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A Little About Me

Interests:

Books/Reading

Writing

Mythology/Fantasy

Superheroes

Psychology

Book Genres:

Gay YA Romance, YA Fantasy, YA Dystopian, YA Contemporary, Gay Romance/Erotica, Graphic Novels

Fandoms:

Anime:

All Saints Street, Cells At Work!, Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Delicious in Dungeons (Dungeon Meshi), Digimon, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Given, K Project, Kemono Michi: Rise Up, My Hero Academia, One Punch Man, Princess Jellyfish, RWBY, Sailor Moon, Seraph of the End, Seven Deadly Sins, Sirius the Jaeger, Spy x Family, The God of Highschool, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Tiger & Bunny, Yuri on Ice

Books:

Adventures of Sik Aziz, Alex Rider, Arc of a Scythe, Carry On, Chronicles of Nick, Chronicles of the Avatar, Circe, Creekwood Series, Dragon's Reign, Fablehaven, Gentleman's Club, Good Omens, Grishaverse, In Deeper Waters, In the Lives of Puppets, Iron Widow, London Calling, Lord of the Rings, Lorien Legacies, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Master of One, Most Ardently, Outlaw Saints, Pandava Series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Portrait of a Thief, Red Rising, Red White & Royal Blue, Skandar, So This is Ever After, Spell Bound, Teach the Torches to Burn, The Darkness Outside Us, The Extraordinaries, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice & Virtue, The Heir Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Kane Chronicles, The Paper Magician, The Scholomance, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Seven Realms, The Shattered Realms, The Song of Achilles, The Storm Runner, The Sunbearer Trials, The Trials of Apollo, Tristan Strong, Under the Whispering Door, Zachary Ying

Cartoons:

Adventure Time, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Captain Planet, Carmen Sandiego, Code Lyoki, Codename: Kids Next Door, Danny Phantom, Fionna & Cake, Gravity Falls, Infinity Train, Jackie Chan Adventures, Johnny Quest, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, King of the Hill, Krypto the Superdog, Legend of the Dragon, Legion of Superheroes, Loonatics Unleashed, Martin Mystery, Maya and the Three, Milo Murphy's Law, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, My Adventures with Superman, Over the Garden Wall, Owl House, Phineas and Ferb, Q-Force, Scooby-Doo, She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, Teenage Mutant Nunja Turtkesb(2003), Teen Titans, The Dragon Prince, Thundercats, Tiny Toon Adventures, Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H., Winx Club, Wolverine and the X-Men, X-Men: Evolution, X-Men: The Animated Series, Xiaolin Showdown, Young Justice, Yu-Gi-Oh!

Comics/Graphic Novels:

Check Please, Chef's Kiss, DC, Heartstopper, Kill 6 Billion Demons, Marvel

Movies:

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, Alex Strangelove, Barbie, Charlie's Angels, Disney, Dreamworks, Edge of Tomorrow, Ghibli, Hoot, I Am Number Four, Inception, Legally Blonde, Night at the Museum, Nimona, Pixar, Promare, Sherlock Holmes (2009 & 2011), Love Simon, School of Rock, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sky High, Star Wars, The Greatest Showman, The Princess Bride, The Way He Looks

Podcasts

Dragon's Reign, Ologies, The Adventure Zone, The Two Princes

TV Shows:

BBC's Merlin BBC's Sherlock, Good Witch, Julie and the Phantoms, I Love Lucy, Leverage ,Leverage: Redemption, Lost Girl, Love Victor, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Monk, Power Rangers, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, SKAM, SKAM: France, Star Trek, Supergirl, The Mandolorian, The Office, Umbrella Academy, Wonder Woman (1976)

Video Games:

Among Us, Coming Out On Top, Cult of the Lamb, Deep Rock Galactic, Dream Daddy, Hades, Hades 2, Human Fall Flat, It Takes Two, Kings of Hell, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Kart, Minecraft, MTG Arena, Orcs Must Die! 2, Overcooked! 1& 2, SCP: Secret Laboratory, Smash Bros., Stardew Valley, Tabletop Simulator, Team Fortress 2, The Sims

Webcomics:

Boyfriends, Just us Fairies, Out of the Blue, The Legend of Genji

Webseries:

Dimension 20, Game Changers, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, SCP Confinement

Music Artists:

Big Time Rush, Clean Bandit, Lindsey Stirling, Little Mix, Miike Snow, Pentatonix, Qveen Herby, Todrick Hall, Years & Years

Superheroes :

Wonder Woman, Blue Beetle, Raven, Shazam, Captain America, Storm, Phoenix, Scarlet Witch, Iceman, Wiccan, Hulkling, Gambit

Favorites:

Boyfriend: NakedJustice

Colors: Black & Purple

Mammal: Bear, Capybara, Meerkat, Wolf

Bird: Crow, Hummingbird, Peacock

Mythological Creature: Phoenix

Season: Fall & Spring

Holiday: Christmas

Candy: Chocolate

Dessert: Cookies and Cake

Ice Cream: Mint Chocolate-Chip

Drink: Cream Soda, Sangria Soda, Horchata

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Updated On: 12/31/2024

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A collective post of everything I watched on Netflix in 2020

I finally found the watch history function on Netflix which I wanted in order to reminisce over the TV/film I watched over the last year, including the good and the bad. I’ve included a little round-up of my thoughts for each, as lockdown has got me with plenty of time on my hands. If anyone has watched any of the below feel free to give me a message- happy to discuss anything!

Travelers (season 3) - this was an unforgettable show with some great characters and definitely put me through hell (in a good way), I am a David x Marcy shipper for sure!

IT Crowd (season 4 & 5) - my favourite comedy show ever, and I mean the UK version

Explained (random episodes) - interesting bite-sized episodes on a variety of topics

Sherlock (season 3 & 4) - it kinda went downhill from season 4...and doesn’t help that there is no season 5 in sight

Unforgettable - must be pretty forgettable cause I couldn’t remember watching, a typical revenge plot romp I think

The Mind, Explained - same as for Explained above, except more pyshcological

You (season 2) - binge-worthy! I love to hate Joe Goldberg.

Don’t F**k with Cats - wow, this was disturbing but so gripping.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - geniunely a good remake and rather amusing

Sex, Explained - as for Explained but a little more intriguing ;)

The Stranger (season 1) - full of suspense and a good binge watch but ultimately full of plot holes with an unsatisfying conclusion

Gavin & Stacey (season 3) - a classic which I only started watching in 2019

Sex Education (all of it) - comedy gold!

Unbelievable (limited series) - very harrowing, an emotional rollercoaster based on a real-life rape case

Atypical (all of it) - light-hearted and fun to binge

The Sinner (season 1) - it was okay... wasn’t spectacular compared to other similar dramas I’ve seen

Love Is Blind (season 1) - cringey but satisfying

In the Shadow of the Moon - I hardly remember this one :)

Dunkirk - a stand-out historical movie

The Stepfather - typical killer stepfather plot but rather enjoyable

The Super - an interesting premise, but not that super

Saw VI - all gore not much plot

Doctor Who (random episodes) - no words needed :D

Louis Theroux and Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends (random episodes) - I love his style of interviewing - what a man!

The Revenant - a lot of... well, not much

Nightcrawler - it was decent, but something was missing which I couldn’t put my finger on

How To Get Away With Murder (seasons 1-5) - probably my biggest new watch of the year, a rollercoaster of suspense, drama and murder, another season to go...

Ocean’s Eleven - fun but cheesey

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare - creepy faces and an interesting ending

Eli - it started one way then went another, I wasn’t convinced

Star Trek (2009) - I couldn’t really get into this one...

In the Tall Grass - a lot of running around in grass

Bloodride (season 1) - i loved this, a quirky idea, i binged it

Apostle - intense, a satisfying religious cult horror

The Platform - great idea, not sure on the ending

What Keeps You Alive - what happened in this one again?

History 101 - didn’t watch many episodes :P

The Prodigy - a decent child possession horror

Into the Night (season 1) - really enjoyed this, a highlight of the year for me, hoping for a season 2

It - pretty chilling and creepy, but a tad cheesey

Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - the first one has a brilliant dinosaur fight scene, the second one has too many plot holes and inconsistencies to take seriously

Knowing - a Nicholas Cage sci-fi/apocalpytic classic, pretty decent

Stranger Things (random episodes) - i tried to get my bf into the show but sadly he still isn’t much of a TV fan

Miranda (random episodes) - such fun!

Black Mirror (seasons 1 & 2) - another one i introduced the bf to, i got a bit further with him on this one, the very first episode being the highlight

The Last House on the Left - a decent remake, but nothing outstanding

Dark (season 3) - this, my friends, is one of the greatest shows of all time. want a timey-wimey story where everything is connected and has an amazingly satisfying conclusion? this is the show for you!

