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Foxes (Adrian Lyne, 1980).

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Xenofiction (& similar) Media Masterpost

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PS. This list is for keeping track only. This is not a recommendation list and I won't be advocating for any Work, Author or Company listed. There will be footnotes about a work/author for undesirable behaviour or themes if necessary.

This is a WIP and will be updated whenever I have the time to. Feel free to recommend works or inform me about an author so I can update the post. Be Aware works on this list might have been cancelled or on indifinitive Hiatus and not all works are available on English.

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Literature

A

Age of Fire - E. E. Knight

Adventure Lit their Star - Kenneth Allsop

Alien in a Small Town - Jim Cleaveland

Alien Chronicles (Literature) - Deborah Chester

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Animorphs - K. A. Applegate

Am an Owl - Martin Hocke

At Winters End - Robert Silverberg

Avonoa - H.R.B. Collotzi

Astrid and Cerulean: A Parrot Fantasy - Parasol Marshall-Crowley

A Wolf for a Spell - Karah Sutton

The African Painted Wolf Novels - Alexander Kendziorski

The Alchemist's Cat - Robin Jarvis

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents - Terry Pratchet

The Amity Incident - C. M. Weller

The Ancient Solitary Reign - Martin Hocke

The Animals of Farthing Wood series - Colin Dann

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics - Ursula K. Le Guin

A Magical Cat Named Kayla: Whiskers of Enchantment -Carlos Juárez [AI Cover]*

The Animal Story Book - Various Authors [Editor: Andrew Lang]

Abenteuer im Korallenriff - Antonia Michaelis [DE]

B

Bambi: A life in the forest & Bambi Children - Felix Salten

Bamboo Kingdom series - Erin Hunter

Bazil Broketail - Christopher Rowley

Beak of the Moon & Dark of the Moon - Philip Temple

Bears of the Ice series - Kathryn Lasky

Beasts of New York - Jon Evans

Beautiful Joe - Margaret Marshall Saunders

Beyond Acacia Ridge - Amy Clare Fontaine

Birddom - Clive Woodall

Bird Brain - Guy Kennaway

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Blitzcat - Robert Westall

Blizzard Winds - Paul Koch

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Braver: A Wombat's Tale - Suzanne Selfors & Walker Ranson

Bravelands series- Erin Hunter

Broken Fang - Rutherford Montgomery

Bunnicula series - Deborah Howe & James Howe

Burning Stars - Rurik Redwolf

A Black Fox Running - Brian Carter

A Blue So Loud - Tuesday

The Ballard of The Belstone Fox - David Rook

The Bear - James Curwood

The Bees - Laline Paull

The Biography of a Silver Fox - Ernest Thompson Seton

The Blue Cat of Castle Town - Catherine Cate Coblentz

The Book Of Chameleons - José Eduardo Agualusa

The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin Jr.

The Book of Night with Moon - Diane Duane

The Books of the Named series - Clare Bell

The Bug Wars - Robert Asprin

The Builders - Daniel Polansky

C

Call of the wild - Jack London

Callanish - William Horwood

Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin

Cat Diaries: Secret Writings of the MEOW Society - Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey & Laurie Myers

Cat House - Michael Peak

Cat Pack - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Cats in the city of Plague - A.L Marlow

Celestial Heir series - Chester Young

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

Chet and Bernie mysteries - Spencer Quinn

Chia The Wildcat - Joyce stranger

Child of the Wolves - Elizabeth Hall

Clarice the Brave - Lisa McMann

Cry of the Wild - Charles Foster

Coyote's Wild Home - Barbara Kingsolver; Lily Kingsolver & Paul Mirocha

Coyote Series - Michael Bergey

Crocuta - Katelyn Rushe

Coorinna: A Novel of the Tasmanian Uplands - Erle Wilson

Cujo - Steven King

The Calatians Series - Tim Susman

The Cats of Roxville station - Jean Craighead Georde

The Chanur Novels - C. J. Cherryh

The Cold Moons - Aeron Clement

The Color of Distance || Through Alien Eyes - Amy Thomson

The Conquerors - Timothy Zahn

The Council of Cats - R. J. F.

The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden

The Crimson Torch - Angela Holder

The Crossbreed - Allan Eckert

The Crucible of Time - John Brunner

D

Darkeye series - Lydia West

Deadlands: The Hunted - Skye Melki-Wegner

Demon of Undoing - Andrea I. Alton

Desert Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Dinotopia - James Gurney, Alan Dean Foster

Doglands - Tim Willocks

Dimwood Forest series - Avi

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray - Ann M. Martin

A Dog's Porpoise Duology - M. C. Ross

Dogs of the Drowned City - Dayna Lorentz

A Dog's Purpose series - W. Bruce Cameron

Dolphin Way: Rise of the Guardians - Mark Caney

Domino - Kia Heavey

Douglas' Diary - Andrew John

DragonFire series - Lewis Jones Davies

Dragon Fires Rising - Marc Secchia

Dragon Hoard and Other Tales of Faerie - Cathleen Townsend

Dragons and Skylines series - Rowan Silver

Dragon Prayers - M.J. McPike

Dragons of Mother Stone series - Melissa McShane

Dragon Girls Series - Maddy Mara

The Deptford Mice series - Robin Jarvis

The Dogs of the Spires series - Ethan Summers

The Dragons of Solunas series - H. Leighton Dickson

The Duncton Chronicles - William Horwood

The Destiny of Dragons - J.F.R. Coates

The Diary Of A House Cat - Ileana Dorobantu

Dogtown - Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko

Die schwarze Tigerin - Peer Martin [DE]

Die weiße Wölfin - Vanessa Walder [DE]

Die Wilden Hunde Von Pompeii - Helmut Krausser [DE]

Das wilde Mäh - Vanessa Walder [DE]

E

The Eyes and the Impossible - Dave Eggers

Eclosión - Arturo Balseiro [ES]

Ein Seehund findet nach Hause - Antonia Michaelis [DE]

F

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl

Faithful Ruslan - Georgi Vladimov

Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles - Clem Martini

Feathers & Flames series - John Bailey

Felidae series (1) - Akif Pirinçci

Fifteen Rabbits - Felix Salten

Fire, Bed & Bone - Henrietta Branford

Fire of the Phoenix - Azariah Jade

Fluke - James Herbert

Firefall series - Peter Watts

Firebringer - David Clement-Davies

Flush: A Biography Book - Virginia Woolf

Fox - Glyn Frewer

Foxcraft series - Inbali Iserles

Frightful’s Mountain - Jeanie Craighead George

Frost dancers: A story of hares - Garry Kilworth

The Familiars series - Adam Jay Epstein

The Fifth - Saylor Ferguson

The Firebringer series - Meredith Ann Pierce

The Fox and The Hound - Daniel P. Mannix

The Forges of Dawn - E. Kinsey

Freundschaft im Regenwald - Peer Martin [DE]

(1) Felidae's Author - Akif Pirinçci - is known to be a Xenophobic, Anti-muslim, Anti-Lgbt and Extreme Right-Wing guy (A N4zi by his on words). Won't be going onto details just know he has a non-fiction work called "Germany Gone Mad: The Crazy Cult around Women, Homosexuals and Immigrants." His works has been out of print ever since.

