#winner culture

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The possibility to choose one of the other characters' endings added so much depth to Patho Classic. Mostly because as Artemy you can choose Daniil's ending but you know you really shouldn't, and that scratches the "I want to fix him, how far am I willing to go?" itch I have for this accursed ship.

[s0m3one224]

Dressed up as a Rave alien for Halloween

[vitorunos]

Korea 1930 - South Korea 2019

The Handmaiden directed by Park Chan-Wook (2016)

Parasite directed by Boon Joon-Ho (2019)

[moregraceful]

Fic 1 q 4

Is there a part of your WIP that Twitter would try to cancel you for?

oh the entire story. the ENTIRE story. if the question i asked and attempted to answer in fragments was "what does a culture that has normalized the winner's room look like", the question in this one is "what does a culture that has normalized sexual assault look like broadly and for one man in particular who has had repeated harm done to him since he was 19, and how does that interact with the no sex before marriage religion he grew up with". i fear twitter would not enjoy thinking of winner's room in this way....like we really call a spade a spade in this imagine. ALSO i think for a certain kind of terminally online gay person, the top-bottom discourse would go insane...the sport values switch hitters!!!!

[panopticon fic wip ask meme]

[tothechaos]

i saw an abba cover band tonight and honestly most of the performance was spent imagining what im sure is some absolutely insane interpersonal drama

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood‘s golden age. With ‘The Apartment’, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film.

Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria (now part of Poland) in 22 June 1906, Billy Wilder spent his early professional life as a reporter in Vienna. In 1926 he relocated to Berlin, where his reputation as a journalist grew. But by then a different dream had taken hold - the movies. Selling his first script to an extremely grateful and quite naked producer he helped hide from the jealous boyfriend of a neighboring young lady, Wilder’s career as a screenwriter began. After several successful years in the German film industry, Wilder fled to Paris a week after the Reichstag fire in 1933.

Ten months later he emigrated to America, where an initially difficult time in Hollywood gave way to employment as a screenwriter.

In 1938 Wilder was teamed with Charles Brackett. Through their scripts for such films as ‘Bluebeard’s Eight Wife’, ‘Ninotchka’, and ‘Ball of Fire’, they became the best-known and most respected writing team in Hollywood. This success enabled Wilder to fight for and win his first American directing assignment, the now-classic comedy, ‘The Major and the Minor’, and “the Billy Wilder Film” was born.

“The Billy Wilder film.” The phrase is at once as specific and difficult to casually categorise as the filmmaker himself. Billy Wilder, the master of the American comedy who wrote and directed the grand melodramas of ’Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Double Indemnity’. The hard-hitting dramatist who created the funniest movie ever made, ’Some Like It Hot’. The “great cynic” who steeped us in the lyric romanticism of ‘Love in the Afternoon’ and ‘Avanti!’. The “classic romantic” who confronted us with the harsh realities of ‘Ace in the Hole’. Simultaneously one of the most European and American of all directors, the man refuses to stand still long enough to allow us our neat and easy definition. But, to put it in his own words, “Nobody’s perfect.”

Through his work on films as daringly varied as ‘The Lost Weekend’, ‘A Foreign Affair’, ‘The Apartment’, and ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’, this “imperfect genius” has proven himself a true master of all aspects of the language of film, as comfortable and adept t telling a story thorough his brilliant visual style as through his unparalleled dialogue. And although the characters, the locales, the tone and genres may change, one subject seems to remain constant - the bizarre and glorious state know as the human comedy. Through the drama and the farce and the romance and despair, what we’re watching up there is, as in all great art, a reflection of ourselves.

Often running into criticism for his presentation of taboo topics such as alcoholism and prostitution, the high quality of the films redeemed him in the eyes of both the public and the industry. Of the many great stars he directed, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Shirley MacLaine, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon are only a few.

The late 1960s and 1970s, however, were not as kind to Wilder. His brand of cynicism, irony and satire were out of step with this generation’s view of peace, love, revolution and individual experimentation

A 7 time Oscar winner, Steven Spielberg called him "the greatest writer/director who ever lived." Here's some amazing footage from his birthday party where he was joined by a host of famous directors.

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 60th Birthday to 3x Academy Award Winning, 3x BAFTA Winning, Emmy Winning, 2x Golden Globe Winning producer, filmmaker, writer Guillermo del Toro! ^__^

[punkbakerchristine]

kids. sometimes it pays to be a good gentile.

ya girl got 1st place 🥇🔥

[lightningthor]

why the fuck is y2k diet culture coming back

[inventors-fair]

Counter Culture Winners!!!

