Watching various random British documentaries. This one’s on a Stone Age Tsunami – I think to myself- ah! maybe something useful for Of Ingwë and my headcanon for the disappearance of Cuiviénen. It starts talking about Star Carr, shows the map – holy f* – here it is. Like- even the settlements almost all map to where I’ve ordered my various Quendi villages.
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Fandom: The Silmarillion
Pairing: Thingol/Melian, but Thingol is truly just a stage dressing here
Rating: Gen
CW: birdmonster!Melian is best Melian.The explanation of my headcanons behind this drawing accidentally a prose. The art piece was for @legendariumladiesapril, prompt: Beginnings, and also accidentally ‘Fanon’ and ‘Abstracts’. I am in fact that slow 😀
Her husband’s people insisted on referring to it as her true form, but it wasn’t. She didn’t – she wasn’t like Tulkas or Oromë or the matter-shaping maiar of Aulë, to need a body to realise her part in the song of Ëa. She was- was the quality of sound that made it music rather than noise, harmony rather than discord. Her nature held no inherent physicality, but she would, in the springtime of the world, wear a shape to better hear the nightingales sing.
It was not her true form, the shape her husband had first found her in, but it was her most comfortable body, if she chose one, the assemblage of the world around her naked spirit that was easiest to put on. Elu had loved her in it at once.
His people were afraid of it.
Oh, and you better believe that if I could produce any movie I wanted- complete realm of fantasy- I would have Zack Synder and Larry Fong and their production company to do either the Lay of Leithian or Children of Húrin, because I trust their styles and treatment of characters -especially female- and action and I’d be guaranteed shirtless gentle Beren and Guardians of Ga’hoole proves either could be animated too and i’d only be torn between LoL or CoH because while you know my personal fav is LoL, going from 300 to Watchmen to Sucker Punch and BvS says high fidelity to a deconstructionist story that on the surface is cynical and dark as hell but in actuality ends on hope and championing freedom even if it’s to die on your own terms and this gut feeling that Túrin and Nienor and Morwen and Glaurung and all would be treated well and respectfully, like, c’mon Zack we know you love Excalibur, here’s CoH -make it as many movies as you think you’d need, and heck, film in on your iPhone for all I care
UMMMM haven’t watched enough Marvel to give an opinion but anyone who says man of steel is ugly or bland is tasteless af
I’m only rewatching the fights on YouTube bc time but dang Heget it’s gorgeous :’) even if this movie was bad I’d love it for aesthetic, the light is incredible
oh, i have movies i like just for their design, and i admit i judge the MCU films negatively in art nowadays because almost none of their fight choreography even comes close to MoS and BvS – that’s why I watch what little shonen I do, and with MoS, Zack Synder even points out exactly where he copied some animated fights or did the Star Wars camera move homage…
B-b-b-but juliana! you can’t praise MoS for light quality! It’s a dark dour colorless film where everything is just featureless depressing gray that you can’t see clearly and enjoy watching /snark
Zod in that final fight goodlord. his speeches are still unrivaled and way he moved. And even Faora- why do people forget Faora
guess what i am rewatching ��������
*long line of thumbs up emojis*
My MoS DVD needs to be replaced, there’s a scratch or something at one part on the disk and I’m heartbroken because it’s one of my favorites I love to re-watch it.
Another point is that Man of Steel is SO PRETTY…. same for Wonder Woman, though I know it’s a different team + director, but…. dang
IT IS! (and hey, ZS’s team did have input w/ Jenkins’, so they were trying to keep continuity of style – and why JL pisses me off because I can see the change). The full on Renaissance and Baroque painting sensibilities – that’s one of the reasons I also liked Thor, and why Thor: Ragnarok pissed me off because there were rare moments in that film that had the epic look. But yeah, people bitch and say Man of Steel is ugly and colorless and the the MCU films are so much brighter and prettier- and then petty snarky me delights when DCEU fans pull up the screenshot comparisons, because this really is the dominant narrative of critics and general audiences, and then if they do acknowledge the falsehood and admit that the DCEU movies are gorgeous- well then it’s just damning with faint praise and backhanded compliments of ‘oh sure, they can direct visuals, but as a movie they suck.’ *sigh*
Hddfhjjhfhj you made a list of things I liked about man of steel’s fight hahaha
Well, duh, same here. The only MCU films that even come close to my appreciate and love of the first DCEU films is the first Thor movie (which is Shakespearean epic meets chick flick), the first two Captain America films, and some of the Iron Man films and Black Panther … aka the ones that are more like DCEU.
I want to say it was a Mark Hughes article from two or three years back that used this analogy to compare the MCu to DCEU films: Marvel films are Coke soda- very frizzy and sweet and most everyone likes to drink soda with their fast food meals and lunch. But the Zack Synder DCEU films especially are a dark stout- only a small group of drinkers of alcohol drinkers are going to like that type of drink- but they are going to passionately love it and wax about its rich qualities as they take time to drink it. So yeah, I think the metaphor works.
But careful- that means you and I are pretentious twats that have completely missed the point of the superhero movie genre~
cue the cancel the DC and on your left memes
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On my twitter feed someone is making a very long…
People complain about man of steel’s fights?? :O
…it’s almost utterly inescapable not just in the DCEU part of fandom, but general internet superhero pop culture. The overwhelming majority of articles about the Marvel films -and even non-Marvel, non-superhero- will include at least one line negatively comparing the subject to Man of Steel, BvS, or DCEU in general. It is a clickbait industry. Look at any MCU or DCEU related post or article or Youtube video and it won’t take very long to find the bashing. You will find FAR MORE people asserting that Superman from MoS wasn’t heroic or optimistic or a proper Superman, that he was ‘emo’ and ‘brooding’, that he caused more destruction and didn’t save anyone, that the ending fight was ‘destruction porn’- criticizing the ending might be the only comment you hear about the film, or something tacked on to an otherwise neutral or positive review- and that above all that movie did it wrong- and the MCU/Avengers did it right.
…and really it comes down to tone, because in MoS the music was somber and epic, there wasn’t any one-liner jokes during the fight instead, Zod was always treated as a serious threat -Loki throughout the Avengers, every scene, he was the victim of slapstick comeuppance so he was never actually a frightening villain. Iron Man leads the giant monsters directly through several buildings, but he quips as he does so and the camera quickly cuts away as the buildings start to fall. In MoS you see the fleeing people covered in a far more realistic amount of dust and damage- Avengers you have a few moments where the Avengers try to get the civilians immediately around them to safety- at least off the screen, so that the audience ignores the reality that so much of inhabited Manhattan is being destroyed- and unlike MoS you don’t even have the implication that Metropolis did have prior warning and time to evacuate – hence the empty office buildings that Zod and Superman fly through during their fight. But the Avengers scenes are brightly light with day-time colors, while in MoS there wasn’t the color filters to bright colors- the opposite in fact with the gray dust of a city with destroyed buildings. MoS purposefully used 9/11 imagery to convey the sense of impact such a superhero fight would have. Avengers purposefully used tone and writing and montages of cheering crowds and media coverage to gloss that over and keep the audience from making those connections lest they get upset and ruin the fun. Saturday Matinee Action Movie sensibilities versus Alien Invasion First Contact sensibilities- and Man of Steel was ripped to shreds because it wasn’t that first tone.
Another point the thread brought up was that the Avengers’ fight was eight minutes longer, but the tone and such disguises that.
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