#Simon Verhoeven

[genevieveetguy]

. Can I have a falafel with hot sauce, a side order of Baba Ghanoush and a seltzer, please?

Party Girl, Daisy von Scherler Mayer (1995)

[nine-frames]

Männerherzen (Men in the City), 2009.

Dir. & Writ. Simon Verhoeven | DOP Jo Heim

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"Girl You Know It's True"

A tale of friendship tested by trickery, a cautionary lens into the seductive allure of stardom, and a sobering reflection on the pitfalls of fame.

You may think a biopic based on the disgraced 80s pop duo Milli Vanilli would have very limited appeal, but writer / director Simon Verhoeven‘s “Girl You Know It’s True” turns out to be a riveting exploration of fame, greed, and deception. It’s the type of movie that tells an interesting story regardless if you were a fan of the group or not, capturing the spectacle of the 1980s music scene as…

[watchingalotofmovies]

Girl You Know It's True

Girl You Know It's True    [trailer]

Two dancers became a pop duo and caused one of the biggest scandals in the music world. This is the story of the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli and the vision of music producer Frank Farian.

Puts the emphasis on being entertaining, which is okay. It stays mostly on the surface and is only marginally critical. But you still get a sense of how the music industry works.

The film at least briefly mentions the sources the song "Girl You Know It's True" borrowed from. Main ingredient are the beats from Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid In Full", which itself sampled heavily other songs.

[movienized-com]

Girl You Know It's True

Girl You Know It's True (2023) #SimonVerhoeven #ElanBenAli #TijanNjie #MatthiasSchweighofer #GrahamRogers #BellaDayne Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Dezember) Genre: Drama / Romantik Regie: Simon Verhoeven Hauptrollen: Elan Ben Ali, Tijan Njie, Matthias Schweighofer, Graham Rogers, Bella Dayne, Tijan Marei, Mitsou Jung, Roxanne Rittmann, Nico Ehrenteit … Filmbeschreibung: Musikproduzent Frank Farian (Matthias Schweighöfer) tüftelt an seinem neusten Geniestreich. Dafür heuert er die bis dato noch gänzlich unbekannten und…

[simon-roy]

Reading Grip of the Kombinat right now and... hey are the Omniconglomerate goons *just* the Elder Things from Lovecraft? The crinoid sea cucumbers from Antarctica? Is that what's going on here? Because that'd be hilarious

Honestly - i leave that to the mind of the reader.

Grip of the Kombinat, by the way, can be found through image comics HERE: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/grip-of-the-kombinat and if you like Paul Verhoeven style sci-fi satirical comedy, lampooning a solar system being actively dissolved by the machinations of two warring super-corporations - you'll probably love this book.

[solmints-messyocdiary]

Found an incorrect quotes generator and I've been having some fun ahsjsj.

Tagging @bluecoolr @rottent33th @slaasherslut @probably-a-plant-thing because I used their babies in it.

Axel: *visiting the gang* Hello, I just came to-

Axel: *sees Rylan shoving Randy into the washing machine while Simon records and Klaus watches*

Axel: *retreating* Something suddenly came up.

-

Klaus: Rylan, I know you snuck out to see Axel last night.

Rylan: If you tell Randy or Simon, I swear I’ll murder you, and they’ll never find the body.

Klaus: Five bucks?

Rylan: Fine.

-

"Alice": I'm gonna eat the chicken breasts!

Colt, snickering: Yeah, eat what you lack.

Ava, deadpanning at Colt: Then maybe I should order brains on delivery for you.

-

Colt, with their hands cupped over each other: I found a cool spider!

Ava: Oh? Lemme see!

Colt, opening their hands to see nothing there: …hm.

"Alice": …where’s the spider.

Colt: *looks troubled and stares at their hands*

Ava: Oh no.

"Alice": COLT, WHERE’S THE SPIDER?!

-

Colt: sapnu puaS.

Ava: What??

"Alice": What language is that.

Colt: Turn your phone 180 degrees.

*Colt was removed from the groupchat*

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"Alice": Can we go out to get icecream?

