#wehadfaces

God forbid women do anything, but also: how dare you make me choose only 5? ❤️

I will not overthink it; I'll just hit you with my current ones.

Without further ado:

Alexia in Julia Ducournau's "Titane." Her brutal serial killing (3 people and her parents) during the first half of the film gives season 1 Villanelle a run for her money.

Celeste Price in Alissa Nutting's (the writer of "Made For Love") "Tampa." Nutting has called her a modern take on Nabokov's Humbert Humbert.

Katherine in William Oldroyd’s "Lady Macbeth." (The script was written by Alice Birch, who created the delicious genderbent version of "Dead Ringers.") What makes her refreshingly different is her unwillingness to repent. Unlike Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, she actually commits the murders herself and does not lose her mind. She abuses her maid and manipulates people, using her innocent appearance to her advantage. Unlike her novella counterpart (Nikolai Leskov), she survives in the end. She's the cruelest of the three, yet she wins.

You say Patrick Bateman/Hannibal/Lestat, I say Dorothy Daniels ("A Certain Hunger" by Chelsea G. Summers). She's a food critic, she's a man eater, she commits murder as a tribute to gourmet cuisine and beauty.

Tatiana Moskalev in Naomi Alderman's "The Power." So we're talking about a world where teen girls gain the ability to electrute people with their hands and can transfer said ability to adult women (and intersex people). In Moldova, Tatiana murders her husband, who's the president. On the show, she seduces an innocent woman "Fingersmith"-style, gets the power, murders and frames her. Later, she declares a new matriarchal state that imposes several limitations on men, e.g., they are not allowed to work or drive without a woman's guidance. Men are humiliated, raped and mass murdered. (Sounds familiar?)

What do all these have in common? Oh, yes, they were written by women.

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

Anything by the Queen and Rolling Stones, but this time I'll go with my basic arena rock track:

12:A song from your preteen years

Already answered here.

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

Gotta go with Janis for this one,

but Jimi and Santana follow.

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Oh, too many, but let's go with one five of them:

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

Yeah, ngl, I have it on my Netflix watchlist, because several mutuals I trust (including you, my dearest) praise(d) it a lot.

most of these aren't crushes, just people i find really beautiful :)

keeley hawes. she usually appears in my dreams at night and i wake up very confused. it happened 3 times. my subconscious likes her a lot.

greta garbo. the gif is not a good one for this but i needed to show the white shirt and tie cause they are just xkkdxbdklssl

bombalurina. this cat. is a very sexy cat. LOL is she even considered a celebrity?

surrane jones. her smile.

embeth davitz. oh well.

matilda (1996). as a motherless child, this film has always hit SO hard.

heathers (1988). idk how a film about murder and suicide can count as a confort one, but it does.

cats (1998). yes, i love the musical cats.

queen christina (1933). there was a time when i had to watch this film at least once a month.

gilda (1946). it’s terrible, but i love it.

the little mermaid (1989). been watching it since i was 4 lol

the red shoes (1948). i love films with dancing so so much.

top 3 ships

i'm not really a shipping person but here it is:

maud and sue from fingersmith

anne elliot and frederick wentworth from persuasion

anne lister and ann walker

lipstick or chapstick: chapstick

last song: macavity, the mistery cat from cats (1998).

last film: the crimes of grindelwald (meh)

reading: the pledge by friedrich dürrenmatt and old possum's book of practical cats by t.s. eliot

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