#i would have killed maurice from the beginning

[wickedfairie]

watched the nun 2... i see that franchise fell off after the first movie...

...also u can tell there was a writer's strike cuz no one knew what to do with sister debra

[rainbow-femme]

Rewatching the animated Beauty and the Beast

-Right off the bat the thing in the opening that gets me is not the possible age implication but the fact that this prince is opening his own doors and to people he’s not expecting. You’re lucky it was just an enchantress looking to test the purity of your heart and not an assassin. Just power posing with the door fully open, no guards, going “Oh hey it’s someone I don’t know! I’m going to have a conversation with them alone” before god and everybody. Of course you got cursed, your guards should have rugby tackled her before she could get her wand out

-I never liked Maurice as a kid and I still don’t. Like he’s not bad he’s just annoying to me every time he’s on screen. The wind blows and he’s dying on the side of a cliff somewhere

-It is never not funny to me that Belle promises to stay in the castle forever and then just leaves three hours later

-I love Gaston having his whole “I’m going to get Belle’s father locked up so she marries me” scheme and then she’s fully just not remotely near the town. He’s living in a high stakes drama and she’s clapping along to dancing tea cups

-Hey when Maurice goes to look for Belle he grabs a bunch of rolled up pieces of paper and protractor. Is the idea that he’s just gonna invent and build something while actively walking? Sir you spent 6 hours in a dungeon and nearly died of being in a dungeon disease, you can’t help yourself out of a wet paper bag much less get your daughter out of anywhere with an invention you made out of rocks and sticks while clawing your way through the woods because you’re dying again

-But it is funny to imagine this revolving door of Maurice and Belle trading themselves for the other until the beast is just like “hey if I let you both leave will you promise to never come back”

-Belle is such a dick at the beginning it’s so funny. “Oh there’s one place in this giant castle I can’t go? I bet he’s hiding all the really cool stuff in there and I’m going to ignore his wishes and that of the staff. Oh no, consequences, the guy who said not to come here is upset I came here! Who could have foreseen this!”

-Like it’s not bad writing, it’s her character arc that she was mainly focused on herself and her interests and pretty judgemental of people who weren’t like her, so her disrespecting someone’s boundaries because she want to sets up something she grows from, and she learns to connect with someone else on their level even if that person is different from her and she learns that people are more than their surface appearance and even an angry beast has depths if you actually get to know them and see their view of the world, and connecting with people who are different from you enriches your life. Which is why when the townsfolk later try to kill the beast because he’s different we see she’s now understood the danger of that way of thinking and is horrified

-But that’s such a funny thing to do just immediately upon entering a castle owned by a big scary beast. Day one hour one she’s like “oh boy I know where I wanna go!”

-I don’t want to be a CinemaSins and point out how improbable it is that Belle got a giant unconscious beast onto her horse when he would be hundreds of pounds. But I do want to see the scene of her doing it. I’m picturing the horse sorta laying down and the beast is on the ground like a sack of potatoes and Belle has her back against him and is pushing with her legs to try and roll him over. Or she’s got her shoulder against him and is trying to push that way but her feet keep slipping in the snow

-Oh my god I forgot they told her about the library before the beast “gives” it to her. She was already allowed to go in there and knew it existed, “giving” someone a room they had full knowledge of and access to is very funny

-But you know what if he’s the kind of guy who thinks that will work and she’s the kind of girl it works on then they’re perfect for each other. Just two people with zero social skills bumbling around a castle together, making weird decisions and the other is like “wow they’re so cute and normal”

-I love the sweeping faux crane shot during the ballroom dance. Over 30 years later and that shit still slaps, more animated movies need to act like they’re being shot and edited like live action

-Maurice really can find a way to immediately die in any situation. When he’s at home he’s fine but the second he leaves the town border he develops tuberculosis and begins losing all function in his limbs

-I’m going to be honest with you guys, I’ve seen various versions of Beauty and the Beast and every time it’s the letting Belle go scene I have the same thought: I absolutely would not have read that social interaction correctly, I would have been fully under the impression we were all aware I was running an errand and coming back later. Because if I’m Belle, and I can live in the cool castle with a friend and people who are nice to me or a town I specifically stated not liking filled with a guy who is pushy and makes me uncomfortable and people who are mean to me and zero friends, I would not have been like “oh thank god I can finally go back!”

-“You should go to him. I release you, you are no longer my prisoner” See to me that reads “We are friends and I am removing this technicality between us so you can go run out and do something that is clearly important to you.” I would not have picked up on everyone in the castle thinking I was leaving forever. I’d just show up two hours later like “boy, it’s been a day, huh?” and the beast is just laying face down on the floor in his room listening to a sad boy playlist

-But the beast is clearly part dog so I guess it’s a normal reaction for him to have

-I don’t want to victim blame, but if you have a sick dad and are equidistant between “castle where everyone likes you” and “town where everyone is mean to you” and your dying father can be cured by a nap, I feel like it’s a bit on you if bad things continue to happen in the Bad Things Happen To Me town

-Not saying she should have anticipated a mob coming to incarcerate her father but I do feel like it would be expected that the people who have been mean to you and your dad would continue to be mean to you and your dad in the Everyone Is Mean To You and Your Dad town

-Because if the forced incarceration hadn’t been an issue, they would have gone to town the next day and someone would go “Hey Belle, your dad said you were kidnapped by a beast.” And everyone would point and laugh and he’d start waving his arms and going “It was the biggest beast you ever saw! 18 feet tall and claws bigger than my head!” and people would probably suggest that the guy they all call Crazy Old Maurice may be crazy and Belle would need to prove he wasn’t. I just don’t think we would have ended up with much of a different situation in any timeline that involves going back to the town

-Ok. So. If I live in a town. And I find out there is a beast within walking distance that is sentient enough to take villagers prisoner. And this guy is like “yeah he took me and my daughter prisoner, he’s terrifying!” I’m not saying I would have been part of the mob but I do think I would be worried about there being a beast and two people he previously kept prisoner living next door. And her saying “no he’s actually very sweet” would sound like those people with exotic pets who get their faces eaten by their pet tiger. Like yes they’re wrong but Belle also thought he was scary and violent until she’d been there a number of hours. I feel like if instead of giving herself up she went to town and asked for help and they created a mob to get her father back she would not have been against the idea so it’s not wholly their fault for having the same idea

-“Is it dangerous?” “No, no, he’d never hurt anyone” Every owner of a dog who wants to bite you so so bad

-So when Belle and her father are alone she is clearly telling him that the beast let her go and is kind. When asked about the beast by the town, Maurice starts yelling about how he’s the most terrifying monster in the world. Belle has to show the beast to back up her father’s claims to try and save him for the second? third? time. And then they’re locked up and she says “this is all my fault” and this man does not for a second contradict her or take blame at all. “Yeah I can’t believe you specifically caused this mess.”

