#by the way it`s quote from Alice in Wonderland

[otomes-world]

Six impossible things before breakfast

Little twist with sentient twst au, yes, I didn't expect this either. Masterlist with more works here

We've probably all heard the joke about "How many light bulbs does it take to (insert whatever)." Who would have thought that you would use a slightly modified version of it: how many more coincidences must happen to realize the truth.

Although can anyone really blame you for not wanting to admit that you are a bunch of colored pixels created purely for entertainment purposes? No, it even sounds nice. After all, your purpose was to create extras, a stage on which the main characters performed and shone. Those who had faces.

Did you always have yours? Could you always see it in the mirror in the morning?

Did figurative shivers run down your spine every time a faceless classmate addressed you? One of ten, hundreds, exactly the same. Have the main bunch had the same problem? That's the question you'd been asking yourself lately. Did they shrug off empty, replaceable shells, or at least for a second consider them their equals?

Perhaps the question should have been asked differently. Was this in the order of things for them, because the thought of the incorrectness of worldly norms did not flash through their heads. Or it was something simple and very banal - they did not realize that they were part of the game.

Were you special? The thought was flattering, but it was stupid to start turning up your nose. Maybe the supreme programmer, like the smart guys from Ignihyde, could consider you a virus, a bug, an annoying nuisance, which can be gotten rid of in a couple of seconds. Click and that's it, your file would be deleted.

The idea that death could be more than just literal took you by surprise.

It all started with a strange feeling of déjà vu, with a strange cyclical nature of what was happening. How the seasons did not change according to the laws of nature or, on the contrary, lasted longer than expected. Sometimes you wondered what month was going on, at least by counting. Or how you couldn’t say with certainty what year of study you were in. When was your graduation? Would it ever come?

How many times did the main characters celebrate their birthday? How many times had you celebrated it? Did you celebrate it from the start?

Lessons

Breaks

Exams

Holidays

Lessons

Was there an end to this merging stream of eternal students? Was the dormitory assignment ceremony that important? How many real “first-year students” were admitted each year? Why couldn't your educational journey end? Time adjusted and obeyed an invisible force; it existed only when it was convenient for someone.

Catching the attention of the local spotlight and getting on stage was the best way to get labeled as a "bug" and ask to be removed. However, the main threat was only the erasure of memory.

The next discovery was doubt about one’s own “specialness.” When consciousness had nothing to do, it began to cling to different details, trying to look for differences in a series of events repeated in the film.

When you knew what to look for, small mistakes that were not noticeable at first glance stand out more than usual. A slight shadow of boredom on the faces of the main ones. Lack of interest in the educational process and exams. As if only one “exam” was important in a bunch of exactly the same events. When the first years of Heartslabyul signed a contract with Ashengrotto.

With new information in mind, it became easier to identify important “events” and track time based on them. By how many times they were repeated in the endless flow of time. Taking notes and somehow recording data was more dangerous than you thought, all that was left was to come up with methods known to you alone. For example, in a dorm room on the bedside table there was a cluster of glasses, each containing specific color of pencils.

Did your roommates start to think you were weird and obsessed with order and cleanliness? Their right. You didn't care what they thought, besides, they would forget about it with the coming of a new day.

In order not to completely go crazy, you began to peer into the “faces” of other students, trying to spot at least a feature that distinguishes one from another. Either this world was too lazy, creating copy after copy in every dorm, or there was no point in trying. If you somehow came to terms with the feeling of the meaninglessness of what was happening, then the appearance of one student in several places at the same time still caused rejection.

Disgusting

If this world was someone’s experiment, then why were events cyclical? If this was a cage, then where was the exit. If this was a prison, then who was being held in it?

You made a mistake in observing a person without magic from another world. Trying to figure out whether Yuu's "world" was truly different or just as much a part of predestination as everything around. Was “Yuu” really the main one or just an extra? You could have sworn they didn't have a face. At least such clear features as all the main ones. Just as there was no character, how in each of the repeating events they could behave differently.

It was a breath of fresh air in the routine of never-ending study. The watching of the only part capable of changing in the world, subject to the same rules.

That's why, when one of the main ones suddenly approached you, you thought you were dreaming. Whether it was possible to fall asleep in the simulation was another question. Usually you went to bed, closed eyes, only to open them the next second to the sound of the alarm clock.

"Can I help you with something?" You smiled politely, but was it worth it? Could the main bunch distinguish between persons different from their privileged group.

Hunt. Was that his name? You weren't completely sure. He was part of something forbidden, something to be avoided at all costs. Part of the three “don’ts”: don’t look for information;don’t mention; don’t give yourself unnecessary temptations. Returning to the present moment, he just looked into your eyes with his constant smile, as if trying to find confirmation of something.

Like a true NPC, you continued to stand, frozen in one position and waiting for his answer. Until awareness came as abruptly as his appearance in principle. He looked straight into your eyes. Could he see your face the same way you saw it in the mirror? How long ago? Could the rest of the main ones see you too?

A billion questions were spinning in head at the same time as you tried to come up with a suitable excuse and reason to leave. The changes turned out to be too unexpected and frightening. Perhaps with the advent of a new “day” everything would return to normal.

“Is there a knight in the world who is not ready to devote all his deeds to one and only one, if this opens the veil of secrets at least a little? Will it allow him to find out what thoughts are spinning in head?”

It's a pity he was not a knight. Even though each word was pronounced with a special intonation, you only thought about how much water there was in his speech. Unfortunately, saying this out loud was an unaffordable luxury.

"..Is that so?"

“You are right, an étoile (star), I may be not one of their noble number, but even so I am not able to deny their order.” You let him continue, mentally counting down the minutes until the bell rang for lesson. “I may not have a sword in sheath, but It won`t change a way I live! Your smile can make my whole heart melt. There isn't lie in way I felt”

“I’m not good at poetry, but the rhyme is lame, Sir Hunt,” if it’s there.

“You’re right, writing poems is just one of my hobbies, to which I devote my few free leisure hours,” he continued, as if your words didn’t hurt him at all. “I hasten to assure you that there was no malicious intent in my actions. This modest hunter only wanted to greet a new connoisseur of everything beautiful and interesting."

No matter how much you hate beating around the bush, doubts creeping in from randomly thrown words. Sometimes the phrases spoken directly were the most frightening. However, not wanting to part with your role as an extra - which was burdensome, but at the same time giving a semblance of freedom - you continued to pretend to be an NPC.

"Should I congratulate you?.. Congratulations!" Any member of the film club would envy your feigned sincerity. A bell in three, two, "I don’t dare detain you any longer.”

The unsaid `like you would me` hung in the air. You had to hold out for the few remaining hours until the end. Fortunately, the main one did let you go, but smile, saying that its owner knew everything in the world, left an unpleasant aftertaste. One that your intuition suggested would accompany you for the next days.

It's going to be a very long a few hours.

[fandombingo]

Fandom Bingo: Alice in Wonderland

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[adarkrainbow]

Quite an unusual subject today but: music! More precisely, a "fairytale" album.

Have you ever heard of Joanna Wang? She is a Taiwanese-American singer, quite known, and I want to briefly evoke here an album of hers released in 2014: Midnight Cinema.

As the name and the album cover show, this album is entirely dedicated to a specific type of cinema, which does contain - and this is why it is interesting for us fairytale afficionados - fairytale movies. In fact most (if not all?) the songs of this album are covers and reprises of songs from movies!

And the very first song of the album sets the tone for what this "Midnight Cinema" is about: titled "Alice in Wonderland", it is actually taken back from... Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

Outside of this song, the album also contains a cover of "Pure Imagination", the famous song from 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. And we do know that Roald Dahl works are considered "modern day fairytales"...

What I find most interesting with this album, however, is how it also chooses songs and melodies from what I consider to be "fairytale-adjacent" movies. I haven't spoken much about this (except for when I did a "Spooky fairytale" series back in Halloween) but there are stories and movies that have the feelings or are deeply linked to fairytales, without being fairytale themselves.

The most obvious of these choices would be how Joanna Wang covered "What is a youth", the beautiful song from the most famous Romeo and Juliet adaptation to this day, the 1968 movie. And if you know your Shakespeare, you will understand why his works are all "fairytale adjacent" - from his constant reuse of the exact supernatural characters involved in fairytales (kings, fairies, witches, star-crossed lovers) to him actually quoting and reference numerous fairytales (lines from "Jack and the Beanstalk" are found in King Lear, itself having a plot belonging to the "Love like salt" type of fairytale, while the British fairytale "Mr. Fox" is referenced in Much Ado about Nothing).

Another interesting choice would be the Moon River song, from "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Why? Because interestingly, there was a short study of the evolution of the figure of the "fairy" ("la fée" in French) I recently read, and among the various incarnations, this book stopped upon the classics of the American cinema to point out two female characters from non-magical movies that still were perfect fit for the archetype of the "fairy" as she was developed by medieval tales and literary fairytales. One was precisely Audrey Hepburn's character of Holly Golightly (I believe the other was the character of Lisa Carol Fremont, played by Grace Kelly in Hitchcock "Rear Window").

After these specific movies, the other tracks can have some names and lyrics evoking fairy tales... But they come from movies that have no relationship whatsoever with fairytales. Like the track "Love from Once Upon a Time" which actually comes from... "A Better Tomorrow", an 80s action movie of crime and battle considered to be the epitome of the Hong Kong genre called "heroic bloodshed".

I am not going to put here all of the songs of the album, but if you want to know the full list, here are the remaining songs:

Forgotten Times. From 2002's Infernal Affairs

The Dream Chaser. From 1990's A Moment of Romance.

The Scent of Roses. From 1994's "Red Rose White Rose"

Night Shanghai. From 1946's All-Consuming Love.

In the Mood for Love. This one does not come from a movie, but from a 2000 album by Tony Leung.

You Only Live Twice. From the 1967 James Bond movie of the same name.

This Precious Night. From 1991's Prison on Fire II.

If I Had Words. From 1995's A Little Pig Goes a Long Way.

Fun fact: While the album was sung and created by a Taiwanese artist, mixing Hong Kong cinema with America movies, it was actually recorded in Finland, with the music produced by Finnish musicians.

[diamondcrownacademy]

DCA Info Part 40: Meet Ottilie Phosia 🐛

Twisted from: The Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Ottilie Phosia (オッティリー・フォシア, Ottirī Foshia) is a 1st year student affiliated with the Futterwacken dorm.

