#Vincent Rocha

[lgbtqreads]

2023 Cover Redesigns

Love when great books get new looks? Here are a bunch of queer books getting new faces for their paperbacks, rereleases, and/or special editions in 2023! Middle Grade Middletown by Sarah Moon Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters,…

[mosswolf]

reading summary - march

vespertine, by margaret rogerson: i really enjoyed this one, YA but no romance, about a horrible fucked up little death nun who gets possessed by a bitchy ghost and becomes a joan of arc figure in a fantasy french setting. whats not to like really

river of teeth, by sarah gailey: this one's like alternate history lousiana, usa, with hippo cowboys. the concept fucks, but i was definitely hoping for more mystery than this novella had, possibly due to it being a novella? but if you like fantasy cowboys u gotta check this one out

sword, stone, table: old legends, new voices, edited by jenn northington and swapna krishna: LOVED this anthology, lots of really interesting retellings of arthuriana. my favourite was flat white by jessica plummer which is about elaine who works at a coffeeshop and gets tangled up with regular customers lancelot/arthur/guinevere in a messy codependant poly situation and i genuinely think about it such a lot. really really well written,,,

lorehaven bound by joy demorra: love ursula cant wait to see more ursula!!

the starfang trilogy by joy chng: hugely let down by these. theyre about werewolf clans in space which sounds great but they were super nothingy when it came to the main plot, had a really random cousin incest thing and a really weird attitude towards drug addiction? finished the trilogy because theyre all really short and feel super incomplete alone, but man. what a disappointment

clockwork boys & the wonder engine by t kingfisher: these were really fun, you can definitely tell that theyre earlier books than the saint of steel series but still lots to enjoy. the end of wonder engine had me screeching

swordheart by t kingfisher: wasnt as immediately engaged with this one because theres no paladins..... but i listened to this audiobook on a long coach ride basically all in one go and it was extremely solid in a very familiar and comforting way.

guides for dating vampires 0.5, 1, 1.1, 1.2, by d.n bryn: predictable in a very soothing way, loved vincent as a character

the dawnhounds, sascha stronach: very discworldy, but if discworld was biopunk and way more specifically about autonomy. i was also hoping for more of a mystery or central plot from this one, it felt quite scattered, but the concepts were super cool.

atomic awakening by james mahaffey: read this for uni, and it SUCKED. i always forget that people think that nuclear weapons are cool and that the usa is good. why.

gathering moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses by robin wall kimmerer: this was really interesting, and robin wall kimmerer reads her own audiobooks and her reading is super relaxing to listen to as well

consort of fire by kit rocha: this was about dragons and magic and poly romance and stuff but i dont know, i didnt really like it. just didnt really ever grab me despite the subject theoretically being exactly my thing

dirty strays 1 & 2 by riley nash: okay i picked these up because the description starts like this "We’re lost boys, wild and forgotten. Born into a world of poverty and crime, my two best friends and I have nothing to rely on except each other. But I have a plan: if I can film viral BDSM porn" and it carries on but THAT WAS SO HILARIOUS TO MEEEE LIKE BRO REALLY WENT THERE INSTANTLY. DIDNT CONSIDER ANYTHING ELSE FIRST. but yes theyre EXTREMELY horny and also i really liked them especially the first one. a fucked up family of fucked up people, semi verbal mc, they get a dog. really endearing in a strange kind of way

how to do nothing by jenny odell: this was okay, nothing lifechanging and i'd read a lot of the books that are quoted already, so i kind of felt i already got the gist

[paigelts05]

Mangled [FNAF 2, Renegade AU]

Published: Oct 27, 2024

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1114911672

My second pick for Faztober was day 11's prompt, Mangled.

The lockdown occured once police were able to prove that the children that had gone missing before the opening day of the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza had all been killed within the restaurants walls.

The manager immediately locked the building down with both staff and patrons inside, and the doors wouldn't get opened until other police officers arrived in the morning.

Out of the people trapped inside, the notable individuals were the night guard Jeremy Fitzgerald, the head of training for security Krasnyy Guy, the head of security Vincent Taylor, the chief of police Megan Schmidt, the chef's son Mike Schmidt, the chief's daughter May Schmidt, former employee Fritz Smith, missing technician Oliver Rocha, and a child named PT.

PT was one of approximately ten children who were trapped by the lockdown, but she was the only child who actively fought against the animatronics.

Shortly after the night started, PT found the room that the manager had shoved Krasnyy into and helped the red haired guard with finding a way out.

Later in the night, she hid in the office. Jeremy was the on-duty guard, now protecting several others. PT Krasnyy, May, and Mike hid in the back of the office and helped by using torches to keep the vents iluminated. Each also used a crappy plastic mask to throw off the animatronics.

During the morning, when it was clear that the police wouldn't show up to stop the lockdown for another few hours, Megan knew that it was do-or-die so declared fighting the robots to be self defence, and the human's counter-offensive begun. PT was the only child who fought whilst the rest hid.

She grabbed a circular saw, and helped Jeremy eliminate mangle when it was trying to bite his arms to shreds.

One child's drive to fight started a chain reaction that would spell each Toy animatronics destruction and each ghost that inhabited those shells hopping to one of the people present.

The ghost within Mangle jumped to Fritz.

The ghost within Toy Chica jumped to Jeremy.

The ghost within Toy Freddy jumped to Mike.

The ghost within Toy Bonnie jumped to PT.

The ghost within C locations Marionette jumped to May.

Nobody knows what happened to the ghost within Balloon Boy.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 33, 2023

Parametric control of flexible timing through low-dimensional neural manifolds. Beiran, M., Meirhaeghe, N., Sohn, H., Jazayeri, M., & Ostojic, S. (2023). Neuron, 111(5), 739-753.e8.

Dissociation in neuronal encoding of object versus surface motion in the primate brain. Bigelow, A., Kim, T., Namima, T., Bair, W., & Pasupathy, A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(4), 711-719.e5.

The presence of irrelevant alternatives paradoxically increases confidence in perceptual decisions. Comay, N. A., Della Bella, G., Lamberti, P., Sigman, M., Solovey, G., & Barttfeld, P. (2023). Cognition, 234, 105377.

A novel computational approach to pain perception modelling within a Bayesian framework using quantitative sensory testing. Drusko, A., Baumeister, D., McPhee Christensen, M., Kold, S., Fisher, V. L., Treede, R.-D., … Tesarz, J. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 3196.

