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if you think about it count orlok doordashed thomas hutter to his castle in nosferatu

herr knock is such an apt name for a food delivery service too. their slogan could be, “knock knock, herr’s your order!”

nobody loves fictional dead soldiers like girls on tumblr

GOD i’ve been reading nosferatu takes all day like a madman and i fucking love it. Thank yall for being so smart and educated

Im dying 🤣 😭

40 minutes: Making of & Behind the Scenes of Nosferatu (2024)

nosferatu is so funny. german guy in 1922 wanted to make an adaptation of dracula. couldn't get the rights so he just changed all the character names and killed off the mina at the end in hopes nobody would notice. they noticed and bram stoker's widow sued them and demanded all copies of the film be destroyed. but just like count orlok himself, the movie refused to die and then he showed up in spongebob

the bond between a girl and their favorite fictional man is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object

Spoilers: Eggers' Nosferatu

There's a lot of debate right now on if Count Orlok represents Ellen's shame/trauma/abuse, or if he represents her repressed erotic desires, and in turn there's debate on whether or not viewers who find the Ellen/Orlok dynamic alluring are "missing the point." Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp have both said in interviews that there's a mutual pull between Ellen and Orlok, and even that there's a love triangle element, but obviously the experience is terrifying for Ellen. How can we reconcile the sexual tension and the horror?

I think the broader theme is that Orlok represents everything in a woman's inner world that men refuse to acknowledge and accept - fear and shame and trauma, yes, but also our appetites . After the prologue, the story starts with Ellen begging Thomas to stay in bed with her; she says "the honeymoon was yet too short" and tries to pull him in and kiss him (obviously trying to start some nuptial bliss). But Thomas is anxious to meet with his boss and get his promotion, because he has a narrative he's going to fulfill: he's going to pay Friedrich back, buy a house, and then start having kids (he and Friedrich touch on this a bit later. Notably, Friedrich discloses Anna's pregnancy to Thomas before Anna has made it public.)

It's the start of Ellen and Thomas' married life and she just wants him to prioritize her sexual desire, but he chooses to focus on his ideal of success, which sets him on this path to confronting Orlok. We know Ellen doesn't care about having a house or fine things and she begs him not to go, but Thomas listens to Herr Knock and Friedrich, who tell him that as a husband he has to provide materially. He ignores Ellen's stated desires, and so fails to provide sexually and emotionally. When Thomas gaslights her about her nightmares and calls them childish fancies, he shuts down her vulnerability, which kills the intimacy she was enjoying in the literal honeymoon phase.

On a related note, there's a defence in here for Aaron Taylor Johnson's performance, which I've seen a few male critics call "over acting." In this story Friedrich represents the masculine ideal of the time, he's a rich business owner with a beautiful wife and kids. Thomas clearly looks up to him and wants to emulate him - he wants to give Ellen the life "she deserves." But Friedrich's elevated masculine status is why he refuses to listen to Ellen's "hysterical, sentimental" worries, he's too rational for all that of course. And his stubborn "rationality" leads to the death of his entire family. Friedrich IS the patriarchal ideal that crumbles when confronted with nuance and uncertainty. Some people see Friedrich and assume that a character like him is meant to come across as dignified, and that Aaron Taylor Johnson is messing up by making him look annoying, but really he is giving a great portrayal of a really common, annoying kind of guy. The kind of guy who melts down and has childish tantrums whenever they lose control of a situation, or their manly skills and values are shown to be irrelevant.

The men in the movie (excluding Professor von Franz) frame Ellen as childish for speaking about her dreams candidly, but their own childishness is revealed when her dreams manifest in the form of Orlok and become unavoidable. Ellen (partially? possessed in the moment by Orlok) tells Thomas how "foolish and like a child" he was in Orlok's castle. In the literal context that's cruel, and obviously that shit was scary as hell, but it hits on Thomas' failure in the metaphorical reading. He was a child playing house: 'I'll be the husband and make money, you be the wife and make babies.' When it came time to confront his wife's inner world and all the scary, traumatized, lustful complexity of it, he was completely inept. The message isn't that Orlok is what Ellen really needs, or that Thomas is a wimp, but he's not a perfect husband either. I think "the point" is that a real healthy marriage with sexual, emotional, and spiritual mutuality is impossible in that society with Thomas/Friedrich's ideals. In that kind of society, a spiritually and sexually potent woman like Ellen ("in heathen times you might have been a Priestess of Isis") will always be caught in a "love triangle" with her husband and her own inner world.