History

Ottilie was born and raised in the Queendom of Roses. Her parents despite being described as odd are well respected individuals for having so many students to sign up for their classes and getting good grades. They are also of nobility so they are always invited to gatherings and parties.

Little is known about Ottilie's upbringing, however what is known is a peculiar incident where she experienced the cruelty of nature. After freeing a wild rabbit she she nursed back to health, a hawk flew down and snatched it. She cried for a week and even made a crude drawing of the rabbit and placed it on a fake grave her parents made just to make her feel better. Her parents won't let her live it down and would always tell guests and friends about it. This incident embarrasses Ottilie and dislikes being reminded of it.

Personality

Ottilie is described as having a typical ojou-sama personality, has proper manners and etiquette though her whimsical mannerisms are often mixed in, but she can't read the atmosphere sometimes and ends up making things confusing or awkward. But she is helpful when it comes to studying, all her mind-blowing way of phrasing often get stuck in someone's head.

She stated to be naive despite living with her well respected professor parents. There are occasions where she will say a quote that leaves everyone confused as to what she meant.

She can agree to shenanigans that seem interesting although most of the time she declines.

Ottilie likes all manner of bugs but her favorites are the ones that have eyespots on them, she always gets into staring contests despite knowing those are fake.

Appearance

Ottilie has fair skin, fuchsia eyes, and long lavender and dark purple colored hair commonly kept in twin braids with the hair's tips having curls.

First School Uniform

Ottile wears her hair in twin braids with the hair's tips having curls. She wears a pale blue and yellow top with the top's marie sleeves having butterfly designs. The top also includes white ruffle cuffs and pink gem buttons. The top is worn over a pale lavender romper with puff pants that have periwinkle ribbons and bows. For footwear, she wears a pair of blue and yellow boots with gold details along with a pair of beige socks with butterflies on them.

Ottilie accessorizes with a gold crown with a pink circular gem attached to a pair of teal butterfly wings and a pair of antennas. She also wears a white ruffle collar with a periwinkle ribbon and a periwinkle sash with a gold chain attached to a key designed in the likeness of a butterfly with pink and teal wings.

Second School Uniform

For her second ensemble, Ottilie wears her hair pulled back with twin curl braids and her skin tone appears to be slightly warmer. Her ensemble consists of a pale blue thin striped top with oversized puffs and navy blue webbed cuffs with gold trim. Over the top is a navy blue romper with webbed bottoms, gold trim and the center being a lighter shade and having faded stripes. The romper also has a four pointed collar with gold trim, three gold flower buttons with light fuchsia gem buttons in the center. For footwear, Ottilie wears a pair of low heeled blue shoes with gold soles and gold flower buckles with a pair of gold loop straps. She wears her shoes alongside a pair of gray pinstripe socks with white ruffle trim with gold ribbon in the center and the right one is longer than the left one.

Ottilie accessorizes with a two toned blue flower hairpiece with gold trim and gold antenna, a pair of white gloves and a terrarium purse attached to a gold key with flower and butterfly motifs.

School Statistics

Ottilie is classified as Student #8 and is in Class 1-A. She is a member of the Gardening Research Club and her best subject is Alchemy and is also her favorite school subject due to her perfume making skills. Her least favorite school subject is Incantations because she tends to go off the rails and mixed a few other words in out of curiosity.

Relationships

Family

Ottilie appears to have good relationships with both of her parents, although she dislikes it when they bring up the rabbit and hawk event. She is influenced by their poetry that resulted in her gaining interest in all things whimsical and strange.

Her father adores her and loves to send her gifts she likes, though the gifts come in odd or even numbers in the content.

Her mother gifted her a pipette and liked to read poems to her instead of usual bedtime stories, which is where Ottilie got her whimsical thoughts and speech patterns.

Pet

Ottilie has a pet is a Hickory Horned Devil Caterpillar that she named Squeaks due to the squeaking noises it makes. She has a terrarium purse which is a strong, transparent container that holds a mini garden in it for her caterpillar to be in, she dislikes leaving it alone so she always has it on her person. If she can't carry the container around then she keeps Squeaks hidden in one of her pigtails, which sometimes freak people out to see a big bug wriggling about a girl's locks.

Powers and Abilities

• Magic: Like her fellow students, Ottillie can do magic.

• Creating Scents: Ottilie's has a home-made pipette that she brought from home to make a variety of scents and fragrances. Her side of the room always has a lot of scented things kept in boxes, candles, perfume, paper, incense sticks and many more. Whenever she makes a fragrance, she always has colorful smoke swirling around her, sometimes she can make fragrances that can make shapes from the smoke when used. That's because she incorporates her magic and magical herbs into them.

Unique Magic

Ottilie's unique magic is called "Shroomy Sprout" (羽ばたく蝶の芽/シュルーミー・スプラウト, Shurūmī Supurauto; lit. “Fluttering Butterfly Sprout”). By touching a patch of dirt, she can grow mysterious mushrooms with a variety of effects, every mushroom always changes from every little thing she does such as what food she ate, how she felt and even if she feels a bit ill. The mushrooms don't stay there for long and will disappear in a puff of smoke after 10 minutes if not used.

Trivia

• Her birthday is on April 15th, making her a Taurus.

• She is 175 cm tall.

• Her favorite food is Hors d'oeuvres while her least favorite food is Eggplant. She dislikes hot places, insecticides and bad perfume.

• She enjoys collecting butterfly eggs (Other bugs too), gardening and making perfume.

• Her preferred Styling Jewel Outfit Styles are Quirky and Elegant.

• For her casual attire, she would wear blouses and high waist skirts or leggings. Lots of flower accessories. And leather boots.

• She is dubbed "Little Blue Sea Slug" (青いウミウシちゃん, Aoi Umiushi chan) by Floyd due to her hair looking like a blue dragon sea slug.

• She likes making perfume and taking care of caterpillars.

• In the future, she would be a perfumer.

• In terms of desserts, Ottilie favors desserts that have peppermint.

• She would smell like various different perfumes.

• Her signature scent would be a variety of perfume.

[izukunii]

JAM TOMORROW AND JAM YESTERDAY

featuring: sakusa kiyoomi x filipina!reader

contains: hamster wheel thoughts about children, there's two children (not yours) wandering a pharmacy so-- "bad parenting?", mentions of pregnancy, self insert!reader (tagalog pet names), fluff to “angst” if you squint

summary: sakusa never wanted kids until he wanted you

warnings: references a quote from alice and wonderland in this work: “the rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”

sakusa kiyoomi doesn't like things he can't control. he can't control other people, can't control what they do or what they touch. and even as loud as he could howl, he can't make someone leave or stay whichever way he wanted, at home or on the court.

and besides the obvious bacterial infestations, knowing he could never really control them was one of the reasons why he didn't want to have kids.

didn't.

until he found you, the mere idea of a child prancing around with jammy hands, sticky and dirty little fingers touching anything and everything, made him sick to his stomach.

but sakusa can only control what he can control.

he was on his way home from practice when he'd gotten your text.

i'm late.

sakusa sees a future flash before his eyes, a future full of jam hands. jam hands today, tomorrow, jam hands in his space. in his house. one little one running a-mock around the house with their jam hands and-

a car horn is the dramatic hook that yanks him off the stage of paranoia. before he goes at the green light, he presses his forehead against the steering wheel and jerks back into the headrest. he takes the necessary minute to ground himself, watching the car skirt around his. when he's centered, he pulls over. he takes his phone off the holder and reroutes his gps to the nearest pharmacy.

it just so happens to be a mom-and-pop shop, full of far too many candy displays to pass fda approval, and complete with who could only be the disinterested daughter of said mom-and-pop working the register, jam hands knuckle deep in a full case of candy popped open right on her checkout counter.

rather than entertain a conversation her, he lets his eyes scan the signage until he locks his gaze on ‘family planning.’

his head is still spinning. jam hands. jam hands. jam hands.

a warm laughter is the dramatic hook that yanks him off the stage of paranoia, and sakusa looks up from the box he’d been studying on his way to the registers, that was before he got lost in the jam, and there’s a kid a mere five inches away from his face, and hers is covered in jam.

sticky strawberry jam, smeared across tubby, rosy cheeks as she reaches sweet, pudgy hands up to reach for a candy tucked into a tree-like display beside them.

and sakusa can’t breathe, but not because of the jam hands.

the girl has thick, dark, curly hair. just like him. and her eyes are the same as yours, bright and warm like shining suns glowing over the oceans of all your emotions tucked away in a clever gleam.

she can't be more than eight years old but she's almost up to his hip. he remembers that stage, tall enough to brag about it but not tall enough to count for anything. still she's lithe, floating across the tiles to try and reach her favor-- a blue sucker that's all the way at the top of the display.

why is blue your favorite? he'd once asked you after you'd plucked yourself a similar prize from a similar place.

blue raspberry is the best flavor of anything, omi-ko. it just is. was your perfect response.

around the corner comes another little one, a boy, with hair a mess across his face that reminds him of your tornado of tresses every morning. his laugh is boisterous and contagious, not unlike yours.

he's taller than who sakusa assumes to be his sister. plucking a red sucker from the display comes with ease, and there's that joyful melody once more.

cherry's always my go to. that had been his follow up. it's the same every time.

after all, cherry was and always would be cherry. that was something he could control. he could control his choice, bet safe. and there was never a cherry flavor sakusa disagreed with.

he attempts to soften the sigh he lets out, but the children hear him as if the breath was a hailstorm. four eyes blink up at him. even as he grabs the blue sucker from the tree, he watches the smudge of jam contort as the little girl phases through expressions from fear to surprise. the change is more beautiful than he thought. he passes it down to her wordlessly and sets the pregnancy test on the counter.

he readjusts his mask as he hands the cashier his card and soon his attention settles back on the girl. sakusa doesn't hesitate to open the wrapper when she lifts it his way, and he crouches to give it back to her.

now eye level with the dreaded jam schmear, he does a much better job concealing his sigh when he asks her, "if there were such a thing as. . . blue raspberry jam, would you pick it?"