G

Guardian Cats and the lost books of Alexandria - Rahma Krambo

Guardians of Ga'Hoole series - Kathryn Lasky

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Griffin Quest - Sophie Torro

Gryphon Insurrection series - K. Vale Nagle

The Ghost and It's Shadow - Shaun Hick

The Golden Eagle - Robert Murphy

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

The Good Dog - Newbery Medalist

The Guardian Herd series - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

The Great Timbers - James A. Kane

H

Haunt Fox - Jim Kjelgaard

Haven: A Small Cat's Big Adventure - Megan Wagner Lloyd

Heavenly Horse series - Mary Stanton

Hive - Ischade Bradean

Horses of Dawn series - Kathryn Lasky

House of Tribes - Garry Kilworth

Hunter's Moon/Foxes of First dark - Garry Kilworth

Hunters Universe series - Abigail Hilton

A Hare at Dark Hollow - Joyce Stranger

The Hundred and One Dalmatians & The Starlight Barking - Dodie Smith

The Hunt for Elsewhere - Beatrice Vine

Hollow Kingdom Duology - Kira Jane Buxton

I

I am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki

I, Scheherezade: Memoirs of a Siamese Cat - Douglass Parhirst

In the Long Dark - Brian Carter

The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford

Im Reich der Geparde - Kira Gembri [DE]

J

Joe Grey series - Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach & Russell Munson

Julie of the Wolves - Jeanie Craighead George

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en

K

Kävik the Wolf Dog - Walt Morey

Kazan duology - James Curwood

Kine Saga - Alan Lloyd

Kona's Song - Louise Searl

The Killers - Daniel P. Mannix

Kindred of the Wild - Charles G.D Roberts

König der Bären - Vanessa Walder [DE]

L

Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight

Last of the Curlews - Fred Bodsworth

Lazy Scales - D.M. Gilmore

Legends of Blood series - Ethan Summers

A Legend of Wolf Song - George Stone

Luna the Lone Wolf - Forest Wells

Lupus Rex - John Carter Cash

Lutapolii: White Dragon of the South - Deryn Pittar

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

The Labrador Pact & The Last Family in England - Matt Haig

The Last Dogs - Christopher Holt

The Last Eagle - Daniel P. Mannix

The Last Great Auk - Allan Eckert

The Last Monster on Earth - L.J. Davies

The Life Story of a Fox - J. C. Tregarthen

The Lost Rainforest series - Eliot Schrefer & Emilia Dziubak

The Lost Domain - Martin Hocke

The Last Whales: A Novel - Lloyd Abbey

M

Mammoth Trilogy - Stephen Baxter

Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear - Paul Gallico

Marney the Fox - Scott Goodall & John Stokes

Mattie: The story of a hedgehog - Norman Adams, & G.D. Griffiths

Matriarch: Elephant vs. T-Rex - Roz Gibson

Midnight's Sun - Garry Kilworth

Migon - P.C. Keeler

Minado The Devil - Dog - Erle Wilson

Monkey Wars - Richard Kurti

Mouseheart Series - Lisa Fiedler

The Mistmantle chronicles - M.I. McAllister

The Mountain Lion - Robert Murphy

The Mouse Butcher - Dick King-Smith

The Mouse Protectors Series - Olly Barrett

Maru - Die Reise der Elefanten - Kira Gembri [DE]

N

New Springtime series - Robert Silverberg

Nightshade Chronicles - Hilary Wagner

Nugly - M. C. Ross

Nuru und Lela - Das Wunder der Wildnis - Kira Gembri [DE]

O

Old One-Toe - Michel-Aimé Baudouy

Of Birds and Branches - Frances Pauli

Outlaw Red - Jim Kjelgaard

The Old Stag - Henry Williamson

The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate

P

Painted Flowers - Caitlin Grizzle

Pax & Pax: Journey Home - Sara Pennypacker

Petrichor - C.E. Wright

The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams

The Pit - Elaine Ramsay

Pride Wars Series - Matt Laney

A Pup Called Trouble - Bobbie Pyron

The Peregryne Falcon - Robert Murphy

Pork and Others - Cris Freddi

Q

Queen in the Mud - Maari

Quill and Claw series - Kathryn Brown

R

Rak: The story of an Urban Fox - Jonathon Guy

Ramblefoot by Ken Kaufman

Rats of Nimh series - Robert C. O'Brien

Raven Quest - Sharon Stewart

Ravenspell Series - David Farland

Raptor Red - Robert T. Bakker

Red Fox - Charles G. D. Roberts

Redwall series - Brian Jacques

Rose in a Storm - Jon Katz

Rufus - Rutherford Montgomery

Run With the Wind series - Tom McCaughren

Runt - Marion Dane Baeur

Rustle in the Grass - Robin Hawdon

Rusty - Joyce Stranger

The Remembered War series - Robert Vane

The Rescuers series - Margery Sharp

The Red Stranger - David Stephen

The River Singers & The Rising - Tom Moorhouse

The Road Not Taken - Harry Turtledove,

The Running Foxes - Joyce Stranger

Revier der Raben - Vanessa Walder [DE]

S

Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson

Scary Stories for Young Foxes Duology - Christian McKay Heidicker

Scaleshifter series - Shelby Hailstone Law

Shadow Walkers - Russ Chenoweth

Scream of the White Bears - David Clement-Davies

Seekers saga - Erin Hunter

Serpentia Series - Frances Pauli

Shadows in the Sky - Pete Cross

Shark Wars Series - EJ Altbacker

Silverwing series - Kenneth Oppel

Silver Brumby series - Elyne Mitchell

Sirius - Olaf Stapledon

SkyTalons Series - Sophie Torro

Solo's Journey - Joy Aiken Smith

Sky Hawk - Gill Lewis

Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Song of the River - Soinbhe Lally

Spirit of the West series - Kathleen Duey

Survivors series - Erin Hunter

Stray - A.N Wilson

String Lug the Fox - David Stephen

Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas - Rhonda Parrish & Co.

Swordbird series - Nancy Yi Fan

The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith

The Sight & Fell - David Clement-Davies

The Silent Sky - Allan Eckert

The Silver Claw - Garry Kilworth

The Stoner Eagles - William Horwood

The Stink Files - Jennifer L. Holm & Jonathan Hamel

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a dog called Leal - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Red Deer - John Fortescue

The Summer King Chronicles - Jess E. Owen

Schogul, Rächer der Tiere - Birgit Laqua [DE]

Stadt der Füchse - Vanessa Walder [DE]

T

Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Three Bags Full - Leonnie Swann

Thy Servant a Dog - Rudyard Kipling

Tomorrow's Sphinx - Clare Bell

Torn Ear - Geoffrey Malone

Thor - Wayne Smith

Trickster -  Tom Moorhouse

Two Dogs and a Horse - Jim Kjelgaard

The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

The Trilogy of the Ants - Bernard Werber

The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White

The Tusk That Did the Damage - Tania James

The Tygrine cat - Inbali Iserles

U

Ultimate Dragon Saga - Graham Edwards

Under the Skin - Michel Faber

V

Varjak Paw duology - S.F Said

Vainqueur the Dragon series - Maxime J. Durand

W

War Bunny series - Christopher St. Jhon

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

War Queen - Illthylian

Warrior Cats series - Erin Hunter

Watership Down/Tales of Watership Down - Richard Adams

Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long

Welkin Weasels series - Garry Kilworth

West of Eden - Harry Harrison

Whalesong Trilogy - Robert Siegel

Whale - Jeremy Lucas

Whispers in the Forest - Barbara Coultry

White Wolf - Henrietta Branford

White Fang - Jack London

White Fox Series - Jiatong Chen

Wings trilogy - Don Conroy

Wild Lone - Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton

Willow Tree Wood Series - J. S. Betts

Wings of Fire series - Tui T. Sutherland

Winterset Hollow - Jonathan Edward Durham

Wolf: The Journey Home | Hungry for Home: A Wolf Odyssey - Asta Bowen

Wolf Brother series - Michelle Paver

Wolf Chronicles - Dorothy Hearst

Wolves of the Beyond Series - Kathryn Lasky

Woodstock Saga - Michael Tod

A Whale of the Wild - Rosanne Parry

A Wolf Called Wander - Rosanne Parry

The Waters of Nyra - Kelly Michelle Baker

The Wolves of Elementa series - Sophie Torro

The Wolves of Time - William Horwood

The Wolf Chronicles Series - Teng Rong

The Way of Kings - Louise Searl

The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy

The White Fox/Singing Tree - Brian Parvin

The White Puma - Ronald Lawrence

The Wild Road & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King

The Wildings & The Thousand names of darkness - Nilanjana Roy

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Wind Protect You - Pat Murphy

The Wolves of Paris - Daniel P. Mannix

Y

Yellow eyes - Rutherford Montgomery

The Year Of The Dinosaur - Edwin H. Colbert

Z

Zones of Thought series - Vernor Vinge

Z-Verse series by R.H

Comic Books/Graphic Novels

Animosity - Marguerite Bennett

Age of Reptiles - Ricardo Delgado

Legend - Samuel Sattin Koehler

Mouse Guard - David Petersen

Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon

Rover Red Charlie - Garth Ennis & Michael Dipascale

Stray Dogs - Tony Fleecs & Trish Forstner

We3 - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

Beasts of Burden - Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson

LOBO: Canine Crusader of the Metal Wasteland - Macs-World-Ent

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats - Neil Gaiman

Animal Castle - Xavier Dorison & Felix Delep

Blacksad Series - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Scurry - Mac Smith

