#preferiti del 2016

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: The Five-Factor Model of Personality

Culture is transmitted to people through language, as well as through social norms which establish acceptable and unacceptable behaviors which are then rewarded or punished (Henrich, 2016; Triandis & Suh, 2002).

With an increased understanding of cultural learning, psychologists have become interested in the role of culture in understanding personality.

The 5 Personality Traits According to this Model

OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE

Refers to a person's imagination, feelings, actions, ideas

LOW score: More likely to be practical, conventional, prefer routine

HIGH score: More likely to be curious, have a wide range of interests, be independent

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

Competence, self-discipline, thoughtfulness, goal-driven

LOW: Impulsive, careless, disorganized

HIGH: Hardworking, dependable, organized

EXTROVERSION

Sociability, assertiveness, emotional expression

LOW: Quiet, reserved, withdrawn

HIGH: Outgoing, warm, seeks adventure

AGREEABLENESS

Cooperative, trustworthy, good-natured

LOW: Critical, uncooperative, suspicious

HIGH: Helpful, trusting, empathetic

NEUROTICISM

Tendency toward unstable emotions

LOW: Calm, even-tempered, secure

HIGH: Anxious, unhappy, prone to negative emotions

Applicability

The idea that personality can be described and explained by five traits (OCEAN) has important implications, as does the fact that most personality tests were constructed and initially tested in Western countries.

Western ideas about personality may not apply to other cultures (Benet-Martinez & Oishi, 2008).

2 Main Cultural Approaches for Researching Personality

Etic traits - considered universal constructs that are evident across cultures and represent a biological bases of human personality. If the Big Five are universal then they should appear across all cultures (McCrae and Allik, 2002).

Emic traits - constructs unique to each culture and are determined by local customs, thoughts, beliefs, and characteristics. If personality traits are unique to individual cultures then different traits should appear in different cultures.

Using an Etic Framework

Cross cultural research of personality uses an etic framework and researchers must ensure equivalence of the personality test through validation testing.

The instrument must include equivalence in meaning, as well as demonstrate validity and reliability (Matsumoto & Luang, 2013).

Example: The phrase feeling blue is used to describe sadness in Westernized cultures but does not translate to other languages.

Differences in personality across cultures could be due to real cultural differences, but they could also be consequences of poor translations, biased sampling, or differences in response styles across cultures (Schmitt, Allik, McCrae, & Benet-Martínez, 2007).

Personality Test/Measure Used: The NEO-PI

Most of the cross-cultural research on the Five-Factor Model (FFM) and Big Five (OCEAN) has been done using the NEO-PI (and its subsequent revisions; i.e., it is an assessment tool developed to measure the 5 dimensions of personality according to the FFM) which has demonstrated equivalence, reliability and validity across several cross-cultural studies (Costa & McCrae, 1987; McCrae, Costa & Martin, 2005).

Research using the NEO-PI found support for the entire Five-Factor Model in Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, German, Australian, South African, Canadian, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Israeli, Korean, Japanese, and Filipino samples, in addition to other samples (McCrae, Costa, Del Pilar, Rolland, & Parker, 1998).

NOTE

Personality tests rely on self-report which is susceptible to response bias like socially desirability responding.

To evaluate this possibility, McCrae and colleagues (2005) recruited students from 50 cultural groups and modified the NEO-PI to be in the third person (i.e., he, she, his, her):

The research participants were asked to complete the form on someone else that they knew very well (McCrae et al., 2005).

The same 5 factors emerged in this study.

These results provided empirical support for the FFM and for the use of self-report instruments when conducting cross-cultural personality research.

There was no reason for the students to respond in a desirable way because they were answering questions about someone else.

Sources: 1 2 ⚜ Writing Notes & References

[sgiandubh]

Credo che in questo fandom ci siano persone che seguono le vicende di S e C dall’inizio. Potrebbero collaborare a fare un album fotografico di tutte le ragazze che sono state affibbiate a Sam e vedere come il metodo si ripeta continuamente. La linea che chiamerei “ direttiva “ è ogni volta corredata da vari avvenimenti collaterali. Siamo partiti con una attrice passando per intrattenitrici , figlie di personaggi importanti modelle e ora sportive . Mi convinco sempre più che l’ideatore o gli ideatori di questi amori massmediali siano gli stessi del 2016.Nessuno degli Antis si preoccupa della vita di Caitriona: lei ha diritto alla sua privacy mentre Sam decisamente no.Sam cosa faresti per amore? gli è stato chiesto, tutto farei tutto., ha risposto E sta facendo proprio di tutto per proteggere chi ama.D’altronde se così non fosse queste donne sarebbero apparse al suo fianco in molte occasioni pubbliche essendo lui single alla ricerca del vero amore . Questa noiosa ripetitività come non può colpire anche quelli del lato opposto? E se posso fare un’osservazione S in questi ruoli non recita affatto bene .Una cotta, una passione o anche solamente un’attrazione fisica ti rende felice. Qui non vedo niente di scoppiettante , solo una coppia che sembra clandestina quando l’obiettivo è quello di essere pubblica. Se sei felice non lo puoi nascondere! Scusa la lunghezza di questo intervento ma sono cose talmente assurde e così poco interessanti!!!

Dear @findanserwers,

Sempre un piacere leggerti. Sai, a volte tutta questa farsa mi fa pensare a uno dei nostri programmi di giochi preferiti, su Rai Uno - Affari Tuoi (lo so, lo so, eh? 🤣). Non si sa mai cosa porterà con sé il prossimo pacco - forse un blu, un rosso, forse il Dottore chiamerà 👽... Ma puoi sempre scommettere che l'avidità di denaro e d'attenzione dei 'pacchisti' li terranno lì finché non avranno esaurito tutte le loro possibilità. Boh, anche se sappiamo che gli schemi continuano ad andare avanti, c'è sempre questo strano, quasi perverso senso di anticipazione.

Scrivi:

'I think we have, in this fandom, people who follow S&C's adventures since the very beginning. They could all collaborate and make photo album with all the girls who have been associated with Sam and see the pattern repeating itself over and over again. The line I would call 'directive' is every single time accompanied by all sorts of side events. We started with an actress, passing through entertainers, daughters of important people, models and now athletes. I am increasingly convinced that the creator or creators of these media love stories are the same as in 2016. None of the Antis care about Caitriona's life: she has the right to her privacy, while Sam definitely doesn't. Sam, what would you do for love? he was asked. I would do everything, he answered. And he is doing everything to protect the people he loves. On the other hand, if this were not the case, these women would have appeared at his side on many public occasions as he is officially single and in search of true love. How can this boring repetitiveness not also affect those on the opposite side? And, if I may make an observation, S doesn't act well at all, in these 'roles'. A crush, a passion or even just physical attraction makes you happy. I don't see anything flashy here, just a couple that looks clandestine, when the obvious goal would be to show off freely in public. If you are happy you can't hide it! Sorry for the length of this post but these things are so absurd and so uninteresting!!!'

Isn't it strange that, even if we know it so well, by now, we keep on following all this #shitshow every single time, as if somehow, something might turn out different?

Except it doesn't really, does it? TMcG will always look like he is about to have dental surgery (plus now wearing more make up than Berlusconi or Tutankhamun ever did) and S will always look nervous (who, in their right mind, would think biting his finger was sexy?!), out of place and even sometimes borderline rude. Organic, my foot: I am ready to accept one of their stories might look bizarre and manufactured as fuck, but BOTH? At the SAME TIME?

Yeah. And pigs fly.

[nix-whythisfilm]

10 Korean Fantasy Series to add to your list

Korean dramas are raging today, marking their beginning of fame in the 2010s. Today the industry caters to a global audience while also making shows for its people. Much like Korean pop culture and music idols, today the shows tackle issues deep-rooted in today’s world. Being a fantasy enthusiast, it was one of the first genres I looked for, and let me tell you, they have ingenuity. Another advantage is that most kdramas only have about 16 to 20 episodes, some even shorter.

