#andrew wilson

[toppermostpoppermost]

WHIP IT (2009) dir. Drew Barrymore

+bonus:

[derangedrhythms]

She struck me as having a very exceptional quality of mind – both imaginative and controlled, both lucid and intense.

Newton Arvin, quoted in ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’ 

[racetrackmybeloved]

ok but like, lets talk about bart.

he shows up halfway through the musical for one song, and you go oh look that brooklyn newsie has massive arms and extremely high waisted pants? cool. he disappears again, AND THEN HE SHOWS UP RIGHT AT THE END AND DOES THIS??

and THEN you find out that he's a freaking acrobat who was the dance captain and swing for 17 different roles

so yeah. bart. andrew wilson. icon.

[cerulianecho]

This must be just an excuse for EA/Bioware to give up on single player RPGs and focus on making live service shooters because they think they're going to milk Apex forever or whatever live service clone they attempt to make. Do they not realize they're late for that? People are getting tired of live service games and the market is oversaturated. Wilson really wants to speedrun running EA into the ground. Veilguard failed to resonate with gamers who have higher standards for writing and dialogue, and don't want shallow corporate slop filled with Disney/Marvel caricatures who talk in therapy speak. Keep lying to yourself Wilson. I can't wait to see EA implode because of your stupidity.

[theimaginauts]

MR. LICORICE & BETTE NOIR

Art by ANDREW WILSON

[coffeeman777]

"The normal condition of the Christian life, as the apostle Peter explains, is one of inexpressible and glorious joy, in spite of the fact that we are also grieved by many kinds of trials. We do not ignore the realities of sadness and suffering, but we stubbornly proclaim that they do not have the last word; the kingdom is here, Good Friday ushers in Easter Sunday, and death is swallowed up by life. This, from the resurrection onward, has given Christians a paradoxical way of responding to the brokenness of the world. So Paul and Silas spend a night in the stocks, in an age when that meant muscular agony rather than damp sponges, and hymns reverberate through the cells until an earthquake destroys the prison. Eighteen centuries later, in the same spirit, African slaves stand enchained in cotton fields and sugar plantations, singing the songs of Zion until deliverance comes. Christianity stares death in the face and sings anyway. We are, in Paul’s terms, sorrowful yet always rejoicing."

-- Andrew Wilson, "Spirit and Sacrament"

[csphire]

Omg Andrew, no. Pull your heads out of your ass please and you too, Stuart. This artical makes me genuinely worry for Mass Effect and that they haven't learned a damn thing from Veilguard's flop.

[walkingthroughthisworld]

“…one day she asked him about something he had never mentioned, something he had deliberately left out of his narrative—the noise the passengers made after being thrown into the water. ‘Finally I saw him turn sombre. “You have to forget the screams,” he said quietly. “You have to forget the screams or you’d go crazy.”’”

[existential-labrador]

Watched The Iron Claw last night (devastating and incredible) and I couldn’t help feeling that Harris Dickinson could be a lost Wilson brother

[eye-candy-film-enjoyer]

Wes Anderson Movies + Tv tropes part 1/12

Bottle Rocket (1996)

[derangedrhythms]

After one of their infrequent meetings, Eddie [Cohen] remembered Sylvia behaving as though she were pretending to be someone else – ‘she was all mask’ he later said. It was almost as though she was either too scared of showing her true personality or unable to conceive of a coherent sense of self-identity.

Andrew Wilson, from ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’

[mrjinx87]

A.I. “art” needs to just die already.

[trutown-the-bard]

This is such a dumb take. This dumb Twitter user is simultaneously against AI use in development and in favor of using AI to replace the most powerful position in a company. Absolute brain rot.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

So, Agatha Christie, but, a fictional character, but, also, this particular story is based a bit on when she went missing for 11 days in December of 1926.

In real life, Agatha’s husband Archie was having an affair, but, in this fictional mystery, she is also being threatened by a blackmailer because of her husband’s affair. The one doing the blackmailing wants Agatha to kill his wife.

On the practical side, the real life side, I’m not sure that I believe that her disappearance is really still ‘unsolved’ as everyone would like it to be. But, on the fictional side, it really does make for the start of a mystery and of a thriller. And, the author weaves a tale that did make me forget just for a moment that this character started as a real person. It was a really fun read, and, what is really cool (but I didn’t realize when I started this one), is that this is the first in a series too. Always a plus.

You may like this book If you Liked: A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton, Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen, or The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson