#darkcommet

It’s completely illogical.

Doesn’t really help you find your soulmate in the grand scheme.

But it is a more common effect of a greater bond and at some point becomes really wholesome and sweet. Also helpful… if you know your soulmate and they can just get ahold of you and tell you what you went looking for.

Ongoing

John Price? Not prepared in any way shape or form. Comes home from an evening out with the lads to find you curled up on the couch with your niece/nephew sleeping in your lap and that does something for him for all about two seconds before he sees that you’re crying. And it takes him aback for a second. This man is genuinely confused.

“What wrong, love?” He would ask.

“He was singing the song.” You would say, nodding to the weird little animated robot group being chased down on the tv.

He would send you to bed so quick. But he WOULD cuddle you and let you drool all over his shoulder after you fell asleep so it works out.

Conversely, Simon Riley, isn’t even surprised. The man was doing the math the second you told him you promised to babysit while he was out. Your niece/nephew likes Disney/Pixar, you tend to be a little weepy over those films… 2 + 2 very easily equals 4. He comes home, sees you sniffling with the sleeping kid, and doesn’t even ask. Just takes one look at the soulless eyes of the boxy robot on the screen and gets it. He handles bed time with the kiddo and then makes sure you’re good before turning off the tv and making you go to bed.

Johnny’s crying with you. I’m sorry. That man is alo a crier. This is a match made in empathetic hell. He walks in, sees you crying, and looks at the tv just in time to watch a cute little robot get crushed to death. Mean while, the kid wakes up and is just staring at the two of you like “🤨”

Of all of them, I genuinely think Kyle’s the best bet. He’s walk in, see you crying, and cuddle up with you right then and there. Being youngest of the three task force members means he’s probably more familiar with the mid 2000s wave of Disney/pixar and he just gets it. You need a hug? He’s there. You need a tissue? Lucky you, he has a box materializing out of thin air. And when you’ve gotten yourself all composed Kyle will help you put the kid to bed and crack a couple of jokes about you being a big ole bleeding heart as you get ready for bed.

So this is totally absolutely not in any way shape or form inspired by an experience I had like 30 minutes ago… yeah… not at all 👀👀.

I’m talking chaps, gun-slinging, outlaw type shit. This man would have had a mare named Bessie (or some shit) and be would have made himself a troupe of Outlaws full of vampires and witches that would have run around causing petty, low level crimes because they’ve compelled everyone to forget the heavy hitting ones (like, you know, mass murdering a bunch of people in the saloon cause someone looked at Kol wrong) why? Because he is strictly there to fuck with Klaus and Elijah.

Klaus: Elijah, what is Kol doing?

Elijah: Last time I fucking checked he robber a bank, had sex with the sheriff’s wife, and somehow managed to swindle the mayor of such and such town out of his land.

Klaus: Well, that’s honestly pretty tame… why are we worried?

Elijah: We’re worried because he’s got a whole bunch of witched with him and be keeps leaves notes that say, and I quote, “Yeehaw Klaus, I challenge you to a duel at 12:00 pm sharp,” and when you miss them he leaves another note with s crude drawing of a chicken.

Klaus: He’s mocking me.

Elijah: He’s mocking you.

I watched Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein and when I tell you I loved it. I never skip anything Guillermo del Toro works on, he's one of my favorite film makers and artists, so there might be a touch of bias there... but I do genuinely enjoy his take on Frankenstein and the Creature, the relationships between characters, and just the influence of Mexican culture on this film.

I loved the complexity of the characters; I loved how Victor became something of a carbon copy of his father - creating a child and abandoning it when that didn't meet his expectations - and how he chased the comfort of the relationship he had with his mother throughout the film and how he tried to build connection with Elizabeth only for her to think he's s piece of shit.

The fact that the Creature / Adam is also chasing connection and doesn't know what romantic or maternal love is when he meets Elizabeth - who treats him like a child and offers him the comfort that Victor lost when his mother died - and so their relationship is neither sexual nor maternal, it is simply a seeking of connection. Which sends Victor into even more of a spiral, because the creature / Adam - in his eyes - is less intelligent, less beautiful, less successful than Victor is so why is Elizabeth giving her affection to this failure of an experiment? So, he treats the Creature / Adam poorly in retaliation, something he couldn't do to his brother.

He tells the Creature / Adam that the sun is life and then locks him up in a sewer essentially where he can never see sunlight and then constantly degrades and humiliates him because the Creature / Adam isn't learning as fast as Victor wants.

But the only time we see the Creature / Adam wanting to learn is when he's treated kindly. The first time the Creature / Adam speaks - 'Victor' - is when his father is happy to interact with him. Once Victor's sense of 'oooh a shiny new toy' goes away and he begins to treat the Creature / Adam like his father treated him we see this unwillingness to speak until Elizabeth comes in and treats him kindly. Which also leads to the absolute rage bait of the Creature / Adam going, "Victor!" ... "Elizabeth!" ... which leads to Victor burning the estate.

Then The Creature / Adam escapes and makes a life for himself with a father figure who actually loves him (fuck those damn wolves by the way) and then he dies and the Creature / Adam is alone but it's different now because he knows what it is to be loved which is why he goes back to Victor. He can't be alone anymore because while before his time with the old man he knew loneliness, but it was a distant concept. He watched people be happy and together and love each other from a distance but he'd never experienced it and then when he did and it was taken from him, he felt lonely.

So, he goes to Victor to request a companion, and Victor twists it into this idea that the Creature / Adam wants a sexual partner and, yeah, maybe one day but in that moment his request has nothing to do with sex. The Creature / Adam is just lonely, and he doesn't want to be alone anymore. And then one person who's genuinely kind to him is murdered in front of him because Victor can't cope with the fact that Elizabeth doesn't like him.

Then it just leads to more death and more pain and more loneliness and then in the end when Victor is dying and he realizes how much of a dick he was and he treats his son the way he should have when he was resurrected... oh my god I love this movie.

I know this is all just a really vague ramble but there are so many elements of the film I want to talk about (like how Mia Goth playing Elizabeth AND Victor's mom affects the plot and Victor's view of them as women and what that means for Victor and the Creature / Adam?!?!?!) but I can't decide what to settle on so I'll settle on rambling....

Drowning in A Dream

There's something wrong with Berylla Brax... everyone's heard of the accident. How she'd fallen going to break her fast and hadn't woken for nearly a moon's turn. When she did wake up Lady Berylla came back different. Quiet, observant, intense in a way she hadn't been before.