Hotel Del Luna (2019)

With a captivating trailer and a novel concept, this series gained admirers from around the globe. Starring IU, nicknamed the nation’s sweetheart, as the main character who is the owner of a mystical hotel, this show was something that one could never come across before. While the series gives an impression of romance and comedy, there is a grim underplot with Man-wol fighting against her dark past. With a mix of modern and classic myths, this series captures the attention of any fan, no matter their genre preferences or their language biases.

With every episode tackling clients with different requirements and a fictional world beyond imagination, this show showed a perspective that felt so distinct in my self-perception. We often see ruined characters among males, but not often do we find shattered yet cheeky female characters that are fashionable and alluring. Having played feminine characters previously, IU was a well-known idol in the industry for her versatile skills. And with numerous famous actors playing cameos in this series, this show is an experience that cannot be recreated by any other.

Strong Girl Bong Soon (2017)

A cute and romantic show with a thriller subplot, it tackles an ironic protagonist. She is short, petite, and extremely cute blessed with the power of incredible strength in her that is inherited by the women in her family. But with great power comes great responsibility, which is why even with that secret, she cannot disclose it to anyone. Being unemployed and trying to figure out her place in the world, our protagonist meets a CEO who wants to hire her as a discreet employee. Anyone into kdramas knows the CEO and commoner romance, but this one stands out for being the cutest one.

A show that I purely pursued being an admirer of the actor’s skills, this show was unexpected with twists and turns uncommon to the genre. Something that surprised me after finishing the show was that the actor was an admirer of the actress who played the protagonist, Park Bo Young. A sweet show with friendships, humour, infatuations, and family tropes, it is guaranteed to leave the audience feeling good and wondering if they could be a part of it too.

Bride of Habaek (2017)

A show that is purely based on Korean-Chinese mythology, this show involves Gods coming down to earth in tales like the olden days. Gods and demigods are often rumoured to be in our realm for punishments, joy, and in search of something, and this show involves a story exactly like that. Quite similar to the history of Greek Deities, these gods here are shown to be all-powerful and yet make poor choices like any human being. This series is about Habaek, the god of water, coming to earth to find a powerful stone to help his accession to the throne.

In all honesty, I had neither heard of this kdrama nor was I intrigued at the beginning. It is old school, not using interesting plotlines and cliches to grab the audience. It does have an appreciable overall storyline and introspective concepts that quirk our minds. The romance attempted in the show is discreet, along with any other obvious archetype. All in all, I found it a muted series which is worth a watch once. It is riveting to fans of indigenous mythology.

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016)

Infamous for the writer’s work, this show was a massive hit in Korea and outreached internationally. While the show is a romance with comedy, it has a tragic underplot based on high fantasy and Korean beliefs of life after death. This show addresses tropes of rebirth and curses in life. Commonly known as the second character syndrome, this show offers two significant romance tropes interlaced with immense history and twisted fates. Also known for the bromance between the two supernatural characters, the goblin and the grim reaper, it gives the audience moments that feel silly but also something to enjoy.

Sceptical as a romance nonfan, this show was a lot. The story was a little heavy for a casual watch, yet it kept me intrigued to watch till the last minute. The friendships were the highlight compared to the romantic journey of the protagonist, as I found it a little cliche and inane. It was endearing to watch the characters evolve through the show, tackling issues well above their daily dose of mundane. The action scenes and CGI are pretty convincing to not look ridiculous, all in all, the show is a good watch. Please do check out the main track of the show, it is a moving song by one of my favourite artists.

Sweet Home (2020)

Based on a post-apocalyptic webtoon of the same name, this show focuses on several characters surviving the apocalypse in their apartment building. While all the characters are human beings struggling with their humanity to stay the same as others are turning into monsters, the show focuses on the protagonist struggling with the same. Having lost his family in tragic accidents and having lived through high school through a traumatic experience, Hyun Soo is suicidal and finds himself trapped in a conundrum when the apocalypse breaks out.

It was a shock for me, having started the show with no idea of its genre or how visual it was. The show has plenty of violence, a theme broadly like zombies and monsters that are beyond mundane imagination. But the characters all grow on us despite their imperfections and make us root for them despite any circumstance they are thrown in. The show is appealing to youngsters and adults, showcasing concepts comprehensible to everyone. Revealing anything more would be spoiling the show, so do check it out despite any dubiety. But do look out for scenes that could be triggering to sensitive people with plenty of scenes where he talks of suicide and death.

Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)

Constructed on the myths of mermaids, this show places a romantic interest in the mermaid. The show starts with the protagonist making his way into the world as a conman when he accidentally rescues a mermaid, and she decides to follow him and adapt to this world, with more to their history and more to come her way in the self-centred human world. From learning about fashion from a homeless woman to meeting forgotten family members, this show charms anyone who comes it’s way. The simple humour displayed beyond languages is the essence of the story and the love beyond any language.

A sceptic of romance series by Lee Minho, this show was a surprising comfort where the characters were not toxic and actually found a family in each other. This show has concepts of soulmates and reincarnation that could be appealing, with modern twists and antagonists that cannot be predicted. The series really questions our perception of what we as human beings look like to other possible beings and how amidst all our human gifts, we all found ways to cheat each other and compete endlessly.

Korean Odyssey (2017)

A show with an antique narration style, this show takes us back to the 2000s for its approach towards fantasy and myths. Having built on the myths of the monkey king and other demigods this show involves other deities and ghosts living on earth. Quite unusual to this genre, this series is one of the few that is a mix of all possible genres and none at all. It has tropes that are not cliche, some friendships rare in today’s world, and people in love who are not desperate to burn the world over each other. Another thing this show focuses on is the grey characters with nearly no character black or white. The show reflects upon their individual actions and past experiences and how they would introspect and try better each time.

The show has a protagonist who has seen ghosts all her life, and it starts with her making a deal with a mysterious man. And ingeniously, the girl grows up to be a real estate agent, who buys haunted houses and sells them to potential clients. Much like any person with a mental health illness or a physical disability, it was opportune for her to take advantage of her situation. While I was not fond of the show midway for its slow pace, the overall story is not as bad as the initial episodes indicate. The show is a good watch with many fantastical tropes and diverse characters.

Tale of the Nine-Tailed (2020)

A popular show in the industry for its cliches and various scenes of CGI elements, romance and brilliant antagonists. Another show with prophecies, kitsunes, and other beings of fantasy, it is a show where they are all crafty and struggling with some version of reality. A kitsune searching for his reincarnated lover works with grim reapers through the years and ends up finding a girl who is exactly like his lover but with no recollection of her past life. But then, at the same time, his brother is here to stir things up. An ancient being is resurfacing now, and with so much to lose and not much to gain from the world, Lee Yeon must do everything he can to get to the bottom of his reality.

Avoiding cliches to avoid the repeated tropes, this was a show that I procrastinated on for a long time before finally watching it. With Lee Dong Wook as the lead, the show was interesting to see how they played with his age to make him look ageless and very old at the same time. The interaction between the brothers was entertaining, and a mysterious presence of something more was always itching at the back of my head. An ending I absolutely did not predict threw me off, but with rumours of another season, this show has much for the audience one can imagine.

Extraordinary You (2019)

A story completely unique, this show is based on a webtoon of the same name. The series has a plot like a Wattpad book, completely enthralling but scary to write a story around. The storyline goes that the characters are all part of a story inside a book, maybe a webtoon, when one day the girl wakes up from being the character. She quickly realizes there are moments where she does things or says things she does not mean like she was made to, and then there are moments where does whatever she wants. In those moments between being the character, this school-going girl learns of the person she is and the way her world works.