“We won’t rest until he’s good and deceased.” I know there are only so many words that rhyme with beast but that’s such a funny line in a bloodlust song. I will not rest until this animal has been declared legally dead by the state

-“We will fight even though the danger just increased” I’m obsessed with all the words they had to use to rhyme with beast

-It’s so funny that this is canonically France and he is canonically a prince. They didn’t make him a duke or a lord he is directly related to the royal family and in the line of succession. Likely not the dauphin because they wouldn’t have sent him to run a castle in the countryside away from the center of politics so probably a younger son but still, this guy is part of the royal family. They didn’t have to explicitly state this is France but they do, and they reference the baroque period so it’s after the construction of Versailles. The beast is actively being stabbed to death while sentient furniture watches and at the same time his family are canonically pissing on the walls and floors of their own home

-Oh my god the beast is brooding on a chaise. Did he drag it over to the window just so he could dramatically sit on his chaise and stare longingly out at the rain? Absolute break up mood

-He’s also in a different outfit that isn’t the fancy one or his every day one, he went and changed into a breakup outfit. Important to note the breakup outfit includes a cape and what he was previously wearing did not. He chose to put on a cape as part of his breakup outfit

-So Gaston points his arrow at the beast. The beast acknowledges it then looks away. Gaston then fires and hits him and he reacts all surprised and angry that it hurt like my dude you let him shoot you with an arrow, what did you think that experience would be

-It is so wild that Gaston assumes the beast is in love with Belle. Like yeah he’s right but what a wild assumption to make when you’re not even sure this thing comprehends human speech. Again my thought would be he’s attached to her like a dog is attached to its owner, I would not see a big furry animal and be like “this thing is fully sentient and feels romantic attraction to human women”. Yeah he’s wearing clothes but still that feels like a leap. Pointing at a dog in a sweater following its owner and yelling “You’re in love with her, aren’t you?”

-The beast’s arc is partly him controlling his temper, and we see him want to kill Gaston but controls himself and lets him go, immediately resulting in his own death. Gotta be honest I feel like less self control would have been helpful in that specific scenario

-I didn’t remember the blood spray after the beast is stabbed followed by the stab wound bleeding a good amount of blood. Are there other Disney princess movies with onscreen blood? I think in Mulan we see blood oozing out through clothes from an injury but that’s the only other one I can think of. Eugene gets pretty bloodlessly stabbed

-Best scene in the movie: The beast floats up in the air, actively transforms into a human in front of Belle, stands up, says “Belle, it’s me!” She then squints at him, touches his hair a bit, squints at his face, and when she recognizes his eyes she goes “It is you!” Ma’am what the hell else did you think was happening. If you didn’t recognize his eyes would you have just been like “Hmmm I dunno…”

-Ok so at the end there is an entire royal court watching them dance. Again I don’t want to be a CinemaSins I just want to see the missing scene. Like did he explain what happened to him? If yes then again I want to see that conversation of him explaining to his family how he was literally transformed into a literal beast for the last ten years and they had no idea this was happening to their family member. If no, imagine just going back to being a prince after 10 years as a beast and you just have to pretend like everything has been normal this whole time. I want a sequel that’s just the human beast reintegrating not only back into society but French royal society, which was notorious for having some of the most intricate and complicated social etiquette in all of Europe

-The final shot is a stained glass window of them with a prominent rose. Now in the original he had a whole rose garden he was very attached to, so that makes sense. But I feel like this beast specifically would have only negative connotations with roses and that window would probably be seen as a little tasteless given the circumstances. “It’s a rose! You know, the physical manifestation of a curse that was clearly quite upsetting for you for nine years and roughly 360 days, reminding you daily of your flaws! Isn’t that fun?”

“Original score by Alan Menken” Look up his IMDB, if you live in at least the US this man has written the score to your entire life

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HIII‼️‼️‼️

I I would like to hear ur thought process behind Koba and Caesar if u don’t mind, I think it’d be a very interesting dynamic but I wanna hear ur thoughts since ur the one who put the idea out :D

(Unless ofc, if ur tags in that one post were just the entire thought process and I’m just thinking too deep into it lol 😭)

HIII ‼️‼️ thank you so much for asking... I will absolutely love to elaborate

Welcome to: A Hopefully Legible Collection of My Thoughts on Caesar/Koba ™ (actually it's mostly just Koba... i stay biased) im gonna divide it into the different movies begging w Rise

RISE + Book:

okay so Koba isn't in Rise a lot and we don't really get a lot of information HOWEVER in the book "Planet of the Apes: Caesar's Story" by Greg Keyes we get this quote

(the narrator is Maurice btw) in which Koba thinks so fondly of Caesar he becomes Issape Newton

DAWN + book again:

dawn is complicated because at first we see Koba as this super loyal guy who will do anything to protect Caesar and his fellow apes, and then later in the movie he does a full 360

There's a deleted scene that happens after Koba saves Caesar and Blue eyes (I think)

"You saved my life today, Koba"

what a sad miserable guy that man would do anything for Caesar just look at him

after the hug Caesar stands infront of all the other apes while still holding onto koba, and says "Apes together strong" while Koba looks at him like he's the only person in the whole world

that dude is in love ↑

Koba worshipped Caesar like he'd do anything for him, so when Koba starts to believe Caesar cares more about humans than apes that's when he begins to turn "evil" Everything Koba did was to protect Caesar, I'm confident that in Kobas mind killing Caesar is what he had to do to protect him and his family

I don't remember which movie this quote was from but:

"From humans Koba learnt hate"

and from Caesar he learnt love, so when Caesar started "prioritizing humans" he turned back into hatred

↑ again it's Maurice telling this

WAR:

I don't have much more to say cus Kobas dead in this one rip dude but

Fellas is it gay to hallucinate your dear old friend (who you murdered) calmly caressing your face telling you to join him in the afterlife??? just asking

Summary:

uhh yeah this is pretty much everything hope you enjoyed like and subscribe 👍 yeah the movies are tragic and i feel like caesar/koba just makes everything so much more tragic and i love that pain and suffering on planet earth <3

+ an extra little treat

[historicalvandal]

*gasp!* You do requests?! Oooh, get ready to have me swamp your inbox. Sorry in advance 😆

What are your thoughts, headcannons, everything about koba slowly (500k slow burn, enemies to friends to something???? lol) getting used to *cough* catching feeling *cough* for a human Ceaser brought into the colony, and said human got interested quickly with koba and kinda bugs him like a cat.

