#Sol Roth

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Mistigram: @blippypixel reproduced in #BBCMicro high resolution graphics this positively iconic scene from the 1973 movie #SoylentGreen (adapted from Harry Harrison's 1966 novel "Make Room! Make Room!") where #EdwardGRobinson's character #SolRoth undergoes assisted suicide in a #thanatorium, experiencing a private screening celebrating the forgotten glories of the natural world before the sun sets for the last time. This piece was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0523 artpack collection.

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Groria: Es mía... {It's mine...}

Player es de {Player is from}: @vanetheglitchfox

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The Hit (1984) i.e. how are these men rolling around on the ground in Spain and not getting dirty????

[queenofcandynsoda]

After seeing art from @sarriathmg, I am now fully convinced that Jason would be an Omega along with Grant Wilson.

Plus, I think Raven would also be an Omega, just because.

[reviewsandotherstuff]

End of Summer/Early Fall Skincare Favorites Part 2.

  It is almost the end of summer and the beginning of fall. If you are starting to feel that summertime sadness, you are not alone. Best know that the feeling will pass, and soon, we will be swooning for fall. It is still feeling like summer out there, though. The weather is still warm, and the daylights are still long. So, we might as well enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer, right? As…

[mariacallous]

Goldie Finkelstein was just 13 when she was sent to Wiener Graben, a work camp that later became a concentration camp. The youngster lost her entire family in the war, and among the things she never learned from them was how to cook. She had no family recipes and, according to her son, when she married Sol Finkelstein, also a Holocaust survivor, she didn’t know how to boil water or cook an egg.

Eventually, other survivors taught Goldie the necessary skills, and she was a quick learner. She soon became known for the copious amounts of baked goods she would provide for any occasion. Her recipes, some of which are included in the “Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” cookbook, include cake mixes and other ingredients that wouldn’t have been used in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe. Her whiskey cake, for example, calls for both yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding mix.

Goldie’s experience illustrates the ways in which recipes, including those we think of as quintessentially Ashkenazi Jewish, have changed over the years. Survivors lost the ancestors who passed along oral recipes. Families’ personal artifacts, such as handwritten recipes, were abandoned when Jews were forced to flee. 

Most significantly, perhaps, after the war, survivors had access to different ingredients in their new homes. Sometimes that was due to seasonality, such as was the case for those who moved from Eastern Europe to Israel and had access to more fruits and vegetables year-round, including dates and pomegranates. Other times, it reflected changing tastes or newfound wealth  — liver soup, pates with liver and offal were classic Eastern European dishes in the early 1900s, when there was an intention to use every part of the animal, but became increasingly uncommon. In other cases, like Goldie’s, packaged goods replaced homemade. Another survivor whose recipes appear in “Honey Cake and Latkes,”Lea Roth, detailed making noodles for Passover from the starch leftover at the bottom of a bowl after grating potatoes before the war. After the war, most people added “noodles” to the grocery list.

“Some of these recipes changed because of New World versus Old World,” explains Jeffrey Yoskowitz, author of “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.” Yoskowitz and his co-author Liz Alpern work not to replicate pre-war Ashkenazi Jewish recipes, but to reclaim and modernize them. To do that, they’ve had to examine the ways in which recipes have changed.

In the Old World, for instance, almost every recipe called for breadcrumbs. At Passover, the leftover crumbs from the matzah were used to make matzah balls, leaving nothing to waste. But when immigrants in the U.S. could use Manischewitz pre-made matzah meal, then recipes started calling for it to make matzah balls.Today’s recipes for kugels with cream cheese, cottage cheese and sour cream would not have been made in the Old World, where dairy products were expensive. Again, ubiquitous cows in the New World made that “celebration of dairy” possible, Yoskowitz says.

At first, recipes may not seem like the most essential thing to recover from Holocaust survivors, but they paint a picture of what life was like before the war. It is essential to see the Jewish experience as one that is not solely as victims, and learning what people ate and cooked is part of that.

“Bringing back recipes can help bring people back to life,” says Edna Friedberg, a historian and senior curator with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “In particular, it was women who were in the kitchen in this period, and so this is a way to make the lives of women very vivid and real for people.”

The idea is not to romanticize Eastern Europe, says Maria Zalewska, executive director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, which published “Honey Cake and Latkes,” but to see the memories connected to togetherness, like picking fruit toward the end of the summer and using that fruit in a recipe, such as cold cherry soup with egg-white dumplings. 