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

Rankless - Maggie Lightheart

Animal Pound - Tom King & Peter Gross

Animal Castle - Xavier Dorison & Felix Delep

BlackSad - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Picture Books

Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll - Susan R. Stoltz & Melissa Bailey

Hot Dog - Doug Salati

The Rock from the Sky - Jon Klassen

Whoever Heard of a Flying Bird? - David Cunliffe & Ivan Barrera

A Cat Named Whiskers - Shana Gorian

Ocean Tales Children's Books Series - Sarah Cullen & Zuzana Sbodová

Jake the Growling Dog - Samantha Shannon

Indie Written Works

Fins Above Series - MIROYMON

Journey of Atlas - Journey of Atlas

Webcomics

A

Africa - Arven92

After Honour - genstaelens

Awka - Nothofagus-obliqua

Arax - Azany

Amarith - Eredhys

The Apple's Echo - Helianthanas

Alone - Magpeyes

B

The Blackblood Alliance - KayFedewa

The Betrothed - Kibisca

Black Tyrant - Zapp-BEAST

Blue - HunterBeingHunted

Beast Tags - TheRoomPet

Spy - Utahraptor93

Be Reflected in my Eyes - Aquene-lupetta

C

Carry your voice - TacoBella

Caelum Sky - ALRadeck

Crescent Wing - Mikaley

Crescent Moonlight - AnimalCrispy

City of Trees - SanjanaIndica

Corpse - doeprince/ratt

D

Darbi - Sherard Jackson

The Devils Demons - Therbis

Doe of Deadwood - Songdogx

Dyten - Therbis

Desperation - PracticelImagination

E

Equus Siderae - Dalgeor

Empyrean - Leonine-Skies

Enchantment - FeralWolf1234

F

Fox Fires - Pipilia

Forget me Not - Nitteh

Fjeld - Dachiia

Felinia - Rainy-bleu

G

Golden Shrike - doeprince/ratt

Ghost of the Gulag - David Derrick Jr.

H

Horse Age - BUGHS-22

Hiraeth - AFlameThatNeverDies

Half-Blood - majkaria

Horns of Light - ThatMoonySky

I

I Hope So - Detective Calico

The Ivory Walk - TacoBella

I'm not Ready - Wolfkingdom372

J

Jet and Harley - doeprince

K

Kestrel Island - Silverphoenix

Kin - Fienduredraws

KuroMonody - IrisBdz

Krystal - Nitteh

The King of Eyes - CloverTailedFox09

L

Legend of Murk - Azany

LouptaOmbra - Loupta Ombra (OngakuK, MlleNugget & joeypony)

Leopards bring rain - Kyriuar

M

Mazes of Filth - petitecanine

Minimal All You Are - mike-princeofstars

N

Nine Riders - SpiriMuse

No Man's Land - TacoBella

Never seen the Day - R3dk3y

Norra - shadowmirku

O

Obsidian Fire - SolinaBright

Oren's Forge - teagangavet

Off-White - Akreon

Out Of Time - IndiWolf

R

Rabbit on the Moon - Songdogx & Nitteh

The Rabbit Hole - Detrah

RunningWolf Mirari - Mirella Menciassi

Raptor - ElenPanter

Redriver - FireTheWolf777

Repeat - Songdogx

The Rabbit's Foot - riri_arts

S

Scurry - Mac Smith

Simbol - Zoba22

Spirit Lock - Animal Crispy

The Sylcoe - Denece-the-sylcoe

Sunder - Aurosoul

T

Tainted Hearts - Therbis

Taxicat - owlburrow

That's Freedom Guyra - Nothofagus-obliqua

Three Corners: A Kitten's Story - Lara Frizzell

Tofauti Sawa - TheCynicalHound

Two of a Kind - ProjectNao

To Catch a Star - SleepySundae

U

Under the Ash Tree - ChevreLune

Uninvited - Nothofagus-obliqua

W

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

What Lurks Beneath - ArualMeow

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

Wild Wolves - Lombarsi

White Tail - SleepySundae

What's your damage? - FrostedCanid

The Wolves of Chena - Yamis-Art

Waves Always Crash - Hellhunde

The Whale's Heart - Possumteeeth [Warriors Fancomic]

Manga

A Centaur's Life - Murayama Kei

Beastars - Paru Itagaki

Chi's Sweet Home - Kanata Konami

Ginga Series [Silverfang] - Yoshihiro Takahashi

Gon - Masashi Tanaka

Houseki no Kuni | Land of the Lustrous - Haruko Ichikawa

Inugami-Kai - Masaya Hokazono

The Jungle Emperor - Osamu Tezuka

My roommate is a cat - Minatsuki & Asu Futatsuya

Crimsons – The Scarlet Navigators of the Ocean - Kanno Takanori

Rooster Fighter - Shū Sakuratani

Simoun - Shō Aikawa

The Fox & Little Tanuki - Mi Tagawa

Yuria 100 Shiki - Nobuto Hagio

Massugu ni Ikou - Kira

Cat Soup

The Amazing 3

Cat + Gamer - Wataru Nadatani

Animated Series

#

101 Dalmatians: The series & 101 Dalmatian Street

A

A Polar Bear in Love

B

Baja no Studio

Bagi: Monster of Mighty Nature

Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel

Bluey

C

Centaurworld (2021)

Chirin's Bell

Chironup no Kitsune

D

Dokkun Dokkun

E

F

G

Gamba no Bouken

H

Hazbin Hotel

I

Invader ZIM

Inu to Neko Docchi mo Katteru to Mainichi Tanoshii

J

K

King Fang

Koisuru Shirokuma

Kemushi no Boro

Kewang Lantian

Konglong Baobei: Shiluo De Wenming

L

Little Polar Bear

M

Manxmouse's Great Activity

Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken

Mikan Enikki

Massugu ni Ikou -

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Mikan Enikki

N

O

Ore, Tsushima

Okashi na Sabaku no Suna to Manu

P

Primal

Polar Bear Cafe

Q

R

Robotboy (2005)

S

Seton Doubutsuki: Risu no Banner

Simoun

T

The Amazing 3

Tottoko Hamtarou

The Adventure of Qiqi and Keke

Tama & Friends: Third Street Story

U

V

W

Watership Down (2018) & Watership Down (1999)

What's Michael?

Wolf's Rain

Wonder Pets

X

Y

Live-Action/Hybrid show

Fantasy High

A Crown of Candy 

Burrow's End

Good Omens

Webseries

Dinosauria - Dead Sound

My Pride - tribbleofdoom

Whitefall - Chylk

The Stolen Hope - Galemtido

Dragon's Blood - FluffyGinger

Helluva Boss -

Murder Drones -

Short Films

A

Alone a wolf's winter

B

Baja's Studio

Beautiful Name

Burrow

C

Cat Piano

Cat Soup

Chicken Little

D

E

F

Far From the Tree

Ferdinand the Bull

Frypan Jiisan

G

Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji

Gaitou to Neko

H

Hao Mao Mimi

Houzi Dian Bianpao

I

J

Je T'aime

K

Kitbull

L

Lava

Lambert the sheepish lion

Laoshu Jia Nu

M

Mahoutsukai no Melody

Monmon the Water Spider

Mushroom - Nakagawa Sawako

N

O

Of Mice and Clockworks

Osaru no Tairyou

P

Piper

Q

R

Robin Robin

Rusuban

S

Sauria - Dead Sound

Smash and Grab

Street of Crocodiles

She and Her Cat

Space Neko Theater

Shiroi Zou | White Elephant

Shi | Food

Sugar, With a Story

Straw-saurus NEO

T

The Chair

The Blue Umbrella

The Shell Shocked Egg

The Dog Door

The Dog In The Alley

That's Why They Were Made

U

Ushigaeru

V

W

With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun

X

Y

Z

Zhui Shu

Animated Films

#

101 Dalmatians duology

A

A Monkey's Tale (1999)

All Dogs go to Heaven

The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin

Alpha and Omega saga

An American Tail

The Aristocats

Antz

Animals United

Annabelle's Wish (1997)