It is interesting to consider the perspectives of writing a story where the characters grow their voice and try to find their place in a world beyond their control. While it isn’t something that I have wanted to experiment with as well, this show is wholesome having numerous characters growing their own personalities and finding out that maybe they are not the only people having done that in this particular book. With two trios, one for the plot and one having found each other as individual characters, this show is sure to leave any audience perplexed and sentimental.

The King – Eternal Monarch (2020)

One of the works of a renowned screenwriter, this show gained a large-scale audience who all watched it for the fictional elements and the skilled work of the significant actors in the show. The plot is stupendous having worked with so many minor details and theories of time travel and parallel dimensions. This show houses three main characters, all challenged by the changes in the story. While the narration is personified for only one of them, the show also revolves heavily around the actions and decisions of the other two. Lee Gon, the King of his country; Jeong Tae-ul, a police officer; and Jo Yeong, the King’s closest friend and the Captain of the Royal Guard.

A show with far-fetched romance and relationships that defy odds and crimes that are beyond one world, this show brought the audience a series of a lifetime. While there are points in the story that could be better presented or written differently to avoid a periodic cliche, the show is still magnificently directed. With actors giving their all and so many characters coming into the play the plot, this show gives the audience so much more than one could have predicted.

[kaijuposting]

Information about Newt Geiszler in the novelization that (probably) comes from the bio by Guillermo del Toro.

Newt's characterization in the Pacific Rim Novelization sure is... something. He "admires" the "public-private partnership" between Stacker Pentecost and Hannibal Chau, and he sees the impoverished citizens making their way through the Bone Slums as a writhing biomass. His views on religion are about on par with those guys in the New Atheist movement, and he's effectively described as being like a younger sibling to Hermann. He doesn't call Hercules Hansen a fascist and shove him out of the way; instead, he "skids to a halt" when Hansen holds his hands up.

But despite all of this wild... shall we say, interpretation, there's some text that seems pretty consistent with Guillermo del Toro's creative habits (or even the bio fragments from the DVD), and lines up with Travis Beacham's description of Newt.

Born Berlin January 19, 1990. Only child. Parents musicians. Strongly influenced by uncle, musical engineer, who taught Geiszler the basics of electronics; also avid consumer of manga and monster movies. Combination of these influences and genius-level intellect led Geiszler to voracious interest in all sciences. Second youngest student admitted to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received six doctorates by 2015, taught MIT 2010-2016, pioneered research in artificial tissue replication. Joined PPDC 2016. Psychological profile indicates profound ambivalence toward kaiju resulting from conflict between childhood adoration of monsters and contemporary observation of kaiju attacks. Borderline manic personality, poor social skills. Has performed critical research leading to upgraded Jaeger armaments. (p. 92)

Note: The bios of Raleigh Becket, Mako Mori, and Stacker Pentecost provided by Guillermo del Toro on Twitter mostly all lined up with the information in their personnel dossiers in the novelization - albeit trimmed down.

There is a noteworthy difference between the dossier and the DVD bio, however - the DVD bio specifies that Newt's father was a piano tuner, and his mother was a coloratura opera singer. So the rest of the information here probably isn't too off-base, but it's certainly been simplified somewhat.

ROCK STAR, THOUGHT NEWT GEISZLER. ONCE he’d wanted to be one for real. Now he would settle for the figurative sense… at least until they won the Kaiju War and he could get back to the business of putting a band together. He hadn’t been onstage since the Gymnasium back in Berlin, where he and the Black Velvet Rabbits had bent the heads of geeks at every all-ages club he could haul his gear to. (p. 94)

Note: The pieces of Newt's bio on the DVD don't mention the Black Velvet Rabbits, but they do confirm that Newt wants to "live the life of a rock star" and Newt performing at "all-ages clubs" in Berlin would make sense given his young age when attending MIT (he was their second-youngest student).

Now it was time to tinker, like he was building instruments for Black Velvet Rabbit. (p. 94)

Newt and his Uncle Gunter had struck the same sparks when Newt was a kid, tinkering in the basement of Gunter’s studio, where fringey techno musicians stood around making sounds and waiting for Gunter to come up with the next innovation that they would turn into the club tracks that pounded out of speakers all over Europe. (p. 95)

Note: According to the DVD bio, Newt's uncle was an "eccentric electronics engineer." Additionally, parents and parental-type figures who smoke heavily is a thing Guillermo del Toro does a lot.

Also worth mentioning is that the bio fragments in the DVD give his uncle's name as "Illia," which suggests that the bio was revised at some point. Given that the DVD bio lists Newt's age as 45, rather than 35, I think it's safe to say that the DVD bio is the out-of-date version, and "Gunter" is the newer name.

Newt preferred the term “squid cap,” because the one he had wasn’t sealed into a full polypropylene head covering. It was a naked web of receptors and feed amplifiers. If you mashed it out flat it looked like a spiderweb with big red plastic nodules at the end of the radiating strands. If you dangled it over your head, it looked like a squid with several extra tentacles… and big red plastic nodules at the end of each one. Therefore, squid cap. It would be the interface with his brain. (p. 96)

Note: In Guillermo del Toro's written works such as The Shape of Water novel, inanimate objects are frequently described or compared to animals. "Squid cap" is easily the kind of thing he'd some up with.

The jar of kaiju brain put him in mind of an old movie with Erich von Stroheim. (p. 115)

Note: Erich von Stroheim is the kind of guy an anti-war film buff like Guillermo del Toro would know something about. Furthermore, this also suggests that Newt doesn't only like monster movies - he's quite possibly a film buff in general.

Gunter’s laugh, from his belly, roughened along the way by cigarettes. Uncle Gunter who gave people things before they could steal from him. The gear in his studio. A new sound, one that nobody had ever made before. Lines on a monitor danced out the data, expressing it. Ecstasy of sound and idea, endlessly dividing inside Newt’s mind. (p. 117)

Note: This is exactly the kind of character Guillermo del Toro would create.

“You know, some believe the kaiju are sent from heaven,” Chau said. “They think the gods are displeased with our behavior.” That’s because people are superstitious monkeys until they’re taught better, Newt thought. He remembered seeing some kind of documentary on kaiju worshippers, the Church of the Breach and others. Some of the names— Disciples of the Overlords of the Lands Below was one he remembered. There were prayers to the kaiju, people claiming that they were entitled to religious holidays during kaiju attacks, all that kind of bullshit. (p. 186-187)

Note: This particular piece of writing is a hell of a thing, because it displays a hostility toward religion that neither Guillermo del Toro nor Travis Beacham seem to share. With that said, the character of Newt Gotlieb in the draft script was established to be an atheist, and Travis Beacham essentially said on his blog that Newt didn't go for the whole kaiju worship stuff because "he's a total man of science, through and through." So I'm pretty confident that Newt in the film was conceptualized as an atheist - albeit not this much of an asshole about it.

He was a terrible dancer, fully aware of and undaunted by his terribleness. (p. 214)

Note: Again, the kind of stuff Guillermo del Toro comes up with.

So yeah, that's the novelization material that I am pretty confident came from Guillermo del Toro's biography for Newt, because it matches his general creative style or is corroborated outright elsewhere.

[heytheredeann]

no aspetta ti stai guardando i film nostrani? non sono per lo più pattume alla de sica? hai qualche rec?

GUARDA pensavo la stessa cosa pure io, solo che poi mi è capitato di guardare un film italiano interessante, poi un altro, e ho finito per pensare che okay, ci sono le cazzate alla De Sica, cinepanettoni e compagnia, però a questo punto se mi sono CAPITATI dei bei film, sarà che sono io che sono prevenuta e non me li sto andando a cercare i film italiani belli?

