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Kolory zla. Czerwien - 'Colors of Evil: Red' Review
When a young woman's mutilated body is found on a beach, an honest law enforcement officer joins forces with the victim's mother to unravel a dark web of brutal murders in "Colors of Evil: Red".
Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) Director: Adrian Panek Writers: Lukasz M. Maciejewski, Adrian Panek, Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak When a young woman’s naked body is washed up on a beach, autopsy reveals she was brutally killed in the same manner as another murder victim from 15 years ago. An ambitious prosecutor begins to dig deeper into the case and teams up with the victim’s mother to…
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manifestation, baby! | tom blyth



summary: fans find out tom’s girlfriend has an old youtube channel where she reviewed the ballad of songbirds and snakes (and she definitely manifested her life)
an: the way i thought about this idea and quickly wrote it down so i didn’t forget it. i used to have an app that made those fake tweets but i’m just tired to make fake profiles 😭 maybe i’ll change it later idk
for the purpose of this imagine, let’s pretend tbosas book was published between 2017-2019


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tomblythxsnow apparently tom’s girlfriend has an old youtube channel where she reviews books and she reviewed the ballad of songbirds and snakes and she literally manifested her future 😭
lucymygf WHATTT WHATS HER CHANNEL NAME
tomblythxsnow it’s yn’s book corner. she hasn’t posted since 2019 ngl i need her to review a little life because that book destroyed me
nat76_ omg i used to watch her videos!! i’m still subscribed to her 😭 i remember only buying and reading the books she liked because i wanted to be her so bad
j4ckaszlol “if someone ever makes a movie adaptation of this book and casts someone attractive to play snow then i am sorry for the person i become” REALLLLL
graybairdsmockingjay dude the part where she said “i’m calling it now whoever plays young snow will be my boyfriend. movie studios always cast someone attractive as the younger version of a character!” MY JAW DROPPED SHE NEEDS TO TELL ME HER WAYS

“guess what rachel just sent me.” you heard tom say when he arrived to your shared apartment.
“wedding invitations?!” you gasped as you almost stood up from the sofa since you were watching reruns of criminal minds, but tom stopped you.
“no, it’s better!” tom sat beside you and showed you his phone. “why didn’t you tell me you had a youtube channel?” on his phone screen was your review of the ballad of songbirds and snakes, which had become a very popular video over the past couple of days.
you hid your face with a pillow and groaned. “don’t remind me. i just wanted to talk about my books and my family didn’t care. don’t watch it! it’s embarrassing!”
“i think it’s cute. aw look, your dog made a cameo!” he pointed at your old dog you used to have that walked into the frame.
“indi! no, come sit right here. oh . . . and she’s walking away. okay, anyways.” your younger self said in the video
“indi? why Indi?” tom asked you even though you were still hiding from embarrassment.
“after indiana jones. my dad and i loved those movies and he gifted me indi as a birthday present.” you confessed.
“love, don’t be embarrassed. i think it’s cute that you manifested your life according to the comments on instagram,” tom paused the video then cuddled up to you. “i won’t watch it if you don’t want me to.”
“it’s fine, i just didn’t think anyone would find it. we can watch it together.” you uncovered yourself and sat down properly to watch the video with tom. before he pressed the play button and together you watch your younger self review the book.
“i’ve read all the hunger games books at least four times and this one did not disappoint. but i do hope whoever ends up being cast as young snow is someone hot. i’m sorry it’s the rules! and they will be my boyfriend, i’m calling dibs.”
tom smirked at you. “if only younger you could see you now.”
“she would definitely think ‘wow, how did we pull this beautiful man?’ then be confused as to why the hunger games and fnaf is trending in 2023.”




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ynlovesbooks told ya. love you tomblyth ❤️
rachelzegler she is THAT girl
ynlovesbooks no u
everdeenx12 bestie he’s EVIL
ynlovesbooks he’s a walking red flag but my favorite color is red 😍
chamaletproblems pls tell me how you did this
ynlovesbooks i figured out who they were casting and kept him hostage until he agreed to be my bf
tomblyth true
#tom blyth one shot#tom blyth fanfic#tom blyth imagine#tom blyth x reader#tom blyth#coriolanus snow#the hunger games#the hunger games the ballad of songbirds & snakes#tbosas
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Transformers One Review
For the sake of convenience, I’ll be referring to the characters as their new names (Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee) instead of their old ones (Orion Pax, D-16, B-127).
Also, I didn’t grow up with Transformers, so this will be mostly from an outsider’s perspective. I can’t tell what possibly was or wasn’t a retcon or how accurate to the source material it was, but I think the background info on their world held up very well and they were able to explain it clearly to new viewers like me. It definitely would have hit harder if I grew up with Transformers and knew more than just facts from cultural osmosis, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot.
Notes/Things I’m Neutral On
Very weird to hear my name (Dee) being said throughout most of the movie by Chris Hemsworth’s bad American accent.
Also, I forgot that Megatron has transformed into ground vehicles before. I only ever knew him to turn into a jet, so I was kind of confused that he was a tank in this movie. I hope we get to see him get upgraded to a jet in the next one, but the tank is still cool.
Pros/Things I Liked
Simple but effective color theory with their eye colors. Main good guys have blue while Megatron has yellow, sitting between good and bad. Still a friendly color at first, but slowly turns closer to orange and then fully red as his anger and hatred consume him (and after he met the red-eyed Starscream, a cowardly man who ends up enabling Megatron‘s more violent/aggressive tendencies)
○ Also I don’t know if I was just seeing things, but it looked like Megatron’s eyes got more yellow whenever he looked at Optimus which is so sad and so gay.
I really thought they were gonna push a romance between Elita and either Bumblebee (goofy manchild x competent woman trope) or Optimus (male lead x female lead, blue x pink), but I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t. Sadly, there’s still time for it in future installments, but I can dream.
Not to be gay, but spider woman sexy. Airachnid was so obviously evil that it was funny, but I can’t fault Sentinel for having her around because I, too, would want a deadly goth woman to be my right-hand lady. They felt like the evil, less developed versions of Mustang and Hawkeye. I am in love.
The animation is gorgeousssss. The environments, the character designs, the fight choreography, the transformations, the lighting, the texture, mwah mwah MWAH STUNNING!!!
○ Sorry, I’m never gonna stop talking about this. The way they were able to make square/blocky figures move so fluidly was fantastic (and proof of concept that a fully animated Minecraft movie would have worked). ○ The camera angles were also great for framing both the dramatic, intense, and/or high-action moments like fights or chase scenes, while also adding a lot to the comedic moments. Like when the camera stays tracking Optimus’ face when running through the forest, only for him to suddenly fall down a cliff neither he nor us saw coming, only to then zoom out to the perspective of the guards below, showing them stumbling and falling. ○ The contrast between the mechanical and organic elements on the surface were really cool, and the way it was introduced was able to convey this idea that organic life was this strange, alien thing. ○ The way the surface just rebuilds itself into these jagged, blocky terrains was really unique and interesting! It felt like a glitched computer model because of its rougher shapes which really added to the fear and hostility of the surface.
90% of their jokes landed and they landed hard. The bit where Optimus looks like he’s about to transform and then just fucking books it is incredible. The audio and camera work help add to these as well, like the music building as Optimus pretends to transform, the camera zooming in close to different parts of him, only for all background noise to cut out as it shows Optimus running away. I won’t name every joke and quip I found funny or we’d be here all day, but they’re certainly a highlight of the movie.
