#It’s the 1946 version btw

[herbertpocketsfidgettoys]

shoutout to that person who uploaded the full great expectations movie on YouTube

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Saturday, 11-23-24, 8am Pacific

And it's another rainy day here in The Bay Area, perfect for hangin' out inside, sippin' coffee and playin' records. Mr. Baggins here with Morning Coffee Music to get us in gear and in good cheer. I found a copy of this album in a small record shop that seemed to open up and close within a year's time. I was glad I snagged my prize when I did, because it opened the door to this amazing pianistic force of nature, the immortal Art Tatum. Pour a cup and enjoy.

One of the frustrations about this youtube format is that actual "full album" recordings are now rare...now it's mostly a song at a time or a movement from a work at a time. And in this case, the album did not make the translation from vinyl to CD/Digital in the same form. I did find a "playlist" that has the tracks I wanted to share with you this morning. Let's pick it up at item number 40, Charlie Parker Quintet on Dial Records in 1946-47. Let's start with the divine "Bird of Paradise" and let it play through from there. This is my favorite Bird of all time. I do hope you enjoy.

Here's another thrift-store find, although in slightly different form. This is my absolute favorite Duke Ellington. Trio setting, recorded in 1953. Pure magic.

Now let's go all the way back to 1939, when an amazing, fresh-faced and fresh-voiced Ella Fitzgerald charmed everyone as the canary for The Chick Webb Orchestra. I could listen to this stuff endlessly...here's the first set of Decca singles, from '39 to '41, just the first sampling from this collection we'll dip into again and again.

Now let's jump forward in the timeline to '54, when The Dave Brubeck Quartet gave us "Jazz Goes To College"

And here is what has to be my favorite Billie Holiday album. From 1954, it was a hits re-package that has the BEST versions of some of her signature tunes, recorded mostly in the mid-'40s, before her voice was destroyed. She is at her mature best here. Pour another cup and enjoy.

Here is another incomparable jazz vocalist who had her own musical compass and followed no one. This is probably one of the most comprehensive albums, from WWII-era, a year or two forward. Here is Anita O'Day.

And here's one of the truly pioneering female jazz vocalists, the legendary Ivie Anderson, who was Duke Ellington's canary of choice. This is a decent collection of some of her best recordings with Ellington in this playlist, so pour another cup and let it play through.

Back in the '70s, there was an independent label release double-album, gatefold cover, called "Jazz Women (A Feminist Retrospective)", Stash Records 109, released in 1977, which included tracks from these ladies. I couldn't find that record out there on YouTube, but I did find this! Here are "The International Sweethearts of Rhythm".

Here, btw, is the cover of the "Jazz Women" album. It's well worth tracking down a copy!

I will dig out my copy of the record and see what I can do to remedy the situation! Here is the Discogs page for it, which has all the musicians names w/links/bios.

I have one more treat for you here on this rainy Saturday edition of Morning Coffee Music. Here is my go-to album to introduce people to Dardanelle Brackenbridge (or Breckenridge), or just plain 'Dardanelle". She was a female jazz pianist who played with Lionel Hampton in the '40s and who has one song on the above two-record set. Here she is, with her album "Swingin' in London". The best lady pianist you never heard of!

That's all the space we've got for this Saturday edition of Morning Coffee Music. Mr. Baggins signing off for now, I'll return at 2pm Pacific with your Afternoon Stack of Classic Wax!

Until then, be kind, babies, be kind.

Baggins out.

[raichett]

Fic Writer Interview :D

I was tagged for this by @definitelynotshouting :)

How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 101 works on my Minecraft | MCYT account, and 41 on my "every other fandom I'm into" account. That's 142 works published in total!

What's your total AO3 word count?

329,763 on my Minecraft | MCYT account, and 371,183 on my other fandoms account. That's a total of 700,946!! And there is so much more in WIPs...