💚- anon

I do I do!! :D I'm excited about having requests open rn- you are practically my first requester lmfaooo- So thank you sm! :DDD <333 My thoughts first off - To start off I think it'd make such a sweet but also soul crushing fanfiction, and I would thrive writing that lmao- But thoughts on it, my thoughts about how the relationship would start is somewhat obvious, Reader follows him around like a cat all the damn time, and Caesar does nothing to stop it because maybe this is a chance for Koba to learn that not all humans have such a harsh hand that they can be gentle, they can care, and Koba is just so peeved about that- Why should he have to teach the stupid human how to integrate into ape society? Why does Caesar think that this job is well suited for him out of all the apes? I think somewhere down the line, possibly after a bad hunting trip when he's gotten himself hurt, when reader has to drag him back to the colony or they have to hide it out because it's raining too hard and they're too far from the colony, forcing them to be in close proximity, he has this feeling that he can relax because Reader asks if they can tend his wounds, is gentle with him once he gives permission, because obviously he doesn't want to deal with getting an infection if reader knows how to tend wounds with what they have on hand, possibly learning how to heal someone through the insistence of maybe Maurice or because they spend time with the healers to begin with when they first entered the colony, nearing like the antithesis of him having dreams about Reader, how they looked drenched right through, shivering and freezing, droplets of water running down their smooth and soft looking skin, but not a care for if they'd get sick because Koba is hurt, he dreams about how they looked at him, how their bottom lip jutted out in concentration as they gently ran whatever dry piece of their clothing they used to quell the bleeding from his wounds, he'd dream about reader a lot I mean in my thoughts yk? Some headcanons for a fanfic like this ; - Koba is less then gentle, he's downright mean toward reader in the beginning, because he hates humans but also because he believes they don't belong, but mainly because reader just won't leave him alone! - Something more softer when they begin to get close, Koba starts to feel as if he can trust Reader, so he asks Caesar if their nest can be closer to his, and he goes to reader to tend his wounds, more then happy to sit in silence as Reader gently tends to him, as if they are his mate. - Further down the line, when he finally realises he has feelings, Koba would try and listen to what Caesar tells him to do- Leading to Koba gift giving but not being able to say out loud that he has these feelings. - If Reader and Koba are together, they become a mated pair, he's the type to be jealous if any male ape tries to speak in any other manner other then in passing, still it makes him jealous. - Reader is the only one who gets to touch Koba as much as she wants. not even Caesar is allowed to touch him unless it's a friendly pat on the back, Koba would be addicted to how gentle Reader is with him. - Reader would be the type to tell Koba about human romantic traditions, so he's taken to calling their hunting trips together a date, mans does not understand why that made Reader all giddy but it has made him crack a small smile once or twice. - Koba can and will die for his mate, but would prefer killing for Reader instead, he's there at Readers beck and call, it is readers name he whispers at night, and Reader who whispers his name at night, he is Readers and Reader is his. - He is also just very loyal in my opinion, would not look at anyone else in any way other then kindly. I hope these are all alright, i've never written much like this before but I'm excited to see the reactions I garner from this!

[howlsmovingmind]

The phrase “The Oscar Wilde sort” is one of my favorite things ever. It used to be as readily understood as “fruity” is now, but if I tell someone I’m “the Oscar Wilde sort”, ALMOST EVERYONE AROUND ME IS CONFUSED. And that’s hilarious.

“Friend of Dorothy” has, in a way, kept its previous meaning and use because it’s still coded to be something mostly only queer people understand. My brother is a well read person whom I typically expect to understand my references. I said something like, “Well, I am a friend of Dorothy after all.” And he looked at me with such confusion. My brother, the most well read person I have met in my small town (keeps himself informed on current events, history, and internet culture) didn’t know queer history hardly at all. Lavender Menace, Lavender Scare, the YMCA, Sappho, the word Sapphic, Plato and his Platonic ideals, cowboys, or Polari.

This made me realize just how little cishet people know about queer history. Maybe even how little queer people know about queer history. We aren’t really taught these things in the States and the people around us don’t typically have knowledge about any of it either. We have to go digging for it because we want to know about the people like us. We want to know more about our history. Because it is ours. It’s personal and special.

Him not knowing these bits of history confused me. I thought, for some reason, he knew everything I knew and then some. But he was just as uninformed as I was. But he didn’t care. Because it didn’t mean anything for him. (And that’s not a problem!) Polari seems like a dead language a lot of the time. But interactions like this make me realize that there is actually still a place for it. Because, really, it has evolved to look and sound different, but it’s still there.

I feel like I’ve lost the plot of this post, but I’m gonna keep going because I want to.

Queer history is so beautiful and human. It’s so unbelievably human. That’s why literature like “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The Price of Salt”, and “Maurice” are so important. Sappho’s poems and knowing they’re about women is important. Knowing Walt Whitman was queer is important. Knowing Emily Dickinson was queer is important. This is a whole group of people who have been hidden from the public eye and hated and scorned and killed because of who they love. And it is about who they love. You cannot tell me this is simply about the physical aspect of it all. Because it’s not. It’s really not. The AIDs crisis? There was no way that was just about having sex. AIDS was such a problem because they wouldn’t help the queer people affected by it. Only when straight couples were being affected did they do anything.

Queer shipping does not lose the plot of stories or discount everything that a piece of media has explored and built up. Like people shipping Anderperry. It’s not a crazy thing! It does not take away from Neil’s acting being a point of contention between him and his father. It could add a layer to maybe why it was such a big deal beyond his father simply being a controlling jerk and not allowing Neil to engage in something outside of what he’s “supposed” to do. Mr. Perry made Neil drop the school paper at the beginning because it would be “distracting”. We know that Mr. Perry is controlling and never would have allowed Neil to act no matter what. Because it wasn’t the plan. But Neil being queer adds a layer to this narrative that a lot of people have seen and found themselves in. It doesn’t have to distract from the story and the themes that the author or creator is presenting. It can add a layer. I mean, Walt Whitman being such a huge part of the film and message all throughout adds to the queer message.

I just think that… it’s interesting and important and it means more to so many people than we assume. History and every aspect of humanity is important.

And saying “I’m the Oscar Wilde sort” is objectively hilarious.

An Oscar Wilde Fan,

Howl

[hannahwatcheshorror]

RED DRAGON (2002)

The classic Hannibal tale told in an intoxicatingly fascinating way. Based on the book by Thomas Harris and with the same story as Manhunter this movie bests your expectations on all sides. Fantastic acting, killer scenes, and the movie flows extremely well. The film was so good that when I was done watching it I ate it.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

(Trigger Warning Rape, Suicidal Ideations)

Edward Norton plays Will Graham, a man who can put himself in the shoes of any killer to solve a crime but it messes with his brain chemistry and we all know what goes on then (boundless depression), so he wants to quit but he gets pulled back in the game by a particularly nasty villain they nicknamed the Tooth Fairy. Our Tooth Fairy is Dolarhyde who works at the video store and meets Ms. Reba McClane who is a cutie patootie but is also blind so she doesn’t see half of the red flags that D has waving half of the time (like his crazy enormous back tattoo). 

There is a scene where they need to get the fan letter from Hannibal's cell and inspect it without him knowing and it is so thrilling. They kept showing Hannibal looking suspiciously around, it was so intense! I was missing the fear that Hannibal would find out from Manhunter. They also circled back around to it later and made it known that Hannibal figured out the trick which makes a lot of sense because the man is a genius. We also have our classic Freddie Lounds cookout.

The entire date where Dolarhyde takes Ms. McClane to pet the tiger from the zoo is wack. She fondles the tigers balls and D is all excited and then when they get back to his place he watches a home video of the next family he wants to murder/rape and Reba hooks up with him! Wack! She had no idea what he was doing though. Also I’ll never understand why in the morning she just went off and explored the house on her own, not even because she is blind, but just because it seems like a bit of a rude thing to do (and what if she got hurt!). D was all worried but mostly because the Red Dragon inside him was telling him to kill Reba and he didn’t want to!

