you are what you love

I think tumblr just needs to work a bit on telling people about this stuff

THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO  — in the style of an old hollywood film.

it occurred to me just now that living in horrible turbulent times means that studying your time period is likely to be the boring normie option in the future because that's what everyone studied

"So, I'm really into history—"

"Do you really like history or are you just one of those guys obsessed with the lunar horse war of 2027"

Me and "The Fonz" at premiere of Goncharov (1973) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

The Goncharov meme is such a fun little spotlight on how people view media. Like, fake academic analysis about a movie that doesn't exist. Cool. But that's only the first level.

Next you have posts recreating a modern tumblr audience "discovering" an older piece of media and engaging with it through the lens of fan culture. Particularly tumblr-specific fan culture. Particularly in a way that feels like it got its blueprint from Dracula Daily. (Shitposts and memes, intense love for the most prominent female character, reads of complex romantic dynamics between characters, etc.)

Then you get fake discourse about the fake fan response to a fake movie that are quietly complaining about real ways real people respond to real media. I.e., America-centric readings, shallow, shipping-based readings, fans lionizing a protagonist not meant to be admired, etc.

(My personal favorite are posts that recreate the experience of being told a piece of media is so gay, you guys, only to watch it and find it isn't even remotely, that fans who wanted queer subtext wrung blood from a stone and thoroughly misled you.)

I also like the extra-meta ones about "this obscure movie being recently re-discovered," fake film history about copyright battles or the original cut being suppressed, etc. And of course, Johnny fucking Truant is here to give his editorial take on it, as he should be.

Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Goncharov. Humanity is such that every now and then we need to get really invested in fake arguments about a piece of media that doesn't exist.

Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

“The greatest mafia movie (n)ever made.”

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

the key to being a hater and not have it be corrosive to your spirit is that you gotta balance it out by openly loving things too. trashing shit is only respectable if you’re also capable of joy and not just oozing negativity 24/7. also when you’re being positive you’re not allowed to do it with ironic detachment. all sincerity all the time babey

TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

LADY BIRD — 2017, dir. Greta Gerwig

Casey Jex Smith, Barrier Attraction, 2018

[ID: A digital illustration of some small mushroom creatures. Each creature is a different kind of mushroom, some big, some small, some skinny, some wide, all with little dot eyes and stubby arms and legs. They are all drawn and coloured in shades of brown. End description.]

Some little mushroom dudes <3

These hands had to let it go free, and this love came back to me 🤍

—Halsey, “Clementine”