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[ironworked]

60 Sec Rec: Claws

"Claws is a midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness set in a South Florida nail salon. It's about good women caught in bad places with worse men. It's the story of hardworking women trying to get by in this economy, set against the surreal, bright, gritty landscape of Florida and the luscious, absurd, extreme excesses of the crime world." [adapted from TNT]

I'm still half-way through, but i already know I have to rec this one.

Surprisingly well-described as 'strip-mall crime caper' by tv line, CLAWS is a show for everyone who complains about female characters never being allowed to be as messy and complicated and outrageous as the men. However, you absolutely get what you asked for, so be aware going in that they won't pull their punches: you wanted messy, you're going to get a huge Floridan mess.

The actresses are absolutely impeccable, and I have to agree with 9-1-1's Athena Grant as she livetweeted this show with her friends: 'Niecy Nash is a national treasure'. If you don't have it bad (whatever that means to you) for at least one of them 5 minutes into 1.01, I despair of you.

Also, Dean Norris as a bisexual druglord slash stripclub owner known to family and associates as 'Uncle Daddy' is... quite something.

Plus, Gina Torres in lingerie in one episode 🥵. And Harold Perrineau's character preparing a strip dance. I won't tell you how that goes, you'll have to see.

Created by Eliot Laurence (Motherland: Fort Salem). Written by Laurence, Emily Silver (Finding Carter, Bones), Sam Forman (House of Cards), Janine Sherman (Criminal Minds, ER)... Directed by Dale Stern (Veep, I'm Sorry), Jamie Travis (Faking It, The Bold Type), Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, True Blood)... Starring Niecy Nash, Jenn Lyon, Karrueche Tran, Judy Reyes, Carrie Preston, Dean Norris, Harold Perrineau...

60 sec rec: Deadloch - Dead Boy Detectives - The Tick - This Close - Kung Fu - Nancy Drew - Kevin Can Fuck Himself - Silo - The Flight Attendant - Severance - Hacks - Hit The Floor - Black Sails - 12 Monkeys - T@gged - The Diplomat - The Mick - Timeless - UnReal - Kings - All Rise - Barry - Halt and Catch Fire - Resident Alien - Santa Clarita Diet

New shows: Brilliant Minds

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Karrueche 🤩🤩🤩

[magnoliacharmed]

claws, season 1 episode 9

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 53RD BIRTHDAY, NIECY NASH!!!

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[tellytuber]

12 Shows of 2022

The new (and sometimes old) series and seasons that made my year.

Law & Order (S1-12) + Law & Order: Criminal Intent + Law & Order: Los Angeles I started off the year catching the early (and Best) seasons of the mothership via cable reruns; got Peacock for CI; and then returned midyear when I was half-gone from covid and blearily endured the commercials of what was then IMDBtv for the very LA edition. While I am not technically a "geriatric millennial," I am a millennial and with geriatric interests. For me, peak television has become something that I can either focus on fully or play in the background while I do other things and be equally thoroughly entertained. That is why this franchise has become my number one comfort show.

Shrink + Michael: Tuesdays Thursdays Grouping these into one because I just so happened to watch one immediately after the other, and because they're both about moderately adept therapists who are codependent with their patients. They are also both incredibly funny! These got the biggest laughs out of me than anything else all year. (A shame I didn't get to them till December.) While they are both hilarious, each manage to sweep into very heavy topics and deep emotion without toppling over. #ReviveShrink

Big Love While I’m pretty sure I’ve watched more L&O than anything else this year, I’m deeming 2022 the year of sister wives. In my post marathon blues, I went surfing on HBO and turned on Big Love (after once trying the pilot a while ago and being turned off by its HBO-ness.) But this time it hit me right in the late-00's cable nostalgia. The melodrama, the humor, the cast - Mary Kay Place! It's a (new) classic for me.

Grand Crew (S1) With its simple if derivative set-up, this delightful sitcom got better and better every episode! The ensemble is funny and charming, and the stories silly and fun. Thank god it snagged a renewal and will return because I will need my weekly fix of Carl Tart in between his Comedy Bang! Bang! appearances.

American Auto (S1) At base level, it's just another workplace comedy with a pseudo diverse cast. And the setting of the executive floor of a car company is quite baffling. (It's not even a riff on Telsa. Neither is it too concerned with Detroit.) But it all came together during the commercial episode: During which the team spiral in heated disagreements over how to shoot a commercial that is appropriately inclusive but not too inclusive. Funny! From then on, I started to watch it from a new angle. The ensemble itself is a focus group - and every week is a new satirical debate on the weird standards of contemporary ethics. The show is at its best when it’s everyone in the conference room talking over each other in the voices of their respective demo. I still don't necessarily like it - But it does get me thinking. (About all that I wish it was!) But honestly, I'm only really including this on the list because of the perfect Cyrus played by Michael Benjamin Washington who is never not incredibly funny. He was my favorite character/performance of the year.

