#Dog Death Sentence (2007)

[wings0fruin]

Death Sentence doodles/art dump :3

Extremely bored so I drew my booboobears again (grown ass gangsters) sorry Nick I kinda didn't care about you enough to draw you

Also I can't be the only one who sees Death Sentence in Three Cheers right I'm not insane I'm not crazy I'm n

[Full canvas at the bottom!]

I DON'T care what anybody says they're like brothers to each other trust ..... since Bones never really cared about Billy nor Joey , I like to think that they supported each other with the help of the other boys since childhood .... ouuughhhh I'm gonna be sick .... Darley Gang you're alive in my heart

Full canvas here:

Am I gonna make a tag for every single gang member ? Yes . Yes I am. Teehee :3

[ukrfeminism]

A man has been found guilty of the 2005 murder of Emma Caldwell after a trial that raised significant questions about the police investigation of the unsolved murder and the key suspect over almost 20 years, as well as attitudes to reports of violence against sex workers.

Iain Packer, 51, was sentenced to at least 36 years in prison for Caldwell’s murder and was found guilty of 32 other charges against a total of 22 women that amounted to a horrifying course of unchecked physical and sexual violence over two decades. The offences included 11 rapes and multiple sexual assaults.

Sentencing Packer to the second-longest term in Scottish legal history, the judge, Lord Beckett, said the killer was responsible for an “extreme campaign of sexual violence”, preying on the vulnerable and causing “extreme and enduring suffering for so many women and their families”.

Immediately after the verdicts, the Police Scotland assistant chief constable Bex Smith, who is the executive lead for major crime and public protection, apologised directly to Caldwell, her family and “many other victims”, saying they were all “let down by policing in 2005”.

Caldwell was living in a hostel in Glasgow when she disappeared in April 2005, aged 27. Her naked body was found five weeks later in Limefield Woods near Biggar, South Lanarkshire.

Her mother told the trial that Caldwell had started taking heroin to numb her grief over the death of her older sister. She had been making money through sex work at the time of her death. The court heard from a friend of Caldwell’s that Packer had become “obsessed” with her, following her and attempting to scare away her other clients.

Although a rape allegation was first made against Packer in 1990, the prosecutor advocate depute, Richard Goddard KC, told the jury that at that time police were “dismissive” of reports made by sex workers. He said it was a “tragedy” that sex workers felt forced to accept sexual assault as “part and parcel of their job”.

Another witness said Packer chose girls who were “young, vulnerable and on drugs”. Many of the women who gave witness statements were sex workers at the time and some have since died.

Packer – who denied all charges apart from one of a prior indecent assault against Caldwell, for which he admitted he was “ashamed” – gave evidence at the trial over three days, insisting he had not killed Caldwell and that the other women accusing him were either mistaken or liars.

He admitted taking sex workers to the woods where Caldwell’s body was found – but not to the same spot where she was found. Asked where he was on the night Caldwell disappeared, Packer told the court he could have been at work or walking his dogs.

The court had heard earlier from a forensic expert that soil found in his van was a 97% match for earth at the spot where Caldwell was dumped.

Information about the police investigation that came to light during the trial raised significant questions about why it took so long to bring Packer to justice. He gave six statements to police between 2005 and 2007, but was not interviewed under caution as a suspect.

A decade later, concerns about the unsolved case were such that in 2015 the lord advocate ordered Police Scotland to re-investigate not only who killed Caldwell, but flaws in the original inquiry.

The original police investigation was focused on four Turkish men, who were charged with Caldwell’s murder in August 2007, but that case collapsed and the men were released.

Smith made it plain that Strathclyde police, the force that first investigated Caldwell’s murder before Scottish forces were merged into one force in 2013, had failed Packer’s victims.

“A significant number of women and girls who showed remarkable courage to speak up at that time also did not get the justice and support they needed and deserved from Strathclyde police,” she said. “It is clear that further investigations should have been carried out into Emma’s murder following the initial inquiry in 2005. The lack of investigation until 2015 caused unnecessary distress to her family and all those women who had come forward to report sexual violence.”

Caldwell’s mother, Margaret, who has campaigned tenaciously for justice for her daughter, said she felt “betrayed” by the original police investigation and “angry” that it had taken so long for Packer to be brought to justice.

Her solicitor, Aamer Anwar, called for an inquiry into police failings, saying: “A toxic culture of misogyny and corruption meant the police failed so many women and girls who came forward to speak up against Packer.

“Instead of receiving justice and compassion, they were humiliated, dismissed and in some instances arrested, whilst the police gifted freedom to an evil predator to rape and rape again.”

[graysongraysoff]

writing pattern game

tagged by @boltlightning thank you SO so much 💗💗💗💗💗

Rules: Share the first line of your last ten published works* or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

*gonna exclude co-written works/rp adaptations unless i was the one to write the opening post for obvious reasons hehe

1. red and red and rust-red

bungo stray dogs | soukoku | 328 words | major character death | in the small room/land of inhuman demons spoilers

It was the brilliant burst of red from the bullet hole between Dazai's eyes that brought Chuuya roaring back into control of his conscious mind, and he shot twice more on reflex before the rest of his body caught up.

2. like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume

bungo stray dogs | soukoku | 6.5k words

Chuuya is burning away like a dying star, and he feels fucking fantastic.

3. Your hands are red from holding tight.

jujutsu kaisen | megumi fushiguro & satoru gojo | 885 words | major character death | ch. 212: the ripening pt. 2 spoilers

When Megumi finally spoke — not Sukuna but Megumi — his voice was a sleepy murmur that tugged at Satoru’s heart.

4. maybe i'll call you mine

jujutsu kaisen | satosugu | 3k words

Shoko is so pissed about how the mission went that she's refusing to patch Suguru and Satoru back up with her reversed cursed technique.

5. Shadow Puppets

jujutsu kaisen | megumi fushiguro & tsumiki fushiguro & satoru gojo | 4.5k words

The day Megumi summoned the Divine Dogs for the first time, a storm had knocked out the Fushiguros' power, so Megumi and Tsumiki had piled pillows and blankets on the living room floor while Gojo lit candles and placed them safely out of reach around the room.

6. Three Unspoken Messages and Three Words Left Unsaid

bungo stray dogs | osamu dazai & sakunosuke oda | 2k words | major character death

"Got an early start," Sakunosuke Oda commented, sitting in his usual place beside the young Osamu Dazai, whose empty whiskey glass was being replaced with a fresh one.

7. Exorcise My Mind

jujutsu kaisen | megumi fushiguro & tsumiki fushiguro & satoru gojo | 10k words

"I think we should clean out Mom and Dad's room."

8. Ulterior Motives

bungo stray dogs | soukoku | 261 words

"Is that my shirt?"

9. A stranger whose laugh I would recognize anywhere

jujutsu kaisen | satosugu | 700 words (exactly!)

"I didn't expect you to show," Suguru tells Satoru softly, eyes glinting.

10. December 7, 2007

jujutsu kaisen | megumi fushiguro & tsumiki fushiguro & satoru gojo | 842 words

On the surface, Satoru's 18th birthday wasn't much different than the others he'd celebrated since he started at Jujutsu High.

patterns:

okay so i actually did go back and look at my post from the last time i did a similar exercise, and i'm pleased to report that i am giving a lot more variety these days, lol. one of my reflections was also that i "should try to open with dialogue more," so it's good to see that i took that to heart! i think i manage to do a pretty good job of dropping the reader into situations without the almost formulaic "___ had been ___" style openings i used to do a lot of, too.

i like that a lot of these opening lines manage to introduce not only the setting but also the vibes, like how the characters are feeling/seeming in the moment the reader joins them.

my favorite is definitely "Chuuya is burning away like a dying star, and he feels fucking fantastic." i have been stupid-proud of that sentence since the moment i typed it, lol.

now i shall tag: @antique-romantic and @pyrrhlc, if you are in need of a little tag game!

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

EXECUTION OF THE ROMANOV FAMILY

THE EXECUTION OF NICHOLAS II & ROMANOV FAMILY

17 July 1918

            Nicholas II, his wife, his children and workers were executed in a basement in Yekaterinburg. Vladimir Lenin didn’t order the execution, but did not care about their deaths either. The family were murdered without a trial by communist Yakov Yurovsky and the Bolsheviks.

            The family went down to the basement at 2:15am. Nicholas initially thought they were going to be leaving the Imperial House. The family were in the company of their workers as well as one of their pet dogs, Jimmy (who they also killed).

            The execution was messy, which ultimately made the victims last moments prolonged and they suffered immensely. Many of the guards were intoxicated and two of the guards refused to shoot girls, and were sent away. Yurovsky asked the group to stand, except for Alexie who remained seating. Yurovsky took out a sheet of paper and read to the group that they had been ‘sentenced to be shot’. Nicholas turned to look at his family and said, ‘What? What?’ and his family looked at him in absolute terror. Alexandra and Olgo crossed themselves and few others protested. Yurovsky pulled out his gun and shot the Tsar in the chest, and then the guards fired at him. Alexei was covered with his father’s blood.  

            After Nicholas was killed they turned and killed his wife, daughters, and workers and then Alexei was shot and died against his father.

            The families were then taken to an isolated part in the woods; one of the girl’s remains was sexually assaulted. The victims were stripped, and then burned with acid, and thrown into an unused mine. The remains were later retreated, and then dumped into an isolated grave. The public and media were told that the Tsar was assassinated and his family were living in a secret location.

