#Four Month November 2020 to February 2021 Calendar

[thisisnotthenerd]

on recommendation from @judge-tenderly on the randomizer:

Dimension 20 by Calendar Day:

all D20 episodes in chronological order of the day they were released. Note: this list includes the episodes of fantasy high junior year that have yet to be released, for the sake of pattern matching, though they are not in the randomizer yet. this inflates the count for the Q1 months marginally, though it will be corrected by the time the season ends.

my fun observations:

the only days with multiple episodes are: january 9th, june 24th, september 21st, september 26th, and october 24th,

october, january, february, may, and september have the most episodes; this generally reflects sidequest overlap with main cast seasons, while the other months lean one way or the other.

it also shows where the main cast seasons tend to be: fantasy high began in september and ended in january, the unsleeping city began in july and ended in october, fantasy high sophomore year began in october and ended in april, a crown of candy began in may and ended in august, the unsleeping city chapter ii began in november and ended in march, a starstruck odyssey began in january and ended in may, neverafter began in november and ended in april, and fantasy high junior began in january and will end in may.

in other words, there's intrepid heroes season throughout the year, but most overlap between them happens in Q1 and Q4, with less overlap in Q2 and Q3.

this reflects the more recent patterns of Q4-Q1 releases, with seasons ending in Q2, when the sidequests start for the year. the earlier the season ends, the more sidequests there are for that year.

technically this pattern has only been in place since 2021--the year began with the remainder of the unsleeping city chapter ii, and had four sidequests. 2022 began with a starstruck odyssey, had 2 sidequests, and ended with neverafter. 2023 began with neverafter, and had four sidequests. now, in 2024, we're starting with fantasy high junior year, which will end two weeks later than starstruck.

fantasy high often ends up grouped together because of how freshman and sophomore year were released.

there's a couple instances in Q3-Q4 where there are sequences of 4 or more episodes with Aabria, either as a gm or player

2020 had three intrepid heroes seasons, which caused the high number from that year. after, the sidequests gave more of a buffer between seasons.

there's more, but it's all in the sheet. happy watching!

[kropotkindersurprise]

A list of the hundreds of publicly uncovered neonazis in the German police system in 2020. Politicians, police and media in Germany have spent decades pretending Nazi infiltration in the police didn’t exist and was left-wing paranoia, and now that they are being actually uncovered they keep insisting these are only “Einzelfällen“/Bad Apples. ACAB is international.

Okayish google translation under the cut:

A list of events from 2020.

January 6, 2020

A 29-year-old police officer who moved from Hessen to Berlin sends right-wing extremist content in a group chat . He is suspended from duty in February .

January 9, 2020

Police officer Stefan K. is standing in front of the Tiergarten district court in Berlin because he is said to have attacked a 26-year-old Afghan out of racist motives while traveling with other football fans. It turns out that K. was a member of the Berlin investigators group right-wing extremism. He was also allegedly involved in the Neukölln attack series , in which private individuals who campaign against right-wing extremism and for refugees were injured by arson attacks. Disciplinary proceedings against K. are ongoing.

February 6, 2020

Three trainees at the Saxon Police College in Rothenburg shouted right-wing extremist slogans with the window open in an apartment in Bautzen . All three commissioner candidates are then dismissed from the university , and they are under criminal investigation.

February 21, 2020

The administrative officer Thorsten W., who was deployed in the traffic commissioner of the police headquarters in Hamm, is said to have financially supported the right-wing terrorist cell "Group S" . He had previously attracted colleagues' attention from the Reich war flags on the balcony and other hints. Apparently the agency did nothing. Since then, W. has been in custody and has been suspended from duty.

February 29, 2020

"Sieg-Heil" shouts are heard over the radio from a police car in front of a synagogue in Aachen . They come from the TV series "Hunters". In a chat group that was subsequently uncovered, investigators found messages with anti-constitutional symbols. Two police officers are eventually suspended from duty. Against three other police officers from the uncovered chat group there are proceedings for incitement to hatred and the use of anti-constitutional symbols.

March 2020

During a mission in an antique warehouse, two Berlin police officers are said to have bought an antique radio with a swastika depicted on it. A witness reports that the officers were explicitly interested in the apparatus because of the swastika. The State Security Department of the State Criminal Police Office is investigating whether disciplinary proceedings are being initiated.