Se andiamo a vedere anche i film statunitensi variano molto per qualità, semplicemente ne guardiamo talmente tanti che riconosciamo che non necessariamente i film brutti riflettono la qualità dell'intero cinema americano.

Non conosco ovviamente i tuoi gusti, ma ti faccio un elenco di film italiani che ho visto e che mi sono piaciuti, in ordine casuale (molti sono su Netflix):

Moglie e marito (2017)

Storia di un uomo e una donna sposati ma sull'orlo del divorzio che si ritrovano, dopo un esperimento mal riuscito, uno nel corpo dell'altra. L'ho trovato carino e interessante, e merita punti anche solo per Kasia Smutniak vestita da uomo francamente ahah

Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)

Film tratto da un'opera teatrale se non sbaglio, quindi che si svolge quasi interamente in un solo set, mi aspettavo che fosse noiosetto e invece è stato molto coinvolgente, pieno di intrecci, colpi di scena e personaggi interessanti da cercare di inquadrare durante la storia. La premessa è una cena tra amici, durante la quale per gioco vengono messi i telefoni di tutti sul tavolo e letti ad alta voce tutti i messaggi/ascoltate in vivavoce tutte le chiamate.

La dea fortuna (2019)

Forse uno dei miei film preferiti in assoluto, italiani o no. Parla di una coppia gay in crisi, dopo 15 anni passati insieme, che si ritrova a doversi occupare dei figli della migliore amica di uno dei due, che è malata e non vuole che sia la propria madre a prenderli a carico.

Lasciarsi un giorno a Roma (2022)

Una storia di coppie un po' disastrate, il protagonista in particolare si occupa in segreto di gestire una posta del cuore, dove riceve una richiesta di consiglio da parte della sua fidanzata, che vuole lasciarlo. Il protagonista inizia a parlarle, senza rivelare la propria identità, per capire come salvare la relazione. In parallelo, un amico del protagonista ha difficoltà a gestire il rapporto con la moglie, sindaco di Roma. Mi era piaciuto moltissimo il finale.

Il padre d'Italia (2017)

Racconta dell'amicizia tra un uomo gay che si è recentemente lasciato con il fidanzato per via delle loro diverse idee sull'aspetto che avrebbe dovuto avere la loro famiglia in futuro, e una ragazza incinta senza nessuno a cui appoggiarsi. Veramente molto bello, ho sentito molto vicine le difficoltà del protagonista a costruirsi un futuro in quanto appartenente a una categoria per cui non esistono veramente script in questo paese, così come ho molto apprezzato l'insistenza del suo ex fidanzato a non accontentarsi delle briciole che gli vengono concesse solo perché "c'è chi sta peggio". Bello bello bello.

Era ora (2023)

Un uomo con molte difficoltà a gestire il suo tempo, per lo più in termini di bilancio lavoro-famiglia, si ritrova incastrato in una specie di loop temporale in cui ogni volta che si sveglia è passato un intero anno, di cui lui non ha memoria. Cerca, quindi, di sistemare la propria vita nell'unico giorno che ha a disposizione, con poco successo ovviamente.

Le fate ignoranti (2001)

QUEER QUEER QUEER! Bello bello, anche qui ho amato moltissimo il finale. Storia di una vedova che scopre che il marito la tradiva con un uomo da sette anni, e finisce per avvicinarsi a questo gruppo di amici queer.

[harocat]

I have Nirvana in Fire on my definite list, so that's why it isn't on the poll. Also working my way through Love and Redemption... slowly lol.

I haven't managed to find any, but are there any good mystery shows that aren't in a modern setting (doesn't have to be ancient though)? Murder mystery would be preferred. Don't rec Couple of Mirrors, I've seen it. Also I know horror can be hard to get by in China because censorship, but anything that might fall under that? K-drama, Taiwanese drama, Thai drama, etc are also acceptable as I'm sure they have more.

[multiverseofseries]

Stranger Things 5: tutto quello che sappiamo sulla nuova stagione

La notizia che tutti aspettavamo con grande trepidazione. È tempo di tornare ad Hawkins. Ed è tempo di immergersi nel Sottosopra, per un'ultima e indimenticabile volta. Anche se non c'è ancora data di uscita, Netflix ha, da poco, annunciato l'inizio della produzione della stagione 5 di Stranger Things, che racconterà l'emozionante (e forse dolorosa?) fine della storia iniziata nel lontano 2016. Con l'annuncio, dell’avvio delle riprese, è arrivata anche la prima foto del cast. In quell'immagine ci sono proprio tutti i protagonisti di uno show diventato iconico.

E sì, c'è anche Sadie Sink, la nostra amata Max, un personaggio il cui destino è ancora in bilico tra la vita e la morte. Ma dobbiamo aspettarci davvero una stagione indimenticabile? "Questa stagione è come se fosse la stagione uno con gli steroidi" hanno dichiarato qualche mese fa i creatori di Stranger Things, i Duffer Brothers. "È la più grande in assoluto in termini di scala, ma è stata davvero divertente, perché tutti sono di nuovo insieme a Hawkins: i ragazzi e Undici interagiscono di più, in linea con quanto accadeva nella prima stagione".

Stranger Things 5 sarà interamente ambientata ad Hawkins

Come avevano confermato i Duffer Brothers subito dopo la fine della stagione 4, l'ultima stagione di Stranger Things sarà ambientata interamente ad Hawkins. Come, d'altra parte, si poteva immaginare guardando l'ultima scena dell'episodio, che ha visto i protagonisti su una collina a scrutare l'orizzonte nerissimo con delle colonne di fumo uscire dalla terra per arrivare alte fino al cielo. Se Stranger Things 5 si svolgerà interamente a Hawkins, è probabile che non ci sia alcuna fase d'attesa, e che l'azione "partirà in quarta", senza un attimo di respiro.

Mad Max, tra la vita e la morte

Ci sarà anche Max (Sadie Sink), come abbiamo visto dalla foto del cast. E sarà lei che per prima ci farà trepidare, sin dalle prime scene, anche se, per lei come per gli altri personaggi, dovremo restare con il fiato in sospeso fino alla fine. Stranger Things, infatti, ci ha anche abituato alle "morti dolorose".

Infatti, la prima risposta che ci darà la quinta stagione è che ne sarà di Max: l'avevamo lasciata in coma con la vista e l'udito fuori uso e gran parte delle ossa rotte. I Duffer Brothers avevano svelato che nelle loro intenzioni originali  Max sarebbe dovuta morire nella stagione 4. Ma alla fine non sono riusciti a eliminare un personaggio tanto interessante quanto amato, e hanno deciso quindi di tenerla in vita.

Eddie Munson is alive!

Non è più in vita ma è sempre tra noi, Eddie. Sì, a quanto pare insieme a Max, ripartiremo da un altro dei personaggi cult di Stranger Things 4. Infatti una delle prime foto dal set, "rubate" e diffuse sui social, della nuova stagione ci hanno mostrato Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) al cimitero, in visita alla tomba vandalizzata di Eddie Munson. Dustin, in omaggio alla loro amicizia, indossa orgogliosamernt una maglietta dell'Hellfire Club. Eddie è stato una delle grandi intuizioni dei Duffer Brothers in Stranger Things 4, diventando subito uno dei personaggi preferiti dai fan, indimenticabile il suo assolo su Master of Puppets dei Metallica, dopo il suo eroico sacrificio per salvare i suoi amici. La città di Hawkins, però, è ancora all'oscuro di tutto, e i suoi cittadini continuano a credere che sia stato Eddie ad uccidere Chrissy. E credono anche che l'Hellfire Club sia una specie di una setta satanica, con Eddie come suo leader. Ma se Eddie non potrà tornare in vita, di certo Dustin e gli altri riusciranno a riabilitare la sua memoria.