            The Soviet Union lost power in 1991, and citizens became more publicly curious about the Romanov dynasty. The remains of the family were discovered in 1991, Alexei and his sister Maria were discovered in 2007 as their remains were found in a different location. DNA tests confirmed their identities and they were reburied in St Petersburg.

#nicholasII #romanovs #russianrevolution

[zetaverein]

Neuer Beitrag: When the debate about Zoosexuality reaches Twitter

Neuer Beitrag: https://blog.zeta-verein.de/2023/10/wenn-die-debatte-ueber-zoosexualitaet-twitter-erreicht/

When the debate about Zoosexuality reaches Twitter

On the 5th of September 2023, I retweeted (or “re-Xed”) on my account Charles Menni a tweet from the French animal welfare association Once Voice showing a video of a pony mare being battered by someone who’s probably a horse-riding teacher.

What made my retweet special is the comparison it made between the penalty that would face someone condemned for such acts of violence against an animal, usually a fine of a few hundred euros, with the penalty of someone convicted for sexual acts upon an animal. In France, zoosexuals face 6 to 18 months of suspended jail time, a minimum of 5 to 10 years registered as a sex offender, a life ban on keeping an animal (contrary to acts of cruelty, for which the ban can be temporary), and mandatory therapy. Note that the severity of the penalty does not depend on the gravity of the acts. Usage of constraint, violence, or infliction of injuries has no impact on it. However, for some reason being the owner of the animal is an aggravating factor.

In my post, I claimed that anyone committing “any sexual acts with an animal that asked for it” faced such a sentence. With an account having as a description “Zoosexual and horse lover fighting prejudice”, my tweet became viral and reached 600.000 views in less than two days, which isn’t bad for an account that only had 20 subscribers. Many people reacted to “who asked for it”. It aimed at bringing up the following questions: can animals make sexual advances to a human being? Should such behavior face repression in the absence of violence, constraint, and injury?

The term “any sexual acts” has also been deliberately chosen since with the new French anti-bestiality law, the notion of “atteinte sexuelle” (sexual abuse) which is very wide, was chosen to replace the one of “sévices de nature sexuelle” (sexual violence) that only incriminated active penetration of the animal since the Junior Case in 2007. In 2022, a local politician was one of the first to be trialed. He had allowed two of his 21 dogs to mount him. He declared: “I take good care of them, I do not practice sodomy upon them, they are the ones doing it if they please to do so” (1.) No news article covering the case claimed that signs of mistreatment were found. He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months of suspended jail time with the other complementary penalties we mentioned earlier.

In a country that practices factory farming, where artificial insemination is the norm, even for companion animals, this level of severity is questionable. Zoosexuality isn’t “only” compared to mistreatment, but as we said anyone convicted faces the same sentence as for “cruel acts”, and even more, if we consider the complementary penalties someone convicted for cruel acts won’t be enlisted to the sex offender registry.

On my Twitter account, I made other posts, in one of which I gave a link to my article in French that is very critical of the arguments given by the French animal welfare association Animal Cross in its 2019 “investigation” on zoosexuality (2.) In another one, I reminded that in 2006 the Danish ethical committee in its conclusion recommended against a total ban on sexual interactions between humans and animals in the absence of violence and constraint. It even claimed that such prohibition could be counterproductive as it could deter people from bringing their animals to the veterinary in case of an injury (3.)

My Twitter post was still going viral, and I was still receiving hateful comments, death threats, and encouragement of self-harm or suicide, most of them are still on Twitter to this day. Sometimes, I managed to discuss with some, covering themes like consent, animal sexual behavior, and my mental health.

On the 7th of September, two days after publishing my post, my account was suspended. That may be not surprising, however, the reasoning was. It “has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules due to a user report. Specifically, for violating our rules against graphic violence or adult content in profile images”. My profile picture shows a grey horse facing the camera in front of a sapling forest, and my banner a few horses grazing in a field during sunset, both pictures were found by typing on DuckDuckGo “horse picture copyright free” and picking some of the first results. I appealed and the next day Twitter refused to reinstate my account without giving further explanation. I appealed again, demanded to get more details, and received the same answer.

This decision reminded me of the one pronounced in Germany in the years 2009 – 2010 when the Zeta Verein association tried to legally register as an association. It was refused as their goal was “against public decency”, no other explanation was given. It also made me think about what happened to the French community, which between 2019 and 2021 tried to present its arguments in an attempt to prevent the new law from being too harsh on zoosexuals. On the 29th of June 2021, following a complaint against an unknown that was filed by Animal Cross and its president Benoit Thomé for death threats, identity theft, and harassment, a raid took place in the houses of members of the community. (4) Two years of procedure later, no evidence had been found against them. However, following an investigation for doxing, Mr. Benoit Thomé will be trialed in 2024 for the publication on the website of his association of an “interview of a zoophile” that gave at its end the address and name of someone he thought to be a member of the community.

As was shown with this event, even tho contradictory debates shall be at the core of democracy, giving arguments defending zoosexuality can have consequences, for zoosexuals but also researchers, politicians, and journalists, and even lead to censorship. However, with the aggravation of the severity of the punishment following a conviction for zoosexual acts, the necessity of a rational examination of such a ban becomes undeniable. Therefore, the taboo surrounding this topic must be broken and, in that matter, the censorship of any debate about the prohibition of zoosexual acts on Twitter isn’t a good start.

Charles Menni

1 MENNI Charles, Animal Cross, la Zoophilie et la Science, Blog des Zeta Verein, 15 avril 2023. Disponible sur :https://blog.zeta–verein.de/fr/2023/04/animal–cross–la–zoophilie–et–la–science/2 Conseil Danois d’Ethique Animale, Rapport au sujet des relations sexuelles entre des êtres humains et desanimaux, Novembre 2006.Version originale :https://www.justitsministeriet.dk/sites/default/files/media/Pressemeddelelser/pdf/2006/Udtalelse.pdfVersion française :https://www.animalzoofrance.com/wiki/Fichier:Danish_Animal_Ethics_Council_–_November_2006_VF.pdf

[and-it-might-not-ever]

Richard Goldberg being released May 2024..

If you are unaware of Richard Goldberg, he was a very widely known child molester and CP producer and distributer who fled to Canada and was caught in 2007. Though the main reason for P2P file sharing programs where taken down due to piracy, another huge reason was the sharing of CP. His username/alias/keyword was "r@ygold".

I wanted to share how he affected my life, tell a bit of my story, and see if any others were aware of him too. This is going to be a bit long but I'd appreciate if someone gave it a read.

I was 15/16 in 2007. It broke in the news of his final catching and arrest, how he fled to Canada, being sentenced to prison for 20 years. It was a big moment because at the time he was in FBI's top wanted fugitives. After reading reports and articles, when I saw that username "r@ygold" it sent a shock through my system and dug up an old memory I kept buried and swept under the rug out of complete fear of what would happen if I had told.

My older brother, (I was 10 or so at the time and my brother was 20/21?) had a computer with the program Kazaa. I knew how to burn CD's at the time and would often download music from these programs and make CD's to listen to on the bus. My favorite band was Garbage at that age. There was a list of previously downloaded files, and I remember seeing that username with file names referring to 5-12yo's and the acts. I NEVER clicked on them because I knew straight away what it was. The descriptions were right there in the titles. I was molested from ages like toddler to 5 years old by my grandfather. It only stopped until the point he physically really wasn't able to anymore and I remember being in the hospital room as he was dying and not being sad. I was a pretty numb kid.

So back to when I was finding out my brother was enjoying the things that destroyed me, things that made me unable to focus and very depressed. My mother would beat me for random things and especially not doing homework because I literally could not focus because of all the pain. I was on zoloft at 8 years old. The reason I didn't tell is because my brother is EXTREMELY violet, always caused fights, couldn't handle a family merge between my father's and his 2nd wife's. I.E was not getting all the attention and ass pats for being high functioning autistic. My brother said HIMSELF to people like me and his friends he would play up his autism to get out of things. So one, that made me scared he would use that as an excuse and then COME AFTER ME. The guy who would choke my sister, punch walls and windows, and slammed my first dog on the ground knocking it out/go into shock (which I still have nightmares of in my sleep to this day no matter how good of a day I could've had). He did end up killing my dog by strangling it to death.

So it ended up being a huge secret, one I tried forgetting about because of the fear and feeling like an overall futile situation from being overlooked because of his condition or one that would end up in me getting hurt and really unleash fury on me and others. I was always in a position with no one standing up for me because no one bothered to try to get me away from my mom knowing she was an extremely abusive person (I do remember my dad's 2nd wife taking pics of my bruises but nothing ever came of that situation, told a 4th grade teacher about it and she looked at marks on my legs and said something like "oh that's just from the chair you're sitting on")... and given my family always GAVE IN (especially my dad) to my brother's meltdowns and tantrums to make the sheer violence stop. When that case got re-opened in my mind from seeing it in the news, I remember exactly why I harbored so my resentment for my brother, not just because of all the fights and what hell he made everyone's life.. But because he was a pedophile.