In addition, examining recipes gives us a sense of what role cooking and food played in trauma processing, Zalewska says. “Remembering the foods and the food traditions of their lives before imprisonment were some of the ways that survivors coped with starvation,” Zalewska adds. These are things that survivors say they are not often asked about, but when asked they report remembering dreaming about food during incarceration. 

“We have quite a number of testimonies, where survivors talk about being in situations of starvation, and food deprivation and ghettos and camps and in hiding, and that dreaming about and remembering food from before gave them emotional sustenance,” explains Friedberg.

Exploring such memories have been meaningful for those survivors who were young when they lost their families.

New Orleans’ Chef Alon Shaya has been working for several years to recreate recipes from a book belonging to the family of Steven Fenves, a survivor and a volunteer for the museum. The book was rescued by the family cook, Maris, when the family was forced to flee their home on the Yugoslavia-Hungary border in 1944. The recipes are largely written without measurements, times or temperatures, and many of the ingredients are different from those used today. (Like the Fenves family, Goldie’s son, Joseph Finkelstein, says his mother wasn’t big on using measurements as we think of them in recipes today. She knew the quantity of an ingredient, for example, if it would fit in her palm.) Unlike Yoskowitz, who is looking to update recipes, Shaya has been working to replicate them as closely as possible  — and has come across a few surprises.

Many of the desserts use a lot of walnuts, for example, which, of course, are also used in contemporary baking. But Shaya is using what he says are “copious amounts of walnuts” in various ways, such as grilled walnuts and toasted walnuts. The Fenves family walnut cream cake, which includes both walnuts ground in the batter and in a cream in-between the cake layers, has featured on the menu at one of Shaya’s restaurants, Safta, in Denver.

For all the recreation, and Shaya’s goal to bring the tastes of his youth back to Fenves, he says “it is impossible that a recipe in New Orleans would be the same as one in Bulgaria. The seasons are different, what animals are butchered are different, and the spices taste different.”

Indeed, place matters, Yoskowitz says. Ashkenazi food has a reputation of being terrible, he says. Take mushroom soup, for example. “There is no good mushroom soup in a deli. It is made with mushrooms that don’t have much flavor. But if you have it somewhere made with mushrooms grown in the forest, then that is going to be good soup.”

Many Holocaust survivors settled in new lands with new ingredients, and little memory of how things were made before the war. They knew they used to eat mushroom soup but didn’t specifically remember the forest-grown and harvested fungi. So, dishes morphed depending on what survivors had in their new home. In Eastern Europe, veal was plentiful, but in the U.S. and Israel, schnitzel began being made with chicken instead (a process Yoskowitz calls the “chickentization” of cuisine). And the beloved Jewish pastrami on rye? The pastrami would have traditionally been made with kosher goose or lamb. It wasn’t until Jews came to the U.S. that beef was easily accessible. 

The same is true of what is likely the most iconic Jewish American dish. “Bagel and lox are what we think of as the most Jewish food. But the only thing that came over was the cured and smoked fish,” Yoskowitz says. “Cream cheese was a New York state invention. Capers were Italians. It was a completely new creation, and it became a taste associated with Jewish people.”

One of the most poignant recipes in the “Honey Cake and Latkes” book is a chocolate sandwich, a basic concoction of black bread, butter and shaved dark chocolate. Survivor Eugene Ginter remembers his mother making it for him in Germany after the war, to fatten him up after years of starvation.

Adds Shaya: “We have to continue to adapt, and I think that that is part of the beauty of it.”

[lonvely]

dominic muñoz for jackson roth's bachelor challenge ➴♡

⤷ @rainymoodlet !

⟢ about him.

adult (35) | he/him | cringe, perfectionist, loyal

dom & his 2 sisters were born in del sol valley, their immigrant parents are from selvadorada have instilled in them to have pride in their roots (mexican-american/chicano). dom's dream was to be a lawyer, but with his dad's arthritis rapidly getting worse during his high school years, & his mom's low-paying teaching job, dom decided to take care of his family & began working odd handyman jobs, until eventually landing a full-time gig at happy car mechanics, owned by eric lewis (they have a shrek-donkey kind of relationship). growing up, his peers always found him a bit cringe, but dom's enthusiasm for life have made him completely unaffected of how others perceive him. now 35, maybe he doesn't always know how to be completely serious, so he can come across immature. after his parents' struggles & him having to sacrifice his dreams, it really just is a front he puts to protect himself from difficult conversations. he takes his loved ones' problems very seriously, he just needs a little patience at first while developing a friendship/romance. now, at 35, he would like to have a family of his own. that is a dream he has not given up on.

