I Am Sorry. THE RED SLEEVE (2021) Dir. Jung Ji In

Let's be alone together ❤️

I need to stay here alone.

Aristotle’s philosophy on two human beings in love reminds me of Rik Garrett’s current series ‘Symbiosis’. The fate of two physical bodies that connect and form as one soul, which is similarly portrayed throughout Garrett’s mixed media photography. The Chicago based artist explores ideas regarding love, relationships, magic, alchemy and mutually beneficial partnerships in nature.

seeing this made me realize that his wounds weren't even that bad.

you're telling me that steve survived after the demobats strangled him & ate a pound of his flesh but eddie died after being bitten a few times here and there????? that's batshit.

(see what i did there? i'm in my dustin henderson era)

Coming into a fandom late

My dream since childhood😩✨️

Some awesome treehouses that look so relaxing and call my inner wood elf inside! 🌱🌿🍃

Finally, it’s just the two of us, away from the palace.  Just you and I. Me and you. Now I can forget the truth and lies, misunderstandings and jealousy, the precarious fight for the throne and, death. And just devote my time on loving you.

Dozens of NYC Subway riders, fresh off a Robyn concert, singing “Dancing On My Own” while waiting for the E train. (Video by Triszh Hermogenes) 

hot dog, this article from Vox is like the first thing I've read that actually takes a rational, critical look at the whole Luigi thing. No pearl clutching or gaslighting, good stuff! I clipped it all because its members only (l have an extension that lets me turn javascript on and off with a click so i can read anythang i want)

this is the first thing i've read that was written by someone who "gets it" and isn't afraid to say it

Things I loved about Imagine Me

Been seeing a lot of negative reviews about Imagine Me here but I personally loved it, so to bring some positivity into the tag here are (a lot, sorry) of things i loved about Imagine Me

(spoilers, but that is a given)

- That whole entire fight scene at the beginning, literally the most intense moment in the whole series

- Warner begging his father to take him instead of Juliette because he cares more about her freedom than he does about his own life

- Anderson declining his offer because even though he doesn’t really care for him he doesn’t want that future for his son

- Warner finally snapping at Omega people for being bad friends and abandoning Juliette (and him (but mostly Juliette))

- Seeing the more ruthless side of Warner, I mean this was obviously sad to see but we finally got to see that people weren’t exaggerating about him

*side note but I don’t consider this a “regression” from his part, Warner was never fully the good guy just as he was never fully the bad guy, he exists in a gray area and just does what he needs to do, we got to see his more gentle side with Juliette because he allowed that side of him to show but with Juliette gone that part of him wasn’t useful (in his mind) anymore. He allowed himself to be happy for a little while and that was immediately ripped away from him so it only makes sense that he acted the way he did. His characterization is so unique and complex and I will literally never shut up about it 

- Anderson having compassion, something he never had for his own sons,   & trying to save Juliette at the end, but only because she was useful and obedient to him  

- The fact the the whole series was build up on the idea of Anderson being super smart and stuff and seeing that the other Supremes thought he was a fucking idiot 

- Ibrahim being the one to shoot Anderson / seeing them turn against each other to maintain power

- Warner spending days covered in blood and dirt and then showering and putting a suit on to go save Juliette 

 - Warner thinking that Juliette was already gone but trying to rescue her anyway because that was the only thing he could do 

- Kenji going OFF on everyone and anyone that said that Juliette wasn’t going to make it / that they would be better if they killed her 

- Brendan and Winston finally getting together 

- Winston getting Kenji drunk by putting whiskey on his tea 

- Juliette coming full circle with her skin powers; saying that she would never use them to hurt anyone ever again and her holding up that promise until the very end to kill Emmaline because it wasn’t to hurt her but to free her from her pain

- Juliette struggling with her goddess, being curious, and going against orders despite being brainwashed and being under control 

- Every Kenji/Nazeera interaction 

- Warner telling James that he didn’t tell him they were brothers because he didn’t want to scare him off 

- Emmaline feeling safe in Juliette’s mind and to some extent getting to spend her final moments with her 

- Warner literally stabbing Anderson with a MACHETE 

- Like this man tried to kill his father so many times for what he did to him and never could but the moment Juliette’s life was in danger he did not hesitate to try and kill him 

- The people of 241 basically falling in love with Warner after he saved the day

- Kenji and Warner’s little bonding moment when Warner tells Kenji that he proposed to Juliette and Kenji finally understanding why he was so devastated 

- Warner calling Kenji a clown and that he should seek help 

- Kenji telling Nazeera that Juliette and Warner were engaged just to annoy Warner 

- That whole Warner & Juliette scene just UGH the FLAVOR

- I had been secretly hoping for a Warner/Juliette showdown since the beginning and I can’t believe I finally got it

- “She’s going to kill you” “that’s fine”

- “She’s really going to kill you” “then I’ll die”

- Nazeera being shocked and hurt seeing her father dead despite her knowing it would happen/kinda wanting it to happen 

