#no such thing as james cameron's worms

[nstaaf-book]

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business - Richard Brooks

[david-talks-sw]

Hello @David-talks SW,

I was just wondering do you, by any chance, have any quotes from George Lucas talking about The Sith or The Emperor's ultimate goal?

I can't find the exact quote but I think he said that Sidious' goal is to rule the galaxy, allow his apprentice to challenge him when the time is right (be it Vader or Luke had he turned to the Dark Side) and allow his apprentice to strikes him down.

All Sith is after immortality but from their point of view life after death does not exist. The closest thing to immortality is their own legacy. That is why Sidious is trying to find the perfect apprentice in I-III. He find that in Anakin. Vader fails him at the end of III with his fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi. He find another chance with Luke Skywalker and that is he is so obsessed with trying to convert young Skywalker over to his side.

At the end of the day, he doesn't care what happen to him as long as the Sith rule the entire galaxy after him forever.

It is consistent with what he told Yoda before their fight in the Senate in III: "DARTH SlDIOUS: You will not stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us."

I believe Dave Filoni said something alone the line of Maul's own goal in Rebel Recon, which was a behind the scene show of Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018). Mind you I think Dave Filoni's understanding of the Sith, in general, is akin to those of George Lucas' vision of them rather then the Jedi.

I could be wrong on the matter and I would be thankful if you could correct me on it.

Thank you.

Hey there!

I see @writerbuddha already answered you here.

Let me just add a few more quotes for your information!

"The Jedi are the enemy of the Sith because the Sith want to dominate the galaxy, to control everything, and for a thousand years they have had a plot against the Jedi." - Sci-fi Online, 2005

The Sith just wanna subdue and control everyone around them, including the Force itself, to fashion the galaxy in their image.

"The end game for the Sith was to bring the world into a very selfish, self-centered, greedy, evil place, as opposed to a compassionate place." - James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, 2018

I go more into clarifying the Sith's goals here. Here's another quote that isn't in the linked post:

Q: So what is the Phantom Menace? There are lots of different ways to put it. It's the Dark Lords of the Sith, of which there are only two. That's the opposite of a Jedi. It's somebody that works with the dark side of the Force. There is one Sith Lord is who trying to wreak havoc and take over the galaxy, and he is the phantom menace. I think you get the idea. There is somebody pulling the strings for everything. - Premiere, 1999

Hope it helps!

Edit:

To be clear, saying the Sith care about their legacy is giving them wayyyy too much credit. They're selfish assholes. The whole point of having an apprentice is that if they die, at least the lineage goes on.

But they're not planning on dying, they're trying to go against the Fates and do everything in their power to NOT die.

The Jedi are the ones who deal in things like a legacy. You tell the word "legacy" to a Sith and he'll laugh in your face, he doesn't care that his *worst case scenario* is safe and sound and will carry on without him, he wants to be the guy that carries on forever.

And as @unhelpfulfemme points out in the replies, this comes with a "might makes right" mentality.

"If scum like you managed to kill magnificent me, then I deserve to die for being so pathetic and losing to a worm, and you deserve to live for having overcome the badass warrior that I am."

[samcampbellfans]

Sam Campbell Podcast Masterlist

Here's a masterlist of podcast episodes that feature Sam Campbell, in reverse chronological order. I tried to find all of the episodes that are available on the internet, do send me an ask if you find any that I did not include here!

Note: some of these links are Spotify links but usually podcast episodes are available anywhere you usually get a podcast i.e. Apple podcasts, Acast, etc.

September 2024

The Adam Buxton Podcast, Ep 226. Sam Campbell. Recorded 26th and 27th July 2024 at Latitude Festival.

July 2024

The Last Video Store. Hosted by Alexei Touliopoulos.

May 2024

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 6, Ep 7, Ep 8, Ep 9. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

April 2024

Some Laugh Podcast - Episode 99. Taskmaster, Edinburgh Fringe & Secrets. Hosted by Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson.

Tim Key's Poetry Programme. 3. Safari. On BBC Radio 4.

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 2, Ep 3, Ep 4, Ep 5. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

March 2024

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 1. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.

Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble - Episode 229, Live with Sam Campbell in Nottingham Royal Concert Hall. Note: the episode was recorded on October 18, 2023 and released 2 March 2024.

January 2024

Drifting Off with Joe Pera Ep 12: Australia and its Greatest Horse ft. Cut Worms. Guests: Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Guy Montgomery and Yaraman Thorne aka Yaz.

November 2023

Ep110. SAM CAMPBELL / Plato, Purses & Palm Readings. Trusty Hogs podcast. Hosted by Catherine Bohart and Helen Bauer.

BONUS: Ep111. NATHAN FOAD/ Colleagues, Cucks & Cliff Richard. Trusty Hogs podcast - Sam pulls a prank on Nathan Foad at 22:38. Nathan Foad was in Bloods, the Sky TV sitcom that Sam was also in.

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 149. (S16 Ep.10.) Hosted by Ed Gamble.

Northern News. ‘A Spider’s Intern’. Hosted by Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill. Sam Campbell's guest appearance starts around the 21 minute mark.

September 2023

Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 141. Sam Campbell - S16 Ep. 2. Hosted by Ed Gamble.

May 2023

WTF w/ Sam Campbell. Welcome to Meet You podcast. Hosted by Dart Sultan and Robbie Armfield.

April 2023

Mugg Off #173 Live Show Melbourne. Sam Campbell, Sam Taunton, Tim Hewitt, Laura Hughes.

November 2022

NTS - Hot Mess W/ Sam Campbell (hosted by Babak Ganjei).

October 2022

Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Podcast with Lara Ricote and Sam Campbell.

September 2022

Plot Twist podcast Kevin ‘KG’ Garry and Sam Campbell. Sky TV.

June 2022

Mugg Off #139 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan, and Yaz.

May 2022

Backyard Stories - Episode Thirty Four - Sam Campbell

October 2021

Aunty Donna Podcast Ep 277 Nippers Feat. Sam Campbell and Eric Hutton. Hosted by Zach, Mark and Broden.

