heyyy so. i went into this movie expecting a really cute fishy romance, which it. almost was. but i had no idea there was gonna be extremely graphic, gratuitous violence, a hell of a lot of nudity and sex scenes (one dude literally fucks his wife on screen which was a lot), and a cat gets eaten on screen.
the cat thing was the most upsetting, the rest was just either really awkward or unsettling. but, yeah. i had no idea about any of that, and was kind of unnerved coming out of the film.
please be careful if you plan on seeing this movie. it’s not a bad movie, but i’ll admit i was really put off.
Yeah seriously! It was really really good, but I had a panic attack after the film because it was so stressful, and an employee had to literally hold my hand and lead me out of the theatre step by step, because I had such a bad shutdown …
Movie, here I come!!! Can’t wait to see it…which will be in February in my part of the world :(((
By the time I get to see it in cinemas I’ll probably have pieced the whole movie together via tumblr gif sets.
It has some Snoke/Rey or Snoke/Kylo (depending on whom do you perceive as the enchanted swan) as well~
Her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman Forever her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of noble…
In swan lake In swan lake In swan lake In swan lake
Tired to ride in the royal hunt To listen sweet lies that I am won’t I am the prince! The future king! Boomed in my head my mother’s voice Take to wife! should be my choice Oh, cruel fate! That my soul hate!
To forget all I fled into the woods Searching preys goods Then I saw the lake Lost in the deep forest And its water chorused An odd melody
Swans of nice white feather on the dusk Swam in a dance in harmonious masque Hunter I am! My bow was prepared
But her beauty was shown me in the depth Spouting, silent, from the lake And her pale look kept a sad poem Lost in despair Dragged into the warlock’s lair In the shadows
Her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman Forever her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of noble…
Like a night tide Together we cried Our lips sealed its secrets way And my doubts died But when came the dawn My dream sank covered by dark waters
But her beauty was shown me in the depth Spouting, silent, from the lake And her pale look kept a sad poem Lost in despair Dragged into the warlock’s lair In the shadows
Her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman Forever her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman
My princess’s tears fall in the moonglade The lake is afraid The night shows the spell Then I can feel my heart run into my chest Now I know my quest In the hell of the storm I’ll break her swan-form So inside the waves We will find our graves But the warlock’s curse will be broken
But her beauty was shown me in the depth Spouting, silent, from the lake And her pale look kept a sad poem Lost in despair Dragged into the warlock’s lair In the shadows
Her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman Forever her soul will be a swan Until She feels The love of nobleman
My princess’s tears fall in the moonglade The lake is afraid The night shows the spell Then I can feel my heart run into my chest Now I know my quest In the hell of the storm I’ll break her swan-form So inside the waves We will find our graves But the warlock’s curse will be broken The Rothboart’s curse will be broken
The Rothboart’s curse broken… The Rothboart’s curse broken… The Rothboart’s curse broken… The Rothboart’s curse broken…
Our spirits will be free Will fly The sky Over the green lake’s trees Forever our spirits will be free Will fly The sky Over the green lake’s trees Remember us in the stars Remember us in the stars
Reylo vibe recommendation by @shutup-fuzzball who describes it like this: “…its obviously a Beauty and the Beast story but The princess doesn’t just sit and look pretty, she’s an active character like Rey and goes out to find Hans and make things right again between them. I love how Hans is the gentle beast; the scars from his youth much like Kylo/Bens experiences have made him who he is later, into an imposing and even frightening figure until the princess opens up to him and they connect.”
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I highly recommend this surprisingly sexy puppet enhanced story. To me there are also Prince Lindworm and East of the Sun, West of the Moon vibes.
It also reminded me of an interesting BatB version from a french fairy tale collection I read very long ago but still can remember. In this version the Beauty marries the literal devil. In their wedding night the devil asks Beauty if he should turn into an animal. Among two or three other suggestions he also proposes to turn into a hedgehog (!). Beauty declines all his offers and rather has him as a his devilish self. 🙄 The devil turns out to be a totally fine and considerate husband btw which is the reason Beauty’s sisters become jealous and start plotting against her. To my never-ending teenage frustration the sisters succeed and Beauty loses her devil husband.
ANYWAY, is there an ancient hedgehog symbolism I don’t know about?
Or does somebody by any chance know this version of the fairy tale? I’d absolutely love to read it again.
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THE NUTCRACKER (USSR 1977)
Animation movie with Tchaikovsky’s wonderful music instead of dialogue.
Reylo vibe recommendation by @ewa-jednak-chce-spac who points out that in this version the nutcracker is a prince who was cursed as a child and Klara is a poor servant girl.
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“We’re going to win this war not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.”
