#A.E. Peters

[humanoidhistory]

The Undercover Aliens by A.E. van Vogt, Panther Science Fiction, 1976. Cover art by Peter Jones.

[chdarling]

CH, do you have any book recommendations? I’ve been reading all the dark academia trying to find a vibe close to your series, but I’m coming up blank. Anything similar (or just your fave books!) would be amazing!

Oh man, I have the perfect book recommendation for you…except tragically I haven’t written it yet. 😭 Gimme ten years and I’ll get back to you. 😂

Jk jk. I have some real book recommendations that don’t just live as a nebulous blob in my brain. I wouldn’t say they’re like TLE (they’re SO MUCH BETTER 😭) but here are a few books I always recommend:

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt - if you’re looking for Dark Academia, this is the sacred text.

2. The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - the first book is “The Fifth Season” and it’s one of those books I wish I could induce temporary amnesia to read again for the first time

3. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

4. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

5. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

6. The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

7. Possession by A.S. Byatt, specifically for the academia vibes, if that’s what you’re looking for!

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers, which is not only one of my favorite books of all time, but is also hella dark academia, since it takes place at Oxford. The hitch is that it’s part of a series (the Lord Peter novels) and you absolutely cannot start with it first, there are several books you have to read first.

[addisonstars]

"the fire that started it all"

written for day 2 of january @jegulus-microfic with the prompt "fire" totaling 271 words

The infamous Regulus Arcturus Black: the younger Black brother, or the one who will actually uphold the family reputation. Regulus, flanked by his posse of Barty Crouch Jr. and Evan Rosier, neither less intimidating than Regulus himself. Regulus, the one who can burn a heart with a look, and destroy with a touch. 

And the opposite, James Fleamont Potter, the Potters only son, the golden boy, the sun. The one who could make you smile with just a look from him, but also who could make you fear your life if you messed with his friends - Sirius, Remus, and Peter. 

The two of them, staring at each other from across the dining hall, where Regulus looked at James with a fire in his eyes, so bright that it could burn his soul. James would let the fire burn him, take him, and devour him if he could. Unfortunately, Regulus was Sirius’s brother, which meant he was off-limits. Right? 

There was something so addicting, so thrilling about wanting something you couldn't have. James was sure he could find a way around it, a way to be able to hold Regulus in his arms every night, a way for the two of them to be together. 

If Regulus even wanted, James questioned. He was almost positive that Regulus wanted him the way he wanted Reg, but he wasn't sure. There was evidence to support, but it also could have just been him being a little more than delusional. 

There’s only one way to find out, and it might take some work, but you know the saying: “if there's a will, there's a way.” 

so! i think this may be part one of a collection of vignettes looking into how james and reg started their relationship? we'll see where these two blorbos take me <3

-a.s.

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Pixar's ELIO, directed by COCO co-director Adrian Molina, would've opened today... Albeit a much different version of the movie.

The delay from this date to June 2025 meant that the fast food promo deals put in place a while ago couldn't be changed, thus - HOODWINKED TOO style - some of the toys are out now, as seen in the pic above...

Yep, I've heard by now what ELIO has supposedly been going through.

It's a unique Pixar production in that it was delayed by about a year and a half...

... AFTER a teaser trailer and poster for the film were released, following a big info drop on the movie at the fall 2022 D23 Expo...

Not even THE GOOD DINOSAUR, an infamously troubled Pixar production, went through that. That film was delayed before anyone outside of D23 attendees saw any footage from the scrapped version of the film, though renders of the older bigger Arlo and the bipedal version of Spot did leak.

All of this agita for ELIO...

... and I feel fine! Yeah, I'm not really worried about this movie.

It's easy to equate "troubled production" with "oncoming disaster", something that's absolutely gonna fail, an abomination from the get-go.

Yet, TOY STORY 2 and RATATOUILLE exist. Other Pixar films, and plenty of other animated movies, go through some form of hell before the ship is steered away from the cyclone. Sometimes within a year or so from release. The end results are always subjective anyways.

So, I have no idea how ELIO will turn out. If it's a movie *I* myself like, if it's a movie that resonates with the public, yadda yadda yadda.

