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A few Chapter summary cards from my Webtoon, Chinua and the forces of light. You can read it on Webtoon and Globalcomix.
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“If you read between the lines, what harry and meghan has basically been saying all these years is that “the commonwealth is bad, it’s basically empire 2.0 but it will be less bad if we become king and queen of the commonwealth because meghan, a biracial american, is 43% nigerian and harry, a white british royal, has always had a special place for africa because he’s always felt oppressed as a ginger compared to his blonde brother”. It’s kinda comical.” - Submitted by Anonymous
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The old year is dead. Long live the new year. Tell us about some stuff you liked in 2024 (music, TV, movies, cool things you did, whatever!) and some stuff you're looking forward to in 2025
Ok so it's going to be long hehe
I watched a bit less than 100 movies last year but the standout was definitely Bound, that I somehow completely missed, 10/10 no notes let's go lesbians
I only played all the way through two triple AAA games (FF7 Rebirth and Veilguard), both of them I really enjoyed despite some big flaws, but my three favorite games of the year were 100XResist, Mouthwashing and Sorry We're Closed (or what if Silent Hill was hot and gay?). Big year for retro horror indie games, luckily that's right up my alley lmao
Honorable mentions for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and Indika!
More 2024 faves under the cut~
Brat was definitely my most listened to album of the year, but only because The Cure's latest album came out in November, an instant classic
I didn't see a lot of shows this year (but I saw Mitski! Finally!) but my favorite one was Kalandra, a Norwegian band I've loved for a while now, nothing beats an intimate concert in a small venue, I danced and cried a lot lol
I read a bunch of comics and mangas and not enough novels, but I really enjoyed the Nigerian novel Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde, it's gay and hopeful as hell, something I really needed this year
As for TV shows, Interview with the Vampire is still the best thing on TV right now, and season 2 was phenomenal
Really looking forward to more of everything this year 💗
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Can't believe the plot of the Mollymauk origins comic is seriously Molly and the gang foil a ye olde Nigerian Prince scammer.
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Character Analysis: Wendell and Wild Part 1
This analysis will be divided to two parts, one is before they went up to the Land of the Living and the second being after. I might make a third part, but I kinda need some like extra info or some storyboard videos and such. But anyway, let’s begin shall we.
So when we first meet the brothers, they basically show off their personalities that you may see in some types of media (i.e. tv shows, movies, etc.); one being the intellectual, but annoyed one while the other being the annoying and comic relief guy.
Fun Fact: Based on ImDb, both Key and Peele had to watch some Abbott and Costello episodes to truly give Wendell and Wild their personalities (search up Abbott and Costello up, you get my point)
But remember the scene where Wendell tells Wild that it’s his fault that the both of them got in prison, yeah just bookmark that for later it’s gonna have some significance.
Then we get to the scene in where Wendell and Wild are making their paper faire, in where Wendell basically vents to Wild on how their faire is so much better than Belzer’s faire and how Wild got them into the mess. Basically there’s a lot to unpack here. Namely on how Wendell acts during the before going to the Land of the Living scenes during the movie.
For one thing, Wendell acts aggressive towards Wild for the things he did in the past that led to them being in prison, even trying to choke Wild when being force-fed the hair cream and basically threatening Wild to snap off his horns and make a fire. Adding to that, he basically gets annoyed at Wild for some of the things that he does or his ideas that he talks about, namely the their first scene in where Wild eats the hair cream, Wild basically wanting to help the Nigerian Prince even though not understanding it’s a scam, and Wild showing telling Wendell that the Tick he saw died. Although most of these got some resolutions (?), although technically Wendell liked the hair cream and he thought it was a brilliant idea that both him and Wild can use to revive their Hellmaiden’s parents.
Another part to add, Wendell is implied that he’s the one that gets punished for this and not Wild. Some theories that I have is that Belzer thought that Wendell started to brag about their faire to the others and not actually knowing that it was Wild’s fault or Wendell was actually the one who did the bragging and is blaming Wild for their imprisonment or that Wild joined him in bragging about the faire. But anyway, this is the catalyst for Wendell having temperamental issues when things don’t go the way he wants and hates the special treatment that his brother gets from his father.
