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kyunniebuns · 3 months ago

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˗ˏˋ Entry : 047 - Sung Jinwoo Assassin Au Part 2 ◛⑅·˚ ༘ ♡

ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕘 𝕁𝕚𝕟𝕨𝕠𝕠˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ

‼️[tw: gore, extreme violence, sadistic Jinwoo]‼️

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅ Part 1 || Part 2♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

╰┈➤ ❝ [ Behold, The Emperor of the Dark Hours Returns] ¡! ❞

His name is like a prayer to the devil, a single whisper of his title and everyone would pale upon the mention.

He was the faceless monster of the underground, the lord who rules in the shadows.

Stand in his way and you are guaranteed a spot six feet under.

It's mercy if your death is but a single bullet to your head. Jinwoo's sadism is, after all, ruthless. Corpses of his victims were usually mangled or their heads bashed to the point of unrecognition.

A skull crushed into smithereens, brain juices oozing out of the deformed head— Sung Jinwoo was ruthless beyond human sense.

The Association doesn't know who this little serial killer is running ammock. Even their efforts to work with the police isn't working.

In the end, they had no choice to give up.

While Jinwoo? Jinwoo himself is having a field day on his end.

How long has it been since his blood had been pumping? He can't really recall himself.

Murdering monsters seemed to make him feel alive again, as debauched as it is— He honestly loved it.

He still accepts some assassination jobs on the side, but mostly he's just going into gates.

Jinwoo had long mastered the system, he's maybe an S-ranker now for the first few months he had gotten into this world.

Since he's just an E-ranked, he had lots of restraints on him. But did it matter? No.

Being able to face beings twice, thrice, quadruple of his size— It caused a thrill in his body that he cant really describe.

It's addictive, the rush of adrenaline into his blood felt gratifying.

Jinwoo knew it himself that he is a monster, but can he do anything about it? He's over 80 now atleast, all his life he's been fighting and killing.

The art of war is his true calling, as twisted that is— It's true.

But unlike then he now has his family. His mother may be in deep sleep but he also has his adorable baby sister that he missed dearly.

And now that he has them back Jinwoo isn't one bit hesitant to protect his lifelines.

But now it seems that a little bastard has decided to ogle over his precious little sister.

Jinwoo is no fool when it comes to people stalking around him and his home. It's one of the most important things he needed to hone in order to be an effective assassin.

So when he knew something up, he isn't going to let it slide any second further.

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Crawling into the alleyway, the man heard that if he finds a certain door he can get into the apartment building. He already knew Jinah's apartment number.

He just wanted to say hi, nothing else.

Just a simple hello, he only wants to say hello. That's all there is to it really.

As he fumbled around on the doorknob next to the trash bins— He suddenly feels something yank his hair back.

He curses, groaning as the back of his head hits the wall.

"You motherfucker" He snarls, his eyes glaring up at the sight of a hooded figure lighting a cigarette. "You son of a bit— Ack!"

"Did I tell you to talk? Can't you see I'm lighting my cigarette?" Jinwoo asks, pressing his heel on the bastard's shoulder.

"What the hell did I even do to you, huh? You fucking jackass?" The man curses, attempting to move away but failed as Jinwoo remained unmoving while blowing out a coud of smoke.

"I've seen a lot of fuckers like you in my youth" He says boredly, "Of the thousand of heads I've embedded a bullet on, 80% of the targets are sick perverts ogling over things they shouldn't be drooling over."

He continues, playing a dagger with his hand before promptly stabbing it on the man's thigh. Jinwoo covers his mouth with his gloved palm to muffle the cry, unamused as he started started sweating and sobbing.

"Should've known that perverts like you still exist even here, I guess I became too happy go lucky huh?" Jinwoo scoffs, as he pulls his fist back. "Don't worry, I'll make sure my kids gobble your corpse up the moment I'm done with you.

{....}

"Oppa, welcome home!" Jinah beams as she sees her brother come in late while she was snacking on a shortcake her brother bought yesterday. "You out late again, were you seeing a girl?"

At her teasing, Jinwoo only shakes his head and smiles, he approaches his little sister and ruffles her hair up— Causing a whine to come out of her lips.

"No, just went out for a walk," He says gently as if he didn't pummel someone to death just minutes earlier and fed his corpse to his shadows. "Don't stay up too late, you have school tomorrow."

"I'm not a little kid!" Jinah playfully swats his hand away and stomps to her bedroom with his shortcake before stopping midway. "Oppa? Can you get more shortcakes tomorrow, please?"

"Pfft," Jinwoo shakes his head, smiling as he did so. "Alright, off you go"

He watches his baby sister's eyes glimmer sweetly before hiding back into her room.

Jinwoo's heart felt... Tingly. In a gentle and sweet way. The feeling of having someone greet him when he arrives home, the feeling where he knows someone is waiting for him to come back— It felt nice.

He'll protect this peace.

Until he can figure out a way to wake his mother up.

Jinwoo will continue to protect this home, and even after she wakes up— He'll make sure this home of his will be safe and sound.

꒰ 🪼 A/N: I just want this out of my hands please, I'm sorry that the plot is sloppy and rushed fjsglm,rlwef. I just genuinely want this out of my hands. ꒱

ʚ(੭´͈ ᐜ `͈)੭ .｡✧: ~♡ —! stories written by kyunnie; translations, reposts, plagiarism are strictly forbidden.

#solo leveling #sung jinwoo #sung jin woo #solo leveling headcanons #sung jinwoo hcs #sung jinwoo headcanons #sung jinwoo fic #only i level up #There will be a part 2 dw #‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡🪐༘⋆— kyunnie's writings

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skipppppy · 1 year ago

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CARMEN SANDIEGO CHARACTERS + MOVIES

Boo I felt like making headcanons again bc I spend more time wondering what these assholes do in their free time than I do on my job

CARMEN

Didn’t have access to movies growing up so Player, Zack, and Ivy have been catching her up on the most popular ones

HORRIBLE to watch with. Doesn’t really understand “suspension of disbelief” as a concept and will ask stupid questions the whole time. Player almost ended their friendship because she nitpicked Lord of the Rings for being “unrealistic”

Enjoys low stakes 2000s girl chick flicks like mean girls and legally blonde. She has enough stress in her life man she just wants to relax

HATES heist movies because of how innacurate they are. Team Red has taken to watching them JUST to hear her pick them apart

PLAYER

Sci-fi/fantasy junkie. Anything and everything that has aliens/magic and shitty practical effects from the 80’s/90’s he is all over

Has never said a single kind thing about the Star Wars franchise in his life. They are his favourite movies of all time

ADORES Edgar Wright and has slowly been converting Team Red to his movies. Zack loved Baby Driver. Ivy loved Shaun of the Dead. Shadowsan loved Hot Fuzz. He considers Scott Pilgrim the pinnacle of Canadian cinema

Cannot STAND the amount of remakes happening in Hollywood recently

ZACK

Canon enjoyer of blockbuster action movies. Everyone dreads the nights when he gets to choose a film bc his taste is so generic

Does not know what the Snyder cut is. Thank god

His only redeeming quality is a love of early dreamworks. Will not stop quoting Madnagascar

Has seen every Marvel movie and thinks all of them are good. Player has BEGGED him to watch better movies but he won’t. He’s the type to rag on Scorsese for being “boring”

Has seen Kevin Feige’s extended filmography. Does not know who that man is

IVY

Horror fanatic

Banned from choosing movies for film night after convincing them to watch her “favourite lesbian romcom” with her. That lesbian romcom was Saw

Ellen Ripley was not only her personal hero but also her gay awakening. The Xenomorph queen was her second gay awakening

Also loves period dramas. Enjoys the tiddies and knows she would look SO good in those fancy waistcoats the men wear

Watches old slashers with Carmen and laugh whenever someone dies in a stupid way

SHADOWSAN

Faculty considered movies “low brow” entertainment so he hasn’t seen a movie made before the year 2000