ELIO, however, does not seem like a GOOD DINOSAUR situation to me. GOOD DINOSAUR not only lost its director (Bob Peterson), but the whole movie was thrown out and the replacement director (Peter Sohn) started over from scratch with a few core elements retained. ELIO seems like it's going to be half the movie we saw in the teaser this past summer, and a lot of new stuff. Sections being reworked, rather than the whole movie being thrown out and Molina & co. starting over. Voice work to be done, especially post-strikes, and they'll need time to animate all the new stuff. Pete Docter isn't the leader John Lasseter was, Lasseter likely would've canned Molina and had another director reimagine the concept/story to his liking.

I think it's cool, if this is all true, that Docter is giving Molina and the filmmakers more time to rework the film. Especially after the marketing campaign has kicked in. With that, it probably should stay in June 2025. I had thought for a bit that it could move up a bit and take MOANA 2's place, because that Thanksgiving release sounds like it's going to be a crunch production, what with Auli'i Cravalho and The Rock signing on *just recently* to reprise their roles nine months before release. I'd delay that to spring 2025, honestly. Disney can afford to miss the Thanksgiving slot this year, they'll be fine. INSIDE OUT 2 and CG LION KING prequel can be their sole animation releases this year, even if the latter won't be billed as such.

As for its box office prospects? Big budget sci-fi animated features, even in a not-COVID world, struggle. Especially space-setting sci-fi animation. TITAN A.E. and TREASURE PLANET, anyone? Only something very low-budget would cut it, but we're talking $200m Pixar movies, not that microbudget CLONE WARS movie. (STAR WARS isn't sci-fi to me, but you get my drift, right?)

Pixar, however, *did* score a box office hit with WALL-E all the way back in 2008. Despite the spacebound adventure and the future Earth setting, the marketing wisely focused on the cute robots in love. That got folks to see it back then, methinks. ELIO will need a similar hook, and it's a summer release as well, so it could be primed for a blockbuster run.

However, most non-sequel animated features play a different game now, in a post-COVID outbreak world: Open tiny, have ludicrous legs. That's fine if your feature cost $90m and you made around $250m at the worldwide box office, but like ELEMENTAL before it, ELIO's probably going to need to make around $500m worldwide to break even in the eyes of the money people - who seem to keep forgetting that animated movies have fantastic longevity beyond their theatrical release. ELEMENTAL had the fun premise and the love story working in its favor after its blah opening weekend (though it was pretty high for a post-outbreak animated opening), ELIO... I don't know what it has at the moment. Will the "kid becomes Earth's ambassador within a massive council of aliens" really get audiences to come flockin' in summer 2025? I do not know, but I hope it does good, for Molina's sake, and so we can be spared the five gazillion "is Pixar circling the drain???" articles...

All I know is, I'm looking forward to it. Space adventure and colorful aliens and stuff, by way of Pixar and their resources.

[weirdlookindog]

Ernest Thesiger with Billy Barty, Norman Ainsley, A.S. Byron, Marie DeForrest, Josephine McKim, Joan Woodbury, and Peter Shaw in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Another well-received speaker during the early months of 1925 was A.E. Smith. His presentations as head of the Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party (CLP) at the Wobbly-controlled Port Arthur Labour Temple, the Orpheum theatre in Fort William, and the Fort William Auditorium focused on unemployment associations and the progress made “in forming educational classes in the East.” They were well attended. Once again, Fred Moore chaired the Fort William meetings. He used them to convince those in attendance that “the radical labour movements were converging towards ‘the day’ when a social revolution would bring about a complete change in system.” The main duty of a labour representative in Parliament, he contended, “should be to weaken, hamper and embarrass the bourgeois parliament.” The process of social revolution, described as a “grim business,” was but a “natural evolution.”

...

The activities of organizers from both the IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] and the CPC [Communist Party of Canada] caught the attention of regional politicians and traditional labour leaders, who began to voice their opposition to immigration and the flood of radical workers into the country. Not all of the attention was negative. The recent success of the Communists, for example, caught the attention of Peter Heenan, the Kenora Labour member of the provincial parliament (MPP) who had been elected in 1919 and again in 1923. Sensing a shift in provincial politics, he sought to tap into the CPC’s growing support despite having recently accepted nomination from the Liberal party. He was refused a meeting. Sensing an opportunity of its own, the CPC parachuted party stalwart A.E. Smith into Port Arthur to run in the riding of Port Arthur-Thunder Bay during the 1925 federal election. Smith and the CPC’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) chose the riding because both felt that the support from the Finnish lumber workers might well carry the day. His candidacy also received the support of the local Canadian Labour Party (no surprise, as Smith was president of the Ontario section) and from Alex Gibson and the Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council. Once more, Smith’s candidacy would reveal the mileage that the Lakehead left could get by attempting to occupy at least some of the political space normally occupied by the centrists.