The Silence - a bad ‘A Quiet Place’

Geostorm - i’m a fan of disaster movies but this one wasn’t in the same league as some of the greats

Panic Room - a mum and kid hides in the panic room when a group of thugs break into the house, it was enjoyable but not all that memorable

Prisoners - a very long film with some enjoyable parts but overall unsatisfying

Girl on the Third Floor - it was okay, i can’t remember much of it

The Woods (season 1) - another Harlan Coben adaptation- not as good as ‘Safe’ or ‘The Stranger’ but still a gripping thriller

Time Trap - a fun time-travel film with some interesting turns of events

72 Dangerous/Cutest Animals (random episodes) - just ‘cause i love animals

Slasher (all of it) - some very gory deaths, especially in season 3. quite disturbing but keeps the suspense up throughout.

2012 - a guilty pleasure of mine, realistic or not

Kingsman: The Secret Service - a fun spy film, will be looking to watch the second one soon

Blackfish - this was harrowing, it really made me think, but overall i’m on the side of tilikum

Unsolved Mysteries (season 1 & 2) - watching some of these my jaw dropped, love theorising on this kind of stuff

Down to Earth with Zac Efron (season 1) - Zac is great in this, he seems so chill and literally ‘down to earth’

The Call - I love this film, seen it 3 times now

Contagion - very relatable right now, interesting to see the parallels with todays situation

Next in Fashion (season 1) - i didn’t get too far with this, i found it a little superficial

Searching - another of those internet web-cam based films. decent but not memorable.

Non-stop - another Nicholas Cage classic, this time a suspense thriller

Freaks - as the title suggests this one was rather weird, i didn’t quite gel with it

The Perfection - wow, that was an experience. definitely memorable, even if some characters make questionable decisions...

Extraction - not usually a fan of action-type thrillers, but i actually enjoyed this one, plus it has Chris Hemsworth in it!

Line of Duty (season 2) - full of suspense, a great build-up in the first 5 episodes, but the way they tied it up really grated on me 

Insidious - watched this one with my sister. a genuinely good horror film on rewatch with an amazing cliff-hanger

A Quiet Place - another one watched with my sister. labelled a horror but its more sci-fi, either way its a classic. bring on the second film!

The Dark Tower - disappointing mostly.

Gladiator - i’d never seen this before and now i understand the hype- what an epic movie!

Criminal UK (season 2) - didn’t disappoint following the exceptional first season

Venom - a fun comedic marvel film, definitely need to watch more from Marvel in the next year- i need an order to watch them in as don’t know where to start

Our Planet (season 1) - chill David Attenborough to put on in the background

The Equalizer - a great action revenge thriller plot with a badass Denzel

Merlin (random episodes) - who doesn’t love a trip down memory lane with some nostalgic bbc merlin?

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - pretty scary remake

The Witcher (season 1) - rewatched in order to familiarise myself again before season 2 - i didn’t realise how funny the show was until this time round, gotta love Jaskier!

American Murder: The Family Next Door - this was haunting

The Haunting of Bly Manor - phenomenal, emotional, creepy, heartbreaking - i much preferred it to Hill House

Abducted in Plain Sight - seriously, how naive are the parents in this? i could have a rant for hours about this!

The End of the F***ing World (seasons 1 & 2) - very bingeable, Alyssa makes me laugh too much, i love how relatable the show is

Fractured - didn’t expect much from this consipiracy-type film but it kept me guessing right till the end

The Ripper (limited series) - very intriguing, but the mysogyny in this was shocking

Inconceivable - a typical mother looking for her baby revenge plot but still entertaining

The Midnight Sky - i’d heard rave reviews for this but was disappointed by a lacklustre plot which was sacrificed for award-winning cinematography

Killer Women with Piers Morgan (season 2) - a pyschological interview series which looks into the mind of murderers, rather interesting

May the Devil Take You - scarier and jumpier than i thought it would be!

So 2020 obviously gave me a lot of time to watch a s**t load of stuff and looking back at it i feel like i got a decent amount of my watch-list ticked off! And obviously this is not including shows watched on other media so there’s that too (a special shout-out to the William Hartnell era of Doctor Who which I watched this year on BritBox). In all, 2020 has definitely introduced me to a few new fandoms and progressed my love for others. 

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BBC’s The War Of The Worlds blog - Episode 3

(SPOILER WARNING: The following is an in-depth critical analysis. If you haven’t seen this episode yet, you may want to before reading this review)

You know, people often ask me why I get so angry when I’m reviewing BBC shows. I mean yes I give Disney and Marvel a hard time too, but they don’t get nearly as much bile and venom as I give the BBC. Well that’s because, unlike Disney and Marvel, BBC shows are funded by the British taxpayer through our TV licence fees. I’m effectively paying for them to make this crap. That’s what pisses me off more than anything.

Yes we mercifully come to the end of this... this. Episode 1 was a slow, plodding and utterly tedious affair that was about as exciting as an Amish bachelor party. Episode 2 was even worse thanks to its poor narrative structure, terrible characterisation and less than subtle allegories. Now Harness has come to hammer the final nail in the coffin with Episode 3. Is it bad?

...

You’re right, that’s a stupid question. A more apt question would be how bad is it. Very, very bad is the answer. Very, very bad indeed.

Lets start with the obvious problem. The non-linear narrative introduced in the previous episode. The stupid early reveal that the Martians ultimately lose and that Amy survives completely destroyed any and all tension and suspense thanks to Peter Harness desperately trying to outwit the audience instead of just telling a story. Now, bizarrely, he tries to reintroduce tension by having the characters umming and arghing about what killed the Martians off and whether this could help stop the Earth from terraforming. One teeny, tiny problem with this though. The audience already know! Even those that never read the original book know how it ended! And even if you didn’t, the episode drops enough hints like great fucking boulders. The prevalence of typhoid throughout the episode and its correlation with the Martians stumbling around like a drunken prom date isn’t exactly hard to miss. Harness’ writing is still as unsubtle as ever. But worse still, he completely undermines and misses the point of the ending to War Of The Worlds.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people (mostly Americans) criticise the end of the original book for being a deus ex machina. I mean the Martians get killed off by the common cold. How stupid, right? Except it’s not because those people (mostly Americans) are looking at it the wrong way. Your main takeaway shouldn’t be that the Martians were easily killed off by bacteria. Rather that we failed to stop them. The reason humanity prevails in the end is more down to luck than anything else. The narrator even attributes this to being an act of God. But here’s the thing. We didn’t stand a chance against the Martians. We didn’t beat them. They lost because they just happened to catch a cold. Now it’s not hard to imagine a society as scientifically advanced as their’s to be able to find some kind of cure or vaccine for it. And if and when they do, what then? We’d be fucked, wouldn’t we? Should the Martians ever return to finish what they started, the human race would be well and truly doomed. It’s not a deus ex machina. It’s a dire warning of what’s to come. A brief respite before the inevitable. That’s what makes the ending so effective.

The BBC series however completely misunderstands this, changing the story so that Ogilvy (an astronomer, don’t forget) somehow manages to weaponize typhoid in order to kill the red weed, which is presented as some kind of victory, when in reality it’s quite an insulting deviation from the source material. If only the Commonwealth could shake off the remnants of British colonialism as easily as these guys dealt with the red weed. Not to mention it just makes the Martians look really stupid. So they come to Earth, drink our blood, keel over and then... what, they just give up? Are they just waiting for humanity to die by itself? What happens when Mars HQ realises the red weed hasn’t worked? What then? Are they just going to shrug it off? It doesn’t make any sense.

Which brings us to the Martians themselves. The picture above comes from the Jeff Wayne musical version and is without a doubt the most accurate depiction of the Martians from the book. Most of the other adaptations have wildly different interpretations, which isn’t a problem in and of itself provided it works within the context of that particular narrative. However the reason I bring up the original design is so I can talk about what H.G. Wells intended when he came up with them. See, while the Martians are highly intelligent, they’re also presented as being quite vestigial. They’re sluggish thanks to Earth’s heavier gravity, rendered practically deaf thanks to Earth’s dense atmosphere and apparently have no organs with which to digest their food, hence their need to inject human blood directly into themselves for sustenance. The Martians represent what humanity could become as we become more and more reliant on technology. The Industrial Revolution brought about a lot of societal fears and concerns at the time, and the Martians are those fears manifested. Heartless creatures reduced to being simple brains, unable to properly interact with the world around them.

The BBC series goes a very different route. Instead of the giant brains, we instead get giant brown crabs, which, again, isn’t necessarily a problem provided it works in context. And that’s the problem. It doesn’t. The original Wells design told us what we needed to know about their biology, their motivations and their society. What do we learn about the BBC Martians? They’re big, generic monsters that look like rejects from Stranger Things. They don’t even inject blood into themselves. They feed off of us directly, leechlike. They’re more like animals. Not the vast, cold, unsympathetic intellects they were described to be. At no point do you buy that these creatures would be capable of building the Tripods or colonising the Earth. They just exist for some cheap jump scares and horror movie cliches.

