#ryan dahl

[dmdoll]

Didn’t post yesterday. But this is one of my all time faves by one of my fave canadian bands.

🌟 Top 100 Favorite Songs of All Time Challenge 🌟

Day 19 (January 19, 2025)

Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett

@worldleaderpretend1969, @lusnicky, @words-music, @secondlifep, @delightedobserverintraining, @prbworld21, @aravenlunatic, @biggreenhouse, @yourroseone, @catalisst, @musiclandoux, @canoeing-the-north, @tgferg66, @s1mply-n0b0dy, @randomperegrination, @oshea52, @lightineventide

If I haven't tagged you, you are still welcome to join along in this fun challenge.

[clubkidandcollectives]

[reniadeb]

🍑@reniadeb🍑

[guzmapkmn-archive]

Been thinking abt all the places ryan lives throughout got.ham so I will talk abt them. Bc I want to.

Season 1: lives at falcone manor with carmine

Season 2: once carmine leaves got.ham, ryan starts staying at his own place (that carmine pays for), as he is afraid of staying in a big mansion by himself and being in charge of staff. He's not close enough to oswald yet to live together. After arkham, he lives with his father for a short while and then moves in with oswald at the van dahl mansion

Season 3: lives at van dahl mansion the whole time, except for a shirt while where he stays at falcone manor with carmine while oswald is gone

Season 4: okay they never actually show the van dahl mansion at all in this season for some reason? But im assuming Oswald still lives there bc why would he not. Ryan lives there with him until the end of the season. I don't have my lore totally down for the end of s4 but oswald is lying low at falcone manor which will probably line up with my lore

Season 5: lives at city hall with Oswald

[my-plastic-life]

Today's the day!!! Who else is going to see the Barbie movie? Mini Me has her ticket ready!

Ah, a great seat! And popcorn in a pink bucket, yes!

[deadestofdoves]

Ranking all the books I read this year

1 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Reread) 2 The Fireman by Joe Hill 3 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 4 Matilda by Roald Dahl 5 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 6 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Reread) 7 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata 8 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Reread) 9 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 10 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Reread) 11 The String of Pearls by ??? 12 The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain 13 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 14 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 15 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 16 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 17 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 18 Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine 19 The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard 20 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 21 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (Reread) 22 The Witches by Roald Dahl 23 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 24 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 25 The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 26 Borne by Jeff VanderMeer 27 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 28 The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 29 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 30 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 31 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 32 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER!!!!!)

[rocktoberr]

yk what hell yeah

[baseballjerseynumbers]

Spring Training:

Austin Brice assigned 31

David Dahl assigned 35

Símon Muzziotti assigned 40

Aramis Garcia assigned 41

Cal Stevenson assigned 47

Ricardo Pinto assigned 51

Ryan Burr assigned 60

Andrew Bellatti assigned 64

José Ruiz assigned 66

Nick Snyder assigned 78

[patrik6090]

Y'all as celebrity's

@patrik6090 Logan paul 100%

@pennyroyald law by Mike

@mariyoursweetheart Taylor Swift

@importantpeachfury Ryan's toy reviews

@hawaii-official Jake Paul

@system-of-cats 's minty Tardar Sauce

@manicali Jeffrey Star

@plutowhoops the oldest dream

@groggle zebra gamer

@mango-mentally-ill GabaLeth

@stargazing-with-friends Corpse husband

@ms-macintosh Morgz

@aflairforthemelodramaticc drawfee

@half-fey-freak-of-nature CiblesGD

@lunaxio Natalie Mars

@f4y3w00d5 Edward Olmos

@canisnebular Jessica Blevins

@sarrinight sunnyv2

@asqadia-banthen Jungkook

@eirxair Joe Rogan

@losairr Bernie Sanders

@letmeoutofthebasementplease Ane Dahl Torp

@illusionsignmisdirecti0n Jimi Hendrix

@weenietickler Ashley Callingbull

@wyfy-meltdown Megumi Ogata

@roeldraws Shigeru Miyamoto

@the-rat12 joey chestnut

@err0r-404notfound president Washington

@saphi-everything Kendrick Lamar

@ihavehomework2dobutimhereinstead Trump

@gobodegoblin Elon musk

@finla Dazai Osamu(irl)