Much of Smith’s platform reiterated the speeches he had given in the region earlier in the year. Local newspapers described him as eloquent, with even normally skeptical journalists suggesting that “oratory like his had not flown from the tongue of any speaker on the platform in Port Arthur.” Moreover, his politics were clearly enunciated. At the Port Arthur Armoury, for example, he addressed the crowd of 2,000 directly as a “deliberative assembly, a parliament of the people, who are the first factor … in political power.” Smith did well, garnering 1,363 of a total 9,068 votes in perhaps the best showing of any federal Communist candidate in the 1920s. Even the Port Arthur News-Chronicle described the election as the “Most Vigorously Contested in the History of Port Arthur.”

The CPC considered Smith’s showing a clear indication of its growing stature in the region. As Anthony Rasporich’s work reveals, “near majorities were in fact recorded over the Conservative, Liberal, and independent candidates in the south end polls dominated by the Slavs and Finns, and in radical rural pockets of Finns to the north and west of Port Arthur.” It is revealing, however, that he won only three rural polls by narrow margins, and that the Finnish vote was split almost equally among all candidates."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 113, 114-115.

[ninja-muse]

The Twenty Book Challenge:

If you could only keep 20 books (physical/ebook/audio), which would be the ones you would keep?

Rules are simple:

1 book per author. 1 book per series. Tag #twenty books challenge

Tagged by @theinquisitxor

Tagging @lizziethereader @therefugeofbooks @ofliterarynature @franticvampirereads @midnightlibrarymouse @thequeerlibrarian and @magnetarmadda because I'm evil

List of books (and reasoning) under the cut!

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon (rereadable)

Middlegame - Seanan McGuire (rereadable, her best work, can be plummed for writing tricks)

Possession - A.S. Byatt (rereadable, can be plummed for writing tricks)

Dealing with Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede (childhood fave, will never not be delightful)

How to Be a Victorian - Ruth Goodman (for reference)

Or What You Will - Jo Walton (rereadable, can be plummed for writing tricks)

The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (I occasionally take side gigs as an editor, this is a necessity)

The Riverside Chaucer (maximal story-to-book ratio, rereadable, one day I'll finish it)

The Kitteridge Complete Shakespeare (maximal story-to-book ratio, rereadable, one day I'll finish it)

The Hunter's Moon - O.R. Melling (childhood fave, will never not be delightful)

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (childhood fave, rereadable)

Hogfather - Terry Pratchett (rereadable, will never not be delightful)

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (rereadable)

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison (rereadable, will never not be delightful, pretty cover)

Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher (rereadable, will never not be delightful, pretty cover)

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke (rereadable, can be plummed for writing tricks)

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (rereadable, will never not be delightful, pretty cover) (this is a Neil Gaiman book, obviously)

The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan (for reference)

Dancing With My Daughter - Harold Rhenisch (family connections)

Miles in Love - Lois McMaster Bujold (rereadable, will never not be delightful)

[phantom-of-notre-dame]

Books Read in 2023

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Dec. 27, 2022- Jan. 16, 2023)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jan. 16- Jan. 28)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (Jan. 28- Feb. 22)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien (Feb. 22- March 5)

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (March 5- March 15)

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (March 15- March 27)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (March 27- April 24)

Tales of Norse Mythology by Helen A. Guerber (April 24- May 20)

The Medici by Paul Strathern (May 20- June 12)

Ghost Stories of Tennessee by A.S. Mott (June 12- June 21)

The Borgias by Paul Strathern (June 21- July 22)

Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (July 22- August 1)

Carrie by Stephen King (August 1- August 13)

The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth (August 13- September 5)

Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon (September 5- November 4)

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise by Vilém Flusser (November 4- November 7)

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (November 7- November 22)

King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table by Martin J. Dougherty (November 22- December 3)

Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (December 3- December 27)

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (December 27- December 27)

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

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Three ships: 99.9% of the time, I prefer a good qpr. The pairings I actually ship in the romantic/“they need to bang” way are few and far between. I joke about it a lot, sure, but shipping’s not that important to the way I like to approach media. And if I ship something, it’s usually firmly in the “you’re the only motherfucker in this club who can handle me” category. So:

- Alec/St. Vier, of Swordspoint

- Bai Fengjiu/Donghua Dijun, of Three Lives Three Worlds: The Pillow Book

- Attolia Irene and Attolis Eugenides, of the Queen’s Thief books

First ship: Again, ships aren’t my priority and especially weren’t when I was at the “firsts” stage as a young ace. It rarely occurred to me. Retrospectively, I know which narrative-supplied pairings were formative in my tastes, though. Vidanric/Meliara from the Crown Duel books? Sure. Let’s go with that.

