#Guillermo Pagan

[mosneakers]

Brick tracks down Diego and corners him on a ledge, where he's successfully able to safely pacify him.

Brick: One more of you bitch-asses left to hunt down. Try to hang in there 'til I get back.

Diego Lobo: Pacified ✔

Brick: Yo G, listen here... We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way—but there's rules to this shit, okay? it's time to give it up my man. Do some deep breaths with me and nobody gets hurt.

Guillermo chooses the hard way, and books it out of there; a chase ensues.

Being so focused on getting away from Brick, Guillermo doesn’t see the Wildfangs coming from the other direction until it’s too late. Rebel slams into him, engaging in a brief scuffle, the entire pack against him. But with an abundance of fury and even more luck— he breaks free and loses the pack.

Rebel, absolutely pungent with fury, reprimands Brick with an authoritative bark. Rebel: BRICK YOU STUPID GIANT IDIOT! Do realize what you've done? You have ZERO control over your initiates!

Brick: The fuck, dude? You're the one who let 'em get away!

Rebel: [Snarls] Just shut up so I can figure this out! Gang—go get the others somewhere safe, before they wake up. The last thing we need is more runaway wolves. Me and the moron are hunting down a wolf. Brick: The moron and I* are hunting down a wolf☝

[mywordsonskin]

I just rewatched Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth'. I am a sucker for horror folktales and mythology in general.

however, I think that watching it now in my twenties with two active wars transpiring in Middle East and Northern Europe, I was able to appreciate it more. It really made contemplate a lot about the power of innocence and imagination in the face of oppression, brutality and tyranny.

[johnny-dynamo]

Guillermo's Monsters by Augie Pagan

[merrysithmas]

warning: The Hobbit review where I am a hater lmao

I know I'm like a decade late to watching these but:

• Mourning bc we could have gotten Guillermo's version of King Thanduil who wouldve been the ancient and frightful Becoming-the-Forest shadowy, eldritch, eerily mad power-clinging creature we deserved but instead we got Makeup Vlogger Thanduil (which is still so funny to me I'm almost not mad) & jock spray-tanned Legolas. THEY KILLED LEGOLAS AND THEN LET A MEAN JOCK WALK AROUND IN HIS SKIN FOR 3 HOURS.

We could've had scary pagan Green Man Thranduil the ancient being who refuses to give up power so much so that he's being consumed by the (ever-darkening) Forest which he once ruled with magnanimity ... and baby!Legolas struggling with the isolationalism & prejudice he learned from his father's court but we got... That instead.

LMAO proof nothing perfect can last

• also Tauriel? every scene between her and Thranduil should've been between Legolas and Thranduil to flesh out their relationship, instead of sideling him for an unnecessary OC who was put there to fulfill a weird corporate romance tick box, a repetitive and boring romance nonetheless with a subpar stock Strong Female Character.

• The only good thing about the movie was Martin's Bilbo (spot on!!) and the Gandalf/Elrond/Galadriel teamup even tho it was a little infected with the Avengers-y virus for me, they're all just such good actors I could watch them sleep and I'd be like... Oscar.

• I also hated Bard (they shouldve cut Tauriel and genderbent Bard or a couple of the dwarves if they wanted to add women) and I hated the design for Smaug & the Trolls. No creativity there at all.

• The film had zero regard for tone and went for pseudoLOTR instead. Where was the fairytale-esque children's tale of growing up and leaving one's comfort zone and discovering the big, sometimes terrible, world? Where was the almost Winnie-the-Pooh shine which covered the Through The Looking Glass maze?

• Also, I hated Thorin (why did they make him Discount Aragorn?) and none of the Dwarves had ANY development... wtf? They were Dollar Store Fellowship.

• I cannot for the LIFE OF ME understand why they put BILBO in the "Emotional Supporter" role for Thorin LMAOOOO... what??? Anyway, I support all the Bagginshield shippers because everything should be, and is, gay. No issue there.

That's my review, overall I was deeply surprised how bad it was and it makes me leery about The Hunt For Gollum, because shockingly Jackson&Co are 1 for 2 in regards to triologies right now and the odds of it being quality are split.

IMO I genuinely feel like The Hobbit should be remade by another team, that's how off it was.

[ghcstbats]

trying to motivate myself to be more active here, i want to find some new people to follow!! feel free to reach out if you wanna, my inbox and discord are open! random pics from Pinterest home page

🌜please be 21+ I'm 26. they/them, lesbian, pagan🌛

🌛 horror! Mostly gothic, scifi, lovecraftian, supernatural, and 1960s-1990s. guillermo del toro is one of my fav directors

🌛writing/roleplay! I write personal short stories, working on a novel plot right now. And I've been in the rp scene for 14 years

🌛reading! high fantasy, historical, horror, and queer romance is mostly what I gravitate towards

🌛tons of other things including bugs, taxidermy, cryptozoology, video games, my witchcraft, various animals. painting, embroidery, and rock/metal/alt music!

[brookston]

Holidays 12.9

Holidays

Anna's Day (Finland, Sweden)

Armed Forces Day (Peru)

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Day

Battle of Ayacucho Day (Peru)

Christmas Card Day

Christmas Gift Memory Day

Cremation Day

Eggsmas (from “The League”)

Fatherland’s Heroes Day (Russia)

Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico)

Genocide Prevention Day

Grace Hopper Day

Heroes Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Homemade Gift Day

International Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crimes of Genocide & of the Prevention of this Crime

International Day of Veterinary Medicine

International Human Rights Defenders Day

Lady Gaga Day

Mail Your Cards Day

National Blake Day

National Heroes Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

National Llama Day

Navy Day (Sri Lanka)

Petrified Forest Day

Public Transit Day

Savin Juniper Day (French Republic)

V.C. Bird Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

Weary Willie Day

World Alliance for Patient Safety Day

World Day of Computing

World Genocide Commemoration Day (UN)

World Patient Safety Day

World Smallpox Eradication Day

World SIUGR (Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

World Techno Day

Yuri's Day in the Autumn (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Mariscada Day (Spain)

National Opal Apples Day

National Pastry Day

Pepparkakans Dag (Gingerbread Cookie Day; Sweden)

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day

2nd Saturday in December

Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts) [2nd Saturday]

Bath & Body Works’ Body Care Day [2nd Saturday]

Bring Your Christmas Tree Home Day [2nd Saturday]

Day of the Horse [2nd Saturday; also 12.13]

Gingerbread Decorating Day [2nd Saturday]

Hakiadaore Ichi (Shoe Festival; Japan) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

Hantoro begins (Flower & Light Festival; Japan) [2nd Saturday to 23rd]

International Shareware Day [2nd Saturday]

Le Foire aux Noix begins (Nuts Fair; Bastogne, Belgium) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Rino Island (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Tanzania (f.k.a. Tanganyika; from UK, 1961)

Feast Days

Evergreen Day (Pagan)

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Galileo (Positivist; Saint)

Hanukkah Day #2 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

Juan Diego (Christian; Saint)

Leocadia (Christian; Saint)

Ljubica Sokić (Artology)

The Martyrdom of St. Kenny (Church of the SubGenius)

Nectarius of Auvergne (Christian; Saint)

Noodle Ring Day (Pastafarian)

Peter Fourier (Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson (Troth/Asatru/Norse Pagan)

The Seven Martyrs at Samosata (Christian; Martyrs)

This Day Deliberately Left Blank (Pastafarian)

Tropical Grossbill (Muppetism)

Wulfhilde (Christian; Saint)

Yuri’s Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [58 of 60]

Premieres

The Bishop’s Wife (Film; 1947)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Buddy’s Show Boat (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Charge of the Light Brigade (Poem; 1854)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Animated TV Special; 1965)

Christine (Film; 1983)

Coronation Street (UK Soap Opera; 1960)

Dark Horse, by George Harrison (Album; 1974)

Disclosure (Film; 1994)

Fiesta Fiasco (WB LT Cartoon; 1967)

Fresh Cream, by Cream (Album; 1966)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Animated Film; 2022)

Hot August Nights, by Neil Diamond (Live Album; 1972)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Little Saint Nick, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

A Love Supreme, recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet (Album; 1964)

Memories of a Geisha (Film; 2005)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1988)

Office Christmas Party (Film; 2016)

Richard II, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1595)

R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury (Short Stories; 1962)

Salome, by Richard Strauss (Opera; 1905)

Scarface (Film; 1983)

SOS, by SZA (Album; 2022)

Soul Man, by The Blues Brothers (Song; 1978)

The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff (Children’s Book; 1931)

Sudden Impact (Film; 1983)

Syriana (Film; 2005)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film; 2011)

