#georg weissman

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[lucytxt]

ok, since i can’t freaking shut up or stop thinking about this show, i want everyone’s opinions on elias mannix, taking the entire show and entire character into account, what are your thoughts ?

here’s mine: at first i was VERY skeptical of mannix, as anyone else would be, but after finishing the show, i have come to my conclusion that he is just a lonely guy with a sucky life. i obviously don’t think what he did with the bomb was a good idea at all, but he redeemed himself when he told 2023 elias to not do it. i believe elias just wanted to be loved because he’s never felt that before, and he also wanted everyone else to feel love hence the “know you are loved” line.

at first, i thought this line was very odd and creepy, but after finishing the show, i believe it is a genuine saying. i think the “know you are loved” is honestly a powerful thing. because of elias’ story, that’s all he wanted, was to be loved. and even though the saying has some bad connotations, i personally really like it and i will remember the good parts of the saying and not the bad. good parts being mostly towards the end of the show when things really start to unfold and elias’ story is revealed.

i do feel bad for him. he had a rough childhood, and he wanted to make sure everyone was loved, so that’s why the 2053 timeline was the way it was. yes, he went about it the completely wrong way, but in the end he is a human being who wanted to feel what everyone else felt.

these are just my opinions, but ya

know you are loved ❤️

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BODIES COREEE part 1.

[therealsoulking]

Saw this at work today and couldn’t resist.

[lucytxt]

if you’re doomed, i’m doomed as well. this show is deadass, the best show i’ve ever seen. i think people think i’m exaggerating, but i’m literally not. it has really made me think about life and how one little thing can have a huge consequence. yes, ik that time travel isn’t real… or is it 👀 (nah jk), but the morals of the storylines and the true emotions that go through my mind are real. i will forever love this show.

will this stupid show ever leave my brain or am i doomed to brainrot about it forever??? Is this the new good omens obsession? im going to die istg

[conqueringfearoftoasters]

"If Harry had a twin sister" head-canons

I see a lot of "Harry's twin sister" fanfictions, so I decided to make my own headcanons for if he had one.

Her name would be Euphemia Lily Potter (named after both her paternal grandmother and mom).

Her nickname would be "Effie"

Effie would receive hand-me-down clothes from Petunia that her aunt didn't want anymore or just didn't fit.

She would have brown hair and blue eyes like Harry (I personally imagine her as Malina Weissman. Also IK that Harry has green eyes but I went by what Daniel Radcliffe looked like.)

She would be sorted into Hufflepuff, because although she is smart and brave like her parents, Effie also valued kindness, loyalty, and hard-work.

Effie would be friends with Hermione and Ron. But her main friend group would consist of some people in her House (like Hannah, Justin, and Ernie).

Her and Draco Malfoy are enemies, but her main nemesis is Pansy.

Her love interest would probably be someone in her friend group, or one of the Weasley's (specifically Fred or George.)

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Highlights of the week include the following:

Monday, Dec. 25 — A performance by Brandy

Tuesday, Dec. 26 — PR expert Jenna Guarneri; cookbook author Alex Snodgrass (“Dinner Tonight”)

Wednesday, Dec. 27 — Dating expert Bela Gandhi; PEOPLE’s Editor-in-Chief Wendy Naugle on “Beyond the Scale” feature; Peloton’s head instructor Robin Arzón; chef Ashish Alfred

Thursday, Dec. 28 — Chef and cookbook author Joshua Weissman (“Texture Over Taste”)

Friday, Dec. 29 — Actors Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz (“Ferrari”); fashion podcasters Alison Bruhn and Delia Folk (“The Style That Binds Us”); media personality Ryan Seacrest (“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”); “GMA” Book Club December pick author Ariel Lawson (“The Frozen River”)

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[amidst-wonderland]

nae clue if i'm just shouting into the void at this point because official peaky content has dried up and i took such a long hiatus during series six (completely my own fault) but, i've been having so much fun writing for nora again that i've been toying around with some ideas and i'd love to get some general feedback, which i know is a hard ask on tumblr these days.

pretty much all of these aren't canon compliant, but they do follow the overall plot just not the same story beats.

honestly, with the three pb ideas i am considering leaving gina out of them - depends on how busy they get because ultimately the kids, michael, polly and thomas are at the core of nora's story.

seanmhair | series five!

alec's wife is on the school run whilst nora is out with her sister. they return to the taylor's inn (now owned and run by the mcleod's) to find the shelby's have made camp devising on what to do about jimmy mccavern in alliance with alec and the norman conks - a razor gang his father had a hand in starting as a boy. upon arrival, george spots a familiar face in polly gray.

i've thought a bit about this and i think i'm gonna keep the kids with nora, the threat of the church taking them from her is still there but they're able to stay out of sight by living above taylor's inn and don't get me wrong, the folk around the mcleod's are suspicious of their unit, but not enough to do anything about it.

the gray area | series five! (teaser below)

“nora” alec breathlessly warned, handling the squirming six-year-old in his arms as he struggles to wrap the blond in his sister’s larger coat in an attempt to keep the heat in but alas he wanted nothing but his mum who seemed to be more entranced by the two blokes about fifty yards from them. one laying lifeless on the floor, and the other hovering over the well-dressed body.

    you can see it in her eyes – the pain; the grief and sheer rage – she was ready to pounce, to do so regardless of a present audience. yet, there was no point. the deed was done, and the man was dead. they saved her son and that’s all that mattered.

    alec couldn’t understand why the ginger wouldn’t leave it to rest as she continued to grip the lowered revolver.

     “mummy!” george cries, continuing to fight off his uncle.

     “hen, jist– take the wean. wull ye?”

nora turns to them both, her bloodshot eyes beginning to soften at her shivering boy who’d almost fallen to his death into the cold depths of the river clyde below.

the bell tolls for thee | seriessix!

i haven't written it, but i bet you can all take a wicked-wango guess about what moment in the finale this is set.

slight general tangent | seriesfive! + seriessix!

before i go onto something unrelated, i really want to write something with alfie in it, as i know for a fact he'd be quite amused by nora's presence, very much pissing off her in-law.

speaking of which, thomas and nora have a changed relationship in the final two series. he's now indifferent towards her, as apposed to seeing some teenager who is stuck thorn in his empires side. she's now an unwilling associate due to his (and hers to an extent) severed partnership with michael.

they still don't particuarly like each-other but their interactions are less inherently antagonistic because there's nothing to gain anymore.

also, for anyone gives a shit - i've finally picked a face-claim for nora, young emily browning. think like twenty-eleven's sleeping beauty (just with a fringe, green eyes and dark ginger hair but the aesthetic is there). it is funny though because i always pegged malina weissman as teenage rosie and both of them played violet baudelaire.

excalibur | black sails + hetalia (...kind of)

honestly, i'm having so much fun writing this and i genuinely believed the best description i've ever written was the one for 'failing means yer playin' but this, this is good

arthur didn’t miss the burning fire she once held, her sharp tongue ready to jump down any man’s throat who dared cross her. the lingering fear that the siren would once return, dissipated as the girl before him looked nothing more than a rung-out princess than a sorceress of the sea. she betrayed their home, their crown, and his trust. all for a rag-tag group of belligerent criminals who would soon be shipped home to hang.

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Movies I watched this Week #132 (Year 3/Week 28):

Another serendipitous discovery, The blue sky maiden by Japanese New Wave director Yasuzo Masumura. He is considered by some to be "the most important filmmaker in the history of postwar Japanese cinema", still I never heard of him before.

Yuko Ono, a lovely country girl, travels to Tokyo to find her mother, and is being reminded to always look for 'the bright blue sky’ above. An utterly modern and unorthodox adventure story, full of impromptu and unusual touches. An underrated gem. I am going to start exploring some of his 58 feature films! Recommended!

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2 Iranian classics:

🍿 A moment of innocence, my first by celebrated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. A textually complicated semi-autobiographical reenactment of an incident from his own life. As a teenager, he had stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and for that he was jailed for 5 years. Fragmented, multi-layered and enigmatic meta-film about making the movie he wanted to make. The trailer.

🍿 “Today I learned” about 'Persian Sylvia Plath', the influential and controversial poet Forugh Farrokhzad. She was a modernist feminist and iconoclast who broke barriers of sex and society and who died in 1967 at the age of 32.

She only directed one short film, The house is black, and in 1963 it paved the wave for the "Iranian New Wave". It's a harrowing, relentless documentary shot at the real-life Bababaghi leper colony, and it combines 'Ugliness' and 'Suffering' with 'Gratitude', like no other film I've ever seen. (Alain Resnais's Night and fog' notwithstanding). Powerful and very disturbing, you'll be better off for seeing it. 10/10.

During the 12 days of shooting, she became attached to a boy from the colony, and later adopted him.

A Paris Review exploration of Forough Farrokhzad.

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La Collectionneuse, my 9th beautiful film by Éric Rohmer, the 3rd of his 'Six moral tales'.