Severance (S1) Part Office Space, part Fringe, with the style of Legion. This trippy, beautiful, and exciting drama was a dream to watch! Especially since I watched most of it in the very very early morning with a cup of coffee - the very best way to watch something creepy.

Claws (S4/final) While, the finale was one of the worst I've ever seen (Niecy Nash's scenes were almost exclusively Facetimed!) - This show will go down as being one of the most iconic. The outfits, the colors, the insane swings. It was never not outrageous and gonzo. Did it always work? I don't know. But they had a Vision and Went For It! It was always a wild ride, and I had fun.

Better Things (S5/final) Every year Better Things airs, it automatically gets a spot on my list. And this is the last time. A beautiful show so full of humor and love and art and great music and lots of food.

Search Party (S5/final) Every season comes with a genre turn. And when this one turned, I didn't want to believe it. It wasn't until it turned to black without the Actually It Was All A Dream rewind I was expecting did it set in. I have yet to rewatch it, but when I do I'm sure I'll love it (as my experience with S3). But I do understand it. For Dory, who began the show adrift and yearning for a meaning to her life - to enact some sort of change, to literally change the world is a fitting end. (For me, S4 is the real ending and this is a bonus season.) Either way, it still earns a spot in the TV Hall of Fame. A crazy comedy with twisty mysteries. Extremely sharp and biting, confident in its hipsterness, unafraid of being unlikable - An ideal close to my heart.

Sister Wives (S17) As Elizabeth Laime so astutely put it in the Sister Wives spin-off of Bitch Sesh: There is no other show in which less time was spent making it than time spent watching it. Save for the very beginning (of the end) when Robin joined the family, nothing has happened. (Save for The Catfish, and even then nothing actually happened.) But all that nothing was for the cameras. Big Happy Family propoganda. And this was the season it all fell apart. Now, too much is happening! Cody-19! Christine leaving! Robin wants to talk! Janelle needs a truck for her trailer! (To Cody's dismay) Meri is also there! The knife to the kidneys! As I said before: This was the year of the sister wives. Incredible television.

Evil (S3) The beginning of this season had a lot of splitting up of the trio, which bummed me out. But it made the eventual reunion of the team that much more satisfying, and each of their individual crises of belief more affecting in their isolation. Every season is more weird, more tense, more absurd. I love it so very much! 

My Liberation Notes Every year I have one thing that completely consumes me. This year it was My Liberation Notes. It captured me from the very first episode: A story about a introversion and anti-socialism, when to hold on to it and when to let it go. A story about adult siblings, reared together yet all very different people seemingly in different worlds. So many existential ruminations. Plus an exceedingly slow teasing romance, barely one in the conventional sense, but deeply so as a connection of souls. All about life and its disappointments and mundanity, what beats you down and how you change, how people change you and how you change others.

[honeyhotteoks]

[ohnonotthehorrors]

Hold on, hold on. I need to be emotional about limited life canary curse for a minute.

To some extent: Jimmy has accepted his fate by limlife. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern, and the fourth time is coming up and it’s not looking good for him.

Sure, in the moment he panics. Yells for Scott and takes Bdubs’ offered time. Claws a little bit more out where he can.

But, beyond that, he’s accepted that he’s probably going to die first.

He’s the one to suggest they help Grian stack time, letting their bad boy get to the finals. When Grian and Joel are looking for kills and dropping TNT it’s never him to suggest he get the kill. Even though he needs time the most.

It’s not Jimmy fighting the curse this season. It’s everyone else.

Scott who promised him time and gave it willingly. Bdubs who heard his barely-an-ally beg for time and jumped in front of him to shout ‘kill me!’ Grian who was the one to shoot down the time stacking idea and repeatedly stressed that they needed to get Jimmy kills. (And also potentially ignored the boogeykill two hour loss)

JOEL who said to all of our heart broken faces: ‘I was going to sacrifice myself so he didn’t go out first’

It’s true, that the canary is in the coal mine to die. It is. It’s true that when they do, chaos and destruction will break out.

But it’s also true that those miners love their canary. They did everything they could to save him, but the air is poison and it is the canaries job to die.