Twins (Film; 1988)

The Whale (Film; 2022)

Words and Music (Film; 1948)

young Adult (Film; 2011)

Young at Heart, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Austria)

Ana, Anna, Anushka, Nusha (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Diego, Liberan, Zdravka (Croatia)

Vratislav (Czech Republic)

Rudolph (Denmark)

Raid, Raido, Raidu, Raigo, Raigo, Raik, Raiko, Rait (Estonia)

Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Annikki, Annu, Annukka, Anu (Finland)

Pierre (France)

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Germany)

Ann, Anna (Greece)

Natália (Hungary)

Siro (Italy)

Joachims, Jukums, Sarmīte, Tabita (Latvia)

Gedenė, Leokadija, Vakaris, Valerija (Lithuania)

Annette, Anniken (Norway)

Delfina, Joachim, Joachima, Leokadia, Loda, Waleria, Wielisława, Wiesław (Poland)

Maria (Romania)

Izabela (Slovakia)

Diego, Juan, Leocadia (Spain)

Anna (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Delfina, Delfino, Delphina, Kirby, Kirk, Kirkwood (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 343 of 2024; 22 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 27 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 26 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 13 Zima; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 26 November 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Bichat (13th Month) [Galileo]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 77 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 18 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.9

Holidays

Anna's Day (Finland, Sweden)

Armed Forces Day (Peru)

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Day

Battle of Ayacucho Day (Peru)

Christmas Card Day

Christmas Gift Memory Day

Cremation Day

Eggsmas (from “The League”)

Fatherland’s Heroes Day (Russia)

Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico)

Genocide Prevention Day

Grace Hopper Day

Heroes Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Homemade Gift Day

International Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crimes of Genocide & of the Prevention of this Crime

International Day of Veterinary Medicine

International Human Rights Defenders Day

Lady Gaga Day

Mail Your Cards Day

National Blake Day

National Heroes Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

National Llama Day

Navy Day (Sri Lanka)

Petrified Forest Day

Public Transit Day

Savin Juniper Day (French Republic)

V.C. Bird Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

Weary Willie Day

World Alliance for Patient Safety Day

World Day of Computing

World Genocide Commemoration Day (UN)

World Patient Safety Day

World Smallpox Eradication Day

World SIUGR (Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

World Techno Day

Yuri's Day in the Autumn (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Mariscada Day (Spain)

National Opal Apples Day

National Pastry Day

Pepparkakans Dag (Gingerbread Cookie Day; Sweden)

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day

2nd Saturday in December

Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts) [2nd Saturday]

Bath & Body Works’ Body Care Day [2nd Saturday]

Bring Your Christmas Tree Home Day [2nd Saturday]

Day of the Horse [2nd Saturday; also 12.13]

Gingerbread Decorating Day [2nd Saturday]

Hakiadaore Ichi (Shoe Festival; Japan) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

Hantoro begins (Flower & Light Festival; Japan) [2nd Saturday to 23rd]

International Shareware Day [2nd Saturday]

Le Foire aux Noix begins (Nuts Fair; Bastogne, Belgium) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Rino Island (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Tanzania (f.k.a. Tanganyika; from UK, 1961)

Feast Days

Evergreen Day (Pagan)

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Galileo (Positivist; Saint)

Hanukkah Day #2 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

Juan Diego (Christian; Saint)

Leocadia (Christian; Saint)

Ljubica Sokić (Artology)

The Martyrdom of St. Kenny (Church of the SubGenius)

Nectarius of Auvergne (Christian; Saint)

Noodle Ring Day (Pastafarian)

Peter Fourier (Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson (Troth/Asatru/Norse Pagan)

The Seven Martyrs at Samosata (Christian; Martyrs)

This Day Deliberately Left Blank (Pastafarian)

Tropical Grossbill (Muppetism)

Wulfhilde (Christian; Saint)

Yuri’s Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [58 of 60]

Premieres

The Bishop’s Wife (Film; 1947)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Buddy’s Show Boat (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Charge of the Light Brigade (Poem; 1854)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Animated TV Special; 1965)

Christine (Film; 1983)

Coronation Street (UK Soap Opera; 1960)

Dark Horse, by George Harrison (Album; 1974)

Disclosure (Film; 1994)

Fiesta Fiasco (WB LT Cartoon; 1967)

Fresh Cream, by Cream (Album; 1966)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Animated Film; 2022)

