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Some Randoms

2026-05-01T15:50:37Z

tozka has posted some recs for non-AI instrumental music to work to.

Meanwhile, at polyamships:

27 April: How did you discover poly ships? What makes you write/read/draw them?

Honestly? No idea. Maybe it was Design for Living's fault?

Considering the types of ships I, erhm, ship, it's probably the impulse of "Why must X choose? X has two hands!".

29 April: Self rec time! what poly fanwork of yours are you most proud of? share it here! Not a creator? Then who's your favorite fandom creator? Time to share!!!

I guess Triangle? (Didier/Juliette/The Marquis)

01 May: Rec post for fics
This is a post to recommend poly fics exclusively. You may comment or edit your comment as many times as you want, but please, only recommend fics on this post. All ratings, warnings, and ships welcome.

I have to rec riverwalk by youknowthelines (Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot) :D

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Stats: April 2026

2026-05-01T15:32:47Z

Films Watched

Get Out (2017)

Shane (1953)

Le joueur d'échecs (1927) ✨

Nur Du (1930)

The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)

The Man Without Desire (1923)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) ✨

The Rat (1925)

The Hunger (1983)

Heller in Pink Tights (1960)

Johnny Guitar (1954) ✨

The Triumph of the Rat (1926)

The Return of the Rat (1929)

Marnie (1964)

Steel Magnolias (1989)

The Rat (1937)

Une corde, un Colt... (1969)

Topaz (1969)

Vargtimmen • Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Children of Men (2006) ✨

Books being read (for leisure)

Heavenly Bodies by Richard Dyer

The Spy in Black John Storer Clouston

Finished Arts

The Eerie Tales/Drawfee crossover

Roger and dog

Downhill fanposter (will be posted soon)

No dumb doodles -_-

Words Written

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 762 words), ugh

Three Sentence Ficathon 2026: 0 fics (total 0 words)

Miscellaneous short fics: 0 fic (total 0 words)

Total: 0 words *cries*

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The Drabblethons! Don't Forget the Drabblethons!

2026-04-27T16:15:30Z

I forgot to post links to the drabblethons :(

Here's the Seventh Doctor era one, the First Doctor era one, and the Conrad Veidt one.

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Polyamships: Days 1

2026-04-27T12:31:57Z

Life decided some (internet) things were not meant to be (ficathons becoming drabblethons), but it could be worse IRL.

In honour of 3weeks4dreamwidth, polyamships is doing a little event.

25 April: What is/are your current favorite poly ship/s? Want to share a little bit about them with us?

At the moment, I'm spinning

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (The Adventures of Sir Lancelot)
It's honestly amazing a show for children from the 50s manages to handle the Guinevere/Lancelot side of things in a thoughtful manner, while also not going all the way with it because... they both love their King so much. Basically, Guinevere and Arthur have two hands and they can use them, godammit!

Didier/Juliette/The Marquis (Ich und die Kaiserin)
Niche af. I like to think, now that Didier has ascended to conductor (and possibly can show off his own compositions), he can get an assistant, and therefore more time! And he can join Juliette and her dummy Marquis on it.

Buffo/Erik/Julie/Mark (The Last Performance)
So.
Erik loves Julie, who loves Mark. But Buffo loves Julie (and Erik, apparently, albeit in a more love-hate way). Erik has one of those hate relationships with Buffo (that we can fix ;) ) and is way to handsy with Mark. Got it?
Very messy, very angsty, and everything could be fixed if they all kissed.

George/Gilda/Tom (Design for Living)
Rewatched recently and I'm back to spinning them in my brain. Notable for being a movie (originally a play, the London version had Anton Walbrook!) from the 1930s that has the girl getting both boys. The chemistry is just off the charts.

Felicitas/Leo/Ulrich (Flesh and the Devil)
Another movie in which its central relationships could be fixed if they all kissed. Felicitas has two hands and Leo and Ulrich should just kiss already.

