Adult Trying To Stay A Child

Generic Castle by Skerples on twitter

What We Do In The Shadows (2014) - dir. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi

A mockumentary about four vampire housemates living in New Zealand as they prepare for the annual Unholy Masquerade and deal with a newly turned vampire joining their ranks.

The Love Witch (2016) - dir. Anna Biller

Elaine, a young witch, is desperate to find love but has an unfortunate knack for killing the objects of her desire.

Young Frankenstein (1974) - dir. Mel Brooks

After inheriting his recently deceased grandfather’s castle, neurosurgeon Fredrick Frankenstein travels to Transylvania and decides to carry on his family’s legacy.

Shaun of the Dead (2004) - dir. Edgar Wright

A hapless electronics salesman is forced to get his act together when the zombie apocalypse strikes London.

Practical Magic (1998) - dir. Griffin Dune

After accidentally killing her sister’s abusive boyfriend, Sally Owens is forced to confront her hatred of magic to protect her family from an evil spirit.

Interview with the Vampire (1994) - dir. Neil Jordan

Brad Pitt tells an overly curious reporter about the time he found himself in the middle of a vampiric love square with Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, and 12-year-old Kirsten Dunst, who’s actually a 40-year-old lady.

Beetlejuice (1988) - dir. Tim Burton

Undead newlyweds Adam and Barbara have no luck scarring the Deetz family out of their home and make the terrible mistake of turning to the poltergeist Betelgeuse for help.

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) - dir. Jim Jarmusch

- You have to shower. You cannot shower. You are standing right in front of the shower. You want to shower. You cannot shower.

- The meeting begins. “Did everyone see the email?” There is a chorus of nodding heads. You nod, too. You think you may possibly have checked an email account before, on one single occasion, at some unknown time, probably in a past life.

- You are hungry. You have been hungry for three days now. The hunger has not spontaneously resolved itself. How inconvenient, you think. How rude.

- You depend on your planner/calendar. You loathe your planner/calendar. You can’t function without it. You live in constant fear of it. It’s an unhealthy relationship. You think you both should start seeing other people.

- There is a pile on your floor. It is a treasure trove, the Room of Requirement. It has everything. You look for something specific. It has nothing. There was never any pile.

- There’s been a change of plans, they say. You don’t understand. They repeat: “there’s been a change of plans.” You don’t understand. The mere suggestion causes a buzzing in your head that drowns out everything else. You don’t understand.

- You’re in class and you don’t understand the lecture. You look back at your past notes. You look at a calendar. You have not been to class in two weeks. You have no memory of this supposed time. Where did it go? Why did it leave?

it’s just really interesting to me

Aang: Yes, Sifu.

Pakku: *exists*

Gyatso: This is a wonderful reminder that no one is inherently good or evil. If the young Fire Prince can be enlightened, perhaps Ozai can as well. Zuko, perhaps you can tell us some things about your father, so we can better understand him as a person.

Zuko: Um.... Okay. What do you want to know?

Gyatso: What does he value most?

Zuko: Power, I think. I mean, he forced my mom to murder his dad by threatening to kill me so he could become Firelord. Power is a big thing for him.

Gyatso: Nevermind. Fuck that guy.

Zuko: He also gave me this scar on my face because I disrespected him.

Gyatso: I gotta go. Be back later.

*** later ***

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there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

Me who also likes seeing yams in sundresses

For example, you set up a kettle of water to boil for your tea. Quick! Wipe down the whole counter before it’s done boiling, for the love of god you’re running out of time! Wipe it down! The water is almost boiling.

The water is boiling and your counter is clean. Now set your timer for your tea for three minutes and of my god there’s cups in your room! Quick! Get all the cups from everywhere in the house! Run! You’ve only got three minutes! Get all the dishes into the kitchen!

Oh would you look at that. You got all the dishes in the sink and now your tea is ready. Nice. Now you can chill with your tea.