Hot August Nights, by Neil Diamond (Live Album; 1972)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Little Saint Nick, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

A Love Supreme, recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet (Album; 1964)

Memories of a Geisha (Film; 2005)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1988)

Office Christmas Party (Film; 2016)

Richard II, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1595)

R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury (Short Stories; 1962)

Salome, by Richard Strauss (Opera; 1905)

Scarface (Film; 1983)

SOS, by SZA (Album; 2022)

Soul Man, by The Blues Brothers (Song; 1978)

The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff (Children’s Book; 1931)

Sudden Impact (Film; 1983)

Syriana (Film; 2005)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film; 2011)

Twins (Film; 1988)

The Whale (Film; 2022)

Words and Music (Film; 1948)

young Adult (Film; 2011)

Young at Heart, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Austria)

Ana, Anna, Anushka, Nusha (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Diego, Liberan, Zdravka (Croatia)

Vratislav (Czech Republic)

Rudolph (Denmark)

Raid, Raido, Raidu, Raigo, Raigo, Raik, Raiko, Rait (Estonia)

Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Annikki, Annu, Annukka, Anu (Finland)

Pierre (France)

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Germany)

Ann, Anna (Greece)

Natália (Hungary)

Siro (Italy)

Joachims, Jukums, Sarmīte, Tabita (Latvia)

Gedenė, Leokadija, Vakaris, Valerija (Lithuania)

Annette, Anniken (Norway)

Delfina, Joachim, Joachima, Leokadia, Loda, Waleria, Wielisława, Wiesław (Poland)

Maria (Romania)

Izabela (Slovakia)

Diego, Juan, Leocadia (Spain)

Anna (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Delfina, Delfino, Delphina, Kirby, Kirk, Kirkwood (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 343 of 2024; 22 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 27 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 26 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 13 Zima; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 26 November 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Bichat (13th Month) [Galileo]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 77 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 18 of 30)

[latablainfo]

A principios de 2016 Tomás Guanipa viajó a Miami a “martillar” a los directivos

Banco de Puerto Rico que paga nómina de embajada americana en Caracas financia a Primero Justicia

Un grupo financiero venezolano, que opera un banco establecido en Puerto Rico, es uno de los principales financistas de las actividades del partido de neoderecha Primero Justicia, de acuerdo con lo revelado por uno de sus directivos establecido en Miami en una conversación sostenida con un allegado en Caracas.

Se trata del grupo Arca International Group, que opera el Arca International Bank, mantiene operaciones en al menos cinco países de la región y que está liderado por Emilio Antelo Rey, quien fue directivo del Banco Real, una de las entidades financieras quebradas en el año 2009, durante la llamada “minicrisis bancaria”.

Uno de los datos más llamativos obtenidos se refiere a que el banco de Puerto Rico es la entidad que presta el servicio de pago de salarios a los empleados de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Venezuela.

La revelación la hizo Alvaro Ignacio Rodríguez Hernández, director principal del grupo, en una llamada que le hizo desde Caracas un allegado identificado con el apodo de Guillermo, y a la cual tuvo acceso exclusivo La Tabla.

Asimismo en abril de 2016, en dos oportunidades, el actual presidente de la Asamblea Nacional (en desacato), diputado Julio Borges, visitó la vivienda de Rodríguez Hernández ubicada en la urbanización Campo Alegre de Caracas.

En la conversación, que posiblemente tuvo lugar en agosto, Rodríguez comentó sobre una visita recibida en el sur de Florida de parte del diputado de Primero Justicia, Tomás Guanipa, y en la que se discutieron aspectos relacionados con la situación política en Venezuela. Entre los escenarios planteados estuvo la necesidad de esperar hasta las elecciones presidenciales en 2019 y que la situación económica marchaba con un ritmo de deterioro mayor con respecto a las expectativas políticas.

Sin embargo el empresario concluye sus comentarios diciendo: “Bueno, en verdad lo que vino fue a pedir plata, tu sabes como son.”

En un apartado previo “Guillermo” le preguntó a Rodríguez sobre una situación conflictiva que afrontaba el grupo ante la que se esperaba algún tipo de intervención de Guanipa y de alguien identificado como “Miguel Ángel”, a lo cual el segundo le aseguró que no había nada de qué preocuparse. Y enseguida agregó, en tono explicativo, “nosotros tenemos como clientes los empleados de la embajada americana, la nómina la pagan por Arca”.

