#Ryan Caro

[diazheartsbuckley]

I would kill for a scene where the 118 is joking around and doing mock British accents and then Oliver just speaks in his regular voice

And everyone’s just like

That definitely doesn’t sound British

[lgbtqreads]

Happy LGBT History Month!

Happy LGBT History Month! We are, of course, celebrating as we celebrate everything over here – with books! Specifically, with both fiction and nonfiction that pay tribute to LGBT history. Fiction Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his…

[robynsassenmyview]

For madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go

"For madness in great ones must not go unwatch'd", a review of 'The Motive and the Cue', screened by the National Theatre Live in South Africa, on 30 and 31 October 2024.

THE readiness is all: Sir John Gielgud (Mark Gatiss) and Richard Burton (Johnny Flynn) as director and performer of Hamlet in The Motive and the Cue. Photograph courtesy nationaltheatre.org.uk HAMLET: THE LITERATE world’s equivalent to Van Gogh’s ear or Beethoven’s Fifth. It contains all the must-haves in a great story: love and suicide, murder and ghosts, guilt and recriminations, and…

[sunflower-eddiediaz]

Hey! Do you think you could make an icon of that pic in yellow tone ? 👀 i love my icon but that picture of ryan is just too good

coucou caro!

i did the second batch of icons (that includes yellow), and here it is with the yellow you currently have

[jevaisjeviens]

Mais headcannons do Ryan x Leitora/reader

Parte 1 | Parte 2 | Parte 3

Vocês se mudam juntos

ele está um pouco preocupado sobre a própria individualidade;

impulsivamente, em uma noite de bebedeira, ele declarou que vocês deveriam morar juntos, e depois não conseguiu voltar atrás;

ele se sente estúpido por duvidar da própria ideia, mas é porque ele é muito medroso em relação a se comprometer, e cada nova fase é que ele enfrenta é difícil;

ele começa a ficar mais de boa quando vocês visitam um apartamento exatamente como nos sonhos dele: algo moderno e pequeno;

no dia da mudança, ele já está bem mais animado e se oferece para passar na sua casa e pegar as suas caixas;

ele faz um pouco de corpo mole na hora de desembalar tudo;

quando vocês já estão instalados no novo apê, ele resolve se meter a cozinhar e te pede ajuda para fazer o jantar;

a comida não fica muito boa, mas você fica feliz porque ele tentou.

O apartamento

você é o despertador de Ryan todas as manhãs;

algumas poucas vezes para te agradar ele acorda antes e prepara algo simples para você comer;

ele preza pela própria individualidade, então ele passa a maior parte do tempo jogando videogame ou trabalhando em seu próprio site;

algumas vezes, quando ele faz uma pausa em suas coisas, ele vai verificar se você está na sala e te dá um beijo na boca do nada;

você sempre cozinha, e mesmo contra-gosto, ele sempre lava a louça;

"hoje é o seu dia de tirar o lixo"

algumas vezes, ele apenas não está afim de saber sobre o seu dia, mas ele vai ouvir mesmo assim;

em alguns dias ele diz que vai sair e demora para voltar, mas é apenas porque ele quer mesmo passar um tempo sozinho em algum bar ou café - ele não está te traíndo e você sabe disso.

Você teve um pesadelo

"Gatinha? Você está bem?"

ele está realmente assustado com você acordar gritando;

ele te faz deitar no colo dele até dormir novamente, mas acaba dormindo antes de você;

na manhã seguinte, ele se lembrará disso e vai perguntar sobre o que era o seu pesadelo.

Ele teve um pesadelo

Ryan externaliza totalmente seus medos quanto aos pesadelos que tem;

ele procura afeto em você porque se sente apavorado;

ele vai descrever o sonho nos mínimos detalhes;

ele vai pedir beijos para se distrair, mas você sabe onde isso vai acabar.

Pegação

Ryan tem um bom autocontrole e ele usa disso para te provocar (muito);

"já está assim, gatinha?"

ele te dá beijos cada vez mais quentes e lentos e sabe exatamente onde estão os seus pontos fracos;

ele quer dominar e tem um ego enorme a ser preenchido, então quer sempre te satisfazer em primeiro lugar;

na maioria das vezes, é ele quem começa a passar a mão em você;

ele gosta MESMO de beijar, então está sempre te beijando na hora do sexo ou não;

algumas vezes, ele quer apenas te beijar de forma quente, mas não quer ir adiante;

ele vai te fazer implorar por ele porque gosta de se sentir desejado;

"eu preciso de você em cima de mim agora"

mensagens quentes no meio do trabalho para que você se prepare para quando chegarem em casa.

Você está insegura com a sua aparência

Ryan não entende nada disso;

ele acha que você não deveria externalizar suas inseguranças;

tudo que ele pode fazer é te dizer o quanto te acha sexy e gostosa;

ele realmente NÃO entende porque você se sente insegura, já que, para ele, você é a mulher mais bonita do mundo.