Ci sarà Linda Hamilton. Ma non ci saranno...

Anche nella sua quinta e ultima stagione, Stranger Things darà il consueto omaggio agli anni Ottanta. In questi anni abbiamo visto tante presenze di attori simbolo degli 80s. Ricordiamo Matthew Modine e Sean Astin. E la guest star di questa nuova stagione sarà una vera e propria icona degli anni Ottanta: Linda Hamilton, l'indimenticabile Sarah Connor della saga di Terminator, ovviamente non sappiamo ancora che ruolo ricoprirà. Chi non tornerà, come ha dichiarato recentemente, è Sean Astin, che nella seconda stagione era apparso nei panni del fidanzato di Joyce Byers, Bob Newby. Anche lui sacrificatosi per salvare Joyce e i ragazzi. Ma è un personaggio così amato che, in tanti, lo avrebbero voluto vedere nuovamente, magari in un flashback. Non ci sarà neanche l'Argyle di Eduardo Franco, l’amico fattorino di Surfer Boy Pizza, di Jonathan Byers. Molto simpatico e molto amato dai fan, ma sicuramente non un personaggio centrale.

Stranger Things: un finale commovente?

Dopo la monumentale stagione 4, con episodi lunghissimi, la stagione 5 dovrebbe tornare alle origini, con episodi più brevi, lasciando così per l'episodio finale un respiro più lungo, quasi quanto quello di un film. A proposito del gran finale, è stato David Harbour, cioè il caro Hopper, a dire qualcosa sul finale. "So dove andremo a finire ed è molto, molto commovente" ha dichiarato. "Questo è il termine che userò... È un'impresa incredibile. Voglio dire, le scene e gli eventi che vedremo visto sono più grandiosi di qualsiasi cosa abbiamo fatto in passato". A sentire queste parole, l'hype dei fan è cresciuto ancor di più. Ma sale anche la paura che alcuni dei beniamini dei fan possano lasciarci. In molti, tra i fan, temono che sarà proprio l'amatissimo Steve Harrington di Joe Keery ad affrontare la dipartita; un personaggio che, da bullo, è diventato il più grande amico e alleato dei giovani protagonisti.

Come sconfiggere il passare del tempo?

Ma, oltre che contro Vecna, i nostri protagonisti dovranno lottare contro il passare del tempo. Già nella quarta stagione li avevamo visti cresciuti. Ora, sono passati altri due anni. Del resto, è questo il problema delle saghe molto lunghe e che hanno per protagonisti preadolescenti, un po' come era successo per Harry Potter. I produttori di Stranger Things hanno pensato a questa problematica, come ha dichiarato Shawn Levy. "Abbiamo già visto il cast del nostro show crescere sotto gli occhi del pubblico, e tra i 12 e i 22 anni ogni essere umano cambia profondamente. il passare del tempo non aiuta di certo. Detto ciò, il nostro reparto di acconciatura, trucco e costumi è davvero eccezionale a usare tutti gli strumenti che ha a disposizione. Gli anni '80 sono anche nostri amici nel restituire a questi giovani attori adulti i loro iconici personaggi di Hawkins. Quindi useremo tutti gli strumenti a nostra disposizione. E so che il nostro cast è ansioso di tornare al lavoro come tutti noi".

L'inizio della fine

L'incipit della sceneggiatura dell’ultimo atto di Stranger Things, comunicata via social, si apre con queste parole "Buio. Vento freddo. Fruscio di alberi. E... la voce di un ragazzino canta una canzone familiare". Ma quale canzone sarà? Forse il tema della quarta stagione, ovvero Running Up That Hill di Kate Bush? O l'altra canzone cult della passata stagione, Master Of Puppets dei Metallica? O Should I Stay Or Should I Go dei Clash, che era una delle chiavi narrative della prima stagione? Ma c'è una canzone che i fan di Stranger Things vorrebbero sentire: Don't Give Up di Kate Bush e Peter Gabriel. Ovvero, "non mollare". Beh viste le sfide che i protagonisti dovranno affrontare, il brano risulterebbe emblematico.

[salsedine]

Grazie @mafaldinablabla per il tag! Era tipo dal 2016 che non scrivevo così tanto in italiano su tumblr, è stata una piacevole novità :P

1. Are you named after anyone?

Come mai solo questa domanda è in inglese? Comunque "Greta" è solo Greta, mentre "Stella" era anche il nome della mia bisnonnna materna.

2. Quando è stata l'ultima volta che hai pianto?

A mia discolpa- sono pesci. Quindi probabilmente 24 ore fa ma me lo sono già dimenticato. I veri piantoni catartici sono molto più rari però.

3. Hai figli?

No, non sono interessata.

4. Fai largo uso del sarcasmo?

Dipende dal contesto - se è appropriato anche sì, ma se una persona sta confidando qualcosa di personale non mi pare il caso ecco lol.

5. Quali sport pratichi o hai praticato?

7 anni di danza jazz-contemporanea in maniera discontinua. Un paio di anni di tennis a scrocco perchè mio papà era socio grazie al lavoro in cantiere. Qualche workshop di tiro con l'arco + atletica leggera con la scuola, nonchè l'unica ragazza nella squadra di calcio delle medie. Dovevo capirlo prima che sono lesbica, tsk.

6. Qual è la prima cosa che noti in una persona?

Viso, mani, occhi, capelli e "vibe" in generale.

7. Qual è il colore dei tuoi occhi?

Grigio-verde? Alas, il piercing non c'è più. E non ho più 16/17 anni, ma quello non è sicuramente un 'alas'.

8. Scary movies o happy endings?

Una cosa non esclude l'altra, ma in genere happy endings, grazie!

(uno dei miei film preferiti ha un finale bittersweet ma ehyyy, dettagli)

9. Qualche talento particolare?

Sono discretamente flessibile, galleggio sempre, le persone in genere si sentono a proprio agio con me (riporto il feedback), sono brava a trovare i collegamenti (più o meno astrusi) tra le cose, ho un'ottima memoria ed adoro fare regali.

10. Dove sei nat*?

11. Quali sono i tuoi hobby?

In ordine sparso: nuotare o comunque stare in prossimità dell'acqua, camminate/passeggiate tranquille, leggere, disegnare/dipingere, musei e gallerie d'arte varie, yoga e danza. Special mention al prendere cibo da asporto + guardare film con gli amici e commentare. Direi anche scrivere, ma implica troppa vulnerabilità quindi NOPE malgrado mi piaccia.

12. Hai animali domestici?

Nope! Un mix di "sono in affitto e non credo che la padrona di casa apprezzerebbe se arrivassi con un gatto" e "non escludo di spostarmi per lavoro e/o motivi sentimentali e mi dispiacerebbe sballottare il gatto da una parte all'altra".

13. Quanto sei alta?

1.68cm - 1.70cm; le impiegate del comune che mi hanno fatto la carta di identità hanno opinioni discordanti in merito.

14. Materia preferita a scuola?

Storia, storia dell'arte, filosofia (che in realtà era storia della filosofia ma ok facciamo finta), biologia, disegno dal vero. Non mi dispiaceva ginnastica quando si faceva atletica, calcio o sport sperimentali (flag football), ma odiavo con tutto il cuore giocare a pallavolo.

15. Dream job(s)?

Operatrice museale e/o bibliotecaria, occuparmi di didattica e divulgazione oppure di digitalizzazione di materali storici ed artistici (che btw serve alla divulgazione ed anche ai musei, quindi è tutto un fil rouge collegato), insegnare, qualcosa di artistico/creativo che però non mi succhi l'anima. Things like that. In generale sono una persona che tiene molto alla propria realizzazione attraverso il lavoro, il che in Italia è un affarone con l'ambito umanistico - infatti attualmente mi occupo di controllo progetti in contabilità analitica, btw.

