#where’s rami tho

[consumedbygwirst]

Gwilym on Instagram, 10/14/23

(Pictures are probably not in order, I was rushed)

[mastersoftheair]

on the mustache question

[bip2]

babel: as a mixed race person

reading babel's reviews online has kind of shocked me because a lot of people are insisting that it's flat and that it tells not shows... I think there's a difference between not enjoying an author's writing style and saying that it's bad. I've always found kuang's writing to be pretty didactic, she clearly loves history and likes filling her books with knowledge. there's nothing inherently wrong with that.

the people who are insisting that the book hits you over the head with its message have missed the point of robin's character and the overall problem with Babel as an institution. Robin did not want to acknowledge the truth of what was happening, what was necessary, Babel did everything it could to sabotage this understanding. When you are complicit in a system like that, you can be shown time and time again how wrong it is and still refuse to see it. One only needs to look at how Israel and Palestine is being treated as an issue right now to see that truth. It's a very realistic portrayal imo.

as someone who is wasian, but not an ethnicity that most of the world cares about -- babel really connected with me. Even the east asian people I know never bother to learn about my country, my language, and my culture even tho we share similarities. it is being alone even amongst the people who are supposed to understand you. living in a country that actively hurts your homeland, and having english be much more comfortable than my first language and knowing that i am falling behind in my thai fluency hurts and I especially loved Griffin's character for that aspect alone.

and the aspects of ramy being a practicing Muslim really really really felt wonderful to read. it's so small but as a devout Buddhist it's so rewarding to read a book where a character's religion is a clear part of who they are but not tokenized. i loved it every time it came up.

[bonecuisine]

Pushed over

⚠️TW for mentions of:Self-no no live,Death and other sensitive topics, if you are uncomfortable with any of these don’t read!⚠️

‼️MAJOIR SPOILERS FOR s1&s5!!‼️

(Takes Place during pain in the neck)

It was finally the end of the three-hour open lecture,multiple students where crowding around the auditorium stairs to head for the free lunch hour. But there was one boy who hadn’t left yet. The boys name was Julian. Julian Ramis. He was 18 years old, and wanted a new fresh start to his future. But his reputation around town was.. not positive.

5 years ago he had accidentally murdered his best friend, Freddy Stewart.Him and Freddy had robbed a few houses but one night both boys decided to rob the Greene mansion. Freddy and Julian had stolen an old crossbow that shouldn’t have been tampered with.When him and Freddy where celebrating, Freddy had handed him the crossbow and it went off on its own shooting Freddy right through his eye killing him instantly. When he was found guilty he got 1 year in Juvie. He was only 12 years old at the time.

Julian wanted to put his past behind him, but with his reputation being known as “The murder kid” it has not been easy. Especially after his father was found dead at the hands of the rocket cow killer, Aka Rosamund Wilcox. That was only a few months ago, and Julian has been stuck in the deep end ever sense. He wanted to get out of it, but with having a criminal record with murder, theft ,and doing along with selling cannabis. It’s very difficult when people only see you as a walking criminal record, nothing else.

Julian today was going to take a step of trying to give himself a future, he decided to go to the university orientation to hand in an application.

Once everyone had left, Julian walked down the auditorium stairs to where the only other man left in the room was the economics professor. Rene Narcisse. As the professor was packing up his things, he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to see Julian standing there. “Uh hi professor, I just wanted to turn in my application” Julian nervously laughed at bit as the swears silence filled the room.

The professor started laughing,Julian stared at him in confusion.

“What’s so funny?” Julian asked raising an eyebrow

“Oh nothing, just the fact you thought you could actually come HERE.” The professor laughed.

“What do you mean by that..”

“Julian,Did you really think this school would accept a unintelligent delinquent like you? I mean it’s just going to be a matter of time until your sent to prison again!”

Julian felt like a bullet just went through is heart as it shattered,he could only look down on the floor as the professor walked out of the auditorium laughing.

He couldn’t move, tears started forming in his eyes as the words the professor had said kept on running through his head.

“unintelligent” “delinquent” “matter of time until your sent to prison again!”

Those words couldn’t leave his head.The professor probably had a point, what was he thinking, trying to turn In his application. He was right, he’s just a stupid delinquent who didn’t deserve to go to university.He didn’t have a future here anyway.