Fast forward to me being 18, on my dad's laptop (it was just a household of me, brother, and father because my mom kicked me out because I had a suicide attempt and didn't want to deal with me anymore).. I did come out to my mom at 13 what happened to me (her father) because picking up the pieces and getting more intelligent it really dawned on me how AWFUL it was that happened to me and the effect it had. She did not believe me. She took me for ice cream after picking me up from school as if that would fix my world falling apart. So back to year 18- I was looking for job on the laptop. It was always a goal in mind to start working, save up, eventually getting away from my family because there was never a safe place for me with all the fights and abuse. SWAT team busted in and seized all of our electronics, computers, etc. First time I ever had a gun pointed at me.

Turned out the culprit they were after, was not my brother as I suspected, but no... my father. It tore my world apart. I then realized I was always surrounded by pedophiles and one unanswered question still in my mind to this day is- if my father knew what my grandfather was doing since it happened for so long and let it happen. My brother had the audacity to justify my dad's CP saying it was just from a porn addiction. Come on. There is something so EVIL about literally getting off to children. Shocker he would be a CSA apologist right? ....

So my dad was in possession of CP. Somehow they let him off. Put on the RSO list. What hurts even more, is that it happened a SECOND TIME when he moved out to live with who is now, and still, his third wife. After the first time he came and cried with me on my bed. I somehow felt he was sorry for what had happened and knew how bad it hurt me. After the second time, I never talked to my dad, and still don't. Had a moment of weakness a couple years ago to talk to him, because on a good note I did end up leaving the state and now live 5 hours away from any family I have, never been happier. I just kinda wanted to make it known how well I was doing. Had talked to my mother too around the same time and asked if she ever believed me. She said "well, I do now".. Bitch there is no believing me NOW when you NEVER took my mental health seriously. Then no more contact with anyone. I don't talk to anyone in my family at all besides nieces/nephews and it's still very minimal.

Because I was able to cut off any toxicity in my life I am doing tons better but I still have flashbacks and nightmares, some bad days but extremely thankful for where I am now not having ANY help from anyone else. I did it all by myself.

So concerning this criminal and seeing as to how he's going to be released is leaving me in confusion and shock. For one, how did he survive in prison? Cause we all know how inmates take to child molesters especially this guy being one of the MAIN DISTRIBUTERS of CP. It said he was moved to a federal prison specializing in those with mental health issues. Did he just play crazy? I mean yeah there's mental health issues with pedos but you know what I mean. What happened there? Why would officials WANT to protect him or provide him ANY mental health services with such severe crimes?? When first being sentenced it was said "Goldberg is a deeply disturbed individual with a lack of remorse beyond belief." I'm amazed he wasn't killed by other inmates for his crimes and maybe played crazy to be protected, regardless, it's amazing he is being released and since he didn't show any remorse I think it is possible he would offend again.

Many, let's say, "normies" are under the impression that someone so old wouldn't be able to offend but we have seen this many times. If anything people look at the old person like "oh what harm could he do he can barely walk".. Somehow in people's eyes, and what you could be charged with, molestation and rape are considered 2 different things. They could be, but the effects are the same. It literally ruins lives.

I'm about to say something graphic here so trigger warning:

Just because a male is older and not able to become erect does not make a difference. There are sick people who would still lure and touch a child, it's sick to even LOOK at a child in that way, and if my grandfather was able to get erect he would have penetrated me because he tried. I fear this sick man "r@ygold" has a possibility of doing something again, either to an actual child or be in possession of illegal material since the "lack of remorse beyond belief". I'm just hoping when he is released maybe just be put in some type of home and institution away from the general public with no access to internet. And I don't just say this about anyone... I truly wished he would have been killed and would have joined my grandfather in hell.

If you made it this far in reading, THANK YOU. If anyone out there has a similar experience concerning "r@ygold" I would appreciate your input.

[saint-starflicker]

From a quick trawl of your blog, you enjoyed The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky...which I have never read... and have tagged Rory Gilmore affiliated with a reading list of some stuff I have read but I think the books don't really have much in common.

Based on that, I recommend:

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I also really enjoyed the 2007 movie adaptation, and I love both the book and the movie but I think both are good. It's the early 19th century and Catherine Morland is a gothic literature fanatic. While being a companion to the older Mrs. Allen to attend parties in the high society in Bath, Catherine finds herself in a tangle of treacherously false friendships, cozy/domestic murder mysteries, and the best most-underrated Jane Austen romantic hero ever. I include Mr. Darcy in that consideration—unless your type is gruff, awkward, foot-in-mouth but ultimately does the right thing.

2. Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Somebody in Sophia Leonidas' family murdered the patriarch, and her fiancé Charles Hayward is forbidden from going through with the wedding until they catch the culprit.

This one is my personal favorite, but Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile by the same author were probably more popular titles because of good reasons.

3. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

This one's so quirky. Off the coast of Carolina is the island of Nollop, named after the inventor of the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and they put that sentence in iron letters over an archway because they worship the sentence. Due to age and bad weather, the letters begin to fall off and the townsfolk take it as a sign that they should not use any words with those letters. Then, more letters begin to fall.

It's a comedy about a cult, an ode to the English language, and the title character is one of the only voices of reason. It's also formatted as an epistolary, which I just think is neat.

4. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Post-Apocalypse science fiction. The safehouse against the thing that caused the apocalypse falls and a mad scientist woman, a friendly fun schoolmarmie (who might have murdered somebody though), a military grunt who wants to kill things, some other guy who got swept up in the plot and is very anxious about it, and the next step in human evolution in the form of a little girl—must travel the wasteland together to survive and find answers to the mystery of the end of the world.

5. The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones

Very dark academia with witchcraft, desperately intense bonds of sisterhood, and domestic violence.

Books I haven't read in full but sound interesting:

The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, I watched the 2011 movie and it is very dark and very academia, but I have not read the book.

Final Girls by Riley Sager. When trendy horror movies in the 1970's made "the monster" of the piece a serial killer, film and media scholars noticed how gendered the genre became. The last sole survivor had to be a girl in every movie like this, because even fictional boys aren't as free to be emotional in these fleeing-from-a-murderer situations. This trendy trope is called The Final Girl. The book is about what would happen if "real-life" survivors of attempted serial murder or mass-murder had a support group...and why they would, ironically, try to murder each other.

Fledgling by Octavia Butler. I'm reading it now because I heard there was a vampire in it. It's pretty good so far, it's rare that I read a book in first person and think that I'm definitely going to be comfortable sharing this character's head for the whole book no matter what happens but I really like the main character's voice in this one.

please send me book recs!! <3

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday.

In 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying.

Psychologically, that ‘what if’ feeling can literally be painful.

People now are 50% heavier and 4 inches taller than they were in 1900.

92% of people type things into Google to see if they spelled them correctly.

A 'moment' is officially defined as 90 seconds. (Remind you of your husband?)

The largest millipede in Tanzania is known as ‘the wandering leg sausage’.

In the middle ages, erect penises were thought to be full of pressurised air.

In the music industry, for every $1,000 of music sold, the average musician gets $23.40.

In Sweden, it is legal to be a prostitute, but it is illegal to be a customer of a prostitute.

Over 90% of mental diseases are either caused or complicated by the stressful act of overthinking.

Men don't generally finish maturing until around the age of 43. With women, it's around the age of 32.

Psychology says, the longer you hide your feelings for someone, the harder you fall for that individual.

When Wilfred R. Welsh discovered a new mineral, it was subsequently named after him, Welshite.

Psychologically, one of the most devastating things in life is when someone you care about gives up on you.

Diana Ross, who sang ‘Ain't No Mountain High Enough’, lost her ex-husband to a mountain climbing accident.

Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', was the only one of eight siblings to reach adulthood.

Marijuana is the oldest natural, purest, and healthiest pain relief medication in the world. Its use dates back to 10 B.C.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million for his role in 'Terminator 2', which averaged out to $21,429 per word.

If you want to quit smoking, go to a sauna for 3 days in a row and you'll sweat out the nicotine which will make it easier to quit.

Female fish will fake orgasms to trick males into thinking they've successfully mated. Then they’ll swim off to find a better partner

In 2011, a Georgian woman, digging for copper to sell as scrap, sliced through a cable and cut off the whole of Armenia from the internet.

People that smell good behave more confidently, which makes them more attractive, even if others can't smell their perfume or cologne.

Following his grilling by US Congress members, TikTok CEO Shou Chew gained over 400,000 new followers in 24 hours.

World's shortest horror story consists of only two sentences: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door."

In Quito, Ecuador, there is a group of vigilantes that wander the streets at night and correct any incorrect grammar in graffiti around the city.

The slowest chess player of all time was probably Elijah Williams (1809-1854): nicknamed ‘The Bristol Sloth’. He averaged two and a half hours per move.

Female dragonflies avoid unwanted males by faking their own deaths, instantly crashing to the ground and lying motionless until the undesired male has passed by.

The first mobile phone call took place on 3rd April 1973. Motorola's general manager called their rivals AT&T to let them know they'd got there first.

Jesse James, the notorious outlaw from the 1800s, once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widow's home.

For the 15th anniversary of the film Titanic, James Cameron changed the positions of stars in the sky in the final scenes, because Neil deGrasse Tyson had written to him to point out that they would be in a different position in the North Atlantic, April 1912.

A stray dog followed a Swedish racing team throughout their 430 mile endurance race in Ecuador. He went through jungles in the Amazon and swam across a river with them. All because one of the team had given him a meatball.

In the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid, Williamina Fleming, who discovered tens of thousands of stars and more.