Non taggo nessuno perchè 1. stanchezza 2. taggo sempre le solite persone ed in italiano è più difficile e sono abbastanza sicura che romperei le balle. MA se il lettore/la lettrice random vuole fare il test (?) lo rubi pure :*

[grandhotelabyss]

Heh, it’d be interesting to see the thought you hinted at a while back about how Red Scare-ism can never really be properly TERF-y written up in some moderately disreputable rag.* Incidentally about the hippie/fascist thing I was just commenting something similar to a leftie associate, adding to the point about Morrison et al that of the great *leftist* American novels are secretly libertarian (some Hemingway, Dos Passos, much of what passes for leftism in PKD) as well. Underlying reaction is a disposition of the profession I suspect. Forget women, if civilization had been left to novelists we’d all still be living in grass huts!

* I won’t share my own thoughts on this atm (although my gut mostly agrees with you!) because much like the thing about Chu being dishonorable I almost have too much to say. I won’t do it, but it would be a fascinating project to try to do “an intellectual history of the red scare girl” from the 2014 Lana del Rey fan to the present.

I nominate Pariah the Doll to write up the anti-convergence of Red Scareism and TERFism. (Somebody should commission me to be a commissioning editor. Who commissions the commissioners?)

I never know if I should make a bigger deal about it or not, and I'm sure you know this, but I literally wrote one of the first "Lana del Rey is right-wing—and that's pretty much fine" essays, and got it published in a mainstream left-lib literary journal in 2014. This would have been impossible after 2016, though it's probably doable again, if not in that precise organ.

(Alex Perez said that middle-aged conservative or conservative-adjacent men's obsession with Lana seems forced and pathetic. I see what he means, but I think it's partly because she's one of the only post-monoculture stars who actually has a universal appeal, has something to say—or different but equally vivid things to say—to 45-five-year old men and 15-year-old girls.)

Agreed on novelists—but maybe just American novelists. There's that Dick quote—I came upon it in this book—where he calls himself a fascist but says he's trying to teach the fascist worldview to the masses, to everyone; but since the fascist worldview involves subjecting reality to one's will (he cites Mussolini to this effect, but it could be Nietzsche or Crowley or for that matter Emerson, and in any case Mussolini liked William James) then fascism for everyone is just anarchism, i.e., anti-fascism (since for Mussolini fascism was also a collectivist cult of the state and not a billion proliferating individual micro-realities). I didn't read and don't necessarily endorse the whole book, but the occultist John Michael Greer's political tract The King in Orange essentially ends by saying that American ethnogenesis is not yet complete—the true American has not yet been born—and this bone-deep libertarianism seems to have something to do with the ongoing nascence of this novel humanity. It's why I prefer outré neo-pronouns to "they" and am somewhat wary—this will irritate people, too, I'm sure—of gun control. We're running a very particular experiment here; maybe we'll all die, but still, let's see how it plays out. As our girl sings, "And if you don't like it you can beat it, beat it, baby." Of course I have other days where I think completely otherwise; I am only one generation out of Europe on my mother's side after all. Woodrow Wilson, however, did say in a speech delivered to newly naturalized citizens—I only read this because it's in the back of the Norton Critical My Ántonia—that their very desire to come here in the first place meant they'd been Americans all along.

[danzadel]

Danza del Design: Setting the Benchmark Among Interior Design Companies in Dubai

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[halcyon-digest]

2015

Art Klaudt: Visiting the island of Barra and listening to Destroyer/Hex Enduction Hour/The Del Byzanteens/Twin Fantasy on the way there/back

Anonymous 1: unknown

ava: getting obsessed with the a cappella group pentatonix. joining a twitter fandom for the first time to talk about pentatonix. staying in bed all throughout the end of that summer just watching every music video, vlog, live performance, etc they ever put out. starting high school and getting so excited when pentatonix (or their offshoot superfruit) would release new youtube videos because they would always go online right as my final study hall period of the day was coming to an end. pentatonix were my first contemporary obsession; it was a whole new feeling. it was an enormous event in my life when they put out their first fully original album that fall. the excitement i felt was unparalleled. plus their existence in the internet era (compared to my usual preference for 20th century rock bands) meant there was just heaps and heaps of stuff for me to watch and listen to and analyze and absorb into my being. i can’t even describe how much pentatonix meant to me that year.

kate: I graduated from college and was still clinging to this lab job I had on campus while I tried to figure things out. My boyfriend at the time's parents had offered to let me live at his house (with them) since I could no longer live on campus, until I could find an apartment or a job back in my hometown. But uh... I didn't really. His mom was really judgemental and controlling, even though she would be outwardly nice to me, and I could tell my presence was annoying her but my ex kept insisting it was ok. There were a couple times when she cracked and threw a big tantrum. Once was on his dad's birthday. She would say the most targeted yet indirect things to get under his and my skin, and it would escalate over the course of the evening to full on screaming at him later. I didn't know what to do except to walk out to the curb and cry and think about throwing myself in front of a car. It was traumatizing. But she had her own trauma going on, and abusive exes and even crazier sisters, and there was this whole drama while I lived there and his grandfather was dying that was just awful for everyone involved. Anyways in November everything came to a head and she threw a massive fit that culminated in kicking him and me (his "liberal-ass girlfriend") out. I remember packing and feeling weirdly calm, like the fear had pushed past some limit and saturated and become nothing. I stayed at a labmate's apartment that night and for the next couple days, quit my job and moved home. I tried to pay his mom $600 for letting me stay as long as she did but she didn't accept it. I accidentally left a box of my dad's records there in my hurry to get out. And he broke up with me a week after my birthday in 2016. So it goes.

Anonymous 2: school picture day i  had a really fucked up dye job because i tried to make my hair pink without any help and i did not bleach it nearly enough to go a color that light. i was wearing a grey shirt with flowers on the arms

Lucas: I remember watching some political content on YouTube

Anonymous 3: Walking on the hill with my mother, it was warm and windy, I was the most suicidal I'd ever been, waiting for sertraline to start working, and I had to tell her how scared I was that I was going to die, and had to ask her to help me, even though the knowledge that I was making her have knowledge that her child was suicidal was an even worse feeling than being acutely suicidal

Anonymous 4: Joining my schools weekly tv broadcast (just about school news)

Anonymous 5: Though maybe that happened in this year. Logging onto a now defunct social media site

superswag: Second memory, watching qubo, and being an tablet baby

v0w0v: Playing games online and in person with my ex and his friends. We were in a ranked league of legends team that did pretty well and would play DnD on weekends. One of them was really rich and had peacocks in the backyard. One of the peacocks was named Kevin Bacon. I remember near the end of summer we all went jetskiing on the rich friend's property and I got too excited with the sharp turns and launched myself into the water.

Anonymous 6: Looking online and learning what transgender is from an online post, realising I felt weird about being male.

Anonymous 7: calling someone a cunt for the first time because they smacked an ice cream out of my hand during lunch.

binnie: Super Smash Bros 4... The most I enjoyed school up to this point was definitely playing this game during lunch, it was filled with such excitement even if it was fairly routine for one kid in particular to win all the time.

Anonymous 8: Getting into my first relationship, although it was a short one.

April M. Mildew: I was in bed after watching skeptic atheist debunking videos with a smug look on my 12 year old face and then I for the first time I considered the idea that I would die and there would be "nothing" and that it would just end. I shook with fear. I had to get rid of the blanket I slept with because it was causing the thoughts.

[thesweetestdevotion]

u know whats funny about seeing how these much younger and more immature fan bases act towards idols or their potential relationships is that i get it bc we have all been like that at some point with celebs or whatever era we are from but at the same time it just makes them look worse than they need to be.

