#still very good

[thecindercrow]

Attack the Block (2011) dir. Joe Cornish

[maxine-kiy900]

Top Gun Recut

[zakuryoishi]

夏がやってくる so peak and for what

[somepsychopomp]

Reading The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon and it’s a really good psychological/supernatural horror novel! And the time travel element in it is super cool and really well done.

The one thing I’ll say is that the main character is supposed to be terribly guilty over cutting contact with her manic/egotistical older sister and I’m 200 out of 300 pages into this book and still think that was the right move 🧍🏻. Like I’m sorry but I hate a cocky bitch. If her dying is what it takes to shut her up I’m all for it

[amethystina]

President Heo is a total moran.😑 I do not understand how he even became President in the first place. Seriously! He's like a damn child trying to act like a grown-up and failing spectacularly.

Minister Cha is so ruthless right?! We talk about Judge Kang being it but damn, she is on the same damn level, maybe even worse because she let the floggings happen to her son.

 Jin-joo is just adorable! A ray of sunshine, she's just fun to watch.

 Soo-hyun is so badarse! The way she entered that room and then fought those men with her bat? stick? whatever they call that in English. She is badarse!!!

And I swear I thought Judge Kang was actually doing that 'surgery'! I mean, I wouldn't put it past him.... I was relieved when it turned out to be a damn dream 🤣

Sun-ah is so damn creepy! She was already uneasy to see in the very beginning but now, with the kidnapping and the creepy house and stuff.... NO, we do not support kidnapping people and then kissing them no matter how pretty they are!

Every episode is such a wild ride! 😮😮😮

Yeah, it's almost a comfort when the other rich people make it clear that they made sure he got elected? Because, like, that implies a rigged election of some sort? Or at least very targeted propaganda. Which gives back SOME faith in humanity because, all of a sudden, they didn't pick him because they thought he was the best candidate, but rather because they were most likely manipulated into doing so. Who would want that disaster of a man for president? x'D

Real talk, I LOVE Minister Cha. As a character, obviously, not a person. Because while it's clear that she's cold and ruthless, she also has moments of vulnerability where she seems almost conflicted about her actions. It shows she might not be entirely PROUD of everything she's done, but she does it because she thinks she has to. She's honestly one of the most human antagonists they have in the drama. And while I don't exactly sympathise with her (since she does a lot of bad things) I can see the person underneath. And, just maybe, she's not all bad, but rather someone who started making bad decisions and then just never stopped. Unlike President Heo, who almost feels like a caricature in comparison.

Jin Joo is my queen and I love her.

Her baton? xD But yes, Soo Hyun is very cool! And I do like the moments they give her to BE cool.

Honestly, I also wouldn't put it past Yo Han to insist on personally castrating a man he felt deserved it. But when he brought out the scissors and straddled the dude I was convinced it couldn't be real. Mainly because it was such a shift in tone and storytelling that it would have been weird if it hadn't been a dream.

No, we do not support kidnapping or sexual assault (which is the proper term for what she did) and she is indeed creepy as hell. And, much like Minister Cha, a very interesting character in general. In many ways, she's the female equivalent of Yo Han (very simplified — it's obviously a lot more complicated than that) but I like that they also have their differences. And I really like the dynamic she has with Yo Han — it's very interesting.

They are! A lot happens in every episode and there's honestly very little time wasted on fillers or pointless detours, which is something I appreciate. It made the drama very easy to watch, at least for me.

[lairn]

Obsessed with Sarah Goldberg’s performance in this monologue.

[jellyfishjulie]

I have avoided it for some time but boy howdy I am not really enjoying killing eve s4

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[panakina]

I think it’d be funny if Dick and Jason, due to wearing bright yellow capes on the job for years, are capable of stealth to a frankly unhinged degree. They barely have to try anymore it’s so second nature. Dick can just completely disappear while in the loudest neon clothes imaginable. Jason is constantly startling people who don’t understand how they missed a guy the size of a fridge standing right there. Bruce is extremely grateful for his unbreakable poker face because they have both startled him by accident and would never ever let him live it down if they knew.

[evgar]

having death on her knees... crazy stuff only agatha harkness could do

[nipuni]

the snake of eden 🥰

[mroddmod]

everyone be quiet i'm manifesting

[katsinspats]

I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes

Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh:

[eldritch-t]

Finished watching left right game part two on creep cast and hoooo boy is it good. Sad yeah, but good. I kinda wish I could play the left-right game, however I'm aware it would either not work or I would die horribly and go on to haunt the road.

[kensatou]

the h in nhl stands for homoerotic

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