashamed to admit it, he was a bit jealous of John Wick seeing how much you adored him.

Smiling at you, he put on the movie. He turned back again to place a kiss on you're forehead. "I'll be quick". You giggled again. "You better be".

With that, Keanu left you with your movie for the grocery store. As soon as he got in the mall, he made his way to the snacks aisle. He picked out all the thing you love. Chocolates of every kind, Oreos, Nutella, all the sweet goodies. He also picked out a packet of tampon and pads of your favourite brand. He knew you'll need it.

When he laid all his thing on the billing counter, the cashier went wide eyed as she recognised the actor and gave him a wierd look at his choosen things. Keanu was used to this. He'd do anything in the world for the love of his life even if it meant people giving him judgemental looks, or even some snarky remarks. If he needed tampons, he needed tampons. End of discussion.

Keanu was greeted by you belting out the lyrics of Think by Kaledia. He immediately it was the red circle scene. You loved that scene. He smiled at himself, and made his way to the couch where you were. Sitting beside you, the scene was still ongoing, and he knew better than to interrupt you. One time he did, you were mad at him for the next hour. So, he sat there quietly watching you, a smile gracing his pink, thin, lips.

After the scene was done, you paused the movie. Facing Keanu, you smiled at him brightly. He handed you a pack of oreos. You leaped at him full force, he had to act quick to hold you. Of course he held you. He always did.

Thanking him by placing a kiss on his cheeks, you settled down again with the movie this tim, with Keanu. He did got up for a minute to grab you both a bottle of water and a fuzzy blanket. Wrapping you and him in it, you both watched the John Wick trilogy together.

[mybiasisexo]

WIP Reveal Tag  

tagged by the baddest bitch @biaswreckingfics 💕

game: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! Tag as many people as you have wips.

I don't expect any asks so im just gonna like talk about them here or whatever. We will prob only see 2 of these maybe knowing me lmfao :/ (wait I was bout to post when I thought 'fuck it imma post a lil snippet of each HA!)

Entangled - I technically have up to chapter 11 written but after some minor revisions, im rewriting everything so....its like im still on chapter 4 😔

“Mmm, don’t stop doing that,” he purrs. “I want everyone to know what we did tonight.”  👀

Gods - a chaptered fic based on the kai drabble Gray.... I got the outline done so far ✊🏾

OC is a demi god. Her mother is human, but her father is a god–the god of death, to be exact. She comes from a cult, an ancient religion who worships the old gods and try to create demi gods.

kai drabble - believe it or not, I have one drabble left....sent in 2020 😬. imma make it exxxtra long, so yeah. I have a rough idea of what its gonna be about, but haven't started writing it yet.... y'all pls dont cancel me im just a simple girl surviving

You shrug. “Everything happened so fast, I really can’t remember. I wasn’t on birth control.” “Everyone is on birth control,” he huffs.

What Happens in the Dark - vampire!Baek chapter fic. I have posted some of it and, well, that's all Ive got done on it..........

“You make it seem like you're in your seventies,” you bark a laugh. “How old are you anyways?” He opens his mouth to answer you, but pauses before a wicked grin grows on his face. “Guess.” “Ugh.” You scowl and he laughs. So, Baekhyun liked to play games. That’s annoying. “Come on,” he sings. “It can’t be that hard, could it?” “I don’t know,” you shrug. “Twenty-four?”  “Close.” He raises his hand, showing you just how close you were with his forefinger and thumb. “Fifty-six.” You throw him a look and he laugh. “I kid, I kid. I’m twenty-seven.”

Suho x the little mermaid!au - exactly what the title suggests. haven't started yet. Maybe in my dreams

Glances pt 2 - its gonna be smut and that's all there is to say

baek wick - I watched john wick and I was like 'this but with baek!!' I only wrote an excerpt but oooh what a concept????

Your phone beeps. You pull it out and when you read the message, your heart drops. “What is it?” Baekhyun asks. “It’s a hit… For 5 million dollars.” “Five million?” He asks, aghast. “For who?” Slowly, you lift your head to face him, pupils shaking. “For you.”

pirates! au - its a bbh pirate au 😔 also what a concept. imma be honest, like I forgot about all after glances like...what are these???

Chanyeol xexo au - I wanna do this but havent got like a real plot for it, just know that im a xexo apologist and STAN ✊🏾

its crazy cause that's not even a lot yet its a chore. but lbr life is a chore

tagging: @vampwrrr, @kpop-stories-21, @naturalogre @moonlightjongin, @j-pping