Me, nodding thoughtfully: it was actually Quentin tarantino who was the original blonco shipper

Other people: what the fuck are you talking about? why are you pouring kerosene all over my basement?

Could you please explain how he’s the first shipper? I mean it’s an idea I can totally imagine him having, but some evidence would be super nice.

A CONCEPT ... ⚡️🤩

Rocky horror picture show 1970s

remake but with only SINGERS CASTED !

Dr. Frank-N-Furter : Freddie Mercury

Riff Raff : Rod Stewart

Janet Weiss : Diana Ross

Rocky : David Bowie

Brad majors : Andy Gibb

Dr. Scott : Engelbert Humperdinck

Magenta : Amii Stewart

Colombia : Bette Midler

Eddie : Geane Simmons

The criminologist: Mick Jagger

Party goers :

Cher

Elton John

Rolling stones

The Sweet

Sylvester

Steven Tyler

The perfect Rocky Horror AU

God saw how unhinged I was going to become over Elvis Presley and said “yeah I’m gonna need to place this one about half a century away from that man”

Bless this awesome post. It sure feels that way with some larger than life male stars that it was just absolutely necessary for us to NOT be born at the time they were in their prime.

(P.S. My complete ruin would have been Alain Delon).

SO fricking right

(Mine is Mick Jagger, and @austins-peanutbutter-sandwich I feel you with Alain Delon)

Crossover which nobody waited  

Connor, do not teach Daneel bad things! 

Oh my God! I finally got them! My first acrylic charms т____Т

Hello friends and enemies. Ok so what I’m saying is that y’all are wild for shipping Raskolnikov and Razumikhin. Don’t get me wrong I freaking love their relationship but I just don’t think it should be romantic. I feel that they’re just too different. While there is something to be said for “opposites attract,” I think there needs to be something in common.

And do I ship Rodya and Sonya? Yes. Are they also opposites? Not exactly. That part when Sonya leaves Rodya’s room and is all worried about him coming to see her and is walking without paying attention to her surroundings...big Rask energy (but actually I love that part because it feels like Dostoevsky was deliberately drawing the parallel between the two of them). I feel that Rodya and Sonya complement each other.

This is also why Dunya and Raz work together: both are incredibly selfless but while Raz is explosive and spontaneous in everything he does, Dunya is analytical and takes time to think things through.

I think that the relationship between Raz and Rask is a perfect example of male friendship that can be loving and close without being romantic.

@deadbeatfancreator he mentions it in deathstroke #35

and tbh i find it kinda hot! that man is here to fuck without consequences

We saw the new Elvis movie and I fell in love xD So I drew one of his old photos! took me a couple of hours but i think im finally satisfied with how his facial features turned out! 💖

Часто в масть добивает туза, жизнь смеётся, играя в покер. 𝆕

Made this appreciation Gif board towards Alexander Abdulov's marvelous portrayal of Bulgakov's Koroviev.

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

ongoing compendium

These sound like a bunch of directors whose movies no one is going to see anymore because they’re fucking boring. Any crisis a regular person can have, so could a superhero. There’s no reason, other than jealousy, for directors to say things like this.

It’s really strange to me to jump to the assumption that these really established people are only criticizing something because they’re jealous. Rather than. Assuming that since they’re deeply familiar with the industry/field that they are able to provide critique on things in that industry/field. Who would be able to provide valid critique to you? The actors? They’ve done so. I know I’m not going to convince you which is fine but it takes a very strong pair of blinders to cover your ears and go “they’re just JEALOUS” (hint: they are not jealous of the fact that they didn’t produce write or act in morbius) instead of applying thought to how they informed these opinions. If you read thru past the headline to some of the little blurbs their complaints are about the fact that there’s no change of formula, there’s nothing unique. So while in theory, yes, superheroes COULD go through a grounded plot about parents or death or love. In practice. They make the same movie every time. Which is what is being critiqued.

I was going to write this in the tags but I realized I had more to say.

I think there’s an interesting critique and commentary that we can express with film these days because I think we’re witnessing a decline of the motivation of film. Scorsese is a director who is impassioned by the art of making film, watch any of his movies and there’s a lot of thoughtfulness put into a lot of the choices. I’ve never seen a Scorsese film that I could call poorly done, even if it was one I didn’t personally like. On the other hand, I can objectively call Disney/Marvel out for the lazy cash grab that it’s become, because that’s so intently their first priority made evident by their own display of countless sequels, prequels, and the additions to their theme park.

I think there’s a few problems going on here in which film as an art form has been commercialized like everything else has, the issue only growing worse and worse as time has gone on. It’s not exclusive to this era, for example, a brand of cigarettes being used in film by your favorite movie stars as indirect endorsements back when smoking was perpetuated as “cool”, but it wasn’t as blatant as the constant plugs and adverts shown nowadays in every corner of film (the newest Superman franchise comes to mind).

And because these superhero films don’t have anything new to add to the comics, the lore, the characters- (because why should they when everything’s already been written out for them? Fans will just come because they recognize the characters)- that means the studio doesn’t have to invest as much, they can pad it out and scrub it clean of any agency, you’re doing all the work for them as a viewer, just watching a familiar character do things in a three dimensional space. And because there’s no meaningful changes or risks, the studios don’t actually know what to do with these characters because up until this point, they haven’t had any intended purpose other than owning the rights to be able to make movies about them.