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

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Character Inspiration: Fell

Fell is one of my oldest OCs, dating back to 2007 when I first thought him up and started drawing him. He’s been through many changes, he even didn’t used to be all black. When he was brand new, he was black with turquoise markings, had scarlet eyes, and wore the Eye of Horus around his neck. He also wore a gold hoop earring in his left ear, (not pictured) which has stayed for his entire existence! Over time, he took on more personality traits from media I consumed, but these are the top six!

1. The Wolf - Ringing Bell (1972)

The Wolf is a ruthless killer, often raiding the sheep barn to slaughter them. When he kills Chirin’s mother, Chirin promises he will become strong just like the Wolf, because he doesn’t want to be killed like the rest of the sheep. The Wolf reluctantly takes him in, teaching him to hang on to his anger as it makes one stronger. He also teaches the young ram about the laws of nature. This character planted the seed of what I wanted Fell to look like; the scar on his eye and the ragged appearance just gave off vibes.

2. Gabriel / Van Helsing - Van Helsing (2004)

Fell went through a werewolf phase and so looked like this when I took inspiration from the werewolf design in this movie. The only difference from this was he wore tan shorts that were torn at the hems. This movie was a keystone in Fell’s development, because even to the present day his origins begin in gothic Europe. His real name is also Gabriel Valerius, names that are also from this movie (because I really just like how they fit together ok).

3. Smaug - The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (2013)

This dragon’s personality is everything Fell is and more. Smaug is a psychopath, and Fell is on that very border, especially when the moon is full. The dialect in which Smaug speaks is also very similar to the way Fell words his sentences and tones his voice. Like Smaug takes pleasure in playing with his food, so does Fell when he has a victim cornered. Smaug is essentially Fell when he no longer remembers who he is: a psychotic killer who takes pleasure in the hunt.

4. Scar - The Lion King (1994/2019)

Scar is a sassy, sarcastic villain who is fueled by hatred and jealousy. He wishes to be king instead of his brother, whom he soon murders in order to attain that goal. But Scar’s past is what made him into the person he is. Being overlooked by his family and his friends, Scar was an outcast and often felt as if he was not good enough. He was always trying to please everyone around him in the hopes of receiving even a small praise, but over time he let his anger consume him. When he was human, Fell too let anger consume him after the murder of his beloved bride to be, seeking revenge on every wolf he could hunt until he found the one that took his fiance away. Both characters let anger lead them down their unfortunate paths, and both characters also carry themselves in a similar fashion; Scar is brooding and melancholy, which is the same energy Fell gives off to others

5. Fell - David Clement-Davies’ Fell (2007)

The year Fell was created is the same year I discovered this book. Fell is a character in this series by David Clement-Davies. He is the brother of Larka, a she-wolf who is gifted with the Sight, the power to see through the eyes of birds and see what is yet to come. Fell also has this ability as revealed in Fell, but instead uses it differently than his sister. I’ve honestly not finished this series, but from what I’ve read so far, Fell is on point. This book is also where his name came from.

6. Sirius Black/The Grim - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

The black dog in the third Harry Potter movie, soon revealed as Sirius Black, got me thinking about Fell being seen as an omen. Before we know the dog is actually Sirius Black, one of the students believes it is a Grim, an omen of death in various folklore. This ties in with Fell being connected to the Big Bad Wolf of many fairy tales.

7. The Big Bad Wolf - various

Fell is THE big bad wolf of legend. The Wolf is a manifestation of people’s fear, and it is a curse that cannot be broken. The Wolf is damned to roam the earth forever bound by an eternal contract to do the bidding of anyone who summons him. He will kill on demand without question, and he feels nothing inside. Robbed of love and light, he serves only one purpose: to send those who have wronged his master to Hell. He no longer remembers his past or who he used to be.

Many people have tried to hunt the Wolf, but those who left never came back. Fell will kill anyone who tries to kill him; if someone were to kill him, the curse of the Wolf would be passed on to them. It is a fate worse than death, a fate Fell doesn’t wish upon anyone else.

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[gladiates]

56 french-language film recs!

I wanted to find some movies I can watch to improve my French, so I looked for films available on Kanopy (which is rly cool--if you live in the US, you can stream some movies for free if your library or school subscribes to it!) All of the following films are on Kanopy, and I imagine you can also find many of them on p*racy sites (totally not endorsing that at all no sir!). I’ve listed each film’s title along with its year and score on IMDB. I only included movies with at least 1,000 IMDB ratings and an average of at least 7/10 so they’re all reasonably acclaimed! I also included a short summary of each from IMDB as well. List below the cut because it’s long!

Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962, 7.9 from ~17.0k votes): Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

The Rules of the Game (1939, 8.0 from ~26.6k votes): A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Breathless (1960. 7.8 from ~73.1k votes): A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.

The 400 Blows (1959, 8.1 from 105.1k votes): A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Purple Noon (1960, 7.8 from 14.2k votes): Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982, 7.4 from ~4.0k votes): In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, 7.8 from ~20.3 votes): In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

The Wages of Fear (1953, 8.1 from ~54.5k votes): In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Tell No One (2006, 7.5 from ~50.7k votes): An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?

Queen Margot (1994, 7.4 from 16.3k votes): Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

Un Flic (1972, 7.1 from ~8.2k votes): After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953, 7.5 from ~16.8k votes): Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.

La Haine (1995, 8.1 from ~150.0k votes): 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Alphaville (1965, 7.1 from 22.9k votes): A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Tomboy (2011, 7.4 from 18.4k votes): A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

Full Moon in Paris (1984, 7.4 from 3.8k votes): Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.

Bob the Gambler (1956, 7.7k from 10.8k votes): After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

La Chinoise (1967, 7.1 from ~6.2k votes): A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

The Innocents (2016, 7.3 from ~9.6k votes): 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Germinal (1993, 7.1 from ~4.7k votes): In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017, 7.4 from ~13.4k votes): Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954, 7.8 from ~6.7k votes): An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975, 7.8 from ~7.4k votes): A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Port of Shadows (1938, 7.8 from ~8.2k votes): A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.

Lumumba (2000, 7.2 from ~1.8k votes): The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

Three Colors: Blue (1993, 7.9 from ~89.6k votes): A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, 7.7 from ~8.4k votes): Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

The Brand New Testament (2015, 7.1 from ~29.8k votes): Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?

La Rafle (2010, 7.1 from ~8.2k votes): A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Diabolique (1955, 8.0 from ~61.4k votes): The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006, 7.1 from ~18.5k votes): Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.

Mon Oncle (1958, 7.8 from ~18.8k votes): Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

A Man Escaped (1956, 8.3 from ~19.1k votes): A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.

The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011, 7.0 from ~3.6k votes): In 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.

Weekend (1967, 7.2 from ~13k votes): A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.

Claire's Knee (1970, 7.6 from ~9.0k votes): On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Shoot the Piano Player (1960, 7.5 from ~17.5k votes): Charlie is approached by his crook brother Chico, who is chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the criminals, so when his brother Fido is kidnapped, Charlie has to take an attitude with tragic consequences.

My Night at Maud's (1969, 7.9 from ~10.8k votes): The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Eyes Without a Face (1960, 7.7 from ~27.5k votes): A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face.

Three Colors: Red (1994, 8.1 from ~90.4k votes): A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.

The Grocer's Son (2007, 7.0 from ~2.3k votes): Antoine moves home to help his mom drive the mobile grocery, when his dad's hospitalized. He brings Claire along, hoping she'll become more than a friend. He drives around Provence's countryside, selling mainly to old people.

Pickpocket (1959, ~7.7 from 19.6k votes): Michel is released from jail after serving a sentence for thievery. His mother dies and he resorts to pickpocketing as a means of surviva

La Collectionneuse (1967, 7.5 from ~6.6k votes): A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

Code Unknown (2000, 7.2 from ~11.9k votes): A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

Children of Paradise (1945, 8.4 from ~18.2k votes): The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her.

The Last Metro (1980, 7.4 from ~12.5k votes): In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Danton (1983, 7.5 from ~6.4k votes): In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.

Orpheus (1950, 8.0 from ~10.5k votes): A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Lacombe, Lucien (1974, 7.7 from ~6.5k votes): In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish gir

L'Atalante (1934, 7.8 from ~14.4k votes): Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

Le Million (1931, 7.4 from ~3.1k votes): An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

La bête humaine (1938, 7.6 from ~6.8k votes): In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Black Girl (1966, 7.4 from ~3.5k votes): A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

Out 1 (1971, 7.8 from ~1.1k votes): Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Les Misérables, Part 1 (1934, 8.2 from ~1.5k votes): The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Beau Travail (1999, 7.4 from ~8.5k votes): This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti.

[hime-memes]

( Requested ) This long list of starters comes from the youtube content creator: Nisipisa ! In particular, the video: ‘ Let’s Go Window Shopping 6: Crimes Against Pants with Shein ‘

Trigger Warnings: Sexual Innuendo, Alcohol & Drug Mentions and Swearing.

As always: feel free to change anything within these starters that you see fit to make it work for your muse & the receiver’s muse !