Colt: Did you ask Ava?

"Alice": She said no.

Colt: Then why did you ask me?

"Alice": They're not the boss of you.

Colt, internally: It's a trap, it's a trap, it's a trap.

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Darrell: Where’s B?

"Alice": Doing stuff.

Darrell: I don’t like the sound of that. Where’s Ava?

"Alice": Trying to stop B from doing the stuff.

Darrell: And Colt?

"Alice": Trying to stop Ava from stopping B from doing the stuff.

Darrell: I see. And what are you doing here, "Alice"?

"Alice": I’m supposed to stop you from stopping Colt from stopping Ava from stopping B from doing the stuff.

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B: Who the fuck broke the toaster?

"Alice": It was Colt.

Darrell: It was Colt.

Ava: Colt broke it.

Colt:

Colt: ...yOU PROMISED-

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Susannah: I’ve never asked someone out. How do you even do it?

Ophelia: Oh, what I do is, I look them up and down and I say: “Hey… how you doin’?”

The Patron, scoffing: Oh, please.

Ophelia, to The Patron: Hey, how you doin’?

The Patron:

The Patron: *giggles and blushes*

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Susannah: I like your top, Ophelia!

The Patron: I have a name, you know.

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The Patron: So, what is Susannah to you?

Ophelia: The reason I wake up every morning.

The Patron: ...That’s adorable.

Susannah earlier that morning, barging into Ophelia′s room, smacking pans together: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!

[probably-a-plant-thing]

thought too hard about rylan and his gang.

So heres a bunch of random fun facts because I have too many of them now...

Klaus n Simon know Rylan wouldn't hurt the group despite how he treats others. They're 100% correct.

Rylan lies about his mom being a horrible person to anyone who'll listen but she still goes out of her way to be really sweet to Ry n his friends and makes sure Ry always has snacks in his car for the group. His trunk always has a cooler with sandwiches and water ready to go.

Rylan is not so secretly a HUGE Tears of Fears fan. He denies it but on every playlist he makes there's always one or two songs from them on it and he has a signed poster in his room.

Axel does go along with the light-hearted shenanigans the group does, he's had his moments spray-painting a building.

Simon doesn't talk at all but Klaus just seems to know what he's thinking and talks for him.

When Randy first joined the group Klaus actually gave up his back left window seat to sit in the middle so Randy wouldn't feel more trapped

They all have a hang-out just out of town that's a cliffside overseeing the ocean. There are windswept trees shadowing the area, a picnic table they've all carved their initials into, and the cliff is overgrown with little coastal succulents and plants.

Axel and Rylan often meet up there at night for private talks

Klaus and Rylan have been friends the longest, which results in Klaus always being the first to defend Ry's actions. Even if that means he, Randy, or Axel butt heads in private about it.

Rylan has tried to give Randy a piercing before, but it didn't go well so now Randy has a small scar on his ear.

Rylan would kill for his only friends. Including Axel, even though they're "rivals" so he's never saying it out loud.

@solmints-messyocdiary & @bluecoolr co-parent Axel and Randy to big thanks to them for existing, my beloveds. i need to get around to drawing them all together...

[blckvenuz]

It’s a beautiful illusion. A trap.

GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE | 2023

dir. simon verhoeven

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XAVI SIMONS UEFA EURO 2024 - Group stage   ‹ Poland v The Netherlands ›  📸 by Eric Verhoeven/Getty Images

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9 Favourite Movies Watched for the First Time in 2023

Lola rennt (1998) dir. Tom Tykwer

Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) dir. Stanley Kramer

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Lake Mungo (2008) dir. Joel Anderson

Savageland (2015) dir. Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert & David Whelan

Ich möchte kein Mann sein (1918) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Children of Men (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

Tangerine (2015) dir. Sean Baker

Das schreckliche Mädchen (1990) dir. Michael Verhoeven

[likmacuhylang]