Casamento

vai demorar, mas após os 30 anos, ele vai dar o braço a torcer. se o relacionamento de vocês durou todo esse tempo, então ele acha que vocês podem se casar;

você vai ter que ser paciente, porque Ryan dá um passo de cada vez e são passos lentos e bem espaçados - ele REALMENTE tem medo de copromisso e de tudo dar simplesmente errado;

o pedido não é planejado. um dia ele olha para você na cama, com o cabelo bagunçado, cantarolando alguma música do Radiohead enquanto lê um livro e solta um: deveríamos nos casar;

ele compra um anel de noivado não muito caro, mas elegante, e dessa vez ele vai levar flores também, pela primeira vez;

ele conta para literalmente TODO mundo que vocês estão noivos e aprecia a expressão de choque das pessoas;

ele não quer que ningu��m da empresa seja padrinho ou madrinha, mas não vai contra quando você convida a Erin ou a Pam para serem madrinhas;

"precisamos MESMO convidar todos os nossos colegas de serviço, gatinha?"

ele não está muito engajado em planejar, mas aprova ou desaprova as ideias que você apresenta à ele;

"não esquece da nossa lua de mel em vegas. eu não abro mão disso"

ele escolhe uma data perto porque tem um medo interno de mudar de ideia;

alguns dias antes do casamento ele está tão ansioso que acha que vai morrer;

(continua)

[mariacallous]

The past few weeks have been a fever dream for the online conspiracy world. Wild claims about Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, went from fringe corners of the internet to mainstream social media platforms, and people who don’t usually dabble in conspiracies found themselves leading the charge. Basically, the whole world fell down the rabbit hole.

WIRED talked to researchers, TikTok creators, and experts on conspiracies about what exactly happened, and how so many people so willingly threw themselves into the story. It was the perfect storm: A combination of gamified social platforms, distrust in media and government, unprecedented levels of conspiratorial thinking, and even a bot influence campaign on social media all played a part. Even now, following Middleton’s announcement that she has been diagnosed with cancer, the conspiracies have continued.

Until Friday, Middleton was last seen in public on Christmas Day. Kensington Palace later announced that she was undergoing an abdominal surgery and said Middleton was in the hospital for two weeks before returning home to recover. Conspiracies surrounding Middleton’s whereabouts had been bubbling online since early January, but they became mainstream after the palace issued a doctored photo that was retracted by AP, Reuters, and other agencies. “They were dishonest, and then they put out at least one doctored photo. So of course, at that point, they're gonna lose all credibility,” Melissa Ryan, a disinformation researcher, tells WIRED.

It seemed like the whole internet quickly became obsessed with figuring out what happened.

On social media platforms, videos discussing this issue exploded. TikTok investigators and content creators, along with their huge fanbases, obsessed over dimples on grainy photographs, images of hands, and AI-enhanced pictures. Creators who don’t typically post about royals jumped on the bandwagon because of the level of engagement this topic was receiving. These conspiracies were also able to thrive because of the unwillingness of the royal family to speak openly about what was happening, creating a void which was quickly filled by everyone from TikTok creators to blue check grifters on X and died-in-the-wool conspiracists on Telegram.

“The topic is an ideal mainstream conspiracy theory: It's low stakes, easy to obsess over, and endlessly iterative,” Caro Claire Burke, a journalist and TikTok creator based in Virginia, tells WIRED. “There's no easier build-your-own-adventure story than the one that can be built around a woman who is simultaneously famous and unknown. She's a perfect lightning rod for this kind of obsession.” Burke, who is a producer with Katie Couric Media, recently switched from posting about tradwives to Kate Middleton; she’s seen huge engagement on these posts, including several videos which racked up more than 2.5 million views each, and one which has been viewed more than 6 million times—much more than any of her previous videos.

While the volume of conspiracy content around Middleton has dramatically decreased since her statement was released on Friday, it has far from disappeared entirely. On Telegram channels and X over the weekend, conspiracies claiming that Middleton’s video statement was AI-generated spread quickly, while others claimed that her cancer was caused by the Covid vaccine which she was photographed getting in 2021.

But influencers looking for likes and clicks made up just one aspect of this perfect conspiracy storm.

WIRED found that Middleton conspiracies were being amplified by networks of bot accounts on X, with one comment posted by thousands of accounts. The comment referred to a conspiracy about a video published in The Sun of Prince William and Middleton walking at a farm shop. “Why do these big media channels want to make us believe these are Kate and William?” read the posts.

Joe Ondrak, regional investigations lead with Logically, a company that uses AI to track conspiracies and disinformation online, also discovered the same comment being shared on other social media platforms, as well as message boards and much darker conspiracy corners of the internet. Ondrak has not been able to identify who was behind the campaign, but said it could be a “bot farm for hire,” which is a company that sells services to push whatever disinformation narrative you desire on social media platforms. While most of the X accounts spreading this message are based in the UK, the ones with the highest reach are based in India.

The campaign, Ondrak believes, could have been undergone, in part, to “undermine trust in mainstream media sources.”

In the US, trust in mainstream media and government is at all time lows, meaning that these kinds of comments or explanations can be eagerly accepted and shared. A Gallup poll published last year found that 39 percent of Americans had no confidence at all in the mainstream media, a record high. Months earlier, a survey published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that 49 percent of Americans agree with four or more conspiracy statements related to topics like antisemitism, vaccines, climate change, and white supremacy. That figure dramatically increases to 69 percent among US teens.