Lastly, but this is pretty much important, Wendell is shown to be the more arrogant of the two. Like seriously, I feel like he brags more about the dream faire than Wild ever was (it’s literally in the dialogue). He’s basically shown to be blinded by wanting his dream faire a reality that it’s possibly implied that he gets mad when someone (mostly Wild) gives him a bad idea and berates them about it. Another thing to note is that he thinks highly of himself in the film, trying to look threatening but failing and also being fond on how good-looking he is. Another is how he wants to trying random actions just for the sake of his faire, but it’s either thwarted or just by common sense. He’s also shown to be money-hungry since all he ever wanting has funding for the faire, and gets angry when he doesn’t get the dough needed for the faire.
So yeah, in summary, Wendell’s pretty much of an arrogant jerk throughout most of his first part of the film. But let’s just hope that the second part won’t be that worse right? Right?!
For Wild, he’s basically more digestible when talking about his scenes in the first part of the film.
Although a pretty carefree and crafty dude, this guy…is actually really depressing. Like, there’s some depressing shit going on with this man.
For one thing, Wild is actually remorseful about him and Wendell being in prison and tries to make things right for the both of them.
Additionally, Wild is also shown to meet Wendell’s expectations, though it’s a 50/50 chance with his ideas and all. He also convinces Wendell that his ideas can help with their funding. In short, he’s doing this for the sake of Wendell’s dream faire.
Actually, now that I think about, I think it’s possible that Wild doesn’t want to be part of his brother’s dream of opening up a faire. But has to because he doesn’t want to upset him.
Think about it, Wild is shown to be supporting on Wendell’s ideas, even trying to use his ideas just to support the dream faire. Hell, even after they find out Kat is their Hellmaiden, Wild goes out of his way to tell Wendell that they should go to the land of the living to build their faire.
It’s clear that Wild’s doing the dream faire for his brother, but at what costs. I mean, Wild is basically mentally abused by his brother and is basically his assistant of some sorts. But he goes out of his way to support him even after all the abuse he has gone through. (Let’s just hope that the second part isn’t too depressing)
And that’s it for Part 1 of my character analysis, now time to work on Part 2 (if I have the motivation)
#wendell and wild#now i’ll just wait for the angst fanfics to come bc of this#probably a weird time to bring this up but#watch the movie while reading my post#it’s probably gonna make sense#but idk that’s just a theory#character analysis
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I don't know if you already answered this question, but what real-life cultures were used as inspiration for the different countries seen in the comic?
Are we gonna see any more other countries coming into play or not?
Yep! I answered it here: https://www.tumblr.com/catesartworks/696382272474152960/what-cultures-and-countries-inspired-you-to-create
Details of post:
Limpette is a country with a lot of ports/trade because they live so close to the sea, so I imagine there are a ton of cultures that coexist in Limpette. That being said, it's racial demographics were inspired by Northern Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia. One of the aspects I was influenced by was the importance of bathing culture and soap. Bridgette's surname, Nahome-Karim, shows that she is a union between a Nigerian-Ethiopian (West African) household, and an Iranian-Arab (North African/Middle Eastern) household.
Each of these cultures in Limpette have a country equivalent. But the majority of the population have ancestry from Northern Africa, Middle East, and Central Asian populations that come from all over the world.
One of the countries mentioned in Isekai Maid, "Qamara" is the equivalent of Iran. Bridgette's mother, Yadira Nahome-Karim has ancestry there and is part of a minority group of Arabic speakers, while the rest of the country speaks an equivalent of Farsi. Nasir (see episode 60 and 79) is also from Qamara.
Tholassa is Greece, Teffrah is a mix of England and France. And each country has a population of immigrants from different countries. Which is why there seems to be a lot of cultures coexisting.
I really want to expand the map, and I will mention more countries in the future. :D
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Hello, I tried to login to your Pateron but it wasn't working for me for some reason. Maybe because I'm Nigerian or I don't know. I was wondering if you could post it on inkbunny website so that people who can't have access to your Pateron can go to inkbunny website and read it. Please with a cherry on top.😁😁
Hello, I appreciate your interest to read it but I won't do it. The idea of making porn gallery to later post it in my Patreon is to gain money and keep it away from minors.
Once I finish the comic and spend a couple of weeks in Patreon, I will post it in my Picarto account. the deal is like "Those who pay get to see first"
Another chance to be able to see the process of the comic is to assist the livestreams of my Picarto on Saturdays.
PICARTO PATREON
-DAS
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Basically A Bio guys
So like before I start, I would like everyone to see this: Don't involve me in drama or harass me for anything. If I did something wrong, talk to me in dms. And whatever happens in my other blogs stay there. Don't bring them over here.
Anyways...