Results of 2023 Year

January

Manga: "The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up at th Duke's Mansion" by MIlcha |09| Manga: "Who Made Me a Princess" by Plutus |12| Book: "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens |13| Book: "New Pass" by Amelia Edwards |13| Cinema: "Amsterdam" by David Russel |14| Book: "The Portrait" by Margaret Oliphant |15| Anime: "JoJo Bizzare Adventure" by Naokatsu Tsuba |15| Book: "Fight with Shadow" by Carl Jung |16| Book: "Diagnosing of Dictators" by Carl Jung |16| Book: "Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism" by Benedict Anderson |22| ------------------------------------ 6 Books; 2 Manga; 1 Cinema; 1 Anime

Febrary

Manga: "Mutant wa Ningen no Kanojo to Kiss ga Shitai" by Giba-chan |01| Manga: "Ishuzoku Joshi ni ○○ Suru Hanashi" by Suimin |12| Book: "99 Stupid Questions about Art and More One" by Alina Nickonova |16| Manga: "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki |18| Manga: "Secret Alliance" by Lero |18| Manga: "Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi" by Ryouji Hirano |19| Anime: "Happy Sugar Life" by Nobuyoshi Nagayama |19| Manga:"Kyuuketsuki Marguerite to Kuenai Gokinjo" by Yuu Aikawa |24| Book: "Edgar Allan Poe. Burnt Life. Biography" by Peter Aykroyd |25| Manga: "Hanamachi Oni" by Hina Sakurada |26| Cinema: "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick |26| Cinema: "The Pale Blue Eye" by Scott Cooper |27| Cinema: "Menu" by Mark Mylod |27| ------------------------------------ 2 Books; 7 Manga; 3 Cinema; 0 Anime

March

Anime: "Darling in the FranXX" by Atsushi Nishigori |03| Manga: "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura |03| Cinema: "Cowboy from Copenhagen" by Nicolas Winding Refn |04| Cinema: "Breakfast on Pluto" by Neil Jordan |05| Cinema: "Holy Spider" by Ali Abadasi |06| Cinema: "Youth" by Paolo Sorrentino |07| Manga: "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss" by Anko Yuzu |09| Manga: "Goodbye, Eri" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |15| Book: The Entire Collection of Prose by Edgar Allan Poe |21| Cinema: "i am thinking of ending this" by Charlie Kaufman |23| Cinema: "We Need Talk About Kevin" by Lynne Ramsay |24| Manga: "Beware the Villainess!" by Yeolmae |28| Cinema: "Phantom Thread" by Paul Thomas Anderson |29| ------------------------------------ 1 Books; 4 Manga; 7 Cinema; 0 Anime

April

Anime: "Konosuba" by Natsume Akatsuki, Kurone Mishima, Yuujirou Abe, Takaomi Kanasak |01| Anime: “Only Yesterday” by Isao Takahata |02| Manga: "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" by Kabi Nagata |02| Manga: "Koroshiya 1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03| Manga: "1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03| Book: “Tradition of Literary Gothic” by Bella Nacpock |08| Book: “Metamodernism. Historisity, Affect and Depth” by Robin van den Akker |10| Anime: "GTO" by Tooru Fujisawa, Noriyuki Abe |14| Book: “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” by Carl Jung |16| Manga: "Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku" by Yuuji Kaku |18| Cinema: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” by Laura Poitras |24| Cinema: “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong |25| Book: "Octet" by David Foster Walllace |25| Cinema: “Benedetta” by Paul Verhoeven |27| Manga: "Cells at Work! CODE BLACK" by by Shigemitsu Harada, Akane Shimizu, Issei Hatsuyoshi |28| Manga: "The Villainess Needs Her Tyrant" by Ta-Hong Il |30| ------------------------------------ 4 bOOKS; 6 mANGA; 3 Cinema; 3 Anime

