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misfitwashere · 9 days ago

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November 1, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 2

Trump’s comments to right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson last night at an event in Glendale, Arizona, about former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), coming as they have after the extraordinary racism and sexism of Trump’s Sunday event at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, have have highlighted the centrality of the campaign's attack on women.

“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump told Carlson, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Today, Trump surrogates have tried to say that he was referring to Cheney’s positions on American warfare, but it seems pretty clear he is fantasizing about seeing her in front of a firing squad. Journalist Magdi Jacobs noted the parallels between this statement and his 2020 command to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” the precursor to the Proud Boys’ attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In both statements, Trump avoided explicitly calling for violence, but absolutely set the stage for it.

This morning, Cheney responded to Trump’s threat “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

While Trump began to attack Cheney openly when she accepted the role of vice-chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, where her presence clearly made Republicans—like Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows—willing to share what they knew, Trump’s recent bloody fantasies appear to have broader meaning.

Cheney has emerged as the key figure to urge Republican women to vote against Trump, and it is becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s reelection is in trouble in part because white women are abandoning him. The early hints that this is happening, like the huge gender gap showing up in early voting, have sparked a right-wing frenzy of attempts to restore the power of white men over the women in their lives. Right-wing men are insisting that wives should vote as their husbands do, or that women should lose the ability to vote altogether.

Trump’s suggestion that Cheney should face a firing squad seems to be a general expression of the anger of white men accustomed to dictating the terms of public life when faced with the reality that they can no longer count on being able to cow the people around them.

Trump’s attack on Cheney has galvanized his unpopularity with women, while the larger meaning of the MAGAs’ attacks on women got additional illustration with the news broken today by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana of ProPublica that a pregnant 18-year-old in Texas suffering from sepsis was turned away from emergency rooms twice before doctors at a third visit required two ultrasounds to make sure her fetus no longer had a heartbeat before they would move her into intensive care. She died within hours.

Today’s news continued to be bad for Trump. Last week, on the Joe Rogan podcast, Trump talked about the CHIPS and Science Act that authorized about $280 billion to encourage domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the U.S. While the law has brought significant private investment into the construction of new manufacturing plants and has created manufacturing jobs, Trump complained to Rogan, “That chip deal is so bad.”

After listening to that conversation, journalist Luke Radel asked House speaker Mike Johnson in a report aired today whether, with Trump opposed to the bill and with Republicans having voted against it, the Republicans will try to repeal the law if they get majorities in Congress. Johnson responded “I expect we probably will, but we haven’t developed that part of the agenda yet.”

Republicans are determined to cut government spending to make way for more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. But the CHIPS and Science Act has brought important supply chains home and has created more than 115,000 new high-paying jobs in the U.S.

And it has brought significant investment to battleground states: $19.5 billion to Arizona, $75 million to Georgia, $325 million to Michigan, $750 million to North Carolina, and $93 million to Pennsylvania. Johnson quickly realized that acknowledging the Republicans’ hopes of repealing it was a bad mistake days before an election and, claiming he had not heard the question accurately, said he had no intent to undermine the CHIPS and Science Act.

At a closed-door meeting earlier this week, Johnson said repealing the Affordable Care Act is a Republican priority. He tried to walk this comment back, as well, but Pennsylvania Republican senatorial candidate Dave McCormick kept the issue in front of voters when he was caught on a hot mic saying he wants to reform the ACA and that he opposes the provision in the ACA that allows children to stay on their parent’s health insurance until they’re 26.

Trump’s mental state continues to deteriorate, taking with it the former president’s inhibitions. After going on a rant about the people he blamed for troubles with his microphone at a sparsely attended rally in Warren, Michigan, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America simulated oral sex on stage.

An official with the Harris campaign told reporters today that they “fully expect” Trump will replay the game plan of 2020 and claim victory on election night, before all the votes are fully counted. In an interview on Wednesday, Harris noted that they were ready if Trump prematurely declared victory: “We are sadly ready if he does and, if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people...we are prepared to respond,” she said.

