#baffled the film

[patientlibrarian]

Remembering Leonard Nimoy 26/3/31 - 27/2/15

Yes, it's true (I have witnesses) that I had to lie down after meeting him!

Arguably the best thing he ever did. The play "Vincent" about Vincent van Gogh with Vincent's brother Theo (Leonard) reading letters from his brother.

The 1972 British film "Baffled" a pilot for a (very PG) series - unmade - about the occult. He's unbelievably handsome in this and was obviously poured into his jeans!

AND a fan favourite. Leonard as the magician Zastro in the Mission Impossible 3-parter "The Falcon". Just love the swirl of the cloak!

[copypastus]

Fandom is about smacking the dolls you like together like they're kissing coz it makes you happy, it's not that serious.

Reposting someone's work to ridicule it coz you don't agree with the pairing is bad etiquette.

@praetorqueenreyna silly hat Rhys inspired me @lorcandidlucienwill hope i can make you smile with this

[babygirlphil]

It's a bit frustrating that Phil's calling is CLEARLY bizarre, independent arthouse horror but he's stuck making reaction videos on YT.com because no one appreciates his genius

[sluttysuperheroes]

does anyone have any ideas why the dnd movie doesn’t have a bigger fandom on tumblr? honestly I’m kind of shocked more people aren’t posting about it. it was a great film with a cast of memorable characters and a gay pairing that’s perfect shipping material. is this just another sign of the death of fandom or…?

[jedi-order-apologist]

Wait, is it true that they gave another character usually associated with a green lightsaber a blue one? Why does this keep happening‽

[incorrect-koh-posts]

You said "which is a tragedy in its own right as far as my tastes are concerned, but I digress", but I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. I hope it's okay to ask, but what kind of fics/pairings would you like/prefer to see emerge from the fandom?

Of course it's okay to ask, dear anon!

Personally? I'd love to see more variety. One of the chief reasons why I enjoy reading fan fiction is finding new things I like - perhaps some pairing I hadn't considered before, some batshit premise or crossover that turns out to be actually brilliant, or maybe a cool genfic that explores previously unseen sides of a character or character dynamic that people don't write about very often. I'm not really the kind of person who seeks out fic based on specific tropes. Once I've read a story with a certain trope in a fandom, it's pretty unlikely that I'll go and read another one with a very similar premise, unless I really enjoy the author's writing.

So what I'd be excited about seeing in the AO3 tag would honestly just be: something new. For instance, a sapphic Sibylla/OC fic would be such a fascinating read (as would be anything at all that explores Sibylla's character a bit more). Or a Saladin-centric fic - sign me the hell up. I'd adore finding something for Godfrey or Imad, and we all know a new Tiberias fic would have me foaming at the mouth. I'd also love an interesting and/or wacky AU (and I'd write one myself if I had the time). Make it Jane Austen and let Baldwin have a gentleman suitor, while Sibylla elopes Lydia-Bennett style with Guy, and Godfrey and Raymond grump about in the Navy. Write a daemon AU (as in His Dark Materials) in the canonical universe. Or throw them all into the 21st century and let Reynald send Saladin threatening messages via fax.

I know the KoH fandom is much too small to engender the sort of variety I'd ideally like to see, and it's only reasonable for writers to sort of double down upon the fic premises and tropes that have done well in terms of hits and comments in the past and write more of the stuff the majority enjoys. As far as taste goes, I'm aware I'm the complete outlier here, and I really don't mean to antagonise anybody with this post or insult their writing or reading preferences. I'm glad your fics are doing well, folks, I truly am - it's only that I'm very likely not the target audience for them. Sometimes I just wish I weren't the only freak in the circus, lol.

(The post anon is referring to is this one btw.)