“Conspiracy frameworks and the conspiracy mindset are more readily present in the cultural mindset now than it was pre-2020,” Ondrak says. “The way in which Covid [conspiracies] led to the Great Reset and led to everyone knowing someone in their family who has referenced it or shared things on Facebook—it's now just much more present.”

The British royal family is a topic that has been at the center of the conspiracy universe for decades, from wild claims that they are lizard people to QAnon’s claims about Princess Diana still being alive. The palace is also a subject of intense scrutiny from the media across the globe, meaning that audiences have been primed for years to engage with this story.

“There is no weirder Twitter than people who either love or hate the royal family, and the battle that plays out online every day,” says Ryan. “I follow it just because I've written about Meghan Markle and the hate targeting her so much. So there was already an audience sort of primed for this content.”

Now, experts who track how people are radicalized into more troubling conspiracies by seemingly benign ones worry that some of those who were captivated by the Middleton speculation in recent weeks could now find themselves obsessed with other conspiracy communities.

“I see a lot are having fun with it, but as with many conspiracy theories there's an extremity scale here,” says Brent Lee, a former conspiracist who now works to help people escape the rabbit hole. “This sliding scale always runs the risk of losing people to the extremities of the rabbit hole. It depends how far people are willing to go.”

Ondrak believes that the lack of trust in institutions and government means more and more people are susceptible to this type of thinking.

“We've seen in the past the true crime community getting far too into things that lead to Satanic Panic, and then true crime becomes QAnon.” says Ondrak. “There is always the risk that one or two people might accidentally find themselves on an on-ramp and not be able to get off.”

Still, it may not necessarily lead to anything. Since Middleton’s cancer announcement, backlash against Burke and creators has been swift.

“I genuinely did not think that people would turn this story into what they turned it into, which was that a young woman, a young mother of three, had been bullied into revealing a medical diagnosis and we should all be ashamed,” Burke said on a podcast on Sunday. “On Instagram in particular, and TikTok, I received a sudden rushing wave of profound vitriol.”

Other creators believe some, however, deserve the blame. “I do think there are a handful of creators who took advantage of the hype, spread horrible theories, and made bold claims without any fact to back it up,” says a TikTok creator known as Alyssa R from Illinois. Alyssa R has 115,000 followers, and her videos on Middleton amassed hundreds of thousands of views. “Those creators absolutely should feel ashamed for partaking in spreading misinformation and potentially putting pressure on the Princess to reveal her diagnosis.”

Ashamed or not, these creators could have inadvertently sent some of their new followers down a conspiracy rabbit hole that could be difficult to escape from. Lee says that for those teetering on the edge of looking into more extreme conspiracies, it’s important to ask basic questions: How likely is this to be true? How many people would have to be involved to pull off this conspiracy? How many people would have to be involved in covering up this conspiracy? And have I jumped to conclusions because there is a gap in my knowledge?

“It's so easy to get caught up in the hype of the rumor mill,” Lee says. “It's nothing strange or new. It's what we do. I believe the genesis of almost every conspiracy theory is gossip. My advice to anyone, be they prone to conspiracy theories or not, is to stop and think for a minute. Occam's razor is your friend. Ask yourself these questions and see if you can find easy logical answers without making assumptions.”

[kon-igi]

MEMINISSE IUVABIT

Tutte le volte che vedo una spy story con il Jason Bourne/Jack Ryan/Ethan Hunt di turno che riesce sempre a ricordare ogni istruzione dettagliata e agire tempestivamente, mi parte il daydreaming alla JD di Scrubs

Caposezione IMF (Impossible Mission Force): Questo, Agente Kon-igi, è il numero di telefono che devi chiamare affinché il nostro infiltrato scateni un attacco DoS e sovraccarichi i server di controllo dell'apertura silos di tutti i missili da crociera con testata nucleare. Memorizzalo e poi distruggi il biglietto.

Io, 30 secondi prima del lancio: Signora, signora! SI CALMI! Ma per registro delle opposizioni intende la lista degli indirizzi IP dei missili? Come non vuole cambiare gestore del gas?! No, non le sto vendendo nulla... deve solo bloccare i missili! Chi è Rocco? No, aspetti... non vada a chiamare suo figlio! I MISSILI! BLOCCHI I MISSILI!

Io lo so che un giorno pagherò a caro prezzo la mia totale incapacità a ricordare qualcosa che non mi sia preventivamente scritto a penna sul polso :(

[autolesionistra]

Caro diario, dopodomani è natale, ma ho iniziato a mangiare come un bidet più o meno dal 12 dicembre. Se avvicini l'orecchio al mio ombelico si sente il pianto dei nutrizionisti. Ma non è di questo che volevo parlare.

