#the dark moon trilogy

[restingcorpse]

[maumoraart]

Hey everyone! I'm open for illustration and comics commissions! I love drawing fanart, OCs, and character designs! Let me know if you're interested. Shares are always appreciated! 🧡

[crusaderguy]

I'm surprised that Soundwave's whole body hasn't snapped into two pieces due to him carrying the whole entire Decepticon faction for 39 FUCKING YEARS!!!

[gennsoup]

Not every boredom is the same, but what kind of living is this where she can tell the many boredoms apart?

Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King

[gobulin]

Dark Hollow

(no idea what to call this, is this a cinemagraph?)

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

As someone who is guilty of loving all three of these (and who is currently writing one of them), I'm curious to see what others think.

[pocoslip]

Needlenose used to think he has the "Coolest Gun Ever" until he learn Shockwave has his own Mechtech Weapon too

(i don't like dotm but some toys and gimmicks are kinda neat)

[charactersonstrike]

End of an Era: Finishing a Decade-Long Book Series

When I was sixteen, I bought a cool-looking dragon notebook from Barnes and Noble with my Christmas money. I had no idea what I would write in it, but later that week, an idea came to me: a girl with red hair, dreaming of a werewolf every night. I didn’t know it yet, but that small idea would eventually become Waxing Moon, my debut novel, and its sequel Waning Moon. Now, I’m working on the third…

[the-d3vil]

A collage of artists, acrylic painted by me

Future // Monster

Kid Cudi // Man on The Moon 3: The Chosen

The Weeknd // Trilogy

Kanye West // My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Travis Scott // Rodeo

Kanye West & Kid Cudi // Kids See Ghosts

[bonythesquirrel]

it’s not Halloween?

[aroundmes1tsthen1ght]

"Time is a cobra. Coiling and coiling,"

Marlon James, from 'Moon Witch, Spider King', first published in 2022.

[denimbex1986]

'While the decision to release Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed film Oppenheimer in the summertime undoubtedly boosted the film commercially, this decision also presents a challenge for the film’s, and Nolan’s, Oscar prospects, as Hollywood studios typically release their most Oscar-worthy films in the fall, when Oscar nominations are voted on.

However, this seems to be a minor concern, as while Oppenheimer, which has presently grossed more than $600 million at the worldwide box office, has been somewhat overshadowed by the blockbuster comedy fantasy film Barbie, Oppenheimer, with its reverberating themes and striking visuals, has dominated the public discourse and will likely continue to do so by the time that the 2024 Oscar nominees are announced.

While Oppenheimer seems to be virtually assured of receiving multiple Oscar nominations, specifically in the Best Director and Best Picture categories, there is also a palpable sense that Nolan, who received five previous Oscar nominations, is destined to win his first Oscar for Oppenheimer, if for no other reason than because it feels like it’s Nolan’s turn.

However, while Oscar victory seems likely, if not inevitable, for Nolan and Oppenheimer, there is still a long way to go for Nolan and Oppenheimer, as there are several upcoming films that could bring defeat for Nolan, who is deservedly regarded as the greatest living filmmaker who has yet to win an Oscar.

Christopher Nolan Deserves Three Oscar Nominations for Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan, whose most recent Oscar nominations were the Best Director and Best Picture nominations that Nolan received for his 2018 historical war thriller film Dunkirk, deserves, and will most likely receive, three Oscar nominations for Oppenheimer, for Best Director, Best Picture, and for Nolan’s screenplay, which was adapted from the 2005 book American Prometheus, a full-scale biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the world’s first atomic bomb.

Of these three possible Oscar nominations, Nolan is most clearly deserving of a Best Director nomination for Oppenheimer, which represents a brilliant directorial achievement, as Nolan flawlessly interweaves the dramatic aspects of Oppenheimer’s complex life with the fascinating and richly detailed story of the development of the atomic bomb.

Of all the films that are presently eligible for the 2024 Academy Awards, Nolan’s direction of Oppenheimer represents the most challenging directorial assignment and most impressive achievement, as while there are doubtlessly other great filmmakers who could have successfully translated Oppenheimer’s story, and that of the creation of the atomic bomb, perhaps no other filmmaker, dead or living, could have made a better film than Oppenheimer.

Of course, the technical and visual mastery that is showcased in Oppenheimer is grounded in Nolan’s intricate, layered screenplay, which seamlessly presents objective and subjective perspectives while marshalling a large gallery of characters, all of whom, regardless of the length of their screen time, appear in the film as distinctive, important, unique figures.

The Toughest Oscar Competition Has Yet to Arrive

If the voting window for the 2024 Academy Awards ended now, Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer would be the leading Oscar contenders alongside Barbie and Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who presently seems to be Nolan’s strongest competition for the Best Director Oscar.

However, as Hollywood studios are known to save their strongest films for the fall season, there are several upcoming films that have also generated strong Oscar buzz, most notably the Michael Mann-directed biographical drama film Ferrari, the Martin Scorsese-directed Western crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon, and the drama film Saltburn.

Indeed, Hollywood insiders have already declared that Killers of the Flower Moon, which received effusive critical acclaim at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and is slated to be released theatrically in North America in October 2023, is currently the favorite to win Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, all of the categories that Nolan could possibly receive nominations for.

Excluding the actual merits of the unreleased Killers of the Flower Moon, while Nolan currently seems to have tremendous momentum in his bid to win an Oscar, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Scorsese, could emerge as clear Oscar favorites by the end of 2023, depending, of course, on how the film is received by audiences and critics.

