I want a crusade flashback scene so much that I made my own story board of it.
~for the first 2 gifs I used old drawings/representations of wars as reference~
video format : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Sib32VNbY&feature=youtu.be
Not like this, Book.
#ok hold on i’m bout to scream #i loooove how this movie takes 4 immortal characters who have been alive longer than anyone can imagine #and takes the youngest and the oldest of the team and is like ‘immortality is loss and grief and becoming jaded’ #which is such a classic view #but then also having these two character who are also old as fuck but haven’t become bittern and jaded or lost in grief #why? #because they aren’t alone with their feelings #they share and they communicate and they heal each other #unlike andy and booker who have internalized all of it respectively #how can you still have hope for the world if you’ve lived for so long and seen so much? #you can’t alone #but you can with love #like the movie presents us these two perspectives and then in the end when andy talks to the team #and says she and booker have been fucking it up #the movie finalises it’s argument to which side is ultimately right #what is the answer to surviving immortality? love baby (x)
#prev tags yessssss #i also love the film’s lack of judgement towards booker #like he definitely did The Bad Thing and is like ? kind of ? an antagonist ? or at least an antagonistic force in the narrative #but by allying him so tightly with andy #and with her going through in many ways the exact same character arc as he does #there’s no blame for what hes done #even andys “weve been doing a shit job of it lately” #we #w e# they really took a character with an arguably blessed life and then let him have depression without demonising him for hopelessness #this f i l m what a chad (x)
yall went galaxy brain on this post uh
Based on a convo in a discord.... nicky pants rip on its own, joe gets the blame...
“…i didn’t care much how long i lived, but i swear i thought i dreamed her, she never asked me once about the wrong i did” 💛💚💙
heeey, guess who’s finally back with their right hand in working condition and some book of nile to lighten up your day? yeah, it’s only been two months 😅
anyway, good news, i’m all healed up and ready to go, expect more updates from now on, god, i missed drawing sooo much 💙
that awkward moment when you’re third-wheeling together, or maybe that’s not exactly what you’re doing 😉💕
happy new year! 🥂🎉❄️ thank you folks for all the support you’ve given me in 2020 💙
I see your ‘nicky can’t drive’ and I raise you ‘nicky can absolutely drive but only in what can best be described as hyper focused mom mode’. he always knows all the newest safety protocols, he always makes sure to adjust the mirrors, reads up on all the signs and traffic laws in the given country that they’re in, and has definitely mom armed several of the immortal fam on different occasions. he is always extremely aware of the fact that he is driving a potentially deadly piece of heavy machinery which wouldn’t be a problem if that risk solely applied to his immortal family but the world is full of very very mortal and squishy beings. if he’s driving his eyes never leave the road. what if a small child or a puppy suddenly ran out in front of the car? no you can’t turn the radio on what if he missed the sound of an ambulance? What do you mean, go faster, there’s a 60 km/h speed limit here! Yes, he’s aware that they’re being chased by bad guys, but there are pedestrians, yusuf. probably. and andy best be putting that seatbelt on or he’s pulling over right now, being older than all automobile safety regulations does not exempt you from them.
unsurprisingly, he doesn’t get to drive much. he’s also fine with that, driving is exhausting.
he’s definitely the guy who, if tailgated through a low-speed zone, will drive 10km/h below the speed limit when it rises again for the next ten minutes. and simply will NOT pass cyclists unless there’s excellent visibility.
oh and you best believe he’s running a bitchy little commentary the whole time too.
‘oh someone’s too mysterious to use their turn signal, I understand, your trip to McDonald’s is far too secret for the rest of the world to know about’
‘sure just you stay right there in the highway middle lane while driving 40 km under the speed recommendation, we’re all inferior to your mastery of the road you vehicular god amongst men’
(the rest of the fam find it highly entertaining - not that nicky notices, he’s too busy watching the road of course)
I think one of my favorite things about “The Old Guard” movie, (aside from everything) is that the three dudes of the group are all very friendly and approachable-looking, while Andy, the one girl, looks like she’s about to commit six different felonies at once at any given moment
It’s the worlds’ scariest mother hen and her three soft boys
Nile is like ‘oh I know a place’ and takes them all to goddamn therapy
Eepy sketch I don't like how it looks agshsgss
Hey, it’s February 22nd 2019 and I feel like making another extremely long Sense8-related rant reminding all of you that:
I seriously don’t understand how this came to be completely unnoticed by a huge side of the fandom, but there is almost everything about Kala’s relationship with Rajan that is toxic and unhealthy. They embody exactly what a marriage shouldn’t be. This is extremely clear since the very first moment, according to how their relationship starts. Rajan (her boss) spots her, decides he wants her and fills her (i.e. his employee’s) office with a huge number of flowers for everyone else to see, putting her in an extremely unfair position – she can’t turn him down because of many reasons at this point: 1) she could lose her job and have serious damage on her career, which she personally values a lot; 2) she knows her parents want her to get married, so she would let them down as well by rejecting him; 3) he has a too solid reputation and is regarded as a way too influent member of his society; 4) she would likely encounter public shame from her co-workers and society as a whole by turning down such a big gesture by such a kind man. This is also India, not Europe or America, and mentality plays a huge role in this case. She gets trapped in this situation from the very beginning. Then, in 1x02, we discover more details about their relationship: Rajan reveals he knows Kala “never ever looked at me, not once” and “can feel her hesitation”, but decided he didn’t care about this and that his selfish desire to have her was too important – “the only life I want to live in is one where we can be together”. He exploits his cultural dominance to get what he wants, something that he has basically by default because of being a wealthy man, hence the “my father thought me that fortune favors the bold”. He basically pushes Kala on with this wedding