@pansexualcake9 Hiromu Arakawa

@ibuildblasters Robert Downey Jr

@vee1021 Naseeruddin Shah

@enbypalsidk Daniel Kibblesmith

@watercraver the 'so human' guy

@mayowayo linustechtips

@moongasux Anastasia Kreslina

@untitled14360 jacksucksatlife

@kimisbunny is @importantpeachfury

@sunsickle Akira homiyama

@durdurdurrrb your mom

@im-an-anthusiast mark zuckerberg

@transfem-users Amelia airhart

@uwathebestgirl D.B. cooper

@yuris-redgreen-drink Hailey kiyoko

@the-lonely-detective toby fox

@sarah-ankh jack Silverton

🤹 Kate miccuchi

Girlkisser Jesus Christ

Puki anon pukicho

R.S idk

Wth man.....

[gt-gem]

some g/t favorites of mine

inspired by this post

Favorite Tiny:

Yeah yeah call me basic but what can I say, she's awesome; across the original books she's in and the multiple adaptations of them, Arrietty Clock is a brave and clever and kind-spirited character and an icon, and is widely respected as such by most of this community for a reason lol

Favorite Giant:

Bumblebee doesn't even really speak for the majority of his own standalone film and he's still the biggest sweetheart, to Charlie especially but really to anyone and everyone across all the films, comics, and shows he's been in; as long as you're not a dick (to him or anyone), he'll be very polite (I mean look at him).

Favorite G/t Movie:

This one is tough because I wanna say it's a tie between Ferngully and Smallfoot. The former I saw for the first time at a young age (and as a result watched on repeat more times than I could count), and I still love it to this day; and the latter is actually really cute but I feel like no one ever talks about it; it ain't perfect (not by a long shot) but it's a decent enough film and deserves more love.

Favorite G/t Book:

BFG by Roald Dahl. Easily. Read it for the first time in the fourth grade and my brain chemistry was forever changed. (/very pos)

Favorite G/t show:

Minami kun no koibito; it's cute, trust me (also it's on YouTube).

Favorite G/t Comic:

Small Blessings by Danie Stirling (@whitherling); I have my own physical copies of both volumes but it's also available to read on Dillyhub. Very cute story, characters and art style, and overall I highly recommend it.

Favorite G/t Fictional World:

Gotta be the Borrowers. The established existence of a species of hidden small people has captivated me for YEARS and its entire concept is a staple of so much of this community's favorite media for a reason. (On that note I highly recommend the filmed adaptation series of the Mary Norton books from 1992, also on YouTube if anyone is curious)

Favorite G/t coded Song:

The music video for Touchy Feely Fool by AJR dropped almost a year ago now and I still won't shut up about it, it's great (and the song's a bop so that's just a bonus). (It's also hilarious to me that while Jack is running around trying to figure out what's going on, Adam and Ryan are just vibing the whole time lol) Also worth mentioning that AJR incorporates both subtle and blatant g/t themes into some of their other music, videos, and their live shows; very good stuff and also it's just good music, highly recommend.

Character I would like to Shrink/Grow:

There should be a g/t episode of Amazing Digital Circus. Fight me. Probably would best fit Pomni if just one of the cast members had to deal with it, but if all of them were periodically affected by some kind of size shifting to varying degrees (likely Caine's doing but even better if he's also involved), just THINK of the kinds of chaos that would ensue, oh it'd be great

[ramonaflow]

I love these polls so I wanted to do this one again but without Franklin who won last time. I also added some roles that I got in trouble for missing out last time 😅

[ealsistersart]

More of Tangled Titanic AU🚢💖

1st Drawing: New Dream as Elga Dahl and Fabrizio Rossi from Titanic deleted scene "Rose Visits Third Class".

2nd Drawing: Lance and Varian as Thomas Ryan and Jack Dawson from Titanic deleted scene "Rose Visits Third Class".

3th Drawing: Andrew/Caledon ✨bonus✨

Sunshine☀

[iamaverysadbanana]

Oscars 2024 Nominations Thoughts (Part Two)

The Color Purple: Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)

Personally, I would have nominated Taraji P. Henson as Shug, but Danielle Brooks is a good choice. As for the film itself, I give it a solid 8/10. Also, I really need to watch the 1985 movie. (As for author Alice Walker's bigotry, we'll put a pin in that).