July 2021

The Phone Hacks Podcast 170. Sam Campbell - Hay Ladies. Hosted by Mike Goldstein and Nick Capper. (Thanks to Cambo Fans!)

June 2021

The Good Stuff - Episode 41 Feat. Sam Campbell. Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

Australia Debates - ABC Comedy. Series 1 Episode 1 - Should Social Media Be Banned?

March 2021

Mugg Off #80 Tom Cashman and "Dingo Duggan" - Sam Campbell plays Dingo.

December 2020

Mugg Off #069 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz. Note: this episode was recorded in December 2020 but the video was uploaded June 2022.

August 2020

The Grub podcast, with Nikki Britton, Bjorn Stewart, Sam Campbell, Cameron James, and Danielle Walker. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

July 2020

Circling the Drain - Ep1: Elouise Eftos, Sam Campbell. Hosted by Andrew Wolfe.

April 2020

The Good Stuff - Episode 3 Feat. Sam Campbell (An Expose on Women’s Bathrooms). Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.

January 2020

Mugg Off #20 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz.

The Grub - 2020 Call-in Special. With Melinda Buttle, Becky Lucas, Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Rodney Todd. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.

October 2019

The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Ninety. Hosted by Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt.

May 2019

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 50. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) with Tom Walker and Sam Campbell.

May 2018

Aunty Donna Podcast Episode 97: LIVE FROM THE FACTORY THEATRE SYDNEY FEAT. SAM CAMPBELL

October 2017

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep 18: THIS BOY FREZNO. The Dragon Friends is a DnD podcast and this episode was live. From the podcast description: "Also Sam Campbell wore a mask and an elephant trunk for all of the recording so if it helps, imagine that." Cambo knows nothing about DnD - he went on the podcast to prank his friend Michael Hing (allegedly). Sam plays the antagonist (an evil Michael Hing).

The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep.17. A Dog With Human Eyes with Carlo Ritchie

August 2017

Mike Check with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 45. The Gong Show S01E04 & S01E05 w/ Sam Campbell

January-February 2015

Sad Boys, episode 1-3 hosted by Sam Campbell, Eddie Sharp and Anith Mukherjee. Originally broadcast via FBi Radio.

November 2014

Mark Williamson Chat Show - Episode 110: Becky Lucas and Sam Campbell. With regulars Lester Diamond and Ryan ‘Special Comments’ Crawford.

June 2014

Truth Nest - Episode 1 Feat. Alexei Toliopoulos. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Craig Anderson.

Below are 'lost episodes' - I cannot find the audio anywhere, or the audio files are broken. Podcast descriptions say Sam was a guest. Please do message me if you manage to find the audio!

Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos: 9. 2 Guns with Sam Campbell. July 2015.

Sydney Comedy Festival Podcast. April 2015.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 107- Sam Campbell & Shubha. January 2015.

Versus on FBi Radio - Witches vs Calendars w/ Sam Campbell and Claudia O'Doherty. December 2014. This episode has unfortunately been scrubbed from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and FBi Radio website.

The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 96- Sam Campbell and Gearard McGeown. September 2014.

A massive thank you to @vampire-lily / Lauren for contributing to this masterlist!!

[angelsandarsenic]

MASTERLIST OF FICS PT 2

The Magnus Archives/The Magnus Protocol

--MAG24: Dreamscape

Summary: Statement of Zoe Elizabeth, regarding her roommate sleeping. Statement given November 3rd, 2011. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute

Status: Completed Words: 2,982

--MAG31: Total Collapse

Summary: Statement of Toby Carmen, regarding an unusual firefighting incident. Statement given August 12th, 2009. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Draft

--MAG59: Alice, Alice

Summary: Statement of Alice--or possibly Leanne Torrance--regarding her...sanity. Statement given March 29th, 2000. Recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Draft

--MAG50: Time of Death

Summary: Statement of Ciaran Elsen, regarding his death. Statement given May 21st, 2005. Recording by Gertrude Robinson, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute

Status: Completed Words: 2,899

--Blurbs and Bits Regarding James and Elias

Summary: James Hawking works as the head of Artefact Storage in The Magnus Institute, London. He doesn't really know what goes on downstairs, and frankly, he doesn't think he wants to. Not after...the worms. He doesn't need to know. His department is his own little world; even if Sasha isn't Sasha anymore, even if Tim mysteriously dies, even if Jon is...Jon, and suddenly starts needing way more help than the Archives have ever requested in the past, even if everything is...changing. Oh, and sometimes he fucks his boss.

Status: In progress Pairing: Elias/oc Words: 1,407

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Super Mario Bros Universe

--Evil Turtle Rehabilitation Center

Summary: The aftermath of the Mario Movie. Mario is down bad, Peach has an actual pet turtle and Bowser and Luigi are...figuring things out

Status: In Progress Words: 757

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Assassination Classroom

Shoot for the Stars

Summary: Reyna Cameron transferred to Kunugigaoka Academy in Japan part way through her third year of school at her parents' insistence that she "get her life together" in a disciplined, rigorous environment. For the headstrong, brilliant under-achiever, it didn't exactly go as her parents had planned. Then surprisingly, by getting sent down to E-Class at the start of the next year, Reyna might actually find everything she needs. ——— Shameless OC insert fanfic because Assassination Classroom will always be near and dear to my heart. Minor Karma and Asano shipping, but really we're just having fun with it.

Status: In Progress Words: 32,700 Pairings: Karma/OC and Asano/OC

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Demon Slayer

Queen

Summary: “You could be ready for Final Selection quickly. If you can make it within the year, I’ll be waiting for you.”

It was probably supposed to be chivalrous, or kind. You narrowed your eyes. “What was your name again? Tengen?” You sheathed the sword at your hip. “I don’t need you to wait for me. I’ll catch up.”

———

On a mission for the Demon Slayer Corps not a year after his Final Selection, Uzui Tengen meets the most flashy infuriating girl, who, he hates to admit it, saved his ass against a demon. A girl who wasn’t even a demon slayer!