Yo! I'm Eluxurex! Or Zury for short. I am a female teenage artist that likes Undertale and is currently trying to introduce characters of an AU I am making. I am also a fan of Gravity Falls and Black Clover.
There's not really much of myself to talk about, I mean I'm very random (it's in the username for a reason).
I am a straight Nigerian Christian (Though I do have dual citizenship in New Jersey but that's not really important.). Oh and I'm weird.
So anyways, here just the few OCs which I have introduced in this blog: (Most the Ocs here, their desings have been altered)
My Persona (Finally redesigned her)
Rezmo, a ghost that belongs to my AU, Keytale.
My self insert, Eluxur
And of course the Sans of my AU.
Tags: #eluxurasks
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This isn't a request or anything but I just had a showerthought. In a reverse-isekai Zhongli and Itto would 10000000% fall for the nigerian prince scam 😂
And as much as I love them, I wouldn't allow them unsupervised internet access until they mastered readers "how to recognise and avoid scams" class
Itto would fall victim to every known scam in existence and it'd probably just be safer to keep him away from the internet all together
You think you got him completely protected with multiple lectures and tons of antivirus software, but then you come back to a 200 dollar bank deduction and five separate instance of malware because there were hot singles in the area (which he swears he only clicked on because he thought that meant something entirely different)
Meanwhile Zhongli is probably pretty well versed in the traditional scams, he was a god over a city of trade after all, so while he might suck completely at bartering, he's not one to just let people lie to him flat out
Of course that doesn't really apply over the internet—
Poor guy would lose so much money because he's both overpaying (rich person syndrome of overestimating price/buying the most expensive version because he's used to a higher price equaling better quality/not knowing how your money works anyway and assume something crazy like 1 Mora = 1 dollar) and falling victim to having an actual conscious, which you just can't afford to have on the internet
Don't let him shop online, just don't, but on the bright side, at least his chance of getting viruses isn't super high, and no one can top Itto when it comes to disregarding internet safety in comical ways anyway
He'd probably fully believe that a website having a firewall means that if he ever visits that site your poor computer would burst into flames and maybe explode
Meanwhile Zhongli's browser history would just be five hundred pages of random questions about your world, culture, and how to fit in modern society without people thinking you're a God 101
He might accidentally be put on a few FBI watchlists when he gets around to researching nuclear weaponry tho—
#in conclusion just don't tell them about the internet#genshin impact#sagau#genshin zhongli#genshin itto#this is like the first time he's even been mentioned here#brainrot
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Hi, thanks for answering my ask, If it's not too hard can you tell me your race head canons for all the Mercs?
You're the best.
Engie: BLACK. He is not white. no. no don't look at the game. or the comics. or anything else related to engineer tf2. you cannot see that man at night. he's too much of a southern-black-mother-haver to be white. who cares about his dad, his MOM was BLACK. Polite, mildly violent when he needs to be, intelligent? His momma not white you can't change me.
Soldier: Native/Black. Mother Inuit and father African, OG last name Domoraud, got shortened to Doe through Immigration; OG first name was Amaqjuaq, but his parents had to choose a name on the spot. He has many identity issues, don't ask. Never takes off his helmet 'cause he doesn't like his monolids.Very touchy about the subject of race because where he lived was probably nearly as bad as Texas in terms of racism, feels he needs to devote every waking second to America or else he doesn't belong there. Yeah. He needs a bit of help. Has a weird accent but he hides it pretty well. Wow I rambled there...
Spy: Black/asian. Wow I really just dipped Tf2 into charcoal, didn't I? Didn't realize how many of them I Poc-ified until I put it down on paper. His mom was an asian woman, very stern, but she had a soft spot for her gender-weird kid. Dad was a black man, sweetheart, but he wasn't good at caring for people. Mother was a ballet star and taught him, he fucking mastered it. Broke his hip and disabled himself for life, but mastered it. Somehow he dramatizes it even more that it already was, and what actually happened was already halfway out a soap opera.
Sniper: Native. Māroi biological and Aboriginal Aussie Adoptive. He's Native on top of Native. Family spoke Antakarinya at home and he taught himself Māroi. Like Soldier, he has identity issues because languages and cultures get jumbled up in his head sometimes. Hates getting told he can't participate in Aboriginal activities because he isn't actually related to his parents. "BITCH? I WAS RAISED DOING THIS SHIT?" Is very passionate about his culture, especially his Antakarinya, because that is a language two breaths from death.