Cerebellar control of a unitary head direction sense. Fallahnezhad, M., Le Mero, J., Zenelaj, X., Vincent, J., Rochefort, C., & Rondi-Reig, L. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(9), e2214539120.

Temporal derivative computation in the dorsal raphe network revealed by an experimentally driven augmented integrate-and-fire modeling framework. Harkin, E. F., Lynn, M. B., Payeur, A., Boucher, J.-F., Caya-Bissonnette, L., Cyr, D., … Béïque, J.-C. (2023). eLife, 12, e72951.

Illusory perception of visual patterns in pure noise is associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Hartmann, M., & Müller, P. (2023). i-Perception, 14(1), 204166952211447.

Interplay between biochemical processes and network properties generates neuronal up and down states at the tripartite synapse. Joshi, S. N., Joshi, A. N., & Joshi, N. D. (2023). Physical Review E, 107(2), 024415.

Inversion of pop-out for a distracting feature dimension in monkey visual cortex. Klink, P. C., Teeuwen, R. R. M., Lorteije, J. A. M., & Roelfsema, P. R. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(9), e2210839120.

Intraparietal stimulation disrupts negative distractor effects in human multi-alternative decision-making. Kohl, C., Wong, M. X., Wong, J. J., Rushworth, M. F., & Chau, B. K. (2023).eLife, 12, e75007.

Bayesian inference in ring attractor networks. Kutschireiter, A., Basnak, M. A., Wilson, R. I., & Drugowitsch, J. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(9), e2210622120.

Energy-efficiency computing of up and down transitions in a neural network. Liu, X., Lu, L., Zhu, Y., & Yi, M. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 129(3), 581–590.

Recurrent networks endowed with structural priors explain suboptimal animal behavior. Molano-Mazón, M., Shao, Y., Duque, D., Yang, G. R., Ostojic, S., & de la Rocha, J. (2023). Current Biology, 33(4), 622-638.e7.

Brainstem serotonin neurons selectively gate retinal information flow to thalamus. Reggiani, J. D. S., Jiang, Q., Barbini, M., Lutas, A., Liang, L., Fernando, J., … Andermann, M. L. (2023). Neuron, 111(5), 711-726.e11.

Brain State-Dependent Modulation of Thalamic Visual Processing by Cortico-Thalamic Feedback. Reinhold, K., Resulaj, A., & Scanziani, M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(9), 1540–1554.

Mountains of memory in a sea of uncertainty: Sampling the external world despite useful information in visual working memory. Sahakian, A., Gayet, S., Paffen, C. L. E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2023). Cognition, 234, 105381.

Inhibitory top-down projections from zona incerta mediate neocortical memory. Schroeder, A., Pardi, M. B., Keijser, J., Dalmay, T., Groisman, A. I., Schuman, E. M., … Letzkus, J. J. (2023). Neuron, 111(5), 727-738.e8.

Motor recalibration of visual and saccadic maps. Tyralla, S., Pomè, A., & Zimmermann, E. (2023). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1994).

Serial dependencies between locomotion and visual space. Wiesing, M., & Zimmermann, E. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 3302.

Subcortical encoding of summary statistics in humans. Zhao, Y., Zeng, T., Wang, T., Fang, F., Pan, Y., & Jia, J. (2023). Cognition, 234, 105384.

[prince-simon]

Put your playlist on shuffle and post the first ten songs, then tag ten people. No skipping!

thank you for the tags @myauroraborealis & @i-love-semicolons

i'm gonna go with my liked songs playlist

In my Sheets - John Vincent III

White Lips - Sarah and Julian

Sunroof - Nicky Youre, dazy

Sign of the Times - Harry Styles

Jeg bare synes du skulle ha hørt på meg feat. Unge Ferrari - Cezinando

Mosquito - MARO, Manuel Rocha

Another Love - Tom Odell

Meet me in the Hallway - Harry Styles

Woman - Harry Styles

A Flor de Piel - Kora

oops almost forgot to tag people lol. idk if i can do 10 let's see: @omaremioo @toffeelemon @aro-of-artemis @moonofthenight @ungaroyals @zee-has-commitment-issues @myyoungroyalsblog @angelbabysimon @willesworld @cloudywilmon

[entertainment1983]

hot  sceen of love

[ulkaralakbarova]

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Michael Williams: Nicolas Cage Lyle from Dallas: Dennis Hopper Suzanne Brown: Lara Flynn Boyle Wayne Brown: J.T. Walsh Deputy Matt Greytack: Timothy Carhart Deputy Russ Bowman: Dan Shor Truck Driver: Dwight Yoakam Jim: Craig Reay Mr. Johnson: Vance Johnson Howard: Robert Apel Old Man: Bobby Joe McFadden Kurt: Dale Gibson Cashier: Ted Parks Receptionist: Babs Bram Doctor: Robert Guajardo Nurse: Sarah Sullivan Red Rock Bartender: Michael Ruud Truck Driver’s Buddy: Peter Kevin Quinn Country Girl Bartender: Jeff Levine Ted: Shawn Michael Ryan Jane: Barbara Glover Caretaker: Robert Beecher Caretaker’s Wife: Jody Carter Film Crew: Screenplay: John Dahl Associate Producer: Rick Dahl Producer: Steve Golin Executive Producer: Michael Kuhn Executive Producer: Jane McGann Producer: Sigurjón Sighvatsson Original Music Composer: William Olvis Director of Photography: Marc Reshovsky Editor: Scott Chestnut Art Direction: Don Diers Set Decoration: Kate J. Sullivan Casting: Carol Lewis Costume Design: Terry Dresbach Executive In Charge Of Production: Tim Clawson Associate Producer: Lynn Weimer Production Design: Robert Pearson Supervising Producer: Aron Warner Production Manager: Philip Rose First Assistant Director: Mike Topoozian Second Assistant Director: Michael McCue Post Production Supervisor: Vincent Landay Script Supervisor: Nancy Karlin Production Coordinator: Larry Shapiro Production Coordinator: Beth DePatie Assistant Production Coordinator: Jeff Caulfield First Assistant Camera: Karl Owens Camera Loader: Jon Massey Still Photographer: Suzanne Tenner Sound Mixer: Mark Weingarten Boom Operator: Yehuda Maayan Gaffer: Stephen Rocha Best Boy Electric: Robert Eyslee Electrician: Dana Arnold Electrician: Fred Gibson Electrician: Michael E. Gips Electrician: Raymond Gonzales Electrician: Peter Pearce Electrician: Gary W. Shaw Key Grip: Mark Shane Davis Dolly Grip: Levon Besnelian Additional Photography: Rohn Schmidt Property Master: Jonathan R. Hodges Hairstylist: Frí��a Aradóttir Makeup Artist: Patty York Costume Supervisor: Lori Eskowitz Special Effects Coordinator: Frank Ceglia Special Effects: Mark R. Byers Special Effects Makeup Artist: John Carl Buechler Sculptor: Dean Gates Stunt Coordinator: Dan Bradley Stunts: Rick Barker Stunts: Charlie Carpenter Stunts: Scott Alan Cook Stunts: Dale Gibson Stunts: Don Ruffin Stunts: Keith Campbell Movie Reviews: Steve: A bit dated looking at it over 20 years later, but still entertaining. A slick neo-noir that helped revive the genre. John Chard: All Roads Lead To Intrigue. Red Rock West is directed by John Dahl who also co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Rick. It stars Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, J. T. Walsh and Timothy Carhart. Music is by William Olvis and cinematography by Marc Reshovsky. When a promised job in Wyoming fails to materialise on account of an injury sustained in combat, Michael Williams (Cage) drifts into the town of Red Rock and is mistaken in a bar for a hit-man hired to kill an unfaithful wife. Tempted by the high cash on offer, Michael plays along and promptly finds himself in a web of intrigue from which escape is looking unlikely Welcome To Red Rock/You Are Now Leaving Red Rock. The studio didn’t know what to do with it, a neo-noir flavoured with contemporary Western spices. Put out on cable in America and thriving on its limited release in Europe, it started to gain a cult fan-base. More so after a theatre in the Frisco Bay area started showing it and it made considerable coinage. Today it still remains more of a cult piece than anything else, which while it deserves more accolades and exposure, is still kind of nice for the fans, because it’s like we have our ...