Quand'ero sbarbissimo a casa della mia allora fidanza (che poi è l'attuale compagna) si ruppe una pallina dell'albero di natale. Mentre osservavamo la mezza palletta sfasciata le dissi con tutta la tracotante sicumera tipica degli adolescenti che era una metafora perfetta del natale: una roba tutta colorata e sbrilluccicosa fuori ma fragile e vuota (Rimbaud scansate). Quella considerazione mi procurò una nomination al Premio Grinch 1995 ma ammetterò candidamente che negli anni ho cambiato idea. In parte per la passione sfrenata che nutro per le lucette colorate che di anno in anno migliorano tecnicamente e qualitativamente ma sono anche lentamente arrivato ad apprezzare l'aspetto di ritualità sociale. La lenta e complessa macchina organizzativa che pur fra numerose bestemmie ti porta a incrociare un numero consistente di persone care alla fine della fiera fa passare decisamente in secondo piano le varie stratificazioni turboconsumistiche, religiose e di trigliceridi. (manco a farlo apposta mentre scrivevo queste righe sugli aspetti sociali del natale leggo che il buon @kon-igi mi ha chiamato in causa in maniera particolarmente commovente su temi analoghi e su quel gran pezzaccio di White Wine in the Sun di Tim Minchin con la quale fra l’altro periodicamente ammorbo la famiglia canticchiandola con la chitarra)

Poi capisco sia un gradimento ad alta deviazione standard: per chi si trova per qualche motivo in un periodo con relazioni sociali/familiari problematiche o carenti il natale può essere una pigna in faccia (di quelle fermaporta e lanciata da Ryan Crouser). Questo è un tema complesso che non vorrei banalizzare, per ora mi limito a mettere un dispenser di abbracci virtuali in caso di necessità.

Diciamo che volendo riprendere a trent’anni di distanza la profonda metafora della palletta rotta, il periodo natalizio, sì, è vuoto ma nel senso che lo riempi come ti pare e dopo assume quel valore lì. E anche se so che mi prenderei a testate con il mio io adolescente sul tema, mi piace pensare che abbiamo come trait d’union l’esprimerci con frasi da baciperugina, che è sempre garanzia di qualità.

Buon natale e... mi raccomando (cit)

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

A galactic conspiracy disproven

A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy – that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways – has been overturned by an international team of astronomers, in a paper today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). 

The authors are based in Australia, the UK, Austria, and Germany, and used the Very Large Telescope in Chile. 

The conspiracy emerged to explain a phenomenon that had puzzled astronomers for a quarter of a century. The density of matter in different galaxies appeared to be decreasing at the same rate from their centre to outer edges. This was perplexing because galaxies are diverse, with many different ages, shapes, sizes, and numbers of stars. So why would they have the same density structure?

“This homogeneity suggested that dark matter and stars must somehow compensate for each other in order to produce such regular mass structures,” says Dr Caro Derkenne, the first author of the paper and an ASTRO 3D researcher from Macquarie University.

Like many conspiracies, no researcher could come up with a mechanism. If dark matter and stars could interact in this way, then we would need to change our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. But they also couldn’t find an alternate reason to explain what they were seeing, until now.

Derkenne and her colleagues found that the similarity in density might not be due to the galaxies themselves but in how astronomers were measuring and modelling them.

The team observed 22 middle-aged galaxies (looking back some four billion years in the past due to their great distance) in extraordinary detail, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. It enabled them to create more complex models that better captured the diversity of galaxies in the universe. 

“In the past, people built simple models that had too many simplifications and assumptions,” says Derkenne.

“Galaxies are complicated, and we have to model them with freedom or we’re going to measure the wrong things. Our models ran on the OzStar supercomputer at Swinburne University, using the equivalent of about 8,000 hours of desktop computing time.”

Derkenne is now applying her astronomy expertise to complex data for the Australia Public Service. 

“Astronomy sets you up really well to understand big data,” she says. “The real world is messy, and we don’t always have all the data. No one is there to tell you the answers or if you’re wrong or right. You need to accumulate data and analyse until you find something that works.”

The project used MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on the VLT to analyse the galaxies from the MAGPI survey (Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral field spectroscopy). MUSE collects spectral data cubes in which every single pixel is actually a spectrum. 

“The MAGPI project is great example of how training workshops and collaborative space within ASTRO 3D have utilised Australia’s strategic partnership with the European Southern Observatory,” says ASTRO 3D Director Professor Emma Ryan-Weber. 

“The complex data from the ESO Very Large Telescope has not only solved a long-standing problem in Astronomy, but also enabled young scientists, such as Dr Caro Derkenne, a platform on which to launch their careers to solve real-world problems,” she says.

IMAGE: One of the team’s Very Large Telescope images showing massive galaxies in a group. The galaxies at the centre are each about 125 billion times the mass of our sun (including their dark matter).  Credit Trevor Mendel, ANU

[cityofruinrp]

Congratulations Caro, River and Cris and welcome to the City of Ruin! Please look over the checklist and send in your blog(s) as soon as possible!