Or one at all..

He looked at the application he was holding.He ripped it up into pieces and threw it on the ground,stomping his foot on it to make it tear more. He looked around the auditorium, he noticed an economics trophy and picked it up. It belonged to the professor, Tears fell from his eyes as he looked at it.The stupid professor didn’t need it. He kept on holding it as the tears from his eyes landed on the trophy.Without thinking he took the trophy and smashed it on to the ground. He backed away in shock as he realized what he’d done. He quickly ran up the auditorium stars tho get his bag, as soon as he got it he ran out the top entrance to leave the University building.

——————————

It was late afternoon in the day and Julian was looking down at the viewpoint. Apparently professor Narcisse was murdered, Julian didn’t care though. At least it wasn’t another person he cared about. He sighed as he looked down the high view of the city, the words the professor said still running through is head.The more he thought about what the Professor said the more he thought it was true.

He is a stupid delinquent

He is a fucking unintelligent piece of shit.

One day he’ll just get thrown back in prison before he knew it.

Julian felt the tears he had before running down his face.This time they weren’t out of anger or sadness,Just tiredness.

He Wanted this to Stop

He didn’t have a fucking Future

He was a Killer.

He Murdered Freddy.

He was a DELINQUENT.

He was UNINTELLIGENT.

There was no FUTURE in his life,not once. Not ever.

He looked down to where the end of the cliff where the viewpoint was.

It was pretty high up

If someone fell they could well,die.

“Jump.”

“what the fuck?! No!”

“you know you want to, I mean what’s the point of living if you have not future already”

“No!

“Do it”

“No..”

“You have no future Julian, just fucking do it”

“..fuck”

The ringing on Julian’s ears got higher and higher until-

“Julian?” A voice called. Julian turned around. It was that Gabriel dude form the GPD, he helped him a lot after his dad died, but why was he here? “Why are you here?” Julian turned his head back around looking down at the grass now.

“I wanted to check up on you after..all that.” Gabriel said looking at Julian.

Julian didn’t respond, he didn’t know what to say after what he was feeling just a few minutes ago. He looked up at Gabriel, “how’d you find me?” He raised an eyebrow. “Oh, Cathy tracked to where your phone was,As i said before I just wanted to see how you where doing.” Gabriel turned his head back to Julian, “could I ask you a question?” Julian nodded.

“How did Rene’s words..feel?”

Julian widened his eyes, and looked away. He thought for a moment, “Uh… If Im being honest..” Gabriel raised his head a bit.

“Kinda..fucking painful, if that makes sense.”

“I understand, I mean what he said to you must’ve mentally and physically hurt..”

Tears formed in Julian’s eyes, he still couldn’t stop thinking about it, the words just rushed through his head all day, not wanting to leave him alone.

“Yeah uhm..” Julian tried to keep his tears away from talking. “He really made me think about my future you know?”

Gabriel nodded, “it uhm..” Julian felt some tears running down his face again.

“Its really made me think that..I literally don’t have one.” he looked down.

“Julian…what where you thinking when you kept on staring down at the edge?”

Julian went silent for a bit. Until he finally broke down. “Oh kid..” Gabriel wrapped his arm around Julian, trying to comfort the poor kid. “I-I’m sorry.” Julian tried saying between sobs. “No kid don’t apologize.” Gabriel said looking down at him.

When Julian had stopped crying, Gabriel let go of him as Julian wiped away his tears. Gabriel looked back at Julian who was now just leaning against the small ledge fence. “Hey would you want to go back to the station with me? I think you feel safer in my office kid.” He asked tilting his head at Julian while smiling a bit. Julian smiled a bit too, “I would uh..I’d like that” he said, now looking up at Gabriel. “Alright,let’s go kid.” He said wrapping his arm around Julian as they walked over to the car.

Thanks for reading this 👍 Also, credits to @alexlesuagz for the fic idea, go check them out there cool

[the-officiant-of-nothing-archive]

Thank you for everything!

Thank you for being here with me for these years, but if you ask me, i prefer my works to have an end of some sort, so i guess... this is one? Time to archive the blog now, have a final drawing.