[shallowtrend]

Photos by Anna Shvets / Vincent M.A. Janssen / jasmin chew / Matheus Rocha / Noel McShane 202305261600

[pageman]

https://www.clubhouse.com/join/sinigang-valley/KIjw9qwa/xXLKrJVv Tonight 10PM at #SinigangValley we chat Vincent Rocha of Kyūsen, a research project on how to close the gap between NFT-as-a-commodity and “digital living things” and how Filipinos can create a future with autonomous NFTs #CCLJU (at Malate, Manila) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnwfnIpvhsv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[littleweirdoss]

JEUDI | 20H04

I'm gonna need you for something else.

[paigelts05]

Who is V_A? [FNAF, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Who-is-V-A-FNAF-Renegade-AU-911875812

Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36608917

Published: Apr 3, 2022

Part three of Escalation and Revelation. Set a few weeks or so after the previous. The pre-timeskip part of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place before this, as does this 'Adelaide incident' that I keep talking about. The post-timeskip of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place a month or two after this. Several days after Adelaide wrecked her havoc on the maintenance firm, Ness goes AWOL and only shows up to collect some rather concerning packages that she'd had mailed to the maintenance firm. To top things off, Faz Ent' had one of thier people, an email starting with 'V_A', get the virus off their system, but in the process, this V_A also accessed thier admin commands and locked them out of their own systems. After being present for a shipment of thumbscrews, everyone decides that they must take action and find out what happened to Ness, and uncover the identity of who the hell this V_A is. =°•.🌹 Story 🌹.•°=