⟢ fun facts.

⋆ he has been in 2 relationships, one with dina caliente during 7th - 12th grade but they agreed to break up & remain friends in order to explore their sexuality & individuality. the second was long-distance, his ex-boyfriend lived in tomarang, unfortunately their different schedules made them drift apart.

⋆ his family is very catholic, but when teenage dominic came out to them as bisexual, both of his parents started decorating the house with rainbows & his sisters took him to his first pride.

⋆ dominic loves oldies, jazz, blues, & latin music! top 3 songs:

jason joshua - la vida es fría

gary b.b. coleman - the sky is crying

nina simone - i put a spell on you

⋆ he got his first tattoo in his high school's bathroom (it's on his upper thigh). that friend became a really good tattoo artist & did the rest of dominic's tattoos for free for believing in him!

[forthegothicheroine]

As a child in the 90s, we read a kids magazine in school with a bunch of predictions for what might happen in the next century. A description of overcrowding, with people stuffed end to end on the street with no room in sight, terrified me. My father laughed when I told him this, and informed me that they'd said the exact same things when he was a child.

2022 has come and gone, and overcrowding never got to be the problem the film Soylent Green predicted- not literally, at least. In a world where homelessness is rampant, the job market is dead, rent is unaffordable and political disaster looms around every corner, we may certainly feel we were born into a world with no room for us.

Everybody knows the big reveal (and even if you don't know, the poster all but gives it away) but there's more to Soylent Green than one unhappy ending. I was fixated on Edward G Robinson as Sol Roth, whom my father had said was the best Jewish character in science fiction, and his story broke my heart. The scene of his assisted suicide in particular got real tears out of me. (Although at least a future where research is done exclusively by old Jews may have a place for me.)

A lot of the film is dated (if made today, there'd be some male Furniture) and concerns about overpopulation often lean conservative, but it's still a solid downbeat scifi mystery with memorably harrowing scenes. Let's hope we keep growing our soy and algae crops so that our future involves 100% genuine plant-based protein products.

[caostalgia]

“Si llevaba el sol conmigo, nunca temería la oscuridad.”

-Verónica Roth.

[wellthebardsdead]

Astarion: Solairen, my dear, something is- very wrong with your blood.

Solairen: *dancing lights appearing around him as he looks at astarion* hm? Does it taste bad?

Astarion: no no! It has a, delectably floral taste to it in fact. But… I can’t cast any magic at all after I’ve fed on you. That’s why I was so… so helpless during that fight… I had to stop relying on magic and didn’t have time to draw my bow. If you weren’t nearby well, things, could have gone bad.

Solairen: *dancing lights changing to a hesitant waltz* Ah… perhaps we should try to limit feeds when we’re certain there won’t be a major conflict the day ahead.

Astarion: yes, I think I can sustain myself more than enough on our enemies anyway~ but… I am curious as to why your blood does that?

Solairen: *dancing lights halting, simply floating as he refuses to recollect the memory* …it’s… difficult to explain.

*in the underdark by the susser tree*

Calliope: this tree it’s- sapping my magic away.

Gale: you and I are sitting ducks amongst susser flowers.

Solairen: *speech slurring and body sluggish as he grabs calliope pulling her away from it* that- trees, dangerouss mmmy dame- *stumbles back*

Calliope: sol? What’s wrong Sol?

Gale: are you drunk?

Astarion: darling? *walks to him seeing his eyes literally trembling before he drops to the ground* darling?!

Solairen: *whole body trembling in a violent seizure, memories flashing through his mind of being forced to ingest susser bark, flowers, it’s sap, before having it injected directly into him along with countless other poisons as a guinea pig for his masters. Before the visions fade to him hiding with the deep rothe. Them gently speaking to him with dancing lights, and teaching him how to do the same. The only spell he can cast without magic, without lathanders aid. The lights suddenly glowing brighter as another memory comes, the paladins who saved him luring him over to the fire with food promising to take care of him*

“Solairen, your name is Solairen now child.”

“Like lathanders mighty Solars.”

“You’re safe now Solairen…”

Astarion: Solairen? Wake up, wake up we’re safe now!

