#The Sleeping City

[thelostlarrikin]

As he approached the Captain, the swarm of bugs that inhabited the space one might expect to see a face, shifted into a strange facsimile of a smile. "I'm glad you can finally see the city as it is meant to be." "And how is that?" Duvall asked. “Awake.”

Happy Secret Samol @lizzybeanbutt Sorry it has taken me an extra month to get this done! I foolishly decided to learn a new skill. Pop-ups require so much maths XD

[spockvarietyhour]

The Sleeping City (1950)

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY 22

Join us January 24 – February 2 at Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theater for NOIR CITY 22 featuring the fabulous femmes fatale who made the genre so spectacularly saucy, sexy, and sinister. Noir impresario and FNF prez Eddie Muller presents ten days and nights of vintage crime movies featuring actresses profiled in his classic tome Dark City Dames — newly updated, expanded, and set for release in April 2025. Joining Muller as co-host for the opening weekend will be his TCM colleague, Alicia Malone—who also graces this year’s NOIR CITY poster.

The program includes legendary noirs such as Out of the Past, The Narrow Margin, and Detour, alongside an array of dark gems and little-seen rarities like Hell’s Half Acre, The Sleeping City, and the 3D noir Inferno. In addition, the festival will be filled with special onscreen features, live music, and special guests—everything fans have come to expect from this annual celebration of noir style.

All proceeds from the festival go to the Film Noir Foundation’s mission of rescuing and restoring lost examples of the genre, which to date includes more than thirty restorations and preservations of films once feared lost.

Schedule, tickets and Passports (full-access passes) are available at NoirCity.com

[movieposters1]

[z428]

Schließlich wird es auch im eigenen Viertel ruhiger, die lauten jungen Männer sind ebenso weitergezogen wie das große schwarze Auto mit der schlechten Musik, das minutenlang die Kreuzung beschallt hat. Gegenüber sitzen Studenten an Schreibtischen, angestrengt in Medien vertieft, und spülen kurz vage, nur sehr eingeschränkt komfortable Erinnerungen an vergleichbare Nächte, Wochen nach oben. Viel Bewegung in der Wohnung daneben, hinter der Balkontür stehen große Taschen, Fenster werden geöffnet, Zimmerpflanzen bewegt. Der verstreichende Juli ist auch Zurückkehren, in wieder länger werdende Nächte unter früheren Sternen. (Have a comforting night everyone, wherever you are.)

#outerworld #later that day later that night #the sleeping city

[matt-in-the-hat]

pete is the "trans man who cannot dress normally for the life of him" representation I needed

[forgottentenant]

Sentence (Lyric) Starters: A Wanderer In The Sleeping City::

Qing Feng Wu, Rufus Wainwright::

Walking at the break of dawn everything is boarded up...

I remember that boutique and that theatrical bookshop...

How I miss that old cafe and the corner bakery...

Oh you should have seen the city, waking up to yesterday...

Maybe soon the world will understand...

That we're all just trying to do the best we can...

Maybe soon the world will finally wake...

From the nightmare that we take for being awake...

Turn the corner up the hill...

Got a lotta time to kill...

And from up here, I can see the city lights...

And still believe in what I see.

[vulturesawake]

This is what it feels like when someone infodumps to me. By the way

Edit to add caption:

[desc begin: a six panel comic featuring an everyman character sitting on a couch with an autism creature loafing on the back of the couch. The creature jumps down to the seat and lies their head on the person's leg, much to their delight. Desc end.]

[notesonfilm1]

THE SLEEPING CITY (George Sherman, 1950),

[bet-on-me-13]

City Spirits awaken.

So! City Spirts are basically God's sustained by the people in their Cities. Some are Gods born from the belief and people of a City, others are God's who Bind themselves to Cities to sustain themselves in periods of low worship.

Almost all Major Population Centers have some kind of City Spirit bound to them.

The Personification of Los Angeles who slept with Constantine was born from her City, but she was young and weak compared to other City Spirits.

Lady Gotham is an Ancient Spirit who holds immense Power, but purposefully bound herself to the new and growing city of Gotham so she could sleep for a few millenia without worrying about sustaining Worship. She has been asleep for Centuries.

Actually, most City Spirits are Asleep.

Millenia Ago, the most powerful Gods and Spirits of the Infinite Realms fled the Rule of Pariah Dark. They didn't agree with his ambitions to conquer the Living Realm, and didn't want to let him use their Power against the Living Realm either.

So they Bound themselves to newly forming Cities and put themselves into Deep Sleep to avoid his Control. They have been asleep for Millenia now, waiting for the day Pariah would be overthrown so they could return to the Infinite Realms safely.

Then they day came. A New King was Crowned.

And the Cities began to wake up.

[secretcherimaybe]

[disk28]

[spockvarietyhour]

Bellevue Hospita, now with three chapels!

[bluerosefox]

Phantomish Rogues

Team Phantom get ripped from their home universe into the DCverse. With no money or real ID's in this world. Now thats a problem.

Another big problem is that Danny is badly injured and his core kinda put him into a deep cryo sleep. He needs to rest and gather ectoplasm.

Bigger problem Team Phantom have no clue how to get home because they don't know how to decode the Fenton Portal blue-prints, not even Jazz who at the time didn't pay attention to her parents portal work anymore by the time they finished it. The only one who does have an idea is Danny!

Biggest problem, they landed in a place called Gotham that seems to be overrun with actual villains and heroes? (vigilantes). And for some odd reason many of them seem to find them no matter where the Team goes to hide.

Until they can get their hands on a safe space, tech, and money, Team Phantom might have to go a bit Rogue/Villainous if they wanna keep Danny safe until he wakes up.

[oldinterneticons]

I am doing probably the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life and am going to Vegas for When We Were Young, so in honour of that, a collection of some of the bands playing.

[z428]

Hinter der Dämmerung und die Luft ist immer noch mild. Kein Regen mehr. Einige Bäume vor den hohen Häusern stehen jetzt in voller Blüte, die Frühling färben und verströmen. Jenseits des Parkplatzes klingen leise Stimmen, dazwischen Musik, zurückhaltender als sonst, oder zumindest scheint es so. (Müde genug. Der Kopf schwer genug. Leicht genug. Zumindest für heute.)

#outerworld #the sleeping city #between day and night