On the one hand, there's the sensuous, lazy vacation at a rented summer villa near St Tropez, generously shot by Néstor Almendros in his first feature - there's nothing better on film than that. On the other hand, there are the two young, 'Hip' males who just can't get over an even younger free-spirit girl who hangs around the house, and who sleeps around without paying attention to what they, or anybody else, think. So they ruminate and philosophize and moralize and try to rationalize their piggish sexism and lust for her. They derogatorily nickname her 'The Collector' (of man) - What an outrage! 7/10.

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2 by independent director Andrew Bujalski:

🍿 Computer Chess took me by complete surprise: It started as a grainy 1980 documentary about The American Computer Chess Convention, where two dozen nerdy enthusiasts gather to pit their programs against other computer chess programs and human players in a tournament for a grand prize of $7500. But something did not add up. There were odd moments and quirky idiosyncrasies creeping up. Cats meowing in the corridors, a human potential meet-up next door, middle age swingers... Only halfway though it dawned on me: This is not a found-footage documentary! It's an innovative weirdness, the best "Mumblecore" exercise I ever saw. The eccentric mannerism of the geeky dweebs and awkward geniuses was pitch-perfect. 8/10.

🍿 Support the Girls belongs to Regina Hall, who plays a general manager of a local Hooters-style restaurant bar. It's a realistic story of real people, low-income, hard-working, no special talents, with no glitz or special hooks. It was one of Obama's favorite movies of 2018.

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'Computer Chess' overlaps with Mike Judge's hilarious HBO show Silicon Valley. Watching the first season again with zero lossless compression and still with a Weissman Score or 5.2. Pitch-perfect 6 morsels of 29 incredible minutes each. 9/10.

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Adam's Rib, (Only my second by George Cukor, after 'Gaslight') and one of the 9 movies that fascinating barefoot superstar Katharine Hepburn made with her real-life lover Spencer Tracy. A sweet tale about a married couple, who are both lawyers, and have to face each other in court. Hepburn was one of the most independent celebrities of the old Hollywood, and here she plays the same fully actualized feminist: She drives their car, they cook together (she does the roast, he tosses the salad), and he cries when she rejects him. She also wins the 'Battle of the sexes'. Hurray! 8/10.

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The wave is an interesting German thriller that was based on Ron Jones' social movement 'The Third 'Wave'. Like the 1967 California school experiment, a German high-school teacher must teach his bored class about 'Autocracy' (even though he's an anarchist). He decides to demonstrate to the students how easy it is to be manipulated when you belong to a group. Indeed in the course of only one week, he's able to transform his unruly, individualistic and rebellious pupils into a conformist fascist group that will go to any length to protect their newly-found 'community'. Prescient and though-provoking.

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First watch: Kind Hearts and Coronets, the transgressive black comedy about a cynical serial killer who is getting away with his crime. All of his 8 victims were played by Alec Guinness.

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3 re-watches, 2 with Robert De Nero:

🍿 "... Got a smoke?... " John Carpenter’s exhilarating breakthrough low-low budget B-movie Assault on Precinct 13, made on a shoestring. A riff on Rio Bravo and the ultimate urban western.

Were there any other and/or better Directors-Composers (Chaplin probably, but not Clint Eastwood) than Carpenter? The menacing synthesizer score he wrote was the most distinct feature of this banger. And the deserted locations of Watts, California looked exactly the same three decades later in godforsaken shitholes like Colton and San Bernardino. 8/10.

🍿 “Now back to Gene Krupa’s syncopated style shortly…”

Taxi Driver, one of the greatest movies ever made, a seductive manifesto of 'God’s lonely man'. The very best movie of the week, again.

Bernard Herrmann's masterful last film score (completed hours before his death) prompted me 5 years ago to compose a thread on Metafilter about the best movie scores. It included such evergreens as Chinatown soundtrack, Miles Davis for Louis Malle's 1958 Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Morricone's Cinema Paradiso, Trent Reznor for The Social Network, Ryuichi Sakamoto's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Hans Zimmer's You're so cool from True Romance, and so many others.

🍿 There are only 3 Tarantino movies I care for, 'True Romance' (his best IMO), 'Pulp Fiction' (A masterpiece!) and Jackie Brown. A terrific attraction-romance between two adult leads, and with De Nero cast against type as a clumsy, inarticulate loser. Like he resurrected Travolta's career with 'Pulp Fiction', here he gave both Pam Grier and Robert Forster a second Hollywood chance. Also 'Uncle Jack' from Breaking Bad'. 8/10.