(Shoutouts to Rick/Ilsa/Victor of Casablanca fame and C.K. Dexter Haven/Mike/Elizabeth/Tracy of The Philadelphia Story fame!)

(Shall always call C.K Dezter Haven as C.K. Dexter Haven because that's how it should be >:3 )

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Plans and Arts (and Some Maybe Other Things)

2026-04-21T09:26:39Z

Was thinking that, for 3weeks4dreamwidth, I should host ficathons over at my communities. All three of them. Oop.

Under the cut, there's some art.

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And now for some interesting links:

Scripts from the Crypt #19: Der Januskopf (1920), Apparently a full script of Der Januskopf was found, but whoever found it has been sitting on it for months. Hoping they actually get to release it to us peasants. I shall refrain from complaining about these guys' "amazing" opinions.

How missing episodes from ‘The Daleks' Master Plan’ were found, an interview with Sue Malden, former BBC archivist.

TCM's Classic Film Festival (2026) will premiere a new restoration of Letty Lynton, the "forbidden illegal", as the hotvintagemod on Tumblr put it, Joan Crawford movie. At this point, I should just embrace I quite like her work. Johnny Guitar was the last one I saw and it was mesmerising.

Ivor Novello: A Story of the London Fog, a very short article, but Michael Williams wrote an entire book about Novello, his movies and his persona (plus him being a gay icon, which at the time was largely ignored, and without a doubt some today still make an effort to straightwash him). Good little intro and a taster.

In other news, I'm becoming obsessed with The Rat trilogy. Why do I think it's slowly becoming a commentary on Novello's fame and how the critics, erhm, critisised him for being too pretty (and not of the marrying kind)?

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scifirenegade @ 2026-04-11T10:04:00

2026-04-11T09:13:48Z

vriddy's account on her experiences on tiny fandoms is an interesting read.

About The Man Without Desire (1923): This film has it all! Rococo, death, suspended animation via magic, people being the clones of their ancestors, a man being a fish out of water for five in-world minutes, erectile disfunction. Yet! It never goes all the way (and I'm bummed about it).

I would say this was a weird metaphor for comphet while being gay, but Novello was never really in the closet. And I'm talking about Novello less because he starred in the movie and mote because he was one of the producers.

(I would have said this was a metaphor for asexuality, but Vittorio, the man without desire himself, dies at the end. ED, comphet or asexuality, any lens you look at this movie through, is yikes.)

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2026-04-01T07:21:48Z

Been a very bad, bad boy when it comes to checking out Dreamwidth. Sorry... To compensate, here's some random stuff.

Recently watched Louis J. Gasnier and George Cukor's The Virtuous Sin, which is a pretty serviceable romdramedy (romantic comedy-drama, which is a subject matter that should not work, yet somehow kinda does). Victor's actor is destroying the ever-loving-fuck out of the scenery with his mashers, though. He's the worst part.

Anyway, the reason I watched it was, essentially, very shallow. Paramount had a German version made. And in the role of General Platoff, we have Conrad Veidt. And I want it so bad.

I want to see him go from "Ironface" (Eisengesicht?)

To whatever this is

I want to see him hold a coat to the air and throw documents at people and play with and throw around a riding crop (yes, I know Kaiserin exists but you know he would do it completely different here). I want to hear him say those lines! I want to see him on the seesaw! The seesaw! And that uniform...

E. from Villain by Accident posted the first part of their analysis of Veidt's second stay in Hollywood, mostly about Escape.

I'm having trouble with stumfilm.dk at the moment, but they recently published an article about new soundtracks for silent films made by music students!

Movies 'n' stuff: FilmotecaUNAM's playlist of silent films, Cinematheque's HENRI platform (watched Musidora's Vicenta on there), Elonet for Finnish films, MOSFilm for that Soviet stuff. The EYE is supreme.

