arise, fair sun

The Star Wars Original Trilogy is peak fiction because they took a fairy tale and set it in space, then they gave the princess in distress a GUN. But even better they gave her a sharp tongue and the power of revolution. They made the “dragon” a depressed cyborg father with asthma who doesn’t understand his own emotions and does murders because of it. And they made the knight a blond Barbie boy who attempts to solve problems with the power of love like he’s Sailor Moon or something.

And then they said, “oh yeah they’re all related btw. All the galaxy’s problems are this one family’s fault. Hope this helps 😘”

nights aren't scary anymore

Mane 6!

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

reylo will always have a special place in my heart and life but I have a new toxic ship to lose my mind over

I could talk for hours about the parallels between Padmé Amidala and Lucy Gray Baird

Everyone on twitter trying to justify Snowbaird/Snowjanus by claiming that they ship it in an unproblematic, “true-love-conquers-evil” kind of way. Not me though. I enjoy that shit BECAUSE it’s fucked up

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

can't catch me now is the perfect end credits song because this is lucy gray's parting message to him.

she's the songbird always perched on his shoulder, the snake with his heart in a vise, the ghost girl who will forever haunt him. he will never be free of her or her mockingjays.

Something about ships that are doomed by the narrative simply hits different

Coryo and Lucy Gray are so “you say I killed you? Haunt me then” coded

the thing I really love about tbosas is that you go into the story thinking you know who’s the songbird and who’s the snake but “songbirds” and “snakes” are both plural because as individuals Lucy Grey and Coryo are both a songbird and a snake in their own right, in this essay I will

SCREAM (1996) dir. Wes Craven SCREAM VI (2023) dir. Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

MELISSA BARRERA as SAM CARPENTER SCREAM VI (2023) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett