#cooking with Flynn

[biomecharnotaurus]

Ignoring the fact that it’d probably kill you to do so, what do you think some of the demons from Doom taste like?

Mmmh I'll go with some of the ones from the main line games and I'll put most of them in categories just so I don't have to repeat myself thousands of times

Minotaurian demons probably would taste like a mix between beef and pork. I think they would be fine to eat as long as you get rid of the organs that let them produce green flame, but they are carnivores and they are very muscular monsters, definitely not a very tender meat.

Pinkies...if we are talking about the retro ones, probably similar to pork. They have body fat so maybe their meat wouldn't be too bad to eat. Modern ones....oh boy. They are heavily platted and you are sure not gonna eat the plates, their skin seems generally very hard, very boney...the little meat left would probably taste more turkey-ish, maybe similar to a gator or a croc.

Arachnid demons...mmh. they look like brains but they have bones inside, besides for the metal parts of course, but you probably would end up eating organs, not meat. They also have blue blood, I assume they would taste very much more like metal. I'm not a fan of organs, eating more metallish organs...yeah personally wouldn't probably like that.

Cacodemons and caco-like are covered in osteoderms and they have A LOT of bones and only a couple of organs, no body fat. The vestigial limbs maybe would be fine, but I don't think it would be very worth it.

Lost souls are literally skulls DON'T EAT SKULLS

Imps...yeah probably very porkish. Not much meat, they are skinny.

Mancubus probably just very fattish pork, not my cup of tea.

Maykrs probably more like very metallic sea food? I wouldn't eat drones though, they are heavily biomechanical, don't think they would be edible at all.

Marauders and zombies are pretty much humans NO YEAH wouldn't eat, but they say humans taste like pork, so rotten pork it is.

Revenants...what exactly do you want to eat

Demonic wintherins...probably chicken-turkey like, the wings seem very intriguing.

Whiplash...they are mammals ok. But I think they probably taste like an imp with a bit more of fat because they have tits but the 3D model doesn't because that was inappropriate apparently lol

Gargoyles could be very good. Very crunchy. Seem very good roasted or fried, I think they would taste similar to something like a blackbird.

Tentacles...mh. They have bones, so I feel like they wouldn't taste like an octopus, seem very meaty...maybe beef? Could also be very good.

Mother of the Demons/Sister...they are xenomorph-bugs. I think you could fry them? Definitely crunchy, but not that great.

[wynandcore]

Love the idea that Flynn doesn’t even remember half of the programs he’s created.

After all this time, Beck finally gets to meet Kevin Flynn, his creator, through means of Quorra saving him.

And he’s nervous. He’s meeting someone almighty, all-knowing, the one program responsible for the life he’s got, the friends he’s found, and the city he lives in.

He’s in his creator’s hideout, ascending to meet him with the last ISO at his side, who promptly leaves it to alert this god of his arrival.

And as Flynn meets him, and they lock eyes, he can’t help but ask: does his god recognize him? Remember his creation, his function?

He waits for a spark to fire in his creator’s eyes, snapping him into a memory of his creation point. He anticipates a warm greeting, an exclamation of surprise as memories flood through this almighty guardian, swelling him with pride at seeing the program he made making such a difference in the world.

None of it forms. Instead, he looks at him with a pained glance and an awkward frown.

God doesn’t remember you.

Did he ever know you at all?

[didanagy]

VANITY FAIR (2018)

created by gwyneth hughes

[mybrilliantfriend]

“Do you love me?” “You imbecile.”

Alicent Hightower + Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Gotta love how in Archie anti Jules and the biggest shit eating grin while poor baby scourge looked so lonely , puny and neglected.

Yeah poor little guy🥲

[wallynorthbynorthwest]

Flynn has the perfect entrance in tov. For the first 8-10hrs of the game Yuri and Estelle talk him up so much. Estelle trusts Yuri because he's Flynn's friend. Flynn is their special little guy and they talk about him so much that both Karol and Rita ask about him upon joining the party. The party stares out at the ocean in awe and wonder for the first time and Yuri is like "so this is what he sees" like they are literally nonstop talking about him

And then Yuri chases after some shady guys and gets cornered in an alley and it's not like he's gonna lose but he's in a pickle and then Flynn shows up. And it's not even a fight it is a dance. He and Yuri are partners as they move together to the music of steel on steel and it's mystifying to watch and it's like. I get it. I see what Estelle and Yuri see this guy deserves all the praise, he's what they've been building him up to be

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eric Hananoki at MMFA:

The Trump-backed ReAwaken America tour is holding an event in Michigan this week that will feature numerous speakers with histories of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Those commentators have said that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL,” bragged about helping Trump with his “Muslim ban,” and claimed that “Muslims are stockpiling weapons in Islamic centers.” They have claimed that “Islam is a terrorist organization,” that “Islam has been and remains the GREATEST threat to the Western Civilization,” and that ”Islam IS NOT our friend." 