The Boy and the Heron: Best Animated Feature (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)

Finally, some quality traditional animation! Please let this one win the Oscar. We need more 2-D animated films! I need to see this movie again so badly!

Nimona: Best Animated Feature (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan, and Julie Zackary)

Disney tried to kill Nimona and failed so spectacularly that the internet is rightfully clowning on them for it. I personally think Boy and the Heron should be the winner, but I will not be mad if Nimona gets it. (Side Note: A movie about Flamin' Hot Cheetos got a nomination for Best Original Song, and Disney Animation's 100th anniversary project got stiffed. That's fucking hilarious).

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Best Animated Feature (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal)

Quick, who is the best Spider and why is it Hobie Brown? All kidding (and Spider-Punk worship) aside, this would have been my pick had it not been for Boy and the Heron's unexpected smash hit at the box office and my heart. Again, won't be mad if this one wins either.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: Best Live Action Short Film (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales)

Never has there been a more perfect pairing than Wes Anderson's directing style and Roald Dahl's witty prose. Case in point- Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the best animated films of all time. I admit I haven't seen the other nominations in this category, so maybe take what I have to say about this particular film with a grain of salt. Still, I'll check out the other shorts on Netflix.

As for movies that got stiffed by the Oscars this year:

I am honestly so surprised that Saltburn got nothing this year. It didn't even get acting nominations! At the very least, I would have acknowledged Barry Keoghan for his brilliant performance as Oliver Quick. On the other hand, I understand why the Academy may not have wanted to touch this one with a ten-foot pole. There were times in the theater where I actually started laughing out of pure discomfort. Still, I wish Barry (and heck, Emerald Fennell for Best Director) got seats at the adult's table.

In any other year, Once Upon a Studio would have been nominated for Best Animated Short Film. Hell, it might have even won! But alas, this was Disney's annus horribilis, and the company had nobody to blame but itself. It's hubris was it's downfall in the eyes of the all-powerful Academy.

And that's all they wrote! See you at the movies!

[mattnben-bennmatt]

Matt Damon's interview w/ Film Scouts (November/December 1997)

Matt Damon on "Good Will Hunting"

By Henri Béhar

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There's a unique freshness to Matt Damon. Fresh face, fresh voice. Strong impact. Made you lurch for the Courage Under Fire press kit to find out who this guy was who stole every scene he was in from Denzel Washington. One should have known when Francis Coppola gave the lead part in John Grisham's the Rainmaker to Matt who? Think of the Godfather, think of the Outsiders and Rumble Fish; if anything, Coppola has the keenest eye in the business for budding talent.

With best pal Ben Affleck, Boston-born-and-bred Matt Damon, 23, comes to Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting as a double-threat: lead actor AND scriptwriter. Having just wrapped Steven Spielberg's Private Ryan, he recently took some time off from his preparation for John Dahl's Parameters, which co-stars Edward Norton, Martin Landau and possibly John Turturro, to sit down and chat with us. Excerpts.

On Fame. I like it. I don't think I'm addicted to what is involved with it. I really could take it or leave it. So far, I'd have to say I don't quite know what you're talking about. Honestly. I haven't met a single person, I have not walked down the street where somebody stopped me and said, "Oh, you're Matt Damon." Not for a movie, not for a magazine cover, not for nothing. Which is normal since not that many people know my work, and which works fine for me: I want to be in a position where I can go wherever the character I'm researching is supposed to be from. That's what I'm doing in New York right now. The nice thing is I'm in a position now where they're actually paying for me to do it. I mean, they're putting me during the time when I research, which I used to have to go out of pocket. Courage Under Fire I did and The Rainmaker I did.

What was great about The Rainmaker was when I was bartending, people didn't know who I was. It would have gotten in the way if they knew who I was. So yes, in that sense, if both movies do well — that's a lot of if's — my job might get hindered. But I hope I can find a way, 'cause that's what's most important.

But it also affords you a lot of opportunities. When we did Courage Under Fire, Denzel Washington was allowed to lead tank battles. They really gave him command of these mock tank exercises and strategy lessons. I don't think he would have gotten that if he wasn't who he was. So there's a trade-off. But worse things can happen, you know, there are worse injustices in the world than my not being able to research anonymously.