°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*° It had been a few days since Adelaide had been dealt with. Daniel Rocha was still in hospital, but was holding steady, even though he was missing one of his ribs. Anna, Steve, and Mark had been reassured multiple times that they are not at fault for any of this and are as much victims in that incident as Dan was. Luis felt guilty for not being there, but knew that if he and Ness had been there, then things would have gone a lot worse. Raha didn't like that she had to beat up her colleagues to get the masks off their faces and free them, but she knew it had to be done. And a few days after that, Ness had fallen ill. Despite having to close for a few days for everyone to recover, everything was going disturbingly well. Fazbear Entertainment even offered tech support to get the 'virus' off their system. Anna felt forced to accept their offer, but made it known that if they caused problems with this tech support, the world will know once again how slimy Fazbear Entertainment really was and still is. Several days passed, and the date of the tech support was getting closer. Anna was on edge. She knew damn well Fazbear Entertainment put the viruses there in the first place, but she couldn't deny the aid offered lest she look suspicious instead. Especially at this short notice. The day before they were to receive tech support, Dan had recovered and was back at work despite being advised to stay home and rest, because the last thing he wanted to happen was to have Anna and Steve left alone dealing with Fazbear Entertainment tech support. He had to be there for her. Despite Ness having fallen ill a few days after the incident and not being around to help and Luis being jumpy as a result of her absence, everything went smoothly. The person from Fazbear Entertainment was this 'V_A' woman who was able to isolate the viruses and got them off the systems of CK maintenance, but didn't appear to delete them on their end. With all traces of the viruses gone on CK maintenance's end, everything seemed to be going fine until it became apparent that someone from Fazbear Entertainment was still using the 'V_A' account to run admin commands on their systems. All of the Springtraps had been released from the systems, and one of the animatronics had attempted to eat a stray cat, and Anna was left taking care of a bunch of kittens, keeping them at home so they wouldn't also be hurt. Due to the increased violence of the animatronics, she had the bots stored and locked away in the basement, despite the dampness and leaky pipes. "If they didn't want their animatronics to be damp they would have taken them back after they canceled work on these things." Anna said as she barricaded the door with the aid of Vincent, who had opted to see this through. Until this new issue was sorted, the only reason the animatronics would be let out is if the contractee had come to collect them. Luis had tried to visit Ness a few times. He had organised a date and time to visit, but when the time came, she never seemed to be home. However, she always answered her emails when he sent them, even when he was outside the door. He figured she was simply too ill to have guests, but it was odd, given that they had agreed to meet up. This reminded him of how she had described Casey's condition when she had been posessed; never going outside, trying to get people to come around but flaking last minute, and only communicating via emails or text. When Ness stopped responding to Luis's emails, everyone was worried. Initially, they feared that she had died, but it was a slight relief when she would sometimes come in to pick up packages that she had ordered. However, the contents of these packages were rather strange, and when she showed up she always looked so tired, as if she wasn't herself. This made them fear that the worst had happened, and that she really was no longer herself. When a parcel of thumb screws arrived within a week of some flowers regarding Brad - which was a term she still used to refer to Glitchtrap, as it's safer to talk about an abusive ex Brad than literally William Afton, especially when the man has ears everywhere - everyone knew they had to act. Steven noticed that Ness's actions were not just exhaustion or being mentally broken, but confirmed Luis's suspicions that she was indeed posessed - the signs were clear: tired eyes, lack of control over basic motor functions, and walking like a puppet. Luis knew that Ness was trying to call for help in a discreet manner. Her sudden absence followed by going unresponsive was a sign that something was wrong and he was kicking himself for not realising sooner; she had stopped responding to his emails is because she literally couldn't, and the reason why she couldn't is because that thing was not letting her. They had to intercept her to save her. So when Ness arrived out of the blue to pick up the thumb screws that she had ordered, Anna and Raha dragged Ness out of the shipping area and into the main office part of the maintenance firm before Ness could pick up the parcel. At first, Ness seemed to try and fight back, but quickly fell unconscious, only to wake up a minute later with no recollection of how she got there. "Ness, you've been ill for about two weeks, arranged to meet up with people only to flake last second, and you've been ordering all this weird stuff. We pulled you in because we figured that something wasn't right, and knew that if we didn't, you'd just vanish again. These are all signs that Cassey showed - which you told us about -  and we want to help you nip this problem in the bud before it gets worse." Anna said in a very calm voice. She was not only trying to comfort Ness, but also deduce what had happened. "Thank you for dragging me in here - he panicked and left when he couldn't make me run," Ness replied, her voice oddly hoarse, "Brad - no, I'll just call him what he is - William was starting to get desperate. I don't know what I did, but it seems I was able to cue you into that something was wrong in time" "Definitely. Are you ok? Did he hurt you?" Luis asked, panicked, but relieved that Ness was safe. "I feel like I'm going to be sick, and everything aches. I'm sure Steve can relate." Ness looked around. Dan was covered in bandages, Anna and Mark had some small scars on their faces, and Steve's bruises has almost gone. Last time she saw everyone, they were all bloody and bruised. Now, they looked normal, or at least as normal as they could. If Dan was back at work, then how long had she been out? How long has she been under Glitchtrap's control. Steve nodded. "I assume you don't remember much of what happened then this past two weeks." "Kind of," Ness replied, "After I fell ill and stayed in for a few days, he used that to gain more control faster. I know I received emails, but every time I went to reply, I wouldn't be able to. I was able to read them, but I wasn't able to respond once he took over." "I - I'm really sorry if my emails were corny." Luis went red, "I was getting worried. And, the thing kept sending me red flag reports - I'm so sorry but I read them, so I've seen your search history..." Ness chuckled a bit, "Don't be. Those emails were keeping me going. Even though I had practically no control over my body, knowing that you'd fight Glitchtrap for my sake really gave me hope. And, I've known since the first email that you've been able to see that stuff. Remember the time I just searched the word 'help' after the compliance searches a while before I went AWOL? I knew you'd see it, and it may sound weird but I've always hoped that you'd snoop. You've always been my ticket out." Luis smiled back and went even more red, but knew that they still had to get to the bottom of all of this, "You said you had no control over your body when you 'went AWOL', as you put it. Was there anything that he let you do?" Ness looked down taking note of how tattered her clothes had become due to Glitchtrap not letting her have any modicum of control, even for sanitary purposes, "he'd let me order suspicious things online that he thought would help him control me, but I couldn't go outside without losing control over my own body. Cass's advice came in handy with staying in as much as possible to play damage control, but I feel he had too much control for me to act on most of it." "It's ok," Luis said, "you're here now. A lot of stuff happened whilst you were ill. Apparently, the viruses are off our system, but I'm not convinced. Their tech support lady also has access to our systems still, and has been running admin commands." Ness went pale, remembering the list of employee names that Luis had gathered several weeks ago, before the whole Adelaide incident kicked into its final stage. "The tech they had contact us was this woman who went by 'V_A'. I'm pretty sure she's one of Dimitri's lot." Luis continued before being promptly interrupted by Ness. "Who is V_A!" Ness shreiked in a panic. She was shaking, and everyone could tell that she was going to be sick. Everyone looked at eachother. "I just thought she was another member of Fazbear Entertainment." Mark said, looking at Raha. "She seemed to be very knowledgeable about both computers and machines." Raha added, looking at Dan. "Especially the legacy hardware. But then again, I wouldn't put it past staff of that place to know this stuff." Dan said, looking at Steve. "She did seem more like she was used to programming the machines as opposed to building them though." Steve added, looking at Anna. "Luis, we should check the list of names you sent me a few weeks ago. There were work emails attached to each employee, so when they set Charles up an employee account, and maintained yours and Ness's accounts despite you not being employees anymore, they likely made new emails too. They probably have already used the account under your names to get more access to our systems. I've got a bad feeling about this." Luis nodded and looked at his phone. Everyone in the maintenance firm had had to change what email they used for more sensitive information as many emails were still getting leaked and their work emails were filled with crap from Fazbear Entertainment. This left everyone with two work emails and two personal emails to keep the compromised address away from the non compromised ones. Luis opened up the scavenged data and quickly found what he was looking for, jumping to the employee data file and searching for 'V_A'. V_A. Job assigned to that email: tech support. Division D. She was certainly one of Dimitri's lot, so he knew what kind of chaos she was tasked with inflicting. Then the next element in the row connected the account name to the employee name and email address. Vanessa Diego | V_A@... Luis put his phone in his jacket pocket and sunk to the ground as he felt the blood drain from his face. He felt cold, but he was sweating like it was the middle of summer. He knew this was coming, but he didn't know he'd have to face it so soon. Everyone was looking at him. Anna crouched down and asked Luis "what did you find." Luis could bearly bring himself to say it. He knew that this was just the Adelaide incident all over again. Ness and Steve were in the same boat. She had to know for her own safety, lest they had a repeat performance of last time. "Ness." He managed to say. Ness looked at him, thinking he was about to tell her something, and Luis continued talking. "V_A is Ness's account." Ness seemed more calm than what Luis expected. Everyone seemed more calm than he expected. 