Instead he hoofs it to the Brooklyn Museum where he gets some facetime with his favorite painting so what does he do? HE EATS THE DAMN THING. (Neon Demon WHO?) He apparently does this to try and stop the Dragons power over him but I think it was also because he loved the thing so much he had to consume it, much like the child who ate the Maurice Sendak drawing because, “I’ll eat you up, I love you so.” Will finally catches on that the murderer is watching the home movies too and is hot on D’s trail.

This film had a much more exciting ending than Manhunter because Dolarhyde takes his lady love back to his home, fakes suicide, burns down his house, then goes after Will Grahams family. You think it ends at Dolarhyde’s house but no, the thrills don’t stop there! The movie ends   with Dr. Chilton letting Hannibal know there is a young lady who would like to have a word with him, basically the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs.

[letsplaydcttrpg]

Strangers in Paradise pt 19 - The End (For Real)

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Refuse to Fight: Eris swings her massive club at you as you stare at her, grim with determination. Incredibly, her swing misses. The goddess bellows and screams in disgust. You step away from her and fly over to the ambassadors, who cover at your approach. Eris thunders across the ground toward you. "Now you see what we face," you tell the ambassadors, pointing to Eris. "That is the form our adversary takes. She is Discord personified. Could you take all the fear and mistrust and hate between our two peoples and give it life, she would be its image!" The ambassadors consider your words, all the time looking at Eris, with her manic face and contorted stance. "How dare you ignore me, whelp!" Eris wails. "Come here and fight me!" "That is the voice of our controversy," you continue. "I ask you, my friends, to join with me, that Eris gains no more power from our strife." The ambassadors look away from you, confused and frightened. "You are making a fool of yourself, little Amazon," Eris says, gloating. "This ridiculous excursion has been a disaster for these petty men. They will never again listen to you! The only way you can possibly renew their trust is to defeat me. I have ruined your plans for peace...display your strength and regain these mortals' confidence." "I think you grew stronger when I fought Phobos," you reply. "I think it strengthened you when I contended against my sisters. I shall help you no more, Eris. Sow your confusion elsewhere. You will not reap the fruits of Discord on Themyscira." "Curse you, Amazon!" she shrieks. "How dare you speak so to a goddess? I have driven men to war over far less an insult! I could kill you for this affront!" "Yes," you say. "But perhaps I would defeat you as I did your brother, Deimos." A gleam then enters Eris' eyes; she looks hopeful, eager for you to try, until you continue. "But I am done fighting for now." Eris wails in disgust and helplessness. "You are powerful, Eris," you say, "I grant you that. Your influence is exceptionally compelling. Resisting further conflict with you is exceedingly difficult. But just as your father, Ares, the God of War, has no power over men who follow the ways of peace, I think you have no hold over those who choose harmony." Eris snarls with rage, Amazons and ambassadors alike staring in horror and fascination. Finally, Eris looks up at you, her rage spent, now looking very noble and dignified. "I will leave now, Amazon," the goddess says. "I leave you to choose your own fate. Keep to your path of peace with all the strength you have, for the moment you elect the path of Discord, I will return with a vengeance." Eris' image begins to fade, amidst a crack of lightning. Her image spreads across the sky from horizon to horizon and then she is gone, leaving behind a quiet stillness to blanket Paradise Island.

The Amazons and the ambassadors rush up to you, gushing with joy and relief. "You have taught me quite a lesson," Maurice Diawara says. "I have never witnessed such bravery!" "I am most surprised...Princess," Jamal says, shaking his head with wonder. "Most surprised." Paradise Island returns to normal, Phobos and Echidna having vanished along with Eris and her amulets. Kwa Khin does not remember being under Eris' control and seems none the worst for wear. The following days are bright and full of great promise. The Amazons and ambassadors hold many conferences and informal talks about their respective ways and ideals. While the groups do not always agree, the consensus accepts the widely-differing views. At the conference's conclusion, the ambassadors seem truly sorry to leave behind their new friends; the Amazons, similarly, regret the ambassadors' departure. Yet, in their wake rests a spirit of new hope, the prospect of peace among all nations and equality between Men and Women. Upon their return to the outside world, the ambassadors relate exciting, tantalizing tales of Paradise Island and its wonderful, remarkable inhabitants. Fujara and the Emirate of Kabul relax their tensions and begin the process of peace talks; representatives publicly congratulate you for your assistance. Suddenly your mission in Man's World seems much easier. THE ADVENTURE HAS ENDED

TRUE ENDING ACHIEVED. (Or one of them, anyway. There are a lot of endings, but in true Choose Your Own Adventure fashion this one is the best one you can get.)

If you're curious, we ended up earning 100 Hero Points once all the math is done.

And there we have it! Thank you for joining me on this adventure! I'll post a bit of a wrap-up post soon, so feel free to submit an ask if you have a question about the module or what would have played out from different choices, and then I'll make a poll to choose the next adventure!

[thoroughlymodernminutia]

-Little Dixie, 2023

Where to begin?

Let's start with this: Am I proud that I bought this movie on the morning it was released? Eh.

Moving on. It seems like the writer of this movie had just finished watching Better Call Saul and Narcos because Maurice plays a character named Lalo and I heard him refer to someone as Pacho.

This movie’s main star is Frank Grillo - you may know if from such films as ones you will forget seeing him in. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’ve seen a few movies he’s in and when I saw this I was like who the fuck is Frank Grillo? He was in the Lamborghini movie as the Lamborghini guy and I remember clicking on the trailer and having the same thought I had when I watched this: who the fuck is Frank Grillo?

This movie has Taken vibes, but without the charm of Liam Neeson or a memorable speech like the I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you speech.

Anyways - Spoilers below the cut!

This movie is dumb, but at least it’s only like an hour and a half. I’ll give the imdb summary:

Doc facilitates a fragile truce between the Governor and Cartel, trading prosecutorial leniency for finance. With no more truce, Doc is left to fend for himself and protect the one untainted thing in his life: his daughter, Little Dixie.

Our guy Maurice plays Lalo Prado, head of the Prado Cartel (crime family?) and has his first ep SVU hair in this. His half brother (played by Beau Knapp who I only know of because he was on the first ep of Organized Crime this season) Raphael (Cuco). He's kind of a psycho and causes a lot of problems for Doc (Frank Grillo) and his brother. I think Lalo kind of just wants to live a leisurely life as a cartel boss, but he can’t because Cuco kidnaps Doc’s daughter and basically Doc has to kill a bunch of people including Eric Dane’s character who plays the governor.

I will say it’s impressive they managed to not use any homophobic language given what type of movie this is. There’s a scene with Cuco at a bar that’s having a drag show and he takes one of them back to his hotel. And when he's choking the drag queen out after he has sex with them, I personally was shocked he didn't say anything offensive.

Anyways, Maurice is hot in this and has more lines than Den of Thieves; if that is the bar we are going by. Hit up my inbox if you want to if he lives or dies.

Would I watch this again? I own it now, so maybe.

Also there will be more gifs!

[ladyhindsight]

One thing I never understood about Alastair's situation in the books:

In Nothing But Shadows Clive, a kid that is part of Alastair's Academy friends, gets himself killed because he tries to scare off James with a demon in a Pyxis box.

This is the reason James get expelled-Clive's death is pinned on him and he has to leave.

And yet, no one talks about this at all in The Last Hours-no, Alastair's Big Crime was (supposedly) circulating rumors. It got completely retconned.

It would have made a lot more sense if the MT were reluctant to be friendly with Alastair for this reason; even if he was not on board with the plan and was remorseful of his actions (as he was implied to be in NBS), the accident made all the Shadowhunters at the Academy consider James a murderous monster-how do you recover from that?

I suppose Clare really did not want to consider a scenario where James would be not fawned over (as if his ostracism was just a thing of his early teenage years) and did not want to give a real reason for Alastair to be resented, so nothing ever came out of it.

There is pretty much nothing in The Last Hours to remind you of what happens in Nothing But Shadows. Only thing carrying forward to the main series is Alastair’s behavior in the Academy, not that James was in any way despised because of what he was accused of doing.

I’ve not properly read Nothing But Shadows yet, but I understood it that only Alastair and Alastair’s friend group in addition to conveniently discriminate teachers were the only ones opposing James and subsequently his friends because of James’ ancestry that mainly is displayed in his Golden Eyes. In TLH, James is still coveted by any and every girl, is charismatic and charming, and is from respectable family that only the cartoonish antagonists like Inquisitor Bridgestock have any reason to oppose. Nothing But Shadows has not left but a teeny, tiny mark on their characters and their stories going forward, and only concerning the Merry Thieves (that is still the stupidest name).

The hate Alastair gets in TLH is entirely disproportional to begin with. Contrasted to someone dying, it’s really just kids talking shit about each other and being mean. My high school years were rough as hell, but as an adult, even though all that stuff still left pretty deep marks, I can recognize things as they are and nothing more. I don’t think in Chain of Gold or Chain of Iron ever brought up the happenings in the Academy from any other aspect than James and Matthew’s torment.

Not surprising though, James is still reminiscent of every Herondale in the series. Though the narrative likes to pretend there are all these things opposite of their favoritism, they bear no actual weight. They are, no matter what, still favored despite the smoke screen of characters like Maurice Bridgestock and Tatiana Blackthorn. TLH characters began in tatters, being only part of short stories that were eventually retconned anyway, so what value is there left?

[theimaginatrix27]

So I've gotten a few of the revamped Discworld audiobooks

I really like what I'm hearing so far!

The ones I currently have are Small Gods(again), Wyrd Sisters (due to the miniseries I watched bits of as a small child, and which was my introduction to the Disc, though I knew it not then), Soul Music (I paid more attention to that miniseries, though I never fully processed "Susan's grandfather is Death" because I didn't know the context/missed the beginning), and Amazing Maurice (which was the first Discworld novel I ever read courtesy of Vision Australia).

I also got a set of BBC audio dramas, but I wasn't satisfied with some of them (the guy who played Death was not a bass and Death can't just be a tenor/baritone with a reverb slapped on I'm sorry I didn't make these rules.)

So, let's start with Small Gods, because I listened to the play version and then the new version read by Andy goddam Serkis.

So Andy did a phenomenal job, but who was expecting any different?

He did give Brutha a deeper voice than I expected from a seventeen-year-old but I got used to that (also I had just listened to the audio drama wherein Brutha was played by another tenor so I was a wee bit biased).

He also turned Om into David Lister from Red Dwarf and I don't know how to feel about that one except I hope Terry was listening in the afterlife and found it just as hilarious.

After consuming three separate versions of this book I can state with confidence that I would absolutely die for Brutha if that would not make him sad. He was such a good boy.

Death shows up just a little in this book but I'll gush about him in a minute.

Apart from the other plays, which I skimmed through, I've only read Soul Music, so let's just move on to that one okay?

Death has his own voice actor. I mentioned this the other night when I made the post wherein I related my discovery of the new set of audiobooks, but guys he is. Killing it. (pun absolutely intended and also completely true.) His voice is deep and dark and rolls like thunder and is the perfect balance of black honey on black velvet and GAH I LOVE IT. There need to be audiobook narrations awards just so Peter Serafinowicz could get seven.

Sian Clifford is also amazing, and captures Susan very well, as well as every other character, and I enjoyed listening to her extremely very much.

Seriously Peter's Death is the best iteration of Death I've ever heard and I watched the miniseries of this book, which had Death played by Christopher goddam Lee!

Peter does not, notably, attempt to speak for the Death of Rats. I do not mind this. Sian's "SQUEAK"s were adorable. (Can you do the Death font on Tumblr? I think I've seen the Death font rendered weirdly by my screen-reader before and I dunno if it was on here or TVTropes.)

I didn't get the Nigel version of this book but I heard the sample and he did what he always does with gloomy characters and made Susan sound cartoon glum and ... I'm glad that's not what I experienced here.

Terry's references are like finding chocolate coins every now and then when you turn a page and I love them.

In short, I believe I've made an excellent investment.

I really hope whoever narrates the Vimes books is as good as the guy who played him in the Night Watch drama. I think he was different from the guy who played him in the Guards! Guards! drama, which is why I'm pointing him out specifically. I'm sure I'll love the choice regardless, but I'm still gonna voice the hope.

[valleyfthdolls]

Henlo, was wondering if you could write a scene from the Ghost!Millie AU from the POV of Millie’s grandpa and Yandere!CTW Funtime Freddy, bc that one from Ghost!Millie’s POV has been living rent free in my mind for days jgfvbjngfcvjjjggb,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Maurice let out a shaking breath, rubbing his wrinkled hands together for warmth.

His whole body was shaking. It usually was, not from tremors or Parkinson's or anything one would expect from a man of his age, but from the frigid temperatures he had found trapping the air around him.

To say the house was cold would be an understatement at best. It was colder than he could bear, enough that every breath unveiled hot steam wasting away from his lungs and he'd taken to wearing shoes inside all the time. He never used to do that before, but it was all out of his control now. He had to do whatever he can.

There was only one source of electricity in the house. It was self-powered, it seemed, and didn't rely on outlets or buttons or batteries. Which would be for the best, given the condensation, the humidity of the rest of the house that made even trying to turn on a light a sparking mess and an outright danger, but if anything was to be broken down and turned off- no, Maurice shouldn't say that. He may have been a mechanically driven monster, but he was a living thing too. Didn't everything deserve to live?

Hadn't he seen enough mindless death?

Wasn't the blanket around his shoulders indicative enough of that?

He sighed shakily, watching small, foggy traces of warmth exhume from his body, and lifted the blanket closer. It was black, of course, with white bats printed on it. It was soft and warm and smells of the wispy traces of vetiver all of Millie's possessions carried. One of the many small things he still remembered about her, everything about that poor girl still fresh in his mind.