Mila Nivokova (Vampire) played by CARO

Eric Honeyfield (Witch) played by RIVER

Ael Ryan (Werewolf) played by CRIS

[diazheartsbuckley]

Something that I love to see on 9-1-1 is how much character development they allow

Eddie Diaz really joined the 118, all stoic, walls all around him and not really letting anyone in

To showing him going to therapy, to deal with all of his pent up anger and sadness and frustration

Showing him crying?? Not just once but several times

No it wasn’t easy for him to seek help but he still did it and he comes from a family that doesn’t really deal in feelings and he’s been in the military, having to conceal his innermost feelings from others

Men rarely seek therapy and it’s just

So powerful to portray this on a show like that

In general, they just allow the men to actually show their feelings and not sweep them under a rug

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

movies I watched in 2023

(taking a cue from @stenka-razin)

-January

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Love, Simon (2018, dir. Greg Berlant)

Gamer (2009, dir. Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

-February

A Touch of Sin (2013, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020, dir. William Olsson)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Charlie’s Angels (2000, dir. McG)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

-March

Ash is Purest White (2018, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Three (2016, dir. Johnnie To)

Nobody (2021, dir. Ilya Naishuller)

Charlie’s Angels (2019, dir. Elizabeth Banks)

The Wonderland (2019, dir. Keiichi Hara)

-April

Rebels of the Neon God (1992, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Tetris (2023, dir. Jon S. Baird)

There’s Something About Mary (1998, dir. Bobby and Peter Farrely)

The Whale (2022, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Throw Down (2004, dir. Johnnie To)

Tár (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, dir. Ryan Coogler)

Catch .44 (2011, dir. Aaron Harvey)

-May

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023, dir. Peyton Reed)

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)

-June

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Casino Royale (2006, dir. Martin Campbell)

Quantum of Solace (2008, dir. Marc Forster)

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)

Spectre 2015, dir. Sam Mendes)

No Time To Die (2021, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Octopussy (1983, dir. John Glen)

GoldenEye (1995, dir. Martin Campbell)

First Reformed (2017, dir. Paul Schrader)

-July

Zoolander (2001, dir. Ben Stiller)

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022, dir. Masato Jinbo)

Mainstream (2020, dir. Gia Coppola)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, dir. Tim Burton)

Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

You Only Live Twice (1967, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

-August

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019, dir. Lee Won-tae)

Leap Year (2010, dir. Anand Tucker)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

Palm Springs (2020, dir. Max Barbakow)

Days (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Kindergarten Cop (1990, dir. Ivan Reitman)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Babylon (2022, dir. Damien Chazelle)

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)

The Flash (2023, dir. Andy Muschietti)

-September

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, dir. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic)

The Little Mermaid (2023, dir. Rob Marshall)

Mulan (2020, dir. Niki Caro)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir. Werner Herzog)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir)

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, dir. Jack Sholder)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, dir. Chuck Russell)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, dir. Renny Harlin)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, dir. Rachel Talalay)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, dir. Wes Craven)

Renfield (2023, dir. Chris McKay)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

Shiva Baby (2020, dir. Emma Seligman)

-October

Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th - Part III (1982, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, dir. Joseph Zito)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, dir. Danny Steinmann)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, dir. John Carl Beuchler)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, dir. Rob Hedden)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, dir. Adam Marcus)

Jason X (2001, dir. James Isaac)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003, dir. Ronny Yu)

Friday the 13th (2009, dir. Marcus Nispel)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, dir. Samuel Bayer)

Easy A (2010, dir. Will Gluck)

Saw (2004, dir. James Wan)

Saw II (2005, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw III (2006, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw V (2008, dir. David Hackl)

Saw VI (2009, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Saw: The Final Chapter (2010, dir. Kevin Greutert)

A History of Violence (2005, dir. David Cronenberg)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Dracula 2000 (2000, dir. Patrick Lussier)

Mean Girls (2004, dir. Mark Waters)

Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)

-November

Murder on the Orient Express (2017, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Death on the Nile (2022, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

A Haunting in Venice (2023, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, dir. André Øvredal)

Samurai Reincarnation (1981, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Legally Blonde (2001, dir. Robert Luketic)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019, dir. Katt Shea)

The Last Duel (2021, dir. Ridley Scott)

Paint Your Wagon (1969, dir. Joshua Logan)

Thanksgiving (2023, dir. Eli Roth)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel)

Shogun’s Shadow (1989, dir. Yasuo Furuhata)

The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004, dir. Robert Luketic)

The Conjuring 2 (2016, dir. James Wan)

The Nun (2018, dir. Corin Hardy)

Le Samouraï (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

-December

The Nun II (2023, dir. Michael Chaves)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Annabelle (2014, dir. John R. Leonetti)

Gran Turismo (2023, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Jigsaw (2017, dir. The Spierig Brothers)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw X (2023, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, et. al.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, dir. Jeff Rowe)

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (2023, dir. James Mangold)

Air Doll (2009, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

The End of Summer (1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Air (2023, dir. Ben Affleck)

No Hard Feelings (2023, dir. Gene Stupnitsky)

Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Yakuza Wolf (1972, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007, dir. Takashi Miike)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023, dir. Steve Caple, Jr.)

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, dir. Tomek Baginski)

Dragonball Evolution (2009, dir. James Wong)

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Surprised by Oxford

Surprised by Oxford (2023) #RyanWhitaker #JordanAlexandra #PhyllisLogan #MarkWilliams #RoseReid #SimonCallow Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 Genre: Drama / Romantik Regie: Ryan Whitaker Hauptrollen: Jordan Alexandra, Phyllis Logan, Mark Williams, Rose Reid, Simon Callow, Nicholas Aaron, Ed Stoppard, Ruairi O’Connor, Michael Culkin, Lourdes Faberes, Tim Matthews, Emma Naomi, Anabelle Holloway, Tyler Merritt, Dean Shortland … Filmbeschreibung: Die brillante, aber emotional verschlossene Caro Drake (Rose Reid) kommt in…

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a little warning, a lot of addiction. If there are things that you consider as a warning let me know!! :)

this blog is in spanish because i don't want to use the translator and get it translated wrong ):)

✽ ˖* 𓂃 rising records fue fundada a finales de 1990 en new york por el empresario argentino brandon ortíz, este tiene la función de ser una compañía de entretenimiento, ya sea para la actuación, música o el modelaje.