[howlonomy]

Idea for dt clover monster

1- 6 shooter, where the board gets split into 6 sections and you have to remember how the rounds were loaded into it

2- buckshot, where clover will shoot the board with a shotgun but the rounds fan out like the astral dreamer attack

3- lasso and lazer where the board is lined up with a double barrel shotgun and the soul is tied to the center having to avoid each shot from each barrel

4- clover will slowly move their talons in and you have to fire at them to keep them away

Beyond that I’m not sure, maybe they use their wings to block attacks?

yall are way more creative than me with this kinda stuff AHDJSJCN but ill add my own thoughts!!

YELLOW ATTACKS; If you get hit with one of DT!Clover’s yellow attacks, your HP gets sucked out and used to heal DT!Clover instead (similar to Ceroba’s red attacks).

1) Six Shooter —> Russian Roulette: In a very similar vein, you watch a (yellow colored) round be loaded into a revolver; you have like half a second to react to a reticle being put on your soul before it’s fired and it’s either a live round (normal bullet attack) or a yellow round.

2) Buckshot: Huge shotgun attacks that explodes into stars. The stars explode into SMALLER stars. Very bullet hell.

3) Prey: Similar to Ed’s attack, you have to avoid Clover’s talons grabbing you; if caught, you are stuck in one place and aimed at by either feathers, stars, or revolver shots. Very difficult to move and avoid attacks if caught.

4) Blackhole: Extending their wings, their inner wings turn into the void of space, sucking you to the top of the battle box. You must avoid swipes from their claws or shooting stars coming out of their wings.

5) One Last Hurrah: Similar to Zenith Martlet’s attack where the screen goes huge and she flies towards you (idk the name lmao); Clover’s tail splits into four; they slam it into the battle box, yellow shards spraying. The main attack is DT!Clover’s SOUL charge up an attack and shoot towards you. They swat your bullets away with their tail, you can’t hurt them during this attack.

EXTRA CHALLENGES: As the fight goes on, lighting surrounds attacks that have things to do with DT!Clover’s physical body; such as their talons or wings. Extra damage, and occasionally yellow! A lot of simpler attacks also overlap, like how Zenith Martlet has like 3 different attacks going on every round. Things like TNT explosions, gunpowder lines you have to avoid (or else it will explode), and gunshots that shatter the battle box into segments (so you’re stuck in one section unless you take damage to move through the cracks).

You would have to aim for DT!Clover’s soul with bullets to hurt them! No other spot would damage them; just their soul. idk how all this would work in an actually game but this was fun to theorize and think up >:]

[buffyfan145]

About to go on a little rant here but you can tell most WWE fans don't watch AEW as so many last night bashed AEW for not promoting "The Iron Claw" as WWE actually had ads during their broadcast of "Smackdown" for the movie now being on Max. Now, I love that WWE is finally promoting the movie as they didn't at all when it was in theaters. However, AEW actually promoted the movie back in December when it was first released. They even had Kevin and his sons Marshall and Ross on there, and the sons actually have had multiple AEW and ROH matches (the most recent in February in a trios match with Dustin Rhodes). AEW also talked about the movie during the commentary for those matches, they showed the trailer multiple times during the ad breaks, mentioned how MJF and Ryan Nemeth were in the movie, the various wrestlers at AEW posted online when they saw the movie, and even when Will Ospreay fully joined AEW a lot of us fans realized and posted across social media how he and Harris Dickinson could pass for brothers, especially how Harris looked as David but also when they were both young starting out in wrestling & acting. Both companies should be promoting the movie as it was amazing and all wrestling fans should watch it. But to say that AEW didn't isn't true at all. Plus, it get some being baffled that AEW didn't show ads this past Wednesday during "Dynamite" about the movie being on Max, which is owned by WBD just like TNT/TBS is, but I actually expect it tonight during "Collision/Rampage" since the movie just only showed up on Max yesterday. Just seems it's being used as another excuse to bash AEW when again now both companies have promoted the movie now.

[airis-hunter]

Finally finish Dressrosa

Forth Gear was cool, although my mind does wonder why Luffy has that pattern on him when he does it and why it basically covered him when he delivered the final blow to bird bitch 🤔

Angry Luffy I love you

He's looks so peaceful and adorable TnT

Luffy: yeah Sabo and Ace are my brothers, and?