Se trata del Arca International Bank, un proveedor de servicios financieros registrado como Entidad Bancaria Internacional (EBI), en Puerto Rico, y está ubicado en un apartamento del PH, en el número 33, de la calle Bolivia de San Juan de Puerto Rico.

Como presidente de la entidad está registrado Emilio Antelo Rey y como administrador general Engelbert Rodríguez, quien es la figura social del grupo y aparece en notas de prensa y eventos públicos.

El banco es propiedad de Arca International Group, una compañía creada en Barbados en febrero de 2009 y registrada bajo el número 31670 en la Oficina de Asuntos Corporativos y Propiedad Intelectual de esa nación.

Antelo Rey fue miembro de la junta directiva de Banco Real, un llamado banco de desarrollo registrado en 2007 y presidido por Julio Herrera Kolster (quien se hace llamar Julio Herrera Velutinni), que fue intervenido en 2009 pues sus directores otorgaron una serie de créditos, violando las normas, para beneficio propio, según una nota de prensa del portal Informe25. Llama la atención que ese fue el mismo año de creación de Arca en Barbados.

Álvaro Rodríguez, el hombre que recibió las visitas de Borges, en Caracas, y de Guanipa, en Miami, es director principal de Caja Caracas Casa de Bolsa, organización que es presidida por Antelo Rey, según la ficha de la Superintendencia Nacional de Valores (Sunaval).

Caja Caracas tiene como sede la oficina 2-6 de la Torre Este de Parque Cristal, en la urbanización Los Palos Grandes, mientras que la oficina de representación de Arca Internationall Group en Caracas está en la oficina de al lado, la 2-7, según los registros de la Superintendencia de Bancos (Sudeban).

Sobre las visitas del coordinador nacional de Primero Justicia, Julio Borges, al conjunto residencial Premier Esmeralda, donde está el apartamento en Caracas de Rodríguez, La Tabla tuvo acceso a fotos que registraron sendas visitas el 8 y el 27 de abril de 2016.

Julio Borges visitó en abril pasado la residencia del financista.

El empresario es miembro de una familia ligada a la más tradicional oligarquía caraqueña. Su abuela, Ana Mercedes Matos Boulton es a su vez nieta del banquero Manuel Antonio Matos, quien dirigió la llamada “Revolución Libertadora” contra el gobierno de Cipriano Castro, en 1902, en defensa de los intereses de la petrolera estadounidense New York & Bermúdez Company. Mientras que su abuelo Guillermo Rodríguez Eraso también proviene de unos acaudalados grupos familiares de la capital venezolana y presidió hasta después de su nacionalización la Creole Petroleum Corporation, una de las transnacionales con concesiones de explotación de crudo en Venezuela.

Fuente: LA TABLA

[tvnveracruz]

Con la entrega de nuevas unidades han ampliado las frutas de recolección

Xalapa, Veracruz a 19 de agosto de 2024.- No sólo el centro histórico es  prioridad para la Limpia Pública, ya que en la periferia los ciudadanos también pagan el servicio, así lo dio a conocer el secretario general del Sindicato Solidaridad Urbana de Trabajadores Municipales al Servicio del H. ayuntamiento de Xalapa, Guillermo Caballero Jesús. En entrevista expuso que si bien les han entregado…

[mosneakers]

Amidst their rampage, Diego stops the other Wildfangs potentials after sensing a disturbance in the air. Diego: We need to pump the brakes. We're being followed... something is watching.

Darling: If it's that Brick guy we're done, he's twice our size.

Guillermo:[Enraged snarling] It's 3 to 1. We can take him. WE CAN DESTROY HIM AND ANYONE WHO GETS IN OUR WAY! Diego: You destroy whoever you want, I'll stick to destruction of property. I'm not going up against him. Darling: Yeah me too... we should try to lose them... just in case. Guillermo: Fine. Follow.

Brick: [Sniffing around] Come on out lil' puppies, you can't hide from me forever... This nose got experience bruh...

Darling: [Yelping sound]

Guillermo: What was that?!

Diego: It was him! He got the kid! Run!

Despite being a member of the Wildfangs pack, who are known for their rough and edgy nature, Brick uses a more old-school approach to deal with the rampaging wolves, like he learned during his time with the Moonwood Collective.