Millie was gone now, thanks to him. He had taken her away from Maurice, from Audrey and her husband, from the whole world. And then Audrey had followed, then Jeff and his sister Sheri and her husband, and even their sons Cameron and Hayden. Not even Millie's cat had been spared, and Maurice knew because of the way her head had rolled on the broken hinge of her neck like a flimsy doll. Anything that Maurice held close was taken away by him. People. Items. Any comfort. No family, no friends, no pets, no contact with others. No phone calls, no comforter that used to belong to his wife, not even a heater. This was the way he liked it. Water running down the walls from condensation, half frozen puddles in the corners. Maurice alone and dependent upon him.

Weak to his smiles.

Crumbling into him when he saw him in the corner.

Recognizing the malicious blue glow of his eyes anywhere.

"Aww, cold today, aren't we?"

Maurice shuddered, both at the voice and the reminder of the temperature, as he stepped out from the shadows that covered the mildewy house, towering over Maurice himself, making the ground shudder under his steps, jerky and unnatural, like something that wasn't supposed to move or be alive.

The thing that had taken his whole family away.

Funtime Freddy gazed menacingly down at him.

"I said," He repeated, his voice skipping and repeating awkwardly, radiating a tantalizing heat, "Aren't we cold today?"

Swallowing his pride, Maurice nodded and whimpered.

"Aw, poor, poor boy."

He stepped toward Maurice, arms outstretched and despite everything, despite the torture and the pain, the blood on Freddy's hands, the fact that Maurice was a hypocrite and a traitor and a monster, he fell into the bear's arms and melted against his heat as he felt himself being lifted off his feet.

Shameful, it was shameful and disgusting. This thing had murdered his family, and Maurice loved him.

He may as well have killed them all himself.

As soon as the thought surfaced like it had many a time before, he felt a chill down his spine, and recoiled.

The water dripping down the walls was beginning to run black.

"Freddy."

Maurice shuddered at the voice. A weak whisper, the voice of a terrified little girl, but he knew that voice anywhere. He'd heard it before even in his own house, before he'd ever seen her and thought he was starting to lose his mind, breaking down at the sight of her head barely attached to her mangled neck with deep, bloody tears down both arms. It was always there, whispering, waiting.

It was Millie.

He knew how crazy it sounded, but he'd seen her, he'd heard her, and after her early appearances the house had begun to condensate, permeating with a horrible substance. It was his granddaughter, and he knew it was real, because Freddy's eyes narrowed, and he scanned the room for her.

"There's nothing you can do to me now... nothing."

"Millie-"

He couldn't finish even the word. His voice broke into a whimper, and he lifted one hand to cover his eyes, knowing he couldn't stop himself from crying. Millie was dead, her head torn off of her body. He found it three feet away from her neck. But the last thing he wanted was to make her feel bad for him. It was his job to care for her, and he'd failed her enough already.

Freddy noticed immediately, and Maurice felt warm, rough metal against his cheek as he lifted the wrist where he was missing a hand leaving behind only exposed wire to wipe his face, his vibrant blue eyes glaring maliciously now, and nuzzled his face into Maurice's hair to imitate a kiss.

"I know you can hear me," Millie's voice persisted. "And I'll kill you as many times as I need.

"You will not get to keep my grandpa."

[etaleah]

The supposed plot hole of “Everyone in Beauty & the Beast just forgot there was a prince in a castle near their village even though he’s only been cursed for 10 years!” is not actually a plot hole. Neither is him being cursed at a young age. There are perfectly logical explanations for both of these.

On the age point, the Enchantress saw that this 11-year-old kid was well on his way to becoming an absolute asshole and she wanted to nip that shit in the bud before he became A KING. If he’s already saying “fuck the homeless and the elderly; I don’t care if they freeze to death” at 11 years old, that calls for some pretty drastic intervention so that he doesn’t end up becoming the ye olden version of the GOP with the UNLIMITED POWER of the monarchy. And yeah, she was a bit harsh in how she went about it, but this was ye olden times. Those were the days when people still thought beating their kids was a good thing.

And no, the villagers did not forget about the castle. They know where it is; Gaston leads them there. Maurice isn’t even that surprised to see it when he stumbles upon it in the beginning. When the Beast’s existence is revealed, they say “There’s a beast!” They don’t know that the prince is the Beast or that there was a spell. Belle and Maurice don’t even know that. The villagers only know that there’s a beast, with no context as to how he got there. For all they know, this beast could have killed the prince. They don’t know that it’s the prince under a curse because he never told them. Why would he? He’s ashamed of what he looks like and doesn’t want anyone to know what caused it.

These questions are silly and a waste of time. The questions we should be asking are:

1. Did the Beast have his current form from the start or was he transformed into a cute little beast cub and then grow? Did he just get to skip puberty?

2. What is Belle’s workout schedule? She somehow gets Beast’s entire body onto her horse after he saves her from the wolves. This girl definitely lifts.

3. Why is the bookseller letting Belle treat his shop like a library and how do we make that bookseller real?

4. HOW MANY FUCKING SIBLINGS DOES CHIP HAVE. MRS. POTTS TELLS HIM TO GET INTO THE CUPBOARD WITH HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND LOOK HOW MANY THERE ARE.

Mrs. Potts definitely gets around.

[pageadaytale]

BOOK REVIEW - Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-Era Detroit by Tom Stanton

I finished reading this book the night of the Lions' playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers. I'm writing this review the night after, knowing they've lost.

There was a time Detroit was not the dark horse in sporting achievement; when people looked to the Motor City as a pillar of strength. Coming out of prohibition with record unemployment, Detroit boasted industrial power as America's automobile capital, and it would boast physical prowess as it cornered four of America's greatest exports: Baseball; Football; Boxing; and Hockey.

But beneath the shining veneer of the "City of Champion" lay a dark heart: a gun-toting, hood-wearing mob known variously as the Bullet Club, the Wolverine Club, or the Black Legion.

This is a book in two parts, really. In 1934 and 1935, as Mickey Cochrane takes on the role of the Tigers' player-manager, we chart the rise of Detroit in the sporting world. In baseball their team finally takes shape and they begin a meteoric rise; in boxing Joe Louis wins Detroit's Golden Gloves championship and starts his world champion climb; a small football team moves from Portsmouth to become the Detroit Lions, and is immediately a powerhouse. The first half of this book centres on the achievements of the Tigers and Joe Louis, as they upset the world of baseball and boxing respectively. The whole time there is an undercurrent of malice as we learn about the Black Legion coming together, growing in numbers - swelling their ranks with terrified prospects swearing an oath at gunpoint - but there is little activity to truly shock. Whilst they are, at this point, a club of racists, they do little in the way of heinous acts.

It's in the second half that the Legion comes to the fore. Started in Ohio following the collapse of the Klan, the group expanded to Michigan and in the 1930s it began its reign of terror. We principally follow Dayton Dean, a middle-ranking member of the Legion who is caught up in many plots - the attempted murder of Detroit attorney Maurice Sugar; the bombing of Ecorse mayor Bill Voisine's house; and any number of racially- or religiously-motivated attacks and murders. In the final third of the book we are witness to the murders he partakes in, ordered by higher-up Legion members, and the following investigations which drag the cult into the light and tear away its hood.