Status: In Progress Pairing: Rivals to lovers, young!Tengen x female reader

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One Piece

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Harry Potter

but listen- fuck jkr

The Wandmaker’s Apprentice

Summary: An exploration of worldbuilding and magic systems with blatant disregard for what terfs declare as canon. If I don't get human rights, you don't get literary rights. Also some canon compliant plot

Status: draft

[beautifulblooms]

Masterlist

Marvel

The Bond of Three-Makkari x Druig x Male! Reader

Loki General Headcanons

Convincing-Tony Stark x Male! Reader

Lord Of The Rings

Legolas Greenleaf General Headcanons--Part 1, Part 2

The Arcana

Muriel General Headcanons

Cuddling with Julian, Lucio, and Muriel as a poly Quadrouple

Cooking With Julian, Lucio, and Muriel poly headcanons

Legend of Zelda (Breath of the Wild)

Prince Sidon General Headcanons

Link General Headcanons (Hylian Reader)

Prince Sidon With a Narcoleptic Boyfriend Headcanons

Lazy Mornings with Prince Sidon Headcanons

Sidon Prompt Drabble, 1A+3A, Male Reader

Sidon Proposing to a Hylian Gone Wrong Headcanons

Prince Sidon With a Clingy!Male!Reader Headcanons

Jujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori x Male! Reader Headcanons

My Hero Academia

Shouta Aizawa General Headcanons

A Long Night Paid Off-Shouta Aizawa x Male!Reader

Dating Young Shouta Aizawa Headcanons

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Tengen Uzui General Headcanons

Stranger Things

Reunited-Eddie Munson x Male! Reader

Eddie Munson General Headcanons

Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington (Separate) with a Plushy Obsessed Partner Headcanons/Drabble

Eddie Munson x Shy!Alt!Bf Headcanons

Let Me Spoil You Darlin’ - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

I Was Never the Same After I Saw You - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Eddie Munson x Male!Reader drabble, we're blaming @eddieverse

What a Surprise That Was - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Would You Still Love Me if I was a Worm - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

You're Still My Eddie - Kas the Bloodyfist!Eddie x Male!Reader

Hawkins' Pretty Boy - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Oh...oh - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

You're My Everything - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

I Fucked Your Mom Jason - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Take Him Back, Please - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

How Could You Do This to Me? - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

I Bite My Tongue, It’s a Bad Habit - Steddie + Male!Reader angst

I Bite My Tongue, It's a Bad Habit (sad ending/part 2) - Steddie + Male!Reader

The Bane of My Existence, and the Object of All My Desires - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader (Happy ending to I Bite My Tongue It's a Bad Habit)

Waterpark Days with Steve and Eddie Headcanons, FTM Reader

You’re Not Alone Here Babe - Steve Harrington x Male!Byers!Reader

Fuck the Mirror - Eddie Munson x FTM!Reader

What the Fuck - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Angst Tidbit - Steddie + Male!Reader

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU RUNNING - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Can Ya Hear Me? - Eddie Munson x HardOfHearing!Male!Reader

Because Spoiling You is My Favorite Hobby - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Together Forever, Right? - 001/Henry Creel x Male!Reader

Handsome Boyfriend - Eddie Munson x FTM!Reader

Oh Eddie Baby Won't You Come to My Arms Tonight? - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

I Never Die Bitch - Implied Eddie Munson x Male!Reader + Steve simping like a true bisexual

We're Bloopin'! - Kas!Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Aye Aye Captain! - Steve Harrington x Male!Reader

Don't Touch That! - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Do Me Too! - Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

You Two are so Different - Eddie Munson x HargroveTwin!Male!Reader

Genshin Impact

Kaeya Alberich General Headcanons

Venti and Diluc General Headcanons

Cooking with Thoma Headcanons

Xiao General Headcanons

Avatar (James Cameron)

Neteyam x Male reader headcanons

Jake Sully x Male Reader Headcanons

One of the People - Avatar! Jake Sully x Avatar! Male! Reader

Dual Love - Neteyam x Ao’nung x Male! Metkayina! Reader

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Newt Scamander headcanons, meeting him as a masc Hogwarts student

Resident Evil

Leon S. Kennedy Headcanons+Drabble

CoD: MW2

141 drabbles with Male! Sergeant reader

Ghost and Konig music Headcanons

If I was a worm... - Konig and Ghost x male! reader headcanons

Nom nom - Simon "Ghost" Riley x John "Soap" Mactavish x Male! Sergeant! Reader headcanons + Drabble

Never Gave Me Time of Day, My Dear - Simon "Ghost" Riley x John "Soap" MacTavish (implied) + Male! Segreant! Reader

Konig x Male! Reader headcanons

Cause I'm Mister Brightside - König x Horangi + male! Reader (unrequited love)

What do you want from McDonalds? - Father figure! Price + Gn! Reader

Throwing cheese at Konig like he's a cat, sheer crack

I shine only with the light you gave me - Denied! Father figure! Price + Male! Sergeant! reader

A Love Gone in the Wind - Ghost x Rejected! GN reader

Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spiderverse

Happy Father's Day - Miguel + kind of adopted male reader

Hey~ - Miguel O'Hara x secret boyfriend! Male! reader

Hey Mamas - Miguel x male! Reader headcanons + drabble

Callate... - Miguel O'Hara x GN! Reader headcanons +drabble

My Nuisance - Miguel O'Hara x Male! Reader headcanons + drabble

Too Late to be a Hero - Hobie Brown x Male! Reader

Baldurs Gate 3

[davidcameron]

We find David Cameron, in media res, on the phone with his lawyer. “How bad is it? Tell me honestly,” David Cameron is saying. As he waits for his response, David Cameron leans his free hand on his kitchen counter and gazes - his eyes like two 7” copies (on white wax with a black label) of James Blunt’s ‘Goodbye My Lover’, spinning and declaiming their song - at a magpie on his elegant lawn, his lawn whose rich greenness shines ectoplasmically such that the sky over David Cameron’s house (unlike that of his neighbours) is teal-tinged, greenish. The magpie is nibbling at the grass, and presently it wrenches a worm from the soil with the same plucking action as David Cameron’s own thumb and forefinger might pull out a large, truculent, spring onion shaped nose hair. As he listens to his lawyer vacillate between this might happen, that could happen, should have informed him earlier, should not have put that in the calendar, etcetera, et bloody cetera, David Cameron thinks to himself that the birds of the air, like the insects of the earth, do not remonstrate with each other over their previous actions, nor do they disgorge, as though they had been fed with a particularly potent emetic, the details of what had been assumed to be private conversations into whatever passes (in the bird world, the insect world) for a public sphere. The magpie flies away, and David Cameron follows its trajectory with his eyes until it passes beyond the window frame.