Darling Walsh: Pacified ✔

[interactivemediaahh]

Troll market

the troll market was a scene in hellboy and was filmed in a mine in Hungary. there were loads of designs that were made, I have been told to look at 3 of them. Im doing 4 because they look cool. cathedral head : based on a guillermo sketch and then developed further with sculpting and rocks on the chin. apparently it has animatronic eyes.

I like this, its cool. cathedral feels kind of like a crown or hat but also feels like it cant be removed. the face reminds me of an owl with the face going down to a point and lack of normal mouth. the texture on the face reminds me of marble, which works well due to the stone of a cathedral. the cloth of the clothes also adds to the character. the vibrant blue is not a colour I see often i the uk and I doubt appears often in western europe and the US. the colour reminds me of colours seen in assassins creed revelations, taking place in turkey in the city of Constantinople, or modern day Istanbul. it adds to the old feeling and feels unfamiliar and foreign but not too much. Like it should be there. because of the large amounts of cloth, the brain automatically fills in what the anatomy of it is supposed to look like but none of it is confirmed.

, organ: Its described as a small guy built up to human size. I dont know what this means. but it looks cool. the texture on the head reminds me of bone or armour plating that you would find on plated animals, like the armadillo. it could also remind me of a peculiar looking jellyfish. the other creatures they remind me of is the selkath from starwars knights of the old republic, and max rebo. also from starwars. the outer parts of the creature being disproportionate to the middle is also cool and doesnt look too out of place. The clothes also match the organ as both feel like they are old and it works well.

, fish vendor. skin made of silicone, radio controlled head and tentacles, and the eyes can bulge. Its designed to look like a frog. I disagree, I think it looks like the head of a squid with more of a fish face. The surface of the creature itself looks suitably grimy, as if it had come from the bottom of the ocean and the eyes dont look too far apart to look anatomically wrong. The split ends of the tentacles is cool as it allows for the creature to grip things in a similar fashion to a human hand but also being completely different at the same time, hand shakes would be hard though. The clothes also look alot like the clothing seen on stereotypical fishermen wearing yellow rubber outfits, but instead of being nice and clean, it looks like it has been under the ocean for too long and picked up some discolouration and algae. some how I dont see this as a fish cutting up fish, My brain matches it more to a being that is suited to farming the product they are selling.

, bagpipes: an animatronic suit with a human bagpipe. being played by a weird creature. This is all the information I have for it. The only thing I dont like about this is the human, it feels like there is an odd human baby who is also really old sitting on some ones lap. it reminds me of the tenth doctor from doctor who being made really old by the master. Otherwise I really like it. the head feels very tribal, the first word that comes to mind is pagan as it is a mask made of wood with charms coming off of the rough horns with beads, the eyes are plain circles and the candles on the top with wax dripping down feels very ritually. The mouth coming out of the mask also reminds me of the imperial spy from starwars: a new hope as it is not a normal mouth, or that alien that kills ziro the hutt in the clone wars series.

These are really cool. I also fear I may have shown how much I like starwars. oops.

[arcadialedger]

Okay but, one of @imthegingerninja’s posts got me thinking...

Since the Akiridian’s are established as having a Christian- like religion, what if the Wizards had a pagan, maybe Wiccan inspired faith & mythology? And we could about their stories, beliefs, rituals, etc. similar to how we learned about the history of Gaylen’s Core.

[dionysus-is-my-dude]

My dudes.......Dionysus is blessing us...with my favourite childhood books getting made into movies and directed by my favourite dude, del Toro!!

YES. I’m talking about “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”!! These books MADE my scary childhood!!! Every single week at school, I’d check one of these books and read them over and over. I was a very dark, gothic, little girl who loved all things spooky. I would research and watch ghost stories and all kinds of dark folklore and things.

And I just learned that these books which made me into the spooky, goth princess that I am today are being made into a movie directed by, you guessed it, Guillermo del Toro, my all-time FAVOURITE director! I DEMAND Doug Jones come and play all the scary ghosts and creatures. I have a MIGHTY NEED to see this movie. I was so flipping excited when I learned about this that I went to Amazon and bought a collector’s edition three-pack of the books with the original, terrifying illustrations just because I love them so much! If you guys don’t know these books, you need to go to your local library, go to the children’s section, and loan them. They are the BEST way to scare your friends at a sleepover or just to read alone at night with the lights off. For them being “kids books”, they’re really scary, especially the illustrations. I’m so excited!! Next year is gonna be awesome!