I have more thoughts under the line (ideas i couldn't do, plans, sorrys, thoughts) but i leave it to your choice if you want to read them or not If not, well, thank you a lot for following this blog about this silly snortman i still love with all my heart <3 - Rami

If you are here, well, hi…there's a lot I want to talk about this project but foremost…

- I'm sorry that I wasn't that active near the end - I'm sorry that I left many things unfinished - I'm sorry for those people who had hope for this blog to come back to life - I'm just… sorry for everything else you felt against me and what I've done

But now is the end, and that's all I can do now, say sorry so…

Let's talk about ideas I wanted to do but I couldn't

College decided to eat me and spit me out, and I'm still trapped in there.

So that mixed with some self-doubt and long silences, it made me never follow upon ideas I wanted to do

Let's start with the snow storm plot, with the mages disappearing and hyn befriending Williams the waddle dee.

The idea was for hyn to meet the mages again, who have left "in secret" to find a new place to live near castle dedede, and for there to become this thing where the mages and hyness decided that it would be better for them to live separate, but still visit time to time, as the idea of them being dependent of each other would have hit too close to the whole Void Termina Revival thing. But also was this thing of Hyness being aware that he isn't that alone, and locking himself inside this house in the middle of nowhere would not help against the guilt he had left.

Him leaving that home in search for his girls was proof that he has some will inside him still. Befriending Williams (who was supposed to have this side plot of wanting to be a psychologist) was a way to open up and let himself pay and let go that guilt he had, and start again…

… Is messy, I know, but was low-key inspired by things I'm still dealing with personally

Other ideas were: user interactive events, more Morpho Knight shenanigans, a more developed plot of Hyness starting a new life by moving nearby the waddle dee village Willians lives in, many things related to forgiveness and if people wanted to do so or not…. Just… many ideas related to moving on and letting yourself be allowed to exist and all… As you can see, I really love hyness, and he had some really important things that I related in a way or another…

And, well, kinda related to that…

All my thank-yous' and thoughts

- Thank you for being here - Thank you for interacting with this blog - Thank you for letting this bird draw and ramble and just theorize a lot about this character who was hated by the time this blog started - thank you to the people I meet and talked when I made this account

As my second "Thank you" says, Hyness was disliked a lot at the time I made this blog, and I felt alone in liking him, so that evolved into many drawings and ideas and such…. And made this ask blog in response (and because ask blogs inspired me a lot in my time in Tumblr)

There's a thing tho, by making this blog, I met others who liked Hyness like me, and also felt alone in such feelings

And I befriended them, and I talked to them, and I meet them,

And they told me how much of an inspiration my blog was for their own works and AUs, heck, I was told they started caring for and loving Hyness thanks to me

My blog left a mark on people… I left a mark on people

That's a huge honor

So letting this blog just…rot in an eternal hiatus or silently archive it…that's not good enough so I wrote all this as a way to show my thanks, and as a way to confirm to myself "Hey rami, you finished a project for once, proud of you" Which is something so big after many unfinished projects and ideas that I've started…

So again… thank you so much for being here, for reading this, for letting me do something that started only for me… god I'm crying

Man…

Well, this blog is now archived then, but I may be still around if you see me (tho probably talking about monsters that fit in pockets, or dragons with puzzles and gachas, or these silly virtual livestreamer people, or … well… Kirby)

If you see me around, I'm open for a Hi or Bonjam or whatever, I may still be learning to become more sociable and letting myself be open with what I like but … a greeting may not hurt much? O well…

Jamanke, Jambuhbye!

—Mod Rami

[magentagalaxies]

once again shoutout to finals season as a comedy major bc my finals this semester include:

performing a 20 minute standup set (as my oc aubrey aubergine)

performing a 40 minute long form improv (with a team of 6 other improvisers, groundlings form to be specific)

writing a video essay script infodumping about a 2005 fox sitcom in which rami malek played a gay teenager and critiquing the queer representation and the show's resurgence as a meme in 2018

writing as long of an infodump as i can about buddy cole (technically an outline for the buddy cole documentary tho the actual film doesn't have to follow this format). this is my happy place. it's all bullet points but for reference i just got to the point in the timeline where the kids in the hall pilot is released and i'm already six pages in bc i was so thorough with the creation of the character lmao

[mochimiyaas]

🪐 hello! i am back from oppenheimer. prepare for spoilers.