Just as his lawyer is outlining what he oughtn’t to be saying in any public arena, David Cameron interrupts him to say, “I’m like the worm. I am that worm I just saw being plucked from the earth. I am that worm because surely the worm feels the presence of the bird above it, surely it can sense some slight change in the air, some sound which gives it warning and, in that moment, can choose to burrow downwards and away from danger. But it did not. And I am that worm because there were moments when I instinctively sensed the stupidity of the decisions I was making, and I had the opportunity to turn away from them and not do anything, but I still made those decisions, still picked up the phone. And now afterwards I don’t recognise or understand the person that did those things, I can’t comprehend what I was thinking or what I was doing. I am the worm because I didn’t turn away and now I’m in its beak. I’m out of the soil and I’m in the air.” David Cameron takes a breath, but his lawyer does not interject, there is only the thin sound of static on the line.

“Listen,” David Cameron continues, “I will not do any - what do they call it? - porridge, I’m not doing that, okay? Okay? I won’t do that.” His lawyer begins speaking, very hesitantly and slowly, when David Cameron’s eye is caught by a dark shape approaching the kitchen window in front of him. Instinctively, he ducks out of the way of the object, which careens into the glass and falls out of sight. His lawyer still saying stuff like: well let’s wait and see what the inquiry recommends first and foremost, no guarantees, little appetite for punishing this kind of thing, David Cameron puts the phone down on the counter and goes outside. At the bottom of the wall below the window is the corpse of a magpie, hunched into itself, and, crawling slowly away from it, wounded but indomitable, crawling with what one might - were one inclined, as David Cameron is, towards poetry - call a regal insouciance, is a worm, crawling, of course, back toward the same hole from whence it was, moments previously, unceremoniously plucked, back into the black earth.

[halscavendish-moved]

I was tagged by my love, cossette @jostenminyards

nickname: tay, also people call me james at work bc my id badge was misprinted for the first week with the name james and it stuck  zodiac: aries height: 5′6″ 1/2  hogwarts house: i fall between hufflepuff and slytherin (both of these are hard to type while intoxicated btw)x last thing I googled: how to get to graffiti alley in toronto bc my mother loves rick mercer (shout out to canadians)  songs stuck in my head: waterloo by ABBA number of followers: just over 600 amount of sleep: i am v grumpy if i don’t get at least 7 hours dream job: help people out in a better way than how i help them now, work with youths  wearing: an old camp t-shirt and jean shorts favourite song: ahh this is too hard, at the moment it’s beneath the clouds of pompeii by bear’s den favourite instrument: i like to listen to the piano and the only instrument i can play is the ukulele aesthetic: aiming for hot dyke TA vibes always  favourite author: nope, hate this, maybe fredrik backman but also could be SO MANY others this is a can of worms  favourite animal: SHARKS random: I have a shark tattoo on my left arm and his name is Earl, I love him

tagging: @biancas-diangelos @harry-cameron @masseffects @whitehousetrio and anyone else who wants to just tag me and say i tagged you

[cam--quinn]

So your confidence is quiet                To them quiet looks like weakness                But you don't have to fight it               'Cause you're strong enough to win without a war

Every heart has a rhythm               Let yours beat out so loudly               That everyone can hear it Yeah, I promise you don't need to hide it anymore               Oh, and never be afraid of doing something different               Dare to be something more

[full biography]

BASIC INFORMATION

Full Name: Camille Leanna Quinn.

Alias: Cameron Lee Quinn.

Nickname(s): Cam. Cameron. 

Age: 30.

Birthday: October 31st. 

Hometown: Baberton.

Current Location: Baberton.

Orientation: Pansexual -- not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.

Religion: Complicated.

Political Affiliation: Who is going to make the world suck less?

Occupation: Freelance Artist.

Living Arrangements: She lives in a one bedroom studio apartment.

Language(s) Spoken: French and English.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Face Claim: Bex Taylor Klaus.

Hair Colour: Varies.

Eye Colour: Blue.

Height||Weight: 5′3.|| 108lbs.

Tattoos/Piercings: Maybe? [x] [x] || Ear Lobes, Cartilage, Occasionally Nose.

Clothing Style: Jeans and Button Ups. Blazers. Hats. 

Physical Imperfections: “Should I mention my lady parts?”

Usual Expression||First Impression: Cam is not an easy person to warm up to. In fact, he can be quite angry and has a resting bitch face.

HEALTH

Physical Ailments: “Should I mention my lady parts, again?”

Neurological Conditions: Gender Dysphoria -- the distress a person feels due to a mismatch between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth.

Allergies: Lactose Intolerance, Gluten “...It sucks. I ignore it.”

Sleeping Habits: “The early bird gets the worm, because of their major rage from being woke up. There seriously can not be such a thing as a morning person.” In bed by five a.m. Awake by one p.m.

Eating Habits: FOOOODDDDD! All of it! 

Exercise Habits: “Running is supposed to be great for stress, but boxing and weight lifting seems to suit me much better.”

Emotional Stability: 3 -- There is a lot of pint up rage in that tiny little body. Plus the simple dysphoria that often leads to more emotional breakdowns. 

Sociability: Oof. Much prefers to be alone. Less likelihood of someone pissing him off. 

Addictions: Hm... not really. 

Drug Use: Yes, and no. Yes, because of the hormones and devil’s lettuce, but nothing to hard core. 

Alcohol Use: Yes, Corona. 

FAMILY / RELATIONSHIPS

Father: James Quinn + not even remotely great. Camille acted out to get his attention, he shoved her aside. 