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Ashes, with 2403 kudos. This is by far my most popular fic, which still astounds me a little as I don't consider it to be my best work. One I'm proud of, sure, but not my best work. Still, seems like it was a hit :D There is also a much, much better version of this fic that lives rent free in my head; of course, it is also a much longer version and I don't currently have the time or energy to dedicate to it :/

Well It's Not Quite Narnia, But -, with 2398 kudos. A deeply silly little rom-com of a Scarian fic. I remember this one very well, because I posted in the morning of the hottest day of the fucking year where the temperature hit a high of 40C in some parts of the UK and I was boiling alive in a trampoline park with no air conditioning while comments were rolling in on my phone's email. The heat was muggy and humid, btw, in case you thought I was getting off clean with dry heat.

Apple Cinnamon Pies, with 1946 kudos. This fic is the first part of an ongoing series btw :D It is also one of the fics that I, as the author, would recommend as part of my fic library. If you like Third Life, and you like Scarian, then I highly recommend you give this one a shot.

Highway Robbery, with 1728 kudos. Okay, so, funny story: this is the first explicitly Scarian fic I ever posted. The scant few earlier fics on the account sat in a "you can interpret their relationship either way, I left it ambiguous" zone, but this one had no ambiguity. A silly little fic with a funny meet cute, really, but quite enjoyable if I do say so myself.

The Day After, with 1656 kudos. Hey so you know those "everyone except Grian forgets Third Life when they go back to Hermitcraft" post-canon fics? This isn't that. This is, in fact, "everyone but Scar forgets Third Life after it's over and they're safe back on Hermitcraft (Scarian edition)" and I would also recommend this one :D

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I used to be very studious about responding to every comment I got, but I've since become a bit more lax. The thing is, sometimes there is no real way to respond to a comment. That being said, I strongly appreciate any lovely comments that get left, and I have a set of the best ones saved so that I can re-read them any time I want <3

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Judging by the tearful reactions in the comments, I'm going to have to say nursed itself well (or died) which is a DSMP fic with a bittersweet ending. Cathartic, and actually probably the best ending for all involved, but even the best possible ending can still be achingly sad 😢😢😢

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

Most of my fics have happy or hopeful endings, to be honest, so I wouldn't really know how to measure this one, sorry.

Do you write crossovers?

I want to, but I haven't actually committed yet. I do read them, though.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Oooh boy. In one of my fics for my "other fandoms" account, I wrote a courtroom scene (culminating in the guilty party being able to continue their road to redemption via reparative and restorative justice without denying or minimising the horrors they had caused) where the context was the idea of reparations after a huge and long war in which both sides canonically committed many horrific war crimes.

When this got brought up in the dialogue, just the idea that it takes two sides to make a war and that both had committed horrors (which, I reiterate, is canon), one commenter stopped reading the fic right then and there and came down to call me a genocide apologist without finishing the fic or even engaging in what it was actually saying. That was quite a nasty shock. I have since deleted the whole comment thread because it was just so horrible and ignorant (and I was not the only one who thought that because others replied to that comment), and everyone was being exposed to it.

There was also one other incident of someone being transphobic in the comments of another fic that had a trans character in it, which I deleted as soon as I saw because no one gets to use my fics as platforms for their hate.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Oh, boy, yes I do! More on my "other fandoms" account, I must admit, but most of them tend towards having dom/sub undertones in some way, with a couple of explicitly dom/sub scenes proper. Shout out to that 15.4k tentacle robot smut pregnancy kink (only the kink) pseudo-oviposition oneshot I wrote and didn't even post on anon. That thing shamelessly has my account name on it lmaooo.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, no.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! Apple Cinnamon Pies was translated to Chinese, and the next step was translated to Russian.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really. I've definitely co-planned fics before, but not actually written anything in full conjunction with someone else. I have done some beta-reading for friends, before.

What's your all-time favourite ship?

I don't really have one, to be honest. I'm happily a multi-shipper, and will try anything that strikes my fancy. That being said, I do have a very obvious soft spot for Scarian, and for some other pairings.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

I have this fic idea/WIP that I can only really describe as "Scarian but it's Bagginshield" which is a longfic in a fantasy world based off of the Quest for the Lonely Mountain in "The Hobbit" (but not 1:1 with it, and not intended to fit into LOTR worldbuilding). Scar is Bilbo and Grian is Thorin and I don't know if it will ever really be published but know it forever has a place in my heart.

