#they really did the book justice

[hammerbacks]

lazenby!bond + tvtropes.

[art-soboro]

WHAT FACT SHOULD WE ACCEPT THE REALITY OF TRUTH

peep the sketch under the cut!

[atticcreationz]

As someone who is VERY fascinated with adaptation in film (who spent quuuuuuite some time back in college obsessing over it for assignments) and who adores the graphic novel, my biggest takeaway from Nimona is that it is an EXCELLENT adaptation. Especially considering how much that production went through! Like, all of the changes and things they expanded on made sense for the transition from book to movie. My second takeaway is that I love it <3 Please go watch it I beg of you 🙏

[bonefall]

And not all DC fans are mad! I was happy when Leafpool beat Starfire, and I was pleased with Bumble winning too. (Epilepsy dad here, who is a comics fan, and has 4 kids who love reading the warrior cat books and have the Minifig warriors become superheroes In the Gotham city I hot as a kid) im digressing here: What keeps the warrior cats fandom strong is how you all form up around the cats that were mistreated by the writers, how you bring them into your homes and hearts and make better features for them. My Amuma always used to say if enough people believed in something, then maybe their will can change the world.

Always good to see you around!

This vitriol has been super disappointing, y'know? I feel like I have to keep stressing that DC fans are valid, their frustrations with the comics are well-founded, and Bumble's opponents should also be acknowledged as victims of misogyny

And then we don't get that grace back! Doesn't matter that Warriors is a best-selling kids' series with REALLY harmful messages in it read by millions across the globe. Bumble's "just a cat" and we're "reading too much into it." As if that's not the same shit that gets said about misogyny in media broadly; "They're not real, comics are just for fun, you're reading too much into it"

Now people are like "Oh it was a mistake for WARRIOR CATS to be in this poll" because they're mad our "just a cat" is winning. Like it's not a tournament and that's the whole point. We've got people trying to say that Bumble can't even have misogyny happen to her because the human writers superficially made her a cat, as if she's not a fantasy character like every other fantasy character she's been up against.

But, ugh. I won't let it stop me, y'know? StarClan gives its hardest battles to its strongest warriors ✨✨I will never shut up about the "justa cats," this fandom rocks exactly because of the fact we're so passionate about these issues and how to address and fix them, Bumblesweep FOREVER!

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE RAVEN TOWER by Ann Leckie.

I'm still in the Hamlet frame of mind after THE DEATH I GAVE HIM, so we're keeping that going! This one came highly recommended by a Trusted Friend (beloved). Apparently it does some Weird and Neat Shit with POV, which is also exactly up my alley.

Featuring my Pass the Honey cardigan moonlighting as a background!

[belligerentbagel]

take this sinking boat and point it home  we've still got time  raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice  you've made it now 

widojest 4: after the end 🍎

[3lostyears]

a collapsing star Pairing: Thirteen/Rose Summary: The thing is, the Doctor thinks, is that Rose has never felt like a ghost to her. Even when she probably should have. / A retelling of Our Wives Under the Sea. Tags: canon divergence, timeless child, power of the doctor, the flux, angst.

If the deep sea is a haunted house, then outer space is a graveyard. The Doctor thinks she’s always known that, deep down. It’s why she ran away, why she wanted to travel. To prove that gut instinct wrong. How can all those stars have died millions of years ago when she can not only see them, but touch and feel the lifeforms they support? That was the trick though; one moment you could be drinking hot chocolate on a planet swarming with millions of people, and the next you could be in the same spot but with the planet gone, just a charred lump of rock and a dying sun beside you. It’s easy for the living things to feel like an illusion after that. No matter where you're standing, the light from a sun eventually reaches you all the same.

Read the rest here.

[tit-crevice]

just saw ppl criticising the last episode, i actually loved it. they just went crazy with the 7th episode but i think the fight w both ares and luke was done really well, it could have been longer but with all that they tried to cram in a single episode im not surprised. percy meeting his father was amazing i was so caught up by the emotions!! and holy shit, lance's performance was amazing! i was genuinely terrified when he started talking to percy, i just hope the recast will do lance's interpretation of zeus justice

[stackthedeck]

Me: damn I don't like how flashpoint beyond and the new golden age reintroduced the time masters, nothing about them makes sense and jeff and bonnie's characters have been minimized in a way that's really gross, i hope this doesn't stick but just re-ignites an interest in the team

also me: guess i have to read the entire new golden age event to find even a scrape of a mention of them

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

i love the hunger games movies bc im sentimental but it's like so sad how the films show such a shallow interpretation of almost every character😭😭

[hanzajesthanza]

the short stories are actually really provocative and profound, heartrending and disturbing and thought-provoking and funny all at the same time and in such a short amount of space.

but i feel like when n*tflix touched them, they were the first victim of a withering away and soul sapping for me, in which i couldn't bear to be around the kinds of discussions and jokes and everything which were coming up at that time as fundamental misunderstandings of them so it just became very painful and very banal because they were all, in essence, forgotten.

however, that damage is not irreversable.

particularly in the case of a good adaptation, the musical, i have begun to remember all of why i love the short stories so much, just how good and painful to my heart they are, as well as thinking more deeply about some aspects which i had not previously considered or paid a lot of attention to (in lieu of other things which excited me more).

i think the biggest strength of a "good" adaptation and a "good" fandom is that they make you realize things you hadn't, interested in parts that weren't your 'favorite,' and generally expanding your mind and love of the source material. in contrast, a "bad" adaptation or "bad" fandom is that which makes you wish to forget and eventually end up forgetting your love and leaving it behind yourself. "good" is to remember, "bad" is to forget.

[bibliophile-bi]

I finally watched the RWRB film (took me long enough) and it's just ASJFSKHADJAH i prefer the book by a long shot, but parts of the film are just so beautiful??? the emotion??? get those actors some awards

[official-rugi]

Honestly thinking about finally starting an essay idea I had on Scott Pilgrim's Book series and Takes Off in what i love about the story so much …. I dont rly know how to make a video essay so it would prolly just be like an actual like eassy lmao 😅💦

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Small Haul, or: The Dangers Of Working Less Than Three (3) Miles From A Bookstore.

[essektheylyss]

I know I refuse to shut up about it but genuinely knowing the psychologist/director's actual deal (at least a bit of it—I gotta read Acceptance still) makes me even more furious about the treatment of her in the movie. What the absolute fucking shit, Alex Garland.

[princekirijo]

Bro have you seen the drawing Aleks Le did of the P3 protag? It is unfair how talented this man is because wow his art is gorgeous

I hadn't until you sent this ask but damn it is gorgeous! You can tell he put a lot of work into it. I thought his message was sweet to, I haven't heard much of his work but I know he put 100% into this.