[earthfirewithin]

(This is my first time making a tarot spread, so please bear with me!)

please feel free to use this, just please please credit me and don’t remove the tags!

Beautiful Things Are Fragile spread; inspired by the film Crimson Peak by Guillermo Del Toro

This spread is for those seeking self help, release, and strength. Each of the colored sections of the tarot is based off of a main character from the Gothic film Crimson Peak. 

Though i’m also stating whom the cards are with their meanings, i’ll also state them here!

Reds: Thomas Sharpe

Blues/Teal: Lucille Sharpe

Oranges/Yellows: Edith Cushing/Sharpe

Lets get started!

Thomas Sharpe:

1. Where Are You Lacking? This card represents what you’re lacking in with your interactions with other people, and with yourself. Use this card to better your relationships with those around you and your own mind.

2. What Is Trapping You? This card represents something that’s holding you back. Be it a person, addiction, or fear, this card will help to identify it and get you one step closer to understanding it.

Lucille Sharpe:

3. What Is Haunting You? Like card 2, this card represents something that’s holding you back, but at a subconscious level. what is holding you hostage in the back of your mind? this card will help you to find it!

4. How Will Love Find You? This card represents love, not only from other people, but maybe from yourself as well. We all, like Lady Lucille Sharpe, find love in different ways, maybe this card will help to encourage healthy ways to find it!

Edith Cushing/Sharpe:

5. What Are Your Strengths? This card represents your strengths. what makes you strong, or what can make you stronger? use this card to your advantage, for you’ll someday need it!

6. How You Can/Will Overcome. This card represents the direction you’re going, what steps you can take to overcome the obstacle you’re face. you can do it! 

Final Outcome:

7. This card represents how your situation will end in the long run. no matter the outcome of this card, remember that circumstances always change depending on the actions that you take!

[neil-gaiman]

To clarify on the CS Lewis question, I've noticed fantasy authors tend to trash CS Lewis on religious grounds while any praise mainly comes from Christian apologists. Guillermo Delo Toro even said he refuses to read Lewis now based on his religion despite once being a fan. It's a big world out there, but offhand the only two people I can think of who speak positively about Lewis and don't make his religion the grounds for liking or disliking his work are you and Steven Moffat.

For me, reading as a kid, Lewis was a pretty ropy Christian allegorist. As a kid reading Lewis the places he sent me, excited, deeper into the library to find out more about what he was talking about, included Silenus, Bacchus, fauns, werewolves, who Plato was and what Plato's cave analogy was, naiads, dryads, maenads, Elizabethan magic and worldview with regard to things like fire elementals and ships, and into the original Arabian Nights.

Whereas the point I noticed that the dragoning of Eustace Scrub was a retelling of Paul on the Road to Damascus just made The Voyage of the Dawn Treader less interesting for me, not more. The wild fun essentially pagan magic was, in retrospect, for me as a seven year old, the joy and the heart of Narnia, while the Christian gloss, especially in the last book, always felt awkwardly imposed from outside. (It was my biggest disappointment with the Prince Caspian movie. They had taken all the gods out.)

And I think it's the undigested blobs of gloss that people, Christians and otherwise, react to badly as adults, because they feel like something from another book. Aslan as the lamb who then assures the children he has a different name in our world feels to me now like it would be more at home in something like The Water Babies. At the time, I just assumed that it meant Aslan kept an eye on this world too, and I would say a respectful hello to Lions in the zoos when I was taken to them, just to be on the safe side.

[imagitory]

So my seventy-year-old mother and I saw Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio in theaters the other day, and it’s official —

We both like this film better than the Disney version.

Admittedly Pinocchio has never been one of our favorite Disney films nor stories in general, but we still do think of the Disney version primarily when we think of the story, just like a lot of people do. I do think Disney’s songs are much better, and of course the animation in the Disney version is gorgeous — but just about everything else, Mum and I like better in Del Toro’s film.