Solairen: *blinks awake coming out of his fit to find myconids looming over him, spores sprinkling on his face bringing him out of the seizure* h-huh?… where?… who are you?… I’m… hungry… I’ll be… good…

Astarion: *frowns realising he’s not all there at the moment, most likely reliving a memory* shhh, it’s okay… *holds his face gently* I’ll take care of you…

Solairen: *dancing lights appearing around his head again, showing he feels safe* thank… you…

[loftec]

It's a tag game! Thanks to @deedala for tagging me :D

Name: Elin

Age: 37

Location: Sweden

What's one of your go-to karaoke songs? Singing by yourself in the car or in the shower totally counts. I once learned all the words to Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki just in case I'd ever end up in a karaoke situation, but I haven't yet. My dream karaoke song would be Resistansen or Delikatessen, but what are the chances they've got those on roster?

If you had the power to control one of the four elements, which one would it be and why? Air, so I can turn the winds in my favour when I'm biking somewhere. That's how that works right?

Think of one of your defining personality traits - which animal embodies it? Someone once told my I have the same kind of calm aura as a capybara, I'm not sure that's true but I want it to be.

Are there any fan theories that have stuck with you? Think of the infamous "Scooby and the gang are all actually high"

I feel like there must be better theories that I believe, but I can't think of any now besides "Shrek didn't have a name and made one up on the spot when Donkey asked him".

Name a movie you watched or a book you read as a kid that you were totally not supposed to watch/read at that age.

I don't know about "not supposed to", but I definitely watched Rob Roy at an age that I could not handle it. Seriously, I could not stand seeing Liam Neeson in anything for maybe 10 years after, and I realised only recently that actually it was Tim Roth's fault.

Name a food or drink that you totally hated as a kid and now you really like. My tastes are pretty much the same. I only learned to love cilantro as an adult, but I don't think I ever tried it as a kid.

How about one you still hate? I don't like rosehip soup, or the little dry almond cookies they give you with it, stop assuming I'll like the cookies!!

What's your least favourite chore? Dishes. Every day. More dishes. I am my own worst enemy.

Do you have one that you actually enjoy? laundry and weekly grocery shopping, I have a nice little morning out every Saturday.

And to close it off, share a lyric or two that really resonate with you.

This is from a Swedish version of Frazey Ford's "September Fields". I would cite the original which resonates with me very deeply, but this swedish interpretation has made me ugly cry more than once so... It's a combination of having listened to the original for years and years and feeling it in my soul, and then hearing someone's interpretation of it and it just like... getting it.

Över fälten i september, skiner sommarns sista sol Vi är redo, redo att åldras Vi är redo, vi är redo att tro Vi tror på varandra, det räcker mer än nog

Tagging @the-rat-wins @damnnmilkovich @beckyharvey29 @wehangout @captainjowl @wideblueskies @thisfeebleheart @arrowflier @whaticameherefor and anyone else who wants to do it!

[manyfandomocs]

Speak Now [Taylor Swift]

Okay this has been 75% completed in my inbox long enough so I'm not doing the vault tracks as initially planned but! Just lmk if you do wanna see the vaults

also I am apparently so attached to assigning Enchanted to ships I should just do an edit series for couples. And Innocent was so hard to assign

Mine ; Thomas Mayfair (with Brady Mariano @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Emmeline Fitzherbert (with Mal), Cassidy Fuchs (with Grace Chasity)

Sparks Fly ; Ruby Fitzherbert (with Evie), Natalia Finch (with Obie Bergmann)

Back To December ; Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry, pre-RWRB), Katherine Keller (young with FP Jones)

Speak Now ; Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman), Jasmine Teller (with Jess Mariano), Robin Davidson (with Betsy McDonough), Theodosia Fortescue (with Colin Bridgerton), Sampson Lockhart (with Arabella Kingsley)

Dear John ; Belladonna Callow (with Malachi), Gabriel Legume (with the unnamed ex), Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge)

Mean ; Felicity Moore, Cassidy Fuchs, CJ Kelly

The Story Of Us ; Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Serafina Hollander (with Tristan Dugray), Solana Reed (with Val), Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman)

Never Grow Up ; Chloe Brown (with Eloise Sol @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Lottie Tyler (with Rose Tyler), Silas Green (with Hannah Foster)