Mother: Catherine Quinn + perhaps their relationship might have been better if Cam could have played the perfect daughter, but she couldn’t because she never felt like a girl.

Sibling(s): Melissa Berges - Quinn

Other: Unknown.

Significant Other: Um... no.

Children: Um... still no.

Pet(s): Tinkerbell (Rottweiller) 

Previous Relationships: Insignificant

[alaspoorwallace]

OCTOBER — YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT

[...] [DFW, Infinite Jest, 8c]

The Subject after Bain's sister but before the one just before this one, with the Ambush scent and the hearts over i 's, the previous Subject had been a sallowly pretty Arizona State developmental psychology grad student with two kids and outrageous alimony and penchants for sharp jewelry, refrigerated chocolate, InterLace educational cartridges, and professional athletes who thrashed in their sleep. Not real bright — she thought the figure he'd trace without thinking on her bare flank after sex was the numeral 8, to give you an idea. Their last morning together, right before he'd mailed her child an expensive toy and then had his phone number changed, he'd awakened from a night of horror-show dreams — woke up with an abrupt fetal spasm, unrefreshed and benighted of soul, his eyes wobbling and his wet silhouette on the bottom sheet like a coroner's chalk outline — he woke to find the Subject up and sitting up against the reading pillow, wearing his sleeveless Academy sweatshirt and sipping hazelnut espresso and watching, on the cartridge-viewing system that occupied half the bedroom's south wall, something horrific called 'INTERLACE EDUCATIONAL CARTRIDGES IN CONJUNCTION WITH CBC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING MATRIX PRESENTS SCHIZOPHRENIA: MIND OR BODY?' and had had to lie there, moist and paralyzed, curled fetal on his own sweat-shadow, and watch on the viewer a pale young guy about Hal's age, with copper stubble and a red cowlick and flat blank affectless black doll's eyes, stare into space stage-left while a brisk Albertan voiceover explained that Fenton here was a dyed-in-the-wool paranoid schizophrenic who believed that radioactive fluids were invading his skull and that hugely complex high-tech-type machines had been specially designed and programmed to pursue him without cease until they caught him and made brutal sport of him and buried him alive. It was an old late-millennial CBC public-interest Canadian news documentary, digitally sharpened and redisseminated under the Inter-Lace imprimatur — InterLace could get kind of seedy and low-rent during early-morning off-hours, in terms of Spontaneous Disseminations. And so but since the old CBC documentary's thesis was turning out pretty clearly to be SCHIZOPHRENIA: BODY, the voiceover evinced great clipped good cheer as it explained that well, yes, poor old Fenton here was more or less hopeless as an extra-institutional functioning unit, but that, on the up-side, science could at least give his existence some sort of meaning by studying him very carefully to help learn how schizophrenia manifested itself in the human body's brain . . . that, in other words, with the aid of cutting-edge Positron-Emission Topography or 'P.E.T.' technology (since supplanted wholly by Invasive Digitals, Orin hears the developmental psychology graduate student mutter to herself, watching rapt over her cup, unaware that Orin's paralytically awake), they could scan and study how different parts of poor old Fenton's dysfunctional brain emitted positrons in a whole different topography than your average hale and hearty nondelusional God-fearing Albertan's brain, advancing science by injecting test-subject Fenton here with a special blood-brain-barrier-penetrating radioactive dye and then sticking him in the rotating body-sized receptacle of a P.E.T. Scanner — on the viewer, it's an enormous gray-metal machine that looks like something co-designed by James Cameron and Fritz Lang, and now have a look at this Fenton fellow's eyes as he starts to get the gist of what the voiceover's saying — and in a terse old Public-TV cut they now showed subject Fenton in five-point canvas restraints whipping his copper-haired head from side to side as guys in mint-green surgical masks and caps inject him with radioactive fluids through a turkey-baster-sized syringe, then good old Fenton's eyes bugging out in total foreseen horror as he's rolled toward the huge gray P.E.T. device and slid like an unrisen loaf into the thing's open maw until only his decay-colored sneakers are in view, and the body-sized receptacle rotates the test-subject counterclockwise, with brutal speed, so that the old sneakers point up and then left and then down and then right and then up, faster and faster, the machine's blurps and tweets not even coming close to covering Fenton's entombed howls as his worst delusional fears came true in digital stereo and you could hear the last surviving bits of his functional dye-permeated mind being screamed out of him for all time as the viewer digitally superimposed an image of Fenton's ember-red and neutron-blue brain in the lower-right corner, where InterLace's Time/Temp functions usually appear, and the brisk voiceover gave capsule histories of first paranoid schizophrenia and then P.E.T. With Orin lying there slit-eyed, wet and neuralgic with A.M. dread, wishing the Subject would put her own clothes and sharp jewelry on and take the rest of her Töblerone out of the freezer and go, so he could go to the bathroom and get yesterday's asphyxiated roaches into an E.W.D. dumpster before the dumpster’s all filled for the day, and decide what kind of expensive present to mail the Subject's kid. And then the matter of the dead bird, out of nowhere. And then news of pressure from the AZ Cardinal administration to cooperate with some sort of insipid-type personality-profile series of interviews with some profiler from Moment magazine, with personal backgroundish questions to be answered in some blandly sincere team-PR way, the unexamined stress of which drives him to start calling Hallie again, reopen that whole Pandora's box of worms. Orin also shaves in the shower, face red with heat, wreathed in steam, by feel, shaving upward, with south-to-north strokes, as he was taught.

[DFW, Infinite Jest, 8d] [End of the chapter October - Y.D.A.U. | next chapter’s incipit is labeled DFW, Infinite Jest, 9a]

[nstaaf-book]

The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous - Joseph Henrich

[franzanth]

Are u familiar with Stephen J Gould's concept of Decimation? I'd love to see what u think abt it!! seeing u recreate so many dead stuff brought this phenomenon to mind

I’ve heard of it but not overly familiar. But if I get this right, he basically hypothesized that extinction happens and puts evolution through filters. That means, lots of the weird critters in the past must have represented body plans from lineages that are long gone and don’t fit anywhere in our current tree of life, correct?

