*while smoking* i never liked henry winter

im convinced henry winter was only created so the tiktok teens would cry about him 30 years into the future

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling love.

botanic gardens

I can’t believe Tewkesbury is the OG “stressed out young adult who owns too many house plants”

CORALINE 2009, dir. Henry Selick

The fact that the Duffers so easily could’ve given Max a one dimensional plot where her guilt this season surrounding Billy was over feeling like she misjudged him since he sacrificed himself in the end, or wishing they had the time to repair their relationship, but it wasn’t. It was about her being glad that he was gone, because his one moment of sacrifice didn’t make up for his abusive and racist behavior.

And then, they did the same with El. Brenner tried to save her and was asking for forgiveness, or at the very least understanding from her on why he did what he did. But El didn’t give that to him. She let him die knowing that his actions were inexcusable.

It lowkey makes me emotional, because we almost never see women/girls in media be allowed to say, what happened to me wasn’t okay—what you did to me wasn’t okay—and even if I can’t help my empathy, I will never offer it to you as absolution.

“They say even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.” CORALINE (2009), dir. Henry Selick

one of my faves

“Aslan & Lucy”

Here is a tribute piece that I made for Gallery1988 for their upcoming “Tiny Tales” show based on well known children’s books. I made a post about my process on my website which you can read about here: http://nolenlee.com/2016/10/20/narnia-tribute-piece-and-process/

The problem with putting s’mores as a technical challenge is that baking your own s’more from scratch defeats the purpose of s’mores which is of course to spend ten minutes trying to get a crappy store bought marshmallow the perfect golden brown color before going “fuck it” and letting it catch fire then frantically putting it on a graham cracker with hershey’s chocolate before it falls off of the stick you found on the ground

the main ingredient of s’mores is chaos. the secondary ingredient is open flame. only after that do you break out the cheapest possible ingredients and go to town.

The mice asked me to give you message. The jumping mice?  They are saying: do not go through little door.

CORALINE — 2009, dir. Henry Selick.

MAKE ME CHOOSE — @shehrazades asked the night circus or the starless sea

insp.

Emma Watson by Cass Bird in “All Rise” for Porter Magazine No.12, Winter Escape 2015 

There once was a girl, who had a friend that lived in the shadows. She would remind him how the sun felt on his skin and the air felt like to breathe, and that reminded her that she was still alive.

I loved you completely, and you loved me the same. That’s all. The rest is confetti.

tewkesbury, behind enola: hey i love you

enola, busy solving the central case of the movie: y'all hear something?

#literally one of the most hurtful scenes mile flanagan has ever made

thinking about hill house, “no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream,” and just. the way this is the foundation for every mike flanagan series now. these characters exist under conditions of grief in all its forms. that’s their reality. grief for the dead, grief for the living, grief for themselves, for the dreams laid to rest, the hopes never realized… in hill house, every sibling dreams of something better. they dream of a life — or a death — in which they are unburdened, and this manifests differently for all of them. and as kids it manifested in each variation of the red room. then you have bly manor, and it’s really the same thing. each character dreams of a life unburdened. hannah dreams just so she can be seen in death. she dreams of the life she could have had with owen and it tethers her to the physical realm for a while. dani and jamie dream of a life in which they are together, unharmed, and they get to have that for a while and it’s good and it’s peaceful until fate rears its head. and then in the midnight club, it’s the same again. these kids all exist with the knowledge that they soon won’t. so they dream, they tell stories every night and live out their hopes, put pieces of themselves into the world just so that these pieces can stick around after they’re gone. and that’s just how these shows are now. hill house laid the foundations, and every show of mike’s now stands on them. the dreams are always different, the grief is always different, but the foundations are the same.

nobody can exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality, so they dream instead