I'm not sure I have a real equivalent except for knowing that if you load a gun with a blank and fire it into somebody's face you will probably still hurt them. Every time I encounter something where the twist is that the gun is loaded with blanks I'm like… ahem… I don't even know why I know this as I have only fired a gun once in my life.
while he's not the guy you mean, one of my favorite details in wuthering heights is that linton is actually sick and dying he's just also incredibly annoying so everybody feels like he deserves to
I am probably all of these people to a degree, alas, but especially the first. But it's not the dress that gets me-- it's the nuns. It bothers me immensely that there are catholic nuns running around 1800 England, or that Fennel thought that "nun" was a good visual signifier for "old timey England."
can confirm that learning anything at all about historical costuming will completely ruin most period films
I'm not sure I have a real equivalent except for knowing that if you load a gun with a blank and fire it into somebody's face you will probably still hurt them. Every time I encounter something where the twist is that the gun is loaded with blanks I'm like… ahem… I don't even know why I know this as I have only fired a gun once in my life.
Funny thing, before I arrived at "Me" section I was thinking, "why is she writing about that? A unholy vortex of «media literacy™» and «culture war©», that's what it is". ;-)
and I can't even write it off on my taxes!
an eternal favorite. i love books about sickly men who must be nursed back to health with ghost stories.
while he's not the guy you mean, one of my favorite details in wuthering heights is that linton is actually sick and dying he's just also incredibly annoying so everybody feels like he deserves to
what a character to write! this book is so wild!
does the “I want Heathcliff to hit me with a rock” fall under the umbrella of the English teacher reaction?
in this purely hypothetical scenario no as it is you who are the hornt up little freaky bitch
I am probably all of these people to a degree, alas, but especially the first. But it's not the dress that gets me-- it's the nuns. It bothers me immensely that there are catholic nuns running around 1800 England, or that Fennel thought that "nun" was a good visual signifier for "old timey England."
it's an easter egg for her next movie, an adaptation of Villette