March 23, 2020

Police officer Julius H. from Hamm is suspended on suspicion of sedition, and criminal and disciplinary proceedings are ongoing against him . H. is the former deputy spokesman for the AfD in Hamm.

April 24, 2020

The policeman and AfD politician Steffen Janich calls for a demonstration against the corona measures in Pirna, Saxony. Mouth and nose protection is reportedly not worn by many participants at the gathering. Meanwhile, Janich spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy stories on Facebook. He is suspended from duty and disciplinary proceedings are ongoing. Janich is nominated as an AfD candidate for the federal election in 2021.

April 27, 2020

In Bavaria, 67 police officers are suspended and charges are brought in 25 cases, among other things because of belonging to "Reich citizens" and because of possession of drugs and child pornography. Penalties were issued against seven police officers.

July 2020

Several threatening emails with the signature "NSU 2.0" are sent to politicians and artists. Personal data are said to have been accessed on police computers in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Several police officers have been suspended, but the authors are still unknown today. Research by the taz leads to a Hessian police officer . In 2018, more than 400 proceedings were initiated nationwide due to unauthorized data queries by police officers.

20th July 2020

According to taz research, the chairman of the German police union Bodo Pfalzgraf was extensively networked in the right-wing extremist scene in the 1990s . He is also said to have been a founding member of the "Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Bildungswerk", a "cover organization for events by right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis" according to the protection of the constitution. In 2006 the association dissolved. Pfalzgraf is still on duty.

July 22, 2020

Disciplinary proceedings are opened against two police officers from Brandenburg. You had made data queries without any business connection . Both were members of the Uniter association, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as a test case . The public prosecutor's office was asked to examine the behavior of the officers for criminal relevance.

September 16, 2020

North Rhine-Westphalia is investigating 31 police officers who are said to have racially hounded in chat groups. The NRW Constitutional Protection calls shared images "hardcore right-wing extremist material". 200 officers search 34 police stations and private homes. 31 police officers are suspended. Secured data carriers are still being evaluated.

September 18, 2020

Two police officers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are suspended because of right-wing extremist messages in a chat . 17 officials are under investigation. According to the then Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier, there was no evidence of a network. Caffier resigns two months later because he bought a gun from an alleged right-wing prepper.

October 1, 2020

More than 25 Berlin police officers are said to have networked in a right-wing extremist chat group . Research by “Monitor” (WDR) shows that a manager was informed but did not want to know what was shared in the group. In an email he is said to have asked the officials not to share any criminally relevant content. Criminal and disciplinary proceedings are initiated against the police officers.

October 1, 2020

Investigators search the workplace and the apartment of a Bielefeld chief inspector . He is suspected of having shared right-wing material in a chat group with 50 police officers. The ID card was withdrawn and the conduct of official business was prohibited.

5th October 2020

At a neo-Nazi demonstration in Berlin, a police officer wears a patch that shows a Spartan helmet. In the right-wing extremist scene, the helmet symbolizes the fight against alleged "Muslim invaders". The Berlin Police are initiating disciplinary proceedings.

5th October 2020

An officer of the Dresden Police Department has spoken to a chat group of security employees: inside racist and right-wing extremists. He is suspended from duty, disciplinary proceedings are ongoing and he is to be released from duty.

October 12, 2020

Several officers of the state riot police of Saxony-Anhalt are said to have called a snack bar operator based on the Magdeburg police property as a "Jew" since the 1990s . An anonymous whistleblower wrote by email that “the entire department” knew about the case and that no disciplinary or criminal proceedings had been initiated. The interior minister, Holger Stahlknecht, who has since resigned, finally announces a special commission to investigate institutional anti-Semitism in the Saxony-Anhalt state police.

October 14, 2020

Several new students in the Berlin police are said to have exchanged racist and anti-Semitic messages in a chat group . Swastikas, for example, and Shoah denials. The public prosecutor's office is investigating seven suspects and disciplinary proceedings are also initiated. Six of the police students then have to leave the University of Law and Economics.

October 2020

A detective in Traunstein, State Security Department, had swastikas, an SS rune and pictures of Hitler hanging in his office. He did not initiate proceedings against a colleague who wrote racist messages in a chat. He was given eleven months probation for thwarting punishment and using Nazi symbols .

3rd November 2020

20 alleged right-wing police officers from Berlin are to be dismissed from service . They had rushed against refugees in chat groups.