What are your writing strengths?

Worldbuilding is a favourite of mine, and people keep telling me I'm good at it :D In addition, I feel like I do pacing well, and I'm able to convey complex emotional states for characters and how they change and learn and develop their interactions and relationships with each other. My dialogue, especially in the last year or so, has really started to sound like things people would actually say, which I'm happy about.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Balancing more than three characters in a scene 😭 Also I sometimes just totally lose motivation partway through writing something and leave the WIP alone for months or even years.

I have also been known to occasionally write myself into timeline corners by keeping things too vague on my end so I accidently overlap events or by not checking back at previous instalments, though I am getting better at that.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Make sure you get the translation correct, perhaps by asking someone who knows the language to proofread it.

Ensure there is some way for the reader to understand (via hover translation, footnotes, etc.) if the POV character is supposed to be able to understand. If you don't intend for the character and reader to be able to understand, then "the man turned away and said something to his partner in a language [POV character] couldn't understand" suits perfectly fine.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Pokémon, and I'm not ashamed of that.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

The Legend of Zelda! But I do not have time or energy to leap into a whole new fandom right now, not if I want to keep writing for MCYT at least!

What's your favourite fic you've written?

Again, I don't really have one absolute most favourite nothing else compares fic, but if I have to point to something then I do have a soft spot for crown of broken bones, as I feel it's a little underrated and I really enjoyed writing it.

[deebeeus]

Can you imagine coming home to this wall every night? This just a small part of @terry_foster's collection but it's enough to make any #Fender afficionado weep tears of pure joy. I snapped this pic last week on a break from our photo session to document something in Terry's collection a thousand times rarer than anything you see in this pic for his upcoming @fretboardjournal article. Stay tuned for that... 😉 On the top shelf you are looking at a selection of early Champions from the late 40s, and Champs from the early 50s, incl. a wide panel tweed on the left and a small box narrow panel on the far right. Wait "small box" Champ...what the heck is that?? Did you know there were two version of the narrow panel Champ? The earlier ones came in a smaller box with a 6" speaker, and the later ones in a larger box with an 8" speaker . I learned that from visiting Terry's collection BTW! 😉 On the second shelf we see not one but THREE 1945 K&F amplifiers! These are PRE-Fender Company Fenders and to see three in one collection is pretty incredible! Speaking of pretty incredible, next to (and below) the K&Fs are FOUR Woodies. The Woodies were the very earliest amps manufactured under the Fender brand name circa 1946/47 and they came in two cabinet finishes (natural and dark stained) with two different grill cloths (red and blue). Looks like we have two Princetons (the smaller ones, 8" speaker) and two Model 26 Deluxes (10" speaker) here. There was also one larger model with a 12" speaker called the "Professional". On the bottom shelf to the right of the blue-grill woodies, we have a couple of TV fronts tweeds (A #Deluxe and a #Princeton I believe?) and on the very bottom is a pair of pristine Princetons, narrow panel tweed (left) from the late 50s, and Brown panel (right) from early 60s.

[losingmyjustice]

Hi it's me & im thinking about this stuff again hnnnnnnnnghnnnn btw the Portcullis House, while commissioned in 1992, was only opened in 2001 soooo... even further into the future rather than 1960s, Aka everything I'm about to say is to be taken with a huge grant of salt 'cause consistency is an illusion anyway and honestly this doesn't even matter this much lol I just wish Clive could actually name years in threads instead of the "well wouldnt YOU wanna know" bs

I've!! Always presumed the Game is "meant" to be in 1960s 'cause of the hidden picture we've got in Curious Village that has 1960s written on it (like hey can you make it any more blatant), but the german wikia had a different approach that got me thinkin' a little. Seeing how a hidden picture isn't exactly canon, it was worth looking into a different way to settle this.

