#sin festival

[hinamie]

fire nation festival wear aka a blatant excuse for me to push atla clothing design conventions to the absolute Limit

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[hyunpic]

hyunjin on instagram: tokyo

[maelswife]

Low quality but OH MY GOOODDDDDD this is where The Archangels live goodnight

[piosplayhouse]

you're constantly going about how unique and strange and wacky the svsss fandom is but it truly is not i promise you there's a million other online spaces with freaky lesbians and genderisms

I like how you automatically assumed that post was me talking about scum villain for some reason when it was actually about me thinking about a fic where this guy wears lingerie for 3 days straight

[lemon-pilled]

didnt know egotober was a thing til like. yesterday lmao

heres all the zayin abnos, im gonna do the teths in a seperate post

[aarcade]

I've spent the last few days watching through Alan Becker's entire youtube channel. you know the experience, everybody knows the experience. the crude but entertaining videos get better and better, quality spikes in ava4, then again in vs minecraft, then oh my GOD ava8.

but the topic of this post is shorts #30, the king. which I was hyped for beyond belief. so it pains me to say that I. kinda hated it. and I can't find anybody talking about this.

spoiler discussion and why I hate fun or whatever under the break

so first thing, why the FUCK didn't I like shorts #30?? it's the best conclusion the story could've possibly had, right? it was cool as hell, the fights went hard, there was emotional depth, maybe you cried at the end (I saved my tears for the wild robot).

it's uh. it's the emotional depth. specifically the way they resolved king Orange and purple.

the backstory for King Orange is fine, sure. it fits him. minecraft ate your son, so you're gonna destroy minecraft. it's not super complex, but he's a villain and he's got aura (pigstep ����🔥🔥) so it's fine.

purples's backstory in shorts 29 is an absolutely beautiful setup. his constant seeking of approval, his desensitisation to abuse, how much he clearly enjoys being with the main crew. it's a fantastic inner conflict and his self hatred is really well written. green manages to drag him out of it, reminding him of the people that genuinely enjoy his company.

... so he doesn't need the approval of an abusive father figure anymore, right?

back to shorts 30. king nearly kills purple during the big final fight, sees the parallels between the childlike character he's abusing and the son he lost, and has a change of heart. far too little too late, but it's paying off the setups, so sure. let him have a moment before he gets sucked into the black hole.

it's the aftermath of the black hole that pisses me off. like makes me actually fucking angry. after the storm clears, king shows back up looking all sad, and apologises to the cast. and they (seemingly) forgive him. the child abuser, murderer, slaver, and actual fucking genocider.

this would be fine in earlier avm. it's not that serious, it's a fun animation with good fights where everyone makes friends at the end. hell, it's what happens with the character of Alan himself, and that didn't bother me.

but when you write a complex character arc about abuse, self hatred, inner conflict, you're doing big boy serious writing. you're asking me to engage with the work on a slightly higher level in order to appreciate what you're doing here.

AND THEN YOU HAVE PURPLE DRAMATICALLY HUG KING ORANGE???

whose fucking idea was it to resolve an abused child's arc by having them earn the respect of their second abuser and go off to live with him (assumedly)? purple deserves way better than this. king doesn't deserve this at all. even if we set aside his genocide and enslavement of the minecraft world as being wacky cartoon shit- maybe he didn't realise the mobs were sapient, etc etc etc- even then, he still physically beat purple several times and left him for dead.

why does this character deserve a scrap of sympathy? you wrote your villain too evil and then you tried to shoehorn in a redemption because you were on a friendship is magic kick, I guess.

if you want to write a serious story where emotions have weight, don't forgive and redeem a genocider just because ONE of his sins happened to remind him of something bad that happened to him in the past. and if you want to write a fun light story, maybe have a little less child abuse in there???

I loved these videos up until this point and it breaks my heart to be so angry. but Alan Becker fucking fumbled his most interesting character and had him regress from independence back to parental approval, all in the name of giving the worst fucking guy ever the happy ending he definitely doesn't deserve.