May

Book: “Tell me a sto…” by Una Hurt |02| Manga: "The Villainess's Maker" by Jeongu, I-Su Seol |02| Book: “Lectures on aesthetics” by Georg Hegel |05| Book: “In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” by Jean Baudrillard |06| Anime: "Cowboy Bibop" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Shinichirou Watanabe, Akira Toba |14| Anime: "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kimitoshi Yamane |14| Cinema: "The Whale" by Darren Aronofsk |15| Cinema: "Lamb" by Vladimar Johannsson |16| mANGA: "Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell" by Unfins |17| Cinema: "Bones and All" by Luca Guadagino |18| Cinema: "Alcarras" by Carla Simon |19| Cinema: "Everything, Everywhere All at Once" by Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan |20| Manga: "The Villain's Savior" by Myeong Rang, Zetson, Seur-A Yeon |22| Cinema: "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino |26| Book: “Chrysanthemum and Sward. Models of Japan culture” by Ruth Benedict |27| Book: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger |29| Book: "A Haunted Monastety" by Rober van Gulik |30| Manga: "When the Villainess is in Love" by HJ, Gwi-Jo Seo |31| ------------------------------------ 7 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

June

Manga: "Croa Chimera" by Kairi Sorano |02| Cinema: "Django Unchained" by Quentin Tarantino |02| Cinema: "Interstellar" by Cristopher Nolan |04| Cinema: "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear" by David Zucker |07| Manga: "Coffin Jackson" by Chongtak |08| Manga: "Babelheim no Shounin" by Shouichi Furumi |08| Book: "Seven Night" by Jorge Luis Borges |09| Book: "Watch Cinema" by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |14| Cinema: "Call of the Night" by Kotoyama, Tomoyuki Itamura |18| Cinema: "Crows are White" by Ashen Nadeem |18| ------------------------------------ 2 Books; 3 Manga; 5 Cinema

Jule

Manga: "Scroll if You Dare" compilation webtoons |08| Manga: "Hell is Other People" by Yong-Ki Kim |08| Cinema: "Dreams" by Akira Kurosawa |09| Manga: "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura |09| Book: "Metaphysics" by Aristotle |24| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 3 Manga; 1 Cinema

August

Cinema: "Master Gardener" by Paul Schrader |03| Manga: "Nude Model" by Tsubasa Yamaguchi |09| Book: "The Silence of the White City" by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi |10| Anime: "Akudama Drive" by Tomohisa Taguchi |12| Manga: "Miageru to Kimi wa" by Makoto Kobori |16| Anime: "Elfen Lied" by Mamoru Kanbe |17| Manga: "Shingeki no Kyojin" by Hajime Isayama |24| Manga: "Final Girl" by You Kokikuji |24| Manga: "Itoshi no Living Dead" by AidaIro |25| Manga: "Adolte and Adarte" by AidaIro |25| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 6 Manga; 1 Cinema; 2 Anime

September

Manga: "Vanilla Jingai x Jingai Yuri Anthology" |04| Manga: "Cinnamon Jingai x Ningen Yuri Anthology" |04| Anime: "Neon Genesis Evangelion" by Hideaki Anno |07| Cinema: "Murder on the Orient Express" by Sidney Lumet |08| Cinema: "Men" by Alex Garland |09| Manga: "Neko no Otera no Chion-san" by Makoto Ojiro |10| Cinema: "Amélie" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet |10| Book: "Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects" by Bertrand Russell |11| Cinema: "Crimes of the Future" by David Cronenberg |11| Cinema: "The Scent of Green Papaya" by Tran Anh Hung |16| Anime: "Inu-Oh" by Hideo Furukawa, Taiyou Matsumoto, Masaaki Yuasa, Fuuga Yamashiro |17| Anime: "The Duke of Death and His Maid S1" by Inoue, Yoshinobu Yamakawa |27| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

October

Cinema: "Death Proof" by Quentin Tarantino |05| Cinema: "Jackie Brown" by Quentin Tarantino |05| Cinema: "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood" by Quentin Tarantino |07| Cinema: "American Psyho" by Marry Harron |08| Cinema: "Fight Club" by David Fincher |08| Cinema: "Leon" by Luc Besson |09| Cinema: "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola |11| CinemaL: "Autumn Sonata" by Ingmar Bergman |12| Cinema: "Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon" by Ana Lily Amirpour |14| Cinema: "El Conde" by Pablo Lorrain |14| Cinema: "Asteroid City" by Wes Anderson |15| Cinema: "Mona Lisa" by Neil Jordan |20| Book: "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee |26| Anime: "Serial Experiments Lain" |31| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 12 Cinema; 1 Anime