Washington State governor Jay Inslee has activated the state’s National Guard so it will be “fully prepared to respond to any…civil unrest” before or after the election.

The Department of Justice today announced it would monitor the polls in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states to make sure they comply with federal voting rights laws. Although the federal government has monitored certain polls since 1965, officials in the states of Florida, Missouri, and Texas promptly announced they would not permit Department of Justice officials inside polling stations.

Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris made two stops in Wisconsin today before packing the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis near Milwaukee.

In Madison, Harris told a reporter: “What I am enjoying about this moment most is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I am seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common and know they have everything in common, and I think that is in the best interest of the strength of our nation.”

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#heather cox richardson #letters from an american

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belanekra · 10 months ago

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Interesting annotations on Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer (part two)

From genius.com. I am fascinated by Cheney's fictional novel about Control. Like, what the hell man?

Once there had been biologists here, in numbers so great that the forgotten coast shook with the aftermath of their passage. These men and women bestrode the terrain like conquerors, sent by government money in the form, it was rumored, of gold bars well-hidden that could not devalue or decay like the money kept in banks. They were thus ungoverned by the dictates of barter or of neighborly responsibility that had bound this place for so long.

In the summer of that first year they established their headquarters in the ruins of the ghost town, a bivouac of scientists unprecedented for that place even when it had been alive. As they spread out across their migratory range, the biologists as observed by the locals began to carry out a series of arcane rituals. They shoved pieces of swamp grasses and bits of bark into vials. They put up tents out in “the field” as they called it, even when it was just black swamp. They used binoculars, scopes, and microscopes. They took readings with innumerable peculiar instruments. At times, they stopped in their labors to swear about the heat and humidity, which did not endear them.

The biologists tagged many living things — at least one of every creature that moved and breathed across the pine forests and the cypress swamp, the salt marshes and the beach. They took fine nylon nets and set up capture zones for songbirds, running clod-stepped to the rescue of what they had themselves endangered. Fragile wings and fragile beaks, heads to the side; small eyes looking up at giants that held their bodies in half-closed fists. They tagged so many things, had brought so many tranq darts, that the blue caps removed from the tips still showed up years later in the marshes, along the river bank or crushed into the gravel of the dirt roads.

In their heyday, at the zenith of their powers, some said their boot prints outnumbered the tracks of deer and raccoons and otters on the salt flats.

But over time, the effort that had quickened slowed, the impulse behind it dulled, and the biologists began to die out. Their mobile tents that had once dotted the camping ground near the lighthouse began to disappear. The sounds of their idle conversations before expeditions in the early morning became muted and infrequent. That last spring there might have been a hundred of them and by the fall only four or five. It was a mass extinction created by lack of grant renewal, a matching funds disaster, and a moving on of government attention, that great eye roving toward other lands and foreign wars.

–from the book Forgotten Coast History and Customs by Berit Ellingsen

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“Control indicates certainty about life. I have no certainty, and I wish nothing but to fade into the background, a wish that only ever makes people think of words like ‘wallflower’ because we live in a world where narcissism has been enshrined as a noble pursuit."

“I had no dead twin brother or sister. I had no specific trauma that made me this way. I am not defective, as more than one boyfriend suggested. I simply live apart. I simply have different interests. I simply do not privilege human activity…except when I do.”

–fragments scrawled in the margins of the biologist’s account, and then crossed out

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“As Chen…as Control sat there, in the dying warmth, in the mottled courtyard, by himself, finally by himself, he saw a tall, dark outline lit by the setting sun, which had given a dark umber glow to the singed edges of the swamp. He would recognize her outline anywhere by now. Still in her expedition clothes. So close to a gnarled tree that she was hard to see. There was a hardness in the pit of his stomach, and a tightness in his chest, but somehow not the fear. Somehow, Control was not afraid of this apparition.

She stood with her back to the Southern Reach, to the pull of the U, and looked out across the swamp, where Control imagined Area X lay. Just standing there, staring. Or, perhaps, with her eyes closed. Or perhaps she had no eyes. He could not tell from his vantage, and did not care to get closer. Just standing there. This person who should not have been there, this shell of a soul of whom Control had only found fragments. He could not help thinking that she had materialized because of his close study of her, even though he knew this wasn’t true. That he was just lucky enough to get a glimpse of some ongoing phenomenon. That she probably wasn’t real.