3rd December 2020

Anonymous whistleblowers accuse the head of the police station in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, of anti-Semitism. Andreas Krautwald is said to have not only tolerated the designation "Jew" for a takeaway owner on the police property in Magdeburg. He is also said to have expressed himself anti-Semitic to the man . In a statement, he describes the allegations as baseless . A newly established special commission is to deal with the incidents.

December 14, 2020

The scandal surrounding right-wing extremist suspected cases with the police in North Rhine-Westphalia is expanding. Now more than 200 officials are under suspicion . The suspensions of seven officers have been lifted, currently 25 officers are still suspended. NRW Interior Minister Reul is meanwhile sending 5,000 large-format calendars with articles from the Basic Law to all police stations in the state .

December 16, 2020

Four officers from the Schleswig-Holstein state police are said to have exchanged right-wing extremist ideas in a chat group . According to the investigators, sentences such as “Everyone on the wall - ready!” Can be found in two cases, even ammunition was seized. Criminal, service and disciplinary investigations are ongoing.

December 29th

The apartments of officials in Emsland and the county of Bentheim are searched. According to the Osnabrück Police Department, three active and one retired police officers are said to have exchanged numerous pictures and videos, some with references to Nazi symbols and xenophobic depictions. The active officers are temporarily suspended. According to the current status, there is no common chat group or a common network, it was said at the time of going to press.

As of December 29, 2020 for all information

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Cardi B, American Rapper

Cardi B is an American rapper, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York City, she first attracted attention for discussing her career as a stripper on social media. She released her debut single, "Bodak Yellow", in June 2017, which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the second female rapper to top the chart with a solo single (after Lauryn Hill in 1998), as well as the first artist of Dominican descent to do so. Cardi's debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy (2018), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, broke several streaming records, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Cardi B has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards, winning one for Best Rap Album for Invasion of Privacy. She has also won three American Music Awards, six BET Hip Hop Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards. Time magazine named Cardi B one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. In 2019, Forbes magazine estimated her net worth at $8 million.

Early life

Belcalis Almanzar was born on October 11, 1992, in The Bronx borough of New York City. She is of Dominican and Trinidadian descent. Many sources report her birth year as 1993, but Cardi B has stated that she used a fake ID to sign up for Facebook when she was 16, and thus her birth year on the social networking site is 1992. She has an older sister, Hennessy Carolina. Almanzar attended Renaissance High School for Musical Theater & Technology, a public school in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx.

Career

2010–2017: Career beginnings and Love & Hip Hop

In March 2015, Cardi B joined the cast of the sixth season of the reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York. That same year, she released two mixtapes—Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2—and made her commercial debut with the single "Cheap Ass Weed", which peaked at number 43 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In November 2016, she released the single "Red Barz", which peaked at number 90 on the same chart.

2017–present: Bodak Yellow and Invasion of Privacy

On June 16, 2017, Cardi B released her commercial debut single, "Bodak Yellow", which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song's success made her the first female rapper to have a number-one single on the chart without any featured artists since Lauryn Hill in 1998, as well as the first artist of Dominican descent to do so. She became the fifth female rapper to top the Hot 100 with a solo output, following Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Shawnna, and Iggy Azalea. "Bodak Yellow" was included on Cardi B's debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy (2018), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album broke multiple streaming records and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

In January 2019, Cardi B co-hosted Saturday Night Live, becoming the first woman of color to solo-host the show. In April, she released the single "Money", which peaked at number 13 on the Hot 100. The following month, she released her second single, "Press". In June, she was featured on Maroon 5's single "Girls Like You", which peaked at number one on the Hot 100, making Cardi B the only woman with five top-ten singles in a calendar year.

In February 2020, Cardi B won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 62nd annual ceremony, making her the first female solo artist to win the award. In April, she released the single "WAP", featuring Megan Thee Stallion, which debuted at number one on the Hot 100, making her the only female rapper with two number-one singles on the chart as a lead artist. In September, she released the single "Bartier Cardi", featuring 21 Savage, which peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100.

In January 2021, Cardi B was featured on Megan Thee Stallion's single "Savage", which debuted at number one on the Hot 100, making Cardi B the only female rapper with three number-one singles on the chart as a lead artist.