- Warner taking his coat off while “fighting” Juliette and folding it over a chair, literally the smallest detail but his mannerisms are just so interesting to me  

- Juliette unconsciously recognizing Warner’s traits in Anderson 

- Juliette being SO CLOSE to killing Warner but stopping cause she couldn’t believe how beautiful he was and her literally thinking Warner was fake and that it had to be a test because he was too good looking to be real 

- “Where did they make you?” “So you are in there”

- This whole scene is so good because it’s unlike Warner to do something so reckless and you can just feel his desperation at not knowing what else to do to get her back and Juliette thinking that she has to kill him but being unable to resist when he kisses her and her trying so hard to hold back her emotions, thoughts and memories but her love for him being literally so strong that it snaps her out of the control just UGH 

- “Here,” he whispers, pressing my hands to his heart. “Home”

- Emmaline fucking obliterating Max 

- Warner being unable to hold back his inner fashionista and saying the new wedding dress was ugly 

- Warner being embarrassed at feeling too much when seeing Juliette in her corset and being literally paralyzed (in a good way) at the thought of them getting married 

- Warner having to restrain Juliette from grabbing a plunger 

- Juliette being excited at fixing stuff, learning how to use tools

- Juliette reclaiming her name to not give the ghost of Anderson any power over her

- Warner being the only one to call Juliette Ella the way she’s the only one to call Warner Aaron 

- Kenji destroying the wedding dress

- The dog!!!! They have a freaking dog!!!

 - Juliette being upset that she can’t talk to the citizens cause they almost trampled her cause they were so grateful 

- Those same people throwing babies at her and trying to cut a piece of her hair off 

- Warner’s, who has struggled with depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts, final words (and the last words on a series full of pain and loss for every character) being of happiness at the mere sound of Juliette’s laughter 

Feel free to add any :)

tbh like….i ain’t mad at either soo or so

they were always destined to fall apart in this era

soo tried so so hard to make sure that she would help him, so that no one would have to suffer, so that he wouldn’t have the legacy she heard of as a bloody monarch. she wanted him to be remembered as she saw him: a great king, and a good person. but once he became king and she became his “mistress,” as won puts it, she was inadvertently stripped of all the power she had in the palace as a court lady, and she was reduced to “sitting in her room, waiting for him to come home.” the intention was for her to become queen, but without the backing of a powerful family to support her, it became impossible. by the time so told her he would make her the second queen after she had a child, she was already broken. her best friend was killed because she was a traitor, spying on her and lying to her for years. not only that, but the one who ordered her death was the man she loved, and despite the fact that chae ryung was working against her the entire time she was in the palace and helped kill people she loved, soo is incredibly torn because she can still see in her a girl who was trying to help her family. then another friend of hers commits suicide. and then she is told that the reason the man she used to love became such a slimy, homicidal jackass was because of a warning she gave him, reminiscent of the previous king telling her he killed people in order to get the throne because she covered so’s scar. 

at this point, hae soo feels not only like she doesn’t have the power to save anyone, but like her influence on politics has had an active role in killing all the people she’s worked so hard to save, people she loved deeply. no wonder she wants to leave - it’s not that she thinks so is a monster and wants to escape him, but rather she’s gotten to the point where she hinders more than she helps, and her staying is fatal. and she can’t take people she cares about dropping like flies anymore.

meanwhile so. so. so has his hands tied everywhere he turns. someone made this great post about how people have been abandoning him since the start of his reign. the military general. his mother. baek ah. now hae soo wants to leave too, the only person he has left. and to be honest, it would be better for his reign if he let her leave, because every move he makes he thinks of her, and, as we saw with his marriage situation, he would doom himself if it meant staying by her side. but he loves her far too much to ever let her go. the only thing that finally gets him, that really makes him let her leave, is finding out about wook. and i don’t think it’s a jealousy thing - he knew years ago she had loved one of his brothers, and there’s only so many to choose from. but the fact that it’s wook, “of all people why does it have to be him” wook, breaks him. not because it’s his brother. because he’s the man who plotted the death of his oldest brother, who used chae ryung as a spy and made her a traitor (with the assistance of won), who was ready to shoot yo with an arrow like he was hunting something, who threatened him using hae soo and collaborated with his family to make his sister take soo’s place at so’s side, who used his smart brain to rally the noble families, who looked so in the eye and said “nothing is yours, it’s all mine.” it’s not that hae soo loved someone besides him ever in her life, it’s that she was ready to marry someone who at every turn tried to tear him down and their family down, a manipulative murderous snake, and despite that part of her still cared for him enough to beg for his life.

he feels like she never loved him, “wook was always in your heart,” like it was all just some scheme wook was planning or a way to hurt him using what he cared about most. so he lets her go, because he feels like she’s “throwing him away,” or, even worse, that she never cared about him to begin with. at least not as much as the guy who killed his family and hers.

and it’s tragic. and heartbreaking. and i really can’t blame either one of them.