Pinocchio in Disney’s version just sort of naively follows whatever the last person told him to do in the beginning, with few feelings or opinions of his own. When he gets roped into being an actor by Foulfellow and Gideon, he just completely forgets about school or about Geppetto. Jiminy Cricket even explicitly tells him to tell Foulfellow he’s sorry, but he has to go to school, and mere seconds later, that advice has gone in one ear and out the other. Del Toro’s Pinocchio, however, remembers that he wanted to go to school and obey his dad — he instead only intends to go to the carnival and then to school, but gets distracted by how fun it is, which is a very normal thing for a child to do. And when he sees how upset that’s made his father, he joins the carnival in a misguided attempt to make things right. Del Toro’s Pinocchio embodies the essence of a child much more accurately than Disney’s version to me — the hyperactivity, the enthusiasm, the desire to please — and never fails to show that however much Pinocchio learns about the world, he’s still just a kid.

Disney’s Pinocchio never really gets much time to bond with his father, nor do we really learn much about Geppetto or why (if he so desperately wanted a child) he never just adopted one — Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Geppetto’s relationship is so much more heart-wrenching not just because Pinocchio was a drunken, rushed attempt by Geppetto to try to recreate his lost son, but because both of them have to learn a lesson and grow beyond their flaws and mistakes. Del Toro’s Geppetto haphazardly building Pinocchio out of drunken grief perfectly explains both his motivations and fleshes out his character and personality so much, and the conflict regarding suddenly having Pinocchio as a son after having lost Carlo is so believable and heartbreaking.

Disney’s Pinocchio is brought to life by a seemingly omniscient Blue Fairy who decides to only half-grant Geppetto’s odd wish for Pinocchio to be a real boy. Del Toro’s Pinocchio is brought to life by a much more chaotic, mysterious, and mercurial pagan entity, which better explains why Pinocchio isn’t magically made human, as well as the strangeness of the premise itself. Her being less aware of humanity or even the trouble Geppetto and Pinocchio would go through because of her choices also makes her less of a deus ex machina in the story.

Disney’s Pinocchio has a very one-sided relationship with Jiminy Cricket, where Pinocchio is intended to learn lessons largely based on Jiminy’s advice, even though Jiminy honestly is no saint either. He can be incredibly condescending and judgmental, as well as hypocritical — yet he’s treated by the Disney film as the moral center. Del Toro’s Pinocchio both learns from and teaches the similarly self-absorbed Sebastian J. Cricket, and they both grow through their experiences both together and apart. Their relationship comes across as much more heartfelt, to the point that Sebastian literally residing in Pinocchio’s heart upon his death is just…AUGH, it wrecks me!!

Disney’s Pinocchio seemingly forgets about his “friend” Lampwick the moment he leaves Pleasure Island. Del Toro’s comforts Candlewick, teaches him to be brave, and even protects him from his terrible fascist father. And yes, even if it’s not shown in the movie, I steadfastly believe Candlewick survived and he and Pinocchio were best friends for the rest of their lives. :|

Disney’s Pinocchio centers around the idea that when you do good, good things happen to you — but the problem I have with that is that what is considered “good” is largely framed as doing as you’re told and not doing what society dictates is delinquent behavior. Yes, it’s good to get an education, and yes, Stromboli was a bad man and you shouldn’t trust strangers — but there’s nothing wrong with going into show biz instead of chasing academics if that’s really what you want to do, and it seems strangely like victim-blaming, to punish a child for getting tricked and manipulated by ill-meaning adults. The same might apply for Pleasure Island — yes, perhaps it’s not healthy to smoke or drink lots of alcohol, and no, you shouldn’t get into fights or damage people’s property…but does that truly justify these stupid children turning into helpless donkeys for the rest of their lives, with seemingly no chance at rescue or redemption? Pinocchio gets a chance to make amends and do better, so why don’t the other boys?

Del Toro’s Pinocchio, however, is about — in Sebastian’s words — “doing the best you can, because that’s all anyone can do.” Pinocchio wants to be good and do good, but what’s “good” isn’t always so simple to define. It isn’t always doing what you’re told, but it’s also not always doing what you want when you want, either. And ultimately, Pinocchio’s innocence and relative immortality (at least at the beginning) makes it easier for him to break the strings that have been tied around his loved ones — the strings of obedience to a cruel carnival man, an unloving father, or even a fascist dictatorship.

Then of course there’s the ending, where Del Toro’s Pinocchio becomes a “real” boy without having to change himself on the outside — and better yet, lives happily while still never having to change. And yes, the ending states he’ll probably die someday too, but that is also completely okay.

So yeah. Go see this movie in theaters or watch it on Netflix, if you haven’t already. It truly is a wonderful experience and I can’t wait to watch it again! ✨