I think the superhero films that are genuinely well done and successful have a lot more to do with the actors that obviously care way more about the characters than the directors and studios working on them do. Why did I care a million times more about the newest Spider Man movie? Because every actor in it that has ever had anything to do with a Spider Man franchise in the last twenty years were deeply invested and seasoned in these characters. Why was Batman the Dark Knight ever considered a good film? I’d argue a majority of it had to do with Heath Ledger delivering an invested performance. I would even say the very first Iron Man movie was good because of Robert Downey Jr. delivering a performance that will forever embed him in my mind as Tony Stark.

I think a superhero film is capable of being meaningful if there is the desire to tell the story behind it, and if the people working on the film actually care about the character motivations.

The line of Disney/Marvel money makers are the same as what they do with their animations, including these “live action” remakes, which have no reason to exist other than to extract money out of people chasing familiarity and comfort. It’s the same motivation where the audience is doing all of their heavy lifting for them, whereas a director is absolved of any effort in how they are choosing to convey their film in the most cohesive and comprehensive way possible.

(via @queerlittleidiot)

This this this. I’ve never felt Allowed to criticize these movies because there are so many absolutely rabid fans of them, including the above-mentioned roommate. I got really hyperfixated on and fell in love with Star Wars after I was finally coaxed into watching VII. I went back and watched all of them. I delved headlong into tangential media, started reading the books - and as time went on, it became more and more clear that I wasn’t going to get any sort of real, thoughtful narrative out of the sequels. I wasn’t even going to get a really coherent narrative out of them. But any time I tried to criticize choices that were made purely in the interest of putting asses in seats and making money, I was just told “but it’s funny now, I like funny movies.”

And like…okay? So do I, when the jokes make sense. I don’t, however, see the point in constantly undermining your own villains to the point of being unable to take any of them seriously whatsoever. I don’t agree with the flippancy and blatant disregard of them as a threat. If they’re not treated as dangerous by the characters they’re supposedly a threat to, how am I supposed to believe they’re a threat? It cuts all tension. It cuts any sense of concern I had. And, on top of that, it blatantly disregards genuinely complex and enjoyable backstories for some of these characters. It turns them into walking schticks. I don’t care about that. I’m not interested in that. I ultimately basically completely lost interest in the franchise because they so effectively one dimensionalized their characters that it felt impossible to empathize with their plight anymore, because it didn’t feel like a plight at all. There were no stakes. The good guys would win. The bad guys would lose. Maybe some people would die, but hey, the only thing we knew about them were five minutes of quips, so whatever, you know?

And every single time I brought any of this up, all I heard was, “I love this! It’s like Marvel! It’s funny!” And “If you like this,” (I didn’t.) “then we should watch [Marvel movie] together!” No. I’ve tried to watch them. I genuinely have. I don’t care. I do not give a shit about them. I can recall the barest number of details from any one of them I’ve watched because they didn’t interest me. I don’t want to have to watch 16 puddle-shallow plotted movies to watch one new release. I want to watch movies that care about their characters and the narrative they’re trying to tell. I want to watch movies without constant retcons and cheap gotchas. I just want movies with actual heart, where the people involved actually have a story they genuinely want to see through and are passionate about telling. Not another cash grab dumpster fire of constant one-liners and bad fanfiction level character deaths painted as epic tragedies, immediately followed by some jokes so no one feels icky and sad 😢. Fuck Marvel and its impact on the film industry.

I already wrote about this a bit but the whole narrative of "Elvis is bad because he stole black music" is such a misinformed take like do you think white audiences didn't realize it was black music? They literally protested and smear campaigned against him for playing black music because they thought he was corrupting the white youth. Meanwhile Elvis was telling everybody how much he loved black music and thought it deserved more recognition. The biopic touches on a lot of this so hopefully I can stop hearing this opinion because it really is woefully misinformed to act like he was just some white guy tricking white audiences into thinking he invented black music like that just straight up isn't what happened

agreed. people also think elvis was the only one who sang songs that were written by other artists. marvin gaye, elton john, frank sinatra, whitney houston-- they all did the same thing.. but you don't see anybody hating on them nowadays, do you?

but who cares about them?? let's blame elvis for everything. that sounds like a good idea. he stole other people's music which means he's a total fake!!!! he's not talented at all!! we should cancel this guy because it's 2022 and we have the privilege to cancel anybody we want!!

c'mon peeps.. why can't we let this guy rest in piece?? he's already passed.. there's no need to spit on his grave.

I already wrote about this a bit but the whole narrative of "Elvis is bad because he stole black music" is such a misinformed take like do you think white audiences didn't realize it was black music? They literally protested and smear campaigned against him for playing black music because they thought he was corrupting the white youth. Meanwhile Elvis was telling everybody how much he loved black music and thought it deserved more recognition. The biopic touches on a lot of this so hopefully I can stop hearing this opinion because it really is woefully misinformed to act like he was just some white guy tricking white audiences into thinking he invented black music like that just straight up isn't what happened