Alakazam the great (1960)

B

Back Outback

Balto

Bambi / Bambi II

Bolt

Brother Bear / Brother Bear II

A Bug's Life

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

Bee Movie

The Brave Little Toaster

Birds of a Feather

Back to the Forest

C

Cars

Chance

Chicken Run

D

Dinosaur

Speckles: The Tarbosaurus || Dino King: Journey to Fire Mountain

Dumbo

DC League of Super-Pets

E

Elemental

F

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Planet

Felidae

The Fox and the Hound

Finding Nemo/Finding Dory

Free Birds

The Fearless Four

G

The Good Dinosaur

Ghost in the Shell

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

H

Happy Feet/Happy Feet Two

Help! I'm a Fish

Home on the Range

Hoero! Bun Bun Movie

Hokkyoku no Muushika Miishika

I

Ice Age Franchise

Isle of Dogs

I Am T-Rex

J

Jungledyret Hugo

K

Koati

The King of Tibetan Antelope

Kuma no Gakkou trilogy

L

Lady and the Tramp

The Land Before time Franchise

The Last Unicorn

Leafy, A Hen in the wild

Little Big Panda

The Lion King Franchise

Lucky and Zorba

Lilo & Stitch

Luca

Last Day of the Dinosaurs

M

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marona's Fantastic Tale

Millionaire Dogs

My Friend Tyranno

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants || Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away

Mouse and His Child

N

Nezumi Monogatari: George to Gerald no Bouken

O

Oliver & Company

One Stormy Night

Over the Edge

P

Padak

The Plague Dogs

Pompoko

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro

Pipi Tobenai Hotaru

R

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

Rango

Ratatouille

Raven the Little Rascal

Reynard the Fox (1989)

Rio

Robots

Rock a Doodle

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998)

The Rabbi’s Cat

S

Samson and Sally

Sahara

The Secret of Nihm

The Secret Life of Pets/The Secret Life of Pets II

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Sheep & Wolves

The Seventh Brother

A Stork's Journey

Stowaways on the Ark

T

A Turtle's Tale

The One and Only Ivan

Toy Story

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)

The Trumpet of the Swan

The Enchanted Journey

U

Unico

Underdog

V

Vuk the Little Fox

W

WALL·E

Watership Down (1978)

White Fang

Wizards

The Wild

Wolf Children

Wolfwalkers

X

Y

You Are Umasou

Z

Zootopia

Live Action/CGI Assisted Movies

Au Hasard Balthazar

Beverly Hills Chihuahua franchise

Cats & Dogs franchise

Charlotte's Web

EO

Fluke (1995) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Homeward Bound duology (1963 & 1996) - Disney

The Legend of Lobo (1962) - Disney

Strays (2023) - Universal Pictures

Pride (2024) - BBC

101 Dalmatians duology (1996 & 2000)

Documentary

March of the Penguins

Meerkat Manor

Lemur Street

Gangs of Lemur Island

Orangutan Island

Prairie Dog Dynasty

Chimp Empire

Monkey Thieves

Monkey Kingdom

Theather

Cats

Videogames

Animalia Survival - High Brazil Studio

Cattails - Falcon Development

Endling: Extinction is Forever

Gibbon: Beyond the trees - Broken Rules

The Lonesome Fog - Might and Delight

Meadow - Might and Delight

Niche - Stray Fawn Studio

Shelter / Shelter 2/ Shelter 3 - Might and Delight

Paws - Might and Delight

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio

The WILDS - Gluten Free Games

Wolf Quest - eduweb

Golden Treasure: The Great Green - Dreaming Door Studios

Spirit of the North - Infuse Studio

Ōkami - Clover Studio

Rain World - Videocult

Feather - Samurai Punk

Eagle Flight - Ubisoft Montreal Studio

Copoka - Inaccurate Interactive

Untitled Goose Game - House House

PaRappa - NanaOn-Sha

Night in the Woods - Infinite Fall & Secret Lab

Monster Prom - Beautiful Glitch

Them's Fightin' Herds - Mane6

Toontown

E.V.O.: Search for Eden - Givro Corporation

(Pretty much most of Might and Delight games)

Online Browser Games

Lioden

Wolvden

Flight Rising

Lorwolf

Table Top Games

Bunnies & Burrows

Chronicles of Darkness

Wanderhome

Mage: The Awakening

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Pugmire

Three Raccoons in a Trench Coat

World Tree (RPG)

Pawpocalypse

Heckin' Good Doggos

Humblewood

Dungeons & Dragons (Depends on the GM)

Music

In My Eyes You're a Giant - Sonata Arctica

It Won't Fade - Unia

The Cage - Winterheart's Guild

Other Online Projects

Youtubers

Cardinal West

Xenofiction Reviews

Gen. Videos

Trope Talk: Small Mammal on a Big Adventure by Overly Sarcastic Productions

Worlds

Mirolapye - Varverine

Franchises

Sonic the Hedgehog

My little pony

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hamtaro

Pokemon

Digimon

Kirby

Monter High

Tom & Jerry

Baldur’s Gate

Maya the Bee

The Little Polar Bear

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.18

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Sedlmayr (1808)

Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimski (1864)

Peter Austin (1921)

Carol Stoudt (1949)

Glenn Payne (1954)

Peter Aldred (1959)

Alan Shapiro (1962)

Russ Wigglesworth (1957)

Jenny Voight Lewis (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Kristen Bell; actor (1980)

John Glenn; astronaut, politician (1921)

Elizabeth McGovern; actor (1961)

Hunter S. Thompson; gonzo journalist, writer (1939)

Paul Verhoeven; Dutch film director (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Giacomo Balla; Italian painter (1871)

Saverio Bettinelli; Italian poet (1718)

Edward Bond; English director, playwright (1934)

Richard Branson; English businessman (1950)

James Brolin; actor (1940)

Dick Button; figure skater (1929)

Terry Chambers; rock drummer, "XTC" (1955)

Elizabeth Coblentz; Amish cookbook author (1936)

Hume Cronyn; actor (1911)

John Dee; English mathematician, astronomer, occultist (1527)

Vin Diesel; actor (1967)

Nick Faldo; English golfer (1957)

Bernd Fasching; Austrian painter (1955)

Immanuel Hermann Fichte; German philosopher (1796)

Elizabeth Gilbert; author (1969)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins; rock singer (1929)

Hermann of Reichenau; German composer, mathematician & astronomer (1013)

Roald Hoffmann; Polish chemist (1937)

Robert Hooke; physicist, mathematician, inventor (1635)

Glenn Hughes; pop singer, Village People biker (1950)

Machine Gun Kelly; gangster (1895)

Charles Kittel; physicist (1916)

Thomas Kuhn; philosopher (1922)

Audrey Landers; actor (1956)

Richard Leacoc;, English-French director (1922)

Hendrik Lorentz; Dutch physicist (1853)

Nelson Mandela; South African politician (1918)

Margo Martindale; actress (1951)

Shaun Micallef; Australian comedian (1962)

Hartmut Michel; German biochemist (1948)

Alan Morrison; British poet (1974)

Harriet Nelson; singer, actor (1909)

Clifford Odets; writer (1906)

Martha Reeves; pop singer (1941)

Hyacinthe Rigaud; French painter (1659)

Ricky Skaggs; country singer (1954)

Red Skelton; comedian, actor (1913)

William Makepeace Thackeray; English writer (1811)

Joe Torre; Milwaukee Braves C, NY Yankees manager (1940)

Lupe Velez; Mexican actor (1908)

Jessamyn West; writer (1902)

Gilbert White; English naturalist (1720)

Wendy Williams; talk show host (1964)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Russian poet (1933)