( Some sentences have been modified for length, understanding, or to give fuller context. )

“ First of all, these shorts ? I’m living for the whole outfit. I appreciate _____ finding a use for trashbags that’s not just holding trash. “

“ ... I don’t have enough brain bandwidth to actually hold enough information about it ... “

“ People deserve access to clothing in their size. 100 %. “

“ I’m already kinda impressed. “

“ This is a pretty dress & this is a pretty dress. That’s pretty ! That’s ... passable ? “ 

“ We had a lot of fun last time with t-shirts. “

“ Oh my god. Oh god ... Oh yes ! This is our first graphic tee of the day. “

“ It’s a crew neck in the ugliest shade of purple known to human or lobster eyes. “

“ Sorry: #Momlife. “ 

“ You can make sure your search engine optimization is as powerful as possible when you’re waiting in line to check out at Target™ for the fourth time this week. “ 

“ I didn’t mean to shame anybody that spends three days out of their week at Target™. “

“ If there wasn’t a panna cotta going on, that would be me. It’s my favorite place in the goddamn world ! “

“ It’s second only to shoe stores that sell a size twelve ! “ 

“ As we all know - I am not a mother and will likely biologically never be one, because God looked at me and said, ‘ If I give you a reproductive system, you’re going to be too powerful ‘ and so, he just nuked my uterus. “

“ I don’t find that this t - shirt celebrates motherhood in any meaningful way. “ 

“ I do think it celebrates having bad taste in a meaningful way. “

“ You know what ? For some people: That’s enough. “ 

“ ... We aren’t going to address why having a cutout tight might be useful ... “

“ And THIS is the sexiest shoe we could have put my girl in ?! “

“  You guys put her in this conservative nightmare heel ?! “

“ I like that ______ thinks you should wear all these graphic tees with light wash mom jeans and converse low tops. “

“ I think every website should encourage it’s patrons to dress like the main character of a Sarah Dessen novel from 2007. “

“ There’s some high schooler in a debate club that’s really into it. It’s kinda their whole personality, and they’re like: ‘ This is so ironically funny for me ‘. “

“ In the year of our Lord, 2008: I started high school and my absolute favorite shirt to wear was a shirt quite like this. “

“ It looked like I was wearing long sleeves under short sleeves when in reality, I was wearing a crime. “

“  Have you ever tried layering ? Like, actual layering ? It sucks ! “ 

“ You’re kidding ! A double whammy in the same row ? Oh my god ... “ 

“ ... We have also inexplicably made the model hit this pose. “

“ The person who needs these pants is someone who likes to go out and party - likes to go to the club - but, they are also the president of a fan club for Shar Pei dogs. “

“ You know what dogs I think are cute ? ( * Googles favorite dog * ) Just look at this guy ! “ 

“ Look at these pointy bastards ! “

“ This is like if you had a bat and you did a spell on it to make it a dog ! “ 

“ These ... Now THIS is a pair of pants ! “

“  Clinically depressed, stressed jeans. “

“  You take leopard print fabric and sew it into your distressed holes. “

“ You don’t have to frankenstein it into this type of fit ... this is kinda like how a hypebeast would dress if they were in elementary school. “

“ If you put a bow on this and a tutu: this is me and my girls rolling up to the Jojo Siwa concert. “

“ Am I saying I wouldn’t wear these shorts ? No, I’m not saying that at all - I would wear the fuck outta these shorts ! “

“  As we’ve established: my taste is awful. “ 

“ Do you think in 1503, when Lisa del Giocondo sat down to start being painted for this portrait - she thought in a couple hundred years some random fast fashion brand would take her likeness, photoshop a face mask on it ... and sell it on a graphic t - shirt ? “

“ The only responsibilities I had were watching Rugrats and learning object permanence. “

“ Stop living in the past. The future is fun because my videos are in it ! “

“ This little cherry top, I think I’d probably wear. I think it’s very sweet ! “

“  I’m so weak to anything with a grid print. “ 

“ I’m going to think about this shirt for the rest of my life ... “

“ What exactly does a lil’ house elf from Harry Potter™ have to do with this ? “

“ I do feel like this floral print will cause my brain to atrophy if I look at it too long. “ 

“ Rosé is not the only wine to rhyme with ‘ all day ‘. Rosé isn’t even good ! “

“ You know what ? I don’t work for _______, so it’s fine. It’s not my responsibility ! “ 

“ Hey guys, you having fun at mushroom college ? “

“ I saw two things: The crotch butterfly and the booty butterfly and now I’m thinking these are the only clothes anyone should ever wear. Ever. “ 

“ NOT THE ‘ SEX ’ EARRINGS !? YES ! “ 

“ This is brazenly and offensively targeting a very very very specific group of people that I went to my preppy college with and I don’t appreciate that. “

“ I’ve worn spaghetti sauce stained yoga pants to bed that are sexier than this ! “

“ I’d wear the fuck outta this. “

“ I don’t know what I can say ... the picture speaks for itself, this is awful ! “

“ I’ve been saying for the longest time there is absolutely no store online that I can find articles of clothing for my single, mid-western, art teacher from the 70s, halloween costume. Finally someone is filling that niche ! “

“ This is absolutely unprecedented, because _______ decided to take something that, not only didn’t exist, but that no one has ever asked for and make it a reality. “ 

“ They think to themselves: ‘ Man - I love leopard print and I love galaxy print: but, I wish there was some way I could experience them at the same time, in an orientation that looks like the very beginnings of a DMT trip, and I wish I could experience all that whilst exercising. “

“  This is so tacky that I wanna wear it. “ 

“ Lord - Jesus, life is so beautiful. and full ... and amazing ! “ 

“ Curse allttle and carra fu///ng ON. “

“ The Rocky Horror Picture Show did not die for our sins for you to make this, okay ____ ? “

“ I feel like the person that wears this is a representative from the International Coalition of Clowns that are also Sexy. “

“ I want the opposite of this: I want a pink pastel frilly one piece that just says across the front of it, in like Curlz MT font : ‘ Death ‘. “

“ Listen, I don’t know what font that is, but I would like President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to outlaw it. I don’t think it does society any good. “ 

“ I heart freak city ? “

“ Uh yeah, I live on Drip Goth Punk street. “

“ Is that near Superfreak Sexy Gurl lane ? “ 

“ We have a big snake problem here in Boston and I’m glad _____ is finally recognizing this. “

“ Mama. “ * Cue insane cackling * 

“ This shirt says ‘ heart stopper ’ ... that’s me when I’m a serial killer ! “ 

“ That’s so topical and current ! Thank you, _______. “ 

[maxwell-grant]

Good grief, the mental image of Doctor Quartz making common cause with Fantomas has just struck me - it's not a pretty picture, though one suspects those two would be more inclined to admire the other's work from afar AT BEST (and might well prefer to regard the other as quite as subhuman as every being on Earth other than themselves).

I imagine if there's one villain that Fantomas wouldn't try to kill or sight or would at least begrundingly accept working with for a couple of scenes, it would have to be Quartz, who's inhumanly eerie and skilled at dominating or taming even the most berserk murderers, and neither of their goals are that opposite. Not that it would last, of course not, but there's a slightly more solid grounds for partnership here than with other potential team-ups with Fantomas.

Because on one hand, yeah, obviously Quartz is just as arrogant and sure of himself as the supervillains that followed him, and really, it's not like he's undeservedly confident in his own abilities, being, y'know, the smartest man alive, stronger than a man who can toss bulls for funsies, a perfect gentleman in manners, able to escape death time and time again and so on.

But there's an interesting aspect to him in the stories I've read in that, both he, and the story, actually admit they have a superior, in the form of Zanoni the Woman Wizard, one of the people Quartz corrupted into becoming one of Nick Carter's enemies.

Zanoni is, or was, as mad as any woman confined in an asylum for the insane, but she had a method to her madness. Dr Quartz had utterly destroyed her sense of right and wrong, just as he once sought to destroy yours.

She had no compassion, she loved crime for crime's sake, and she delighted in cruelty and inflicting pain. But she was also throughly learned in the sciences practiced by Dr Quartz that she had become a menace to him rather than a help.

Quartz never the saw the human being he feared - even Zanoni. But Quartz admitted on the witness stand, when he had given up all hope of escape, that she was, if she chose to be so, more dangerous than he, for the reason that she was more subtle.

Don't you remember his saying, "There are some branches of the sciences I practice, in which the pupil has become the teacher: in which Zanoni could teach me"?

One of these days I'm definitely going to have to dedicate a much lenghtier talk about the great female villains of the pulps, and first and foremost among these is definitely going to have to be Zanoni. I cannot find any image that does justice to her so you'll have to go by description:

She's got the deftness of Satan with the brutality of Hercules; the wisdom of Solomon, with the recklessness of the devil; the shrewdness of a woman, with the courage of a man; the softness of a siren, with the strength of a Hercules; the learning of the living wise men of the earth, with the ingenuousness of a girl graduate; and the beauty of an houri, with the brutality of hell itself.

And her incredible lines like

"When the graves give up their dead, then you will find Zanoni. When sheeted ghosts walk the earth and converse with mortals, then you will find Zanoni. When the sun and the moon meet in the heavens and travel in company around the earth, then you will find Zanoni. When angels learn to swear, and devils learn to pray, then you will find Zanoni; but not till then.

Or the classic

Have no fear, my pretty man, my cornucopia of driveling goodness. When I make love to you, it will be to your articulated skeleton–to your empty, fleshless skull–to your heart preserved in alcohol and your liver thrown to the dogs.

As far as I can find, it is actually Zanoni who was responsible for killing Dr Quartz in the last story I can find that featured the character, called "Dr Quartz's Last Play", after he betrays her, and she throws herself off a cliff (the blurb for the next story states she was to return though). I'm not certain of whether or not Dr Quartz came back after this. This story took place in 1912, which intersects with Fantomas's own beginnings.

