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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.

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. 😬

if i am evil. i create character A, who indulges often. always eating, always fucking. but time and time again reveal that he is not hungry. he is not lustful. he performs hunger and doesnt truly feel it. he performs sexuality and doesnt truly feel it. and for fifteen years he performs indulgence into desire he doesnt feel. i create character B, who does not indulge. never eating, never fucking. but time and time again reveal that he IS hungry. he is lustful. he denies hunger but feels it deeply. he denies sexuality but feels it deeply. and for fifteen years he refuses to indulge in the desire he feels. and then. in the final season. allow character A to finally desire something. allow character B to confess his desire. and then kill them both before either is able to really indulge in something they truly desire. if i am evil. i do this.

destiel btw. this is not about ur other thing this is a destiel post on the destiel website.

i do admit that black sails fans are pretentious but i mean have you seen the show? if you dont come out of it at least somewhat pretentious about television dramas then i dont think you really understood it. you need to watch it again. here i'll give you some discussion questions to help you get thinking, your repsonses are due next wee- [GUNSHOT]

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[cut away, birds startle from trees]

right now there's a deeply frustrating controversy happening in the world of ice hockey, where some players are refusing to participate in their teams' LGBTQ+ Pride events - ie. a bare-minimum show of support that mostly involves wearing a Pride shirt during warmups before a game.

obviously there are many players who vocally support Pride Nights, but i think i've just located my favorite well-meaning jock reaction so far:

for further context, circa 2020: