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I decided to go ahead and make a Twitter account that will be tweeting* (in a polite, respectful, but incredibly annoying way) at Netflix once a day every day** until they give us a physical release of Midnight Mass.    Either I live to see special features on a physical copy of Midnight Mass, or I die/get blocked trying. Please. Join me. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 * I can’t be bothered to keep up with whatever the unfortunate man controlling things wants to call it now ** some days get missed but, like Ed Flynn, I do my best

A video I took on a walk months ago + a bit of the journal entry I wrote when I came home afterwards, that I have found myself thinking back to a lot.

I finally watched Possession after avoiding it for years because people talked about it like it would scar me for life, and perhaps it's the tumblrina in me, but I did not find it anywhere near as weird as people made it seem. It is undeniably weird as hell, but I think just calling it that kinda undersells it.

A better way to describe it, I think, is that it is one of those films you're gonna need at minimum 3-5 business days to figure out if you liked it or not and why, and the reason for that is a combination of unhinged subject matter, and actors who are insanely committed to it.

The script is like if you tore out the pages of someone's diary from the day their partner told them they want a divorce, gave those pages to actors, and those actors just fucking ceased to be people. Just full-on embodied these illogical, disconnected bits of raw, live wire emotion instead.

I kept skipping back to rewatch certain moments simply because I was fascinated by the performances. I've never seen a person express themselves like that? Like what the fuck did this director say to them to get them to that place? What fucking place even is that??

Also sometimes it's funny? That's another thing people don't seem to talk about much, maybe that reaction isn't universal - and other parts, to be clear, are not funny at all - but I was pleasantly surprised to be laughing at times.

I don't know, just throwing this out there for anyone who is in the boat I was in, confused at what the vibes of it are, wondering if they should actually watch it or not. It's possible none of this helps you make a decision on that. But I tried!

"It was some Emmys. And it was the day after. And I had a private plane, and I was giving you a ride. And you were late, and I was so angry. And we sat on this private plane, flying to Vancouver from LA, not talking, and you wrote me a letter.

So you're just, like, six feet away from me, writing a letter to me, that you give to me, and it's a beautiful letter. I don't remember it exactly, but it was like...it was appreciative, and...it was all the things I wanted to hear. But it's just amazing that we couldn't just have that conversation. You know, the fact that it was a private plane, and it's just all ridiculous." This is was by far my favorite memory David Duchovny shared with Gillian Anderson on his podcast.

I know I don't know them or their relationship at all, and I'm not trying to say David & Gillian = Mulder & Scully, but I am tickled by the fact that both partnerships seem to communicate most effectively by almost never communicating at all. And on the rare occasion they do, it's one of them reaching out in this unconventional, unexpectedly generous way that the other remembers for the rest of their life...after which they both go to work the next day and not talk about it. <3