#the movie calendar

[trickygreyarea]

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Alexandria: Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die? Roy: It's my story. Alexandria: Mine too.

The Fall (Tarsem, 2006)

This film is like a pitch black Wizard of Oz shot by National Geographic and filtered through the mind of a traumatized six-year old English language learner. The staggering beauty of every image cannot be overstated, but there is so much more to it than that. The transitions and the visual motifs interwoven between reality and the fantasy world are ingenious. There are moments of humor, adventure, heartbreak, and sheer awe, highlighted by unforgettable performances from Lee Pace and Catinca Untaru.

The Fall is timeless. I've selected it as my first pick of the new year because it's infinitely rewatchable, newly available for home viewing (on MUBI), and I can't think of a better way to start the year, movie-wise.

[trickygreyarea]

One of my favorites! 💋 💌 🔑 🎄 🧦 ❄️ 🥀

Always tops my watch list for Christmas Eve! ❤️

🎄 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS → DAY SIX 🎄 THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940), dir. Ernst Lubitsch “My dearest sweetheart, Klara, I can't stand it any longer. Take your key and open post office box 237 and take me out of my envelope... and kiss me.”

[bluedelliquanti]

mother of god, what a day for it to be Pacific Rim Double Event Day

[lovetogether]

[stil-lindigo]

the sunset.

a comic about two outlaws who loved each other, despite everything.

creative notes:

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all my other comics

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[mlentertainment]

happy watermelon dayyyyyyyyyyy 💚🩷🍉🎟🧸

[ayjaydraws]

See the beauty of nature in our March art preview, drawn by Cheapslaw (Tumblr)!

This is just one of 12 pieces featured in The Stobotnik 2025 Calendar, a collaborative project by Stobotnik fans, for Stobotnik fans! 12 fantastic fandom artists have come together to produce a full 2025 calendar, available for pre-order now! Pre-orders are open Dec 20 2024 – Jan 5 2025 for physical versions of the calendar, shipped right to your door. A combo pack is also available, featuring both a physical and digital version of the calendar. Digital-only PDF versions will also go up for sale once the physical pre-order period has ended! A whole year of everyone’s favourite evil couple to hang on your wall, with blank squares below for you to write birthdays, holidays, appointments, or reminders for your sycophants to buy more Austrian goat milk. Pre-order your copy of The Stobotnik 2025 Calendar now at https://ko-fi.com/ayjaydraws!

[mcytadventevent]

@cuterrguy is creating for Day Nineteen!

Prompt: Traditions

His piece is drawn, featuring Martyn and Ren!

Credit links:

https://www.tumblr.com/cuterrguy

https://bsky.app/profile/antowoknee.bsky.social

https://youtube.com/@antowoknee?si=7_LPdmJYOWZW3Eqw

[communistkenobi]

I have to shed cool guy posting brain. whenever my beautiful Mutuals post about youtube drama between guys who review bidets or write cutthroat kitchen rpf I think the world is so beautiful and full of wonder. But I’m too shy to talk about what I’ve been doing (reading mission impossible fanfiction)

[trickygreyarea]

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Gabor: Beyond the age of 40, knife throwing becomes erratic. That's why I recruit on bridges. I like to help.

Girl on the Bridge (Leconte, 1999)

Adele is disappointed romantically to the point of giving up, standing on a bridge with her toes dangling off the parapet. Gabor is a knife thrower looking for a new target. If Adele didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. The same can be said for Gabor. But as two strangers who meet by chance and start working together, somehow their fortunes change for the better. It seems the cosmic equivalent of two wrongs making a right. But can they embrace this reversal of fortune or will they revert to old habits? Vanessa Paradis' Adele is fickle but sweet, eager to return a smile and read promises of 'forever' into a flirtatious glance. Daniel Auteuil's Gabor tries to project weary cynicism and a belief that what he and Adele have stumbled upon must be too good to last; his wry comments on Adele's impulsivity when it comes to men belie his fragile hope that their luck will stick.