November

Book: "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier |11| Book: "My Lost City" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |11| Cinema: "The Killer" by David Fincher |11| Manga: "Mariage busines" by KEN |16| Anime: "GOLDEN BOY" by Tatsuya Egawa |17| Book: "Men Without Women" by Ernest Hemingway |17| Manga: "Monster and the Beast" by Renji |19| Manga: "Shinonome Tantei Ibun Roku" by John Tarachine |19| Manga: "Bird Collector" by Kang Se Ah |20| Cinema: "Kurosawa’S Way" by Catherine Cadou |22| Book: "Modern Nihilism. Chronicle" by Costantino Esposito |26| Cinema: "Triangle of Sadness" by Ruben Östlund |27| Cinema: "Past Lives" by Celine Song |27| Cinema: "Rapito" by Marco Bellocchio |29| Anime: "Angel's Egg" by Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano |29| Cinema: "A Haunting in Venice" by Kenneth Branagh |30| ------------------------------------ 4 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

December

Book: "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English |05| Book: "Aesthetics. Textbook for universities" by Victor Bychkov |10| Cinema: "The Holdovers" by Alexander Payne |15| Cinema: "Chinatown" by Roman Polanski |15| Manga: "Pandora Hearts" by MOCHIZUKI Jun |19| Book: "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace |20| Book: "May '68 Did Not Take Place" by Gilles Deleuze |22| Book: "Citrons from Sicily" by Luigi Pirandello |22| Book: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello |23| Cinema: "May December" by Todd Hayness |24| Manga: "The Wife I Loved Dearly" by Touryuumon Takeda |25| Manga: "Our Torsos Align: Human x Monster Love" by Ryou Sumiyoshi |25| Cinema: "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" by Joseph Sargent |25| Manga: "Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice" by Sayaka Mogi |26| Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17-21" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |26| Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Just Listen to the Song" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Look Back" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Tetteleposan" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Imomushi" by Suehiro Maruo |27| Book: "Trilogy" by Jon Fosse |28| Manga: "The King and the Paladin" by Rin-Bi Lee |29| Cinema: "Seven Weeks" by Nobuhiko Obayashi |30| Manga: "Stargazing Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31| Manga: "Star Protector Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31| Manga: "Emergency Rations & Bountiful Feasts" by Nagabe |31| Cinema: "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry |31| ------------------------------------ 7 Books; 14 Manga; 6 Cinema

Top the Best Books of Year: 1. "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English 2. "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier 3. "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee Top the Best Manga of Year: 1. "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki 2. "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura 3. "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura Top the Best Cinema of Year: 1. “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong 2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick 3. "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry Top the Best Anime of Year: 1. "Cowboy Bibop" 2. "Serial Experiments Lain" 3. "Call of the Night"

[beardedmrbean]

There really is a sense of a new era beginning in Dutch politics in next week's snap parliamentary election.

Not only is a party formed only three months ago topping the polls, but the Netherlands could be about to welcome its first female prime minister too.

After 13 years as prime minister, Mark Rutte is bowing out and the 22 November election caused by the collapse of his government is being fought on a cluster of domestic crises - from the high cost of living and a shortage of housing, to healthcare and climate change.

What you need to know

Even though it has been only two years since the last vote, many of the leaders standing are new, including the two front-runners.

Dilan Yeşilgöz, 46, the new head of Mr Rutte's liberal-conservative VVD and a daughter of Turkish refugees, is now widely tipped to lead her country.

Pieter Omtzigt, 49, is riding a wave of popularity in Dutch politics, with his centrist New Social Contract party emerging from nowhere as election favourite. But he has so far been lukewarm about becoming prime minister.