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Sunday 11 August 1833

7 ¾

12 50

fine morning F68° at 7 ¾ a.m. – read Galignani – breakfast at 9 – in ¾ hour – then at my desk – had the tailor at 11 ½ in ¾ hour had Thomas in and read the whole morning service and explained what was meant by believing in the catholic church – between 2 and 3 had Mademoiselle Ferrall and the dame de compagnie above ½ hour - said I hoped to be off on Wednesday - gave my passport to see if Madame de Bourke could get us off going to the préfecture - Madame Droz called and sat near an hour till 5 25 - gave her my address at Shibden and she gave me the following Mr. Charles Droz chef de Bataillon en disponibilité à Fernay Département de l’Ain, France, or à Morges, canton de Vaud, Swisse, where they will be for a year to come – the other address is hit little domicile in France to enable him to receive his ½ pay – a pied à terre like mine rue St. V- very nice house at Morges – very comfortable – receive company pretty often – have all the little nice society of the place – keep 2 women servants and live for 6000fr. a year to economize – laughed and said I would go and economize too -  In the course of the day had finished my letter (wrote the latter ½ p.2 and p.3) to Miss McL- - began someday ago, as also to Mrs. James Dalton - wrote the latter ¼ p.1 and pages 2 and 3 and ends - and wrote 3 pages to IN- and 1 page to my aunt – dinner at 5 35 in ¾ hour – meant to have gone out but Madame Decantes came and sat talking all the evening till 9 – then with me about my dresses near an hour – then at 9 55 went and sat 1 ½ hour with Mrs and Miss Barlow - will give me letters if I like to Lady Lee at Florence and her daughter now an Italian marchesa - but her husband Captain in the Marines tho’ Colonel in the Spanish service a knight whence she my lady and vulgarish gave thanks but thought to myself wont do very fine day F67 ½° now at 11 ½ pm - Told them all  should be off for Copenhagen on Wednesday via Luxemburg Treves, Coblentz [Koblenz], Cassel [Kassel], Hannover, Hamburg and Lubeck [Lübeck] - to direct to me Madame L- aux soins de Messrs. Kortwright and compagnie Banquiers Koppenhagen, Dännemarck - should be there in about 3 weeks - gave this address to IN- and Mrs. James D- and in my aunt but not to Miss Maclean - would write to Mrs. N- as soon as rested after my arrival - wrote to IN- ‘I shall settle with Lafitte; and you will find by his neat account that he has paid me as follows

‘For left unpaid 2 years ago, for the last things I got you (ivory buckles I think) 24 francs 0 sols

3 pots pate à la rose 9.0

1 pair stays 25.0

For carriage of ditto from Paris to Dover 5.0

63.0

mention the Barlows being here and ‘we are the best friends in the world’ - ‘my greatest pother is dress - but I found I must have it - my days of one small portmanteau, and merely the hat on my head, are gone by - and regrets even if I could be so ungrateful as to have them, would be useless. I dine out for the 3rd time tomorrow there being several people in town that I know’.  Kind chitchat letter to Mrs. James D- on the subject of Fashions ‘tho’ London imitates as well as she can, ‘tis merely that ‘a substitute shines brightly as a king until a king be by’ - Bonnets not much larger than a good-sized breakfast cup - shirts of an ampleur reminding one of the pea-filled rotundity of a Dutch doll - cheveux en natte, the hair platted very broad and set up so as to form something like a [mediums] on the head of Isis - large rooms and folding doors are nowadays quite necessary for sleeves are so enormous that each ladys’ breadth across the shoulders is doubled - pelerines very large, much worn with larger or shorter ends confined by the ceinture in front - Black bone and black lace very much worn’ - but dress not for nothing - things cheaper in London - mention my companion as an agreeable Danoise but added to Miss McL- that she is a friend of Lady Harriet de Hagemanns - her good German-speaking will be a great comfort to me - tell Miss McL- (chitchat) I shall probably have an opportunity of delivering all the 4 St. Petersburg and Moscow before the 12 months end

[apenitentialprayer]

Wives of the Watchers: Textual Variation in Enoch 19

After Enoch has been shown extraordinary sites (1 Enoch 17-18), he learns from the angel Uriel that one of the places will serve to detain the angels who mated with women. As if the forbidden union was not problematic enough in terms of the cosmic order, Uriel reveals that the spirits of the fallen angels will lead humankind astray so that they will sacrifice to demons. Though the fallen watchers appear to be subject to some sort of physical containment and punishment (see 1 En. 10:4-6, 12-14; 18:9-12; cf. 21:7-10), their spirits are allowed to afflict humanity until the day of great judgment by leading people into acts of idolatry (19:1). Uriel then communicates to Enoch information about the women who partnered with the angels. According to the Greek tradition Panopolitanus [fourth of fifth century, Egypt], Uriel reveals that the wives of the angels who transgressed will become sirens. Panopolitanus 19:2 reads: καἱ αἰ γυναῐκεϛ αὐτων των παραβάντων ἀγγέλων εἰς σειρῆνας γενήσονται (“and the wives of the angels who transgressed will become sirens”). Ethiopic manuscripts preserve another reading: the wives of the angels will become peaceful (wa-’anestiyāhomu-ni ’asḥiton malā’ekta kama salāmāweyāt yekwwenā, “And their wives, those whom the angels led astray, will become as peaceful.”) Let us consider first the reading offered by the Greek text and how “sirens” would fit in the narrative context. Panopolitanus envisions the wives becoming sirens, an appelation that suggests to the modern ear “temptress,” or a woman who entices. From the perspective of the narrative, though, seduction or acts of fornication have already occurred between the angels and women. Moreover, the text makes it clear the women who associated with the angels will become sirens, employing γενήσονται, a verb in the future tense. The focus remains, therefore, on the pending status prescribed for the wives, suggesting that further examination of the connotation of “siren” in 1 En. 19:2, as well as in antiquity, is in order. Literary and archaeological sources from antiquity provide a rather incomplete portrait of the siren. Homer presents sirens as creatures that lure sailors to their death with captivating song. In this respect, one might think them seductresses of a sort who enticed and ensnared by means of music. These femmes fatales were frequently depicted as creatures with the heads and busts of women attached to the bodies of birds. The earliest extant literature describes them in groups of three or four and assigns them particular names. Sirens appear in later works, however, in a more indiscriminant manner, were they are associated with mourning and with the singing of dirges for the dead; Euripides, for example, has Helen call upon the sirens to assist her in bereavement. As companions to Persphone, sirens also had a connection to the netherworld (Ovid, Metam. 5.551). Sirens may, in fact, come to symbolize the souls of the dead since they were depicted in popular funerary status of ancient Greece. Which image of th siren deos the translator of Panopolitanus, a hellenized Jew, have in mind? Are the women who mate with the angels supposed to evoke the frightening creatures that seduce, entrap, or otherwise plague humankind, like the sirens of The Odyssey? Or are the women to become symbols of mourning like the funerary statues, eternnally sorrowful for their participation in this illicit union? In fact, the narrative context of 1 En. 19:2 seemingly would lend itself to both images: sirens as deadly seductresses and as mourners. As for the former option (sirens as dangerous seductresses), one recalls that in the context of the narrative, the archangel Uriel has shared with Enoch the manner in which the fallen angels will be punished; he has also just explained to the seer that the spirits of the watchers will continue to trouble humankind until the day of judgment by enticing people to commit idolatry. The statement concerning the fate of the angels’ wives follows. The implication of the text could be that just as the watchers continue to vex humankind, so too could their wives in the guise of sirens. How exactly the sirens would still participate among the living -would they entice mortals to fornicate?- is not clear. Curiously, we do not read further of the wives as sirens in Jewish and Christian literature. The notion that the spirits of the angels lead people to sacrifice to demons -who are, in fact, the offspring of the angels- becomes a rather common trope, in contradistinction, recurring in literature ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. One might expect in contexts that discuss the watchers’ sins, their punishmnt, and how they (or their offspring) continue to play a role in the affairs of the world, that the wives, if they too plague humankind, would be mentioned. Perhaps the author of 1 En. 19:2 had in mind, then, the other image of the siren, one equally familiar to ancient audiences: the siren as singer of dirges, a mourner, or one associated with death. Since Enoch and the reader have just been made privy to the place of punishment for the watchers, in this interpretation of 1 En. 19:2 one learns as well of the unfortunate outcome for their wives. The women are to become symbols of mourning and will henceforth be associated with the realm of the dead. This interpretation accords well with a second possible use of “siren” in the Enochic corpus. In the Etiopic 1 En. 96:2, we read that on the day of tribulation the rigteous will ascend like eagles, whereas the sinners will sigh and weep like sirens. Although this image of sirens appears more plausible, either image -creatures associated wit seductive song or mourning and death- reflects an essentially negative view of the fates of the wives. The Ge'ez of 1 En. 19:2 preserves a very different understanding of what becomes of the angels’ wives. In this case the women are said to become peaceful. This interpretation offers a more positive outcome for the women, one intimating the women’s blamelessness in the union and perhaps even their victimization at the hands of the angels. The text would be suggesting, then, that after their involvement with the watchers, the aggrieved women finally acquire some repose. The strength of this particular interpretation is that other passages in 1 Enoch seem to exculpate the women. James VanderKam observes, in fact, that the author of 1 Enoch 6 accents the lustful nature of the angels and makes clear that the guilt of the sinful union lies with the angels alone and not the women.