[crastlefolke]

cleo's episode is genuinely like a zombie apocalypse film. like. day starts as normal -> oh shit a death. anyway -> oh shit another death right in front of us -> huh that lot are acting a little weird -> oh shit more deaths -> whats this new weird gang thats sprung up -> carry on business as usual, new gang seems to be getting bigger -> other people are also weirded out -> "hey that new gang is made up of all the dead people" -> someone overhears vital information -> gather with other survivors to inform them -> agree that whatever it is, it's spreading -> zombie film reference -> set up fort -> survivors get picked off one by one -> pov character doesnt become a zombie but loses almost everyone to the infection

[isfjmel-phleg]

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[holmesoldfellow]

"Sherlock Holmes Baffled" Mutoscope silent film, earliest known film to feature Sherlock Holmes (1900, Arthur Marvin)

[velociheroviridi]

To all those reviews of Argylle saying it was so bad and claiming it must have AI in it (like ???)... Tell me you haven't watched a truly bad film without saying you haven't watched a truly bad film

Just say it wasn't your cup of tea and let everyone who likes fun action rom-coms enjoy them in peace pls and thank you

[stephantom]

I’d need to watch it again to confirm this, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Becket is the only character who independently initiates touch with Henry?

There are plenty of people whom Henry touches, and it’s almost always possessive or threatening: the villager woman in the first flashback scene, the Saxon peasant girl (and possibly the old man? I think he prods at both of them with his riding crop), Gwendolen (holding her shoulders/neck), the French prostitute (kissing, leaning over, sitting on, slapping her butt), his sons (pushing and kicking them), the bishop (strangling), his barons (clutching onto one, tapping one’s head to indicate his vapidness), and Thomas too—(clasping his shoulders when he realizes Thomas is hurt, holding his hand to put on the chancellor ring).

Interestingly, I don’t think we ever see Henry touch or be touched by his mother or his wife. There’s the moment when he grabs/kicks their needlework, and later on he knocks all the plates off the table, possibly vaguely in their direction—so there are two physical interactions which are violent but still sort of… distant? And still the direction is just Henry to them (in terms of physicality, anyway—verbally, they do initiate conversations/fights with him).

Does anyone touch Henry? There are the monks who whip him in the end, but Henry has ordered them to do it. Likewise, there’s the servant/valet/page who begins to wipe him dry in the bath scene, but again, that’s someone performing a duty. Thomas Becket though, cuts in and takes over the drying, and the dialogue tells us explicitly that he’s not expected to do this, and doesn’t have to (“You’re a nobleman—why do you play at being my valet?”) but Becket seemingly wants to do it, and he knows Henry likes how he does it: enthusiastically, confidently, warmly, and freely (“No one does it like you, Thomas”). He towels Henry’s head, helps Henry put on his boots, and then casually uses Henry’s legs to push himself up to stand.

There’s the scene in Henry’s tent, after the French prostitute has left and the two of them are sitting on the bed: Becket sort of leans in and briefly clasps Henry’s arm where it’s lying in his lap, casually and warmly.

There’s also the getaway horse ride, where Becket is holding onto Henry, arms wrapped around him, and they’re both laughing and smiling. Henry’s shirt actually falls open a little and Becket’s hand winds up on his bare torso.

And then there are the thwarted attempts at touch, after the split: the two scenes where Henry accuses Becket of not loving him. Both times, Becket moves toward Henry and reaches out to touch him, and both times, Henry moves away and tells him to keep his distance.

They’re quick little things, but if they are actually the only instances of anyone touching Henry affectionately (or even of their own volition) that we see over the course of the movie, it does support an impression of Henry as fundamentally isolated—maybe there is truth to his claim that Becket is the only person who’s ever loved him.

What’s tragic is that 1) Henry doesn’t really know how to express love himself (see: Henry expressing nothing but violence and entitlement to everyone else around him, and even to Becket for the most part), and 2) Becket’s love, albeit huge in Henry’s world, is conflicted and unfulfilling—for both of them.

Becket might be the only person who’s dared to reach out to Henry and meet him on something close to a human level, and Henry loves him for it, but why does Becket do it? Part of it may just be an instinct of Becket’s to fulfill a need where he sees one, if he can, and if it benefits him. I think it’s so interesting that Henry seems obsessed with the question of whether Thomas really loves him, when it seems the truth might be that Thomas actually doesn’t know; maybe it’s an unanswerable, even nonsensical question to him. Like, what else could he do? I don’t know. “Insofar as I was capable of love, yes I did [love you].” But the fact that his last words, unwitnessed and private, are, “Poor Henry.” Fuck me up.