On getting almost emaciated for Courage Under Fire It evolved essentially because there was a light at the end of the tunnel. There was a time limit. Given that, the person that outlined the diet for me didn't think I was going to be able to stick to it: it was too difficult. When I stuck to it, people got worried. "You have to eat, you have to be fit, you really have to be prepared." And I refused to do so. "Why eat? I've come this far, I'm not going to stop now."

At the end of movie I started eating chocolate cake. That's how I got sick. Literally, the day after I shot the scene with Denzel Washington walking on the lake, I started eating four or five chocolate cakes, twelve beers, four steaks, tons of pasta. And my stomach expanded... I had to go on medication, for dizziness, lightheadedness, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder... I've been off the medication for a couple of weeks now - after two years! That taught me a lot about what I can and can't do, what I should and shouldn't do. But I liked the role and I worked for the role. It cost a lot to get there and I'm glad that I stuck with it.

On his performances. I'm always pleased with my performances because I know that I couldn't do it any better. I always try my hardest, give it all I've got. If people don't like it, then they don't like it, that's totally up to them. But I'll never have a regret about it. And Good Will Hunting is a lot about that, about not having regrets in life. If it's putting on a lot of weight, if it's going to bar-tend or.., whatever it is, fine if you don't like it. You just do whatever it takes to get to the truth of the character. I don't think there's any length that you should not go to do that. That's what we do for a living.

On being best friends with, but also in constant competition with fellow actor-writer Ben Affleck. Well, we've had rises and falls that weren't necessarily meteoric but the word was "Us". If one of us was working and we had enough for both of us to go through life, great. The money was basically there to be shared. Ben would be in a series, like eight episodes, he made a little money, great. I did something, I made a little money, great. We're always looking out for each other. We go out for the same parts all the time but it's never really come down to a director saying, "It's either you or Ben." It would be more like, " It's Brad Pitt or you." But you always root for your own guy. I hung out with a bunch of actors and I always felt that if I don't get it, I hope someone in the group does, because I thought they were the best guys around and they deserved it.

On co-writing, part one. There are a bunch of different ways to do it. We really didn't have a formula. There were a lot of times when Ben and I just improv'd. We'd take a tape-recorder, put it down and just start improvising. Eventually we might come up with for a half-hour improv out of which we might have fifteen seconds that were good. And we'd be looking through the tape and "Yeah yeah yeah! That's it! That one! Write that down." And maybe a scene would start from that line.

It also depended upon our work schedules. At one point, I ran out of money and I took a job that ended up being a wonderful job, a TNT movie called The Good Old Boys that Tommy Lee Jones directed. The bad part was I was stuck in Alpine, Texas. There was one fax machine in the entire town run by this Iranian guy named Rajou. I used to go and he would send my fax away for me. He drove a Lexus and it was the only Lexus in West Texas. And his license plate read "Rajou". Anyway, Rajou was our middle man for our script for a few months there.

So Ben would fax me scenes, I'd look at them and I'd make notes. It would give me ideas, I'd send that back to Ben, Ben would read it... You know what I mean? And then we'd call each other on the phone and say, "Okay, that worked, this didn't work. — All right, now I see from this scene we needed this other scene... — Okay, I'll work on that. I'll take a shot on the set tomorrow, they're shooting a scene I'm not in, I'll have a couple of hours to do just that and I'll fax it to you at the end of the day." That's basically how it went.

On co-writing as opposed to going it alone. Well, two things: In the first place, writing came out of frustration, 'cause I didn't get a job. Two: co-writing was the only option. I had written forty pages for a class and I didn't know what to do with them. Didn't know where to go, didn't have the discipline to sit in front of the computer and wait for something to happen.

I showed it to Ben who, I think, is one of the brightest guys that I know, we have similar sensibilities — and he had the same reaction: He liked it but didn't know where to go with it. We sat on it for a year. And then it started coming. And it was through conversation that the movie kind of came out. Had I written it alone, it would have never gone beyond the forty pages.