Enchanted ; Leticia Beaumont (with Colin Bridgerton), Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Calliope Angelos (with Nora Holleran), Kendall Frost (with Beatrice Mountchristen-Windsor), Cassie Rose (with Annabeth Chase), Vincent James (with Jenny Banks), Tamora Snow (with Lucy Gray Baird), Charles Pond (with Clara Oswald), Odelia Roth (with David Nolan & Odessa Pavlova)

Better Than Revenge ; Gabriel Legume (with Ben, Audrey's POV), Delilah Curdle (@ Betty Cooper), Catalina Cabrera (with Dan Humphrey, Serena's POV), Carrie Ryan (honestly this is just Rachel @ Carrie for all of their shared boyfriends)

Innocent ; Chloe Brown, Ginevra Gothel

Haunted ; Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Wrenley Daring (with Jay), Gabriel Legume (with Harry Hook), Victor Chase (with Billy Loomis), Lorelai Cooper (with Chuck Clayton)

Last Kiss ; Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Carrie Ryan (with Sam Evans), Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Thomas Mayfair (with Lane Kim), Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman in most timelines), Catalina Cabrera (with Nate Archibald)

Long Live ; Sage Rowe, Nathan Price, Ashton Daniels, Carrie Ryan, Silas Green, Cassidy Fuchs, Ivy Perkins, Abigail James, Felicity Moore, Zeke Beiste

Ours ; Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Karina Jimenez (with Brittany Pierce), Felix Dosier (with Finn Hudson), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Gabriel Legume (with Ben), Theo Gleason (with Jess Mariano)

Superman ; Carrie Ryan (with Jesse St James), Silas Green (with Lex Foster), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry Hanover-Stuart-Fox, pre RWRB), Katherine Keller (with FP Jones), Madeline Stevens (with Frank Delfino)

Send me an album and, if I know the artist, I will try to associate to every song an oc/ship/crossover

[octodoll]

Dystopia is not a good enough excuse

Found my blog/rant about the portrayal of women in the dystopian scifi movie Soylent Green (1973), which I posted privately to LiveJournal in 2011. Would have been nice to find this for 2022 when the film is set, but better late than never.

I saw Soylent Green for the first time last night, and found it genuinely disturbing & repellent. Its portrayal of environmental destruction, poverty and people-as-cattle ticks all the boxes of dystopian nightmare, sure. But there's something more insidious about its depiction of women as passive, unreflective objects who are essentially just receptors of sex or violence (or both).

I found that aspect of the film so hard to watch that afterwards I went looking on the internet for views on the film's treatment of women. There are a couple of thoughtful, incisive blog posts - particularly this brilliant one - but the vast majority of views & reviews seem to be saying the same thing: "It's dystopia, innit?"

Well, yes, it is. And I'm not complaining (as 99% of comments on the subject seem to assume) about the film's exploration of the concept of women as "furniture" to be used by men. That's a genuinely interesting (and grim) part of the overall set-up, and clearly intended to be shocking. No, what bothers me is not how the year 2022 treats women - it's how this 1973 film treats women. As my husband pointed out - it's not that the film shows women as furniture; it's that it fails to show them as anything else.

Here's one thought. The film is unremarkable in its treatment of ethnicity (of the few key characters, the protagonist Thorn is white, his boss is African-American, his sidekick is Jewish) and of age (the elderly Sol Roth is the most human and well-rounded character). But would viewers still shrug and say "it's dystopia, innit" if people of colour were portrayed as passive, dependent and abused, at best treated as a pet by the protagonist, and... this was just considered background information, less important than the content of the food supply?

That's the big difference between this dystopia and that of, say, The Stepford Wives or A Handmaid's Tale. Those films a) portray the degradation of women as a significant problem, and b) portray women as real people who might have a view on the subject.

The key female role is Shirl, a passive and naive piece of "furniture" supplied with a rich man's apartment. Apart from Shirl's decorative and non-speaking friends, and the nameless women amongst the masses, there are three other women who briefly appear in the film. One (another piece of furniture) gets questioned & subsequently beaten up by Thorn, one gets carted off by Thorn's riot police colleagues for complaining, and the most useful one - an elderly woman at the information "exchange" sits in a room and tells Sol to go & find things out.

For me, the most disturbing scenes in Soylent Green are those which depict Thorn's interaction with Shirl, who he meets in his investigation after the man she lives with is murdered. In one scene he turns up while she is having a girls' party, takes her aside for more "questioning" and casually uses her for sex. This is obviously intended to parallel the way he uses all the other accoutrements of the victim's house. (In fact, it’s highly reminiscent of a nearly unwatchable scene in a 2001 documentary about exploitation.) However, we then get to watch the other girls at the party being punched by the concierge, standing around passively and crying, until Thorn emerges from the bedroom and tells the concierge to stop. My hero! This gives him a moral credibility and a protective role which is totally unquestioned for the rest of the film.