I believe he originally referred to Burgess Shale’s fauna, which at that time, was full of unidentified weird critters like upside-down spiky worms and giant murdershrimps (which turned out not to be a shrimp). But since then, many weirdos, whether from Burgess Shale or not, have been successfully identified.

For example! Some pre-Cambrian stuffs are downright WTF, but some researchers I’ve talked to said that Haootia might be an early cnidarian. Like, almost jellyfish, but not quite jellyfish. Yeah this is what happens when I try to make jellies in a party hat instead of a store-bought mold.

Then there are lots of weird, still puzzling critters like Tullimonstrum, which was in 2016 claimed to be a fish then 2017 said lolnope.

“Don’t even get me started on tullimonstrum,” said Thomas Clements, the guy who wrote the 2016 paper when I casually mentioned it in our chat.

He then followed up with this emoji:

Yeah, it’s quite a trigger for some. Pls tag your Tullimonstrum posts accordingly.

There’s also Nectocaris, which might be a shrimp or a squid, depending on who you’re talking to (it might start a war, maybe better not talk about Nectocaris).

A squid? src

or a shrimp? src

Even today, there are lots of outlier critters that make me go FULL CAPSLOCK WHAT THE HELL. Even well-studied groups can still produce hellspawns that look like a bastard child from their secret affair with critters from James Cameron’s AVATAR.

Like, you know what sea cucumbers normally look like, right?

Behold, Pelagothuria, also a sea cucumber.

Excuse me that’s not what my cucumbers look like.

And you know what crustaceans normally are like, yeah? Crabs and shrimps and stuffs. They all look the same, yeah?

Last night @cyan-biologist sent me this unholy abomination that is a parasitic crustacean (Sphyrion lumpi, a copepod to be precise).

Like how in the hell is that a shrimp’s cousin. Where is the head. Where did the feetsies go. How can I eat that. Let me speak to the manager.

Ok I’ve gone off-tangent here but in short, I think evolution tends to produce wacky things that throw our primate brains off-guard and screw up our obsession with putting things in neat boxes.

But luckily we’re getting more data and getting better at identifying things so… maybe in the future we’ll get to know our long lost weird cousins better.

This has been an emotional roller coaster ride for me I like weird critters ok.

[upperdivisionfangirl]

I keep seeing things about how Battle Angel Alita led to ABO as like a butterfly or domino effect thing and I keep contemplating an essay about how it was less that and more of the popularity of werewolf/shapeshifter fucking and bestiality and that James Cameron’s Dark Angel was only tangental to all the ways mpreg fandom, abnormal dick fandom, and Mech’s 1970s pack dynamics ideas all coalesced and peaked in not Wincest but J2 fandom because of J2’s dogs and turned into proto ABO AU. But then I would have to open the can of worms that is my past fandom history and I don’t know if my mental health in 2021 can take that.

[liesxetxsecrets]

╭┄━┄━┄━┄╮𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕀 𝕒𝕞 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖. ╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮B A S I C. 

┊  │ Full Name: Camille Leanna Quinn ┊  │ Nickname(s): Cameron Lee Quinn + Cam  ┊  │ Age: 31 ┊  │ Birthday: 31.10.89 ┊  │ Hometown: Baberton. ┊  │ Current Location: Baberton ┊  │ Orientation: Bisexual ┊  │ Religion: Complicated ┊  │ Occupation: Freelance Artist + Works at the Between the Lines ┊  │ Living Arrangements: He lives in a one bedroom studio apartment. ┊  │ Language(s) Spoken: English + French

╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮P H Y S I C A L.

┊  │Face Claim: Bex Taylor Klaus ┊  │Hair Colour: Varies ┊  │ Eye Colour: Blue. ┊  │ Height||Weight: 5′3″|| 7.9 stones. ┊  │ Tattoos||Piercings: Maybe? [x] [x] || Ear Lobes, Cartilage, Nose. ╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮H E A L T H.

┊  │ Physical Ailments: “Should I mention my lady parts again?” ┊  │ Neurological Conditions:  Gender Dysphoria – the distress a person feels due to a mismatch between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. ┊  │ Allergies: Lactose Intolerance, Gluten “…It sucks. I ignore it.”. ┊  │ Sleeping Habits: “The early bird gets the worm, because of their major rage from being woke up. There seriously can not be such a thing as a morning person.” In bed by five a.m. Awake by one p.m. ┊  │ Eating Habits: FOOOOOODDDDDD! All of it! ┊  │ Exercise Habits: “Running is supposed to be great for stress, but boxing and weight lifting seems to suit me much better.” ┊  │ Sociability: Oof. Much prefers to be alone. Less likelihood of someone pissing him off. ┊  │ Addictions:  Hm, not really. ┊  │ Drug Use: Yes and no. Yes, because of the hormones and devil’s lettuce, but nothing hard core. He also dabbles in hormones from the street because a doctor fear. ┊  │ Alcohol Use:  Yes, Corona.

╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮F A M I L Y.

┊  │ Father: James Quinn + not even remotely great. Camille acted out to get his attention, he shoved him aside. ┊  │Mother: Catherine Quinn + perhaps their relationship might have been better if Cam could have played the perfect daughter, but he couldn’t because he never felt like a girl. ┊  │ Sibling(s): Melissa Berges - Quinn ┊  │ Other: ┊  │ Significant Other(s): Um... no. ┊  │ Children: Um... even bigger no. ┊  │ Pet(s): Tinkerbell (Rottweiller)  ┊  │ Exes: Insignificant.

╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮T A G D R O P. ┊  │ bio --  # :cam quinn bio: ┊  │ photos --  # :cam photos: ┊  │ videos -- # :cam videos: ┊  │ interactions -- # :cam interactions:  # :camxname connect: ┊  │ muse --  # :everything cam:

╭┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━┄━╮B I O.

┊  │  C L I C K  H E R E  F O R  M O R E  I N F O

[majingojira]

120 Years, 120 Monsters, Days 20-21

Well, if I have fewer than 5 late/missed days, I’ll consider it a success.

Damn Executive Function disabilities . . .

Anyway, under the cut is Hair Splitting, Tiny Terrors, and unassuming evils.