Actually, there is an existing "Nick Carter vs Fantomas" story, based on a French play from 1910. I was a bit confused at first as to why Fantomas was showing up in an 1910 story considering he debuted in 1911, but from what I found, apparently Fantomas was only added to the story on the 2007 translation that unearthed the story.

Mind you, that doesn't have to be the definitive explanation for it. Maybe there is something more to the idea that Fantomas's debut has some kind of strange connection to Nick Carter and his legendary Rogues Gallery. Maybe Fantomas is one of the many pupils and understudies of Dr Quartz, or maybe he's a successful experiment of his. Or maybe the two of them crawled out of the same pit of horrors. Take your pick. There's a story here.

And finally, there is an interesting, very amusing factoid about "Dr Quartz's Last Play", and it's the way he's supposedly buried for good 100% definitely pinky-swear this time, in the final sentence of the story.

Nick Carter remained there more than an hour, watching that small fissure in the rocks; but at last he turned away with a deep sigh, and rejoined Chick.

"Zanoni is dead," he said. "We will not search for her."

Doctor Quartz's body was taken far out upon the open sea, tied and sewed inside a shotted hammock, and dropped into the depths.

I'm definitely not gonna say this was intentional, but it does ring up an interesting parallel to another late-19th century megalomaniac mass murdering supervillain, with a bodybuilder's physique and a deserved reputation as "evil incarnate", who used his hypnotic charisma to gather an elite of criminals and monsters, to try and raise hell against a heroic and gentle strongman he had a begruding respect and admiration for, and who was disposed of at the end through a burial at sea

(if only temporarily).

[butterflies-dragons]

Hey according to grrm tyrion is said to be a good villain? What do you think about Tyrion? Is he a villain or anti hero? If he is a good villain then why he will be hand of king? Do you think grrm means something different?

Back in 1999, this is what GRRM said: 

Amazon.com: Do you have a favorite character?

Martin: I've got to admit I kind of like Tyrion Lannister. He's the villain of course, but hey, there's nothing like a good villain.

[Source]

Over the years, GRRM also has said:

2000:

Tyrion is Martin's favorite character, but from the perspective of House Stark, he's certainly a villain -- someone once said that a villain was a hero on the other side.

[Source]

2006:

He also answered some questions, and had some interesting things to say. He repeatedly emphasized that he prefers to write grey characters, because in real life people are complex; no one is pure evil or pure good. Fiction tends to divide people into heroes who do no wrong and villains who go home and kick their dogs and beat their wives, but that reality is much different. He cited a soldier who heroically saves his friends' lives, but then goes home and beats his wife. Which is he, hero or villain? Martin said both and that neither act cancels out the other.

(...)

So he said that he likes to paint characters in shades of grey (recurring theme of the weekend, yay! so refreshing from these damn didactic TV show runners... anyway....). And that even what seem like the most horrific people have other sides, aren't pure caricatures of evil, that even Hitler had his nice moments. And he wanted to explore what might cause that kind of villainy, because no one just wakes up and says “I want to be evil today.”  

[Source]

2007:

The concept of heroes and villains is a false dichotomy, in George's opinion. Real human beings are a mixture of good and evil.

[Source]

2008:

FAVORITE WILD CARDS CHARACTERS

(...)

I also loved Jetboy. Although he only appeared in that one story, he set the tone for much that followed. Even so, I might have to pass him over for Gregg Hartmann. A good story needs a good villain, and Gregg was our best, with a story arc that went all the way from book one through book fifteen.

[Source]

[What was the hardest death to write?]

The Red Wedding was the hardest thing I´ve ever written.I don´t know that I have actually enjoyed any of them. Even when you kill a bad guy, it can be hard... he´s one of your ¨children¨too. Besides, good villains are hard to find, and you always have the nagging doubt that maybe you´ll need him down the line.

[Source]

2011:

Much as I admire Tolkien, and I do admire Tolkien — he’s been a huge influence on me, and his Lord of the Rings is the mountain that leans over every other fantasy written since and shaped all of modern fantasy — there are things about it, the whole concept of the Dark Lord, and good guys battling bad guys, Good versus Evil, while brilliantly handled in Tolkien, in the hands of many Tolkien successors, it has become kind of a cartoon. We don’t need any more Dark Lords, we don’t need any more, ‘Here are the good guys, they’re in white, there are the bad guys, they’re in black. And also, they’re really ugly, the bad guys.

It is certainly a genuine, legitimate topic as the core of fantasy, but I think the battle between Good and Evil is waged within the individual human hearts. We all have good in us and we all have evil in us, and we may do a wonderful good act on Tuesday and a horrible, selfish, bad act on Wednesday, and to me, that’s the great human drama of fiction. I believe in gray characters, as I’ve said before. We all have good and evil in us and there are very few pure paragons and there are very few orcs. A villain is a hero of the other side, as someone said once, and I think there’s a great deal of truth to that, and that’s the interesting thing. In the case of war, that kind of situation, so I think some of that is definitely what I’m aiming at.

[Source]

2020:

Dwelling where I am now, deep in the heart of Westeros, I find myself surrounded by my characters, the children of my mind and heart and soul.   They are real to me, as I write them, and I struggle to make them real to my readers as well.   All of them are flawed, from the best to the worst.  They do heroic things, they do selfish things.   Some are strong and some are weak, some smart and some stupid.  The smartest may do stupid things.  The bravest may have moments when their courage fails.   Great harms may be done from the noblest motives, great good from motives vile and venal.   Life is like that, and art should reflect that, if it is to remain true.   Ours is a world of contradiction and unintended consequences.

[Source]

As you can see, when GRRM refers to Tyrion as a “good villain”, he is saying that he is not a caricature of a villain, he is not a cartoon, he is not all black, ugly and evil, etc.

Tyrion is a villain, there is no doubt about it.  GRRM is all about grey characters, but he called Tyrion plainly a villain, more than once. 

I have a favorite villain too, she was a great villain, the actress that played her was superb, and the name of the character has an special meaning for me.  I present to you: Carmen Lucia Moreira de Souza Araújo...

...Also known as ¡CARMINHA!  

She was the modern version of the evil stepmother. The main antagonist of the TV Series called Avenida Brasil (Brazil Avenue).

But at the end of the story Carminha survives, goes to jail, serves her sentence, and ends up living the life she tried so hard to avoid throughout the series: poverty. She literally ends up living in a garbage dump... 

...And she also reconciles with her stepdaughter Rita, the protagonist, they both forgive each other and continue with their lives...     

So, if we follow the hints that the Show gave us, Tyrion may survive but he will end up living the life he tried so hard to avoid throughout the series.  He will work doing good things for the realm but he won’t get ANY recognition or appreciation for those good deeds.  He won’t be part of the History books, he will remain anonymous and eventually he will be forgotten... Or worse, he will only be remembered as the monster he always denied being...

Thanks for your message. 

[saleintothe90s]

423. The Chevy Chase Show, September 9, 1993.

The other day, I ran across this video from YouTube user VideoDisorder that discussed the first episode of the Chevy Chase Show.  He hit all the same points I hit when I wrote my entry about Chevy’s extremely short lived talk show from 1993. I loved his video so much that … that I had to watch another episode of Chevy’s show. I just really have the craving to tear down another episode.

I’m watching night three of Chevy’s show, September 9, 1993 . I chose this one primarily because our boy, Harry Anderson from Night Court and Dave’s World was in it. 

Also, I had a dream a few weeks ago that Harry and I were community college students who were married and lived in the huge money pit house my parents and I moved into my senior year of high school. Seemed fitting.

The show opens with Chevy putting on a wig, which kinda makes him look like he did at the beginning of the Christmas Vacation movie. (Clip: youtube.com/watch?v=ozksR8QLWzM) Just me? ok.

Oh, but no, there’s a baby in it!  Harry’s gonna staple gun it on for Chevy.

Chevy still thinks it’s funny to fall and stumble into his opening … its night three, Chevy. Stop it. He also tries to make a basketball hoop just like he did on night one. Was that supposed to be a tradition? A reference to the Fletch movie? The modern equivalent to this would be on Good Mythical Morning when Rhett and Link do a tournament and Link always misses throwing away the bad food behind his back into the trash can. (Tiny print: man they’ve been doing that too much, but ANYWAY)

Chevy does a tour of the set, which he shoulda done the first night instead of that birthday cake bit with Goldie Hawn’s son. He shows off the aquarium….oh that reminds me of something I found last night!!  I went to see if I could find anything about the show on The Internet Archive (archive.org). I found this article from this small down paper about high schooler’s thoughts on the late night wars of 1993 1.

Chevy flubbed his lines through the entire segment. He said the guest book passport thing was there to “Keep his guests from coming back” by accident. Tell us what you really feel, Chevy.  Someone in the audience even heckled him! 

Chevy: …they get some sort of prize..

Audience Member: LIKE WHAT?!

Chevy: The first prize would be trying to get you out of her in a fashion that wouldn’t be too exciting.

On your tenth visit (okay) you could get Michael Jackson in a can. Audience boos. This was a couple of weeks after the beginning of the claims that Michael had molested a boy.