"do you. . have bwlue jam?" that is her follow up.

he tells her he's sorry that he doesn't. that he hopes not one, not two, but four free blue raspberry suckers plucked from the tree will make up for it. and he rightfully earn's jam's forgiveness.

sakusa kiyoomi can only control what he can control, and because he couldn't control himself, here he drives the semi-familiar route home to your shared apartment from the mom-and-pop pharmacy.

so sakusa sets out to control what he can control. he carries the test box hand over hand with you. you sit up on the bathroom counter, a good six feet away from the test, with your eyes squeezed tightly shut. he sits on the ledge of the tub and softly traces his fingers down your legs to soothe their restlessness.

sakusa sees a future flash before his eyes, a future full of jam hands. jam hands today, tomorrow. and the hands, and the jam, they're not just on a girl or a boy in a pharmacy. they're hands from your hands, and from his. hands the two of you made.

and maybe he can't control jam hands but he could certainly teach them--

“you were worried about jam hands, weren’t you, kiyoomi?” you ask when you hop off the counter to retrieve the results you left on the toilet seat.

hearing his name is the dramatic hook that yanks him off the stage of paranoia. paranoia however, had now become a hopeful daydream: that maybe jam hands were okay, would be okay, if they were yours and his.

"jam yesterday, and jam tomorrow—” you start, reciting the quote almost perfectly in a shrill voice, using the comedy to try and hide the disappointment on your face, disappointment you didn’t anticipate feeling.

because the test is negative.

“today isn't a jam day, omi-ko."

sakusa kiyoomi can only control what he can control. he’s always hated that about himself.

he rises from the tub and bounds over to you in two steps. the test falls right into the bin as he reaches for your hands.

he kisses you. you taste like blue raspberry.

“jam tomorrow, then?”

[princesssarisa]

False Memories from My Favorite Childhood Stories

It's not uncommon for people to have false memories about movies, books, news reports. Scientists call it confabulation. When many people share the same one, it's called the Mandela Effect, after the surprising number of people who distinctly remember hearing the news that Nelson Mandela had died in the 1980s (which he didn't). Sometimes I see people misremember books and movies in ways that I know are mistakes. But just recently, I've realized that I have some confabulation of my own from childhood books and movies.

Casual racism in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – which isn't there. When Alice thinks that she had better check the "Drink Me" bottle to make sure that it isn't marked "poison," the narrator states "...for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them." But that isn't exactly what I remembered that passage saying. I wish I hadn't lost my childhood copy of the book – which I think was a facsimile of the first edition – because I could have sworn that the passage said "...for she had read several nice little stories about children who had been stolen away by g****es, and eaten up by wild beasts..." etc. (In case it's not clear, the word I've censored is the popular slur for Romani people.) When I recently reread the book and found that it said "burnt," not "stolen away by g****es," I thought that maybe this was a difference between editions of the book, since I know Lewis Carroll made revisions to the text each time it was republished in his lifetime. But though I've searched and searched online, I can't find a version of that passage with the quote I remember. The wording does vary slightly between the different editions online (i.e. "nice little stories" vs. "nice little histories," and "burnt" vs. "burned"), but not drastically. Not that I'm unhappy about that fact – on the contrary, I'm relieved that there's no casual racism in that passage after all! But I can't believe I somehow misremembered it as featuring that racist line! Is there, in fact, an edition of the book that talks about children being kidnapped by g*****s instead of being burnt? Or did I just make it up?

The fate of the ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz. My false memory is just the opposite of the common one. Dozens of people remember that at the end, after Dorothy said "And oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!" either the camera panned down to reveal the ruby slippers under her bed, or else Dorothy got out of bed to reveal the ruby slippers on her feet. Of course neither of those things happen in any version of the movie, and I've never been one of the people who share those memories. But I have a different yet equally vivid false memory of my own. Until a few days ago, I was firmly convinced that during the second closeup of the ruby slippers as Dorothy tapped her heels together, just before the flashback to the house falling, the slippers disappeared from Dorothy's feet, leaving her in just her socks. I could have sworn that this was a decisive "end of the magic" moment that I remembered from countless childhood viewings of the movie. Yet I just rewatched the scene, and it doesn't happen! Maybe I somehow conflated that moment with the earlier scene in Munchkinland where the slippers disappear from the dead Witch of the East's feet. Maybe it was because I had also read the book, where the silver shoes fall off and are lost in the desert during Dorothy's flight home. But whatever the cause, the image stands out in my mind: the ruby slippers clicking together, and then suddenly vanishing, leaving only Dorothy's blue socks on her feet. I can't believe I just made that image up! Is there any place that memory might have originated from?

Mufasa's fatal crash to the ground in The Lion King. One famous case of a widely-misremembered childhood movie is Bambi. Countless people insist that when they first saw the movie, they remember seeing Bambi's mother being shot and falling to the ground onscreen. Of course this has never been the case; her death has always just been signified by an offscreen gunshot. I never made that mistake regarding Bambi. But I did make a similar mistake about the notorious death scene in the beloved "Bambi meets Hamlet in Africa," The Lion King. Until the last time I rewatched the movie, I could have sworn that after Scar threw Mufasa from the cliff and Simba cried "No!" the scene cut back to the falling Mufasa, who plunged straight toward the "camera." Then the screen abruptly went black with a loud thud. Now of course this isn't true: we don't see or hear Mufasa's crash to the ground in any capacity. But I was sure that remembered seeing the scene end in the way I just described. I think there were probably four factors involved with this faulty memory. (1) At first Mufasa does plunge straight toward the "camera," before the scene shifts to an overhead view of his fall as he screams, and then to Simba's "No!" (2) My memory might have conflated Mufasa's fall with the crash-landing of Dorothy's house in The Wizard of Oz, which is shot in exactly the same way I remembered the former. (3) When I was little, being hyper-sensitive, I always covered my eyes during the stampede scene, so naturally it left a fuzzier impression than other parts of the movie did. (4) Mufasa's death has such a powerful emotional impact, like the death of Bambi's mother, that it's only natural to misremember it as being shown more graphically than it really is.

Maybe there is an alternate universe where the above memories are all true, as some people who study the Mandela Effect think there is. Or maybe it's all just imagination.

[valkyrieofsmut]

@janeelyakiri found the incorrect quote generator... And I got sucked down a rabbit hole Alice in Wonderland style.

That being said- here are done incorrect Life with the Bone Brigade quotes! Axe and Bun edition!

~~~

Bun: Guys, my friend here is bilingual.

Axe: Yes.

Bun: Which means they like both boys and girls.

Axe: Ye- wait, what-

MC: Bun, that's not what bilingual means-

Bun: Shhh, it's okay Axe. I still love you, man.

Axe & MC: ...

Bun: bUT NOT LIKE THAT-

~~~

Bun: What are you writing?

Axe: The government wants to know what kind of weapons we have in the house. I'm letting them know it's private information.

MC, looking over Axe's shoulder: This just says 'fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

~~~

Axe: I dare you to kiss the next person who walks into this room.

MC: Screw that, I’m not kissing any of you.

*Bun walks in*

MC: Fine, I’ll do it. Rules are rules you know.

~~~

Bun: When you work at lush and a customer comes in and bites the soap because they think it’s cheese... this happens way more frequently than you think.

Axe: If you stopped literally presenting soap as deli food this wouldn't happen.

Bun: Who goes into a bath store and thinks something covered in glitter is cheese?

