It's good to be back friend! 🫂

Thank you @blackmonitor! My inbox has been neglected and I'm trying to clean it up before the new year! I am always grateful for asks and I love everyone for sending them to me! ❤️😊

So five things that make me happy (right now!):

Sorry the list function didn't like me inserting gifs, so everything is evenly ranked! Sending you hugs and love for 2024!

me @blackmonitor ^^

Tag Games

@beebee-76 tagged me for my 10 Comfort Movies! Thank you so much for the opportunity to share faves with y'all this evening!

1.

To the surprise of no one, I have to put Star Wars at the top of this list, Return of the Jedi in particular. It's my fave of the three, and always welcome on my TV.

2.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an insane and devoted Godzilla fan, so pretty much any Godzilla movie is a comfort movie, with Showa-era Godzilla my go-to. Godzilla vs. Hedorah (or Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, as it was called when I first saw it) is probably top of that list.

3.

I don't have words for how happy this musical makes me. Just watch um...from 10:25, that song and the choreography, showmanship, and sheer joie de vivre. It's a beautiful beautiful thing.

4.

I love him. Predator, folks, is one of my comfort movies. A masterpiece of genre filmmaking that transcends each one it tackles (sci-fi, horror, action). RIP Kevin Peter Hall.

5.

The Lost Boys. Forever a fave.

6.

The Red Violin. A heartbreaking, perfect film with music that elevates your soul.

7.

Very often and repeatedly, Jareth. 😍

8.

I have always loved Fred MacMurray, in everything from Double Indemnity to Flubber, but let it be known that nothing is as pure, as perfect, as his sentimental performance as a Scoutmaster in Disney's overlooked film Follow Me Boys. It's a holiday tradition in our house. (And YES that is baby Kurt Russell!)

9.

I love Furious 7 with a devoted and enduring passion that would make the gods envious. THIS IS A PRACTICAL EFFECT FOLKS! THEY REALLY DID THIS! James Wan understood the assignment.

10.

I would put the entire LOTR saga as one, but again, if forced to choose, let's go with the grand finale. I love everything about it, but most of all, like Star Wars, we have heroes who triumph over evil, and are rewarded with a happy ever after (not without scars, but nonetheless). There is still good in this world, and the unironic sincerity of filmmakers like George Lucas and Peter Jackson will forever be a comfort to me.

Personality Meme

I was tagged by @threadsketchier​​ :)  Thank you!

most crucial personality indicators

1. when u binge-watch tv, do u skip the intro theme song or watch it?

2. did u prefer dinosaurs or monsters as a kid?

3. how many and what kind of collections do u keep?

4. ya’ll r gonna hate this but ur major actually says a lot about u as a person. whats ur major?

1.  It depends on the theme song.  If it’s something awesome like uh...the Inspector Gadget song damn right I’m gonna let it play (and crank it up).  If it’s something less awesome (don’t wanna point fingers but thinking of you Friends theme) it gets skipped.

2.  This is a case of definitely both.  I had an obsession with 1950s era movie monsters, which I fed with the Crestwood House book series (it’s amazing) but also was so intensely obsessed with dinosaurs that I once got special permission from the American Museum of Natural History to explore their stacks (which normally aren’t open to the public but anyone can visit by appointment) to do research for a paper I was writing about warm-blooded dinosaurs (back when that was still a topic up for debate).  If you follow me, you may have seen an unhealthy amount of Godzilla love in my “likes” and that is because he is the best of both obsessions!

3.  I collect too much shit and amass (like not deliberately collect, just have a lot of) tons more.  Way too much.  So I won’t count stuff like books and vinyl because that is just my stuff that I have too much of...  Maybe my most impressive collection is sand from around the world?  It’s fascinating how different the beaches of Japan are from those in France, or the Sahara vs the desert in California.  Oh and of course I have a shitton of Star Wars junk.  But yeah, too many collections to go into.  I like Stuff.

4.  I am going to say I majored in writing smut (although back in the day we called them lemons) at Proud Pervert University <3  Graduated cum loudly.

Thank you @threadsketchier​ for the tag!  I tag anyone who wants to share!

17 Questions!

Rules Answer these 17 questions and tag 17 people to do the same. Have fun!

I was tagged by @celtic-romulan​​. THANK YOU I totally needed a distraction this AM but I did recently do a very similar meme so some answers may be cribbed fair warning. 😉

Nicknames:  I don’t have many sadly.  Does “boss” count?  I get that one a lot.

Zodiac sign:  Jedi

Height: 5′2″ and ¾ inches!

Hogwarts house: I think Hufflepuff sounds adorable, and I like cute shit, so I am hoping I’m a Hufflepuff.

Last thing I googled: Very unsexy of me:  the location of the closest landfill.  And then I found out they charge you to throw stuff out and I X’d out of that tab quickly! 

Song stuck in my head:  “In The Still of The Night” the Michael Crawford version.  Not the Five Satins song (which is also fab).  Particularly the part where he croons “Doooooooooo you love mee?” You’re welcome :D

Number of followers: 436.  And I love you all!  Apparently I have lost four since the last time I did this meme.  *sniffle*  Too much Luke?  Not enough sternum? 

Amount of sleep:  Got about 4 and a half last night.  Ugh.

Lucky number: 2 or 666

Dream job:  Hmmm….so how about Luke Skywalker’s masseuse?  Man needs someone to work out those *cough* kinks after a long day Jedi-ing.

Wearing: Beige yoga pants, Showa-era Godzilla t-shirt in the Andy Warhol diptych style

Favorite song:  Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison.  YES.  I STAND BY THIS.

Favorite instrument:  Piano.  I adore everything it can do.

Aesthetic:  I have never really thought about this.  Can I just say lonely raging ocean with overcast sky and leave it at that? Maybe beach with ice on it?  And a naked Jedi, wet from a swim and speckled with sand (YES SAND) stretched out on a too-small towel?

Favorite author:  Impossible question but let’s say Pat Conroy. 

Favorite animal noise:  Tie between my cat’s purr and my dog’s little piggy-esque grunt of contentment.

Random:  

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

tagging: YOU!  If you haven’t done it and wanna, you are one of the 17 chosen!