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Stats: March 2026

2026-04-01T06:47:34Z

Films Watched

The Black Phone (2021)

Belle de Jour (1967) ✨

Tih Minh (1918)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

Knives Out (2019)

Midsommar (2019)

Autumn Crocus (1934)

X (2022)

Blood Tea and Red String (2006) ✨

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem (2023) ✨

Till Österland (1926)

Parasite (2019)

The Virtuous Sin (1930)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) ✨

Books being read (for leisure)

Heavenly Bodies by Richard Dyer

The Spy in Black John Storer Clouston

Books Finished

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Arts

1 finished piece (blue experiment)

Some dumb doodles -_-

Words Written

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 762 words), ugh

Else & Paul bonding moment: 522 words (total 1355 words) - FINISHED

Three Sentence Ficathon 2026: 7 fics (total 619 words)

Miscellaneous short fics: 1 fic (total 250 words)

Total: 1391 words

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Drinking My Blood Tea, Twirling My Red String

2026-03-23T16:52:21Z

So, Blood and Tea and Red String (2006), the love child of one person, made over the course of over 10 years, is my new favourite thing. If you want to make a dark fairy tale, embrace the fact it's still a fairy tale, which this movie certainly did.

Basically, the aristocratic Mice ask the Oak Creatures to make them the doll of their desires. They do, but they live the doll so much they offer the Mice's money back to keep it. The Mice steal it.

Reality and fiction mix. I feel like there's something about women being treated as objects (and then there's the spider woman). Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe it's just a surreal piece of art.

(Also, the water is made of, I think, that very transparent film one can use to wrap food or whatever. Lovely!)

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Fanfic: Encomium

2026-03-14T14:04:37Z

Title: Encomium
Rating: Mature
Fandom: Contraband (1940)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Captain Hans Andersen/Mrs. Sorensen | Ms. Clayton
Warnings: non-explicit smut
Spoilers: n/a

Note: comment_fic, prompt was "praise kink". We've reached a new point or something like that.

LOGGED-IN ONLY
On AO3
On Squidge

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Fanfic: Broken Melody

2026-03-14T14:00:52Z

Title: Broken Melody
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Else Sivers, Paul Körner
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a

Note: Been chewing on this for way too long.

On AO3
On Squidge

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Small Fandoms Drabblethon 2026

2026-03-14T13:57:59Z

( Anders als die Andern )

( Contraband )

( Ich und die Kaiserin )

( Just Imagine )

( Der Student von Prag )

( The Spy in Black )

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Small Lights in the Darkness

2026-03-13T10:17:30Z

You can watch National Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa on Youtube until the 18th!

And after 13 years of nothing, two episodes from The Daleks' Master Plan were recovered!

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Assortment

2026-03-02T11:03:17Z

AO3 has been down for almost 20 hours. I would suspect a DDoS attack, but when the 2023 one happened, they were pretty open about it. Who knows.

It's been done! conradveidt community is up and running! There a Movie Tournament Poll happening, and the film that wins will be highlighted for a whole month!

And under the cut, Lancelot stained glass, but made with coloured pencils.

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Stats: February 2026

2026-03-01T14:09:16Z

Films Watched

Ladri di biciclette (1948) ✨

Stromboli (1950) ✨

Cold Storage (2026)

8½ (1963)

Sleeping Car (1933)

Downhill (1927) ✨

1917 (2019) ✨

Books being read (for leisure)

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Heavenly Bodies by Richard Dyer

Finished Books

The Speed of Sound by Scott Eyman

Arts

1 finished piece (Lancelot stained glass)

Some dumb doodles -_-

Words Written

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh, will someone give her a drink at this point

Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 762 words), ugh

Else & Paul bonding moment: 9 words (total 833 words) - revising it

Three Sentence Ficathon: 3 fics (241 words)

Small Fandoms Drabblethon: 11 fics (total 1100 words)

Total: 1350 words

And before I forget, via muccamukk, The Importance of Being Earnest livestream on the 12th of March!

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scifirenegade @ 2026-02-22T15:25:00

2026-02-22T15:37:40Z

Having a panic attack while your friend is also having a very shitty time and having to help (while trying to not seem like you yourself are having a bad time) is sure an experience. Been trying to get over it with movies.