What’s worse is that by changing the Martians’ design so drastically, any subtextual allegory gets chucked in the bin. The Martians from the book are meant to represent the British Empire at the height of its power. Merciless tyrants stomping all over the lives and cultures of the so called ‘lesser races,’ changing the environment to suit them rather than adapting to the existing environment. It’s Darwinism crossed with arrogance. And yet, ironically, the oppressors (the Martians) are technically inferior to the natives (the humans) as they are incapable of surviving without the aid of technology. The BBC series is unable to make this allegory, so Harness has to resort to straight up telling the audience the allegory. In by far the clunkiest scene in the entire series, we see George argue with his brother about how the Martians are no different from the Brits in their colonial ways. Not only does this break the ‘show, don’t tell’ rule and stands as a perfect example of bad storytelling, Harness doesn’t even bother to do anything with this other than just making the comparison. It’s been previously established that Amy was born and raised in India. You’d think she’d have something to say about all this, but nope. At the end, she wistfully describes India to her son in the most patronising and insulting way possible. It’s really quite disgusting. I mean H.G. Wells was quite patronising towards the Tasmanians in the book, but in his defence, he was a privileged white man from the 1800s. What’s Peter Harness’ excuse?! Ostensibly he pays lip service to the idea that the Martians are no different from the Brits, but he doesn’t want to really explore it or get us to actually think about it. Probably because it’s all a bit too complicated to get into, but if he’s not confident about exploring such topics, why the fuck is he adapting War Of The Worlds in the first bloody place?! Write something else!

In fact I think this is the root of all the problems with this adaptation. Harness clearly isn’t capable of exploring the complex themes of the source material, so instead he either introduces irrelevant social issues that aren’t nearly as complicated (women’s rights, empires are bad and so on) as a token show of progressiveness, or he goes as far as to uncomplicate themes and ideas to an almost offensive degree. In the book, the narrator is trapped in a church with a priest who is going through a major existential crisis and risks giving away their hiding spot to the Martians, who are busy terraforming the planet. So he resorts to knocking the priest unconscious and watching as the Martians drag his body away. In the BBC series, we see the old woman and the kid get killed off for no reason other than shock value and the characters have nothing to do with their demise, so they’re morally in the clear. The priest meanwhile doesn’t even appear in the scene, instead being relegated to the shitty flash forwards where his faith remains very much intact and even protests against the idea that it’s humanity’s illness that stopped the Martians rather than an act of God (brief side note, would Ogilvy really be this open about not believing in God? At the time of the book’s publication, the scene with the priest losing faith was considered extremely controversial, so this just seems utterly wrong). Plus there’s no tension in wondering what the Martians are doing and whether they’re going to find the characters. In fact there’s no tension whatsoever because we know the Martians have fallen ill and the characters are just hanging around, waiting for the fuckers to die. I cannot stress enough how atrociously awful the writing is in this show. We know the Martians are dying and the episode is about the characters waiting for them to die.

Jesus fucking Christ!

The Artilleryman from the previous episode was the same. In the book he was a deluded crackpot who willingly bought into imperialist dogma, believing that humanity could rebuild underground and eventually rise up and defeat the Martians. In the BBC series, he was a scared, innocent little waif being forced to fight in a war he wants no part of. It’s an incredibly shallow and uninteresting reinterpretation of the source material.

But the worst, the absolute worst, is what Harness does with George.

To be clear, no I’m not upset he gets killed off. I’ve made my views on him quite clear. He cheated on his wife because she was infertile and ran off to make whoopie with some redhead. The bastard deserves everything he gets, frankly. Plus I’ve had enough of Rafe Spall’s gormless acting to last a lifetime, thank you. What I am upset by is the way he gets killed off.

One of the most interesting parts of the original book is the fact that there are no heroes in War Of The Worlds. The Artilleryman is a young, impressionable, nationalist fool, the Priest descends into a pit of nihilistic despair, and the narrator survives only by his cowardice. He even goes as far as to attempt suicide, throwing himself in front of the unbeknownst to him dead Tripod because he cannot bear the idea of living in a world like this. It’s extremely dark and very cynical. The BBC series goes a very different route. We see George slowly become delirious as a result of the typhoid infection he got by drinking the poisoned cup of water in the previous episode (so all that stuff about the Martian terraforming was a load of bollocks) before, realising that he is becoming a burden to Amy, deciding to make the supreme sacrifice and facing the lone Martian alone while she makes a run for it. Not only does this open up a major plot hole - who the fuck was Amy expecting to arrive from the North if George is dead? They try to dismiss this as memory suppression, but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t apply to losing a loved one to a fucking alien - it also completely stands at odds with the themes of the book. When facing annihilation at the hands of a higher power, the arrogant Brits, who previously lived a life of privilege on the backs of millions of subjugated, reveal themselves for who they truly are at their core. The BBC series says yeah, we were a bunch of racist tosspots with delusions of grandeur, but we weren’t all bad. The main takeaway I got from this despicable, badly written series was a three hour pity party about how all those selfish POCs don’t consider the feelings of white people and asking why can’t we all just get along.

Peter Harness’ bastardisation of War Of The Worlds is without a doubt one of the worst adaptations I’ve ever seen. In fact it’s quite possibly one of the worst TV shows I’ve ever seen, period. It’s not just the sheer disregard for the source material that upsets me. It’s also the absolute amateurish nature of the whole fucking thing. This series fails in some of the most basic ways. His writing is truly terrible, somehow getting steadily worse and worse with each episode. It’s not just upsetting to see someone get the fundamental elements of storytelling so spectacularly wrong, it honestly makes me sick to my fucking stomach. Peter Harness, please, for your own sake and my sanity, stop fucking writing. You’re clearly not good at it and I don’t want to see my money go to someone who obviously hasn’t the faintest fucking idea what they’re doing. Enough is enough.

So it would seem that Jeff Wayne’s musical version remains the best adaptation of War Of The Worlds. In fact can we just have a movie adaptation of that please?

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It was charged while the writing sensation of 2007 and just like the fireworks of the 4th September or the greatest spell of a scar faced wizard it took the headlines. Depends upon gasped at the final pages of Deathly Hallows and number you could claim these were disappointed. JK Rowling had undoubtedly used it again. People had tried to guess the plot but not a single blogger seemed to obtain everything right. Some were really near but the others missed the mark. One of many greatest writers of illusion fiction had performed the Houdini.

Within hours of the distribution of Deathly Hallows, BBC Media in the UK introduced on the web that they'd discovered the successor to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Voldermort. Now as we shut the pages of the final chapter on the Potter saga, one book that is not also published however is apparently quietly moving itself ahead as a contender for the concept of'Hotter than Potter.'

Since the distribution of Shadowmancer in 2004 in the USA and their rise to the top of the New York Times list, GP Taylor has tucked from the radar of the American book scene. Penguin Putnam printed two further publications, Wormwood got to the dizzy heights of #2 on the charts but Taylor's 3rd guide Tersias the Oracle tucked into shops without the campaign whatsoever. It absolutely was as though Putnam just put it on the market as cheaply as you are able to with no description why.

Many of his supporters did not even know the book was published. Adhering to a death risk, Taylor refused to tour in the USA and there have been rumors in the English press he was sad with the way his books had been launched in the US. All in all it served to keep Taylor beneath the radar. Starved of promotion, readers were hard pressed to get the sequels to Shadowmancer and with little action from Common Pictures on the script of the guide Taylor faded completely. He's on report in saying he believed he could be opportunity useless in Books of Question in New York at a signing.

It was only when evidence copies of his newest novel Mariah Mundi and The Midas Box begun to rotate on eBay that folks again began to take discover of the quiet British author. Potter fans hungry for another book to load the emptiness of Deathly Hallows started initially to rapidly blog concerning the subject before they had actually study it. News was sketchy. Taylor's own site had the book outlined as Mariah Mundi and the Ghost of the Prince Regent, but the name was transformed at the final second before the evidence copies were published.

Now it would seem that every one needs to get your hands on a evidence of the book. One New York dealer has already established countless enquires presently and shops in the UK are taking sophisticated purchases therefore customers may protected first editions. Buddyhollywood.com said, "the formula will there be, tried and tested. Young hero, woman sidekick, wicked villain, perilous plan and hurt in the tail ending. Nothing unusual. In the event that you read Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling the exact same units are in use. But like Harry Potter there is anything wonderful in regards to the boy, Mariah Mundi.

Mundi has missing his parents and it is not known if they are dead. He visited a boarding college in London, from where he was sent at age fifteen to perform in a large and strange hotel in the north of England. All fish out of water material with lots of scary goings to keep you turning the pages.

With lots of'whodunit'placed in (there is a monster at large and an odd field that has the energy to turn daily items to gold and a secret society called The Bureau of Antiquities) that guide includes the large history of CS Lewis and the plot of an Indiana Jones movie. Probably why Hollywood is queuing to have their hands on the rights for the book."