MC: Who goes to the store and just takes a bite from the cheese?

~~~

MC: So, what is Bun to you?

Axe: The reason I wake up every morning.

MC: ...That’s adorable.

Bun earlier that morning, barging into Axe′s room, smacking pans together: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!

[jjamjamm]

Confessions

Masterlist

Wordcount: 1995

Summary: "Fili w/ quotes: 30. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” - H.G. Wells, The Time Machine 39. “After all, tomorrow is another day!” - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 49. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Feat. Miscommunication, confessions, nearly missed chances (and more than a little bit of wine)" I want to say this was from a Fizzy writing event.

The mountain was filled with roaring laughter, off-tune song, and slurred story telling as the night wore on. To celebrate the new treaty between the elves and the dwarves, Thranduil had sent enough wine to quench the thirst of the entire mountain, for quite some time. Or, so he had thought. What he had anticipated to last a good few months, would surely be gone before the week was up. At least, with the way everyone was putting it back.

You had hardly anticipated the wine to be so potent, and at the end of the night, though you felt alright sitting, you were a bit wobbly on your feet.

You braced yourself against the bar for a moment, trying to get your bearings, before one of your close friends approached you.

“Need a hand?” He offered, the wine had had a gentler affect on him, with his higher tolerance- dwarrow were far more impressive in regards to what they could stomach, and Fili was no exception.

After a moment, you accepted his help, and he told the others he’d be bringing you back to your room.

“Good on you lad,” Bofur slurred, well further into the stash than some of the others, “‘s about time you two got together.”

He got elbowed in the ribs to quiet him down, and your escort shook his head before bringing you to the hall.

You noticed he was a bit unsteady on his feet as well, but what amazed you the most was how level headed you still felt. Normally, you hadn’t the ability to keep your mouth shut, but tonight, you were doing marvelously.

You might have been a bit overconfident in your ability to keep your thoughts to yourself, as you let your mind wander to the blond beside you. He really was handsome, you had noticed that straightaway- but why did he look so amused?

“A couple glasses of wine really loosens that tongue of yours, eh?” He asked, teasing you just a bit, “Can’t say I’m not flattered.”

“You heard that?” You asked, realizing you may not have kept your thoughts completely to yourself after all. Oh boy.

“Don’t be embarrassed.” He beamed as he assured you, “In fact, you can continue, if you’d like. I certainly don’t mind hearing it.”

You shook your head, trying to maintain some level of reason, “If I start talking, I’ll start telling you things you don’t need to know.”

“You can tell me things.” He promised, keeping an eye on you as the two of you started up the stairs, “Here, watch your step now.”

“Oh no you don’t.” You told him, focusing on the stairs, “You just want to see me make an ass of myself.”

He laughed at that, though assured you it wasn’t true, “I’ve just missed you, there’s been so much to get done.”

Your heart fluttered at his confession, “I’ve missed you too.”

By then, you had reached the top of the staircase, and continued along, in silence for a moment.

“You know, railings might be a good investment.” You pointed out, “Tell your uncle that could be his next big project.”

“I will.” He said, before switching the topic, “How have you been? I don’t think I’ve seen you for… What? Nearly two weeks now?”

“Twelve days.” You corrected, having made note of the time. You had stayed in the mountain for a chance to get even closer with him, but now you hardly ever saw him.

“What was that?” He asked, and you realized you must have said more aloud than you had intended.

“Twelve days.” You repeated, feeling your face heat up, and hoping you could blame it on the drink.

“It felt like longer.” He admitted. Had you been more levelheaded, you would’ve made note of his tone- he must’ve heard your earlier comment, but you didn’t pick up on it in your current state.

When you made it back to your room, you almost wished the walk was longer. Soon enough he’d be gone for another two weeks, leaving you to reconsider your choice to stay.

He brought you inside, and you took a seat on the edge of your bed, before looking up at him. What you would do for a chance to let him know how you felt. Now was hardly the right time, you’d be so much less eloquent than you wanted to be. You didn’t want him thinking the wine was the reason you cared so much for him.

He smiled your way, and took your coat, hanging it over the edge of the bed as you kicked your shoes off.

“I’ve really missed you Y/N.” He repeated, brushing your hair behind your ear. You had missed the significance of the action in your current state, and didn’t realize that you had rested your cheek against his hand, before he removed it and sat beside you.

You had fallen head over heels for Fili, and now he was being so considerate and helpful, it really wasn’t helping your case. If you were courting, or even married, then you could’ve leaned over and kissed the living daylights out of him. He was sitting within reach after all…

“We should get married.” You recognized your voice, but wondered where the hell that had come from. Who had authorized you to say such a bold thing, and to a prince of all people? Thanks to the wine, you thought little of it, and just waited for a reaction from him.

He rested his hand on yours for a moment, before patting it gently. He was avoiding your gaze, and you couldn’t quite read his expression, “You don’t really mean that. Let’s get you to bed.”

“I do.” You swore, “I should’ve told you a long time ago, but I never had the guts.”

He locked eyes with you for a moment, looking hopeful that there was a chance for you both. Instead, he just shook his head, moving to busy himself by turning down the sheets for you, “It seems plausible tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

You felt a surge of hope when he had begun, but realized quickly that he was turning you down.

“After all, tomorrow’s another day.” He said, forcing a smile as he looked your way, “Come on now, get some rest.”

Oh, couldn’t help but feel that you had undoubtedly made a terrible fool of yourself, “Fili, I-”

He silenced you as he kissed the top of your head, “When the wine has run its course, we’ll talk again.”

You felt completely and utterly rejected as he left. You climbed into bed, and tried not to feel devastated, but the one who you cared the most for had just declined your affections. All you could hope for, was that you wouldn’t remember come morning.

Fili never returned to the others, instead going off to his own room as well. He was kicking himself for how he handled the situation, he had wanted to let you know how much he cared for you for some time now, but you had built up the courage before him. The worst part was, he hadn’t known how to react to it, and made a mess out of what should’ve been a wonderful night.

He tried to fall asleep, but kept revisiting the conversation, and how your face had fallen when he tried to talk some sense into you. He should’ve handled it better.

After a particularly restless night for the two of you, the wine had left you with a pounding headache. It took most of the morning to clear out, and partway into the afternoon you were finally able to leave your room and get some food.

As you made your way through the halls, you recalled the night before, and suddenly found yourself without an appetite.

“Y/N.” Kili called, catching your attention. His demeanor changed when he saw your expression, “What happened? You looked so happy last night.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” You told him. Now that you knew Fili didn’t feel the same, you had no reason to stay in Erebor, you had to go start packing. Though, if Kili was already here, you may as well say your goodbyes, “I’m going to miss you.”

He rose an eyebrow, and as you pulled him into a hug, he patted your back a couple of times, “Why? Are you going somewhere?”

“I’ll probably go to Dale first, figure the rest out from there.” You admitted, pulling back from him, “Maybe I’ll go visit Bilbo.”

“Bilbo? What did Fili do last night?” Kili asked, sounding genuinely worried, “He said something stupid didn’t he?”

“No, Kili, we just want different things.” You said, before admitting, “He doesn’t care for me the same way I do for him.”

Kili was at a loss for words, his brother had droned on and on about his feelings towards you, how he could’ve messed it all up in one night was beyond comprehension.

He tried to convince you to stay, but you wouldn’t listen, and went back to your room. Kili, on the other hand, broke into a sprint to try and catch his brother.

When you were back in your room, you realized you didn’t need very long at all to pack, and decided to wash up first. After you scrubbed yourself clean of any nonsense, you dressed and put your pack together.

You jumped as your door suddenly burst open, to reveal a breathless Fili.

“What are you doing-?” You began to ask, releasing the buckle you were about to clasp shut as he interrupted you.

“You can’t go.” He pleaded, “I’ve be an ass, I know, but please, don’t go.”

You shook your head, not even a little bit sure about the mixed messages he was giving you, “We’re obviously on very different pages here. If you can’t see a future with me, then I have nothing keeping me here.”

“You’re the only one I see a future with.” He said, stepping up to you, “I apologize if I made you think otherwise, but Y/N, I love you.”

You had wanted to hear him say that for so long, but in the back of your mind, you were still worried, “It didn’t seem that way last night.”

“Last night I was a fool.” He said, taking your hand in his, “I was afraid that it was only the wine speaking, and you didn’t truly feel the same. I thought if you still loved me today, then I could tell you.”

“I’ve loved you for months now.” You told him, “If that’s not enough…”

“It is, you are.” He swore, ��I was just too blind to see.”

You were skeptical of his sudden change of heart, but decided to give him a chance to defend himself, “You really think I should stay?”

“Yes! Absolutely.” He said, “Y/N please, you mean too much to me for me to just let you leave.”

“If I did stay,” you said hesitantly, not wanting to get your hopes up just yet, “What would we be? I’m not going to stay and be a friend, just to watch you marry some other girl.”

“Never.” He promised, as he cupped your face in his hands. He moved without hesitation, no longer afraid that you may not feel the same, as he pressed his lips to yours. You moved just as quickly, gripping the fabric of his tunic as you savored the moment you had been waiting so long for.

He pulled back for a split second, before pressing short quick kisses to your lips, “I am such a fool.”

“You can be, it’s alright though.” You teased him, “We could’ve been together months ago.”

“The greatest mistake I’ve ever made.” He swore, moving one hand to the back of your neck to deepen the kiss.

[peternelthorpe]

Band Name Origins: Stories Behind Band Names

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Band Name Origins: Stories Behind Band Names

Did you know that the Bee Gees were named after the initials of a DJ called Bill Gates? Did you know that the real story behind the origin of the name of the rock band 10cc is much more trivial and boring than the urban legend that surrounds it? Did you ever wonder why the hell would someone choose to name his band Chumbawamba? Here you can widen your knowledge by learning about the origins or rock bands names and pop artists pseudonyms.

10cc: an urban legend claims that the band who wrote the hit Im Not in Love has chosen her name as a gesture to the average male ejaculation, which is estimated as 9cc of sperm. but, the bands name really originated in a dream the band manager, Jonathan King, had in which he was managing a band by the name of 10cc