Chevy then goes into a segment where he goes to a desk company to look for his desk. They got to visit the desk from Barbarians at the Gate! Something I’ve been meaning to watch for years. Tyre’s also dumb jokes about Chevy putting gum under a desk, and then retrieving it. The man at the desk warehouse said “ew”. He wasn’t playing, straight up “ew”.  I had to stop it at that point. Zzz city.

A dramatic recreation of Martin getting Nair put on by makeup ladies.

Martin Short is the first guest of the night. They sing a song from Three Amigos and its cute. Martin has a full head of fuzzy hair. It’s glorious. The interview is not. I caught myself reading the news on my phone during it. At one point, Martin says, “I will imagine my own death, and imagine people hearing the news.” Later on he discusses being in the movie Clifford and how he had Nair his legs, and he got the makeup crew to help him. Turns out he had his “little fella” hanging out of his underwear the whole time.

The News Update segment is awful. He tried to tell a joke about the rampant killings of tourists in Florida at the time:  

“The two white men in Florida who were charged [stumbles] on all accounts of setting black men on fire were convicted … that’s it… the two men could face two life terms, or a stiffer sentence of driving a rental car through Miami dressed as German tourists.”

(Crowd groans, someone in the audience even said, “NOPE!”)

He also calls Snoop Doggy Dogg, “SNOOPS Doggy Dog”.  How is he stumbling through everything like this.

On inhalant abuse, especially with aerosol deodorant:

“These are you underarms on drugs”

FINALLY, we get to Harry! This was right before Dave’s World started, where Harry played writer Dave Barry. Harry describes Dave’s books as “books you read on a plane”, and his newspaper column, “as something you read on the crapper”.

Why do I remember the bathroom from Dave’s World so well! I loved that house. 

“Was that your card?”

NO. They brought this stupid segment back from the first night. I don’t know what this even IS. It’s not funny, I know that. I read in Chevy’s biography by Rena Fruchter that these were all his faces. 2

“I love Harry Anderson, I love all of you. Goodnight.”

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“Late Night Battle Begins” Romulus Roman, September 26. 1993.  https://archive.org/details/Romulus091993/09-22-1993/page/n21/mode/2up

Fruchter, Rena. I’m Chevy Chase-- and You’re Not: The Authorized Biography. London: Virgin, 2007. 154.

Related:  Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was ‘The Chevy Chase Show’ By Roger Cormier 

[airadam]

Episode 142 : ...If You Hear Me

"We all need...some fresh air."

- Tobe

This month has been pretty exhausting, but I did have some good ideas for this episode, and once I hit stride with the recording I decided to try and keep the pace up and get it released on a weekend day! The selection has turned out to be heavy on artists who are no longer with us, but left us some great music to remember them by. Get yourself comfortable and press "play"...

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Playlist/Notes

Evidence ft. Raekwon and Ras Kass : The Red Carpet

How is this track ten years old already? Time has flown since the 2011 release of "Cats & Dogs", the second solo Evidence album after four LPs as part of Dilated Peoples. While Evidence is an excellent producer in his own right, the reins here are taken by his future partner in The Step Brothers, The Alchemist. He further shows his confidence by bringing in California's Ras Kass and Raekwon from the Wu to guest, both legendary MCs, and holds his own next to both. A great collection of talent to kick off the show!

[DJ Premier] Gang Starr : What's Real? (Instrumental)

I just had to go back to "One Of The Best Yet" for another Preemo beat! Definitely get the instrumental release if you can, especially as you get the previously-unreleased "Glowing Mic" as a bonus cut.

The Notorious B.I.G ft. DMC : My Downfall

As I say on the voiceover, it feels weird playing a good chunk of Biggie's catalogue given how he ultimately died. This track from "Life After Death" is a perfect example, and feels like a mix of the creative writing he was famed for and maybe a realisation of exactly how much negativity swirled around him even after he had made the transition from the streets to the music industry. The legendary DMC of RUN DMC guests, only on the hook - but he does it well.

Agallah : Slaughter

Just a few bars, just a taste, as I needed something to bridge a track with no instrumental outro and the other with no open bars on the intro! Big respect to Agallah though, who has been putting in work since the mid-90s and will probably have yet another new project out by the time I finish typing this sentence. Find this beat on "Propain Campain Presents Agalllah - The Instrumental Vol. 1".

Sean Price and Small Professor (ft. Rock and DJ Revolution) : Refrigerator P

Heavy business! Ruck (Sean Price) and Rock, formerly the duo Heltah Skeltah, reunite on this killer from the "86 Witness" LP. Small Professor makes the beat dramatic, and DJ Revolution seasons the mix with his trademark super-sharp cuts.

Fred The Godson : Presidents

The Bronx-born-and-bred MC Fred The Godson sadly passed away last April at just 35 - one of the relatively early US casualties of COVID-19. During his lifetime, his catalogue consisted of some highly-rated mixtapes, but only after his death do we finally hear his debut album, "Ascension".  This track of course is built (by Hesami) around the same sample as Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents" as Fred expounds on the drug game.

Broke 'n' English : Tryin' (Calibre Mix)

"Tryin'" was one of the standouts on the 2007 debut LP "Subject 2 Status" from this respected Manchester crew. Both Strategy and DRS have a long-standing history in the drum & bass scene, and so it made sense that the remix of this track would be handled by someone like Calibre. Sharp, crisp drum action and a smooth bassline drive this one along, with DRS' vocals being woven in as a refrain. You can hear in this one track how DRS then went on to make several excellent D&B albums - his vocal versatility allows him to shine on any production.

Marco Polo : Cindy

The "MP On The MP" (see what he did there?) beat tape is inspired by a Youtube series he was doing, and features a host of new and unreleased beats. Marco Polo is one keeping this style of production alive, which I'm thankful for.  I still think of him as a "new" producer, but he's a veteran with over fifteen years in the industry!

Le$ : Out To Cali

Le$ is a great MC to go to if you want lyrics about just living life and having fun - almost like a Curren$y, but without the extreme high-end references. Right here, he's going to Cali, buying some weed, riding around, and enjoying the view - sometimes it doesn't need to be more lofty than that. Mr.Rogers goes to a familiar sample as a basis for the beat, and if you want more, the whole "Summer Madness" will give you these vibes - and exercise your speakers in the process.

O.C. : What I Need (Keelay Remix)

The "Smoke & Mirrors" LP is a bit of a forgotten one for many, but I really enjoyed it, and when acapellas became available, it was expertly remixed by the Sole Vibe crew out of San Francisco. The classic soul sample (which you may recognise from tracks like "Deeper" by Bo$$) is the foundation, with a heavy kick and skipping hi-hats providing the rhythm. O.C. never lost a step from his first LP, and he's never afraid to put his feelings out there on wax.

Sadat X : Stages & Lights

This is one of those tracks I was stunned to realised I hadn't already played on the podcast, so here it is at last! This Showbiz-produced cut from the 1996 "Wild Cowboys" LP, Sadat's solo debut, was also a B-side on the "Hang 'Em High" single - but definitely stole the show. If you ever find the original sample, you'll be amazed at how Show plucked that one small piece for this beat!

Phife Dawg : Thought U Wuz Nice

Killer B-side action from Phife Dawg, on the flip of the Superrappin "Bend Ova" 12", with J Dilla on the bouncy production. Still can't quite believe that both of these icons are no longer with us.

Saib : Beyond Clouds

The Chillhop label seems to put out endless amounts of beats from producers specialising in sounds inspired by greats like J Dilla and Nujabes, but with their own spin. This one comes from the "Chillhop Essentials Fall 2020" compilation, one of any number that are perfect for soundtracking study, work, or just a lazy day!

213 : Run On Up

That beat by Tha Chill and the delivery of "Shut the f********ck up and ruuuu-uuu-uuuun" by the late great Nate Dogg is enough to make this an absolute classic in my ears, but the full picture is even better. Way before "Doggystyle", "The Chronic", or even "Deep Cover", 213 was the group formed in Long Beach by Nate Dogg, Warren G, and Snoop, before any of them had got their big breaks. Years later, after all of them had become stars in their own rights, it was heart-warming to see them reform for the "The Hard Way" LP, from which this is taken.

Sporty Thievz : Angel

The Sporty Thievz deserve to be remembered for more than "No Pigeons", as much as we enjoyed the whole thing at the time. The "Street Cinema" album may not have quite lived up to the name, but there were some solid cuts on there, and this was one. Produced by King Kirk of the group alongside Ski, this track has all the foreboding, and while the singing on the hook may not be Marvin Gaye level, it absolutely works here.

Jean Grae : My Crew

One of the great underrated MCs - not because her skills are in question, but simply because not enough people know her! She's in fine early 2000s form on this cut from the "Bootleg of the Bootleg EP", produced by China Black. Straight boom-bap, and she cuts through with clarity and dexterity. Jean Grae raps, sings, produces, acts...one of the true talent of the culture.

Bronx Slang : Just Say No

New single from Jerry Beeks and Ollie Miggs, who have really been on a hot streak the last couple of years. It's nice to hear some protest music in an era that really calls for it, and if this is a marker of how good the upcoming second album is going to be, then you need to reserve a space in your crates right now! Jadell on production brings an appropriate heaviness to the track, no lightness on the beat!

[Ron Browz] Big L : The Heist (Instrumental)

All these years and I'd never looked to see who produced this beat from Big L's posthumously-released LP "The Big Picture" - come to find out it's one of Ron Browz' first credits. He's much better known for "Ether" by Nas, which came in 2001. The vocal version of this track is what the name suggests, a robbery tale, and you can hear the sound effects that punctuate the narrative still here in the instrumental.