Loves a good mob flick. Got into Scorsese specifically because Zack hated him. Goodfellas is his favourite

Everyone assumes he enjoys samurai movies but he actually HATES them. Hideo would ramble about historical inaccuracies the whole way through and he’s still bored just thinking about it

Used to love Yakuza films back in the day but they were soured for him after actually living as one

Loved Knives Out, found Daniel Craig VERY attractive, and has since fallen down the James Bond rabbit hole

CHASE

The most pretentious film hack you’ve ever met in your life. He is taking you to a back alley screening of some arthouse eastern european gay porn on a first date and it will be the most profound thing you’ve ever seen in your life

Detective noir movies and cheesy black and white romances are his favourites. He likes falling asleep to them

He and Player both appreciate animation as a form of cinema, but while Player is referring to like. the Mario movie, Chase is talking about some 3 minute Russian stopmotion surrealist piece from 1951. He attends Annecy every year and has been banned from the Oscars due to threats of violence

He likes Poirot tho. Transmasc king

JULIA

If she has a few hours to herself she’d rather watch a documentary than go to a movie theatre, but she loves historical dramas

Enjoys biopics but thinks it’s stupid to make them for people who are alive

Likes watching movies for the sake of trash talking them, so she is the only person who can tolerate sitting through one with Carmen

LOVES Wes Anderson though. Chase got her into his stuff and the symmetry scratches an itch in her brain. But don’t tell him that

Also enjoys period dramas for the tiddies

CHIEF

Shitty cop movie enjoyer. The kind of person who insists that Die Hard is her favourite christmas movie

LOVES heist movies because of how inaccurate they are. Will mentally nitpick whatever secret service is going after them and be like “ACME wouldn’t do that lol”

She’s semi aware that she’s the antoagonist in Carmen’s own heist narrative so she’s started having fun with it

Closet lover of b-tier comedy movies. Like the ones with Adam Sandler and Kevin Hart on the cover

Does not enjoy watching movies socially. That is quality time for her and her cat. She does not have to shush Commander

#carmen sandiego #carmen sandiego 2019 #carmen sandiego netflix #player cs #zack and ivy #shadowsan #chase devineaux #julia argent #tamara fraser #chief cs

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klbwriting · 11 months ago

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Our Strange Duet

Chapter 2: This Mess I Am

Fandom: Red Hood

Pairing: Jason Todd x f!reader

Warnings: none

Summary: YN comes to hang out

Taglist: @amberpanda99 @deans-spinster-witch

No, I'd rather pretend I'm something better than these broken parts, pretend I'm something other than this mess I am - Dear Evan Hansen

Jason could do this. YN had agreed to come over and hang out Saturday afternoon, at Dick’s place, with him. She hadn’t seen it the last time they were together, he was too worried about his brother kicking her out, so he only went to her. Now thought Dick was thoroughly onboard with getting YN back into Jason’s life. Now she was the one who made him smile more, made him relax, helped him sleep, kept his nightmares at bay when she could invade his dreams instead. Now she was coming to see him, maybe not to fall into each other’s arms (no matter how much he wanted that) but to be friends again, see if they still fit together like they had before.

“When is she getting here?” Dick called up. Jason looked at his phone, the message ‘on my way’ on the screen from five minutes ago. He glanced around his loft again, making sure everything was clean and looked presentable before barreling down the stairs, pulling on a sweater. Dick cocked his eyebrow.

“She’ll be here in a few minutes…what’s that face?” Jason asked. Dick motioned to the black and gray sweater. It was an 80-degree August day in Gotham, the sweater looked stupid, but he wanted to look good for her. Every time he used to see her, he was in his early Red Hood gear, combat pants, tshirt, maybe a black hoodie or leather jacket. He was in college now, he was supposed to look cool when he met up with someone he liked, not a kid.

“The sweater is too much,” Dick said. “Take it off and just wear the tshirt, the girl has seen you almost bleed out, if that didn’t chase her away a black tshirt won’t either.” Jason scowled a little but tore off the sweater, looking around for something to do with it when the buzzer rang. Dick took the sweater while Jason went to let her into the elevator. He watched his big brother throw the sweater in the trash can, eyes widening. “Its also an ugly sweater and if she ever sees you in it she’ll swim back to Singapore, you’ll thank me later.” Jason almost strangled him when there was a knock at the door. He tried to flatten his hair a little, opening the door.

“Hey,” YN said, almost making Jason melt into the floor. He had never thought she would be at his place, walking in and looking around, probably wondering how much a place like this cost. He wondered that constantly, but Dick refused to let him try to help with rent, so he didn’t know.

“Come in, um, ya, you said you were nervous about auditions, wanted my help picking a song?” he said, scrambling. He had planned several things to do, books he wanted to talk about, watch a movie he knew she would love but had said she hadn’t seen yet but her appearance at his door had momentarily broken his brain. Dick was standing in the kitchen marveling that his little brother, the terror that stalked Crime Alley and the Narrows, making hardened criminals wet themselves at the very sight of him, was stammering and falling over himself over this girl. If he wasn’t the exact same way with Barbara he would have laughed.

“Thanks, I have a couple ideas, but I know I’m not getting a part, I have no opera talent, my voice just doesn’t work that way,” she said. “But I still want to show that I have some talent in case they do something next year in my wheelhouse.” Dick watched as she rambled, moving to put her bag down on the couch, but missing and dropping it to the floor. O Lord, they were both hopeless.

“Can I stay and listen?” he asked, now worried about running interference for Jason. His brother glared at him but YN smiled.

“Thanks, ya, I would love opinions. Jason has heard me sing before, I don’t know if he’ll be objective,” she said. Dick nodded, walking over and sitting on the couch. Jason sat next to him, arms folded as YN got ready. It took exactly four words before Jason was falling back to sitting on her couch singing to her and having her sing to him, her smile making him feel so warm in his chest and despite knowing that he wasn’t loved outside of that room it was ok. She did three songs, one Phantom related song and two others and they decided on one before she looked at Jason.

“Did you pick a song?” she asked, sitting down next to him. He shrugged.

“I was just going to do the love song,” he said. She eyed him.

“You want to be Raoul?” she asked. He shrugged again. “You’re not Raoul, he’s too pretty.” Jason made a fake offended face and Dick chuckled. “You know I don’t mean like that, he’s…Dick, boy scout, sweetheart, golden retriever. You’re not that, you should do Music of the Night, the reprise sung by Erik, you’re the phantom.”

“Have you been thinking about this?” he asked. This time she shrugged, blushing. She was thinking about him. Dick stood up then.

“I’m going to go get some work done in my office,” he said, looking at Jason and nodding before heading off. YN looked to Jason.

“Did I chase him away with my Raoul comparison?” she asked. Jason laughed.

“No, he’s probably going to watch the musical so he can figure out if what you said was a compliment or not,” he said. She laughed and then sighed. “Hey, want to watch that movie we talked about?” She nodded and he got it set up, sitting next to her.

It took every ounce of willpower in him to not try and put his arm around her or take her hand as that movie played. About halfway through they realized it was kind of boring so he paused it for them to chat instead and it was almost like old times, but something loomed over her as she talked, a rain cloud. Her smile didn’t always reach her eyes and she would fall silent, a far away look in her eyes for just a few moments before coming back to him.

“YN?” he said softly when she vanished again. She shook herself and looked at him apologetically. “You can talk about it, with me.” She looked down, biting her lip.