Alice in Chains: Lane Stanley and Jerry Cantrell had intended to form a heavy metal band that will perform covers of Slayer while wearing dresses. Although there plan did not come out, the name of the band remained. Alice in Chains is a take off on Alice in Wonderland with an S and M twist. Bee Gees: The Gibb brothers first had in mind the name The Rattlesnakes as a name of their band. Later they have come up with the idea of honoring the initials of both Brothers Gibb and their close friend and one of their first supports, DJ Bill Gates, who has nothing to do with the founder of Microsoft. Chumbawamba: apparently, one of the band members had a strange dream, in which he could not decide which public toilet door he should enter since the Men and Women signs were replaced with Chumba and Wamba signs. The Doors: formerly named Psychedelic Ranger, inspired by a William Blake quote: If the doors of perception were to be cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. Elvis Costello: was born as Declan Patrick McManus. When he had started his musical career, he adopted an alias created by a combination of Elvis Presley and Lou Costello, mainly because he represents the exact opposite of the other Elvis.

The Fall: taken from the title of a novel authored by Albert Camus.

Grateful Dead: originally named The Warlocks. The origin of the cult band final name was inspired by an old English folk tale, which themed around a traveler who is saved by the spirit of a dead person who is grateful for the travelers generosity and his willingness to pay the deads man debts in order for him to be buried.

The Happy Mondays: Shaun Rider was inspired by the happy Mondays he and the other members of the band were having as unemployed who were spending the day that follows the weekend in sleeping while the other people were off to work.

Ice T: the controversial gangsta rapper has chosen to name himself after Iceberg Slim, a famous pimp who later became an author of books that describe gangsta living. Johnny Rotten: the Sex Pistols leader was born as John Lydon. He received a stage name that was found more suitable for an anarchist punk with a set of rotten teeth.

Kraftwerk: the pioneer electronic band adopted the German translation of the term Power Station.

L. LL Cool J: James Todd Smith pseudonym is an Acronym for Ladies Love Cool James.

Marilyn Manson: the bandleader pseudonym mixes two of Americas favorite celebrities: Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. Other members of the band are using the pseudonyms Ginger Fish, Twiggy Ramirez and Madonna Wayne Gacy.

Nine Inch Nails: inspired by the nails that attached Jesus to the cross

The Orb: in Woody Allens Sleeper, there is a silver ball that causes people who touches it to react in strange ways. This device was called The Orb.

The Pogues: originally named Pogue Mahone, which is Kiss my Ass in Gaelic, the band shortened the name to avoid airplay censorship.

Queen: one word that catches both transvestite and royalty connotation was the perfect band name in the eyes of Freddie Mercury.

The Replacements: according to the myth, the punk rock band adapted the name after replacing a missing band in a gig, an incident that made them introduced themselves as The Replacements.

Sex Pistols: Malcolm Mclaren is responsible for the choice of the name, partly to help promote the clothes shop called Sex owned by Vivien Westwood who used to be his girlfriend at the time.

TLC: the initials of the band members nicknames T Boz, Left Eye and Chilli. It also suggests the acronym for Tender Loving Care.

UB40: the politically oriented band was named after a type of British unemployment form.

Velvet Underground: named after the title of an unknown sex book that one of the band members has found lying on the sidewalk Weezer: the band front man was nicknamed Weezer in high school since he was a geek who suffered from asthma that caused him to make wheezing sounds.

XTC: this punk band was formed in 1976 long before the usage of the drug was popular. The band had changed its original name Star Park after watching a Jimmy Durante clip in which he states: Im in ecstasy!

Yeah Yeah Yeah: according to Karen O, the inspiration to the hip band name came from the New Yorker phrase, which means something like whatever. ZZ Top: there are two versions related to the origin of the band name. According to the first one, the name of the band is a spoof on the name of the blues musician ZZ Hill. According to the second version, the name relates to a combination of two popular brands of cigarette rolling papers: Zig Zag and Tops Rolling papers.

[joanainthegardensofbabylon]

November 4th,

I'm gonna share with you all my reactions when I first listened to midnights. I was sharing all in real time in my 🐦 account, but I just have my friends, and unfortunately they're not swifities 🫠 BUT they're listening to taylor a LOT because of me, they all know my favorite songs lmao. I hope you all have a great day🤎

💙✨ MIDNIGHTS REVIEW 💙✨

Track 1- Lavender Haze

From the track name, clearly there is a parallel between this track with our beloved Track 6 from Lover, "I Think He Knows". The bridge is very sensual, It's really nice and smooth to be heard and answers some things that the media/fans questions her. I liked.

Track 2- Maroon

Sounds a LOT like KOMH 🖤/ Clean ����. She said that there's no vault tracks from the other eras, but I was willing that this track was written around those 🥲 (especially bc she talks about pouring wine, reference to "Dress" and about dancing barefoot in NYC, can be ref of Cornelia Street and DWOHT) OMG F*CK the person brought CARNATIONS thinking they were roses 🥲 I'm sure It's a metaphor for being dead,bc carnations are consider funeral flowers.

Track 3- Anti-Hero

It parallels several verses of "The Archer", I heard about 3 times bc I'm in SHOCK with this song. It hurts. And also reminds me a little of "right where you left me" and "this is me trying". She knew SO MUCH leaving this song as a single. Extremely identifiable FVCK 🫥 When she's intensifying the "s" in "agrees", sounds like the hiss of a 🐍, hello reputation...

AND I LOVE the music video, SO MUCH EASTER EGGS 😰😰 blondie you're AMAZING. When she points "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me at tea time everybody agrees" and it parallels Alice in Wonderland, it’s genius. Especially because Alice comes in time for tea to talk to the Mad Hatter, and that was a problem. This song quotes so many fairytales, wow. I think It's a way to dissociate from the reality, that's why you're an Anti-Hero 🫠

Track 4- Snow on The Beach (ft. Lana Del Rey)

IT SOUNDS LIKE "Illicit Affairs"!!! I listened the extended version, and this song exales and smells like Lana. Absolut masterpiece. Weird but f*cking beautiful, like snow on the beach 😉

Track 5- You're On Your Own, Kid

This track is a lot relatable, feels like she knows me (I can say this about ALL her songs lol). It has SO MANY REFERENCES!!! "MAATHP", "TIWWCHNT" are examples. The fact that she was a kid delivering her demos to executives in a parking lot. The bullyings she suffered at school, the e.d. It hit's me so much, It's a beautiful sad track. Thank you darling 🥺

Track 6- Midnight Rain

This track feels purple blueish. Again I feel like "MAATHP" is referenced. It sounds similar like "Renegade" (definitely an Aaron Dessner production lmao thanks it's amazing/i love this song SO MUCH). Tay pls tell me that you're referencing "Daylight/Champagne Problems"...And I know who you're talking about hahahaha I LOVE THIS TRACK!!!!!!!

Track 7- Question...?

BLONDIE I FELT THE "Out Of The Woods" REFERENCE 🥵 This track makes so much sense, she mixes past and present, so cool. So many tracks I can make a parallel, i LOVE it!

Track 8- Vigilante Shit

It's my favorite. Tastes like victory and revenge. I felt the parallel between "I Did Something Bad" and "mad woman". It sounds like "I Know Places". It makes so much sense she's messing with me I'm in love with this track. "Lately I've been dressing for revenge/ Don't get sad, get even"

Track 9- Bejeweled ⭐️

ITS A MATCH! Our beloved "mirrorball" it's grateful for this turnaround. The music video is so perfect, I'm DEFINITELY ready for Speak Now TV✨

Track 10- Labyrinth

It reminds me a lot of "The Archer" again, as if it were a twist on the character of our darling track 5. What a delight to be able to listen to this song 💙 It hurts, of course, but it feels good. There's a million songs that remind me of this track, but are too many references for my swifitie head lmao 🤣. I know "this is me trying" and definitely labyrinth likes this song 🥹

Track 11- Karma

I laughed when I first listened to LMAO SO GOOD!!! I don't think It's necessary to talk about this track, It's self explanatory. "ME!" it's happy rn, have a sister to share the references. JOE ALWYN FIGHT WITH ME 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Track 12- Sweet Nothing 🥹

"I spy with my little tired eye" show us the pureness and youthful love of them. William Bowery I'm your fan, your songs always feels like home. It's confy, It's warming. It's a beautiful lyric track 🥺 she's expressing to us and him all her deep sensations and feelings. He is her soulmate. I can't express how I admire this song in english, even though I'm fluent. We have some words in Portuguese that unfortunately cannot be translated to the real meaning of what is this song. Wow.

Track 13- Mastermind

WOW TAYLOR!! I have NO words ENOUGH to tell you all what this song brings to THE WORLD ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The bridge simply caused me a breakdown 🫠 Sad sad sad sad sad but so relatable. I felt this punch in my whole body. When she points that he knows all along, we knew it too. You're a mastermind blondie, and he as well 😭❤️

⭐️BONUS TRACKS⭐️

(personally my favorites from the whole album)

TRACK 14- The Great War

Aaron, you knew what you're doing. IT'S SPECTACULAR!!! Imo, should be in the normal version of the album, i'm gonna call it the sister of ivy ✨ hahahaha 🤣 Amazing bonus track, so worthy to be listened, really. A f*cking beloved lyric masterpiece. Taylor, you're a superhuman😍

TRACK 15- Bigger Than The Whole Sky

F*ck f^ck f^ck f%ck WTF I'M F&CKING SOBBING RN 😭🥲 so strong, so so sad and wonderful. "this is me trying/august" girlies are lying on the floor rn. The lyrics, the production, everything about this track It's so well done.

TRACK 16- Paris

B*TCH YOU'RE referencing DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS????!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA BLONDIE YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN IT'S A LOT OF EASTER EGGS JUST FOR ONE FANDOM 🥵🥵🥵🥵 PLS LISTEN TO THIS TRACK, It smells like CROISSANT AND THE BREEZE IN A LAVANDER FIELD

TRACK 17- High Infidelity

Wait...April 29...TIWWCF launched...😳😳😳😳 she's not joking. Just a couple days before THE met gala, yes, THE ONE "flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached" 😶‍🌫️ I'm SPEECHLESS 😶

TRACK 18- Glitch

4 A.M. GIRL I JUMPED WITH THIS TRANSITION LMAO 😭...waiT....1290 days before today = 10/21/2016 😳🫠 F*CKKKKKKKKK TAAAAAY AND JOOOOOEEE I'M PICKING THE REFERENCES FROM GORGEOUS AND READY FOR IT... HOW DOES IT FEELS TO BE A MUSE JOE ALWYN, YOU KNOW YOU WON RAWR THE MAN IS SPARKLING THE MAN IS ON FIREEEEE

TRACK 19 - Would've, Could've, Should've ⭐️❤️‍🩹💔

I have to tell, It's my favorite song from Midnights. I am a truly speak now girlie, and I'm 19 and relate to this song. It's so personal and raw, I felt her despite and regret and PAIN. I cry so hard with this track. It feels like there's something stuck on my throat 🫥. It's definitely the most sad/desperate/ traumatic song/bridge she's ever done. I love this song, but it hurts too much. If I see this man one day, he's gonna beg me for forgive (and taylor, our special person). I'm sending you hugs and lots of love dear Taylor, really.

TRACK 20- Dear Reader ❣️

It's the perfect last track. A whole story. A whole album. The end (but not really, 'cause life's still there). She closed the album with a work of ART. Really, truly sad. But beautiful. It seems like a continuation of the speech she gave at NYU, it makes sense. It was very worth being able to listen and enjoy Midnights. I appreciate and thank you (Tay) with my whole soul for writing this song. It's a real and delicious hug. You, my dearest Taylor Swift, are a RARE person. You have a pure heart and an enlightened soul.

With all the Love,

Joana (@joanainthegardensofbabylon)

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10 Powerful Motivational Quotes to Kickstart Your Day

Introduction:

We all face moments in life when we need a little extra inspiration to jumpstart our day. Whether you're striving to achieve your goals, facing challenges, or simply seeking some positive vibes, motivational quotes have the power to uplift your spirits and set the tone for a successful day. In this blog, we've curated ten powerful motivational quotes that are sure to ignite the fire within you and propel you towards greatness.

1. "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