every time he had an anxiety attack or envisioned the A-bomb,, i had one too. hhhh i wanted to clap my hands over my ears, shut my eyes, and run out of the theater screaming.

there was also the nudity?? like the writers were like, "yes. oppenheimer was a womanizer. but this is a historical movie. um. how about we put the "porn without plot" trope?" coulda showed it another way. the nudity scenes were so so awkward. i don't mind nudity in movies; don't get me wrongfjdjdj just . if it's awkwardly done,,, it's such a turn-off for me aaaa

plot-wise,,, it is so sad?? and kinda confusing?? i get he had a rough life with the whole deposition. but ?????? maybe i just see it that way bc i was expecting something like dunkirk or darkest hour. not . *waves hands towards oppenheimer* (imitation game was kinda the same deal; the fact it was moreso about the person rather than the history of how the enigma code was broken and the device used to crack it,,,,,,, bit of a letdown. my mistake for raising the bar for my hopes and expectations for both movies too high.)

lots of cool actors that appeared either briefly or not. uh gary oldman played harry truman (recognized him from darkest hour). florence pugh!! cillian murphy, ofc. OMG! RAMI MALEK AND ROBERT DOWNEY JR. had to do a double take when i realized he played strauss lmao matt damon, emily blunt, tony goldwyn, kenneth branagh, christopher denham, gregory jbara, jason clark, james d'arcy, jack quaid, dane dehaan!!!!! oh! and tim dekay from i think??? white collar? lmao i got whiplash seeing so many people from things like argo, white collar, blue bloods, dunkirk, scandal, hawkeye and black widow (florence pugh), peaky blinders, devil wears prada and a quiet place (emilyblunt), bourne movies and interstellar (matt damon), zero dark thirty. it was wild!!

LASTLY,,,,, contrary to all my criticism, a piece of me did enjoy oppenheimer. from a history buff's pov aka. mine,, it was hella interesting learning the history and science and politics surrounding the bomb making process. also emily blunt's performance was the cherry on top! holy shit! my favorite scene is where it is her character's turn to be interviewed and kitty keeps turning the prosecutor's questions right back at him. the way she took no shit! get me a woman like kitty oppenheimer!! also it was so so cool how they did the scenes for strauss in black and white but the scenes with oppenheimer in color. really liked that! music score was kinda?? good?? probs?? would only listen to one or two tracks tho.

anyway. would i go see oppenheimer again? not really. no. what would i rate it? hm........... 6?? out of 10 stars. i take two off for the confusing way they did the plot and two more off for the nudity. if you're not a history buff like me and will enjoy oppenheimer solely as a movie,,,, then maybe? you'll like it. if ur a history buff like me,,, probably?? not then? go give it a try, anyway, tho, if u can!

[mccoys-killer-queen]

Seeing Dokken/Lynch Mob/Ted Poley (Danger Danger) in concert

this was just at my normal go-to venue 50 minutes away

I was VERY PREPARED THIS TIME and bought a chair, blanket, hat, gloves, scarf, wore 2 pairs of pants, and my GOOD JACKET

yes this meant ppl were judging me I JUST HATE THE COLD OK

i made line friends again this time we're gonna call them Dan and Barry and they're Elder Metalheads and told stories about protecting their wives and other children at shows

Ted Poley granted me a photo pass but no one from his management gave a fuck and didn't tell the venue so I didn't get a pass :( he's such a sweet guy tho

so this guy I was hanging out with at the Sonic Slam show last summer turned out to be my one insta friend's COUSIN LOL so the two of them plus his mom got me up at the barrier LMAOO it pays off to make friends in line

I was extremely disappointed in the merch. there were literally 3 (three) shirts to choose from. That was it. Plus you could buy a CD if u wanted. They also weren't taking card. Fuck that. I bought a double vodka cranberry instead.

