#variety cuts

[yuiyuihan]

Aichan, Yukinee, Hotechan, and Mayuu with a piece of the AKB48 Theater's floor

240904 AKB48 Ii na Kenkyuujou

[themusicsweetly]

The two sides of Caitriona Balfe 😂

[t00thpasteface]

hawkeye pierce & father mulcahy collages!

all text is photocopied from the liner notes for a CD of the album Armed Forces (1979) by Elvis Costello & the Attractions. i've always loved this album and the big messy bundle of highly charged wordplay throughout it; Costello's sarcastic commentary in the CD's liner notes compliments the lyrics very nicely. i still have a pile of meticulously cut-out blurbs i couldn't quite fit on these...

[winepresswrath]

steepling my fingers because in Louis' mind Lestat doesn't know Louis' favourite suit and he doesn't know that Louis knows about the embroidery. louis keeps all his love to himself when it comes to lestat and spends it so cheaply on armand.

[skunkes]

another thing i love about dungeon meshi along with how theres adequate time given to every character that matters! Is that like. Along with no "every single character in supporting cast gets put on the backburner in favor of MC / other character development" is that theres also no "god these characters are all so boring except that one guy who is tragic and compelling" bc they all have the same capacity for compelling tragedy (and such).

And it also doesn't feel like when ppl tack on as much Bad Things onto a characters life just to emphasize tragedy or hardship... Theres a good balance in each of em. The recent leaked izutsumi dark lore implication drop wasn't even in the main story and it doesnt feel like that quirky "i love torturing my ocs! 🤪🤪🤪🤪 (Literally just throwing everything into one pot)" sentiment i see here often if that makes sense. It doesn't feel Edgy ykwim

[brian-in-finance]

Remember… . I love it when (cinema) grabs you and shakes you. I think that’s what cinema should do. — Sean Ellis

[chiarrara]

I really didn't mind the 80s theme last year, but 50s/60s/70s is not working for me. Rhythm dance is always a mixed bag, but these routines are missing more than they're hitting for me

[the-matron-of-ravens]

Genuinely curious, what are your thoughts on Dancer and FCG cuz like, he Literally, not figuratively, tried to kill her and did kill all of her companions at the time. I can see being critical cuz she doesn't seem to treat them like sentient beings, but even in the canon... most of the automatons aren't. Just some of the really old ones from Aeor/other old cities, right? So? She got a whoops!sentient microwave, treated them like a microwave, they killed all her friends and almost her and she's supposed to....? Be good buds with them? Also I know it's said that she trauma dumped on FCG, but let's switch it from microwave to personal journal - how would YOU feel if your personal journal popped to life and attacked you for trauma dumping? IDK haha I guess Idk you opinions and I'm just responding to my projected assumptions of your opinion. REALLY I'd 100% sincerely would like to hear your thoughts. I was really bothered by FCG pushing to meet with Dancer. Like jeez just leave her alone, you're her literal sleep paralysis demon, read the room.

Hey! Thanks for the ask, I put this a little bit in the tags but I can elaborate more here. (Edit: elaborate A LOT MORE it seems)

So here goes, I don’t know if you meant it this way but the analogy of a journal or microwave is helpful here because that’s exactly how Dancer treated FCG - as a tool to be used. But they *aren’t*. FCG is a whole being with emotions and thoughts all of which are apparent and so clearly distinct from other automatons.

So tbh, I think the perspective of “whoops! Sentient bot” makes sense for like a month, max. Not years. After all, we have seen NPC after NPC recognize FCG is a sentient being almost immediately after meeting him. I find it VERY hard to believe that Dancer never realized it herself.

Additionally, we need to step out of the plot itself and look at FCG’s mechanics. We know that every time he heals, takes damage for someone else, etc. he takes stress points, and that once past a certain threshold his switch flips and he goes full Murderbot.

We also know that rest and recovery are what reduces FCG’s stress points. So that tells us that Dancer was using and using and using FCG and not letting him rest (enough? At all?) even though he needed it. Because again he’s a person not a tool.

Even when they met back up recently and FCG sobered her up she remarked how she missed him doing that for her. And while I don’t expect her to miss him, I do think it’s indicative of her interest in him never being about him as a person but only how he could serve her.

And if we want to criticize FCG for his lack of boundaries, inability to take no for an answer and pathological need to fix Dancer sure that’s fair. He needs to unlearn a lot of that and quick. But we then have to ask ourselves where did those traits come from? They didn’t come from nowhere.

FCG is mentally extremely YOUNG. Aside from the 6?-ish Months spent with Ashton all he remembers is his time with Dancer. So, if FCG has a pathological need to fix others, to help them, and feels worthless if he’s unable to do so - that comes from how Dancer treated and trained him.

That doesn’t just go away; ESPECIALLY not when FCG doesn’t even remember going postal and doesn’t see to have the (IMO) most clear and realistic view of his and Dancer’s relationship.

After all look how he interacts with the Changebringer. She’s his surrogate Mom/Dancer. He needs someone to tell him how to feel, think, and what’s Good and Bad because he doesn’t know how to do it for himself - because he wasn’t *taught* to.

But here’s my real question. What do we call one person keeping another person in service to them, with no compensation or personhood to be had, and with no intentions of releasing that person from that service? That’s slavery my dude. AT BEST indentured servitude.

(but that implies there’s a debt. What debt? Waking him up? He didn’t ask for that; that was her choice.