Both stories are equally gripping. The tremendous highs of Detroit baseball and boxing mix well with the seedy underbelly of segregationist, isolationist fascism growing in America's heartland. But it's fair to say that they are not exactly intertwined - the closest we get to a scandal in Tigers baseball involving the Black Legion is Mickey Cochrane's friendship with Harry Bennett, the Ford factory's union-busting second-in-command, who may or may not have been a Legion member. There is much speculation on Stanton's part as to whether Legionnaire's crowded the stands at Navin field to watch the Tigers win their games, but for the most part it can only be left at that: speculation.

But that's not to say it's bad. As I say, it's really a book in two parts. And if you take the baseball story and you take the crime story, and you look at them as two separate wholes, they both draw you in and keep you reading. I think both sides are important: the story of Detroit as a sporting powerhouse, something we can look to for hope for the future; and the story of the Black Legion, a far-right menace that met in community centres and basements and plotted to kill black people and Catholics and Jews.

In the wake of the Detroit Lions making the playoffs - and in the current political climate, with the right-wing threat ever-present and growing as another US election draws near - Terror in the City of Champions is a book worth keeping in mind.

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary83

12/3-4/2023

sunday - monday

sooo lazyyyy.

low energy. i have not done the stuff i wanted to do today. i am going to shower, and then at least try. i need to do the drum programming , at a minimum i think. maybe not all of it but at least getting more of it out, and then maybe doing one or two songs from the album, to get those mixed better.

okay i went and did some of that, i worked more on the drums, since i had a good idea for the main riff that's going decently i think, just getting that all aligned is going to be the struggle. or like, in time, i guess. i wonder if the whole thing is as intended.

anyway i am so tired now.

here is one thing i put together today, a server asked a daily question about the 'thesis' guiding the art anyone makes. i used quotes instead:

"a little later, the soldier maurice pilgore killed his lover, escudero, to rob him of something under a thousand francs, then, for his twentieth birthday, they cut off his head while, you recall, he thumbed his nose at the enraged executioner. finally, a young ensign, still a child committed treason for treason's sake: he was shot. and it is in honor of their crimes that i am writing my book. i learned only in bits and pieces of that wonderful blossoming of dark and lovely flowers: one was revealed to me by a scrap of newspaper; another was casually alluded to by my lawyer; another was mentioned, almost sun, by the prisoners--their song became fantastic and funereal (a de profundis), as much so as one of the plaints which they sing in the evening, as the voice which vrosses the cells and reaches me blurred, hopeless, inflected. at the end of the phrases it breaks, and that break makes it so sweet that it seems borne by the music of angels, which horrifies me, for angels fill me with horror, being, i imagine, neither mind nor matter, white, filmy, and frightening." jean genet, our lady of the flowers.

"i have discovered a miracle above the rain, thought joana. a miracle split into chunky, serious, twinkling stars, like a stationary warning: like a lighthouse. what are they trying to say? in them i sense the secret, the twinkling is the impassive mystery i hear flowing inside me, crying in broad, desperate, romantic notes. dear god, at least allow me to commuicate with them, satisfy my desire to kiss them. (…) stars, stars, i pray. the word splinters between my teeth into fragile shards. (…) what does it matter i still appear to be in the dormitory at this moment, the other girls dead to the world, bodies unmoving on their beds? what does it matter what really is? (…) i am fooling myself, i need to return. i don't feel madness in my wish to bite stars, but the earth still exists. and because the first truth is in the earth and the body." "(i'm writing about the meager minimum adorning it with purple, jewels and splendor. is this how you write? no, it's not by accumulation but by stripping naked. but i fear nakedness, since it is the last word) (…) would she have longed for the future? i hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that's it. at this very moment macabea feels a deep nausea in her stomach and almost vomited, she wanted to vomit something that wasn't her body, to vomit something luminous. a thousand pointed star." clarice lispector, near to the wild at hear + hour of the star

"he was seized, kneaded by intelligible hands, bitten by a vital tooth; he entered with his living body into the anonymous shapes of words, giving his substance to them, establishing their relationships, offering his being to the word 'be'. for hours he remained inert, captivated and unveiled. and even later when, having abandoned himself and, contemplating his book, he recognize himself with disgust in the form of the text he was reading, he retained the thought that (while, perched upon his shoulders, the word he and the word i were beginning their carnage) there remained within his person which was already deprived of its senses obscure words, disembodied souls and angels of words, which were exploring him deeply." maurice blanchot, thomas the obscure

"the people wait for me, checking their watches, standing at their doorsteps, but i am a speeding car that never stops. i'm huge, shiny, and new, coming from the other side of midnight. gliding mass is strangely solid for a phantom, clad in a metal that's lighter than air. vaulting from the abyss of my garage, deep in the deepest folds of night, i blast forth, almost floating off the ground, and rattle the sky with a crash of silver. trees damp with dew sag and weep as i race past them, and the nocturnal birds flocking after me lay screaming in my wake. one by one, i overturn the traffic signs that line the road like white memorials. the gas stations i pass erupt in flames, leaving pocks of fire on the expanse of night… i ride and ride and never arrive. (…) there's something about kayo in these fits of delirium that shoots me through the heart. at times like these, she's truly at her best. every move she makes is resolute, a vow to resist the pull of tragedy, to poke fun at every situation, no matter how painful or grave, like someone flicking a watermelon to hear the sound it makes before they buy it. her laughter was potent enough to scorch the grass for miles around, to putrefy a field of ripe red strawberries." yukio mishima, star

"i fell on her with my full weight. she uttered a terrific scream. i clenched my teeth as hard as i could. at that moment we began sliding down the sloping ground. farther down, the rock formed an overhang. if i hadn't stopped our slide with my foot, we would have fallen into the night, and i might have wondered with amazement if we weren't falling into the void of the sky." georges bataille, blue of noon

"(…) let me say before i go on that everything i do is based on an urge that i don't understand, though i keep trying to understand it (…) until there was nothing around but a big off-white shell in the middle of the worst mess in the world. god, human bodies are such garbage bags." dennis cooper, frisk

anyway i am so tired and i think all of that speaks for itself, i wanted to read today but i have been so exhausted all day. so:

byebye!!!!!!!

[naughtygirl286]

I didn't get a chance to do this earlier but Last Tuesday (Sept 12) we did go and see the next terrifying chapter in the Conjuring Universe which is of course the Nun 2.

I was very excited to go and see this being I do enjoy the Conjuring series and the Universe that it created and I would have to say I did enjoy this one also

I would say the movie starts off with a bang or maybe it had more of a fiery start considering what happens at the very beginning This one takes place a few years after the events of the original Nun movie and the horrors that were faced in the monastery in Romania and the survivors of those events have moved on with their lives, until things start happening as word reaches the church that killings have been happening and they reach out to Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) for help believing that the Evil from the monastery in Romania some how returned and she with the help of Sister Debra (Storm Reid) must find and stop the Nun once and for all not knowing that it is her friend Maurice aka Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet) who was possessed during their adventure in Romania and is responsible for the killings becasue the Nun is using his body So the Sisters must find the evil and stop it for good or can they?