This quote by the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc. reminds us of the importance of staying true to ourselves and pursuing our passions. Embrace your uniqueness, follow your heart, and make the most out of every moment.

2. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

These profound words from a renowned leader remind us that success and failure are not endpoints but part of the journey. It's the determination to persevere that defines our true character.

3. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President Roosevelt's quote reminds us that self-doubt can be the biggest hindrance to progress. Believe in yourself and your capabilities to unlock your full potential.

4. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt's inspirational words encourage us to dream big and have faith in our aspirations. Embrace your dreams and work diligently towards making them a reality.

5. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh (Alice in Wonderland)

60+ Best Inspirational Movie Quotes with Images to Get You Back to Life

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6. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson

Often, we find ourselves watching the clock, waiting for the day to end. Instead, embrace the work ethic of the clock and keep pushing forward towards your goals.

7. "Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn

This quote emphasizes the importance of taking action to improve your life. Embrace change and use it as a catalyst to create a brighter future for yourself.

8. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power to shape your destiny lies in your hands. Make conscious choices to become the best version of yourself and pave your path to success.

9. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston S. Churchill

Churchill's words resonate with the idea that failures are stepping stones to success. Stay resilient and enthusiastic in the face of challenges, for that's how true success is achieved.

10. "Believe you can, and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

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Movies I watched this Week #111 (Year 3/Week 7):

3 More young Robert De Niro - 2 accompanied by Ennio Morricone:

🍿 I finally found a good free copy of Bertolucci’s Novecento (”1900"), the full 5+ hours version, which I haven’t seen since it premiered. What an old-fashioned film-watching joy!

Retelling the history of Italy’s juggling the two opposing forces of fascism and communism as told through the lives of two men, one a land owner’s son and the other, still handsome peasant Gérard Depardieu. With lots of homoerotic subtext, De Nero frontal nudity, and other complex class-struggle subtexts. And with Ennio Morricone’s sweeping score and Vittorio Storaro’s spectacular canvases. 9/10.

🍿 The mission, one of the Vatican “15 recommended films about religion”. About a Spanish slave trader who turned Jesuit missionary in 1750′s Paraguay, full of search for redemption, Penance and struggles with faith. Exotic-Porn, shot beautifully out in the jungle. Produced during David Puttnam’s successful reign of the time. Featuring Liam Neeson and Goodfellas "Morrie" as the heavy. But like most films from the 1980′s, it lost all its luster for me. 4/10.

🍿 Greetings, Brian De Palma’s 2nd film, the first American film to receive an X rating and De Nero’s first major role. This ‘how to dodge the Vietnam war draft’ satire was so amateurish, I couldn’t stand more than 15 minutes of it.

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All That Breathes, a new award-winning and Oscar-nominated Hindi language documentary. It poetically tells of 2 unassuming Indian brothers who rescue and treat injured black kite birds. 100% Rotten Tomato rating. The trailer.

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2 more by Luca Guadagnino:

🍿 Bones and all, love among the cannibals. A vulnerable love story of two young, pretty outcasts who share an affinity for flesh eating. I loved his style in ‘A bigger splash’, ‘I am love’, and ‘Call me by your name’, but this horror-comedy was hollow and unnecessary. 3/10.

🍿 Guadagnino’s second feature, Melissa P. A semi-pornographic ‘erotic drama’ about a 15-year-old girl’s journey of sexual discoveries. It opens with her masturbating in her room, and soon it moves on to her giving a blow-job to some jerk, being forced to participate in a threesome, gangbangs and in a bit of S&M. All in the name of her right to explore her desires, and told mostly from an off-putting (gay?) male gaze point of view. 4/10.

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Alice's Wonderland, the first Walt Disney short film, released exactly 100 years ago, in 1923, a seminal year for Hollywood and for movie making.

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The creatures, my 9th by Agnès Varda, an experimental fantasy pairing Catherine Deneuve with Michel Piccoli, a year before ‘Belle de Jour’. He’s a science-fiction writer, and she’s his wife who went mute after a car accident. The line between reality and the writer’s vision for his book are blurred, but the effort feels dated and forced. Too artsy. 3/10 

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Life after death, a slight drama-comedy from Finland about an emotionally-stunted widower who wants to move on as soon as his wife dies, against his son’s need to mourn for her longer. 3/10     

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Vesper, my first film from Lithuania (In English, unfortunately). A somehow different post-apocalyptic Sci-fi story about a 13-year-old bio-hacker girl who lives in the forest with her paralyzed father. Organic tech and biological magic. 4/10.

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“... Is that dress is what you are going to wear in the concentration camp?...”

First watch: Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 Nazi farce To be or not to be. Making fun of Hitler the Hollywood way, by showing Gestapo officers as lecherous buffoons, Ha ha ha. Carole Lombard’s last film, and with young, good-looking Robert Stack. To paraphrase another quote from the comedy: What Lubitsch did to Shakespeare here, the Nazis were doing to Poland. 2/10   

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2 With Elliott Gould:

🍿 I was planning to follow-up with the Mel Brooks’ 1983 remake, but the original left such a bad taste in my mouth, that instead I randomly started a documentary in which Brooks stars - the irresistible The Automat. What a joyful surprise! A super-nostalgic love letter to the Horn & Hardart restaurant chain which thrived in NYC and Philadelphia in the first half of the last century. Absolutely enchanting from start to finish. With a delightful cover song, written and performed by Mel Brooks. (Photo Above). 8/10.  

🍿 American History X, a very disappointing first watch. What may have been a courageous and nuanced analysis of contemporary racial hatred, rehabilitation and tolerance, seems didactic and quaint 25 years later - just like the shocking Nazi swastika tattoos. 1998 extremism is 2023 slice of life. 3/10.

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A hard day, a Korean thriller about a young, corrupt policeman who runs over a guy while drunk driving, and then, trying to cover the killing, buries the body in the coffin of his mother who had died the same day. Standard, unbelievable execution about the always-corrupt Korean Police force. 3/10

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First watch: Cult classic Myra Breckinridge, “one of the worst films ever made” and the mess that brought Mae West out of her 27-year retirement. A confused early ‘70′s look at sexual roles, sex change operations, female-on-male anal rape, femdom and Hollywood. A complete waste of talent. 2/10.

RIP, Raquel Welch!

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The concept sounds intriguing: A lowly Irish ‘Extra’ playing an English soldier on the set of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ falls in love with an assistant director. The trailer looked dope. But the short Kubrick by candlelight was undeveloped and underwhelming. 2/10.

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Marc Maron X 2:

🍿 Not being very familiar with comedian Marc Maron, but he opened his latest stand up From Bleak to Dark with this line: I don’t want to be negative, but I don’t think anything’s ever gonna gets better again, which captured my sentiment so perfectly, I was immediately hooked. Genial observations, well-delivered!

🍿 Since he‘s also an accomplished actor, I looked for something he played in. Unfortunately, I picked Get a Job (2016), because it also starred my crush Anna Kendrick (and dozens of other names, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Nicholas Braun). But this cringy sit-com style dud was so listless, I could only last 25 minutes, before adding it to my “Too-Horrible-Couldn’t Finish-List”. 1/10.

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I felt compelled to watch Game Night again, for the 3rd (!) time, and I’m not sure why. The relationship between Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams is so cute, and the story develops organically and perfectly. It’s such a fun and infectious action-comedy!

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Some YouTuber Watched Every Oscar Best Picture Winner, so we don’t have to.

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Lavatory Lovestory, a cute Oscar-nominated Russian Short about a lonely, romantic lady who works at a public toilet, a subject that is told not too often on film.

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So this week I saw 2 great movies: Bertolucci’s '1900', the documentary ‘The Automat’, one repeat offender ‘Game night’ for the 4th time, plus Marc Maron’s stand-up ‘From Bleak to dark’. That’s a fairly typical number of good ones per week.

But I came to realize that most of the many other movies I watch every week are simply terrible. Under normal circumstances, and if I wasn’t on a mission (which I’m not sure yet what it is), I would never spend time on them.

Maybe I’ll try one week to only watch ‘Great’ movies, see how it feels to go through only the 'Best of the best'.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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DANIEL WHYTE III TELLS KING CHARLES III AND THE ENTIRE PALACE 12 THINGS IN BRIEF TERMINOLOGY TO BE EXPANDED ON LATER: (1.) KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT! (2.) THIS IS A DRY RUN (3.) HARRY WAS RIGHT ABOUT CAMILLA or QUEEN CONSORT JEZEBEL -- DEAL WITH IT (4.) ABDICATE THE THRONE (5.) JEZEBEL JR.'S (MEGHAN'S) BOOK WILL MAKE HARRY'S BOOK LOOK LIKE ALICE IN WONDERLAND (6.) KING CHARLES III, REMEMBER, HARRY HAS A 4-BOOK DEAL (7.) OPRAH WILL MAKE SURE THEY GET A MOVIE DEAL (8.) IF YOU DON'T ABDICATE, CHECK-MATE OF KING CHARLES III BY AT LEAST THE 4TH BOOK IF NOT THE 3RD BOOK (9.) FORCED FROM THE THRONE UNDER GREAT SHAME (10.) ACE-IN-THE-HOLE. HARRY WILL ACCUSE YOU AND EVEN THE QUEEN OF SIGNING OFF ON THE MURDER OF PRINCESS DIANA, NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS DATING A BLACK MAN, BUT BECAUSE SHE WAS DATING AND FLAUNTING IT WITH A MUSLIM, WHICH BROUGHT GREAT HUMILIATION, SHAME, AND EMBARRASSMENT TO THE OLD-SCHOOL QUEEN, TO THE KINGDOM, TO THE CHURCH, AND TO YOU WITH MOTIVES FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE (11.) DANIEL WHYTE III TELLS KING CHARLES III IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, YOU NEED TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THIS IMMEDIATELY BY ABDICATING THE THRONE AND HAVE THE CORONATION DAY TO BE FOR YOUR SON WILLIAM WHO IS, BY THE WAY, THE ONLY ONE OF YOU THREE NOT MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE, FOR IF THAT IS TRUE "THE HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL":  WE QUOTE FROM THE HOLY WORD OF GOD, BY THE WAY, IN YOUR ANCESTORS VERSION AND A FELLOW KING, KING JAMES -- THE KING JAMES VERSION: "Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, . . ." (12.) KING CHARLES III, CONFESS YOUR SINS ONE TO ANOTHER. DO LIKE KING DAVID AND CONFESS YOUR SINS TO GOD, TO THE NATION, TO THE KINGDOM, AND TO THE WOMAN'S HUSBAND THAT YOU STOLE, AND IF YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERING YOUR FIRST WIFE IN ANY WAY, APOLOGIZE FOR THAT TOO. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE GOD WILL SHOW YOU THE SAME KIND OF MERCY AND GRACE HE SHOWED KING DAVID, AND WHO KNOWS, DANIEL WHYTE III MAY BE YOUR NATHAN -- "THOU ART THE MAN" O' KING CHARLES III.