Shirl? Becomes Thorn's devoted pet. Other girls? Never seen again. The food supply needs investigating!

It's not the way the dystopian future treats women that is so distressing - it's how we as viewers are expected to view them. We're expected to weep over the loss of the natural world, to enter into Sol's laments over the lost wonders of real food. (And I do.) But the passive and abused role of women is just taken for granted.

It might be fair to point out that the passive and abused role of the masses in general is taken for granted - and frankly, the constitution of Soylent Green seems like the least of their problems. Still, that's the premise of the original 1966 book (entitled No Room! No Room!) and at least there are a couple of intereesting male characters fighting the system. Dystopia literally means "sick landscape" - but in this dystopia, women are simply features of men's landscape.

[movieloversposts]

All My Life (2020) 8/10

Based on a true story, Solomon 'Sol' Chau (Harry Shum Jr.) and Jennifer 'Jen' Carter (Jessica Rothe) meet at a bar one day and hit it off, soon becoming an engaged couple. But all is not perfect, as Sol gets a cancer diagnosis, spoiling their plans for a summer wedding. Can they still have the wedding they want, or is it all lost?

I remember seeing the trailers for this, and it's like your typical romance movie. It's sweet, funny, and sad, but even sadder because it's based off a real couple.

Harry and Jessica have great chemistry, and as Sol and Jen, they're so sweet and perfect for each other-even their friends agree. The movie also shows the friendships between Sol and Jen's friends, such as Jay Pharaoh playing Dave Berger, who is very funny and helpful with the ones he loves. Chrissy Fit plays Amanda Fletcher, one of Jen's friends, and she's sassy, but also very sweet.

There's the sad aspects-the fact that Jen and Sol are just young adults wanting to begin their lives together, but with the cancer diagnosis, it causes tension between them. Jen, ever optimistic, tries to think of ways to salvage their wedding, but they eventually get a solution.

The wedding scenes, especially the vows, made me cry. But everyone cries at weddings, so it's not surprising there.

This is kinda cliche, what with the 'lovers story ending in a terminal illness' type thing, but it's sad. It's more mature than The Fault In Our Stars, being that this involves a young adult couple, as opposed to a teen couple, but it's still a sad movie regardless.

This is the type of movie to watch if you just want to watch a movie, or if you want to feel sad. (Really, most romance movies are sad, let's be honest)

But this definitely tugs at the heartstrings and makes one believe in the promise of forever with someone special.

[viagraliteraria]

También allí había monarcas. Y esos monarcas poseían sus propios personajes que les habían salvado la vida. Era desconcertante en extremo tener tales pensamientos, tan desconcertante para un teniente de la monarquía como para nosotros mismos lo es pensar que este mundo es solo uno entre millones y millones de astros y que en la Vía Láctea existen todavía soles innumerables y que cada sol posee sus propios planetas y que, en fin, que no somos más que unos insignificantes individuos, para no ser groseros y decir que somos una mierda.

La marcha Radetzky, Joseph Roth

[dicemgz]

Ah, o GRAMMY. A época mais esperada do ano para os amantes e criadores de música, onde os artistas fingem não se importar, os fãs brigam de forma maluca e, em todo ano, há discordâncias sobre vitórias que geram discussões longas e cansativas durante a vida inteira. Ano passado, por algum motivo que nem me lembro, não fizemos a querida lista de previsões para indicados e vencedores - o último ano foi 2026 -, e até que diria que houveram alguns acertos pontuais, e outros que estavam muito abaixo da nossa lista de esperados, mas, é o normal, sempre ocorre. E então, faltando um mês para que a deadline para a premiação se encerre, a redação da DICE, ministrada por mim - Cathleen Prior -, fez as previsões para as indicações do GRAMMY de 2028. É uma premiação bastante importante e em algumas categorias houveram uma certa dificuldade, por conta da pouca quantidade de lançamentos neste ano, mas, diria que foi um ótimo ano, principalmente para músicas, para álbuns... É...

Mas enfim, chega de enrolação, e confira a nossa lista de possíveis indicações para o GRAMMY de 2028. Lembrando que estamos sempre prezando a boa qualidade da música e também a sua campanha para devidas categorias.

