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Hello, Tailor

@hellotailor / hellotailor.tumblr.com

Film/TV critic. Creator of Behind the Seams, a YouTube series about costume design. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast. Co-editor of The Rec Center, a newsletter for fanfic recs & fandom news. Twitter: @Hello_Tailor.

I've never watched a single episode of spn but I've been thinking about the implications of being stuck inside a meme

I've watched the confession scene on youtube. that's it. that's all I've seen of the entire 15 seasons of the show. one scene. I've seen posts on tumblr but i never bothered to read much into it. most of this was legitimately just my imagination running wild.

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what’s funniest about the pacific rim scientists is like. when newt geiszler says he’s a scientist he means an old-timey 1910s entomologist wearing khaki shorts and a comically oversized pair of binoculars traipsing through the jungle capturing endangered species of butterfly and murmuring “egads!! fascinating…..” and scribbling it in his journal. when hermann gottlieb is being a scientist it’s literally the fucking manhattan project. tortured chainsmoking physicist. pawn of a war. repressed homosexual all his life. gets executed for being a communist. And they have to do each other’s peer review

had a dream that started out kind of sexy and for a number of irrelevant dream-state reasons involved my having to explain to a partner that i didn't want to suck on his titties. i think it was supposed to turn into an anxiety dream about having to negotiate sexual boundaries but instead he smiled and, very sympathetic, told me "of course - i know you're a freudian, i'm sorry that didn't occur to me," sort of saying he should have remembered how i felt about oral fixations, and then the rest of the dream was me trying with increasing desperation to convince him that i was not a freudian and he just laughed and laughed, like i was being sort of foolish and silly, and said he knew how i really felt, and didn't my unconscious mind reveal the truth about me, and so on. and by then i was so distressed that i was yelling at him in the dream - not that i actually fully realized i was dreaming - and shouted "dream interpretation is a crock of shit!" with such force that it woke me up.

now that this post has largely stopped circulating i feel that i can safely reveal what set this off. my dream partner was. well okay he was lestat iwTV. and the reason i would not suck on his titties is that, well, in the dream, i was deeply and passionately concerned about the possibility that this would cause me to be exposed to some substance called. well.

"vampire milk"

fun fact i had neither read nor watched iwtv i just think sam reid is really hot

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my favorite work memory from this store will always be “hey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?”

my life is a joke

It was all so complicated…  You can’t explain it. It’s not what you think. You look at the old pictures and they all want you to think it’s all so fucking simple, but it was… well, it was…I don’t know what it was… I wasn’t what they say, you know?

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I’ve decided that all bats fall somewhere on this horrid little graph I’ve devised. Here are some prime examples of the various Creature Varieties found in nature.

Hi OP no notes I just wanted to add some more guys because I have disorders

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You’re so correct about all of these and it is our human right to be incredibly disordered about bats online. Thank you. Let’s go take ibuprofen together.

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

  • a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,
  • b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,
  • c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,
  • d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,
  • e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and
  • f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

  • a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,
  • b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,
  • c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,
  • d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,
  • e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and
  • f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

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For more compare-and-contrast:

  • Gary Mitchell cultivates the image of being a smiling, cheerful, glad-handing frat boy to cover up his inner cruelty and seething resentment.
  • Leonard McCoy cultivates the image of being a grumpy, crotchety curmudgeon to cover up his innate decency and deep compassion.
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listen. padme amidala is a freak, okay. ever since aotc i’ve had to listen to bullshit arguments about how awful the prequel romance is, how anakin’s a red flag, blah blah blah. that’s a smooth brain take. first of all, of course he’s a red flag. that’s the point. you think padme doesn’t know anakin is ten pounds of mommy issues in a five pound bag? you think she looked at soggy weeping anakin begging her to love him and didn’t immediately think “yes i definitely will peg him” ?? you think just because she’s a queen turned senator that she isn’t just as horny and feral as he is? anakin wasn’t even pushy about it. he was just “oh btw i’ve been obsessed with you for a decade and live in a perpetual state of emotional agony but thats okay whatever you want is fine with me haha” and padme goes “yea okay i’m into that.” two minutes after he’s assigned to be her bodyguard she gives an obligatory little “i have a bad feeling about this” and then just fucking marries him. this is a woman who wore white to a blood bath. come on.

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#I like the prequels more now that I’ve decided to stop trying to shoehorn any character’s behaviors into normal boxes #and instead just asked myself ‘what kind of person would make these choices’ and see the characters as that #Padme seriously wore a black corset to tell him she was very into him but they would not be fucking #instead of saying oh my god who DOES that #I just instead ask myself 'who does that’ and realize that explains a lot more #here is this wealthy educated and perhaps a little vain woman who sees her childhood hick charitycase friend grew up as a hot goth jock #and oh no he’s still space racist and awkward and yet she goes harder for him after finding that out #she’s absolutely a freak #her being a freak is actually the most polite way to interpret her character #because it intersects so interestingly with this virgin child queen who crowned the emperor shit that’s her actual legacy #to be honest I still have no clue what Lucas intended to say with these characters but tehyre a lot more fun once you turnoff preconceptions #the OT trilogy are adorable and iconic but the PT trio are great because theres something fucking wrong with all of them #just comically tragically the dumbest combination of disordered behavior from a group of protagonists #the OT trio are unlikely but largely successful heroes! The PT trilogy are hyper-competent child geniuses who grew up to be #heavily decorated and famous heroes who break the entire setting forever and I love that for them!

shout out to @superstardestroyer for having the most correct star wars opinion on this website

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England should return to Tudor cooking immediately. there should be restaurants where i can get ethnic Redwall cuisine

Because I love telling this story: there are of course many reasons why cuisine develops and changes, but an important factor why British food took the path it did is coal. Food cooked over an open wood fire tastes great, food cooked over an open coal fire tastes terrible. You don't develop great pastry traditions with coal ovens, you develop boiled and steamed puddings that cook without contact with fuel. Etc.

fav subplots in the 2023 stanley cup playoffs (so far)

1. the #1 team in the league being sabotaged by diarrhoea.

2. two unrelated guys named Sebastian Aho duking it out on opposing teams, with one scoring an own goal.

3. unverified fandom rumor that tiktok twink superstar jack hughes has lice.

honourable mention for WORST playoff subplot: refs tacitly endorsing homicide as players drop acme anvils on each other's heads, shove their opponents into oncoming traffic, etc. 😬