What makes this election highly unpredictable is the significant proportion of floating voters deciding which 26 parties should fill the 150 seats in the Dutch parliament. There is a minimal threshold and the polls suggest as many as 17 parties could get in. The last coalition took nine months to form and lasted less than two years.

Who to watch out for

Dilan Yeşilgöz: Once dubbed a "pitbull in high heels" because of her no-nonsense politics,, she has run a slick campaign as new VVD leader. A promo video shared on social media shows her sparring with heavyweight kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven.

As justice minister, she was seen as a tough negotiator and a strong communicator and her gender has played no part in her campaign. "I think she's avoiding these issues because the party has an over-representation of male voters in its electorate," says Sarah de Lange, professor of Political Pluralism at the University of Amsterdam.

She appeals to voters under the slogan "On your side", promising renewal despite her party being in power for more than a decade, while still sticking to a liberal-conservative message that plays well with Dutch voters.

She came to the Netherlands as a seven-year-old Turkish-Kurdish refugee, but has adopted a hard line on immigration, vowing to introduce a two-tier asylum system, cancel permanent residence permits and take better control over all forms of migration.

Unlike her predecessor as head of the VVD, Ms Yeşilgöz has not ruled out working with anti-immigration populist leader Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) is riding high at fourth in the polls.

Pieter Omtzigt: An unlikely party leader, he is riding a wave of popularity in Dutch politics, having played a prominent role in 2019 in exposing a welfare scandal that left more than 20,000 families wrongly labelled as fraudsters and deprived of child benefit.

The scandal eventually brought down the third Rutte-led government in 2021. Months later Mr Omtzigt left the Christian Democrats and took several months off work for exhaustion.

Until now his ambition has been reserved for the backbenches but he has not ruled out becoming prime minister. "I have a strong preference to stay in parliament and I've already had that preference for a long time," he said.

And yet he is the politician setting the agenda in this election, says Simon Otjes, from the University of Leiden: "It's his election, his campaign, he dominated; other parties are waiting to see what Pieter Omtzigt will do."

His two big themes have become unlikely buzzwords in the campaign: improving socio-economic security - bestaanszekerheid - of Dutch households and changing the management culture of politics - bestuurscultuur.

As speculation increases of a coalition made up of four centre and right-wing parties, he has stressed he is not open to working with populist leader Geert Wilders, because "as a party you can only form a government that sticks to classic fundamental rights".

Geert Wilders: The Party for Freedom has long called for a ban on mosques, the Koran and Islamic schools, although Mr Wilders now says "there are obviously more important priorities", indicating that he is keen to play a part in government. His party is currently fourth in the polls, behind a Green-Labour alliance.

Frans Timmermans: The only left-wing candidate riding high in the polls, he resigned from his role as EU climate commissioner to lead the joint campaign by the Labour and GreenLeft parties.

One poll put the Labour-Green leader as favourite for the role of prime minister among 18-34 year-olds. But the man who spearheaded the EU's green deal had to drop a party pledge to halve emissions of nitrogen pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia by 2030 after talking to young farmers.

Caroline van der Plas: In March, her right-wing populist BBB Farmer-Citizen Movement stormed to victory in provincial elections and became the biggest party in the Dutch upper house of parliament, the senate.

That momentum has fallen away but the BBB could feature in the next government. Their big focus is on fighting stricter climate measures and imposing a refugee quota but Ms van der Plas has ruled out being prime minister as she is scared of flying and would rather be talking to the public than doing politics in Brussels.

What are the big issues?

Housing shortage: It has become so serious that the price of an average home has climbed above €400,000 (£350,000), because there about nine times as many home-hunters as flats or houses for sale.

Asja has spent seven months actively searching for a home for herself and two young children. "On a teacher's salary it's impossible to get an €800 [monthly] mortgage," she told the BBC.

State-subsidised social housing is in high demand and short supply, while private rents in major cities have rocketed. Students struggle to find accommodation and earlier this year more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for more affordable housing.