I love Keegan-Michael Key, but I wasn’t a fan of him as the comic relief character of Toad in the Mario movie. When Bumblebee showed up I got a little nervous, but I really loved his performance of the character.
I really liked the midpoint pep talk about hope. That’s a really nice reason that Optimus is the leader despite not being as skilled as other people. He has the hope for a better future and it was a core part of his character from the beginning, and I really like the idea that a leader is someone who can envision a brighter future no matter what.
Alpha Trion transforming was SICK AS FUCK!!! I love that he was more animalistic when the rest of the cast become vehicles. His final fight was so cool, and it actually made me kind of emotional to see him at the end with the rest of the Prime ghosts.
The stabbings? The beheadings?? The branding??? The way Megatron tore Sentinel in half and then ripped his heart out on-screen holy shit???? This movie was incredibly brutal and I loved it. It’s such an interesting phenomenon that children’s media is allowed to be about as graphic as they want as long as it’s against robots, even incredibly sentient ones like in the Transformers series.
○ I watched the 1986 Transformers movie for a class earlier this year, and while it also had a lot of brutality in it’s fights, the new movie felt more intense. Part of this could be attributed to me watching the 2024 movie on a big screen vs the 1986 movie in my living room, but there are other reasons as well. The 1986 movie had more upbeat songs playing over the fights, specifically songs like The Touch and Dare, which helped keep the tone lighter and more exciting. The 2024 movie didn’t have anything like that, allowing the action, while still cool and exciting, to take on a more serious tone. This is also emphasized by the graphics of the movie being 3D instead of 2D. While the 2D 1986 movie is a stunning masterpiece, people still view it with the idea in mind that, since it’s a cartoon, the stakes and story will be less intense. The 2024 movie being 3D with very detailed graphics and lighting already has more visual intensity. The characters are still these bright, poppy colors, but they can come across more moody and dark due to the environments, lighting, and textures that the 3D medium more easily allows. And while the painted backgrounds and cell shading of the old movie are great, the CGI backgrounds are a lot closer to realism, so the harsher elements like metal and rock, which make up a vast majority of the environment and characters, look real too.
The way Megatron’s hate consumed him to the point where he started acting more villainous and, while not entirely similar to Sentinel, still ended up hurting innocent people was tragic. Trying to push away and deny everything about a person only to wind up being just like them. This was perfectly shown in the end credit scene where Megatron is branding himself and the new Decepticons with Megatronus Prime’s face. To him, it may be him reclaiming the traumatic experience and literally using it like a badge of honor, as well as thinking he’s honoring Megatronus Prime. But in reality, he’s just inflicting the same trauma done to him onto others, just like Sentinel. Such a cool way to show how every villain is the hero of their own story.
The doomed yaoiiiiii I’m never gonna get over them. The only other Transformers media I’ve consumed is the 1986 movie, which kills off Optimus Prime in the first 25 minutes and Megatron becomes Galvatron, so I never knew the depths of their homoerotic relationship.
I’m a sucker for “the hero and villain used the be friends (and maybe even lovers?)” trope, so Optimus and Megatron’s relationship and the general premise of the movie was already a slam dunk for me.
I’m also a fan of legacy stories like Avatar and She-Ra. While this movie didn’t get as in-depth with the concept, I enjoyed that they played with the idea of legacy and taking up the mantle of the former Primes.
I absolutely loved the end message that Optimus gives us. Hope, freedom, and autonomy are incredibly important things to learn, and as a trans person who very much wants to keep control over what I do with my body, I really resonated with that last one. I think it’s really cool that they included a message like that in this children’s movie about robots that turn into cars.
Regarding the message of autonomy, I love that it gives the term Autobots a new meaning. Auto meaning “automobile”, since they transform into cars, and Auto meaning “self”, as they are now fully their own bots with control over themselves.
Cons/Things I Disliked
Mid vocal performances from everyone except Brian Tyree Henry and Keegan-Michael Key. And as I mentioned before, it was hard not to focus on Chris’ attempts at an American accent, not to mention how recognizable his, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s, voices are.
The plot felt a little disjointed in the first 1/3-ish.
○ Good setup with the main characters being an oppressed working class with one dreaming of better things and the other hesitant to fall out of line or take risks. But then suddenly there’s a race, and then they’re in it, and then they lose, and then their leader wants to promote them. At first it feels like there are hints that he’s a scummy celebrity-type and that meeting their hero is what will spur on the disillusionment with their society. But then some random douchebag that doesn’t like them reassigns them which goes against their leader’s command, and that’s how the plot kicks off? ○ Also, Elita’s involvement felt kind of rushed/hand-waved. They all get stuck on the surface, but instead of trying to make her way back to report them like she was saying she would for the past few minutes, she makes a complete 180 and heads the expedition herself. ○ It all just felt a little strange, but once it got going the rest of the plot felt fine.
Megatron’s descent into “evil” felt kind of rushed. I understand that he feels betrayed and I really love where the character ends up by the end, but it felt like a real 180 without a lot of build up.
Some jokes fell flat or felt annoying and kinda cringe. That’s the territory of children’s movies though, so par for the course.
TLDR
Overall, this movie was a really fun watch and I’d love to go see it again. While some parts fall a little flat, the movie is lifted from mediocrity by its many Pros. From the stunning visuals, to the quick humor, to the tragic origins of two friends driven apart by their ideals, I’d recommend this movie to anyone interested in animation or the Transformers brand.
8.82/10
#I knew that Optimus and Megatron were like soulmates but for murder but I never really GOT IT before now#sobbing and crying I need to watch this again#long post#transformers one#transformers#transformers one spoilers#optimus prime#orion pax#megatron#bumblebee#b 127#elita#elita one#I'm going to make a confession guys. I think the reason I like the 'enemies used to be friends' trope so much is because of spongebob#they advertised a special episode forever ago about the origins of Mr. Krabs and Plankton#and the big twist was that they used to be friends!!! but their relationship fell apart after a fight and they've been enemies ever since#and I ate that shit up as a kid!!! my mind was blown and I've never been the same since. it did irreparable things to my brain chemistry#so everyone say thank you to spongebob for letting me appreciate the toxic doomed robot yaoi
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my webcomic's volume 1 kickstarter ENDS in THREE DAYS!!!!!!!! so I am telling you guys about my comic as frankly as I can HAHAHA!!
Cargo is about smugglers. They live in a version of Florida where, post zombie-apocalypse, the government went INSANE and made everything illegal... like they made "wearing excessive amounts of the color red" a fineable offense I'm not kidding around, EVERYTHING is illegal. More things:
Enter SJ Khan, a woman with a brain that can only invent rube goldberg machine style solutions to her problems. She enlists an old friend to help her start a smuggling company and the two of them round up a crew that's just seeping with soap-opera levels of drama.
This comic is based on a comic I drew a little over 1 decade ago. It's about living with strangers, about what you choose to look at or are allowed to look at, and most importantly it's about watching weird guys doing unpredictable things. It is funny. I am learning how to draw Florida for it, here, look:
I call it an "evil sitcom". Someone once described it as using "hey i'm not 100% sure you can have a main character do that" comedy... and that feels right to me too.
It's an ensemble cast, but the story centers around a team of smugglers. I love this cast so much, they're all so strange and it's so fun to write all their various quirks crashing into each other. Here's a (only slightly outdated) height chart of the entire extended cast.