BBC News said on the day of the launch of Deathly Hallows that, "when Harry Potter weighs up his wizard's cloak, booksellers will undoubtedly be trying to GP Taylor's fall discharge, Mariah Mundi - The Midas Box, to help keep the bucks tills ringing."

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So I've been binge watching Blue Planet 2 recently because I've been having a shitty, stressful week and I find it outrageously calming. And I got to thinking.

New headcanon: Megamind is really into Oceanography, especially documentaries. Forgetting when the movie was actually released, the first BP series is about 16 years old, so he would have watched it as a teenager.

Here's my theory. He's removed from mainstream schooling because he's a criminal, because he's a bad guy. But he's still a teenager, so they feel obligated to educate him somehow. So following the tradition of every half-arsed cover lesson with a substitute teacher, they let him watch documentaries.

He gets really into Blue Planet. He finds it soothing, is fascinated by the sheer wonder of life on Earth. He's used to humans, to pigeons, cats and dogs, so is enthralled by how complex and (dare I say it) alien life beneath the sea is.

It reminds him of home.

As he gets older there's less time for watching documentaries - he's busy inventing, building, plotting.

Until one day he goes to kidnap Roxanne, and she's stood in the kitchen while the TV plays in the background. He's about to launch into Kidnapping Speech 4 (The one about it being her lucky day), when he's distracted by the familiar music and instantly recognisable voice.

He quickly learns that this is Blue Planet 2 - he's thrilled there's a second series - that it's high definition, that there's new discoveries made for the first time - and half an hour later Minion receives a call saying that the kidnapping has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.

When he leaves, Roxanne (with that knowing smile) tells him there's 10-hour videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel: three different collections focused on ocean life.

Minion is very confused when he gets home, late that evening, with a brand new 4K HD-TV strapped to the back of the hoverbike.

[bgallen]

Princess Mononoke, twins, barber camp, and The Last Movie Stars....a list

 Happiest of Fridays!

 This week I have been getting back into the swing of things after being on vacation in SW Michigan, next to Alabama it is my favorite place on Earth. Visiting dear friends, celebrating a marriage, and playing with friend’s babies is always a joy. I’ve included some photographs of my time in MI. I hope, as always, that you enjoy! The list below has a bunch of random bits and bobs as always.

·      Barber Camp teaches life lessons (wapt.com). Our capital city of Jackson, with a rich and dark and beautiful and sad history….is deeply struggling at present. The murder rate per capita is higher than anywhere in the US. And in the last month or two…it’s been teenagers and children. And it saddens me so incredibly much and I personally have no clue what should be done. But-I do know that there are so many people within the city that are working so hard to help. And Tracey Williams is doing just that. Check out her story in the link.

· The case for a shorter workday - BBC Worklife. The logic for moving to a six hour work day is definitely there. “Norway and Denmark have workweeks shorter than 40 hours, and are respectively the second- and seventh-most productive countries in the world.”

·      The empire the Aztecs couldn't conquer - BBC Travel. I haven’t yet made it to the Americas and their ancient history, so learning about the P'urhépecha Empire was fascinating.

·      Why Scottish women and Icelanders are closely linked - BBC Reel. Aud the Deepminded, a warrior.

·      Ashley Ness Discovers She's Pregnant with 2 Sets of Identical Twins | PEOPLE.com. This is incredible, a one in ten million chance!

·      'Perfect fit': Halifax woman unknowingly buys used roller skates she owned 40 years ago | CBC News, what an incredibly fun story!

·      Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US - BBC Culture. This film is my favorite of Miyazaki, yet I have never been able to quite put my finger on why it was until I read this article. This quote sums it up for me, "Whereas Japanese culture is more based on a sense of impermanence. There’s a cycle and a feeling that you have to enjoy what you have. It’s not necessarily a bad world, but it's a complicated world." “It is an echo of an enduring theme of Miyazaki's later work: a rallying call to children, and perhaps to himself, that no matter how bad the world gets, no matter how tempting it is to fall into fatalism or despair, you must keep on going.”  Also, pro tip…..never watch the American version, watch the Japanese version with English subtitles.

·      Princess Mononoke (Hime) Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - YouTube, extraordinarily beautiful soundtrack.

·      The Last Movie Stars | Official Trailer | HBO Max - YouTube. A documentary on the life of and careers of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward looks to be fascinating.

·      THE HU - Black Thunder Part 1 (Official Music Video) - YouTube. The cinematography of their music videos is top notch. I love how they tell their history through music by blending traditional music with metal.

·      Street Food: USA | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube. This Netflix show looks great, another road trip may be needed.

For fun, my top 4 on repeat from Spotify:

MOVE by TNX, Surface Pressure by Jessica Darrow, Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga, and Planet by Franko Gonzo.

Enjoy your weekend!

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Tagged by: @overthefalls-vs-forcesofgmm (ty for tagging me :D !!!!)

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs

Nickname: i dont have one but like 2 people call me Squid

Gender: still haven’t found a gif of spongebob going ‘100% MAN’

Sign: capricorn :o)

Height: 5’3”

Time: 10:38 p.m., lightly raining

Birthday: the fourth of january

Fave Bands: Panic At The Disco, AJR, and Jukebox The Ghost at the moment

Favorite Solo Artists: uhh idk??

Song stuck in my head: It Gets Better by AlicebanD

Last movie I watched: do Planet Earth documentaries count? no? Pacific Rim then probably

Last show i watched: bbc Sherlock

When did i create my blog: i don’t even remember

What do i post: whatever i fuckin want lol

Last thing i goodled: dont starve together for nintendo switch

Do i have other blogs: if i had other blogs, this one wouldn’t be such a multi-interest mess

Do i get asks: every now and then. mostly from those ask prompts lol

Instruments: hhhhhhhh piano seems SO easy to learn, especially since ive taken a music theory class, but i dont have regular access to a piano lol so i cant like learn or anything

Why did i choose my url: ‘billcypher’ was taken

Following: idk like 300 maybe

Followed by: 145

Average hours of sleep: some

What i’m wearing: the only gay pride shirt i own, jeans, white socks,

Dream job: hhhhhhhhhhhh....... actor................

Dream trip: france or greece, somewhere with a lot of like ~Artsy~ or historical stuff

Fave food: mmmmm..... food yummy......... uhhh idk i cant choose a favorite. Velveeta mac and cheese

Fave song: too many lol. recently i’ve been listening to Scitzophrenia and Good Day by Jukebox The Ghost on repeat

Last book I read: that i *finished* reading? The picture of dorian gray. that i’m currently reading? Heart of Darkness and Count of Monte Cristo

Top 3 fictional universe i wanna join: HARRY POTTER, HARRY POTTER, HARRY POTTER shdlahdlahflahfjskajdkajald i’m still low-key sad i never got my Hogwars letter 😢😢😢

uhhh, i guess also Soul Eater and Gravity falls would be neat worlds to live in

Tags: okay so there’s no way i know 20 blogs but here goes nothing:

@blueeyed-cheshire @cl0udsys <- i’m really sorry i’m always tagging u in stuff just tell me if it gets annoying @clyrics1 @eldritchdoctor @memberofthatonefandom @crazy-nerdy-trash @apple-core-tm @thefalconator9000 @ryan-the-vagabond that’s like.... 9. that’s a lot. i know i dont talk to some of u but i do see yall in my notes or whatever

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BBC’s Doctor Who is a big old ball of timey wimey things, and it can get difficult to keep up with all the various plot lines and character arcs that run through whole seasons and even individual episodes. In nearly sixty years, various showrunners and writers have come and gone from the sets of the legendary series, not to mention the various actors who play the Doctor after each regeneration.

RELATED: Doctor Who Companions, Ranked From Most To Least Likely To Die In A Horror Movie

In the complexity of time streams and other wibbly wobbly stuff, certain stories get a great introduction to the audience, but are forgotten or dropped by writers sometime down the line. It’s a pity because so many of these have the potential for spinoffs and several-part episodes, but the good news is that the nature of Doctor Who always gives hope that these forgotten arcs may be revived at some point.

8 The Silurian Pact

The Doctor protects planet Earth, no matter what. So, when he brokers a deal with aliens instead of driving them away, it is a big deal. In season 5, two episodes showed a giant, sleeping Silurian colony under the Earth. In ‘The Hungry Earth’ and ‘Cold Blood’, the Silurians wanted a fair share of the planet above the surface, which would have surely caused war between them and the humans.

The Doctor then made a pact with the civilization that they will go back into hibernation for a thousand years, and upon the end of their slumber, they will share the Earth equally with the humans. It would have been interesting to see how the planetary cohabitation would have played out, but audiences got nothing after the two-parter episode of Doctor Who.