Scout: Black/white. LIGHTSKIN. CHEERIO-LOOKIN' MOTHERFUCKER. LITTLE E-FUCK-FEMBOY ASS. Soon as he pull out that fried chicken he's in a chick's panties. No explanation because you don't need one.
Pyro: Black. Heavy Nigerian accent, even when their speech isn't muffled people can barely understand them at times. Doesn't have the best english pronunciation, but their voice is jacked up anyways, so it doesn't matter. Fluent in American and British ASL despite this. Big person, bigger heart. 6'7'' 265 LB person with a voice deep enough to hit the Earth's core skipping around in Kidcore Aesthetic™️ and putting stickers on everything.
Demo: Black. we all know buddy. Although I feel like the Scottish are so on a different plane of being that they should be their own race. Black/Scottish. Very smart and has multiple degrees in chemistry and he drinks so much his blood has turned into pure alcohol. Scottish behavior. He wears kilts often, but sadly wears pants under his most times because they're. yknow. on a battle ground. But I think it's a shame. Can you tell I am getting tired.
Medic: I don't fuckin know. German. His race is Germany. The whole country. You ask him his race because his skin is very swarthy so you can't tell whether he's a really tan white guy or a weirdly light black guy. He's a pacific islander/white mix, but he actually barely knows. He'll remember his mother was Polynesian and go Oh. I forgor [Insert skull emoji and a facebook minion meme about mortality}.
Heavy: Black/white mix. He got his mother's beauty marks and his dad's bulkiness. Weird genes, very light but he has very pronounced black facial features. Big nose, big lips, high cheekbones. He gets asked if he's albino more than you would think. People actually don't expect him to have such a heavy Siberian accent because you expect white Vodka twink or white vodka dad that sneezes real fucking hard to have that much of a accent, not the guy that looks like he came out of a Nella Larsen book.
OH MY FUCK I'M DONE.
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Perfect Paradise Ch.25: Yeung Hoi Tin Wai Ngo Jeui Nang Leung...
Summary: Allowing the sea and sky to give me strength...
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The wooden sword hit Hugo on the left shoulder. Pain flaring from the point of contact. "Ow!" He swung his own practice sword in the direction of his opponent. Only to slice through air.
"Don't concentrate. Focus. Hearing your opponent's breathing should be as effortless as, well, breathing," Leonardo instructed.
Hugo struck towards the sound of his voice. Swords clashing, then he was gone. Swinging wide in an attempt to hit Leo while he retreated. Only to get struck on his forearm for his efforts. He pulled back with a hiss of pain, raising his guard again.
"Don't overextend yourself. It leaves you open to counterattack."
Hugo slashed at Leo's voice again but it was a feint. He heard the air swish against Leo's sword and turned at the last moment. Their weapons sliding against each other. Hugo felt where Leonardo stood from the pressure against his grip. He grinned, "Got y-"
His stomach lurched and a flat surface collided with his side. "... Owww!" Hugo complained from the floor.
"If you surprise your enemy don't hesitate. They certainly won't." Leo clapped his hands and the lights came back on.
Hugo removed his blindfold, taking Leo's offered hand. "This would be so much easier if we could train our senses to get super sonar. Like Daredevil!"
Leo grinned, counting the steps to the training rack where he left the practice sword, his white cane leaning against it. "That only works in comic books."
Hugo sighed. "Yeah."
"You've picked up the basics quickly though. I'm surprised you blocked that last strike." Leo turned to him. His eyes were clear but they could only see shapes and movement in bright light.
"Master Splinter says I'm a natural." Hugo only knew the sapient rat for two days but his opinion of Hugo was already important to him. Something about Master Splinter made Hugo feel safe.
"Don't let it go to your head," Leo teased. "Mikey's also a natural... Don't tell him I said that."
Hugo didn't quite get it but he had the feeling this was a warning to keep up his training. "Got it."
Raphael burst into the room. "Leo! We got trouble!"
Instantly Leonardo grabbed his cane and made sure his holographic projector was still on his wrist. "What's the situation?"
"A hovercraft full of LexCorp goons is heading for the Professor's Island. Mikey's already on the way. Get Donnie out of his lab at O'Neal Tech."
They rushed to the indoor docks where the on brand vehicles waited. Raph heading to the Shell Sub. "The Turtle Cab should take you through the tunnels the fastest."
"Let's hope Donnie fixed the guidance systems!" Leo practically flew towards the supped up taxi. The gate disguised as a wall already opening.
