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Hi Valentin!

9. Guilty pleasure movie?

The Butterfly Effect (2004):

Remember when Ashton Kutcher was cool? Gaddd, I must've been 14 years old when I first watched this bad boy, featuring what I believe was Ashton Kutcher stepping into his first serious/dramatic leading man role. It was definitely the perfect age for me to be watching something so edgy and so r/iam14andthisisdeep... like this movie just goes WAY TOO HARD and way too hilariously tasteless in some of its Butterfly Effect multiverse scenarios, but I think it's also kinda a memorable and entertaining watch that you just absolutely can't look away from either. Still had a good time with it when I watched it again a few years back, and might have to watch it again in 2026...

17. Favourite Actress:

The one that immediately popped into my head was Toni Collette! I just love her in absolutely everything I've seen her in. I think she has incredible range, and is always the performer I'm captivated by the most in every scene she's in. My favourite 3 performances of hers that I've seen so far are as Muriel in Muriel's Wedding (1994), Cole's mom in The Sixth Sense (1999), and Annie in Hereditary (2018)!

Here's a great bit of acting from her in The Sixth Sense (plot spoilers alert if you haven't seen it yet, though):

34. which film is the most visually beautiful?

Barry Lyndon (1975):

Stanley Kubrick does a period piece!

I've watched almost all of Stanley Kubrick's films now, and though I only saw Barry Lyndon once a long time ago it's stuck in my mind as an exceptional aesthetic experience. I think what makes it stand out so much is the cinematography - there were painstaking efforts to make things historically accurate and light all the scenes with as much natural light as possible, which gives it this gorgeous painterly/naturalistic look and really take you back to the pre-electricity days. They did that even during stuff like candlelit indoor night-time scenes (it's VERY hard to photograph a dimly lit indoor scene that way and have it show up well on film, especially back in the 70s). Though the movie is over 3 hours long and the story moves at a hypnotically glacial pace, and though I remember straight-up loathing the main character, I also found I couldn't look away the entire time either. And I think it does what it's setting out to do as a movie perfectly well. Perhaps one I'll have to revisit again sometime soon so I can remember more about it beyond just the vibes....

Ahh thank you Valentin!

FRODO:

• *projects onto them like a mf* • 😍😱😍 • i want their gender • that's a solid design right there • squeak 🤏💥 • if anything happens to them i will cry • i fuck with this aesthetic so hard •

KIYOMI:

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

I don't really vibe with MisaxLight nor LxMisa as ships where the feelings are mutual and they geniunely are in love with each other, nor Remisa as one that I'd actually enjoy being in myself (I like the aesthetic of it, but find Rem a bit dull and frustrating as a character and their dynamic super depressing overall). Also LxMatsuda, I just simply cannot fathom them ever getting along, and not in a spicy opposites sort of way. I prefer LightxRyuk as platonic bros as well, though I do think they have great chemistry and are one of the more healthy dynamics in the series overall!

🩹 A song you want to hear when you're feeling low:

Haunted House by Sir Babygirl! Somebody on Tumblr rec'd it to me once. I kinda love how much their voice sounds like it belongs in a musical. I think the mental image that the anon provided was something like B and Misa having a sleepover too, which was really great lol 💖

give me a character and i will describe why i would NOT date them

It’s so ugly it’s gorgeous

8. Have you received anon hate? What about?

i have! i have received anon hate because i hate illumi zoldyck with every fiber of my being and the abuse apologists flock to my inbox to say that he’s actually a ‘good bean’ (i’m not kidding that is part of a genuine ask i have received about this canonically transphobic abusive brother) and call me slurs because i dont like him. (specifically the r slur.) but it’s not my fault people are idiots, so i don’t care. 

though there was also one person who specifically attempted to trigger me and then called ME an abuse apologist and said im invalidating autistic people because i think headcanoning illumi as autistic is playing into stereotypes about autistic people being violent and/or having no feelings. and they also said slurs. so that was... ‘nice’. im just like sure say that to the autistic abuse victim again. say it again i dare you. ill put your baby teeth back into your mouth and take your spine in trade. I’m not angry or anything. i just think that looking at an abusive, transphobic monster like him and saying ‘yeah that ones autistic’ is a fucked up thing to do. i dont take criticism on this. (also the reason they said i’m being an abuse apologist is because i hate him for being abusive to his younger siblings... apparently the fact that he was abused first means that its okay for him to abuse others... way to insult those of us who have been abused and actually put in the effort to not continue the cycle...) im sorry im really saying a lot here but i actually am still mad about that one. morons in the inbox always

11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

hmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmm. god i wish i knew off the top of my head who is popular and who isnt. i like scar from fmab and he seems to be pretty unpopular on account of he wants to kill state alchemists but like... idk man... they did commit genocide against his people in extremely horrible and gruesome ways... he is kind of bootleg kurapika but thats okay :) ill allow it!

23. Unpopular character you love?

wait isnt that just question eleven. uhhhh scar again. oh also a bunch of people seem to hate asuka from nge but i love her i think she has so many rights and deserves the world. nikola from the magnus archives gets a bad rap sometimes...? but im a big fan. trans mannequin dancer slash circus ringmaster slash whatever the hell she wants to be rights. yes tma is very strange sometimes. (pun intended.)

Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

No, not particularly. Any pairing that the fandom has churned out that inspires deep loathing in me was never a pairing I liked in the first place. It’s always ships that I feel nothing about, and then by having it crammed in my face constantly bc almost NO ONE tags it (*cough*lawtsuda*cough*) I just like start to hate it for the simple reason that I don’t care for it and yet am forced to see it. But really, if I like a pairing, I like it for my own reasons and nothing a fandom does can change that. It is one thing I like about myself: I’m pretty good at forming my own opinions outside of other’s influence when it comes to the media I consume.

Popular character you hate?

Mello. He’s just not for me, and yet claims half the narrative in the second arc of DN for reasons I don’t understand. I guess hate is a really strong word. I just don’t like that character. He’s like ... whatever to me. I think its because he’s so young and that’s never really touched on the way it is with Near, and so there’s a large part of him that feels totally unexplored by both canon and fandom. There’s little attention given to him as vulnerable character and not just a loud firecracker. idk. this is an issue with most Wammy characters and is why I don’t really enjoy them overall. They get boiled down to their gimmicks and its boring.