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I miss being 9 years old and watching alien sighting videos on YouTube and getting so scared I felt sick

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What I will always love about Over the Garden Wall, and what to me really makes it an autumn classic, is how the show presents the season as a transition. People like to say it’s a Halloween show, but it’s really an autumn show, autumn in all its faces.

Early in the show, we have autumn as the late, lingering summer. The fields are full, leaves cling to the branches. The world is painted in a greenish-gold, and it feels warm and rich and good.

And over the course of the show we lose that bit of summer. The colours bleach out. The mists come in. The harvest dances and music are done.

And by the end of the show, we get autumn as the harbinger of the coming season. Summer is long behind us. The long winter is ahead.

And I think it’s so appropriate that the show first premiered in November. When else are we more aware of how much the season has changed than when we are past smiling September and October and find ourselves with grey, patient November, watching the days get shorter and the nights grow longer.

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FILMS WATCHED IN 2024 The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

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they call me the nuance lover because I love nuance

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fail loser guy

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Lawrence, Kansas, United States

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I just realized I’ve survived everything I’ve ever encountered in life. I have a 100% survival rate. I’m fucking nailing it.

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FILM & TV YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW | Day 3: Characters

Interview with the Vampire (2022–)

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BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (2024) | CASPER (1995)

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Chewbacca is buck wild as a character concept but so ingrained in the cultural canon that the full absurdity of him is often overlooked. Here's a middle-aged 200 year old space fellow who's eight feet tall with a full body perm, naked except for a bandolier he never uses, knows the local lingua franca but exclusively communicates by screaming and growling in his own language, has adopted Harrison Ford as a pet, will rip your arms out of their sockets if you beat him at chess. Go into any dog park and you'll bump into at least one mutt bearing his name. Roger Ebert despised him. In 1997 MTV gave him a Lifetime Achievement award.

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i have a job interview! :D

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HALLOWEEN 2024

If that's the case, there's only one thing I desire. Reincarnation. To a new world. Let us meet in the next life.

GRAND GUIGNOL (2022), dir. Hashimoto Hajime @asiandramanet october bingo: colours - red/black & blood

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Kuni Fukai: Dracula (1973)

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