7 The Face Of Boe

The noble Boekind played a huge part in Doctor Who — He was present in several episodes, the most notable one being ‘Gridlock’ where he sacrifices his own life to save the city of New New York. In ‘The Last of the Time Lords’, Jack unwittingly revealed his own future, when he mentioned his nickname “the face of Boe” to Martha and the Tenth Doctor.

RELATED: 10 Ways Chris Chibnall Is The Best Doctor Who Showrunner

Since then, theories have abounded on how the immortal Jack Harkness became a large head, and if he was immortal then how did he die in ‘Gridlock’? The connection was meant as a joke, but has been acknowledged by the actors, producers, and writers too. What remains is how and when Jack transforms into the Boekind.

6 Clara And Me’s Adventures

After Clara’s death in season 9, the Doctor pulled her out of her time stream just moments before the fact, which meant that she technically survived. The wise Clara Oswald then took off with a TARDIS with her buddy Ashildr/Me, who had been rendered immortal by the Doctor and his Mire repair kit.

The show didn’t really bother following up on the other TARDIS flying around the universe with Clara and Me in it, nor was there a further mention of their adventures. Theoretically, Clara would also have to re-enter the timestream where she died, which would leave Me all alone in a very potent machine. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

5 The Alliance Of The Big Bads

In his uncountable years of time travel, the Doctor made some big enemies, the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, and the Autons being some of them. In season 5, all the bad guys rallied together to defeat their greatest enemy, and they even succeeded to an extent: The Doctor was locked away in the Pandorica.

However, these villains never thought of teaming up again to bring down their biggest foe ever again, which would seem to be an obvious course of action for all these groups wanting to do away with The Doctor.

4 The Sandman’s Cliffhanger

Season 9 saw the formidable Sandmen, deadly foes made from the sleep dust in humans’ eyes in a Morpheus pod. Rassmussen, the creator of Morpheus himself was a Sandman, who edited footage and was ready to broadcast it to the whole universe, thereby turning them into Sandmen too.

RELATED: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Time Lords On Doctor Who

The episode ended with Rassmussen getting ready to do the deed, but then there was no follow up. One can only imagine that the Twelfth Doctor stopped him behind the scenes, because viewers saw none of it.

3 The Reapers

Meddling with time is essentially what Doctor Who is about, which justifies the large number of historical episodes. But when Billie Piper’s Rose changed a fixed point in time by saving her father from a car accident, massive creatures called the Reapers descended upon the town, attacking citizens at random.

There was nothing wrong with the premise in general, but these creatures, who were likened to bacteria gathering around a time wound, never returned again. With the sheer number of times the Doctor and his companions have changed huge, historical events, it’s strange that the Reapers didn’t show up to at least one of those occasions.

2 Rose And Meta-Crisis Ten’s Life

In season 4 of Doctor Who, viewers saw the sad but iconic scene where the Tenth Doctor is left heartbroken because Rose needs to return to her own universe, where the Meta-Crisis clone of him awaits her. At least Rose had her happy ending with a version of the Doctor, but so little is known about her life with Ten’s clone in her alternate universe.

In a deleted scene, the Doctor hands a piece of the TARDIS to his clone and permits him to grow his own, so its entirely possible that Rose and her Doctor are out there, flying around in their TARDIS and continuing their timey wimey adventures, which the audience may never know about.

1 The Doctor’s Daughter

Everything about Jenny, the Doctor’s daughter, was primed for a spinoff or at least an appearance in later episodes, but she only made it to one single episode, never to be heard from again. It may have seemed like a stretch, but fans were hoping with River Song’s drawn out plot point, Jenny may get a resurgence too.

After her death on Messaline, Donna and the Doctor leave, but Jenny suddenly comes back to life and flies off into the universe for her own adventures. It’s odd that the Doctor never found out about her survival, or even bothered looking for her.

NEXT: 10 Actors Who Could Replace Jodie Whittaker As Doctor Who

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 tagged by @frogyell and @not-your-fancy-butler

1. last drink: water

2. last phone call: my dad

3. last text message: my sister

4. last song you listened to: Vasily from the 2016 BBC War and Peace soundtrack (I know, weird, but I listen to soundtrack music when I do art and I was sculpting)

5. time you cried: hm I was having an argument like a week and a half ago and it got really heated?

6. dated someone twice? no

7. kissed someone and regretted it? nah

8. been cheated on? No actually

9. lost someone special? yes

10. been depressed? Once for like two weeks last december

11. gotten drunk and thrown up? No sounds awful

fave colors

12. Mossy green

13. ultramarine

14. The orange color of molten metal. Does it have a specific name??

in the last year have you…

15. made new friends? yes

16. fallen out of love? Well i havent even been in love this past year, so….

17. laughed until you cried? Oh yes

18. found out someone was talking about you? yeah but I still don’t know all the details.

19. met someone who changed you? Yeah i think so

20. found out who your friends are? Oh hell yes

21. kissed someone on your facebook friends list? no

general

22. how many of your facebook friends do you know irl? Don’t have a facebook

23. do you have any pets? Yes a cat!

24. do you want to change your name? No i really like my name actually.

25. what did you do for your last birthday? I went paddle boarding, ate a lot of seafood and watched game of thrones with my sister and a friend.

26. what time did you wake up today? 6:40

27. what were you doing at midnight last night? sleepin’

28. what is something you cant wait for? Next saturday so i can see the baby goats and watch episode three of Blue Planet II

30. what are you listening to right now? Uh nothing really organized. My taste in music is always all over the place

31. have you ever talked to a person named tom? yes

32. something thats getting on your nerves? My contacts. I got a new prescription this year and they're still annoying.

33. most visited website: probably gmail because i write a lot

34. hair color: Dark blond

35. long or short hair: real long

36. do you have a crush on someone: nah

37. what do you like about yourself: i like to think i’m pretty and I’m decent at art. I’m good at sculpting. I know a lot about animals.

38. want any piercings? I’ve never really felt strongly about piercings. Maybe i’ll get my ears pierced someday?

39. blood type: i honestly have no idea

40. nicknames: i don’t really have any nicknames

41. relationship status: single

42. zodiac: leo

43. pronouns: she/her

44. fave tv shows: B99, Game of Thrones. I  also watch a bunch of miniseries, like War and Peace, Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II and the like.

45. tattoos: None yet, but I think I’d like one or two someday.

46. right or left handed: right

47. ever had surgery: yes

48. piercings: none

49. sport: field hockey, fencing. I do kickboxing from time to time too.

50. vacation: I’d love to visit the hebrides in scotland, but my favorite place i’ve been so far was wither bermuda or corolla in the outer banks.

51. trainers: huh?

52. eating: l just ate a bunch of chocolate truffles that @vernalpool left on my porch

53. drinking: i love hot chocolate

54. im about to watch: hmmmm i have no clue

55. waiting for: august 29th

56. want: a new backpack so i can finally put all my fuckin patches and buttons on something

57. get married: someday

58. career: something with animals or something with movies. Probably something with animals though

59. hugs or kisses: both! both! both!

60. lips or eyes: eyes usually

61. shorter or taller: around my height or short is good

62. older or younger: my age

63. nice arms or stomach: tummy!

64. hookup or relationship: relationship

65. troublemaker or hesitant: depends

have you ever

66. kissed a stranger: nope

67. drank hard liquor: yes

68. lost glasses: no actually

69. turned someone down: no

70. sex on first date: no

71. broken someones heart: I don’t think so?

72. had your heart broken: mm hmm

73. been arrested: no

74. cried when someone died: yeah

75. fallen for a friend: thank god no i have NOT

do you believe in

76. yourself: yes!

77. Miracles: yeah i guess

78. love at first sight: lust, perhaps. Love takes time.

79. santa claus: no

80. kiss on a first date: yeah sure sounds fine

81. angels: still deciding on thay one

82. best friend’s name: sophia

83. eye colour: blue grey

84. fave movie: lord of the rings return of the king

85. fave actor: idk there's a lot of talented people out there

i honestly have no idea who to tag so i’m just not gonna do it

[kappasigmalife]

Weird facts you probably didnt need to know

22. A can of Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse 😳.

23. For a short time, the planet Uranus was named...George.

24. Movies have to clarify that they're fiction because of a 1930s lawsuit that traces back to none other than Rasputin.

25. Iceland has an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before anything gets built to make sure no elves are hanging around.

26. In the 1920s, women in several US cities organized Anti-Flirt Clubs in to combat catcalling.

27. Toilet seat covers are basically pointless.

28. There is an island in the Bahamas that's inhabited only by swimming pigs.

29. Richard Nixon once smuggled a suitcase full of weed through the airport for Louis Armstrong.

30. Ancient Greeks came up with the idea of cyclops after they found a fossil of a mammoth, and had no idea what it was.

31. There are 70 (!) ingredients in a McRib sandwich.

32. There are lower-case numbers in addition to lower-case letters.

33. The first person to perform a successful C-section in South Africa was Dr. James Barry...a doctor who was actually a woman.