[7-ratsinatrenchcoat]

of course ao3 goes down as soon as I decide to write a holiday special. chat is this a sign

[gunkbaby]

merry christmas gunkbabynation! <3

my dad got me morrissey cutout.

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (June 18th)

ChuChu (Show By Rock!!)

Rika (One Piece)

Kazuya Hiramaru (Bakuman)

Cookie (Animal Crossing)

Rakshata (Love Live! School Idol Festival)

Johnny D (Pop’n Music)

Ironside (Four Knights of the Apocalypse)

Rosa (Jewelpet)

Mahiru (Naruto)

Takako Chino (Orange)

Nack Tierce (Attack on Titan)

Mitsuyoshi Misawa (My Little Monster)

Musashi (Gintama)

Sally Saint Ford (Macross 7)

Shunpei Sanada (Diamond no Ace)

Takuya Nabeshima (Cheer Boys!!)

Shizuku Ninomiya (Kyoukai no Kanata)

Shizuru Nakatsu (Rewrite)

Taizoo (Seven Deadly Sins)

Shiho (Naruto)

[desiderium-eden]

"Welcome to ... NAVKA!!"

As the trains entered the tunnels into the Navkan capital, the view from the windows abruptly cut from the soft, pale colors of snow-covered forests to complete darkness. The short-lived black transforming into the golden hues of the city lights once they pass into the stations.

The air was saturated with noise, music, and voices. A sharp contrast to the sleepy silence of the world outside. Signs, people, and lights led the travelers from the trains into the city proper. Bombarded with illusory fireworks and birds as dancers and shopkeepers welcome people with a chaotic chorus of cheers and song.

The streets were lined with dancing lights and painted with colored arrows leading people to the bustling city square. Where a large multi-level stage stayed, floating above the massive fountain. Musicians and dancers atop it added to the noise of the city. As people beneath it handed out small crystal lanterns to everyone.

All while a single voice seemed to boom over everything else.

"Who's ready for a HUUUUNT!!!" she shouted. Voice seemingly carried along the wind. Echoing through alleys as she waited for an answer. "YEEEESSSSS! That's what we want to hear! And for anyone visiting from afar, we welcome you to our humble little fairytale. Feel free to head to the castle for a brief welcoming party."

"Or feel free to make use of our ... special brand of hospitality~"

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Slayer - Captor Of Sin

[beefros-sin-bin]

This is a two-parter in conjunction with my main blog @beefrobeefcal!

part one: Recommend that fic , baby!

Have a fic you wanna recommend bc it made you loose sense of all time & space?

Have a fic you wrote and you're hella proud of it?

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Send it on over in an ask to @beefros-sin-bin with the tag: #rec-a-fic2023 by 4:00 pm MST Sunday, December 24th, 2023.

Fics should have been released in the year of our lord 2023.

P-Boy fics preferred... but if there's a Pedro-Adjacent fic you just gotta share...

Include a blurb about why you submitted the fic.

You can submit anonymously or GO FULL MONTY!

Submissions will remain anonymous unless you explicitly state you want your name on it!

part two: #friend-of-beefro fic recs

The second part is all beef, baby! I'm going to highlight & celebrate the writers who set me on the sinful path I found myself on in 2023. I'll be boosting five fics from each of my founding fathers (affectionate) and telling y'all the reason I love them so much.

Feel-the-magic-there's-something-that-drives-me-wild regards,

Beefro 👌🥩💜

[useless-catalanfacts]

The Seven Virtues in Reus (Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia).

Ash Wednesday is the last day of Carnival week. During the Carnival festivities, people are encouraged to behave in a hedonistic way, without the Christian rules of morality. When Carnival ends, it’s the beginning of Lent, a 40-days period that traditionally was for getting closer to God through prayer, devotion, and where things like eating meat were banned. Though most people don’t follow the Catholic Lent rules anymore, Carnival still remains one of the most popular festivities of the year.

