Imperfectly Bound (TVD - WIP): (AU to Second Chances) Gwen is a new student at Mystic Falls High. She soon discovers the small town her uncle moved her to is full of impossible and dark secrets, and Damon Salvatore is hellbent on discovering hers. There's one catch though: Gwen is doesn't have any big secrets. Starts in S1; not necessary to read Second Chances or Time's up. DamonOC. 18/? chapters posted. Read on FF.NET Read on AO3
3.11 — The Sorcerer’s Shadow
TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow
Sunny creek
5.19 Folie A Deux
All the weird misinterpretations and revisions of Russian history aside, Anastasia is one of my favourite movies because its plot structure is so fucking weird
It’s a period piece romance. That’s cool, that’s all well and good, except that on the sidelines there’s an undead warlock who’s trying so hard to kill the protagonist, but all in ways that the protagonist either doesn’t notice or doesn’t accept as supernatural
And it isn’t a twist! The audience knows about the warlock! The warlock has a villain song! The warlock is one of the principal characters! But the protagonist spends 95% of the movie completely unaware of the warlock, and just spends the entirety of the movie doing period piece romance things while being repeatedly inconvenienced by the warlock until the climax, when the protagonist has to very suddenly
- Acknowledge the existence of the warlock
- Acknowledge the existence of the supernatural
- See some real-ass goddamn magic
- Kill the warlock
I have never seen a movie with a plot structure like this before, and I don’t think I’ll see one like it ever again. It’s like an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that turns Lady Catherine into a vampire who’s just repeatedly trying to drink Lizzy’s blood, but Lizzy doesn’t even notice until the climax whereupon she stuffs Lady Catherine’s mouth with garlic and cuts off her head (an adaptation I would kill to see, by the way). There are two completely different genres playing out at the same time, and one of them is trying to kill the other
Anyways that’s why the stage musical is bad, thank you and good night
The only thing I’m adding to this is that Disney’s Hercules has almost the same hero-villain dynamic in that the protagonist and antagonist think they are the heroes of two wildly different stories, and the protagonist doesn’t really know the antagonist exists until the endgame starts. It’s so fucking bizarre. They also both came out in 1997, and feature a red-headed protagonist who starts the story trying to find out who their parents are and falls in love with a shady brunette with dubious intentions who winds up trying to sacrifice themselves so the protagonist can live/be happy. I dunno what this means, but coincidence? I think NOT!
Listen that was just the vibe of 97 alright some shit went down that year
wait, wait, wait
you know what else came out that year
The Fifth Element
in which a red-headed protagonist is trying to save the world in a heroic manner with a shady cab driver
and the villain is, like, running guns? he might be in a heist and/or organized crime movie in his own head?
and again, the protagonist is completely unaware of the villain (she is aware of a DIFFERENT villain and thinks that is all she has to worry about) until he shows up with a big illegal gun
1997. huh.
It was a year.
almost reblogged without saying anything but… Buffy season one came out in 1997. The big bad of the first season is a vampire named “The Master”, and while Buffy knows of him, she does not come face-to-face with him until the season finale. Clearly this was a 1997 thing.
George of the Jungle also came out in 1997 and reels wildly back and forth between “surprisingly sweet romance” and “action-movie parody.” The latter of which is at least partially because GOTJ is a parody of a show from the 1960s, but still.
And if memory serves me, George only knows of the big bad as “he’s my fianc—this guy I was with” right up until the moment Ape gets apenapped.
4.12 ⁘ The Sword in the Stone
MERLIN 4.02 | The Darkest Hour: Part Two
Don't use the period tracker app, Ovia!!!
"Enjoy the sodium desgraciadas"
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Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland | 10/02/20
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) dir. gore verbinski
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FRIENDS (1994-2004) 9.06 The One with the Male Nanny