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Legend (1985) dir. Ridley Scott

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“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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brother. do NOT play with me on this. I've been waiting for like. 15 years at this point

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Bohemian Waxwing/sidensvans. Värmland, Sweden (November 19, 2023).

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'The Moonlight Ride' by Gustave Dore, 1876.

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Art by Rebecca Rebouche

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'Troll Witch' by Brian Froud.

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'Robin' by Laura Makabresku

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'Old House in Wind' by Charles Frederick W. Mielatz, c. 1906.

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‘A moonlight ride on an owl’s back’ from Fairy Guardians by

F. Willoughby, 1875

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greenwood cemetery

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Svartsyn - “Den monumentale horde” from Aandens melankoli (1996)

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*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

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I’m not huge on Beyoncé as a soloist and like only her one song ‘Halo’ but as background music. I would not go out of my way to listen to that song otherwise. I preferred her with Destiny’s Child and I really adore her voice acting for the movie Epic. She voices the Fairy Queen. Her role in that film is criminally too short. She deserves more roles like that. Her speaking voice is very lovely and calming.

I agree immensely about books being often better than their films and that’s true even for many books that had decent/great films or shows adapting them (ie. the Last Unicorn, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Secret Of Nimh, Secret of Moonacre, The School for Good and Evil, Narnia, etc). Also, this applies to films/shows that were a mess, but a fun or tolerable mess compared to their books (ie. The Black Cauldron, The Golden Compass).

I feel like out of the ones mentioned The Golden Compass and the Black Cauldron were the most disserviced even if I really love films too (but comparing is like comparing apples and oranges).

For instance, much of the plot for the Golden Compass was rushed and they didn’t do a great job at explaining the nuances of the daemons to their humans which was a huge important plot point. I remember Mrs. Coulter also being much more cold and cunning which impacted the plot significantly. I really have to reread His Dark Materials though.

As for The Black Cauldron…oh boy. They project the Horned King as the sole and dominant villain in the Disney film but he was actually one of the henchmen to the God of Death in the books. Additionally, Taryn is not the one who found and yielded the sword, but it was Princess Eilonwy. She’s also an older teenager and redhead in the books. Just to explain some things that stick out in my memory. Disney called that film The Black Cauldron but they should have called that film generally something more neutral like The Tales of Prydain which would have been more honorable that it was loosely inspired and conflating a few of the books from the series. But that’s my opinion. After that rant it sounds like I should despise it but I forgive it for the adorable execution of storyline and effort into the art style. ❤️

I have no thoughts on Arrival as I’ve never seen it, but I think Dreamcatcher from Stephen King would be my first thought of movie that was terrible unlike the book. It was so much more atmospheric and sinister and they robbed it of that feeling entirely.

no judgement, i'm curious. what piece or pieces of famous media have you tried and didn't feel like finishing because you didn't like it, was never interested in enough to check out if you liked it because you already knew you wouldn't like it, or just flat out don't like for whatever reason that would make some people react like this to you?

off the top of my head right now, for me, it's Breaking Bad, Michael Jackson's music and Oasis’s music lol...

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HADES and PERSEPHONE in THE GODDESS OF SPRING (1934) — dir. Wilfred Jackson