#milne do

[beenasarwar]

Google's tearjerker 'Reunion' ad, and the 'Milne Do' campaign

“Reunion“, the moving, well made little video released by Google today is going viral. And it’s not just the one ad, there’s a playlist of five in the series – ‘fennel’, ‘cricket’, ‘Anarkali’, and ‘sugar-free’. If it doesn’t move you, you’ve got a heart of stone. And if oh, it was that easy. A still from the Google ‘Reunion’; film’ ad For Pakistanis and Indians to get visas to visit each…

[the-always-enjoying-wali-ladki]

Bc Academic rival ki dhajjiyaan udaani hai kasam se

[shokveyv]

shut up

[batbetbitbotbut]

Why am I only now discovering that A.A. Milne (of Winnie the Pooh) also wrote for adults and he is hilarious

(I know why, it's because I bought this book in a charity shop and put off reading it for months, but now I'm putting off a different book by reading this one)

These snippets are from Oranges and Lemons as published in The Sunny Side which is a collection of his short stories. The plot (as far as I have got) is that a group of 6 posh English friends go stay in a villa in France for a month.

"Pipe, tobacco, matches, keys, money?" "Everything," I said. [...] "I do know I shall be horribly late. Good-bye." I fled down the stairs into the street, waved to Myra at the window ... and then came cautiously up again for my pipe. Life is very difficult on the mornings when you are in a hurry.

--

"Have a cigar - if you've brought any with you."

--

Entered Thomas lazily. "Hallo," he said in his slow voice. "What's it all about?" "It's a raid on the Begum's palace," explained Archie rapidly. "Dahlia decoys the Chief Mucilage; you, Thomas, drive the submarine; Myra has charge of the clockwork mouse, and we others hang about and sing. To say more at this stage would be to bring about a European conflict."

--

"It must be rather difficult climbing up [to the top berth] at night," thought Dahlia. "Not if you get a good take-off, Dahlia," said Simpson earnestly. "Simpson got a good one off my face," explained Thomas. "My dear old chap, I was frightfully sorry. I did come down at once and tell you how sorry I was, didn't I?" "You stepped back on to it," said Thomas shortly, and he turned his attention to his coffee.

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"In London," I went on, "it is raining. Looking out of my window I see a lamp-post (not in flower) beneath a low, grey sky. Here we see oranges against a blue sky a million miles deep. What a blend! Myra, let's go to a fancy-dress ball when we get back. You go as an orange and I'll go as a very blue, blue sky, and you shall lean against me." "And we'll dance the tangerine," said Myra.

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To be five guests of the guest of a man you have never met is delicate work. [...] "We must get ouselves into proper order," he said. "Simpson, the villa has been lent to you; you must go first. Dahlia and I come next. When you arrive you will introduce us as your friends, Mr and Mrs Mannering. Then turning to Myra you say, 'Mr Mannering's sister; and this,' you add, 'is her husband.' Then - er - Thomas -" "It will be difficult to account for Thomas," I said. "Thomas comes at the end. He hangs back a little at first; and then if he sees that there is going to be any awkwardness about him, he can pretend he's come on the wrong night, and apologise and go home again."

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There were four ladies; we shook hands with all of them. It took us a long time, and I doubt if we got it all in even so, for twice I found myself shaking hands with Simpson.

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When Myra married me she promised to love, honour and write all my thank-you-very-much letters for me, for we agreed before the ceremony that the word "obey" should mean nothing more than that.

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"But, my dear Myra, it's the first thing the fellows at the club ask you when you've been to the Riviera - if you've had any luck [gambling]." "Well, you've had a lot of luck," said Archie. "Several times when you've been standing on the heights and calling attention to the beautiful view below, I've said to myself, 'One push, and he's a deader,' but something, some mysterious agency within, has kept me back."

[howdotheyliketheirsteak]

Assume this character can eat steak OR there is a substitute they can eat that cooks equivalently

[psalm40speakstome]

I’ll love and adore Winnie The Pooh books cartoons and everything and everyone with all of my being

But I feel someone needs to say that this version of Eeyore from A Very Merry Pooh Year was psychotically disturbing

[iftitah]

everyone prioritizes their family and that means even extended chacha ke chacha fufa ke tau etc and i can't even prioritize my sagi one i hate myself

[quotelr]

Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it

A.A. Milne

[squirrellyshorrorreviews]

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023 & 2024)

I'm doing both in one post because it feels right.

After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.

Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger take their fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.

Where to Watch: Peacock

Score: 2/10 (1/10 + 3/10)

Hear me out.

These movies are trash. Not unwatchable, mind. Still trash. But.