Influences

Cardi B has cited Biggie Smalls, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Missy Elliott, and Lil' Kim as her biggest influences.

Musical style

Cardi B's music is a mix of genres, including hip hop, Latin music, trap, and R&B. Her rapping is distinctive for its heavy use of New York City slang and African-American Vernacular English.

Personal life

In September 2017, Cardi B announced her engagement to American rapper Offset, member of the hip hop trio Migos. The couple married in secret in September 2017. In July 2018, Cardi B gave birth to their daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus.

In December 2018, Cardi B plead guilty to two misdemeanor assault charges stemming from a fight at a New York strip club in August 2018. The charges were for reckless endangerment and assault, to which she agreed to a plea deal that would see her avoid jail time.

In April 2019, Cardi B announced that she and Offset had split up. The couple reunited in January 2020.

In May 2020, She filed for divorce from Offset, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was not finalized as of December 2020.

In September 2020, Cardi B announced that she and Offset were expecting their second child together.

In November 2020, Cardi B was sued by a former manager for $10 million.

In March 2021, Cardi B was sued by two fans for $1 million each, after they were injured by security guards at one of her concerts in 2018.

In popular culture

In October 2018, Cardi B and her sister Hennessy Carolina were featured in the music video for Bruno Mars' song "Finesse (Remix)", which pays homage to the American television series In Living Color.

In December 2018, Cardi B was featured on the cover of the fashion magazine Vogue.

In May 2019, Cardi B was featured in the music video for the remix of Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road", which also features Billy Ray Cyrus.

In October 2019, Cardi B was featured in the music video for DJ Khaled's song "Higher", which also features Nipsey Hussle.

In November 2019, Cardi B was featured in the music video for Megan Thee Stallion's song "Hot Girl Summer", which also features Nicki Minaj.

In December 2020, Cardi B was featured in the music video for Megan Thee Stallion's song "Body", which also features Beyoncé.

In February 2021, Cardi B was featured on the cover of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

[dalekofchaos]

My hopes for WWE & AEW in 2021 and things I hope changes  for WWE and AEW in 2021

Hopes

WWE

Roman Reigns stays dominant and reigns supreme as the Tribal Chief

Keith Lee wins the Royal Rumble,  joins The Hurt Business and brings the WWE Champion to the Hurt Business

Naomi returns and joins The Hurt Business and dethrones Asuka to take home the gold

The Hurt Business DOMINATES Raw

Bianca Belair wins the Royal Rumble and dethrones Sasha Banks at Wrestlemania

The Riott Squad win the Women’s Tag Team Champions

Unify the men’s Tag Team Championships 

Unveil a new Title and give us WWE’s very first Television Championship. It should be styled similar to the NWA and WCW’s TV belts, but on the sideplates it should include USA and Fox on the plates. Shelton Benjamin or Ricochet should be the TV Championship 

Big E reigns supreme as Intercontinental Champion and finally gets to face Roman for the Universal Championship at Wrestlemania 38

Rhea Ripley gets called up and goes to Smackdown

Mercedes Martinez dethrones Io Shirai and becomes NXT Women’s Champion

Karrion Kross reclaims the NXT Championship

Anyone but Johnny Sameface as NXT North American Champion

Queen Of The Ring. The amount of female talent available on Raw, SmackDown, NXT and NXT UK is quite something. It's clear that this is the richest women's division in WWE history. They really should do something with all those workers. The 'Mae Young Classic' tourneys have been fine, but people would trip over themselves to see a fully-fledged 'Queen Of The Ring' epic staged across multiple nights. If booked correctly, this tournament could help establish a new contender for top titles. If she isn't Champion by then(though she should be) the perfect person to become Queen Of The Ring would be Bianca Belair! Bianca Belair would have unparalleled credibility for her 'StrongEST, FastEST, ToughEST' mantra if she whipped a bevy of skilled workers to become the first 'Queen'. WWE could also get creative by linking the event in with Charlotte Flair's nickname and spinning off into a feud between her and the winner afterwards.