- Kelley Coblentz Bautch (What Becomes of the Angels' Wives? A Critical Study of 1 Enoch 19:2). Reformated slightly so not as to be a wall of text.

[editingmodulations]

James Coblentz, Freeman A. Davies, Michael Ripps is the team of editors the cult film Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill.

Street of Fire tells the story of Tom (Michael Paré), an ex-soldier who is brought back home to rescue Ellen Aim (Diane Lane), lead singer of Ellen Aim and the Attackers who was kidnaped by The Bombers, a biker gang, led by Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe)

The movie became a source of inspiration to David Fincher and Paul Verhoeven as well as other filmmakers for the visual style and the soundtrack.

One of my favorite part of the film is the opening credits. The collection of wipes used fascinates me. As an editor, I have never been a fan of wipes, but the style and technique applied in the opening credits of Streets of Fire, really make the transitions really special, setting the tone of the movie in the first minutes of the film

[lifejustgotawkward]

365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #383: Streets of Fire (1984) - dir. Walter Hill

For anyone familiar with the colorful action films The Warriors (1979) and 48 Hrs. (1982), it should come as no surprise that the rock-and-roll action film Streets of Fire was made by the same eclectic writer/director, Walter Hill. This motion picture has everything you could want: exploding motorcycles, a soundtrack featuring the Blasters and the classic Dan Hartman song "I Can Dream About You,” an acting appearance by LA punk icon Lee Ving and, perhaps most importantly, Willem Dafoe as a biker who wears too much leather (seriously, there’s a scene where he has on a jacket, pants and a shirt all made of that material) and, to my delight, one extra-special pair of black vinyl overalls (!!!). Truly, this is a work of art to cherish.

This is a story that straddles three different time periods: I think it’s supposed to take place sometime in the future, but the production design, noir-ish dialogue and emphasis on a bad-boy motorcycle gang are reminiscent of the 50s and clothes, music and acting styles are mostly indicative of the 80s. Boiled down to the basics, creepy gang leader Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe, fresh from a similar role in Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery’s The Loveless) kidnaps pop-rock star Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) while she performs a concert in her hometown and it’s up to her drifter ex-boyfriend, Tom Cody (Eddie and the Cruisers’ Michael Paré), to save her. Tom is accompanied on the various treacherous journeys into and out of Raven’s turf by a lesbian hitchhiker, McCoy (Amy Madigan), and Ellen Aim’s unpleasant manager/current boyfriend, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis); Tom also gets advice from his sympathetic big sister, Reva (The Warriors star Deborah Van Valkenburgh), throughout the film. Not only that, but there are small roles and cameos featuring a young Bill Paxton, Elizabeth “E.G.” Daily, Lynne Thigpen (another Warriors actress) and Ed Begley Jr. How could you not want to watch a movie with that many great actors?!

As if you needed more tempting, costumes by Marilyn Vance, neon-hued cinematography by Andrew Laszlo, score by Ry Cooder and editing by James Coblentz, Freeman A. Davies and Michael Ripps further demonstrates why Streets of Fire should be resurrected as a cult classic. Admittedly, a lot of the fun comes from just how weird the movie is and I can’t deny how terrible it is that there’s a scene where Michael Paré punches Diane Lane in the face (it’s supposed to be for a “good��� reason), but for the most part Streets of Fire is a gloriously unique adventure.

[justtheendoftheday]

Final Destination (2000)

“Does that mean if you figure out the design you can cheat death?”

“Alex, you’ve already done that by walking off the plane. Your friend’s departure shows that death has a new design for all of you. Now you have to figure out how and when it’s coming back at you. Play your hunch, Alex...if you think you can get away with it. But remember, the risk of cheating the plan, of disrespecting the design, could incite a fury that could terrorize even the grim reaper. And you don’t even wanna fuck with that mack daddy.”

A high schooler’s premonition prevents him and six others from dying in a plane crash. But Death isn’t happy about being cheated and it is coming for them. One way or another.

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Fright: 1.5 / 5 Rube Goldberg Kills

Considering this is essentially a movie about people dying in randomly elaborate freak accidents, it’s hard to find it all that terrifying. There are some visuals that might creep you out, but I suspect the frights here are a bit too contrived to keep you up at night.

Gore: 2.5 / 5 Bathtub Safety Hazards

Oooo, this is a tough one to try and put a number on.

It really isn’t a movie that relishes and celebrates gore, but more so likes to use a touch of gore here and there to heighten the creepiness of a scene. So while the gore is rather infrequent and short, there are a handful of short scenes that could be a little visceral.

The goriest thing that happens is a sudden decapitation. Although the grisliest scene by far is the one of someone suffocating.

Jump Scares: Light

There’s a couple of small startles and 1-2 big jumps...and that’s about it really.

They mostly just like to liven things up with a little Surprise! (bet-you-didn’t see-that-coming)-moment here and there.

[a 2/5 on Where’s the Jump? ]

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Review:

A strange mashup of the unique and the stereotypical. It’s a rather silly bit of late 90s/early 00s horror, but does a pretty great job of walking the line of being just over-the-top enough to be fun, without going so far over-the-top as to be too loony to watch. The mere fact that its antagonist is the concept of death makes it a really unique entry in the field of spooky movies.

Thoughts:

The quote up there at the top of the post there says it all, doesn’t it?

I mean, it starts off sounding really darkly intriguing and then…

...then it takes things too far and ends up being rather silly.

Comedian Eddie Izzard once said:

 “Cool is a pursuit of youth…it’s linked to the circle. You’ve got looking like a dickhead over here, average looking, cool, Cool, Cool, Hip & Groovy, ...looooking like a dickhead again.”

Like so many films from this era, Final Destination really wants to be cool. But like so many of us, it always overshoots it and winds up back at silly.

And yet in spite of this I don’t think I can name a single other horror movie outside the Final Destination series that uses the concept of Death as the antagonist. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about an anthropomorphic Death (a la Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey), I mean the concept.

The movie is literally about high schoolers doing their best to not die in freak accidents.

And that’s something you really never see in Horror movies!

Part of what I love about this genre is that from a sociological perspective it provides a really interesting indicator of what different people in different groups/places/times feared. And I’ve heard many argue that Horror as a genre is one that—at least in part—is always dealing with a fear of death, but I disagree.

For me Horror isn’t about death, but about survival. Horror stories are usually about the terror of living and just how scary that can be sometimes.

From what I’ve seen it’s exceedingly rare for a spooky movie to actually focus on a genuine fear of your own inevitable demise.

That chilling idea that you could die at any moment without ever having gotten to live a full life.

And that’s what makes this film weirdly compelling.

...and if I’m being honest? It’s also what makes it so gosh darn silly.

It takes the concept that you can’t cheat death—only delay it—and then...well, then in true teenager fashion it straps rockets on the back of it and tries to jump it off a home-made ramp over their best friend Chad, because WHY NOT?!

(YOLO.)

It hits that sweet spot of the so-silly-it’s-fun genre where it’s playing everything straight and yet keeps meandering into the territory of the over-the-top.

Okay, so full disclosure: While I will always defend it as a fun movie that makes for an oddly unique note in the history of Horror movies, I can’t go so far as to say it’s a particularly moving or dynamic piece of art.

Especially from a technical perspective.

(The filmmakers seemed especially fond of trying—and failing—to make shots of very mundane things seem really ominous.)

But not everything has to be a technical masterpiece to be enjoyable! If you’re a fan of getting together with your pals and watching some silly-good-fun movies then this is definitely one to consider.

If nothing else the film is worth it for a scene wherein the main character Alex tries to create a place where death can’t reach him and after doing his best job death-proofing the place he celebrates by eating a tin of chicken spread with safety gloves on.