Can we just talk about the obvious anger Dragon had when he found Sabo?? He's such a fucking dad omg

Gez Luffy both your brothers are badasses. Bro broke open a steal door like it was absolutely nothing. (I'm in love with the dragon claws technique thing he does omg)

I know that people have an issue with the arc taking so long and honestly I agree; however, I sorta understand why it took so long to get to the freaking point. A lot was going on in that arc, you can't expect it to go by super quickly. There were like 5 different battles going on at one point, all at the same time. The only thing that kinda annoys me but I can always skip, are all the constant flashbacks to things we've seen hundreds of times by now.

Overall I loved it and all the moments and new characters it gave us, and of course all the fuel to the fire that is lawlu.

[itsbaconbits]

Wowowow! A new tmnt au!? Who could have seen it coming?!?!?! Certainly not I.

Heavily inspired by the Rise of the TMNT series, with a little bit of the 2003 in the mix. I have sketches and ideas for this that I will post soon, I just wanted to put the base character pages out first.

Also a link to the story that helped inspire this HERE

And more basic info under the cut if you want to learn more!

Leonardo: AKA Leo, Leon, Big L, or Leonar-don’t-tell-me-what-to-do

Age: 19

(A very large, very purposeful age gap here.)

Voice HC: TBD

- The tank of the group.

- Quiet and stoic. Doesn’t talk much to strangers.

- Works a minimum wage job in the Yokai world.

- Trained in many forms of combat. Still favors Katana.

Michelangelo: AKA Angie, Angelo, MK, Mike N Ike, or Mikey

Age: 14

(Mikey and Raph are the twins of this group.)

Voice HC: 2012 Mikey

- The leader of the group.

- Very chill, very charismatic. Old-school Shaggy vibes.

- Enjoys pranks, and often brings home stray animals.

- Uses Nunchaku. Enjoys surprising others with his “rad skills”.

Raphael: AKA Raph or Raphie

Age: 14

(The TNT Twins, if you will.)

Voice HC: 2012 Raph

- The inventor of the group.

- Passionate and energetic. Can’t sit still.

- Specializes in woodworking and metalwork. Duct tape is also a fav.

- Uses Sai, mostly because they make for great impromptu screw-drivers on the field.

Donatello: AKA Dee, DonTron, Dubs, Donathon, Donnie, or Jon with a D

Age: 11 going on 12

(Donnie is very adamant on making sure others know his exact age, even down to the number of days.)

Voice HC: MM Donnie

- The artist of the group.

- Very sweet and quiet. Suffers from “gifted kid” syndrome.

- Clay is his favorite medium for art. Especially loves the muddy feeling on his claws.

- Practices with the Bo Staff, but more as an art/dance form.

[adobe-outdesign]

I'd love to see a full-on review of Burlap from you! As a matter of personal taste, I do like it as a Plushie 2.0, but I also sympathize with your dissatisfaction in the loss of that creepy vibe. Which pets do you like best in it?

Poor, poor Burlap. It was originally introduced as Burlap Doll alongside Steampunk, Toy, and Origami as part of a 2018 poll to pick a new colour, wherein it came in dead last, probably because it was by far the least cute option of the four. That said, us burlap lovers were annoying vocal enough that TNT eventually caved and released it anyway.

Unfortunately that was a small victory, as there's been a gradual shift in appearance and tone. Burlap's original intent, and the reason so many of us loved it, is that it was creepy. Burlap pets were supposed to be dolls haphazardly stitched together from sack cloth and whatever pieces of junk happened to be lying around, with dead button eyes and stitched-up mouths. It was a very distinct vibe, almost scarecrow-like, and that made it really stand out.

However, TNT has been softening the colour over the years. Bright colors were introduced; the junk and scrap materials concept was almost entirely dropped; straw-like elements were replaced with soft fuzzy tan fur; and so on and so forth. Compare the Burlap Usul, released in 2023, with the Burlap Ogrin, released in 2020:

And just to be clear, the more plushie-like burlap pets are by no means inherently bad; a lot of them are downright adorable or have very pleasing designs. It's just that, for a site that celebrates Halloween each year and has an entire land dedicated to it, there's a strange lack of creepy colours available. There's Halloween, Mutant, Wraith, Ghost, Zombie, Darigan, and... well, that's it. Burlap was not only a welcome addition to this category, but it filled a very specific niche, as there were no other creepy doll colours. We already have plushie as a colour, but we definitely didn't have anything like the original burlap.

Favorite Species:

Lenny: The original Burlap Doll design put up for voting, the Burlap Lenny is delightfully creepy. The fraying fabric on the wings is a great touch, and I love all the metal bits used here; some springs for the head feathers, random scrap parts for the legs. It's fun, distinct, and has a ton of personality. I also really like the eyes, which are not only black but have red string in the middle, something even the other creepy burlap pets didn't keep.