The ReAwaken America tour will be held in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on June 7 and 8. An online itinerary states that numerous Trump allies will speak at the event, including son Eric Trump; former Trump Defense Department official Kash Patel; former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani; RNC attorney Christina Bobb; Trump attorney Alina Habba; and longtime ally Roger Stone. Tour host Clay Clark has specifically touted his events as closely tied to Trump, stating that “Eric Trump is a good friend of mine” and “it's exciting … that Trump's inner circle is now going, they're all reaching out to our tour, to the ReAwaken America tour, to Gen. Flynn, to myself, to Kash Patel. And they're all saying, hey, can we come to the tour?” During a promotional appearance last month, Clark said “Trump’s entire inner circle will be there” at the Michigan event. 

The pro-Trump and Christian Nationalist ReAwaken America Tour is visiting Michigan this weekend, and several speakers-- including Greg Locke, Michael Flynn, and Jackson Lahmeyer-- have had a history of pushing Islamophobic attacks against Islam.

[crestfallencrest]

Tell me a complete random Fluri headcanon you have that you are enamored with. Just so you can talk about them. 😌

THE GATES ARE OPEN

I am of the belief that Flynn always ALWAYS has his guard up in front of other people. I'm not talking like in a "I don't trust you" way. He does trust other people. Maybe too much. But he simply doesn't lower his guard around other people like he does with Yuri. That being said: I headcanon that when Flynn's guard is lowered, he is one of the most clumsiest guys in all of Zaphias.

Constantly tripping over things in the house that he and Yuri share, stubbing his toe, bumping his head in the cabinets.

It's to the point where Yuri can't even ask him to cut vegetables for dinner because if he happens to get distracted, the next thing they know they're throwing out bloodied vegetables because Flynn accidentally nicked his own hand.

The worst part (to Yuri at least) is that Flynn thinks that Yuri's "Overreactions" (Freaking out when your boyfriend comes into the next room with a hand covered in blood is NOT an overreaction in Yuri's opinion but go off i guess) are adorable and he always gets this big smile on his face after everything. It drives Yuri insane.

(Also Yuri has tried to tell people about Flynn's clumsiness and no one believes him. He is cursed to live with this knowledge alone)

[ferbracket]

Candace Competition

Vegetarian Cook

Calculate

[ofglories]

gawain's cooking is cursed because it will always look amazing, like he's got the technique down perfect. but the flavor? excessive amounts of vinegar or salt or even pepper, and with sweet things there's too much cinnamon or ginger, usually. basically it's completely inedible unless you can really master the pokerface and force yourself to eat it. and even then no matter how iron your stomach is, it'll suffer afterwards.

bors is usually one of the few people he can convince to eat his food, because bors is helpless in the face of such earnest excitement.

[jamsofdeath0]

Ok but like the whole weridly offended to be called a "faker" is put in a different light when you know he at least USED to consider himself a "fake hedgehog". throw the test tube baby of course he doesn't like being called fake.

[sneeg-snag]

FLORIDA???? imo even kansas is pushing it😭😭 i did once see someone claiming pennsylvania was in the midwest though which tripped me up so badly it made every other debate on midwestern states trivial. like what

I LOOKED UP A DIAGRAM. I WAS WRONG. I ACTUALLY DONT KNOW MY CARDINAL FIRECTIOMS. I WAS THINKING MIDSOUTH SOMEONE KILL ME. Pennsylvania crazy though how in the WORLD is that west <- after typing that out i would if i read a diagram wrong APPARENTLY

[taniushka12]

i gotta say it fellas, im much more interested in skyler's ethical journey than walt's

[rheaamma]

[claudia1829things]

"VANITY FAIR" (2018) Review

“VANITY FAIR” (2018) Review

When I had first heard that the ITV channel and Amazon Studios had plans to adapt William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel, “Vanity Fair”, I must admit that I felt no interest in watching the miniseries. After all, I had already seen four other adaptations, including the BBC’s 1987 production. And I regard the latter as the best version of Thackeray’s novel I had ever seen.