He stood at the window for quite a while, watching her from that distance. He thought about sounding the alarm. That occupied his thoughts for some time. Then he thought about going down to her, but he could not quite do that either, could not quite give himself that kind of permission.

Then, hidden by long tree shadows as long and narrows as bars, she began to walk around the edge of the swamp, until she was distant enough that she fell out of sight.

Control realized that his left hand was curled and his fingernails were dragging into his palm. He released, flexed his fingers, examined the angry white curved indentations, fringed flush with pink, that best expressed to him to proof of his anxiety.

The Southern Reach was over. The Southern Reach was done. He couldn’t stay, he realized. It wasn’t really a place he wanted to stay. It wasn’t really his sinking ship; the rest of the world was.

Had Grace seen her? Should he tell Grace he had seen her? Somehow this was the thought that filled him with dread, and not all of the others. For it would not be a mercy. Knowing what he did. So he let her fade into the dusk, and did nothing. He did not call to anyone. He did not try to follow her. He just…let her go, to do whatever she meant to do. That she had been in the world so long already made manifest how futile it would be to ‘contain’ her at this point. Control understood that all of this was unforgiveable. That it was a sighting and a lapse that if ever known would make him unqualified for any position within the agency. But he didn’t care. He didn’t care because now he had to be a selfish and do what he thought was good for him, whether it was or wasn’t."from Mike Cheney’s fiction manuscript about Control

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Final report on the linguist assigned to the twelfth expedition, one year after withdrawal from the expedition…

Subject is combative and paranoid when interviewed. Still refuses to admit that she scrubbed herself from the mission, but continues to claim that the former director strongly suggested she stand-down. In direct contradiction of testimony by the assistant director. Subject feels as if she has been “bullied and harassed.” Subject lives by herself, under a different name, says she feels “repatriated with reality, but not in quite the same way as before.” She has only rarely seen her family, and under carefully controlled conditions. A Central agent has followed her everywhere, and she knows this. She may or may not know her house has been bugged.

Subject was terse during the last interview, conducted in her backyard as she tended to her garden. I asked her if she felt free and floating and she said nothing back. Per L’s instructions, I gave her a few more prompts, but no recognition occurred.

The question arises, with no clear answer: Who or what deprogrammed her?

At the end, she handed me a letter she said would answer all of my questions. I was only to open it after I had left. I obeyed this request and opened the letter on the way back to Central.

There was only one word written inside, repeated three times.

“Annihilation.”

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“Does Area X have its own Lowry? What would that look like? What would it mean? Or does a Lowry only exist on the human spectrum of possibility?” – scribbled note by the former director

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“Control was beginning to get a sense of Whitby’s filthy habits, the way the illogical Whitby had limpet-like attached himself to the Southern Reach rocks. You couldn’t pry him off. God knows, Michael Cheney, the handsome and clearly uber-intelligent science director, had tried. Control had to give Cheney that. The man’s methodology might be eccentric, but what a brain! Not like that mewling Whitby, who for all anyone knew might be roaming the air ducts in imitation of a more dangerous creature. No, Whitby could go to the dogs, but Control thought Cheney might be the go-to guy for a lot of things. Because Control was at sea and Cheney was the captain he was looking for.” – from science director Mike Cheney’s fiction manuscript about Control

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“When is a lighthouse not a lighthouse? When it’s a distress beacon. Your focus on the island is a terrible miscue. A fixed attention that blinds you to the periphery–and the periphery is where everything is happening. Only certain member of the S&SB know what’s really happening, what phenomena we are really charting here. You have to give us more authority. You have to let us have more resources. – Henry”

–Note found in the pocket of an unidentifiable man slumped at a piano in the village bar.