It's only surprising he didn't give writer Elmore Leonard a cameo in it.

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The Town, another South Boston gangster thriller (A-la 'The Departed' and 'Eddie Coyle', and 'Mystic River' and so many others) about a bank robber who falls in love with a bank teller after taking her hostage during a daring robbery. It's predictable, and you know exactly how it will end, just not sure about the twists along the way. But it's done nearly as well as Michael Mann's 'Heat', and Rebecca Hall is lovely in her role. 8/10.

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2 musical shorts:

🍿 A short YouTube gem, Bach Adagio BWV 974, maybe Russian, about a garbageman who find a discarded piano. Unexplainable. 10/10.

🍿 Takrai (Repetition) is a mesmerizing experimental short about geometrical patterns of Islamic, Ottoman, Greek, and Byzantine architecture. It was made by Syrian-German filmmaker Waref Abu-Quba

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“You can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep…”

Asteroid city, the latest Wes Anderson world-building show-piece. Artistic, theatrical, quirky and super-stylized, it reminds me a bit of Roy Andersson's artificial universe (and in this particular movie, it's even closer to Tim Burton's 'Mars attacks'), but without the aching heart behind it. There were a few moments of genuine visual emotions (the green space ship with its long 'Salad Fingers' alien, the sudden Howdly-Dee happy dance, the prancing roadrunner over the end credits). 7/10.

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"No story, and no plot!"

The Bell Boy, my first (?) by and with man-child Jerry Lewis. A series of unfunny gags, pointless pratfalls and him mugging to the camera. Absolutely not like Monsieur Hulot, or Chaplin's 'Tramp', even though it aspired to replicate them. 1/10.

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2 by Australian Robert Luketic:

🍿 Titsiana Booberini was a quirky Australian short (12 min.) about a check-out supermarket girl who has a little mustache. It's kind of a comedy with some musical numbers thrown in. I didn't get it, but apparently its international success gave its director the opportunity to direct his first feature:

🍿 Legally blond, an empowering feminist chick flick, similar to 'Clueless', about a seemingly ditzy teen, who's hiding her smarts behind a pretty 'dumb blond' facade. Reese Witherspoon was great in it. 3/10.

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“The best way to do well in the United States is to be born rich”

[Not a movie, but] "Welcome to my [Robert Reich's] final UC Berkeley course on Wealth and Poverty. [YT playlist, 14 lectures, ~1h30m each] Drawing on my 40+ years in politics, including my time as secretary of labor, I offer a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s in the United States, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society. Each class page has a link to a syllabus of notes and readings in the "more inside"

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(My complete movie list is here)

The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)

[kanohivolitakk]

Honestly the main reason I don’t think Weisman ended up as a blorbo brain diesase bastard man babygirl for me is that

1) He doesn’t really have tragic subtext/elements to him. While I love my irredeemable bastard men I need some nugget of tragedy no matter how big or small. Weissman doesn’t really have that if anything he causes the tragedy for all the other characters (which I mean, is a common unifying factor with a lot of faves for me) 2) I got spoiled of his true nature and I feel that affected my enjoyment of the character.

[trailsofmemes]

[benisasoftboi]

Guide to Troubled Snake Cultists

Bonus:

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3 done so far very happy, loving the upgrade

[80smovies]

Back to the Future Part II

[yourfavisabaudelaireguardian]

Every Baudelaire Guardian (So Far)

This list is a long overdue way for y’all to see past guardians before requesting and a way for me to keep track of who I’ve already made a guardian, so let’s get this train rollin’!

(All Guardians names from first to most recent under the cut, will be updated as more characters are requested)