In the end, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to watch the seven-part miniseries. In a nutshell, "VANITY FAIR" followed the experiences of Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, the social climbing daughter of an English not-so-successful painter and a French dancer in late Georgian England during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The production also told the story of Becky's school friend and daughter of a wealthy merchant, Amelia Sedley. The story begins with both young women leaving Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies. Becky managed to procure a position as governess to Sir Pitt Crawley, a slightly crude yet friendly baronet. Before leaving for her new position, Becky visits Amelia's family. She tries to seduce Jos Sedley, Amelia's wealthy brother and East India Company civil servant. Unfortunately George Osborne, a friend of Jos and son of another wealthy merchant, puts a stop to the budding romance.

While working for the Crawleys, Becky meets and falls in love with Sir Pitt’s younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley. When Sir Pitt proposes marriage to Becky, she shocks the family with news of her secret marriage to Rawdon. The couple becomes ostracized and ends up living in London on Rawdon’s military pay and gambling winnings. They also become reacquainted with Amelia Sedley, who has her own problems. When her father loses his fortune, George's own father insists that he dump Amelia and marry a Jamaican heiress. George refuses to do so and thanks to his friend William Dobbin's urging, marries Amelia. Mr. Osborne ends up disinheriting George. However, the romantic lives of Becky and Amelia take a backseat when history overtakes them and their husbands with the return of Napoleon Bonaparte.

I wish I could say that the 2018 miniseries was the best adaptation of Thackery's novel I had seen. But it is not. The production had its . . . flaws. One, I disliked its use of the song "All Along the Watchtower" in each episode's opening credits and other rock and pop tunes during the episodes' closing credits. They felt so out of place in the miniseries' production. Yes, I realize that a growing number of period dramas have doing the same. And quite frankly, I detest it. This scenario barely worked in the 2006 movie, "MARIE ANTOINETTE". Now, this use of pop tunes in period dramas strike me as awkward, ham-fisted, unoriginal and lazy.

I also noticed that producer and screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes threw out the younger Pitt Crawley character (Becky's brother-in-law), kept the Bute Crawley character and transformed him from Becky Sharp's weak and unlikable uncle-in-law into her brother-in-law. Hughes did the same with the Lady Jane Crawley and Martha Crawley characters. She tossed aside the Lady Jane character and transformed Martha from Becky's aunt-in-law to sister-in-law. Frankly, I did not care for this. I just could not see characters like Bute and Martha suddenly become sympathetic guardians for Becky and Rawdon's son in the end. It just did not work for me. I have one last problem with "VANITY FAIR", but I will get to it later.

I may not regard "VANITY FAIR" as the best adaptation of Thackery's novel, I cannot deny that it is first-rate. Gwyneth Hughes and director James Strong did an excellent job of bringing the 1848 novel to life on the television screen. Because this adaptation was conveyed in seven episodes, both Hughes and Strong were given the opportunity retell Thackery's saga without taking too many shortcuts. The miniseries replayed Becky Sharp's experiences with the Sedley family, George Osbourne, and the Crawley family in great detail. I was especially impressed by the miniseries' recount of Becky and Amelia's experiences during the Waterloo campaign - which is the story's true high point, as far as I am concerned. Also, this adaptation had conveyed George's experiences during Waterloo with more detail than any other adaptation I have seen.

Aside from the Waterloo sequence, there were other scenes that greatly impressed me. I really enjoyed those scenes that featured the famous Duchess of Richmond's ball in the fourth episode, "In Which Becky Joins Her Regiment"; Becky's attempts to woo Jos Sedley in the first episode, "Miss Sharp In The Presence Of The Enemy"; the revelation of Becky's marriage to Rawdon Crawley in "A Quarrel About An Heiress"; and her revelation to Amelia about the truth regarding George in the final episode, "Endings and Beginnings". There were people who were put off that the series did not end exactly how the novel did - namely the death of Jos, with whom Becky had hooked up in the end. I have to be honest . . . that did not bother me. However, I was amused that Becky's last line in the miniseries seemed to hint that Jos' death might be a possibility in the near future.