On the german wikia, they've got this image of the elevator clock from UF, that showcases the year 1974 written on it. With that they made the assumption that this means UF plays during 1974, therefore Clive's dystopia faux london would be playing during 1984. Which, I'd love for it to be true, because that'd be a fun reference to the dystopia book, 1984. If that's true, that would make his current canonpoint here in Isola be 1972, and his birth year 1951. Basically, he'd be a Boomer.

HOWEVER,

It doesn't sit right with me to assume that the "real" year is 1974, because that year is readable on the lower half of the year counter that is in the process of switching, instead of standing still. If 1974 would be the actual year, then it'd have to be on the upper half, but it isn't — so if we presume that it won't change further, best shot would be that the dystopia faux london is playing in 1974, instead. I know I'm phrasing this pretty oddly, but basically my point is that'd make UF play during 1964, which makes Clive's current canonpoint 1962, and his birth year 1941. This version is much friendlier to the previous evidence of Curious Village, 1960, and is therefore more favorable. It's not solid, because, as stated — we don't know if it'd stand still as soon as it hits 1974, or not. Actually, upon further inspection, i'd claim it to be highly unlikely — since 7 barely settled down yet, meaning the first numeral is gonna turn a few more times — hell, it could be 1979, for all we know. Which, once again, would make the real year be 1969, his current canonpoint 1967, and his birth 1946. Cue me screaming.

BUT HEY! IT GETS WORSE,

Remember the Image the German Wikia even used for all this? Yes. That one is bothering me. You see, while you can see the Elevator Clock like this in advertisements & the OST Cover Artwork, the IN-GAME CLOCK, aka the one we should actually use as evidence since that's the only genuinely canon material we have, DOESN'T EVEN FUCKING HAVE THAT YEAR-COUNTER. Prove, here, and here. THE YEAR-COUNTER IS ONLY VISIBLE AT OLD ARTWORK ON COVERS & ADS. IT'S NOT THE REAL CLOCK THEY REMOVED IT FOR A REASON BASICALLY IT'S AS NON-CANON AS 1960s IS TOO. To complicate matters, I don't know how the german wikia even found this version of the picture. all images I can recall has layton standing in the way for you to see the 1 of 1974. ,,,,,,my head is going to explode

TLDR, I still won't be able to name a year if anyone asks him ic-wise which year he is from. You're going to get a brit spacing out on you im sorry.

[danguy96]

On the subject of Beauty and the Beast, I’m actually not really that surprised that people have the hots for the Beast, because people have fallen for the Beast long before the 1991 Disney film.

For example, during the premiere of the 1946 French film version of the story, directed by Jean Cocteau, it is reportedly said that when the spell is broken and the Beast turns back into a handsome prince, legendary actress Greta Garbo stood up and said “Oh, give me back my beautiful Beast!”

This is what the Beast looked like in the Cocteau version, btw:

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

Alright! this is my dream topic.

Please, when choosing a translation, keep in mind which Greek/Hebrew text it was translated out of.

95% or more of extant Greek and Hebrew manuscripts agree with each other on everything. These are the texts that have been handed down as far back as history can remember. 5% or less of the extant manuscripts disagree both with the majority text and with each other; yet scholars debate about which of these differences are right, and some even speak of 'reconstructing' the original or 'figuring out' what the original said, when a 95% consensus is standing right in front of them.

The differences are extremely important. Whole passages are left out. Parts and fragments of verses. Some versions add a 'not' into a verse to completely change its meaning. One verse that tells us how to get rid of a particular kind of devil possession - a devil that affects children - is missing entirely. (The way to get rid of the devil is by prayer and fasting, BTW.) Is the woman's curse that your desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee, or is it that her desire will be against her husband? The very passage that says all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable for instruction, reproof, etc - one of the most clear-cut verses for inspiration of Scripture - is changed to all Scripture THAT IS given by inspiration, indicating that not all Scripture is inspired and only the inspired bits are useful to for instruction, reproof, and so on. I won't even get into how the name 'Lucifer' is changed into 'day/morning star' when morning star is JESUS'S TITLE. (See Isaiah 14:12 and the veryyy end of Revelation, I think chapter 22? It's like the last few verses in the Bible.)

Scholars - textual critics - argue that the oldest manuscripts available to us (dated as early as 130 AD, but only discovered in 1946) support the 5% reading. In secular textual criticism, the oldest text is the most reliable as it is nearest in time to the writing of the original; however, when handling the Word of God, this particular secular practice holds no water. God promised us his Word would endure forever, and he clearly intended it to be read and used for reproof, instruction, edification, etc. These 'oldest manuscripts' might have been around for longer, but a key point is that they weren't discovered until 1946, only seventy years ago. If these oldest manuscripts are the true Word of God, as opposed to to the traditional text handed down since we can reember, then God has hid his Word (or allowed it to be hid) for two thousand years, unusable and unknown, and we have been spreading words that are not his. This is not in God's character and I believe it is the majority text, the traditional text, that is the true Word of God, preserved and in use for two thousand years.

I feel that this evidence completely dominates the argument, to the point that I feel I only have one side of the debate. However, I have not been able to find anyone who argues against the majority text - the Textus Receptus - with the assumptions I have outlined about traditional text versus oldest texts - nor have I been able to find anyone who challenges those assumptions.

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Nilstheweber says they's no longer in the KJV-Only camp, but I'm going to address this subject anyway. A lot of KJV-onlyism doesn't make sense and doesn't hold up (I've heard some KJO's believe King James was a contemporary of David's??). I don't know what nilstheweber heard or was taught about KJV-onlyism; however, there are many valid reasons to believe the King James Bible is the Word of God in English (I'll be brief though!).

My strongest evidence lies in the way every word is important; the KJV defines its own words consistently throughout the Bible, leading to knowledge and understanding that would otherwise be lost. Even the number of times a word is used in the Bible relates to the numerical symbolism the Bible uses and that symbolism lines up with the meaning of the word.

I'll give you 'repent' and its various forms (repented, repents, repentance, etc) as an example. Off the top of my head, there are 39 uses of the word in the Old Testament, and there are 39 books in the Bible. God repents of some intent or action seven times (the number of completion), and only repents in the OT. Man repents of two categories of things; one is moral (repenting from sin, etc) and one is not (repenting of an action that was taken that was not necessarily sinful, etc). Man repents of non-sin-related things six times, the number of man. I could go on. All the words in the Bible do this.

I cannot, of course, force you to accept KJV-onlyism. If I tried, you would just have to laugh at me, because I'm a stranger on the internet and have no power over you, lol. I have cited no sources or even Bible verses, and for that I apologize, but the internet is a vast place to find information for the discerning mind.

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I would leave you with this last particle of information: I believe the KJV is God's Word in English. However, God's Word also exists in Greek and Hebrew, and people made do with non-inspired translations for quite some time before the KJV was translated. Non-inspired translations are still decent and good! God works in people's lives even with partial, incorrect, paraphrased, or simply clumsy renditions of his Word. Man paraphrases God on a daily basis, and this is good. But please find a translation that comes from the Textus Receptus.

Some keywords for further research:

Don't trust anything that is translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls, 'newly discovered manuscripts,' the Vaticainus or the Sinaiticainus codices, or anything from Westcott, Hort, or Metzger.

Many translations - including the NKJV and NRSV - claim to be 'descendants' or 'revisions' of the KJV - but this is false. They are translated out of different and fallible texts, and I for one will not stand for fallibility in my Bible.

The King James Bible was translated from the Textus Receptus (TR) compiled from the available extant manuscripts by the Greek scholar Erasmus. It also goes by the names Received Text, majority text and traditional text, and acronyms of all of these (TR, RT, and TT at least, I haven't seen MT used).

I hope this has been of some help to you or to my followers!