A principios de 1991 rising records saca a la luz una tanda de nuevos modelos, que en la actualidad la mayoría de aquellos son modelos reconocidos mundialmente, una de ellas kotone. La fama de kotone hizo crecer el valor de la empresa, esto por obvias razones hizo que rising creara su primer grupo musical, pero para esto necesitaba un área especial para la música, entonces con su amigo renzo caro y la ayuda de todo el equipo creó wabi-sabi lab en 1994, esta es la empresa que maneja el contenido musical de rising y la rama de otras empresas adquiridas en el futuro.

wabi-sabi lab creó en 1995 un dueto masculino de rock, llamado “tragic city” con dos de sus primeros modelos también interesados en la música, ryan “riot” brown y cleavon “clover” davis. Los primeros 5 meses se pensaba que iba a fracasar pero riot empezó una relación con kotone, haciendo que la gente conozca su identidad y ya a menos de un año de su debut eran los más aclamados en la tv. tras el éxito del grupo a los 4 años, en 1999 debuta la primer solista de wabi-sabi, “sapphire”, al principio al ya tener una audiencia atenta y un concepto hip hop que entregar no cayó muy bien al público, pero en el año 2000 con su álbum “head in the clouds” su fama hizo un cambio radical, se pensaba que era la reina del pop y lo fue en su momento hasta que su adicción a los narcóticos la bajó de su trono para dejarla un poco más abajo, así también la sana fama de rising.

En la década del 2000 fue muy turbulenta, ya sea por la fama y decadencia de “sapphire” o la ruptura de “riot” y kotone y el encarcelamiento de varios actores y modelos más “clover” hicieron que rising records entrara en un estado de hiatus lejos del ojo público. Empezaron a caer poco a poco en bancarrota por la falta de dinero, pero en eso no se sabe cómo, ni dónde pero aparece un logan miller acompañado de un amigo de brandon, mateo salvatierra para salvar la compañía, renovando absolutamente todo, así fué como kotone, tragic city y varios actores caóticos terminaron su contrato con rising dando un nuevo comienzo fundando con una mujer de gran innovación conocida como “CIBELES”, una coreana con conocimientos artísticos que cambiarían por completo el rumbo de rising.

En 2011 se fundó ramé, una subsidiaria de rising, creada por cibeles, logan, brandon y renzo. ramé empezó sus audiciones en todo california, florida, new york y massachusetts, todo en busca de nuevos artistas que aporten su creatividad en su carrera, así consiguieron al cuarteto perfecto: “doll bones”, conocidas como “los cisnes negros de la música” sacaron a rising records para lo más alto, gracias a sus exitosos álbumes nominados al grammy casi consecutivamente, esto hizo que llegara de nuevo su interés en rising y la compañía siga creciendo más y más. En 2022 se anuncia que rising records adquirió seminare, el público quedó impactado ya que ahora el grupo de chicas más famoso en la actualidad: “ecstasy” estaba bajo la compañía más famosa de la nueva era músical desde los 90. Ésto mejoró la reputación de rising y en la actualidad fundaron su nueva compañía dewdrop music con la productora artemis ryder, dejando en claro que rising records tiene una de las mejores calidad de música y entretenimiento desde hace más de dos décadas.

rising records está a cargo de la revista scOOp quien poco a poco es aclamada como una de las mejores revistas en el área músical.

rising records tiene planes para finales del 2023 y principios del 2024 para fundar su canal de radio con dewdrop music “CARACÓ FM”.

( GENERAL ! )⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯ ⠀⠀｡ﾟ〄 ･

NAME COMPANY. ⟩ rising records

TYPE. ⟩ private (??)

FOUNDED. ⟩ november 13th, 1990 ; 33 years

FOUNDER. ⟩ brandon ortíz

headquarters. ⟩ new york, los angeles, chicago, usa ; london, england ; seoul, busan, south korea

AREA SERVED. ⟩ worldwide

INDUSTRY. ⟩ house of models, actors, music, production and entertainment.