“Its just, she would be so happy I found my way back to you again. I keep hearing what she would say in my head. She really liked you, said you made me shine. I know that we can’t just…go back to what we were, I mean, we both are different not, but I’m not opposed to the idea if you’re not. At least, I’m not opposed to letting myself fall for you again,” she said. Jason stared. This honesty was new. She’d never lied to him, never had led him around or anything, but she’d never been so blunt about her feelings. It normally took time for her to say what she was feeling without a joke or sass. Now she was being vulnerable, laying it all out there for him and he didn’t know how to respond. Her mother’s death seemed to make her more open, more trusting, maybe more loving since she knew that things didn’t last sometimes. Jason over the last several months had become more closed off. Bruce knew he was alive and hadn’t once tried to talk to him, Alfred either, he wasn’t sure which one hurt worse. He wanted to keep his feelings close to his chest, didn’t want to admit to things like she did for fear of the pain that would come later, when they abandoned him. The silence stretched longer than he meant it to and he saw her eyes glaze a little as she realized that he wasn’t responding how she thought he would. How he would have before. She nodded and stood up.

“YN…” he said, trying to recover, willing himself to say what she wanted to hear, what he wanted to say, but there was a door there that seemed to stop him. She shook her head, wiping her eyes a little.

“Its ok Jason, I know I walked out on you before and I know that you were upset about your dad not talking to you. I know how scared you are of feelings like this, big feelings, I should have waited before saying anything to you about it. Waited until we understood each other better,” she said, grabbing her bag. “I’m going to go, um, think about the song for the audition and talk to me later, please?”

Jason nodded; throat dry as she headed out the door. He wanted to throw something, wanted to hit something. It was just getting dark, so he went to gear up, needing to do something that wasn’t sit here in his self-doubt and self-pity. He needed to not be Jason for a while.

#jason todd #jason todd x reader #jason todd x you #jasontodd #jason todd x y/n #red hood #red hood x reader #red hood x you #redhood #red hood x y/n #strangeduet

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btwxsixesandsevens · 1 year ago

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I have a theory that the reason Bucky was just lukewarm to Marvin Gaye's music is that he first listened to it while checking off items from Steve's notebook of things to learn about in the 21st century, almost like a homework assignment. It wasn't until he heard Sarah humming along with background music while she worked on the boat and in the house that he truly thought of modern music as something to be enjoyed for its own sake. Now he loves gospel, and adores Tina Turner along with the Queen of Soul. He remains unimpressed by Marvin Gaye, much to Sam's annoyance and Sarah's amusement.

Thank you, Nonny, for this comment. You sparked something undeniable. I agree with your theory, 100%.

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Bucky tried, really tried. Following directions was a habit he couldn’t shake. So when Sam told him to listen to Marvin Gaye’s “Trouble Man” album, he’d done so with all the diligence of a straight-A student. He didn’t get it. He even tried to watch the movie it was a soundtrack for — he just had Vision pull it up, or down load it, or whatever…Good lord, he could watch a 50-year-old movie on demand! — but it didn’t help. That took him down an Internet rabbit hole (another modern miracle slash nuisance) of watching Blaxploitation flicks while he sat around Avengers Tower. He came back to Louisiana feeling absolutely enlightened. One day Sarah, in the course of conversation, said: “Shut your mouth!” he automatically responded, “I’m just talkin’ bout Shaft.” There had been a lot of explaining to do after that. But still, didn’t get it.

Saturdays were for cleaning around the Wilson house. And it came with music. Bucky knew what he was in for when Sarah tied her hair up high and turned the radio up loud. It was usually songs from the 70s and 80s, lots of “funk” with a sprinkling of R&B and Gospel. To keep him on his toes, he figured. It made the housekeeping fun, reminded him of being in the service, when the band on base would play over the loudspeaker. He’d once been caught dancing with a mop handle while scrubbing the mess hall. That was a long time ago. This was now though. He was out back dumping out the trash, when he heard Sarah say: “Oh, that’s my JAM!” Then her fumbling to get to the speaker to start the song over and turn it up. He didn’t think much of it. It started out reasonable enough: “Now we’re gonna take the beginning of this song, and do it easy. But then we’re gonna do the finish, rough. That’s the way we do, Proud Mary.” It had a nice, almost sweet, beat to it. A little groove. They were on a river, the Mississippi he presumed, and singing and happy, and yeah, fine. He came in the door to see her slowly mopping the floor with broad sweeps: “Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, popped a lot of tang down in New Orleans.” “Popped a lot of tang?” he’d have to look that one up. Seventies slang was really hard to track. He kept working, straightening up the mudroom. Then, as the kids say, the beat dropped. The horns came in. Sarah started singing. “Big wheel keep on turnin’, Proud Mary keep on burnin’!” The background singers stepped in and it felt like an actual presence in the room, like a whole damn band had shown up. Sarah didn’t see him. Or didn’t care. Because she was dancing, eyes closed, feet moving frantically, singing into the end of the mop handle as she dragged in across the floor: “Rolling on the river! Doot doot doot doot! Da doot doot doot doot!” The mop was both dance partner and microphone stand. The table was the audience. The kitchen counter, the band. She commanded it all, her feet double pumping as she danced, her arms spread wide. It was joyous and loud and silly and perfect. Then she came to the end, one hand over head, with the other she dropped the mop with a clatter and said, proudly to no one: “Mike drop!” Then she bowed. So Bucky clapped. Of course he did. Sarah startled back to the present and saw him standing in the door way, grin wide. “Bucky B Barnes if you don’t get back to work!” she snapped, embarrassed and entertained simultaneously, snatching the mop back up into her hands. “Sorry Kitten, had to…quite the performance.” “If you tell anyone…” “Don’t have to. Everyone in town heard you.” That’s how Bucky met Tina Turner. The second love of his life.

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Just in time for the end of SarahBucky month.

#sarahbucky #bysixesandsevens #bucky x sarah #fleur de louve #fleur de louve month #fleurdelouvemonth

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salmonandfox · 3 months ago

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Happy STS from the Creators Club! What role does community play in your writing process?

Oh lord; SO MUCH. I am an introverted little gremlin human but I also have -intense- imposter syndrome paired with deep doubts as to my skill to do ANYTHING because -well- the short answer is -trash relatives- that turned everything into a competition and if you weren't -perfect- you were -terrible- and you -literally can't- be perfect at being creative.

SUPER AWESOME.

So I am VERY bad at socializing but I also -crave- knowing if I'm doing things 'right' or at least 'all right' so I tend to seek friends and acquaintances and just -toss fragments of writing at them- to see how they feel about it and I've found out a few times that some people -only- like the creative parts where I'm doing something they can immediately -see- and where it might be -for them- and they get -real bored- real fast when I go -hey so I'm embarking on an 80 thousand word delusion that I can make a book that does not involve any of your characters because that would be... awkward... if published but -would you look at parts with me- and tell me I make sense?

And then there's a handful others that went 'fuck yeah let me see' or even just 'this isn't my prefered genre but I have -fully got your back- let's do this-, and god that made a MASSIVE distance.

I'm still pretty sure that the idea people are actually interested in the end product MAY be all in my head because only one person has read it so far but it's REALLY nice to know which people are ok with watching me be a delusional gargoyle at my computer and occasionally reminding me that I need to move and stretch or I'm going to regret it.

Next I'll work on actually taking their advice.

#bardic tales #creators club #writeblr #writing #writblr #fantasy #writers on tumblr #writing community

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carriagelamp · 1 year ago

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I don't know what to say here this month. February, eh? Hate February, the Thursday of months, I'm just clinging to sanity while I wait for spring. Here are the books that helped me through what is basically a month of overcast skies and fucking winter rain.

Candy Color Paradox v6

Candy Color Paradox is a series I’ve been reading for years now and I’ve really enjoyed how the relationship in this one has progressed over that time. It started somewhat similar to how you’d expect a yaoi manga to start — lots of tension, drama, smut, and some light antagonism between the two main characters who both work at the same weekly magazine. But it’s eased into something that’s really quite genuine. This most recent volume focused entirely on moving in together and all the little complications and insecurities that arise because of that.

Circus of Fear

A 1980s D&D choose your own adventure novel so the quality is exactly what you would expect, but at the very least it was a fun little diversion. Doing a CYOA book with a friend can honestly be a blast, they just feel so silly, and the setting of a magical, vaguely sinister circus is always an enjoyable backdrop. We managed to get a good ending on the second try! So yay! I'd honestly like to read it again and try some of the other routes that also sounding intriguing.