I mean, if that isn’t art then I don’t know what art is.

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Content warnings: Suicide is talked about

After credits scene?: None

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Directed by: James Wong

Screenplay by: Glen Morgan & James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick

Story by: Jeffrey Reddick

Edited by: James Coblentz

Country of Origin: USA

Language:  English

Setting: Nassau County, New York, USA

Sequels: Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Final Destination (2009), Final Destination 5 (2011)

If you enjoyed this you might also like: Final Destination 2 (2003), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Scream (1996), The Faculty (1998), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Cube (1997)

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“Alex, let’s go take a shit.” “Why don’t you go take a shit by yourself?” “No, dude.”

[blprompt]

Image taken from page 161 of 'The Gypsy Road: a journey from Krakow to Coblentz ... With illustrations by E. H. New'

Image taken from: Title: "The Gypsy Road: a journey from Krakow to Coblentz ... With illustrations by E. H. New" Author: COLE, Grenville Arthur James. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10108.de.12." Page: 161 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1894 Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000740251 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 0) Image found on book scan 161 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/2QHzlYt

[sesiondemadrugada]

The People Under the Stairs (Wes Craven, 1991).

[riseupworldwide]

Ep166 - Mike Mack Intrv, Avengers Endgame Review, Game of Thrones Review, John Singleton passes

Ep166 - Mike Mack Intrv, Avengers Endgame Review, Game of Thrones Review, John Singleton passes

    Playlist by @DJLostNFound

DJ Db405 - Motarama ft. Fre$h Jay, Parris Chariz

Dru Bex - Body Blows ft. James Gardin, Poetics

Xavier Sorrow - Thank God ll ft. Joey Vantes, Ruslan

KB - Hold Me Back

Miles Minnick - It’s Baad (Remix)

Dee-1 - People Don’t Want That Real

L. Dejuan - Okay Okay

Quinten Coblentz - Forever ft. Lord Badu

Solomon Headen - With My Friends

Donelle Valentine - Who We Be

WhoIsChill - Couture

Sajan Nauriyal - Peace

Check out this episode!

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.18

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Sedlmayr (1808)

Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimski (1864)

Peter Austin (1921)

Carol Stoudt (1949)

Glenn Payne (1954)

Peter Aldred (1959)

Alan Shapiro (1962)

Russ Wigglesworth (1957)

Jenny Voight Lewis (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Kristen Bell; actor (1980)

John Glenn; astronaut, politician (1921)

Elizabeth McGovern; actor (1961)

Hunter S. Thompson; gonzo journalist, writer (1939)

Paul Verhoeven; Dutch film director (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Giacomo Balla; Italian painter (1871)

Saverio Bettinelli; Italian poet (1718)

Edward Bond; English director, playwright (1934)

Richard Branson; English businessman (1950)

James Brolin; actor (1940)

Dick Button; figure skater (1929)

Terry Chambers; rock drummer, "XTC" (1955)

Elizabeth Coblentz; Amish cookbook author (1936)

Hume Cronyn; actor (1911)

John Dee; English mathematician, astronomer, occultist (1527)

Vin Diesel; actor (1967)

Nick Faldo; English golfer (1957)

Bernd Fasching; Austrian painter (1955)

Immanuel Hermann Fichte; German philosopher (1796)

Elizabeth Gilbert; author (1969)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins; rock singer (1929)

Hermann of Reichenau; German composer, mathematician & astronomer (1013)

Roald Hoffmann; Polish chemist (1937)

Robert Hooke; physicist, mathematician, inventor (1635)

Glenn Hughes; pop singer, Village People biker (1950)

Machine Gun Kelly; gangster (1895)

Charles Kittel; physicist (1916)

Thomas Kuhn; philosopher (1922)

Audrey Landers; actor (1956)

Richard Leacoc;, English-French director (1922)

Hendrik Lorentz; Dutch physicist (1853)

Nelson Mandela; South African politician (1918)

Margo Martindale; actress (1951)

Shaun Micallef; Australian comedian (1962)

Hartmut Michel; German biochemist (1948)

Alan Morrison; British poet (1974)

Harriet Nelson; singer, actor (1909)

Clifford Odets; writer (1906)

Martha Reeves; pop singer (1941)

Hyacinthe Rigaud; French painter (1659)

Ricky Skaggs; country singer (1954)

Red Skelton; comedian, actor (1913)

William Makepeace Thackeray; English writer (1811)

Joe Torre; Milwaukee Braves C, NY Yankees manager (1940)

Lupe Velez; Mexican actor (1908)

Jessamyn West; writer (1902)

Gilbert White; English naturalist (1720)

Wendy Williams; talk show host (1964)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Russian poet (1933)

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Friday 30 September 1836

7 ½

12 20

No kiss finish morning (the flags wet) and F48° at 8 ½ -out ¼ hour - then with my aunt - rather better - had Mr. Husband – the dinner bell hung this morning - 3 masons began the hall-cellar arch, and Booth helping afterwards for 2 or 3 hours - the arch covered in tonight before they left off - Ingham and his man and boy at the dry-arch levelling and Robert Schofield and his man Joseph getting up garden wall footings and Robert Mann + 3 at the meer-head Spiggs water drain all the above (except the masons) driven home by the rain immediately after dinner - breakfast at 9 ¼ - A- did her French - had Mr. Husband again had asked him to wait till I wrote my letter (to Marian in ¼ hour till 10 ¼) - and he staid till 11 ½ planning staircase window - measuring for it and getting hole made in the wall - gave him 6d to give the guard of the mail as he passed the Lodge about 12, to take care to put my letter into the post at York - to ‘Miss Marian Lister Market Weighton’ - ‘Shibden hall Friday 30 September 1836. My dear Marian - my aunt has got over the night better than we expected, but it does not seem probable that she can continue many days - she speaks with difficulty, does not take much notice of anybody, and appears anxious to be as little disturbed as possible - with regard to your coming over (we can accommodate your maid) I think you quite at liberty to consult your own feelings - I see no necessity to compel, no duty to induce, no comfort to recompense your coming - my aunt might, or might not be able to take notice of your being with her - I do not attach much importance to any remarks that may, or can be made by persons quite unacquainted with the particular circumstances of the case - it is difficult for me to give an opinion, but I think, and feel, that, were I in your place, I should not come - I am glad you have spent 3 weeks so agreeably at Scarbro’ and hope you have received great benefit from the sea-breezes - Miss Walker joins me in love to yourself and remembrances to your friend - Believe me, my dear Marian always affectionately yours AL’ - after Mr. Husband went at 11 ½ had Booth about the stair-case window and chimney breast bringing up from the cellar - had Robert Mann - said he had best leave the Spiggs water drain job (raising the water and bringing it nearer to the old engine pit) and the meer-drift job finishing till we had drier weather - then had Joseph Mann about A-‘s Travellers Inn water getting job - Holt (James) never came to Walker pit last Tuesday in spite of his promise - said I would write to him - must have him or somebody else to look after the concern - then with A- and with my aunt ½ hour -then out again with the gardener - with the masons - in the stable - had Sugden - with John Booth in the cowhouse giving orders and about till came in at 6 - the gardener to write about a man to come as soon as possible - has one in view at 14/. or 15/. a week - Sugden gave £38 for the 4 years old and £48 for the tall one - the better bred of the 2 but plain about the neck and 2 small splents and a boney excrescence on his right under jaw-bone and a wart on his right eyelid, yet warranted sound - yet a nice-looking pair for the money - John Booth to get 2 bushels of oats extra for the 2 bays and bran for them - and 200 stock more hay - thinks the pig may be killed the end of next month - should have oatmeal the last fortnight - will weigh 15 or about 16 stock - ½ hour with my aunt till Mr. Jubb came at 7 and sat by my aunt’s bedside ¼ hour - he was here a little before 9 in the morning - my aunt’s pulse 120 last night, 96 this morning, and 84 tonight! I sat in the room 1 ½ hour this evening after dinner at 7 ½ and coffee upstairs and she really seems better tonight - spoke a little - told me I was a very good nurse - just before dinner A- had Mr. Thomas of the firm of Thomas and Holt who are making her water lane Steam engine on a/c of which she paid him on Mr. Husbands’ written recommendation £30 - from 10 ½ till 11 wrote all the above of today - while with my aunt skimmed over tonights paper - letter from Lady VC- Brafield house 3pp. and one end - Lady Stuart with her, and the 2 brace of moorgame sent after her - the baby very fat and well ditto ditto V- herself ‘the dean of Windsor, my friend Lady Broadhead and Miss Cameron are sponsors - and she is to be called Vere Julia or vice versa....’ Vere Julia! not interesting to me - no news from the S- de Rothesay beyond Cologne - to stay 2 or 3 days at Coblentz - old Lady S- does not know the address of the courier - n’importe - rain before 11 and very rainy till it began to clear about 3 pm and afterwards damp but fair for the rest of the day afternoon and evening - F38° now at 11 5 pm