Form Full-Time Female Tag-Teams and keep them around. The Women’s Tag Team DIvision is a mess. Keep creating makeshift Tag Teams and breaking up established tag teams and your tag team division is dead. The current champs and their predecessors haven't even been "proper" full-time duos - Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler were shoved together awkwardly in the summer, and they've since been replaced by the unlikely Asuka and Charlotte Flair combo. This cannot be allowed to continue. It's damning that WWE don't have more fully-formed pairings ready to go. The Riott Squad are perhaps the only actual twosome who are presented as a tight-knit collective weekly. Other than that, who is there? Considering the belts have been around for a few years now, that's unacceptable. The IIconics split, so did Sasha Banks and Bayley, and the scene is littered by 'odd couple' tandems like Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans and Peyton Royce, and Billie Kay teaming with the likes of Natalya or Tamina when it suits.

Ensure NXT is treated like a proper third brand rather than a quasi-development league for Raw and SmackDown. NXT has been on USA Network for over a year now, but it's still very much behind both Raw and SmackDown as a priority. Need proof? Look at the way Keith Lee was handled when he was "called up" after SummerSlam 2020. The former NXT Champ had to start all over again, and he's had several teething problems on Monday nights. It'd be nice to see WWE move away from positioning NXT as a 'feeder' for the other two shows. Changing someone's gimmick when they leave makes the brand look less-than, and there's simply no need for that anymore; NXT should be an equal to Raw and SmackDown, not a development league. Sadly, it still comes across as that. Lee's stop/start plight and the (mis)fortunes of others like Aleister Black and Ricochet should be a lesson to WWE. Some workers are better off rocking the black and yellow, not the red or blue.

AEW

Darby Allin becomes AEW World Heavyweight Champion

Adam Page costs Kenny the title and Page gets revenge and DESTROYS Kenny

MJF destroys the inner circle from within and when Jericho realizes what just happened, that’s when MJF and Wardlow destroys Jericho

Which is when we get a Sammy Guevara babyface turn and we get MJF vs Sammy

Arn Anderson turns on Cody

AEW’s Four Horsemen is formed. MJF, Shawn Spears and FTR with Tully and Arn managing as the JJ DIllon mouthpieces

Darby Allin and MJF feud for the title

The Women’s Division is improved. The girls get more time to shine on Dynamite. Your champion actually appears(shocking, I know) and build feuds and stories for your women’s division. There’s still some time to do what’s right for your women’s division, but the only thing that remains to be seen, does the powers that be of AEW even care?

Get a new title design for the Women’s Championship. It looks like a toy for a child. It’s plastic, not gold.  It should be as big and beautifully designed as the men’s titles. It should be as big as the NWA’s title or even the WWE’s title. The title is symbolic as to how AEW treats it’s own women’s division and that needs to change with a fresh new design.

Sign Thunder Rosa. It may not fix everything with the women’s division, but it gives you your needed star power. Tony Khan should be begging on his hands and knees to sign Thunder Rosa in 2021 after her time with the NWA is up, his women’s division is getting their asses kicked by what his EVP refers to as a “developmental brand”

If you can’t sign Thunder Rosa. My solution is Push Anna Jay and  Britt Baker as the top face and heel of the women’s division and either of them dethrone Shida.

Changes

WWE

Leave whatever that monstrosity of a creative team they have for RAW is. Let the Wrestlers dictate what they want their characters to be. Ditch the scripted promos. Let promos feel organic and real. Let the wrestlers be characters who feel real and genuine. Get rid of a “Creative” that isn't creative and let the wrestlers be creative and let them be free of terrible creative.

Get rid of the Gimmick PPV. WWE has ruined gimmick matches by turning them into themed PPVs. none of these matches are organic or special anymore. The matches themselves are great but are booked to fit a theme of a pay-per-view, when they should be used organically at the height of feuds. no one cares about the name of PPVs, so i don’t understand why WWE does this. the only one that actually works is MITB, because it makes sense as storylines reset after Mania.

Scrap the Brand Warfare/Brand Supremacy. WWE should scrap the tired brand warfare format at Survivor Series and move away from Raw vs. SmackDown completely. Booking around a calendar has become company law in WWE over the past decade or so. Perhaps McMahon always formatted things this way really, but it's more glaring now that gimmick bouts like Elimination Chamber, Hell In A Cell and Money In The Bank have their own pay-per-views. Survivor Series, with it's played out Raw vs. SmackDown vibes, also needs a rethink. "Brand warfare" is boring now, and it has been for several years. Although 2020's event was fun, it's nonetheless true that the month-long build to Survivors feels like a repetitive slog fans are forced to sit through every November. Hopefully, 2021 will change that. It is possible to book traditional elimination bouts without some sort of false show loyalty - WWE did this almost every single year until the first brand split in 2002. Their over-reliance on Raw vs. SmackDown is plain lazy. Survivor Series should be revolved around great rivalries between stables/factions. It’s really not that hard. Or at the very least if there IS a Smackdown vs Raw themed Survivor Series, at least add a damn reward. Give the brand a head start in the Rumble,, give the winners of the match number one contenders for their brand’s respective titles or ANYTHING better than just “brand supremacy lol”

Get rid of the 24/7 title. It has run it’s course. R-Truth is funny, but even he can’t make it work anymore.