'No shit', he thought to himself, 'we have just done this with Adelaide possessing Steve, and "why else would Fazbear Entertainment had made an account for her if not to use it to unleash this virus across our systems."' He didn't realize that he had said that last bit out loud until everyone was looking at him. "I figured," Ness said, "no wonder he was keeping me away from you guys. I understand if -" "Can you get the credentials to the V_A account?" Luis said, knowing that if he didn't butt in, Ness would have started blaming herself. "What?" Ness replied. She was shocked that this was being brushed off so easily. No talk of betrayal. Just what can be done to help now they knew who the account belonged too. It was a shock, but also a relief. "Can you still get into the V_A account. The data I got didn't have passwords, so I'm wondering if you're still logged in on your end - if you were even in control of the V_A account at all. We could use it to get the virus off the systems ourselves." Luis confirmed that what he said was what he said. Luis had just brought up the possibility that the V_A account was used by a legitimate employee of Fazbear Entertainment and not Ness, much like how Luis and Charles had never used the accounts made under their names, but Ness knew deep down that even though that was a possibility, Glitchtrap definitely would have used her to access the V_A account, even if just to try and cause a rift between Ness and her colleagues. "I think so. I'm pretty certain I was used, and Glitchtrap is an old fart, so I don't know how much he knows about how cookies are used nowadays. He probably didn't log out either." Ness then smiled, "He didn't suspect that I tipped you off, and besides, we could always see if you could do something with that tracking software his goonies left on our computers." She seemed almost proud of herself. She was able to communicate that she needed saving, and her friends, including her dearest, managed to save her, and not just that but she also had an IDEA of how to help. Even though this was only 'for now', it was enough. "With a bit of luck, perhaps you're logged on still and I probably could make use of that software." Luis said trying to smile, "we can turn the tables if we start using that account against them." Ness smiled again and nodded as Luis opened his computer and made a right hack-job out of opening and logging into the tracking software that had been left on his device as a vestige of his part time employment. As he started to look more concerned, Ness's smile quickly faded into panic as she realised there was one little problem: the device had gone into sleep mode and/or was off. "My computer is at home. I don't want to go back there. What if he's waiting for me?" The room was silent. Due to Adelaide's recent defeat, there was reason why William would avoid the maintenance firm, but as soon as Ness left the relative safety of this place, who knows when he'd strike. Who knows when he'd next try and control Ness, and what he'd do. Ness didn't want to know and had grabbed Luis, holding him tight, and mumbling "I don't want to go back," over and over again. "How about I go with you?" Luis suggested, figuring that two was better than one. "Are you kidding me?" Anna exclaimed, knowing that if only one person went, that would be a recipe for disaster, "I'm going too, and were having at least one other person waiting outside. If anything goes south, we need to be prepared this time." "That'd be better," Ness smiled, "could everyone come?" "That would be optimal." Anna replied, "Me, Raha, and Luis will help you collect your things. Dan, Mark, and Steve will be waiting outside to help just in case anything goes wrong. Having people outside means that we can't all be trapped in one place." "You seem to have thought about this a lot..." Luis seemed rather unnerved by how thought through Anna's plan was, "were you expecting something like this?" "No." Anna bluntly replied, "I'm just using what we learned last time to give us the upper hand." Last time. The Adelaide incident. During the past few weeks, Anna had talked to Dan - she lives with him, so of course she did - about what happened that day, and she talked to Mark about what little he remembered. Their responses were basically the same. Steve was posessed. Steve shoved a mask on Marks face before overpowering Dan. Rest was history. And she remembered what happened to her the night before: went to the basement alone, got cornered by an animatronic and knocked down. Every time she mulled over the events in her head, "if only there was someone to help" was repeated over and over again. So many situations where they should have put something off until other people arived, or should have done something before everyone left. Anna hadn't been preparing for this in particular. She had been preparing for just a similar incident full stop. "I want to know that I've done all I can to help. I can't let you walk into the same trap I walked into." Anna said, placing a hand on Ness's shoulder, "For all we know, he could very well be planning an ambush - good on you for trusting your gut there and speaking up - so we need to be ready for anything." Ness nodded and seemed calm. Everyone wanted to help her. Everyone still saw her as a friend. They saw her issue with the Aftons as being something they had to help solve. They saw the fact she was susceptible to being controlled just as they saw Steve when he was posessed: they still saw her as one of their own: a friend. "Guys," Ness's eyes watered up as she spoke, "thank you." "It's nothin'," Raha said as she crossed her arms, "we're friends, aren't we? I see that look on yer face. We'd 'ave been up shit creek without a paddle whether you started workin' 'ere or not, but 'ey! You bein' here's given us a paddle t' use." Ness then remembered what Luis told her several weeks ago, well before the incident: that he'd have gone to investigate the old sites anyway. She always had a gut feeling that he was being genuine, and here was the proof she needed to know for a fact that these were the exact sort of people she thought they were, and Marks next word summed it up perfectly. "We may be colleagues, Ness, but we're also friends. And when a friend is being hounded by a ghost, friends need to stick together to stop said ghost." Mark leaded on his mop as he spoke, "Whether that involves petty trespassing, corporate espionage, or data theft to solve, we're in this together." As he looked away for a moment, he mumbled, "and if they bring it up we can always use the fact the Botanist and Dimitri exist to bring up the murders." Everyone heard and acknowledged the last part of what he had just said, and then carried on talking as if they hadn't. Nobody wanted to deal with that kettle of fish right now. "So, you got any plans for your living arrangements? Just need to know so I can plan ahead." Anna then said, looking back at Ness. "No," Ness replied, "that apartment is my home, but I don't want to be there alone anymore. I don't want all your effort today to be for nothing." "I see," Anna sighed. Ness didn't want to be alone due to fearing William, and didn't want to be around others for the same reason. This would be tough, but luckily, someone else had already suggested an alternative. "How about you stay with me?" Luis had meekly piped up and looked like he was about to turn bright red. Everyone knew Ness and Luis were a thing, but also knew the two were very nervous around eachother due to the recent circumstances of William Afton - usually just referred to as Glitchtrap - being able to control Ness as if he was possessing her. This arrangement was risky, but Luis had good enough parents for him to routinely contact them, so ensuring Luis was safe was mostly taken care of. "I don't see why not," Ness agreed. She'd finally be able to move out of the apartment that over the past few weeks had caused her so much pain. Whilst it was nice living there prior to being posessed, being trapped in her own body whilst the filth of an uncaring possessors actions built up around her wasn't so nice. "I'll pack my things whilst I'm there. Get what I need today, get the rest later. I have a whole two months of rent paid in advance, so I don't see why I'd need to get everything in one trip." 'Two months?' Luis thought, 'she either paid in advance or William actually paid bills in multiple month blocks to reduce the amount that people would try and check in on Ness.' Either way, they could - as Ness said - get what was vital now and head back for everything else later. "Right." Anna a clapped a single time before she continued, "That settles it. I'd say that dealing with this is more important, as it will help us with our system administrator problem." Anna decided to cut the work day short to help Ness move out. Everyone would be paid the full day, and as soon as Ness was moved into Luis's place and Anna had Ness's laptop in order to extract the V_A accounts credentials, everyone would be free to go home. The drive to the apartment was silent, if a little awkward, but Anna knew that the awkwardness was less Luis and Ness in the back seat, and more of the fact that they were willingly entering a big danger zone and one wrong move could grant William control over Ness. They all knew this, and nobody felt like small talk, so they just kept their mouths shut as the CD player blared out a tune that sounded like it came from the 70's. Whilst Luis did have his own car - Ness too - they wanted to take up as few parking spots as possible and raise as little suspicion as possible; the last thing anyone in this town needed was for their day to be interrupted by not getting a parking spot only to then find that the reason why is because a local woman is posessed by a serial killer. Anna hoped that Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were having a less nerve wrecking trip. Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were not having a less nerve wrecking trip. It was about the same level as nerves, if not more. Steve had already been on the receiving end of full involuntary possession and feared that it may happen again if he wasn't careful. Everyone knew that Ness was posessed by William, and if he was so 'prepared and talented' as Adelaide claimed, then he feared that they'd be in for a tough ordeal. Mark was scared that something would happen and he was scared that perhaps taking off the mask wasn't all there was to breaking the control that was forced on him. Dan had almost died due to this involuntary possession and was scared he'd become a victim again. Raha was still torn between feeling as if her late arrival that day was for the better or worse. Once everyone arrived, they parked up in the visitor spots and noticed that Ness's car was in one of the parking spots. "She must have walked to the firm," Luis thought to himself, "I guess driving posessed is pretty dangerous." "It is." Ness replied, "But walking through town with a cardboard box isn't suspicious? I'll never understand that rat." Luis was surprised that he said what he said out loud, but not surprised that he had received an answer. He simply shook himself out of his daze and got out of the car. Anna was the next to get out of the car, followed by Ness. The other four had already exited their vehicle and had walked up to meet them. "Ok, first order of business, I think we've already decided on whose going in and whose staying out," Anna said trying to remember who volunteered for what, "can someone just remind me whose staying out here in case something goes down?" "Me, Steve, and Mark." Dan replied, pointing at Steve and Mark, "we're not in a confined space so it shouldn't be too hard to deal with anything if she tries to mess with us again." "And the rest of us are going inside, right?" Anna asked to which she received a unanimous reply of yes. "Right, let's go." As Dan, Mark, and Steve waited outside, Anna, Luis, Ness, and Raha headed into the apartment building and headed up the stairs. Ness had managed to get a first floor apartment, so they only had to go up one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor 'loby' - if you could even call the empty room with lockers at the back that - to where Ness lives. Once at the door, Ness handed her keys to Luis. She was shaking too much to open the door herself. After a deep breath, Luis unlocked the door, and they headed inside the apartment. Once through the door, a terrible smell hit the four as they proceeded to the more lived in areas. Discarded food boxes mixed with the smell of body odour, and it became apparent that Glitchtrap had been completely neglecting Ness's health. "Ness, where d' you keep the bin bags?" Raha asked, bearly able to handle the smell. "Under the sink," Ness mumbled as she looked around, finally able to see what had become of her home. "I'll clean up a bit, you guys help 'er pack." Raha said as she Pulled out a bin bag and begun tossing all the food waste into the bag. The overflowing contents of the bins were tossed into the bag next as everyone else took up the next task. "Seeing as we're just getting what you need now then coming back for the rest later, what do you need to pack?" Luis asked, "what clothes do you want to bring? Do you have a suitcase?" "Yeah, I-" Ness froze for a moment, everything went hazy, as if she was dreaming again. A rush of adrenaline was sedated by a mysterious something as her hands moved on their own and she turned towards the kitchen. A quick tap on the shoulder and the haze was gone. "You ok?" Luis asked, hand still outstretched near Ness's shoulder. Ness nodded and turned back around, heading to her bedroom and opening her wardrobe. Some dust had settled on some of the clothes, but they were untouched by the stench of the rest of the house. She pulled out a very large suitcase from the bottom of the wardrobe and tossed it onto her bed. The zipper got stuck half way around as always, but she managed to get it open and flip the cloth "lid" so that she could shove things inside of the large canvas suitcase. "What should I pack?" Ness asked, looking at Luis for an answer. Silence held stagnant in the air for a while. "You're asking me?" Shock and confusion hung in Luis's voice as he responded, "I don't know? Pack what you like? What do you wear often?" Ness didn't answer and just continued to look at him. Exhaustion had made itself at home under her eyes, and she probably wasn't going to chose for herself: when she offloaded a task, usually that was it. With a sigh, Luis looked inside Ness's wardrobe and then back at the suitcase. "All of this could probably fit." Starting from the left, Luis grabbed the clothes off their hangers and then rolled them each into a tight cylinder - or in the case of some bulky jackets, as tight of a cylinder as he could - before placing each inside the suitcase. Before long, the contents of the wardrobe was taking up about half of the suitcase, most of which being jackets. Ness looked at Luis a bit shocked at how efficiently everything had been packed. Luis noticed the look on her face and said, "Look, whilst my family's lives in a small home, I had a lot of stuff that I had to keep tucked away. 'If there's no space for it it goes in the bin' they always said. Jokes on them, if I couldn't find space, I'd make it. They call their lifestyle 'fashionably minimalist', I call it dumb. But hey, it taught me how to pack things." Ness opened a few drawers and let Luis pack the contents. T-shirts, jeans, and jumpers filled another near-quater of the suitcase, and then there was socks that made it a full quarter. Ness had stuffed her pajamas into a carrier bag and was starting on some other drawers too. "Do you need help? There's space in the suitcase still." Luis asked tapping Ness on the shoulder. "Um - uh - yes? no? Wait no!" Ness stuttered and slammed the drawer shut, her face a bright shade of red. Luis felt his face flush a little bit too as he noticed a bra half sticking out of the carrier bag Ness had been packing; she must have been packing the contents of her underwear drawers as well as pajamas. "I - I'll let you get on with that." Luis said as he went through the rest of Ness's clothes drawers and filled the rest of the suitcase. There were some clothes left over, but Ness stashed them in a swim bag alongside the carrier bag of underwear and pajamas. All that was left to pack was trinkets, games, and jewellery. Ness had already gotten a few unfolded cardboard boxes out from under her bed and begun to fold them out into actual boxes. From under her bed, she also pulled out a box of packing materials. "Here," Ness handed Luis a box, "could you pack up the games?" Luis nodded and started on emptying the nightstand of any videogames boxes, gently stacking the boxes into the cardboard box. He figured it'd be safe to leave Ness in her room to pack - who knows what else she wanted to pack without anyone seeing - so he went around the rest of the house, which had been mostly packed and cleared. Luis had an easy time scouring cupboards, shelves, and drawers for all of the games, and as he organised the items in the cardboard box, he figured that if he added some packing material and then carefully packed the home consoles themselves, then they'd basically fill the box. He went back to Ness and got some packing materials before finishing this first box and grabbing a second. This one was filled with what he missed on his first run; board games, handhelds, and the controllers. By the time he had done, everything bar a few trinkets had been packed away. He then went to Anna. "We're almost done. Should we see if you can get the VA information off her computer now?" "Yeah," Anna replied, "Just in case whatevers on this thing boots us out as soon as it becomes disconnected to the internet, I'll have to do this now." Anna went to Ness, who had just finished packing her room, having clearly gutted every nook and cranny of the place to make sure that she didn't leave anything, and asked if she could access her computer to see if she could get the credentials of the VA account. Ness gave a quick "isn't that what we're here for?" And pointed to where her laptop sat on her now empty desk, letting Anna use it as needed. As Anna worked her magic on collecting any and all information on the VA account, Ness asked Luis to help pack the rest of the trinkets that were around the rest of the house as well. The two then checked about the house to collect up anything else of Ness's that she wanted to take with her. They checked each room, opening drawers and gently packing away anything of Ness's that had been left behind. "So much for making multiple trips" Ness smiled as she gently took an ornament off the mantlepeice and placed it in a cardboard box, wrapped and gently packed alongside other ornaments. "We may have to make multiple trips for the boxes," Luis replied as he carefully took a framed photograph off the wall and packed it in a box full of other framed photographs. The apartment looked sparse now, only containing boxes and static furniture. "I've got a car. We can use that." Ness replied as she placed the last ornament in her box and taped it shut. "And I should probably tell the landlord that I'm moving out. Guess that two months of rent'll still be worth something in the form of not being yelled at for ending the lease early." The duo shared a chuckle as they packed the final boxes and sealed them with packing tape. As they begun to cary the boxes into the living room, they heard a yell from Ness's room. "I got it!" Luis, Ness, and Raha rushed to Ness's room and much to their relief, they saw Anna looking rather triumphant, holding a USB stick. "I've gotten all of the information and shit needed to remotely access Fazbear Entertainment's systems! We can figure out if there's a way to reverse the virus!" The friends shared a high five and decided that they'd help Ness move out before heading home for the day. Anna, Raha, Ness, and Luis ferried the boxes down, whilst Dan, Mark, and Steve decided to take the boxes to the cars. It didn't take long, and when they were done, they headed to Luis's house where they unpacked the boxes and parted ways for the night with the exception of Luis, Ness, and Anna. "I'll grab a blank computer and try them out. I'll give you a call and tell you the results." Anna said as she gave the duo a nod as as she too decided to part ways for the night. "Alright. Tell us what you find." Luis replied with a nod. As Anna waved goodbye, Luis and Ness looked at all of the boxes around them. The duo spent the next while bringing in the boxes, and once all the boxes were inside, they begun unpacking the contents. Then Luis's mobile phone rang. It was Anna, so he picked up. "It works! It works!" Anna exclaimed, her excitement audible despite the graininess of talking over the phone, "I've gotten the credentials to work! I'm going to see what's going on with our systems now - remotely of course, I'm not going there alone - just in case they shut this account down, but I'm in!" "That's great to hear!" Luis said, "now we can finally do something about all this and get our systems back." °*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°