You know the weird relationships you get with coworkers, where you're forced to be near them and cooperate with them on some level for most of your waking hours regardless of how you feel about them? That's what we're dealing with here. I had a review describe it as "not found family, but found acquaintances" which. Yeah. Exactly. 😂😂
Some characters and relationships you can expect to see in Cargo:
An absolute mess of a man who micromanages his entire crew but especially the FIFTEEN YEAR OLD (!!!!!!) INDENTURED SERVANT (!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!!!!) (HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (AHHHHHHHH WHY DID I LEAD WITH THIS ONE!!!!!!!)
This old guy who works for them has MASSIVE MASSIVE beef with the boss lady because 10 years ago she framed him for a crime he didn't commit which caused him to be in prison for years and years. But for some reason they still care about each other.
You know that tweet that's like "a job will have you..." wait I can just find the tweet and show you guys. This one

Well anyways. Cargo has that one. It's between a guy who is a medical celebrity because he got the zombie parasite and then got cured and a very nice very violent old lady. They are the ship goofballs they are also probably the two most actively dangerous people here LMAO
This kid who loves his cat and is doing his best to avoid give a single drop of his precious energy to engaging with the rest of these clowns.
One of the characters did something that made my readers say this.
I could go on but this post is so long already. So instead, links.
You can read it online on Comic Fury or Tapas!
And here's my Kickstarter link again!
Here's art I drew of the crew ~8 years ago. A sincere thank you for looking at this post, godspeed and goodnight!
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as is tradition here are my top nine new-to-me watches of the year—in no particular order (l-r, top row to bottom row):
the african desperate (martine syms, 2022) not a pretty picture (martha coolidge, 1975) anatomy of a fall (justine triet, 2023) the girls (mai zetterling, 1968) network (sidney lumet, 1976) the year of the cannibals (liliana cavani, 1970) all the beauty and the bloodshed (laura poitras, 2022) straight on till morning (peter collinson, 1972) microhabitat (jeon go-woon, 2017)
i hit 150 total films and my continual goal of half of the films by women and nonbinary filmmakers, and still definitely need to keep up with deliberately seeking out films by directors of color! feel free to tell me your faves if you’ve seen any of these 🖤👀🎬🍿🎥
i'll tag @privatejoker / @wanlittlehusk / @majorbaby / @edwardalbee / @draftdodgerag / @lesbiancolumbo / @frmulcahy / @nelson-riddle-me-this / @firewalkwithmedvd and anyone else who'd like to share their top watches of the year!
full list of films for the year is included below, favorites are bolded in red:
Farewell Amor (Ekwa Msangi, 2020)
Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare (Liza Williams, 2023)
Blacks Britannica (David Koff, 1978)
New Year, New You (Sophia Takal, 2023)
Family Band: The Cowsills Story (Louise Palanker and Bill Filipiak, 2011)
The Color Purple (Blitz Bazawule, 2023)
The Apology (Alison Star Locke, 2022)
Close (Lukas Dhont, 2022)
Unintended (Anja Murmann, 2018)
Other People’s Children (Liz Hinlein, 2015)
Omega Rising Women of Rastafari (D. Elmina Davis, 1988)
The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer, 1969)
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (Adrian Țofei, 2015)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)
Chowchilla (Paul Solet, 2023)
Intimate Relations (Philip Goodhew, 1996)
Monument (Jagoda Szelc, 2018)
After Sherman (Jon Sesrie Goff, 2022)
Remnants of the Watts Festival (Ulysses Jenkins, 1980)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
Down Low (Rightor Doyle, 2023)
Our Father, the Devil (Ellie Foumbi, 2021)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)
Youngblood (Noel Nosseck, 1978)
Joy Division - Under Review (Christian Davies, 2006)
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (Steve Sullivan, 2018)
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (Robert Mugge, 1980)
Fanny: The Right To Rock (Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021)
Depeche Mode: The Dark Progression (Alec Lindsell, 2009)
Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution (Thomas Arnold, 2008)
Blank City (Celine Danhier, 2010)
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Ric Burns, 2019)
Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023)
Black Is Beltza (Fermín Muguruza, 2018)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie, 2016)
The Humans (Stephen Karam, 2021)
Relative (Tracey Arcabasso Smith, 2022)
The Believer (Henry Bean, 2001)
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (Brian Lindstrom and Andy Brown, 2022)
Animals (Collin Schiffli, 2014)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Stephen Kijak, 2006)
Novitiate (Maggie Betts, 2017)
Hunger (Henning Carlsen, 1966)
Late Night With The Devil (Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes, 2023)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)
New York Doll (Greg Whiteley, 2005)
The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin, 2023)
Your Fat Friend (Jeanie Finlay, 2023)
Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968 (Bestor Cram and Judy Richardson, 2008)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
Uptight (Jules Dassin, 1968)
Messiah of Evil (Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, 1973)
Plastic Paradise (Brett O’Bourke, 2013)
You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener, 2023)
Pretty Poison (Noel Black, 1968)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)
Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub, 2018)
Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982)
Betty: They Say I’m Different (Philip Cox, 2017)
Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 2018)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023)
Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
The Beach Boys (Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, 2024)
High and Low (Kevin Macdonald, 2023)
Brats (Andrew McCarthy, 2024)
I Saw The TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2023)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
This Closeness (Kit Zauhar, 2023)
How To Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker, 2023)
American Commune (Rena Mundo Croshere and Nadine Mundo, 2013)
Look In Any Window (William Alland, 1961)
Private Property (Leslie Stevens, 1960)
We’re Still Here: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited (Antonino D’Ambrosio, 2015)
The Wobblies (Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, 1979)
Last Summer Won’t Happen (Tom Hurwitz and Peter Gessner, 1968)
Goodbye Gemini (Alan Gibson, 1970)
Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story (Posy Dixon, 2019)
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, 2021)
The Passenger (Carter Smith, 2023)
The Boys Who Said No (Judith Ehrlich, 2020)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection (Randy Martin, 2023)
...And Justice For All (Norm Jewison, 1978)
I Used To Be Funny (Ally Pankiw, 2023)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Straight On Till Morning (Peter Collinson, 1972)
The Same Difference: Gender Roles in the Black Lesbian Community (Nneka Onuorah, 2015)
Thanksgiving (Eli Roth, 2023)
Sorry/Not Sorry (Caroline Suh and Cara Mones, 2023)
Am I OK? (Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, 2022)
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise (Maeve O’Boyle, Miri Navasky, and Karen O’Connor, 2023)
No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007)
The Strings (Ryan Glover, 2020)
The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996)
Woman of the Hour (Anna Kendrick, 2024)
The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019)
Tabloid (Errol Mark Morris, 2010)
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024)
Miller’s Girl (Jade Halley Bartlett, 2024)
Give Me Pity! (Amanda Kramer, 2022)
Landlocked (Paul Owens, 2021)
Perfect Love (Catherine Breillat, 1996)
Not a Pretty Picture (Martha Coolidge, 1975)
Seeking Mavis Beacon (Jazmin Jones, 2024)
Renfield (Chris McKay, 2023)
Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)
An Angel At My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
Longlegs (Oz Perkins, 2024)
Rare Beasts (Billie Piper, 2019)
Nightman (Mélanie Delloye-Betancourt, 2023)
The Changin’ Times of Ike White (Daniel Vernon, 2020)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
The Year of the Cannibals (Liliana Cavani, 1970)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr, 2024)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev, 2011)
Marjoe (Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, 1972)
Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024)
Angela (Rebecca Miller, 1995)
The Morning After (Richard T. Heffron, 1974)
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, 2023)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)
Hold Your Breath (Karrie Crouse and Will Joines, 2024)
What Comes Around (Amy Redford, 2022)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne, 2008)
Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023)
The Girls (Mai Zetterling, 1968)
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
Victim/Suspect (Nancy Schwartzman, 2023)
The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022)
Les Nôtres (Jeanne Leblanc, 2020)
A Sacrifice (Jordan Scott, 2024)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022)
My Name is Not Ali (Viola Shafik, 2011)
Committed (Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman, 1984)
Chained (Jennifer Lynch, 2012)
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (Heiny Srour, 1974)
All Power To The People! (Lee Lew-Lee, 1997)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018)
Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, 2023)
The Year Between (Alex Heller, 2022)
Loved (Erin Dignam, 1997)
Girl In The Picture (Skye Borgman, 2022)
Microhabitat (Jeon Go-Woon, 2017)
Dear Ex (Mag Hsu and Chih-yen Hsu, 2018)
#i might watch more films between now and tomorrow so who knows but here's the final list; 150 new to me features feels like a good yearly#goal and if i surpass it all the better lol#the african desperate was my top film of the year <3
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Art for Juliette Cross' romantasy Firebird, book one of The Fire That Binds.