34. For a brief time, Melbourne had the best name on the planet: Batmania.

35. In 1981, a black lab named Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, California.

36. Lego is the largest tire manufacturer in the world.

37. A "buttload" is a real measurement of weight.

38. 4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.

39. If someone gives opinions on topics they know nothing about, they're an ultracrepidarian.

40. Canadians say "sorry" so much that The Apology Act was passed in 2009, declaring that an apology can't be used as evidence of admission of guilt.

41. Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once ditched a White House dinner party to go on a joyride flight to Baltimore.

42. There's a high school in Minnesota that gives service dogs yearbook photos.

43. Most American movie villains have British accents because we associate them with having high intellect and low morals.

44. Earth used to be covered with giant mushrooms that were 24 feet tall and three feet wide, instead of trees.

45. Mother's Day was quite literally invented to be anti-commercialism.

46. There's a sexual phenomenon named after President Calvin Coolidge.

47. The logo for Chupa Chups was designed by Salvador Dalí.

48. Modern thong underwear was introduced by Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York City.

49. The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, has so many cats on its grounds that it employs a "Press Secretary to the Cats."

50. A writer predicted how the Titanic would sink in 1898, 13 years before it was even built.

51. There's a town in Poland where everything is decorated with paintings of flowers.

52. There are trees that can grow more than one kind of fruit, and they're called fruit salad trees.

53. "Horizontal refreshment" was 19th century slang for sex.

54. In Queensland, Australia, it's illegal to own a pet rabbit unless you're a magician.

55. Elizabeth Jennings Graham did what Rosa Parks did, but a century earlier on a New York City streetcar. Her eventual lawsuit led to the desegregation of New York's public transit system.

56. Sea otters have a pouch under their forearm to store their favorite rocks.

57. T-shirts were originally marketed to unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons back on collared shirts by themselves.

58. Prior to the 20th century, squirrels were one of America's most popular pets.

59. All colors of Froot Loops have the same flavor.

60. April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."

61. Before the 1800s, people had a "first" and "second sleep." They would sleep 3-4 hours, wake up for 2-3 hours to do some type of activity, then go back to sleep until morning.

62. Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.

63. Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s.

64. Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was in close proximity to three out of four presidential assassinations.

65. If you're being violent or drunk in Japan, police will get a futon and roll you into a burrito.

66. All mammals take about 12 seconds to poop, regardless of size.

67. Miami is the only major US city founded by a woman.

68. The story you've probably heard about lemmings jumping off of cliffs to their deaths is FAKE.

69. Anxious travelers can play with mini horses at a Kentucky airport.

70. In 1965, a patent was filed for a "birthing apparatus" which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.

71. A cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975.

72. Cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation.

73. When the University of Nebraska plays football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

74. Shaggy from Scooby Doo's real name is Norville Rogers.

75. Every year on Aug. 5, the Mars Curiosity rover sings itself a sad, solitary "Happy Birthday."

76. There are turtle tunnels in Japan to save them from being run over by trains.

77. Snakes can belch fire.

78. "She sells seashells by the seashore" was written about an actual person named Mary Anning.

79. Mr. Rogers announced that he was feeding his fish on every episode of his show because a blind viewer once asked if they were okay.

80. Red Sour Patch Kids are the exact same candy as Swedish Fish, just with some sour sugar sprinkled on them.

81. Baby puffins are called pufflings.

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Tips on how to make an Avengers movie in 11 steps

Avengers: Endgame, the fourth instalment in Marvel's superhero crossover franchise, made an unprecedented $1.2bn on the field workplace final weekend. It is the most important three-day haul in film historical past; and a testomony to the power of Marvel's serialised method to story-telling. Administrators Joe and Anthony Russo mentioned they had been "definitely surprised" by the movie's "runaway success" - but additionally introduced they had been taking a break from the superhero style, after making two Captain America and two Avengers movies within the area of seven years. "One of the most important things we learned is that when you're shooting two of the largest movies ever made, and you're shooting them back to back... is don't shoot 'em back to back," Anthony informed BBC Information, confirming the duo's departure. Joss Whedon skilled related feelings after writing and directing the sequence' first two instalments. "Why on Earth would I make another Avengers movie? They're really hard," he mused on the DVD commentary for Age of Ultron. "It was ill advised. I see that now." However Marvel's Cinematic Universe will proceed - with new instalments of Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy already confirmed; and a brand new configuration of The Avengers nearly a certainty. When you someway find yourself within the administrators' chair, how must you put together? Listed below are 11 key classes from the individuals who made the originals. This text doesn't include spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, however will focus on plot particulars from the previous movies.

1) Begin out on a TV present

All three administrators of The Avengers made their names in TV. Joss Whedon created Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly; whereas the Russo brothers labored on cult comedies Neighborhood and Arrested Improvement. These experiences had been invaluable when it got here to wrangling a forged of greater than 20 characters, "because they are all ensemble shows," says Joe Russo. "Those were shows that had to be executed in 21 minutes, they had to be funny, and they had to have a plot. And sometimes, like in an episode of Community, you'd have 30 speaking parts - so that's an exercise that certainly trained you in trying to contain as many characters as we do in two hours." "We're drawn to multiple points of view and group dynamics, because we grew up in a very large Italian-American family," provides Anthony, "so we've always loved working with ensembles."

2) Know the characters inside-out

The enjoyment of the Avengers is seeing how these disparate characters, and the actors who play them, work together. "There is a natural competition when the leads from two different franchises get together and it plays right into the competition of two heroes getting together - so it is delightful," noticed Infinity Battle script-writer Chris Markus final yr. "A very compelling element of crossovers is who has primacy. They're all leaders, they're all used to leading their own worlds, and once you put them into the same room, who gets to call the shots? That is a notion we revisit several times." Nonetheless, it is a problem to offer 23 separate characters a definite voice within the confines of a three-hour movie. Fortunately, there's an outdated screenwriting tip that turns out to be useful: In case your characters are well-written, it is best to know the way every of then would react in the event that they by chance fall right into a swimming pool. "Thor from Infinity War would mess that pool up," says Anthony. "Whereas Rocket - he's not exceedingly self-deprecating, so I think I could see him gag and spit. He'd be a little irritated."

3) Take a number of rest room breaks

Scott Derrickson just lately tweeted how he "ran into Joe Russo outside the men's room," whereas he was enhancing the Physician Unusual movie in 2015. "He pitched me the basic story for both Infinity War and Endgame I told him that if he could make the first movie work, the second movie would be incredible." Which begs the query: How lengthy did Joe maintain his colleague ready for the john? "I think it was like a 10-minute pitch," he laughs. "However the funniest factor is that individuals are like, 'Do you guys get collectively at Marvel on a regular basis and have conferences in regards to the storylines?' "And the reply is, 'No, all of it occurs on the way in which to the lavatory'. That is the place everybody runs into each other and begins exchanging data." In different phrases, do not maintain it in.

4) Maintain the story easy

For the entire acclaim heaped on Infinity Battle, the plot could be boiled down to 3 phrases: "Thanos desires stones". "We've so many characters within the film that we knew if the plot was difficult, it will take too to elucidate and that might take away from the characters and the motion," mentioned screenwriter Chris Markus on the DVD commentary. Even the variety of Infinity Stones brought about a headache, mentioned co-writer Steve McFeely. "Had we invented the concept of Infinity Stones in a vacuum, I am certain we'd not have determined there have been six of them. Six MacGuffins is loads for one film." To maintain issues shifting, the Russos dictated that each scene "needed to do a couple of factor". So the opening sequence - by which Thanos crushes the Hulk, kills Thor's brother Loki and steals one of many Infinity Stones - conveys three plot factors in two minutes. "It establishes Hulk's journey - he is been defeated and would not notably wish to assist Banner over the course of the film," defined Anthony Russo. "It establishes a vengeance story for Thor by taking out his brother, and it establishes the plot for stone assortment."

5) The percentages ought to appear insurmountable

"I needed to make a film the place being a superhero wasn't a free go," mentioned Joss Whedon, about scripting the primary Avengers movie in 2012. "The place issues had been robust sufficient that you'd be as sturdy as you can probably be and nonetheless not be sufficient to take care of what was occurring. "The stakes," he added, "are at all times the identical. "The stakes are: You can die."

6) Acknowledge the ridiculous

When your heroes are up in opposition to a sentient robotic who's ripped a whole metropolis off the face of the planet, it pays to acknowledge that the whole lot's a bit far-fetched. And so, on the climax of Age of Ultron, Hawkeye takes inventory of the state of affairs and says: "We're combating a military of robots and I've a bow and arrow. None of this is sensible." "I discuss with that as 'inoculation,'" Whedon explained. "He says the factor we're all considering, and it performs."