Last song: Trauma Queen by Durry

Last movie: …..I genuinely cannot remember the last time I watched a movie. Uh. Hm. It might have been The Assassin (2015) sometime this past summer?????

Currently reading: ahahahahah yeah okay here’s the list:

- Baudolino by Umberto Eco

- The White Wolf by Michael Moorcock

- The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold

- Slewfoot by BROM (which I might not finish not because it isn’t good bc it is, but bc I checked “does the dog die” for a particular trigger and unfortunately yeah it’s in an upcoming chapter)

- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (reread)

- Le Mort d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory (reread)

- Possession by A.S. Byatt

- Lyrics of the Middle Ages ed. James J. Wilhelm

- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (reread)

- The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2 by Ursula K. Le Guin

- The Ink Dark Moon trans. Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aralani (reread)

- The Complete Cold Mountain trans. Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt

- The Sandman Book of Dreams eds. Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer (reread)

…and yes this is a completely normal number of books for me to have going at once.

Currently consuming: a fancy chickpea curry from a good local Indian takeaway place

Currently craving: a glass of milk bc this curry is way spicier than anticipated. Also a functional national government, but a girl can’t get everything she wants in life, y’know?

Please consider yourself tagged if you would like to participate! :D

[addisonstars]

“only if you’re quiet”

written for day 16 of august for @wolfstarmicrofic with the prompt “tent”

416 words :)

Remus didn’t feel Sirius get up and zip up the tent, however; he did feel Sirius climb on top of him in the middle of the night.

“Siri,” Remus says groggily, “what are you doing?”

Remus sees Sirius shake his head, with a little smile on his face. Sirius lowers himself and starts to kiss Remus, with a kind of stolen fervor that makes Remus shiver.

Sirius’s hands move into Remus’s hair, winding their way through the golden-brown strands, tugging gently at them. Remus’s body lifts up off the ground at the feeling, his back arching. He almost, almost, moans at the feeling, but Sirius swallows his moan with his mouth.

With that, they open their mouths to each other, tongues meet together in a dance they have danced before a thousand times. Love meets lust and power meets passion in a familiar embrace.

Remus definitely feels when Sirius starts to move his hands beneath him, coming to slide into his waistband. And this time, he does moan. Sirius pulls away and quiet’s him with a finger to the mouth.

“Shhh, the others will hear you.” Sirius whispers. “I don’t want to wake them.”

The others. They were all on a camping trip, the marauders. Remus and Sirius, James and Regulus and Peter, Mary, Lily, Pandora, Dorcas, Marlene and Barty and Evan. They were all close by, and since the tents were just pieces of fabric, every sound would be heard.

“Sirius,” Remus hisses, “we probably shouldn’t be doing this then.” He is not looking forward to the jokes that would be made if they were heard.

“That’s part of the fun Moony,” Sirius says, coming to take off Remus’s pants, then his own. “And, if you can be quiet, then we shouldn’t have a problem, should we?” Sirius raises his eyebrows, with a smirk on his face.

Remus doesn’t respond, but just wraps his hands around the back of Sirius’s thighs,

pulling his body flush to meet the other boys, lips crashing together.

***

At breakfast the next morning, Regulus has a sly smirk on his face that makes Sirius suspicious. And when they finish cooking their sausage and start eating, Regulus clears his throat and starts talking.

“That sausage remind you of anything Lupin? You know we all heard you last night.” Regulus snickers.

Remus goes bright red, his cheeks lighting up in color.

Sirius flushes, but it quickly fades into laughter. “I told you to be quiet.”

Remus goes even redder at the statement.

i don’t think you understand how obsessed i am with them. have a lovely days guys!!

-a.s.

[iamaboredpotatonugget]

Best written Skip Wescott Fanfics

Peter's got a secret. It's starting to affect his relationship with Tony. Tony vows to figure it out, and he does not like what he finds.