( KEY PEOPLE ! )⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯ ⠀⠀｡ﾟ〄 ･

01. › BRANDON ORTÍZ⠀  ⠀  ( CEO )

02. › MATEO SALVATIERRA⠀  ⠀  ( CFO )

03. › RENZO CARO⠀  ⠀  ( CEO OF WABI-SABI LAB, PRODUCER )

04. › LOGAN MILLER⠀  ⠀  ( CREATIVE DIRECTOR )

05. › “CIBELES” LEE⠀  ⠀  ( CEO OF RAMÉ )

06. › GAEL VOX⠀  ⠀  ( CEO OF SEMINARE )

07. › ARTEMIS RYDER⠀  ⠀  ( CEO OF DEWDROP MUSIC, HEAD OF PUBLIC RELATIONS )

( SUBSIDIARIES ! )⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯ ⠀⠀｡ﾟ〄 ･

01. › WABI-SABI LAB ( 1994 ) : casa de la producción músical de rising + compañía de artistas de forma independiente

02. › RAMÉ ( 2011 ) : compañía de artistas manejada de forma independiente

03. › scOOp STUDIOS ( 2013 ) : compañía encargada de la revista scOOp

04. › TULIP STUDIOS ( 2015 ) : casa de la moda, estilistas y modelos

05. › SEMINARE ( 2019 / 2022 ) : compañía de artistas manejada de forma independiente ×2

06. › DEWDROP MUSIC ( 2023 ) : compañía que maneja las promociones de los artistas a base de grupos para comerciales, etc.

( ARTIST ROSTER ! )⠀⠀⎯⎯⎯ ⠀⠀｡ﾟ〄 ･

‼️ ACLARACIÓN ‼️LAS FECHAS SON CUANDO DEBUTARON, NO CUANDO SE UNIERON A LA COMPAÑÍA. ESTÁN EN ESTA LISTA PORQUE EN LA ACTUALIDAD ESTÁN BAJO RISING RECORDS. (rising records en 2022-23 firmó con muchos artistas independientes o comprados por otras empresas y no da que todos tengan las mismas fechas jajajskdkf cosas 🤙)

01. › ᨘ 𝆬 WABI-SABI LAB ׁ ▸▸

TRAGIC CITY ⟩ 「 1995 - 2004 ; npc 」 » male duo

SAPPHIRE ⟩ 「 1999 - 2010 ; npc 」 » female soloist

DOLCEZZA ⟩ 「 2004 - 2006 ; npc 」 » female soloist

ARSON ⟩ 「 2013 - present ; npc 」 » male trio

CATARSIS ⟩ 「 2017 - present ; npc? 」 » seven members boy group

MOSAIC BROKEN HEARTS ⟩ 「 2022 - present ; npc 」 » ten members coed group

OLD TIMES ⟩ 「 2024 ; npc? 」 » six members coed group project

02. › ᨘ 𝆬 RAMÉ ׁ ▸▸

DOLL BONES ⟩ 「 2013 - 2021 ; npc 」 » four members girl group

BADA ⟩ 「 2013 - present ; npc 」 » female soloist

EXPIRED SOULS ⟩ 「 2017 - present ; npc 」 » five members coed group

EARTH ANGEL ⟩ 「 2020 - present ; npc? 」 » female trio

03. › ᨘ 𝆬 SEMINARE ׁ ▸▸

ECSTASY ⟩ 「 2019 - present ; @xtasssy 」 » five members girl group

SOUL CABINET ⟩ 「 2020 - present ; npc 」 » coed duo

KOI ⟩ 「 2021 - present ; npc 」 » male soloist

MARGO ⟩ 「 2023 - present ; npc 」 » female soloist

04. › ᨘ 𝆬 DEWDROP MUSIC ׁ ▸▸

BISCUIT ⟩ 「 2022 - present ; npc? 」 » four members girl group

MELIFLUO ⟩ 「 2023 - present ; npc 」 » six members girl commercial group

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Caro Ryan,

ti scrivo questa lettera perchè so per certo che se provassi a parlarti, mi basterebbe guardare i tuoi occhi azzurri anche solo per una frazione di secondo, per perdere il coraggio di dirti alcune cose.

La prima volta che ti ho visto, mentre aspettavo Luke, l’ho capito immediatamente che tu non eri un ragazzo come gli altri, che eri molto più speciale. L’ho capito immediatamente che se ti avessi lasciato entrare nella mia vita, niente sarebbe stato più uguale. Ma tu lo sai, sei la persona che mi conosce più di tutte: mi piace troppo correre il rischio e scegliendo te, ho corso il rischio più bello di tutta la mia vita. 

So perfettamente di non essermi comportata nei migliori dei modi con te, che per la maggior parte del tempo ti ho fatto sentire come perennemente sulle montagne russe, ma ti giuro che non rimpiango nemmeno un istante vissuto accanto a te e che se ci fossero altre vite, io sceglierei e amerei sempre e solo te.

Sei l’amore della mia vita, Ryan, l’unico, vero grande amore. Ti ho sempre amato e sempre ti amerò; ma oggi è il giorno in cui la nostra vita comincia, da oggi saremo da soli, a dover rispondere di noi stessi. Oggi è il momento giusto per diventare veramente adulti e perciò la prima cosa che devo fare, la prima vera cosa da adulta, è lasciarti andare, anche se fa un male inimmaginabile. 

Noi ci apparteniamo, ma può capitare che questo possa non bastare: ci abbiamo provato un’infinità di volte, ma ora non possiamo funzionare.

Ti lascio andare Ryan, con la consapevolezza che appartieni al mio destino e che quando avremo trovato noi stessi, quando io avrò trovato me stessa e avrò imparato a bastarmi, allora saremo in grado di stare insieme nel modo più puro e giusto. 