due to personal reasons I think I gotta stan Danger Danger now

literally I never heard a single song by them until a week ago but Ted is just so nice and fun and he put on a hell of a 30 minute show

he also threw balloons into the crowd that we had to blow up ourselves it was hilarious

there was also this little kid next to me the entire time and Ted threw him a balloon but he didn't catch it so he knelt down in front of this kid and threw like ALL the balloons at him it was so sweet ;-;

just wanna say for the record that I was there for like at least 8 core memory moments for that child last night and that balloon story was one of them

for Don't Walk Away, Ted came into the crowd bc he said 'it looks like you're having so much fun out there, I'm gonna join you!' and i couldn't find him like the entire time eoirngwoergnwerg

he also spit like a ton of times over his head and idk what it is about concert but it always makes me want men to spit on me

honestly Ted's set was the height of the show

Lynch Mob was really good and their singer... 👁👄👁

he's got crazy eyes, he's got long curly dark brown hair, and he's a petite little bitch

he also looks like Derek Day from Classless Act and Rami Malek's lovechild

his pants were TOOOOOOO LOWW 👁👄👁👁👄👁👁👄👁 i could see pubes 👁👄👁

watching George Lynch play is an otherworldly experience

at the end of their set, their drummer threw his drumsticks into the crowd and the little boy next to me caught one and everyone around him EXPLODED with joy (another core memory moment)

at one point their bassist threw his pick and I ended up getting it off the floor and giving it to this boy too

his mom thanked me secretly rogwrgtpmrtg

idk why everyone says Don Dokken can still sing I'm sorry but he can't he's worse than Vince Neil like he was literally monotone the entire time I was disappointed

despite that we were still bangin and goin nuts

Don did smile at me 3 times tho and wave at me ;-;

his stories were funny too trpptprptg like he said in Germany they eat french fries with mayo and that's the only thing he knew out to say in german in the early 80s and it's all he would eat bc of that

also he kept gushing about the crowd and the venue and how much he loves Penn's Peak and the crowd is always wild and how the venue is in the middle of nowhere (which is very correct)

there was also a red flag where Don introduced Dream Warriors with how big Patricia Arquette's boobs were when she was 16  🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

also based on everything I've heard from Ted, Dokken and their team don't sound like very nice people erogneorgtgpptt

I wanted to meet Ted afterwards but I didn't wanna push it ;-; he emailed me today offering me a pass at his show in NJ on Friday but I declined bc 1- I would have to leave straight from work 2- I would have to drive through Philadelphia 3- how is he sure they'll actually listen to him this time and 4- it's over 100 miles away so I'd have to invest in so much gas :( sorry Ted i want to but it's it's just not gonna be worth it

[maleksrami]

I distanced myself from the fandom because I felt unappreciated as a creator. I loved reading and loved supporting 1d content creators. But during the whole pandemic I backed away. I noticed someone reblogging fics from so many fandoms and I just started to read them, unaware who some of the people where. It was one of the best things i could have ever done. — In short, sometimes we just have to do what is best for us. No matter what. you’re still one of my fave people around. I’m happy to see you pop up on my dash. I hope you always do what’s best for you. I love your love of Rami. 😌

thanks for this! i get it. i’m sorry you felt unappreciated. being a content creator is not as rewarding as it used to be and i could sit here all day talking about that experience, but i won’t lol. and the pandemic also played a part in my gradual shift elsewhere too, but it was a mixture of a lot of things honestly. i think that’s true for a lot of people and i don’t blame anyone for finding solace in other things if it kept them sane. i had to do it for my mental health and heal from the pain people in my personal life were causing me and unfortunately, some of that stuff was tied into my fandom life as well and it did not make me want to continue having much to do with it. so if i come off a lot more reserved on here now and out of the loop on things, that’s why. its been really good for me. i’m still batshit insane and unhinged in fun ways tho 🤠 anyway i hope you’re having fun reading lots of great writing in whichever fandom you’re finding it 💕

[gazingatmydoom]