I don't know who Firebird is for, besides specifically me, because like, the writing style is very sort of YA (like most romantasies) but the content is very dark in places, the romance is kind of too quick fated mates to really hit the yearning good, and it's not very smutty, so I think it's lackluster as a classic sort of romantasy. But it is really heavy on the worldbuilding stuff, which tragically I like very much. There are dragons. They come in different colors. We discuss how big the doorways have to be.
I read it while running a 100 F fever on my couch, lost in deep deep fantasies of people who are really big and turn into dragons in even-more-evil-than-usual dragon-shifter-au Rome.
Anyway the next book is about Trajan which is very exciting for me because I did in fact like him best out of all the characters. We love a smartass kind of crafty prettyboy bestie. I hope he manipulates the shit out of some people.
1 - Julian loosing control of the dragon and having it wreck his shit. Much love to the fact that the transformations sound kind of painful and disorienting as the dragon hijacks your brain. And SUPER much love to the fact that the dragon is a fully independent entity with it's own thoughts and half-skin isn't just "humans who look like dragons" but actually a bunch of humans with dragon brain that makes them crazy sometimes. Fun!
2- Julian and Trajan and a griseo and a media nocte dragon. idk. The scale is not correct, the griseo feels ok-ish as a base but the nocte is... too busy. I need it to look like a sibling to the ignis. Julian and Trajan feel good to me. I imagine Julius is very stocky and regal as a red dragon and Trajan is more slinky, both of them are a little washed out here. Julian should be the color in his shifter pic and Trajan is described as being more blue-black. I think the countershading is fun though so imma keep that. Malina finds Trajan more upsetting to look at than Julian so I imagine he's got that "evil dragon" pointy edge to him.
3 - Julian and his full half-skin sketches, once again a little off scaling-wise but like. Still good for the fact that both the human and half-skin versions of dragons are Big. I wanted half-skin to look kind of brutish and wrong, they're described as being barely in check except for a few people who are particularly skilled at controlling the dragon (Julian, Trajan). I respect this. The full dragon is too big to fit in my pics.
Reviews seem to be torn between "this was fun!" and "how dare you write a master/slave relationship in ancient Rome this is The MOst Abhorrent Thing Ever and So Immoral" but my friends "I am a war prize but through my secret super powers and fiery personality will make this bighuge sad man tormented by how evil his government is fall madly in love with me and forsake his previous path" is like, romance books 101, go read some old cheap vintage romance paperbacks, or better yet, a warhammer 40k book, and come back to me about immoral book woes. The Imperium of Man is like Rome. But. You know... More fun! *wistfully thinks about how comically shit the Imperium is*
40k is on the brain because I was like ROBOUTE?????? IS THAT YOU???? for a large chunk of the novel, but like I said, delirious. I don't think it's good good but I want the second book to come out like... Right now. I need it. Julian is ok, I like Malina a lot, and I hope Lela is even more fun I hope she's a wreck.
#like war prize slavery romance is SO sooo basic yall#lest I point out that the bighuge sad man's plotline is LITERALLY “I am so sad about how terrible rome is”#“I must try to overthrow the government with my allies so we can stop being evil”#my honest critique is she should have fucked him in half-skin. THERE. I SAID IT.#GIRL. BONE THAT DRAGON. FOR MEEEEEEEE.#the dragoon diaries#dragon#transformation#art#fantasy#firebird book#the fire that binds#juliette cross#dragoon draws
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The Sign Commentary Review Ep 5
I'm going to link to my episode 3 commentary because I gave a lot of Thailand mythology information. While I will be watching the show for the first time now and giving you my commentary. I've been Ask a question that gave me heads up that a lot of mythology will show up in this episode. So let's go!
We start the series off with this guy who has a Naga back tat. Then we see the front with him dripping water down himself. I got to hand it to Saint, he really knows how to visually stimulate. Is he the killer?
Are we really gonna ignore that Tharn sees visions? 2. Phaya has gotten his period. I mean, I get it. Nobody wants the love of their life thinking they're crazy, but this has the hallmark of hormonal rage versus righteous anger. Maybe the lack of sleep is starting to get to him. 3. Where do we stand with the physical assault? Do we label this domestic or everyone else feeling that maybe something is off here? Like when a werewolf gets all testosterone before their first change. I mean, you can literally see the freak-out in his face after he realized he has hit Tharn. Which honestly makes me feel better.
Oh, so we now understand why Tharn saw the female and how she relates. And Yai proves once again just how special he is. He really put on that clown mask. That's just wrong.
There are two! Honestly, didn't see that coming. Ahh, well now it's more understandable why they were getting their ass kicked. It's Wit.
I mean, I'm having a hard time caring that he might be killed. Just go ahead and let him go. Tharn sees him getting hit by a truck. I'm so okay with that.
I mean, I get the logic of no vigilante justice. But... People who sexually assault rarely deal with serious consequences. Only about 6% of Sexual Offenders ever serve a day in jail. If an assault is reported (this is rare due to fear factors), there is a 50% chance of an arrest. If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution. If there is a prosecution, there is only a 58% chance of conviction. If convicted, there is only a 16% chance that they will go to prison.
Well, that was therapeutic. The parental guidance warning made me chuckle.
They found him! Now I'm nervous! Ahhh, don't save him Tharn, go save Phaya. Don't judge me, people. I'm a little blood thirty when it comes to this.
A Naga. Not good. He is using his power for the fight, and it looks like it's overpowering Tharn's. Surprisingly, Phaya is keeping pace though, despite the break out of power. Well, until he gets a rope wrapped around him, that is. I was in full support of you dude until you started hurting Phaya and Tharn. Now ya gotta go.
Shit! A lot happened fast!
Tharn steps in front of Phaya and gets stabbed. You can tell from home dudes face that he had never meant to actually hurt Tharn. Which means he knows he is a fellow Naga. Then why is he okay with hurting Phaya? Then we see combined powers. Both Phaya's and Tharn, with Tharn's being green, which is Naga colors. Golden red is a distinct color clue.
Garuda: Is a mythical bird-man creature that is the half sibling to the nage, but they are sworn enemies. The feud started when both he Garuda's mother and Nagas' mother married the same husband. The husband gave each wife one wish. The Nagas' mother asked for a thousand children, while Garuda's mother wished for two children superior to the Naga. The feud grew until Garuda's mother lost a bet ad became the servant of the Nagas' mother. Eventually she was freed, but her children swore vengeance.
