#scripts as switch

[hipsternumbertwo]

Favorite Angela Moments 18/∞: It starts with a little flame that's going really fast.

[orphanbychoice]

atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again

[sea-changed]

The Brutalist script + art

George Grosz, Cafe 1, c. 1920s // Saul Leiter, Untitled (100193), 1950-1980 (detail) // Jerry Opper, Abstract Fireworks, 1940-1950s

[villiun]

Wanted to draw the sad fella again

Extras :D

I switched from procreate initially and did the rest on clip studio (which I haven't touched in ages but it felt so great to mess around with it again).

Oh, and this is Mason, an oc made for @blackkatdraws / @blackkatdraws2 insert event!

[solviae]

each time someone says rafayel is a sub/bottom only, an angel loses its wings

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

lee says all of this with his head in allerton's lap by the way

[see-arcane]

I don't even care about the Nosferatu characters but there is something creepy about Eggers' scenario being all "this guy feels like he's a beta cuck in front of (thieving, ignorant, dirty) foreign masc men who constantly humiliate his masculinity and surprise he gets cucked" when this was nowhere in the film nor its source?? The fuck was that about

It's the Jonathan Harker effect.

I.e., a reflexive response from adaptation and spinoff creators who have actually been made aware of all the facets Jonathan Harker--or in this case, his doppelganger Thomas Hutter--possesses within the canon of the novel Dracula/the original Nosferatu and immediately get a bug up their butt about how much he encompasses of what makes them uncomfortable.

Jonathan Harker is a damsel in distress.

Jonathan Harker is kind and not classically manly beside a backdrop of more standard masculinity.

Jonathan Harker is preyed upon in an intimate way by the dark and powerful male Villain, the latter having supernatural ability and desire to collect an undead harem/partners against their will.

Jonathan Harker was left ill and disabled after his escape and so showed weakness, needing aid from others, relying on women (ugh) like the nuns and Mina before he could heal and move forward.

Jonathan Harker loves, cherishes, and worships his wife more than anything, wanting her to take the lead. Without her actions and sacrifice, the Villain would never have been defeated, which he highlights at the close of the novel, just as the Nosferatu iteration must take the lead in ending the film's Villain.

Jonathan Harker, polite little nobody that he is, is the one to transform himself into a Thing That Terrifies the Masculine Conquering Power Fantasy Villain. He sends his former abuser and predator running like a coward into the streets, himself giving chase to kill him in public. It is his knife that lops off the Villain's head while he hides in the dirt after Mina arranged the hunt--tastefully aligned with Nosferatu via Ellen (Mina) fully realizing the martyr role and sacrificing her life not out of amorous want of the Villain, but out of a desire to protect her husband and the town, taking on a masculine role in her own right by making the fatal sacrificial play.

In short: Jonathan-Thomas is a victim. He is antithetical to every macho babe-collecting ooh hoo hoo look at my cool-powered masculine conqueror metaphor that exists within the Dracula-Orlok figure. Jonathan-Thomas is naturally more endearing, blithe, and sweet than the common male hero and follows that by being forced into a traditionally female role as the preyed-upon and imprisoned damsel.

His mere existence throws the Mina-Ellen figure into even brighter contrasted spotlight, where she manages to wholly subvert the expected Man Villain seeks Pretty Girl to Ravish format. Mina-Ellen turns it on its head, making herself into the weapon by which the Villain is defeated, rather than leaving every point of planning and action and sacrifice to a male rescuer. This she does to aid and/or rescue her husband, the actual damsel, and humanity at large.

In the book, Jonathan the Damsel turns the tables with Mina's impetus and guidance, and ultimately slaughters Dracula, who they terrified into running home to hide and skulk.

In the film, Thomas the Damsel's plight spurs Ellen into action, making plans and taking heroic steps all on her own to destroy Orlok when she baits him with her offered blood, leaving Thomas to grieve and weep for her, tragically spared from his attempt to take on Orlok himself.

And male directors and writers like Eggers, along with so so So many before him, absolutely fucking hate that shit. It spoils the whole premise for them. Because Jonathan-Thomas is ruining their vibe, the limping simping little milksop Victorian era soyboy that he is. How does he get to kill their bestie bodypillow stand-in, Dracula, or let the Girl One take charge in Nosferatu to put down Orlok?? Bullshit!

Kick him out, kick him down, and make sure Girl One ditches his lame unmanly ass to bounce on that vampire dick that we all know she reeeally wants, lol

And throw in even more weird racism/xenophobic BS to show how Manly and Sexually Liberated the stinky foreign Romani thieves are in the year twenty-twenty-four because why not I guess

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

how i feel having to make phone conversations in the year of our lord and savior 2025

[butchbonerot]

The way I can't slack on my appearance AT ALL as a butch without being negatively compared to men drives me bonkers actually

[thehomesmarthome]

Creating a Smart Home Toggle Switch for Home Assistant

In the world of smart home automation, convenience is the name of the game. One way to achieve this is by creating a dedicated toggle switch for various devices and actions in your home. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up a toggle switch using Home Assistant. We’ll use the example of creating a toggle switch for controlling the “Bedroom Fan” using two scripts: one…

[vonlipvig]

finished pentiment act ii I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING WOW. i was like 'i think things are going fairly alright' and then well. they weren't.

ngl at one point i was ready to get mad going 'am i dying because i picked the bookworm trait' but thankfully not lmao.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

TBD, especially since I know it explores different BL subgenres each episode, but after one episode Top Form has the feel of the mature heart-aching romances that always wind up as my personal favorites.

[orodrethsgeek]

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[thatsprettylane]

I didn’t much care for Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror or Nosferatu: The Vampyre, but I DO have a huge appreciation for Dracula adaptations that show Dracula transporting his dirt boxes by himself. Fucking Dracula doing his own manual labor is so funny to me

[ilikedetectives]

Um new title for Minthara is interesting