Finally, as the 2024 Academy Awards will mark the first Oscar ceremony for which the Academy’s controversial new diversity policy will take effect, what better way is there for the Academy to demonstrate its commitment to diversity than to make Barbie director Greta Gerwig the fourth female filmmaker in Academy history to win the Best Director Oscar?

Christopher Nolan: The Greatest Living Filmmaker Without an Oscar

Whether or not Christopher Nolan wins an Oscar for Oppenheimer or any other film in his career, Oppenheimer represents the latest example of how Nolan has become, arguably, the greatest, and the most influential, filmmaker of the 2000s.

While Nolan has received several previous Oscar nominations, Nolan’s career also stands as a rebuke of the Oscar voting process, as several of Nolan’s previous films have received much more acclaim and are much more relevant today than most, if not all, Oscar-winning films from the past twenty years.

Indeed, as 2008’s The Dark Knight, Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins and the second installment in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, is considered by many people to be not only Nolan’s best film but also one of the greatest films of the 2000s, while the film received multiple Oscar nominations, Nolan was ignored.

As Steven Spielberg, who is one of Nolan’s great admirers, had to wait approximately twenty years to receive his first Oscar, Nolan, who made his feature directorial debut with the 1998 crime thriller film Following, shouldn’t feel discouraged if he doesn’t win an Oscar for Oppenheimer. In fact, such an oversight might prove that Nolan is simply too good to win an Oscar.'

[orphancookie69]

Nintendo Direct: June 2023

I have been catching the last couple of Nintendo Directs, and I was super psyched to see the most recent one. The one before gave us old handheld systems playable on the Nintendo Switch. So I was hoping for good news in games coming up...

Now, I watched it on 6/25 so days after. If you have a switch, you can still watch it. Or maybe Youtube? Here are some of my thoughts on the games I saw: 

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLC: I have been out of the pokemon loop for while but the DLC’s look good. 

Sonic: same thing with pokemon, but glad to see it still alive. It has been around a while. 

Palia: looks like a neat real life simulator. 

Persona 5 Tactica: Cute characters in chibi form! Happy to see a title that has only one other title on switch to have more titles. 

Mythforce: this is such a nostalgia trap, but it looks real fun! I would totally play this! 

Splatoon 3 Splatfest: This game seems like COD but kid version. I never really got into this. But this looks like DLC. 

Detective Pikachu Returns: The movie was great, the game was good. I love this as a direction for Pokemon. 

Super Mario RPG: This is a remake of an older game of the same name. It looks like a refreshing take on mario games, which are classic. 

New Nintendo Switch Peach Game: This looks like another remake of an older game. 

Luigi’s Mansion 2 Dark Moon: Another old remake, I do love the Luigi games and hope that this is to appease the players as they make a new one. 

Batman Arkham Trilogy: This was supposed to be one of the better batman games and comics, and this looks dope-I am looking forward to playing this for the first time on switch. 

Gloomhaven: Good looking game, card based. 

Just Dance: nice active game, nice to see it continuing. 

Silent Hope: Anime game. meh. 

Fae Farm: this looks good, I kind of think there are too many simulators out, but it is supposed to be one of the better ones. 

Hot Wheels Unleased 2: Looks ok for a racing game, but I also kind of feel like there is a lot of competition in this genre. 

Manic Mechanics: This game looks like overcooked, and the builder game. I love games like this, this one is happening. 

Mario + Rabbids Spark of Hope: Mario doesn’t do well in turn based games, in my opinion, but its an interesting game. 

Dragon Quest Monsters: This looks like a pokemon wannabe, but it looks not bad. 

Pikmin 1, 2, 4: I have never played this series but it looks cute and I would not mind this as a multiplayer family game. 

Metal Gear Solid Master Collection: this is an old game, I might even try it if it goes on sale.  

Vampire Survivors: This game looks really fun, simple but oh so deceptively hard. I do really want to try this game. 

Headbangers Rhythm Royale: I am getting this game, its a beat game with birds. Yes. 

Penny’s Big Breakaway: It looks like a hodgepodge of many games but unique in its own way. 

Mario Kart Booster Course Pass Wave 5: I should be more excited but I am not. 

Star Ocean The Second Story R: Meh, another anime game. 

WarioWare Move It: This looks like 1 2 switch but mario, I mean wario. Might be nice for an active game. 

The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Amiibo: Amiibos are still a thing? This game looks good, but there are so many zeldas out at one time right now. 

Super Mario Bros Wonder: Looks like a new direction for the mario side scroller. 

For those that want to read more about this: https://www.nintendolife.com/features/nintendo-direct-june-2023-every-announcement-and-game-reveal

There were so many games revealed, that I had to reference the list to make this post. Obviously, ones that did not stick with me means I was not the intended customer but there are so many gaming customers these days! Games I am looking forward to are: Headbangers Rhythm Royale, Vampire Survivors, Manic Mechanics, Batman Arkham Trilogy. What games are you looking forward to? 

[tamperedtrap]

princess peach is getting her own game. i do not know how to explain how much i am shaking right now

[gennsoup]

Somebody might call this hope. Just a speck when despair is an ocean, but maybe that speck is all one need. That speck but a pebble in a shoe, but it prick at you with every step.

Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King

[phoenixkaptain]

I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.