Tobe Nwigwe : Fresh Air

Tobe Nwigwe and his collective (including his wife Fat and his producer Nell) have been quietly on the rise for a while, but in very recent times their profile has elevated noticeably. "The Pandemic Project" is a short six-track album from last year, and another quality addition to the catalogue. This man is an amazing MC, and Nell's often-unconventional beats are the perfect canvas. Don't sleep! 

Please remember to support the artists you like! The purpose of putting the podcast out and providing the full tracklist is to try and give some light, so do use the songs on each episode as a starting point to search out more material. If you have Spotify in your country it's a great way to explore, but otherwise there's always Youtube and the like. Seeing your favourite artists live is the best way to put money in their pockets, and buy the vinyl/CDs/downloads of the stuff you like the most!

Check out this episode!

[avalkorn]

2020

MOVIE & TV SHOW

1. Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets (2002)

2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

4. Marriage story (2019)

5. 6 underground (2019)

6. Star Trek. Discovery (S1) (2017)

7. Союз спасения (2019)

8. Dracula (S1) (2020)

9. Richard Jewell (2019)

10. What did Jack do? (2019)*

11. Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

12. 1917 (2019)

13. Little women (2019)

14. Parasite (2019)

15. Hair Love (2019)*

16. Unbelievable (S1) (2019)

17. The New Pope (2020)

18. Cloverfield (2008)

19. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

20. Hellboy (2019)

21. The Gentleman (2019)

22. A simple favor (2018)

23. Star Trek. Discovery (S2) (2019)

24. Bombshell (2019)

25. The Current War (2017)

26. Contagion (2011)

27. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

28. The Valhalla murders (S1) (2020)

29. Altered carbon (S1) (2018)

30. The laundromat (2019)

31. Ozark (S1) (2017)

32. Bad Moms (2016)

33. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020)

34. The Dark Knight (2008)

35. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

36. Insomnia (2002)

37. Interstellar (2014)

38. Along came a spider (2001)

39. Altered carbon (S2) (2020)

40. Mindhunter (S1) (2017)

41. Ozark (S2) (2018)

42. Mission impossible: Chost protocol (2011)

43. Emma (2020)

44. Onward (2020)

45. Ocean's thirteen (2007)

46. The Umbrella Academy (S1) (2019)

47. Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)

48. Busanhaeng (2016)

49. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

50. Brazil (1985)

51. Flight of the Navigator (1986)

52. Rick & Morty (S1) (2014)

53. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

54. The Children of Men (2006)

55. Кин-дза-дза (1986)

56. Mindhunter (S2) (2019)

57. True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

58. Rick & Morty (S2) (2015)

59. The Hangover. Part II (2011)

60. Rick & Morty (S3) (2017)

61. Armageddon (1998)

62. Space Cowboys (2000)

63. Interview with the Vampire (1994)

64. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

65. Interstate 60 (2002)

66. Artificial intelligence: AI (2001)

67. Devs (S1) (2020)

68. Ozark (S3) (2020)

69. Bad education (2019)

70. Match Point (2005)

71. Scoop (2006)

72. Fracture (2007)

73. The Guard (2011)

74. American Beauty (1999)

75. The Sixth Sense (1999)

76. Fleabag (S1) (2016)

77. Mr. Nobody (2009)

78. Mission to Mars (2000)

79. Upgrade (2018)

80. Rick & Morty (S4) (2020)

81. Peaky Blinders (S1) (2013)

82. Point Break (1991)

83. Batman Begins (2005)

84. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

85. Brothers (2009)

86. Kicking Out Shoshana (2014)

87. Peaky Blinders (S2) (2014)

88. Берегись автомобиля (1966)

89. Twin Peaks (S3) (2017)

90. Александр Невский (1938)

91. Курьер (1986)

92. Citizen Kane (1941)

93. Летят журавли (1957)

94. Добро пожаловать, или посторонним вход запрещён (1964)

95. Black Summer (S1) (2019)

96. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

97. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

98. 28 Days later (2002)

99. Inception (2010)

100. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

101. The Player (1992)

102. Get Shorty (1995)

103. Cast Away (2000)

104. Be Cool (2005)

105. The Expanse (S1) (2015)

106. I Love You, Man (2008)

107. The Old Guard (2020)

108. Dredd (2012)

109. Jackie Brown (1997)

110. The Umbrella Academy (S2) (2020)

111. Palm Springs (2020)

112. Dorohedoro (S1) (2020)

113. Tenet (2020)

114. The Prestige (2006)

115. Mad Max (1979)

116. Alien (1979)

117. Mad Max 2 (1981)

118. Mad Max. Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

119. The Expanse (S2) (2017)

120. Red Dragon (2002)

121. The Expanse (S3) (2018)

122. Honest Thief (2020)

123. The Expanse (S4) (2019)

124. The Boys (S1) (2019)

125. Extraction (2020)

126. The Boys (S2) (2020)

127. Enola Holmes (2020)

128. Project Power (2020)

129. Tales from the Loop (S1) (2020)

130. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

131. Aliens (1986)

132. Alien 3 (1992)

133. Blood Machines (2019)

134. Durk (2020)

135. Alien Resurrection (1997)

136. James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction (S1) (2018)

137. Chappie (2015)

138. Man of Steel (2013)

139. Batman v Superman (2016)

140. Suicide Squad (2016)

141. Knives Out (2019)

142. Source Code (2011)

143. Black Mirror (S2) (2013)

144. Apollo 18 (2011)

145. Глубже (2020)

146. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

147. Nightcrawler (2014)

148. The Mandalorian (S2) (2020)

149. Хандра (2020)

150. The Midnight Sky (2020)

BOOK

1. Ведьмак. Кровь эльфов / "Wiedzmin. Krew elfow" Andrzej Sapkowski (1994)

2. Ведьмак. Час презрения / "Wiedzmin. Czas pogardy" Andrzej Sapkowski (1995)

3. Непридуманные космические истории от первого лица / "Incredible stories from space" Nancy Atkinson (2016)

4. Кровь, пот и пиксели / "Blood, Sweat and Pixels" Jason Schreier (2017)

5. Homo Deus. Краткая история будущего  / "Homo Deus. A brief history of tomorrow" Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

6. Хроники заводной птицы / "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" Haruki Murakami (1994)

7. Задача трёх тел / "The Three-body problem" Liu Cixin (2006)

8. Цвет волшебства / “Colour of Magic“ Terry Pratchett (1983)

9. Безумная звезда / "Light Fantastic" Terry Pratchett (1986)

10. Одиссея капитана Блада / “Captain Blood: His Odyssey” Rafael Sabatini (1922)

11. Хроники капитана Блада / "Chronicles of Captain Blood" Rafael Sabatini (1922)

12. О коллекционерах и коллекционировании  / "About collectors and collectibles" Walter Benjamin (1931)

13. Тёмный лес / "The Dark Forest" Liu Cixin (2008)

14. Вечная жизнь смерти / "Death’s End" Liu Cixin (2010)

15. Ведьмак. Крещение огнём / “Wiedzmin. Chrzest ognia” Andrzej Sapkowski (1996)

16. Дзен в искусстве написания книг / «Zen in the Art of Writing» Ray Bradbury (1990)

17. Выстрел / «The Shot» Alexander Pushkin (1831)**

18. Архиерей / «The Bishop» Anton Chekhov (1902)**

19. Морфий / «Morphine» Mikhail Bulgakov (1927)**

20. Аристократка / «Aristocrat» Mikhail Zoshchenko (1923)**

21. Легкое дыхание / «Ligth Breathing» Ivan Bunin (1916)**

22. Грамматика любви / «Grammar of Love» Ivan Bunin (1929)**

23. Алеша Горшок / «Alyosha yhe Pot» Leo Tolstoy (1905)**

24. Сентенция / «Sentence» Varlam Shalamov (1965)**

25. Весна в Фиальте / «Spring in Fialta» Vladimir Nabokov (1938)**

26. Жизнь и приключения сарая Номер XII / Viktor Pelevin (1997)**

27. Музыка / «Music» Vladimir Nabokov (1932)**

28. Запах сарсапарели / «A scent of Sarsaparilla» Ray Bradbury (1958)**

29. Школа для дураков / «A School for Fools» Sasha Sokolov (1976)

30. Голый завтрак / «Naked Lunch» William S. Burroughs (1959)

THEATER

1. Октавия. Трепанация (Электротеатр Станиславский)

2. Барабаны в ночи (Московский театр Пушкина)

3. Захудалый род (Студия театрального искусства)

4. Хорошо темперированные грамоты (Театр Post)

5. Алло (СТД РФ)

6. Сын (РАМТ)

7. Старуха (Студия театрального искусства)

8. Кровавая свадьба (Русдрам Абхазии)

9. Макбет (ТРУ театр)

GAME

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

2. Diablo III (2012)

3. Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018)

4. Dishonored 2 (2016)

5. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)

6. The Division 2 (2019)

7. Fortnite (2017)

8. The Last of Us. Part II (2020)

9. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)

10. Call of Duty. WWII (2017)

11. Borderlands 3 (2019)

12. Destiny 2 (2017)

13. NHL 20 (2019)

14. Pillars of Eternity (2015)

15. Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

16. Watch Dogs Legion (2020)

* - shortfilm

** - short story

(S) - season; TV Show