Pop

Best Pop Performance

Lucca Lordgan - Sunset

DELILAH - Explode

Agatha Melina - Dead End (featuring Lucca Lordgan)

X - Backrooms (featuring Harmon Moore)

Sofía - Juicio Final (featuring AWA)

Lucy Hart - Girl of Your Dreams

Best Pop Album

Sofía - HASTA QUE SALGA EL SOL

Kim Hwa - Hollow

Lola W - Dolls World

Baby - BABY POP ELECTRIC

Leah - whts ur fnsty?

EMÍ - PARA TODOS LOS AMANTES LES DESEO SUERTE

Dance/Electronic

Best Dance/Electronic Performance

Lucca Lordgan - Aurora

CELESTIAL - THREE LITTLE WORDS

Hina Maeda - Electronic Inquisition (ACT I & II)

Plastique Condessa - Future Discotheque (feauting Rhys Roux)

Dudu - Descontrolada (featuring Brü, Daya, Mc Prih)

EunJi - Party Gurl (featuring Dudu)

Best Dance/Electronic Album

EunJi - SLAY

CELESTIAL - ICYCLE

Dudu - BALALOVE

Plastique Condessa - In a Sunny Day, Everything Can Happen

BELLA - Ribbon Runway

FORNiX - the villainess?

Rock

Best Rock Performance

Agatha Melina - Unbreathable

GENEVIVE - STAB! (featuring Stefan Lancaster)

Rebel Roth - Bad Desire

Cosmic Dept. - Spirit Desire

Caleb Roth - Scars

EMÍ - Verte Arder (featuring Sofía)

Best Rock Album

Agatha Melina - Haunted Hallways

GENEVIVE - Helter Skelter

Hina Maeda - THE ELECTRONIC SAMURAI

Ninette Silk - SILK

EMÍ - PARA TODOS LOS AMANTES LES DESEO SUERTE

Chelsea - Mother Road

Alternative

Best Alternative Album

GENEVIVE - Helter Skelter

Agatha Melina - Haunted Hallways

AWA - quem sabe demais não sabe de nada

Chelsea - Mother Road

Best Alternative Performance

GENEVIVE - Deadly Words (featuring Plastique Condessa)

Agatha Melina - Arrhythmic

Alec Bradshaw - Mayhem May

Cosmic Dept. - So It Rained

Apollyon, Vivien Turner - The Second Death

Vivien Turner - Euthymia

Urban

Best Urban Album

Brü - BRÜ

Dudu - Balalove

Nate - n e v e r t h e l e s s

KJ - The Yellowprint

Damien Hardwell - Truth Hurts

Best Urban Performance

Brü - De Onde Vinha?

Damien Hardwell - Kai

Nate - f e e l  s o m e t h i n g  g o o d 

KJ - MISEDUCATION (featuring Electra Köhler)

Dudu - Descontrolada (featuring Brü, Daya, Mc Prih)

Country

Best Country Performance

Caleb Roth - Dried Up

Chelsea - Mother Road

Chelsea - Truck Stop Angels (featuring Agatha Melina)

Amelia - My Own

Best Country Album

Chelsea - Mother Road

Latin

Best Latin Performance

Sofía - Paradise (featuring Brü, Plastique Condessa, Tieta)

Tieta - Degradê

Brü - De Onde Vinha?

Sofía - Juicio Final (featuring AWA)

EMÍ -  Los chicos ya no lloran (game over)

Plastique Condessa - 11 de Septiembre/Cita de Hasta Siempre

Best Latin Album

Brü - BRÜ

Sofía - HASTA QUE SALGA EL SOL

Dudu - Balalove

EMÍ - PARA TODOS LOS AMANTES LES DESEO SUERTE

AWA - quem sabe demais não sabe de nada

K-Pop

Best K-Pop Performance

RAVEN - Into My Spell

BELLA - Watch Me Run

KJ - MISEDUCATION (featuring Electra Köhler)

One of a Kind - See U Next Fall

UNi - UNiVERSE

Nymphae - Magical Girls

Best K-Pop Album

RAVEN - Ravenous Heart

YOUNGBLOOD - Young Ride

Nate - n e v e r t h e l e s s

FaanG - Shades

Nymphae - Gates of Arcadia

Song Hanhee - The Demoness Under Your Bed

Visual Media

Best Song Written for Visual Media

UNi - Love is…

Chelsea - Overtime

Sofía - No Sé Cuando Se Acabó

Apollyon, Vivien Turner - The Second Death

RAVEN - Out of Control

May X Misty & Dawn (Nymphae) - Pop It Up!