Hello everyone!

Lately within the "Aaron Taylor Johnson" tag, a blogger has been stealing multiple GIF sets from multiple bloggers who created them first, and the blogger in question HAVE NOT given them the credit or even bother to reblog the GIF sets from the original owners. I realized that someone's GIF set has been stolen and I remembered liking the ATJ as Ben Leonard from Savages GIF set back on May 28th, 2023(@nyxvuxoa is the original owner), and now I seen the exact same GIF set got stolen from the blogger and posted without credit on February 10th, 2025! I didn't like the stolen GIF set because it was the EXACT SAME GIF set as original GIF set, but stolen. Give the original owners of the GIF sets their credit or reblog from them instead of taking whole GIF sets and reuploading the whole GIF sets and claiming them as your own. That's crossing a line for the original owners of the GIF sets! Like, the original owners of the GIF sets put their time and effort into making these GIF sets.

It's a very rude and disrespectful thing to do this to anyone! This also applies to reader inserts as well(Like, come up with something original and not plagiarize from the other writers who originally wrote it).

These are the links to the original GIF sets that were stolen. There may be more GIF sets that were stolen:

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ben Savages | dir. Oliver Stone

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey ⤷ A Million Little Pieces | dir. Sam Taylor-Johnson

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AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON attends the 81st Venice International Film Festival (Aug 31, 2024)

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AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON attends the MTV EMAs 2024 (Nov 10, 2024)

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AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON as Kraven Kraven the Hunter · BTS Featurette · 2024 If you like the content, follow me on TWITTER as well <3

A screenshot of the blogger's account that have stolen multiple GIF sets, claiming them as his, putting the GIFs in the GIF sets in the exact same order that the original GIF sets, and putting the exact same words as the original GIF sets on the bottom of the stolen GIF sets:

I just want everyone to know about this and to be aware of this situation.

That will be all,

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not to be dramatic but this interview saved my life

yall ever read a fanfic so majestic it completely altered your entire life

me and my moots <3

reading a good ass fanfic up until it said something that just makes you want to stop reading

normalise making a list of character x readers u like to read so you can spin a wheel every night before bed to decide ur bedtime story xx

we as a society need more friedrich harding fanfics!!

Sunfyre moved his wing to shield Aegon from Vhagar's fire.

He landed on his wounded belly, which means even though he fell out of the sky backwards, he angled his body to avoid crushing Aegon.

Eventually, when Aemond found him, he curled up around his rider.

Low key want Aegon and larys and Helaena and Alicent to all run away to Essos purely so this can happen

lord take all of their suffering & give it to criston cole

[every action has consequences]

🔪 inspired by this tweet:

Helaena's prophecies: *Usually vague and hard to interpret*

Helaena's prophecy about Aemond: Aemond Targaryen will die in the Gods Eye on August 30th, 2024 at 6:33 p.m. Central Standard Time. It will be cloudy that day, with a 60% chance of rain.

female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

The category is: A boy who has all of the makings of a great king, forced upon a war to save his scattered family, that dies before seeing them together again:

(they also have great hair, face cards that never decline, and daddy issues)

RIP Robb Stark, you would've loved to see a stark army crossing the twins 😔😔😔

i think its so funny that cersei thinks of catelyn as a meek little mouse in her povs when its like. that woman bashed a man's head in with a rock. she grabbed a valyrian steel blade without hesitation. she traveled across westeros to form an alliance with renly only to steal one of his kingsguard too. she set jaime free from the dungeons and got him to swear to get her daughters back. even in her last chapter she shanked a mf with a knife before going insane. catelyn stark was more of a lioness than cersei im sorry to say