BUT.

Together you've got a really interesting picture of how to pivot like a champion.

Rhys Frake-Waterfield gives an absolutely TRASH horror movie in the first one, maximizing on the copyright lift but putting kind of minimal thought into where it was going. It's hastily made, paced so terribly it annoyed me at points, not fully thought out, with some fun slasher movie ideas in there and some old standby tropes. Solid cinematography and practical effects with uncanny valley levels of costuming is held back by a weak script, weak acting, and distractingly bad CGI.

Then the second one happens. Makes the first one an in-universe bad movie and basically starts over from scratch in what I can only describe as a fucking power move. It gives more (read: ANY) thought to how it wants to use the children's story in a horror setting. Gives more solid characters to work with. Overall generating a better movie, but the bar was in the floor.

If this was by design from the beginning it's a good choice; but based on my cursory look, it seems like Waterfield just had more time to retool his universe while he waited for Tigger to enter public domain.

The sequel fails in some of the same ways the original did; the pacing is roughshod at best. The script, though stronger, is still weak. But it hits the 80's slasher schlocky horror note better and more clearly in the sequel than the first. If you're going to watch these, I'd say do the second one first. Or only the second. Everything you need to know about the first one to understand the second is explained in the opening animation. You legit do not need to watch the first one.

It lacks the depth I want to see in good, toothsome horror movies. They're not great. They're not childhood-ruiningly fantastic or even shock-jocky. They're just popcorn slasher movies through and through. Which isn't a bad thing. Sometimes that's what you want and it's good to see that little slice of the genre still alive so long after its heyday.

Blood and Honey 2 gives shit Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake meets Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3 meets the American McGee's Alice PC gamer demo, if that makes sense.

These... just have Winnie-the-Pooh in the title.

[deltagf]

save meeeee alex milne holoform tarn

[thunderwetter]

Tried soothing the pre-surgery nervosity by sketching a medic duo I'd trust to not f- it up

Ignore all the errors, I haven't drawn traditionally in a good bit LOL

Also, circumstances. Kinda uh, got a tube in my ribcage so I can breathe lol. And the hospital table is flimsy as HELL >:(

First Aid really do be breaking his shoulder to grab Ambulon's waist LOL

Maybe I'll redraw this properly when I'm outta this... sterile white prison.

[cuppajj]

yooo did you see alex milnes teasers for both hot motor oil magazines, they got ur mech in the g string set lmao

Literally cannot believe he drew that, go king go, anyway let’s get Lord Imperious Delirious into volume 3 🫡

[sketchysketchiness]

Just a lil piglet

[touch-me-unscientifically]

GUYS DIRECTOR'S NOTES !!! AAH

⭐ link >> Ep 1, Cheese Dreams in the Gravy Isles

[dbssh]

mtmte is hell because you will have one of the most interesting disabled characters in the entire franchise with one of the most lovingly rendered character arcs ive ever read and at the same time james roberts calls characters slurs and constantly makes a joke and caricature out of the same issues he tries to be So Serious about

[aeide-thea]

[fic crit, amatonormativity (blogger's own) cw]

revisited a story that i remembered really enjoying, but have had difficulty digging up for a reread because, as it turns out, it's a good 200 pages deep in the relevant pairing tag, and—

turns out that i do still really dig it, and also that the other thing i remembered about it is equally still true, which is that it totally fails to really resolve the emotional side of things! like, it's a fic full of Plot and briefly- but vividly-drawn OCs, and people from the main characters' pasts who show up in ways that work for the story but are also random enough to lend verisimilitude, and we get to see the elements of the foil's day-to-day life—what keeps them busy and burnished when they're not off Adventuring with our protagonist—in generous, engaging detail, and all of that remains really satisfying and compelling to me; but it's billed as a fic ft. a pairing, and yet all we see of that is an established, undiscussed level of ambiguous intimacy that's lovely and warm but queerplatonic at absolute most, and doesn't get tied into any sort of bow by the end, even a friendly one.

and the thing is—there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! if it weren't for the pairing tag i probably wouldn't even find it unsatisfying: it'd just be lovely warm plotty genfic, and i'd enjoy the hell out of it! but i am, for better or for worse, amatonormative enough that when i see a story with a pairing tag, i do personally expect some combination of Romance Feelings and/or sex to appear on the page, unless the author's notes inform me the relationship is queerplatonic or similarly asterisked, and having that expectation go unmet feels like a disappointment even when the fic is on all other fronts the opposite of disappointing. which i'm fully ready to accept is my own failing, rather than the story's! but. idk. pondering and processing. :)