Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops

The Muppet VHS Christmas Carol

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: you can call Fantasy High a magic version of The Breakfast Club all you want, but Fantasy High is ACTUALLY a magic version of Lemonade Mouth

reblog this to have a Happy Wildcat New Year™

Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet

Brenann's pronunciation of Oisín is not quite correct

It is pronounced Ush-een, and spelt with a fada which is the accent over the vowel, like this: Oisín. To get the accent letters on mobile, you can press and hold the vowel

Thank you, please reblog just so people know how to pronounce + spell

My curse is to discover shows like 10 years after they finished, and then I'm just alone with my insane thoughts over my precious characters.

“i liked it before it was cool” well i liked it AFTER it was cool when everyone abandoned it

happy new year! reminder that as of January 1st, 2025, the 1929 animated Disney short "The Skeleton Dance" is now public domain!

just saw the most brilliant version of hamlet i’ve ever seen, and while i’ve already gushed about it to everyone in earshot, i have to talk about Ophelia’s death more. the way this production did it permanently changed how i view the scene, and god it’s good.

in the text, Ophelia sings her songs, hands out her flowers, says good bye, and leaves. Gertrude follows and returns later with the news that Ophelia has drowned. She describes a beautiful image to Laertes of his sister, floating in a river, singing her songs, with flowers all around her (see: my pfp). Beautiful even in death.

but in this production I just saw? Gertrude lies. we get to see the truth of Ophelia’s death. it’s not a beautiful thing, but ugly, clawing, sobbing, drinking, and “drowning” her sorrows in alcohol and pills. And only Gertrude knows. and she spins a tale of comfort, telling Ophelia’s brother of her beauty, making her last moments seem peaceful and perfect.

as women, dragged through the story, expected to be beautiful and perfect, I think perhaps Ophelia and Gertrude found a bit of themselves in each other. I think Gertrude knows pretending to be beautiful and perfect all too well. that she too finds herself in the ugly, sobbing moments. that we see her in these moments. but she knows how to smooth things over and make them look beautiful. so she does.

I always found it interesting how Ophelia was beautiful in death. how her final scene finally let her break and be something other than perfect and graceful, but then her death was beautiful. but if it’s a lie? well, that changes everything. and i love it.

Zach’s cold shot of “oh good she finally learnt how to pronounce the word huge” is great but let’s not forget that ms. McKenna immediately dedicated herself to not only saying it wrong but saying it wrong in a different way every single time