Dungeon Meshi // Delicious in Dungeon v1

Me and my girlfriend started watching Dungeon Meshi because we’d seen so much about it on tumblr lately and wow. Just wow. It really is doing something special and we’re completely enamoured. Since we’re waiting for new episodes, I picked up the first book so we could compare it and the show — it’s really impressive how closely they align! And the art is really lovely, it stands out and not just for it's food glamour shots.

For those who haven't been seduced into watching the anime yet: Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon is a DND-style parody in which the adventuring party needs to enter the monster-filled dungeon to save one of their companions who got eaten by a red dragon. They need to get to her and revive her before she entirely digested. However, to hasten their quest (and indulge one of their member’s strange obsessions) they begin to hunt and eat the monsters that fill the dungeon instead of trying to bring food in from the outside. This is 80% a cooking anime and 20% a comedic adventure anime. Book or show, doesn’t matter which, you should give it a try if you haven’t.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

I really enjoyed the first book of the series, Every Heart A Doorway, and was excited when I found out there was a prequel about Jack and Jill and the world they visited. This can either be read as a prequel or it works fairly well as a stand-alone novella; the story is about twin sisters who have always been forced to fill very precise societal roles by their parents. One afternoon, they stumble across a magical door in the bottom of a chest and venture down into the sinister world of the moors where one sister is taken in by a vampire lord and the other by a mad scientist. The story looks at how the sisters grow and change when apart from each other and their controlling parents. Excellent story, the language is just so enticing.

Midnight Sun

My brother has been watching all the Twilight movies with a couple of his friends. Listening to him bitch about Jacob like it was 2007 reawakened something in me, so after laughing myself sick I had to go and relisten to Midnight Sun. Still genuinely and unironically love this book, it’s pure trash but by god it's my trash. I’m a simple soul.

Odder

I’ve been hearing great things about this book, and it’s hard to go wrong with Katherine Applegate so I was excited to finally read it. This is a book written entirely in free verse poetry about an orphaned otter and her experiences being rescued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It’s inspired by a true story (several true stories, actually!) and it's very worth picking up even if you don't usually go for poetry. It's charming and reads very easily.

Old-Fashioned Cupcake

A middle-aged salaryman is feeling worn down by the humdrum nature of his life, which is filled mostly with work these days. This manga kicks off with his coworker suggests that if he wants to deal with the feelings of boredom and aging, then he needs to do something to shake up his life: so he suggests that they “act like a pair of teenage girls” and go to a fancy new pancake shop just because it seems fun, never mind that it’s not something grown men are supposed to do. This manga ended up being pretty darn cute -- it was slow and compassionate and loving -- and it managed to convince me to buy its sequel.

Professor Calculus: Science’s Forgotten Genius

A ridiculous little book I bought on impulse that was nevertheless a lot of fun to read. It’s a tribute to Cuthbert Calculus, celebrating the 80th anniversary of his first appearance in Tintin. It dives into some of the inspirations that went into the character, and also lovingly and cheekily explores some "facts" we know about Calculus as a person… and wildly extrapolates more from there. It was a cute little read for anyone who’s a fan of the series and wants something a little extra.

Return to Oz

I recently rewatched this movie and maintain that I like it more than the original film, sorry. It made me decide to grab the novelization because I’m always a sucker for a novelization <3 This one was pretty solid too, it actually included details that were left out of the film and improve the stories overall cohesion which is always the marker of a good novelization.

Return to Oz takes place several months after the original film, when Aunty Em and Uncle Henry are trying to build a new house and get the farm back in order before winter. Concerned by Dorothy’s continued belief in Oz and her increased insomnia, Aunty Em decides to take her to a doctor who offers healing through electroshock therapy. Yeah, it’s exactly as fucking creepy as it sounds… You get a scary aslyum, a sinister head nurse, being strapped to a hospital gurney, and new baddies that scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. Anyway, before she can be electrocuted, Dorothy manages to escape back to Oz where she discovers her friends are in dire need of help. It’s like Alice: Madness Returns but from Disney. Go watch this movie.

She Drives Me Crazy

I had very mixed feelings about this book. It’s about high school basketball player, Scottie, who has suffered a bad breakup with her girlfriend who moved schools to play on the opposing basketball team. Things go from bad to worse when she gets into a car accident with her arch-nemesis, the cheerleader Irene. One things lead to another and bada bing bada boom we have a fake dating scheme so that Scottie can get back at her ex.

This book had some genuinely fun moments (I’m always a sucker for a fake dating scheme, and the characters were reasonably fun) but it’s biggest failing is one that I’ve seen more than I like in current queer lit. It just tries so. fucking. hard. to be unproblematic. Like yeah, it’s great to see healthy relationships but it was SO explicit about it. So much therapy speak, way more than feels natural for a conversation or internal monolgue, especially when they’re in high emotions. The “banter” was very scripted. It was a book that felt like it had a laugh track. And while the ending was satisfying enough, it was also… I don’t know. Anticlimactic. We just spent so long tying everything up in a perfectly neat little bow that it really just strolled to an ending that was obvious from a mile away.

Like look, I get it, we want this to be squeaky clean and beyond reproach, but I have NEVER entered a fake dating story hoping that everyone was going to be really sensible and respectful and level-headed. Fake dating is the slapstick of the romance world, I want some Shakespearean level bullshit, please don’t try to gussy it up for me. Gonna go and rewatch 10 Things I Hate About You or something just to feel things again. Or maybe pop over to AO3, your average fic writer at least understands that when I say fake dating I mean I want something absolutely fucking unhinged and filled to the gill with mutual pining.

So yeah, if you want a sports-based high school sapphic romance: it’s not a bad book. It went down easy, I liked listening to it in the mornings when I needed something light before work. Some bits I even quite enjoyed. But it’s not going to rock your world.

Shuna’s Journey

Well, if nothing else you can really, definitely tell this was done by Hayoa Miyazaki. I’m honestly not really sure how I felt about it. The art was beautiful, and the story was pure undiluted Miyazaki through and through. The narrative was very nice. The story and message was poignant. It was a nice book. I can’t say it’s stuck very heavily in my mind, but I enjoyed reading it. It felt like a precursor to Princess Monoke / Nausicaa, perhaps?

The Witches

The story of one child and his grandmother needing to contend with witches. Not fairytale witches. Real witches. And all their horrible, child-hating ways. One thing I will always love about Dahl is that when he wants to write about something Horrible, nothing will stop him. His villains are truly villainous and the witches are a prime example of that! I loved the description of the witches and their horrible, sinister deeds, especially in the first half of the book. This sure is Child Murder: The Novel! The ending was absolutely not what I was expecting, and I appreciate that. Such a bizarre book.

