#the fireplace

[crystallizsch]

okay ack hi im finally gonna 💥💥💥

THE‼️‼️ GIRLS‼️‼️‼️‼️ THEIR SWEATERS 😭😭😭💖💕 THEYRE SO ADORABLE I WANT TO CHEW ON THEM AFFECTIONATELY. AND THE SANTA JAMIL DOODLE IN THE CORNER—

ALSO THE HOT DRINKS. THE SNAKE JAMIL PLUSH. MONOPOLY AND UNO.

THE VIBES ARE SO HOMEY AND RELAXINGGG

ALSO FAYROUZ IS ABOUT TO OBLITERATE MAYU WITH THAT +4 😭😭😭 AND YUUSHA JUST WATCHING THIS GO DOWN—

HOWD THEY SURVIVE TWO FRIENDSHIP-ENDER GAMES ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

UGHFHDHSHS IT’S SO COZY AND CUTE WE LOVE HOLIDAY NIGHT AT RAMSHACKLE‼️‼️ (jamil will be invited later. maybe.) (actually him specifically is not allowed ❌❌❌)

i love this so much syder i wish i can properly express it and also dont mind me rambling more below im just 😭💖💕💕

i don’t think i’ve expressed how i love this so much or else it would have been a whole essay in the messages AND ITD FEEL AWKWARD HDBJS

i just want to point out first of all i have bias because these are like. my favorite type/genre of art?? like domestic/slice-of-life vibes with so much environmental details that gives character and storytelling to the setting and the characters in it— im just eating it up and i love picking them apart + theres like a blend of simplicity and complexity to it (and to your style specifically) that i cant properly descrivbe but im love it so much i just love catching little details theyre so fun and engaging and im aghdhhsjsj (this is catered to me specifically actually /jjjj)

i wanna talk about the other ones too—

i love the oz and mayu one so much. SNOW STATUE BUILDING‼️ ONE OF MY FAVE TROPES 💥💥💥THE SNOW SNAKE WITH THE RIBBON 😭💖 and the way it still has that signature jamil look + it has the ozbnnuy and mayuborb as its little companions aghh

oz’s winter coat and mayu’s red outfit are so adorable as welllll 💥 they have different vibes of clothing but theyre still both dressed like people you’d love to meet out in the snow i love them 😭

and the last one with the KIBBIES- i love how raven and mayu are just chilling too,,

i see leonya’s tail underneath the table- and honestly tbh it’s been a while since i played neko atsume so i cant catch the blatant reference BUT oh i love how theyre just chilling with jade and nyamil— the little cars-

mayu you are forever beloved i love her 💥💥💥‼️

ANYWAYS thank you SO SO much syder (and also to felle hi if you see this too) to being such great friends yall are honestly some of the best people ive met— happy holidays much mwah much love you deserve the world 💥💥💥💖💖💕😭😭

A few holiday presents for some friends! Hope everybody has been having a relaxing holiday season ☃

Character tags: Yuusha @crystallizsch, Fayrouz @fell-e, Oz @viperbunnies, and Raven @raven-at-the-writing-desk

[oldfarmhouse]

𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞

[cynthiaandsamus]

"Our town is known for its clumsy hunks." Omfg

[flowerchildasriel]

I really wish we could have seen Ember enjoy playing with glass more than we did! I mean, she fixes the front display window easily and makes the glass vivisteria flower with even more ease.

I wish we could have seen her fix the display window room with just a little bit more flair to show how she isn’t just good at doing it but likes it more than anything else in the shop. I would have loved to see her room!!! Maybe seeing some of her own glass designs decorating her shelves. Seeing her trace designs in glass idly, smiling, or pause in her deliveries to admire glass sculptures or other windows, or try to make stained glass for the shop windows only be scolded about using her time and energy for better uses.

[thelastfinalgirl]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace). Directed by Casper Kelly (2022)

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Adult Swim Yule Log (2022)

Adult Swim Yule Log should have been a terrible idea, but thanks to a ton of talent, it ends up being one of the better ‘festive’ horrors seen in some time.

Adult Swim Yule Log aka The Fireplace, is all about subverting expectations and delivering originality, something that writer/director Casper Kelly absolutely nails. Beginning as nothing more than one of those fireplace yule log background videos found on YouTube, Adult Swim Yule Log transforms into a meta black comedy horror film. One with surreal twists and turns, and one also willing to put…

[watchingmoviesandshit]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace) (2022)

[moviemosaics]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)

directed by Casper Kelly, 2022

[ducktastic]

The 5th Annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards (part one: music and movies)

(note: I have posted this thread on Twitter at the end of December for the past five years, but with that platform's future more dubious than ever, it makes sense to back up 2022's edition here)

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time for the fifth annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards for all the pop culture I thought was simply the best over the past twelve months.

There's so much, we're gonna slow-drip this year, so let's start with music...

Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack’s solo EP is seventeen minutes of just fantastic collaborations, including a reunion with Pin Me Down bandmate Milena Mepris. Had this been a full LP, it would be way higher in the rankings.

A top-to-bottom reworking of 2020’s New Symbols, this LP benefits from both two more years of Tom Vek’s reflection on his art as well as wider distribution on digital music platforms so people could actually hear it.

Nine years after his debut LP, the French DJ proves his mastery of timeless synth anthems with this album that feels like the soundtrack to a long lost John Hughes movie about sexy computer hackers.

It feels like cheating to include the soundtrack to a 2021 concert film in this list, but the album dropped in 2022 and it freaking rules so whatever. This is the sound of the Dan Greene Cinematic Universe.

A mostly-instrumental album of lush chiptune soundscapes, this high-def volume of Australian electronic anthems begs the question “why aren’t we having another chip resurgence right freakin’ now?” Danceable, worldly, melancholic, and beyond.

A timely reminder that indie rock can be snarky and clever without losing the charm of four-part harmonies and driving hooks. Like cherry red Doc Martens stomping through a field of sunflowers, The Beths show us how to suffer with a smirk.

No album this year felt as immediately BIG as the sophomore effort from this English post-rock phalanx. It commands attention before curling up in a ball to hide at your feet and whisper deep dark secrets in your ear.

Continuing her transformation from cloud rap to pop, Kilo Kish challenges conventions with this collection of toe-tapping bangers about societal woes, public image, self-worth, and the ills of consumerism, all framed within a retro arcade game.

A punk album so specifically of its time without immediately dating itself by naming names. A concept album about running a punk band like a business that comes to its logical conclusion: in-fighting, ego clashes, bankruptcy, and thanking the sponsors.

Simply the best breakup album in ages (sorry Swifties). Cutthroat and callous, honest and earnest, this math rock sophomore LP challenges pop song structure as much as relationships challenge the edges of individual identity.

Wasn't that so much fun? So many fantastic albums in 2022, such wonderful songs to sing and dance to. Good times.

And now, our second category... it's time to talk about MOVIES...

The vainglorious adventures of an aspiring podcaster focusing largely on the culture clash between New York and Texas. Quite possibly the best performance ever from Ashton Kutcher.

While this mock-rock-doc never reaches the parodic highs of Weird Al’s previous “UHF,” the extended Funny Or Die sketch carries heaps of charm with an all-star cast of comedy cameos.

Easily the most unexpected film of the year, this holiday horror fusion brings all the delirious twists and turns you’d expect from the creator of “Too Many Cooks.”

Simply the biggest, boldest, wildest action movie to date, RRR offers more spectacle per minute than Zack Snyder does in an hour, while still finding plenty of time to sing and dance.

Jordan Peele’s third horror film forgoes shocks and scares in favor of slow burn dread with thoroughly enjoyable examinations of race, media, exploitation, and religion.

This celebration of the power of art to question authority and buck societal norms poses the question “what if Freddy Mercury and Jimi Hendrix were best friends in feudal Japan?”

Simply the most fun I had in a movie theater all year. A fast, stylish, star-studded action farce, like Guy Ritchie directing a script by the Coen Brothers, this film taught me more about Thomas the Tank Engine than my nephews ever will.

Proving Knives Out wasn’t a one-off fluke, Rian Johnson delivers a whodunnit with bigger stakes, bigger stars, bigger spectacle, and bigger laughs. A covid-era mystery for Agatha Christie fans of any age.

In their second feature, the Daniels have produced what feels like a once-in-a-generation iconic piece of cinema. Sweeping & grandiose, intimate & delicate, EEAAO is the sci-fi family immigrant tale we never knew we so desperately needed.

The most I’ve cried in the theater since Toy Story 3. Marcel’s journey will melt the most frozen of hearts and make you believe that anything is possible with a positive outlook.

[cannibalspicnic]

I love how you said “I can’t believe Y’all made me make this gif set” about Adult Swim Yule Log/The Fireplace, like it’s not the greatest movie of all time (/jk)

But seriously, what drugs was the director smoking to make a campy horror movie that manages to perfectly encapsulate the cycle of cruelty of the human race?

Honsetly, I was bummed that there were no other gifsets of that movie! It was a really solid movie and no one talks about it! I should make more gifs this year....

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

n.b. the photo may be from 1994 but i'm pretty sure this is the Charles Rennie Mackintosh house, part of the Hunterian art gallery in glasgow, so the furniture & fireplace are actually from c.1905

The Fireplace, 1994

[causalityparadoxes]

The Doctor and TARDIS are perfect for each other because they both have the same terrible taste in partners <3

[oldfarmhouse]

Image via We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/

[cynthiaandsamus]

Motherfuckers changed the lighting and aspect ratio, they ARE in a Hallmark movie. Hope gay bro gets his mechanic lay.

[panozwar]

It’s only a Yule Log, what can possibly go wrong?