DANIEL WHYTE III TELLS KING CHARLES III AND THE ENTIRE PALACE 12 THINGS IN BRIEF TERMINOLOGY TO BE EXPANDED ON LATER: (1.) KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT! (2.) THIS IS A DRY RUN (3.) HARRY WAS RIGHT ABOUT CAMILLA or QUEEN CONSORT JEZEBEL — DEAL WITH IT (4.) ABDICATE THE THRONE (5.) JEZEBEL JR.’S (MEGHAN’S) BOOK WILL MAKE HARRY’S BOOK LOOK LIKE ALICE IN WONDERLAND (6.) KING CHARLES III, REMEMBER, HARRY HAS A 4-BOOK DEAL (7.) OPRAH WILL MAKE SURE THEY GET A MOVIE DEAL (8.) IF YOU DON’T ABDICATE, CHECK-MATE OF KING CHARLES III BY AT LEAST THE 4TH BOOK IF NOT THE 3RD BOOK (9.) FORCED FROM THE THRONE UNDER GREAT SHAME (10.) ACE-IN-THE-HOLE. HARRY WILL ACCUSE YOU AND EVEN THE QUEEN OF SIGNING OFF ON THE MURDER OF PRINCESS DIANA, NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS DATING A BLACK MAN, BUT BECAUSE SHE WAS DATING AND FLAUNTING IT WITH A MUSLIM, WHICH BROUGHT GREAT HUMILIATION, SHAME, AND EMBARRASSMENT TO THE OLD-SCHOOL QUEEN, TO THE KINGDOM, TO THE CHURCH, AND TO YOU WITH MOTIVES FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE (11.) DANIEL WHYTE III TELLS KING CHARLES III IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, YOU NEED TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THIS IMMEDIATELY BY ABDICATING THE THRONE AND HAVE THE CORONATION DAY TO BE FOR YOUR SON WILLIAM WHO IS, BY THE WAY, THE ONLY ONE OF YOU THREE NOT MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE, FOR IF THAT IS TRUE “THE HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL”:  WE QUOTE FROM THE HOLY WORD OF GOD, BY THE WAY, IN YOUR ANCESTORS VERSION AND A FELLOW KING, KING JAMES — THE KING JAMES VERSION: “Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, . . .” (12.) KING CHARLES III, CONFESS YOUR SINS ONE TO ANOTHER. DO LIKE KING DAVID AND CONFESS YOUR SINS TO GOD, TO THE NATION, TO THE KINGDOM, AND TO THE WOMAN’S HUSBAND THAT YOU STOLE, AND IF YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERING YOUR FIRST WIFE IN ANY WAY, APOLOGIZE FOR THAT TOO. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE GOD WILL SHOW YOU THE SAME KIND OF MERCY AND GRACE HE SHOWED KING DAVID, AND WHO KNOWS, DANIEL WHYTE III MAY BE YOUR NATHAN — “THOU ART THE MAN” O’ KING CHARLES III.

The Duke claimed that Camilla forged ‘connections’ with the press in the UK in order to try and ‘rehabilitate her image’ and get ‘positive stories’ written about her DANIEL WHYTE III TELLS KING CHARLES III AND THE ENTIRE PALACE 12 THINGS IN BRIEF TERMINOLOGY TO BE EXPANDED ON LATER: (1.) KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT! (2.) THIS IS A DRY RUN (3.) HARRY WAS RIGHT ABOUT CAMILLA or QUEEN CONSORT JEZEBEL —…

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HAPPY TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO LIGHTS ON PARK AVE! 🎂🎉 In celebration of LoPA’s birthday (August 22, to be exact), all of the prompts from the previous year are up for grabs.

Round 24 will end on August 31, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).

As always, you’re free to jump in whenever you’d like during the round, a wide variety of work types is accepted, and there are no minimum work requirements. Unfinished works and works for other fandom events are allowed. You can find more information about Lights on Park Ave and the participation guidelines here.

Here are all 149 prompts. Go crazy and have fun! 🎈

ROUND 13: TIME

A quote about being infinite in the present moment from The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Vellichor,” the the strange wistfulness of used bookstores

“How long is forever?” dialogue from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“Time” - Hans Zimmer (Inception OST)

A quote and gifset from Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) about the nonlinear structure of time

Agnès Varda’s portraits when she was 20, 36, and 80 years old

A John Irving quote about what time does to the people who matter to us

Ten traveling back to see Rose on New Year’s Day in 2005 before he dies and reincarnates in Doctor Who

Future inventions in 2015 as seen in Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future Part II (1989)

A quote about what time does for wounds

ROUND 14: LIMINALITY

A photoset of various liminal spaces

Illustration of a black cat in front of a red-lit house with the caption, “They say no one is living here—but the lights come on, once every year”

A photoset of Victorian-era spirit photography, an art form that attempted to capture the ghost of a deceased loved one

Information on the famous Mojave phone booth, a lone telephone booth in the middle of the desert that received calls from all over the world

Rosemary Ellen Guiley’s The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits Third Edition’s definition of “witching hour”

Illustration of a ghost train on an abandoned trestle bridge in the Pacific Northwest

A quote by Isabel Allende about spirits coming out at night in the library

Gifset of the spirit world in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001)

Illustration of a neon roadside sign of a motel that only appears at night by a long-forgotten highway

“Pacific Coast Highway” - Kavinsky

A gifset quote from The Twilight Zone (1959)

Scenery from Twin Peaks season 1 (1990)

A quote about something shifting into a strange, new place inside of a person from Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

ROUND 15: LOSS

A quote about being lost and found by someone special by Sue Zhao

A photo of the Mildred, wrecked off Gurnard’s Head, Cornwall in 1912

A quote about ephemerality and the beauty of it from Troy (2004)

Two paintings of people visiting ruins by Caspar David Friedrich

A quote about desire and loss by Lara Mimosa Montes

A photo of an overgrown, abandoned conservatory

A passage about what disappears and what remains in ruins from Suicide by Édouard Levé

Dialogue about gratitude for people who aren’t meant to stay in your life but shape who you are from BoJack Horseman

A scene from Fleabag where the Priest chooses God over Fleabag and gently tells Fleabag that her love for him will pass before they part ways

A prayer to St. Anthony, patron saint of lost things, people, and souls

Oscar Wilde’s tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, covered in lipstick kisses from admirers

Photos of a cemetery statue in Austria, wrapped in branches and dead leaves, holding a single flower

ROUND 16: DEVOTION/SERVICE

A gifset of Kevin on the phone, telling Chiron he’ll cook food for him from Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight (2016)

Buttercup’s monologue to Westley about how she would do anything for him from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Gifs of Merlin saying that he was born to serve Arthur from BBC’s Merlin

An excerpt about giving all of oneself to someone despite what it costs from House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

A gifset of various times Jaime and Brienne demonstrate their loyalty to and love for each other in Game of Thrones

A gifset of all the different ways Cliff is there for Rick in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

A gifset of Nadia deciding to be by Alan’s side no matter what in Russian Doll

“Devotion” - Ocean Vuong

A gifset of Bond comforting a traumatized Vesper in the shower in Casino Royale (2006)

A gifset of Sookhee refusing to leave Hideko, saying her job is to look after her in Park Chanwook’s The Handmaiden (2016)

ROUND 17: DREAMS

A dreamscape gifset and quote about repressed thoughts in dreams and the Internet from Satoshi Kon’s Paprika (2006)

A gifset of Mitsuha and Taki finally meeting in their own bodies in a dream from Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no Na wa (Your Name) (2016)

A quote by Tinker Bell telling Peter Pan where he can find her and where she’ll always love him in Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991)

The scene where Keating tells his students that poetry, beauty, romance, and love give life meaning in Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989)

An animated illustration of a storefront called “Hauntings” with a flickering “99¢ dreams” neon sign

Various dreamscape scenes and a quote about ideas being the most resilient parasite from Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010)

A quote about how all living beings must dream to survive reality from The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

A comic about people we love taking turns to visit us in dreams every night

Lovers and Sleeping Couple, two drawings by Egon Schiele

A quote about belief in a better world by Robert Frobisher to his lover, Rufus Sixsmith, in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

A quote about the feeling of falling in love lingering when you wake up from a dream in Alexis Dos Santos’s Unmade Beds (2009)

A photo of subway graffiti by an unknown author insisting that they’ll never give up making the world a better place to live in

ROUND 18: PHYSICAL TOUCH

A scene about how to return a stolen kiss from Daniel Ribeiro’s The Way He Looks (2014)

A line about kissing someone the way a flower opens from “I Know Someone” by Mary Oliver

A gifset focusing on showing affection and care through hands from Park Chanwook’s The Handmaiden (2016)

A passage about two people leaving invisible marks on each other through the accumulation of touches over the years from A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Two conversations about never being touched before and only being touched by one person from Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight (2016)

Going from yearning to touch someone but stopping oneself to being allowed to touch them from Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy

Moving art of two bodies made of stars and the cosmos embracing

A quote about maintaining sanity by touching someone but being separated despite proximity from The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

A line about proving that one still exists and is real through touch from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Different touches between Villanelle and Eve expressing violence, threat, sexual tension, comfort, and companionship in Killing Eve

A juxtaposition of two scenes from Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000) of Su Li-zhen rejecting and accepting Chow Mo-wan’s hand

A compilation of marble sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Syd (Chris Evans) trailing kisses down London’s back in London (2005)

ROUND 19: IMMORTALITY

James Baldwin talking about how art helps you discover that people before you have experienced the same thing as you and you are not alone

Dr. Brand saying that love transcends time and space in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014)

Nadia and Alan meeting for the first time as they’re about to die and relive the same day again in Russian Doll

The loneliness of losing everyone by having a long life as expressed by Ten in Doctor Who

The doomed eternal time loop romance of Simon and Alisha from Misfits

A quote by Edvard Munch about becoming eternal through the flowers that grow from his body after death

Nagai Kei recalling the traffic accident that killed him and triggered his immortality, making him one of the rare persecuted humans to possess the power, in Ajin

A collection of moments from Jay Russell’s Tuck Everlasting (2002)

A quote by Mary Wollstonecraft hoping for something that lasts inside the heart

Various scenes with Jack Harkness from Doctor Who

Aya telling Asou-kun to live on and live forever as she nears the end of her life in 1 Litre of Tears

An excerpt about the immortalization of the self through love from “Love of the Wolf” in Hélène Cixous’s Stigmata

A collection of scenes from the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero”

Naoko telling Toru to always remember her and remember that she existed in Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Dom explaining to Ariadne that he uses the PASIV to dream as it’s the only way that he can be with his wife and children in Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010)

ROUND 20: POETRY

“I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense” - Danez Smith

A line about wanting to forget how much you loved someone and then actually forgetting from Bluets by Maggie Nelson

“Perhaps the World Ends Here” - Joy Harjo

“In Time” - W. S. Merwin

“By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M.” - Jack Gilbert

“Magdalene: The Addict” - Marie Howe

“Wild Geese” - Mary Oliver

“Morphology 2″ - CJ Scruton

“20″ from Moscow in the Plague Year by Marina Tsvetaeva

“To Hold” - Li-Young Lee