#queer lit #hayao miyazaki #dungeon meshi #tintin #twilight #delicious in dungeon #dnd #d&d #book review #book reviews #chatter

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blogger-dome · 2 years ago

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What i have read

Good

The bugning after the end 171

God game 15

the game that I came from 111

Re monster 76

Skeleton Soldier (Skeleton Soldier Couldn’t Protect the Dungeon) Chapter 202

Reincarnation of the Suicidal Battle God Chapter 60

Solo Spell Caster Chapter 73

Leveling With The Gods - Chapter 65

How to Live as a Villain Chapter 65

Solo Max-Level Newbie Chapter 76

Grow Stronger By Eating! Chapter 88

Solo leveling 179 bad ending

Villain To Kill Chapter 68

The Gamer, Chapter 403

Infinite Level Up in Murim - Chapter 129

Taming Master Chapter 66

Heavenly Demon Cultivation Simulation - Chapter 58

OMNISCIENT READER CHAPTER 153

RETURN OF THE MAD DEMON CHAPTER 63,5

MURIM LOGIN CHAPTER 127

TALENT-SWALLOWING MAGICIAN CHAPTER 22

SWALLOW THE WHOLE WORLD CHAPTER 125

Book Eater - Chapter 43

The Lone Necromancer Chapter 29

Tomb Raider King - Chapter 304

REBIRTH OF THE GREAT GOD CHAPTER 104

Seoul Station Druid - Chapter 43

Level 1 Player Chapter 29

DOES THE LORD’S COIN NOT SHRINK?! CHAPTER 82

CULTIVATING THE SUPREME DANTIAN CHAPTER 175

Return Of The Shattered Constellation Chapter 63

MARTIAL ARTIST LEE GWAK CHAPTER 100

It all starts with playing game seriusly chapter 71

BUG PLAYER CHAPTER 87

Second Life Ranker Manga Chapter 138

Archmage Streamer - Chapter 30

Martial inverse - Chapter 234

Nano Machine - Chapter 111

Meccha Shoukan Sareta Ken Chapter 21

Return of the 8th Class Magician - Chapter 73

Magic Emperor Chapter 330

Poison Dragon: The Legend of an Asura - Chapter 95

The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live a Normal Life Chapter 70

Swordmaster's Youngest Son Chapter 59

Starting Today, I’m a Player Chapter 49

The Novel’s Extra Chapter 50

Trapped In A Webnovel As A Good-For-Nothing - Chapter 117

I Am The Fated Villain Chapter 83

Damn Reincarnation Chapter 42

Absolute Sword Sense Chapter 8

Return to Player - Chapter 115

Strongest Fighter - Chapter 80

The Story of a Low-Rank Soldier Becoming a Monarch. - Chapter 83

Reaper of the Drifting Moon Chapter 39

Sword Fanatic Wanders Through The Night Chapter 13

I have Max level luck Chapter 53

Records of the Swordsman Scholar - Chapter 44

I’m An Evil God - Chapter 277

TRASH OF THE COUNT’S FAMILY CHAPTER 92

The Return of the Crazy Demon Chapter 52.5

SOLO BUG PLAYER CHAPTER 101

Accidentally Became a God - Chapter 30

FFF-Class Trashero - Chapter 133

Supreme Yanluo System - Chapter 105

Standard of Reincarnation Chapter 24

Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble Chapter 64

The Constellation That Returned From Hell Chapter 100

Legendary Youngest Son of the Marquis House Chapter 50

My School Life Pretending To Be a Worthless Person Chapter 21

Kill The Hero - Chapter 103

Reincarnation of the Murim Clan’s Former Ranker Chapter 58

EVOLUTION BEGINS WITH A BIG tree chapter 13

Auto-Hunting With Clones - Chapter 19

Eternal Club Chapter 124

Dungeon Odyssey Chapter 21

Genius of the Unique Lineage Chapter 36

I HAVE 48 HOURS EVERYDAY DAY CHAPTER 45

Invincible at the Start - Chapter 68

Lord of the Mysteries - Chapter 64

Heavenly Sword’s Grand Saga Chapter 35

Archmage Transcending Through Regression - Chapter 41

Kill The Dragon Chapter 32

World’s Strongest Troll Chapter 8

Return of the SSS-Class Ranker Chapter 30

Ultimate Devouring System - Chapter 11

Drug Devourer Chapter 15

Star Instructor, Master Baek Chapter 50 {S1 END}

Demon Lord’s Martial Arts Ascension - Chapter 41

Maxed Out Leveling Chapter 53

Transcension Academy Chapter 31

The S-Classes That I Raised Chapter 65

Relife Player Chapter 21

Infinite Mage chapter 20

Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha Chapter 33

I Became A Part Time Employee For Gods Chapter 27

Logging 10,000 Years into the Future Chapter 12

Han Dae Sung Returned From Hell – Chapter 24

Past Life Returner Chapter 32

Max Level Player - Chapter 19

I Used to be a Boss Chapter 22

Revenge of the Iron-Blooded Sword Hound Chapter 22

Mid

Terror man

Maxed Out Leveling Chapter 19

THE BLADE OF EVOLUTION-WALKING ALONE IN THE DUNGEON CHAPTER 68

Player Who Can’t Level Up Chapter 50

LEVELING UP, BY ONLY EATING! CHAPTER 88

Return of the Disaster-Class Hero Chapter 42

Dungeons & Artifacts - Chapter 69

SSS-Class Revival Hunter - Chapter 80

Bandit King 10

The Tutorial Tower of the Advanced Player Chapter 122

THE ULTIMATE OF ALL AGES CHAPTER 109

I WAS RAISED BY THE BOSS CHAPTER 34

Level 1 Player Chapter 29

MEMOIR OF THE KING OF WAR CHAPTER 45

One-of-a-Kind Irregular - Chapter 19

Nito no Taidana Isekai Shoukougun: Saijaku Shoku - Chapter 19.1

Youjo to Scoop to MaganouChapter 15.5

My Path to Killing Gods in Another World Chapter 45

Super Evolution Chapter 50

Overbearing Tyrant - Chapter 20

the god of martial arts Chapter 154.1

The Man From Hell - Chapter 14

Regressor Instruction Manual Chapter 80

Zomgan - Chapter 4

The Otherworldly Infection Story that Started with a Virus Reincarnation Chapter 16.1

Newbie Management – Chapter 9

The Princess is Evil - Chapter 58

I Became the Tyrant of a Defence Game - Chapter 16

To Hell With Being A Saint, I’m A Doctor Chapter 43

THE SUPREME WAY CHAPTER 15

The World's Best Engineer - Chapter 86

Divine Leveling System - Chapter 48

Sleeping Ranker Chapter 47

SSS-Class Gacha Hunter Chapter 51

I Obtained a Mythic Item Chapter 51

Youngest Scion of the Mages - Chapter 21

Great Sage of Humanity chapter 39

Reborn Ranker – Gravity User Chapter 22

Transcension Academy - Chapter 23

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 219

I’ll Be Taking A Break For Personal Reasons Chapter 25

Player Who Returned 10,000 Years Later - Chapter 52

World’s Apocalypse Online - Chapter 143

Heavenly Inquisition Sword Chapter 22

Backwater Old Man Becomes a Swordmaster Chapter 13

I just want to practice Alchemy And Become A God - Chapter 2

Universal Raider - Chapter 13

Life of a magic Academy mage chapter 22

Meiou-sama ga Tooru no desu yo! Chapter 7

Hoarding in Hell - Chapter 40

Isekai Walking Chapter 3

Secret Player Chapter 24

As A Fated Villain, It’s Not Too Much To Destroy The Protagonist, Right? Chapter 7

The More I Kill, The Stronger I Get - Chapter 9

A Gate Opened on my First Day as a Politician - Chapter 34

Transmigrating to the Otherworld Once More Chapter 41

The Hero Took Everything from Me, So I Partied with the Hero’s Mother!

Is This Hero For Real? Chapter 23

Baek XX Chapter 6

The Demon Prince goes to the Academy Chapter 20

Everyone Else is A Returnee Chapter 20

Demonic Evolution chapter 3

Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God Chapter 31

Hero the Maximum – Chapter 14

The Constellations Are My Disciples - Chapter 19

I Levelled up by Becoming an Influencer Chapter 11

Hell’s Tormentor Kraken Chapter 7

Bad

Hero Has Returned - Chapter 77

Not finish good

The Second Coming of Gluttony - Chapter 29

The god of hiscol 114 not finish

OVERGEARED (TEAM ARGO) CHAPTER

104

Tensei Kenja No Isekai Raifu ~Daini No Shokugyo Wo Ete, Sekai Saikyou Ni Narimashita~ Vol.7 Chapter 21: It Seems Like I Became An Assassination Target Again.