73) Aliens (1986) - Xenomorph Queen

Yeah, this is one of those splitting hair moments, but the Queen is a step above and beyond the simple alien drone we’ve seen in the past.   Larger, more powerful, and able to make more of the eggs on her own, the queen is also intelligent.  The other aliens were smart as well, but the scene of Ripley ‘communicating’ basic concepts to the Queen is chilling and tense.  

Mostly because of the whole “Motherhood” theme of the film (at least in the director’s cut) which the Queen is a dark mirror for.

There were a lot of directions they could have gone within an Alien sequel, but the creation of a “Queen” was one of the best they could have gone with.  That she’s as big as a Tyrannosaurid just makes it more fun.  Tall enough to tower over others, but small enough to squeeze through the halls and get her victims.  

Plus she’s one of the best practical effects I’ve ever seen. 

74)   Critters  (1986) -  Critters

Of all the Gremlins knockoffs, this is the only one worth a damn.  And it’s a pretty nice creature feature in its own right. Simple mouths with tiny bodies, they roll around to move fast and have poisonous quills they can shoot out at people.  Their high speed allows these land-piranhas to be extremely deadly, which makes the low body count of the movie surprising.  They have a bit of the cartoonish nature of the Gremlins, but their voracious carnivory and their ability to grow large once they consume enough adds to their threat.  

75)   Night of the Creeps (1986) -  "Creeps"

There’s a lot of ways to make zombies. The Creeps has alien slugs that eat brains (see? I told you it was a thing now) to reproduce as the source and it works surprisingly well.  These beings are aliens, possibly an escaped bioweapon, that finds their way to earth and continue their reproductive actions.  

It goes like this: the host dives into a creature with a large enough brain (which includes dogs and cats!), be it alive or dead.  There, it drives the entity to kill others.  As long as there is enough meat on their bones, they can animate the body.  In the head, they eat brain matter and reproduce.  Once they reach capacity, the head of the zombie explodes, and the creeps leap out to the nearest new host to continue the cycle again.  

So, yeah, shooting them in the head will stop the zombies, but the worms will jump out mostly unharmed and seek new hosts, which can include the hero who blasted them!  

Very nasty for a ‘beat-able’ zombie.  These aren’t Trioxin horrors, but damn close.  

76)   The Fly  (1986) – The Fly

Probably the most disgusting movie on the list!  

The remake of the fly is memorable for the slow, ‘degenerative’ transformation of Seth Brundle into a “Brundle-Fly” is terrifying to behold.  It’s slow, tempting, and disgusting.  It goes into all sort of sticky details, like how flies basically vomit acid in order to dissolve food before slurping it up and just typing that up while remembering it was enough to make me feel a little sick.  

A lot has been written on this, with a common theme of comparing it to the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and how that affected people.  

It has some bite to it.  

Sorry, I can’t do much more than this.  Aside from mentioning how badly the line “Be afraid.  Be very afraid.” has aged.   It got my entire “Horror Cinema” class to burst out into laughter when it happened.  

77)   Predator (1987) – Yaut'ja

Predator works, I think, because it’s two movies.  The first movie is a standard 80s actioner, with genre mainstays like Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Carl Weathers, and of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The Predator shows up, and it becomes a Slasher movie. But instead of idiot teenagers or cutie co-eds.  It’s badasses this horror hunts.

Armed with its reptilian strength and size (more than Arnold!), and advanced alien technology ranging from plasma blasters and invisibility, to alien metal blades and an atomic self-destruct, it is more than a match for all but the cleverest and strongest of foes.  No wonder it took hold so easily.  

Plus that wonderful face is iconic on its own.  Created by Stan Winston, but with input from James Cameron, it really lives up to Arnold’s description of it.  

I also love how dismissive it is of humans. Sure, we’re sentient, but to the Yaut’ja, humans are nothing more than a dangerous animal like a lion is to us.

Gotta love Aliens who are above us in the worst ways possible.  

78)   Evil Dead II (1987) – Deadites

There are horror comedies, and then there’s splatstick, where the gore becomes so diffuse it becomes ridiculous.  Evil Dead II is the epitome of splatstick.

The Deadites, or Kandarian Demons, are one of my favorite ‘spirit’ monsters because once they take solid form, they really become something amazing.  There’s so much to love about these demons and their gleeful torment of Ash and the others in the cabin.  They aren’t out to kill specifically, they’re out to make people suffer.

And as Mel Brooks once said: “Comedy is when it happens to you, tragedy is when it happens to me.”

79)   Hellraiser (1987) – Pinhead & The Cenobites

The Cenobites make it on the list even though I honestly don’t like the film they are in.  Any of them.  I’m not one who likes gore for gore’s sake, and a lot of the movie is that.  But the Cenobites, and Pinhead in particular, are just so visually striking that I couldn’t help but include them.  

As a concept alone, they are fascinating.  BDSM enthusiasts write large.  Creatures who conflate pain and pleasure with little to no concept of life or death beyond their quest, and the ‘gifts’ they share with others.  Their perspective is alien enough for what they are, and the line “We will tear your soul apart” and it’s delivery are iconic in its own right.  

Still, I can’t help but think that even with all the death, murder, and mutilation, the Cenobites are still a better representation of BDSM cultures than 50 Shades of Gray.  

80)   Child's Play (1988) – Chucky

Probably the mouthiest monster on the list, if not for Freddy.  Charles Lee Ray/Chucky is the most iconic killer doll and probably because of A) how low key the original film was, and B) how Extreme they took it afterward.  I mean, the first one is more a psychological thriller where a woman questions her sanity before the big reveal that Chucky is, well, Chucky, so the film loses some impact if you know that the evil doll is indeed an evil doll.  

But after that, they just ran with the goofiness of the concept and got pretty creative with the kills when they could.  But it was the smart mouth that really sold Chucky for me.  It gradually grew a self-awareness of itself.  It’s like they eventually sat down and said: “This is a series about a killer doll, we’re allowed to be a little goofy.”  

Whether they’ve gone too far with that is another question entirely.  Still, this is THE killer doll of cinema.  So he has a spot on the list.  

