deep down just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing

whats the meaning of life? son, its those little tiny pumpkins. the ones that are mad small.  you know the ones i mean. 

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

what the fuck 😁

Yeah this is a thing

Are you serious

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

No they’re very real

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

It’s fun

Oh, it’s a blast.

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

that is exactly what we’re telling you

Nothing quite like soft characters going feral and feral characters going soft

There has never been a greater example of giving the people what they want in filmmaking than Colin Firth being doused in water in almost every single thing he has starred in since Pride and Prejudice

@pscentral event 01: women (in film)

SELINA KYLE in THE BATMAN (2022) SAMANTHA CARPENTER in SCREAM (2022) ÉOWYN in LOTR: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) GRACE LE DOMAS in READY OR NOT (2019) MAKO MORI in PACIFIC RIM (2013) DOMINO in DEADPOOL 2 (2018) HARLEY QUINN in THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021) KATE in KATE (2021) ZAMA ZULU in FISTFUL OF VENGEANCE (2022) REGAN ABBOTT in A QUIET PLACE PART II (2020)

Bridgerton (2020 - )

· QUEEN MARGUERITE D’ANJOU · — Sophie Okonedo · The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)

· QUEEN CHARLOTTE OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ · — Golda Rosheuvel · Bridgerton (2020–)

· QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN · — Jodie Turner-Smith · Anne Boleyn (2021)

when audience perspective is a character…..because the story is a character. when silver is that character. when he looks into the camera that’s when you know the story has switched from flint’s backstory to being the origins of long john silver. 

he said you’re just along for the fucking ride because you know how this ends

and you know it’s ending because we’re looking at flint like this in season 3 

Siobhan ‘Shiv’ Roy being a fashion Icon 1/?

some kind of a moodboard

my favorite video game quest trope is "HELP US, THEY ARE STEALING OUR ANCIENT ARTIFACT. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US, AS A REWARD YOU MAY HAVE OUR ANCIENT ARTIFACT"

oh my god? the x files-fandom was the fandom that invented the word ‘shipping’? JESUS CHRIST I LOVE Y’ALL

Yes, back in the early days, there were two camps of fans: “Relationshippers” (people all about the MSR) and the “NoRomos” (people all about the platonic partnership.) Relationshippers was eventually shortened to “shippers.”

The X-Files popularity just happened to parallel the birth of the internet. Philes took it by storm with the creation of fan forums, chat groups, and hundreds of websites devoted to the show, characters, and the actors. :)

The X-Files fandom also coined the term UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension) as a fanfic descriptor. :D Fandom history is pretty neat.

fruck man

Man X-Files was my intro to fandom and fic and it shaped me so much

You know this post?

It’s true! But the corollary is, “And if not Star Trek, probably X-Files.”

mutual pining IS the best trope. no they’re not trying to move on, no they’re not brave enough to risk it, no they’re not trying to date other people, they don’t know they can have it but it’s okay if they can’t (but they CAN)

butter and toast will always be top level