Hugo ran up to Raph as he boarded the sub. "What should I do?"
"Stay here!" And with that Raph closed the hatch. Submerging into the Central Park Reservoir.
Hugo stared at the bubbling water as the brothers took off. A gleam of metal caught his eye. It was a hovercycle stylized with the same green shells as Donatello's other toys. A sign hung over it's handles that read Hovershell Prototype Mark II Do Not Touch (That Means You Mikey).
A smirk crossed Hugo's face as he pulled out his Nigerian multitool.
(continued on AO3)
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Events 12.31 (after 1950)
1951 – Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe. 1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year. 1956 – The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest. 1961 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service. 1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. 1965 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko. 1968 – The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world. 1968 – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board. 1981 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. 1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. 1983 – Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner. 1983 – In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic. 1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. 1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. 1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively. 1994 – The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny. 1995 – The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published. 1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. 1999 – The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor. 1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties. 1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan. 2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft). 2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. 2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages. 2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon. 2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. 2015 – A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries. 2018 – Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia. 2019 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Disney+ Sets Key Art And Trailer For KUGALI and Walt Disney Animation Studios "IWAJU"
The official trailer and new key art has arrived for Iwájú — a brand new series from Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pan-African comic-book/ entertainment company Kugali, streaming on Disney+ beginning February 28.
Set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, the exciting coming-of-age story follows Tola (voice of Simisola Gbadamosi), a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole (Siji Soetan), a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds. Kugali filmmakers — including director Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, production designer Hamid Ibrahim and cultural consultant Toluwalakin Olowofoyeku — take viewers on a unique journey into the world of Iwájú, bursting with unique visual elements and technological advancements inspired by the spirit of Lagos.
IWAJU soundtrack by Walt Disney Records will debut March 1, 2024 on all digital music platforms. The music is by renowned Nigerian composer Ré Olunuga, whose credits include score for Walt Disney Studios "Rise" (2020).
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Conclave.
D: Edward Berger (2024).
As Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, called to preside over a papal conclave to replace a deceased Pope, Ralph Fiennes is both a sober and humble man trying to shoulder a daunting responsibility and a straight man in an all-but-comic melodrama that upends Karl Marx by suggesting that history BEGINS as farce. The leading candidates fall within current church politics (The deceased pontiff was a liberal reformer) -- Joshua Adeyimi (Lucian Msamati), a socially conservative Nigerian (“A man who believes that homosexuals should be sent to prison in this world and hell in the next”); Aldo Bellini (Stanley Tucci) an American and a good friend of Lawrence is a liberal; Goffredo Tedesco (Sergio Castellitto) an Italian extreme-right conservative who thinks the church lost its way after Vatican II; Joseph Trembley (John Lithgow once again spilling ineffectuality into gold) a Canadian moderate; and Vincent Benitez (Carlos Diehz) a Mexican archbishop whose promotion to Cardinal by the pope isn’t his only secret.
But if we were expecting a serious discussion of Catholic philosophy or politics (which, to be fair could have been a slog) the film soon dissolves into a soap opera mélange of scandal (sexual and otherwise), hypocrisy (when Lawrence gives an eloquent and moving speech about the value of doubt and the danger of certainty everybody just assumes he’s putting his hat in the ring) and the kind of backbiting and dirty tricks that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of Dynasty or Melrose Place. The film also features Isabella Rossellini as a nun whose almost wordless role serves as a rebuke to the secondary status of the church’s women (when she does speak it’s like Melville’s “No in Thunder”), a really big explosion that means nothing except I can be shocked by anything, and a genuinely surprising ending that’s like Pedro Almodovar writing the last page of an airport novel. It’s glib and shallow and its status as a “serious” and “adult” awards season frontrunner is laughable. But it’s also good cheesy fun.
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Nnedi Okorafor, (born April 8, 1974, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), Nigerian American author whose science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics for both children and adults express her concepts of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism. Okorafor often promotes young Black girls as superheroes in her work, and her writing investigates racial inequality, sexual violence, and other social issues.
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Lion Forge Entertainment and series creators previewed Nigerian-inspired animated series Iyanu at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
READ MORE: Lion Forge Entertainment Previews Animated Series “Iyanu” at SDCC 2024
#iyanu#iyanu: child of wonder#roye okupe#lion forge entertainment#cartoon network#sdcc#sdcc 2024#san diego comic-con#san diego comic-con 2024
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