ROUND 21: LONGING

“I Loved You Before I Was Born” - Li-Young Lee

A poem about longing for someone through worlds by Izumi Shikibu

A gifset of Marianne and Héloïse falling in love from Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

“Make Me Feel” - Janelle Monáe

A quote about living in longing being better than realizing that longing from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

“I Want You” - Mitski

Orpheus and Eurydice in Hades - Friedrich Heinrich Füger

Long definition of the word “saudade”

Definition of the word “hiraeth”

“Something About Us” - Daft Punk

Two lines about burning quietly from the poem “The Pillowcase” by Annelyse Gelman

A conversation about wanting each other after decades of separation from Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory (2019)

A Hanahaki disease mood board

“Shrike” - Hozier

Two lines about wanting someone to return from Herakles by Euripides

“Love of My Life” - Queen

“Eyes, Nose, Lips” - Taeyang

A screenshot of Kathy and Tommy holding onto each other desperately from Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (2010) and a quote from Kazuo Ishiguro’s eponymous novel

ROUND 22: YOUTH

“Perfect Places” - Lorde

A piece about realizing you’ll never be this young again, but it’s the first time you’re this old by Kalyn Roseanne Livernois

A conversation between Neil and Mr. Keating about Neil feeling trapped and unable to live the life he wants because of his father from Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989)

An excerpt about being too young to know how to love properly from Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys

Elio’s father telling Elio not to try to rid himself of his sorrow and pain—and with that joy—which he feels so strongly because he’s so young from Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

A quote about how everything feels final to young people because they’re experiencing it for the first time from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Lara Jean telling Peter that she had to make it seem like she liked him to deal with her love letter fiasco in Susan Johnson’s To All the Boys I Loved Before (2018)

Rue and Jules dancing together and partying it up in Euphoria

“Le Plongeoir” by Laurent Roch

A quote about being pushed into adulthood and not being ready from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

A photo of a roller rink illuminated by pink and purple lights

Pastel photo series of Coney Island by Mijoo Kim and Minjin Kang

“Hips Don’t Lie” - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean

“Young Dumb & Broke” - Khalid

Different moments accompanied by the letter to Mr. Vernon at the end of detention from John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club (1985)

Various scenes and a quote about growing up and realizing life isn’t like a fairy tale from Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Stills of the young lesbian couple in love from the music video of “You Know” - Jaurim

Lines by Effy about her emotional and mental struggles from Skins

Nathan chiding the group for not taking advantage of their superpowers as young offenders from Misfits

ROUND 23: HEDONISM

A passage about giving into passion and losing control from The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“Thot Shit” - Megan Thee Stallion

An aesthetic photoset of the Greek god Dionysus

A quote about living for ecstasy rather than balance from From a Journal of Love by Anaïs Nin

A photo of an anonymous person in nothing but a silk robe and lingerie

A photo of Donatella Versace lounging in a chair, surrounded by shirtless, muscular men sunbathing around her in Capri, Italy in 1994

An aesthetic photoset based on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The music video for “Heartless” by The Weeknd

A plea for summer to never end from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

“Plastic Love” - Mariya Takeuchi

A gifset from the music video of “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd, a continuation of the “Heartless” music video

“XS” - Rina Sawayama

A gifset from the music video of “Body” by Mino

Photos of people dancing at the legendary Studio 54

Photos and a description of the party scene at Studio 54

Chris Evans and Evan Rachel Wood hooking up in a car in the “Gucci Guilty Black” commercial

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Nat’s 626 Writing/Art Challenge

Recently I made it to 1,626 followers, and I've decided to celebrate this milestone with a Writing/Art Challenge, the theme; Disney.

Art Challenge Rules; 

❤Feel free to use any of the writing Prompts below to draw inspiration from.  ❤Any Character(s) or ships are welcome. ❤You can submit more than once piece of art if you’d like.  ❤You can pick any theme that you want.  ❤Please NO dark themes ❤Please tag me. ❤You can either submit it to me or use the #nats626artchallenge ❤Deadline - 25th October 2021 

Writing Challenge Rules; ✦Below the cut are 40 writing prompts. You may combine up to 3 prompts from any of the categories. ✦You MUST send an ask claiming the prompts you wish to use.  ✦The story has to be somewhat loosely based on the prompt(s) that you choose.  ✦Have fun with it, let your imagination run wild and have fun with it.  ✦You can pick any character from any fandom you like.  ✦All Genre’s are allowed; Fluff, Angst, Smut etc.  ✦If you write anything NSFW, you MUST be over 18. ✦Please NO Dark/ Non Con Fics please.  ✦Reader Inserts, OC’s and Poly fics, Ships are welcomed.   ✦If over 500 words, you MUST use a read more button.  ✦Please Tag me.  ✦Please use the tag #nats626writingchallenge ✦Deadline - 25th October 2021. However, if you need more time feel free to message me. 

Reblogs are welcomed! 

Below the cut are the writing Prompts;

Disney AU’s  ☀Beauty and the Beast AU  ☀Cinderella AU  ☀Princess and the Frog AU  ☀Hercules AU with @thegirlwhowritesfics​  ☀Sleeping Beauty AU  ☀Snow White and the seven Dwarfs AU ☀Alice in Wonderland AU  ☀Peter Pan AU  ☀Aladdin AU  ☀Tarzan AU 

Songs;   ♬Can you feel the love tonight - The Lion King  ♬Kiss the Girl - The Little Mermaid ♬A whole New World - Aladdin  ♬I Won’t Say I’m In Love - Hercules  ♬Gaston - Beauty And The Beast ♬Almost There - Princess And The Frog ♬When Will My Life Begin - Tangled  ♬Why Should I Worry - Oliver and Company ♬Reflection - Mulan  ♬Hakuna Matata - The Lion King 

Quotes; ♛”Because when I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you and I’m home” Dory (Finding Nemo)  ♛“Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours” Olaf (Frozen) ♛”A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart” Hercules (Hercules) ♛”My dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it” Tiana (Princess and the Frog)  ♛”You’re mad. Bonkers. Off your head...but I’ll tell you a secret...some of the best people are.” Alice (Alice in Wonderland) ♛”Venture outside of your comfort zone. The rewards are worth it.” Rapunzel (Tangled) ♛When the world turns it’s back on you, you turn your back on the world.” Timon (The Lion King)  ♛You are braver than you believe, stranger than you seem and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin (Winnie The Pooh) ♛”I have never felt this way about anyone. I wanna do something for her.” Beast (Beauty and the Beast) ♛”Ladies don’t start fights, but they can finish them” Marie (The Aristocats) 

Disney Clichés; ☽Love at First Sight ☽Looking to the stars for comfort @youbloodymadgenius with Ivar  ☽The Protagonist whose main flow is being awkward ☽A Princess who feels trapped ☽The odd couple hero's  ☽Badass Princess ☽Damsel in Distress ☽A loyal sidekick  ☽Magic ☽Transformation. 

Tagging those who may be interested, but no pressure to enter;  @youbloodymadgenius, @crowfootwrites, @blackgirlfandomwriter, @shannygoatgruff, @thegirlwhowritesfics @thewalkingdead-imagines @therealcalicali @angelreyesgirl @crimsonheart01, @crazzyimagines, @nev3rfound, 

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Tag 9 people to learn about their interests!

Tagged by @daydreaming-optimist 💖Thanks twin!

MUSIC

Fave genre? depends on: the weather, the time of year, the most recent artist(s) I have listened to, and the vibe of the book I last picked up. (But movie scores are always great)

Fave artist? Tay Swift or Cristophe Beck

Fave song? Depends on the vibe I'm seeking in a particular moment. Thomas Newman's Nemo Egg is probably one of my all-time favs. Moonlight Sonata too tho. AHH THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SONGS.

Most listened song recently? One by Sleeping At Last

Song currently stuck in your head? Say Goodbye by Katrina Rose Dideriksen and Rob Rokicki

5 fave lyrics?

“Grace requires nothing of me." -One by Sleeping at Last

“Write what you know so they say; all I know is I don't know how to write or the right way to write it." -Watch What Happens by Kara Lindsay

"I wanna break every rule and cross every line. I wanna show all the stars how stars oughta shine. I wanna do as I please and knock the world to its knees, and go wherever the breeze is going" -Next Stop Anywhere by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater (+ Mandy Moore, Eden Espinosa, and Zachary Levi)

"I may fail but it doesn't mean that I won't try" - Try by Rob Rokicki (+ Jorrel Javier, Chris McCarrell & Kristin Stokes)

"Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die; I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you. Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry. I'm setting off, but not without my muse" -the lakes by Taylor Swift

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

Fav book genre? travelogue or sci-fi probably?

Fav writer? Rick Riordan, Andy Weir, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, or Rachel Carson

Fav book? This is going to change in seven seconds. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Fav book series? The Lunar Chronicles, PJO, Gaia Girls (going wayyy back to childhood)

Comfort book? Jessica Day George books (specifically the Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy), PJO, The Kane Chronicles, A Wrinkle in Time

Perfect book to read on a rainy day? Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Fave characters? how much time you got? Annabeth Chase, Rachel Dare, Mark Watney, Hermione Granger, Cress Darnel (I swear I'm not copying your answers @daydreaming-optimist we just have so much in common it's ridiculous), Lazlo Strange, Dr. Ellie Sattler (it took me forever to type that bc my L key glitched)... I'm gonna leave it at seven. Seven seems a good number.

5 quotes from your fave book(s)** that you know by heart?

“The planet has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.” (Jurassic Park, Micheal Crichton)

“Dream up something wild and improbable" (Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor)

“The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.” (The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson)

"It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then." (Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll)

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people." and "Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read." (Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl)

**I added the (s) there. That wasn't in the original question but I wrote all these quotes and THEN realized my mistake. But I liked the quotes too much to change it to book singular.

hardcover or paperback* | buy or rent* | standalone novels or book series* | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

*depends on the book

TV AND MOVIES

Fave tv/movie genre? fantasy, documentary, sitcom

Fave movie? Like favorite book, this also fluctuates every seven seconds. Rn tho? Jumanji: The Next Level

Comfort movie? Ratatouille, Finding Nemo (p much anything Disney) , The Princess Bride, old Barbie movies, The Sound of Music

Movie you watch every year? Tangled

Fave tv show? Uhhhhh rn? The Good Place

Comfort tv show? Friends, The Good Place, and The Office (I know I know. very standard answers)

Most rewatched tv show? Friends (I'm seeing some overlap in these answers hmm)

5 fave characters? This is simply impossible. I love too many. Mary Margaret-Blanchard, Belle (from Beauty and the Beast), Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chidi Anagonye, Woody Boyd, Katniss Everdeen (that's SIX i know but god I want to say SO MANY MORE SSKJGKJH)

tv shows or movie | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

tagging (no pressure): @the---hermit @kakooii @oh-toasty @c-avenged @of-the-elves @jellyfishwaters @unashamedly-enthusiastic @sous-la-mousse @alienlamp