Of course, in a film about performers, the scenes of them practicing their art become a highlight. Adele quite literally fell into this profession and has no idea what to expect when knives start hurtling towards her, but she takes direction well and allows Gabor to bandage her occasional nicks (occupational hazard) with a bemused smile. Gabor is seasoned, but you suspect he has had some rough patches where things went awry. Each knife-throwing scene is different, from their first attempt in a parking garage to Gabor promising increasingly risky stage variations (blind! the Wheel of Death!) to keep the audience's attention. The scenes are intensely erotic, as Gabor and Adele feel the power of their risk-taking enthrall the audience, while they simultaneously feel their own confidence build and the reciprocal trust between them flourish. They develop a mind meld with which they can communicate telepathically, eventually across miles. During a passionate argument, they both realize they want nothing more in that exact moment than the potent thrill they both feed off of when existence is balanced on the edge (or rather the tip) of Gabor's knives. The sound design brings us into the action, as the knives whiz past and bite into the surface Adele stands against while she gasps in ecstasy.

If this all sounds a bit too kinky or the black and white cinematography suggests pretention, fear not. There are delicious moments of serendipity, playfulness, and irony, including one of my favorite musical cues in all of film. (I'll not spoil the song, but it happens when Adele boards a lifeboat with a new love interest and leaves Gabor in the lurch. Let's just say it doesn't take long for her to regret her decision.) Ultimately, Gabor and Adele rarely touch physically but there's no room for doubt they are each other's Person. And watching them discover that truth is one of the delights of cinema.

[artkaninchenbau]

You know what day it— V-Tamer?! Happy Odaiba Memorial Day! 🎉 And Happy 25th Anniversary V-Tamer! ❤️ [Odaiba Memorial Redraw 2022] [Redraw 2021] [Redraw 2020]

[kirider]

[20/12/2024]

Happy one year to Ikki dying and going to purgatory (which of course looks like the toku quarry)

[writerfae]

Christmas movie au Advent Calendar 🎄

Day Nine: 🍪Baking🍪

Christmas special tag list: @bunnymermaidsblog @deadlycupid @dustylovelyrun @ladywithalamp @sleepy-night-child @theguywithnonickname

Talon couldn’t remember the last time he ever baked.

He must’ve been a kid back then, helping his mother and sister with Christmas preparations. He hadn’t done that in a long time.

He was no talent in the kitchen, but as he told Aiden and Maya, the two had told him not to worry about it.

“Making cookies is easy, everyone can do it.”

Besides, they said, he had two experts with him.

“Baking is literally part of my job,” Maya reminded him. “And Aiden here has been helping me and my mother with making the cookies for the Christmas market ever since we were children.”

When Halea would find out that Talon was helping to bake cookies, she’d probably fall off her chair laughing.

She was absolutely convinced that her friend could set fire to cereal and she had more than one reason to believe that.

Luckily he wasn’t as much of a disastrous baker as he had anticipated.

He would lie if he said he wasn’t at least a little daunted when he was sat in front of a massive bowl and told to make a portion of dough all by himself, cause apparently they needed so much of it that that one bowl - or even two - won’t do.

But beside the fact that the flour he dumped into the bowl left behind a cloud of dust that made him cough and covered half his face, which resulted in Aiden clinging to Maya in laughter, it all went rather smoothly.

Okay, maybe Talon did throw some flour at Aiden about laughing at him and maybe that did result in a little flour battle that Maya later scolded them for, even if it was in a fond tone that gave away she wasn’t actually mad.

Nearly the whole countertop was covered in rolled out Christmas cookie dough.

As they started to cut out the dough in the form of stars and Christmas trees Talon was sure that they could feed the whole town plus reindeer population with the amount of cookies they were making.

“That’s the goal,” Aiden said laughing, when Talon voiced his thought to the other two. “They’ll be sold at the Christmas market after all. You’d be surprised how fast these cookies are gone.”

They chatted about this and that while they cut out the cookies and Talon had to admit to himself that he indeed had fun, something he didn’t expect.

Though he should’ve guessed, because with Aiden everything turned out to be more fun than he expected it to.