Package Field

Best Recording Package

FaanG - Shades

X(5) - THE HYBRID

Nate - n e v e r t h e l e s s

KJ - The Yellowprint

Agatha Melina - Haunted Hallways

Sofía -  MÁS ALLÁ DE LA LUNA

Engineered Album

Best Engineered Album

Agatha Melina - Haunted Hallways

Brü - BRÜ

GENEVIE - Helter Skelter

Hina Maeda - The Electronic Samurai 

RAVEN - Ravenous Heart

AWA - quem sabe demais não sabe de nada

Remixer

Best Remixed Recording

Lucca Lordgan - Sunset (featuring Stefan Lancaster)

Sofía - Paradise (featuring Brü, Plastique Condessa, Tieta)

DELILAH - Explode (featuring Denver)

Caleb Roth -  Dried Up (Remix)

Agatha Melina - Echoes (featuring Vivien Turner)

Hina Maeda - She, pt. 2 (featuring Harmon Moore)

Collaboration

Best Collaboration

Agatha Melina - Dead End (featuring Lucca Lordgan)

Sofía - Paradise (featuring Brü, Plastique Condessa, Tieta)

KJ - MISEDUCATION (featuring Electra Köhler)

Chelsea - Truck Stop Angels (featuring Agatha Melina)

Lucca Lordgan - Sunset (featuring Stefan Lancaster)

GENEVIVE - Deadly Words (featuring Plastique Condessa)

Music Video/Film

Best Music Video

CL0V3R - GIV3N:TAK3N

Agatha Melina - Echoes (featuring Vivien Turner)

Hina Maeda - Electronic Inquisition (Act I and II)

CELESTIAL - THREE LITTLE WORDS

GENEVIVE - Deadly Words (featuring Plastique Condessa)

UNi - UNiVERSE

Best Music Film/Short-Film

Lucca Lordgan - Honeymoon

Brü - De Onde Vinha?/Nua

Kyle - the night also hugs the waves

Song Hanhee - The Demoness

Nymphae - Birth of the Fairies

Agatha Melina - And Then There Were None

General Fields

Album of the Year

Agatha Melina - Haunted Hallways

Sofía - HASTA QUE SALGA EL SOL

Chelsea - Mother Road

Brü - BRÜ

GENEVIVE - Helter Skelter

RAVEN - Ravenous Heart

EunJi - SLAY

KJ - The Yellowprint

Song of the Year

Lucca Lordgan - Aurora

Agatha Melina - Unbreathable

Chelsea - Mother Road

DELILAH - Explode

Sofía - Paradise (featuring Brü, Plastique Condessa, Tieta)

GENEVIVE - Deadly Words (featuring Plastique Condessa)

Kyle - the night also hugs the waves

One Of A Kind - See U Next Fall

Record of the Year

Agatha Melina - Dead End (featuring Lucca Lordgan)

Sofía - Paradise (featuring Brü, Plastique Condessa, Tieta)

One Of A Kind - See U Next Fall

Chelsea - Mother Road

DELILAH - Explode

KJ - MISEDUCATION (featuring Electra Köhler)

Lucca Lordgan - Aurora

Caleb Roth - Dried Up

Artist of the Year

Agatha Melina

Sofía

Lucca Lordgan

Chelsea

RAVEN

Caleb Roth

DELILAH

Harmon Moore

Best New Artist

Chelsea

DELILAH

Lucy Hart

Baby

Gen Lip

Avalon

EunJi

YOUNGBLOOD

Songwriter of the Year

Caleb Roth

Lucca Lordgan

Kim Hwa (from RAVEN)

Agatha Melina

GENEVIVE

Sofía

Brü

Chelsea

Producer of the Year

Apollyon

Caterpillar

Tokuto

FaanG

Dudu

Rhys Roux

Caleb Roth

Klaus Henderson

Como ainda faltam 30 dias - ou menos - para o encerramento da deadline, tudo pode acontecer. Então, artistas, analisem essa lista de forma estratégica, vejam onde você pode entrar e se dar melhor do que os outros indicados, ou então, apenas leve na brincadeira e siga a sua carreira do jeito que bem entender. Até mais.