Peter drew in a shaky breath, feeling the burn as tears fell down his cheeks. “I know you want me to be your- your- I don’t know, but I just can’t be that for someone again, it’s so- so much, and you’re married, you have a daughter, and it’s- I’m sorry. It’s just, it’s too- and I don’t even like you like that, I- I’m sorry.”

Now he’d done it, now Mr. Stark would be looking at him with a heartbroken expression, hurt and betrayed and…

Peter looked up at the man only to see nothing but shock and confusion on his features.

“Peter… Do you think that I have… romantic feelings for you?”

“I was nine.”

This is how it starts. This is how the pure, agonizing hatred towards someone Tony’s never known, will never know, begins. This is how the rug is pulled from his feet. With three, seemingly insignificant words

Peter, one hand fisting in the wool of Tony’s sweater, keeps his eyes locked on the television screen and lets Tony do what he does best of all: shield him. He metaphorically laps at his wounds. Slowly eases back into his body, like trying on stiff new denim. Breathes, and at once feels at ease. Peter is here, on Tony’s ugly couch, with Tony, who smells like black coffee and plain Pringles and metal, and Peter is never safer than he is when they’re like this.

Skip’s out of jail and that’s a good thing.

This becomes a sort of mantra, and Peter’s almost able to believe it.

In the privacy of his mind, Ned liked to pretend he could accurately measure his best friend’s sudden switch in a mockery of the abbreviated B.S. and A.S.

Before Skip and After Skip.

There's a scary scar above Peter's hip and Tony is concerned.

"They got me a babysitter," Peter continues, forcibly tearing himself back to the present. He swallows. "His name.. his name was Skip."

He hasn’t said that name in so long that it sounds foreign on his tongue, like a language he was once fluent in but forgot.

He had never, ever expected to see Skip again, not in this lifetime at least. He’d feared it, sure, had nightmares about it, of course, but the rational part of his mind concluded that it wasn’t a very plausible scenario. Not once, never in a million years would he have expected to find that monster in the Starks’ home.

Where did you learn that?” Tony asks, voice raw.

The twiddling stops. That’s all Tony can make out from the outskirts of his line of vision. He’s not ready to lift his head from his hands yet and look at the kid.

“Um, Google?”

“Geez.” The things kids Google these days. Tony has half a mind to ask what drove Peter to search ways to stop a panic attack, but the better part of him leaves the question untouched.

[rooshappy]

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Last Song: Specimen by Daisy The Great

Last Show: Endeavour

Currently Watching: Endeavour 

Currently Reading: Poems of A.E. Housman (re reading!) and something about Peter Pan I borrowed from the library. 

Current Obsession:  (Same obsessions as always I think?) Endeavour and other mystery shows, music, drawing, writing, photography things! and probably crisps. I really like crisps. 

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any character with an asterix is one who’s media/book i haven’t finished. i’ll still write for them, but it might not be as accurate.

MARVEL

(all movies/Netflix shows, since i haven’t read the comics)

MCU: Pietro Maximoff, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Peter Parker

*Daredevil: Matt Murdock

*The Punisher: Frank Castle

X-Men: Alex Summers, Logan Howlett, Charles Xavier

The Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker

DC

(also only movies/shows)

Supergirl: Winn Schott, Mon-El

The Sandman: Dream of the Endless

DC: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Cavill!Clark Kent, Bale!Bruce Wayne, Garfield Logan