7) Discuss to the animators

The Avengers movies are among the most effects-heavy films in historical past, with 4 main characters - Thanos, Hulk, Rocket and Groot - created by laptop animation. Making them plausible is a vital activity, so each Whedon and the Russos began working with artists earlier than the scripts had been written. "Thanos was troublesome," says Joe Russo. "We knew we had been sunk if Thanos wasn't photo-real, so we spent two years doing analysis and growth on Thanos and ensuring that he would work accurately." For his debut because the Hulk, actor Mark Ruffalo even wrote a letter to the consequences group, stressing that his motion-captured performances had been solely the primary stage of making the character. "We're all enjoying this half," he wrote. "I've taken it so far as I can and also you guys have to make use of what you'll be able to after which overlook about me and change into the Hulk." "It was extremely inspiring to the animators," recalled Whedon, who set aside a day to explain how the movie portrayed two different aspects of the green-skinned monster: "The one Bruce Banner turns into unwittingly and the one he decides to be". "What I discovered later was that almost all of them - the truth is all of them - had not been in a position to see the script, in order that they had been simply animating issues in a vacuum," he said. "So it was extremely productive."

8) At all times put the raccoon on a chair*

Have you ever ever seen that Rocket - the CGI raccoon performed by Bradley Cooper - is nearly at all times standing on a chair? "That is a terrific level," says Anthony. "Whenever you're coping with characters of radically totally different sizes, it presents a number of framing challenges. "You start to learn tricks in blocking to keep everyone in the same relative plane, so you can actually shoot them." (* or on a desk, or positioned within the foreground, or simply movie the whole lot in a large shot.)

9) Ban t-shirts

Finish of Youtube submit by RED Lion Film Shorts Once we first meet Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow in Avengers Assemble, she's tied to a chair, barefoot and in a vest high, apparently being interrogated by shadowy Russian forces. In fact, she breaks free in spectacular trend... however her outfit made it one of many hardest stunt scenes to choreograph. "Whenever you say 'she has no sleeves' to your stunt co-ordinator he cries man tears," Joss Whedon famous afterwards. "It's very difficult to do a lot of these things if you can't pad up the knees and elbows."

10) Embrace the darkness

Making these movies is "incredibly physically demanding," says Joe Russo, and there'll inevitably be darkish days. "When you start out, it's all perfect in your head," Whedon informed BBC Information in 2015, "and while you work with the actors, it will get higher. "Then sooner or later you've got been enhancing for thus lengthy you begin considering. 'Who am I? What's occurring?' and also you overlook why you ever confirmed up, and what you are making an attempt to say. And also you despair. It is a very bleak expertise.

11) Emotion > motion

Including character beats to motion sequences has been Joss Whedon's calling card since Buffy - and he pulls it off completely in Age Of Ultron's climactic battle, the place Hawkeye stops whaling on the unhealthy guys to debate dwelling enhancements. "You know what I need to do? The dining room," he tells Black Widow. "If I knock out that east wall, it'll make a nice work space... What do you think?" "That sequence is, for me, the reason I show up," Whedon mentioned within the commentary. "Where two people in the apocalypse are talking about re-doing the dining room, that says more about their relationship than anything else I could have done." The Infinity Battle group made an analogous choice. Their movie would not finish with a battle however the emotional fallout of Thanos's "snap" - scenes that left some viewers in tears. So what is going to they really feel after they stroll out of Endgame? "Catharsis," says Joe Russo. "We realise how impactful the Infinity War ending was," provides his brother. "We saw how difficult it was for many people and that's something that we really respect. So we were very committed to paying off that kind of a story." Comply with us on Fb, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. When you have a narrative suggestion e mail leisure.information@bbc.co.uk. Read the full article

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How to make an Avengers film in 11 steps

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Image caption The Avengers cast and crew (L-R): Joe and Anthony Russo, Kevin Feige, Robert Downey Jr, Jeremy Renner and Brie Larson

Avengers: Endgame, the fourth instalment in Marvel’s superhero crossover franchise, made an unprecedented $1.2bn at the box office last weekend.

It’s the biggest three-day haul in movie history; and a testament to the strength of Marvel’s serialised approach to story-telling.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo said they were “definitely surprised” by the film’s “runaway success” – but also announced they were taking a break from the superhero genre, after making two Captain America and two Avengers films in the space of seven years.

“One of the most important things we learned is that when you’re shooting two of the largest movies ever made, and you’re shooting them back to back… is don’t shoot ’em back to back,” Anthony told BBC News, confirming the duo’s departure.

Joss Whedon experienced similar emotions after writing and directing the series’ first two instalments.

“Why on Earth would I make another Avengers movie? They’re really hard,” he mused on the DVD commentary for Age of Ultron. “It was ill advised. I see that now.”

But Marvel’s Cinematic Universe will continue – with new instalments of Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy already confirmed; and a new configuration of The Avengers almost a certainty.

If you somehow end up in the directors’ chair, how should you prepare? Here are 11 key lessons from the people who made the originals.

This article does not contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, but will discuss plot details from the preceding films.

1) Start out on a TV show

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Image caption The Russos directed the pilot of Arrested Development, and have referenced the show in both Infinity War and Captain America: Civil War

All three directors of The Avengers made their names in TV. Joss Whedon created Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly; while the Russo brothers worked on cult comedies Community and Arrested Development.

Those experiences were invaluable when it came to wrangling a cast of more than 20 characters, “because they are all ensemble shows,” says Joe Russo.

“Those were shows that had to be executed in 21 minutes, they had to be funny, and they had to have a plot. And sometimes, like in an episode of Community, you’d have 30 speaking parts – so that’s an exercise that certainly trained you in trying to contain as many characters as we do in two hours.”

“We’re drawn to multiple points of view and group dynamics, because we grew up in a very large Italian-American family,” adds Anthony, “so we’ve always loved working with ensembles.”

2) Know the characters inside-out

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Image caption The first Avengers film brought together six heroes, now there are more than 20

The joy of the Avengers is seeing how these disparate characters, and the actors who play them, interact.

“There is a natural competition when the leads from two different franchises get together and it plays right into the competition of two heroes getting together – so it is delightful,” observed Infinity War script-writer Chris Markus last year.

“A very compelling element of crossovers is who has primacy. They’re all leaders, they’re all used to leading their own worlds, and once you put them into the same room, who gets to call the shots? That is a notion we revisit several times.”

Still, it’s a challenge to give 23 separate characters a distinct voice in the confines of a three-hour film.

Luckily, there’s an old screenwriting tip that comes in handy: If your characters are well-written, you should know how each of then would react if they accidentally fall into a swimming pool.

“Thor from Infinity War would mess that pool up,” says Anthony. “Whereas Rocket – he’s not exceedingly self-deprecating, so I think I could see him gag and spit. He’d be a little irritated.”

3) Take a lot of toilet breaks

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Image caption Even superheroes need the bathroom

Scott Derrickson recently tweeted how he “ran into Joe Russo outside the men’s room,” while he was editing the Doctor Strange film in 2015.

“He pitched me the basic story for both Infinity War and Endgame [and] I told him that if he could make the first movie work, the second movie would be incredible.”

Which begs the question: How long did Joe keep his colleague waiting for the loo?

“I think it was like a 10-minute pitch,” he laughs.

“But the funniest thing is that people are like, ‘Do you guys get together at Marvel all the time and have meetings about the storylines?’

“And the answer is, ‘No, it all happens on the way to the bathroom’. That’s where everyone runs into one another and starts exchanging information.”

In other words, don’t hold it in.

4) Keep the story simple

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Image caption The search for the Infinity Stones is the key plot device of Avengers: Infinity War

For all of the acclaim heaped on Infinity War, the plot can be boiled down to three words: “Thanos wants stones”.

“We have so many characters in the movie that we knew if the plot was complicated, it would take too [long] to explain and that would take away from the characters and the action,” said screenwriter Chris Markus on the DVD commentary.

Even the number of Infinity Stones caused a headache, said co-writer Steve McFeely.

“Had we invented the idea of Infinity Stones in a vacuum, I’m sure we would not have decided there were six of them. Six MacGuffins is a lot for one movie.”

To keep things moving, the Russos dictated that every scene “had to do more than one thing”.

So the opening sequence – in which Thanos crushes the Hulk, kills Thor’s brother Loki and steals one of the Infinity Stones – conveys three plot points in two minutes.

“It establishes Hulk’s journey – he’s been defeated and doesn’t particularly want to help [Bruce] Banner over the course of the movie,” explained Anthony Russo.

“It establishes a vengeance story for Thor by taking out his brother, and it establishes the plot for stone collection.”

5) The odds should seem insurmountable

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Image caption Just another day at the office

“I wanted to make a movie where being a superhero wasn’t a free pass,” said Joss Whedon, about scripting the first Avengers film in 2012.

“Where things were tough enough that you would be as strong as you could possibly be and still not be enough to deal with what was going on.

“The stakes,” he added, “are always the same.

“The stakes are: You could die.”