Kirby

Frankie Stein

Phoenix Wright

Harry Greenwood

Hiccup and Astrid Haddock

Reginald Hargreeves

Toriel

The Sorting Hat

Jack Skellington

@/virtualfindingsdocumented

Noodle

BMO

Reigen Arataka

Taako Taaco

John Mulaney

Dr. Doofenshmirtz

Chidi Anagonye

The Kratt Brothers

Ronald McDonald

CoryXKenshin

Freddy Mercury

Darth Vader

Jefferson Davis

Marie Kondo

Jonathan Van Ness

Maes Hughes

Harold Hill

Dutch van der Linde

Isabelle

@/milesgonzalomorales

You

Carol Danvers

Molly Weasley

Grunkle Stan

Magnus Bane

Scott Howl

William Shakespeare

George Salazar

@/unfortunate-stranger-losers

Luke Skywalker

Belle

Yoshi

@/barb-baudelaire

Me

Luigi

Soldier 76

Emily the Corpse Bride

Neil Cicierega and Ming Doyle

Optimus Prime

Papyrus

Robert E.O. Speedwagon

Julian Devorak

Rex Dangervest

Meta Knight

Moominmamma and Moominpappa

Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert

A knife

David

A bigger knife

Xemnas

Tony Stark

@/badasouefanficideas

MatPat, Safiya Nygaard and Rosanna Pansino

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Miss Honey

MatPat but with StephPat this time

Thomas Sanders

Magnus and Julia Burnsides

Ruff Ruffman

Willy Wonka

An even bigger knife

Amy Rose

Video Game Sonic the Hedgehog

Scott Lang

A Googly Eyed Slinky

@/snicketstrange

@/sqenthusiast , formerly @/larry-your-gayter

A Dog

@/teeny-beany, formerly @/afarmforthree

The Crystal Gems

@/arisabunni, formerly @/hongmoondescendant

The Biggest Knife Ever in Bowie, Texas

Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes and Presley Smith

Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Linda and Laurence Flynn-Fletcher

Alice Liddell

Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz

Lancer

Demi Lovato

Princess Peach

Marianne

Dad Egbert

Bayonetta

Phil Coulson

The Phantom of The Opera / Erik Destler

Original Design of Live Action Sonic

Thumb-thumbs

@/bi-baudelaires

Shrek

Greg Universe

@/cloverlady

Brian David Gilbert

Robert Manion

Yondu Udonta

Seven

Mary Poppins

Monika

Cherry

The VFDiscord

Ke$ha

Jay Gatsby

Kermit the Frog

Brandon Rogers

@/someones-mayhem

S. Theodora Markson

Chris McLean

Pepper Potts

James

Linebeck

Lucretia

@/olivia-caliban

@/oliviacalibans, formerly @/olivia-calibansnicket

Iris, Talia and Auriana

Final Pam

Miss Frizzle

Crowley and Aziraphale

La Muerte

Leo Valdez

Princess Tiana

Cats (2019)

Bubblegum and Marceline

Gary Goodspeed

Otto Wood

Ouran High School Host Club

Mothman

Tulio, Miguel, and Chel

Quentin Coldwater

Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey

Garfield

Fix-It Felix and Sergeant Tamora Calhoun

Barbara and Adam Maitland

Kit Snicket

Dan and Phil

Cole

Bill Nye

The Untitled Goose

Scooby Doo

@/vacuum-fluorescent-display

@/violetsnickets

@/broke-on-books

Eleanor Shellstrop

@/m-orgueous

@/aseriesofhyperfixation

@/vfdbaudelairefile13

Rosalina

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Spyro

Batman

Final Design of Live Action Sonic

Dio Brando

The Bad Kids

Erika and Princess Annelise

Hat Kid

Princess Diana

Marshall Mallow

Milo

Giovanni Potage

Hermes

Oliver and Lisa Douglas

Grogu

Din Djarin

Percy King

Miss Acacia

Wrench

Nico Di Angelo

Aizawa

Kobe Bryant

George Memeulous

@/thesciencebros

Ozma of Oz

@/beth-the-robot-enthusiast

Gerard and Lindsey Way

Merle Highchurch

Jerma985

Commander Up

Oliver and Felicity Queen

Steve and Alex

Dale Cooper

Miss Alma Le Fay Peregrine

Queen Barb of the Rock Trolls

Shadow the Hedgehog

Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas

Jonathan Joestar

Spinel

Mayor Damien

Fairy Mary

Gomez and Morticia Addams

Unus

Eijiro Kirishima

Blue the Dog

@/lostf3ralchild

The Parr Family/ The Incredibles

Five Hargreeves

The Imagination Movers

Coraline Jones

Charles and Jerome Squalor

Clarisse La Rue

The Fellowship of the Ring

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Alucard Tepes, Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades

Minnie Le Guin

Barry Bluejeans and Lup Taako

Cyrus and Evelyn Laurie

Red Guy and Duck

Felix Unger and Oscar Madison 

Mr. Nicholas Benedict

L

Asgore

Satine

Ted Spankoffski

Toko Fukawa and Komaru Naegi

Samuel Vimes

Ph1lza

Rick O'Connell and Evie Carnahan

Leon Kennedy

Team Dark

Sasha Nein

Sam and Max

Drawfee Cast

Bruno Madrigal

The Amazing Karnak