SCI-FI

Star Trek: Bones McCoy, Jim Kirk

Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Din Djarin

Firefly/Serenity: Malcolm Reynolds, Simon Tam

Doctor Who: 10th Doctor

Titan A.E.: Cale Tucker

FANTASY

The Witcher Netflix: Jaskier, Geralt

Lord of the Rings: Legolas

Narnia: Prince/King Caspian

Merlin: Gwaine, Merlin, Arthur

*Once Upon A Time: Killian Jones

Stardust: Tristan Thorn

MISC TV SHOWS

Bridgerton: Benedict Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton

*Peaky Blinders: Thomas Shelby

Gilmore Girls: Jess Mariano

Teen Wolf: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale

Supernatural: Dean Winchester

Julie and the Phantoms: Reggie Peters

B99: Jake Peralta

CAoS: Nicholas Scratch

*Stranger Things: Steve Harrington

MISC MOVIES

Kingsman: Eggsy Unwin, Agent Whiskey

6 Underground: 4/Billy

The Grey Man: Sierra Six/Courtland Gentry

Sky High: Warren Peace

HTTYD: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third

Howl’s Moving Castle: Howl Pendragon

Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones

Pacific Rim: Raleigh Beckett

Anastasia: Dmitri

Descendants: Harry Hook

BOOKS

Marauders: Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin

RiordanVerse: Percy Jackson, Jason Grace

ACOTAR: Cassian

Fourth Wing: Xaden Riorson, Liam Mairi

*Divine Rivals: Roman C. Kitt

Married to Magic series: King Eldas,

The Hunger Games: Finnick Odair

*Grishaverse: Nikolai Lantsov, Matthias Helvar

The Darkest Minds: Liam Stewart

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Say it ain't so! Major Disney delays...

The biggest, for me, is Pixar's original sci-fi movie ELIO leaving March 2024...

Not for June 2024, where INSIDE OUT 2 is parked...

But June 2025... Yep... 2025...

For a movie that has teaser poster and a teaser trailer...

The actor's side of the strike is ongoing, yes, but the severity of this delay seems to imply something else is afoot...

This is the biggest delay for a Pixar movie since the time they delayed THE GOOD DINOSAUR, originally set for a late May 2014 debut, all the way to Thanksgiving 2015... Two movies that were to open after it, opened before it. The movie was, of course, delayed because John Lasseter was unsatisfied with director Bob Peterson's work on the movie and had him removed. The plan was to originally have some of the Brain Trust "shepherd" various sections of the incomplete movie and still possibly make the May 2014 release date (as a lot of assets had been rendered, possibly animated even), until it was decided to throw it all out and start over. Peter Sohn was handed the reins, and worked off of some basic core ideas of Peterson's movie/concept. Naturally, they needed about a year to not only turn it around, but make the movie.

I'm not sure if that's happening to ELIO, because it was but a few months away and has a teaser. GOOD DINOSAUR didn't have that before the director removal and subsequent delay, only the footage and concept art people saw at the 2013 D23 Expo.

Maybe some sections need work or need to be redone, without impacting much of the finished movie. Very possible. CG allows those kinds of fixes more so than a hand-drawn film does, so maybe...

Or this could be a dirty tactic on the studio's part. "You're gonna keep striking? Well then! No movies released in the first quarter of next year!" A scare tactic to make SAG-AFTRA cave, but we know SAG-AFTRA... They'll stand firm.

I'm thinking it could also have to do with INSIDE OUT 2 existing. That has the juicy mid-June slot for this year, typically a prime slot for a Pixar. At least, in pre-COVID times. And also, its a sequel to one of their biggest original movies... Which was also a June release in its respective release year (2015). Instead of pushing INSIDE OUT 2 back a full year, Disney figures... Nah, make people wait for the original alien movie, INSIDE OUT 2 is top priority! A surefire hit, too, after years of Pixars either going straight to Disney+ or not being massive at the box office. ELEMENTAL may have just eked out, but Disney probably wants a guaranteed big hit next from Pixar, not a riskier big-budget science fiction animated movie.

Weird coincidence. After INSIDE OUT in 2015 came GOOD DINOSAUR. We went from INSIDE OUT to a Peter Sohn-directed movie. Now, we go from the Peter Sohn-directed ELEMENTAL to an INSIDE OUT sequel. Rhythm and rhyme. Just me? Probably.

We know how those tend to do at the domestic box office... TITAN A.E., ATLANTIS, TREASURE PLANET, LIGHTYEAR, STRANGE WORLD-

So... Yeah... Pixar's slate is now INSIDE OUT 2 in June 2024, ELIO in June 2025... Then two movies set for 2026, one in March, one in June. I reckon TOY STORY 5 is going to be the June 2026 movie, and one of the originals for March.

In addition to these delays, Disney removed the Searchlight movie MAGAZINE DREAMS from the calendar entirely, like they did with THE BIKERIDERS a few weeks back. The live-action SNOW WHITE vacated March 2024 as well. Instead of booting the LION KING prequel MUFASA out of summer 2024, SNOW WHITE has instead been delayed all the way to March 2025...

So, Disney has no big tenptole-type movies - after WISH until the pending May release of DEADPOOL 3.

Outside of POOR THINGS, I don't think they really have anything else, period... Until DEADPOOL 3. Again, in May...

Ya know, if they just... Paid their actors...