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[anaisrocha]

10.03

“But maybe she’s not talking about it because she doesn’t need to?”

“I don’t think so. I think she’s just trying to erase what happened. But that’s not how it works.”

[path-of-my-childhood]

Twitter reactions to “Lover” from Taylor’s friends and colleagues

[llovelymoonn]

web weave on love & loss?

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kofi

[agendaculturaldelima]

#ProyeccionDeVida

🎦 Cine Club CCFV.- Ciclo de Cine Amor, Sexo y Drogas [Gaspar Noé[😼, presenta:

🎬 “LOVE” [AMOR]

🔎 Género: Romance / Drama / Erótico / 3-D

⌛️ Duración: 135 minutos

✍️ Guion: Gaspar Noé

📷 Fotografía: Benoît Debie

🗯 Argumento: Un primero de enero por la mañana, el teléfono suena. Murphy se despierta junto a su esposa y su hijo de dos años. Escucha el mensaje, la madre de Electra, muy inquieta, le pregunta si tiene noticias de su hija que está desaparecida. Teme que le haya sucedido algo grave. A lo largo de un día lluvioso, Murphy se encuentra solo en casa, recordando su historia de amor más grande; dos años con Electra. Una pasión llena de promesas, juegos, excesos, errores.

👥 Reparto: Aomi Muyock (Electra), Karl Glusman (Murphy), Klara Kristin (Omi), Déborah Révy (Paula), Vincent Maraval (Castel), Benoît Debie (Yuyo), Stella Rocha (Mami), Ugo Fox (Gaspar), Omaima S. (Victoire), Gaspar Noé (Noe) y Angell Summers.

📢 Dirección: Gaspar Noé

© Productoras: RT Features, Rectangle Productions & Wild Bunch

🌎 Pais: Francia

📅 Año: 2015

📽 Proyección:

📆 Viernes 19 de Julio

🕔 5:00pm.

🏘 Centro Cultural Federico Villarreal (av. Nicolás de Piérola 412 - Centro de Lima)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre🌛

[claudiosuenaga]

Terrore nello Spazio (1965), a ficção científica de horror do italiano Mario Bava que modelou Alien (1979), de Ridley Scott, e outros blockbusters

Alien: O Oitavo Passageiro, de Ridley Scott, não teria sido o mesmo sem Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires nos Estados Unidos e Planeta dos Vampiros no Brasil), um misto de ficção científica e terror - na conjunção mesma entre estes dois gêneros - italiano e espanhol de 1965, um desses filmes B improváveis praticamente desconhecidos, cultuado apenas por um reduzido séquito de aficionados.