Bori: The Burlap Bori has less scrap parts and fewer black accents, but it's still well done overall. There's lots of good details here, like the fraying fabric around the claws, the stitch work and material of the back plates, and the way the tail haphazardly tied together with some loose rope.

Quiggle: This isn't quite as detailed as the other three burlap pets, but it still brings a lot to the table with its freaky twig fingers and casual rope around its neck. The texturing and warping of the burlap texture is truly well done here and the whole thing has a great sense of dimension. The only thing is that while I like the mismatched eyes in theory, the blue feels a little distracting; I feel like maybe a light brown or tan might've worked better.

BONUS: Like I said, the plushie-style burlap pets are still very nice looking, and it wouldn't be fair of me to talk about only the creepy pets while not mentioning the non-creepy ones. The Burlap Kau is definitely the best of the crop, with super soft plush fur that reminds me a bit of Highland cows. There's nice detailing in things like the corduroy snout and iridescent eyes, and while there's some colour, it's kept to light earth-tones as to not feel jarring against the browns. Good stuff.

Least Favorite Species:

Scorchio: Even by new-age burlap standards, the Burlap Scorchio is a trainwreck. The eye-searing teal underbelly is both over-saturated and too low-contrast relative to the brown, creating an eyesore that draws too much attention to a pointless part of the design. There's no real creativity in things like the spikes, and the eyes don't feel like they align to the face properly. The stitched-together wings are a little fun at least, but it's not enough to save this design.

[solargeist]

YEAH. ough. I was thinking about how they can feel every pain linked between them.

can Scar feel every splinter grow gets building a huge base from wood.

or can Grian feel when Jellir claws up Scar's back to sit on his shoulder, or if she kneads her claws into his hest

does that mean Grian can feel when Scar's heart twists when he sees him sneak off again? can Scar feel when Grian's stomach drops every time they take a sliver of damage

does Grian feel the sting of cold and empty sheets as he shares a glass of milk with big b

if Grian feels anything from the watchers in game, does Scar feel it too? an odd tingling or a strange cold, or something sitting at the pit of his stomach saying something isn't right? something there, just out of sight

THE SHARING EMOTIONS IS INSANE, they’re insane, they genuinely can’t look at each other, it hurts, but it hurts when they also look AWAY….

Double Life was so violent for the soulmates who aren’t the cause of death. Imagine just standing next to someone, and they randomly explode into bits of gore bc their dumbass partner set off tnt wrong

I think abt how Grian gets killed by a warden, something he warns Scar abt, and now it’s his fault. Scar, somewhere in the woods on horse back, starts feeling Grian’s anxiety, starts feeling the pain of Grian trying to run through a cave, and then his ear drums burst, and his organs pop from a sound wave that doesn’t touch him on land.

The Watchers however….. Grians a watcher, and it’s canon (Martyn’s pov I think) Watchers feed off Fear, and they intentional try to starve Grian out, I think this was said in Last Life, but I wonder if Scar could feel it in double life, that ache like no other

[howlingday]

Snapping Shrimp! Faunus Jaune

Jaune: P-Please leave me alone.

Cardin: Aw, are you gonna cry? Tell you what, I'll let you have one free shot. Go on, punch me right in my chest, and I'll leave you alone.

Jaune: J-Just one punch?

Cardin: Just. One. Pun-

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Pyrrha: Wait, Cardin's in the hospital with HOW MANY broken ribs?!

Jaune: Um... All of them? And with second degree burns, too? To be honest, it might have been third, but the armor took most of the heat.

Fun Fact! The Snapping Shrimp, also known as the Pistol Shrimp, has the most devastating punch of any animal. With a snap of it's claw, it can fire off a bubble at 60mph at 4800°C and 218dB. The world record for fastest human punch is held at 45mph by Keith Liddel, the surface of the Sun is about 5600°C, and one ton of TNT is about 210dB.

[aerodaltonimperial]

can we just mention that if jack uses his new TNT belt - THAT HE CREATED HIMSELF - to knock darby out during this coffin match tomorrow that he will finally do the one thing he couldn't fucking do to win, is it time, can i say this now, CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FUCKING STORY BEHIND WHAT THIS WOULD MEAN. i am going to CLAW my FACE off IT'S THE THING THAT HELD HIM BACK, IT'S THE REASON HE DIDN'T WIN THE AEW CHAMPIONSHIP and the POETIC SYMMETRY behind this if he does it WILL NOT BE LOST ON ME.