The Garuda represents royalty, strength, and divine knowledge. With its fierce loyalty and warrior nature, the Garuda serves a protective function. It adorns shields, swords, and armor as a guardian symbol. The Garuda’s golden wings are believed to shine light on the darkness of evil and ignorance.
Soooo, right now I'm thinking our Phaya is a Garuda. It also explains why in their past life he rejected Tharn for being a Naga. There are some stories of Naga and Garuda that aren't enemy, though. These few stories are about devote Buddhist Nagas and as protectors of the faith, Garudas are unable to kill these particular Nagas.
Poor Phaya is flipping out while Tharn is very calm. You can literally watch Phaya's brain go into a "does not compute point." All because Tharn is glad his is safe and gently wipes his face. It's a stark contrast to the violence that Phaya has been giving him. This whole thing cools him down in the same way that a bucket of cold water would. Despite others showing up, they cling to each other.
Tharn is now cleaned up and very calm. Meanwhile, his other half is losing his shit. Dragging him away to try and get some answers. Finally, some much-needed communication and touchy-feely. I love the way Tharn looks at Phaya when he asks him not to leave him.
Look, he is all soft and gooey like a chocolate chip cookie. He might be talking about work, but his body language is saying something else. This boy is clearly touched, starved. Ahhh, I'm getting all the feels with this scene.
The nurses pausing and kind of turning back to them and then them breaking apart. Hahahaha!
This cute little micro smile. It means everything to have cleared things up with Phaya.
Guys... Someone on this show is an actual survivor. Cause this shit is too accurate. Yeah, they could have talked to a survivor but add it with other things, it's there. This is someone's therapeutic art. The writer? The scriptwriter? I haven't read the book, so I don't know.
Ohhhh, we're digging into his parent's case now.
Phaya staying the night with Tharn again. Slumber party! Yes, you absolutely should play a game of Doctor. Silly boy, he is cute though.
Oh! Another dream. Damn it! I want the real deal but... I mean, at least they are feeding us something. At least the dreams tell us that these boys clearly want each other. Oh, a daydream. Damn boy. Keep it together 🤣🤣🤣 He's trying so hard. I'm dead. I love these two. He is planning ahead, telling Yai to bring him lots of clothes. He'll probably have to crash there more in the future.
But nope, it's the stupid doctor. Who is clearly some kind of naga since Phaya's touch bothers him. He gives a strong kickback. So as I mentioned earlier, Garuda can't harm followers of Buddhism, but they can and will harm those that worship the serpent.
Nobody is buying your shit Phaya, but I'm with you on saying what ever you got to. This dude is creepy. He feels like he owns Tharn and I wanna know why. And we're playing doctor again! Which ends in cuddle time. OMG, I love Phaya so much. That is the fastest count to three that I've ever heard. Love it! Touch starved, Tharn is very handsy when he is sleeping. Phaya does not appear to mind.
Too cute!!!
Apparently, all that love goes out the window when he wakes up. 🤣🤣🤣
Ummm, home dude might be your adoptive dad, but he isn't a cop. Stop talking shop!
The precepts are rules or guidelines to develop mind and character to make progress on the path to enlightenment… The first precept consists of a prohibition of killing, both humans and all animals. The second precept prohibits theft and related activities such as fraud and forgery. The third precept refers to sexual misconduct, and has been defined with terms such as sexual responsibility and long-term commitment. The fourth precept involves falsehood spoken or committed to by action, as well as malicious speech, harsh speech and gossip. The fifth precept prohibits intoxication through alcohol, drugs, or other means.
Damn, Phaya over here tattling. Oh, no! Grandma is sick! Ha, he was tricked.
He is a cop. Of course, it's dangerous. This is why I'm oh so excited that two of my kids want to go into law enforcement. (said in complete sarcasm.) We do a tight focus of the eagle, he has wings on his back. I'm really thinking I'm right here. Damn, he is obsessed.
There is past life Tharn. Water and sky, the places where their other half reside. And there he is. Ahh, I get more and more excited with each one. I can't wait. 💜💜💜
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omg can you review the mighty poogle 🥺
The Poogle is one of those really abstract Neopets wherein it's just a Creature(TM). What kind of creature? Who knows. I guess they're meant to be vaguely dog-like (seeing as Poogle racing is a thing, and it does sound vaguely like "poodle"), but they really don't lean towards any one specific animal, which is always something I enjoy.
What makes Poogles appealing is undeniably how chubby they are; it makes them look extra cuddly and is part of what gives them their distinctive noses (or lack thereof) and double chins. It also comes with a bit of lore about them living primarily in cold-weather regions, kind of like how seals have blubber to keep them warm.
Beyond that, I also like their stripes; they break up the design just enough without feeling too distracting, similar to their underbellies. The shape of the stripes is also mimicked by their distinctive ears.
I will fully admit though: Poogles got the raw end of the deal when it comes to customization. Not the absolute worst conversion job, mind you, as for the most part they look pretty dang similar—same pose, same proportions, same markings, etc.
However, what got completely messed up is their faces. Originally, Poogles had a soft, fleshy snoot that had two sets of lines to indicate that it was mostly fat and that it went back in space a bit. Removing this upper line makes their snouts look hard, and also has the side effect of making their snout and even their entire head look too wide.
Likewise, the chin got messed up. The Poogle originally had a pretty distinct double chin/fat neck that, once again, showed how chubby they were. More importantly, their chin lines weren't closed off, so their heads bled directly into their bodies. On converted Poogles, they now just look like they have one weird normal chin instead of a chin and neck. The end result is actually kind of uncanny if you stare at them for too long. It's a shame, because like I said, everything else about the conversion works, and there was no reason to change the elements they did. They're still cute, mind you, just slightly less so.
Favorite colours:
MSP: Species-specific colors always tend to be iconic and a delight, and MSP Poogles certainly are no exception. They're basically the same thing as a regular plushie Poogle, except Evil(TM), with red eyes and a nasty set of sharp teeth (side note: canonically, all Poogles actually have sharp teeth; you just rarely see them). The unconverted version also is bipedal, unlike the regular unconverted plushie, which was quadrupedal.
Both converted and unconverted MSPs have a super fun chaotic gremlin energy to them, and both designs are good depending on which stance you prefer (I kind of like the converted quadrupedal, though granted, the loss of some stitching and extra softness is a bit of a shame.)
Toy: This color literally just released last month, but a toy Poogle based off of the good old iDog is just delightful. Even if you don't know anything about iDogs, the design is still good, with the eyes serving to complete a multi-colored hexagon that draws attention to the head, and the rest of the body considering of just a smooth off-white and black.
Zombie: The mindless eyes on this one are just absolutely delightful and give it a ton of personality. I also like the details, such as a few stitches here and there, a scraggly mouth, scratch lines against the usual stripes, and liver spots. As a bonus, it looks good both with PB clothing and without.
BONUS: I don't normally mention "recolor" Neopets as much on these reviews just because they tend to be mostly by-the-numbers, but the pastle Poogle is honestly gorgeous, with subtle gradients and a low-contrast blue and pink color scheme, helped by colored lineart. It's nothing fancy, but it's definitely one of the all-time best pastels out there.
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Hoot! Growl!
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Behold my finale nails (part one)!




This is only my second or third time using these nail post things, but they were super helpful in getting the stamps lined up for the lettering. And I was able to arrange the nails to be easily read instead of having to contort my hands.