To transition between these two opposite periods, for some years in the city of Reus they have the new traditions of the Seven Virtues. On Ash Wednesday, a personification of Lent and the Seven Virtues dance on the streets of the city.

Lent wears all black and has seven feet hanging from under her skirt (in the Catalan tradition, Lent is always personified as la Vella Quaresma, or “Old Lady Lent”: and elderly woman with seven feet that works as a calendar, for every week we remove one leg to count down the 7 weeks).

The Seven Virtues are dressed in all white. They represent Humility, Generosity, Chastity, Temperance, Patience, Charity and Diligence.

The opposite is also true at the beginning of Carnival week. The Seven Deadly Sins also have their own dance:

Photos by alegresku on Instagram, Olivia Molet for Diari Més Digital, Gerard Martí for Diari Més Digital.

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY Returns to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Today!

Full schedule, tickets and Passports (All-Access Passes) available at NoirCity.com. Eddie Muller in person!

Saturday Matinée • January 20

DOUBLE FEATURE

UNION STATION

1:30 PM

Cops William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald race to foil a kidnapping plot in Chicago's Union Station. The film packs a double-feature's worth of thrills into its brief running time, including some brutality decades ahead of its time. Ace crime scenarist Sydney Boehm keeps the plot humming like a runaway train and director (and renowned cinematographer) Rudolph Maté makes the ride more vivid through use of actual locations. Costarring Nancy (Sunset Blvd.) Olson and a terrifying Lyle Bettger.

UNITED STATES (1950) Dir. Rudolph Maté. 80 min.

CAIRO STATION/ BAB EL HADID

3:30 PM

A newspaper hawker (played by the director himself) at the eponymous train depot develops a frightening obsession with a sexy lemonade vendor. That's the premise for a suspenseful drama which cunningly uses the bustling station to depict clashing strata of Egyptian society. Chahine's combination of gritty authenticity and psychosexual Expressionism created a landmark of Egyptian cinema—despite public boycotts over its unflinching perversity and politics. Costar Hind Rustum was nicknamed "The Arab Marilyn Monroe." In Arabic with English subtitles

EGYPT (1958) Dir. Youssef Chahine. 77 min.

TICKETS FOR SATURDAY MATINÉE DOUBLE FEATURE

Saturday Evening • January 20

DOUBLE FEATURE

ODD MAN OUT

7:00 PM

This intense manhunt thriller won the inaugural "Best Film" prize from the British Academy of Film Awards, and it remains one of the most highly regarded movies ever made in the United Kingdom. James Mason plays fugitive Irish Nationalist Johnny McQueen, roped into a heist that goes fatally wrong. Can Johnny navigate his way safely through a nocturnal nightmare of danger and deceit? Robert Krasker's cinematography is as good as his legendary work with Reed on The Third Man. An all-time classic!

UNITED KINGDON (1947) Dir. Carol Reed. 116 min.

VICTIMS OF SIN / VICTIMAS DEL PECADO

9:30 PM

NEW 4K RESTORATION  A film that virtually leaps off the screen. The music, the characters, the confrontations, the emotions—all boil over the top in this uniquely Mexican version of noir dubbed rumberas. Sexy Ninón Sevilla dances up a storm in a club featuring some of Latin America's top performers—Pérez Prado, Rita Montaner and Pedro Vargas—all while dodging a vicious pimp, defying her boss, and rescuing an abandoned baby from the trash. As André Breton is reputed to have said, "In Europe we talk about surrealism, in Mexico they live it every day." In Spanish with English subtitles

MEXICO (1951) Dir. Emilio Fernández. 90 min.

TICKETS FOR saturday evening DOUBLE FEATURE

[sin-aesthetic-music]

Dancing at Burning Man (2024)

[tearsofthekabak]

Life update: trip sucked, legal and financial chaos ensued... Now the dust has settled, the emo squirrels living in my backyard are adorably round and fat, and I'm back in driving this good old meat suit on first person mode again