Slave B - Chapter 41 Hate the main carekter

the king of bugs

A RETURNER'S MAGIC SHOULD BE

THE STRONGEST GOD KING CHAPTER 115 SPECIAL CHAPTER 32

LEVEL UP ALONE CHAPTER 57

Spare Me, Great Lord! - Chapter 17

Am I Actually the Strongest? Chapter 14.1

Martial Peak - Chapter 2325

Tower of god season 2 chapter 108

CHRONICLES OF HEAVENLY DEMON, CHAPTER 130

TENSEI SHITARA DAI NANA OUJI DATTANODE, CHAPTER 49: LET’S LEARN HOLY MAGIC

The Second Coming of Gluttony - Chapter 78

Super Gene - Chapter 41

The Earth Savior Selection - Chapter 24

Volcanic Age - Chapter 96

Evolution frenzy - Chapter 43

Not finish bad

The Tutorial is Too Hard Chapter 42

The Challenger Chapter 19

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

thanks for the ask! I listen to pretty much everything but I am also 80s punk/synth trash so that’s what’s mostly gonna be on here. All these songs hold a special place whenever I hear them:

Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Tears for Fears (the Lorde cover is also good)

With or Without You — U2 (The Americans series finale will forever be imprinted in my brain whenever I hear this)

Running Up That Hill — let’s be real, all versions of this song are fire. I heard the Placebo cover first, followed by the original, and then Meg Myers

Because the Night — Patti Smith (the 10,000 Maniacs cover is also worth a listen. I loved me some Natalie Merchant back in the day)

99 Luftballoons — Nena (bro I can’t help it. I will belt out this song in German or English I don’t care I will forever love it)

#music #ask me anything #answered

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ruumirmir · 1 year ago

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Gojo Satoru, the man that you are, had me researching Buddhism and shit

///Jjk chap 236 leaks and spoilers pls begone thankuverymuch

I have never been more deranged in my life of living. And when I say deranged,, I hope everyone involved will enjoy my copium induced girl dinner rant that I cooked up 💥🔥

going through five stages of grief,, about to invent the 6th and 7th one. over Lines on Paper this is my life

Anyways,, so I came across a tweet which started my spiral after I read through these:

jujutsu kaisen

has the potential to create THE arc of all Time ever if,, BY GOING OFF OF SYMBOLISM,,, the plot NAILS this

bc the buddha imagery and symbolism of gojo is already the coldest shit ever when gege cooked with the "throughout heaven and earth, i alone am the honored one"

if this actually happens to some degree

we could have the biggest "WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK" moment in all of manga history

《Gautama Buddha died at the age of 80 in 483 BCE at a place called Kushinagara a town in UP》

thank god we still have 8 more decades left until gojo is FEASIBLY ALLOWED TO DIE AT A SUITABLE AGE AND AFTER A LONG HAPPY LIFE.

ok wait technically 5 more decades since hes close to pushing 30

Raggedy old man. Bros aging 💀

death of an anime man got me actually researching about Gautama Buddha with sincere interest now

《"Mara" is one of the earliest non-human beings to appear in Buddhist scriptures. He is a demon, sometimes called the Lord of Death, who plays a role in many stories of the Buddha and his monks.》

apparently this is the demon equivalent to reflect sukuna's character. hes mostly present in esoteric buddhism

the hand sign,, is same as sukuna's domain expansion here

《In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama,, also known as King Yan/Yan Wang is the King of Hell and a dharmapala (wrathful god) said to judge the dead and preside over the Narakas and the cycle of afterlife saṃsāra.》

In Hinduism,, that's Lord Yama, god of the dead, similarly shown with a Bull as his familiar.

from chinese mythology:

《Yan is portrayed as a large man with a scowling red face, bulging eyes, and a long beard. He wears traditional robes and a judge's cap or a crown which bears the character for "king".》

This cant translate to sukuna's "true form"

Yknow,, the big fucking body with 4 arms and a wooden mask thing on the left side of his face. He definetely IS shown to wear traditional robes.

Now bear with me here, I'm derailing my sanity rn.

yes now THIS is interestinger:

《The spirits of the dead, on being judged by Yan, are supposed to either pass through a term of enjoyment in a region midway between the earth and the heaven of the gods.》

We LITERALLY. have a whole segment of gojo enjoying his time seeing suguru and his other friends who died in an afterlife-kinda setting. We also specifically get a panel of sukuna praising satoru,, passing his judgement,, that we've seen him do to other characters as well [jogo, although that's kinda debatable 💀 since Sukuna kind of. Trashed him]

《-or to undergo their measure of punishment in the nether world. Neither location is permanent and after a time, they return to Earth in new bodies.》

JUMPING UP AND FUCKING DOWN RN. Isnt Kusakabe on standby,, who cultivated an ability to act as a medium and swap/ conduct other people's souls with his own. As i said before,,, SURELYYYYYYY gege wouldnt do this shit without REASON

(it is the funniest shit in the world to type up "Indra god hand gesture" and for gojo fucking satoru's face to pop up in the image and ACTUALLY be linked to a legit discussion on his domain expansion hand sign being referenced from Indra)

ok so, in hinduism,, its "Indra", but in buddhism the same god is translated unto "Sakra"

yknow how it be. Different religions and practices share the same god and the beliefs overlap here and there.

so theres this

《When one Śakra dies, his place is taken by another deity who becomes the new Śakra.》

which is basically the jujutsu kaisen equivalent of people in the gojo clan being born. With the liberty taken of SixEyes + Limitless users taking hundreds of years to be born after deaths of the previous one.

Okay so

"then with his face to the north took seven strides while a white canopy was held over him" is the text referencing buddha's enlightening birth.

the white canopy held over his head is a symbol that he'll achieve nirvana.

《In Buddhism, "Nirvana" is the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's individual desires and suffering go away. The origin of the word nirvana relates to religious enlightenment; it comes from the Sanskrit meaning "extinction, disappearance" of the individual to the universal.》

Since we've Already seen that gojo's achieved his state of enlightenment at his first death (by toji)

This can be the second stage where he achieves Nirvana at his second death,,

in the storyline,, gojo is Heavily only recognized and labeled by his powers and strength with the Limitless and the Six eyes that he possesses.

(Literally, it means “blowing out” or “becoming extinguished,” as when a flame is blown out or a fire burns out. nirvana.)

So if somehow,, we've all been theorizing,, if gojo erases that aspect of him. Destroys the aspect that defines him as Gojo Satoru, he'll technically be achieving Nirvana and being born (revived) anew.

which is also sweetening the conclusion of the age old question

"Are you the strongest because youre gojo satoru? Or are you gojo satoru because you're the strongest", that geto had ask him years ago.

Which ig, Also raises the question:

IF, gojo were to sacrifice his SixEyes and Limitless in his pact of revival (details to be pondered upon later), would this count as a Legitmate "death" with relevance to the world's balance being re-altered, and Also resetting the cycle for another user to be born?

Or idk maybe I'm just tripping balls <3

Goodnight everynyan. Let's awaken to a day where Satoru Gojo comes to live amongst us once again. 🕊

#gojo satoru #jjk #jjk236 #jjk spoilers #satoru #jujutsu kaisen #sukuna #jjk leaks #gege akutami #➳❥ Rumoured rants

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Taygod oh Taygod

High up the sky reaching the lord

Going from Nashiville to Philly

Polluting every City

15 Minutes flights

Oh Jesus Christ

Billionaire oh Billionaire

What is going up in that head full of air

Mass releasing no organic success

Your face constantly being in the press

Nobody gonna know that song fortnight

You know that right?

Carried by a racist and delusional fanbase

Putting you High up in a space,

where you don't belong.

Does anyone know that one Taylor Swift song?

Wouldn't sell that well without over saturation

But you have a certain fixation,

to clear every chart and break every record

having the most albums every sold

It is quality before quantity

Instead of Quanity before Quality

Going from one man to the next

writing songs about your ex's

Never moving on from your past

nobody knows how long your New relationship is gonna last

You would have never made it in the 80's.

Where there you had to be interesting or talented baby.

You impact in music is close to nothing.

How dare they even compare you to the king?

You wouldn't survive a day in the asylum they were raised,

every hard ships and challenge they have faced

Do you know how hard it was to get to number one?