Base polish is Red Licorice from Holo Taco. Stamping polishes are Evil Eye, Heart of Gold, and Bam! White from Maniology, stamping plates also from Maniology.
Rings are from Kinetic Color Foundry and are my favorite fidget. Full review post w/ shop link HERE.
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Dimension 20 Nail Art Masterpost
#motherfucking crab king!#maximum legend#dimension 20#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#nail art#nail stamping#dimension 20 nail art#geeky nail art#kinetic color foundry#dimension 20 fanart
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Silo Game Notes
Silo is a resident evil ttrpg short. synopsis is for world building and plot points with friends (and anyone interested).
ch 1-1; the hill
It is late November, and the fall has been mild. In Texas, the fall smells and tastes like cottonwood. The lingering pollen is visible between the neon sign of the Lone Star Motel, a bright red cowboy riding a bucking bull, and the parked livestock truck taking up most of the space in the hotel's back lot.
The truck was once used to transport livestock, now refitted on the inside to host much more dangerous creatures.
Inside the hotel, four people meet in the lobby with drinks. Bertholt Pennbrooke and his assistant, ambassadors of the Silo Sugar Industry, reviewed and offered a contract to the members of the paramilitary group, The Guild. The Guild, an anti-BOW specialist group, offered an assessment of the situation at first, offering to locate and return the missing person Bertholt was concerned for, Oliver Ward.
Oliver Ward, a televangelist worth more than 500 million as an estate holder, made his living preaching the prosperity gospel in Silo. His influence and status grew, and poured money and interest into the little Texan town. Ward's sermons were like concerts, prioritizing the spectacle and energy of the masses.
Pennbrooke suspected that a BOW was involved with his disappearance, hence The Guild's involvement.
The two Guild members receiving the contract were unusual, to say the least. Sitting on the opposing couch to Bertholt, was an androgynous and quite lean person in a black turtleneck and black pants despite the promise of Texan weather. They had long black hair, and almond shaped eyes, resembling the person sitting beside them in a familial sense.
The other woman was a scream of color in comparison. She wore an ultramarine blue bolero and a deep red halter top, her neck tightly wound in a ratty look scrap of bright red fabric.
Bertholt passed an agreed upon contract to the two Guild members, first, to Ebajalg, who spent their time appraising words that to them, meant nothing. Ebajalg, a Gnezdo mutant of the C-Virus who had taken a solid form, passed the contract to Carla Radames for review.
Carla took a look at the expanded contract Pennbrooke was interested in having the Guild agree to, and Carla asked for the contract to be sent to "The Guildmaster" to be reviewed instead of signed by her. As they agreed prior, Carla would take a team in to find this Oliver Ward on behalf of Silo Sugar.
She left without signing the contract, Eba close behind her. Eba and Carla began the long seven hour drive to the town of Silo.
While Penbrooke had told The Guild there was the potential for this incident to be entwined with a bioterror incident, he was unaware that he had hired a group of actual monsters to rescue Ward.
In the back of the truck were four monsters. C-Virus had twisted the humanity out of all of them, yet for the "Commander", they were the most gallant and knightly beings.
All of them had chosen names in the years that she had been in hibernation.
V, an Ubivisto that had been turned into a fighting gladiator for others' entertainment in her absence, watched the world pass by through the slats of the truck's body.
Yume, an ex Neo-Umbrella J'avo and loyalist, waited in the corner of the truck, pulling her red headscarf tightly over her features.
Erie, a Napad victim of the Tall Oaks attack by Derek Simmons, hid further under the tent tarp that had been stuck to his shell.
And Damascus, a centipede-like C-mutant, slithered along the top of the truck, dreaming of the kind of game they would be able to hunt when they arrived.
The truck encountered the local police department manning a road block into Silo, and after an argument about whether or not they were allowed to cross, Carla proceeded to lead the party into the town.
When they crested the last hill into the town, there was a shrill sound and with a deafening explosion, the truck was hit by anti vehicle ammunition, blowing it up. The truck caught fire and jack-knifed, sliding down the hill.
The monsters in the back of the truck burst free, and attacked a sudden rush of people that came armed to attack the vehicle. The C-monsters cut down what appeared to be dozens of Plaga infected, before another artillery round hit the spot, and sent the monsters to 0 HP.
Our monsters awoke an hour later to find their commander gone, and blood spattering where had fallen earlier. They dispatched the group of Plaga infected that they found and resolved to immediately track down their commander.
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ask game!
˚✧ ˚♡˚ ✧˚ lolita fashion themed ask game ˚✧ ˚♡˚ ✧˚
you can answer all of them or reblog to get sent some questions!
1: how and when did you first get introduced to the fashion?
when i was a young girl i would browse the GLBs and Fruits and be intrigued. then i met a rl lolita who intro'd me to the fashion and how to purchase, etc.
2: if you could only pick one: prints or solids?
solids but, does floral count as print?
3: do you have a favorite type of lace?
torchon! torchon torchon torchon
4: favorite place to go wearing lolita?
anywhere i can walk leisurely and sit down and rest and take it in; I also love picnics in nice weather
5: what does your wardrobe mostly consist of?
Oldschool pieces, pieces with roses and strawberries and cherries on them
6: do you have a favorite lolita/does anyone inspire you?
Kato Tawaraya
7: are you in a community, or are you a lonelita?
8: favorite type of lolita content? (dress reviews, tutorials, handmade/sewing, annual wardrobe posts, get ready with me, anything!)
Reviews yes, tutorials yes, exploring markets yes, wardrobe posts YES.
9: do you have a favorite lolita youtube channel?
WonderTeaParty!
10: do you prefer casual lolita, somewhere in the middle, or OTT?
Somewhere in the middle to casual
11: what's one item you have that you would never sell?
My Physical Drop ivory one piece
12: what's one item you regret buying?
Angelic Pretty's re-release of Milky Planet... I'm not that kind of sweet, I'm too tall, and it's not my thing. I'm looking to sell it. I haven't even taken it out of its box.
13: first ever purchase?
Not counting from thrift stores? If that counts, then a black vest to go with Bodyline ouji pants.
14: most recent purchase?
Royal Princess Alice's Forest Library
15: do you have an unpopular opinion about the fashion?
I don't really like Angelic Pretty. I think they're overpriced. I think they should make jewelry, but price the items around $40. Just not worth it. And everyone who says "but good quality" get out of here. They outsource to Chinese or other asian or south asian factories and you know it. It's piece-meal, it's samey, anyone can make a dress if they contact the factory. Their designs aren't cute; they're childish verging on "I am a grown woman but I want to be a little girl." Which I think is creepy.
16: favorite coord color combinations?
White, white x ivory, red x pink.
17: what's a brand you don't own many things from but would like to?
Physical Drop, Wirehead, Sweet Mildred, other indie Japanese brands
18: what's the best feature a dress could have?
Shirring, comfy to wear
19: do you remember the first dress you ever saw? do you still like it?
I do not remember the first dress I ever saw but I do remember the first ad I ever saw that I fell in love with-- It's a mixed photoshoot from GLB9. One model wears this amazing hat.
20: if you could only keep one pair of shoes, which would they be?
White RHS by Vivienne Westwood.
21: do you have a favorite brand mascot?
I love knock-off, destroyed, don't-look-right Usakumyas very much
22: do you prefer bigger brands or indie brands?
Indie
23: favorite place to shop?
My dreams, apparently
24: favorite pattern?