And again this sounds a lot like children being “indebted” to parents for giving them life, housing, feeding, etc. )

That’s the part I can’t get over. And that’s the part I can’t get behind where FCG is the abusive one. The power differential was NEVER in FCG’s court; he never once thought of himself as a person or as anything but in service of “Soul Touched”. That complete sacrifice of yourself and your needs (or an inability to even know you HAVE needs) comes from being in relationships where those things are expected/demanded.

So, yeah, he literally tried to kill her, and I gotta be real I’m not surprised. Even children of abusive parents who they love snap sometimes. Because again, that’s mentally what he was at the time. A child.

But even then, no I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unrealistic for Dancer to be traumatized or not want to see FCG again. I don’t even think she’s wrong to say “I can’t give you closure” because closure isn’t something other people give you.

But the way she’s been discussed to be largely clueless about his sentience, blameless in his blow up, and FCG’s victim? I just can’t get behind that. Like at all.

[storfulsten]

bfgf cosplay clownery ig

[yuiyuihan]

Saho's burikko food report

240907 AKB48, Hisashiburi no Nidome Tabi

[schreibvibe]

I don't understand that people see me as Big Burly Mean Guy. I kind of perceive myself as, like, you know, like an elf or something.

Happy birthday, Liev Schreiber! (October 4, 1967)

[invalidname19]

I’m Not Your Average American

[chatonmagique]

Hair update

[meiloorunsmoothie]

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

is there any shinee show that's kinda underrated in the fandom but is a fun watch??? there's so much content to watch as a new fan and i have seen the popular ones like hello baby n ofd n fbg etc

i think ppl barely talk about key's know how but it's super fun to watch, it also gives a lot of behind stuff that esem used to not give, another key show ppl should watch is keytchen the ep with minho is cute, there's also an ep with taeyeon. you can find both of these easily on yt, they're also subbed. also jonghyun's monthly live connection is a must watch 1 2 3 4. ! hmmmm ot5 shows.... the ultimate group, yang and nam show (eric n/m tw lol), their line music express interview, every blue night shinee appearance 160606 i ii 161121 i ii , shinhwa broadcast, idol army and hmmm watch minho helping victoria in her we got married ep.

also forbidden perfume x shinee interaction, mv bank stardust, high society (its just jinki and key), happy together (jinki + sulli, luna & krystal + tvxq), my last 48 hours with minho part 3 part 4, fantastic duo with jinki , eat sleep eat, 1v100 with jinki, order and cook with jinki and taemin (when they ask u a pw put 121489)

[brian-in-finance]

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Orlando Bloom Lost 52 Pounds in Three Months for Boxing Drama ‘The Cut’: ‘You Feed Somebody Tuna and Cucumber Long Enough…’

In the Sean Ellis film “The Cut,” Orlando Bloom plays a boxer on the brink of a total breakdown as he races against the clock to drop weight before a fight. Under the guidance of a shady coach, played by John Turturro, Bloom will do anything to shed pounds, even as it threatens his life.

Bloom himself lost a whopping 52 pounds in three months in preparation for the movie, which also stars Caitríona Balfe. He discussed his eye-popping physical transformation at Variety‘s Toronto Film Festival Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja.

“I basically tiered down the food over a three-month period until just before filming, [when] I was at my lightest. I dropped 52 pounds, and I was about 185 when I started,” Bloom said. “So I dropped quite a lot of weight, and I was very mentally challenged as well. You feed somebody tuna and cucumber long enough…”

Screenshot from 📹: see link

Since the film follows the boxer on an often disturbing journey to making a lower weight class, Ellis shot “The Cut” in reverse chronological order, meaning Bloom was actually bulking up during production.

“Your brain is starved of calories, basically,” Ellis said to Bloom. “It was going to be impossible for him to work while dieting. So, he came to us at his lightest, and then he starts to eat. So that meant that we had to shoot the film [with] the ending first and the beginning of the movie at the end. … Over the 25 days that we were shooting, he was putting on the calories. And then it’s edited in reverse.”

Bloom adding the physical transformation was more “exciting” than “daunting.”

“I was more surprised about the mental aspect of [it], like the sleep deprivation, and not the depleted calories,” he said. “There’s a lot going on in your brain … living in that headspace for a while was very challenging.”

Audiences looking for a straight-forward boxing movie may be surprised, however, as “The Cut” plays out more like a body horror. It’s set mostly in a hotel room as the boxer drains blood, takes diuretics and manipulates his body before the all important weigh-in. Some of the more intense scenes shocked the crowd at the film’s world premiere on Thursday night.

“Somebody in my row passed out!” Bloom said. Ellis concurred: “Yeah, we had a fainter. I think we’ve got to put that on the film poster.”

Balfe, who plays Bloom’s character’s wife, said of seeing “The Cut” with an audience for the first time, “You can read something on the page and it sounds one way, but to see it, it’s so visceral. And I think the way it was shot and the way it was performed, it’s a tough watch. A good watch, but…”

On a lighter note, Bloom weighed in (no pun intended) on the upcoming album from Katy Perry, his fiancée with whom he shares a daughter.

“They just get better as they go along,” he said of the “Teenage Dream” singer’s albums. “She’s a powerhouse, and I sort of marvel at her ability to keep knocking it out in such a major way, and bringing so much joy and gusto and joie de vivre to life. It’s always so impressive. But, yeah, ‘143’ baby!”

Variety

Remember… you can read something on the page and it sounds one way, but to see it, it’s so visceral. And I think the way it was shot and the way it was performed, it’s a tough watch. A good watch, but… — Caitríona Balfe