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La Jeunesse a Coblentz Artist: James McNeill Whistler 1858 From the collection of Freer and Sackler Galleries Details Title: La Jeunesse a Coblentz Creator: Artist: James McNeill Whistler Location: United States External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Freer|Sackler collection, please visit http://www.asia.si.edu/. Medium: Pencil on cream paper Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer Collection: Freer Gallery of Art

James Abbott McNeill Whistler Jul 11, 1834 – Jul 17, 1903

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist active during the American Gilded Age. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake”. His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for it combined both aspects of his personality—his art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, while his public persona was combative. Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler entitled many of his paintings “arrangements”, “harmonies”, and “nocturnes”, emphasizing the primacy of tonal harmony. His most famous painting is “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1”, commonly known as Whistler’s Mother, the revered and oft-parodied portrait of motherhood. Whistler influenced the art world and the broader culture of his time with his artistic theories and his friendships with leading artists and writers.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler La Jeunesse a Coblentz was originally published on HiSoUR共享艺术

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In an article last month, I noted that this past April (April 2016), Amazing Stories had celebrated its 90th anniversary.

This is not entirely true. As many may know, magazine cover dates are the date after which the periodical should be removed from the shelves (and presumably replaced with the next issue). A magazine with a cover date of April is “out dated” come May 1st.

If you are familiar with that concept, then you also know that the “April” issue is usually placed on the stands approximately mid-way through the preceding month. In Amazing’s case, that would be March 12th, 1926 for the first (April 1926) issue.

Thanks to many SF and pulp historians (chief among them Michael Ashley), we actually have a birth date for the world’s first magazine devoted entirely to scientifiction.

But this presents a quandary.  Most people looking at the magazine’s first issue when confronted with a March celebration will, at best be confused.  At this present time in history, if they seek clarification, most sources will tell them that the first issue of the magazine was dated April.  Surmounting that potential confusion will required an explanation every single time the birthday is announced.

So I’ve decided to split the baby.  Hence forth, Amazing Stories birth day is March 12th.  The magazine’s anniversary is celebrated in April, in honor of its cover date,

With that out of the way, we can celebrate Amazing Stories’ 90th January today (with no explanation needed or required).

January 2005, Volume 74, Number 1

Jeff Berkwitz, Editor Paizo Publishing

$5.99 per copy

Bedsheet 84 Pages

Contents

Nowhere in Particular by Mike Resnick The Wisdom of Disaster by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Brainspace shortstory by Robin D. Laws Jimmy and Cat shortstory by Gail Sproule Wishful Thinking shortstory by J. Gregory Keyes      

Summer, 1998, Volume 70, Number 1*

Kim Mohan, Editor Wizards of the Coast

$4.00 per copy

Bedsheet 100 Pages

Contents Unbelievable – but True by Kim Mohan Dispatches (Amazing Stories, Summer 1998) by The Editor The Observatory: It All Started by Being Amazing by Bruce Sterling Scientifiction: From Silver Screen to Superstore       

January, 1987 Volume 61, Number 5

Patrick Price, Editor TSR. Inc.

$1.75 per copy

Bedsheet 162 pages

Contents Among the Stones by Paul J. McAuley Forward from What Vanishes by Mark Rich Harbard by Larry Walker Max Weber’s War by Robert Frezza Kleinism by Arthur L. Klein Temple to a Minor Goddess by Susan Shwartz Upon Hearing New Evidence That Meteors Caused the Great Extinctions by Robert Frazier Transients by Darrell Schweitzer Light Reading by John Devin Vergil and the Caged Bird by Avram Davidson Snorkeling in The River Lethe by Rory Harper Able Baker Camel by Richard Wilson      

March, 1977 Volume 50, Number 4*

Ted White, Editor Ultimate Publishing

$1.00 per copy

Digest 134 Pages

Contents Alec’s Anabasis Robert F. Young Shibboleth by Barry N. Malzberg Our Vanishing Triceratops by Joseph F. Pumilia and Steven Utley The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Thru by Richard A. Lupoff The Recruiter by Glen Cook Two of a Kind by Rich Brown Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear by Jack C. Haldeman, II An Animal Crime of Passion by Vol Haldeman      

February, 1967 Volume 40, Number 10*

Joseph Ross, Editor Ultimate Publishing

50 cents per copy

Digest 164 pages

Contents Two Days Running and Then Skip a Day by Ron Goulart Tumithak of the Corridors by Charles R. Tanner Methuselah, Ltd. by Richard Barr and Wallace West The Man with Common Sense by James E. Gunn Born Under Mars (Part 2 of 2) by John Brunner      

January, 1957 Volume 31, Number 1

Paul W. Fairman, Editor Ziff-Davis Publshishing Company

35 cents per copy

Digest 132 pages

Contents Quest of the Golden Ape (Part 1 of 3) • serial by Paul W. Fairman and Milton Lesser [as by Ivar Jorgensen and Adam Chase ] Savage Wind • shortstory by Harlan Ellison Reluctant Genius by Henry Slesar Heart by Henry Slesar Before Egypt by Robert Bloch      

January, 1947 Volume 21, Number 1

Raymond A. Palmer, Editor Ziff-Davis Publishing Company

25 cents per copy

Pulp 180 Pages

Contents I Have Been in the Caves by Margaret Rogers Rejuvenation Asteroid by William L. Hamling The Secret of Sutter’s Lake by Don Wilcox Like Alarm Bells Ringing by Robert Moore Williams The Mind Rovers by Richard S. Shaver Death Seems So Final by Richard S. Shaver Mr. Wilson’s Watch by H. B. Hickey      

February, 1937 Volume 11, Number 1*

T. O’Conor Sloane, Editor Teck Publications

25 cents per copy

Pulp 148 pages

Contents The Planet of Perpetual Night by John Edwards Prometheus by Arthur K. Barnes “By Jove!” (Part 1 of 3)by Dr. Walter Rose Denitro by Stanton A. Coblentz The Last Neanderthal Man by Isaac R. Nathanson      

January, 1927, Volume 1, Number 10

Hugo Gernsback, Editor Experimenter Publishing Company

25 cents per copy

Bedsheet 108 Pages

Contents The Red Dust by Murray Leinster The Man Who Could Vanish by A. Hyatt Verrill The First Men in the Moon (Part 2 of 3) by H. G. Wells The Man with the Strange Head by Miles J. Breuer, M.D. The Second Deluge (Part 3 of 4) by Garrett P. Serviss  

Perhaps the most interesting statistic is that we’re producing a series of anthologies and facsimile reprint editions, drawn from all of these years of STF goodness and keeping them accessible.

If art is your thing, take a gander at the posters we’ve got for sale; if fiction is what you’re after, here are the titles we’ve currently got on sale – with more coming every month; (click on any cover to purchase).

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Best of 1926

Best of 1927

Best of 1928

Best of 1940

35TH Anniversary Issue

May 1940 Facsimile Edition

September 1940 Facsimile Edition

Amazing Stories Annual Facsimile Edition

Amazing Stories Classic Novels

Ammazing Stories 88th Anniversary Issue

Also note: this article could not have been prepared without the resources of ISFDB.ORG and Galactic Central – Philsp.com. We are continually grateful for the work that they do in preserving genre history.

*As always, we try to get as close to an actual anniversary issue as possible, but given Amazing’s interesting publishing history, this is not always possible.

The Amazing Years – January 2017 In an article last month, I noted that this past April (April 2016), Amazing Stories had celebrated its 90th anniversary.

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Foxes (Adrian Lyne, 1980).