Stop. Breaking. Up. Tag Teams. Stop killing your Tag Team Division. For the love of god just stop!

Cut Akira Tozawa’s ninja bullshit. It’s not funny, it’s annoying

Kill Retribution. It’s complete garbage. It has been consistently terrible ever since Retribution began. Mustafa Ali cannot save Retribution, he’s trying but no one can save it. 

Stop the 50/50 booking

Stop rewarding Nia Jax, the living botch machine for injuring her fellow wrestlers

Stop pushing Lars Sullivan. Absolutely no one wants him. 

They should cut raw to 2 hours because 3 hours is unbearable

Stop the overreliance of part time wrestlers. I don’t want to see Goldberg being pushed at the expense of today’s talent and I don’t want to see Goldberg period. I don’t want to see Brock Lesnar return at the expense of today’s talent. I don’t want to see Legends return. Push your current fucking wrestlers and make stars. You idiots!

Do not rush Becky Lynch back to the ring, she just had a baby. I read the reports that Vince wants Becky back by Wrestlemania. That is a terrible decision

Stop killing pushes because Vince changed his mind

Enough with “creative has nothing for you” if your “creative” has nothing for a certain wrestler, then they are not creative. Either let the wrestlers appear on the show or release them if you don’t want them anymore, it’s simple as that.

Do. Not. Put. The. Title. On. Goldberg. Goldberg should not have beaten Bray Wyatt's 'Fiend' for the Universal Title at Super ShowDown in February - that was a huge mistake, one that set Bray back and felt totally unnecessary. In 2021, WWE should outright avoid any temptation to repeat the trick and give ol' Billy another go-around with one of the top titles. If anything, Goldberg's only purpose should be to play victim for a quick Roman Reigns squash. Get through that elusive match then turn Bill into a company ambassador. He doesn't need to pretend it's still 1998 all these years on.

AEW

Leave the overabundance of spots just for the sake of spots and enough with the false finishes. Jim Ross was right, like it or not, the spots for the sake of spots and the false finishes need to end. This is my major problem with AEW and why I can’t stand The Elite in general. Everyone just needs to  get their shit in. Everything looks fake. No one can look strong or credible and we have to see garbage Indy wrestlers and the spot monkeys make everything look fake and phony. The champions never look credible and everyone is on the level of job guys. This needs to change

Stop leaving your Women’s Champion off the show. It is downright insulting how dirty they are doing Hikaru Shida. She deserves as much time to shine as the other champions deserve.

Stop putting the NWA Women’s Champion as more of a priority than your own Women’s Champion

Enough with Brandi. Why is the women’s division given absolutely 0 screentime and barely anytime to develop their stories, but Brandi is ALWAYS THERE! Everything has to be about her. When a feud between Cody and Shaq was close to happening, of course it had to be about her. She’s turned heel/face as much time as the Big Show. I’ve grown tired of Brandi Rhodes. Stop shoving that attention whore down our throats. WE GET IT! You wanna be Stephanie so bad!

Enough with Cody’s big dramatic midlife crisis entrances. We get it, you wanna be Triple H SO BAD!

Stop the petty bullshit shots at WWE. It was fun at first, but it’s getting annoying. This is Eric Bischoff giving away the results and “That’ll put butts in the seats” level of petty bullshit. AEW had the fucking nerve to tweet a fan’s post saying they did a better tribute for Brodie Lee than WWE. HE JUST DIED! AND YOU ARE MAKING IT ABOUT YOUR FUCKING RIVALRY? GROW THE FUCK UP!