When charts were differently done.

Taylor you couldn't just occupy the whole Billboardcharts

with unknown songs sounding like farts.

You had to release the song as a single

And it had to be like a jingle

The song better had to be good

That's why almost every song is good eaten food.

Your music is trash

And your catalog is not gonna last

lol

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theharpermovieblog · 1 year ago

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#HARPERSMOVIECOLLECTION

2024 MOVIE LIST

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I re-watched Dragonslayer (1981)

Saw this as a kid, my brother loved it, but I don't remember it.

After his master is killed, a sorcerer's apprentice takes up the task of slaying a dragon.

Director Mathew Robbins directed two other memorable movies from my childhood, "Batteries Not Included" and "The Legend Of Billy Jean". Much like Dragonslayer, they are movies I know I've seen, but which I don't remember.

Actor, and star of this movie, Peter MacNicol is an actor I've always enjoyed and is the main factor that drew me back to this film.

The 1980's are full of medieval fantasy films. From low budget trash like "Hawk The Slayer" and "Yor" to high budget Hollywood films like "Legend" "Conan The Barbarian" and "LadyHawke". The popularity of things like Dungeons and Dragons and Lord Of The Rings in the 1970's may have been the cause of this burst in the film genre. Whatever the reason, Fantasy films were big business in the 80's and therefore there are many, many, MANY of these films from the era. And, most of them, despite what nostalgia tells us, are hot garbage.

However, the few that are genuinely good are some of the best the fantasy genre has to offer. Dragonslayer is one of the good ones.

Personally, I didn't develop a real admiration for this genre until much more recently in my life. I liked Fantasy films well enough, but I didn't go out of my way for them. (I was a horror kid.) So, re-experiencing a lot of these films, especially from this era, has been a real joy. I get to see them with somewhat fresh eyes and the appreciation that comes with my understanding of film production and competent storytelling.

Dragonslayer is one for the nerd in us all. By casting Peter MacNicol as a small, somewhat capable sorcerer, this movie immediately becomes a film for the kids who wanted to be wizards and who wanted to fight dragons with magic and cunning, rather than pure Conan-like strength.

This is a well shot film, with a lot going for it visually. The sets, locations and lighting all blend effectively to help immerse us in it's world.

The acting is top notch, the writing is on point and the special effects are still magnificent. While you won't find much new ground being tread here, you get a solid and entertaining fantasy film.

Not much else to say, but in this case, that's a good thing.

#dragonslayer

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subbymothpimp · 2 years ago

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - before I learned that the author is a piece of trash. 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - not all, but the majority 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier - not Rebecca but other books by du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I'm not counting that. Red are the ones I read, blue are the ones still on me TBR list

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

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mint-moon25 · 6 months ago

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Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 80 DANIEL – PART III - 3 Daniel 4:26 – 7:8 Okay, looks like everyone is back from the coffee break once again. We’re ready to start program number three this afternoon. So again, we like to welcome our television audience. I have to keep reminding you that we’ll never cease to thank the Lord enough for all your prayers, your kind letters, and, my—I always have to look at Iris—how we enjoy your letters. You know, I’m blessed. I know I mentioned it on a program years ago. One of the things that made me really not want to jump on this when they called and asked if I would come on television was because I thought I would just get abused, and I would get verbally taken to the woodshed, you know. But it hasn’t happened. We’ve probably had two or three letters that were less than kind, but those kinds are not hard to put in the trash can. So, we do thank you for your letters of encouragement. We praise the Lord that He’s seen fit to protect us from all the attacks of the evil one, so like poor Daniel. Okay, here we are in Daniel. And because of his faith and his trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God had blessed him with all of his wisdom and understanding—his integrity. Yet the world can’t stand it, can they? They just can’t handle a man of integrity. And I could make comments even in our own political system. Let someone make a stand on their faith, and they will be attacked like you will not believe. Well, the same thing happened to Daniel. Just as soon as that decree was signed, instead of putting his tail between his legs and running, what does Daniel do? He just flaunts it all the more. And here we’ve got it, now, as we pick it up in Daniel chapter 6 and verse 10. Reading verse 9, again—that’s where we just left off. Daniel 6:9-10 “Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree. (That he had been kind of hoodwinked into signing.) 10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, (And don’t think he didn’t know every word that it said.) he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” The decree didn’t change one iota of Daniel’s respect and love for his God. All right, verse 11: Daniel 6:11-12a “Then these men assembled, (Now remember who we’re talking about. We’re talking about the 120 back there in verse 1 and the other two of the three presidents. Daniel was one, and there were two others. So the two presidents and the 120 are the conspiracy against him.) and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12. Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree;…” And this is what they tell the king. Daniel 6:12b “…Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.” In other words, they could never change something that had been signed and decreed. Daniel 6:13-14a “Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, (See how they’re pointing the finger at him.) which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, (that Jew) regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. 14. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with (Daniel? No.) with himself,…” He got tricked, because he had a lot respect for Daniel. Now Darius, too, like Nebuchadnezzar, is going to be making progress to the place where he finally has to admit that the God of Israel is the God of everything. But so far, he’s still sort of halfway between. All right, so he was utterly disgusted with himself. Daniel 6:14b “…and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

” Now what he did, we don’t know. But he was evidently trying everything that the law would allow to reverse the decree, but these adversaries give him no room. Verse 15: Daniel 6:15-16 “Then these men (the 122) assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth (or signed) may be changed. 16. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, (I suppose on his way to the lions’ den.) Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will (What?) deliver thee. ” What do we have? I think an inkling now of Darius’ faith in the God of Daniel. Now just watch for it—as these men come ever so slowly to a final recognition of the God of Glory. All right, he says, I am sure your God will deliver thee. Daniel 6:17-18a “And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, (So that there was no possible way of somebody slipping in and rescuing him.) and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. (Now we’ll just move on.) 18. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting:…” See, he’s not just forgetting about Daniel. He’s doing everything he can to make sure that the God of Daniel will rescue him. He begins with fasting. Daniel 6:18b-20a “…neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. (I think he paced the floor most of the night.) 19. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 20. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel:…” I imagine the old fellow thought he was spitting into the wind, as we say, that Daniel was long down the throats of the lions. I don’t think he really expected an answer. But on the other hand, I think his faith is increasing so that he felt it was possible. Daniel 6:20b “…he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, (See, he’s not talking about his pagan gods now. He said, Daniel, is your God--) whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?” And verse 21. Now listen, don’t ever take this as just a story. This is the Word of God to prove His power. And like I said at the beginning of the first half hour, we have to understand that all the way up through Israel’s history, the supernatural was not that unusual. Even in the life of some of the prophets and David and Solomon, the supernatural was evident. Not like we are today. Well, you know, I always like to refer to Sir Robert Anderson’s book The Silence of God. If you haven’t got it, for goodness sakes buy it. One of the best books you can have in your library—The Silence of God. What’s he showing? That during this Age of Grace, God’s not doing things like this. We’re not to expect it. We’re not to look for it. But it’ll pick up again as soon as the Tribulation starts when He starts dealing with Israel. All right, back to Daniel. Daniel 6:21 “Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.” He’s as well as he was twenty-four hours ago. Daniel 6:22 “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.” I haven’t done any scandalized “cooking the books.” Are you with me? Daniel says—I’m not guilty of that. He said—I haven’t embezzled. I haven’t done anything contrary to your will. So there was no spiritual reason for God to punish him. He said, “I’ve done no hurt.” Daniel 6:23 “Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he (What’s the word?) believed in his God.