The production values for "VANITY FAIR" struck me as quite beautiful. I thought Anna Pritchard's production designs did an excellent job in re-creating both London, the English countryside, Belgium, Germany, India and West Africa between the Regency era and the early 1830s. Not only did I find the miniseries' production values beautiful, but also Ed Rutherford's cinematography. His images struck me as not only beautiful, but sharp and colorful. I would not say that Lucinda Wright and Suzie Harman's costume designs blew my mind. But I cannot deny that I found them rather attractive and serviceable for the narrative's setting.

One of the production's real virtues proved to be a very talented cast. "VANITY FAIR" featured some solid performances from it supporting players. Well . . . I would say more than solid. I found the performances of Robert Pugh, Peter Wight, Suranne Jones, Claire Skinner, Mathew Baynton, Sian Clifford, Monica Dolan, and Elizabeth Berrington to be more than solid. In fact, I would say they gave excellent performances. But they were not alone.

Michael Palin, whom I have not seen in a movie or television production in years, gave an amusing narration in each episode as the story's author William Makepeace Thackeray. Ellie Kendrick gave a very poignant performance as Jane Osborne, who seemed to be caught between her loyalty to her bitter father and her long-suffering sister-in-law. Simon Beale Russell gave a superb, yet ambiguous portrayal of the warm and indulgent John Sedley, who also had a habit of infantilizing his family. Frances de la Tour was deliciously hilarious and entertaining as Becky Sharp's aunt-in-law and benefactress Lady Matilda Crawley. I could also say the same about Martin Clunes, who gave a very funny performance as the crude, yet lively Sir Pitt Crawley. One last funny performance came from David Fynn, who gave an excellent portrayal of the vain, yet clumsy civil servant, Jos Sedley. Anthony Head gave a skillful performance as the cynical and debauched Lord Styne. I thought Charlie Rowe was superb as the self-involved and arrogant George Osborne. Rowe, whom I recalled as a child actor, practically oozed charm, arrogance and a false sense of superiority in his performance as the shallow George.

I have only seen Johnny Flynn in two roles - including the role of William Dobbin in this production. After seeing "VANITY FAIR", it seemed that the William Dobbin role seemed tailored fit for him. He gave an excellent performance as the stalwart Army officer who endured years of unrequited love toward Amelia Sedley. Tom Bateman was equally excellent as the charming, yet slightly dense Rawdon Crawley. At first, I thought Bateman would portray Rawdon as this dashing, yet self-confident Army officer. But thanks to his performance, the actor gradually revealed that underneath all that glamour and dash was a man who was not as intelligent as he originally seemed to be. Amelia Sedley has never been a favorite character of mine. Her intense worship of the shallow George has always struck me as irritating. Thanks to Claudia Jessie's excellent performance, I not only saw Amelia as irritating as usual, but also sympathetic for once.

Television critics had lavished a great deal of praise upon Olivia Cooke as the sharp-witted and manipulative Becky Sharp. In fact, many have labeled her performance as one of the best versions of that character. And honestly? I have to agree. Cooke was more than superb . . . she was triumphant as the cynical governess who used her charms and wit in an attempt to climb the social ladder of late Georgian Britain. I would not claim that Cooke was the best on-screen Becky I have seen, but she was certainly one of the better ones. I have only one minor complaint - I found her portrayal of Becky as a poor parent to her only son rather strident. Becky has always struck me as a cold mother to Rawdon Junior. But instead of cold, Cooke's Becky seemed to scream in anger every time she was near the boy. I found this heavy-handed and I suspect the real perpetrator behind this was either screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes or director James Strong.

I have a few complaints about "VANITY FAIR". I will not deny it. But I also cannot deny that despite its few flaws, I thought it was an excellent adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. Actually, I believe it is one of the better adaptations. "VANITY FAIR" is also one of the best period dramas I have seen from British television in a LONG TIME. And I mean a long time. Most period dramas I have seen in the past decade were either mediocre or somewhere between mediocre and excellent. "VANITY FAIR" is one of the first that has led me to really take notice in years. And I have to credit Gwyneth Hughes' writing, James Strong's direction and especially the superb performances from a first-rate cast led by Olivia Cooke. It would be nice to see more period dramas of this quality in the near future.

[ormspryde]

Echoes of the Past

Next chapter of Echoes. Leblanc's daughter is in this one, along with Niren, Alexei, Yuri, and Duke - Khroma finally showed up too.

Special shoutout to @magicmetslogic for the idea for Flynn's cooking, and Leblanc's daughter's middle name.