Florals
25: favorite thing about the fashion?
It celebrates and embraces femininity while also managing to be feminist
26: least favorite thing about the fashion?
How much of it tends to look "little girl" or "child". I understand the whimsy of forever youth... I understand the longing for a beautiful place that doesn't change, but I would be concerned if the age drops TOO low, or if the entire "look" of an outfit is TOO deliberately little-girl.
27: which animal do you enjoy seeing the most in dresses/accessories?
Bats and moths
28: favorite platform for lolita content?
right now tumblr. everything else is evil. I do love watching WonderTeaParty tho.
29: favorite hairstyle when wearing lolita?
Messy pigtails
30: are you nostalgic for anything that doesn't exist anymore?
Good quality at affordable prices, the abundance of platform shoes
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get-to-know you tag game YAY!!! tagged by @coyoteworks thank you tex i LOVE tag games i literally JUMPED out of bed in excitement to do it. YAY TAG GAMES!!!!
here's some mutuals you're not obligated to do the tag game but you can if you want to because its fun :+) @italofobia @luxphobia @real-life-cloud @dykecanthropy @sunshinetomorrow if i didnt tag you you can just lie and say that i did. im too excited to do the tag game OK!!!
last song: alright well legally the last song i listened to was "quest man" by "by release" but i didn't finish it. it was in my discover weekly and i think it's about being a little runescape guy completing quests which is funny. but again i haven't finished it. the last song that i knew was rasputin. ive been on a rasputin kick lately i fucking love rasputin.
last book: oh god am i going to be annoying and have two answers for all of these? manga-wise im reading through yotsuba im on vol 12 it's very cute. "real book"-wise (i.e no pictures) is. um. "A Pickle For The Knowing Ones - Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress" by sir timothy dexter... it's.... well. um. ummm. uhm. So true! Uhhuh! You should definitely read it. And then go read timothy dexter's wikipedia page. Smile.
last movie: lego movie 2: the second part!!! i rewatched both 1 and 2 recently i adore the animation so damn much. and it's been such a long time i forgot most of the jokes so it almost felt like watching it for the first time again. maybe i'll rewatch lego batman next.
last game: mmmmminecraft? minecraft. yeah probably minecraft. not much else to say! it's minecraft.
last tv show: oh god damn it i have to talk about the legend of nezha now huh? to be clear i'm not talking about the actual deity nezha im talking about an awful cartoon retelling of nezha's story from 2003. it was very hard to watch the first episode of it and i only watched it for my anime review project to where i watch one episode of an anime for every season (two anime per season). i had a fucking HEADACHE after i watched it too. I HATE THAT STUPID EVIL ADVISOR CHARACTER HE'S STUPID AND ANNOYING AND I HOPE HE FALLS OFF A CLIFF!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK THIS GUY I HATE THIS GUY!!!!!!
sweet/spicy/savory: i'm honestly more into the salty side of things but between these three i have to go with sweet just because that's probably my number 2 taste. i like savory but it HAS to be in moderation otherwise i feel like i might have a heart attack.
relationship: siiiiigh. Sigh! hmph. looks over my shoulder and then looks back at the camera and sighs again.
fave color: huge pink/yellow color combination fan FOREVER. i also like rainbows. i also like complementary color pairs (red/green blue/orange yellow/purple)
last internet search: "what is a plus 44 number" because i got a weird spam text and i was curious where in the world it was actually coming from. United Kingdom!
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Peer Review
An old friend of the Drs Fenton eviscerates a draft of their latest paper. It's an extremely effective wake-up call.
Part Two | Part One
Jack's turn. Something he writes gets compared to an IRL evil scientist. He's not having a good time.
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Jonathan Fenton was, by his own admission, not the most observant man.
He'd be the first to tell you that "doing a Fenton" was slang in his mother's family for tripping over air, missing something obvious, making a mess, and other avoidable, mildly embarrassing mistakes.
Still, Jack knew something was wrong as soon as he entered the kitchen.
Maddie had been crying.
They'd seen each other through some tough things. Maddie's father's dementia. The loss of Jack's Grannie, who'd helped his mother raise him. It was, thankfully, a rare thing to see her so...drawn, as if all the color had gone from her world.
Jack sat down across from her at the table and searched her face.
"No one's dying," said Maddie. "It's this."
She pushed a stack of paper across the table at him.
"Ray sent back our paper? Then what --" That sure was a lot of red ink. It got his hackles up, but...he trusted Rachel's academic rigor. It wouldn't be the first time a collegue shredded something he wrote in the interest of making it better, and it wouldn't be the last. They were in that kind of field. He bent to read.
Oh well that...huh.
Here was something he hadn't truly considered before: while he and Maddie knew that the reason their experiments were truncated was ghost interference, to everyone else it would just look like sloppy work. It was a fair point. And since ghosts were what they were studying, why hadn't they used the observations from the various catastrophes in the paper as well? Found a way to make it work without resorting to...well, she wasn't wrong that this looked like bad methodology. They were out of practice. They could have changed the paper. Changed the thesis. Allowed their field failures to BE the paper and let other scientists learn from their challenges.
Rachel was tearing this apart as the work of amateurs.
He'd been pretty proud of it, but would they have produced something like this twenty years ago? Were they that out of practice? Had they been deluding themselves, stuck in their own heads the entire time they'd lived in Amity Park?
Then Rachel started tearing into the ethics of the paper.
Jack almost rolled his eyes. Look, ghosts weren't alive, they were a natural phenomenon and --
--and she was right. They couldn't have it both ways. If ghosts were, say, animal at all their methodology was suspect in terms of harm to the natural world and simple mean-spirited cruelty. If they were beings, implied by his assumption that they were capable of emotions like malice, it was even worse. If they were just a phenomenon, this still was no way for a dispassionate researcher to act.
They'd been studying ghosts for more than two decades.
Was all their data tainted?
And.
Jack stood and left the room.
There was a glass of water waiting for his return.
"I wondered when you would get to that part."
Jack only shook his head. His hands were numb.
Maddie held his hand as he grimly set himself to keep reading.
Jack finished the last page, and wiped a hand over his mouth.
Faulty premises, dangerous methodology, ethically suspect conclusions.
Since...since when exactly, they'd have to review all of it, but all that work.
All that work.
"I never thought I'd say this, Jack, but we may be bad scientists."
"Scientists wasn't the word I was going to use," said Jack. "What have we been teaching the kids?"
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Oz Rewatch 3: S6E01: Dead Man Talking
Plotlines
Jeffrey Keane guest narrating
McManus creates his gay and stupid meditative maze after attending a “new age seminar”; McManus opens a box left behind by Augustus, discovering his book and sharing it with Said and Redding
Pancamo comes out of the hospital an regroups with Morales
Redding has been in mourning over Hill; Said tells him to get it together
Solitary case review day; Omar falls ill in Solitary and is hospitalised; Miguel is recommended to be let out; McManus forces Miguel and Chico to make up
Rebadow is still depressed about little Alex; McManus transfer him to a library job; Stella arrives as the new librarian
Kirk arrives on Death Row; Mukada returns to Oz and initially refuses see Kirk; Kirk wants an exorcism, angering Mukada further. Monsignor comes to see Mukada about SA accusations by Kirk and Mukada is temporarily suspended from the priesthood
Suzanne is putting on Macbeth;
Shupe flashback; Ryan threatens Shupe about giving testimony to Cyril’s lawyer but Shupe isn’t a credible witness
Peter Schibetta accuses Ryan of killing his father; he goes to see his wife; Schibetta comes to join the play and says some stuff about the Evil Eye; Meehan talks to Ryan about becoming a better person; Meehan dies in the middle of the night
Beecher is now in Unit J for his safety until his parole hearing; Schillinger is released from Solitary and returned to Unit B; Winthrop wants to move up from prag status by killing Beecher’s father; Mr Beecher visits Beecher and then Keller to help with his case; Winthrop kills him as he is leaving
Mayor Loewen arrives at Oz amidst chaos outside and inside; SORT discovers Mr Beecher’s body
Sister: Did his brother die yet? It’s been six months since last season apparently… Me: You think they’re not going to milk that out?