despite already knowing that she doesn’t feel for him what he feels for her and just being okay with the idea that she will grow accustomed to him, highlighting how her feelings actually don’t matter to him at all. This is also the first sign we get that he is not interested in knowing Kala as a person, but just in owning her as a possession to show off, because he doesn’t take her feelings and opinions into account. This happens again in 1x06 after the fainting episode in the first wedding ceremony, when he completely dismisses what Kala has to say about it as non-important by shutting her down and imposing his own view over hers (“Kala, Kala, slow down… for me I loved what happened […] it was a part of the story, I just hope it is not the end of our story”). He keeps pushing despite knowing she doesn’t feel comfortable with what happened. In 1x11, he confesses that at first he wanted her because she wasn’t a suitable choice for his father, which seriously puts an even worse light on Rajan as a person, since Kala became the target of a conquest caused just by an act of rebellion – this speaks about how little he actually values women in general, including Kala, and finally makes us understand why he doesn’t even care about Kala’s inner self (opinions, feelings, thoughts). This new discovery, combined with our knowledge that he knows from the beginning that Kala doesn’t feel for him, ends up establishing him as a manipulative man who keeps exploiting his cultural power to psychologically pressure her in entering the marriage and, after that, not leaving it. He is a slimy, disgusting person whose outwardly pleasant behavior hides his inner desire to get Kala as his personal prize for society to see. This will be evident in many other occasions to come as well. In the Christmas Special, for instance, he shows he doesn’t care about having even actual conversations with her, because he goes asking her mother about her virginity, disrespecting her and (again) displaying the condition of ownership that he feels he has on her: he doesn’t treat her as a person with agency, but as an object. It’s worth noting his reaction when he gets called out on this: at first, he instinctively laughs it off as something completely superfluous (i.e. proving his spontaneous reaction to be careless about Kala’s agency as a woman), but as soon as he realizes that this is making her angry, he suddenly gets worried about a possible break in their marital status and readily apologizes in a completely moronic and unbothered way (“Kala, I’ve been an ass, please just forgive me”). This highlights that he doesn’t apologize out of sincere understanding of what he did wrong, but rather out of the fear that this could anger her enough to walk away from their marriage – which is exactly the same dynamic that happens again in 2x07, after the expired-drugs talk. Things later in the episode get ever worse because he bribes her into sex by throwing her a giant party and buying her an expensive necklace, showing that he actually didn’t care at all about the conversation they had before and that, once again, Kala’s feelings on this matter were completely unimportant to him: he just cares about getting what he wants from her. This is an extremely unhealthy and toxic dynamic: Kala ends up engaging in sex unwanted from her because she feels she has to repay him for her birthday celebration and because she feels responsible for his dick incident. This is not consensual. Going on with 2x04, we see how Rajan acts with Kala in a public place in society, the art gallery: he pushes her from behind as if she is unable to walk by herself and as if he wants to show off what he has, he doesn’t even introduce her with her name (he just calls her “my beautiful wife” when introducing her to someone she doesn’t know, which is extremely disrespectful and dehumanizing). Ajay even makes quite a sexist comment that Rajan unapologetically laughs at while Kala is shown to be quite disturbed by. In 2x05, Kala tries to talk to Rajan about work, but he once again completely shuts her down and talks to her in a very patronizing way, as if she was a child who can’t understand things. In 2x07, the confrontation between the two on the expired drugs issue happens and we get to know that the only reason why Kala was given a promotion is because Rajan could profit from her work to engage in illegal activities without her knowing. Kala is obviously furious and he once again acts very poorly. The same dynamic from 2x01 returns, but this time in an even more disgusting way (“Kala, you are even more beautiful when you are upset”). Rajan’s spontaneous reaction is the same as it was in the Christmas Special: careless, unapologetic and blind to the serious damage of his behavior. He realizes once again that he pissed her off (and really badly this time, because she actually walked away from him), so what does he do later? He buys her flowers and acts as if suddenly he was aware of how wrong his business practices were up to this moment – with entire years without even being bothered by the minimum thought of it? Please – and basically tries to manipulate her once again into not leaving their marriage. These are not sincere apologies on his misbehavior (for which he should honestly go to prison). This is just the ultimate attempt to win her back by exploiting her good-hearted nature and awake her pity – which he actually succeeds at, because Kala’s final look at him is one of pity. Once again: man fucks up, buys things, gets rewarded with pity and forgiveness, and it all gets repeated. This is a toxic relationship, it’s basically the cycle of abuse (more so knowing that she doesn’t even love him). At last, in 2x11 she is finally ready to talk things through with him, and for the umpteenth time he shuts her down and makes it about him (1x06 much? This is how he has always related to her). This marriage was a complete disaster up to 2x11, with many unresolved issues and unhealthy dynamics. These spouses were strangers to each other: Rajan never cared about knowing Kala as a person because he never loved her, but fell in love with the idea of owning her and showing her off; Kala never cared about developing a serious bond with Rajan because she never loved him and always considered her marriage as a duty to oblige to for her parents’ satisfaction. Rajan manipulated Kala for the entire show and constantly lied to her during all Season 02, Kala hid things from him – including an affair – for the entire show as well. Their relationship had problems such as sexism, objectification, lack of trust, lack of intimacy, lack of conversation, dishonesty, power imbalance, and none of them were resolved or clarified (let alone even addressed in the finale). Rajan was a terrible husband to Kala because he is a despicable person; Kala was a terrible wife to Rajan as well because she didn’t love him.