Zootopia's message is still a little muddy, but "Didney" would never do something like this now (Zootopia 2 not withstanding, no idea how good that one is). Goldeneye made me feel like a kid again. I always forget I enjoy James Bond movies. The difference is I'm an adult now, and can think of them critically.

As for new watches... 8½ is... overrated? I guess? It feels like a dream, it plays with its medium so darn well, but alas, I cared not for our director character. Maybe on a rewatch it's better, but I have no desire to do so. Sleeping Car though? Very very silly. Always nice seeing Madeleine Carroll in a not-drama. I have seen four talkies with Ivor Novello and in half of them he's the most obnoxious rascal (good, he plays them well). Lots of moving camera, not enough trains. I still enjoyed I Lived With You more, but somehow believed Carroll and Novello's romance more than Jeans and Novello.

~~(And I would believe his romance with me even more *cough*)~~

I have to thirst somewhere. My friends can't handle it, and it's not even as scandalous as Cairns's for Veidt's tight clothing :P

EDIT: Ah! Almost forgot! bethefirst is having its (optional) signups! tardis_remix is also having (obligatory) signups and prompt claiming!

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3 Sentence Ficathon Fills

2026-02-16T15:11:07Z

Will be updated when I fill more prompts. Still have a few saved.

LAST UPDATED: 05/April/2026

Warnings: mild blood, homophobia (in Anders als die Andern fills), mentions of murder (in the Nazi Agent fill), major character death (in The Spy in Black fill), mentions of abusive relationships (in the A Woman's Face fill)

( Above Suspicion )

( Anders als die Andern )

( Doctor Who )

( Downhill )

( Filibus )

( Ich und die Kaiserin )

( Nazi Agent )

( The Spy in Black )

( A Woman's Face )

( Crossovers )

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Oopsie-doodle

2026-02-15T17:57:48Z

I have not been a good blogger. Been distracted by small_fandoms's Drabblethon (will collect all drabbles and post them all together soon-ish) and by general sadness.

Please, enjoy my friend's Conrad Veidt biography, plus this little thing they wrote about Liebe macht blind. It is, in my humble opinion, the most complete and properly sourced bio on Herr Veidt on the 'net (the Liebe macht blind link has a YouTube video with the live music when the movie was shown in Cine Recobrado; silent film tunes to jam to). Why yes, we are manifesting the movie's release, dammit!

Movies Silently has a review for The Girl in Tails (1926) and it seems right up my alley. Meanwhile, Classic Film and TV Corner has a review for Shooting Stars (1928), which also seems like my jam.

It's a shame to see the Internet Archive fully embrace artificial intelligence, but I've been following Brewster for a while, so it's not surprising. Techbros, istg...

Still making my way through Tih-Minh, Édouard Mathé showed up! Judex and Roger together again *sparkles* Still haven't found the will to rewatch Stromboli (English version, aka the best version).

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Things

2026-02-04T13:34:20Z

Three years ago, I lost that Jacqueline Hill's episode in Angels. Now, I have it again! It's nothing, really, but I'm glad to say that, once again, I have all the available media related to her!

Watched Stromboli (1950). "We need more horrible women characters", they say, but they would not be able to handle Karin. There is a problem: TVCine (the channel I watched the movie on) aired a mutilated version that cuts 10-20 minutes from the original runtime! For shame! I was so excited about it (it's good btw). Also Ingrid Bergman very good and hair is gorgeous. Very important.

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Stats: January 2026

2026-02-01T11:59:01Z

Films Watched

O Pai Tirano (2022)

Untamed (1929)

The Artist (2011) ✨

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) ✨

Grand Hotel (1932)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

Anaconda (2025)

Alraune (1928)

Once a Lady (1931)

Germania anno zero (1948) ✨

Winter Light (1963) ✨

Books being read (for leisure)

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

The Speed of Sound by Scott Eyman

Arts

0 finished pieces

Some dumb doodles -_-

Words Written

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 762 words), ugh

Else & Paul bonding moment: 42 words (total 824 words) - pretty much finished!