Now like I said I thought the movie was great and I feel that it was very close to the original in terms of tone and aesthetic. It is very dark and creepy and amazingly atmospheric when it wants to or needs to be. There is also a bit of a mystery to this one as well but in all it is a really cool movie I felt it kept me interested and a lil bit on the edge of my seat there is some good jumps in it also. The visuals are really good also one of the best scenes in the movie is the magazine rack in the alleyway that Sister Irene comes across I think you see a bit of it in one of the trailers but watching the whole scene is good I loved how they did that And of course the Nun herself is a absolutely terrifying presence but one of the things I was a bit disappointed about was the Goat man/demon in the movie you don't get a really good look at him at least I didn't think you did he was a bit of a crazy creature but he just kinda scurries around. I mean he is cool and terrifying in the movie but I'm the type that likes to see the creature designs.

but over all I enjoyed the movie I thought it was great and if you enjoyed the previous Nun and the rest of the Conjuring Universe like I do then you'll probably enjoy this one too.

also there is a mid-credits scene with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren which I feel teases Conjuring 4 almost I think that movie will be a prequel to the first Conjuring and will connect the Nun 2 to the first Conjuring movie and you will see the events that happen to Maurice aka Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet) that are mentioned in the first movie at least that is what I think anyway

[cephalog0d]

THIS IS IT. THE FINALE. I've had fun playing this one, I kind of want to read through for the other endings (I've seen a few, obviously, flipping through, there's quite a few failure points). If you've actually read this monster thread all the way through a) I love you and b) I hope you've enjoyed it! (I should offer a drabble or something to anyone who actually made it this far, this is such a lot of text. XD)

Refuse to Fight Eris swings her massive club at you as you stare at her, grim with determination. Incredibly, her swing misses. The goddess bellows and screams in disgust. You step away from her and fly over to the ambassadors, who cover at your approach. Eris thunders across the ground toward you. "Now you see what we face," you tell the ambassadors, pointing to Eris. "That is the form our adversary takes. She is Discord personified. Could you take all the fear and mistrust and hate between our two peoples and give it life, she would be its image!" The ambassadors consider your words, all the time looking at Eris, with her manic face and contorted stance. "How dare you ignore me, whelp!" Eris wails. "Come here and fight me!" "That is the voice of our controversy," you continue. "I ask you, my friends, to join with me, that Eris gains no more power from our strife." The ambassadors look away from you, confused and frightened. "You are making a fool of yourself, little Amazon," Eris says, gloating. "This ridiculous excursion has been a disaster for these petty men. They will never again listen to you! The only way you can possibly renew their trust is to defeat me. I have ruined your plans for peace...display your strength and regain these mortals' confidence." "I think you grew stronger when I fought Phobos," you reply. "I think it strengthened you when I contended against my sisters. I shall help you no more, Eris. Sow your confusion elsewhere. You will not reap the fruits of Discord on Themyscira." "Curse you, Amazon!" she shrieks. "How dare you speak so to a goddess? I have driven men to war over far less an insult! I could kill you for this affront!" "Yes," you say. "But perhaps I would defeat you as I did your brother, Deimos." A gleam then enters Eris' eyes; she looks hopeful, eager for you to try, until you continue. "But I am done fighting for now." Eris wails in disgust and helplessness. "You are powerful, Eris," you say. "I grant you that. Your influence is exceptionally compelling. Resisting further conflict with you is exceedingly difficult. But just as your father, Ares, the God of War, has no power over men who follow the ways of peace, I think you have no hold over those who choose harmony." Eris snarls with rage, Amazons and ambassadors alike staring in horror and fascination. Finally, Eris looks up at you, her rage spent, now looking very noble and dignified. "I will leave now, Amazon," the goddess says. "I leave you to choose your own fate. Keep to your path of peace with all the strength you have, for the moment you elect the path of Discord, I will return with a vengeance." Eris' image begins to fade, amidst a crack of lightning. Her image spreads across the sky from horizon to horizon and then she is gone, leaving behind a quiet stillness to blanket Paradise Island. The Amazons and the ambassadors rush up to you, gushing with joy and relief. "You have taught me quite a lesson," Maurice Diawara says. "I have never witnessed such bravery!" "I am most surprised...Princess," Jamal says, shaking his head with wonder. "Most surprised."

The winner of my poll for which solo module I should play through was Strangers in Paradise with Wonder Woman, so here we go!!

I have reread how the dice and matrices work and located my handy dandy spinner wheel of slightly easier action calculations from the 2nd edition game. For dice we're using one of my glow in the dark metal gold and red ones my friend gave me and one of my liquid core Discowing ones (because they're glittery and beautiful and I don't get to use them much anymore since I'm done with that character).

Here's Diana's character sheet!

AND WE BEGIN. (Note: I'm transcribing the book exactly, so if there's weird grammar and formatting that's on them.)

Boston Arena "Ladies and Gentlemen, visiting ambassadors, honored guests. It is with great pride that I introduce our main speaker this afternoon. She is one of those very special persons who truly needs no introduction but I'll do my best. "She's a woman who comes from a very special nation on this planet and she comes bearing a message that is vitally important today: the message that peace and equality are achievable for our peoples." The emcee's words float back to you through the cool darkness which engulfs the main stage of this magnificent arena. You stand poised and ready, wearing the mantle of the fabled warrior Diana Trevor, which is known to the world as your Wonder Woman costume. Your regal blue cloak flows casually behind you, whim to the gentle summer breeze. You calmly peer at the audience through the glare of the arena's lights while waiting for your entrance cue. So many eyes seek you out, full of great expectations. TV cameras glide gracefully along automated tracks; with a speed rivaling great Hermes' own, your electronic image is sped throughout this brave new world. Fascinating and frightening, these creations of Man's World. "It is my great pleasure to present...Princess Diana of Themyscira!" A roar of approval rises from the crowd, unrestrained in its cheering and applause. For just a moment, you hesitate, a brief tremor of stage fright passing through you. And then you have no more time for such petty, mortal concerns. You step forward, your feet effortlessly leaving the ground, and soar into the air above the vast arena. You hurtle past the stage and swiftly fly above the jubilant crowd. Approval surges from the crowd below and with it all your fears evaporate into mist. You swoop in a tight arc, reveling in the pure sensation of flying and the joy of the crowd's unbridled appreciation. The sky is yours and, for a brief, magical moment, there is no strife and no conflict; all that exists is you and your audience, united by a bond of mutual acceptance. You revel in the glorious attention while also feeling a twinge of remorse. Although you love bringing joy to the people of this world, a sadness tempers your bliss that such theatrics are necessary to make your message heard. Again you force the doubts from your mind, concentrating instead on the task at hand. Many in this audience came to hear your message but all came to marvel at your powers. [If they want a show, they'll get a show], you think craftily. You rise up high into the air and swoop rapidly down, preparing to execute a plummeting aerial roll.

ROLLING TIME to see how this aerial maneuver goes, come on dice, don't fail me now.