So, I guess Kalagang fans have, in fact, every right to be grossed out by this resolution and complain about it without being laughed at and dismissed with the “it’s just a ship” comments. Kalagang was not “just a ship” happening between two characters in the background of their character arcs, as many other ships are: it was at the core of their character arcs. This was not a love story, but a love storyline. It was character-defining. Fucking up that destroyed both their characters. I think this post highlights that ours are not shallow complaints. What happened in the finale was offensive and extremely serious and problematic. Stop saying we should be grateful for it.
I just want to say that I’m so close to reblogging every single anti-Rajalagang analysis I have ever written in these two years of torment just because now we have the proof we deserved that the finale was all utter bullshit (at least regarding the Kalagang resolution).
Rajalagang stans needed to hear this.
Kalagang stans deserved to hear this.
The way that Sun changes the line when she fills in for Lito during his auditon, keeps me up at night
Like my fucking God.
What am I supposed to do with that
Like the original exchange is,
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes.
-Why?
-I've always been alone. When I was just a little kid, I was left alone, and I'm afraid... I will always be alone.
And then she changes it to
-Do you want me to stay? -No. -Why? -I've always been alone. Even as a child. I'm afraid I will always be alone... because I don't know how else to be.
Like.
I think about that "No" everyday of my life, it makes me insane, I want to write an entire essay about the artistry of the writing decision of that one tiny little dialogue exchange
I'm literally never not thinking about it
Like I can't even begin to care about the lines that come after it, my brain catches on that 'No' everytime I rewatch the show
The way that one little difference changes Everything.
The way it reveals so clear and precisely literally every single little minutia that is Sun Bak's character with just that one syllable two letter word
The way they utilized that audtion setting to force her into that kind of vulnerability and even then, even when she has to help Lito, even when this could possibly depend on saying the right lines she still can't say 'yes', she doesn't say the line, she doesn't say 'yes' even though you know part of her wants to too, because Sun doesn't want to be alone, even if she will always choose that over asking for company, Sun doesn't say the line as it's written, instead she says 'no' because thats what she would say and it's just so gutwrenching
It's just so perfectly in character and yet so heartbreaking at the same time, I'm kept up at night by that exchange,
Like? I'm gonna start screaming
It would have been so easy to make Wolfgang Bogdanow into this unfeeling ruthless monster who ~learns to love~ through the cluster. Sense8 could have tried to play Wolfgang off as a sins of thy father man, could have made a story out of dangling power in his face and running with the temptation to take it.
And then they don't.
He's violent and ruthless and angry and the show still goes out of its way to say that he looks like his mom! When bad things happen he thinks about his fucking mom!
He doesn't think of Felix as the sidekick because Wolfgang sees himself as another underdog and views Felix accordingly. His issues are rooted in his status as the eternal victim who can never get far enough away and it's all because he loves people so so so much.
Everyone keeps trying to see him as the up-and-comer and it never works because Wolfgang absolutely does not think of himself like that. He couldn't care less about building his own empire so long as the people who hurt his family are dead.
obsessed that sun fell in love with a guy whose name is pronounced "moon" like how 1. extra af 2. poetic and lovely af & finally 3. singularly appropriate af
"violence solves some problems" besties
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Reflections on how much Sense8 rewards rewatching/carefully parsing scenes.
Season 1, Episode 10 (“What is Human”) opens with Wolfgang walking through a Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. He is visited by Will (an American).
Will (reading from the wall of the memorial): ""Is the Holocaust an aberration or a reflection of who we really are?"
Wolfgang: Why is it so loud where you are?
(We hear distant crowds in the background)
Will: It's Independence Day.
Wolfgang: What is best in life, huh?
(He is quoting his favorite lines from Conan; in previous episodes we have heard him and his best friend, both in current time and in flashbacks, deliver the entirety of this quote: ""Conan! What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!")
Will: I don't understand.
Wolfgang: No, you wouldn't.
So, basically, this scene directly connects America's colonialism/military jingoism and the way its civilians naively celebrate those military victories with Nazi Germany... in just a few lines that go straight over most of our heads...
