Audrey Strother

Novelist by day, vampire by night | Author of the Heavenly Creatures Saga: Book 1 (TBA) ⚔️

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The moment Sophie and Howl appear together in Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) and “Merry-Go-Round of Life” starts playing just feels overwhelming in the best way. Joe Hisaishi somehow made a waltz sound like pure longing and magic at the same time.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The iconic “Akira slide” from Akira echoed across three decades of animation.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Dostoevsky; “People don't want truth, they want comfort dressed as truth.”

Franz Kafka; “Reality is too heavy for most people to carry. So they borrow illusions, soft dreams, sweet lies, and call it happiness.”

[Audrey Strother @audrey_strother]

Vampires are human cats. Literally no one can change my mind.

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

Hayao Miyazaki talks about Kiki's Delivery Service

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Amadeus (1984) was filmed in the Estates Theatre in Prague, the exact location where the real Mozart conducted the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787. It is one of the few theaters in the world that remains virtually unchanged since the 18th century.

[Ned Stark @FantasyWorldW1]

Peak Male Form:

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

Some adults worry that graphic novels and comics “don’t count” as reading.

But children reading them are practicing exactly what strong readers do:

Following narrative structure.
Interpreting visual information.
Connecting dialogue and context.

Comprehension is on every page.

[Justine Castellon @justcastellon]

Nothing beats reading a printed book over an ebook. But reading a classic in hardbound, with the smell of old paper, like you’re holding a piece of history… that’s a whole different level of dope. 📚

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

—J.R.R. Tolkien

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung:

To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

That one villain you just can’t hate

[The Late Knight Show @Knightly_Hist]

The late 90s and early 2000s really had a thing for vampire movies.

[LOTR Universe @Lordoftheringsu]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed entirely in New Zealand. Filming locations spanned more than 150 locations in both the North and the South Islands.