[dansnaturepictures]

In continuation of my previous post, here’s the photos on my 2021 landscape and other outdoors calendar from September-December and my 5 reserve photos for this calendar (captioned below in order of appearance in photoset)

September: Kyance Cove, Cornwall, taken in September 2019 

Another of my strongest Cornwall photos from last summer I feel, this one was in the tweet with four of my favourite landscape pictures of 2019 in my end of year tweets in December. This for me sums up everything that holiday was about, taken on the day we saw the Brown Booby there a very rare bird (one of the first three ever recorded in the UK in fact) showing that beautiful cliff and beach scenery and that devine shade of blue in the sea with the sun shining. I really liked this photo quality wise and it was always a good bet to make the calendar. 

October: Botallack in Cornwall, from September 2019 

By contrast this photo taken on our opening day of the Cornwall 2019 holiday in BBC ‘Poldark’ country was rather one of the more unsung photos from that week. It also had perhaps the most interesting journey onto my calendar recently. It was a surprise one that I provisionally qualified earlier on it was at a stage I was pre-qualifying a lot and I sort of did it without too much emotion in the moment or excitement that I’d normally get and did it quite quickly one evening but because I found it to be stronger and stronger than I first thought perhaps. When I was conducting a league thing with just one place on the calendar left and six from 2019 and six from 2020 on by that point by pitting photos against each other and doing a leaderboard I had three strong candidates emerge so in the very final stages of choosing had another think about this one. I initially compared it with the lesser two of those three from the league and displaced this one taking it off the calendar and making it one of my reserve photos for it. 

But before I revealed the calendar lineup that day on the first May bank holiday I had another photo, the first one the the reserves now mentioned below which I had pre-qualified early on too and felt didn’t really show enough quality among the other 12 photos I now had in place. So I got it next to the reserve photos and compared it and it just did not look better than this photo which was similar in a way and spectacularly I found myself re-instating this Botallack photo which I felt was stronger and then became a better fit for this calendar as October on it I felt. 

An exciting few moments that day, but I am glad this photo is here as its such a memorable one and really showcases what a nice day it was with rain on the way there but the sun subtly poking through and providing an interesting light show over the sea a bit as we opened the trip away and it also showed the nice former mining buildings etc which makes this part of the country look so distinctive I would find. 

November: Sunset at Slimbridge WWT from January 2020

This one would just not go away during the aspects of picking that involved comparing photos even though I had many sunset ones on the calendar as I said in the last post. It is a unique and what I feel is a strong sunset picture. A fantastic moment on the eve of my birthday this year and after a brilliant day of birding in this famous and special reserve. Joining my pictures of Bewick’s Swan and Woodpigeon on my 2021 wildlife pictures calendar also at this reserve it highlights just how strong those two days in winter for wildlife and landscape at Slimbridge were for quantity and quality of photos I took on that trip. 

December: Whitefield Moor/Holmhill Bog taken December 2019 

This photo was taken on my last wildlife/photography trip of 2019 so just a week or so before the Slimbridge one and it was a special day for birds for me as I saw my first Hen Harrier of 2019 to take my year list to the magical 200 for birders figure which my year list ended on. It was also the day that clouds and the sun lowering still quite early in the day made the sky look spectacular throughout the whole walk that Sunday afternoon and it was a real pleasure to witness this scene. One I found a photo I was so proud to take and its one of those I could go years without taking a photo like that again with the way the trees are in shot too. An obvious choice for this calendar too really and to close it. 

So my reserves for this calendar in order of appearance in this photoset (the last 5 photos) are; Lymington in July 2019, another one at Pig Bush, New Forest in February 2020, another at Cape Cornwall in September 2019, Warkworth Castle in Northumberland in June 2019 and another at Milkham in the New Forest in March this year. 

That brings to an end a very full 12 months of calendar decisions really, it was a challenging one to pick with from June onwards both “shortlists” for my calendars at around 150 photos and more at given times so higher than usual for most of the time with the amount of photos I’m taking and producing per trip going up and up and up. But it was a joy for me to spend hours using different techniques to either pick pictures to go on the calendar or eliminate ones from the race to and was especially such a fun activity in lockdown times when the judging for this always ramps up anyway. Now its time to make the calendars in August/September and have them ready to be my Christmas present once more. All photos that I’ve been taking from early May until now and from here on in in 2020 shall get their chances in my 2022 calendar races with the shortlists for that well under way now. Thanks for all your support for my calendar reveals and photos in general. 