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“Sometimes I believe Area X is coming in at me through my dreams. Because I don’t believe in dreaming any more. I don’t believe there are such things as images you conjure up at night, while asleep. That’s just another whisper, another way they hack into you, subvert how you think about things. Lord knows, we need subversion–we need it if want water to drink and air to breathe. But did it have to happen quite this way?” – from Whitby Allen’s private journal

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#the southern reach trilogy #annihilation #authority #acceptance #jeff vandermeer #area x #absolution

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uswnt5 · 1 year ago

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Women In Blazers is actually hilarious and Cheney also looks like she's being kept hostage in that bus while ARod and Tobin look like they're having a great time

haha Chen was a good sport and her air vent slap made me laugh

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dankusner · 21 days ago

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What to watch as polls open

GROMER

Early voting begins today for Nov. 5 elections that will shape the course of Texas politics.

The presidential race tops the Texas ticket.

And though there hasn’t been much Texas drama in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the margin of the Lone Star contest — which Trump is expected to win — could impact down-ballot races.

Here’s what to watch as the general election season heads to a conclusion:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is a veteran of tough races.

In 2018 he beat Democrat Beto O’Rourke by only 2.6 percentage points.

Now Cruz is in a nail-biter with Colin Allred, the three-term congressman from Dallas.

Polls show the race is within single digits.

Democrats haven’t won a statewide contest since 1994, and Allred marks the party’s best chance to break through since O’Rourke.

Cruz, Allred campaigns

Both candidates are barreling to the final hurdle.

Cruz is in the middle of a 50-city bus tour through Texas, where his rallies focus on keeping Texas a conservative state.

He warns that his opponent is too liberal.

Since Republican voters outnumber Democrats in statewide elections, Cruz has to keep conservative voters in the fold.

That’s why one of his attack lines against Allred at rallies is, “Let’s keep Texas, Texas.”

Allred, whose recent campaign stops have included El Paso, Houston, Round Rock and Missouri City, has a tougher job.

Though he hopes for a robust turnout from Democrats, much of his focus has been on appealing to independents and some Republicans.

Two of his major campaign surrogates — former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley — are Republicans.

Whitely represented Allred in the spin room after last week’s first and only debate.

Along with independents and Republicans, Allred is also making pitches to the more than 2.5 million voters who have been added to the Texas registration rolls since 2018.

Cruz is talking to those voters as well.

The bottom line:

The race hinges on Allred’s ability to cut into Cruz’s base and maximize Democratic turnout.

That’s a tough task in Texas.

Enthusiasm at the top

Harris and Trump have focused their campaigns on seven swing states, even though most polls show the contest for Texas in single digits.

In 2020 Trump beat Biden in Texas by 5.6 percentage points.

A poll released last week by the University of Houston shows Trump leading Harris by 5 points.

Though the candidates believe the Texas outcome is not in doubt, how they perform at the top of the ticket could sway critical races down the ballot.

A Harris surge beyond what Biden accomplished in 2020 would boost Allred.

Similarly, Cruz will benefit if Trump meets expectations or overperforms in Texas.

Other races could be impacted as well, including critical Texas House races in Dallas and Collin counties.

The bottom line:

The presidential candidates are bypassing Texas on the campaign trail, but they are the main drivers of voter turnout and have coattails that will drag candidates up or down the ballot.

Statehouse races

State Reps. Morgan Meyer of University Park and Angie Chen Button of Richardson are the last Republicans in the Legislature from Dallas County.

For years Democrats have targeted the duo for defeat, coming close during the last decade.

In 2021 the Legislature redrew the state’s legislative boundaries to make those districts more favorable to the GOP incumbents.

Still, a bigger than expected turnout from Democrats in one of the bluest counties in the state could doom Meyer or Button, who are running against Democrats Elizabeth Ginsberg and Averie Bishop, respectively.

Another race to watch is in Collin County’s District 70, where Republican Steve Kinard is challenging incumbent Democrat Mihaela Plesa.

In 2022, Plesa won the Democratic-leaning district 50% to 49% against Republican Jamee Jolly.

The three local contests could rattle legislative politics, particularly Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s push for a private school voucherlike program.

Abbott says he has the votes needed to approve a plan when the Legislature meets in January, though it could be thrown off course with Republican losses in the November general election.