Vital Elf by @real-aspen-hours

Interesting stuff! I definitely like the built in safety measure of only working once per turn even if you get multiple vitality counters on it; that’s a good call that allows you to do more with the design space without going infinite with a ham sandwich, unlike some other counter-based elven mana dorks i could name. And this seems like a good, simple execution of the concept that shows it off well. I might want it to be a 1/1 over a 2/1? A 2 mana dork that, even once, can tap for 2 mana is probably pretty decent.

Awaken to Possibility by @nine-effing-hells

Awakening counters are a good idea that i could definitely see being a set mechanic, I like them a lot. This particular card seems a touch over priced? Drawing a card for each creature you control is ~5 mana and in this case I think the awakening bumps it more to 7 or so, but 8 just feels like a lot. That’s an overall minor quibble though and this is quite good. (Technically, awakening counters *are* already a thing but as Palliation Accord shows that’s maybe not a problem.)

Grippli Infiltrator by @bergdg

Sneak counters are great, and this is a good card to showcase them. They definitely seem like the kind of thing you can throw on all kinds of different designs which makes them a good candidate for this kind of contest. And the card is just nice. A 1/2 that draws a card on hit is something you *want* to hit might will have trouble doing so, so the sneak counter is put to good use here.

[herohimbowhore]

Formula One Analyses and Essays Masterlist

The One Direction to F1 Pipeline and Fan Culture

So much of the fan culture that we see in F1 now can be traced back to One Direction

Red Bulls Driver Lineups

A look into the timeline of Red Bull driver lineups (including the timelines for Merc and Haas).

Driver Lineups Through the Years

A look at the driver lineups for all 10 teams.

2023 Special Helmets

An analysis of the 2023 special helmets

Sunset Lap vs Storm Lap

A look into the differences in perception/narrative surrounding Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen.

Ferrari and Why it Exists

A brief rambling of how Ferrari exists due to the desire to race and the belief of the Tifosi.

Formula 1 Car Naming Conventions

How teams name their cars every year.

F1 Race Winners and Where Have They Won From

The positions that 17 Formula 1 race winners have won GPs from.

[silver-horse]

bg3 didn't win best music.... wtf

[keiko1183]

Happy Tanabata~

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Glenda Jackson

Although Glenda Jackson was absent from screen and stage for nearly a quarter of a century, when she devoted herself to her political career, she managed to appear in a wide variety of roles on either side of her time as an elected MP to Parliament. 

Almost uniquely amongst actors of her generation, she managed to straddle the line between leading actress and character actor, being both a bankable star and a fascinatingly unpredictable performer who would enliven any film or production that she was in. It is hard to think that she ever gave a bad performance.

She deservedly won two Oscars during her illustrious career on both stage and screen. The second Oscar that she won, for the 1973 romantic comedy-drama A Touch of Class, was an appropriate acknowledgement of a decorous and classy performance in a decorous and classy film, and one still fondly remembered now. However, the picture that she first received an Academy Award for, Ken Russell’s inimitable 1969 DH Lawrence adaptation Women in Love, was considerably less restrained.

When she was cast, she was by no means a known international quantity. She had achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since the early Sixties - most notably as Ophelia, opposite David Warner’s Hamlet, in Peter Hall’s legendary 1965 production - and had reprised her stage role as Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in Peter Brook’s film of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade, but she had never starred in a major picture. 

Until Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, Jackson had not regarded herself as a political actor, in the way Jane Fonda or Redgrave did. She had long been a Labour party member, and gave time and energy to single-issue campaigns, such as human rights, Oxfam and abortion.

She considered standing for parliament and won despite Labour overall losing to John Major in 1992. In 1997, re-elected in the Tony Blair landslide, she served briefly as a junior transport minister, but she became an increasingly critical voice on her own side, especially over the Iraq war. She was rarely heard in the Commons, but always remained a highly popular constituency MP.

She left politics and made a surprise return to acting in 2015, making waves in a BBC Radio 4 series based on the novels of Emile Zola. It was when she played King Lear on stage at the Old Vic - a role that she later reprised on Broadway in 2019 - that the ferocity and power of her performance was a reminder to many who had been too young to see her in her earlier stage roles that she was a magnificent and multi-faceted performer.

Jackson continued to appear in television and film until the end of her life. However, her last definitive role came a few years ago, in which she starred as Maud Horsham, an elderly woman suffering from dementia who attempts to solve a mystery, even as she ebbs away. She won virtually every award going for the part, including another Emmy and a Bafta,

RIP Glenda Jackson RIP 1936-2023

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 97th Birthday to Academy Award Winning, 4x Emmy Winning, 3x Grammy Winning, 3x Tony Winning writer, actor, comedian, filmmaker Mel Brooks! ^__^