So Yep, That’s The Post

riza hawkeye age 11: dearest diary mine. today i was tending the houseplants as one does, hoping as i do every day that my spells will finally work and the vines will come to life and i can place it next to father as he sleeps, and it shall strangle him, and he shall wake up dead, and i shall be free. free!

anyway. i was tending the plants with my ceramic watering can and i heard a knocking at the door, and i opened it to discover the most pathetic boy alive, perhaps. soaked right through with the rain but still perhaps 75 pounds at the most, dressed up like he’s off to church, or his uncle’s wedding. how disgraceful. his name is roy mustang, and i have decided i will NOT be his friend, no matter how he pleads. i have no need for meddlesome boys.

mr mustang, age 13, apparently from central (can you believe it, diary? a city boy, and a scandalous backstory to boot - raised in a brothel, diary! i wonder if he can sing!) came to ask father to teach him alchemy. i don’t see why, it’s a trivial pursuit much akin to the parlor tricks im sure he learned back home (got em again! i hope he knows how funny i am being right now, though he must never read you, diary)

i told him we are not kind to solicitors, and closed the door. father had to ruin my fun, of course, as is his mission in life i suppose. he came downstairs after only 20 minutes or so and let mr mustang in, and took the discussion of tutelage to his office. apparently he’s going to earn his keep in the coops and the garden, which is fine. maybe i can get some meat on city boy’s bones. foolish

roy, still shivering in his wet clothes from 4 hours ago, knocking timidly on the bathroom door: miss riza are you almost finished

many thanks to jon @dxppercxdxver for letting me make many contextless nonsensical sharpe statements at him tonight

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

GUYS GUYS GUYS SOMETHING AMAZING JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A “lost” Lord of the Rings adaptation has just been found and put back up on Youtube!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s

It’s a Russian Teleplay adaptation of Lord of the Rings with absolutely Perfect special effects (the hobbits are the size of rabbits!)

This adaptation PREDATES the obscure Finnish minsieries adaptation by two years!! (check out my #hobitit and #hobitit hot takes tag if you don’t know what I’m talking about!)

If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I LOVE baffling obscure Lord of the Rings adaptations so much but I’d never even heard of this one!!!!?? How have I never heard of it??

I guess that makes this the *actual* first live-action adaptation of Lord of the Rings?? (Unless there’s yet another even MORE secret obscure adaptation I don’t know about?)

All this time I thought Hobitit was the first live-action adaptation of Lord of the Rings but it wasn’t!!!!??????? My entire world is upside-down…..the world has changed, I feel it in the earth, I feel it in the water, I smell it in the air………this is big news…..I can’t wait til I have time to watch it. I guess I’ll have to learn Russian though since there don’t seem to be English subtitles yet XD

Goncharov Lore (“Gonchlore” if you will) Masterpost

Note: this is regarding the lore made up by tumblr collaboratively about a fake Martin Scorsese film. See the post that started it all and fake poster.

Goncharov was released in 1973. It was written by Matteo JWHJ 0715 and directed (?) and/or possibly co-written by Martin Scorsese. Scorsese’s big name helped popularize the film, but as a result JWHJ 0715’s significant contribution is often overlooked

Goncharov was forgotten and was actually difficult to acquire for many years. This may have been due to corporations hoarding rights and access, the actually mafia targeting distribution of the film, other factors, or a combination of these. This led to pirating of the film, which allegedly led to pirating discourse surrounding the film

There are talks of a Goncharov II or remake

Goncharov is a mafia boss in Naples of Russian origin. His wife/fiancée is named Katya, also of Russian origin. Goncharov may or may not have fled Russia, and may or may not have been pursued by someone trying to get him back to Russia, possibly to face legal justice. One such person trying to do this could be Valery Michailov

Valery Michailov in Katya’s sister. He may resent Goncharov due to his relationship with his sister and due to Goncharov being wanted by the Russian government. He is somewhat patriotic, possibly a former government worker or soldier.

Katya’s last name is either Michailova or Goncharova (although possibly with the wrong suffix). Her relationship with Goncharov is strained, tense, and possibly loveless. She ends up betraying him in the end. This is often seen as a subversion on the typical tropes for women in mafia movies.

At some point, Katya is on a bridge with Goncharov. At some point, Katya points a gun at Goncharov. At some point, Katya is injured on a boat/in a boathouse.

Katya is amicable with someone named Sofia, who has brown hair. She also has subtextual homoerotic tension with her

Sofia may be working class/poorer than many of the other characters are.

Goncharov has subtextual homoerotic tension with someone named Andrey. Andrey is Goncharov’s old friend/best friend/nemesis/enemy/competitor. There is at least one instance of one of them trying to kill the other.

Ice pick Joe is played by John Cazale, making this his 6th movie. He has a famous 10 minute scene with Katya, and at some point dies, also possibly at the hands of Katya.

Mario Ambrosini works with Goncharov, possibly as a lackey or number two. At some point in the middle of the story, he betrays Goncharov and Goncharov tells him that he “never wants to see [Mario] again”. It is unclear what happens to him after that. Mario also has a relationship with Andrey that some have described as “fascinating”. It is unclear how.

There is a clock motif in Goncharov, and a general theme regarding “running out of time” before death. There are a few characters who seem at the very least subconsciously aware of the fact that they have little time until their death. The film also deals with the theme of fate, of death and tragedy being and inevitable thing for these characters.

Goncharov dies at the end of the movie, due to someone’s betrayal.

Goncharov (1973) was heavily influenced by the American Cold War propaganda of the time. Some argue that it plays right into the stereotypes of Russians, others say it is a clever subversion of the propaganda and stereotypes of the time.

Feel free to add more/expand/add alternative information!

I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.

i love constantly evolving into a cooler version of myself

Pre-Orders now open!

Starting today, and until December 31st, you can pre-order Romance Dawn, an One Piece zine focused on the first half of the series: 31 artists, 6 writers, over 70 pages of content, and loads of merchandise!

We have five different bundles available:

Come have a look at our store!

Here is our stretch goal merchandise. The pieces will be unlocked once we reach the number of sales marked for each one, and it will be added to all the physical bundles.

And one more thing! We’ve also launching a social media campaign to promote the zine. Reblog on tumblr, retweet on twitter, and like on instagram and if we reach 597 notes in total, we will add a free digital copy of the zine to all purchases of a physical bundle.(Tumblr and twitter likes do not count to reach the goal):

Take me to the store!

@zineapps @zinesubmissions @all-zine-apps @zines-for-writers @opfandombase @zine-scene @fandomzines @zinesunlimited @anizines​ @atozines​ @faneventshub​

i grew up watching angsty FMA AMVs on youtube and that’s why i’m Like This.

Song: “Take My Breath Away” by Mayday Parade