6) Acknowledge the ridiculous

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Image caption He’s behiiiiind you

When your heroes are up against a sentient robot who’s ripped an entire city off the face of the planet, it pays to acknowledge that everything’s a bit far-fetched.

And so, at the climax of Age of Ultron, Hawkeye takes stock of the situation and says: “We’re fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.”

“I refer to that as ‘inoculation,'” Whedon explained. “He says the thing we’re all thinking, and it plays.”

7) Talk to the animators

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Image caption Hulk and Thanos are based on motion-captured performances by Mark Ruffalo and Josh Brolin

The Avengers films are some of the most effects-heavy movies in history, with four major characters – Thanos, Hulk, Rocket and Groot – created by computer animation.

Making them believable is a crucial task, so both Whedon and the Russos started working with artists before the scripts were written.

“Thanos was difficult,” says Joe Russo. “We knew we were sunk if Thanos wasn’t photo-real, so we spent two years doing research and development on Thanos and making sure that he would work correctly.”

For his debut as the Hulk, actor Mark Ruffalo even wrote a letter to the effects team, stressing that his motion-captured performances were only the first stage of creating the character.

“We are all playing this part,” he wrote. “I have taken it as far as I can and you guys have to use what you can and then forget about me and become the Hulk.”

“It was incredibly inspiring to the animators,” recalled Whedon, who set aside a day to explain how the movie portrayed two different aspects of the green-skinned monster: “The one Bruce Banner becomes unwittingly and the one he decides to be”.

“What I found out later was that most of them – in fact all of them – had not been able to see the script, so they were just animating things in a vacuum,” he said. “So it was incredibly productive.”

8) Always put the raccoon on a chair*

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Image caption Size isn’t everything…

Have you ever noticed that Rocket – the CGI raccoon played by Bradley Cooper – is almost always standing on a chair?

“That’s a great point,” says Anthony. “When you’re dealing with characters of radically different sizes, it presents a lot of framing challenges.

“You start to learn tricks in blocking [staging the scene] to keep everyone in the same relative plane, so you can actually shoot them.”

(* or a table)

9) Ban t-shirts

When we first meet Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow in Avengers Assemble, she’s tied to a chair, barefoot and in a vest top, apparently being interrogated by shadowy Russian forces.

Of course, she breaks free in spectacular fashion… but her outfit made it one of the hardest stunt scenes to choreograph.

“Whenever you say ‘she has no sleeves’ to your stunt co-ordinator he cries man tears,” Joss Whedon noted afterwards.

“It’s very difficult to do a lot of these things if you can’t pad up the knees and elbows.”

10) Embrace the darkness

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Image caption Joss Whedon clashed with Marvel during the making of Age Of Ultron

Making these films is “incredibly physically demanding,” says Joe Russo, and there will inevitably be dark days.

“When you start out, it’s all perfect in your head,” Whedon told BBC News in 2015, “and when you work with the actors, it gets better.

“Then at some point you’ve been editing for so long you start thinking. ‘Who am I? What’s happening?’ and you forget why you ever showed up, and what you’re trying to say. And you despair. It’s a very bleak experience.

11) Emotion > action

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Image caption Thor is sad

Adding character beats to action sequences has been Joss Whedon’s calling card since Buffy – and he pulls it off perfectly in Age Of Ultron’s climactic battle, where Hawkeye stops whaling on the bad guys to discuss home improvements.

“You know what I need to do? The dining room,” he tells Black Widow. “If I knock out that east wall, it’ll make a nice work space… What do you think?”

“That sequence is, for me, the reason I show up,” Whedon said in the commentary. “Where two people in the apocalypse are talking about re-doing the dining room, that says more about their relationship than anything else I could have done.”

The Infinity War team made a similar decision. Their film doesn’t end with a battle but the emotional fallout of Thanos’s “snap” – scenes that left some viewers in tears.

So what will they feel when they walk out of Endgame?

“Catharsis,” says Joe Russo.

“We realise how impactful the Infinity War ending was,” adds his brother.

“We saw how difficult it was for many people and that’s something that we really respect. So we were very committed to paying off that kind of a story.”

Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at Toldnewsnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@Toldnews.co.uk.

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The haunting score is composed by Kenji Kawai, one of Japan's most celebrated soundtrack composers alongside Joe Hisaishi and Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose work includes Hideo Nakata's Ring (1998) and Ring 2 (1999), Death Note (2006), Hong Kong films Seven Swords by Tsui Hark (2005) and Ip Man by Wilson Yip (2008), and countless others. Kawai's compositions see ancient harmonies and percussions uncannily mesh with synthesized sounds of the modern world to convey a sumptuous balance between folklore tradition and futuristic outlook. For its iconic main theme "Making Of Cyborg", Kawai had a choir chant a wedding song in ancient Japanese following Bulgarian folk harmonies, setting the standard for a timeless and unparalleled soundtrack that admirably echoes the film's musings on the nature of humanity in a technologically advanced world. Ghost In The Shell is widely considered one of the best anime films of all time and its influence has been felt in the work of numerous movie directors, including James Cameron's Avatar (2009), the Wachowskis's The Matrix (1999), and Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001). For fans of anime, manga, movie soundtracks, science fiction, ambient, folklore, Japan, Akira (1988), artificial intelligence, Midori Takada. Cut from the original master reels at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of renowned classical record label Deutsche Grammophon). Trost, Heather : Agistri LP $20.99LP version. "Heather Trost is best known for her work composing and performing as one half of A Hawk And A Hacksaw. She has also played with Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, Josephine Foster, and most recently Thor Harris of Swans. She has arranged and performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra, as well as conductor Andre De Ridder and his Stargaze Orchestra, and toured throughout the world. In 2014 she released her first solo project, a 7-inch on Ba Da Bing Records, followed in 2015 by Ourobouros, a limited edition cassette of expansive electronic ambient compositions influenced by Basil Kirchin, Terry Riley and Angelo Badalamenti on Cimiotti Recordings. These two projects propelled a full length album: named after a Greek Island, Agistri is a song cycle of freely formed pop songs touching upon soul, samba, and pop music of the '60s and '70s, with a subtle shade of psychedelia. Ambient and melancholic sounds interweave with Hammond organs and '70s Italian synthesizers, reflecting the desert landscapes of New Mexico, and the sparse shrubbery and turquoise water of the Aegean Sea and its islands. Bolstered by contributions from Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeremy Barnes on drums and bass, Deerhoof's John Dieterich on guitar, and Drake Hardin and Rosie Hutchinson of cult New Mexico band Mammal Eggs, Trost's talents as a songwriter and arranger explode on this wonderful, often surreal album." Wire #402: Aug 17 MAG/CD  $10.50"Stuck to the cover of this month's issue: The Wire Tapper 44 CD, featuring 20 tracks by AGF + Werkstatt, Sarah Angliss, Paul Rooney, Susanna, Hear In Now, Bonaventure, and more. Meanwhile, inside the issue: Finland's postmodern metal masters Circle; New York underground hiphop veteran Scotty Hard; Anton Lukoszevieze, leader of UK chamber music ensemble Apartment House; a report on the electronic explorers and pop-punk mavericks of Sapporo's DIY microscene; and more." TUNES AT NOONevery thursday at 12 noon in dearborn city hall park at the corner of michigan ave and schaeferone hour of free music - bring your lunch and enjoy some fun in the sun!! 7/13 Dearborn School of MusicWe are a music school that offers private lessons on all instruments and all styles of music to students of all ages. We also have group lessons for preschoolers called "music for little mozarts." For the summer concert we have put together a rock band comprised of students and instructors that will be playing some classic rock and modern rock and punk rock songs. 7/20 Lac La BelleLocal musicians Jennie Knaggs & Nick Schillace create music that blends history with the present via accordion, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonizing vocals, and fingerpicking resonator guitar. With their separate experiences learning folk and blues in Appalachia, American roots bind Lac La Belle’s compositions with a heavy thread. For this performance enjoy some of their favorite old time, bluegrass and western swing favorites, alongside their original tunes. 7/27 Detroit Pleasure SocietyDetroit Pleasure Society plays the traditional jazz of New Orleans with a fresh twist and raucous candor. 8/3 Libby DeCamp"Libby DeCamp makes dusty folk and American Roots-inspired music with a lyrical edge and a classic three-piece energy, delivered with a haunting vocal closeness that reaches listeners of all kinds. Sweetly soulful "Broken Folk." 8/10 Michael Malis TrioMichael Malis is a pianist and composer based in Detroit, MI. Malis bridges the gap between original composed, complex material and the spontaneity of improvisation. His trio (piano, bass, drums),   featured on his latest album, has toured in the United States and Canada, and in September 2016, they performed at the Detroit International Jazz Festival. 8/17 Viands "Viands is a spontaneous collaboration between two auteurs of Detroit's underground music scene: Joel Peterson and David Shettler. The music they create is a deep, reflective and fearless alternate-reality keyboard meditation that draws on the pair's broad musical vision to explore new vistas.