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For the Oshamir Summer Solstice Gift Exchange, a gift for @mochibrokenheart. I hope you like it! <3

Prompt: domestic Oshamir. What's more domestic than a beach date with your darksided honey?

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dir. Gareth Edwards | 2016

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY 1991, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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i do not believe in labubus or their cause

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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

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“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.”

— Hildegard von Bingen, from ‘Selected Writings’ (via letheane)

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Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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Leia post in honor of Carrie Fisher’s passing which was 7 years ago today.

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For the Oshamir Summer Solstice Gift Exchange, a gift for @mochibrokenheart. I hope you like it! <3

Prompt: domestic Oshamir. What's more domestic than a beach date with your darksided honey?

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all debates abt the artistic merits of fanfiction fail to recognize the purpose of fic. you don’t write fic to be published or to learn how to construct a narrative although you can use it to develop style. you write it so that your friends will message you “bestie you’re utterly deranged for this one im eating dirt” 

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unpopular opinion: our media landscape is oversaturated with found family this, adoptive dads that. half of them are pedro pascal. can we move on

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the way saw gerrera and mon mothma are such perfect foils in how they balance (or fail to) their devotion to the cause vs their responsibility and their love towards their children, and how that regret haunts them both…

saw leaves jyn behind in a bunker with a blaster and a knife. mon leaves leida behind in a gilded cage surrounded by snakes. but ultimately saw abandoned jyn to protect her, however misguided that might have been; while mon gave up on leida long before the wedding to protect her secret commitment to the rebellion.

saw is willing to sacrifice innocent civilians but he won’t use jyn as a bargaining chip no matter what. mon is wracked with guilt over every casualty but is willing to go along with selling her daughter into a loveless child marriage because she can’t see another way out.

saw’s final conversation with jyn is a reconnection; he lets her go believing in her. jyn leaves him with her faith restored, determined to save the rebellion, the dream, carrying on the best parts of him. mon’s final conversation with leida is a severing of their already frayed bond; leida rejects mon’s final futile effort to protect her and mon leaves her behind in the same cold reality she has been trapped in for decades, a mirror of the loneliest parts of herself.

not a day went by where saw didn’t think of jyn. mon can never allow herself to think of leida again.

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Part 003

Parallels

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