He was just fun to be around with his jokes and stories and the occasional friendly touches that never failed to make Talon’s heart react to it - and it made Talon feel content.

In fact, he hasn’t felt as good, as happy in a long while (if you left out the big elephant in the room, that was).

After the first few batches were in the oven. Maya excused herself because of an appointment she apparently forgot about.

“I’ll be back in an hour or so,” she had told them. “Remember to melt the chocolate for the topping, the first load should be done in a while. And Talon, make sure the chocolate actually ends up on the cookies and not in Aiden’s stomach instead.”

With that last warning she was gone.

Aiden pouted. “Killjoy.”

Talon laughed. “Come on, let’s do what she told us. Maybe I’ll let you have some of the chocolate if you tell me how we’ll best get it to melt.”

Now it was Aiden who laughed. “Deal.”

The batches were done right on time as they finished melting the chocolate.

They got them out of the oven, put in the next few batches and once the cookies had cooled down a little, began to decorate them with the chocolate and all kinds of other stuff.

As most of the melted chocolate was spread out on the cookies, Aiden took a spoon and began to scrape up the rest that was still in the bowl.

As he found Talon looking at him, he chuckled. “What? You said I could have some of the chocolate.”

He offered Talon the spoon full of chocolate. “Or do you want some, too?”

Instead of answering, Talon simply leaned forward and took the offered spoon into his mouth. Aiden’s eyes widened in surprise, but he held the eye contact Talon maintained throughout it all (in strange rush of confidence) until Talon leaned back into his seat again.

“Thanks,” he said with a grin on his face. “That tasted good.”

Aiden swallowed, then he nodded. Loading the spoon with chocolate once again, he lifted it to his own lips this time, not at all seeming to mind that this was the same spoon Talon had in his mouth seconds ago.

Talon couldn’t stop his eyes from staring down at Aiden’s mouth as he licked the spoon clean.

Oh, he was so gone for this boy, who was he even trying to kid.

Aiden’s gaze flickered up to Talon watching him and for a moment they only stared at each other, spoon and chocolate and everything else around them forgotten.

Talon could swear Aiden was leaning forward slowly and he was pretty sure he did the same when suddenly the ringing of the oven startled the two and the moment was over.

“I’ll get the cookies,” Aiden said, clearing his throat.

Was he blushing or did Talon only project his own bashfulness onto him?

Would they have kissed if the oven didn’t disturb them?

Or did he maybe inhale too much flour?

But ever since that moment there was a certain tension in the room and Talon was almost glad when Maya came back and he wasn’t alone with Aiden anymore.

He suspected that Maya could feel it, too.

When Talon excused himself later, claiming that he had an important call to make, she let him go without much complaint, thanking him for his help.

And Aiden, too, didn’t try to get him to stay.

Maybe he was just as shaken about their almost-kiss or whatever you would call the moment they shared as he was.

Talon left, taking the scarf with him despite his better judgment. He had barely sat a foot into his room when he already dialed Halea’s number.

“Halea, I don’t know how long I can take this anymore.”

[m00nb04rd5]

Elsa (Frozen)

[ayjaydraws]

Join us on the Pride Crab in our June art preview, drawn by xx-just-a-demon-xx (Tumblr)

This is just one of 12 pieces featured in The Stobotnik 2025 Calendar, a collaborative project by Stobotnik fans, for Stobotnik fans! 12 fantastic fandom artists have come together to produce a full 2025 calendar, available for pre-order now!

Pre-orders are open Dec 20 2024 – Jan 5 2025 for physical versions of the calendar, shipped right to your door. A combo pack is also available, featuring both a physical and digital version of the calendar.

Digital-only PDF versions will also go up for sale once the physical pre-order period has ended!

A whole year of everyone’s favourite evil couple to hang on your wall, with blank squares below for you to write birthdays, holidays, appointments, or reminders for your sycophants to buy more Austrian goat milk.

Pre-order your copy of The Stobotnik 2025 Calendar now at https://ko-fi.com/ayjaydraws!

[egophiliac]

Kamen Rider Card Game, take 4!

so excited for cardcaptor rider!