So I’ve been an emotional, Star Wars-driven wreck for the past two years—ever since Kylo Ren and Rey first appeared on screen. Even still The Last Jedi was like a bucket of cold water on my system. When I realized just how sexual the film was—that I was basically getting everything I’d wanted and more—I couldn’t breathe. Because holy s**t. Salt gods preserve us, they’re really going there. Give me some time to prepare myself *fumbling with pill bottle,* give me some time, I’m not ready *downing pills,* I’m not ready at all—
(Trust me, I love the film. I’m just in a state of shock at how ballsy it is.)
The Last Jedi is the most intelligent, multi-layered Star Wars movie to-date. It’s also my favorite out of the franchise, and with its creation Lucasfilm has finally won me over. After being gifted not once but twice with amazing stories and complex characters, I owe it to the filmmakers to say “you know what. You’re on top of this. I’ll wait to see how the story shapes up.” So this essay will be a little less critical than normal. But I’m still going to talk about what I saw.
For those of you who have followed this blog since the beginning, you’ll know it’s been awhile since I’ve written any “meta.” I’m an illustrator by trade, a fiction writer by night. Academic essays are not my natural element, which is why I tend to shitpost ad nauseum whenever someone leaves me too close to a keyboard. That said, in the days right after The Force Awakens I meta’d a lot. My most widely circulated essays were:
This work has aged in its technical execution over the past couple years, but I still feel pretty good about it. The writing was genuine and from the heart. Like many who saw the same things as I did on screen, I find it extremely validating to have our shared predictions proven correct. It’s such a weight off my shoulders to see that no, we weren’t imagining stuff, and yes, we can enjoy the dynamic between Kylo Ren and Rey in this way, in canon. After two years of constant harassment over a fictional “ship,” it’s a victory. I’ll never forget how we were treated. But I digress.
After writing the bulk of my meta post-Force Awakens, I didn’t feel like pumping out any more essays until I saw The Last Jedi. Then the bug bit and the urge came upon me again. The Force Awakens showed us what kind of dynamic would arise—namely “Reylo,” or a romantic relationship between Kylo Ren and Rey. The Last Jedi showed us where this dynamic will head. We’ve evolved from a Death and the Maiden motif to one that clearly depicts an Usurper and Holy Mother, which… wow. That dynamic has a lot of connotations associated with it, and it was not the film I was expecting to get. I’m still happy because it’s being depicted well, but Jesus its bold as f**k.
Additionally, to those of you who have been predicting since The Force Awakens that we’re going to get Anakin and Padme’s romance in reverse (“Show me, grandfather, and I will finish what you started,” Kylo repeats to the ghosts of his past, desperately wishing to do better):
^The other proposal for galactic domination. (external source)
Congrats. I’m pretty sure you’ll get your wish.
Of course this story is not “the same as […] Han and Leia,” as Rian Johnson assured the skeptics. The Sequel Trilogy is not inspired by them. The Last Jedi is deeper, mythic, and based around healing psychic wounds in the Force, caused by everyone’s favorite sand-hating hot mess.
A few housekeeping things that I want to get out of the way before I begin: this essay will be image heavy, and it currently clocks in at over 15,000 words. Yes, 15,000. Please for the love of Crait do not open it on tumblr’s mobile app, you will break it. A giant thank you to @ashesforfoxes for beta’ing, and a special shout out to @pixelrey for the images/gifs. I also want to say thank you to @ugnaught77. Your help in tracking down and compiling the visual references/videos was invaluable. Congrats on your Anidala predictions.
Alright, here we go: an essay even longer than Death and the Maiden. I hope you’re all ready for a Force-bonded Oedipus complex, because… welp…
Brilliant meta that makes me appreciate the writers of the Sequel Trilogy so so much. If everything Ohtze pointed out in this meta was intentional and planned ahead than my respect for the creators is now limitless.
It’s the original version where the princess throws the frog against the wall instead of kissing him before he turns back into a prince. And this makes all the difference to the meaning of the story. The frog behaved awfully to the princess. He was in dire need of an ass-kicking for his demanding and spoilt behaviour. Only then did he change (himself). Reylo vibes…..
But sure a compassionate kiss also makes sense.😉
Special thanks to @ewa-jednak-chce-spac who inspired me to to think of fairy tales with a reylo vibe.
Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the “Devil’s Cub.” Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia’s greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions.
When lovely, saucy Mary Challoner had practiced her bold deception upon the hot-blooded, fiery-tempered young Marquis of Vidal–substituting herself for her young sister he had thought to carry off to France–she had little notion he would grimly hold her to her part of the bargain. Now he had left her, and she was alone, a stranger in a strange land, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless, 18th century Paris.
Only one person could rescue her–the Marquis himself. But how could she ever trust this man? How could she even hope to overcome the contempt in which he held her? And how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?
Emotionally unstable aristocrat abducts a strong willed, no-nonsense heroine….sounds familiar?
Probably my favourite from Georgette Heyer. Second in a series of three books. It’s not necessary to read the first one to understand the plot although I highly recommend it.
Monsters and Villains 