Which Bible translation should be seen as the best? I've been saved on October 30, 2017, and in December 2017 discovered the old King James. That lead me to the KJV only camp, but I ain't there anymore. I believe the Young Literal's Translation and the Thomson's Translation are a good bit better (not sure if you're familiar with them). I believe the first I read was either the NKJV or the ESV. I can't remember.

There is a lot of freedom in the translation you choose, though some are better than others. You want to find a good balance between literal translation from the original text while also keeping understandable readability in your own language. This is a good article for that

[scriptgerman]

Music Monday (1/?): Udo Lindenberg

Hallo und willkommen zu Post Nummer Eins über deutsche Musiker und Bands!

Hello and welcome to post number one about German musicians and bands!

I’ll try to make it a regular Monday occurrence to talk about German music, both known and unknown outside of Germany. The musician/ band of the week will be totally random, so if you want a specific musician/ band covered don’t hesitate to shoot me an ask! The idea, btw, is shamelessly (but with kind permission) based on @scriptsoldier​’s Sing Along Sundays.

The first musician I want to talk about is Udo Lindenberg.

Here’s one of his songs, to get in the mood:

And a picture of the man himself:

[image description: a portrait shot of Udo Lindenberg, showing him from the half-side. He’s wearing his signature hat and sunglasses, his grey-brown hair is open and touches his shoulders. He wears a dark blue jacket over a lighter blue dress shirt, the topmost button open, a black tie with pink stripes is loose, but still decent] (source: Wikimedia Commons)

I say musician, but really Udo Lindenberg is more than a musician, he’s more a personage. His signature feature are the hat and the sunglasses he’s always wearing and he’s known for not owning a flat and instead living in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg. He was born the 17th May 1946 in Gronau (Westfalen), a small city in the west of Germany and started out as a drummer, before starting to concentrate on his own music in the early seventies. He was one of the first German musicians to sing in German and is considered to be one of the prime movers of German rock music. He’s still successful with his music, several of his albums reaching gold status, the last two reaching number one in the (German) music charts. There is also a musical, Hinterm Horizont (Behind the Horizon) that tells a love story through Lindenberg’s songs. While he did not write the musical himself, he was involved in the process.

However, he’s also active as an artist:

[image description: a rough painting of a person with long hair, wearing a grey suit, sunglasses and a hat, presumably Lindenberg himself; their arms outstretched to the equally rough stars and moon above the person, they are seen mainly from behind, standing on what might be a mountain top. with the exceptions of the stars and the person, everything is in the same blue tones. Next to the person it says “Greif nach Deinem SterN” (“Reach for your star”)] [source]

and as a political person:

In the eighties Udo Lindenberg was involved in intra-German relations (between East and West Germany), he was involved in the German Band Aid version of the Band Aid, he regularly gets involved in projects against neonazism and in 2000 founded his own project against the right, “Rock gegen Rechte Gewalt” (Rock against far right violence). In 2006 he also founded the Udo-Lindenberg-Stiftung, a cultural policy foundation, to foster humanitarian and social projects and support the liaison between Herman Hesse’s (a German-speaking poet, *1877 †1962) poetry with modern music.

You can find his website here (only in German, sadly),

the gallery selling his paintings here,

and the official YouTube Account here.

Yours, 

AK

Got a question for the German? Ask here!

One of my favourite Udo Lindenberg songs.

[scarboxart]

Beauty And The Beast wasn’t good people! *spoilers ahead*

OK as someone who's obsessed with that fairy tale and has seen like every version on film I have to say if you're nostalgic just go watch the old animated one because this is literally just recreating it frame by frame and line by line and the actual new stuff they add really, really suck (with maybe one or two exceptions)