The bottom line:

There are only a few contested legislative races across the state, but those contests could influence what laws emerge in next year’s legislative session.

Don’t forget City Hall

Dallas elections are typically in May and don’t attract a high number of voters. In November, however, there are three propositions before voters — S, T and U — that could dramatically change how city government works and what power is wielded by elected officials.

The propositions, called the Dallas Hero proposals, mandate the city hire around 900 more officers and spend at least half of its annual revenue growth on the police and fire pension system and other public safety-related initiatives; tie the city manager’s bonuses and job status to the results of an annual community survey of at least 1,400 residents on quality-of-life issues; and waive the city’s immunity from lawsuits alleging officials aren’t following the city charter, state laws or city ordinances.

Critics, including four dozen former and current elected Dallas officials, say the propositions would undermine the authority of the City Council and city manager and have consequences on city spending in the effort to bolster public safety.

The Dallas Hero proposals are among 18 city charter amendment propositions that also include raises for council members and a ban on arrests for less than 4 ounces of marijuana.

Propositions S, T and U are the only propositions with an announced, organized opposition effort.

Pete Marocco, Dallas Hero’s executive director, said the three proposals in question are necessary to improve public safety and create more accountability from elected officials.

Dallas hotel mogul and Republican donor Monty Bennett is helping fund the controversial trio of proposals and has given office space to the effort.

It’s not known how much he’s given.

Though Dallas government is nonpartisan, the proposals are split along party lines.

The Dallas County Republican Party has passed a resolution in support, while the county Democratic Party is against the measures.

The bottom line:

Voter referendums are often obscure, but proposals in front of Dallas voters could change how parts of city government operate, which has resulted in the city’s past and present political leadership rallying to oppose the measures.

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saturdaynightmatinee · 2 years ago

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: The Great Wall

Año: 2016

Duración: 92 min

País: China

Dirección: Zhang Yimou

Guion: Tony Gilroy, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro. Historia: Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz

Música: Ramin Djawadi

Fotografía: Stuart Dryburgh, Zhao Xiaoding

Reparto: Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Jing Tian, Zhang Hanyu, Eddie Peng, Lu Han, Lin Gengxin, Ryan Zheng, Cheney Chen, Huang Xuan, Karry Wang, Vicky Yu, Liu Qiong, Pilou Asbæk

Productora: Coproducción China-Estados Unidos; China Film Group, Le Vision Pictures, Legendary East, Kava Productions, Legendary Pictures, Atlas Entertainment

Género: Action; Adventure; Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/

TRAILER:

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ao3feed-scarletvision · 2 years ago

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Twilight of The Superheroes

by Maksvell

The world of Twilight is not a world where the superheroes have deliberately taken over, but one where they have inherited the Earth almost by default as various social institutions started to crumble in the face of accelerating social change, leaving the superheroes in the often unwilling position of being a sort of new royalty. Even though government and civic authority has all but disintegrated, the various areas of America each have their own coteries of protecting superfolk to look after them. -Alan Moore-

Words: 5034, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel, Fantastic Four (Comicverse), X-Men (Comicverse), Inhumans (Comics), Doctor Strange (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Incredible Hulk (Comics), Guardians of the Galaxy (Comics), New Warriors, Ms. Marvel (Comics), Ms. Marvel (TV 2022), Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Comics 2015)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, M/M

Characters: Valeria Richards, Franklin Richards, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Hank McCoy, Simon Williams, Gabrielle Kinney, Carol Danvers, Steve Rogers, Peter Parker, Miles Morales, The Vision, Wanda Maximoff, Bruce Banner, Betty Ross, Daimon Hellstrom, Satana Hellstrom, Clea Strange, Lauri-Ell (Marvel), Peter Quill, Lila Cheney, Galactus, Leech (Marvel), Phoenix Force, Screentime, Xiaoyi Chen, Kamala Khan, Lunella Lafayette

Relationships: Gabrielle Kinney/Valeria Richards, Emma Frost/Jean Grey, Hank McCoy/Simon Williams, Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan, Wanda Maximoff/Vision

Additional Tags: Bad Ending, Alternate Universe - Future, Bad Future, trash future, Magic, Dark Magic, Horror, Body Horror, War, The Apocalypse is Canceled until I Say so., Skrulls - Freeform, shi'ar, Kree (Marvel), Murder, Deicide, Arranged Marriage, Marriage Proposal, Weddings, Wedding Planning

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#scarlet vision #scarletvision #the vision #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #IFTTT

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heymeowmao · 3 years ago

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原来是老师啊! | Brilliant Class 8 - E20 ♪ when the math teacher gets drunk & sentimental

+ Probably shouldn’t have let him drink.