Tu sei la persona più incredibile che conosca, l’unica che abbia cercato veramente di salvarmi, l’unica che in qualsiasi occasione mi ha protetta; ti prego Ryan, va avanti, tu ti meriti il meglio che questo mondo ha da offrirti. Ti meriti di amare, ma anche di essere amato nel modo giusto, ti meriti la tranquillità e non amore che ti consuma come quello che proviamo l’uno per l’altra. 

Perdonami se non sono mai stata in grado di dimostrarti fino in fondo quanto amore provo per te, quanto incredibilmente tenga a te e quante cose avrei fatto e farei se solo tu me lo chiedessi. Ho sempre cercato di darti tutta me stessa e perdonami se non sono riuscita a darti abbastanza. 

Mi hai riempita e mi hai fatto sentire per la prima volta, come se valessi veramente qualcosa ed è merito tuo, se oggi sono un po’ più forte e determinata.

Con immenso amore,

Marissa

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Film Awards Season Check-In

In early October the field was looking light as only three studios released their screening schedules early: Amazon, Netflix and Searchlight. Now that we are in early November more studios have entered the fray and/or readying their boards.

Sony is putting forth THE WOMAN KING, DEVOTION, the Whitney Houston biopic I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY, LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE, Tom Hanks' A MAN CALLED OTTO and WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING; and new to the mix Mark Wahlberg's FATHER STU.

So far THE WOMAN KING and DEVOTION have had a number of screenings with DEVOTION (based on the true story of the friendship between pilots played by Glen Powell (who is an executive producer on the film) and Jonathan Majors) getting special treatment with a screening hosted by Amanda Seyfried.

Sony's indie arm Sony Pictures Classic has put up the films they are pushing: documentaries: HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG; JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY, Luca Guadagnino's SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS, THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER, TURN EVERY PAGE- THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB and narrative films, Florian Zeller's THE SON (which is connected to Zeller's THE FATHER, which earned Anthony Hopkins an Oscar) starring Hugh Jackman; two Cannes screened films: RETURN TO SEOUL and ONE FINE MORNING and the English-language remake of Akira Kurusawa's IKIRU - LIVING starring Bill Nighy

When TOP GUN: MAVERICK screened at CinemaCon a few critics in attendance said it was a Best Picture candidate and I guess Paramount feels the same as TG:M and Damian Chazelle's LALA LAND follow-up BABYLON are the only films they are putting forward. IIRC this is a one-picture improvement over 2019 as that year ROCKETMAN was the only film they put forward. TG:M has quite a few screenings lined up (with no Q&A component so far because Tom Cruise isn't going to beg for a nomination) with zero, as of yet, for BABYLON.

Focus Features has put up ARMAGEDDON TIME starring Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA, HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL (which had a brief theatrical release while streaming on Peacock), MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS, THE NORTHMAN (with alleged new father or soon-to-be-father Alexander Skarsgaard), the fantastic THE OUTFIT, THE SILENT TWINS starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, YOU WON'T BE ALONE and TAR with Cate Blanchett who is sure to be the front runner in the Lead Actress category.

Universal has released the titles they are putting forward: Steven Spielberg's film a'clef THE FABLEMANS, the true story of the women who crafted the article to expose Harvey Weinstein, the Carey Mulligan starrer SHE SAID, NOPE, BROS and animated films MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU, PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH and THE BAD GUYS.

Disney had their slate up for some time but have only just recently added James Cameron's AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and Rihanna's offering for WAKANDA FOREVER, "Lift Me Up"; a song written by Rihanna, the film's director Ryan Coogler and film's composer Ludwig Göransson. "Lift Me Up" joins Giveon's "Time" from AMSTERDAM as the possible Best Song candidates the studio has put forward.

WB's schedule has been static with six films put forward (THE BATMAN, DON'T WORRY DARLING, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE, the documentary NAVALNY, DC LEAGUE OF SUPERPETS and ELVIS). The only movement is that they keep adding Q&As for Austin Butler. They're working him like Colonel Parker did Elvis.

What I Have Seen So Far:

NETFLIX The Good Nurse Wendell & Wild Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Mexico's Oscar submission)

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

(Q&A last weekend with Guillermo del Toro, co-director Mark Gustafson, stars Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz and Finn Wolfhard)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

(Q&A with Emma Corrin and director Laure de Clermont-Tonnere)

The Wonder

-A late addition to their slate is Scott Cooper's THE PALE BLUE EYES; the directors third film with Christian Bale. Disney has AMSTERDAM up as part of 20th Century and are putting Bale and his costars but it appears Bale is stumping for this instead, with a Q&A with Cooper and his costars Lucy Boynton and Henry Melling this week.

AMAZON My Policeman

SEARCHLIGHT The Banshees of Inisherin Empire of Light

FOCUS FEATURES

TÁR

Armageddon Time

SONY

The Women King

(Q&A with Composer Terence Blanchard, Editor Terilyn Shropshire, Cinematographer Polly Morgan, Viola Davis and her husband/producing partner Julius Tennon and director Gina Prince-Bythewood)

UNITED ARTISTS Till Women Talking Bones and All

(Q&A with producer Peter Spears, composers Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor, writer David Kajganich, Taylor Russell and director Luca Guadagnino)

SRAB FILMS Saint Omer (France's Oscar submission)

(Q&A with director Alice Diop)