- Bluebeard
- The Goose Girl
- Tattercoats
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
#fairytales #this is just culled from the basic grimm #so many more fairytales #the death of koschei the deathless #thousand and one nights #my childhood's litany of nonwestern cinderellas #although also the earliest untidy original cinderella with all the dismemberment and maybe just maybe it's a story of a girl wielding her want (like all the stories i love)? #ugh #ALL THE FAIRYTALES #TOLD AND RETOLD
2.18 — Downloaded
(via buccaneer)
#FACE #FACE #FACE #GORGEOUS LITERALLY-DAMAGED FACE #wounded herself as a contrivance to make herself look vulnerable #and that moment of clarity when she does it is the least vulnerable thing she's felt in ages #and she wears that bandaid for the rest of the ep like a badge to both #ugh #can't deal #bsg #qualitative best episode that also happens to be best feelings episode #like you're the only one #tricia helfer has a face
"I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’" — Sylvia Plath
written in 1949 at age 17 (via hateshiploveship)
(via delladilly)
#ugh #too close always #sylvia plath #the girl who wanted to be god
A not that coherent feelingspiral about how terribly written Gaius Baltar’s entire s4 plot is; aka: FUCK THIS CULT SHIT.
I’ve never seen such a blatant instance of losing the plot as s4 Gaius—it’s like they forgot about what the point of Gaius was and tried to cobble together a character thesis out of confused hindsight. It’s killing me because he had such a clear, consistent place before, and every now and again I can see it in glimpses amidst the yards of stupid cult bullshit; at least once every episode, there’s a moment of you! you! I see you, I see the point of you, have they remembered the point of you?—and then, no, no, it blinks away into another fucking miracle, another fucking weirdly sincere Jesus tableau, another fundamental fucking misread of THE ENTIRE POINT OF GAIUS BALTAR.
#i have so many feelings #they #are #all #angry #bsg #objectively failed attempts at humaning #i think i didn't realize how intensely attached to gaius as an individual character construct i was until they FUCKED HIM UP #like we all know my caprica feelings and my six feels at large—but i can't feel things in half measures #so loving this ship like i do means being very fucking thoughtful regarding this idiot #AND THIS SHOW IS BEING #FUCKING #STUPID #how do you coherency #whatever i could just keysmash for a thousand words and it would be more coherent than s4 at large #stupid fucking waste of my life season #ugh #ugh #ugh
“Give your body to me. Only your mind is there. Feel me. Feel this where she wants you to feel pain.”
Battlestar Galactica 3.07 - A Measure of Salvation
#flawless scene #GIVE YOUR BODY TO ME #she says from inside his head #god i love them so much and s4 has taken them from me #because s4 has stopped understanding whom either of them are and what they need to be and i just want to incinerate the universe #god s4 is qualitatively fucking terrible #halfway through this stupid fucking waste-of-my-life season thank god #UGH #this man is not magic and this woman is not prey #like those are fucking integral things #bsg #morally? practically. #maybe i should take a break and rewatch the mini because damn this is a trying time
Six: You know what I miss? Sports.
Baltar: You’re joking.
Six: No. I used to go to the pyramid court just before game time, scalp two tickets. If I timed it right, I’d just be sitting down at the horn. Sit back, let the energy of the crowd flow over me. Waves and waves of emotion. Like electric current.
Baltar: Why’d you get two tickets?
Six: One for me and one for you. I knew I’d never get you to go, pyramid was far too low brow for you. But I always liked to feel that you were there with me.
(Source: urukhai)
#AND THEN HE STEALS HER SPEECH TO TALK TO ANOTHER VARIANT OF HER MODEL #AND LO I WAS DEAD #borrowed words: consistently one of my top five tropes #and the speech is SO DISINGENUOUS coming from him (...baltar...sports...?) #but she's not the one who knows him so she believes him #because the one of her in his head gave him the exact right words that would hit the exact right emotional buttons #they are her words even as she pleads with him not to use them #ugh #ugh #ugh #best everything #morally? practically. #bsg
“a truly selfless act…”
caprica looks BAFFLED.
AND SO DOES GAIUS.
they’re both like, well, THAT wouldn’t have come about on its own…??????
BUT IT DIDN’T, SHE TALKED HIM INTO IT IN HIS HEAD.
You are pretty down to your bones / You are ivory and wire and pearl
(via melusines)
#just went 'nooooOOOO' at my computer #like not even despairingly #indignantly!! #i do not appreciate being reminded of how eternal my feelings are for something that happened on this show! #i broke up with this show! #but i did not and will never break up with them #because of hands and faces and symbols and perfection and also hands #and mouths #and faces #faces looking at faces; faces touching faces #faces like puzzle pieces in perpetual alignment #bodies doing the same #ugh #ugh #ugh #btvs #the problem with being reminded these fuckers exist (these fuckers exist!!) is then i think i want to rewatch the show #and i don't want to rewatch the show #(oh but i do) #(oh but i don't) #(lather rinse repeat) #(hands.)
let the less-loving one be me
ASK & SUBMIT & INTRO & LJ
queens and huntsmen, physicality stanning, theater feelings, hilarious myopia, nonstop verbosity, delusions of grandeur. fictional moral compass not found.