just finished book III of Babel by R.F.Kuang and i am. losing my fucking mind. i'm insane. what the fuck just happened. i mean, with the bar that lovell gave robin??? passed through the whole family from son to father to son to KILL THE FATHER???? "And rage derived from madness." WHAT. HUH. robin not asking but DEMANDING lovell say his mother's name AND COMMISSIONER LIN BURNING THE OPIUM. TWO MILLION POUNDS. wait i need to take into account inflation one sec A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF OPIUM. AND HE BURNED IT. robin was . oh my god. what a fucking. i can't believe it. i put down the book just before they arrived in canton like a week ago and i pick it up to THIS?? WHAT THE FUCK. i've augh. holy shit!!!!! back to that fucking conversation lovell and robin had in the cabin holy fuck. holy shit. words were sure said. fucking rolling my eyes when lovell brings up ungratefulness AGAIN like BROOOO THE POINTS BEEN MADE!!! BROOOO WASN'T EVEN A VALID POINT THE FIRST TIME U SAID IT!!!! GET REAL BE FR. i loved robin's internal monolouge too talking about he wasn't just a walking dictionary and how china wasn't just a fat golden goose cos like that's EXACTLY how lovell and baylis and babel and BRITIAN view them both!!!! OH MY GOD WHAT'S ANTOHNY GONNA THINK WHEN THEY GET BACK. AND GRIFFIN. FUCK what are they even gonna do... what are the gang gonna do where are they gonna go surely they can't go back to babel now lovell is DEAD they're gonna have to like. can they fake their deaths like antohny and griffin did? all four of them???? i thin ramy and victorie would do that, and robin might with some encouraging but honestly after that interaction INTERACTION yeag let's call it an "interaction" with lovell like bro oh my god he might just go fucking shove playfair and the rest of them off babel's rooftops at this point. but letty? i don;t know..... i don't think she would. she's. i mean she's the only one to not join hermes so far, how did ramy and victorie join? i presume like antohny contacted them somehow. it must've been. like so far letty's been pretty like. not not bothered i don't think but she hasn't been. idk. i feel the most aware of what britain does. or like IDK. i've been reading this book over the course of too long i can't recall specific character moments on the topic of britian's colonization althought there was that one lunchtime i think they talked about it briefly and YEAG it was the one where robin considered briefly telling ramy about hermes but held back on it cos he wanted to preserve what they had at the time speaking oframy CAN U BELIEVE HE WAS SO CHILL IN THAT CHAPTER???? bro was standing on a bridge after his birdie smokes OPIUM about to LEAP OFF and he's all like "yeah....lol.....crazy stuff bestie...." LIKE RAMY. I KNOW UR MAD AT ROBIN FOR NOT SAYING ANYTHING ABOTU HERMES BUT PLEASE. like idk tho maybe it was an act maybe he was freaking the fuck out cos robin was clearly Not Good so maybe ramy was like ok gotta remain calm gotta talk birdie out of this one gotta get him down gotta get him some WATER. i was headass reading this over some cereal btw. like i was just chilling on the sofa having some breakfast like hrm i wonder what's gonna happen in canton cos ofc it's where robin is from like i didn't KNOW it was all about the opium trade. and when baylis i think that was where shit like. started. slowly it was building up when baylis started being a raving white british racist about chinese people ohh my god when lovell was all like "country full of stupid backwards barbarous people-" and robin SNAPS doesn't interrupt or say he SNAPS at lovell "it's a country of people" that man had had enough!!! he was mad!! like god it was painful sitting through baylis tho bro i had had enough i was sitting there like jesus fuck this is a nightmare i mean u finally go home and it looks different and the layout is different and ur home is replaced by an opium shop!!!! of all things and u spend the entire time being dragged around by racist men who think ur no better than a dictionary i mean goddamn!!