[esonetwork]

My Battery Is Low and It's Getting Dark - Rusted Robot 234

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My Battery Is Low and It's Getting Dark - Rusted Robot 234

My battery is low and it’s getting dark are the saddest words ever uttered by a robot. This episode is dedicated to the longevity and importance of Opportunity, the Mars rover that lived 14 years beyond its desgned life span. The success of the mission cannot be underplayed.

Terminator Dark Fate – the 6th film in the Terminator franchise stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s a female centric story that brings the series in a bold new direction according to producer James Cameron.

Tolkien – we play the trailer and talk about the creator of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. The bio-pic film is coming to theatres on May 10.

Transparent solar panels are coming to a building or vehicle near you. This is another cool story about people trying to save the world for the future of humanity.

NASA plans to return to the moon within the next decade. They are currently looking at designs for human lunar landers, and have plans to reach out to Mars after setting up a permanent human base on the moon.

Mars One Ventures AG declares bankruptcy. The Dutch firm was planning on taking humans to Mars on a one way mission to populate the planet. This is no longer happening. The company had no money and was going to film reality shows following the crew’s prep. Sponsors were to be the financial backers.

Brave New World – The USA network has a 10 episode first season TV adaptation in the works.

Frozen 2 is coming. Get ready for a whole new load of merchandise tie-ins and ear worm songs.

Master Of The Universe – the Sony movie will start filming in July in Prague. They’ve been trying to adapt the He-Man cartoon into a film since 2009.

Nickelodeon is close to a deal with CBS and Alex Kurtzman to get a child-centric Star Trek cartoon on the air.

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – After the success of the comic book crossover series, the powers that be are developing an animated movie where the turtles will meet and team up with Batman.

Amber Alert drama – we talk about the fall out from the midnight texts the people of Ontario received.

Valentines Day, Indian snacks, and Klingons on Parade.

This week’s podcast promo: We Podcast and We Know Things.

[supercultshow]

Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “James Cameron” with a minor in “X-Ratings”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Galaxy of Terror or as I like to call it, “Just another day at the office for Supercult Saint and B-Movie King, Roger Corman!

Hey, did you know that Galaxy of Terror was heavily inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien? I mean it makes sense. Both films are about a crew of astronauts who find a horrific secret on a mysterious alien planet and are pursued by nightmarish forces. The only difference is that in Galaxy of Terror is sort of going off of this idea that all the monsters are sort of kind of manifestations of the different character’s fears, and Alien is, well, an alien.

Back in the days of movie posters that looked like Iron Maiden Album covers.

Don’t worry guys, mustachioed Han Solo is here to save the day!

Sid Haig didn’t think the dialogue in the script matched the character of Quuhod, so he asked Roger Corman if he could play Quuhod as a near mute instead. Corman agreed, and let Haig portray Quuhod with almost no dialogue. Haig only says a single line in the whole movie.

Have you thought about your future? I want to say one word to you. Just on word… Hexagons.

How do you tell sci-fi horror from sci-fi adventure? Whether or not there’s music or sci-fi ambiance in the establishing shots.

Everybody got their playmobile light up the night backpacks? Sweet. Onward to adventure!

Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?

Yeah, I know you’re having a bad day right now but did you know that the walls of the spaceship, the “Quest”, were made out of McDonald’s takeout cartons? Neat huh!

A lot of the special effects shots involving live actors combined with matte paintings and miniatures, were done in camera.

The infamous giant worm was nicknamed “Maggie the maggot” by the crew.

Did you also know that Galaxy of Terror was one of James Cameron’s earliest film jobs where he served as Production Designer and Second Unit Director? Cameron was a favorite of Corman’s because he had a knack for finding cheap solutions to weird problems, like getting maggots to squirm on command by putting them on a metal plate and then running a low electric current through the plate on cue. Later James Cameron would direct the sequel to Alien, Aliens, which has a very similar look and feel to Galaxy of Terror. Funny how this stuff plays out, huh?

*Cough! Cough!*

Ugh, excuse me… I think my left leg is being digested…

You might be wondering why I’m wet, naked down to my socks, and why it’s so dark. Well, that’s because while reviewing this film I was devoured by a monstrous embodiment of someone’s deepest, darkest fears. And no, they’re not my fears. I have Luposlipaphobia, which is the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. I mean, yeah I’m in my socks and yeah the inside of this tentacle worm thing is as slippery as a newly waxed floor, but you don’t get points for partial credit in my book. Yeah, this gross worm thing I’m in is supposed to be someone’s fear of sexuality or something.

Aww sweet! They’ve got Tempest arcade in the future!

Gmork from Never Ending Story? Is that you?

Pew pew!

You know there was a really controversial scene in Galaxy of Terror just like this actually. Originally the scene was just going to be this giant maggot that strips and consumes a topless Taaffee O’Connell, who’s IMDB bio describes her as “gorgeously buxom and curvaceous blonde bombshell”. However, Corman promised some financial backers a sex scene involving O’Connel, so to solve the problem he just combined the two ideas in to a fight with a monster of pure id that would strip, rape, and force her to orgasm so hard she dies. Several cast and crew arguments, body doubles, and 12-foot worm costumes later and the film had an X-rating. The final cut got it down to an R-rating, but the scene is still very risqué and Galaxy of Terror was still banned outright in some countries upon release.

Now of course this and the fact that Roger Corman makes some of the best bad films out there means that Galaxy of Terror, despite its horrible reviews, 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, and moderately successful $4 million box office from a $1.8 million budget, is still revered as a cult classic by B-movie aficionados. It’s so nice to watch a film that is legitimately cult here at Supercult! This is going to be a great one!

Wait…did you hear that. That sounds like…timber wolves. That’s a close one. This would be really scary if there was a kitchen table nearby…

*turns to see a kitchen table right behind him*

OH NOOOOO! SUPERCULT WEST IS PROUD TO PRESENT, GALAXY OF TERROR!

  Galaxy of Terror Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “James Cameron” with a minor in “X-Ratings”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Galaxy of Terror or as I like to call it, “Just another day at the office for Supercult Saint and B-Movie King, Roger Corman!