Cost of living: Rising prices in the shops, energy and housing have left an estimated 830,000 people below the poverty line, but polls suggest a majority of Dutch people - even on middle incomes - say they're concerned about the future.

Even those who manage to find somewhere to live are facing record high energy bills. Trainee teacher Laurie Schram says she and her daughter depend on onesies and electric blankets to manage.

All the parties agree there is a crisis and Leonie de Jonge of the University of Groningen says the issue "has almost become depoliticised". Among 18-34 year olds, money worries are the decisive issue in determining who to vote for.

Climate change: Ten days before the election, tens of thousands of marchers in Amsterdam called for immediate action on the climate crisis. The Labour-Green alliance has put the issue high in its campaign, but Pieter Omtzigt has suggested that recent climate policy has focused on "an elite who can pay for it".

Healthcare: Care costs are rising everywhere, and five million Dutch citizens describe themselves as unofficial carers.

The Dutch have been paying for health insurance since 2006, on average more than €141 a month for basic care - but 61% worry they won't be able afford it. That might be why many voters want healthcare nationalised again.

[dieclownschaft]

Yes, simon verhoeven who filmed the bayern docu has been filming the nt all year. I hope they'll wait a little while to release it lol we need some kind of happy ending

oh boy lkjKLDASKLD maybe wait till the euros guys <3333 thats when we will win for sure confirmed official

[dykesynthezoid]

Some further context for this post:

- I’ve already posted about how it would be very funny to me if Loumand looked at Simone de Beauvoir’s and Jean Paul Sartre’s equally toxic relationship and said “huh, I wonder who that sign’s for.” Armand calls de Beauvoir “brittle” bc he’s bringing some projection to the table.

- Armand talks about the sexual dimorphism of angler fish because some species have a very strange dynamic where the male literally cannot live on its own as an adult morph, they have to attach to a female and end up essentially being absorbed into her body. They live out the rest of their life that way. How is Armand trying to relate this back to human gender politics? God only knows

- I think Armand would love Verhoeven films. I think he’d really appreciate their satire and that feeling of a sticky, false veneer hiding something so cynical. He’d see RoboCop and Starship Troopers and be absolutely enamored. Would he necessarily understand the satire? I mean. No. But still

- “Cherchez la femme” is a French phrase that means “look for the woman;” it originally arose as a sentiment in detective stories meant to misogynistically suggest that any mystery can be solved if you figure out how a woman is involved (because it always leads back to a woman, right? they just cause so many problems!). However, I don’t think Lestat actually understands any of this. He’s just heard it somewhere a couple times and wants to sound cultured.

How IWTV characters would respond if you asked them if they were a feminist:

Claudia: Says she likes killing human men and women equally and also that female vampires are definitely better than male vampires, in her experience. If Louis’s there she plays it up as much as possible just to annoy him.

Old Daniel: “Oh, nobody actually wants to hear a guy who looks like me declare themselves a proud feminist.” Is it a deflection? A little. Is he right? I mean yeah

Young Daniel: Says something like, “I don’t know, whenever I try to interview any kind of Women’s Lib chick she always ends up throwing stuff at me. I can’t imagine why.”

Louis: Spends like, 20 minutes talking about personally knowing Simone de Beauvoir. Mentions a “complicated” past relationship to women but doesn’t quite fully confront the pimp-shaped elephant in the room. Keeps vaguely brushing up against his mommy issues but refuses to actually voice them.

Armand: Says he also always admired de Beauvoir’s work but that there was something “deeply brittle” about her. Does not expand on this. Ends up talking about the sexual dimorphism of angler fish for a while before promptly asking, “Have you seen the film Showgirls?”

Lestat: Says he doesn’t understand all the fuss about lay-bellz such as theese, but of cœurse he recognizez wœmen in all their strength and beowuty… He himself has learned so much from wœmen, haz he not? Cherchez la femme, they say, non? Ah, the women in his life who have been the most influential? Well, his maman, of course…. Of course…. And then descends into a thousand yard stare that lasts nearly a full minute