Sister: What, he can’t hear that screaming?
Sister: Jesus, lady, is no time sacred?!
Sister: He looks like he's been getting facials. Me: W-what? Sister: Chico’s skin looks better this season, and his hair is nicer looking. They both seem younger this season, too. Less greasy overall. Miguel finally can afford sleeves. Ooh, fancy. Cotton~ Impressive.
Sister: Hate makes one bald. Me: Did you say ‘hate makes one bald’? Sister: Yeah, he shouldn’t do that. He’s going to stress and lose all his hair. Just let them be… Don't try and get in their way!!
Sister: She definitely got fired from her last job.
Sister: Back from Jurassic Park…
Sister: Didn’t they already have this conversation last season? …Do you think they’ve been doing this same song and dance every night for the last six months? 'Cause, I mean, surely the Father prays every night… Me: I like to imagine that whenever there are time jumps in this show, they all just stand there in spooky stasis and nothing actually happens.
Sister: (drumming on knees eagerly) Let’s see that wife! I wanna see the wife! Is it Shannon? Me: Girl, Shannon is not in this place. Sister: (booing because there’s no Shannon) (booing because Schibetta’s wife never gets a close up)
Sister: Put him in the play. Handsome Man. Handsome Man #2.
Sister: (snorting deeply) I don’t know what he’s talking about. [Ryan] has the same poopy face with everyone.
Sister: (tutting) No wonder Shannon left him…
Sister: Who shall be his roommate now? Schibetta? Me: (wistful sigh)
Sister: Didn’t that guy used to have hair?
Stray thoughts
I wonder who told Peter about Ryan killing Nino
We rewinded to investigate the color of Meehan’s shitty underwear because Sister could’ve sworn it was red so she thought it was another eating glass story line
We also rewinded to check out Peter’s wife
Sister: The priest storyline and the mayor storyline are very topical… disgraced mayor Eric Adams… the Archdiocese (of Los Angeles) announced they were paying that billion dollar settlement for sexual abuse…
Torres is played by an MMA fighter named Frank Shamrock??
Sister says she’s willing to take on guardian angel duties for Schibetta but she’s still on the fence because she’s “not sure he’s learned his lesson” and she “can’t be representing losers—what will that do to my reputation”?
Final Thoughts
Sister: Cyril’s got a very strong demon voice now… Probably because he’s rooming next to Satan.
Sister: I’m surprised [Howell] hasn’t gotten an STD yet
Sister: I didn’t get to see [Schibetta]’s wife’s face fully, which made me sad. Although she kinda looked more like his mom from what I could see…
Sister: Someone was trying to be crafty with that [scene where all the Solitary inmates say their little piece at the window]. Like Chicago… Did they announce before this season that it would be the last? Me: Oh, huh. I'm pretty sure they knew. Sister: Because I feel like they’re trying to be more cinematic… And they got like a higher budget or something. Like Chico and Miguel both have better clothes. And Chico looks better. Me: So based on this episode, do you have any predictions on where the storylines will go? Sister: I mean, I don’t know it can go where it shouldn’t have gone in the six months that supposedly passed… They didn’t really have anything for Said this episode… He was just doing his spiritual thing… And [Redding] was still grieving six months later, which was juxtaposed with Rebadow and his budding romance this season to carry on his family name, haha. I don’t know, did that librarian seem hostile to you? I feel like it was supposed to be romantic tension, but she kind of seemed like she was planning on killing him. Me: Any thoughts on Kirk and Mukada and the Satan thing? Sister: I’m just surprised that they haven’t found the Reverend yet. And he even mentioned the dude disappearing this episode but there still wasn’t any follow up like “yeah, where did he vanish to?” Also, when they were doing the Solitary voting thing, I feel like someone wasn’t voting very seriously. Like only Sister Pete was a dissenting vote against Schillinger getting out? McManus didn’t vote against him? Me: Any thoughts on the play? Sister: I wanna see what their budget it is. Because they had a really large background and paint is expensive… And they were doing props? Me: Well, they were probably using tempera paint… And those big school tubs are probably like $20. Sister: Yeah, but they have multiple colors… I guess we’ll have to see what other props they get… (gasp) What if the skull is real?! Me: (for the nth time in our viewing conversation) They’re not doing Hamlet!!
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some notes on Ranger Academy #11 -
= I might save full discussion of this for my overall review, but I think this final arc is where my big criticism of how the Ranger Academy's weakest point is, ironically, the Academy itself, comes to a head. Saving the magic school from the big final threat is another check in the magic school formula, but again, I feel like I don't really know or care enough about the actual school to really feel what's happening. I care about the main cast, sure, but the unnamed professors and students that are possessed? eh. Like sorry but if Headmaster dies i'm certainly not going to care lol
= I do like how this book does the Dark Specter infection thing way more than how Darkest Hour did it, though. I like how it's initially subtle and gradually takes over the victim more and more, like an actual INFECTION, rather than just DH's strategy of [morph] [zap] [immediately evil]. I wish the cover hadn't spoiled Mathis's infection, because it would have been a good twist
= I do kinda wish Rhianth's Ranger form had some Rogue Red details, oops. At least let him keep his coat
= The Nika/Rhianth scenes.....soon Sage will have three dads. Four, I guess? I keep forgetting her biological parents
= I think things are pretty well set up for the final issue - I can't even be mad at the final cover for spoiling Sage's team colors, since it's easy enough to assume a book like this would end happily with Sage's team finally coming together and defeating the final threat. I think the only unanswered plot point is whatever's up with this.
Hopefully we've remembered it exists, as I don't think it's been brought up by the characters since its first encounter (we see it in the background of Sage and Tula's fight, but they don't notice it and it doesn't do anything.)
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Tokusatsu Review 003- Ultraman (1966)
Just finished watching Ultraman- the very first entry in the series. Its a short series when comparing to Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, not that its bad, actually its really good.
Watching Ultraman gave a differenr experience to me. Because in Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, the premise is always good triumph evil. But in Ultraman, the concept of evil and justice is not actually there. In fact, the show is more to like you know- The Twilight Zone- a show that gave us strange phenomenons, aliens and occult stuff. Yeah, Ultraman is this.
Its not surprising that Ultraman actually the continuation for Ultra-Q, the Twilight Zone for Japan.
In terms of design we go through Ultraman first. Nothing much to say, except the suit is ICONIC as hell!!!! Yeah, the red and silver color palette really fit to be a hero's color.
For the Kaijus (monsters) and Seijins (aliens) i think, Ultraman has a trope of very memorable kaijus and seijins. Ask any people, they will recognized Baltan Seijin at a glance.
As for the defense team- the SSSP (stands for Science Special Search Party) i thought their uniform is campy, but hey, they were also a classic!!
I really liked Ultra Series. Because they gave you something different from Rider and Sentai series.
I gave 4/5⭐!!
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