tumblr telling me there's a 4096 character limit per block ok u FUCKING NERD CAN'T LET ME LIVE OR SOMETHING HUH CAN'T LET ME RANT CAN'T LET ME BE CAN'T LET ME TYPE bitch ass fuckass motherfucker well now i've lost my train of thought. humph. but holy fuck. the train of thought is gone but the AFTERMATH of the train is there the rails are still hot the sound echoes in the station my thoughts are still there they're just scattered and i cannot fucking believe the shit i justread. that was insane. i think it speaks to me that like. i mean i've only read two books in the past like year and a half (it's a habit i've lost and i'm TRYING to bring it back i miss reading so bad) and babel was one or is one ig i'm still reading it and the other was hang on lemme check bitterthorn which i thought was really good tbh and like both bitterthorn and babel have had me GLUED have had me ENRAPTURED they've SHAKEN ME like idk i think. reading perhaps is an activity i need to do more. maybe it's the imagination. maybe it's the descriptors. cos when u watch a movie or a show or u play a game everything is spoon fed to u u can see and hear it all there's no space for interpretation when it comes to tone of voice or setting or lighting or character positions or actions it's all shown to u but like i mean maybe it was just the scene with robin and lovell in the cabin and the part where victorie sees the burning of the opium by lin but like i feel like i could direct those scenes. i feel like i could paint the fires above canton. i feel like i could write poems about it. the image was so visceral in my head it's so REAL like i can imagine exactly how robin looked snapping at lovell i can hear lovell's chair being pushed back across the wooden floor of the cabin i can feel the atmosphere in the room where the four of them huddled together before lovell called away robin OH MY GOD speaking of like that american missionary was so funny. like what a bitch but also what a funny fucking idiot. like "ooh do u guys go to sunday church?" and ramy's like "yeag but i'm whispering prayers to Allah the entire time" like RAMY u MOTHERFUCKER and the missionary is HORRIFIED like he's so sharp with his words that man does not hold back and i love him forever for it and the thing is i wouldn't be surprised if he was doing that too like tbh being forced to go to sunday church when ur like wholeheartedly believeing ina different diety idk is diety the right word for Allah is god a better word idk but either way it must be fucking torturous and then the fucking author's note at the bottom where lovell is telling robin that religion is fuckign stupid and u should just practice recitations under ur breath instead like i love how this white british man in fucking 1830s england has DISDAIN of all things for christianity like can u imagine being that guy in such a christian centric time for england it's actually now just getting to me how little religion is mentioned in the book like we don't hear much about it despite it being like a very prevalent thing at the time i mean i'm gonna say i'm assuming cos i don't know fuck about history besides a couple major points so idk maybe england forsook religion entirely in the 1830s for no reason and it;s only in america but like i seriously doubt it yk. like a really fucking doubt that. i mean ig it speaks to how focused on logic the proffessor is but at the same time he still thinks chinese people are animals??? like we dodge the christianity but the racism we lean into still ofc that man is strange ugh bad idea mopping spilled milk with my shirt and then wiping my nose with it that shit smelled horrible. ok i'm done my thoughts my immediate thoughts are out i'm gonna be thinking aboutt his all fucking week but i'm done for rn i need to take a bath. or something. ig.

[overflowingmind-welp]

My Oppenheimer review (if anyone cares)

i loved the sound design, the music, Emily Blunt, R.D.J's performance was stellar, the BOOM

i disliked

• the length - yes i GET that this is Nolan, our cinematic dreamboy (and I love some of his other films!!) but no film should be a a 180 fucking minutes long

• the crazy amount of people / characters introduced whose name you hear once and then immediately forget so that the later dialogues about guy A and guy B are completely meanigless, especially because they all look the same

• the way everything was spread too thin, leaving is with underdeveloped plot lines and characterization, see also:

• the genuine waste of Florence Pugh, whose character had jackshit to do except for making our Main Boi read the Main Line in fucking Sanskrit as she was cowboying him, and then she died over ??? nothing??? "Mental problems" are not specific enough sweet lord;

• wtf was Rami Malek's character about? He slayed nonetheless tho, of course he did

• that one bit where Oppenheimer apparently had an affair with a woman who is in one 10 second shot and then they say a guy named Richard has died who is he

Did i forget something - of course I did. Does this mean I am to Dumb to Get lengthy, concepty, difficult films? Nope, certainly not. But I can get really annoyed when (male) filmmakers offer you scraps of information on a topic and people general folks don't know much about and then say "go construct the emotionally poignant narrative and if you can't fuck you"

The emotionally poignant narrative was barley there (says the HSP who can cry over a chewinggum commercial) and so I just Didn't. Care.

[midnight-nears]

hell’s library meme dump because no one else is gonna do it :,)

[peanuts-and-pickles]

Hrggg just finished night at the muesum and lemme just say

where does the quality go when you need it

[prince-rogers-nelsons-sensi]

AHHH!!! MY (3) SWEET BABIES!! 💕💕

[sheerioswifties]

Wishing the Twilight universe was real so I could quarantine with some werewolves... or better yet, become a vampire and be done with all this immunocompromised sh*t-

[merciganimard]

I think we all would have loved to show more of Freddie’s relationship with Jim [Hutton] toward the end of his life. That relationship is absolutely gorgeous, and if I had it my way, boy, would I love to tack on another hour to this film and fill in a few gaps.

Rami Malek for Hollywood Reporter