#what i loved in 2005

[snailspng]

“Things I loved as a kid” PNGs.

(1. Tamagotchi, 2. Guide to rocks & minerals, 3. Picked dandelions, 4. Princess Mononoke dvd, 5. Dragon Ball, 6. Wild boar piglet plush, 7. Roly poly, 8. “Wing membrane” from the Dragonoly book, 9. Beyblade)

[borrelia]

not even the words

[molinaesque]

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

- Chapter 10, Persuasion (Jane Austen)

- Persuasion (1995, Roger Michell)

[syncast-err0r]

four letter word

[transmascutena]

oh and here i was thinking it had something to do with akio being a groomer and a rapist. and perhaps also the whole fucking her mom behind her back thing. clearly i don't understand the show as well as i thought

[sonknuxadow]

one of my favorite things about shth is the whole system of getting to team up with other characters who follow you around and talk to you and stuff and how most of the main and supporting characters that existed at the time get in on it. its so fun getting to see how all of them interact with shadow its so cute how excited sonic is to team up with shadow and how charmy thinks shadow is the coolest guy ever and how sonic tails knuckles rouge and amy are all there to cheer shadow on in the final battle. people will tell you shadow doesnt have friends but this game tells me that he does actually

[minzart]

Love Alfred with a cross bow... BUT COME ON THE JOKE WAS RIGHT THERE, THE PARALLELS, "the son of dracula" vs "the son of hellsing", also let one iteration of Hellsing be a gremilin, a swer rat, the manifestation of obsession turned insanity

[seraphfeathers]

Two O'Clock in the Afternoon in Brazil - Adélia Prado // The Torn-Up Road - Richard Siken // Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder // Interview with the Vampire 1x05 // Wishbone - Richard Siken // Letters From Medea - Salma Deera // Gotham 3x11 // The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adly Guirgis // Corpus Christi - Terrence McNally // Wishbone - Richard Siken

[variousqueerthings]

I think it's also interesting to see how things change depending on the time in which they're being engaged with. so I see things about rose today that point out that she's written to be 19 when she meets the doctor and that's a big age difference (which... I understand the point is it's a big age difference because billie piper was 23 and eccleston was 40, and then dtennant was like 34/35 when he started which isn't so big of a shift but anyway the optics I get what people are getting at, but also I think it does oversimplify a lot of what's actually going on in the written dynamic, anyway-)

and also that the rtd run's Themes start coming together properly around s3 (although they are present from day one), and in some ways at this point, because nu!who has been running for... fuckn. actually quite a few years, which is wild to me as someone who started watching as a kid, and I wonder if classic!who fans felt the same way about their show and anyway -- she shifts from being Literally The First Companion You'd Seen For 17 Years (not counting the movie and fan things and the sketch) Who Was Defining A New Era For A New Generation to... a companion

comparable to other companions, comparable to the rest of the show

we sift through the writing to see what worked and what didn't (in our opinion), and we know how the ten-and-rose storyline Really ends, and how the ten storyline ends (sort, of because now that doctor and donna are Back), and we know what happens afterwards, and we talk about tenrose with a 2020s eye, and rose is "just" one of the people that travels with the doctor, one of several, and notably the one who gets most of the sunshiney doctor that buries a lot of the (wonderfully portrayed) angst of the latter half of the rtd show, and doesn't have as much lore as everything after that, so the story is "just" more simple overall

and to me she's kind of incapable of being just that. doctor who was still a risk that first season, it wasn't a done deal that it would have legs at all, never mind that it would continue for as long as it has. rose was created to be the Face of what nu!who was, moreso than nine/eccleston, because even with the extra angst and the eccleston gravitas, we know the doctor, the doctor is established, it's not actually the doctor that needs to sell what the new show is going to become and what the Feel of that new show is going to be (I mean, partly ofc, but-)

rose was doing so much heavy lifting and she succeeded! she was the face of who before dtennant or any other doctor or companion of his era and subsequent eras. she was created to appeal to a demographic of girls who wanted someone relatable in science fiction, because rtd wanted this to be for the girls, and billie piper came into it off the back of being a popstar and it changed her entire trajectory (for the better I think/hope -- there's a lot of bad shit in billie piper's past and I'm always sending her a fond thought)