Ok, that last paragraph got away from me and now I can’t stop. Tempted to draw comparisons to “Beauty and the Beast” (this is a sad version where no magical transformation happens… unless you take a particular Catholic stance and consider that both of them maybe took real solace and meaning in Thomas being made a saint and that Henry maybe found real absolution through his penance).

I also want to compare all of this to “The Lion in Winter”, where it feels like, rather than a story about one lonely monster in a castle full of people he sees as objects, it’s a whole microcosm of traumatized and power-hungry people, reaching out for power and security and love and stabbing each other in the back, over and over. (Like, of course his mother and wife and kids have complex feelings for him—some of which involve love!) I think that depiction is better and less myopic, more true to life and probably a more accurate portrait of the historical figures involved (even when it comes to Henry and Becket—Becket was of that world too, after all), but I think I’ve rambled enough about all of this, so I’m going to end this post now. I’ll just say that there’s something nevertheless appealing about the boiled-down fairytale melodrama of “no one else ever loved me but you!”

[brbsavinggotham]

here is my review of twisters: 4/10 and that's being generous because i love glen powell. they dang near forgot how to make a movie!

[cringengl]

I need more middle aged men byler content tbh

[kindahoping4forever]

5SOS: The MSG Experience (10 Part Playlist on TikTok)

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Can they just fucking cancel it already.

Not to be cringe on main but I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending. Trying to salvage a show that’s this deeply rotted at its very origin-point, in the middle of production on the final season, by rush-hiring a new director and trying to erase all of the prior director/original author’s fingerprints on the property while desperately acting as though everything is ok will, 99.9% chance, not give Good Omens the ending it deserves. It will give it something rushed, full of plot holes, with poor production value, cut corners abounding, and an abandonment of the original tone and themes. And honestly, even though Neil’s queer interpretation of his & Terry’s story was openly sinister pandering, I truly don’t know how anyone is expecting better from whoever and whatever takes Neil’s place. Just put this poor production out of its misery. I say this a someone who LOVES Good Omens, despite my constant snark at the characters. I want it to get the ending it deserves. A good ending that makes sense with the story that’s been told so far, full of queerness and hope and love and light.

The thing is. I have serious doubts that we’d see more than a cheap, stiff imitation of that with the current situation.

It’s okay to let something die

But also, we don’t want to, which brings me to my second point

THIS FANDOM IS *AMAZING*.

We are a massive community of artists, cosplayers, musicians, writers, even amateur filmmakers, and even if we don’t always respond well to stuff, overall the GO fans I’ve seen give immeasurably more shits about the value of human life, doing what’s right and standing up to shitheads in power than anyone on GO’s main cast and crew, and ESPECIALLY more than Neil. And also, we’re actually gay. And we love this story.

And we can do it better than they can.

The sheer amount of creative effort and pure love I’ve seen here is overwhelming. We have everything we need, I don’t know why everyone acts like we need some “official” s3. I may not be a writer or a filmmaker or any of that but everything I’ve seen from y’all gives me unmatched faith that if this fandom wanted to, we could make season 3 ourselves and it would be better, and more full of love, than anything Neil OR Whoever Comes Next could put out.

And not to randomly jump topics but, a fandom-led s3 could raise funds or awareness for RAINN. Or for Gaza. Or for anything. Again I’ve seen this fandom, and fandom in general, do so many great things. Why are we despairing or pinning our hopes on unknown big-corporation filming decisions.

We need to stop expecting happy endings and make them instead. That’s what we already do in fic, because we know that those with enough power to make stories like this will never be who we hope they are. We’re so capable of this.

I just worry that unless it’s outright cancelled, people will continue to cling onto whatever mangled version goes forward instead of realizing that the ability to give this story and these characters a happy ending is right here.

[thiscatiscreepy]

Russian dub of Everything Everywhere All At Once removing almost all spoken Chinese 🤝 Russian dub of Monkey Man removing spoken Hindi.