#原来是老师啊 #Brilliant Class 8 #cdrama #Cheney Chen #Zheng Fanxing #Zhang Jianing #character: xiang dongnan #character: su qi #character: chen liusan #meowmao gifs

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bemybaebaebae · 2 years ago

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Cheney Chen

#cheney chen

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staydandy · 2 years ago

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Decoded (2016) - 解密 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : A math genius gets recruited by Chinese spy agency to crack a complex coded message in the early republican era. (MDL)

Whumpee : Rong Jin Zhen played by Cheney Chen

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Military, Thriller, Historical, Crime

Note : This is a Partial List - I didn't list every bit of whump, just what caught my attention the most • Adapted from a book of the same name by Mai Jia (麥家)

Episodes on List : 3 Total Episodes : 41

*Spoilers below*

02 : Rong Jin Zhen faints from fright during a gunfight

24 : Saved from drowning & gunshot

30 : Shot

#whump #whump list #drama #decoded #解密 #rong jin zhen #cheney chen #china #fright #passes out #drown #gunshot #shot #drowning #Military #Thriller #Historical #Crime #faints #asian whump

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guishan-lian-quan · 4 years ago

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Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2: 2020/04/12 - out on Tencent

#l.o.r.d legend of ravaging dynasties #Legend of Ravaging Dynasties #legend of ravaging dynasties 2 #qi ling #guishan lian quan #youhua #yin chen #kris wu #wu yifan #cheney chen #lin yun

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lecho · 4 years ago

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Social Distancing: L.O.R.D. - Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (Movie) - #23

Synopsis: Based on the novel of the same name, the film depicts the endless battles of four kingdoms as they fight for power and domination of the one ultimate realm.

My Take: Where do I start with this one…I guess the most obvious, the shallow 😂. Everyone and I mean everyone in this movie is beautiful. 😌 So right off the top I can see why these actors were cast. Not saying they can’t act, but again, I can see why they were cast. Kris Wu is gorgeous and mesmerizing as Silver, and I thought Yan Yikuan (Wind Walker) was just hot. 🔥 Whew. 😂 Anyway, besides the beauty of the cast, the look of the movie was stunning as well. It was shot in computer animated motion capture which really brought to life the fantasy that is the world these characters lived in.

The story is somewhat complicated and thus difficult to understand. It is easy to decipher that the movie is based on some other work due to the hint of complexity that is displayed on screen. Being as it is a movie, the audience doesn’t get a clear explanation on who the different factions are, the levels in those factions (what their titles mean) and their goals. That said, it is quickly understood who is supposed to be “evil” and “good” and who we as the audience should we be rooting for. However, we still get no insight as to why Asval (Cheney Chen) is essentially the chosen one. Despite these questions, the movie is very good. And you’ll find yourself rooting for these characters and very much engaged in their plights.

I will warn you that the movie does end on a note that is unfinished. This is likely due to a sequel having been made: L.O.R.D 2: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties II. However, the trailer for the sequel was released more than two years ago and still no movie. So who knows when (or if) the sequel will be released to audiences.

Anyway, back to this movie, if you enjoy watching beautiful people, the genre of fantasy, science fiction, and lots of adventure, and are okay with reading through the Chinese sub-titles, then this one is a must-see.

#L.O.R.D. Legend of Ravaging Dynasties #Social Distancing Streaming List #Kris Wu #Fan Bingbing #Cheney Chen #Guo Jingming #Yan Yikuan #william chan #youtube #Amazon Prime

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