Ok the things that pissed me off the most... I love Emma Watson... but her singing was VERY weak! In fact they AUTO-TUNE her voice! Like really this is a very song heavy movie and either pick someone who can sing damn well or just don't make it a musical because the original was already an amazing musical. She just couldn't pull this off and her acting was not that amazing either. The second biggest issue I have with Belle is how they're trying to make her a stronger, more capable woman but that goes to hell. There's a scene where she's actually figured out a way to escape the room she's locked in through the window even before the Beast scares her away. But guess what?! Mrs. Potts arrives with some tea and Belle's like "Oh fuck it! I guess I'll have tea and food instead of saving my life and escaping even though I already have the means" Like wth?! And in the end when she's going back to the castle on horseback to help the Beast she takes off the ball gown and remains only in her undergarments as if they're trying to show she's gonna kick some ass and she's not gonna need a dress but huge shock SHE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT! And there's problems with the Beast too. He looked and sounded ok for the most part but they try to give him this tragic backstory where his mother dies and his dad becomes really mean so that's why the Beast was mean when he was a prince. THERE'S NO NEED FOR THIS! Don't try to justify his behaviour in the beggining! That's how he's supposed to be because he's just a selfish, conceited prince and that's what makes his change all the more meaningful! He already has a tragic backstory, he was turned into a freaking beast! And there's this RIDICULOUS moment when he decides to let Belle go to her father and he bursts into this dramatic song... I swear I cringed in the theater. THERE'S NO NEED for them to make up a new and totally forgetable song that's not in the original for him to explain how he feels. WE ALREADY KNOW HOW HE FEELS! He hates to let her leave but he does it anyway because he loves her. Btw Belle also has a backstory in this and hers is not that much needed either but it's not as bad as with the case of the Beast. Anyway there's more surprises! In this version the enchantress who curses the Beast is an actual character with a name and everything. And in the end when the Beast "dies" and Belle says she loves him it's NOT HER LOVE that breaks the curse! NO, THE ENCHANTRESS SHOWS UP AND BRINGS HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE BACK TO LIFE! That's right love has nothing to do with it! In fact the Beast doesn't even say he loves her himself! Actually I didn't even feel the chemistry between the two of them like I did in the animated one...*sighs*

Ok there are a few thing I liked about this movie concerning the updates, because like I said everything else is IDENTICAL to the animated movie. So LeFou is gay in this version which not only makes some sense, but is actually a lot of fun :D and Josh Gad's performance also helps. Speaking of performances Luke Evans totallly stole the show as Gaston for me and he had the best singing voice.Another thing which I actually really liked and made a lot of sense in my oppinion was to make the Beast smart. In the animated movie he can't even read which is weird for someone who's a freaking prince! But here not only can he read but he's read a great deal of the books in the library he gives to Belle. In fact their shared interest in literature is something which brings them closer, which I thought was a very good idea. Also the castle looks gorgeous and it falls apart more and more with each leaf that falls from the rose which was pretty cool.

There's more issues with this movie but this post is too long already. If you're thinking I'm just comparing this to the original too much how can I not when they're trying to recreate it in almost every frame?! In all honesty  like I said you better watch that one or if you want to see a different spin on this story watch the French movie from 2014. Better yet you can watch the Jean Cocteau movie from 1946. I'm done with this!

[leroyamyterry-blog]

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That whole statement u just gave was asinine. As for partot yes men, every gm that was hired actually hired yes men. So they can take orders from their boss. "But within our current understanding of technology and where it is going, the iterative steps that we hope make between that and sending a probe to another star, I just don't see us becoming that space faring race, not within the next hundred years, not perhaps within the next thousand years. But again, these are timescales that I can't even fathom within my small existence. 

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The Oldest Young Prodigy

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by FalconFate

I was shoved into a cryopod in 1946 and ended up in 2014. Fortunately, I wasn’t alone: I had my brother.

Unfortunately, some idiot blew his arm off.

So now I have to track down the idiot, and then my idiot brother.

Words: 840, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: OC - Character, James "Bucky" Barnes, Rebecca Barnes (but my version)

Additional Tags: sooooooooo, tags are gonna be updated as the story is updated, OC is based off of Rebecca Barnes who is Bucky’s little sister, her name is Rikki please be nice to her, first person!!! you’ve been warned, i’ll try not to make it cringy, She is a TEEN btw, There is brief description of throwing up btw, but not graphic

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