Coraline Wren

@coralinewren

'Non-traditional' student: Drexel math/physics ('26) Ace/autistic/trans. Reclaim Philly, but mainly in spirit these days.

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lesbian trans

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Coraline Wren@coralinewren· 3d

Mama and Daddy from THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STAIRS writing an op-ed on why Alice went no-contact

Wendy Robie and Everett McGill as murderous incestuous kidnapping landlords in THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991, dir. Wes Craven)

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· 7d

*sigh* here we go

Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato from VEGGIETALES stare dead-eyed at you. They can never be saved. They don't have souls. So if they're here, and you're here, then this must be hell indeed.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· 26d

A 4 month old tabby cat peeks his head out of a cat carrier, looking with intent curiosity at something we cannot see.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· 29d

The kittens when I'm asleep: Now is the hour of scampering! The kittens now that I'm at work:

A tuxedo kitten (Muesli) sleeps on a blue-grey couch while a tabby kitten (Bruno) sleeps obscured inside a cat carrier.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 26

Just picked up Bruno (tabby) and Muesli (tuxedo) this afternoon. Very excited to have our boys home with us!

A tabby kitten is curled on a bed shaped like a yellow banana, while a tuxedo adolescent is sprawled out next to him on the floor

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 20

Mr. Burns practicing phrenology on Smithers. "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tiller."

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 20

Gandhi as portrayed in Civilization I, threatening the user (as always) with nuclear weapons

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 20

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18

Father NJ (Wu Nien-jen) yawns in a formal wedding suit while beside him son Yang-yang (Jonathan Chang) enjoys a meal at a McDonald's in Taipei. Another moment of ordinary life in Edward Yang's YI YI (2000).

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 12

showing BIGGER THAN LIFE to Amy; it's a great movie about how cortisone gets James Mason to turn into Jordan Peterson

Ed Avery (James Mason) looms over his son Richie (Christopher Olsen) while wife Lou (Barbara Rush) looks on with concern, in 1956's BIGGER THAN LIFE

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jul 4

I like this last four because it looks like my egg cracked at about 1 am this morning:

A letterboxd screenshot showing the following movies in descending order: ANNE+, 3 stars; GIRLS LIKE GIRLS, 3.5 stars; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, 4.5 stars; JOHN CARTER, 1.5 stars.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 25

Get up, Pwyll! Get up and fight! Get up and fight for the horse who is your friend!

He must have spat me out, thought Pwyll, and the Grey is holding him off. But he cannot do it long. Death, will you come for your own horse?

If Arawn really had tried to trick Havgan, he had been outtricked. But Pwyll was tired, too tired and hurt to do anything now but lie still. And yet... a man should help his friends, and the Grey was his friend...

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 25

Pwyll is fighting a big beastie in the Abyss (just called a Monster); and watches as a severed leg falls from the creature's mouth, and his reaction is, damn, I hope that leg makes it out okay

The Monster bellowed louder, angered by their speed. The half-eaten leg fell from his jaws, got to its one foot, and fled, hopping madly through the mists.

That is a wise leg, Pwyll thought. But it will not be much good, without a man on top of it. Then he shuddered.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 22

okay fine

A bosomy redhead holds up a dead goon while firing a pistol at the viewer; a tough blond man is firing a machine gun off to the right; behind them lurks a monk gesturing ominously with glowing green hands. All this and more takes place on the cover for RISE OF THE TRIAD: DARK WAR, from Apogee Entertainment.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 21

the movie NEVER LET ME GO isn't as special as the book; but I relate hard to the bit about growing up in a cloistered environment and then having no idea to act in normal life

The clones from NEVER LET ME GO (Carrie Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Domnhall Gleeson, Andrea Riseborough) peering in the window of a travel agency in Norfolk

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 18

The caddy (Armin Shimerman) regards his protege Kramer (Michael Richards) on the Seinfeld episode "The Caddy."

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 15

thinking about him

A nude man with tires for arms and legs is being driven down a futuristic roadway by a phoenix lodging its talons into his head. The look on the man's face is something I would describe as religious ecstasy. They should have sent a poet.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 11

I just like to look at this l'il guy it's calming, I don't know what to tell you

just a little crab guy wearing a little helmet

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 11

how your email finds me

Tilda Swinton in Elizabethan drag penning a letter with quill and ink in ORLANDO (1992, dir. Sally Potter)

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 10

INFLUENTIAL VICTORIAN ERA FANTASIST WILLIAM MORRIS: fuck it this book starts with the word whilom

Chapter I
Catch at Utterday

Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea.

The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.

Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein; no outlaw durst flee thereto; no man of God had such trust in the saints that he durst build him a cell in that wood.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 5

thinking about him

A poster for the 1973 George C. Scott vehicle, THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, featuring Scott looking grimly at a pod of dolphins swimming while a boat explodes in the background. The tag line reads, "Unwittingly, he trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States."

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 5

there's a moment in A French Village where a resistance cell is conspiring, and then one guy's son comes down and the others have to be like, so how's school going? it's the show in miniature: your personal life doesn't stop just because the Nazis invade

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· Jun 3

my brain keeps wanting to twist and turn this poem about like a fidget toy

The Lie, by Anne Waldman

Art begins with a lie
The separation is you plus me plus what me make
Look into lightbulb, blink, sun's in your eye

I want a rare sky
Vantage point free from misconception
Art begins with a lie

Nothing to lose, spontaneous rise
of reflection, paint the picture
of a lightbulb, or eye the sun

How to fuel the word, then die
Distance yourself from artfulness
How? Art begins with a lie

The audience wants to cry
when the actors are real & passionate
Look into footlight, then feed back to eye

You fluctuate in an artful boady
You try to imitate the world's glory
Art begins with a lie
That's the story, sharp speck in the eye.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 31

wait is THAT what Once Upon A Time was doing with Pinocchio?

A man who has been turned to wood because he's not a real boy

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 31

watching westerns for the gender

Rufus Hennessey (Burl Ives) menaces James McKay (Gregory Peck) in front of his woman (Carroll Baker)

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 26

Amy and I pass this billboard every time we go to see a movie (i.e., a lot) and no matter how much I ponder it there are more mysteries to explore

A billboard with the headline BEETHOVEN VERSUS TRUMP; and below: "Ode To Joy, Brotherhood, Democracy, Moonlight Sonata OR ICE Agents, Racism, Fascism, Epstein Files"

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 15

A promotional image from the early 90s cartoon CAPTAIN PLANET

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 13

same energy

A 2003 issue of the conservative magazine National Review, with a coquettish Donald Rumsfeld (in caricature) showing off his flat-even-in-this-cartoon-drawn-for-this-purpose ass. The story is called: "THE STUD: Don Rumsfeld, America's New Pin-Up", by Jay Nordlinger.

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 13

love Samantha Morton (In America (2003))

Samantha Morton and an out-of-focus Paddy Considine in IN AMERICA (2003, dir. Jim Sheridan)

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 8

the second funniest moment in Brian De Palma's THE FURY (1978) KIRK DOUGLAS: "Ask Childress if all this was worth his arm." BABY DENNIS FRANZ: "What? Did you do something to his arm, Peter?" DOUGLAS: "I killed it." (grim smile) "With a machine gun."

60 year old Kirk Douglas, in the world's tiniest shorts, pulling an assault rifle out of the water so he could kill John Cassavetes' arm

Coraline Wren@coralinewren· May 7

guy walks up in this shirt and the Empress is like, get outta here, bub