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Coming Attractions December 2021

As usual, we present monthly previews of new movies being released. These are the movies that will be hitting your local cinemas (and streaming services) this month:

December 3rd

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Coming to Disney+ is a new animated film based on the acclaimed Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. The books have been adapted before with four live-action films (the first three starring the cast) that collectively grossed $265 million worldwide. Fun fact about those four films, in the first three, Steve Zahn plays the titular Wimpy Kid’s father, while in the fourth, Tom Everett Scott plays the father. So in the live-action universe of the Wimpy Kid, Greg and Rodrick’s dad is always played by a member of The Wonders. Chris Diamantopoulos is the voice of the dad in this new animated film, I assume Ethan Embry was busy.

December 10th

West Side Story - Steven Spielberg takes on the 1957 musical of the same name with his long-awaited adaptation of West Side Story. Early reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, so keep an eye on this one.

Don’t Look Up - In limited theaters today and on Netflix Christmas Eve is the newest film written and directed by Adam McKay. This black comedy follows two astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) trying to warn mankind that a comet is coming to destroy the Earth. Fun stuff, right? The impressive cast also includes Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep.

Being the Ricardos - Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed this upcoming drama starring Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz. The film, which is a behind-the-scenes look at I Love Lucy is in limited theaters today, and on Amazon Prime on December 21.

National Champions - Stephan James stars a college quarterback threatening to protest the national championship game in order to see compensation for collegiate athletes. J.K Simmons, Alexander Ludwig, Lil Rel Howery, Kristin Chenoweth, Timothy Olyphant, and Uzo Aduba all costar in this sports drama from the director of Greenland.

December 17th

Rumble (December 15th) - It has been quite the ride for the animated monster wrestling film Rumble which features the voices of Will Arnett and Terry Crews. Rumble was originally slated for release in summer 2020, before quickly shifting to early 2021. Then the pandemic forced it to summer 2021 before ultimately settling on a release date in February 2022. And then in late November, it was announced it will be coming exclusively to Paramount+ in December. So either the Clifford the Big Red Dog streaming numbers were great, or the theatrical box office numbers were abysmal, either way, Paramount changed their mind.

Spider-Man: No Way Home - Putting aside the multi-verse and the rumors of who may or may not be showing up, Spider-Man: No Way Home marks the first complete trilogy from one director in the MCU. Other directors have done three films in the MCU, the Russo brothers did two Captain America films and two Avengers films but didn’t nail the cohesive trilogy (though Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame is close). Jon Watts achieved this, even though Peyton Reed and James Gunn (who will both close out their trilogies in 2023) had a head start on Watts each releasing their first film (and second in Gunn’s case) before Spider-Man: Homecoming. Two big factors led to Watts finishing this feat first, the first is that since Spider-Man is a joint Sony production, they have a hand in dictating release dates (hence why we have gotten a new Spider-Man every two years). The Spider-Man trilogy only took four years from the first film to the third. Shorter than Iron Man (five years), Thor (six years), Captain America (five years), and Avengers (six years). The other important factor is the firing of James Gunn by Disney in 2018, and rehiring in 2019, which caused Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 to move further down the release calendar. Congratulations to Jon Watts on this achievement, you win a chance to direct Fantastic Four.

Nightmare Alley - With his first film since his double Oscar wins for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro delivers this adaptation of a 1946 novel of the same name. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collete, Willem Dafoe, and Rooney Mara. 

The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her directorial debut with this drama starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson. The film hits select theaters today and will be on Netflix on New Year’s Eve.

December 22nd

The Matrix Resurrections - Are you ready to step back into the Matrix? I sure am. Do I need to say more? I don’t think so. The Matrix is resurrected in theaters today and on HBO Max.

Sing 2 - Buster Moon is back with his friends Rosita, Ash, Johnny, Meena, and Gunter has they try to take the music world by storm in this sequel to the delight 2016 film, Sing. 

The King’s Man - Matthew Vaughn directs this Kingsman prequel set around World War I. Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, and Rhys Ifans star in this film that depicts how the Kingsman came to be in the first place.

A Journal for Jordan (December 25th) - Denzel Washington directs Michael B. Jordan in this drama based on a memoir of the same name.

American Underdog (December 25th)  - Zackary Levi is Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner in this biopic coming Christmas Day.

Now for a quick look ahead to January, my top picks for next month are Scream, The 355, and Morbius.

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