On Gus Van Sant. Oh, man. Just that edge that we see in his films! All actors want to work with him because of the moment-to-moment honesty that he gets out of interaction with people. Whatever they are, he always has a great idea as to where to put the camera, and he gets good performances out of the actors because he shoots around them. He rehearses them, then very calmly decides where to put the camera, in a very unobtrusive place. It's just amazing. I felt like my acting process — whatever you want to call it — was nurtured by him. I would very much like to work with him again.

The fact that Ben and I had written the script didn't interfere at all. As a matter of fact, when it all started, there was almost a ceremonial handoff of the project. We said, "Look man, you are the director. This was our baby, it's yours now, go and do whatever it is you have to do." Despite the fact that Gus is a very communal director in that he wants everyone's opinions, which makes you feel you're part of the team, there can only be one chef in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. Movies are the last great dictatorship. They need that. They need a strong voice, and a decisive voice, and the director is that voice. It has to be. Ben and I were very conscious about our place. As actors. When it started.

Before that was something else entirely [he laughs]. Gus and Ben came down to Memphis while I was shooting The Rainmaker. As we were working on the script, Gus said, "I want Chuckie (the Ben Affleck character) to get flattened on a construction site. — What do you mean? — Killed. Crushed like a bug. I want somebody to say, 'Chuckie was killed, he was crushed like a bug.'" Ben and I said, "That's a terrible idea! You can't kill him! — No, man. It'll be cool. It'll be the Act II climax. — That's a terrible Act II climax."

Anyway, we wrote a draft where Chuckie got crushed like a bug. When Gus read it, he said, "It's a terrible idea", so we threw it out. We probably have it on our hard drive somewhere. We also have Will getting killed on our hard drive somewhere. That was an original ending: Carmine came back with his boys and a baseball bat to kill Will Hunting, who deep down actually wanted to be killed. It was his way of getting out. You can kind of sense the movie is going that way. You know: "Will drives off into the sunset to find the girl he lost — except for that 18-wheeler that he didn't see." [laughs]

What will happen when - if - Will gets to California? You have to ask Minnie Driver... I think Skylar, her character, will whip his ass. That's it: Good Will Hunting the sequel, scene one: " Will gets whipped." But I don't really know where we would go from there.

[deldeldel90]

do perchance have any fun silly book recs for me... =]

ooh silly book recs.......

mouse divided by Jeff Ryan (he's a very silly narrator, let me tell you this man has JOKES. he's soooo 2014)

ever after high: storybook of legends (A CLASSIC. so good!!!! Milton Grimm in this book :)) )

deep dish by Mary Kay Andrews (she's a splendid narrator and I could ramble on about this side couple that absolutely captured my heart- Zeke my beloved- and overall, the characters have so much charm and the narration is perfect)

cupcakes & kisses by heldi and Billie (OKAY. this is completely self indulgent. And this book reads like a Wattpad story from the 2010s and it's so cliche BUT!!!!!!! I love my stories like that. everything is so chaotic. the pov changes every three seconds. I love it so dearly)

and Matilda by Roald Dahl,, it's just a really good book that I found really comforting to read :))

[moonchild-in-blue]

4, 7, and 22 for the EOY asks? ^_^

Hehehe hii~ 🦎

4 - Movie of the year?

Uhhhh *googles 2023 releases*

I- I don't think I've watched a single new movie this year 🙃 I just rewatch Pride and Prejudice over and over and over lmao. There's many that are on my tbw list (Spiderverse / the new Roahl Dahl ones from Netflix / BARBIE (omg) /etc). I'm terrible with new releases, sorry 😬

Does The Witcher s3 counts? Or that last Sex Education season? Or does Alice in Borderland count? I've started last month and I'm almost done. It's new to me!

7 - Favourite actor of the year?

Me. Because I act like i'm so cool and well-adjusted, and people seem to believe it 💅🏼✨ (kidding! my nerd lame ass can't fool no one haha)

Hummmm even though I haven't watched either of them, can I say the Barbieheimmer cast? Margot and Ryan were SERVING during promos (mother 💖), and Cillian is AMAZING and I'm glad he's getting all the praise.

22 - Favourite place you visited this year?

London! I haven't traveled much this year (i have been ✨sad✨), but i went to London a few times earlier in the year to see my sister. We didn't go to anywhere special, as I'm well acquainted with the city, but just being with her is everything to me so. Yeah. My sister's place 💖🥺