nine/ten-and-rose were It! not calling it romantic or platonic or any secret third thing (haunting the narrative), but simply It! that's why it has so much staying power as a ship (which, my opinion on shipping has been somewhat *eh shrug* in later years, but in early-days when that was how you engaged with dynamics that got to you, of course it was going to be massive). it's so hard to properly describe how "for the time in which it was made" that this dynamic was written for, and how successful it was. it was rose that breathed doctor who -- and the doctor's character -- to life, as much as herself

she sets the stage for everything that comes next, both within and without the show proper

and I'm always so pleased that rtd at the time was thinking about what was needed to create this character and he opened with a shot from a girl on the estate with messy hair, clumpy eyeliner, and a minimum wage job, and went "that's the girl who's going to go on the adventure of a lifetime, that's the girl we're seeing the story through and relating to, because that's what girls (and uh... those who were girls at the time - and their parents and the boys) should be seeing."

I know rose isn't the first working class companion including classic!who, but she set the tone for nu!who and her family and background are important to why she is who she is, and is explored

"I've got no A-levels, no job, no future-" said the girl about to see the universe

she was very much for teenagers, and so she reads differently when you're an adult watching it back (much like those "teenager saves the world," novels you loved as a kid), but that's why she's 19 at the beginning. that's why she's billie piper (who does a perfect job). she was there to bring a new generation into this story, and it was perfect. and then she grows up. and we grew up. and she had adventures and it was brilliant and she survived and she made a life for herself. that's her story

[andoutofharm]

fall out boy & my chemical romance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards

[skitskatdacat63]

This is my personal crossover event of the century

[revengeromance]

my chemical romance fans posing with merch at Warped Tour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 19, 2005 | 📸 By Vicki Bosanko

[detco-hell]

yes ayumi, you are so correct 🙏

[episode 423 - The Detective Boys and the Four Caterpillar Brothers]

[songbird-is-crying]

nh. Z. what if

what if final shot of good Omens.

was.. like

2005 pride and prejudice forehead touch

what then

[linmeiwei]

The worst scene in Pride and Prejudice 2005?

No intention to be mean about a movie lots of people love (please continue loving it, I have no quarrel with you, it's just my opinion etc.).

Inspired by this post I saw, in which OP argues that the worst bit of the 2005 movie is the one in which Darcy and Elizabeth almost kiss after his first proposal. You know, this bit:

It’s bad, granted. I agree with OP that it makes little real sense, because of course Elizabeth never hated this guy more than at that point in the novel, and Darcy has really never been more furious with her.

But. My friends. I submit for your consideration the actual worst scene in the movie. Please, behold:

It is not an accident, to me, that they chose to put this scene at the end of her marvelling at the opulence and richness of his house. The whole sequence at Pemberley in the movie just reads as Elizabeth being overwhelmed by the grandeur, importance and wealth of this guy.

The portrait scene was supposed to be her finally seeing him as he really is, and also at his best, at his most natural, happy (or, at least, smiling) and youthful (it was taken while his father was still alive).

She comes away from it not awed, but feeling, well, warmth (a "gentle sensation"). I don't know, I suppose YMMV, but IMO there's nothing warm about a white marble (or plaster?) statue: it speaks of self-importance, distance, hardness, it's literally cold to the touch, it's got hard edges... just the opposite of the gentleness and warmth the scene is supposed to convey.

To me it's worse than the almost kissing, because you could argue that the almost kissing is just a metaphor for the sexual tension that you could argue exists between Elizabeth and Darcy from the beginning. And there's a real argument to be made about why Darcy is proposing to her at this point to begin with. He acknowledges it's not rational and in his letter he later admits it was an overwhelming passion. Well, how do you convey passion on screen?

Anyway, this isn't to say I like this choice (I don't) but you could make an argument for it being there.

The Darcy bust, on the other hand, is not only ineffective in conveying either Book Darcy or Movie Darcy's real character, it actively has the opposite effect. I know what the portrait scene in the book is supposed to do, but I'm stumped to understand what the loving lingering shots of a cold, blank-faced marble bust is supposed to accomplish other than confirm Elizabeth in her opinion of him as an overprivileged, pompous arse.