Three Sentence Ficathon: 4 fics (388 words)

Miscellaneous short fics: zero fics (total 0 words)

Total: 430 words

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Tih Minh Random Notes: Episodes 2 and 3

2026-01-26T15:09:33Z

Except not really, because I need to write this somewhere and don't want to double post.

Once a Lady (1931). What a bore. Woman marries wet cardboard Tory who hates her. Has a child. Basically the whole family forces the woman away. Ivor Novello is there and he's absolutely wasted on this (but very charming, glad to finally hear him without a fake accent). There's a pic of him with Joan Crawford for what is worth. Can't escape that woman lately.

Alright, Tih Minh shenanigans under the cut.

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ugh

2026-01-24T11:07:31Z

This is the second spam comment I get on AO3. Logged-in account. The bots are getting accounts! Both affected fics were from teeny-tiny fandoms (one was Denouement, which has been there for a year, so it's not like they're only targetting new fics).

It's also really funny they want me to "commission them". Most of my stuff IS art. If I want to "bring my stories to life" I can just go and do it without getting scammed :)

I'm lucky I haven't gotten the nasty ones who insult me or whatever.

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Tih Minh Random Notes: Prologue + Episode 1

2026-01-22T17:26:39Z

Caved in. Oops.

Can already tell it's gonna be one of Those (TM): exoticism and the racism edition.

I'll say it, the intros that go "Actor So-and-So is Character Such-and-Such" and then there's a little scene of the character are awesome.

The Grand Vampire actor is Count Merlin of The Charlatan! Not really.

No idea what Jacques (René Cresté) shtick is, but Placide is very Passepartout.

Of course, the Vietnamese woman is too primitive and needs good ol' western reeducation! Bah! "It was of its time" my arse, we never left the Dark Ages, our eyes have just grown accustomed to the darkness.

Placide and Rosette (his fiancé) are wild! Great match, they're ride or die for one another.

I know it's because they're both played by white actors (and asian women are often stereotyped into being demure and therefore "perfect wife material") but I'm impressed that Jacques and Tih Minh are an item.

The soundtrack is pretty good, even when it goes all musique concréte (think Delia Derbyshire). Usually it's out-of-place, but not here. Feuillade's serials are wild.

I wrote "Severe lack of Musidora" and yeah. Where are you, darling, we miss you.

The whole sequence of Rih Minh being kidnapped + the aftermath were very well shot.

Dolores (who works for the baddies, a doctor and an Indian guy, because of course 🙄) is a mind reader?? And can compell people to do whatever she wants?? I don't think she's into it tbh

I also wrote "René Cresté fine as hell". He isn't that much in the ep, and his character at the mo is a nothing-burger, but yes.

Pretty sure Venenos (Les Vampires) mucked aeound in this lab.

There was a guy in the beginning called Stone that was found with no memory and no ability to speak and the baddies were using him??

So Jacques is brooding, and it's all very reminiscent of Jud— what the hell ghostly figures on the beach?? Is this The Seventh Seal??

Blackmail! Another very well done sequence. That zoom on the date. The acting. And the photo is gone!

So, Jacques is one of those white guys who go places and take stuff. Granted, what he got was a copy of a book with a note that may be useful if Europe goes to war (WW1 reference), but still. The baddies crave it for their unknown nefarious deeds.

Placide, no! That's an historical artifact!

Placide, no! I know Kistna (the evil Indian guy) is evil, but no need to basically call him a slur!

So, they left Tih Minh at the gate like a stray kitten, and she's acting oddly, because the baddies gave her the ~~blue rose~~ potion of forgetfulness. So she can't even speak. Just like Stone!

Jacques, no! Don't yell at her!

It's less of a cliffhanger, and more of a gothic version of a Yevgeni Bauer movie.

So far, pretty standard Feuillade.

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scifirenegade @ 2026-01-16T07:32:00

2026-01-16T08:04:21Z

The first newsletter I recieve from the Danish Film Institute is about Olaf Fønss and about how self-absorbed he was. Great.