I mean I seen reels of armies yapping abt ppl leaving the fandom but in actual fact its because its got so toxic i dont blame anyone for not sticking around, its like with all these modern day platforms people really go excessively with following everything abt idols personal lives that i question if someone my age would really want to be associated with all that craziness? are we always expected to want to be kept up to date on the members? i personslly prefer the readings cause it gives varied perspectives on idols situations cause if u on social media u only get one sided view of them, when ppl fawn over jk they never consider what he want in a partner as though hes just a bit of fun for them. i get it can be fun but sometimes they take the fun out of it probably for the idol as well tbh

Yeah… it can get very intense I’m sure. I’m honestly not one to rlly learn too much about celebrities even the ones I really like, like Lana del Rey. I really only know what she’s said herself or what comes out on the news. With kpop idols the culture is different so I get that companies and want you to learn a lot about the idols and interact with them more frequently than what I’m used to with western celebrities, which is a big reason why i wouldn’t consider myself a ‘stan’ of any particular group. I barely know the surface level stuff, and also whatever comes out in the readings I do. Other than that I’m not really into it too much, I do love the music though. Especially bts’s old hip hop stuff it’s my favorite. I also really love rm’s solo work, it’s very much my style of music hehe. So I wouldn’t really know current specifics about the toxicity of the kpop fandoms as I only see a bit here and there, though I hope that type of energy doesn’t continue to fester in the fandoms :/ seems totally exhausting for fans and idols like you said. I do remember back in my middle school days (2015-2016) my friends told me about some beef between exo and bts fans and that totally shocked me bc at that point I only listened to the music, and I didn’t even know the members names😭😭 so honestly toxic fandoms aren’t very new, it’s just we get to be aware of it more due to social media.

Thanks for ur ask btw!! Lovely to speak with u!!

[cozy-frog-legacy-simmer]

10th Anniversary Legacy Challenge Part 2

GENERATION THREE - 2016 All of the camping and outdoorsy activity of your childhood made you crave a life away from all that nature. Well... maybe SOME nature is okay, but not a lot. It's time for some city life. Packs: City Living, Dine Out, Movie Hangout, Romantic Garden, Kids Room, Backyard Stuff, Vintage Glamour Traits: Unflirty plus any other two traits that actually existed in 2016 *Dine Out is still hopelessly bugged and takes forever besides. If you want to include restaurant gameplay, be my guest, but I didn't require it because I find it infuriating* -Start in an apartment in San Myshuno -Choose either critic, politician, or social media career and get to the top -Go to the city festivals as often as is practical for your game, but you must go to each festival at least once -Complete the City Native aspiration -Max the singing skill and go to karaoke at least once a week -When you have the money move to a penthouse and create an outdoor space that suits your sim's aesthetic -Have at least one child to be heir GENERATION FOUR - 2017 The city is a bit too peopley for your sim. They prefer the company of animals, although family is okay as long as everyone knows that pets are family too. Packs: Cats and Dogs, Parenthood, Bowling Night, Fitness Stuff, and Toddler Stuff Traits: Cat Lover, Dog Lover, and one other of your choosing (as long as it existed in 2017) -Live in Brindleton Bay -Must own at least one cat and one dog throughout your life from the moment you move to Brindleton -Must adopt at least one stray -Must work out every day either in a home gym or at a gym location -Must purchase and run a vet clinic -Complete Friend of the Animals aspiration and Super Parent aspiration -Max vet, parenting, and pet training skills -Have at least two children -JUSTICE FOR TODDLERS! Now that toddlers are officially in the game, go for the gusto and max out their skills give them the life they always should have had -Once your kids reach the child life stage, take the family bowling every week (this can count as your "work out" for that day) GENERATION FIVE - 2018 Growing up in such a wholesome family left you with an appreciation for family life and a craving for something a bit more exciting, perhaps a little glamourous. Packs: Seasons, Get Famous, Jungle Adventure, Laundry Day, My First Pet Traits: Self Absorbed and two more of your choosing that existed in 2018 *This is the first generation where a spouse is REQUIRED* *All houses from this point on must include laundry facilities* -Live in Del Sol Valley and get married to an Actor ASAP (or just get married and have your spouse join the acting career immediately) -Your spouse complete either the Master Actor OR World Famous Celebrity aspirations (bonus points if they do both) -Your sim must enter the Gardening Career and reach the top of the Flower Arranging branch -Your sim must complete the Freelance Botanist aspiration -Have a positively HUGE garden -Go on at least one trip to Selvadorada and complete at least one Temple while there -Buy the More Views Video Station and have a weekly gardening vlog -Must celebrate all holidays -We got Butlers back in 2016 with Vintage Glamour, but they didn't make sense until now. You should have one as soon as you can afford one. -Must have at least two children -Upon the oldest child reaching the child lifestage, you must purchase and maintain a small animal (hamster, rat, etc) and the children must use them to complete homework ...to be continued...

[rocknews13]

PIXIES publican un nuevo single 'OYSTER BEDS', anticipo de su próximo álbum.

Pixies comparte la nuevo temazo 'Oyster Beds', extraída de su próximo álbum de estudio “The Night the Zombies Came”, cuya publicación oficial está prevista, en todo el planeta, para el 25 de Octubre, bajo los auspicios de la discográfica BMG.

'Oyster Beds' es un temazo Punk, cañero, rápido y crudo, de apenas dos minutos, que captura el gran momento que vive Pixies, manteniendo su esencia -ahora en 2024- y justifican porque Kurk Cobain y todos los Nirvana, flipaban con ellos ya hace años y los citaban siempre como referencia musical.

Además, Black Francis volvió a pintar (antigua afición del líder del grupo), durante la grabación de este nuevo disco en los Rockfield Studios y está canción está inspirada en el cuadro que pintó y que ahora luce en el pasillo de su casa. Black Francis describe el momento así: “Hacia dos años que no pintaba. Volví a pintar cuando estábamos grabando en Rockfield, …fue un no parar”.

'Oyster Beds', (escúchalo aquí) es el single que sigue a 'Chicken', su macabro y espeluznante tema aclamado por medios de todo el mundo el pasado mes de Julio de 2024. Como “Dioses del Rock Alternativo” los presentaron en la BBC 6 Music. Anteriormente la banda también publicó un single 7’’ doble, ‘You’re So Imppatient’ y la versión del ‘Que Será, Será’ popularizada en 1956 por la mítica Doris Day, en una película de Hitchcock.

SOBRE EL NUEVO ÁLBUM: “THE NIGHT THE ZOMBIE CAME”

Druidismo, centros comerciales apocalípticos, restaurantes de temática medieval, formas poéticas del Siglo XII, Surf Rock, gárgolas, gente de los pantanos y el personal sonido seco de la batería de Fleetwood Mac en la década de 1970, son sólo algunas de las maravillas dispares, que informan las nuevas canciones.

“The Night the Zombies Came” también incluirá el single ‘You're So Imppatient’, y la versión del 'Que Sera, Sera' que se publicaron hace unos días en formato 7’’ pulgadas y digital.

Para las sesiones de grabación del nuevo álbum, la banda volvió a trabajar con el productor Tom Dalgety, a quien el baterista David Lovering se refiere como “un quinto Pixie” después de producir “Head Carrier” de 2016, “Beneath the Eyrie” de 2019 y “Doggerel” de 2022. Al principio del proceso de grabación en el estudio Guilford Sound en Vermont, la banda notó que las nuevas canciones se dividían en dos bandos: lo que llamaron "Dust Bowl Songs", temas estilo balada con tintes country como ”Primrose”. y “Mercy Me”, y por otra lado, los furiosos temas Punk del disco como “You're So Imppatient” y “Oyster Beds”. Sólo el tema “Jane (The Night the Zombies Came)” se mantiene en ambos lados: una reminiscencia de Phil Spector de principios de los 60. Donde la banda alcanza un punto ideal entre blando y cañero. Black Francis lo comparó con ser hostigado por un enjambre de abejas.