O seu diretor, Mario Bava (1914-1980), inaugurador do gênero giallo ("amarelo" em italiano, um gênero de suspense e romance policial cujo nome é uma referência às capas amarelas das revistas pulp italianas, publicadas a partir de 1929) e do moderno slasher (subgênero de filmes de terror quase sempre envolvendo assassinos psicopatas que matam aleatoriamente), foi um criador e inovador dos mais versáteis, mormente em matéria de efeitos especiais, embora, e talvez por isso mesmo, contasse com recursos e orçamentos bastante limitados.

Mario Bava

O roteiro de Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich, Antonio Romano e Rafael J. Salvia, foi baseado em Una notte di 21 ore (Uma noite de 21 horas), um conto de ficção científica do escritor italiano Renato Pestriniero (1933-), publicada na revista “Interplanet” #3. Ib Melchior e Louis M. Heyward também são creditados na versão norte-americana do filme, co-produzido pela American International Pictures (AIP) e pela Italian Internacional Film (IIF), com algum financiamento concedido pela Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica, da Espanha.

O filme foi estrelado por dois atores igualmente improváveis: o norte-americano Barry Sullivan (1912-1994), que trabalhou com grandes astros (como Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwick e Lana Turner) e diretores (como John Sturges, George Cukor e Vincente Minnelli), e a brasileira Norma Bengell (1935-2013), uma das maiores musas do cinema e teatro tupiniquim nas décadas de 1950 a 1970 e que se consagrou com Os Cafajestes (1962), de Ruy Guerra.

O enredo se passa em um futuro não muito distante, quando duas naves, Argos e Galliot, são lançadas ao espaço para explorar um misterioso planeta chamado Aura. Ao pousarem na superfície desse planeta fantasmagórico envolto em névoa densa e rochas coloridas de papel machê por todos os lados, encenado num estúdio vazio e preenchido com fumaça e luzes suaves, os tripulantes são acometidos de um ataque temporário de loucura e violência, com os astronautas tentando matar uns aos outros. Após retomarem o controle de suas ações, eles tentam entender o mistério e descobrem que seus companheiros da Galliot também pousaram no planeta, mas estão mortos num ataque descontrolado de fúria entre eles provocado por uma forma de vida alienígena que invade as suas mentes e se apossa de seus corpos.

O Capitão Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan) e outros membros da tripulação como a oficial de comunicações Sanya (Norma Bengell) e o engenheiro Wess Wescant (o espanhol Ángel Aranda), tentam consertar a nave para retornar ao espaço, mas enfrentam uma série de crises crescentes com os tripulantes mortos da Galliot saindo de seus túmulos e uma terrível ameaça invisível dos habitantes hostis do planeta, sedentos por sangue e que desejam fugir do seu mundo. Aliás, o filme deveria antes se chamar "O Planeta dos Zumbis", pois os astronautas que abandonam suas covas estão mais para mortos vivos do que vampiros.

Quando Alien foi lançado em 25 de maio de 1979, alguns poucos notaram a semelhança do visual e de várias cenas com o filme de Bava, sobretudo na sequência em que o Capitão Markary e sua colega Sanya encontram os destroços de uma nave colossal e descobrem o esqueleto gigante de um humanoide dentro dela, cena que foi reciclada, com muito mais sofisticação e arrojo, claro, por Ridley Scott.

A sequência do dificultoso pouso da nave no nebuloso planeta Aura foi igualmente recriada por Scott em Alien, quando a nave cargueira Nostromo passa por apuros semelhantes.

O romance Nostromo (1904), de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), serviu de inspiração para o nome da nave, um achado cenográfico criado pelos artistas gráficos Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014), Jean Henri Gaston Giraud [mais conhecido como Moebius (1938-2012)], Christopher “Chris” Foss (1946-) e pelo diretor Scott.

Nostromo é um cargueiro onde tudo é reprimido: manifestações de individualidade, relacionamentos afetivos, prazeres gastronômicos, deleites espirituais, repousos naturais. O computador central que controla a nave é chamada apropriadamente de “Mãe”. O trabalho, regado a muitos goles de café, é o que importa. Pela primeira vez num filme, mostrava-se não apenas os aspectos atraentes, futuristas, funcionais e assépticos de uma nave espacial, mas igualmente suas entranhas, seus remendos e impurezas. O alien é um colosso orgânico hermafrodita, misto de falo e óvulo. Seu nascimento viola as leis da natureza e a integridade do corpo humano, usado como hospedeiro. O processo de inseminação não prescinde do estupro. Só mesmo o robô Ash (Ian Holm), agente infiltrado da empresa que financia a expedição, é capaz de admirar a sua "pureza".

Bava inspirou e influenciou outros tantos cineastas como Dario Argento e foi capaz de despertar o apreço de realizadores do calibre de um Martin Scorsese e um Quentin Tarantino.

Note que os uniformes dos mutantes em X-Men (dirigido por Bryan Singer e escrito por David Hayter), que em 2000 abriu o caminho para a extensa franquia X-Men da Marvel Comics no cinema e deu início a um ressurgimento para o gênero de quadrinhos e filmes de super-heróis, é um tanto parecido com os dos astronautas de Terrore nello spazio. Difícil não considerar que o design estiloso e exagerado de couro preto foi tirado dele.

O visual todo do filme é uma representação típica da época. A estética externa da nave também é bem simples e rústica. A narrativa é lenta, uma característica comum nos filmes mais antigos em oposição ao ritmo frenético, acelerado e barulhento das produções atuais saturadas de efeitos em CGI. Para os apreciadores do cinema fantástico do passado, os efeitos especiais feitos com miniaturas e truques de perspectiva, bem como esse fluxo narrativo mais cadenciado, é bem melhor e mais desejável, embora por vezes entediante e cansativo.

Terrore nello spazio não está entre as "obras-primas" de Bava, que aqui saiu um pouco de seu habitual, mas é um filme que por todas as derivações que gerou, merece ser devidamente redescoberto e reavaliado, assim como toda a obra repleta de energia e criatividade desse diretor refinado e elegante.

Diário de bordo do Capitão: “Um capitão não deveria ter medo. E eu confesso agora, a quem estiver ouvindo, que hoje, agora mesmo, eu estou com medo. Minha tripulação não deve ficar sabendo. Devo mantê-la ocupada. Não devem saber que a situação é cada vez mais desesperadora à medida que passam os dias. Fala o Capitão Markary, da nave Argos, no planeta Aura, ano…”