Except it's more than that. It's about fan culture.

Here's the article if you want to take a look-see.

( Some observations )

EDIT: Silent Film festival in Copenhagen! Lots of good stuff!

Managed to track down another book from the Veidt shelves (speaking of that nice pic of him posing by his bookshelf as if he's deciding on what he should read).

It's Gábor Vaszary's Monpti. Which is the age-old tale of boy meets girl, girl says she's rich while she's actually poor, boy dumps girl, girl gets hit by a car and dies, boy is sad.

This man has this and Silone's Bread and Wine on his shelves. The duality.

And speaking of Connie, you can now watch Die Große Sehnsucht (1930) on the Digitaler Lesesaal. Thank you, Bundesarchiv! Since Herr Veidt plays himself in this, it's a great showing of his persona at the time (read that I wrote persona and not person).

The ever-elusive Uncle Walt short by Robert Swarthe has been found. It's not good, as many elusive and mystical pieces of ~ lost media ~ are.

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2 Movies

2026-01-05T10:08:53Z

Not Untamed, But Childish

Joan Crawford’s all-talkie debut, Untamed, begins as a drama with music set in South America, then makes a choppy transition to a society romance in which the lovers are reconciled only after she attempts to murder him. The film’s tone shifts with every new scene. At no time does any character in Untamed resemble any human being who ever lived, but its flamboyant unreality gives the film a vaguely comic, unintentional charm.

-Scott Eyman, The Speed of Sound

So I watched it for the madness.

It was something alright.

It is all over place, with a dash of South American exoticism. They're acting as if South America (as a monolith) is the anals of hell, dear lord.

Anyway, wow this lady sounds a lot like Joan Crawford, I thought in the first five seconds. You doofus, she is Crawford! And this is how I learn that she was in The Unknown. I saw her onscreen way before I saw her in Mildred Pierce. Fuck my stupid baka brain.

See, the thing that I could not take from this movie, which sadly made it more painful than funny, was that her character (B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was her name-o) was supposed to be naive, but came across childish. And it wasn't Crawford's fault (this was her first talkie, she still sounds a bit Southern even), but the writing's. And it's not even in a teenager way, she acts like she's five years old.

And then pulls a 180 and she acts like she's ten when we get to the high-society bit.

I did guffaw at the improvised boxing match, and how willing Bingo was to punch people she didn't like.

The Artist

From an early talkie, to a late silent (really late, 2011).

I had to rewrire my brain for this one. It's not supposed to emulate a silent film, but to be a modern silent. It's not supposed to be historically accurate, but to be like Singin' in the Rain, grabbing the myth and twisting it to tell its story.

Because it was filmed on digital, and the camera acts very modern, and the acting is still very modern talkie.

Afterwards, I was on board. At the end of the day, it's a celebration, of the silents, of the talkies (musicals), of melodrama. And I had a blast.

It's weird, because it won so many awards and it didn't create this wave of modern silent movies. Like La La Land didn't create a wave of musicals. Sigh.

And it has a top tier dog. Such a good boy. Deserves all the pats.

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Scifirenegade's Trash Can

Some Randoms

Stats: April 2026

The Drabblethons! Don't Forget the Drabblethons!

Polyamships: Days 1

Plans and Arts (and Some Maybe Other Things)

scifirenegade @ 2026-04-11T10:04:00

*waves*

Stats: March 2026

Drinking My Blood Tea, Twirling My Red String

Fanfic: Encomium

Fanfic: Broken Melody

Small Fandoms Drabblethon 2026

Small Lights in the Darkness

Assortment

Stats: February 2026

scifirenegade @ 2026-02-22T15:25:00

3 Sentence Ficathon Fills

Oopsie-doodle

Things

Stats: January 2026

Tih Minh Random Notes: Episodes 2 and 3

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Tih Minh Random Notes: Prologue + Episode 1

scifirenegade @ 2026-01-16T07:32:00

2 Movies

Not Untamed, But Childish

The Artist

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