En las sesiones de “The Night the Zombies Came” también Pixies dio la bienvenida a la formación a la nueva bajista Emma Richardson (Band Of Skulls); la primera británica que toca en Pixies. También hay un protagonismo ampliado para el guitarrista Joey Santiago. Después de contribuir con su primera letra para Pixies en el anterior álbum “Doggerel”, Joey ahora ha escrito la letra de "Hypnotised" completando una especie de acertijo, lírico complejo, conocido como sextina.

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GIANT REC LIST

LAST UPDATED 8/26/2024

Columbo

Bomberman Jetters

Id: Invaded

Yu-Gi-Oh (manga)

"My son is he man or beast" from action comics 400

Kagurabachi

Spy x Family

Chainsaw Man

Yotsuba

Frieren

N52 Superboy #26-34

Digimon (Especially Adventure, 02, Tamers, Savers, Appmon, & Ghost Game; for the movies, all of them aside from Tri)

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth

Marx Brothers

Get Smart (1965)

Superman vs Meshi

Detective Comics #500 "To Kill a Legend"

Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2 "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot"

Captain Atom (1987)

Bronze Age Firestorm

Legion of Superheroes

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld

Hundreds of Beavers

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Maltese Falcon

Paper Mario

Paper Mario the thousand year door

famicom detective club (both games)

Ace Attorney 1-4 & Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

Ghost Trick

Marvelous: Another Treasure Island

Pikmin 1-4

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Kirby Planet Robobot

Kirby Triple Deluxe

Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe

Kirby's Adventure

Kirby Superstar

Dark Matter trilogy

Celeste

Batman: The Audio Adventures

Powerless (2016)

The Good Place

Arrested Development

Be Cool Scooby Doo

Sakamoto Days

El Chavo del Ocho

Chapulin Colorado

Arnold Drake's Doom Patrol

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

batman ego

Scooby Doo Team Up

The Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries

Happy Halloween Scooby Doo

Tsukumojuku (2005)

Dragon Quest

Rocket Slime

Mario & Luigi (all titles)

JoJo's bizarre adventure

Witch Hat Atelier

Pluto

Monster

John Wick 1-4

UHF

Weird Al Biopic

Little Shop of Horrors

Super Friends (1976)

A series of unfortunate events (books)

All the Wrong Questions

Power Bomberman

Custom Battler Bomberman/Bomberman 2

Tatami time machine blues

The Amazing World of Gumball

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Codename Kids Next Door

Villainous

Regular Show

The looney tunes show

Nedroid

Sonic Boom (2014)

Hector con Carne

The Book of Life

films starring cantinflas (preferably in spanish, but if you don't know spanish well)

Hourman

tear along the dotted line

this world can't tear me down

Casa de papel

Airplane

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Wayside School

Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)

Meanwhile (Comic)

Way of the Househusband

Welcome to demon school iruma kun

Infinity Train

Hilda

"The Twilight Zone" Her Pilgrim Soul/I of Newton

The Twilight Zone (Original Series)

All of Alan Brennert's comics

Villainous

Class of 3000

Rankin Bass Christmas specials (shout-out to Santa Claus is coming to town)

Moral Orel

Dungeon Meshi

Dorohedoro

Superman & the Authority

All-star Superman

Morrison's Action Comics

Morrison's Animal Man

Moore's Swamp Thing

Multiversity

Filmore!

Muppets Most Wanted

Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (specifically season 1)

Baba is You

Henry Stickmin

The Giver quartet

Bomberman Generation

Bomberman Journey

A Bomberman Journey 2023 Followup

Bomberman Battle Pack: A way too in-depth analysis

The Weird

Sam & Max series (comics games AND show)

Goodbye Eri

Only Murders in the building

Criminal

Please Go Home, Akutsu-San!

Mousou Telepathy

Tomo Chan is a girl

Barda

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Ip Man

Carole & Tuesday

Catch 22 (book)

Space Dandy

Vigilante

Dandandan

Rush Hour

What's up Doc

The cheap detective

The awful truth

charade

his girl friday

bringing up baby

The great race

Artemis Fowl (main series)

Don't hug me I'm scared

ultimate exorcist kiyoshi

squid games

Dokapon kingdom

lego city undercover

Summer Wars

Culdcept Revolt

Casablanca

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

batman no man's land novelization

Ultraman Rising

She gets girls everyday

Detentionaire

the dangers in my heart

Heathers (film)

you and i are polar opposites

the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all

Kaguya Sama love is war

We want to talk about kaguya

Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru

A Story About a Man and a Woman and When They Sleep Together, Money Appears Out of Nowhere

undead unluck

the night is short walk on girl

fire punch

akane bashi

kaiju no. 08

The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length

disastrous life of saiki k

jitsu wa watashi wa/my monster secret

Boarding School Juliet

Happy Kanako's Killer Life

bigtop burger

pseudo harem

gravity falls

Tatami Galaxy

Kindergarten Wars

A story about smoking behind the back of a supermarket

Casino

shikimori is not just cute

Asahina Wakaba to Marumaru na kareshi

mob psycho 100

reigen

sublo & tangy mustard

they might be giants

weird al yankovic

saint motel

cab Calloway

St. Arnaud

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'After six very long years of waiting, Andrew Haigh is finally back with a film that has charmed critics. All of Us Strangers , loosely based on the novel Strangers by Yamada Taichi (1987), already adapted for the big screen by Nobuhiko Obayashi in the 1988 film The Discarnates, surprisingly preferred to show itself at the Telluride Film Festival and not at the Venice International Film Festival of Venice, as happened in 2017 with the previous Charley Thompson , making many shout "masterpiece".

The protagonists of the film are the very popular Paul Mescal , nominated for an Oscar at the beginning of 2023 thanks to the splendid Aftersun, and Andrew Scott of Fleabag, an openly gay actor. All Of Us Strangers follows screenwriter Adam who on an ordinary night in his half-empty building in modern-day London has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry. As Adam and Harry grow closer, the former returns to his childhood home and discovers that his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both alive and appear to be the same age as the day they died in their 30s now I am.

On RottenTomatoes All of Us Strangers has received 100% positive reviews.

“ Older viewers might rush headlong into the film's despondency, finding comfort, even catharsis, in its haunting pain. It is difficult work, extremely emotional but cold ,” wrote Vanity Fair.

“ This is Scott's movie. His performance is smart and quietly moving, and he deserves meatier leading roles like this ,” the Times added.

“ A sublime masterpiece. A reflection on grief and love, Haigh's touching and understated ghost story is one of the best films of the year ,” said The Wrap.

“ Prepare to be destroyed ,” remarked the Hollywood Reporter.

“ All of Us Strangers” is therapy for the audience, or at least for that specific segment of us who desperately need to hear our fathers say, “I'm sorry I never came into your room when you were crying, ” he said. commented Variety.

“ It's a ghost story, but it's also a love story. A story that will break your heart ,” wrote Little White Lies.

“ A lush, sad and sensual gay love story, propelled by a killer combination of '80s queer pop and a pair of devastating performances from Scott and Mescal ,” applauded Screen International.

“ A hugely satisfying and immersive experience ,” added The Guardian.

“ Haigh, whose approach has never been more effective than here, always makes sure to leave space in the frame to allow us to bring our grief to the table, whatever form it may take ,” concluded Indiewire.

50-year-old openly gay English director, Andrew Haigh exploded in 2011 thanks to the wonderful Weekend , then followed by 45 Years , Silver Bear for best female and male performance at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, and Charley Thompson, in Competition in Venice 2017. He produced and partly directed the HBO series Looking , which concluded after only two seasons and was later made into a TV film directed by Heigh himself in 2016...'