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[dappermouth]

My gf and I spotted a dappermouth panther sticker at Kilby Court in SLC the other day! 👀 I didn't know you had stickers and uhhhh where can I buy them??

ohhh haha me & João sneaky-slapped that particular sticker up when we were at the Ghostly Kisses show back in June! I don't have them for sale quite yet but I'm in the process of turning a bunch of designs into stickers...to sell in a fun little pack perhaps...

[pemprika]

greed island trio charm!! bisky gon and killua goofing around while training 🥺

[klimtsonian]

“I’m afraid you’re out of luck.”

[remremremidii]

🌈 ✨ They’re gay, your honor.

[n4391]

Are you going to take a gamble and say yes? (Prt 5 of new wedding merch coming!)

[the-orthrus]

"Fire alone may save our clan"

[dumb-flip-flappers-captions]

i know i haven't said anything on this blog for years but. one of my friends sent me this tweet like a week ago and i haven't stopped thinking about it since

[buckxtommy]

sorry i've been awol for so long yall med school + clerkship is kicking my ass but happy 911 new season eve !!!!!

[queermania]

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[blitzy-blitzwing]

Have u seen transformers one trailer yet

just asking & noice artwork

😎

I have and I am excited!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[travllingbunny]

The Apprentice - brief review and a bit longer thoughts on the real life background vs fictionalized account

Finally saw The Apprentice - it was released in my country 4 days ago, and this was the first evening I could make it. I have lots of thoughts that can be separated into two categories: movie in itself, and its accuracy in terms of the publicly available information.

The film is excellent - not just the performances, which are indeed terrific - both Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump are Oscar-worthy - but also cinematography, music, the way it's all put together, which is not surprising as Ali Abbasi is, of course, a fantastic director that always gives his films a lot of atmosphere and tension.

But I agree with many people's comment that it should have more Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, not just because I love Jeremy as an actor but also because Cohn is such an interesting figure, and the movie just scratches the surface of his life, including his backstory or influence (you don't even see that he was friends with Nancy Reagan and involved in the Reagan 1980s campaign behind the scenes). I also think we didn't get enough of Trump's family (and again it only scratches the surface of how incredibly dysfunctional they were, according to Trump's niece Mary). I get why they had to cut it down to 2 hours, but I'd love it to be longer and go more in depth on both of these things, and of course show even more of Cohn and Trump's relationship.

Still, what we got is very compelling and complex, much more so than you'd know from many of the reviews. And they were not lying when they said it's all a (very twisted) love story, besides being an American horror story. Even in the middle part where you don't see much of Roy, it relates a lot to Donald's relationship with him and the effects of it. There's a lot of ambiguity and parallels and a very interesting arc that feels like part Succession part Midnight Cowboy And even though Dan Snyder made them take out the homoerotic dream Trump has about Cohn, it's still all gayer than it would be if they actually made out and had sex - so, seems very historically accurate in that regard.

As for the accuracy? It's complicated.

Most of the individual things it shows are known to have happened, but there was a lot of artistic licence taken with the chronology of events and exactly how they happened. Which is understandable as it was done for dramatic purposes.

But here's what I think is the big essential inaccuracy with the film's portrayal of DJT: it's not about making him look worse or look better (I could see people arguing both that the movie's dramatic licenses made him look worse or that they made him look better). It's that the film's central narrative is that he went from an ambitious wuss to a monstrous ruthless "killer", and in the process, it makes him look a lot more independent than he really seems to have been. In reality, it seems he remained a wuss who needs others to take care of him and tell him what to do. The movie downplayed his father's influence on him and his career (i.e. the fact he kept throwing money at his son, which is the only reason he was ever successful), and oddly enough, even ends up downplaying Roy Cohn's influence on him to an extent.

more under the cut with some spoilers, so to speak.

Movie!Trump starts claiming he can do things by himself, without Roy, and starts ignoring him and his advice even before he learns Roy has AIDS. In reality, by all accounts, they were super tight and Trump was calling Cohn every day a bunch of times and was listening to him and all over him, right until he learned that Cohn had AIDS. It was only then that he started avoiding him - it was like "night and day", as Cohn's secretary said. The movie also doesn't show that Cohn was the one who put the ideas of a political role into Trump's head to begin with - in 1984 (the time when Movie!Trump is saying he can do it all by himself), real Trump was babbling in an interview with Washington Post (that was set up by Cohn, who was trying to build a power base in Washington at the time and also got Trump's sister a position in the district court through his political ties with the Reagans) about how he would be a great negotiator with USSR for nuclear disarmament - and then babbled out that "you know who wants me to do this? Roy. Roy thinks I would be good at that" (the journalist, of course, didn't put that in the article, but you can see her talking about it and showing her notes in the documentary Bully, Coward, Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn).

Mary Trump. DJT's niece, has diagnosed him with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and also Dependent Personality Disorder. The movie gets the first two across but not the third.

The movie's narrative is about how the apprentice "outstrips" the master and decides he doesn't need him. That doesn't seem to fit the reality, where DJT would've probably still be taking Cohn's advice about everything if Cohn hadn't gotten sick and died. He was still yelling "where's my Roy Cohn?" in 2019. He did not outgrow Cohn or anyone.

He also went on and bankrupted himself a couple of times, after Cohn's death - and was bailed out by his father, who supported his career with hundreds of millions of dollars. (The bankruptcies happened years after Cohn's death. But so did Donald's rape of Ivana, and the movie changed the chronology to include it.)

(Also artistic licence is the confrontation between Cohn and Trump over Trump throwing Russell out. I love that scene, and it had to be dramatized that way. Not just because for drama but also because they can't show you characters' inner thoughts. But in reality, it couldn't have happened that way because Trump is known to be a wuss who hates confrontation in person, so there's no way he would have been yelling those things at Cohn in real life.)

[mystical-one]

HUGEEEEEEEEEEE MOMENT. so picture this. im minding my own business doing fuckall while poppy 80s songs are on the radio (we always have the radio on a station that plays alot of poppy 80s songs) and obviously i'm not paying attention to the radio whatsoever because im busy looking through my phone gallery as you do. song comes to climax. cue guitar solo. IMMEDIATELY ZERO IN ON IT LIKE THE SONG OF A SIREN KNOWING IN MY HEART THAT ITS THE SOUND OF GEORGE HARRISONS SLIDE GUITAR . know 100% this is the song he played on in the late 80s. the world crumbles and shakes around me as i frantically google it. im right. my mum walks in. i look her in the eye and tell her i am mentally ill . END SCENE

[laesas]

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[fictionadventurer]

I've got a couple of days left in September when I want to squeeze in some time to finish a couple of books I was reading this month, and Inklings Challenge starts in a couple of days, so of course this was the perfect time to get obsessed with Victober and download a bunch of obscure Victorian books.

[the-five-deadly-venoms]

Hey. I've seen KFP 4 and...well, it sucked.

so I've heard 😑

I still believe tigress can work in po's place for a rewrite... THIS SHOULD'VE BEEN ABOUT HERRR AAAARRGGHHHH