” See? His faith! It’s always been the faith! Starting with Adam—when he was restored to fellowship, it was Adam’s faith. Likewise, Daniel’s faith—because he believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All right, now verse 24: Daniel 6:24a “And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, (See, now the worm turns, doesn’t it? And those 122 men who had accused Daniel--) and they cast them into the den of lions,…” But as the Orientals did all through history, it wasn’t just the husband. They would kill the whole family. Even as late as the Romans—if one of their politicians was found guilty, it wasn’t he alone, but his wife and children as well. So this is all typical of the Oriental mindset. So they cast these 122 men into the den of lions. Daniel 6:24b-26 “…them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. 25. Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages; that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 26. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: (Why?) for He (The God of Daniel. He’s not just some piece of some rock or gold or silver. He--) is the living God, and steadfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.” All right, now I’m thinking of a time way back during Moses serving Israel—Exodus chapter 18. Let’s turn back, because I want you to see that even though God was primarily dealing with Israel from the call of Abraham—whenever I put it on the board, I always say Jew only with what? Exceptions! And I want you to realize that. God did make exceptions. There were times when Gentiles came to a faith and trust in Israel’s God. And I suppose I can just about use the rest of this half hour on this situation in the life of Moses. It’s his father-in-law. Who remembers the name of his father-in-law? Jethro! Hey, that’s good. I’ve got some Bible students out there. Jethro—he was a Midian prince. And you remember that when Moses was first driven out of Egypt because he had killed the Egyptian, he took up with the gals that were watering the sheep. Remember the story? And he ended up marrying one of them. So his father-in-law was this Jethro, a Midianite and a Gentile. All right, now here’s the account. I can’t help but come back and show how Jethro expressed much of the same things as Nebuchadnezzar and Darius and, I think, Cyrus. I think all these Gentile kings came to a knowledge of salvation by faith in the God of Abraham. All right, Exodus chapter 18 starting at verse 1, Honey. Exodus 18:1-4a “When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; (You remember, when he was leading the children of Israel.) 2. Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back. 3. And her two sons;…Gershom;… 4. …and Eliezer;…” Exodus 18:5-7 “And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: (down there at Mount Sinai) 6. And Jethro said unto Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. 7. And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; (You know the Oriental way.) and they asked each other of their welfare; (Well, that’s typical, isn’t it?) and they came into the tent.” Exodus 18:8-9a “And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to all the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. 9. And Jethro (What’s the next word?) rejoiced…” Now the average Arab wouldn’t feel that way. They didn’t think anything good should happen to Israel. But Jethro did.

Exodus 18:9-10a “And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10. And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh,…” Verse 11: Exodus 18:11-13 “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: (Small ‘g’—see how far he’s come?) for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. (In other words, the God of Abraham is the God above everything.) 12. And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. 13. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.” And then, of course, we see that Jethro comes up with a method of helping Moses deal with all the responsibility. But what I wanted you to see was that even way back here the father-in-law of Moses comes to a faith in the God of Abraham. All right, now then, with that, let’s come back to Daniel, once again. So Darius is following in the footsteps of Jethro and a few others throughout the Old Testament; who were Gentiles, but they came to embrace the God of Israel. And now we have Darius. All right, let’s drop down to where we left off. So now Darius writes a new decree speaking of the God of Daniel. Daniel 6:27-28 “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of (the next big emperor) Cyrus the Persian.” All right, now then, I guess we’ve got a few minutes left. We’ll go on into chapter 7, and once again we have a prophetic view of the future empires. But instead of metals of gold, silver, and so forth, Daniel is going to see these Gentile empires as voracious beasts. And that, of course, is what the Gentile empires have been. They’ve been bestial in their overall behavior. Daniel 7:1a “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon…” Now this, of course, backs up again. This is a chronological unfolding. But now we are at its period of time when Daniel is probably in his mid-80’s. Daniel 7:1-2 “In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” Now that’s not the Mediterranean or the Atlantic. It’s the great sea of Humanity. Even in that period of time, the then-known world was already teaming with millions of folks. And out of that great sea of Humanity-- Daniel 7:3 “And four great beasts (wild animals) came up from the sea, diverse one from another (each one different from another).” All right, now here we begin the unfolding of these same four empires spoken of as beasts of prey. Verse 4: Daniel 7:4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagles wings: I beheld (in his vision) till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.” Now that’s Daniel’s picture of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar. And we have already seen how Nebuchadnezzar was removed and then his grandson had the empire taken from him. All right, now then, following the Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and Belshazzar-- Daniel 7:5 “And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.” All right, now we have the Mede Empire coming all the way from present day Iran, across present day Iraq, present day Persia, down across the land of Israel or Palestine, and all the way down to Egypt.

That all became part of the Mede and Persian Empire. That’s why it spoke of devouring much flesh. Now this is all history in advance. Now verse 6: Daniel 7:6 “After this (Here comes the next empire.) I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.” Now of course, what that is depicting, I think—you know the story of Alexander the Great. How he went swiftly across the Middle East and conquered more territory than even the Medes and the Persians had conquered, but he did it in such speed for that day and time. You’ve got to remember that they were on foot. They were on horseback and so forth. But he would take chances. In other words, he would cross maybe a bay at low tide, and he could do it quickly enough, that instead of going miles around, he could just cut across. That was Alexander the Great. He took tremendous chances. But by it, he moved so swiftly. All right, now the vision depicts four. Well, we also know from history, that when Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, his empire was divided between his four major generals. So the empire was divided. And the part that affected Israel is that with which we concern ourselves the most. That, of course, was Persia and Egypt, with Israel in the middle. All right, so that was the prophecy, then, of the third empire, the Greek. Now we come to the fourth, which follows the Greek, and that is the Roman. And now we find an empire that, just like the feet of iron and clay was indescribable, so also was Daniel’s vision. He just can’t describe this fourth and final Gentile Empire. Daniel 7:7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was (different or) diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” Now we know that the vision of the Medes and the Persians was a two-horned creature. Greece was a one-horned creature. But this fourth beast has ten horns; and, of course, it jumps all the way over to the end time when the anti-Christ will come out of a ten nation consortium. All right, so the Roman Empire follows all these three previous ones. And it was by far more powerful, more fearsome, and more heartless than any of the rest of them put together. All right, now verse 8. We’ve got to keep moving. Daniel says: Daniel 7:8a “I considered the horns, and behold, there came upon them another little horn,…” Now this is leaping to the Tribulation period. That’s what Scripture does. He’s leaping all the way from 500 B.C. to wherever time is in front of us as yet—when the Tribulation will begin with the appearance of this man of sin, the son of perdition, and all the various terms of Scripture. I think there are twelve of them, if you search through it. Daniel 7:8b “…there came upon them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns (out of the ten) plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn (This anti-Christ, this prince of Daniel chapter 9, the son of perdition in II Thessalonians chapter 2, the man of sin. All those various terms are dealing with this anti-Christ that is yet future. He’s still out in front of us. And here’s his description.)in this horn (in this coming prince) were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” All right, let’s just skip ahead to chapter 11. We pick up a further description of this one little horn who is the coming anti-Christ in Daniel chapter 11. Drop down to verse 21. Now all these descriptions of the anti-Christ, whether it’s in the Old Testament, or whether it’s in Christ’s earthly ministry, or if it’s in the Book of Revelation. They all depict this coming world ruler, which we feel the whole global system is being prepared for. Daniel 11:21a “And in his estate shall stand up a vile person,…” Now, he’s going to be charismatic.

In other words, he’s going to be the kind of a person that the masses will flow to. They’re going to worship him. But yet he is wicked to the ‘nth’ degree. Daniel 11:21 “And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom (And I think it’s basically the European Union. He will obtain--) the kingdom by flatteries.” What does that tell you? He’s a smooth talker if ever there was one. He’s going to be an orator. He’s going to be someone that’s going to be glib with his answers. Nobody’s going to be able to embarrass him. He is going to just simply bamboozle, if I can use that word, he’s going to bamboozle the world. They’re literally going to fall at his feet and acclaim him as the world’s messiah and Israel’s Messiah all wrapped up in one. So, never lose sight of the fact that this little horn of Daniel chapter 7 is the anti-Christ of the coming Tribulation period. We’ll pick it up in our next half hour.

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